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"Mailbag" (Friday, January 2, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Loving, evident, loving Captain Haley hes out on your to
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  Speaker 1: do list.
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  Speaker 2: Putting the radio on is the first thing today, Jeord.
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  Speaker 1: Said, steal metem you every day, at least for work.
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  Speaker 3: When the sun comes up, drops.
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  Speaker 4: A pet to school lands.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything, Adinder, all the jas, the one that
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  Speaker 5: Joe's smile, He only is.
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  Speaker 6: The Joe.
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  Speaker 4: God, bless you for letting me be of service to
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  Speaker 4: you this morning. Truly mean that it is so cool.
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  Speaker 4: Got a wonderful letter, and in this day and age,
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  Speaker 4: twenty twenty six has dawned on us all and you
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  Speaker 4: know we're rubbing the sleep out of our eyes. But
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  Speaker 4: I want to thank and I can't get into all
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  Speaker 4: of it on the air.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe we'll do excerpt some of it.
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  Speaker 4: But Mariano out in Dallas, Oregon sent me this wonderful letter,
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  Speaker 4: and actual letter, not an email, not a text message,
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  Speaker 4: although you know everyone's welcome to do whatever. It's four
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  Speaker 4: or five pages, and it came to our headquarters very
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  Speaker 4: he even called it Virginia Headquarters. I appreciate it. A
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  Speaker 4: great letter, and beyond the content of the letter, the
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  Speaker 4: fact that there's a tangible thing in somebody's hand to read,
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  Speaker 4: I think there's an impact societally to that the Christmas card,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm guilty as charged. I have an awful lot
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  Speaker 4: of people that I need to send greetings to, so
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  Speaker 4: we defer in a lot of cases to electronic greeting
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  Speaker 4: cards here at Thomas Media. But it's just something you
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  Speaker 4: get a card from a family member. Oh look, Marge
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  Speaker 4: got the thing in the And the less we do
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  Speaker 4: of it, the more I think impact it has. So Mariano,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for the letter there. I did receive this
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  Speaker 4: email challenging contention I had, and we'll get back to
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  Speaker 4: Bob from Good for America. I was we were talking
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  Speaker 4: about independence last hour, and Maurice says, Joe, I challenged this.
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  Speaker 4: You talked about the sponsors that sponsor your program and
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  Speaker 4: how that you do what you do, so you know,
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  Speaker 4: maybe that we would visit one of them. Doesn't that,
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  Speaker 4: by its own sake, mess up your independence? Would you
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  Speaker 4: say something that maybe would stop somebody from buying gold
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  Speaker 4: and silver? Well, I mean, what would I say to
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  Speaker 4: if there was a story, let's say, let's say some
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  Speaker 4: horrific goal. Might it was a story I was just
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  Speaker 4: talking about talking to a financial advisor, a friend of
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  Speaker 4: mine Steve Campbell here in the Stanton area. He's one
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  Speaker 4: of the sponsors of our flagship of the flagship Station,
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  Speaker 4: and he was telling me that the actually more lucrative
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  Speaker 4: than gold and silver investing is investing in gold and
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  Speaker 4: silver mining.
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  Speaker 7: Who do?
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  Speaker 4: But does that does that diminish what the JCS gold does. No,
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  Speaker 4: it's just it's another thing. It's it's a thing, it's reality.
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  Speaker 4: And there are times when I will tell you this
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  Speaker 4: is uh. You know, we'll tell you something nice about
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  Speaker 4: first free in the morning coffee. But if there's a
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  Speaker 4: study that says drinking coffee is bad for you, I'll
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  Speaker 4: read it to you. I'll tell you the story and
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  Speaker 4: drink a cup of coffee while I'm doing it. Because
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  Speaker 4: sometimes I don't go along with what the marching band
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  Speaker 4: is playing. But the whole point is to serve you.
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  Speaker 4: And then once I've served you, Maurice, then you can
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  Speaker 4: determine which one of our sponsors, whether it's the beat
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  Speaker 4: powder guy who wants to build up the nitric acid
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  Speaker 4: and your blood nitric gas in your blood vessels, or
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  Speaker 4: the faith based insurance companies or whatever it may be.
