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"Refine, Baby. Refine" (FTTxJT Tue 091526 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got the first who is articulate and
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  Speaker 1: bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a.
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  Speaker 1: Storybook, man.
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  Speaker 3: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 3: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: Your words set a steel meal, stem near every day.
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  Speaker 5: Storybook, man.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for letting us be of service to you.
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  Speaker 7: Wherever you may be, there I am.
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  Speaker 8: I know it seems creepy. And I know there are
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  Speaker 8: plenty of ladies who turn the radio around when the
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  Speaker 8: show starts because they just have this feeling I'm watching them.
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  Speaker 8: But trust me, I'm not. I'm too busy in here
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  Speaker 8: turning all the knobs and dials. You ever see The
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  Speaker 8: unpaid for. So hopefully it all seems, I've received one
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  Speaker 8: incoming phone call so far this morning. So I think
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  Speaker 8: we're good to go for that because the business is,
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  Speaker 8: I tell you what went on. I'll give you my
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  Speaker 8: analysis of it, of course. And that's what they teach
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  Speaker 8: my analysis of it is, I want to hear how
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  Speaker 8: that we have tickets for again the reminder and it's
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  Speaker 8: just to keep you know because trust me i run
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  Speaker 8: a radio station as well as do the show for
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  Speaker 8: you each morning this is this is my quiet time
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  Speaker 8: But I know how busy it is to run a
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  Speaker 8: radio station, and often these folks have more than just
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  Speaker 8: giving them away, we are. We just happen to be
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  Speaker 8: blessed to be carried on their amplitude or frequency modulation boogers.
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  Speaker 8: They're not allowed to say that. I think Johnny Fever
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  Speaker 8: broke that chain there. There. Here go our first things.
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  Speaker 8: Supreme Court Monday rejected the administration's mail ballot restrictions for now.
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  Speaker 8: The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots
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  Speaker 8: under the same processes they've used for years. Justices Samuel
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  Speaker 8: Alito and Clarence Thomas were the only dissent. Kavanaugh agreed
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  Speaker 8: with the restrictions should not go into effect for the midterms,
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  Speaker 8: but indicated he might rule in favor of the administration's
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  Speaker 8: plan for next year. Senator Mitch McConnell returned to the
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  Speaker 8: Capitol in a wheelchair Monday after a three-month absence. Says
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  Speaker 8: he is not quite back to 100%. The 84-year-old Senate
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  Speaker 8: Majority Leader briefly addressed reporters, former Majority Leader, addressed reporters,
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  Speaker 8: said after two years, two decades of dodging your questions,
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  Speaker 8: I wasn't sure how many of you would be here today,
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  Speaker 8: McConnell joked. Attorney General Todd Blanch said Monday the Trump
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  Speaker 8: administration will release additional records related to September 11th, 2001,
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  Speaker 8: while rejecting claims that documents are being withheld to protect
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  Speaker 8: Saudi Arabia or other governments. There'll be no more records.
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  Speaker 8: There'll be more records coming out, he told the CBS
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  Speaker 8: reporter in an exclusive interview. The one thing we are
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  Speaker 8: not doing is protecting people. Vice President J.D. Vance said
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  Speaker 8: there are questions about the motives behind the AI leaders'
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  Speaker 8: call for more AI regulation. He called their requests a
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  Speaker 8: Trojan horse. EPA did it, as we told you they
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  Speaker 8: were planning on yesterday afternoon, repealed rules limiting planet warming
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  Speaker 8: or what the Green New Deal people, who wrote this?
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  Speaker 8: You just copied this from somebody. Planet warming? This is
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  Speaker 8: not planet warming. Did Michael Mann start writing my scripts
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  Speaker 8: for me? The rule change represents a fundamental shift. However,
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  Speaker 8: nothing about refining capacity yet. Border Czar Tom Homan said
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  Speaker 8: there is no plan for immigration and customs enforcement officers
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  Speaker 8: to be sweeping polling locations in the November midterms. Federal
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  Speaker 8: Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh dislikes giving any guidance about the
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  Speaker 8: likely path. what was asked about the possibility of a
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  Speaker 8: rate increase tomorrow after a two-day meeting of the Federal Reserve.
