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"Burning Questions" (FTTxJT Sat 101026 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it live. Making mornings great again. We'll do
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  Speaker 1: it live. First thing today on the Talk Media.
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  Speaker 2: Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll do it live.
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  Speaker 4: Joe works at a steel mill. He's down here every day.
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  Speaker 5: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 6: Drops the kids to school and all the work.
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  Speaker 4: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 7: All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 4: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 8: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 1: Bless you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Here's how it happens.
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  Speaker 9: When Columbus's crew begged him to turn back, it's too scary,
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  Speaker 9: the water is too rough, the ship can't take it.
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  Speaker 9: But he pushed onward, discovered the new world, eventually leading
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  Speaker 9: to the creation of the most exceptional nation. Christopher Columbus
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  Speaker 9: changed the future of humanity forever. And in this administration,
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  Speaker 9: we know that Christopher Columbus.
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  Speaker 1: Is, to us, he's a hero. He's a hero. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: he is. And unless it triggers you to think about
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  Speaker 1: somebody who set out not knowing where the outcome was
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  Speaker 1: going to be, just knowing that it would help a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people and it would elevate people's economic opportunities
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  Speaker 1: if he was successful in finding another way to the, well,
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  Speaker 1: to India, thus the name Indians. come from that. That's
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  Speaker 1: why you have two different groups, those in the Americas
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  Speaker 1: and those that he was looking for in India. Hurricane
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah is breaking up and kind of faltering now, kind
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  Speaker 1: of headed to the east. It's over eastern Georgia, Valdosta,
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  Speaker 1: heavy rains right now for our friends down there listening
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  Speaker 1: to us on WVGA News Talk 105.9. Flood watch in
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  Speaker 1: effect until 8 tonight. Here in our flagship city, we
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  Speaker 1: have a flood watch that starts at midnight and goes
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  Speaker 1: until about 8 tomorrow morning. High wind watch, 50-mile-an-hour gusts.
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  Speaker 1: But it's really about the rain, and it's the bands
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  Speaker 1: of heavy rain and what has been a dry period.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got a lot of places that have grown
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  Speaker 1: hard in its– in its attempts to deal with the summer.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got that part of it going on as
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  Speaker 1: well as the hurricane breaks up some and heads out
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  Speaker 1: that way. Also seeing bits of it as you get
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  Speaker 1: up through Dalton and heading towards Tennessee and the Tennessee Valley.
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  Speaker 1: Reporting to us live, as they used to say at
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  Speaker 1: the news desks, from northwest Alabama is Dr. Clark. How
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  Speaker 1: is the weather? Is it Raining there, I imagine it
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  Speaker 1: has to be.
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  Speaker 10: It's pretty wet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Any flooding up your way? No, it's all running off.
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  Speaker 10: Of course, I live on a mountain, so it don't
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  Speaker 10: flood too bad.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's good, because if it does, there might be
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  Speaker 1: something biblical going on there.
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  Speaker 10: If it floods here, the rest of y'all are in
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  Speaker 10: real trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. What's up?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I offer you a fair trade this morning. I
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  Speaker 10: will answer a burning question and pose another.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'll tell you what. I'll ask the burning
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  Speaker 1: question in a moment. Let's tell everyone what went on,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll find out what the burning question is. It's
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  Speaker 1: the itching and peeling questions that really daunt me. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump has struck a deal with Vladimir Putin to receive,
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  Speaker 1: let's see, 1,800,000 tons of diesel oil And if you're wondering,
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  Speaker 1: we have done the math. One ton of diesel fuel
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  Speaker 1: is approximately 279.7 gallons.
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  Speaker 8: Each.
