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"Price Gouging" (Tuesday, January 27, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I just want to tell you one thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a relatively you listener.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you think you're six months so, and I just
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  Speaker 3: love you because I think you're so quirky.
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  Speaker 4: And I understand for on a needs to know basis,
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  Speaker 4: because you need to know the first thing today George.
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  Speaker 2: Said, steal me step.
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  Speaker 5: You have a day at least for work when the
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  Speaker 5: sun comes up.
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  Speaker 2: A kid just good.
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  Speaker 6: Joey is a thing a Jane do.
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  Speaker 7: All the jas needs.
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  Speaker 5: The one that Joe's smile.
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  Speaker 1: He only is.
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  Speaker 8: Joe.
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  Speaker 9: I take that as a badge of honor, you know,
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  Speaker 9: honest to goodness. A lot of people are like, what
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  Speaker 9: you know what? You know what quirky says to me?
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  Speaker 9: There's d D from yesterday's UH program listening to us
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  Speaker 9: in Courtpalis, and you know what quirky means to me.
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  Speaker 9: We're not flying with the rest of the flock, nor
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  Speaker 9: are we supposed to. We have we have simple principles.
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  Speaker 9: And this is why the Obvius skaters want us to
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  Speaker 9: think that America is this complex philosophy that you have
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  Speaker 9: to get multiple postgraduate degrees in before you can even
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  Speaker 9: participate in.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not true.
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  Speaker 9: And they do it to gaslight us. They do it
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  Speaker 9: to gaslight us into thinking that, oh ma, you can't
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  Speaker 9: handle Let me say, Adam Smith. Have you read Adam Smith.
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  Speaker 4: No, not the guy.
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  Speaker 9: He's not the guy that Mel Gibson played in Poconnas.
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  Speaker 9: It's not even in Focahontas. Vocantis certainly doesn't understand Adam Smith,
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  Speaker 9: and Adam Smith hasn't been in Washington in sixty years.
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  Speaker 9: But it's the reason that Carpenter Rabbi from Galilee stopped
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  Speaker 9: with the fallen woman at the well prostitute. However you
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  Speaker 9: want to, the translations say all different things about her
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  Speaker 9: in Samaria while his boys went off to run, you know,
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  Speaker 9: to look for Samaria's versions of Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz.
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  Speaker 9: None of them stopped and said, well, why isn't Jesus
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  Speaker 9: coming with us? Huh what's he talking to her for?
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  Speaker 9: She's not going to help us do anything. Doesn't he
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  Speaker 9: know how important the politicians are in this city? And
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  Speaker 9: that's quirky, and kirky is great. Kirky is exactly what
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  Speaker 9: we should all strive to be. And you know what,
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  Speaker 9: it's not lonely. They tell you, oh you'll be alone.
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  Speaker 9: Nobody will agree. Yeah, no, if you will, And I
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  Speaker 9: was to jump off of something Joel was saying right
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  Speaker 9: before we went to the news, And if you missed that,
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  Speaker 9: go to the podcasts. We distributed them through Spotify and
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  Speaker 9: iHeart and Apple Podcasts and all of that, and you
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  Speaker 9: can find it at Joe Thomas in Themorning dot com.
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  Speaker 9: He brought up poverty. Poverty being poor is and I
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  Speaker 9: know that there's people that are, Oh, it's just a
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  Speaker 9: state of mind. But what's happened in the United States
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  Speaker 9: economically is that for years, even through the Great Depression,
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  Speaker 9: people were able to find subsistence somewhere. And what has
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  Speaker 9: happened in the United States these days is that we're
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  Speaker 9: finding it harder and harder to find that subsistence to
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  Speaker 9: make the ends meet. We'll get into that a little
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  Speaker 9: bit more, but as we sit here in between the
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  Speaker 9: Fabians and the Marxists, let me bring you our first
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  Speaker 9: things this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Wrapped in purple out of Minnesota.
