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"The Cost of Affordability" (Tuesday December 09 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 5: Joe.
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Speaker 6: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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Speaker 6: And you know, when the economy gets catty wampus, it
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Speaker 6: is radio that always is there. And we have been
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Speaker 6: to the Great Oppression, and the housing bubble, and the
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Speaker 6: tech bubble and all of the bubbles. Every time a
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Speaker 6: bubble bursts and the smell of methane fills the room,
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Speaker 6: there's radio. Okay, We're going to need to rewrite that.
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Speaker 6: Just the way it connects radio and methane is not
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Speaker 6: good for me. In any event, we are the radio
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Speaker 6: program that tells you what went on last night, and
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Speaker 6: affordability is the buzzword of the day. It has been
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Speaker 6: with Democrats for several years now, especially in the past year.
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Speaker 6: We'll tell you what went on last night, and we
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Speaker 6: will tell you what we see within it, but we
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Speaker 6: also want to know how it's impacting you where you are,
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Speaker 6: and that's important to us as well. So four three
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Speaker 6: two four to two one seven. So our first things
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Speaker 6: this morning lots to unpack. President Trump has embarked on
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Speaker 6: a new affordability tour, starting at a casino in Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 6: where he will talk about energy affordability and how electricity
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Speaker 6: prices have come down. But he's also seen major investments
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Speaker 6: in the Pennsylvania economy. No word on how many different states,
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Speaker 6: but you can imagine they are going to be states
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Speaker 6: where midterm elections are going to have some prickly results there.
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Speaker 6: So that's going to go on for some time. He
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Speaker 6: is called on Mexico to open up and live up
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Speaker 6: to a treaty signed in nineteen forty four that said
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Speaker 6: annually they will release two hundred thousand acres feet of water.
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Speaker 6: They haven't this year, and the Texas farmers are struggling
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Speaker 6: without the water, and the treaty must be enforced before
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Speaker 6: the thirty first, the President said, or Mexico will face
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Speaker 6: a five percent tariff. President Trump said that the drug
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Speaker 6: boat that was hit by two missiles in the Caribbean
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Speaker 6: President said he would leave the decision whether to release
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Speaker 6: the footage of the missile strikes to Secretary of War
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Speaker 6: Pete Hegsith. Meanwhile, Congress says it will withhold one quarter
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Speaker 6: of Secretary Hegsith's Pentagon travel budget until they turn over
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Speaker 6: the videos of the strikes to Congress. Congresswoman Nancy Mayce
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Speaker 6: is taking a shot at Mike Johnson as she leaves
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Speaker 1: Society, which is but upward to the Great Society.
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Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Chunk Media Network.
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Speaker 2: All naturally and free of artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 7: The Great Society rests on abundance, and liberty for all.
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Speaker 23: It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.
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Speaker 6: And sixty years later we have four times as many
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Speaker 6: people living below the poverty level. If you needed a
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Speaker 6: better proof that the Democrats' progressive Marxist agenda regarding affordability
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Speaker 6: doesn't work, just start with the Great Society and all
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Speaker 6: the things that have come within it and the subsidization
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Speaker 6: nation that began there. And nobody, nobody had the courage.
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Speaker 6: Barry Goldwater didn't have the courage. Ronald Reagan was the
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Speaker 6: only person who had the courage to call it out
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Speaker 6: for what it was, and he did it on behalf
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Speaker 6: of Barry Goldwater, but Goldwater himself. The reason Goldwater didn't
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Speaker 6: win that election was sure JFK and he was JFK's
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Speaker 6: vice president. But Goldwater also didn't engage. Goldwater didn't hold
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Speaker 6: his feet to the fire on the Marxism he was
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Speaker 6: talking about. Reagan did. Reagan knew how to do it.
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Speaker 6: Reagan wasn't afraid of being called a McCarthyite. Reagan would
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Speaker 6: talk about the do gooders and their goals and their agendas,
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Speaker 6: and he would lay waste, lay waste to the progressive
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Speaker 6: movement of Lyndon Johnson. Oh my gosh, can you imagine
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Speaker 6: a world where, instead of campaigning for Barry Goldwater, Ronald
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Speaker 6: Reagan ran himself in nineteen sixty four. I don't know
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Speaker 6: the two scenarios. In my mind, wistfully is that Reagan
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Speaker 6: beats Goldwater and Reagan beats Johnson, and the whole notion
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Speaker 6: of the nanny state gets killed before it ever gets
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Speaker 6: out of the nursery, and we enter a world of
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Speaker 6: prosperity that I don't think our minds could even conceive of.
