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"The Dependence of Independence" (Friday, January 2, 2026, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Loving evidence, loving Captain heiling Hoots is out on your
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  Speaker 1: to do list.
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  Speaker 2: Putting the radio on is the first thing today.
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  Speaker 3: George said, steal me stem you have a day at
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  Speaker 3: least for work.
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  Speaker 4: When the sun comes up, drops a pet to scoop
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  Speaker 4: of lands, joys.
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  Speaker 3: Everything, agenda all the Joss seven needs.
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  Speaker 5: No one that Jose smile he only as Joe.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 6: this morning.
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  Speaker 7: I want to be.
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  Speaker 6: On the program that tells you what went on. Then
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  Speaker 6: we'll break it down into easily digestible gummies for you.
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  Speaker 6: But most importantly, we want to hear how it impacts
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  Speaker 6: you where you are at four three four eight eight
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  Speaker 6: two four to two one seven, you, of course being
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  Speaker 6: the singular, most local part of the radio station.
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  Speaker 8: Me.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just here for the independence and to say stuff
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  Speaker 6: no one else says, because I'm not. You're reading off
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  Speaker 6: a corporate list of talking points. And I've worked for
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  Speaker 6: the big corporations and they do that. There are and
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  Speaker 6: they know they phrase it. They don't say, here are
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  Speaker 6: the things you're going to talk about today. They'll send
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  Speaker 6: you prep sheets from corporate headquarters to make your life easier.
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  Speaker 6: Here you might want to talk about these things. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: we've got phone numbers for people. You could call about
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  Speaker 6: these things that we'd like you to talk about. And
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  Speaker 6: if you don't do that, you might get a phone say, hey,
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  Speaker 6: did you get the email? Are you getting the emails
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  Speaker 6: from corporate headquarters? Well yeah, we did. You use I
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  Speaker 6: heard you do something about it, but you didn't use
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  Speaker 6: the guy on the list. Well yeah, I used a
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  Speaker 6: different guy. I had a different guy on my mind. Well,
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  Speaker 6: you know, try to try to as much as you
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  Speaker 6: can use what's on the list, and you'll have those meetings.
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  Speaker 6: That's how it happens. Even guys who work in your
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  Speaker 6: hometown and are quote local, they get the prep sheet,
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  Speaker 6: and even more so because generally the local guy also
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  Speaker 6: has to go out and come up with promotional ideas
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  Speaker 6: and you know, give away free car washes or sometimes
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  Speaker 6: even do the car washes, which are all well and good.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not slagging it, oh man, that's good stuff. When
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  Speaker 6: you have gon to interact with people, but they don't have,
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  Speaker 6: you know, sixteen hours to sit and pour over all
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  Speaker 6: the news of the day and try to come up
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  Speaker 6: with a series of strings that connect them all. So
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  Speaker 6: when the when corporate headquarters sends them a prep sheet.
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  Speaker 6: And this goes for the music stations too. I don't
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  Speaker 6: get a prep sheet. I have to do it the
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  Speaker 6: old fashioned way. I have to go shovel it myself
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  Speaker 6: and find it for you. So independence is how we roll.
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  Speaker 6: Coming from Charlottesville. I think that's an important slogan. Four
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  Speaker 6: three four eight eight two four two one seven, text
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  Speaker 6: message or email however you like to interact on how
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  Speaker 6: the news is impacting you. You can also email to
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  Speaker 6: JT in the Morning Radio at gmail dot com. As
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  Speaker 6: Zorhan Mamdani takes the reins of New York and says,
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  Speaker 6: up yours, I'm raising the red flag with a hammer
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  Speaker 6: and sickle over New York City and I'm gonna come
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  Speaker 6: and get in for your money. The discussion of value
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  Speaker 6: and the economy and markets and free markets and all
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  Speaker 6: the things that gosh, it's it's been decades, I'll bet
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  Speaker 6: you Zorhan Mamdani was just a young Marxist the last
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  Speaker 6: time we actually had a free market economy in this country.
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  Speaker 6: But we'll get into all that. News of the day.