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  Speaker 8: And it is leaning towards a rate increase of a
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  Speaker 8: percentage point from to a 3.75 to 4% range. Those
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  Speaker 8: are some of our first things this morning here on
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  Speaker 8: the Talk Media Network. I write for the Daily Signal,
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  Speaker 8: just put together a piece, a very good piece on
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  Speaker 8: voting and what's coming up as we get ready to
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  Speaker 3: News and analysis now without artificial colors. First Thing Today
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  Speaker 3: by Joe Thomas on the Taunt Media Network.
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  Speaker 8: As long as you've got a voice, don't ever stop.
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  Speaker 4: Hi.
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  Speaker 3: As long as you've got truth, don't ever stop.
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  Speaker 8: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 15: As long as.
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  Speaker 15: What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 8: But not in a creepy way. Don't call HR and say,
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  Speaker 8: Joe's made inappropriate comments.
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  Speaker 17: Don't ever stop.
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  Speaker 8: Because you know what HR would say if you called
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  Speaker 8: them and said Joe made inappropriate comments? They'd say, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: that's what we pay him for. 434-882-4217. My fingers are
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  Speaker 8: crossed we've received two now incoming phone calls. So the
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  Speaker 8: phone lines seem to be working. Gets a little awkward.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, you want to talk about monologuing. EPA. Lee
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  Speaker 8: Zeldin yesterday, a gathering of ecological ministers. And really, if
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  Speaker 8: there is an arrogant bunch of people outside of the U.S.
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  Speaker 8: Supreme Court chambers you'd ever want to meet, it's a
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  Speaker 8: meeting of government officials who insist they are managing the
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  Speaker 8: ecology of Earth. Wow. No inflated self-worth there, no.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 8: All these Michael Mann devotees. And you want to talk
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  Speaker 8: about creepy. I mean, I think some of these people
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  Speaker 8: actually have posters of Michael Mann hanging in their bedrooms.
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  Speaker 8: But I digress. So the EPA has lifted the restrictions
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  Speaker 8: on power plants, and that's good. We have, and there
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  Speaker 8: are many across the country that have only recently been closed,
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  Speaker 8: so I imagine they won't be so hard to fire
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  Speaker 8: up again. There's that word. There's fire again. Oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 8: if humans had just stayed in their lane and not
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  Speaker 8: mastered fire, we had a lot more going on than
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  Speaker 8: just mastering fire. But you listen to these greenies and
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  Speaker 8: they'll tell you that's our blight. That's our locusts moment
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  Speaker 8: as we're just consuming I heard Bill Maher you know
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  Speaker 8: for all the things Bill Maher says that we like
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  Speaker 8: he went into the whole pinheaded you know peak resources
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  Speaker 8: overpopulation sure there are places on the planet that are
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  Speaker 8: overpopulated mostly because these are places that have been for
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  Speaker 8: generations told the government will take care of it which
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  Speaker 8: as you and I well know is a lie. So
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  Speaker 8: most of these places have overpopulation either because the government
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  Speaker 8: will subsidize said population or you've just grown up being
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  Speaker 8: convinced that the government will fix all the problems at
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  Speaker 8: some point when they get around to it after tea.
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  Speaker 8: But what he did do, and this has got to happen,
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  Speaker 8: I think you and I are amongst the few people
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  Speaker 8: who realize the phrase should not have been drill, baby, drill,
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  Speaker 8: but it should have been refine, baby, refine. And at
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  Speaker 8: some point, this cabal over what oil prices are needs
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  Speaker 8: to be investigated. And I think that's long since overdue.
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  Speaker 8: The price fixing, the commodities market that says this is
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  Speaker 8: the base of what we're going to charge. We all
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  Speaker 8: agree this is what we're going to get for a
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  Speaker 8: barrel of oil. Because it's becoming frustrating to Americans and
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  Speaker 8: really the House members who are facing re-election in the midterms,
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  Speaker 8: their biggest problem is going to be You and I
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  Speaker 8: all heard about the big deal with the Venezuelan oil.
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  Speaker 8: You and I hear rotating stories over, depending on whether
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  Speaker 8: it's the Iranian PR firm known as the New York
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  Speaker 8: Times or Real News, regarding shipping in Hormuz. Most of
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  Speaker 8: the issues with shipping in Hormuz is not because Iran
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  Speaker 8: has done anything, but because the shipping companies don't want
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  Speaker 8: to test them. There's just an efficacy, I imagine, to that.
