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"Bert 4 Senate" (FTTxJT Fri 100226 hr3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again. First Thing Today by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at the steel mill, he's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 2: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the
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  Speaker 2: kids to school and on the way. Joe has everything
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  Speaker 2: he dreamed of, all the treasures that he needs. No
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  Speaker 2: wonder Joe's always smiling, he only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 3: this morning. And the blessings of a beautiful Friday. I
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  Speaker 3: just posted a photograph from outside of Common Ground where
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  Speaker 3: we are at our Big Ridge Guns and Archery on
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  Speaker 3: location studio. City Elders of Virginia, our friends at City Elders.
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  Speaker 3: And if you don't have a City Elders branch where
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  Speaker 3: you are, get one or start one. They're governing the
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  Speaker 3: city gates, cityelders.org is where you find them online. But
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  Speaker 3: visiting real quick here before we get our first things,
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  Speaker 3: Burt Mississauga. General Burt is running for Senate in Virginia,
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  Speaker 3: our flagship state, against Mark Warner, who is getting more
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  Speaker 3: and more obviously a victim of Trump derangement syndrome every moment.
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  Speaker 3: But we were talking about war and the Middle East
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  Speaker 3: before we went into the news. Talk about this because
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people are hitting the president for starting
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  Speaker 3: a new war in Iran. And it's been my contention
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  Speaker 3: that this is the oldest war in U.S. history, going
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  Speaker 3: back to the Barbary Pirates, a.k.a. the radical Islamists. Bert,
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  Speaker 3: what is your take on whether or not this is
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  Speaker 3: a new war or not?
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  Speaker 4: Well, first of all, let me just say that an
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  Speaker 4: entry into a conflict, including war, it's one of the
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  Speaker 4: most momentous decisions a commander-in-chief has to make. And given
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  Speaker 4: my time with Mr. Trump at the time, this was
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  Speaker 4: before he was the president, before he was elected in 2016.
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  Speaker 5: I wrote a.
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  Speaker 4: Foreign policy doctrine for him that he personally read in
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  Speaker 4: front of me and approved. And the main thesis of that,
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  Speaker 4: he said, I can call it the Trump Doctrine. And
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  Speaker 4: so the main thesis was any use of U.S. taxpayer dollars,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's at home or abroad, should have a positive
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  Speaker 4: return for the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Taxpayer.
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  Speaker 4: And so I am convinced with given time with President
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  Speaker 4: Trump that he has America's long term interest in mind
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  Speaker 4: and at heart. And he would not have made this
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  Speaker 4: move if he didn't think that it was in our
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  Speaker 4: long-term interest. I want to remind people that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I was a young lieutenant when Iran took 51 hostages
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  Speaker 4: and held them for over 440 days. And now they're,
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  Speaker 4: you know, they hold our nation hostage by kind of
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  Speaker 4: restricting the supply of oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 4: So the bottom line is they've always had intentions that
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  Speaker 4: are adverse to ours. And there's no doubt that If
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  Speaker 4: they had a nuclear capability, we would be very– I
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  Speaker 4: mean Virginia would be very high on the target list.
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  Speaker 4: And so if we can agree that Iran should not
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  Speaker 4: have a nuclear capability, especially a ballistic capability where they
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  Speaker 4: can hit the U.S., then the only question then becomes
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  Speaker 4: when do we do something about it?
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  Speaker 5: When do we preempt?
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  Speaker 4: And knowing what I know about Iran and military operations,
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  Speaker 4: the longer we waited, the harder it would.
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  Speaker 5: Be for us to succeed.
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  Speaker 4: And so one thing that really is if the Democrats
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  Speaker 4: went in 2028 and they continue the same way they're
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  Speaker 4: operating now, it might not be until 2036 until we
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  Speaker 4: had the leadership we needed to preempt a nuclear Iran.
