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"Thou Shall Not Murder" (Wednesday, February 11, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 2: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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Speaker 2: Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 3: I bless you for joining us on this Ted's Day
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Speaker 3: morning across the radio dials amplitude and frequency modulation carrying
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Speaker 3: our analysis of that which went on since last you checked.
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Speaker 3: We'll give you our view of it. We'll lay it
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Speaker 3: out for you in its details, and then I want
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Speaker 3: to hear how it's impacting you where you are four
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Speaker 3: three four eight eight two four two one seven. You
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Speaker 3: can text message, which by leaps and bounds, is the
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Speaker 3: most popular way of interacting with us, though I love
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Speaker 3: to hear the voices as we talk, and especially since
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Speaker 3: we've been talking about isolation and vacuums, not just vacuums
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Speaker 3: of information as police investigate this so that the proper
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Speaker 3: people and charges and changes if need, be made, but
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Speaker 3: the vacuum of human interaction is sometimes so key to
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Speaker 3: these tragedies as unfolding in Northern British Columbia yesterday afternoon.
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Speaker 3: I guess it was about four four thirty Eastern time
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Speaker 3: when the school shooting began there, and vacuums, vacuums of
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Speaker 3: human interaction and man's inate ability to be horrible to
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Speaker 3: one another, and the importance of friends and community or family.
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Speaker 3: And I've been picked on in my childhood, and I
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Speaker 3: always knew I had a safe harbor at home, and
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Speaker 3: I didn't have, you know, the Brady bunch. My mom
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Speaker 3: was at work until six forty five or so. It
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Speaker 3: was a vice president of a bank, and as you
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Speaker 3: can imagine becoming a vice president of a bank in
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Speaker 3: the nineteen sixties, she's a little bit of a tough
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Speaker 3: lady and not necessarily big hugs all around. My dad
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Speaker 3: was a hugger, but he worked in restaurants, so he
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Speaker 3: wouldn't get home until ten thirty at night. So it's
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Speaker 3: not like I could come home with Wally and the
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Speaker 3: beav and just unload. Oh. Brian picked on me and
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Speaker 3: he said his brother was in the JDO and had
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Speaker 3: rifles and all these true story and scared you know,
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Speaker 3: and showed black rifles hanging on the wall and scared
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Speaker 3: me in all of those things that kids do to
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Speaker 3: each other in in their settings, in their attempts to
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Speaker 3: have dominion influence over one another. So we gather this
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Speaker 3: morning and we try to make sense of it all
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Speaker 3: and here are the details. These are what we know
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Speaker 3: and the places where the holes are. Shooting at a
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Speaker 3: school in northeast British Columbia has left eight dead, including
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Speaker 3: a woman who police believed to be the shooter. Two
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Speaker 3: more were found dead in a nearby home. Canadian authorities
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Speaker 3: say twenty five were injured in the town of tumblr
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Speaker 3: Ridge in the Northern Canadian Rockies at the secondary school
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Speaker 3: their high school. One hundred and seventy five students. Stories
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Speaker 3: out of the school this morning that students were barricading
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Speaker 3: the doors to their classrooms as the attack was unfolding,
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Speaker 3: showing incredible bravery for high school age students. Chief Superintendent
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Speaker 3: and Floyd of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police say we
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Speaker 3: are not in a place to understand why or what
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Speaker 3: may have motivated this tragedy. I think we will struggle
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Speaker 3: to determine why, but we will do our best to
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Speaker 3: determine what transpired at the school. Grand jury in Washington
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Speaker 3: has refused to indict members of the House of Representatives
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Speaker 3: and Senate of the Democratic Party in connection with a
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Speaker 3: video they produced and put on the internet urging US
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Speaker 3: military members to resist quote illegal orders. Governors from several
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Speaker 3: states are boycotting a White House dinner with President Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: They are all Democrats, including Virginia's newly elected Abigail Spanberger,
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Speaker 3: because Maryland Governor Wes Moore and Colorado Governor Jared Polus
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Speaker 3: were disinvited from the dinner. The National Governor's Association is
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Speaker 3: who gather annually for a conference, and this year President
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Speaker 3: Trump was welcoming them to the White House, but then
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Speaker 3: withdrew the invitation for Moore and Polis. Gallop poll asks
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Speaker 3: school in British Columbia and the reaction, because it's a
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Speaker 3: commonplace reaction to make equivalencies there, and don't hate the
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Speaker 3: as our general assemblies in New Orleans and Colorado both
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Speaker 3: discussing more restrictive gun ownership rules. As Jared Polis gets
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Speaker 3: himself disinvited from the White House, I don't know if
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Speaker 3: I was if Joe Biden disinvited me from a White
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Speaker 3: House sitting down with broadcasters, they'd be like, E.
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Speaker 15: Look at me.
