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"Bane of Doomscrolling" (FTTxJT Tue 092226 hr3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday from the radio program that's never had our
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  Speaker 1: White House press credentials rescinded.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know we've never had any, but still.
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  Speaker 3: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the
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  Speaker 3: kids to school and on the way. Joe has everything
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  Speaker 3: he dreamed of, all the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 4: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 5: He only aims to please.
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  Speaker 6: You.
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  Speaker 2: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 1: You know the deal. First and foremost, if you want
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  Speaker 1: to understand what this program is about, we call ourselves a.
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  Speaker 2: Radio program.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. We still call ourselves a radio program. You
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  Speaker 1: can be a content creator. but I am doing a
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  Speaker 1: radio program. Why? Because everyone still listens to radio. Everything
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  Speaker 1: comes and everything goes. You know what podcasts have become?
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  Speaker 1: The training ground for new radio show hosts, which is
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  Speaker 1: good because the podcasters that get serving their constituents will
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  Speaker 1: make great radio show hosts. The ones that are just
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  Speaker 1: there to hear the sound of their own voice, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Good luck with that. But we will broadcast
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  Speaker 1: this to your amplitude or frequency modulation translator, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: chop up the news of the day into easily digestible gummies.
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  Speaker 1: And just as the side effects of it begin to
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  Speaker 1: impact you, I want to hear about it. Stand and deliver.
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  Speaker 1: Be that content creator at 434-882-4217. You can text message
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  Speaker 1: This one, Brenda in Virginia Beach streaming. And I apologize, Brenda.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to have four hours in Virginia Beach
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  Speaker 1: with you folks. We count our blessings that we get
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  Speaker 1: the one on WTAR down there. And she said, this
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  Speaker 1: person would like for us to stop being manipulated by
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  Speaker 1: all the corrupt politicians and Marxists and fear porn. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: fear porn. That's a great line. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you all have ever heard the expression doom-scrolling. Look at me.
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  Speaker 1: Am I up on the lingo? I know after I
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  Speaker 1: found out, after I heard the phrase doom scrolling and
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  Speaker 1: I looked it up, I'm like, oh, yeah, I'm like
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  Speaker 1: eight years behind the times or whatever. That's not that bad.
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  Speaker 1: But it's been a phrase for a while. I only
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  Speaker 1: just started to come aware of it. And I was
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  Speaker 1: reminded of it over Saturday when we were doing our
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  Speaker 1: Saturday show in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 7: And.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't do it in sequins in an Elvis
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  Speaker 1: costume now. For Vegas and Long Island, I was reminded
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  Speaker 1: of that phrase because Mike wrote in and said, you're
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  Speaker 1: like an antidote for doom scrolling. I guess that's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing. Is being an antidote for doom scrolling a
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  Speaker 1: good thing? That must mean something along the lines of
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  Speaker 1: we're satirized for your protection. So here we go with
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  Speaker 1: those first things. The news of the day. New York
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  Speaker 1: City is a parking lot. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't even look like there are cars allowed there.
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  Speaker 1: Judging by the way I watched Emmanuel Macron just walk
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  Speaker 1: across Fifth Avenue as if there were no cars in
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  Speaker 1: New York. Maybe they just up and closed it. It's
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  Speaker 1: something Zorhan Mamdani might try.
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  Speaker 2: The U.N.
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  Speaker 1: Takes over New York at 10.30 this morning. Denmark, Greenland,
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  Speaker 1: and President Trump will sign the new agreement for military
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  Speaker 1: protection of Greenland and the ouster of the Soviets, I
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  Speaker 1: mean Russia, and China from the island. President Macron, as
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  Speaker 1: I said, seemingly able to wander as he wills around
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  Speaker 1: the strangely empty streets of New York. Are you sure
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  Speaker 1: they're actually in New York? They're not in like Disney
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  Speaker 1: World at the New York stage set or Universal Studios?
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  Speaker 1: He said that he met with President Trump on Monday
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  Speaker 1: and had a very, very good discussion. It was very
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  Speaker 1: constructive regarding Ukraine and Russia. Meanwhile, at the UN, 22
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  Speaker 1: leaders and officials representing 20 countries in the European Union
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  Speaker 1: have called on the world to regulate AI so that
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  Speaker 1: they can have a level playing field with the United
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  Speaker 1: States and China. The United States and China said, why
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  Speaker 1: would we agree with that? the statement from the group
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  Speaker 1: of 20, AI must remain under human direction, oversight, and control.