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  Speaker 4: So given all that, I think that we're better off
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  Speaker 4: today than we were a year ago. You know, the
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  Speaker 4: Democrats like saying this is a war of choice. Well,
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  Speaker 4: what were they waiting to do? For Iran to hit us?
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  Speaker 5: Walker and Warren's choice?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, Bert.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I've got to hang on with us a moment. Bert4Senate. com
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  Speaker 3: is his website, so please visit him there and help
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  Speaker 3: out the campaign if you can. A lot of overseas
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  Speaker 3: money and out-of-state money coming into Mark Warner's coffers, certainly there.
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  Speaker 3: But we must head into our first things. so that
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  Speaker 3: people know what's going on in the world, know what
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  Speaker 3: we can discuss. Good news for those in service. Pentagon
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  Speaker 3: doubled hostile fire pay to $ 450 a month. It's the
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  Speaker 3: first raise in the combat stipend since 2002. A story
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  Speaker 3: that's dominated the conversation lines this morning. Krista Pike remains alive.
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  Speaker 3: under life-saving care at a Tennessee hospital after the execution
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  Speaker 3: she was scheduled to get Tuesday night failed in two attempts.
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  Speaker 3: United States on Thursday told European allies that they need
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  Speaker 3: to start tapping into their strategic reserves immediately. Discussions here
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  Speaker 3: in the United States about restricting exports of diesel fuel.
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  Speaker 3: White House Council of Economic Advisers said Thursday they're implementing
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  Speaker 3: new policies backed, or that if new policies backed by
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Socialists would cost the United States $ 49 trillion in
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  Speaker 3: fiscal burden over the next decade. Justice Department says they're
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  Speaker 3: averaging more than one case a day against non-citizens accused
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  Speaker 3: of voting illegally, according to a report in The Washington Times.
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  Speaker 3: Federal prosecutors announced cases against 11 people just Wednesday and
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  Speaker 3: a 12th on Thursday. Judge on Thursday overturned President Trump's
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  Speaker 3: decision to fire court-appointed top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle. His name,
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  Speaker 3: Roger Rogoff, 17 active and senior judges in the Western
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  Speaker 3: District of Washington had unanimously named him U.S. attorney in July.
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  Speaker 3: President fired him less than an hour later, and then
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  Speaker 3: about an hour after that, he sued for unlawful termination.
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  Speaker 3: Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear a case, Roni Acting
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  Speaker 3: Director v. Barbosa de Cuna, questioning the administration's catch-and-release policies
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  Speaker 3: any non-citizens in the country illegally. until their hearings come
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  Speaker 3: or if they can be sent to other places. September's
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  Speaker 3: employment report arrives today, and it'll be a big test
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  Speaker 3: of the Fed's rate hike. Watching very carefully.
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  Speaker 8: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 6: Is that the move?
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  Speaker 3: I have a bad feeling for Mark Warner's incumbency. Remember,
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  Speaker 3: he only wanted to serve in the Senate for a
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  Speaker 3: couple of terms anyway there. Bert Misazawa is on with us.
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  Speaker 3: And you mentioned gas prices earlier in the interview. Well,
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  Speaker 3: we have seen that. So on to the gas price, obviously,
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  Speaker 3: you can't. run into a virginian running for u.s senate
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  Speaker 3: not have them say gas prices are killing me i
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  Speaker 3: do remember them being higher say four or so years
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  Speaker 3: ago um so and that was just based out of
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  Speaker 3: we want you to have to pay a lot for
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  Speaker 3: gas because we want you to buy hybrids and electric
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  Speaker 3: vehicles and everything um but and i know the campaign
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  Speaker 3: was drill baby drill and that works But we're learning
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  Speaker 3: now with the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's hostage taking
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  Speaker 3: on that. It's got to be refined, baby, refined as well.