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  Speaker 7: Just you choose, not me.
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  Speaker 4: I'll just tell you about it, I'll give you all
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  Speaker 4: the people who have asked me to share their words,
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  Speaker 4: and then you choose no obligation.
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  Speaker 7: We talked about this with Mac earlier. Last hour.
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  Speaker 4: College football playoffs continued yesterday in the New York Day Bowls.
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  Speaker 4: Number one seed Indiana rolled the Tide thirty eight three
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  Speaker 4: over Alabama, and the Rose Bowl the Oregon Dunks. Our
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  Speaker 4: friends in Corvallis listening on kfi R. They're enjoying their day,
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  Speaker 4: routed Texas Tech twenty three nothing and as I said,
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  Speaker 4: on behalf of Harrisonburg, Virginia where we come from, at
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  Speaker 4: least James Madison hung thirty five on the Ducks and
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  Speaker 4: made them work a little for it. But the real
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  Speaker 4: exciting one was the last minute, last second victory of
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  Speaker 4: Ole Miss and our friends down in Pasco Goula as
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  Speaker 4: they topped Georgia thirty nine to thirty four. Miami was
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  Speaker 4: sitting there on South Beach saying, okay, let's get an
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  Speaker 4: on Final four football style this next weekend. Swiss investigators
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  Speaker 4: are looking into video shots during the fires in the
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  Speaker 4: ski resort that wound up with forty people dead, photographs
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  Speaker 4: and videos showing champagne bottles with fireworks and incendiary device
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  Speaker 4: in them, although authorities have said and the last thing
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  Speaker 4: I saw is that they're not sure when those photographs
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  Speaker 4: were taken. Donald, President, pardon me fix that. President Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump and top Iranian security official exchanged barbed via social
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  Speaker 4: media over the weekend truth social President Trump said if
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  Speaker 4: Iran violently kills peaceful protesters, the United States will come
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  Speaker 4: to their rescue. Iranian Security Council Secretary Ali Larry Jhani responded,
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  Speaker 4: saying it's US and Israel that are causing the riots
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  Speaker 4: in Tehran. The President defended his choice to have a
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  Speaker 4: CT scan, which he said to The Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 4: was misreported as an MRI, and took responsibility for the
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  Speaker 4: regrets having all of that imaging done because it brought
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  Speaker 4: Catching up on this Friday morning with a host of
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  Speaker 4: the Good for America podcast. He is former chair of
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  Speaker 4: the House Freedom Concus and Virginia Congressman Bob Good. Bob,
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  Speaker 4: thanks for hanging on with us on this Friday morning
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  Speaker 4: and ringing in twenty twenty six. Let me ask you
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  Speaker 4: this on the subject of fraud. You were talking about,
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  Speaker 4: how you know, if you didn't have massive subsidies and
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  Speaker 4: government handouts to daycare facilities and things like that, you
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't have the kind of fraud you have in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: And I've reminded people, I mean, I'm worried that they're
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  Speaker 4: trying to make this about us versus the Somalis in
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  Speaker 4: the United States. When I think it was a week
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  Speaker 4: prior to the expose of the Somali fraud, the mayors
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  Speaker 4: of Minnesota sent a letter to both the Department of
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  Speaker 4: Justice and Tim Wall saying, Hey, we had an eighteen
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  Speaker 4: billion dollar surplus just a few years ago, and now
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  Speaker 4: we're facing a three billion dollar deficit. That's twenty one
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  Speaker 4: billion dollars. Bob, It's a whole lot more going on
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  Speaker 4: in places like that than just in the Somali community.
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  Speaker 4: Is there is there a better example of what just
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  Speaker 4: unending government money can do.