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  Speaker 1: So 1.8 million tons of diesel fuel over the next
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  Speaker 1: few months coming from Russia to the United States. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: predictably in Kiev, this story did not go over very well,
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  Speaker 1: where Volodymyr Zelensky calls it unfair. I believe our team
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  Speaker 1: is simply being used as a smokescreen referring to meetings
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  Speaker 1: that were held yesterday with Witkoff and Kushner negotiating on
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  Speaker 1: peace in the war. Hundreds of thousands of people remain
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  Speaker 1: without power as crews from all around the Southeast rally
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  Speaker 1: to Florida and Alabama, especially along the Gulf Coast, where
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of thousands of people still are waiting for power
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  Speaker 1: to come back on this Saturday morning as Hurricane Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: hit landfall, just having made Category 3 status and has
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  Speaker 1: broken up, some of it heading to the East Coast,
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  Speaker 1: some of it heading inland towards Dalton and Chattanooga. President
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  Speaker 1: Trump said Friday he's committed to protecting the legacy of
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus, A Judge Friday, Sparkle Sukhnanan, struck down the
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  Speaker 1: administration's attempt to get state voter rolls to compare with
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  Speaker 1: federal immigration records, said the administration had not adequately addressed
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  Speaker 1: risks being raised by advocacy groups. Human rights supporters cheer
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  Speaker 1: as one of Nelson Mandela's former lawyers won the Nobel
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  Speaker 1: Prize for Peace, Navi Pillay, the 85-year-old, serves as an
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  Speaker 1: ad hoc judge on the International Court of Justice currently.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Ditka, easy for me to say, Mike Ditka, the
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  Speaker 16: Talk radio just the way your mother used to make it.
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  Speaker 16: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, happy birthday, Mom.
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  Speaker 4: This is my mom, who.
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  Speaker 14: Art in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: But it would have been her birthday. Like William Wallace
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  Speaker 1: before me, I am the son of a Crawford. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: there is some semblance, although I've never been portrayed by
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  Speaker 1: Mel Gibson or Mel Brooks or Mel Allen in a
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  Speaker 1: movie at any time. But I have appeared in a
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  Speaker 1: couple of novels, as Jason F. Wright has written me
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  Speaker 1: into a couple of books of his. So there's that. Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Clark had an itching, burning, peeling question he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: ask us in exchange for something. So the art of
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  Speaker 1: the deal on your radio this Saturday morning. All right, Clark,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for hanging on the line. I have my
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  Speaker 1: ointment in hand, ready to deal with the burning question
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  Speaker 1: you have for us.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I was thinking this burning question was more like
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  Speaker 10: a urethritis than something you'd apply an ointment to.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you for sharing that with us. Okay.
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  Speaker 8: So.
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  Speaker 10: The question is, what is socialism? Get your pen and
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  Speaker 10: paper because we are definitely going to be tested on this.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Hang on so we can reset the premise.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier in the program, I went back to a story
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  Speaker 1: that blew up, I guess, Friday morning. J.D. Vance in
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  Speaker 1: the H-1B visa press conference was asked by a reporter
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  Speaker 1: a question. And like many other members of the Trump administration,
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  Speaker 1: The press views the question as the important part, not
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  Speaker 1: the answer even so much as that. So here's what J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance was asked.
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  Speaker 18: How do you define socialism personally, and why do you
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  Speaker 18: think socialist candidates are popping up everywhere across the country?
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  Speaker 1: And J.D. Vance is getting excoriated for his answer, which
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  Speaker 1: when you hear the question actually makes sense, and you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that's what the question was. How many
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  Speaker 1: times and how many members of the Trump administration, never
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  Speaker 1: mind the big guy himself, has been done in by
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  Speaker 1: reporters who make the question, the answer, and then whatever
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  Speaker 1: you say, just irrelevant punching bag material. So anyway, so
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  Speaker 1: now you're going to actually answer the question, apparently, Dr. Clark.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead. I've got pencil. Give me something to write on.
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  Speaker 10: Okay. What is socialism? Socialism is the idealized lie. used
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  Speaker 10: to transition people into communism when the usually preferred bloody
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  Speaker 10: violent revolution is not feasible. That's what socialism is.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I like it because it's concise and
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  Speaker 1: it paints exactly what would be happening otherwise. Because communism
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  Speaker 1: usually has to be one ask Che Guevara at the
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  Speaker 1: end of a bayonet.
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  Speaker 10: Well, sometimes that won't work, so socialism is the answer.
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  Speaker 1: It's not so polite to do armed incursions anymore.
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  Speaker 10: Well, sometimes you have armed people that you can't pull
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  Speaker 10: that off with.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I feel like Gilbert Gottfried.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, oh, oh.
