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"It's 'John Baron' Calling" (Monday, February 23, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Into the.
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Speaker 2: Question on a need to know basis, because you need
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Speaker 2: to know the first thing today.
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Speaker 3: Jew words that steal me stem.
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Speaker 4: You have a day at least for work.
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Speaker 2: When the sun comes up, drops appear into school.
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Speaker 1: None joy has everything a dream.
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Speaker 5: All the jas needs you wonder.
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Speaker 6: Joe's as smile, he only as p.
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Speaker 3: Let me be Joe, thank you for letting me be
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Speaker 3: of service to you this morning. I want to be
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Speaker 3: Joe on the radio program that isn't afraid to say
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Speaker 3: radio program First and foremost on this Monday morning, we have,
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Speaker 3: of course the news to lay out for you, and
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Speaker 3: then we'll give you the analysis of the news. And
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Speaker 3: most importantly, I want to hear how it's impacting you
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Speaker 3: where you are, because you're the most important local part
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Speaker 3: out of Charlottesville, Virginia again. Two hundred and fifty years later,
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Speaker 3: we finally figured it out. We probably should do it again.
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Speaker 3: And of course the news you will get nationally is
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Speaker 3: going to be dominated mostly because it impacts Washington and Philadelphia,
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Speaker 3: New York and Boston. It will sound as if the
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Speaker 3: entire country was snowed on, but it is prodigious, especially
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Speaker 3: looking at almost twenty inches of snow in New York City,
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Speaker 3: they shut the New York City subways down. Our friends
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Speaker 3: in Norfolk digging out from it looks like anywhere between
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Speaker 3: twelve and seventeen inches of snow there, and having been
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Speaker 3: around their son graduated college in Norfolk, the roads tend
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Speaker 3: to be straighter and wider, So hopefully the clearing is there.
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Speaker 3: Give us a holler and let us know how it
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Speaker 3: is at four three four eight eight two four two
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Speaker 3: one seven. You can also text message us that way.
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Speaker 3: But even as far in the school districts that were
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Speaker 3: completely unaffected by the snow, just out of the threat
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Speaker 3: of the winter storm had people closing all through their
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Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands right now without electricity up through Lowell
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Speaker 3: as well as the snow continued to pound Long Island
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Speaker 3: as well. And we will keep you a prize, But
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Speaker 3: crews are working diligently to dig out with the night's
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Speaker 3: temperatures dropping down into a place where ice melt. And
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Speaker 3: this is something I learned late in life. If you
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Speaker 3: keep your eyes open and head on a swivel, you'll
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Speaker 3: learn things pretty much every day. And several years ago,
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Speaker 3: somebody from the Department of Transportation explained to me why
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Speaker 3: when they sprayed the brine on the roads, yet it
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Speaker 3: gets icy anyway they put salt down or they don't
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Speaker 3: in certain circumstances. It's mostly because after you get to
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Speaker 3: a certain temperature, it's not going to do anything. I
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Speaker 3: think it's twenty two degrees, and it may have changed
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Speaker 3: the formulations over years. They get better and better, but
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Speaker 3: a lot of that stuff only is effective over say
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Speaker 3: twenty five or so degrees. So we lay out the
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Speaker 3: things that have been happening during the nights, and the
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Speaker 3: most stunning of them as you wake up this morning
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Speaker 3: is a man tried to break into marri Lago during
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Speaker 3: the night and it cost him his life. Twenty one
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Speaker 3: year old brooched the perimeter of mary Lago, who, according
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Speaker 3: to authorities, was fixated on the Jeffrey Epstein case. Austin
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Speaker 3: Tucker Martin out of Cameron, North Carolina, was confronted by
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Speaker 3: Secret Service agents in Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies near
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Speaker 3: the north gate of Mary Lago. Authority say he was
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Speaker 3: carrying what appeared to be a shotgun and a fuel canister.
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Speaker 3: Officers order to him to drop the items. He reportedly
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Speaker 3: put down the canister, but raised the shotgun into what
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Speaker 3: law enforcement has described as a shooting position, and he
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Speaker 3: was shot and killed in the interaction. Mexican drug lord
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Speaker 3: Nemessio Osagea, also known as Elmencho, was killed in a
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Speaker 3: military operation on Sunday morning, the country's Defense Department announced,
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Speaker 3: marking one of Mexico's most significant blows to organize crime.
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Speaker 3: The announcement came as government officials warned of clashes in
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Speaker 3: the Jalisco state and widespread criminal activity around the country,
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Speaker 3: prompting the US Embassy in Mexico to issue a shelter
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Speaker 3: in place advisory for multiple states along the Mexican border
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Speaker 3: and to order any Americans who were not on official
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Speaker 3: business in Mexico to get home. US Trade Representative Jamison
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Speaker 3: tariffs and if any countries had withdrawn from trade deals
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Speaker 3: that they struck with the United States following the tariffs
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Speaker 3: that had been proposed for their countries, and Greer told
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Speaker 3: CBS News Face the Nation he had already spoken with
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Speaker 3: his counterpart from the European Union and would be speaking
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Speaker 3: with officials from other countries. Quote, I haven't heard anyone
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Speaker 3: yet come to me and say the deal is off.
