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"Gotta Blame Someone" (FTTxJT Mon 090726 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll do it live.
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  Speaker 5: Joe works hard to steal me up.
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  Speaker 3: He's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 5: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 4: Drops a kid to school and all the work.
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  Speaker 6: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 5: All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 7: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 8: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 3: Do it because it's what you wish to do. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you for letting me be of service to you at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't get what you need, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: go find someone else. That's why customer service is the
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  Speaker 3: first hallmark of what we do. We're just trying to
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  Speaker 3: make sense of it all. And we've got our first
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  Speaker 3: things coming up in a moment. But Andy is on
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  Speaker 3: the line.
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  Speaker 2: With us at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 9: 882-4217.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Andy. How is your Labor Day setting up
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  Speaker 3: so far?
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  Speaker 10: I'm going to go to my Pilates lady to keep
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  Speaker 10: my body kind of moving in the right direction.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, she's working.
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  Speaker 10: She's a nutritionist, and yeah, thankfully.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to take care of the ship. Otherwise, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the bridge is not going to work.
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  Speaker 10: That horrible car crash really, really.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it is what it is. You're moving in
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  Speaker 3: the right direction. So am I right about executive function
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to work?
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  Speaker 10: You know, there are multiple things. And if you own
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  Speaker 10: your own business, that's a whole different animal. Let's take
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  Speaker 10: the example of a really super high-end restaurant. And they're
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  Speaker 10: getting ready to open in a new location of a family.
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  Speaker 10: I've gotten to know pretty well here in Sarasota.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: They're running into some bumps right now, mostly because people
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  Speaker 10: in power don't like the success of these kids who came. Actually,
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  Speaker 10: I think they came from Queens. They might have been Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 3: So the regulators.
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  Speaker 10: They transplanted down here.
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  Speaker 3: Regulators are getting in the way.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, slowing things down. And it shouldn't be happening,
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  Speaker 10: but it's happening. You know, it's the Cara Giulio family.
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  Speaker 10: They own a couple of these fish camps, and they're
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  Speaker 10: just horribly successful because they really understand the clientele.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they do something people like, and they do it well,
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  Speaker 3: and they're rewarded. And, of course, the government has to
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  Speaker 3: come in and do what they used to call the
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  Speaker 3: Chinese inspection, put all your fresh produce on the dock
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  Speaker 3: and say, we'll get around to it when the inspectors
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  Speaker 3: get here and it all rots before they do.
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  Speaker 10: There's a little tiny bit of that. The second born
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  Speaker 10: of the five brothers is the great leader. He was
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  Speaker 10: also at J6, so it might add another layer of,
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  Speaker 10: you know, he's politically active. And the people who have
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  Speaker 10: the control of the money in the city of Sarasota
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  Speaker 10: are just totally the opposite people. But you talked about leadership,
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  Speaker 10: and it's one thing if you have your own organization
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  Speaker 10: with your own risk capital in there, it's a whole
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  Speaker 10: different animal. I remember somebody telling me probably 40, 45
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  Speaker 10: years ago, the rest of my business, you need to
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  Speaker 10: watch the front door, the back door, and the side door.
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  Speaker 2: You're right.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And so, you know, because you can– a lot of
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  Speaker 10: things can go wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, and part of it is organizational. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I've worked for good restaurants, bad restaurants, just in that milieu. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the good ones don't have theft. You know why?
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  Speaker 3: Because people– it's self-policing. You like working for the guy
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  Speaker 3: who owns the place. So you're looking out for each
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  Speaker 3: other and you're like, hey, don't do that. You're screwing Joe.
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  Speaker 3: And we like Joe. And if you drive Joe out
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  Speaker 3: of business, we're going to have to go work for
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  Speaker 3: somebody we– We don't like so much. And that's how
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  Speaker 3: American exceptionalism works is most people aren't going to be
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  Speaker 3: the entrepreneur of the company. Most people are going to
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  Speaker 3: choose or have to choose to work for them. And
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  Speaker 3: that's the key to American exceptionalism is we had lots
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  Speaker 3: of choices. So we chose the people of good character
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  Speaker 3: and the people of good character won out over time.
