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Karl Marx Football Picks - Big Picture with Jack Atherton · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's 7.06.
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  Speaker 2: And a happy Wednesday to you. Listener Lunch Wednesday is again,
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  Speaker 2: to the 55KRC Morning Show. Podcasts will be available later
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  Speaker 2: at 55KRC. iHeart. com. It's the time of week we get the
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  Speaker 2: big picture with our friend Jack Atherton, our collective friend,
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  Speaker 2: me and the listening audience, and Joe Strecker. Jack, welcome
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  Speaker 2: back to the show, my friend. I love having you
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  Speaker 2: on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me back, brother. I'd like to pay
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  Speaker 1: tribute to 9-11 before we part. But Brian, could we
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  Speaker 1: begin with something lighter?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. This is your segment. You go wherever you want, Jack.
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  Speaker 2: I have ultimate trust in you.
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  Speaker 1: You will rue those words. But maybe not tonight. Tonight
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  Speaker 1: is the start of real NFL football. Football that counts.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals don't play until Sunday, but I'm already jazzed
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  Speaker 1: with a healthy Joe Kuhl, a beefed-up defense, Still, friends,
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  Speaker 1: don't follow me in placing any bets. I don't bet,
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  Speaker 1: but I've been picking Cincinnati since 2022, only to see
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  Speaker 1: us miss the playoffs entirely for the last three seasons.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're good on delivering disappointment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they have consistently, but I think it's going to end.
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  Speaker 1: One person I know who's made even worse predictions than
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  Speaker 1: I do, Karl Marx. Karl was not a football fan.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't even like going outdoors, and that was the
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  Speaker 1: root of his problem. Marx, a German immigrant to England,
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  Speaker 1: spent all of his time in the library of the
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  Speaker 1: British Museum. He didn't take care of his wife and kids.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't earn a living. All Carl did was read
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  Speaker 1: and predict revolutions, communist revolutions, in Great Britain and throughout
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  Speaker 1: Western Europe. For a brief moment, it looked like Carl
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  Speaker 1: might be onto something. In 1848, Europe exploded. Poor and
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  Speaker 1: middle-class people, going back to the French Revolution in 1789,
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  Speaker 1: had hoped for new governments. Governments like America's constitutional republic.
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  Speaker 1: But Europeans instead died under a dictator, Napoleon. And then
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  Speaker 1: after the fall of Napoleon, instead of reforming, Europe restored
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  Speaker 1: its old regimes. So 1848, brought a tidal wave of
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  Speaker 1: political unrest. Karl Marx and his benefactor, the guy who
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  Speaker 1: kept them alive, Friedrich Engels, tried to ride that wave
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  Speaker 1: by writing the Communist Manifesto. But their focus, Brian, was
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  Speaker 1: not on kings and emperors. For these communists, the real
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  Speaker 1: culprit was capitalism. The Industrial Revolution was revolutionizing everything from
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  Speaker 1: farming to mining, Textiles, transportation, the Industrial Revolution changed everything,
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  Speaker 1: and even aristocrats could no longer rest fat and happy
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  Speaker 1: on their lands. Free market capitalist economies now focused on
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  Speaker 1: the new industrial cities. And that's where Karl Marx saw
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  Speaker 1: his opening. Marx predicted that industrialization would increase misery. And
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  Speaker 1: for a while, he was right. Everybody flocked to cities
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  Speaker 1: that were rife with crime, disease, and exploitation. Read Charles Dickens'
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  Speaker 1: novel called Hard Times or Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South
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  Speaker 1: about murderous working conditions in cities like Manchester and Birmingham.
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  Speaker 1: As we've discussed, Brian, industrial revolutions are always hard. At first,
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  Speaker 1: whether in ancient Sumeria where they invented the wheel and
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  Speaker 1: muscle men who used to carry litters were thrown out
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  Speaker 1: of work, or Detroit in the early 20th century, where
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  Speaker 1: newfangled automobiles replaced the horse and buggy and blacksmiths. The
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  Speaker 1: fear being spoke today is over AI and data centers.