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  Speaker 6: As a U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Senator, talk about our environmental policy regarding fossil fuels, energy,
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  Speaker 3: the electric generating plants in Virginia. We've shuttered two or
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  Speaker 3: three of them in the last four years and getting
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  Speaker 3: that power back.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think we need to bring all sources of
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  Speaker 4: energy online. I think that we can do more oil production.
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  Speaker 4: And you're right, our refining capability, we have some of
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  Speaker 4: the best in the world, but it may not be
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  Speaker 4: enough right now. But, you know, Venezuela could be our
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  Speaker 4: strategic petroleum reserve in the future.
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  Speaker 5: It's not such a good straights.
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  Speaker 4: Out in the Middle East, no, through Bob Almandeb in
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  Speaker 4: the Red Sea and then the Strait of Hormuz.
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  Speaker 5: And so, but that oil there is very, very crude.
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  Speaker 5: And we might have to update some of our refining capabilities. capability.
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  Speaker 4: But number one, I am behind getting nuclear power deployed
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  Speaker 4: as much as possible. It's not a perfect substitute for oil,
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  Speaker 4: but it can be a partial substitute for oil and
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  Speaker 4: bring down a lot of our oil prices. So right now,
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  Speaker 4: just for context, our gas prices are about 30% higher than.
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  Speaker 5: They were a year ago.
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  Speaker 4: And they are lower than they were, as you mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: a couple of years ago. We're still about half of
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  Speaker 4: what Europe is paying for gas. We're about 85% of
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  Speaker 4: what Canada is paying for gas. Canada's prices are higher
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  Speaker 4: not because of supplies, because of their green initiatives and
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  Speaker 4: their taxes. So I'm not sure how long it'll take
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  Speaker 4: to bring on the refining capability, but I think Venezuela
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  Speaker 4: will be a long-term solution. I think we need to
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  Speaker 4: basically get the Crudo Bay and the Permian Basin. We
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  Speaker 4: should just continue to develop that. I don't think America
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  Speaker 4: should ever be hostage to anything that's going on overseas.
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  Speaker 4: And so I want to have a multi-pronged approach to
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  Speaker 4: getting our social efficiency basically in progress. And so in
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  Speaker 4: the near term, I'm not sure what I can do.
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  Speaker 4: Number one, I'm running for Senate.
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  Speaker 5: That's the best thing I can do now.
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  Speaker 3: That would certainly be a sea change out of Virginia
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  Speaker 3: if we had a different representative in the Senate seat,
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't it?
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  Speaker 25: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: And you know what? This is what I say.
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  Speaker 4: Virginia, we have so many military here. We get more
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  Speaker 4: defense dollars in your state per capita. And we don't
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  Speaker 4: have any veteran or person with a military background representing us.
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  Speaker 5: And half the time we have a Republican in the
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  Speaker 5: White House.
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  Speaker 4: And so Virginia ought to have at least one Republican
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  Speaker 4: senator up there representing our interests.
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  Speaker 3: I like the way you think, Bert. I wanted to
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  Speaker 3: ask this about Iran. We just read the open letter
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  Speaker 3: from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. That's the secret police
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  Speaker 3: of the mullahs in Iran, the people who hang people.
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  Speaker 3: dissidents in the town square for speaking out against the government.
