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"Chasing 'Significance' in CA" (FTTxJT Tue 102026 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 1: Joe works at.
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Speaker 2: The steel mill, works damn near every day.
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Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops a
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Speaker 3: kid to.
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Speaker 4: School and on the way.
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Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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Speaker 5: he needs.
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Speaker 6: No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only aims.
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Speaker 7: To please you.
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Speaker 8: Bless you for letting me be of service to you
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Speaker 8: this morning. So I have to ask you this in
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Speaker 8: all candor. When you folks who have iPhones smile with
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Speaker 8: that faraway look when you realize we're using an Android
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Speaker 8: or our laptops have Windows on them, you're holding your tongue,
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Speaker 8: aren't you? You have things you wish to say to us. Oh,
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Speaker 8: we just went through a half an hour of angst
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Speaker 8: and clenchings because Windows decided it was going to update everything.
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Speaker 8: And then we go to our phone system and discover
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Speaker 8: that too. Wasn't Android like by the people who made Linux?
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Speaker 8: I mean, why is it all of a sudden... When
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Speaker 8: did Android become an organ dangling off the nether reaches
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Speaker 8: of Microsoft? I mean, I understand it's not Apple, but gosh.
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Speaker 8: So all you folks, and I look at the statistics
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Speaker 8: on the Joe Thomas in the Morning podcasts, and easily
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Speaker 8: 50% of you have an iPhone and Macs at home
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Speaker 8: and MacBooks and all of that. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 8: Mac McDonald uses a MacBook, with all irony and sake.
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Speaker 8: And you're so tolerant to us. I know you feel bad.
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Speaker 8: I know you don't feel guilty, but you feel bad
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Speaker 8: for us when all of our systems have to reboot
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Speaker 8: at once. And they do it without any concern. And
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Speaker 8: I have. Don't sit there and say, but Joe, you
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Speaker 8: can tell Windows.
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Speaker 4: I have.
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Speaker 8: I have told Windows, just send me an email when
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Speaker 8: there's an update and I will decide when I do it.
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Speaker 8: They never do. I mean, I don't know if it's
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Speaker 8: Bill Gates is busy, you know, sterilizing sub-Saharan African kids
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Speaker 8: or what. I just, you know, paying his alimony, trying
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Speaker 8: to hide, you know, his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein, something
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Speaker 8: Bill needs to, you know, figure out what the hell
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Speaker 8: is going on with Microsoft. Yes, I know Bill doesn't.
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Speaker 8: He's just the avatar for Microsoft. Such is life. This
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Speaker 8: is like saying the Chicago Bulls without mentioning Michael Jordan. Well,
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Speaker 8: I know that he's not involved with them anymore, but it's,
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Speaker 8: you know, save the last dance for me. Our first
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Speaker 8: things this morning. So much going on and so much
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Speaker 8: of it in California. We'll get there shortly, though. Paris,
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Speaker 8: very much like California in ways, has issued an overnight
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Speaker 8: curfew Monday for two areas of the French capital, one
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Speaker 8: around the government headquarters and one in the main shopping district,
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Speaker 8: which was subject to looting during the Sunday riots. President
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Speaker 8: Trump said Monday the Department of Agriculture is going to
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Speaker 8: launch what he calls Harvest Fuel Relief Programs, $ 8 billion
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Speaker 8: set aside for farmers to offset diesel costs. He made
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Speaker 8: the announcement during a campaign speech stumping four candidates in Kansas.
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Speaker 8: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was in Israel to meet
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Speaker 8: with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Two sources within the
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Speaker 8: Israeli government told Axios this. The Pentagon has not responded
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Speaker 8: to requests to confirm. Department of Justice announced Monday it's
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Speaker 8: filed criminal charges against 28 foreign nationals living in California
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Speaker 8: for registering to vote illegally and or casting ballots in U.S. elections. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 8: the administration is escalating its fight with the state of
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Speaker 8: California ahead of the midterm elections, telling local officials that
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Speaker 8: if they process and tabulate ballots submitted by suspected non-citizen voters,
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Speaker 8: they're putting themselves at risk of criminal prosecution. A letter
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Speaker 8: from the DOJ said legal consequences for either facilitating or
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Speaker 8: ignoring federal crimes are significant. Department of Justice also sued
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Speaker 8: California on Thursday asking a federal judge to stop the
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Speaker 8: state from counting mail-in ballots from more than 20,000 registered
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Speaker 8: voters federal officials say are likely U.S. citizens and they
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Speaker 8: want their ballots held until their citizenship can be verified.
