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"Gas Tax Relief?" (Monday, March 30, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in first Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Your words steal me.
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  Speaker 3: Stem you have a day at least for work.
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  Speaker 2: When the son comes up, drops a kid to scoop
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  Speaker 2: the way Joe has everything. A dreamer, all the Joses sevens.
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  Speaker 4: No one that Joe's a smile. He only asp.
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  Speaker 3: Let it be, Joe, thank you for letting me be
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  Speaker 3: of service to you this morning and every morning. Not
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  Speaker 3: going to get rid of me because I want to
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  Speaker 3: be a famous congressman or some other ineffectual soul. Will
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  Speaker 3: it be like you and actually do something for my community?
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  Speaker 3: But four three four eight eight two four two one
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  Speaker 3: seven is how we interact. I'll tell you what went
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  Speaker 3: on last night. I will tell you my analysis of it,
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  Speaker 3: for sure, But then I want to hear how it's
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  Speaker 3: impacting you where you are at four three four eight
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  Speaker 3: eight two four two one seven back home from seapack
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  Speaker 3: in Dallas, where you know it was really a celebration
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  Speaker 3: of doers like Nick Shirley got.
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  Speaker 5: The shop running well and you can take the company
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  Speaker 5: retreat in Mogadishu. Speaking of you know, speaking of unpleasant cities.
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  Speaker 5: You know ilan Omar family values. I guess that makes
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  Speaker 5: Minneapolis the city of brotherly love.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know it's we were far enough away
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  Speaker 3: from the catskills. I guess nobody really, you know, expected
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  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. But Nick Shirley, one of the
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  Speaker 3: highlights of Seapack talking about what it takes to get
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  Speaker 3: out there and catch them, as Alan Funt, the host
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  Speaker 3: of Candid Camera for many years in the sixties and seventies,
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  Speaker 3: used to say, catch them in the act of being themselves.
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  Speaker 3: The difference, of course, was Alan Funt was looking for
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  Speaker 3: the wonderful human humanity that is out in there, somebody
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  Speaker 3: who would help some elderly woman out with, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when he didn't think anyone was looking or anything like that. No,
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  Speaker 3: Nick Sureley catches them in the act of being criminals
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  Speaker 3: and stealing from the taxpayers. And here's the interesting thing.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of folks have talked about legislation. We have legislation.
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  Speaker 3: It's called the Fraud Against Taxpayers Act. But a friend
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  Speaker 3: of mine said, you got to be careful, Joe. The
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  Speaker 3: Fraud Against Taxpayers Act is not applicable to members of Congress.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess if members of Congress have born fraud
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  Speaker 3: against taxpayers, that's just considered what being a member of Congress,
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  Speaker 3: I know, cheap shot, but not as cheap as the
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  Speaker 3: City of Brotherly Love line in there. I want to
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  Speaker 3: get into the gas holidays that a lot of states
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  Speaker 3: are talking about. Georgia, Utah, California, Connecticut, even South Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: and of course here in Virginia where we are, and
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  Speaker 3: how much that is. We just drove from Dallas to Virginia,
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  Speaker 3: and I have a pretty good handle on gas taxes
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  Speaker 3: and what it looks like. But let's get our first
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  Speaker 3: things out onto the radio. Speaking of the leering centers
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  Speaker 3: in Minneapolis, Treasury Secretary Scott Vessen has rolled out new
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  Speaker 3: initiatives aimed at cracking down on government fraud, especially in
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  Speaker 3: the healthcare field, a whistleblower program. Whistleblowers could receive between
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  Speaker 3: ten and thirty percent of all fines collected from criminals
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  Speaker 3: who defraud Medicare and Medicaid. According to a report in
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  Speaker 3: The New York Post, three Chinese linked vessels reportedly were
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  Speaker 3: turned around by the Iranian government because they thought they
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  Speaker 3: could get through the Strait of horn Moves without paying
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  Speaker 3: the tribute that Iranian government officials are still calling for
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  Speaker 3: for vessels to get safe passage through there just in
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  Speaker 3: time for Easter. If it's a grown up easter you're
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  Speaker 3: talking about. The California based chocolateer gear Isle has recalling
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  Speaker 3: pounds and pounds of chocolate products who have undeclared prescription
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  Speaker 3: drug ingredients. Well, that can't be good. Well, the products
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  Speaker 3: are Golden Lion aphrodisiac chocolate and ilum check sex chocolate.