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Speaker 3: I got kicked out of the ois. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: It's it's just how I roll. Everything has got an
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Speaker 3: upside to it there. But you know, they are debating
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Speaker 3: greater and more ardent gun restrictions and restrictions on law
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Speaker 3: enforcement officers in schools. Again. You're restricting, after four years
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Speaker 3: here in Virginia of increasing the budget for officers, police
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Speaker 3: officers in schools, you know, call them what you want.
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Speaker 3: They're police officers in schools, and now they want to
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Speaker 3: pull all that money back again. And they want to
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Speaker 3: have social workers in schools to work alongside the other
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Speaker 3: social workers that they already have in schools there. And
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Speaker 3: it all comes down to there are simple things for
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Speaker 3: us to do in the wake of these kind of
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Speaker 3: things while we sit here in the vacuum of information
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Speaker 3: as investigations are unfolding even as we speak this morning.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's three twenty in British Columbia right now.
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Speaker 3: I don't yeah, I'm sure there are investigators working right
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Speaker 3: now in forensics and such and such, But it is
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Speaker 3: three twenty in the morning in Vancouver. And what's the
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Speaker 3: town in northern British Columbia where the shooting took place?
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Speaker 3: All of a sudden, it wasn't tumbler Ridge there. So
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Speaker 3: we move forward into our day. Our friends at jcsgold
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Speaker 2: Joe.
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Speaker 3: How are you? So so far, so good. Just another
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Speaker 3: one of these mornings where you know, we come in,
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Speaker 3: you know, and people are tuning into the radio to
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Speaker 3: hear what's going on, and little if anything new can
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Speaker 3: be reported, but we give them the facts and we'll
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Speaker 3: discuss from there there. But how are gold and silver doing?
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Speaker 3: How did they do yesterday? I know they were kind
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Speaker 3: of climbing back.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, gold and silver are grinding in the green again,
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Speaker 17: making big moves overnight and the rest of the afternoon
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Speaker 17: yesterday and overnight so far this morning, gold is up
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Speaker 17: one and a half percent of seventy six dollars to
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Speaker 17: five thousand, one hundred and one dollar. Silver is even bigger,
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Speaker 17: up over six percent, up five dollars to eighty five
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Speaker 17: dollars and ninety three cents. So they are on the move.
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Speaker 17: And you know silver these days, the new normal for
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Speaker 17: silver is you know, five ten percent swings in the day,
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Speaker 17: which is pretty historic for the shiny silver metal.
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Speaker 3: Well, and as you mentioned, silver unlike gold. I mean,
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Speaker 3: there are some industrial applications of gold, and maybe there'd
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Speaker 3: be more if it wasn't five thousand dollars an ounce.
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Speaker 3: But silver has so many industrial applications too that when
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Speaker 3: I read about the President and is rare earth minerals
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Speaker 3: supply that he wants to set aside emergency like the
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Speaker 3: petroleum reserves, you think, you know, this is another reason
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Speaker 3: to make sure you have silver, because that value is
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Speaker 3: going to go up as we start using silver for
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Speaker 3: more and more stuff beyond just currency.
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Speaker 17: That's the Yeah, you're exactly right. That's the biggest thing
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Speaker 17: that I've heard is that silver is a superior metal
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Speaker 17: to electricity conductivity versus common and you know, and all
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Speaker 17: the electricity that you need for for all these new
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Speaker 17: data centers, and you know, on the growth of AI
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Speaker 17: demand and the amount of energy that AI needs and
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Speaker 17: data centers that you need silver, you know, in the
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Speaker 17: construction of these data centers to be able to move
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Speaker 17: so much electricity. Uh and and that has been a
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Speaker 17: huge driver in the price of silver. So that'll be
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Speaker 17: extreme to see. And that's you know. That's been the
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Speaker 17: silver bowl case for a very long time. Is is
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Speaker 17: people have said, you know, I'm buying silver, I'm investing
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Speaker 17: in silver versus gold because silver gets used up. Silver's
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Speaker 17: not just a financial metal. Silver gets used up industrially
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Speaker 17: and it's hard to recover, uh, you know, And and
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Speaker 17: that's a bowl case for it that there's going to
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Speaker 17: be huge demand for it and that and that has
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Speaker 17: proven true, especially since October is the whole world has
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Speaker 17: wanted silver for you know, those technology cool advancements.
