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"Redistricting Follies" VA vs FL (Thursday, March 12, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We couldn't tell you what six seven heats. Where's to
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  Speaker 1: find that first thing? Today? By Joe Thomas on the
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  Speaker 1: Tunk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Jeword said, steal me stem.
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  Speaker 3: You have a day at least for work. When the
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  Speaker 3: sun comes up, drops a pet into scoop night.
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  Speaker 4: Joe has everything a dream do all the Jersey seven needs.
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  Speaker 1: No one that Joe's smile.
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  Speaker 5: He only asks yes, yes, yes, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 2: this morning.
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  Speaker 6: We will tell you the stories and then find out
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  Speaker 6: how they are impacting you. Where you are at four
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  Speaker 6: three four eight A two four two one seven. That's
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  Speaker 6: a text message line and a telephone call as well,
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  Speaker 6: or you can email JT in the morning radio at
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  Speaker 6: gmail dot com. Suit against the FDA over eat drinks
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  Speaker 6: and snap benefits Joanne Butler talking about how we're moving
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  Speaker 6: away from those anyway.
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  Speaker 7: Sure it's so not good for you. So I really
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  Speaker 7: love these that they're full of favor, because a lot
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  Speaker 6: Com from Okay, Drinkwaterloo dot com. Well, thank you for
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  Speaker 6: that one. What else are some of the things that's
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  Speaker 6: going on?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, you know, definitely a trend and I know
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  Speaker 7: I've been trying to do it is to level up
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  Speaker 7: on your protein because protein is just so important. One
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  Speaker 7: them every single day, not just for a hard workout,
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  Speaker 7: which is great, though you should have protein after workout,
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  Speaker 7: but just you know, every day, like today, I have
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  Speaker 7: a twenty hour day, Joe, So I'm drinking one right
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  Speaker 7: now with my coffee. They taste great with coffee. We
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  Speaker 7: sixty calories which is great, and again no added sugar,
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  Speaker 7: creamy and yummy. And you can find Premier Protein that
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  Speaker 7: you know retailers anywhere like Amazon and Walmart, and they're
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  Speaker 7: also doing something really cool. You know, they believe that
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  Speaker 7: healthier communities start with the people who serve them, and
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  Speaker 7: they have the shakes for shifts and initiatives that fuels
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  Speaker 7: those on the front lines. And they're honoring nurses who
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  Speaker 7: help themple yeah, which is super nice. Healthy Nurse Helping
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  Speaker 7: Nation dot org to check that out, and they're challenging
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  Speaker 7: them this month for National Nutrition Months to focus on
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  Speaker 7: realistic habits that help them refuel and well, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And you know when you have you mentioned a twenty
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  Speaker 6: hour shift, sometimes it's just grab something, yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 6: not good and it just gets to you that moment
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  Speaker 6: little burst.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, absolutely for sure. And these are nice because you
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  Speaker 7: don't have to refrigerate them only you know, once you
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  Speaker 7: open it, so you can just pop it right in
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  Speaker 7: your pocket. They're cute and urle and square and yummy, yummy,
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  Speaker 6: Very right now, Like I said, no, and again you
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  Speaker 6: find these you know what was the website that was
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  Speaker 6: specifically for nurses.
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  Speaker 7: Right, yes, Healthy Nurse Helpingnation dot org to learn about that.
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  Speaker 7: And you can get these at like Amazon, Walmart, pretty
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  Speaker 7: much awel retailers across the country have them.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, very good, very good.
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  Speaker 6: And that's that's another one of those things that you know,
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  Speaker 6: protein is important because we get it sometimes. Uh and
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  Speaker 6: and you've got to get a lot of other stuff
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  Speaker 6: along with it, so you've got to make sure you're
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  Speaker 6: getting a good mix. Join Butler, it's lifeminute dot TV.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you so much for your vision, and we'll talk
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  Speaker 6: to you again very soon.
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  Speaker 8: Sounds good.
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  Speaker 7: Stay well, bye bye.