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  Speaker 3: live up to those kind of names. President Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 3: I could it be proof and packaging? President Trump said
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  Speaker 3: Sunday the US Israeli war and bombardment in Iran could
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  Speaker 3: end soon because, in his words, they have achieved resume change. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: to shoot missiles striking Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Yesterday, Pakistan
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  Speaker 3: has announced that it will soon be hosting the talks
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  Speaker 3: between whoever it is leading the Iranian government in Tehran
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  Speaker 3: and the United States envoys, saying that they are looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to this position and facilitating meaningful talks between both
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  Speaker 2: Upperty famous styal the scream, But you can do something
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  Speaker 3: So no, you did not miss here two hacks messages
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  Speaker 3: querying me on something I said earlier about driving to
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  Speaker 3: Dallas from Virginia. Yes, that is what we did, and
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  Speaker 3: wonders if you sleep in the front seat of a
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  Speaker 3: don't know about the other applications of it whatever, but
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  Speaker 3: I should have hurt in places I didn't hurt. So there,
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  Speaker 3: you can take that to the bank. But I do
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  Speaker 3: want to get into something that I experienced very closely
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  Speaker 3: driving through multiple states, which is gas tax. And one
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  Speaker 3: of the reasons these politicians never want to actually cut
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  Speaker 3: the gas tax is because it will identify just how
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  Speaker 3: much the gas tax is. And we'll get into that
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  Speaker 3: in a moment. There's a bunch of states across the
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  Speaker 3: country that are trying to do this. But first, our
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  Speaker 3: friend James from the Jefferson Coinshop is here with this.
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  Speaker 3: Jcsgold dot Com is where you find them online and
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  Speaker 3: talk about gold and silver investing. How are you doing
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  Speaker 3: this morning, James, and how are our friends gold and
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  Speaker 3: silver treating this Monday morning.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, you caught me just in time, Joe, before I
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  Speaker 18: started packaging up all these packages and getting them out
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  Speaker 18: clients across the country, because you know, those discounts that
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  Speaker 18: we were seeing last week and over the weekend, they're
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  Speaker 18: they're starting to fade so far this morning, and a
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  Speaker 18: lot of our clients took advantage of those lower prices,
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  Speaker 18: buying the dip per usual today though, gold and silver
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  Speaker 18: are trying to rebound this week. So far, gold is
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  Speaker 18: up one and a half percent, up seventy dollars to
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  Speaker 18: four thousand, five hundred and sixty four dollars. Silver is
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  Speaker 18: up two hundred quarter percent, back above seventy dollars at
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  Speaker 18: seventy one thirty five at the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Which just great to see silver well, and it shows
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  Speaker 3: perhaps you know, the world is you know, getting back
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  Speaker 3: on some even footing there. You know, rumblings that the
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  Speaker 3: regime has fallen in Iran. We'll see where that plays out,
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  Speaker 3: and things like that are all going to have impact
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  Speaker 3: on that, you know, talk about though you know, again
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  Speaker 3: we've said this, and we said it on Friday. This
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  Speaker 3: isn't about by low sell high, it's buy more low,
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  Speaker 3: so that you know, as as time goes on, you're
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  Speaker 3: always going to have currency, whether you know you own
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  Speaker 3: any Iranian reals or not. Gold is gold, right.
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  Speaker 18: That's exactly right. Yeah, no matter what is printed on
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  Speaker 18: the gold coin, it is still gold, no matter what.
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  Speaker 18: And that's where the value comes from, honestly, And yeah,
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  Speaker 18: I mean it's it's very difficult, believe me, I've tried.
