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"The Devil's Business" (FTTxJT Sat 101726 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll do it live.
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  Speaker 1: Joe works at the steel mill.
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  Speaker 4: He's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 1: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 5: Drops a kid to school and all the way.
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  Speaker 1: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 6: All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 4: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 7: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, bless you for letting me serve you on this
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 8: Give me a call. Put me to the test. I
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  Speaker 8: know lots of people say, hey, thank you for joining
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  Speaker 8: us on the Saturday morning when they recorded it on Thursday.
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  Speaker 8: And you could usually tell because the news stories and
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  Speaker 8: this is the cross that somebody who does what I
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  Speaker 8: do with the intentions that I do it has to bear.
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  Speaker 8: You can't take a day off and put some best
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  Speaker 8: of on there because you're talking about news stories that
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  Speaker 8: happened maybe at best a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 1: Life marches.
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  Speaker 8: That was an expression that was very popular in my
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  Speaker 8: circle as I was growing up.
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  Speaker 1: Life marches.
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  Speaker 8: And if you and I want to share a rapport,
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  Speaker 8: I need to be sharing with you what's going on today.
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  Speaker 9: Not today.
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  Speaker 1: Three days ago.
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  Speaker 8: And I was thinking, you know, we don't have a
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  Speaker 8: full roster of who joins us on Saturday mornings. I
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  Speaker 8: know obviously my flagship station carries us.
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  Speaker 1: That was a difficult negotiation.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Should you put my own, I want you to put
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  Speaker 8: my show on. I don't want to put your show
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  Speaker 8: on our show on God, five days of it.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that enough?
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  Speaker 8: Um, But I know that our friends at 103.9 FM,
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  Speaker 8: my old home on Long Island, WRCN, Long Island News Radio,
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  Speaker 8: and our new friends, 106.9 in Las Vegas, know the
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  Speaker 8: names Colin Ferguson, know the names Steven Paddock.
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  Speaker 1: They know the horrors that they brought to their communities.
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  Speaker 8: And I will tell you the one thing that is
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  Speaker 8: absolutely common along with this John Griffin is that none
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  Speaker 8: of it was done because guns exist. I can make
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  Speaker 8: a pretty good case that all three and every other
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  Speaker 8: incident of mass violence or any kind of violence, because
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  Speaker 8: it really doesn't matter how many other people are involved.
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  Speaker 8: If you're having violence done to you, it's really all
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  Speaker 8: that matters. The one thing that.
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  Speaker 1: Is provable is that evil exists. Hate exists.
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  Speaker 8: And that's what we are supposed to be fighting every
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  Speaker 8: day as we walk God's green earth.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that and so much more.
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  Speaker 8: And I promise only a little bit about the Elizabeth
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  Speaker 8: Holmes documentary. Only a little bit. Unlike everywhere else where
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  Speaker 8: it's like, what shooter? What shooter in Bend, Oregon? I
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  Speaker 8: was talking about the Elizabeth Holmes documentary.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness gracious.
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  Speaker 8: President Trump Friday signed an executive order putting a hold
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  Speaker 8: on sanctions targeting the Russian economy, the ones that were
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  Speaker 8: passed in the name of Lindsey Graham. His decision comes
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  Speaker 8: after a week of stunning news, including the purchase of
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  Speaker 8: diesel cars raw diesel from Russia, Ukraine finding out that
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  Speaker 8: its intel wasn't as good as they thought it was,
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  Speaker 8: or at least it wasn't coming as fast as they
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  Speaker 8: thought it was, and then when all of a sudden
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  Speaker 8: Skynet didn't work for them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Starlink. Meanwhile, no, that's a theory. I don't care.
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  Speaker 8: Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz called the teacher that threw
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  Speaker 8: her cell phone at the teenager that shut up her classroom.