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  Speaker 1: I just remembered there was a beautiful Babylon Bee video
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  Speaker 1: that came out, I think it was last weekend, it
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  Speaker 1: was called The Civil War. And it's hysterically funny. Can we,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's published. It's been out for at least
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  Speaker 1: a week now. Can we go get the, it's just
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  Speaker 1: brilliantly funny about how, what happened in the 2026 American
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  Speaker 1: Civil War when it broke out. Did you know? I'll
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  Speaker 1: play it for the folks when we get back. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so back to your point, Clark. All right.
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  Speaker 10: So now I have the question to pose. And we'll
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  Speaker 10: hit back at reporters with this. Let's lead up to
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  Speaker 10: it just a little bit. This is Columbus Day weekend,
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  Speaker 10: and we are told by the left that Christopher Columbus
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  Speaker 10: was a slaver.
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  Speaker 1: He was a white supremacist. A colonizer. Right, a white supremacist.
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  Speaker 1: He was a bad person. Yeah, a bad guy. That's
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  Speaker 1: why we have Disingenuous Persons Day, because, you know, they're.
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  Speaker 10: Now, how many statues were taken down in the state
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  Speaker 10: of Virginia because the person represented was a slaver, a colonizer,
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  Speaker 10: representative of the patriarchy? How many names of schools were
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  Speaker 10: forced to be changed? We changed the names of army
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  Speaker 10: bases because they were similar, etc., etc.? So here's the
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  Speaker 10: burning question, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: What if CBS hadn't been forced to change its name?
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  Speaker 1: The Columbia Broadcasting System. Probably because nobody knows what C
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  Speaker 1: stands for. They think it's the Communist Broadcasting System. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that is a logical conclusion.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, we've got the three majors, nothing but communist,
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  Speaker 10: always been communist, and the communist broadcasting system.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the Communist News Network. Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 10: And then there's, what is it?
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  Speaker 1: What is it?
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  Speaker 10: Menstrual syndrome now is the new one?
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  Speaker 1: No, it's massive socialism now.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I thought it was menstrual syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: Only during Rachel Maddow's show, I guess. Okay. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: was that out loud? I'm going to have to go
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  Speaker 1: to a meeting about that comment. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 8: Here's the neat thing.
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  Speaker 10: Supposedly, we on the right have Fox News. And I
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  Speaker 10: think at best, Fox was fair and balanced initially.
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  Speaker 1: Well, by comparison. And that's the problem is as some
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  Speaker 1: of these networks try to... to tack to the middle,
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  Speaker 1: it makes Fox look less conservative. And then you've got
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  Speaker 1: other ones. The interesting, the fun bit about this little
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  Speaker 1: moral play is how much Fox News and CNN News
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  Speaker 1: are trying to keep Newsmax... out of White House press
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  Speaker 1: pool access when both Fox News and CNN had been
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  Speaker 1: victims of the same attitude by the broadcast networks. And
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  Speaker 1: it's like, really?
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  Speaker 17: Really?
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  Speaker 1: How long ago was it that you were told they're
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  Speaker 1: not really a news network? They're the Simpsons and the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: They're not news. Don't give them the time of day.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let them in.
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  Speaker 19: Well.
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  Speaker 10: When you look at the female anchors that they've had
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  Speaker 10: and still have, they definitely got the Fox part right.
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  Speaker 1: What was it? Somebody used to refer to them as
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  Speaker 1: the most babelicious news on television. But that's OK. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know what? It's at least to me, it admits
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  Speaker 1: that most of this stuff is just eye candy anyway.
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  Speaker 1: What did John Henley say? The bubble-headed bleach blonde comes
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  Speaker 1: on at five. She can tell you about the.
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  Speaker 3: With a gleam in her eye.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting when people die. Give us your dirty laundry. Clark,
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  Speaker 1: good burning questions for this Saturday morning. Stay dry. I
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  Speaker 1: was just looking at the radar map. Yeah, there's one
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  Speaker 1: big old hairy band of Isaiahs that apparently is... Now,
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  Speaker 1: are you near... Where did the radar map go? I
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  Speaker 1: guess as I look at this map, it looks like
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  Speaker 1: are you near Florence at all?