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  Speaker 1: The networks all have suspended in a collusive behavior coverage
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  Speaker 1: of the president as a press pool after CNN, MSNOW,
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  Speaker 1: and Politico announced plans to sue the administration over being
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  Speaker 1: barred from the White House. The White House in a
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  Speaker 1: statement said the First Amendment protects their right to publish.
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  Speaker 1: It does not entitle them to a hard pass. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Terry Moran admits that he knew President Biden's health was
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  Speaker 1: collapsing long before the party admitted it. But ABC News
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  Speaker 1: executives quashed that report. President Trump met with Mayor Mamdani
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  Speaker 1: at Gracie Mansion Monday. I was asked if I had
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  Speaker 1: ever seen Gracie Mansion, having grown up in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: He said, yes, it's just another indescript stone building behind
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  Speaker 1: It really is. I mean, you get to some of
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  Speaker 1: these old buildings in Manhattan, and that's what they are.
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  Speaker 1: But he said, I hope he will be a great mayor.
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  Speaker 1: He told reporters, you have to understand, I want what's
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  Speaker 1: good for New York. I want what's good for the country.
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  Speaker 1: And an appeals court Monday said the Republican-drawn congressional maps
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  Speaker 1: I write for the Daily Signal. My latest piece goes
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  Speaker 1: live in about an hour and 45 minutes. It's a
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  Speaker 1: sit-down with former Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears, who is out
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  Speaker 1: campaigning against deceptive language, mostly against an abortion amendment but
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  Speaker 1: also against the Virginia Commonwealth residents getting lied to. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just part of our coverage. We have teams covering Ohio, Texas, California,
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  Speaker 1: go to dailysignal.com every day to read the latest. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 25: Here is the sound of a thousand.
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  Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 16: Working five to nine, making something of your own now.
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  Speaker 20: And it feels so fine.
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  Speaker 4: To build a business from your know-how. Wanna move ahead, and.
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  Speaker 1: That's me. That's right. That's what we do here each
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  Speaker 1: and every morning. 434-882-4217. After I tell you what went on,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to hear how it's happening to you.
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  Speaker 1: Because your reactions are going to be different. And this one,
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  Speaker 1: we played a little clip of J.D. Vance from last night.
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  Speaker 1: He was at the U.N. He's in New York with
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  Speaker 1: the president. Don't stand next to him, guys. Didn't we
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  Speaker 1: learn anything with McKinley? I mean, granted, we got Teddy
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  Speaker 1: Roosevelt out of the deal, but come on. Teddy Roosevelt
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  Speaker 1: and William McKinley standing next to each other in Buffalo,
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  Speaker 1: New York. We've forgotten. I mean, Obama really did it
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  Speaker 1: when he used to go out for cheeseburgers with Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, the president and the vice president aren't
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be out in public together. Certainly not if
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  Speaker 1: you have a conniving speaker of the house. If Frank
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  Speaker 1: Underwood is speaker of the house, then, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want the president and vice president in the same place.
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  Speaker 1: But the question was, why was I beating on J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance over his answer? It's more of a pedantic thing.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have a problem with J.D. Vance's answer. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it bordered on.
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  Speaker 1: Well, all right, here's the best way I can explain
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  Speaker 1: it to you. In communication, there's truisms. that says, if
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  Speaker 1: it does not add to it, it subtracts from it.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of think that's a life lesson, too. But if
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  Speaker 1: you're about to say something, I mean, unless you're an
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  Speaker 1: Ivy League professor, where, you know, if you only use
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  Speaker 1: 100 words when you could use 1,000, you're not really trying.
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  Speaker 10: But if.