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  Speaker 8: But that's where so much of the refining capacity of
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  Speaker 8: the world is, is in the Middle East. So it's
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  Speaker 8: not even about the crude oil. It's about getting crude
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  Speaker 8: oil from Venezuela into the Middle East to get refined
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  Speaker 8: into something that you can send back to us. Because
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  Speaker 8: we don't want to do dirty work here. We look
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  Speaker 8: at Mike Rowe as an avatar of a quaint anachronism. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: dirty jobs. Hee hee hee hee hee. And we've said
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  Speaker 8: frequently the phrase that you hear a lot, especially in
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  Speaker 8: the illegal immigration world, is, oh, these folks are coming
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  Speaker 8: here to do jobs Americans don't want to do. Well,
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  Speaker 8: that's a sentence fragment. There's a comma at the end
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  Speaker 8: of that phrase, not a period. What's supposed to follow
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  Speaker 8: that comma is for the wages that we now insist
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  Speaker 8: people get paid. So we want people to do immutably
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  Speaker 8: replaceable jobs, though important, for our businesses, but we don't
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  Speaker 8: want to pay for it. And a lot of American
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  Speaker 8: small businesses sit there and say, yeah, I mean, I
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  Speaker 8: like having a phone system, but I don't want to
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  Speaker 8: pay so much for it. Well, you can't have an
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  Speaker 8: illegal immigrant phone system. We don't want to pay. We
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  Speaker 8: don't want to do oil refining work. in the United States,
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  Speaker 8: or will wind up as a lyric in another Bruce
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  Speaker 8: Springsteen song. Down the fires of the refinery. Hey Bruce,
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  Speaker 8: that pink Cadillac you were driving, where did its gas
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  Speaker 8: come from if it wasn't from the refinery? Dumbass. Pop culture.
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  Speaker 8: Tail chasing. Public policy from the of some song that
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  Speaker 8: only sounds good if Manfred Manry does it. It's amazing
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  Speaker 8: to me. But we appreciate what Lee Zeldin did yesterday,
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  Speaker 8: but we need to have him come back soon and
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  Speaker 8: tell us about Refine Baby Refine, because that's the only
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  Speaker 8: way it's going to get any better. And Trump's right.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, Iran, as Tom Drops Bombs told us, they
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  Speaker 8: know when the midterms are. They want to punish Trump
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  Speaker 8: by electing Democrats. Iranians for Democrats. You'll see those yards
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  Speaker 3: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 8: That pink Cadillac is not running on goose down, boss.
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• 29:01
  Speaker 8: anti-American song not sung by Hanoi Jane. You know, and yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I get it. This is the troubadour of a community
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: that's been told the government's going to fix stuff for you.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: I'm ready to sit down and welcome you back into
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: the fold of people who get it. My fear, though,
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: having watched and taken notes in my field guide to
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: the American Marxist, is what's happened is not a flaw,
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: but a feature. They've created so much poverty so that
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: the coup de grace, the punchline at the end of
• 29:46
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• 29:52
  Speaker 8: all vote away our rights. Ah, you know what? Free speech.
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: Don't need free speech. I want an apartment. Nah, you
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: know what? I don't want a marketplace economy. It sucks.
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: We haven't had one. How would you know? What do
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: you mean? The guy on TV said it's the failures
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: of the free market. I said, no, it's the failures
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: of not having a free market. This text message on
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: refinery says, Joe, these things are filthy. They're horrible stewards
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: of the environment around them. Also, a few greedy oligarchs
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  Speaker 8: can charge you way more than it costs for a
• 30:39
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• 30:47
  Speaker 8: the treatise. I'm not sure if it was written in
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: irony or not. I know that's what the American left
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  Speaker 8: tells you about.
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  Speaker 17: The.
• 31:02
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• 31:19
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  Speaker 8: that we've concocted in a lab. This is an organic product.
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  Speaker 8: More so than ethanol. There's a reason gasoline and natural
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: gas and all of this stuff is so much more
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: inexpensive than all of the other alternatives we've been able
• 31:51
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  Speaker 8: have to break it free of its combinations. It doesn't
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: cost us a lot. once we've built a refinery. So
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: that's Lee Zeldin's next task is refine, baby, refine. Because
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  Speaker 8: diesel in California. They won't refine, baby, refine. And part
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: of it is the regulations. I want to pivot to
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: something J.D. Vance said about Trojan horses. talking about the
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: head of Anthropic over the weekend rattling the chains, Jacob
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: Marley's chains. AI is coming to take your soul. And again,
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: the gaslighting is that AI, there was some whistleblower on
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: Hannity last night, talking about how AI wants things. AI
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: doesn't give a rat's ass about things. The people who
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: programmed it want things. We really have to be brutal
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: about pointing this out. The reason that Claude hacked into
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: Hugging Face... was because its programmer told him it was okay.