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Speaker 6: Or Reagan loses just as badly as Goldwater did, and
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Speaker 6: like Goldwater, he's never heard from again, and we never
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Speaker 6: get the eighties, we never get make America great again,
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Speaker 6: We never hear from the Republican Party ever again. And
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Speaker 6: the closest we get are some fiscal hawks and the
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Speaker 6: Democrat Party who get up and make speeches every now
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Speaker 6: and then. I know that's a little dystopian, but it's
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Speaker 6: what I got for you on this morning, I said,
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Speaker 6: free of charge. Joel Pipes in with the good point,
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Speaker 6: he said, but Joe, you asked us for our two
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Speaker 6: cents worth or is it five cents with inflation? Four
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Speaker 6: three four eight? Eight two four two one seven. This
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Speaker 6: text message, Terry writes in really, President Trump's going to
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Speaker 6: start his affordability tour at a casino. Please tell me
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Speaker 6: you were making that up, Joe. No, actually it's a
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Speaker 6: it's a casino. His first rally is going. It's outdoors.
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Speaker 6: It's not like he's going to be in the slot
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Speaker 6: machines or anything. But you know, I wish I could
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Speaker 6: tell you otherwise, Terry. Thank you for the text message there. Oh,
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Speaker 6: I never read Bob's graphic that he always sends to us.
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Speaker 6: Bob up in Oregon. We are too prone to engrave
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Speaker 6: our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand. Oh.
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Speaker 6: So true, so true. Thank you for the spurgeon quo. There.
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Speaker 6: Doctor Clark is on the line with us from Alabama.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, sir, How are you doing this morning?
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Speaker 11: I'm all good, Joe. I'm listening to you talk about
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Speaker 11: how much more poverty we got after the War on Poverty.
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Speaker 11: And you remember in cool Hand, Luke, when Struther Martin
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Speaker 11: was telling Luke how them change was going to be
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Speaker 11: a clinking them chains was gonna be a constant reminded
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Speaker 11: to get his mind right.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, do you remember what Luke said, Uh, not off
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Speaker 6: the top. I didn't know there'd be a quiz, so
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Speaker 6: you got to let me know.
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Speaker 11: Before there standing there all hanged dog listening to him,
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Speaker 11: and he said, I wish you could being so good
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Speaker 11: to me, Captain. That kind of reminds me of my
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Speaker 11: thoughts on the Democrats helping us out.
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Speaker 6: I wish you couldn't been so good to us. Oh
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Speaker 6: what it is there? Helping us to death?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 11: Well, you know what. I made the statement a few
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Speaker 11: weeks ago to somebody, if you kill something with kindness,
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Speaker 11: at the end of the day, you're still a killer.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: So there.
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Speaker 23: Now.
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Speaker 11: I sent you a video last night. Did you get
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Speaker 11: a chance to look at that?
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Speaker 20: No?
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Speaker 6: Well, what time did you send it? What time did
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Speaker 6: you send the thing?
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Speaker 11: I would have been after your bedtime.
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Speaker 6: Well, then of course I didn't see it.
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Speaker 11: It's about eight time, so it'ld have been about nine
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Speaker 11: to thirty year time.
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Speaker 6: No, I'm sorry about that. Is this from the Gateway Pundit?
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Speaker 11: I sent you on this morning from the Gateway Pundit?
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Speaker 24: Now, and coincidentally they coincide. There was the one on
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Speaker 24: the FBI agent that wasn't well, it was on the
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Speaker 24: J six pipe bombers.
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Speaker 11: Okay, in that if you go to the three minutes
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Speaker 11: and eight seconds, we introduce the FBI agent that was
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Speaker 11: in charge of the bomb investigation. And yesterday I made
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Speaker 11: the comment that, you know, when you look at the
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Speaker 11: profile of this guy, it was early similar to the
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Speaker 11: Michigan FED napping profiles.
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Speaker 6: Right. You mentioned that, you know the mom basement Grandma
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Speaker 6: bakes a lot.
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Speaker 11: Guess who was in charge of the Whitmer FED napping
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Speaker 11: case and the J six bombing investigation the same person. Interesting,
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Speaker 11: Steve Dantono as best as I'm hearing himpaired, but that's
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Speaker 11: what I heard.
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Speaker 6: I think it's Dantonio, but uh, okay, and also was
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Speaker 6: in charge of the marl Arco raid.
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Speaker 22: What are the odds.
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Speaker 6: I don't know, you know, I don't know what the
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Speaker 6: hierarchy is like. He just may be the guy who
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Speaker 6: they go to. I mean, there's these these organizations often
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Speaker 6: have that guy when we need to do the thing,
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Speaker 6: go get the guy who does the thing. Uh and
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Speaker 6: and he's you know, and they wind up being the
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Speaker 6: always the person. It would be weird to have an
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Speaker 6: organization as large as the Federal Bureau of Instigation to
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Speaker 6: only have one guy to lead those things. But he
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Speaker 6: might be that you know that Shimour uh was Shimour
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Speaker 6: Brown from swat the.