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  Speaker 16: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: If it keeps on raining, love is going to burn.
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  Speaker 1: If it keeps on raining.
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  Speaker 6: Love is going to burn.
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  Speaker 12: And I'll never be afraid to have no fear.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody asked me once why I didn't use more songs,
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  Speaker 1: because everybody knows them, and they don't necessarily fit a format.
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  Speaker 1: We use music that sets the tone. So when a
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: band of Hurricanes are basically going from Florence to Lawrence
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to Lewis, Bergs, across all the way to Knoxville, Tennessee. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll pull the Led Zeppelin out and just bearing in
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: on Nashville. Luckily, all those buses that the drunk bridal
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  Speaker 1: party girls ride around in in Nashville are closed, so
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  Speaker 1: they can keep rolling there up and down Main Street.
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  Speaker 1: And Kid Rock's place, I think, is indoors for the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: most part. there. But it looks like that's the track
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: is it's going to be headed in towards Nashville as
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: it heads north and continues to dissipate past that and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: impacting central Tennessee, even more than eastern Tennessee, as Isaias
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: breaks up. But that's bad news for our flagship city,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: where we're going to get a lot more of this
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: than we originally bargained for in Kentucky as well, getting
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of this as it comes up towards Frankfurt,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: et cetera. And, of course, most of the people, they're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the important story is, is it going to
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: impact my football this weekend? And it looks like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there are probably going to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people who can't go to the game because the
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  Speaker 1: power is out at their house. Or they can't watch
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  Speaker 1: it on TV because the cable is out at their house.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: But aside from that, it looks like Isaias has done
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: her damage. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people in
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the panhandle of Florida all along the floor of Bama
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: in that area died. And then into Mississippi, so you've
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: got Pascagoula, and you've got Gulf Shores and our stations
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: down there. I don't think they're on the Saturday ticket.
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  Speaker 1: I know Valdosta, Georgia got hit with a lot of rain.
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  Speaker 1: They've got flood watches until VGA is out there with us,
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  Speaker 1: You joined our family after I had already secured the
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  Speaker 1: tickets to give away to Trans-Siberian Orchestra. But I know
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• 31:43
  Speaker 1: We're working on it. Their Joel is hanging on the line,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: but the rains continue. And this band of Isaiah's carries
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: a ton of water, maybe not nearly as much water
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: as Putin just gave to the United States in terms
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: of oil. And on that story of Putin's oil deal
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• 32:13
  Speaker 1: can I help out with your oil supply? And Trump said, sure.
• 32:18
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• 32:24
  Speaker 1: of diesel makes like 270 gallons, or roughly what Kareem
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  Speaker 1: But the... This email says, Joe, how much... Is that
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  Speaker 1: That's the percentage you've got to look at. Is this
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• 33:00
  Speaker 1: New York City Public School graduate? All right. Well, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate the email. Thank you for being a loyal
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  Speaker 1: listener and knowing all the tropes. I will endeavor to
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  Speaker 1: do that math, but as many of my friends in
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  Speaker 1: is not one of them. So I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 1: to Joel for a minute here and lick my wounds.
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  Speaker 1: A good thing Dr. Clark made me bring out my
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: ointment there. Joel, what's on your mind, sir? Well, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: This isn't my topic, but I just had to bring
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  Speaker 20: Clark since he said he lives in the mountain in Alabama.
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  Speaker 20: Now there's a controversy, another controversy, about where does Appalachia start?
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  Speaker 20: Does it start in Alabama or does it start in Georgia?
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  Speaker 1: Isn't being, you know, that's like saying, where do hillbillies live?
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  Speaker 1: You know, Jeff Foxworthy had a wonderful arc in his,
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  Speaker 20: You cross the Mississippi now. No, but a lot of
• 35:46
  Speaker 20: the rednecks and hillbillies were Scottish, though, Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's why the name Billy stuck, because we were
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  Speaker 20: Anyway, but I wanted to say this real quick, too.
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  Speaker 20: So Spanberger, she's doing this political prosecution over the air,
• 36:07
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• 36:10
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• 36:15
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• 36:21
  Speaker 20: But where before all this, and when she got elected,
• 36:27
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• 36:42
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• 36:45
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• 36:52
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• 37:01
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• 37:09
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• 37:16
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• 37:23
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• 37:28
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• 37:33
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• 37:37
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  Speaker 22: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms.