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Speaker 3: two one seven. So many folks in the eastern seaboards
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Speaker 2: Hues first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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Speaker 2: Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 3: I enjoyed this over the weekends. Uh, and I have
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Speaker 3: you take live phone calls as my business, and we
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Speaker 3: do not screen. We don't have somebody, And I've been
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Speaker 3: accused of doing it because I'm a control freak. If
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Speaker 3: I was control freak, I would hire a screener and
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Speaker 3: only let people on the program that promised to agree
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Speaker 3: with me. And even then it doesn't happen. I forget
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Speaker 3: the kid's name. He's probably sixty five now, but the
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Speaker 3: one who used to do the Baba booie stuff for
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Speaker 3: Howard Stern never caught me. But you know, we've been
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Speaker 3: taking live phone calls without a screener for twenty plus years.
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Speaker 3: And so the the issue over whether or not somebody
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Speaker 3: is who they say they are is always open to
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Speaker 3: debate and people, you know, and Jim Rome has made
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Speaker 3: a broadcast career in the sports millieu pitting caller versus
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Speaker 3: caller and that works for him. Okay, fine, they call
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Speaker 3: it his smackoff and all this, and that's fine, and
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Speaker 3: I don't subborn that kind of thing. We're all we're
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Speaker 3: all just you know, little protoplasms bumping around in the
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Speaker 3: night here and differing opinions are fine. Bring the opinion,
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Speaker 3: you know, and we'll rage on it and we'll get
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Speaker 3: down on it. I've also been a guest on c
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Speaker 3: SPAN before, and I know how their system works, and
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Speaker 3: they've got a crew of people there working behind the scenes.
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Speaker 3: It's probably like many major broadcast organizations that has trimmed
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Speaker 3: down sun but Sunday morning. I'm not sure if it
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Speaker 3: was just a good impressionist. I do a fair impression
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Speaker 3: of at least one president. At least I did it
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Speaker 3: for his wife. Once she snorked on the radio she
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Speaker 3: heard me do this. I can't do Trump. Perhaps I
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Speaker 3: grew up too close to where he is. Maybe I
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Speaker 3: already sound enough like Trump. He's another guy from Queen's
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Speaker 3: with a weird haircut. But this happened yesterday morning on
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Speaker 3: c SPAN, and it's just for fun, and it really is.
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Speaker 2: Ken.
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Speaker 3: Let's hear from you.
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Speaker 17: Well, this is John Bear and you have look, this
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Speaker 17: is the worst decision you ever have in your life. Practically,
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Speaker 17: Jack and Jackxicana agree with me, right, but this is
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Speaker 17: a terrible decision. And you have Hakeem Jeffries, who he's
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Speaker 17: a dope and you have Chuck Chumer, who can't cook
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Speaker 17: a cheeseburger. Of course, these people are happy. Of course
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Speaker 17: these people are happy, but true Americans will not be happy.
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Speaker 17: And you have the woman earlier. I assume she's a woman,
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Speaker 17: she's a Democrat, but she said she's she's a disgraced
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Speaker 17: she's devastated.
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Speaker 3: All right, all right, Don, all right? She called him.
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Speaker 3: She even called him Don at the end of it,
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Speaker 3: Don Barron. Now you listen to it, and i'm I'm
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Speaker 3: it's pretty clear that it's it's not President Trump, although
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Speaker 3: you know he has been accused in the past of
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Speaker 3: doing that. Now, our friend Sean Farrish out of Murphreysboro, Tennessee.
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Speaker 6: There gold medal victory over Canada or is I like
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Speaker 6: to call them snow Mexico. But I got off the
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Speaker 6: phone with Prime Minister Carney and she's very upset about it.
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Speaker 6: She's not happy about it, but she'll get over it.
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Speaker 3: I told you, Yeah, that's our friend Sean Farrish, who
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Speaker 3: I just love his Trump. But you know the thing
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Speaker 3: about President Trump, if you're going to do an impression,
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Speaker 3: like I mean, I can, I can make Bill Clinton
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Speaker 3: say a whole lot of things that Bill Clinton never
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Speaker 3: would say, especially when he talks to Hillary. But it's
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Speaker 3: hard to come up with something that is plausibly something
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump would say that he hasn't said already. I mean,
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Speaker 3: that's you know, if you go back to this guy
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Speaker 3: on c SPAN and was it John Barron gets through
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Speaker 3: the call screeners, John.