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  Speaker 8: and the man who pulled into the parking lot when
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  Speaker 8: he saw the shooter, John Griffin, shooting at another car
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  Speaker 8: on the road, followed him in with his legally owned
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  Speaker 8: firearm and killed him while wrestling with the teacher who
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  Speaker 8: had stopped the shooting by throwing her cell phone into
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  Speaker 8: the face of the assailant. Meanwhile, the young man's mother,
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  Speaker 8: Shontai Nickerson is reported to have purchased the shotgun just
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  Speaker 8: months earlier for her son's 16th birthday. Nickerson, confronted by
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  Speaker 8: the New York Times and CNN outside of her apartment, said, sobbing,
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  Speaker 8: I miss my boy. I'm so sorry. I wish I
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  Speaker 8: could have done something. In prison, Sean Combs has been
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  Speaker 8: moved to a new one in Pennsylvania after a fight
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  Speaker 8: left him with a head injury. According to reports, from
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  Speaker 8: inside the Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute. The fight was
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  Speaker 8: based on other inmates' feelings that the former rap impresario
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  Speaker 8: lower on Friday. S & P fell 1.1%. The Nasdaq
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  Speaker 2: And call it even. First Thing Today by Joe Thomas
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  Speaker 2: on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you're a horse, if you're a horse,
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  Speaker 1: that finger would be your hoof. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 8: I'm still wondering if we can get that as a
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  Speaker 8: fashion accessory in a world that puts these giant discs
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  Speaker 8: in people's earlobes and pierces parts of the body. I
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  Speaker 8: have no idea why you pierce them. I mean, I
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  Speaker 8: can understand certain places that I would never put a piercing,
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  Speaker 8: but I get it.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the places, I'm like, you pierced your shoulder blade?
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it. I mean, I know some, you know, I.
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  Speaker 8: Just, it's not something, and I'm not going to belabor,
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  Speaker 8: but my wife wanted me to pierce my ear when
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  Speaker 8: we were dating.
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  Speaker 1: And I pierced my ear.
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  Speaker 8: And I told her at the onset, I told her
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  Speaker 8: as it was happening, I said, sweetie, at some point
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  Speaker 8: it's going to grow closed. And she said, why don't
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  Speaker 8: you want it? I said, no, I don't wear jewelry.
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  Speaker 8: And she looked at me and I had no jewelry on.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't even have a wristwatch on.
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  Speaker 1: I don't wear jewelry.
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  Speaker 8: It doesn't cross my mind when I get up in
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  Speaker 8: the morning, you know, brushing my teeth, taking a shower,
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  Speaker 8: all that. And then I'm out the door. I don't
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  Speaker 8: think about jewelry. I'm lucky I remember my glasses. And
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  Speaker 8: sometimes I don't. This is why I keep spares in
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  Speaker 8: my office and in my studio. Because it's just not
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  Speaker 8: something that occurs to me. But anyway, the fashion accessory,
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  Speaker 8: just a little tiny hoof on your middle finger. You know,
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  Speaker 8: affix it to your fingernail, which is technically what a.
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  Speaker 1: Horse's hoof is. And just walk around with a horseshoe.
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  Speaker 8: And it struck me that I don't think our Joliet
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  Speaker 8: station in Chicagoland gets the show. But a very neat thing,
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  Speaker 8: Steve Helles made me this customized. It's way too big
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  Speaker 8: for my middle finger. I mean, if I wore this
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  Speaker 8: on my middle finger, it would be making a statement.
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  Speaker 8: But he makes customized.
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  Speaker 1: Horseshoes.
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  Speaker 8: He gets them from a farrier. And polishes them up
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  Speaker 8: in a Joe Thomas first thing today. It's an interesting
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  Speaker 8: gift for somebody who was born on a Friday the 13th.
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  Speaker 8: So I don't really do a lot of good luck charms,
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  Speaker 8: but she's beautiful anyway. I'm going to hang her in
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  Speaker 8: the appropriate fashion. Why tempt fate anyway? So we were
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  Speaker 8: talking about Colin Ferguson. We were talking about Stephen Paddock.
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  Speaker 8: And breaking my own rule about mentioning these people's names,
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  Speaker 8: but it's been so many years, their notoriety is of
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  Speaker 8: little interest. Paddock, of course, is the one that went
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  Speaker 8: into the Mandalay Bay and started shooting the Route 91
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  Speaker 8: Country Festival. I was there months later for the Consumer
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  Speaker 8: Electronics Show. I actually did a segment of this program
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  Speaker 8: from that parking lot. Still had crime scene tape on it.