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  Speaker 1: In the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 15: Freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 21: Freedom of religion.
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  Speaker 13: Freedom of the press.
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  Speaker 21: Freedom to peaceably assemble.
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  Speaker 20: Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 22: Only the United States has these five freedoms so simply
• 42:41
  Speaker 22: bound together and guaranteed.
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  Speaker 4: Think first.
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  Speaker 22: Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org.
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  Speaker 14: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 13: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
• 42:55
  Speaker 13: first date?
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: Sure.
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  Speaker 7: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 17: Probably?
• 42:59
  Speaker 14: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 1: I can probably swim.
• 43:05
  Speaker 10: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, don't tell me what to do.
• 43:09
  Speaker 14: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 8: Cramp!
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, I have a cramp.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 20: Probably.
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  Speaker 13: Can I get a mulligan?
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 15: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
• 43:35
  Speaker 14: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
• 43:39
  Speaker 14: and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
• 43:42
  Speaker 14: or a friend. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. A message
• 43:45
  Speaker 14: brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
• 43:47
  Speaker 13: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
• 43:50
  Speaker 13: also know this law protects teens. Find out more at DontServeTeens.gov.
• 43:56
  Speaker 13: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
• 43:58
  Speaker 13: the Federal Trade Commission.
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  Speaker 16: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
• 44:24
  Speaker 16: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 18: ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I appreciate about the Babylon Bee is
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: this is what I used to watch Saturday Night Live for.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: This social biting, hold a mirror up and show you
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: how the dump you're living in is bad for you.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: By lampooning you, and of course that was in a
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: world where you could lampoon somebody and not get sued
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: by 85 civil rights groups who have decided that not
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: being made fun of for doing something bad for you
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: is a civil right. So there's only a minute or
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: two here, and I subscribed, so I saw it, and
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: it came out last week. You've probably seen it already,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: but if you haven't, what the Babylon Bee did, and
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: it says here in the graphic that opens this little video,
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: we have asked artificial intelligence to simulate What would happen
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: if the US had a second civil war?
• 45:48
  Speaker 23: It was late 2026 and political conflict was coming to
• 45:51
  Speaker 23: a head. The right was not giving any ground and
• 45:54
  Speaker 23: the left decided it was time to take action.
• 45:57
  Speaker 15: We had to do something.
• 45:59
  Speaker 21: The Republicans were using every trick in the book, mainly
• 46:02
  Speaker 21: voting to take over our country. It was finally time
• 46:07
  Speaker 21: for war.
• 46:07
  Speaker 23: The left began to quickly make preparations to take the
• 46:10
  Speaker 23: country by force. It's not easy to start a war.
• 46:16
  Speaker 18: It involves a lot of talking on the phone, which
• 46:18
  Speaker 18: gives many of us anxiety.
• 46:20
  Speaker 23: An initial target was settled on, a lazy suburb that
• 46:24
  Speaker 23: served as a symbol of the bourgeoisie and capitalism. But
• 46:28
  Speaker 23: this small neighborhood was not caught by surprise.
• 46:32
  Speaker 21: Doreen's son goes to one of those fruity colleges on
• 46:35
  Speaker 21: the west coast, and we got word from him war
• 46:37
  Speaker 21: was coming.
• 46:38
  Speaker 23: The invading army descended on the small neighborhood. But the
• 46:41
  Speaker 23: attack did not go as planned.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: In the city, we're used to being able to burn
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: down a target and no one does anything.
• 46:48
  Speaker 23: I guess it's different in the suburbs, though. The suburbanites
• 46:52
  Speaker 23: had an ace up their sleeves, firearms.
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: One of the big issues is how we hate guns,
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: but the right loves them. I guess none of us
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: considered how big a disadvantage that would put us in
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: a civil war.
• 47:04
  Speaker 23: A single warning shot was fired, causing half the invading
• 47:07
  Speaker 23: force to have a panic attack. The rest fled for
• 47:10
  Speaker 23: their lives. The Second American Civil War was over.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: Everyone said I was crazy owning six AR-15s.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: And I guess they had.