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  Speaker 6: Horror On New Year's Day in a Swiss town of Crans, Montana,
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  Speaker 6: where a fire raged through a bar called Les Constellation,
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  Speaker 6: killing forty people and leaving another one hundred and fifteen
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  Speaker 6: in many cases grievously injured. Crews are still probing the
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  Speaker 6: wreckage to try to figure out what caused the fire,
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  Speaker 6: although there are investigators that are hinting at the fact
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  Speaker 6: that it may have been set. US President Donald Trump
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  Speaker 6: and a top Iranian security official throughout dueling social media threats.
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  Speaker 6: First President Trump, watching the riots on the streets of Tehran,
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  Speaker 6: warned on truth social that if Iran violently kills peaceful protesters,
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  Speaker 6: the United States will come to their rescue. Later, the
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  Speaker 6: Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani posted
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  Speaker 6: on his ex account that Israel and the United States
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  Speaker 6: were the ones behind all the mostly peaceful protests. President
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  Speaker 6: Trump defended his health in an interview with The Wall
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  Speaker 6: Street Journal, disclosing that it was a CT scan, not
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  Speaker 6: an MRI, that he had during his October regular checkup
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  Speaker 6: at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He did say
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  Speaker 6: that he was upset about how it raised public questions
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  Speaker 6: about his health, rather than just saying he's a man
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  Speaker 6: of a certain age and he had these checkups Venezuela
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  Speaker 6: and their president, Nicholas Medoro, in the wake of what
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  Speaker 6: is now becoming more and more clearly a CIA led
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  Speaker 6: strike against a waterfront docking area that the administration says
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  Speaker 6: was being used by cartels to load drugs manufactured inside
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  Speaker 6: Venezuela and ship them to the United States. President Nicholas
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  Speaker 6: Maduro's reaction to that was, I'd like to sit down
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  Speaker 6: and have a conversation about perhaps helping fight drug trafficking
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  Speaker 6: in his country. President Trump signed a New Year's proclamation
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  Speaker 6: postponing increased tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets, and vanities,
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  Speaker 6: citing ongoing trade talks with the manufacturers for a better,
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  Speaker 6: more equitable trade. FBI director Cash Pttel has been tracking
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  Speaker 6: the Minnesota fraud case for months, he said yesterday on
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  Speaker 6: social media, claiming it was buried under former President Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 6: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski both
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  Speaker 6: issued New Year's proclamations, hoping for different reasons, that the
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  Speaker 6: war between the two countries would be ending soon. Those
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  Speaker 6: are some of our first things.
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  Speaker 9: five hundred bucks a month, and that's huge, But it's
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  Speaker 9: also true. People are just happier with it. They love
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  Speaker 6: Meta share works too.
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  Speaker 13: You were strolling along in Goodwill when just past that
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  Speaker 13: mid century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them
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  Speaker 13: nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings. Oh yes, yes,
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  Speaker 13: your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all day dessert food
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  Speaker 13: made into your favorite form of ear candy. Oh my,
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  Speaker 13: those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger within you.
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  Speaker 13: Sh Do you smell that? That's the sugary center of shopping.
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  Speaker 13: Success for this is goodwill. And with every item you buy,
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  Speaker 13: you fund local job training and more so, go forth,
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  Speaker 13: bring home those donut earrings and bring home so much.
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  Speaker 5: Good to your community.
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  Speaker 13: Goodwill, bring good home.
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  Speaker 14: Exercise is hard, so is maintaining a healthy diet. Of course,
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  Speaker 14: neither is half as hard as dying. Sadly, type two diabetes,
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  Speaker 14: heart disease, and stroke kill nearly a million people a year.
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  Speaker 14: Even sadder, most of these deaths are preventable with a
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  Speaker 14: few lifestyle changes, including regular activity, healthier eating, and not smoking.
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  Speaker 14: Talk to your doctor about your risk for type two
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  Speaker 14: diabetes and heart disease, and if your doctor recommends lifestyle
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  Speaker 14: changes or medication, listen. The reason so many die is
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  Speaker 14: because not enough are willing to change. You can stop it,
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  Speaker 14: starting right now. It's your life. Listen to your doctor,
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  Speaker 14: eat better, get moving, Visit check up america dot org,
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  Speaker 14: American Diabetes Association.
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  Speaker 15: My name is Jim.
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  Speaker 6: I'm a veteran and I lost both legs in Vietnam.