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  Speaker 15: Well. I think you make another good point that what's
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  Speaker 15: happening in Minnesota is an example of Democrat policy on
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  Speaker 15: full display and the consequence of Democrat policy and how
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  Speaker 15: Democrat socialism is not the answer. Government control, government taking
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  Speaker 15: more of our money, government being the nanti state, government
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  Speaker 15: being the provider, government being the caretaker. Democrats don't care
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  Speaker 15: about improper payments, waste, fraud, and abuse the for a
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  Speaker 15: beeable term, when you've got about two hundred and fifty billion,
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  Speaker 15: two hundred fifty billion annually and admitted fraudulent, wasteful, improper
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  Speaker 15: payment coming out of the federal government on a daily,
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  Speaker 15: on an annual basse, about two hundred fifty billion dollars
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  Speaker 15: a year, Democrats care about growing the dependent class, and
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  Speaker 15: they're willing to break a few eggs, so to speak,
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  Speaker 15: to make the omelet, which is getting everybody on government
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  Speaker 15: dependency growing. How many people are receiving housing somebodies, how
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  Speaker 15: many people are on food stamps, how many people are
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  Speaker 15: on Obamacare so called free health government government health insurance,
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  Speaker 15: how many people are on public assistance. That that is
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  Speaker 15: how Democrats measure success, and so they're willing to let
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  Speaker 15: illegals come on. Of course, they're willing. They want to
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  Speaker 15: grow the dependent reliable voter class, and so Republicans have
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  Speaker 15: to reject that Republicans can't be partners in that Republicans
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  Speaker 15: can't be Democrats. Light Republicans have to reject it. Had
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  Speaker 15: Housing Urban Development spent fifty billion dollars in housing assistance
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  Speaker 15: last year to some four million people get in. They're
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  Speaker 15: getting an average of one thousand dollars a month. But
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  Speaker 15: then a recent report came out that two hundred thousand
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  Speaker 15: of those people were ineligible because they were either dead,
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  Speaker 15: they were illegals, or just otherwise not eligible. Two hundred
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  Speaker 15: thousand of the four million rather recipients of housing assistants,
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  Speaker 15: which we shouldn't be doing housing assistance anyway, but two
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  Speaker 15: hundred thousand were quantifiably ineligible, and again thirty thousand those
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  Speaker 15: were actually in people.
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  Speaker 7: Jeez, that is it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's not surprising anymore. I mean, I'd love to
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  Speaker 4: sit here and say, oh my god, what it's like. Yep,
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  Speaker 4: it's Friday. We just found out more fraud there. And
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  Speaker 4: it's because there's no attachment to the money. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if you get money from your church. Let's say you
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  Speaker 4: go to seek alms from your church, well, the minister
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  Speaker 4: and all the other parishioners. They see you every day
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  Speaker 4: that you're there in the community with you, so if
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  Speaker 4: you need a hand up, they they're obviously more than
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  Speaker 4: willing to help a fellow community member up, but they're
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  Speaker 4: also X checking you to make sure, Hey, Bob, you know,
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  Speaker 4: how do you do on your job search today or
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  Speaker 4: whatever it is you need help with, which which means
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  Speaker 4: there's responsibility. When it's a great bureaucratic edifice, you know,
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  Speaker 4: six states away, of course there's going to be fraud
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  Speaker 4: because it's somebody else's money and nobody's really looking at
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  Speaker 4: who's who's taking it until some videographer catches you in
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  Speaker 4: the act.
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  Speaker 15: Yes, and one of the to your point, one of
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  Speaker 15: the big things Republicans could do is to is to
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  Speaker 15: change it so that the states, who administer almost all
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  Speaker 15: of the welfare programs, almost all the entitled program programs,
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  Speaker 15: almost all of the public assistance programs, the states get
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  Speaker 15: to decide who gets the money, while the federal government
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  Speaker 15: funds the money or the federal taxpayer funds the money.
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  Speaker 15: If instead the states had to fund it, and then
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  Speaker 15: the state would be incentivized to actually reduce it so
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  Speaker 15: that they could transfer the funding to the state and
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  Speaker 15: then gradually cut back the funding while the states were
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  Speaker 15: the ones who had to manage who got it because
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  Speaker 15: there was a diminishing amount of funds that were available
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  Speaker 15: to eventually reduce to zero.
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  Speaker 4: That's a great idea. This is why you miss him
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  Speaker 4: in the House. So I have to ask because I'd
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  Speaker 4: lose my license because we know Obama wanted to license journalists.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Tongue in cheek, But you mentioned Mark Warner, Virginia's senator.