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  Speaker 9: Last night, the President met with Christy Nome, DHS secretary,
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  Speaker 9: and her top aide, Corey Lewandowski for over two hours
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  Speaker 9: at Nome's request. This comes after he replaced Commander at
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  Speaker 9: large the Border Patrol Operations in Minnesota, Gregory Bovino with
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  Speaker 9: his borders are Tom Homan, a move which according to
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  Speaker 9: the President Governor waltz Cheers. He wrote to Truth Social
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  Speaker 9: the Governor very respectfully understood the change. I'll be speaking
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  Speaker 9: with him in the near future. He was happy that
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  Speaker 9: Tom Homan was coming to Minnesota, and so am I
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  Speaker 9: second amend Advocates are railing against statements made by President
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  Speaker 9: Trump's officials in the wake of the shooting in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 9: National Rifle Association took to task a federal prosecutor from
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  Speaker 9: California that said on x if you approach law enforcement
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  Speaker 9: with a gun, there's a high likelihood they will be
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  Speaker 9: legally justified in shooting you. That statement, the NRI says,
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  Speaker 9: is quote dangerous and wrong. Sunday morning, FBI Director Cash
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  Speaker 9: Bettel said, no one can bring a firearm loaded with
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  Speaker 9: multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want.
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  Speaker 2: It's that simple.
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  Speaker 9: Eric Pratt, vice president of Gun Owners of America, who
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  Speaker 9: just back on Martin Luther King Day, was at a
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  Speaker 9: rally full of people armed with me and said, I've
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  Speaker 9: attended protest rallies while armed and no one got injured.
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  Speaker 9: I was standing next to him at the most recent
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  Speaker 9: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental affair. Mayer's committee chair Rand
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  Speaker 9: Paul has called for three top immigration officials to testify
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  Speaker 9: at a hearing on February twelfth over the death of
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  Speaker 9: the Minneapolis nurse. Paul sent letters to Rodney Scott, the
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  Speaker 9: Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Joseph Edlow, Director of
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  Speaker 9: US Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Todd Lyons, who is
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  Speaker 9: serving as ICE acting director, requesting they come to his hearing.
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  Speaker 9: White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said that Monday, three
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  Speaker 9: distinct inquiries were underway into the fatal shootings in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 9: and many in the United States faced another night of
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  Speaker 9: below freezing temperatures as two hundred million Americans live in
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  Speaker 7: By their clothes, their age, the way they speak.
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  Speaker 11: Would you notice a sixteen year old boy who've got
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  Speaker 15: For eks, for spending money about to help feed his
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  Speaker 14: Who's in between jobs and sometimes goes to bed hungry
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  Speaker 2: You know they're gonna grind us down.
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  Speaker 9: Until the ready Email to JT in the Morning Radio
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  Speaker 9: at gmail dot com. Bless you for riding along with
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  Speaker 9: me this morning, Mike writes in Quirky, defined as using
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  Speaker 9: a song by the artist Fabian to introduce a segment
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  Speaker 9: about Fabian socialism. Quirky right, fine, guilty as charged.
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  Speaker 18: You know.
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  Speaker 9: We have to under stand a couple of things and
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  Speaker 9: I know that I get accused frequently of not giving
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  Speaker 9: the appropriate amount of gravity to some of these situations
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  Speaker 9: that we find ourselves in, and it is because I
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  Speaker 9: believe in you more than them, and I want to
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  Speaker 9: satirize them. I don't care who they are, if they
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  Speaker 9: if they try to tell you aside from the basics,
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  Speaker 9: like here's how we'll punish you if you steal someone's stop,
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  Speaker 9: if they're involved in any way, shape or form of
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  Speaker 9: trying to take away your agency, I'm against it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here for you.
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  Speaker 9: And all of the rest of them deserve all the
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  Speaker 9: satire I can pull together, even if it is doing
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  Speaker 9: something kind of offbeat, like using a by the way,
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  Speaker 9: a great Fabian song.
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  Speaker 2: To introduce a just.