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  Speaker 6: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 15: I'm Julius. My victory was going from homeless tall.
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  Speaker 16: generations get the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 14: I'm cc My victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 16: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  Speaker 17: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 5: Freedom of speech, freedom of religion.
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  Speaker 18: Freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble.
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  Speaker 17: Freedom to petition the government. Only the United States has
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  Speaker 17: these five freedoms. So simply bound together and guaranteed. Think First.
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  Speaker 19: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 12: Sure?
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  Speaker 4: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 12: Probably.
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  Speaker 19: It's been twenty three minutes since I ate I can
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  Speaker 19: probably swim.
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  Speaker 5: You should wait thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 21: Okay, now tell me what to do?
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  Speaker 5: Can it bar.
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  Speaker 21: Cramp?
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  Speaker 6: I have a cramp?
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  Speaker 20: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 5: Probably, can I get a Mulligan.
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  Speaker 6: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 12: I'm pretty sober.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 19: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 19: and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
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  Speaker 19: or a friend. Buzz driving is drunk driving. A message
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First Thing Today on the Tunk
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  Speaker 2: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 22: If a manufacturer doesn't have enough confidence in the quality
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  Speaker 22: of what he makes, he doesn't have the right to
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  Speaker 22: ask you to buy it. And it doesn't make any
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  Speaker 22: difference what he makes washing machines, toasters or roller skates.
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  Speaker 8: Me.
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  Speaker 22: I'm in the car business, and I've been saying for
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  Speaker 22: a long time that Chrysler makes cars are as good,
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  Speaker 22: if not better, than anything coming out of America, Europe
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  Speaker 22: or Japan.
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  Speaker 6: So the good old days, and I know this will
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  Speaker 6: be we're oh, here's a government bailout. It's ia Cope.
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  Speaker 6: I'm bringing up Leiacoca and Chrysler for a very specific
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  Speaker 6: reason because we were talking about unions and work and value.
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  Speaker 6: And I am the son in law of a great
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  Speaker 6: man who ran a great union for the right reasons,
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  Speaker 6: and unions, just like firearms, are only as good as
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  Speaker 6: the person who's running them. However, the concept of union,
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  Speaker 6: for the most part, is used to dehumanize the workforce,
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  Speaker 6: and it has fed the larger abstract of centralized business.
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  Speaker 6: And the reason I bring up Leiah Cooca in this
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  Speaker 6: conversation is that when Chrysler was going under and he
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  Speaker 6: needed concessions from the United Auto Workers Union, what did
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  Speaker 6: he do? He put the president of the United Auto
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  Speaker 6: Workers Chrysler Branch, Chrysler Division on his board of directors
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  Speaker 6: so that he could see all the books. And it's
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  Speaker 6: sad that a relationship gets to this, and this is
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  Speaker 6: it's going to sound hippie, it's going to sound like
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  Speaker 6: I'm sniffing the petuli again. But work is a relationship,
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  Speaker 6: just like marriage is, just like friendship is. And why
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  Speaker 6: America and the American exceptionalism has died is we've allowed
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  Speaker 6: it to die. We've stopped looking upon our workplace as
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  Speaker 6: a choice we make, and it's just a thing. It's
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  Speaker 6: what there is. And that's the con set and the
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  Speaker 6: corruption of the American economy. It could be correlation or causation,
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  Speaker 6: but at this point, the American economy is not driven
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  Speaker 6: by people who say, I believe in what this person
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  Speaker 6: does and I want to go work for them. And
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  Speaker 6: we need to get that back. And and part of
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  Speaker 6: it is breaking up the big federal bureaucracies and the
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  Speaker 6: state bureaucracies that reward centralization. We need to reinvigorate the
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  Speaker 6: capitalist basis of our stock exchange so that it goes
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  Speaker 6: back to being companies just looking to bring more people in.
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  Speaker 6: You know, owning stock in a company is just as
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  Speaker 6: much a relationship as anything else. You choose the companies, well,
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  Speaker 6: now we don't. Now we just lump everything into a
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  Speaker 6: four to oh one k or an ira and we
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  Speaker 6: shrug and we say, oh, well, used to be fun, right,
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  Speaker 6: and we need to and we can. We can get
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  Speaker 6: that back. I truly believe we can get that back
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  Speaker 6: because most of us still have the muscle memory of that.