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  Speaker 3: They all just tacitly endorsed Mark Warner and all the
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  Speaker 3: Democrats there. Is there hay to be made out of
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  Speaker 3: the fact that these folks who hang dissidents in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of the street are endorsing all the Democrats in 2026?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I think you pointed it out. The
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  Speaker 4: problem with the Democrats now is their main goal is
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  Speaker 4: to deprive this president of any sort of victory, substantive
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  Speaker 4: and symbolic. I mean, Mark Warner has recently voted against
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  Speaker 4: the Clarity Act, which would have made financial transactions easier
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  Speaker 4: and cheaper for all Americans. And there was only one
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  Speaker 4: reason he did it. It's because he didn't want to
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  Speaker 4: give Trump a minor victory. And Trump basically acceded to
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  Speaker 4: all of their demands on ethics. And I think the
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  Speaker 4: same thing is going on here. That's why President Trump
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  Speaker 4: is basically saying that he thinks that things will change
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  Speaker 4: after the midterm because the Democrats don't want to give
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  Speaker 4: him anything that he can hang his hat on for
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  Speaker 4: the midterms. But I tell people, rather go down in
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  Speaker 4: these midterms as long as I think our country would
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  Speaker 4: be going in the right direction. But the issue is
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  Speaker 4: President Trump is going to need a majority in the
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  Speaker 4: House and in the Senate to continue the policies that
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  Speaker 4: he's instituted that are in the best long-term interest of
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  Speaker 4: our country. And right now my opponent is just trying
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  Speaker 4: to do politically expedient things, putting Band-Aids on problems. He's
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  Speaker 4: been there for 18 years already. And now he keeps
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  Speaker 4: talking about saltwater. He's had plenty of time to address before.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was only going to run twice. I remember
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  Speaker 3: that somewhere back in the past. Bert, last question for you.
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  Speaker 3: Ken Cuccinelli, a dear friend. We were talking about the
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  Speaker 3: Save America Act. He's, of course, the Election Transparency Initiative
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  Speaker 3: here with the Daily– with the Heritage Foundation. And his point,
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  Speaker 3: I think, was well taken. Some of the Republicans in
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  Speaker 3: the Senate said, oh, well, we couldn't implement the Save
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  Speaker 3: America Act before the 2026 midterms anyway. And Ken's like,
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  Speaker 3: get it going now, because each time you come across
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  Speaker 3: an election, it's another one you say, I can't get
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  Speaker 3: it done by then. Does Burt Missisawa get the Save
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  Speaker 3: America Act moving if he's in the Senate from Virginia,
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  Speaker 3: because a lot of my listeners are so frustrated over
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  Speaker 3: this whole SAVE Act while we're trying to save college
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  Speaker 3: Where do you stand on all that?
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  Speaker 4: The answer definitely, Joe, and I do appreciate what you said.
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  Speaker 4: You did clarify the fact that I've been four square
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  Speaker 4: behind Save America Act since I got into this race.
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  Speaker 4: I've mentioned it pretty much every time I appear. I
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  Speaker 4: think Save America Act is job one. And let me
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  Speaker 4: just mention that I think it's a shame that I'm
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  Speaker 4: having to run for this office basically to get things
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  Speaker 4: done that should have been done.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we've been a country for 250 years.
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  Speaker 4: What's more basic to a country than being able to
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  Speaker 4: control our borders and ensuring only U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Citizens can vote and only U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Citizens are counted in our censuses, which basically determine how
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  Speaker 4: the states get representation in Washington, D.C.? I'll go one
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: step farther. My dad benefited from birthright citizenship. And I'm saying,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: but it's anachronistic, it's outdated, and we need to basically
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: update the clause in the Constitution that creates a loophole
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: for all the birthright-born, you know, citizen babies. And so
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: the Save America Act, I would tell the majority leader,
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  Speaker 5: It's as simple as that.
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  Speaker 4: Now, if he says he doesn't have the votes, I'm
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  Speaker 5: Maybe he's saying he doesn't speak.
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  Speaker 4: But I work for a senator who actually set the
• 21:18
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  Speaker 5: So I've got some experience with that institution.
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  Speaker 5: The Democrats are going to change them anyway.
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  Speaker 4: So we might as well change them for things that
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: are so fundamental to our country and to our democratic process.
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  Speaker 3: Bert, thank you so much for your time. I know
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  Speaker 3: you've got a lot of doors to knock and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of hands to shake, but we appreciate it. And
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: hopefully not with a month to go before the culmination
• 21:45
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Joe, and I appreciate all the good
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  Speaker 4: work you're doing as well, getting the word out.