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  Speaker 9: Ession of Fabian socialism, because I knew the Fabian socialism
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  Speaker 9: stuff was going to get a little deep. A little dude,
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  Speaker 9: I'm just trying to get a cup of coffee in
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  Speaker 9: me and get my day started or wrapped up. So
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  Speaker 9: guilty is charged if you, but we're trying to bring
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  Speaker 9: some yucks as well into it, because the worst thing
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  Speaker 9: you can do to these puffed up so and sos
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  Speaker 9: is to not take them seriously. But they do serious things.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not saying they don't, and when they do, we
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  Speaker 9: will report on it. But we will also report on
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  Speaker 9: it in such a way as to make sure that
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  Speaker 9: they're not enjoying any of the puffery that they think
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  Speaker 9: their high office deserves. We were talking about this. Here's
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  Speaker 9: a great example. So there's a fine line, and I
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  Speaker 9: was checking on this. Virginia is in as is Tennessee,
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  Speaker 9: and Georgia and Texas, so many of our states, Connecticut
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  Speaker 9: in these winter storm emergencies that have triggered anti gouging laws,
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  Speaker 9: and there are so many of them all over the place, Virginia, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 9: Here's Connecticut selling products, energy resources, or services during a
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  Speaker 9: declared state of emergency for more than an acceptable market
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  Speaker 9: price as determined by the state. Alaska, no price gouging laws.
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  Speaker 9: God bless you up there in Fairbanks, Alabama. You know
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  Speaker 9: there's a rock ribbed red state right charge unconscionable prices
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  Speaker 9: for commodities or rental facilities. Now they define it as
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  Speaker 9: twenty five percent or more over usual prices, and they define.
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  Speaker 2: A look back period.
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  Speaker 9: See now, if you're going to write something and say, okay,
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  Speaker 9: we'll look back thirty days and see what you were
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  Speaker 9: charging for something.
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  Speaker 2: However, I still.
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  Speaker 9: Worry about these anti gouging laws. California selling necessary supplies
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  Speaker 9: after a declared state of emergency for more than ten
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  Speaker 9: percent over the usual cost up to a ten thousand
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  Speaker 9: dollars fine. Colorado charging excessive prices for food, building materials,
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  Speaker 9: food fuel, and other necessities during declared disaster. The look
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  Speaker 9: back period is immediate one day two days before the disaster.
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  Speaker 9: Civil penalties of up to twenty thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 9: Let's just say hands it with Florida selling commodities, household essentials, rentals,
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  Speaker 9: and that's covering hotels and things like that. And the
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  Speaker 9: thing that I worry about in this, and we're going
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  Speaker 9: to bring a legal expert on to talk about gouging,
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  Speaker 9: and not just in Virginia but all over the place,
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  Speaker 9: is that this is a recipe and I've seen it
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  Speaker 9: hasn't happened here in Virginia, but it has happened where
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  Speaker 9: people are hit with high costs of getting the materials
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  Speaker 9: that they then have to eat. So let's say you
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  Speaker 9: sell gas and it's going to cost the distributor more
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  Speaker 9: to get a tractor trailer into your filling station. So
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  Speaker 9: up charged you on the cost of the delivery of
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  Speaker 9: the gasoline, so you factor that in. Next thing, you know,
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  Speaker 9: the Attorney General's at your door charging you with a
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  Speaker 9: twenty thousand dollars fine for price gouging even though you
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  Speaker 9: were just taking the price. And their answer is well,
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  Speaker 9: then you call the police and say that the gasoline
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  Speaker 9: distributor price gouged.
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  Speaker 2: But did they.
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  Speaker 9: They have a multimillion dollar truck full of multimillions of
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  Speaker 9: dollars worth of gasoline, highly commessible trying to drive along
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  Speaker 9: icy roads trying to get.
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  Speaker 2: To a gas station.
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  Speaker 9: You think they need to factor in the chance that
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  Speaker 9: something might go sideways, and that we need to make
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  Speaker 9: sure that their drivers have all the things.
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  Speaker 2: I should post this.
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  Speaker 9: We've had a whole list of these all over the
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  Speaker 9: place up in Sandpoint, Idaho's Consumer p Act. Again, this
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  Speaker 9: is this hubris of the fabian that they must protect
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  Speaker 9: you against somebody who is going to gouge.
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  Speaker 2: What did we say? What's this? Have we figured out?