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Speaker 7: In Virginia, Republican, let's hear from you.
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Speaker 17: Well, this is John there, and you have look you,
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Speaker 17: this is the worst decision you ever have in your life.
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Speaker 17: Practically Jack and jacksicana agree with me, right, but this
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Speaker 17: is a terrible decision. And you have Hakeem Jeffries, who
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Speaker 17: he's a dope, and you have Chuck Schumer, who can't
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Speaker 17: cook a cheeseburger. Of course these people are happy. Of
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Speaker 17: course these people are happy, but true Americans will not
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Speaker 17: be happy. And you have the woman earlier. I assume
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Speaker 17: she's a woman, she's a Democrat, but she said she
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Speaker 17: she's disgraced, she's devastated.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll go to Chester and I feel for
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Speaker 3: the young lady who was hosting their morning program and
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Speaker 3: they do a lot of phone calls in there, and
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Speaker 3: having been a guest on the program in the past,
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Speaker 3: I've been the subject of some of the incinerating phone
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Speaker 3: calls because you know, you know how I am, and
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Speaker 3: they don't like that kind of opinionated stuff on se SPAN,
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Speaker 3: or at least the viewers don't, So there's generally a
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Speaker 3: visceral reaction on c SPAN, and c SPAN is a
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Speaker 3: flavor of the month. I mean, most people probably have
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Speaker 3: never heard of c SPAN, and if you hadn't, it
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Speaker 3: is a it's a public affairs give back. The cable
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Speaker 3: companies when they all started to become ubiquitous, greed with
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Speaker 3: the Federal Communications Commission to all chip in to a
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Speaker 3: fund to keep c SPAN operational. They have a division
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Speaker 3: called book TV that goes around. I guess book TV
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Speaker 3: started on its own and then c SPAN picked it up.
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Speaker 3: And it's basically like a public affairs program put together
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Speaker 3: by Comcast and Infinity and all these folks who you know,
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Speaker 3: have a cable operation, they can't do their own, so
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Speaker 3: they just all funded a channel for it. Newsmas can't
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Speaker 3: get a channel on some of these cables, but c
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Speaker 3: SPAN is there because the FCC says they have to
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Speaker 3: have it. But it's twenty four to seven. I remember
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Speaker 3: when Ted Turner announced he was going to launch CNN,
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Speaker 3: and there were many in the commentariat saying, I don't
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Speaker 3: know how you're going to fill twenty four hours a
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Speaker 3: day with news, just news, because that's what he said
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Speaker 3: was it was going to be just news on CNN. Well,
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Speaker 3: that that went away pretty quickly because analysis came to bear,
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Speaker 3: and analysis is popular. I mean, you can't argue the
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Speaker 3: fact that you're hearing what somebody with some expertise has
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Speaker 3: to say about the news, break it down into easily
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Speaker 3: digestible chunks. That's that is reasonable, and it's always been
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Speaker 3: a popular part of newspapers as well, the opinion columnists.
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Speaker 3: So you know, after a bit since ratings and clickthroughs
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Speaker 3: or the thing of the day, they become the most
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Speaker 3: driving part of any news broadcast. And it's same as
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Speaker 3: CNC SPAN. A lot of times they'll just go to
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Speaker 3: live feeds from Congress and you'll get a lot of
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Speaker 3: Congressmen open change, says I And that's suffice. But that
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Speaker 7: John in Virginia, Republican, let's hear from you.
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Speaker 3: As our friend Sean found Irish and somebody asked me.
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Speaker 2: He was.
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Speaker 3: this is a real quick welcome to our new friends
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Speaker 3: in Chattanooga signing on to get this kind of independence,
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Speaker 3: first thing in the morning. But on the subject the
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Speaker 3: serious though Trump derangement syndrome has become a fatal affliction
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Speaker 3: too many times, and again Sunday when a man whose
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Speaker 3: last good marble fell out of his hand when he
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Speaker 3: decided he needed to bring a canister of some incendiary
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Speaker 3: It has in a poor attempt to do a Trump impression.
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Speaker 3: And I'm going to put this under the category of
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Speaker 3: The first Republican I was having this discussion with a
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Speaker 3: grasp Saulolenski's rules for radicals, and people forget that Saul
30:52
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30:55
Speaker 3: but he actually wrote it for communists. But the rules apply.