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  Speaker 6: And sometimes it's just by pure happenstance, we wind up
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  Speaker 6: with a company that, oh oh, I didn't realize they
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  Speaker 6: were this good of a company, and we happily then
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  Speaker 6: associate ourselves with it and we work hard. This was
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  Speaker 6: what drove the idea of American exceptionally them as an
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  Speaker 6: economic force, was that we chose who we worked for.
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  Speaker 23: Because not everyone's going to invent the new mousetrap, but
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  Speaker 23: a whole lot of people would like to help build
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  Speaker 23: that new mouse trap, and Silicon Valley drove.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of this. We say this as we're slowly
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  Speaker 6: putting all our gear into the places we need to
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  Speaker 6: so we can pack and we fly out after Saturday
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  Speaker 6: Mornings program to Lost Wages to bring you the consumer
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  Speaker 6: Electronics show. Ron Paul made a great point in twenty
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  Speaker 6: twelve regarding bashing technology companies for making things inexpensively overseas.
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  Speaker 6: It's a rebuke on America's labor market as much as anything,
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  Speaker 6: because making an iPad costs ten times more is like
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  Speaker 6: making fertilizer cost four times as much to a farmer.
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  Speaker 6: And then sit there and say, gee, I don't understand technology.
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  Speaker 6: Is they used to be able to do this stuff.
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  Speaker 6: So we need to get back to the relationship of
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  Speaker 6: worker and workforce and employer because I truly don't believe
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  Speaker 6: humans for the most part. And this is where you
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  Speaker 6: don't need the government to punish. You just have to report.
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  Speaker 6: So if somebody is a bad polluter and you report
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  Speaker 6: that they're a bad polluter, don't buy their stuff because
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  Speaker 6: they're polluting the rivers. And maybe they get mad at
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  Speaker 6: you for reporting it, but that's okay. If you're not
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  Speaker 6: reporting a lie, then you're going to be okay. And
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  Speaker 6: then the marketplace will punish the bad actors, the bad
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  Speaker 6: stewards of their responsibility. They will I know you, Oh Joe,
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  Speaker 6: you're a hippie. You don't know what you're talking about. Truly,
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  Speaker 6: the way it worked, it did work that way. It
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  Speaker 6: did work in a world where you could work in
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  Speaker 6: a fast food restaurant and make a career of it,
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  Speaker 6: or a convenience store and make a career of it.
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  Speaker 6: These weren't jobs. And so what's happened is our value
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  Speaker 6: system has gone off the skew. So we go into
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  Speaker 6: a convenience store and I want one of their made
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  Speaker 6: to order sandwiches. Wink wink. That's a freebie for you
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  Speaker 6: under the heading of freebees with a Z at the end. Okay,
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  Speaker 6: so I want to I'm made to order sandwich and
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  Speaker 6: a cup of coffee at the convenience or well, I
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  Speaker 6: got a few gallons of gasoline? What is that worth
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  Speaker 6: to me? What is that sandwich worth? I said this earlier.
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  Speaker 6: If it takes you ten minutes to make a sandwich
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  Speaker 6: and you make twenty dollars an hour in your job,
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  Speaker 6: is that what sparing you? The ten minutes it takes
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  Speaker 6: you to make that sandwich? How much is that worth
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  Speaker 6: in a restaurant's case? And what happens when the Bernie
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  Speaker 6: Sanders crowd gets involved is that they take that equation
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  Speaker 6: out and all of a sudden, you're there trying to
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  Speaker 6: make a sandwich worth paying somebody twenty dollars an hour
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  Speaker 6: for and that limits the number of people who then
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  Speaker 6: can afford the sandwich, which means the sandwich suffers. See
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  Speaker 6: how the economy goes.
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  Speaker 24: and the American Heart Association recommends that we all get
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  Speaker 24: at least one hundred and fifty minutes of moderate aerobic
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  Speaker 24: activity in a week's time. But here's the thing that
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  Speaker 24: one hundred and fifty minutes does not need to be
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  Speaker 24: super intense. As a matter of fact, it could just
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  Speaker 24: be you moving your body and doing what you already
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  Speaker 24: love to do, like exercise. And a stronger heart doesn't
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  Speaker 32: Full beat down? Thirty eight to three? Was the Tides
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  Speaker 6: Oh my god? Really?