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  Speaker 18: It's difficult to try to trade and the time news
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  Speaker 18: events and geopolitical events perfectly.
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  Speaker 3: It's where you're in before.
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  Speaker 18: The announcements, you know, to try to play the pump
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  Speaker 18: and prices, and that's really difficult to do. And that's why,
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  Speaker 18: of course we just say you just stack and build
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  Speaker 18: over time. If you see a discount, you know, and
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  Speaker 18: it's at a price that you like, maybe buy a
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  Speaker 18: little bit more than you normally buy, and that way
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  Speaker 18: you're prepared. And then I think a lot of people
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  Speaker 18: will find that they actually by doing that, they time
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  Speaker 18: things perfectly and they're well positioned for when the pump happens.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think trying to be that riverboat gambler is
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  Speaker 3: always a bad idea front deer front of ours who
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  Speaker 3: does you know the traditional kind of investing through a
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  Speaker 3: mirror prize. Sorry that was a freebie, no more, but anyway,
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  Speaker 3: but he does trading through them and runs portfolios. He said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if you just miss the three or four
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  Speaker 3: biggest days of the year because you sold when you
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  Speaker 3: know you panicked, everything was going down, so you sold,
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  Speaker 3: and then everything bounced back and you missed it and
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  Speaker 3: you try to get in the next day later, you
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  Speaker 3: could have cost yourself your entire retirement portfolio in just
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  Speaker 3: that kind of trying to you know, time the merry
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  Speaker 3: go around before you jump in and off. So this
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  Speaker 3: is the kind of advice you get from a family
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  Speaker 3: business that's there already in the morning packing up boxes
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  Speaker 3: full of gold and silver to send stuff there. James,
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  Speaker 3: you can call them, test me out on it. Ten
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  Speaker 3: am Eastern and uh four three four nine seventy nine
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  Speaker 3: coin is their phone number to talk to a family
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  Speaker 3: not a call center.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And know that when they're giving you advice, it's not
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  Speaker 3: based on do I need to make this sale to
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  Speaker 3: make my quota this week? Not saying but I'm saying, James,
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  Speaker 3: you have a great morning, sir, Thank you, Thanks shoving
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  Speaker 3: you too. So as we drove across and there are reasons.
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  Speaker 3: Please let's not get lost in the minute. So the
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  Speaker 3: reason we drove to Dallas had nothing to do with TSA,
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  Speaker 3: had nothing to do well, it had a little to do.
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  Speaker 3: It's TSA because we bring a lot of stuff. The
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  Speaker 3: gear to do this radio show alone would be all
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  Speaker 3: of my allotted carry on stuff. And I know people
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  Speaker 3: you know, ship stuff, but I don't trust that easily,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't have the money to replace a lot
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  Speaker 3: of this electronics, so I'd like to keep it with me.
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  Speaker 3: Just expensive, and it's precious and we can't do what
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  Speaker 3: we do without it. So it's difficult to pack enough,
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  Speaker 3: especially for four or five days in Texas, and do
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  Speaker 3: it in one carry on bag and a personal bag
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  Speaker 3: for my wife because everything else is mine. So it's
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  Speaker 3: just logistically if it's close enough. And Dallas was definitely
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  Speaker 3: a test of the emergency Closeness system. But it was
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  Speaker 3: neat going down to a Chattanooga and meeting all the
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  Speaker 3: folks at WGOW soon to be affiliates of this program,
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  Speaker 3: hanging out with us in the morning, and they were neat,
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  Speaker 3: and Chattanooga is a beautiful town. We went up on
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  Speaker 3: Lookout Point and saw I was just the gorge is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: And we drove the rest of the way and I
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  Speaker 3: was able to continue to work. Whereas when I fly,
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  Speaker 3: it's really just sit in the airport and wait. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you get a laptop open, but then you've got to
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  Speaker 3: get Wi Fi. Some of the airports have it, and
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  Speaker 3: then your charger, and most of the airports these charging
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  Speaker 3: stations are broken. It's just it's it's easier, believe it
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  Speaker 3: or not, to take three days broadcast to you from
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  Speaker 3: Chattanooga one day and Mississippi the next day. And Vicksburg
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  Speaker 3: was very neat right there. I completely forgot Vicksburg arms
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  Speaker 3: and chie Joe and get there. But we've experienced a
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  Speaker 3: lot of states and the variances and gas prices in
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  Speaker 1: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of questions and queries on the subject of
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Transportation and funding of your transportation kareem
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  Speaker 3: asks about the demise of the modern American cable car.