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  Speaker 6: Let's just get there at the end. Always got to
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  Speaker 6: get the last word, Joanne. First things this morning. The
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  Speaker 6: stories you're going to be talking about Washington, DC leaking
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  Speaker 6: like an Iranian destroyer. US intelligence reports leaked to the
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  Speaker 6: press say that Iran's leadership is still largely intact and
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  Speaker 6: not at risk of any collapse anytime soon. A multitude
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  Speaker 6: of intelligence leaked to the press show consistent analysis that
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  Speaker 6: the regime is not in any danger of collapse. Also
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  Speaker 6: leaked to The New York Times and internal US Army
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  Speaker 6: analysis of the strike that blew up in an elementary school
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  Speaker 6: adjacent to an Iranian military base during the initial days
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  Speaker 6: of Operation Epic Fury, the military investigation lead to them
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  Speaker 6: said the strike on this Sarajah Taibe Elementary School was
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  Speaker 6: a mistake, The Times reported, because the building housing the
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  Speaker 6: school had been an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Navy base, but
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  Speaker 6: then had been turned into an elementary school. Recently, President
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  Speaker 6: Trump said Wednesday that he will taps the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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  Speaker 6: In response to a question by a local TV station
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  Speaker 6: in Cincinnati, he was asked, what about the petroleum reserve,
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  Speaker 6: and he said, well, we'll do that and then we'll
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  Speaker 6: fill it back up, he said, on his way into
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  Speaker 6: speak to a crowd at Thermo Fisher Scientific Iran warned
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  Speaker 6: Wednesday that it could wage a long war and threaten
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  Speaker 6: the world with destruction based on its position next to
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  Speaker 6: the Strait of Hormuze, saying that it could close off
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  Speaker 6: the strait anytime it wants to. More than forty three
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  Speaker 6: thousand America and citizens have safely returned from the Middle
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  Speaker 6: East since the conflict with Iran began. Food stamp recipients,
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  Speaker 6: as we mentioned with Joe Anne, are suing the Department
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  Speaker 6: of Agriculture to undo Robert F. Kennedy Junior's Make America
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  Speaker 6: Healthy Again law that prohibits them from using snap benefits
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  Speaker 6: to buy sugary sodas and candy. The complaint filed in Washington,
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  Speaker 6: DC Federal Court. Five plaintiffs say the restrictions quote destabilize
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  Speaker 6: food access for participants in the SNAP program in the
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  Speaker 6: twenty two states where the Department has approved food restriction waivers.
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  Speaker 6: Those are some of your first things this Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today on the Tunk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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  Speaker 1: the second most famous Thomas in Charlottesville.
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  Speaker 6: I'm Poe, but I can't dunk. I can barely make
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  Speaker 6: a layup. And I love basketball and I played a
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  Speaker 6: lot uh, and I just for some reason, the targeting
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  Speaker 6: skills just aren't there. You know, inside a radio studio,
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  Speaker 6: targeting works just fine there. I want to get into,
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  Speaker 6: you know, a more leaking uh and squeaking g O
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  Speaker 6: p uh, fun and frolic going on for you four
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  Speaker 6: three four eight eight two four two one seven, A
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  Speaker 6: lot of it involving redistricting and the battles therein. And fear.
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  Speaker 6: Fear is something I was asked by text message. I
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  Speaker 6: was talking about the Ibbo Gains scandal of the sixties
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  Speaker 6: and fear and loathing. But it's a book called Fear
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  Speaker 6: and Loathing on the campaign trail. It's written by a
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  Speaker 6: fellow named Hunter S. Thompson. And so the winner of
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  Speaker 6: this morning's Hunter S. Thompson Award is that Washington Post
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  Speaker 6: reporter Josh Rogan for his picture of Atlanta Hartsdale Airport
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  Speaker 6: and soldiers walking through it, saying, look, our soldiers are
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  Speaker 6: in Iran. I mean, granted, there are parts of Atlanta
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't walk through at night, but I don't believe
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  Speaker 6: missiles are falling on them yet, So we'll get into
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  Speaker 6: all of that with you, but I want to visit
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  Speaker 6: for a little bit with our friend James Locke from
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  Speaker 6: the acsgold dot com organization, the Jefferson Coin Shop, fourth
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  Speaker 6: generation of the Luck family, serving the gold and silver
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  Speaker 6: needs of folks in the United States across the world
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  Speaker 6: for you at jcsgold dot com. Good morning, James, how
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  Speaker 6: are you, sir.