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  Speaker 1: If you are asked and say at the onset, I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you the simple answer. And then you go on
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  Speaker 1: at length. Okay, that's not the simple answer. The simple
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  Speaker 1: answer is the simple answer. And you should embrace the
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  Speaker 1: simple answers. But too often they don't. And they wind
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  Speaker 1: up tripping themselves up. They wind up saying too much,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it may be. So he's on Newsmax sitting down.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought his answer was good. And he should
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  Speaker 1: have cold stopped right at the end of it. But
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't do it. And so I. I just felt
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  Speaker 1: like he added things that didn't need to be there.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe some of this is being Donald Trump's vice president. Because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Donald Trump can stand there for three hours
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  Speaker 1: and talk about, you know, the color of your suit.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people are looking at this as
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  Speaker 1: his opportunity to take center stage. on a global scale
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  Speaker 1: and show off that he's got the chops. And he's
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  Speaker 1: behind Marco Rubio when it comes to the international side
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  Speaker 1: of being president. If it was a primary between J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance and Marco Rubio, because of Israel, because of a
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  Speaker 1: lot of this international stuff, Rubio has been shining.
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  Speaker 22: I see the message as two very simple things. First
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  Speaker 22: of all, don't give power to the crazy people.
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  Speaker 1: Who And that's it. Don't give power to the crazy people.
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  Speaker 1: But he then he simplified it.
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  Speaker 10: Started these problems in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So you even go to there and say
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  Speaker 1: that's your simple answer.
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  Speaker 22: You're sort of wondering how is this going to end?
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  Speaker 22: How is that going to end while they're focused on
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  Speaker 22: the good as well?
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  Speaker 19: So the message, if you could, in a word or
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  Speaker 19: in a phrase, what is the message right now to
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  Speaker 19: voters as you head into.
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  Speaker 9: This critical season?
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  Speaker 22: I see the message is two very simple things. First
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  Speaker 22: of all, don't give power to the crazy people who
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  Speaker 22: started these problems in the first place. If you're frustrated
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  Speaker 22: about high prices, you have every reason to be frustrated
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  Speaker 22: by high prices. If you're frustrated by the fact that
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  Speaker 22: crime is higher than it should be, you have every reason.
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  Speaker 10: But we got.
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  Speaker 22: The crime rate at the lowest level in 126 years
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  Speaker 22: after the Democrats got it at record levels. We've got
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  Speaker 22: inflation now finally under control after the Democrats got it
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  Speaker 22: to its highest level in 48 years.
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  Speaker 10: And so I think for us, the message.
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  Speaker 22: Is we've made a lot of progress, but we've got
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  Speaker 22: to make more progress over the next couple of years. Reinvest,
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  Speaker 22: double down on the political people who have done right
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  Speaker 22: by the country over the past 18 months. Don't give
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  Speaker 22: the country back over to a bunch of radicals who
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  Speaker 22: caused these problems that you're frustrated by in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: So those were his two simple answers, and that was
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  Speaker 1: three minutes of simple answers. But If I was writing
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  Speaker 1: that speech for him, first off, you start with the questions.
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  Speaker 1: You don't put the questions in the middle. I know
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  Speaker 1: he was responding to the interviewer, but you can respond thusly. Well,
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  Speaker 1: here's the questions Americans have to ask. Winsome Sears did it.
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  Speaker 1: Do we have the Winsome interview? It'll be up in
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  Speaker 1: the Daily Signal as well coming up. I sat down
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  Speaker 1: with former Lieutenant Governor here in Virginia, Winsome Sears, and
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  Speaker 1: she led with the question, what are these constitutional amendments
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  Speaker 1: to written to fix. Are we denying people abortions in Virginia?
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 1: Are we denying gay couples the right to get married?
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  Speaker 15: No.
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  Speaker 1: So what are these constitutional amendments doing? And that's the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the investigation. Then you start digging in and
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  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, it criminalizes noncompliance with it. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not bad. And he's thoughtful and he's spoken well of
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  Speaker 1: the issues. And I like the theme of don't give
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  Speaker 1: the country back to the crazy people. And I like
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  Speaker 1: the theme of we've done this much now. As our
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  Speaker 1: friend Tom Drops Bombs told us several weeks ago, the
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  Speaker 1: Iranians have calendars. They know what the midterm elections in
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  Speaker 10: Well, I finally want to put a lid because I
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  Speaker 10: know this is playoff week.
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  Speaker 16: The NASCAR guys are right in the middle of the chase.