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  Speaker 32: And you know both teams went through the twenty sixth
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  Speaker 15: Well, first of all I bring to the table.
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  Speaker 32: You know, it's another Kurt Signetti SoundBite because he still
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  Speaker 32: gets the same questions over and over and over and over.
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  Speaker 32: But then again, in defense of the media and the riders,
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  Speaker 32: they are seeing a coach sometimes for the first time.
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  Speaker 15: They're on the West Coast.
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  Speaker 32: You know, they haven't had a chance to go one
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  Speaker 21: But Kurt was you know, he was straightforward.
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  Speaker 32: I mean, this team is just they're a number one
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  Speaker 32: seed for a reason, and you know, just really just
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  Speaker 32: beating everybody like a drum got to It was a
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  Speaker 32: slow start and then they scored twenty four straight. But
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  Speaker 32: he was asked the question yesterday, you know, how can
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  Speaker 15: Of course, Signetty played it straight.
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  Speaker 21: Thanks, I'm glad I got you in the other end.
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  Speaker 15: Okay, happy January. Second.
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  Speaker 27: Well, you know I learned from my mistakes. One thing
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  Speaker 27: about it was, you know, I did make a lot
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  Speaker 27: of mistakes year one, and then the second time three
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  Speaker 27: you always get a little better and every year you do.
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  Speaker 27: So I can't say that I'm the same coach I
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  Speaker 27: was year one because I'm not You're always looking to
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  Speaker 27: improve because you get better worse, you never stay the same.
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  Speaker 27: And yeah, my journey has been kind of surreal, but
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  Speaker 27: I think every move kind of prepared me for this
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  Speaker 27: challenge at this time with the changing dynamic of college football.
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  Speaker 21: Know, he is just he is just one notch above
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  Speaker 6: Well, and people forget so James Madison being the you know,
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  Speaker 6: the Division two titles. It was North Dakota State versus
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  Speaker 6: And then finally they said, you know, we're gonna go
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  Speaker 6: D one and Signetti won like right off the bat.
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  Speaker 6: You know, that was there was no like learning college
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  Speaker 32: There when Signette because they were winning you know, uh,
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  Speaker 32: you know, people started to discover you know, Signetti.
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  Speaker 21: So it was anyway, the way the way it's set down.
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  Speaker 32: Miami and Ole Miss will meet Thursday to semi finals.
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  Speaker 32: A great win for Pete Golding, who is is being
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  Speaker 32: in I love this whole Golden story because he is
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  Speaker 32: embraced by the Mannings, Rgie and Eli made a lot
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  Speaker 32: of speeches to the teams or whatever. Of course, Archie's
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  Speaker 32: numbers was the first to ever be retired by Ole Miss.
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  Speaker 15: So number eighteen hangs it.
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  Speaker 32: You know, I just but I'm a big Pete Golden guy,
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  Speaker 32: and you know it's just.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and with the Lane Kiffin stuff, with the whole where.
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  Speaker 32: You know, Lane Kiffin was smiling even though you know
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  Speaker 32: he's probably one of the most hated guys in the Southeast.
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  Speaker 15: That was terrific.
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  Speaker 32: But now Miami, so they reced. They always play that game.
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  Speaker 32: Let's receive the teams and you know what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 32: And you know, so Oregon with its you know, great
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  Speaker 32: showing its Texas Tech never showed up.
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  Speaker 15: I don't know where you.
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  Speaker 32: Know they were, but in the Orange Bowl, as you said,
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  Speaker 15: Nothing.
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  Speaker 32: And so anyway, the way Miami and Ole Miss and
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  Speaker 32: then Oregon in Indiana, so it's Thursday Friday are the
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  Speaker 32: two double headers? When not two double headers two single
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  Speaker 32: games on Thursday Friday. They don't want to interrupt the
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  Speaker 32: NFL playoff weekend, so the wildcard weekend.
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  Speaker 15: Anyway, that's the way it shakes out.
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  Speaker 32: Hey, give it up to Will Ferrell, who showed up
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  Speaker 6: Nice.