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  Speaker 3: But then as it got too big and too bloated,
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  Speaker 3: people got too disconnected from the decision makers. I want
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  Speaker 3: to get your thoughts on that, Andy. Hang on a
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  Speaker 3: second here. Let me just tell people the news of
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  Speaker 3: the day so that they know what we're all talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned Germany. The press is going crazy as if
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  Speaker 3: Hitler was just resurrected yesterday. But a conservative party won
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  Speaker 3: a large share of one state's government. They didn't even
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  Speaker 3: win a majority of it. It is Alternative für Deutschland
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  Speaker 3: is the name of the organization. They won a majority
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  Speaker 3: of seats in this regional parliament. And so they'll get
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  Speaker 3: to have a voice in who the governor of it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be. But the press has just lost their
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  Speaker 3: mind over this party's victory in Germany. I'm just warning
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  Speaker 3: you now. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered
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  Speaker 3: any unauthorized settlements off the West Bank and to have
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  Speaker 3: those settlements dismantled. The state has formally told them that
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  Speaker 3: if they don't, they will lose any access to government funding.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of government funding, I'm not sure how the cash exchange,
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  Speaker 3: we know that one rial costs about one and a
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  Speaker 3: half million U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Dollars.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a lot of rials Iran has moved through
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  Speaker 3: American banks, according to a report From the Treasury Department,
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  Speaker 3: Iranians have flowed $ 9 billion worth of currency through shadow
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  Speaker 3: operations using American banks despite prohibitions of same. And Volodymyr
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  Speaker 3: Zelensky said that he met with Steve Witkoff Sunday in Kiev,
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  Speaker 3: but they are not expecting the war to be over
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  Speaker 3: before winter, though he was upbeat about the assessments. And
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: It's got a pretty good exchange rate, too, at least
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  Speaker 3: better than the Iranian rial. There's an awful lot of
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  Speaker 3: rials flowing through banks in order to get to $ 9
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  Speaker 3: billion worth of U.S. currency. But it shows you why
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  Speaker 3: sanctions are important, because if sanctioning somebody's economic activities because
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  Speaker 3: of their political behavior wasn't effective, then they wouldn't try
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  Speaker 3: to cheat their way around it. Just as a point
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  Speaker 3: of order, Andy was on the line with us and
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to finish up on the point of Labor
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  Speaker 3: Day and the point of, you know, who do we
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  Speaker 3: work for? What do we do for money, honey, and
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  Speaker 3: that kind of thing. So, Andy, thank you for hanging
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  Speaker 3: on the line. So give me your my my point
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  Speaker 3: on management and that the job of a boss is
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  Speaker 3: to make sure those who have chosen to work for
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  Speaker 3: them have everything they need to be wildly successful. We've
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  Speaker 3: lost that in business schools. You went to a fairly
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  Speaker 3: well-esteemed business school here in central Virginia. Are they just
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  Speaker 3: not teaching that?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I had enough hours almost to graduate with an
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  Speaker 10: accounting degree, but I was a finance major. And I
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  Speaker 10: did honor the gentleman who was probably the greatest finance
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  Speaker 10: professor of all time at that level. And I had
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  Speaker 10: him over for dinner, and they were kind of blown away.
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  Speaker 10: But the one thing I remember taking away from that
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  Speaker 10: dinner was his wife said, you know, we used to
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  Speaker 10: get good students back when Andy was in school. Now,
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  Speaker 10: I wasn't cured from the Learjet crowd, but there was
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  Speaker 10: a lot of wealth that would flow through there. And
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  Speaker 10: these kids would go to vacation, spring break and whatnot,
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  Speaker 10: to their private islands.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 10: I was working my way through school at the time.
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  Speaker 10: So it was just a very, very different experience for me.
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  Speaker 10: I'm still best friends with Philip White, who is the
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  Speaker 10: CEO of Sotheby's Real Estate. And so he is as
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  Speaker 10: humble today as he was the day we graduated.
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  Speaker 3: And that's the thing I think that servant leadership, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we talk about, you know, biblical and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: But the idea of serving the people who you're leading
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  Speaker 3: has been lost on too many people. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: everyone's lost it because I see wildly successful companies start out.
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  Speaker 3: And generally, even in the newer ones, I see that
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  Speaker 3: way of doing things, which is, you know, what can
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  Speaker 3: I do to make it easier for you to be successful?