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  Speaker 28: Baseball, of course, what happened last night, and the Braves
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  Speaker 28: are on their way to L.A. after a couple of
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  Speaker 28: losses to the Phillies a couple of years ago in
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  Speaker 28: the postseason. And Asia Wilson decided, okay, I'll dump a
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  Speaker 28: All right, so I want to get into last night,
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  Speaker 28: the Steelers. So the Browns now are three in one
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  Speaker 28: and Deshaun.
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  Speaker 6: Watson is, you know, he, he no longer is. Do
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  Speaker 6: I dare say that? Okay.
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  Speaker 28: He's no longer rubbing the fan base the wrong way.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 28: So I'll just, I'll say it once and then I'll,
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  Speaker 28: I'll just get out of it. Now, last night, Mike McCarthy,
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  Speaker 28: this is the Aaron rock. You know, how would you
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  Speaker 28: like to have Aaron Rogers at, you know, like you get,
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  Speaker 28: you get the assignment to consult him, you know, your
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  Speaker 28: job is to, to, to make Aaron Rodgers comfortable.
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  Speaker 6: Your job is to, it would never happen.
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  Speaker 28: So last night he got caught in a hot mic
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  Speaker 28: because the communication was not working between Mike McCarthy. Mike
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  Speaker 28: McCarthy calls the plays for the Steelers and they ended
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  Speaker 28: up losing on the last, you know, the 56.
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  Speaker 6: Yard field goal. And I'll have more, on that next hour.
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  Speaker 28: But it was McCarthy who was caught on mic with Aaron.
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  Speaker 28: And Mike said, well, wait a minute. I apologize for
• 30:11
  Speaker 28: my language.
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  Speaker 24: Communication sometimes is not the best choice of words. But
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  Speaker 24: everybody's competing on the field. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 24: what's said on the field, the way I grew up
• 30:20
  Speaker 24: in this game, you know, usually stays on the field.
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  Speaker 24: That's not the case today. I understand that. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 24: any negative communication on my part, I wish I wouldn't
• 30:29
  Speaker 24: use those words.
• 30:31
  Speaker 28: So, you know, what goes on the field stays on
• 30:34
  Speaker 28: the field, you know, in football. But it was McCarthy
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  Speaker 28: who said, you know, because they've had these struggles offensively
• 30:41
  Speaker 28: and communication's been off and everything, well, McCarthy is taking
• 30:45
  Speaker 28: full responsibility.
• 30:47
  Speaker 24: The reality of it is the detail's not there, and
• 30:48
  Speaker 24: that's on coaching. It starts with me. I'm calling the offense.
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  Speaker 24: I have to get the detail better. So if you
• 30:56
  Speaker 24: need someone... Fire away, because I felt it on Wednesday
• 31:00
  Speaker 24: and Thursday. I'm a veteran coach.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: I know better.
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: I didn't do a good job. I mean, the Steelers
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: are just really almost a mess.
• 31:09
  Speaker 28: They trail in several, you know, like they're way in
• 31:12
  Speaker 28: the bottom third of a lot of NFL stats offensively.
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  Speaker 6: And Aaron Rodgers, I mean, it's just, you know, the Steelers,
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: the Golden, it's just, you know. It's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: So I was listening to the radio broadcast. They were
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: on our flagship station. And they were pointing out, I
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: think they got a roughing the passer penalty. But, you know,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: for about five or six plays before and after the
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: roughing the passer penalty, Rogers was barking at the refs
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  Speaker 3: about roughing the passer penalties. And he said, it's like,
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  Speaker 3: it seemed like Cleveland was bent to tag Rogers as
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: much as possible because quote, and this is from the
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  Speaker 3: announcer at his age, he doesn't want to get hit.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Well, you know what?
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Pay for some better offensive linemen. Maybe you won't get hit.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 22: Yeah.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It's just, yeah, there's just a, there's, there's a lot
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  Speaker 6: of stuff. Okay.
