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"The Storytellers" (FTTxJT Tue 082526 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran's financial connections
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Speaker 1: around the globe.
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Speaker 2: This is Independence from Virginia. Again, first thing today by
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Speaker 2: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 3: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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Speaker 3: he needs.
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Speaker 2: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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Speaker 4: He only aims.
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Speaker 5: To please you.
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Speaker 6: Let me be your Joe.
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Speaker 1: Bless you for letting us be of service to you
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Speaker 1: this morning.
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Speaker 7: I want to be your Joe.
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Speaker 1: Or as the candelabra sang, be our guest. Be our guest.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if Jerry Orbach can do it, I can
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Speaker 1: do it, right? Thank you for joining in on the
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Speaker 1: radio program. First and foremost, unabashedly calling ourselves a radio program,
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Speaker 1: but In order to stay in with the crowd, we'll
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Speaker 1: call you our content creators. How about that? And you
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Speaker 1: can do that after I tell you what went on
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Speaker 1: last night. I expect you to tell me how it's
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Speaker 1: impacting you where you are at 434-882-4217. Text messages because
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Speaker 1: mornings are crazy. It's the suppository of all the last
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Speaker 1: minute things that you figured you had time for later.
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Speaker 1: Now is later. So while you're trying to catch up
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Speaker 1: on all that stuff and chiding yourself for not doing
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Speaker 1: it when you had a chance earlier, you can shoot
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Speaker 1: texts to me about stuff you hear us get into
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Speaker 1: this morning. And there is a lot. That was Scott Bessant,
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Speaker 1: of course, the Economic D-Day press conference there. I like
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Speaker 1: the body language and voice inflation. He was nervous. He
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Speaker 1: was scared. Those weren't his words. He was told words. But,
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Speaker 1: you know, all of the folks, I have no idea
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Speaker 1: what that means, Kareem. So please, you know, set that up.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure who you're bearing tribute to, but we'll
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Speaker 1: need a little bit more detail as you text to us.
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Speaker 1: Because that happens. Texting becomes this sort of shorthand. that
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Speaker 1: the world tries to understand for you, LOL hashtag. And
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Speaker 1: we rail on the hashtag. I grew up in the
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Speaker 1: world where we used to call it the chromium pulpit.
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Speaker 1: If your entire political ideology could fit on a bumper
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Speaker 1: sticker on the back of a Honda, then you might
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Speaker 1: want to get a book somewhere and dig in. But
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Speaker 1: this is how campaigns happen. And this is why we
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Speaker 1: grow weary of them. That's why programming that entirely focuses
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Speaker 1: around that kind of campaigning starts to lose listeners and
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Speaker 1: viewers after a while. Not our business model at all.
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Speaker 1: Our first things this morning, as you heard, Treasury Secretary
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Speaker 1: Scott Besson announcing the sanctions aimed at Iran's partners. Asked
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Speaker 1: why the U.S. was not imposing secondary sanctions on Iran's
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Speaker 1: trading partners Besant told reporters he wanted countries to have
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to make their own decisions to shift away
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Speaker 1: from the Islamist regime. Iran, for their part, is vowing
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Speaker 1: to resist the expanding economic pressure. Finance Minister Syed Ali
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Speaker 1: Madanzini said that Tehran was already prepared to withstand additional
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Speaker 1: American pressure and take up to two years covering their
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Speaker 1: own costs. Nearly 50 House Democrats have demanded that the
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Speaker 1: President and Secretary Pete Henseth provide detailed accounting of how
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Speaker 1: the war with Iran is costing taxpayers. The move, led
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Speaker 1: by Colorado's Jason Crow, New Hampshire's Maggie Goodlander, and California's
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Speaker 1: Derek Tran, said the administration must explain how this is
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Speaker 1: impacting taxpayers. The $ 40 trillion debt might have a clue
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Speaker 1: attached to it somewhere, folks. Deadlines to apply for mail-in
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Speaker 1: absentee ballots are looming for the November midterms, depending on
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Speaker 1: what state has what kind of early voting procedures. The U.S.