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  Speaker 21: Will Ferrell's in his stand.
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  Speaker 32: He's right there on the glass making calls, and you know,
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  Speaker 32: he was supporting. I guess he has a friend who
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  Speaker 32: you know whatever. All right, but this is how I'm
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  Speaker 32: gonna close, or at least close the week kickoff twenty
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  Speaker 32: twenty six, because we're now getting into you know, we'll
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  Speaker 32: slowly slip into once the football thing is over, we'll
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  Speaker 32: slip into We've had a pretty good taste of college
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  Speaker 15: Triple overtime and so on and so forth.
• 33:39
  Speaker 32: However, this isn't one of the all time rants already
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  Speaker 32: from Will Wade. Darien Williams was a player who transferred
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  Speaker 32: who was with Texas Tech that transferred to North Carolina State.
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  Speaker 32: Will Wade is a fiery guy who stepped on NC
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  Speaker 21: Yeah blah, I mean, he's real fired up.
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  Speaker 6: Well.
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  Speaker 21: He finally reached his boiling point when he.
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  Speaker 32: Was asked that Darian Williams is playing with his shoulder injury,
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  Speaker 32: not playing well, had a couple of off games. Only
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  Speaker 32: scoy scored eight points against Wake. So the question was, coach,
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  Speaker 32: are you concerned about Darian Williams?
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  Speaker 17: What's your certain level where Darian on this game is
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  Speaker 26: You know, I'm tired of hearing about freaking Darry.
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  Speaker 15: He's playing well, all right.
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  Speaker 6: It's a terrible question.
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  Speaker 16: It's a terrible question.
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  Speaker 33: He affects winning, and everybody's out here about him and
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  Speaker 33: all this stuff.
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  Speaker 15: He affects winning.
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  Speaker 5: The guy's a damn good player. He didn't shoot it
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• 34:39
  Speaker 5: for us today?
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  Speaker 33: Darry Williams, somebody needs to shut the hell up about him.
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  Speaker 33: He's a damn good player and the SHOT's gonna fall.
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  Speaker 15: All right, So there it is. But that was only
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  Speaker 21: The second half of the rant.
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  Speaker 15: It gets better.
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  Speaker 33: He's taking a lot of unfair heat right now. No
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  Speaker 33: end of the day, it's our job to win for
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  Speaker 33: mc stink. He helps in State win, So I'm tireless.
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  Speaker 5: I got to answer questions after old miss I got it.
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  Speaker 33: He didn't make a shot against al Much, the only
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  Speaker 33: game in his entire career he had made a shot.
• 35:08
  Speaker 33: Let me be clear about this. His shoulder injury was
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  Speaker 33: State for five games with it.
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  Speaker 5: Is that right?
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  Speaker 33: He's a damn good player. He's gonna help us win
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  Speaker 33: a lot of games at the ACC.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm tired of it.
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  Speaker 15: I mean that rival is Mike Gandhy.
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  Speaker 21: I'm a man, I'm forty.
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  Speaker 6: You know, bring that to me.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, So anyway he got, he brought a lot to
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  Speaker 6: My gosh, now, and what's gonna happen the more these
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  Speaker 6: guys get paid, though, I mean, you know that's wait
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  Speaker 6: they play.
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  Speaker 21: I know Virginia's got him tomorrow.
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  Speaker 15: I can't wait.
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  Speaker 32: I can't wait to see him and lose a big
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  Speaker 6: it's all fun and games until they start bringing home.
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  Speaker 6: I was reading a story yesterday about all these quarterbacks
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  Speaker 32: Yeah, we forget about the committee. You know, the committee
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  Speaker 32: that's monitoring that. You know, that was a monitoring association
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• 36:46
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  Speaker 6: That's like the FDA monitoring.
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  Speaker 32: Yeah, and so we forget about that they're monitoring. But
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  Speaker 32: seven I think I had the stat this week.
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  Speaker 15: Correct me if I'm wrong. It's seven of the top
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  Speaker 15: ten quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 32: Are in the portal now that began that began with
• 37:05
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  Speaker 15: To seven of.