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  Speaker 20: I'm doing well, Joe, and gold and silver are a
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  Speaker 20: holding steady so far this morning. Gold is up just
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  Speaker 20: about two tens of a percent of eight dollars to
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  Speaker 20: five and eighty five dollars, right around the same level
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  Speaker 20: that it was yesterday. Silver is up one and a
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  Speaker 20: half percent to eighty seven dollars. So we're seeing a
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  Speaker 20: little bounce here in silver, trying to get back to
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  Speaker 20: that ninety dollars mark.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and it's interesting though it seems to be a
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  Speaker 6: comfy here. It's staying stable here. And this we were
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  Speaker 6: talking about this yesterday and a listener wrote me in
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  Speaker 6: and said, you know, but the gold keeps going up
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  Speaker 6: in price and everything else, like everything else, but it's
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  Speaker 6: not really that the gold is that buttress against everything
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  Speaker 6: else going up in price because you know, really what
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  Speaker 6: you're seeing is a devaluation of the dollar. So the
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  Speaker 6: stronger gold is the or you need to have it
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  Speaker 6: to keep up with inflation. I think I heard you
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  Speaker 6: say that once. If I'm misquoting you, by all means,
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  Speaker 6: tell me so I'm in the media, so I expected.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, that's exactly right. It isn't so much that gold
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  Speaker 20: is going up in value. It's that the dollar is
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  Speaker 20: going down in value and everything is kind of staying
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  Speaker 20: stable right in this moment. That's why gold has gone
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  Speaker 20: up well over one hundred percent within the past year.
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  Speaker 20: It's because the dollar has gone down in value because
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  Speaker 20: we're seeing that aft perfects of all the inflation that
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  Speaker 20: we've had post COVID is all piling into gold, and
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  Speaker 20: gold is really you know, gold has been the same.
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  Speaker 20: We've talked about this real estate price in gold. You know,
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  Speaker 20: you can buy the same amount of a house today
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  Speaker 20: as you could one hundred years ago with the same
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  Speaker 20: amount of gold, but the dollar value is totally different
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  Speaker 20: because the dollar has gone down in value. Really is
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  Speaker 20: a shrinking dollar, and that's why people and gold and
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  Speaker 20: it's paid off for them.
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  Speaker 6: And you need to talk to a family because you know,
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  Speaker 6: you get a call center. You know, we learned this
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  Speaker 6: with the big Las Vegas bank that got in trouble
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  Speaker 6: for patting their commission numbers by just setting up phony
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  Speaker 6: Bolognia accounts for people's name. We won't mention their names.
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  Speaker 6: It's big stage coach.
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  Speaker 2: And their logo.
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  Speaker 6: You know them. But this is a family business. And
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  Speaker 6: the reason I say that is because number one, I
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  Speaker 6: think most Americans trust family businesses more so now than
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  Speaker 6: any time in the last twenty or thirty years. But
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  Speaker 6: they're not working off commission on you. There's not some
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  Speaker 6: call list that they've got to make. They're not telemarketing you.
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  Speaker 6: This is a family that's just there here in our
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  Speaker 6: flagship city of Charlottesville, ready to serve your needs. At
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  Speaker 6: four three four nine seven nine coin. That's two six
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  Speaker 6: four six is how you get to four to three
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  Speaker 6: four nine seven nine coin, James, best to you and all,
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  Speaker 6: and we'll talk to you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: That's great, Thanks Joe, and to you.
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  Speaker 6: At four three four eight eight four to two one seven.
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  Speaker 6: So the follies and especially around this interest in redistricting Utah.
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  Speaker 6: I was reading a story out of Salt Lake City
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  Speaker 6: and the redistricting fight in Utah is again just like
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  Speaker 6: it is here in Virginia, pushing schisms amongst the Republicans. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 6: I also saw this one eight million dollars to build
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  Speaker 6: six hundred affordable units. We're going to do some arithmetic
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  Speaker 6: on that. The GOP is trying to get enough signatures
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  Speaker 6: to fight the redistricting battle in Utah's redistricting. Looks like
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  Speaker 6: they've managed to get Proposition four.