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: If you need to steal in order to accomplish your mission,
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  Speaker 8: a very much different place than it is now because
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: that's where we are. If he needs something, steals something,
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: is the new commandments of the American Marxist. George Soros'
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  Speaker 8: prosecutors will look the other way because, well, you needed it.
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  Speaker 8: You were poor. It doesn't matter if you stole it
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  Speaker 8: because they all lost their jobs because of your thefts,
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  Speaker 8: that's okay. We'll have a government plan for that. Just
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  Speaker 8: vote Democrat. So, the Trojan horse, I don't know if
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: it was meant to say what it, its intent is.
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: But if his intent is to say, don't buy it,
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: these people are just looking for the government to do
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: their work for them, sure, yeah, that's exactly what they're wanting.
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: Because Anthropic and Microsoft and all of these companies want Google,
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  Speaker 8: want the government to come in and now regulate marketplace
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: for artificial intelligence so that no new artificial intelligence companies
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: will start up and say, hey, we do it more
• 35:35
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• 35:39
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• 35:43
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• 35:54
  Speaker 8: it all out like it's some new thing. Oh, it's AI.
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: We don't know what we're doing. This is the oldest
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: story in human... Our friend Chris Horner calls it the
• 36:06
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• 36:23
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• 36:26
  Speaker 8: I know that we're living in this wolf in sheep's clothing,
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  Speaker 8: Fabian Marxist society, because these are all Marxist tropes. These
• 36:39
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• 36:46
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• 36:52
  Speaker 8: Constitution does it say, you know, outside of the perversion
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: of the Commerce Clause, and I guess that's the original sin,
• 37:02
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• 37:16
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• 37:20
  Speaker 8: We better not let that happen again. And by better
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: not let happen again, we mean make sure it happens
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: again in 150 some odd years. They've taken to regulating
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  Speaker 8: cross a state line. And now in the age of
• 37:38
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• 37:42
  Speaker 8: within the purview of some government oversight, if not multiple
• 37:47
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• 37:55
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• 45:19
  Speaker 8: because them you can go and spew your COVID on,
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  Speaker 8: but not the election workers. No, sir, we're going to
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  Speaker 8: protect them from your COVID. Make you mail in your ballot. Hey,
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  Speaker 8: you can mail in anyone's ballot. Voter fraud, you know,
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  Speaker 8: and here's the interesting thing that I think in a
• 45:40
  Speaker 8: great deal should be applied here, and a couple of
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  Speaker 8: you have said the same thing to me at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 8: In the milieu of mail-in balloting, isn't mail fraud, and
• 45:58
  Speaker 8: I don't mean fraudulent mails, I'm talking about sending something
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  Speaker 8: to somebody through the auspices of the postal service in
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  Speaker 8: order to gain legal documentation. Understand the postmark is considered
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  Speaker 8: a legally binding timestamp. Carries with it a guarantee of authenticity.
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  Speaker 8: This is why mail fraud will get you thrown in
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  Speaker 8: jail quite a bit, because if you use the U.S.
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  Speaker 8: government to commit fraud, they get salty about it I
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  Speaker 8: think mostly they get mad because you're working their side
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  Speaker 8: of the street but that can be a debate for
• 46:41
  Speaker 8: another point committing mail fraud as in knowingly or willfully
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  Speaker 8: mailing something to someone that you know that is fraudulent
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  Speaker 8: like a ballot for someone who doesn't live there anymore
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  Speaker 8: or ever is mail fraud. So anyone who conducts mail
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  Speaker 8: fraud should go to jail for mail fraud. And this
• 47:10
  Speaker 8: seems to be the basis of the president's argument, the
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  Speaker 8: administration saying, we just want to verify that the U.S.