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Speaker 8: Treasury Department has flagged $ 270 million more in suspicious financial
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Speaker 8: activity potentially linked to federal student aid programs. They referred
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Speaker 8: the findings to federal investigators. Nearly 100 suspicious activity. Did
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Speaker 8: you brew me decaf this morning? It's one of those
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Speaker 8: herbal things, isn't it? And activist groups with ties to
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Speaker 8: China and Iran are collaborating in the United States, according
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Speaker 8: to a Newsweek investigation. Of course, if you're listening to
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Speaker 8: this program... You're saying, well, Joe told us that weeks ago.
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Speaker 8: And those are our first things here on First Thing Today.
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Speaker 8: I write for the Daily Signal and a whole new
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Speaker 8: support because these supposed veterans groups are saying that they
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Speaker 8: represent veterans who want somebody to stop Donald Trump's wars
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Speaker 8: in Iran. Tom Perriello will be the subject of this column.
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Speaker 1: We didn't make talk radio. We made it better. First
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Speaker 1: Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for letting us be of service to you.
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Speaker 8: Much of this satirized for your protection, well, you know,
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Speaker 8: you don't want political or societal sepsis setting, and that
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Speaker 8: is bad on many levels. So arrests 20,000 people, you
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Speaker 8: think that would change the result of an election? If 20,000
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Speaker 8: people who needed the government to support their lives because
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Speaker 8: they have to live in the shadows? And in the
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Speaker 8: light of these California arrests, I want to harken back
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Speaker 8: to an email I received, I think it was last week. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: it was just a week ago. It said, Joe, three
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Speaker 8: weeks to go until Election Day, and you Jim Crow-loving
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Speaker 8: right-wingers are trying to deny America's new emancipation From taking place.
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Speaker 8: Carrie continues. Carrie listens to us. In the morning. In St. Augustine.
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Speaker 8: Are they. I thought they were later in the program.
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Speaker 8: It doesn't matter. The point is that. She goes on
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Speaker 8: to say. I agree with you. That we are facing
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Speaker 8: a new civil war. And that the. Migrants. Trigger word.
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Speaker 8: know where she's coming from, are America's new slave class.
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Speaker 8: But you're on the wrong side of history. You're the
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Speaker 8: ones fighting Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Emancipate these slaves and
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Speaker 8: allow them to become citizens just the way Lincoln did
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Speaker 8: on Juneteenth. Well, Kerry, first off, he didn't do it
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Speaker 8: on Juneteenth. Juneteenth is just the date that Texas found
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Speaker 8: out about it. But I don't want to get all
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Speaker 8: Jimmy Carr on you. Because I appreciate the fact that
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Speaker 8: you do like listening enough to have picked up on
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Speaker 8: the fact that I believe we are not facing a
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Speaker 8: new civil war in the United States. We're facing the
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Speaker 8: same one we thought we left behind in Appomattox, Virginia.
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Speaker 8: And I think that this was something that we warned
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Speaker 8: about as Confederate memorials were taken down in the old South.
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Speaker 8: That they wanted you to forget about the American Civil War.
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Speaker 8: So when the new one comes along, you think it's
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Speaker 8: a new one. You think they invented it. This is
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Speaker 8: the same racism. Kerry, you're on the wrong side of history.
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Speaker 8: You're defending history. the indefensible commerce, and understand you and
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Speaker 8: I may have a nexus here in the middle. See,
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Speaker 8: you want mass amnesty, just snap a finger, and all
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Speaker 8: of these modern American slaves become citizens. And that was
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Speaker 8: the mistake that wound up crippling the United States for
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Speaker 8: a hundred years after the Civil War. And it's documented.
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Speaker 8: Lincoln was a student of Jefferson who had written on
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Speaker 8: multiple occasions that he believed that slavery needed to end.
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Speaker 8: He even wrote it into the Declaration of Independence. South
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Speaker 8: Carolina kicked it out. But that in order for it
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Speaker 8: to end to the benefit of all, that the freed
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Speaker 8: slaves would need access to an economy of scale, that
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Speaker 8: they needed to be able to generate their own societal
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Speaker 8: wealth and power and influence. This became what was known
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Speaker 8: in the post-Reconstruction South as 40 acres and a mule. Now,
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Speaker 8: I don't know about you, but I feel pretty prosperous
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Speaker 8: and I have an acre and a quarter. So I
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Speaker 8: don't know. And I am the mule in my family.