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  Speaker 3: And I think the first part of that is actually
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  Speaker 3: knowing what the business plan is. And these big mega corporations,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they know who their customer is except
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  Speaker 3: for maybe the fund manager that includes them in their
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  Speaker 3: next Main Street package.
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  Speaker 10: I think you're 100% right in terms of starting with
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  Speaker 10: kind of a moral society. We have immoral money. That's
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  Speaker 10: another part of this whole, which, you know, that really
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  Speaker 10: goes back to the big think.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and that drives it. But business is there to
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  Speaker 3: make money. And this is my point was governments are
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  Speaker 3: an economic abstract. We have governments because we're doing business
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  Speaker 3: within those governments. And the government is supposed to protect
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  Speaker 3: our ability to do those business, at least free ones are. So,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the more the government messes around in the economy,
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  Speaker 3: the worse it's just predictably going to get.
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  Speaker 10: Well, the anti-war, anti-state message is still being, like, spread
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  Speaker 10: by the Mises Institute. A lot of people don't know
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  Speaker 10: about that. You know, you and O'Keefe are trying to
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  Speaker 10: expose corruption.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I'm doing the best I can to try and support
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  Speaker 10: the folks who don't know the things that I learned
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  Speaker 10: along the way.
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  Speaker 3: And God bless you for it, sir. Well, you have
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  Speaker 3: a great morning and enjoy the rest of your day
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  Speaker 3: and good luck at Pilates.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, if so.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 10: Stronger, balanced, etc.
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  Speaker 3: Like everything. There's a slogan in there. Joe Thomas in
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  Speaker 3: the morning. Stronger, balanced. I don't know. 434-882-4217 is the number.
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  Speaker 3: Now let's pivot to socialism. Socialism is dehumanizing, first and foremost,
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  Speaker 3: because it takes away your choice. And the only way
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  Speaker 3: people would voluntarily choose to give up their freedom is
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  Speaker 3: if they're hungry, scared, terrified. I mean, this is what
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  Speaker 3: pardon me, terrorism is. We will terrorize you into giving
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  Speaker 3: in to what we want you to do for us
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  Speaker 3: rather than convincing you. Understand, a terrorist says we will
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  Speaker 3: do all these bad things to you if you don't
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  Speaker 3: comply with what I want. You've probably worked in situations
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  Speaker 3: where that's the management philosophy I have. So, The panic
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  Speaker 3: in Germany this morning over this Alternative für Deutschland political party,
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  Speaker 3: Newsweek reporting on it, AFD classified as a right-wing extremist
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  Speaker 3: organization by Germans governed because they're talking out about Germans' government.
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  Speaker 3: As the leader of the party said after the election
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend, our best campaigner is Friedrich Merz. Because
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  Speaker 3: they go out and they say, look at all the
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  Speaker 3: things Friedrich Merz has done and has it made Germany
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  Speaker 3: better or not? And so there are a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to talk about this on Tuesday morning
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  Speaker 3: as well, on the subject of how does a country
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  Speaker 3: like ours grapple with the political and governmental issues The
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  Speaker 3: religions that say, no, we're a government too. And so
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  Speaker 3: you have to let us in because you say we're
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  Speaker 3: allowed to have our own religion. Well, our religion also
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  Speaker 3: means our own government. Therefore, you have to allow us
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  Speaker 3: to have our own government within your country. And that
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  Speaker 3: can't fly. That would be like the Democrats of the
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  Speaker 3: early 50s. 20th and late 19th century saying, well, our
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  Speaker 3: religion says we own slaves, and therefore you should not
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  Speaker 3: stop us from owning slaves because our religion says we're
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  Speaker 3: allowed to. I know you're sitting there saying, well, Joe,
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  Speaker 3: that's just crazy talk. But there were people then who
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  Speaker 3: pointed to subjects in the Bible regarding slavery, So they're
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  Speaker 3: all upset because this party that says citizens matter, refugees
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  Speaker 12: And I was on this German talk show and this
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  Speaker 16: Deutschland is happy and gay.
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  Speaker 3: They don't talk about that. So this is how your
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  Speaker 3: American press is portraying the elections over the weekend in Saxony, Aufentland,
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  Speaker 3: or was it Sudetenland? No, that would have been way
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  Speaker 3: make this out that this has happened here now. So
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  Speaker 3: misunderstanding several things, and I know we talked about Hitler
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  Speaker 3: a little bit earlier this morning, because, you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: on this kick where we want to Rewrite these people.