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  Speaker 28: Tomorrow, It's supposed to rain here, and so my wife
• 32:06
  Speaker 28: wanted to go to the beach, but that's probably not
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  Speaker 28: going to happen.
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  Speaker 6: And I said, oh, gee.
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  Speaker 28: And then she had a home and garden show she
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  Speaker 28: wanted to go to. I go, babe, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 28: I can make that.
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  Speaker 17: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 6: Because Virginia plays Florida State tomorrow afternoon. Anyway, you got Pitt,
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: Virginia Tech tonight, which I'll talk about first.
• 32:21
  Speaker 28: Oh, yeah, because if the Hokies and the Franklin have
• 32:25
  Speaker 28: a chance to go 5-0, the schedule is just perfectly
• 32:27
  Speaker 28: set up for them. You know, no team– they haven't
• 32:32
  Speaker 28: really beaten– Somebody that's good.
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  Speaker 6: Okay. I just, let's go. It's pretty good. Well, yeah.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: So pit. So that's what I'm leaning to.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 32:43
  Speaker 28: Tonight it's challenge city pits undefeated tech is a tick
• 32:47
  Speaker 28: tech can go five and over the first time in
• 32:49
  Speaker 28: 21 years. Since 05. So it's a big one tonight.
• 32:54
  Speaker 28: And I'm telling you, the inner sandman, it's going to
• 32:58
  Speaker 28: rock tonight in Blacksburg. Now, Grunkemeyer, Ethan Grunkemeyer, the QB,
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  Speaker 28: who is just literally... comfortable with this decision to play
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  Speaker 12: You know that I felt so comfortable coming here.
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  Speaker 6: It was part of that.
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  Speaker 12: And that was part of the recruiting process as well
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  Speaker 12: felt so comfortable, you know, transferring isn't easy. And so
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  Speaker 12: that was, you know, part of the thing that made
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  Speaker 12: it comfortable for my family and me was just like, hey,
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• 33:36
  Speaker 12: same people that I had been recruited by and, you know,
• 33:39
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• 33:42
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• 33:45
  Speaker 12: what I'm going to get out of them as a staff.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: Come on down. Bring them from Penn State. That's where,
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: you know, that's where.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: You are having been.
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: God bless the portals.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: I have been in State College and in Blacksburg and
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I will. I loved my time in State College, but
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: State College as a town generally feels like it's just
• 34:04
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• 34:09
  Speaker 3: that whole area is a little bit more like, hey,
• 34:13
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  Speaker 24: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 34:17
  Speaker 28: So anyway, tonight kicks off what really is going to
• 34:20
  Speaker 28: be a fun weekend for a lot. Now, I could
• 34:23
  Speaker 28: almost give you for, you know, for entertainment purposes only.
• 34:28
  Speaker 28: I could almost give you a perfect parlay. Notre Dame
• 34:31
  Speaker 28: plays at North Carolina and Notre Dame third country.
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  Speaker 6: You can almost name that score.
• 34:37
  Speaker 28: If you want Alabama goes to Mississippi state, which is
• 34:39
  Speaker 28: going to be, but here's all right.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Number eight, Florida, which is, you know.
• 34:44
  Speaker 28: Number eight with a bullet, you know, they're like the young,
• 34:46
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• 34:49
  Speaker 28: out back in, I mean, it just long, you know,
• 34:51
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• 34:53
  Speaker 6: I was listening to it the other day. That's why
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: it came to mind.
• 34:56
  Speaker 28: Anyway, they're playing Missouri and, and Dringowitz, the head coach
• 34:59
  Speaker 28: of Missouri just got a contract extension.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: Well, guess what? He is 0-16 against ranked teams. 0-16
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: against ranked teams. Not good. Number five, Ohio State, will
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: play at Iowa. Okay?
• 35:15
  Speaker 28: I mean, there's just, as I said, there's a lot.