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  Speaker 3: There's a street cars and that kind of thing. Well,
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  Speaker 3: number one, it's what's done in all downtown areas because
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  Speaker 3: cities and trust me to this to a small degree,
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  Speaker 3: my grandfather was a zoning commissioner as well as being
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  Speaker 3: a contract lawyer. This was back when you could serve
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  Speaker 3: your community part time. So he used to take me
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  Speaker 3: when I would go up and visit him and there
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  Speaker 3: you go, WG. And you'd take me to these Planning
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  Speaker 3: Commission and Zoning Commission meetings where they would debate how
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  Speaker 3: to protect Greenwich and Old Greenwich from the onslaught of
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  Speaker 3: New York City sprawl, and he said, you just to
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  Speaker 3: develop a zone. Is this where you can do this,
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  Speaker 3: and this is where you can't. And that is what
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  Speaker 3: we used to have, just out of the sheer economics
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  Speaker 3: of a downtown area. But as sprawl started to occur,
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  Speaker 3: the idea of going all the way downtown seemed less
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  Speaker 3: likely for somebody who could move away from downtown and
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  Speaker 3: not have to be downtown to work. That was the key.
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  Speaker 3: We talked a little bit about Memphis and our affiliates there,
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  Speaker 3: Kwham the Mighty nine ninety. The paper mill moves out
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  Speaker 3: of downtown, doesn't leave the area, is now an area
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  Speaker 3: employer further out of town doesn't employ as many people,
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  Speaker 3: and the ones who do have to drive east of
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  Speaker 3: Memphis in order to get to their work. So downtown
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  Speaker 3: started dying. The demise of a cable car system or
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  Speaker 3: even just a trolley system begins with the demise of downtown.
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  Speaker 3: And it's because we have allowed the government to establish
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  Speaker 3: these authorities over where we can build something or not
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  Speaker 3: within a zone. So you say, well, you know, why
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  Speaker 3: would you not want you know, some zoning? Why you know,
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  Speaker 3: how is zoning good? Joe, Well, there are certain infrastructure,
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  Speaker 3: and you can debate whether this infrastructure is something or not.
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  Speaker 3: But if let's just say for a second, let's take
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  Speaker 3: the libertarian view, and you could do a water supply
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  Speaker 3: system for a town or city, small city, free market
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  Speaker 3: without the government doing it. So somebody goes up and
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  Speaker 3: digs the reservoir, dams the river, starts it up. And
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  Speaker 3: this has happened a lot more than you would think.
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  Speaker 3: You get to a lot of these old mill towns,
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  Speaker 3: like right here in Virginia, Palmyra was actually a dependency
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  Speaker 3: to a mill that was on the Ryvanna River and
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  Speaker 3: the town of the pardon me, the town of Palmyra
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  Speaker 3: was an encampment, if you will. It was a company town.