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Speaker 3: So it'll be extreme to see. Well, and that's why
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Speaker 3: you want to talk to a family business because they're
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Speaker 3: not sales pitching you. This is a family that's been
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Speaker 3: doing this since nineteen sixty one. James, you have a
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Speaker 3: great morning, sir. You two Joe thanks four three four
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Speaker 3: get to us on the phone and emails JT in
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Speaker 3: the morning radio at Gmail. This email on the identity
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Speaker 3: of the shooter, he said, Joe, was this a student
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Speaker 3: or not? It sounds like they're saying woman frequently, which
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Speaker 3: would lead me to believe an adult went into the school,
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Speaker 3: not a student. But students will do this stuff won't
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Speaker 3: they Well, I mean, especially in high school, we've seen
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Speaker 3: this be the case, whether it's Columbine on up. But
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Speaker 3: I mean just the idea that it has to be
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Speaker 3: somebody with you know, asked the folks in Virginia Beach,
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Speaker 3: in Norfolk, near in and around rich Neck Elementary School.
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Speaker 3: Just you know, waiting until somebody has become adult sized
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Speaker 3: doesn't mean that they don't have a gun and are
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Speaker 3: looking to do violence to someone. And that's the point
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Speaker 3: I made earlier about the Ten Commandments. And this becomes
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Speaker 3: almost as controversial as anything else I say, because there's
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Speaker 3: the raging debate. Does the sixth Amendment sixth Commandment say
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Speaker 3: thou shalt not kill or thou shalt not murder? And
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Speaker 3: its original form it was thou shalt not murder. And
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Speaker 3: the reason I bring it up is not that we
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Speaker 3: have forgotten it. I believe most of us remember thou
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Speaker 3: shalt not murder, and murder is much more specifically tuned
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Speaker 3: in thing than kill. Kill infers even in self defense
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Speaker 3: like in Minnesota where they have the must retreat laws.
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Speaker 3: Murder is a specific series of decisions and applications and
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Speaker 3: plannings and things like that to carry out such a thing.
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Speaker 3: But the point I make about the Ten Commandments is
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Speaker 3: it was thousands of years before black powder and firearms
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Speaker 3: were invented, and God was telling us don't murder each other,
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Speaker 3: which tells me that we have it in our system
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Speaker 3: them to murder each other before not.
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Speaker 5: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas?
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Speaker 8: Yes?
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Speaker 5: Actually three known gas is I'm doctor Mitch, and nitric
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Speaker 5: oxide is a gas that's readily made all day long
22:17
Speaker 5: to keep our arteries open by relaxing the blood vessel walls.
22:22
Speaker 5: By doing this, our circulation is increased, bringing blood, oxygen,
22:27
Speaker 5: and nutrients to every part of your body. Both age
22:32
Speaker 5: and poor diet can lead to a loss of this
22:35
Speaker 5: precious gas, and in turn, blood pressure can go up,
22:39
Speaker 5: energy can go down, and you can get tingling in
22:41
Speaker 5: your hands and feet. Well, our product, Ultimate nitric Oxide
22:46
Speaker 5: can easily help fix this lack of nitric oxide. Go
22:50
Speaker 5: to total Wellness dot com. That's total wellness dot com
22:55
Speaker 5: where we are helping you to look good, feel good,
22:58
Speaker 5: and enjoy total wellness.
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Speaker 3: then it's good to reconnect with him there small town America, well,
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Speaker 3: small North America. Now, as this case unfolds in northern
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Speaker 22: I understand that there are ten people in total who
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Speaker 3: That's the I guess they call him premiere of British
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Speaker 3: so don't think that it's a small town thing. But
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Speaker 3: often that small towneness leads to isolation. I think back
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34:16
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Speaker 3: from somebody who might be part of your support group.
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Speaker 3: So you'd be careful when you say, well, why does
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Speaker 3: the isolation. But again, here we are in the vacuum
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Speaker 23: Good morning, Joe. I'm doing okay, you know, plugging away
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Speaker 23: so we can do but uh, I wanted to bring
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Speaker 23: this up. Okay, all right, So in general, how do
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Speaker 23: how does the world tree life? And we have to
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Speaker 23: I know we have illegal aliens and maybe they were
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Speaker 23: put into and you know, everybody wants to do causation,
35:52
Speaker 23: but I think the big causation is lack of spirit,
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Speaker 3: And I'm going to pick up on what you said.
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Speaker 3: not panic when the excreman hit the air handler who
46:44
Speaker 3: stopped the shooter from killing more people. We're all holding
46:50
Speaker 3: on to our bag of marbles very tightly and they
46:55
Speaker 3: start to fall out. And the way you hold onto
46:59
Speaker 3: the more carefully is you have friends who can do it.