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  Speaker 4: His opponent was the most pre eminent of the Republicans
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  Speaker 4: who were seeking the nomination to run against him, has
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  Speaker 4: spowed out of the race. That state Senator Bryce Reeves.
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  Speaker 4: I have to ask, Bob, have you had any conversations
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  Speaker 4: about the Virginia Senate seat that's going to be contested
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  Speaker 4: this November.
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  Speaker 15: Well, I certainly I have thought about the center as
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  Speaker 15: I thought about running for the House, and my wife
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  Speaker 15: and I have prayed about that for the past year
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  Speaker 15: and a half. I don't have any news to announce, obviously,
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  Speaker 15: wouldn't I wouldn't likely do it in response to a question.
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  Speaker 7: I know, but you can't blame a girl for asking, right.
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  Speaker 15: But you know, we'll continue to keep our eyes on
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  Speaker 15: what we the Lord might would have us do. And also,
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  Speaker 15: as redistricting takes effect for Virginia, the Democrats are successful,
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  Speaker 15: nobody knows what congressional district they've lived and they'd live
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  Speaker 15: in and what.
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  Speaker 7: Those districts will look.
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  Speaker 15: So crazy, I suspect that Tom Periola has been promised
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  Speaker 15: a favorable Democrat district for him to relaunch a congressional
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  Speaker 15: campaign in Virginia's fifth that you and I have lived in.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I understand that. Believe me, I understand. I've seen
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  Speaker 7: the maps.
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  Speaker 4: Bob, you have a wonderful remainder of the weekend, and
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  Speaker 4: uh and blessings to you, and we'll talk to you
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  Speaker 4: again next week.
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  Speaker 4: movement in elementary Cada twelve stuff, and we're seeing dramatic,
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  Speaker 7: So the question is dying my degrees? What is it
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  Speaker 4: Was gravely disappointed with me when I finally had enough
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  Speaker 7: But he was disappointed because I was always.
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  Speaker 4: An ardent Second Amendment defender even though I didn't own guns.
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  Speaker 4: And he said, you know, Joe, there's a gravity to
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  Speaker 7: And I guess the same is true about business. I've
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  Speaker 4: A defender of free markets and real capitalism, but I
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  Speaker 4: never own my own business. Now I own my own business.
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  Speaker 4: I'm seeing it from the other end. I'm bend over
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  Speaker 4: go on. But it doesn't change my standpoint on the
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  Speaker 4: free market. It is the singular best way to address
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  Speaker 4: with too much work, somebody else will come along to
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  Speaker 7: I need the government to regulate this.
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  Speaker 4: So and believe me, we are so far removed that
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  Speaker 4: to debate where we are today versus debating a free
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  Speaker 4: economy and a capitalist system is like debating whether Greek
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  Speaker 4: or Latin is a better language than the one we
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  Speaker 4: have now. There is so far removed from one another,
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  Speaker 4: even though there may be roots. So yes, we have
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  Speaker 4: to undo a lot of things now so that we
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  Speaker 4: can get back to a place where you can either
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  Speaker 4: come up with an idea for a better mousetrap metaphorically,
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  Speaker 4: but also if you've done that, you're gonna need other
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  Speaker 4: people to help you with your better mousetrap. And so
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  Speaker 4: to need people who say, I like that better mousetrap idea.
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  Speaker 7: I want to work for him.
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  Speaker 4: And the more we play games with the economy, the
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  Speaker 4: more we stick our fingers in the dyke. You know
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  Speaker 4: it just it doesn't help it helps the friends of
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  Speaker 4: the feathered who have picked up an elected position. Sure
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  Speaker 4: question coming in from Brenda in Virginia Beach. When you
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  Speaker 4: were talking with Congressman Good, it sounded like he felt
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  Speaker 4: like the redistricting is a done deal. I thought there
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  Speaker 4: had to be a special election. Is this another case
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  Speaker 4: of the RNC and party leaders throwing up their hands
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  Speaker 4: and giving up like they did with the election this
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  Speaker 4: past November. It seemed to me the DNC outspent the
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  Speaker 4: RNC four to one based on mailers and commercials. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's actually Brenda closer to five to one.