• 35:17
  Speaker 28: So if that's not enough for your palate, Florida State
• 35:21
  Speaker 28: and Virginia. Now, last year, the double overtime thriller that
• 35:24
  Speaker 28: propelled UVA to with the 11-win season, got them into
• 35:29
  Speaker 28: the ACC title game, and it kind of ended. So
• 35:32
  Speaker 28: Florida State was 3-0 entering, if I'm not mistaken, 3-0
• 35:38
  Speaker 28: entering that game against Virginia last year.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: They finished 5-7. And so for Mike Norvell, the.
• 35:43
  Speaker 28: Head coach of FSU, if they lose like 36 to– well,
• 35:48
  Speaker 28: if they give up 36 and lose.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: 36-31, they don't make any difference. But if they lose–
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: if they lose, well, I'll just, you know, need to score.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: If they, you know, once again, his $ 50 million.
• 35:59
  Speaker 28: Buyout, there'll be people there, there might be people writing
• 36:01
  Speaker 28: checks at halftime, you know, depending on how they play.
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: So it's this, there's the storylines. People ask me all
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: the time, Mac, do you have a, a favorite team
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: in college. Not really.
• 36:13
  Speaker 28: What I have are the favorite storylines for the weekend.
• 36:16
  Speaker 28: I love John Summerall in Florida and that's going to
• 36:19
  Speaker 28: be great. He's going to blow out Missouri. So your parlay.
• 36:21
  Speaker 28: So here's your, here's your parlay Vanderbilt at number two, Georgia.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: I don't even, I don't even know what that line is.
• 36:29
  Speaker 24: I don't care.
• 36:30
  Speaker 28: Florida at Missouri and Notre Dame at North Carolina. So
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us on this Friday morning. Coming
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  Speaker 6: Bob Good.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Bob.
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  Speaker 6: How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 5: Hope you are.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I was saying this earlier in the program.
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• 45:32
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  Speaker 5: Oh, gosh, darn it. What is this going wrong?
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  Speaker 6: To my life.
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  Speaker 3: But what is the expression? I don't want to misstate it,
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  Speaker 5: Am I wrong, Bob?
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  Speaker 31: Well, in everything in life, what matters most is having
• 45:59
  Speaker 31: an eternal perspective.
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  Speaker 25: We are created in the image of God. God provided
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  Speaker 31: We're going to spend, if we live a long life,
• 46:09
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  Speaker 25: Of years in eternity.
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  Speaker 31: The most important thing in life is to be ready
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  Speaker 3: So well said. Thank you for that, Bob. Conversation this morning,
• 46:25
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  Speaker 3: But this issue out of Tennessee... and our dear friends
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  Speaker 3: listening to us at WGOW and EDG down this morning
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  Speaker 3: in Tennessee. We have great listeners out in the volunteer state.
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  Speaker 3: This boxed or bollocked or just failed execution has brought
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  Speaker 3: the issue to the fore, and I warn my listeners
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  Speaker 3: that capital punishment is one of those issues the left
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  Speaker 3: wants to use as a wedge against amongst conservatives to
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  Speaker 3: drive down voter turnout, to make us not engage publicly
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  Speaker 3: in the defense of life. What is your perspective on
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: that from where you've been? You've been in representative offices locally, nationally.
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  Speaker 3: Is it an issue that we need to deal with better,
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  Speaker 3: capital punishment?
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  Speaker 31: Well, when I think of the issue of life more broadly,
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  Speaker 31: more generally as a moral issue, We're very concerned about
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  Speaker 31: the culture of death in our country. We're killing 1.1
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  Speaker 31: million precious innocent children in the great cause of death
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  Speaker 31: in this country. The amount of heart disease, cancer, the
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  Speaker 31: second and third leading causes of death combined, the number.
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  Speaker 25: Of children that were killing.