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  Speaker 9: If Lawrence Ford is going to come back on with
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  Speaker 9: us from the Conscious Capital founders, he and I had
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  Speaker 9: a great chat at seapack that microphones failed us. But
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  Speaker 9: I want to have him back on because he and
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  Speaker 9: I were talking about my theory that you know, the
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  Speaker 9: United States has Ben Franklin and John Adams theory that
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  Speaker 9: the United States Constitution is ill equipped to deal with
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  Speaker 9: an immoral society. And his point was capitalism in and
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  Speaker 9: of itself is incapable of operating without a morality. And
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  Speaker 9: you look at all of these anti price gouging laws
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  Speaker 9: across the country. If there was a thirty nine, thirty
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  Speaker 9: nine out of the fifty states have some Louisiana selling
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  Speaker 9: goods or services during declared state of emergency at a
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  Speaker 9: gross disparity, again determined by the state after a look
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  Speaker 9: back period of a day or two before the emergency.
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  Speaker 9: What about our new friends down in Tennessee where they
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  Speaker 9: hit with Oregon selling essential consumer goods or services after
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  Speaker 9: a declaration of emergency at a price of more than
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  Speaker 9: fifteen percent higher as based on the prices charged just
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  Speaker 9: the day or two beforehand. Tennessee Anti Price Gouging Act
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  Speaker 9: of two thousand and two, because so much good legislation
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  Speaker 9: was written right after September eleventh, upon the declaration charging
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  Speaker 9: grossly excessive prices as determined by the state, goods or services.
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  Speaker 9: you know, how much do you want to commit and
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  Speaker 9: that kind of thing. Winter storm comes the inevitable announcement
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  Speaker 9: of states of emergency across the country, in Virginia no different.
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  Speaker 9: And one of the things that are triggered when Virginia
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  Speaker 9: declares the state of emergency is the inevitable swooping in
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  Speaker 9: of a politician to say, I'm going to go after
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  Speaker 9: anyone who's price gouging. Joining us is Scott Goodman, one
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  Speaker 9: of the great defense attorneys in Virginia of the Goodman
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  Speaker 2: Scott, thank you for taking a little time out with us.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing, sir? Pretty good?
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  Speaker 20: Is back in from you know, backbreaking shoveling this morning.
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  Speaker 20: But that's not a pretty good.
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  Speaker 9: Anything like mine, you stand on the snow for a
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  Speaker 9: few seconds until that first cost breaks and then you
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, you got to stare at it. Hope it breaks up.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, but you know, hopefully you didn't overdo there. And
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  Speaker 9: I appreciate you taking some time out with this. And
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  Speaker 9: inevitably there was Attorney General J. Jones, who we all
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: are still stinging from the idea of what he said
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  Speaker 9: about political opponents, uh, thinking about him going out with
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  Speaker 9: his minions from the Attorney General's office looking for price gouging.
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  Speaker 9: And every year I feel this way, even in the
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  Speaker 9: Youngkin administration, I wondered, I said, is there really such
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  Speaker 9: a thing as price gouging in Virginia or is this
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  Speaker 9: just low hanging political fruit giving somebody an opportunity to say,
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  Speaker 9: I'm going to go after you, mysterious law breaker.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 20: I mean there's definitely politicians grand standing, and then you
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  Speaker 20: can go over to price gouging, so you have two
• 32:24
  Speaker 20: evils there. So there is such a thing as price gouging,
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  Speaker 20: And of course, like you said, it has to come
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  Speaker 20: after a state of emergency has been declared, which it
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  Speaker 20: has been now in Virginia, and so that brings the
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  Speaker 20: law into effect. And basically it means that you can't
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  Speaker 20: have things that are necessary for people to operate in
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  Speaker 20: a storm batteries, food, water, tree removal services, hotels and
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  Speaker 20: so forth, and have those prices be unconscionably higher than
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  Speaker 20: the prices were in the ten days prior to the storm.
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  Speaker 20: So of course it is difficult to be able to
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  Speaker 20: make that case in some situations because it could cost
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  Speaker 20: stores more money to have things like water, bottled water
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  Speaker 20: and other materials brought in during a storm, so that
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  Speaker 20: may cause them to raise prices. But in certain other
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  Speaker 20: things like hotel rooms, those things are fairly fixed, and
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  Speaker 20: you could see that with people having power out, they
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  Speaker 20: often have to go to hotels in order to have
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  Speaker 20: with their family, their children. And so if it's shown
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  Speaker 20: that a hotel has jacked up prices one hundred dollars
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  Speaker 20: over what that same room was selling for a previous
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  Speaker 20: year or the previous ten days in a comparable period,
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  Speaker 20: that's price gouging. That would be price gouging, taking advantage
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  Speaker 20: of people.