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  Speaker 2: On the ballot.
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  Speaker 6: And be careful for you guys in Provo and Salt
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  Speaker 6: Lake City and Saint George, because we did this and
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  Speaker 6: you'd think, okay, we'll set up a redistricting commission separated
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  Speaker 6: from political party. See, you guys are where Virginia was
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  Speaker 6: four years ago. We did this five years Pardon me,
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  Speaker 6: We did this right after the twenty twenty census. We
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  Speaker 6: took the districting out of the hands of the elected officials.
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  Speaker 6: Prop four in Utah will do that. The Governor Cox
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  Speaker 6: said that it looks like we'll have a ballot initiative now,
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  Speaker 6: barring any changes, that's going to be another divisive campaign
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  Speaker 6: as we head into November of this year. Utahns for
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  Speaker 6: Presentative Government. The GOP group behind the initiative to repeal
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  Speaker 6: prop War needs to gather eight percent of voter signatures
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  Speaker 6: stayed wide, and they've submitted two hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 6: thousand signatures, well beyond the required one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 6: one thousand. But this shows again, and I was asked
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  Speaker 6: four eight eight two four two one seven. Text messages
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  Speaker 6: like this one on the redistrict in battle going on
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  Speaker 6: in Utah, Virginia and Florida, and the hypocrisy it's drawn out,
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  Speaker 6: Marie writes in and I think this is beautifully put.
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  Speaker 2: She said.
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  Speaker 6: The issue is they're trying to get more districts for
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  Speaker 6: the other party. That's what draws the hypocrisy out where
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  Speaker 6: they're trying to get more Republican seats, the Democrats are
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  Speaker 6: fighting against it. Where they're trying to get more Democrat seats,
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  Speaker 6: the Republicans are fighting against it, and they're all using
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  Speaker 6: the same rhetoric. That's what's making this such a bad
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  Speaker 6: No, yes, whatever it is, and it's a quick hit
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  Speaker 6: We look at public policy by quick hit, I mean
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  Speaker 6: it really is. It's become public policy by hashtag. We
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  Speaker 2: The use of.
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  Speaker 6: Uh bumper stickers and you would you would open up
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  Speaker 6: car and that was your statement of who you were,
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  Speaker 6: and uh, you know what you stood for, and it's
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  Speaker 6: not a fair depiction of what's actually going on. And
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  Speaker 6: it's politicians trying to choose their voters. Now, let's go
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  Speaker 6: back in Texas. This was court ordered because they found
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  Speaker 6: that Texas had in an effort to keep one minority
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  Speaker 6: group contiguous with itself. That's worth It was in connection
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  Speaker 6: with rooting from the same place as continual in an
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  Speaker 6: effort to keep the districts fair to black voters. Latino
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  Speaker 6: voters were having their districts split in half, so the
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  Speaker 6: court said, you've got to redraw your districts. And there's
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  Speaker 6: a fair cop to the idea that if President Trump
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  Speaker 6: hadn't at a press conference said well, you know maybe,
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  Speaker 6: or if Governor Abbott hadn't said in a press conference
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  Speaker 6: that since we have to read district maybe we should
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  Speaker 6: try to get some more Republican seats in there. But
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  Speaker 6: there's only one reason that happens, Marie. The only reason
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  Speaker 6: that happens is because we have the Permanent Reapportionment Act
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  Speaker 6: of nineteen twenty nine. If we grew our congressional representation
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  Speaker 6: the same way our population grew, we wouldn't be having
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  Speaker 6: this problem. That's one of the things I would love
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  Speaker 6: to see done is put us back into constitutional representation.
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  Speaker 6: And these battles, whether it be in Utah or Florida,
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  Speaker 6: or Virginia or Maryland, or all the places where the
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  Speaker 6: battle is raging, some of it is already raged. It
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  Speaker 6: gives us a chance to point to the essential fraud,
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  Speaker 6: like our friend Waverley Washington on with us yesterday talking
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  Speaker 6: about the battle for redistricting and the fact that he
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  Speaker 6: and his group have called out the fact that the
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  Speaker 6: redistricting scams here in Virginia, and I think the same
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  Speaker 6: can be held true in other are dividing communities that
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  Speaker 6: the Voting Rights Act said you're not allowed to violate.