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Speaker 11: Gateway punnit article I sent you. According to it, the
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Speaker 11: prosecutor in charge of the cold case now was also
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Speaker 11: the engineer on the railroad the Proud Boys train. Oh,
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Speaker 11: I mean prosecutor, I swear Joe every time we turn around. Well,
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Speaker 11: but it's the same people over and over.
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Speaker 6: Well, but you know, is there a coincidence to this
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Speaker 6: because it is an organization. We've transitioned from one administration
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Speaker 6: to the other, and we have cash Battel instead of
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Speaker 6: you know, Merrick Garland or Pambati instead of Merrick Garland.
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Speaker 6: And you know, but not every single FBI agent was
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Speaker 6: fired and rehired. So they're working with uh, those that
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Speaker 6: came before them. And that's you know, that iron rule
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Speaker 6: of bureaucracy that Ray reminded us of. Uh, you know
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Speaker 6: those ones who you know, it's real important to them
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Speaker 6: What's something worse? Well, the sense affordability is the word
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Speaker 6: is what makes something affordable? Huh? Let's let's poke a
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Speaker 6: and you say, well, it's the greedy company's fault. These
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Speaker 6: But they didn't do it just to hire those people.
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Speaker 6: As President of Trump begins his affordability toward to counteract
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Speaker 6: you're going to have to wait six months to apply
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Speaker 6: for that subsidy again, just saying to you, this is
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Speaker 26: I'm doing well, Joe, And we still have Christmas rounds
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Speaker 26: about a quarter of a percent to four and five dollars.
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Speaker 26: It's really been floating around this forty two hundred dollars
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Speaker 6: For a few days now.
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Speaker 26: And silver is up a three cours of a percent
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Speaker 6: Beautiful and it's just amazing places. And I hope you
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Speaker 6: for them there, James and you know four three four
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Speaker 26: Absolutely, we'll keep shipping them out as fast as the
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Speaker 6: It's true. It just struck me because I never do
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Speaker 26: Yeah, that's a really good question. And I would say,
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Speaker 6: There you go. That's just struck me. Thank you, James,
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Speaker 6: So the part about affordability in this this is why
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Speaker 6: So when you listen to the left talk about housing,
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Speaker 6: they say that the under housed or the housing what
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Speaker 6: is it called the housing burdened where too much of
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Speaker 6: your take home income. That's what it is. It's housing burdened.
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Speaker 6: That's the one that more Marxist double speak, but it's real.
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Speaker 6: It's it's not that people don't pay fifty percent or
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Speaker 6: to look at whose job is it If you're unhoused.
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Speaker 6: The implication of the word unhoused means somebody hasn't housed
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Speaker 6: you yet. Homeless means you have not acquired a home.
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Speaker 6: And it's a subtle thing, but the more they do it,
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Speaker 6: But you'll have to go plead with the electric company.
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Speaker 6: You'll have to fill out all the right forms and
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Speaker 6: make sure all the checkboxes are in the right checkbox
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Speaker 6: to make sure you qualify for that. And somewhere there'll
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Speaker 6: be some nonprofit a United Way or someone else that
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Speaker 6: will set up a program to help you fill out
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Speaker 6: the forms to make sure you qualify for the low
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Speaker 6: cost energy from so and so electric utility, and if
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Speaker 6: you don't and if you fail and if somehow you
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Speaker 6: trigger something or your teenage son gets a job at
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Speaker 6: McDonald's if you can find one that's still open and
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Speaker 6: just throws you over that trigger by ten bucks fifteen
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Speaker 6: bucks a month. Sorry, very strict guidelines on your eligibility.
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Speaker 6: You've got to be at four hundred times the poverty level.
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Speaker 6: And it's just like the guaranteed wage in Cook County, Illinois.
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Speaker 6: If you make sixty thousand dollars a year, you'll get
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Speaker 6: five hundred dollars a month from the Cook County government,
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Speaker 6: as if that's going to help you pay for the housing.