• 47:19
  Speaker 21: A point since we had a full civil war and
• 47:23
  Speaker 21: I barely needed the one.
• 47:25
  Speaker 23: The left signed a statement of unconditional surrender. The right
• 47:29
  Speaker 23: was now fully in control of the country.
• 47:32
  Speaker 15: As part of the surrender, we technically own California. We're
• 47:37
  Speaker 15: seeing if it's possible to just push.
• 47:38
  Speaker 13: It off into the sea.
• 47:40
  Speaker 23: Many of the losing combatants fled to the far north.
• 47:43
  Speaker 23: Starvation was rampant among them from lack of access to DoorDash. Still,
• 47:49
  Speaker 23: not everyone saw what happened as a total loss for
• 47:52
  Speaker 23: the left.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I think we won by showing we will stand up
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: to Republicans. But haven't you been exiled to Canada? It's great!
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: I love it here! Gavin Newsom was soon eaten by
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: a moose. Oh, it's just, this is the reason, this
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: was the stuff that I used to watch Saturday Night
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Live for. Was this kind of, do you realize how
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: dumb you are? Kind of comedy, because that's how you
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: get better. When somebody says, do you realize how dumb
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: that is? The thing you just said. Oh, that's just,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: I've seen it probably six or seven times and it
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: still makes me laugh. Each time I said it, and
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: it's on the YouTube channel of the Babylon Bee, if
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: you want to share it with friends. So our research department,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: hard at work, and I just, I want to vet this.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: So we were talking about this gift, Russia's 1.8 million
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: ton gift of diesel fuel or diesel oil products. to
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the United States. And so my first mathematical equation was
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: how much does a ton of diesel oil make? And mathematically,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: apparently it's about 280 gallons of diesel fuel from each
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: ton of of diesel oil that comes in. Yeah. And
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: so the question is, how much is that really? How
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: much is that gift really worth? Because some of the
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: left-wing media is like, oh, it's symbolic. It's an up
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: yours to Ukraine. And, you know, stand with Ukraine. Didn't
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: you all have the banners out in front of your house?
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: More people with Ukrainian flags than American flags. You know,
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: it was weird. There was one of those gated communities
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: with a homeowners association. they were famous for not allowing
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: American flag displays on July 4th and that kind of thing.
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: But Ukrainian flags, oh, they were, you know, four years ago,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: everywhere in these homeowners associations. That's okay. It's virtue signaling.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: This is a phrase we don't use nearly as much
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: as we should, virtue signaling. Remember, it was de rigueur
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: two or three years ago. Everything was virtue signaling. It
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: still is. So first the question is how much diesel
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: fuel does the U.S. use in a day? And then
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: from there we can kind of go out. Now, Eddie
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: says it's 550 to 580,000 tons of diesel fuel that
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: we use a day. So this is in barrels. So
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: the research I've dug up, how much diesel fuel does
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: the U.S. use in a day? 3.83 million barrels per day.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: So now we have to go do the conversion on
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: how many barrels are in a ton of diesel fuel.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: But Eddie's research, which I'll take because he is the
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: volunteer research coordinator for First Thing Today. said it should
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: last eight to 10 days, but take into account I
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: was educated in the Albemarle County school system. Yeah, but Eddie,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: you were educated in the Albemarle County school system before
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: the sex ed coaches and transgender recruiters were actually taking
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: sexual liberties with the little girls coming into Professor Aqualung's classroom.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: They actually spent some time teaching you math and science
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: rather than transgenderism and why it's better to not have
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: any gender at all and be a eunuch for the
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: rest of your life. And eunuch, to be fair to
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: the left, actually is very close sounding to unique. So if,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: depending on the accent and the part of the country
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: you're from, like Wisconsin, it's probably pretty hard to tell
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: whether or not somebody has called you a eunuch or unique.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I know they're all still in, you know, well, not
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. Wisconsin's not mourning the passing of Mike Ditka,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: aside from the fact that it forced Green Bay to
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: actually get on its game and try to make itself
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: a good football team again and draft Brett Favre, which
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: that has a whole other sidebar to it. You know,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: it's true.
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