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  Speaker 10: So, you know, it's a great time of year. Baseball playoffs,
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  Speaker 10: you know, naturally. And so with all that happening, I wanted.
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  Speaker 16: To get kind of to the bottom of the bottom
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  Speaker 16: of the track, but bottom to the the Blaney House
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  Speaker 16: of our fight and everything that's going on behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 16: First of all, NASCAR is not going to penalize Carson
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  Speaker 16: House of our.
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  Speaker 10: Or Ryan Blaney.
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  Speaker 16: Now, Ryan Blaney appeared on a podcast yesterday with Denny Hamlin,
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  Speaker 16: so he breaks it down, and so does Joey Logano.
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  Speaker 16: So I got a couple of perspectives that I wanted
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  Speaker 16: to bring to the table, because I know we have
• 29:24
  Speaker 16: a lot to write. There were 43 laps left at
• 29:26
  Speaker 16: Bristol on Saturday night. Blaney had just passed Carson Hosovar
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  Speaker 16: for second, coming off turn four. They charged down the straightaway,
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  Speaker 16: and Hosovar immediately tried to cross underneath him on the
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  Speaker 16: inside lane, and Blaney moved down to close it. And
• 29:42
  Speaker 16: that's when the two cars, you know, the violent contact
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  Speaker 16: Blaney's number 12 Ford hit the outside.
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  Speaker 10: Wall ends up, he's done. He goes to the care center.
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  Speaker 16: He gets back out of the care center at like
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  Speaker 16: just only after six laps, he was fine. Blaney, uh,
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  Speaker 16: led 202 laps. He was dominant and he finished 33rd.
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  Speaker 16: You know, it's all said and done though. I mean,
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  Speaker 16: that is Bristol racing.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So Blaney made a normal defensive move.
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  Speaker 10: Jose Var, though, who is.
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  Speaker 16: Kind of the bad boy now with this, you know,
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  Speaker 16: sixth grade face that he has. So as they got
• 30:24
  Speaker 16: to talking about, well, let's get. So Lugano took advantage
• 30:27
  Speaker 16: of it. I'm going to play Joey Lugano first.
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: Lugano takes advantage of it. He's aware of what's going
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: on around him. And he goes, you know what? I'm
• 30:35
  Speaker 10: just going to let them fight it out. I'm going
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: to win the race. Here's Joey Logano explanation.
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  Speaker 15: Kind of run in there right behind each other.
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  Speaker 10: I thought the bottom is going to open up here.
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  Speaker 19: These two are going to rough each other up.
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  Speaker 15: You kind of seen it coming. Last second, turned it down.
• 30:48
  Speaker 10: To the bottom.
• 30:49
  Speaker 15: Again, they kind of just gave the race to me.
• 30:51
  Speaker 15: a host of our probably wins that race.
• 30:53
  Speaker 27: If he doesn't have the reputation he has, but because
• 30:56
  Speaker 27: of the hats, I decided to make a move to
• 30:59
  Speaker 27: where he was going to rough them up to try
• 31:00
  Speaker 27: to win the race himself.
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  Speaker 15: And now it's just the person that took advantage. I
• 31:05
  Speaker 15: was there at the right place, right time.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 31:07
  Speaker 15: Snuck around it.
• 31:08
  Speaker 10: So there it is.
• 31:09
  Speaker 16: Right place, right time. Now, racing, you're going to love
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  Speaker 16: these numbers. Racing Insights data, because you just love stats
• 31:16
  Speaker 16: so much, cited by NASCAR, tracked 63 cup race weekends
• 31:21
  Speaker 16: from the start of the 2025 season through Bristol. Carson
• 31:26
  Speaker 16: Hosovar had been involved in driver conflicts. It's 16 of them.
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  Speaker 10: So it's roughly one in every four weekends.
• 31:33
  Speaker 16: So drivers on that list include Brad Keselowski, Joey Ligon,
• 31:38
  Speaker 16: Kyle Busch, Corey Helm, Blaney himself. So his history with
• 31:43
  Speaker 16: Heim goes back to the 2023 Truck Series, Corey Heim.
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  Speaker 10: In a championship race at Phoenix.