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  Speaker 4: That was spent on the election. But remember Bob isn't
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  Speaker 4: actually in office at this point. He's looking at it
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  Speaker 4: from the same place you and I are, perhaps with
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  Speaker 4: more expertise in the field, but still you and me
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  Speaker 4: and Bob we're out there looking at it. So here's
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  Speaker 4: the deal with redistricting in all these places. So California
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  Speaker 4: is still in the midst of THEIRS. Indiana has depth
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  Speaker 4: charged THEIRS. Illinois is running breakneck towards THEIRS. Texas looks
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  Speaker 4: like it's going forward. So red state, Blue state, my state,
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  Speaker 4: U state, it's it's going to probably come out pretty
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  Speaker 4: close to a wash. In Virginia, there's a couple of
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  Speaker 4: things that have to happen. So they're going to convene
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  Speaker 4: their General Assembly in a week or so, and one
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  Speaker 4: of the very first things they're going to do is
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  Speaker 4: pass for the second time the constitutional Amendment to temporarily
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  Speaker 4: suspend the previous constitutional amendment.
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  Speaker 7: I know, this is crazy making, isn't it.
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  Speaker 4: So they passed in twenty twenty one, they passed a
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  Speaker 4: constitutional amendment supposed to be one of the hardest things
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  Speaker 4: to change for all the reasons of it being a
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  Speaker 4: constitutional amendment. Saying that this was how Virginia was going
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  Speaker 4: to draw its congressional districts. They were going to have
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  Speaker 4: a nonpartisan commission appointed by partisans, and if that fails,
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  Speaker 4: the Supreme Court will appoint to a Democrat and a
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  Speaker 4: Republican to draw the maps.
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  Speaker 7: Which is what happened.
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  Speaker 4: Nonpartisan commission fell apart under partisanship, and so the Supreme
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  Speaker 4: Court of Virginia appointed a Democrat from California and Apublican
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  Speaker 4: from Virginia to draw our current congressional districts. So what
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  Speaker 4: they need to do is pass a constitutional amendment to
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  Speaker 4: undo the previous constitutional amendment, which by the way, was
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  Speaker 4: voted in favor of by the Virginia voters two to one,
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  Speaker 4: three to one.
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  Speaker 7: It was sixty five thirty five. So they're going to
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  Speaker 7: ramrod this through.
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  Speaker 4: They have the votes in the House, but it still
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  Speaker 4: is going to have to come to us, the voters,
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  Speaker 4: the residents of Virginia. To draw an example for our
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  Speaker 4: friends in Sacramento or San Bernardino, it's the opposite of
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  Speaker 4: the way California does it. California, you have to vote
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  Speaker 4: first in ferendum and then it goes to the General Assembly.
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  Speaker 4: In Virginia, the General Assembly because they made it a
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  Speaker 4: constitutional amendment has to try to make it happen in
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  Speaker 4: a hurry, and they're playing games. There are court challenges,
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  Speaker 4: Brenda to your point on this, because you're supposed to wait.
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  Speaker 4: So part of the deliberative process in amending Virginia's constitution
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  Speaker 4: is you have to pass one, then you have to
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  Speaker 4: wait till all the seats go through reelection.
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  Speaker 7: And then do it again. And they didn't.
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  Speaker 4: They found a way to kind of hammer it through
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  Speaker 4: quickly and avoid all the muss and fuss of that. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: Saturday morning we will gather together and then we're packing
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  Speaker 4: up for the Consumer Electronics Show next week.
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  Speaker 7: We want to sponsor it. So long and thanks for
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  Speaker 7: all the fish.
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  Speaker 24: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
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  Speaker 24: leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 3: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 3: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 16: I'm Sam.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 3: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 3: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 9: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 9: of their lives.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 7: My victory was going from homeless to hall.
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  Speaker 9: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 14: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 9: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
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  Speaker 9: for victories great and small.
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  Speaker 24: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 14: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
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  Speaker 9: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 16: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 9: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
• 53:47
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