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court yesterday gave way for the president's administration to
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Speaker 1: restrict access to the U.S. Postal Service for mail-in ballots
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Speaker 1: from states that have not verified their voter registration data
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Speaker 1: against the federal officials' cross-check for citizenship and registration in
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Speaker 1: multiple jurisdictions. The California Supreme Court is weighing whether Sheriff
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Speaker 1: Chad Bianco's seizure of approximately 650,000 ballots from a November
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Speaker 1: 2025 special election was constitutional. They heard oral arguments yesterday
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Speaker 1: on both sides of the issue.
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Speaker 2: U.S.
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Speaker 1: On Monday formally removed Syria from its list of state
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Speaker 1: sponsors of terrorism. They'd been on the list for 47 years.
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Speaker 1: Crews have started to contain the wildfire in the Sierra
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Speaker 1: Nevada foothills near Reno, Nevada, that have destroyed more than
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Speaker 1: 30 homes and have over 100,000 people evacuated from their area.
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Speaker 1: Those are our first things.
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Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 6: You know, we don't spend a ton of time..
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Speaker 1: On celebrity stuff, mostly because I think it's a distraction.
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Speaker 1: I think celebrities distract you from the stories they're trying
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Speaker 1: to tell. I remember when my son came to me
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Speaker 1: and said he wanted to study acting and he was nervous.
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Speaker 1: Of course, he was like sixth grade at the time.
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Speaker 1: He was nervous about telling me such a thing. Hello.
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Speaker 1: What do I do every day? But I said storytelling
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Speaker 1: is the most important thing a society can promote to do.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is how we transmit our stories, our legends,
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Speaker 1: our mythos. The things that are important to a society
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Speaker 1: are done through our storytelling. So I don't dismiss storytelling
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Speaker 1: as a business thing. I dismiss it as, or maybe
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Speaker 1: dismiss is the wrong word because that would imply I
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Speaker 1: ignore it, but I watch it with a jaundiced eye
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Speaker 1: for its inappropriate position in our current landscape. But I
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Speaker 1: feel like after enough stories have hit my feed over
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Speaker 1: Hollywood actresses like Anna Paquin, coming out and blaming the industry.
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Speaker 1: We've got another whole sphere of industry exploitation over child actors.
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Speaker 1: I thought about it for a minute. I said, you know,
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Speaker 1: they said the same thing about women when women were
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Speaker 1: not allowed to perform on stage as well. That it
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Speaker 1: was just exploitation. That using women in theater would be exploitive.
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Speaker 1: And we've Maybe we figured it out.
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: How many people have OnlyFans logins in the audience? I mean,
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Speaker 1: has made it to that. Sidney Sweeney is playing an
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Speaker 1: OnlyFans creator. Well, I guess along with being a housekeeper
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Speaker 1: or a nanny or something like that. I know, stop it.
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Speaker 1: Now you're driving along there, you're looking out the window,
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Speaker 1: you're not, hey, pay attention to me. Now you're thinking
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Speaker 1: of Sidney Sweeney as an OnlyFans creator. That's it. Wake
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Speaker 1: up and smell the espresso. Come back to me here.
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Speaker 1: The point is, Anna Paquin and a lot of other
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Speaker 1: Hollywood starlets, some of whom even knew Hayden Panettiere, are
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Speaker 1: all weighing in on the Hollywood exploitation of children. And
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Speaker 1: do they do it?
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Speaker 18: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Do they do it?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Do they exploit women?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Do they exploit men? Yes. Why do they exploit all
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Speaker 1: those genders and any of the other ones you might
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Speaker 1: be able to pick? Oh, and yes, we're going to
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Speaker 1: get into the Ennis Cantor freedom. I'm sad he's not
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Speaker 1: still in the NBA. I would like to see him
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Speaker 1: drafted by somebody in the WNBA. We'll get there. But
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Speaker 1: why does Hollywood exploit these people? Because we've lost our morality.
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Speaker 1: I said this before, just as much as our representative
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Speaker 1: republic only works if we're a moral people, the marketplace
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Speaker 1: only works properly if we're moral people. If we're just
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Speaker 1: using James Dean until he stops, you know, what would
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Speaker 1: James Dean be like at 80? Would he still be
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Speaker 1: getting roles? Would he be Clint Eastwood producing his own movies?