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  Speaker 1: Some of it is reasonable. Some of it is frightening.
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  Speaker 1: But much of that fear is funded by Red China
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  Speaker 1: because they don't want competition for their data centers. Industrial
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  Speaker 1: transitions have always been hard, and Marxists today count on
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  Speaker 1: that just as Karl Marx did. But, and this is
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  Speaker 1: a really big but, Karl Marx was wrong. He lived
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  Speaker 1: until 1883, yet never got out of the reading room
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  Speaker 1: to see how life was changing. For the better. How
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  Speaker 1: unions were forming and management was growing more reasonable. How
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  Speaker 1: factories were becoming safer and How new and better jobs
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  Speaker 1: were being created. How children stopped working and went to school.
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  Speaker 1: Health standards increased. Life expectancy increased. Life got better. Except
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  Speaker 1: for the Marx family. Karl's mother, and this is a
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  Speaker 1: real quote, she wrote that she wished her son earned
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  Speaker 1: some capital instead of just attacking it. Marx predicted communist
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  Speaker 1: revolutions would overtake Europe, starting with the most industrialized nations. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: The only place that suffered the Communist Revolution was one
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  Speaker 1: of the least industrialized countries, Tsarist Russia. And even there,
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  Speaker 1: the Communist Revolution was not led by peasants and shopkeepers.
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  Speaker 1: The leaders of the Russian Revolution were the same hypocrites
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  Speaker 1: now leading the Democrats, Socialists of America, so-called intellectuals, brainwashed
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  Speaker 1: by Marx to think that an all-knowing, all-powerful, big government
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  Speaker 1: could redistribute property and let everybody live equally. Instead, as
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  Speaker 1: George Orwell predicted, some communists quickly became more equal than others.
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  Speaker 1: They became today's Vladimir Putin and his cronies, Xi Jinping, and,
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  Speaker 1: to pick out just one name from our own cohort,
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  Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar. They earned their money the old-fashioned way, liberating
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  Speaker 1: it from comrades who were content to be left with crumbs,
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  Speaker 1: so long as those crumbs come free of charge from
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  Speaker 1: Big Brother. So football fans, here's the score. Go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and bet just a few bucks on the Bengals if
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  Speaker 1: you agree with me, but don't bet on those descendants
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  Speaker 1: of Karl Marx, Democrat socialists of America. And that's what
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  Speaker 1: all of the Democrats are today. What do you say,
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  Speaker 1: my libertarian friend?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I always agree with you, Jack. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting. It's like everything. People at any given time
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  Speaker 2: view the current reality as static, immovable, unchangeable. Nothing's going
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  Speaker 2: to change. Ergo, we need to have some sort of
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  Speaker 2: revolution or top-down transformation of society. Only government can deliver that.
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  Speaker 2: But your industrial revolution point proves it. Once these businesses
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  Speaker 2: became really profitable, the terrible working conditions allowed in democratic governments...
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  Speaker 2: The change, people demanded change. You mentioned they formed unions
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  Speaker 2: to bring about some change. OSHA goes into effect, bringing
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  Speaker 2: about workplace obligations for safety. This is what money and
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  Speaker 2: the democratic process allows to happen. It's like environmentalism. If
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  Speaker 2: this country was not as wealthy as it is, we
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  Speaker 2: probably would have a whole bunch of hot, you know,
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  Speaker 2: surplus sites still laying around uncleaned up. The money that
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  Speaker 2: we have, the profit we generated, the wealth that we
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  Speaker 2: create through capitalism allows us to maybe take a little
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  Speaker 2: of that massive wealth and clean stuff up. The people
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  Speaker 2: demand it, and the reforms come about, and businesses still
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  Speaker 2: remain profitable and in business under a capitalist system. It
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  Speaker 2: just all comes collapsing down when they take a top-down approach,
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  Speaker 2: and then you have to rely on government to make
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  Speaker 2: life-altering decisions on our behalf. It's never worked out, Jack.