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Speaker 8: But that being said, we have a mule and we
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Speaker 8: have some acres. The point being is that the freed
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Speaker 8: slaves needed land to call their own. Not as a
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Speaker 8: city set aside, but each individual slave family, once emancipated,
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Speaker 8: needed to be able to say, this is my home.
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Speaker 8: I own this. They also needed access to American jurisprudence.
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Speaker 8: They needed access to law. They needed access to education.
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Speaker 8: These were all things Jefferson said that you couldn't just say,
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Speaker 8: that's it, guys. Slavery is illegal.
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Speaker 11: Go home.
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Speaker 8: Because A, they didn't have a home. B, many of
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Speaker 8: them had been kept in such a way that they
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Speaker 8: had no idea what their God-given rights were. So you
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Speaker 8: needed to conceptualize that. So what you're talking about is
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Speaker 8: basically what happened at the end of the Civil War.
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Speaker 8: The slaves were cut loose. And even despite that handicap,
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Speaker 8: economic handicap, They managed to create such prosperity that 50
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Speaker 8: years later, the Klansmen that dressed themselves up as congressmen
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Speaker 8: had to start writing letters. to keep the black population
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Speaker 8: from gaining more and more influence in Congress. This was
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Speaker 8: the whole technocracy movement, Kerry. Look it up. These were
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Speaker 8: the knights under the white satin. These were the Klansmen
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Speaker 8: turned into congressmen. It wasn't enough that their states had
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Speaker 8: enacted Jim Crow laws that were designed to keep the
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Speaker 8: black population from gaining any prosperity. And in some cases,
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Speaker 8: like here in our flagship state of Virginia, not only
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Speaker 8: were they kept from gaining their own prosperity, but once
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Speaker 8: they needed the government's assistance, the government could use that
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Speaker 8: need to sterilize them. Holy Bill Gates, Batman. Of course,
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Speaker 8: we didn't have mysterious quote-unquote vaccines that would do it,
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Speaker 8: like they're doing in sub-Saharan Africa, allegedly, or trails of
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Speaker 8: smoke in the sky that might be doing it.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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Speaker 8: We had to do it the old-fashioned way with a knife,
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Speaker 8: much like transgender surgery is today. And maybe that was
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Speaker 8: their mistake back in the days of the Virginia Act
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Speaker 8: for sterilization, which we should have called it Virginia's Transgender
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Speaker 8: Empowerment Act. Of course, we were 100 years too early
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Speaker 8: for that, too. But you and I have this nexus, Kerry,
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Speaker 8: and many of you use it the same way. You say, well,
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Speaker 8: they're here. What are we going to do? They're doing
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Speaker 8: the jobs that Americans won't do at the price. But
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Speaker 8: we need to have a conversation about why we don't
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Speaker 8: want to pay so much for these jobs. And that
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Speaker 8: maybe American kids need to check up from their neck
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Speaker 8: up on what they think a job is worth being
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Speaker 8: paid for, too. And maybe then the economy starts coming
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Speaker 8: back to normal.
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Speaker 6: AI is a powerful tool. but not a replacement for
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24:12
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Speaker 1: Mitch.
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Speaker 9: Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our optimized curcumin seems
24:19
Speaker 9: to be a perfect addition to any nutritional program. It
24:23
Speaker 9: makes sense to me that preventing or reducing inflammation is
24:28
Speaker 9: a key component to our overall health. The Mayo Clinic
24:32
Speaker 9: found that curcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation, has antioxidant properties,
24:38
Speaker 9: and research suggests that curcumin can prevent cancer. or at
24:43
Speaker 9: least slow the spread of cancer, and in many instances,
24:46
Speaker 9: make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our healthy cells even
24:51
Speaker 9: from radiation. TotalWellness.com, where we help you to look good,
24:57
Speaker 9: feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
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Speaker 11: I'm Andrew Saul, Commissioner of Social Security. I'm here to
25:05
Speaker 11: warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
25:10
Speaker 11: Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
25:13
Speaker 11: will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
25:16
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Speaker 8: or election culmination day for most of us. And the
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Speaker 8: And it's really on Nevada because they're not going north
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Speaker 8: into Oregon. I mean, that's like saying, well, this frying
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Speaker 8: guess some of them go to Texas. This is why
31:01
Speaker 8: Texas is teetering. This is what Tallarico is counting on. Because,
31:12
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Speaker 8: So those Californians that fled or will flee the wealth
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31:48
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31:56
Speaker 8: the money walking, because that's where it's going. That's what's happening.