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  Speaker 2: But then you just.
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  Speaker 6: Today Republican groups across Virginia, many of them are, oh,
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  Speaker 6: that's not what we would say, because the left had
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  Speaker 6: a hissy fit over using and they're afraid of double tap.
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  Speaker 6: The Attorney General here in Virginia, who's already said putting
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  Speaker 6: a couple of bullets in somebody's head is a way
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  Speaker 6: to get them to pay attention to your agenda. That's
• 49:29
  Speaker 6: the chief law officer in Virginia said that about a
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  Speaker 6: political opponent, and when confronted with it, you know what
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  Speaker 6: he did, Unlike Republicans, He said, well, yeah, I said that,
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  Speaker 6: and here's why I said that, and here's why I
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  Speaker 6: mean that. So when Republicans say this is three fifths
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  Speaker 6: compromise two point zero, Republicans go, oh, no, I'm not
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  Speaker 6: saying that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes you are. You have to say that, because that's
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  Speaker 2: what it is.
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  Speaker 6: Like we were talking with Waverley Washington yesterday, so I
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  Speaker 6: found it ironic. Not a day after Chuck Schumer referred
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  Speaker 6: to the Save America Act requiring citizenship as Jim Crow
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  Speaker 6: two point zero speaker, Scott said, you can't use the
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  Speaker 6: civil rights movement as a prop. So they seem to
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  Speaker 6: want to have it both ways. They want to use
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  Speaker 6: it as a prop for their own purposes, but not
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  Speaker 6: if somebody is pointing out something like you are tearing
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  Speaker 6: apart communities. And one of the reasons I brought up
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  Speaker 6: compact and contiguous. As I looked at this map, they're
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: in Fairfax County alone, there are five congressional districts that
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  Speaker 6: start in Fairfax County. That's tearing apart neighborhoods. That's you know,
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  Speaker 6: your cousin across the street is going to be voting
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  Speaker 6: in a different congressional district.
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  Speaker 14: No, No, absolutely, And you've made a great point with
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  Speaker 14: the five different districts in a very small area. And
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  Speaker 14: you know when Virginians excuse me, when Democrats speak that
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  Speaker 14: this is about fairness, what does an Alexandria, you know,
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  Speaker 14: Virginia and having common with someone from you know, the Hampton.
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  Speaker 2: Rose area very little?
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  Speaker 14: So in reality, you're disenfranchising even your own people because
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  Speaker 14: they're not going to have the same issue sets, so
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  Speaker 14: they're not going to have the same solutions. So now
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  Speaker 14: you're literally just trying to maintain the semblance of power,
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  Speaker 14: and you're really disfranchising the entire state as a whole.
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  Speaker 6: I made a case, and I know that they have
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  Speaker 6: done these districts based on the twenty twenty five election results,
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  Speaker 6: and because we don't register as partisans in Virginia, it's
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  Speaker 6: it's difficult to jerry mander this in this egregious way
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  Speaker 6: because if you go back to the twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 6: elections and an election where there was a motivated Republican
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  Speaker 6: party with higher turnout than we saw in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 6: they actually lose a district. And that's something that you
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  Speaker 6: have to You know, when you play these games, you
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  Speaker 6: play with fire, you might get burned. But if we
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  Speaker 6: got back to the kind of apportionment now George Mason
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  Speaker 6: said that apportionment of congressional seats should be one congressperson
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  Speaker 6: for every fifty thousand residents, no more than fifty thousand.
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  Speaker 6: We are approaching eight hundred thousand in some instances, and yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I know how many congress people that means. But you
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  Speaker 6: have to break free from this idea that that says
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  Speaker 6: that grows government, it grows representation. What's happened is the
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  Speaker 6: government has grown as representation has shrunk. It's almost the
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  Speaker 6: of gold has gone up, consequentially to one another. We'll
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