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  Speaker 9: Now I saw something, and you bring up hotel rooms.
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  Speaker 9: We just recently were at the Consumer Electronics Show in
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  Speaker 9: I'm one of those guys. I read the little sign
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  Speaker 9: on the back of the hotel room door because I
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  Speaker 9: believe that's where the rate is set and the rate
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  Speaker 9: for that room was fourteen thousand, five hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 9: nine dollars a night, which Number one tells me that
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  Speaker 9: every time I booked the room for forty nine dollars
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  Speaker 9: a night, they're taking a huge tax right off on
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  Speaker 9: what they would normally give us the as the rate,
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  Speaker 9: and then beyond that, if there was an emergency, they
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  Speaker 9: could say the advertised rate is fourteen thousand dollars a night.
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  Speaker 2: Do you get some of that in pricing, because I think.
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  Speaker 20: That hotel would really have to open his books and
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  Speaker 20: showed that they really did charge fourteen thousand dollars for
• 34:43
  Speaker 20: that road nobody over the past period of time, So
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  Speaker 20: I don't think that would be very easy for them
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  Speaker 20: to be able to do. So. Price gouging can be
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  Speaker 20: pretty apparent on his face when you see certain things
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  Speaker 20: like that happened, rates going up, prices going up that
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  Speaker 20: are way beyond on what the store was charging in
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  Speaker 20: the ten days prior to the state of emergency.
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  Speaker 9: Well so, as a defense attorney, and let's say I
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  Speaker 9: run a bodega, and in my bodega it's become very
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  Speaker 9: hard to get bottled water, and I'll even pull on
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  Speaker 9: something non winter related the Deracho of a few years
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  Speaker 9: ago where there were parts of Virginia without electricity for
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  Speaker 9: a month, and so if it was hard for people
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  Speaker 9: to get water in and therefore their supplier raised the
• 35:33
  Speaker 9: costs as well, I guess it becomes a matter of
• 35:38
  Speaker 9: finding a defense attorney to plead the case. If the
• 35:41
  Speaker 9: Attorney general came after you.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 20: And even without a lawyer, I think the business or
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  Speaker 20: the supplier that can open the books and show that
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  Speaker 20: this is what it costs them to get the water,
• 35:53
  Speaker 20: and that the percentage of the profit that they're adding
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  Speaker 20: on top of that when they sell it to a
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  Speaker 20: customer is basically the same as it was prior to
• 35:59
  Speaker 20: the state of emergency. That would again speak to the
• 36:02
  Speaker 20: fact that they're not price gouging and simply they're passing
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  Speaker 20: along a higher cost that they have to the customer. Again,
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  Speaker 20: if it can be shown that it's not costing them
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  Speaker 20: anymore and they simply double the price just to take
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  Speaker 20: that would be different. Nobody wants to be price gouged,
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  Speaker 20: So there's a fine line and if there is a
• 36:30
  Speaker 20: role for government to play if you have businesses taking
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  Speaker 20: has gone on.
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  Speaker 9: It just got a text message John Goodman with us
• 36:44
  Speaker 9: from Scott Goodman. John Goodman would be a whole different
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: kind of interview. I don't know if he has an
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: opinion on price gouging or not. Democrats this comes in
• 36:56
  Speaker 9: from the Hampton Roads area. Democrats have no issue with
• 37:00
  Speaker 9: tax gouging. They bring up and that's the awkward part
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  Speaker 9: here in the Commonwealth, the governor just proposed more than
• 37:07
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  Speaker 9: to a price of gasoline in a winter storm, oh,
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• 37:19
  Speaker 9: the Attorney General stated belief that political opponents should face
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  Speaker 9: people who are watching carefully to see, you know, if
• 37:32
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me, Come on you.
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  Speaker 9: Know we have a lawyer on the phone, right, probably
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  Speaker 9: a couple in the audience, Dick the butcher in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: What is that Henry, Henry the sixth right.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, Henry the sixth right was the kill all the
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  Speaker 9: lawyers and by the way they the suggestion was made
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  Speaker 9: in revolution. That suggestion was made is a way to
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  Speaker 9: bring about anarchistic revolution. Just in case you're wondering about that.