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Speaker 8: So 28 non-citizens actually under indictment. 11 have been arrested
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Speaker 22: This morning we're announcing that the Department of Justice has
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Speaker 8: And I think that last bit is so important because
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34:43
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34:46
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34:51
Speaker 8: fine if somebody is a Democrat and votes that way,
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Speaker 8: and I vote Republican, and we cancel each other out. Okay,
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Speaker 8: we'll see whether our community has more Republicans or Democrats.
35:10
Speaker 8: I'd love there to be other choices, and we need
35:13
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35:18
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35:29
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35:33
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35:37
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35:42
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35:58
Speaker 8: Before we continue into this, because now we've got 20,000
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Speaker 8: And so the question then becomes, how many elections have
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Speaker 8: A bunch of folks on the phone about this. Let
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Speaker 8: Good morning, Joe. It's Joel. Hey, Joel. Thank you for calling.
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Speaker 15: Sure.
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Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 8: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
44:21
Speaker 8: this morning. So we're headed to break. Kareem on the
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Speaker 8: So what was on your mind, Kareem? Yeah, I know. Well,
44:41
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Speaker 8: I don't know. I don't know. I may just stay
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Speaker 23: Well, Joe, these illegal voters, that's something right there. Now,
45:10
Speaker 23: we have California. They've got 28 indictments. Now, Joe, that's
45:15
Speaker 23: in one swoop. They've got 28 so far, and they
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Speaker 23: haven't even been able to look through California's voter rolls.
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Speaker 23: Biden only prosecuted 13 in his entire four-year career. So
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Speaker 23: when I hear all these, oh, it's just a minimal
45:32
Speaker 23: amount of numbers, or it's just a small, there's not
45:34
Speaker 23: really that many, Joe, all these different ones, all these
45:37
Speaker 23: prosecutions for individuals across the nation, this didn't just happen overnight,
45:43
Speaker 23: and it was facilitated, and you can't say it was just, oh,
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Speaker 23: we're just following orders in the clerk's office we register,
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Speaker 23: or the DMV. We couldn't ask for citizenship when we
45:52
Speaker 23: gave them his driver's license. All that's a bunch of hooey, Joe.
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Speaker 8: Well, that was the other part of this story is
45:58
Speaker 8: the DOJ said to these election officials, if you knowingly
46:04
Speaker 8: If you either knowingly participate or knowingly ignore this kind
46:09
Speaker 8: of thing, they're going to be prosecuted. And that's the
46:12
Speaker 8: only way we're really ever going to fix this.
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Speaker 23: Joe, that's so true. You've got to stop the leak
46:18
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Speaker 23: And DOJ has been threatening and warning and entreating for
46:26
Speaker 23: months about what the process of the state and local–
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Speaker 23: I call them activists, just like I call those judges
46:33
Speaker 23: activists who are pushing us along– Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh, who said, well,
46:39
Speaker 23: it's too close to election season, so we can't really
46:42
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46:46
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46:50
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46:54
Speaker 23: 150-year-old people receiving welfare checks.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely. And why? Because every year, that's the excuse. Oh,
47:02
Speaker 8: it's too close to the elections. One of the side
47:05
Speaker 8: effects of these long COVID voting series is it always
47:09
Speaker 8: seems to be coming up on election season, and so
47:12
Speaker 8: they don't want to politicize or criminalize It's always the excuse, Kareem.
47:19
Speaker 8: You're absolutely right on that. Let me get Joel here
47:22
Speaker 8: and find out what he's got on his mind. Thank you, sir.
47:24
Speaker 8: You have a good drive.
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Speaker 23: Thanks for taking the call, Joel. Have a great day. Bye, Joel.
47:31
Speaker 8: Thank you for hanging on, Joel. What's on your mind, sir?
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Speaker 21: Well, the stuff that's going on in California, I'm glad
47:40
Speaker 21: that they're making arrests, but the fur on the back
47:42
Speaker 21: of my neck is standing up because.
47:46
Speaker 21: All this time, they've allowed, you had Mayorkas, you had
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Speaker 21: all his minions, and then the DOJ, the previous DOJ.