• 31:48
  Speaker 16: 13 days before Bristol, Josavar spun Kozlowski out of the
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  Speaker 16: cookout Southern 500 in Darlington. So it was Kozlowski who said, quote,
• 31:59
  Speaker 16: his day is coming and it's coming hard.
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: Watch out.
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  Speaker 16: Josavar's response was, oh, I'll tighten my belts. You know,
• 32:08
  Speaker 16: that's a, that's a, you know, that's.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: A, this guy is going to rule a host of
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: our is going to, you know, Richard Childress needs to
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: hire him and put him in the number three car.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: No apologies to his vision.
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:19
  Speaker 16: When Blaney falls back, if you've seen the YouTube video,
• 32:22
  Speaker 16: so a host, which he's going to talk about here
• 32:24
  Speaker 16: in a second, he.
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: Blaney charged him.
• 32:29
  Speaker 16: Pretty aggressively and then grabbed his, you know, he didn't
• 32:33
  Speaker 16: throw a punch, but he grabbed.
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: And so a guy in Blaney's.
• 32:38
  Speaker 16: Crew, crew member, Blaney got out of the care center.
• 32:41
  Speaker 10: He handed him his phone. He goes, hold this.
• 32:43
  Speaker 16: And so the guy in Blaney's camp went, Oh, if
• 32:47
  Speaker 16: he's handing me the phone and said, hold this, he goes,
• 32:49
  Speaker 16: get ready.
• 32:50
  Speaker 10: So anyway, a host of our tracks, what his incidents generally,
• 32:54
  Speaker 10: he's not, he's not hitting that.
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: I'm aggressive driver, but I'm trying to win so on
• 32:58
  Speaker 10: and so forth.
• 32:59
  Speaker 16: So Blaney goes on the podcast with Denny Hamlin yesterday
• 33:03
  Speaker 16: and he.
• 33:03
  Speaker 10: Explains, well, what happened?
• 33:06
  Speaker 27: Grabbed him by the, and pushed him at the chest
• 33:08
  Speaker 27: and kind of grabbed him pretty aggressively. You're probably going
• 33:11
  Speaker 27: to defend yourself, you know? So first thing I know,
• 33:14
  Speaker 27: so he landed a pretty good right hand. And so
• 33:16
  Speaker 27: when that happened, I was like, okay, well, I should
• 33:18
  Speaker 27: probably return fire at this point. And so for the
• 33:21
  Speaker 27: second right, like I see the second one coming and
• 33:24
  Speaker 27: I'm kind of immobilized. And in my mind, I'm like,
• 33:27
  Speaker 27: all right, I'm just going to eat this thing and
• 33:31
  Speaker 27: continue to yell at him and stare at him while
• 33:34
  Speaker 27: I just eat this other right.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: And I'll give it to him.
• 33:37
  Speaker 27: He tagged me in the same exact spot that he
• 33:39
  Speaker 27: got me the first time.
• 33:39
  Speaker 16: So Blaney tried to be a Clint Eastwood. I'm just
• 33:42
  Speaker 16: going to stare at him knowing I'm going to.
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: Get hit again. You know, so anyway.
• 33:48
  Speaker 16: All I know. And Ryan Blaney said, look, I know
• 33:50
  Speaker 16: going to Kansas, the Hollywood rates, the Hollywood 400 or
• 33:54
  Speaker 16: whatever is this weekend.
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: And he goes, I know on Saturday press, they're going
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: to be all over this again. He goes, you know...
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: And Blaney's handling it pretty good. He said, hey, I'm
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: going to talk about it. But he goes... I screwed up,
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: and there we go.
• 34:08
  Speaker 16: So that's their story, and they're sticking to it.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: It's not like there's 800 cameras around there. I've seen
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the video of the accident. He was three feet under.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: If anyone is to blame for that wreck, It's it's
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Ryan Blaney's spotter who didn't say, hey, he's already a
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: quarter panel underneath you. Don't come down on him.
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: And so don't come.
• 34:30
  Speaker 16: Don't come at me and start, you know, grabbing me
• 34:33
  Speaker 16: and yelling at me. So I said, and then I said, well, look,
• 34:37
  Speaker 16: I wanted to impress the crowd. And so that's why I.