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  Speaker 9: Scott Goodman is on with us from the Goodman Law Firm.
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  Speaker 9: It is civil lawyer dot com. Scott talking about this
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  Speaker 9: anti price gouging and it's.
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  Speaker 2: Been around for a while.
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  Speaker 9: Talk about the is the law in Virginia narrowly focused
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  Speaker 9: so somebody couldn't turn around and say, hey, you really
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  Speaker 9: should be doing this for free because we're in a crisis.
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  Speaker 9: We watched some of this during COVID. People were, you know,
• 45:43
  Speaker 9: making free masks for one another, and people were complaining
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: about businesses that were charging for masks.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a peril of going to the point.
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  Speaker 9: Where if a nonprofit does something for free, then somebody
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  Speaker 9: who charges for it could want up on the wrong
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  Speaker 9: side of an anti gouging law simply for charging what
• 46:04
  Speaker 9: they always do in a crisis.
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  Speaker 20: Well, there might be some politicians who might be trying
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  Speaker 20: to punish businesses that try to charge for services that
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  Speaker 20: other people are doing for free. But a business is
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  Speaker 20: not obligated. You're not obligated. You're not required to offer
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  Speaker 20: your service for free, even though it's sometimes there's a
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  Speaker 20: nicing to do. And I'm sure that many of these
• 46:25
  Speaker 20: businesses that are criticized and accused of price gouging, they've
• 46:29
  Speaker 20: done things for people for free. That part doesn't get
• 46:32
  Speaker 20: publicized a lot of these whether it's tree removal, or
• 46:35
  Speaker 20: whether it's shoveling driveways or snowplows and so forth. There
• 46:39
  Speaker 20: are many, many people and it's not well publicized that
• 46:43
  Speaker 20: they do things for free for elderly people, for people
• 46:45
  Speaker 20: that are shut in. And there are a lot of
• 46:48
  Speaker 20: things that people do out of the goodness of their heart,
• 46:49
  Speaker 20: because they want to help other people and they have
• 46:52
  Speaker 20: the means to be able to do that. So we
• 46:54
  Speaker 20: don't really hear much about that. We always hear about
• 46:56
  Speaker 20: the one guy or the two people that supposedly are
• 46:59
  Speaker 20: accused of engaging in price gouging. No, no one is
• 47:04
  Speaker 20: required to offer their service that they have as part
• 47:07
  Speaker 20: of their business for free, but plenty of people, and
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  Speaker 20: I think most people probably do it. Oh sure, Nobody
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  Speaker 20: wants to beat their chest and come out and say, look,
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  Speaker 20: how look what a wonderful person I am. Look what
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  Speaker 20: I've done for free. That's not something that people really
• 47:21
  Speaker 20: do either, because that's strong attention to yourself or something
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  Speaker 20: that you think people would want to do anyway to
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  Speaker 20: help their fellow men. So there are a lot of
• 47:30
  Speaker 20: things that go on, probably a lot more free service
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  Speaker 20: and a lot of favors done for people who are
• 47:34
  Speaker 20: in need than there is price gouging going on.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 9: Scott Scott Goodman again one of my favorite legal experts
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: about it, because you'll take my premise And this text
• 47:46
  Speaker 9: message just came in from Terry who said, bingo Joe.
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  Speaker 9: That's the problem I have with these laws is that
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: the premise is we can force you to do things
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  Speaker 9: for free, and we're not there yet, but you know,
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  Speaker 9: and it's kind of appreciated.
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  Speaker 2: This morning's.
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  Speaker 9: We've watched these Marxists and the Fabians. Really it's the
• 48:10
  Speaker 9: Fabians in our government, the Fabian socialists, which is really
• 48:18
  Speaker 9: what you should be if you wanted to be accurate
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: when you call somebody a rhino, they're just a fabian
• 48:23
  Speaker 9: socialist member of the Republican Party. I don't know there's
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  Speaker 9: a fabian usurper conservative kidder. No, I don't know how
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  Speaker 9: you would create an acronym for that. But anyway, back
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  Speaker 9: on point Terry, your text is right on the button.