47:57
Speaker 21: Number one, break the 8 U.S.C. 1325 and the other
48:01
Speaker 21: parts of the U.S.C. code, allowing people to enter illegally. Now,
48:07
Speaker 21: the problem in California is you have people that are
48:11
Speaker 21: not really considered, I mean, the ones that I think
48:13
Speaker 21: that they're prosecuting, aren't really considered illegal aliens or considered non-citizens,
48:19
Speaker 21: which means that they haven't established their citizenship and the
48:24
Speaker 21: process of doing that. But there's a split thing there, too.
48:30
Speaker 21: There's a bifurcation, and the bifurcation is you have people
48:33
Speaker 21: that are trying to get their citizenship. They're non-citizens, but
48:37
Speaker 21: they've broken federal law. Now, they're not probably going to
48:41
Speaker 21: be able to get their citizenship, and they're going to
48:43
Speaker 21: be deported, and all these people are going to be
48:45
Speaker 21: raising hell, per se, because they have families and businesses.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's too bad.
48:50
Speaker 8: You broke the law.
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Speaker 21: But then you have the illegals that are here that
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Speaker 21: are voting, too.
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Speaker 8: Well, here's the thing, and this is an interesting conversation.
48:59
Speaker 8: You bring it up. This place where, like the emailer
49:04
Speaker 8: before talking about mass amnesty. No, but if somebody has...
49:09
Speaker 8: come in through what they thought were legal, like using
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49:17
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49:22
Speaker 8: but they made the effort to try to do what
49:25
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49:29
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49:36
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49:48
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49:52
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Speaker 8: I don't know if we have the manpower to kind
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Speaker 8: of sort through all that, but I'd like to think
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Speaker 8: that in compassion's sake, there's a certain opportunity to do
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Speaker 8: To do that, at least, Joel, do you think? Oh,
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Speaker 8: I do.
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Speaker 21: But look at how the previous DOJ went in and
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Speaker 21: they had subpoenas against Trump warrants and illegal searches. But
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Speaker 21: who knows about what their previous... legality was if it
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Speaker 21: was legal. I mean, we have a Supreme Court and
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Speaker 21: you're talking about allowing, you know, non-citizens to come over
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Speaker 21: and have, you know, the birthright. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 21: things like that.
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Speaker 8: Well, and here's the thing about it, Joel, is as
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Speaker 8: you were saying, you know, how do we know it
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Speaker 8: was legal? This is the part that I think is
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Speaker 8: as much flaw and feature at the same time. They want...
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Speaker 8: the 20 and 30 year olds to be sick of
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Speaker 8: a system that can just be whatever the person in
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Speaker 8: charge wants it to be. Um, there are things, and
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Speaker 8: this is why indictments get thrown around. There used to
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Speaker 8: be an expression when I think you and I were kids,
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Speaker 8: you know, you can indict a ham sandwich for tax evasion.
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Speaker 8: Doesn't mean you're going to get a conviction, but people
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Speaker 8: in my industry put the indictment on the front page.
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Speaker 8: And that's all they want. They want the indictment on
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Speaker 8: the front page. So you have these quasi legal operations
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Speaker 8: just designed to make a headline. I'm not saying that's
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Speaker 8: what Trump was doing, but this is why we're losing
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Speaker 8: faith in the justice system in general. Joel, does does
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Speaker 8: that make any sense to you?
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Speaker 15: It does.
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Speaker 21: But the problem is, too, you have. federal judges that
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Speaker 21: are rogue that just, even though there's been Supreme Court decisions,
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Speaker 21: I don't want to go too far off the subject.
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Speaker 8: Well, no, but I mean, it is the subject because
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Speaker 8: if justices are just making up law and sneaking illegals
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Speaker 8: out of the back door of their office, they need
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Speaker 8: to be prosecuted. Just like we're warning these election officials,
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Speaker 8: if you go along with this, you're going to go
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Speaker 8: to jail just as much as maybe the state election chairman.
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Speaker 8: But what I was.
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Speaker 21: trying to say was that they're doing that, not necessarily that,
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Speaker 21: you know, it's the law fair, but they're doing it
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Speaker 21: as a distraction. They want, they want people to be,
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Speaker 21: they want the general public of 18 to 35 to
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Speaker 21: 40 year olds to be confused because they know their
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Speaker 21: attention span isn't as great as it used to be.
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Speaker 16: No, no, no.
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Speaker 21: I'm saying that, that they, they, they look at the
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Speaker 21: spot news. They go to, They go to TikTok, they
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Speaker 21: go to social media.
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