• 34:40
  Speaker 16: I did what I did. Put them in the.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Three car and be done with it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 34:47
  Speaker 16: Almost all the baseball playoff positions are set for the weekend.
• 34:52
  Speaker 16: There's a couple of things that can happen as far
• 34:54
  Speaker 16: as Winning the division with Cleveland and everything that's going
• 34:59
  Speaker 16: on with that.
• 34:59
  Speaker 10: So with the White Sox and Cleveland. So there's a lot.
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: There's six games.
• 35:03
  Speaker 16: And tomorrow I'll break down the schedules because this is
• 35:08
  Speaker 16: where I get a little perturbed.
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: And this is why I've said.
• 35:14
  Speaker 16: Take a week, July 4th, or maybe right after the
• 35:17
  Speaker 16: All-Star break, play all the interleague games you want, but
• 35:20
  Speaker 16: get back to the league. I don't care about how
• 35:23
  Speaker 16: good the league is or numbers. Because late in September,
• 35:28
  Speaker 16: when games matter, and we're stuck in this again, and
• 35:30
  Speaker 16: I've always been very vocal about this, now you've got
• 35:34
  Speaker 16: a couple teams playing interleague games against Patsy's. And it just,
• 35:40
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• 35:42
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• 35:45
  Speaker 16: your league guys in the drive in September in the
• 35:48
  Speaker 16: last couple of weeks, especially in the month of December.
• 35:51
  Speaker 16: There's no sense to me playing interleague baseball in September.
• 35:55
  Speaker 16: And I'll never be a favor of it until they
• 35:57
  Speaker 16: decide that somebody says, well, you know what? We're just
• 36:01
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• 36:05
  Speaker 16: the interleague thing, but it goes on all year now.
• 36:07
  Speaker 10: You know that.
• 36:08
  Speaker 16: You play, and I don't know, the metrics, and they're
• 36:10
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• 36:13
  Speaker 10: Who and whatever.
• 36:14
  Speaker 16: And then you have the rivalry week and Giants A's
• 36:16
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• 36:18
  Speaker 1: But you've got to love Chicago, though, for this. I mean,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: this is only the– I just did some quick checking.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: According to the internet, this is only like the third
• 36:27
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• 36:30
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• 36:32
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah, great point.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: And it's been six years since it happened. Before that,
• 36:36
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• 36:40
  Speaker 10: So the Windy City, yeah. No, they've got to be
• 36:44
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• 36:48
  Speaker 10: so anyway, I'll break it down tomorrow.
• 36:51
  Speaker 16: We'll get into it tomorrow because a lot of the
• 36:54
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• 36:57
  Speaker 10: You know, we're over the Texas comeback. We're over, you know,
• 37:01
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• 37:05
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• 37:08
  Speaker 16: Um, and you know, they're going to go to, so they,
• 37:10
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• 37:15
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• 37:18
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• 37:20
  Speaker 16: So they're certainly trending and they haven't even cracked the
• 37:23
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• 37:26
  Speaker 16: If you look at the numbers. But so it's yeah,
• 37:29
  Speaker 16: there's there's a lot to follow and especially. And oh, yeah,
• 37:32
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• 37:34
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• 37:50
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  Speaker 10: I came to get down.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 15: What up, dog?
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  Speaker 1: Hang on a second.
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  Speaker 15: Hang on. Wrong show. Sorry. Sorry. I'm well. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 1: I'm well. I react better to what up, dog. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: quick question. on, you know, the midterms. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: ruled that their redistricted maps can go on. But I
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  Speaker 1: was also reading that Missouri's mail-in ballots had already gone out.
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  Speaker 1: So that could be fun. I guess they sent them
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  Speaker 1: out based on the new districts.
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  Speaker 15: What if the ballots don't identify as mail-in? Anyway, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: It's... Then you have to– you know what? You nearly
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  Speaker 1: forced the inner shock chuck that I keep locked in
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  Speaker 1: my basement out there.
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  Speaker 15: You're going to misgender somebody's ballot this morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't want to misgender anyone's ballot unless they're
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  Speaker 1: getting delivered in the back of the electoral headquarters. So, see,
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  Speaker 1: you forced it out. You forced it out in– anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But the– The battle over this mail-in balloting, Ken Cuccinelli,
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  Speaker 1: who I know you're friends with, said, listen, I know
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  Speaker 1: we can't get the SAVE Act for this year, but
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  Speaker 1: we got to get it for one of these years eventually.