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  Speaker 3: they start rounding up the business owners, they may not
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• 32:32
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• 32:39
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  Speaker 3: law for political correctness. It's predictable. And yes, it will
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• 33:32
  Speaker 3: they are being turned into the bad guy. If there
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  Speaker 3: had been enough time, if Hitler and Goering and et
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  Speaker 3: cetera hadn't moved so swiftly, I mean, they accomplished it
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  Speaker 3: small business owners and the bankers. So when interest rates
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: were really high, blame the bankers. When consumer goods cost
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  Speaker 3: too much, blame the small business owners. When unemployment is high,
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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• 35:06
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  Speaker 2: Always their fault.
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• 35:37
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• 35:41
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• 35:44
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• 35:52
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  Speaker 17: Only the United States has these five freedoms so simply
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  Speaker 17: bound together and guaranteed.
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  Speaker 18: Think first.
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  Speaker 6: Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org.
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  Speaker 23: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 21: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 21: first date?
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  Speaker 8: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 9: Probably?
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  Speaker 22: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 3: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 17: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, don't tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 23: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 9: Cramp!
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 3: I can probably hit the green from here. Probably.
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  Speaker 19: Can I get a mulligan?
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  Speaker 3: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 17: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 23: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 21: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
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  Speaker 21: the Federal Trade Commission.
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  Speaker 2: It's even bigger.
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  Speaker 3: Of law.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: So we were talking as we wrapping it up on
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  Speaker 3: this Labor Day morning, I hope, you know, if you
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  Speaker 3: have to be laboring and if you don't take a
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: moment and consider whether you're ordering something dropped off There's
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: football games still on today and stuff like that to do. Parades.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of communities hold parades. This is a week,
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: and I think it's an important week, where a lot
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: of fire departments do their big fundraising and culminating today,
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: especially in lieu of the first responders that we watched
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  Speaker 3: 25 years ago run into a building they knew was
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: coming down on them. They knew it, but they figured
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: if I can get one person out, I've lived up
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: to my business. And this is why we spend so
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: much time talking about the individual versus the group, because
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: groupthink is what the authoritarian wants us to wallow in.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: He wants us, she wants us, to be thinking about
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  Speaker 3: abstract groups, not individuals. And if we go back to
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: realizing the individual, they lose their power over us. It's
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: the old label jars, not people thing. Oh, you listen
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: to that radio program? You must be this. And now
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: I've been spared the mucky little business of trying to
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: get to know you. And at the end of the day,
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: it is our ignorance and our willful interest in ignoring
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  Speaker 3: the rule of law. And ironically, and I know that
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: a couple of people have questioned me on this. Earlier
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  Speaker 3: in the program, I made the point that since we're
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: all concerned about this Alternative for, for Deutschland party. That,
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: you know, the, the Nazi party, the nationalist socialist workers
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: party of Germany existed. I very close to the beginning
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  Speaker 3: of world war two. I mean, world war one. When
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Hitler was just a corporal in the army. And they
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: were out there holding political rallies. And this guy got
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: up and gave a speech. And some, you know, German
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: version of Joe Biden looked at another guy and said, I.
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  Speaker 20: Mean, you got the first sort of mainstream American who
• 47:12
  Speaker 20: was articulate and bright and clean.
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  Speaker 2: And nice looking guy.
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  Speaker 20: I mean, that's a storybook, man.
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  Speaker 3: And the case I was trying to make is perhaps
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: the Nationalist Socialist Party didn't want to kill all the
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: Jews that they could find. run concentration camps, do horrific experiments,
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: but they let somebody take over the party they didn't understand.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: And our ignorance of rule of law comes from, I think,
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: some of that behavior. Oh, well, you know, don't think
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: you should get arrested for having marijuana. So telling the
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: police to not do it anymore. Still against the law? Well, yeah,
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: but the police ain't going to arrest you for it.
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  Speaker 3: It's about rule of law, Joel.