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  Speaker 6: This Friday morning, I know I'd probably feel like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: is a former Chairman of the House Freedom Concus Bob Good,
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Bob. I hope you had a wonderful new
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  Speaker 6: Year's even Happy twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Joe, great to be with you. Happy New Year,
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  Speaker 8: Mark friend.
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  Speaker 6: Oh absolutely, and they you know, unfortunately, I had to
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  Speaker 6: apologize to my listeners because I'm one of those kind
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  Speaker 6: of annoying people that look like, look at every morning
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  Speaker 6: as New Year's Day, because if you need to change tack,
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  Speaker 6: it's new year, the sun's rising in the same spot
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  Speaker 6: in the sky. Time to do something a little bit different.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't wanted to. I don't know if your
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: ears were ringing. A couple of days ago, we were
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: talking about you during the program. We were talking about
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: governing from behind, if you will, or governing from a
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  Speaker 6: minority position, and I think Clark and Alabama brought up
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: how you know the Democrats in Alabama don't come close
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  Speaker 6: to having a majority in their legislature, yet they constantly
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  Speaker 6: get stuff passed and under the floor and out into
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: the narrative. And watching as Virginia is going to get
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  Speaker 6: ready for their General Assembly with Republicans in the minority,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they don't seem to grasp the same parliament
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  Speaker 6: entry procedures that the Democrats do to make sure a
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  Speaker 6: minority voice gets heard. And I know that that was
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  Speaker 6: something that frustrated you and Andy and Chip and the
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  Speaker 6: folks and the Freedom concuss because you know, there are
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  Speaker 6: rules to make sure that the minority voices get heard
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  Speaker 6: and bills get to the floor and things like that.
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  Speaker 6: Why is it, Bob, that Republicans seem so ill equipped
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  Speaker 6: to get anything done when they're in the minority electorally.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I guess it depends on what we mean by
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  Speaker 8: getting things done. I think one of the you know
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  Speaker 8: you the famous quote, he governs the best is he
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  Speaker 8: who governs least. I don't know that, or I would
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  Speaker 8: submit that there's not enough Republicans who actually believe that.
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  Speaker 8: And you have two Republicans who their name on things,
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  Speaker 8: and they want legislation passed with their name on. They
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  Speaker 8: want to be able to say, oh we govern, Oh
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  Speaker 8: we showed that we could get things done, and again
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  Speaker 8: they got their name on legislation, irrespective of whether or
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  Speaker 8: not it actually advances the things that they say that
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  Speaker 8: they stand for or the principles they say that they're old.
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  Speaker 8: And the Democrat Party again is willing to lose elections
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  Speaker 8: to advance their radical leftist, communist agenda. And I know
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  Speaker 8: this is not from the minority standpoint, but instead of
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  Speaker 8: looking at if they're Democrats were in a position we
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  Speaker 8: are in right now, they would be saying, gosh, we
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  Speaker 8: might lose power in November, so let's advance our agenda now.
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  Speaker 8: Republicans instead are looking to compromise, to make concessions, to
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: make deals because they might lose power if they don't,
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  Speaker 8: they think, and so they buy into the Democrat mentality,
• 47:42
  Speaker 8: the media mentality of being a moderate, being a centrist,
• 47:46
  Speaker 8: being a compromise with Democrats advances your political career. They
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  Speaker 8: put their political career first. But more specifically to being
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  Speaker 8: in the minority, are you willing to deny the majority
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  Speaker 8: all of your vote votes or are you're willing to
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  Speaker 8: provide them vote so you can be part of getting
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  Speaker 8: things done, so you can be part of governing, so
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  Speaker 8: you can be part of passing legislation, or are you
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  Speaker 8: going to stand strong on principle say no, we're not
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  Speaker 8: going to provide the Democrat part of the votes they
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  Speaker 8: need to pass legislation. One of my primary issue with
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: Kevin McCarthy, of course, was he did not hold moderates
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  Speaker 8: in line and allowed them to go ahead and make
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  Speaker 8: deals with Democrats and help pass Democrat bills, to help
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  Speaker 8: pass Democrat legislation after promising that he would not do
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  Speaker 8: that as the minority leader when we had such a
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  Speaker 8: tight majority, similar to what Democrats have today.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and I think that's really I guess the concern.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we want legislators that are going to go
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  Speaker 6: in there and start cutting back the kudzu and releasing
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  Speaker 6: our ability, unleashing the cronyism that's sclerotically killing our economy
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  Speaker 6: and things like that. Those can be accomplished. I know
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  Speaker 6: there they sound like negative accomplishments. We undid this, We
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  Speaker 6: undid that. Do we have a narrative problem Bob in
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  Speaker 6: conservatism that that doing something means always adding something new
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  Speaker 6: and not subtracting something.