47:01
Speaker 3: And I don't disagree that there's an anonymity of being
47:07
Speaker 3: in a big city, but there is also a support
47:14
Speaker 3: group of your friends around you that's more available than
47:20
Speaker 3: in a really, really rural area, where your peer groups
47:26
Speaker 3: become very specific there where you work. Look at the
47:30
Speaker 3: shooting that happened at the municipal offices here in one
47:37
Speaker 3: of the small towns in the Norfolk area. They become
47:43
Speaker 3: your workplace or your school, and this becomes the entirety
47:48
Speaker 3: of your network of people. Whereas I grew up in
47:51
Speaker 3: New York City and I never saw anyone from my
47:57
Speaker 3: school outside of school. We had friends at home who
48:02
Speaker 3: I would play basketball with or hang out with, and
48:05
Speaker 3: you know, drive around when we got drivers' licenses and
48:11
Speaker 3: go get cheeseburgers and things like that. But we had
48:15
Speaker 3: we had a world outside of it, a sort of
48:17
Speaker 3: Billy Joels. My other world is just half a mile away,
48:26
Speaker 3: and so there are upsides and downsides to everything. It
48:31
Speaker 3: comes back down to how we are holding on to
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Speaker 3: our marbles, and when we are in danger of losing
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Speaker 3: our grip on that last one before something bad happens,
48:45
Speaker 3: who's around to help us pick up the ones we've
48:48
Speaker 3: already spilled. And this is why. You know, a rural
48:56
Speaker 3: community where everyone is tight knit, that's one thing. But
48:59
Speaker 3: we see, especially in exurbia, where people move out of
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Speaker 3: the city to get away from, as you said, Sealy,
49:07
Speaker 3: this anonymity of jerkiness that might know, whether it's San
49:12
Speaker 3: Francisco or Dallas or wherever you may be, Houston, So
49:19
Speaker 3: you move out there and then you have to drive
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Speaker 3: two hours three hours story I see it. My wife's
49:25
Speaker 3: hometown is out on this little sand spit of top
49:31
Speaker 3: soil that was scraped off of New England by a glacier.
49:35
Speaker 3: They call it Long Island because it is long and
49:38
Speaker 3: it's a pile of sand, much like the ones that
49:40
Speaker 3: China has been building in the Pacific. There's the pile
49:44
Speaker 3: of sand in the ocean big enough to support six
49:49
Speaker 3: million people live there, and there's I think three highways
49:54
Speaker 3: to get into New York City, which is still the
49:57
Speaker 3: oracle of all their transportation, and so they want to
50:03
Speaker 3: get away from New York, so they move all the
50:06
Speaker 3: way out to the east end of Long Island, where
50:09
Speaker 3: our great Saturday morning affiliate is Long Island News Radio.
50:14
Speaker 3: And then they spend four hours in the car one
50:18
Speaker 3: way to get to work, or they spend two hours
50:21
Speaker 3: in a train and they get home seven eight o'clock
50:24
Speaker 3: at night. How much and you really have got to
50:26
Speaker 3: work and they do. This is the point I make
50:29
Speaker 3: about this being a small subset of population. Most parents,
50:34
Speaker 3: even when confronted with eight hours worth of commuting time
50:39
Speaker 3: to get to work, make it their mission to spend
50:44
Speaker 3: the amount of time that they have with their kids.
50:47
Speaker 3: That's how it doesn't become the majority of us arout
50:50
Speaker 3: doing these horrific things. And again this is still we
50:53
Speaker 3: don't know if this was a parent of some kid.
50:57
Speaker 3: The presumption is through the fact that there are two
50:59
Speaker 3: victims in a house and a bunch of victims in
51:02
Speaker 3: the school, that it was a teenage girl that did it.
51:05
Speaker 3: We don't know, and we don't know if we will
51:11
Speaker 3: ever know, because British laws of British Columbia and Canadian
51:15
Speaker 3: laws different regarding what you will know wouldn't it be
51:19
Speaker 3: interesting if we find out more because of Canadian law
51:22
Speaker 3: than we do because American law allows to Wow, there's
51:25
Speaker 3: an active investigation, when will the investigation be inactive? We
51:30
Speaker 3: don't know anything about the Butler shooter yet. There's an
51:34
Speaker 3: active investigation going on. Can't talk about it. But the
51:43
Speaker 3: bottom line is that there's a percentage of us who
51:47
Speaker 3: are holding on to that last good marble very tenuously,
51:52
Speaker 3: and there are ways to address it, but they're often
51:59
Speaker 3: years past. But you can only deal with the day
52:02
Speaker 3: you're dealing with today. And maybe you know someone today
52:06
Speaker 3: coming up on our news here, Maybe you know somebody
52:09
Speaker 3: who you haven't talked to for a while. Girl I
52:15
Speaker 3: spent a long time with and worked with quite a bit,
52:19
Speaker 3: took her own life, couldn't do it anymore, couldn't deal
52:26
Speaker 3: with the pain. And I know the days that I've
52:33
Speaker 3: looked into the abyss and said, I just don't want
52:37
Speaker 3: to do that to the friends that I have, and
52:40
Speaker 3: it gets me back from it. But we don't always
52:42
Speaker 3: do that, we don't always think that, and we have
52:45
Speaker 3: to be ready to see those signs and be that
52:49
Speaker 3: person who.
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