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Speaker 1: You'll get a guy like Paul Newman. The whole idea
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Speaker 1: of united artists was the artist said, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: hang on a second here. We're as important as the story.
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Speaker 1: And guess what? They were wrong, to a degree. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there are actors who are seminally capable of taking a
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Speaker 1: story and making it worth watching, especially ones that are obscure.
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Speaker 1: But you can count them on a couple of hands.
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Speaker 1: Generally speaking, what.
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Speaker 19: We..
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Speaker 1: At the box office or with clicks or with tune-ins
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Speaker 1: on our streaming apps as celebrity is so intangible as
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Speaker 1: it allows this kind of thing. And I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: that Hayden Panettiere, and of course, this is all the
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Speaker 1: extrapolations from, well, the brother of her boyfriend said that
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Speaker 1: they administered Narcan. Well, why did they have Narcan if
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Speaker 1: they weren't doing things that might require them to have
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Speaker 1: Narcan in the house? And I get it. And there's
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Speaker 1: an awful lot of people like Hayden Panettiere who are
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Speaker 1: depressed because they're not a child star anymore. The world
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Speaker 1: is full of those people. So, why did they get exploited?
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Speaker 1: Because they helped some movie company or TV producer. Leo
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Speaker 1: DiCaprio is a great example. There's a guy who survived it,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know what ghosts he carries around with him,
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Speaker 1: but it was... not family ties, but one of those
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Speaker 1: family shows from the, he played the little kid in it.
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Speaker 1: And now he's one of the biggest box office guys around.
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Speaker 1: And he may have ghosts, and he may sit there
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Speaker 1: at Scientology R Us and try to Salve his broken
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Speaker 1: feelings about it. But we reward the people who. You
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Speaker 1: know create this. And I'm not blaming you or me.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that as long as we pay extra.
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Speaker 1: To see a story being told. And I've said this
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Speaker 1: about people in my business.
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Speaker 6: Don't.
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Speaker 1: Don't sit here and celebrate us. We don't know why
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Speaker 1: we're popular. I said this to Sean Hannity one day,
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Speaker 1: who was producer anyway. And I get to know him.
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Speaker 1: We're in the industry. But of the big names, he's
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Speaker 1: the only one I really have ever met and talked with.
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Speaker 1: And I've talked to his producers on several occasions. And
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, he doesn't come across as the
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Speaker 1: good guy that he actually is. And they're like, yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of lawyers involved and everything else. I said,
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Speaker 1: I understand that. But, I mean, of all the people
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Speaker 1: in all of Christendom that I wish would expose a
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Speaker 1: little bit more of their person on the air, it
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Speaker 1: would be him. He probably would have twice as many affiliates,
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Speaker 1: if that's even humanly possible. Because we are just who
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Speaker 1: we are. Don't put us in some strange place because
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Speaker 1: most of us are chasing some sort of ghost that's
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Speaker 1: hollering at us that you're a fraud. And Panettiere obviously
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Speaker 1: had those ghosts. Anna Paquin probably has those ghosts. Lisa Kudrow.
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Speaker 1: All these folks have these ghosts because we don't know
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Speaker 1: why we're popular. And some of it is because we
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Speaker 1: really don't need to be.
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33:19
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33:24
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Speaker 23: Well, today's radical is going to be tomorrow's normal. And
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33:54
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Speaker 5: AOC..
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Speaker 23: Is not going to be nearly radical enough in just
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Speaker 1: I think it's now.
34:04
Speaker 23: They were as radical as you could get a few
34:07
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she's, you listen to some of these
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Speaker 1: newbies that Zorhan Mamdani promoted into Congress. They don't think
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Speaker 23: She's not radical enough. And she thought Chuck Schumer wasn't
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34:30
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34:35
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Speaker 1: That's a frightening premise.
34:39
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34:43
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Speaker 6: Hot in that.
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34:51
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34:53
Speaker 1: What was the age cutoff?