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Speaker 3: It's like Sun Su Sun Sue didn't just right for
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Speaker 3: which they do a bad job on and I say,
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Speaker 3: threat to democracy. And then when somebody says, well I
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Speaker 3: you know, outside Mari Lango with a rifle trying to
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32:29
Speaker 3: the idea that Trump will have people killed, or will
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Speaker 3: is it's a dangerous world of sure we did it,
33:05
Speaker 3: but yeah, doesn't mean you can do it too. And
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Speaker 3: this whole bit with Epstein and the Epstein files and
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33:22
Speaker 3: instance where people in my industry, but also the people
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Speaker 3: who want to campaign for high office, need to make
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Speaker 3: sure you're putting all the perspective into your statements. Sure,
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33:39
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33:42
Speaker 3: We can stipulate that, and you can put the dangerous
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Speaker 3: like illegal immigration and protesting and protesting against the regime,
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Speaker 3: tenuous grip on their last good marble to begin with,
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Speaker 3: want to fix? And their answer, unfortunately, is, too frequently
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Speaker 3: to get here? And they can't answer that question. And
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48:21
Speaker 3: everyone into thinking your neighbor is a deadly weapon. About
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Speaker 3: to sneeze COVID twenty three on you, Doctor Clark's hanging
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Speaker 3: on the line with us kazoot height by the way,
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Speaker 3: before you sneeze any COVID twenty three on me there,
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Speaker 3: good morning show, what's going on?
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Speaker 19: I hadn't time to do that, but anyway, thank you
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Speaker 19: for the kazoo type. So I have a question if
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Speaker 19: anybody got to attend the Western Virginia Outdoor Show, exactly
48:51
Speaker 19: what did the alligators do at a live alligator show?
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Speaker 19: Because I spent a lot of time around those things
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Speaker 19: when I was younger, and they spend like ninety nine
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Speaker 19: percent of their time looking like they're dead. So I
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Speaker 19: want to know did they juggle or what do they do?
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Speaker 3: They were once compared to me as the water born
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Speaker 3: version of cats, you know, sleep twenty three and a
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Speaker 3: half hours a day and run around and be dangerous
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Speaker 3: for half an hour. Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 19: Let's see, Donald Trump is a is an existential threat
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Speaker 19: to our democracy and we have to do everything we
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Speaker 19: can to keep him off the ballot. So think about
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Speaker 19: that for just a second. Now, what is democracy? That's
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Speaker 19: the people get a choice, right, But we can't let
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Speaker 19: him choose him. Who's the threat to democracy there?
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Well, you know, it's interesting here in Virginia,
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Speaker 3: the redistricting stuff that's making national headlines. One of the
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Speaker 3: archae texts of Virginia's map just last week, coincidentally, and
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Speaker 3: I know this will shock you, announced he's running for
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Speaker 3: one of the newly drawn congressional districts. And and now
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Speaker 3: and now there are reports whistleblowers within the development of
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Speaker 3: it who didn't like the guy because apparently he's an
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Speaker 3: ass hat that that this as clown Helmer is uh
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Speaker 3: specifically drew a district he could win. And now there's this,
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Speaker 3: you know, royling debate over whether there should be disclosure
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Speaker 3: of what the drawing of the maps looked like, because
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Speaker 3: apparently there were already names on the original map as
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Speaker 3: written by the Democrats, like Helmer will run in this one,
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Speaker 3: and and and Vinman will run in this one and
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Speaker 3: Periello will run in this one. Uh, And they were
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Speaker 3: diving up the state before they even got the approval
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Speaker 3: of the district maps. You wanted to think about politicians
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Speaker 3: picking their voters instead of the other way around.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, fair sounds fair to me, Joe. Oh so you know,
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Speaker 19: have you seen the video of Mitch McConnell freezing up. Yes,
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Speaker 19: I'm not that kind of doctor, Joe, But if I was,
51:27
Speaker 19: that would be pathhanymonic of something for me. That means
51:30
Speaker 19: that like you see it and you know that's what
51:32
Speaker 19: it is, kind of like a flat tire. You know,
51:35
Speaker 19: you go out there in the car sitting on the rim.
51:37
Speaker 19: You don't need to run tests that tire's flat. And
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Speaker 19: if I was that kind of doctor, I'd be looking
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Speaker 19: at Mitch mcconnoby and clearly there's a neurosynaptic disjunction in
51:49
Speaker 19: the cerebral cortex here now.
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Speaker 3: And who expected to hear that phrase come out of
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Speaker 3: their radio at this hour of the morning. But you know,
51:58
Speaker 3: but that's when you're part of the the issue with
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Speaker 3: these guys who plant themselves because they have no other
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Speaker 3: bankable skills in these offices or marry you know, the
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Speaker 3: daughter of a Chinese shipping magnate and then use that
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Speaker 3: as a fulcrumb into power. This is why everyone says
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Speaker 3: a pox on all of our houses. And it's not
52:21
Speaker 3: a flaw, it's a feature. Because every dictatorship ends with
52:27
Speaker 3: that one last election, because they'll hold an election, it'll
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Speaker 3: be democratically chosen, and that'll be the last democratic choice
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Speaker 3: anyone in that country is going to have. And they
52:37
Speaker 3: need us in this country. They need us to willingly
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