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  Speaker 1: No, exactly. You make it sound so obvious, but Marxism
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  Speaker 1: is on the rise. Among young people today, not because
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  Speaker 1: Marx was right about capitalism, much less the American idea
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  Speaker 1: of personal freedom and responsibility protected by limited government, Marxism
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  Speaker 1: is on the rise because generations of post-war American kids
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  Speaker 1: have been spoiled and brainwashed. Spoiled by their Depression-era parents
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  Speaker 1: and grandparents who won World War II and brought us prosperity.
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  Speaker 1: brainwashed in schools and by woke pop culture, which has
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  Speaker 1: now ruined at least three generations and counting. Education and
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  Speaker 1: culture are where we have to fight this battle, one
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  Speaker 1: household at a time. I know we've talked about this before. Brian,
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  Speaker 1: can I go on and say one word? Of course.
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  Speaker 1: To honor the targets and responders and survivors of 9-11
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  Speaker 1: 25 years ago. That sneak attack Should not have been
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  Speaker 1: a surprise. The World Trade Center had already been attacked
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  Speaker 1: by Islamo terrorists in 1993.
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  Speaker 2: The blindshake.
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  Speaker 1: Then explosion didn't take down the towers, but it killed
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  Speaker 1: six people. Ten years earlier, jihadists had bombed a marine
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  Speaker 1: barracks in Beirut, murdering 241 service personnel. In 1996, the
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  Speaker 1: jihadi truck bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, that
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  Speaker 1: killed another 19 American service members. Then in 2000, one
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  Speaker 1: year before 9-11, Al-Qaeda attacked the USS Cole, taking the
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  Speaker 1: lives of 17 U.S. Navy sailors. How many warnings did
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  Speaker 1: we need? Not about Islam, about radical Islam, the brand
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  Speaker 1: of Islam that chants death to America, as well. as
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  Speaker 1: death to Israel, and more broadly, death to the West
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  Speaker 1: and all of our values. And they mean it. In
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  Speaker 1: June of 2025, President Donald J. Trump courageously degraded Iran's
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  Speaker 1: nuclear capabilities. Then when we found out that they had
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  Speaker 1: enough enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs, he did
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  Speaker 1: it again last February 28th and all through March. But then, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: we started talking about peace talks with Iran's bloodthirsty, fanatical
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  Speaker 1: mullahs and Revolutionary Guard who had been there since 1979. On-again,
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  Speaker 1: off-again talks wasted. Within four months, while rising oil prices
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  Speaker 1: turned most of America against President Trump. The answer was
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  Speaker 1: never boots on the ground. As you let me say, Brian,
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  Speaker 1: for months. Look it up back in the podcasts. The
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  Speaker 1: answer was always consistent economic strangulation. This finally may be coming.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope it's not too late to save the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: But we must finish the job to honor the dead
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  Speaker 1: of 9-11 and to save lives today.
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  Speaker 2: Another reason to get out and vote. Not that we
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  Speaker 2: need any more. Jack Atherton put an exclamation point on it. November,
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  Speaker 2: get out and vote. Stop this nonsense from happening. Jack Atherton,
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  Speaker 2: brilliant as always.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you. As you've been saying, hold your nose. Hold
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  Speaker 1: your nose, hold your wallet, get out and vote. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're going to be going over with Donovan
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  Speaker 2: O'Neill and Tim Ross from AFP at the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: the hour. Hold your nose and vote Republican. A message
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  Speaker 2: that Tom Zalastowski has been echoing every week. A message
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  Speaker 2: that you're echoing. that I will continue to echo until
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  Speaker 2: the vote's over in November, and hopefully, dear God, we
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  Speaker 2: will do exactly that and stop this left-wing tide. Jack Etherton,
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  Speaker 2: brilliant as always. I appreciate your time every week here
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  Speaker 2: on the 55KRC Morning Show. Find the podcast, 55KRC. iHeart. com. Share
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  Speaker 2: it with your friends and get your friends to tune
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  Speaker 2: into the radio every Wednesday at 7.05. Jack, God bless you.