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  Speaker 8: Felt a little bit like Bill Curtis.
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  Speaker 1: I did that. Is that a decent Bill Curtis? Do
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  Speaker 1: you even know?
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  Speaker 8: He's the true crime guy. I don't know if TLC
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  Speaker 8: still airs any. I'm Bill Curtis. I think he was
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  Speaker 8: a local Charlotte TV anchor that they just liked his
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  Speaker 8: delivery for those true crime shows. And Colin Ferguson in,
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  Speaker 8: was it 1993?
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  Speaker 1: Long Island Railroad.
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  Speaker 8: Similar in many ways to the Bend, Oregon shooting with
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  Speaker 8: this John Griffin kid.
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  Speaker 1: Decedent. Because it was passengers on the train.
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  Speaker 8: This guy started shooting and within seconds other passengers had
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  Speaker 8: tackled him.
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  Speaker 1: He is.
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  Speaker 8: Living out the rest of his days with three hots
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  Speaker 8: and a cot. at the expense of New York State taxpayers.
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  Speaker 8: Unlike David Berkowitz, though unrepentant, as I understand it, in
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  Speaker 8: the Huskow. But none of these are because guns existed.
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  Speaker 8: Colin Ferguson used, I think, if I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: Mistaken, a Glock.
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  Speaker 8: And what he did do was inspire Carolyn McCarthy, wife
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  Speaker 8: of one of the folks who were killed, Dennis McCarthy
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  Speaker 8: and the mother of a grievously injured passenger, Kevin, sent
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  Speaker 8: her to Congress riding on this wave of anti-gun legislation.
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  Speaker 8: And she is just, you know, during her term in Congress,
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  Speaker 8: just a fountainhead of gun control legislation, as if Colin
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  Speaker 8: Ferguson would have only done this to her husband if
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  Speaker 8: guns existed. And I understand the pain. You grasp, we're humans,
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  Speaker 8: we understand the need to want to do something. So
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  Speaker 8: let's talk about doing something. What we know from Ben
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  Speaker 8: to Oregon is this kid was a special needs student
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  Speaker 8: for a reason. We don't know that reason. If we
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  Speaker 8: as a community are going to do things better, and
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  Speaker 8: here's the thing, you're like, oh, what do you need
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  Speaker 8: to know that for? Because as a community, we need
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  Speaker 8: to do things better so that people like this 16-year-old
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  Speaker 8: don't ask for a shotgun for their birthday. get a
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  Speaker 8: shotgun for their birthday, and within two months are blasting
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  Speaker 8: open a door to the very special needs classroom that
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  Speaker 8: they had been in years earlier.
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  Speaker 1: So knowing why is important. The photographs of him online
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  Speaker 1: with his mom, he looks.
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  Speaker 8: Sullen and angry. But that's a bad cop because my son,
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  Speaker 8: my youngest son, doesn't smile in photographs. Does that mean
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  Speaker 8: he's in danger? He's the funniest kid I know. He
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  Speaker 8: just doesn't like photographs, so he just kind of stands
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  Speaker 8: there and stares. But the photographs of this kid, he
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  Speaker 8: looks like he's angry. which is what the public gets
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  Speaker 8: to know. So what was he angry about? Thou shalt
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  Speaker 8: not murder. And you say, well, that doesn't help, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Thoughts and prayers don't help.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, they do.
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  Speaker 8: Because the more thoughtful we are, the more prayerful we are,
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  Speaker 8: the more we understand our role in the world, the
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  Speaker 8: less likely we are to fall prey to Satan, to Lucifer,
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  Speaker 8: when he comes knocking on our door saying, hey, I've
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  Speaker 8: got an idea because that's where this comes from. It
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  Speaker 8: doesn't come from a firearm manufacturer. It comes from the
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  Speaker 8: fallen one who runs this place. We're here trying to survive,
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  Speaker 8: trying to be an example as we survive the slings
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  Speaker 8: and arrows of the devil's house. so that when we're
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  Speaker 11: Oh, information laundering is really quite ferocious.