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  Speaker 24: And so you have people who are Muslim who really
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  Speaker 24: don't want to conform to Western standards. I mean, Germany's predominantly,
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  Speaker 24: I know people get stereotyped, but they eat a lot
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  Speaker 24: of pork, they eat a lot of cheese, they eat
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  Speaker 24: a lot of, I mean, they drink a lot of beer,
• 48:18
  Speaker 24: they drink a lot of wine, all those things, and
• 48:21
  Speaker 24: then worship Jesus. You know, there's the Lutheran Church, there's
• 48:25
  Speaker 24: the Catholic Church, there's Methodist church, of course, you know,
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  Speaker 24: there's Judaism. But it's all those things. And you have
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  Speaker 24: the parallel with Islam, which Islam means submit, to submit to.
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  Speaker 24: And you have the Communist Party that basically they don't
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  Speaker 24: want a God, but they just want the party leader
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  Speaker 24: to be the person of submission.
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  Speaker 3: So you have all those forces. But this is what
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  Speaker 3: I mean about rule of law. Rule of law can
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  Speaker 3: come along and say, listen, if you want to join
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  Speaker 3: a church whose mission is submission to their ideology, their dogma,
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  Speaker 3: that's on you. You can't make someone else submit to it.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where the line is drawn. And it's really
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  Speaker 3: simple if our elected leaders weren't so.
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  Speaker 15: Chicken.
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  Speaker 3: I agree.
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  Speaker 24: And that not only with present-day issues, but issues that
• 49:27
  Speaker 24: have plagued the past. And not to go too far
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  Speaker 24: off subject, but that's what we're fighting over 47, almost
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  Speaker 24: 50 years plus, I would say probably since the beginning
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  Speaker 24: of the founding of this country with Jefferson.
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: Radical Islam, sure, because radical Islam says we are the government.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: It was one of Jefferson's fascinations with Islam was how
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: can a religious text be also function as a law book.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: And he looked at it and really compared it to
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: the Old Testament and trying to understand the Middle East
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  Speaker 3: and how these countries slash religions came to be. There
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: was a lot going on in trying to understand how
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: these religions became governments or these governments became religions. I'm
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: not sure which which came first, the chicken or the egg, Joel,
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  Speaker 3: but that's what Jefferson was consumed with. That's why he
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: was pretty sure that the Islamic problem, the radical Islamic problem,
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: was going to have to be dealt with with a war.
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  Speaker 24: Have you watched any of the D'Souza movies?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 24: I recently watched it. They had it on the Salem Channel,
• 50:47
  Speaker 24: and he brought in a Chinese dissident. Of course, she
• 50:52
  Speaker 24: was a freedom fighter. But she goes, what I see,
• 50:55
  Speaker 24: and he brought her to Minnesota. She said, what I
• 50:58
  Speaker 24: see with all these signs is horrible because we went
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  Speaker 24: through this and Maoist China. And then I remember my mom,
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  Speaker 24: when she was alive, she'd point out things. She was
• 51:12
  Speaker 24: German and not everybody's German is a Nazi, but she
• 51:15
  Speaker 24: was German and went through tons of stuff, horrible stuff. And, and,
• 51:21
  Speaker 24: and when she saw certain things happening in America, she goes,
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  Speaker 24: I don't understand. She goes, these are things that we
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  Speaker 24: fought against, you know, silently in Germany because, or we
• 51:33
  Speaker 24: couldn't do them because we were oppressed.
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  Speaker 3: We, we get, we get killed. And so all these
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: things are happening.
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  Speaker 24: And I think there's that ignorance of, I mean, there's
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  Speaker 24: education by the communists and by the white supremacy groups
• 51:48
  Speaker 24: and stuff like that, but it's for the weak-minded. And
• 51:51
  Speaker 24: how do we break apart those minds and get them
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  Speaker 24: back on track?
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  Speaker 3: Well, first is you can't indulge. I mean, you have
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: to encourage strength. You can't sit there and say, it's okay,
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: it's the kind of mind you want there. But you
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: understand that the lion's share... of Muslims have no interest
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: in making you submit. The lion's share of adherent Hasidic
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Jews don't want to stone you to death for wearing
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: two different fabrics, even if they don't. And that's where
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: we have to get back to is your right to
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: live as you see fit ends when it impacts mine.
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  Speaker 3: Really simple concept. And I don't understand why the American
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: jurists don't get back to that. Maybe they like getting
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: on TV a little bit. Anyway, I hope you enjoy
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  Speaker 3: your Labor Day. I am Joe Thomas. Until tomorrow morning
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  Speaker 3: at five, so long and thanks for all the fish.
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