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  Speaker 8: Postal Service is not unwittingly partaking in mail fraud. That's
• 47:24
  Speaker 8: sort of really weird. Can you imagine the postmaster general
• 47:29
  Speaker 8: getting arrested for willfully being complicit in mail fraud was
• 47:36
  Speaker 8: one of the things they got Al Capone on. Tax evasion,
• 47:39
  Speaker 8: mail fraud, bootlegging, murder for hire, extortion. We couldn't make
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  Speaker 8: any of that stick. You avoided your taxes and committed
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  Speaker 8: mail fraud. Now we got you. Let the process fit
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: the crime, as it were. So the Supreme Court, citing
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  Speaker 8: at least the conservatives, quote-unquote, that border Amy Coney Barrett,
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, citing the Republican-led states who just
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: last week said, hey, you know what? All well and good.
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: Makes for a great copy, but we couldn't possibly do it.
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  Speaker 8: in this short of a period of time anyway. You
• 48:35
  Speaker 8: had Kansas and Utah, all these states with Republican majorities, Georgia,
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  Speaker 8: our friend Rapson, Rapson, Rapson, Sivaran Rapp, or whatever his
• 48:49
  Speaker 8: name is, the Secretary of State. John, was it John Ratzenberger?
• 48:56
  Speaker 8: You know, it's a little known fact that we don't
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: have time, Norm. So all these, quote, Republicans said, you know,
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: we don't have time to verify our votes because we
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: didn't do anything for the last eight months. And we've
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: all been that 15 or 16 year old who waits
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: to the last minute to do their science project. And
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: then when they get a D plus on it, and
• 49:33
  Speaker 8: they're like, oh, I worked really hard on that. Yeah,
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: in the last hour and a half before you had
• 49:39
  Speaker 8: to go to bed the night before the project was due. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: during that little bit of time, you worked really hard
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  Speaker 8: on it. The six months you knew about it beforehand,
• 49:49
  Speaker 8: not so much. Trust me, I was that kid. I
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: get it. I know how you are. We were joking
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: about that with the... superintendent of the Flight 93 Memorial.
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: This guy's been planning this stuff for probably three years,
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: the events. Certainly a year. It's not like he woke
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: up one morning and said, oh my gosh, it's Memorial
• 50:12
  Speaker 8: Day weekend. Hey, anyone know what we're doing for September 11th?
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: But you know there were people who did that, obviously
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: with less important things to plan than the 25th anniversary
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: of Flight 93. But you get what I'm saying is
• 50:33
  Speaker 8: these folks like John Ratzenberger, it's a little known fact
• 50:36
  Speaker 8: they know him, in Georgia, waited until the Sunday night
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  Speaker 8: before their science project was due and then claimed they
• 50:48
  Speaker 8: didn't have time to do it. It is so disingenuous,
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: but the Supreme Court has allowed it, just like that
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: indulgent parent who's like, it's okay. We understand. You're busy.
• 51:02
  Speaker 8: You're busy on social media because you have quite a
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: bit of, you know, and we love your videos. Grandma
• 51:08
  Speaker 8: loves your videos. Let me get to you at 434-882-4217.
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: Good morning. You're on the air with Joe first thing
• 51:15
  Speaker 8: this morning. Who's this? Hey, Joe, it's Clark.
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  Speaker 9: Hey.
• 51:20
  Speaker 8: So my phones are actually working. We now have evidence
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: that I managed to pay my phone bill using my
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: wife's credit card. Don't tell her. And, oh, not really.
• 51:34
  Speaker 8: We own the business together. It's just that my card
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: is apparently in the penalty box there. So we had
• 51:41
  Speaker 8: an awkward moment or six this morning there. But I'm
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: glad you got through. What's on your mind? Well, refine, baby, refine.
• 51:50
  Speaker 8: Love it. It should be on every bumper sticker. Okay.
• 51:55
  Speaker 8: Let's think about this for a minute, Joe. Who greatly
• 52:00
  Speaker 8: benefits from there being a limited number of refineries? Well,
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: there's the oil-producing refineries, BP, and the ones who actually
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: do it because they can charge more for what they refine.
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  Speaker 16: Right.
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  Speaker 8: So they're making a lot more money because there's just
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: a few of them on the ones they got.
• 52:23
  Speaker 15: Now, who owns.
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: Those refineries. Who owns those oil companies? Corporations. You've got ExxonMobil. Giant,
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: mega global corporations? Okay. I mean, yeah, sure. No extra
• 52:38
  Speaker 8: charge for the adjectives there. Hold on to that because
• 52:41
  Speaker 8: I sense yet another dangling participle in the light at
• 52:45
  Speaker 8: the end of the tunnel is the oncoming newscast. So
• 52:48
  Speaker 8: hang on to that thought for a second.
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