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  Speaker 31: And that is directly connected to the culture of death
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  Speaker 31: that where 11 or 12 jurors could not convict or
• 47:58
  Speaker 31: would not convict, I should say, a mother who brutally
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  Speaker 31: killed her three young children because she was under emotional duress,
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  Speaker 31: because that is the justification that many give for abortion
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  Speaker 31: being legal. What about the emotional, psychological, mental health of
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  Speaker 31: the mother? Life should trump everything else. The Bible tells
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  Speaker 31: us that God forms us in the womb. He has
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  Speaker 31: plans for us from the womb. He knows who we are.
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  Speaker 25: He creates us in his image in the womb.
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  Speaker 31: And the Bible also says that God hates, when you
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  Speaker 31: list the things that God hates, the hands that shed
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  Speaker 31: innocent blood.
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  Speaker 25: Is there a better, greater example of that than abortion?
• 48:39
  Speaker 31: Now, moving to capital punishment, the Bible also talks about
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  Speaker 31: three justifications for the test.
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  Speaker 25: Of a human life. One is in time of war.
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  Speaker 25: Another is in self-defense or defending.
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  Speaker 31: Life, defending their health or sending someone else whose life
• 48:54
  Speaker 31: is at stake. And then capital punishment, that there's an
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  Speaker 31: appropriate consequence for government or for someone to kill someone
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  Speaker 31: else intentionally, unjustified homicide, then that's an appropriate.
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  Speaker 25: Consequence is capital punishment. And so I do support capital punishment.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting, and thank you for sharing that perspective, because
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  Speaker 3: that is one that it didn't hasn't been in. And
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  Speaker 3: perhaps my fault for being, you know, as some of
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  Speaker 3: my friends in the clergy will put their face in
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• 49:30
  Speaker 3: come on, Joe, put the sharp objects down and let
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: people with more expertise talk about this. But I appreciate
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  Speaker 3: your perspective on this on the subject. This also came up.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: Family Foundation is having a big rally today with 200
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: medical professionals against question one on the Virginia ballots. But
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: in general, in defense of life, we just read story
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  Speaker 3: out of the Netherlands. Now they allow youth in Asia
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  Speaker 3: for youth. Two year old was killed by the government
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  Speaker 3: because the family and the doctor decided he was not
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  Speaker 3: going to ever serve any purpose to the community at large.
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  Speaker 3: Canada has debated this, or as we like to call it,
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  Speaker 3: America Light. So, I mean, is there really a move
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  Speaker 3: towards this heinousness of, you know, pardon the glibness, but
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  Speaker 3: why stop there?
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  Speaker 31: Yes, it is a terrible, I'll say slippery slope or
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  Speaker 31: worth living.
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  Speaker 25: It is a very terrible, dangerous thing.
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  Speaker 31: And, you know, we ought to protect, celebrate life from birth,
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  Speaker 31: from conception to natural death. And that God, who is
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  Speaker 31: other than those things that we've talked about on the
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think that's an interesting way to look at it, Bob.
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  Speaker 3: Bob Good, the host of the Good for America podcast,
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  Speaker 3: because he's the only judge as to the value of
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  Speaker 3: a life.
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  Speaker 31: And it.
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  Speaker 3: Is the problem when you ask the government to pay
• 51:44
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• 51:46
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• 51:49
  Speaker 3: then we get to decide who lives and dies, and
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: I think that's one of the most misappropriated things in
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: everything that's happened since the Great Society and the development
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: of our welfare state. Is that overstating it, Bob?
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  Speaker 31: No, you're exactly right. We are created for an eternal purpose.
• 52:06
  Speaker 31: God desires to live with us in eternity. He makes
• 52:09
  Speaker 31: a way for our sins to be forgiven through, again,
• 52:12
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• 52:17
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• 52:23
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• 52:28
  Speaker 31: value in life there are places around the world as
• 52:30
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• 52:33
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• 52:35
  Speaker 25: Building regime change or those sorts of things in cultures
• 52:39
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  Speaker 31: Don't value life the way that we do here in
• 52:42
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