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  Speaker 8: Great point, Well said, You're exactly right. That's the problem
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  Speaker 8: when we say talk about Hugovern's best at Hugh Governor's least,
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  Speaker 8: it's because you're right. There's a mentality on to many
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  Speaker 8: on the Republican side, and certain this is the media
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  Speaker 8: tends to see it this way, is what are you
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  Speaker 8: doing to add new things and to take more control
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  Speaker 8: and to provide more things and to give more things
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  Speaker 8: away and to spend more things. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 8: Mark Warner. He all he ever talks about is how
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  Speaker 8: we're gonna call it invest rather than spend. We need
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  Speaker 8: to invest more, you know, in childcare funding, so that
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  Speaker 8: therefore we can have more more fraud and have more
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  Speaker 8: people stealing the child fund right, which they could do.
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  Speaker 8: You weren't providing the child's care funding from the from
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  Speaker 8: the from the outst from the beginning, which the government
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: shouldn't be doing. But you're exactly right. Too many Republican
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  Speaker 8: politicians don't get excited about fighting to end, to eliminate,
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  Speaker 8: to stop, to cut, to you know, to deregulate, to
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  Speaker 8: scale back government. That's why DOGE didn't last long, at
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: least in the form that it was in a year ago.
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  Speaker 8: You know, and after cutting by the most ambitious estimates
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  Speaker 8: some two hundred billion, after promising two trillion and one trillion,
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  Speaker 8: dose has sort of fade away. Not but there's no
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  Speaker 8: there's no longer any DOSEE efforts. There are, but too
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  Speaker 8: many Republicans don't that's not what they really believe in.
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  Speaker 8: You know, there were Okay, let's how do we how
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  Speaker 8: do we you know, tweak Obamacare instead of repealing Obama
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  Speaker 8: right to repeal Obamacare, and again they're going to make
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  Speaker 8: a bad deal and perpetuate the Obamacare subsidies. I've said it,
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  Speaker 8: as you know ninety days ago. It's going to happen, sadly,
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  Speaker 8: because Republicans don't truly believe that government is not the answer.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and we've got that deadline. I think everybody's favorite
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  Speaker 6: media darling, Jasmine Crockett was the one just a couple
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  Speaker 6: of days ago, SA you were reminding whoever was watching
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  Speaker 6: that there's another government shut down deadline coming in January.
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  Speaker 6: What are you seeing in the tea leaves, Bob doesn't
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  Speaker 6: sound like you're hopeful.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I don't think the Republicans have the stomach for
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  Speaker 8: another fight. And I know this is unfortunately fatalistic and pestive, isssuy.
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  Speaker 8: But because now we're in twenty six. But I said
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  Speaker 8: early last year, this is the year.
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  Speaker 6: This is the year to.
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  Speaker 8: Shrink government, to cut spending, to eliminate, to reduce and
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  Speaker 8: so forth. And if Republicans don't do in twenty five,
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  Speaker 8: get worse than twenty six for being an election. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: Republicans didn't cut spending in twenty five unfortunately.
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  Speaker 23: And you have.
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  Speaker 8: And they did pass out of the House a decent
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  Speaker 8: first step reform bill from a healthcare standpoint. They did
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  Speaker 8: pass some good things in that bill. But they need
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  Speaker 8: to do they need to do more, and it really
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  Speaker 8: need to go bolder and bigger while they have the opportunity,
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  Speaker 8: while they have full control of government. But so you know,
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  Speaker 8: I don't think Republicans. I think what I suspect they'll
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  Speaker 8: do is we'll keep the Biden COVID budget in place.
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  Speaker 8: They'll do a cr T the end of the year,
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  Speaker 8: and I think they'll unfortunately, include a deal on extending
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  Speaker 6: Bob Good is on with us. He is the host
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