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  Speaker 9: The reason I asked that question is it seems like,
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: especially after COVID, after what our friend Horace Cooper referred
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: to as that norm busting moment, we see more and
• 48:56
  Speaker 9: more nonprofits just popping up. I mean, things that you
• 49:01
  Speaker 9: would traditionally have presumed were at very least in LLC
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: if not an incorporation, are now nonprofits. You have a
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: nonprofit food truck, you have to and yeah there are rules,
• 49:15
  Speaker 9: but you get four or five people in a neighborhood
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  Speaker 9: to create a board that oversees the operation of your
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: nonprofit food truck. As the guy who runs Goodwill, how
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: profitable it is to run a quote nonprofit. A lot
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: of these folks, these chief executive officers of these nonprofits. Oh,
• 49:42
  Speaker 9: which was the Veterans Group that I got just roasted
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: for by veterans groups, oh H, Wounded Warrior Project, and
• 49:52
  Speaker 9: I got roasted because the CEO was making a pretty
• 49:55
  Speaker 9: hefty six figure salary, but they were also spending a
• 49:58
  Speaker 9: lot of their money on advertise, which I don't like anyway.
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: And I'm in an advertising business and I appreciate all
• 50:06
  Speaker 9: the support we get from advertisers. But if a nonprofit
• 50:10
  Speaker 9: comes to me, if Veterans' Affairs Group, I'm not talking
• 50:15
  Speaker 9: about government, I'm talking about these actual nonprofits that are
• 50:19
  Speaker 9: trying to help veterans in some way shape or from
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: build houses for them, adaptive houses and that kind of stuff,
• 50:26
  Speaker 9: and they say, hey, we've got, you know, ten thousand
• 50:28
  Speaker 9: dollars to average.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: I build somebody's house with.
• 50:30
  Speaker 9: That ten thousand dollars. I'll go find it in a
• 50:33
  Speaker 9: commercial place. I just always feel like if I'm taking
• 50:40
  Speaker 9: money from a nonprofit to broadcast something, I feel like
• 50:44
  Speaker 9: that that nonprofit could be using that money for their services.
• 50:50
  Speaker 9: How and I apologies how I misread the text. I
• 50:54
  Speaker 9: thought it was coming from a guy Scott who listens
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  Speaker 9: down in Hampton Roads to us on WNI. Yes, he's
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  Speaker 9: listening to us on our flagship station all the way,
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  Speaker 9: you know, And this is the this is what got
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  Speaker 9: me in so much trouble. Legally is he's in Palmyra, Virginia,
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  Speaker 9: which is miles and miles and miles afield from where
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  Speaker 9: our transmitter is in Stanton, actually in croz A, So
• 51:20
  Speaker 9: he's listening off. That's the joy of putting an FM
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  Speaker 9: transmitter on top of Mountain Hell. And I appreciate you listening.
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  Speaker 9: He was the one that asked about the Democrats having
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  Speaker 9: no issue with tax gouging. No, because we all voted
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  Speaker 9: for them, or twenty six percent of us voted for them,
• 51:40
  Speaker 9: and even lower if you can drive the voter turnout
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  Speaker 9: numbers down low enough sure ten percent of the population
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  Speaker 9: to vote for someone. That's why democracy fails. Do we
• 51:49
  Speaker 9: have that Bill maher clip. I know it's long and
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  Speaker 9: I'm not going to play the whole thing, but the
• 51:54
  Speaker 9: bit he does it, I think it was just from
• 51:57
  Speaker 9: Friday's Bill Mahershaw, but he just roasts the woke and
• 52:03
  Speaker 9: that's always fun when you do, because it's all about
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  Speaker 9: we voted for it. It's democratic anything, democratic capitalism, democratic religion.
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  Speaker 24: Yeah, I don't like that Leviticus stuff. Could we take
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  Speaker 24: that out of the you know, I don't like all
• 52:22
  Speaker 24: this stuff about you know, honor thy God. Can we
• 52:25
  Speaker 24: take that out, and you've got democratic churches that are
• 52:29
  Speaker 24: voting every couple of weeks to take different parts out
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  Speaker 24: or or just not read them in church.
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  Speaker 9: Services Martin Luther Batman. Anyway, we'll get back into that
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