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  Speaker 8: According to Mike Bloomberg's newspaper....
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Joe, it's not fair to call it that. Yes,
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  Speaker 8: It's absolutely freaking fair to call it that. Mike Bloomberg's newspaper.
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  Speaker 8: ago to promote the technocracy movement of which Michael Bloomberg
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  Speaker 8: Mike Bloomberg's newspaper... not to be confused with Mike Bloomberg's
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  Speaker 8: nonprofit that goes out and tries to promote phony baloney clients,
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  Speaker 8: Rapes pizza pie delivery guys or some such. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 8: Bloomberg's newspaper and News Network, is that Trump has used
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  Speaker 1: Ah, yes, we're back. Our spokesperson, Jim Crow, tells us
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  Speaker 7: pretty sober.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 10: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 10: and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
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  Speaker 10: or a friend. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. A message
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  Speaker 7: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
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  Speaker 7: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
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  Speaker 7: the Federal Trade Commission.
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  Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 8: Kareem writes in on the text message hotline at 434-882-4217,
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: playing along with the First Thing Today by Joe Thomas
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  Speaker 8: parlor game. catch the comparison. Joe, gun control and temperance
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  Speaker 8: movements look a lot alike.
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  Speaker 1: He's right.
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  Speaker 8: With the same outcome, too, especially where organized crime is concerned.
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  Speaker 8: And I said this on the Friday edition of the program.
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  Speaker 8: It's understandable. It's because humans, of all of our vices,
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  Speaker 8: of all seven of our vices, sloth is the It's
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  Speaker 8: about to lap the competition the second time. As a
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  Speaker 8: matter of fact, some of the vices, I believe, are
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  Speaker 8: vices because sloth exists. Because these vices get a hold
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  Speaker 8: of us because we're lazy. We don't want to work hard.
• 45:35
  Speaker 8: We don't want to do the hard things. And so
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  Speaker 8: when something horrific happens like this, 16-year-old takes his birthday
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  Speaker 8: present to school, to.
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  Speaker 1: His ex-school, to show it off to his friends. Look
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  Speaker 1: what I got.
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  Speaker 8: Killing three, four, then winding up deceased himself. Perhaps this
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  Speaker 8: was suicide by law enforcement. We don't know any of
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  Speaker 8: that yet. What we do know is plenty And what
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  Speaker 8: seems to be coming out of it is very little.
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  Speaker 8: And Mary writes in, what is the voyeuristic interest in
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  Speaker 8: the shooting in Bend, Joe? I understand Long Island, Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 8: We've all at some point or another had some sort
• 46:30
  Speaker 8: of this violent event. Columbine, Parkland, Connecticut. We've all had them.
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  Speaker 8: What's the difference that we know why the person did it,
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: to stop the gun grabbers, to stop the people that
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  Speaker 8: are insisting that there is some inanimate object that is
• 47:01
  Speaker 8: going to cause harm to you or cause benefit to you.
• 47:06
  Speaker 8: These are the same people that told you health care
• 47:09
  Speaker 8: insurance was the same thing as health care. You remember
• 47:13
  Speaker 8: those sales campaigns? That marketing program probably came up by
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: the same people that rebranded Hamas as a marginalized community.
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: The marketing campaign has to be fought against. And therefore,
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  Speaker 8: we need to know what went on so that we
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  Speaker 8: can be better. We can be better.
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  Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter who was a good mom or
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: who was a bad mom. But you know what?
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  Speaker 8: You don't get better parents without taking a look in
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: at where parenting goes awry. Am I a perfect parent?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've raised three very good adults. Are they perfect?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 8: I still have to parent. My children are all, you know,
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  Speaker 8: in their mid-20s and up. Am I still parenting?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. You don't get to stop.
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  Speaker 8: Because your responsibility is going to outlive you by decades.