34:54
Speaker 23: 30.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 23: Well, that's where we're headed, Joe. By the time you
35:04
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: You don't speak to the voice of the young and
35:11
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35:13
Speaker 1: the radicals have always gone after, whether it's in brown
35:16
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35:27
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35:35
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35:38
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35:57
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36:00
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36:11
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36:19
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36:23
Speaker 1: of modern conservatives forget this. They should read Russell Kirk.
36:29
Speaker 1: A conservative doesn't ignore new ideas. They take the new
36:34
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36:37
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36:46
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36:49
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36:57
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37:01
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37:04
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37:08
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37:13
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37:22
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37:26
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37:32
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37:37
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37:40
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37:44
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37:46
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37:49
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37:53
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37:55
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37:58
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Speaker 1: Never Got a Movie. And it's interesting that nobody ever
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Speaker 1: questions when the Associated Press does this, but Politico is
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Speaker 1: chasing me around because I serve on the board of
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Speaker 1: an accountability, a transparency group, and they want to know
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Speaker 1: who's paying for us. I have a story here. Where's
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Speaker 1: the story about the nonprofits doing voter outreach? This was...
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Speaker 1: Capital Research Center, Great Group. Tax-exempt organizations involved in voter
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Speaker 1: registration and get-out-the-vote efforts spent $ 639 million in 2024, according
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Speaker 1: to Capital Research Center.
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Speaker 6: Report.
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Speaker 1: The report is called The Charities Influencing Elections 2024 and Beyond.
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Speaker 1: Many of the top spenders were National Popular Vote Movement,
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Speaker 1: redistricting campaigns, and ranked choice voting advocate groups. But I
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Speaker 1: sit on the board of a group that wants to
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Speaker 1: find out what the government is doing and how, and
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Speaker 1: we issue FOIA requests to see what they're spending your
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Speaker 1: money on, and they want to know about us. What
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Speaker 1: about the Associated Press, Pally? Who's paid for all these
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Speaker 1: stories about climate change coming down on our heads? That's
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Speaker 1: the question I would like to see someone answer, but
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Speaker 1: they're not trying to. They're too busy saying, isn't it wonderful,
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Speaker 1: we're going to get rid of fire. And I know
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Speaker 1: that there's a lot of eddies and currents in the
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Speaker 1: climate movement. A lot of profiteers out there trying to
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Speaker 1: make a buck off of the chicken little sky is
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Speaker 1: falling mentality that surrounds climate change. But the radicals, as
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Speaker 1: Clark was talking about in the last segment, the radicals
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Speaker 1: believe fire is the worst thing that ever happened to
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Speaker 1: the planet. And I don't mean the wildfires like they're
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Speaker 1: burning in Reno. I mean that man... figured out how
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Speaker 1: to make our own fire as we wanted on demand.
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Speaker 1: And that's not new. I was at an art opening
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Speaker 1: in the 80s down in the village in New York.
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Speaker 1: I think it was, was it Soho? Was it the village?
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Speaker 1: There's no real like boundary markers, but we ate at
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Speaker 1: De Niro's place. It was new at the time. Tribeca grill.
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Speaker 1: My aunt was in town and she had an art show.
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Speaker 1: So I went out and we, we went to all
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Speaker 1: these galleries. My aunt would wear me out and she
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Speaker 1: was an artist and she had an art show. And
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Speaker 1: so we're at this art opening and the only human
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Speaker 1: being that's my age is this girl. Okay. That was
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Speaker 1: all right. Point number one, she's female. And she was
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Speaker 1: standing in the corner kind of alone, not looking like
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Speaker 1: she had many people to talk to. So I sidled over.
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Speaker 1: Not enough O's and smooths for Joe Thomas in the
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Speaker 1: mid 80s. And I started talking to her and I
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Speaker 1: then learned what they mean when they say the coyote
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Speaker 1: will chew his leg off to get out of the
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Speaker 1: bear trap. because she just started going on about fire.
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Speaker 1: It was literally telling me how fire gave the human
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Speaker 1: race the authority to be an apex predator when we
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Speaker 1: had none of the physical attributes necessary to be an
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Speaker 1: apex predator. Therefore, we've completely ruined the world because we've
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Speaker 1: set the ecosystem on us. Oh, get me out of here.
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