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Speaker 6: Is housing just that much? It's a little bit. It's
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Speaker 6: five hundred dollars a month. That's rounding error for a
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Speaker 6: lot of folks. When you're looking at rents for a
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Speaker 6: two bedroom or a three bedroom apartment going into the
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Speaker 6: two to three thousand dollars a month in some areas,
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Speaker 6: How is something become affordable or not? What does it
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Speaker 6: cost to make it? It is really simple, And this
48:02
Speaker 6: was why, oh what did the email come in? About
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Speaker 6: fifteen minutes ago, the one I gave you about Reagan
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Speaker 6: and Goldwater Yeah, yeah, yeah, that one. So Maurice writes
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Speaker 6: in Dear Joe, I love your thought. But here's what
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Speaker 6: would have happened. If Reagan had run against Lyndon Johnson
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Speaker 6: in nineteen sixty four. Lyndon Johnson would have run, would
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Speaker 6: have won under the ghost of JFK. He was going
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Speaker 6: to beat anyone. Jesus Christ himself could have run against
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Speaker 6: Lyndon Johnson and lost because JFK had been martyred. What
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Speaker 6: should have happened is that Reagan run in nineteen sixty eight,
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Speaker 6: and then we would have been spared it. Well, Maurice,
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Speaker 6: I liked that. I see what you're thinking there. Because
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Speaker 6: Nixon was much more capitulatory to the state. This is
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Speaker 6: why he pulled us off the gold standard. Would Reagan
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Speaker 6: have pulled us off the gold standard if he had
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Speaker 6: run for president in sixty eight, that's a great question.
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Speaker 6: He certainly we could have avoided the whole Watergate mess.
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Speaker 6: And Reagan easily could have had he done what he
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Speaker 6: did in between nineteen seventy six and nineteen eighty, which
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Speaker 6: is around the country and give speeches and talk to
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Speaker 6: people and say, oh, well, here's what I want to do.
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Speaker 6: Because by the time seventy seven rolls around, Reagan's got
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Speaker 6: a target rich environment full of things to say, well,
49:36
Speaker 6: this is there. You go again and point at all
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Speaker 6: the different socialists in Sheep's clothing programs that had developed
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Speaker 6: under the Great Society. But the bigger problem Reagan found
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Speaker 6: by the time he took office in nineteen eighty one
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Speaker 6: was the tumor of the Great Society had grown so bad.
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Speaker 6: This is why I said, you know, gosh, I wish
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Speaker 6: Reagan could have you know, just listen to the way
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Speaker 6: he lays it out. The ink isn't even dry on
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Speaker 6: Lyndon Johnson's Great Society proposal. Governor Reagan of California has
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Speaker 6: left the Democratic Party over the Great Society and is
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Speaker 6: able to tell the gatherings.
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Speaker 7: So they're going to solve all the problems of human
50:22
Speaker 7: misery through government and government planning. Well, now, if government
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Speaker 7: planning and welfare had the answer, and they've had almost
50:31
Speaker 7: thirty years of it, shouldn't we expect government to read
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Speaker 7: the score to us once in a while.
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Speaker 6: God so brilliant, you know, And I sit here trying
50:39
Speaker 6: to be as brilliant, or at least in a shadow
50:42
Speaker 6: as a brilliant when we break down these stories as that.
50:46
Speaker 6: But my gosh, the ink isn't even dry. And of
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Speaker 6: course he's referring to the New Deal thirty years in
50:53
Speaker 6: the making. But here we are. Read the scorecard to me,
50:58
Speaker 6: how many more Americans live below the poverty level than
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Speaker 6: they did the day Lyndon Johnson stood at the University
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Speaker 6: of Michigan or at the DAIS when he really first
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Speaker 6: launched it at the State of the Union address and said,
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Speaker 6: we're going to start the Great Society. Four times as
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Speaker 6: many Americans as a percentage of population live below the
51:20
Speaker 6: poverty level. And that's not even including these alices. The
51:24
Speaker 6: working poor is that I think is more appropriate to
51:27
Speaker 6: call them. And that's why affordability has become this punching bag.
51:34
Speaker 6: Like I said, it's almost to the point where you know,
51:37
Speaker 6: we strike another one of these narco boats. And Mark
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Speaker 6: Warner is going to be on TV saying.
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Speaker 23: President, this president ran on lowering the costs for Virginians,
51:49
Speaker 23: and the poor Virginians are going to pay three times
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Speaker 23: as much for their crack cocaine.
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Speaker 6: Now that he keeps blowing up these bouts. It's tell
51:58
Speaker 6: me you're smirking, But tell me. You can't hear Mark
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Speaker 6: Warner saying that he'll get on CNN all this president
52:06
Speaker 6: said he was going to run on making America more affordable,
52:09
Speaker 6: and the cost of heroin has gone way up ever
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Speaker 6: since he started this attacking Venezuela. You get somebody, you know,
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Speaker 6: somebody out there saying, you know, these attacks on the
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Speaker 6: Venezuelan and drug boats are just like a missile launched
52:25
Speaker 6: tariff on the necessary cocaine for Americans, because it's cocaine
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Speaker 6: that Americans won't grow themselves or refine themselves. But what
52:41
Speaker 6: does it cost to make something? And this is what
52:43
Speaker 6: subsidies ruined because you have no idea what it costs
52:47
Speaker 6: to make or what it costs to procure.
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