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  Speaker 8: And that's one of the What is it called? Vainglory
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: is the... I don't have my list. I don't have
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  Speaker 8: my Joe Thomas in the Morning Field Guide to the
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  Speaker 8: American Left. There's an addendum, which is a list of
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  Speaker 8: our seven vices and our seven virtues. Also in there
• 48:50
  Speaker 8: is a list of the Ten Commandments and the original
• 48:54
  Speaker 8: Bill of Rights, just as a reference material, just so
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  Speaker 8: that you know when all else fails, we have written
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  Speaker 8: some notes down, like thou shall not murder. And is
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  Speaker 8: it surprising to you? I think it's as much correlation
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  Speaker 8: as it is causation, but young people seem less and
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  Speaker 8: less likely to believe that murder is a grievous sin
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  Speaker 8: any more than just a thing you do. And is
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  Speaker 8: it coincidental that this has happened in the.
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  Speaker 1: 25, 30-odd years.
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  Speaker 8: Since we started taking the Ten Commandments down from our classrooms,
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  Speaker 8: the same classrooms that this kid Griffin in Bend, Oregon,
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  Speaker 8: shot up, used to have a list up there. And
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  Speaker 8: he might have walked into that room saying, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 8: murdering is a grievous sin. I didn't, I forgot that.
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  Speaker 8: And no, it's not perfect. Nothing's a panacea. But we
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: have to get better as a community. We have to,
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: when people are in pain, go to any of our
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: chapters on our podcast page where we've discussed the transgender issue.
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  Speaker 8: I don't care if you're gay or straight, but I
• 50:24
  Speaker 8: want to care that you hate yourself so much that
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  Speaker 8: you want to mutilate your body. Because to me, there's
• 50:33
  Speaker 8: a mental pain going on in there that's deeper than
• 50:36
  Speaker 8: the physical attributes that you want to cut off. You
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: don't like being a girl. And let's examine that. When
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  Speaker 8: did that start? Well, when I was a kid, all
• 50:51
  Speaker 8: the girls had to do all the chores and never
• 50:54
  Speaker 8: got to go out and play. Okay, I think we're
• 50:56
  Speaker 8: starting to see where your hatred of girls has come from,
• 50:59
  Speaker 8: of being a girl. You wanted to be a boy
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  Speaker 8: and go out and play. And that's an obviously very
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  Speaker 8: shallow instance.
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  Speaker 1: But it is my true belief that you drill.
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  Speaker 8: Down in something. And I do this with my kids too. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: my wife is like, she'll upbraid me for something my
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: son did because she'll say to me, he does that
• 51:26
  Speaker 8: because you do. And she's right. And she's right. And
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  Speaker 8: I have to fix myself. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.
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  Speaker 8: So I try to do better. So I'm a better
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  Speaker 8: example for the kids that might, you know, misunderstand how
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: I behave.
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  Speaker 1: And we do this.
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: Kids grow up looking at their parents and they say, well,
• 51:48
  Speaker 8: that's how mom and dad are. And parents need to
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: do a better job explaining, you know, how they behave
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  Speaker 8: and a better job of patterning good behavior for their kids.
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  Speaker 8: But we need to know these things so that we
• 52:12
  Speaker 8: don't keep getting worse. And the less we talk about
• 52:16
  Speaker 8: what goes on with these shooting incidents, the more we
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: pretend that it's the gun's fault. The more we say
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: you can't victim shame the kid was in special needs education.
• 52:30
  Speaker 8: Why was he in special needs education? Had he gotten
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: a bunch of vaccines and become autistic? Was he on
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: the spectrum? What was it? He was in photographs with
• 52:41
  Speaker 8: his mom going places. He wasn't in a wheelchair like
• 52:45
  Speaker 8: one of his victims who's clinging to life in a hospital.
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  Speaker 1: We need to get.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Bobby.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 10: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 10: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sam I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 10: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 10: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 6: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 6: of their lives.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 6: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 6: the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 16: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 6: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support.
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  Speaker 6: for victories great and small.
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  Speaker 1: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 16: My victory was getting my service dog a new best friend.
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  Speaker 6: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 6: they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 1: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 6: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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