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  Speaker 1: And they're going to wait until next August and say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's too late for this year. And every year it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a battle of, oh, it's too late
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  Speaker 1: for this year. And then we won't bring in, reel in,
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  Speaker 1: fewer people voting. You know, have we lost this battle
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  Speaker 15: Well, we may have because remember, Biden opened the floodgates
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  Speaker 15: at the southern border, and I think it was two
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  Speaker 15: years ago yesterday that like 10,000 people walked right past
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  Speaker 15: Customs and Border Patrol at Eagle Pass in an orderly
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  Speaker 15: single file line. And that the federal government stopped the
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  Speaker 15: Texas National Guard and the Texas State Police from stopping
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  Speaker 15: people from entering Texas. 10,000 in one day at one spot.
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  Speaker 15: And I think that was two years ago yesterday. The
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  Speaker 15: game was.
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  Speaker 15: And even if you can't get illegal people voting, which
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  Speaker 15: they do, contrary to what the left tells you, and
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  Speaker 15: certainly not in huge numbers, I would say they're the
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  Speaker 15: only group with lower turnout than Republicans in Virginia. But
• 47:40
  Speaker 15: even if you can't get illegal people voting, you get
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  Speaker 15: to count them for apportionment because of the 2020 census. Remember,
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  Speaker 15: they made a big deal about counting every single person.
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  Speaker 15: And so by counting for apportionment where you get to
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  Speaker 15: Chicago and L.A., In New York and places where you
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  Speaker 15: get people who tend to congregate, then you get to
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  Speaker 15: count them for the process of representation. So you have
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  Speaker 15: one member of Congress in rural North Carolina serving 800,000 citizens,
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  Speaker 15: and you have one member of Congress in Los Angeles
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  Speaker 15: serving 550,000 people. Right. And so and I'm picking numbers
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  Speaker 15: out of thin air, but follow the bouncing ball here.
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  Speaker 15: And so you weight the representation towards California, New York
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  Speaker 15: and parts of Illinois. And that's part of the game.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 15: And that ticking time bomb won't go off until 2031.
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  Speaker 15: So it may be too late because it'll go off
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  Speaker 15: after the next census. This is– look, they're not dumb.
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  Speaker 15: I know a lot of them, and they're not. They
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  Speaker 15: America has historically been, but they're not dumb. So I
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  Speaker 15: that the mainstream media will not point out just how
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  Speaker 15: important it is for them to make sure that it's
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  Speaker 15: vote in our elections is mind-numbing. And I'll give you
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  Speaker 15: like to do on Tuesday mornings. Boy, they should. are
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  Speaker 1: And we can't prove they didn't. I mean, they can't
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  Speaker 4: Or won't.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: Well, they don't want to because, by golly, we've got
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  Speaker 15: to because it's what they accuse you of, right? And
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  Speaker 15: and how can we tell that Trump's not taking orders
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  Speaker 15: from his overlord and all of this garbage? Well, you know,
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  Speaker 15: taking orders from the Russians because they just told us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because they said it's not again, it's not.
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  Speaker 15: Because of an affinity of Putin. It's because of a
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  Speaker 15: disdain for America. This is so remarkably biblical. If you
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  Speaker 15: dig down into the text of that amazing, amazing.
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  Speaker 1: How so? I'm curious about that. I'm just that that
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  Speaker 15: Well, it's there's always a desire to collude with forces
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  Speaker 15: the time that each of the relevant portions were written
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  Speaker 15: so But, I mean, maybe it's just a commentary on
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  Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot to be said for that.
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  Speaker 15: Well, I didn't even I'll even give you the line
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  Speaker 15: he'd use in the debate against you. Well, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 26: Right.
• 51:36
  Speaker 15: So nothing's anyone's fault.
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: Exactly right.
• 51:39
  Speaker 15: Again, I'm the only guy I know who I repeatedly
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  Speaker 10: Correct.
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  Speaker 15: It's okay if something's your fault, Joe. It's okay. Did
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