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  Speaker 3: Woolrich in Pennsylvania's another company town grew up around a
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  Speaker 3: big employer and it was there to serve as a
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  Speaker 3: place but basically for the citizens to live while they
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  Speaker 3: worked at the factory. But what happens when the factory
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  Speaker 3: goes away? Huh, well, how do we stop that? I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what made it go away? Well, they're greedy
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  Speaker 3: un American souls. No, they're probably not. They're probably people
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  Speaker 3: who said, well, I've got to find a more efficient
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  Speaker 3: way to bring my product to its customers. And so
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  Speaker 3: we'll ask you folks to do things less expensively. So
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  Speaker 3: downtown started to overprice themselves. They overpriced themselves out of
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  Speaker 3: an arrogance that dictated how much they thought stuff was worth,
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  Speaker 3: just based on the fact that they in many cases
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  Speaker 3: needed to raise capital. So in your question about the
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  Speaker 3: American cable car, it with the downtowns because a cable car,
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  Speaker 3: more so even than a bus system, is tied to
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  Speaker 3: a road or two that brings you to specific places. Buffalo,
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  Speaker 3: New York has the craziest boondoggle you'll ever see. So
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  Speaker 3: they wanted to have a commuter rail line in Buffalo
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  Speaker 3: because that's what all the cold kids had, and there
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  Speaker 3: was federal money for it. So it's a jobs program too.
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  Speaker 3: So they went and they put in a bid and
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  Speaker 3: they built a commuter rail line that basically runs from
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  Speaker 3: one end of the University of one campus of the
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  Speaker 3: University of Buffalo State to the other. It's the craziest
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  Speaker 3: all thing. It runs on one street, goes all the
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  Speaker 3: way to downtown. So if you get as far in
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  Speaker 3: as you know, forty blocks from downtown Buffalo, you can
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  Speaker 3: take the train from the rest of the way, No
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  Speaker 3: park and rides there or anything like that. It's just
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  Speaker 3: the craziest old thing. So that's what did in those things,
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  Speaker 3: is because people stopped going downtown because the reason we
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  Speaker 3: would go downtown was for work or entertainment, but mostly
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  Speaker 3: work down there. Yeah, have you noticed this.
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  Speaker 26: Movement to tar Caesar Chavez.
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  Speaker 3: I read a piece about it. I was curious because
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  Speaker 3: this was like the king lord high mugwump of the
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  Speaker 3: union movement. I mean, half of southern California is named
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  Speaker 3: after Caesar Chavez. What are they doing? Why are they
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  Speaker 3: looking to get rid of this guy?
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  Speaker 26: The New York Times is the one that first came
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  Speaker 26: out with the next pose that he was molesting young girls,
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  Speaker 26: and he was. He had apparently raped a couple of
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  Speaker 26: or a couple of women who accused him of rape
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  Speaker 26: and that sort of thing. Now, one of the reasons
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  Speaker 26: that the left is turning on him is that Chavez,
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  Speaker 26: as a labor organizer of migrant workers, was vehemently opposed
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  Speaker 26: to illegal immigration.
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  Speaker 4: Because because he thought that the.
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  Speaker 26: Illegal immigration was a lever that could be used against
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  Speaker 26: unionized farm workers.
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  Speaker 3: That makes sense, and we see it.
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  Speaker 26: So he was vehemently opposed to that. So it's the
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  Speaker 26: sort of thing where they say, well, we've gotten, we've
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  Speaker 26: gotten all we.
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  Speaker 3: Can get out of this, right this guy.
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  Speaker 26: Before people start paying attention.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's the same thing that sounds like the same
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  Speaker 3: character assassination they tried to do with Martin Luther King Junior,
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  Speaker 3: which is, oh, he was a womanizer and he had
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  Speaker 3: affairs and all these things because he didn't fit into
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  Speaker 3: their package of what a modern civil rights protester looked like. Anyway, sir,
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  Speaker 3: you have a great morning. Thanks for that, all right,
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  Speaker 3: take care, Joe, right, and thank you for joining in
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  Speaker 3: on the fray. That's always what it is, because there's
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  Speaker 3: always a subtext to it. Someway, there's always a reason
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  Speaker 3: that somebody has run a foul of the left. That's
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  Speaker 3: why I'm amazed that people still join the left, because
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  Speaker 3: eventually they'll come around to you next. It's like the
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  Speaker 3: Martin eimol Or poem. If you don't remember it, tuned
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  Speaker 3: in tomorrow, same bad time, same bad channel. I'm Joe,
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  Speaker 3: so long and thanks for all the fish.
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