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"Life" (FTTxJT Fri 100226 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We didn't make talk radio. We made it better. First
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  Speaker 1: Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at the steel mill.
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  Speaker 3: He's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 4: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 2: Drops a kid to school and on the way.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
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  Speaker 3: All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 6: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 5: He only aims to please you. Thank you for letting
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  Speaker 5: me be of service to you this morning.
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  Speaker 7: 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 5: Those are the important numbers. And if you want to
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  Speaker 5: play it in your state's keynote game, that's fine. But
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  Speaker 5: you being the most important local aspect of the radio station,
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  Speaker 5: how the news of the day is impacting you. is
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  Speaker 5: preeminently important. So please, I'll tell you what went on.
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  Speaker 5: I'll give you my analysis of it, certainly, and then
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  Speaker 5: let us have at it. Tell me either by text
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  Speaker 5: message to that phone number at 434-882-4217 or calling. We
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  Speaker 5: love to chat. We love the conversation. Or you can email.
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  Speaker 5: Jtinthemorningradio at gmail.com there and a couple of folks with
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  Speaker 5: emails already in on the issue of the discussion we've
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  Speaker 5: been having Good for America the podcast there but also
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  Speaker 5: on the subject of capital punishment and what's going on
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  Speaker 5: with the young lady who survived Krista Pike survived lethal
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  Speaker 5: injection this week and is now being cared for we
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  Speaker 5: gather from what we're told anyway that she's on life
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  Speaker 5: support at the hospital so we'll continue to follow that
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  Speaker 5: story and see where it takes us but certainly the
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  Speaker 5: issue of has been controversial this text message Joe what
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  Speaker 5: do you mean when you say this is a wedge
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  Speaker 5: issue for the left Because there are, and you just
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  Speaker 5: heard Bob Good, before we went to the news, Bob
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  Speaker 5: will come back with us in a little bit, talking
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  Speaker 5: about biblical perspective on capital punishment and interpretive, whether or
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  Speaker 5: not the Bible says, and life, the defense of life,
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  Speaker 5: and where is that boundary and what is man's role
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  Speaker 5: regarding life on earth. These things are all part. And
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  Speaker 5: so what the left will do is they'll seize on
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  Speaker 5: an issue like this Krista Pike story and use it
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  Speaker 5: to divide and or diminish the support of the conservative
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  Speaker 5: movement for things like the midterm elections. Because it's all
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  Speaker 5: about democracy. Democracy, as our friend Ray calls it, reminds
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  Speaker 5: us that it should be called democracies. Hey, our soldiers
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  Speaker 5: in hostile fire are going to receive more money for
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  Speaker 5: their services. They have nearly doubled the hostile fire pay.
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  Speaker 5: First time there's been a raise for our combat veterans
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  Speaker 5: since 2002. Imminent danger pay will be prorated at $ 9. 16
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  Speaker 5: per day up from $ 7. 50 with a $ 275 monthly cap
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  Speaker 5: in the same period. United States Thursday has called on
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  Speaker 5: Europe to tap into their reserves of diesel fuel immediately.
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  Speaker 5: Discussions here in the United States of restricting diesel exports
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  Speaker 5: to keep more of it in our gas pumps here.
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  Speaker 5: EU member states will be meeting today, could be, I
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  Speaker 5: think they may have already started meeting with the European
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  Speaker 5: Commission to discuss a coordinated response to the cost of
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  Speaker 5: diesel fuel. White House Council of Economic Advisers had some
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  Speaker 5: report on the impacts of the policies espoused by democratic
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  Speaker 5: socialists would have economically on the United States. Their estimate,
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  Speaker 5: $ 49 trillion net fiscal burden over the next decade. Justice
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  Speaker 5: day against non-citizens accused of illegal voting. Federal prosecutors just
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  Speaker 5: yesterday announced cases against 11 people. Pardon me, that was
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  Speaker 5: on Wednesday and then yesterday another. So that's a dozen
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  Speaker 5: so far just in the last couple of days. Judge
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  Speaker 5: on Thursday overturned President Trump's decision to fire Roger Rogoff.
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  Speaker 5: He was the former judge and veteran prosecutor named by
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  Speaker 5: the judges in the Western District of Washington to serve
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  Speaker 5: as the U.S. prosecutor in Seattle. Supreme Court also agreed
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  Speaker 5: Barbosa da Cunha. It involves catch and release and whether
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  Speaker 5: detainees must be held in the United States while pending hearings.
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  Speaker 5: We're awaiting September's employment report. I think it comes out
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  Speaker 5: somewhere in the next 20 minutes. Federal Reserve is watching
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  Speaker 5: carefully to see If there is a rebuke in there
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  Speaker 5: over their rate hike. And as we mentioned, Krista Pike,
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  Speaker 5: the convicted murderer who's been on death row since 1995,
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  Speaker 5: survived two attempts at lethal injection this week and now
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  Speaker 1: Talk radio just the way your mother used to make it.
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  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: About our fortune and I've decided that we're really not
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  Speaker 3: to blame for the love that's deep inside us now
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  Speaker 3: is still the same and the sound we make together
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  Speaker 3: is the music to the story in your eyes it's
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  Speaker 3: been shining down upon me now I realize so the
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  Speaker 3: question is to the tide slowly turning wash your.
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  Speaker 5: Heart What is the conservative position? Because, as I said,
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  Speaker 5: this issue out of Tennessee, the Krista Pike failed capital
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  Speaker 5: punishment has brought it back to the fore. As I said,
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  Speaker 5: dinner time last night, this question was asked, why didn't
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  Speaker 5: the warden just go in and the second time the
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  Speaker 5: warden The lethal injection didn't work. Just bash her in
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  Speaker 5: the head the way she did her victim back in 1995,
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  Speaker 5: Colleen Slemmer. And this becomes the question that burns at
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  Speaker 5: us is what is man's right to punish? And where
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  Speaker 5: does that– and Bob brought this up. Bob Good on
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  Speaker 5: with us, Good for America. Bloodshed demands justice, Genesis. Murder
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  Speaker 5: merits death, Exodus. Remember, murder was the sixth commandment, not kill.
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  Speaker 5: We were, and at some point we decided, maybe we
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  Speaker 5: all voted, that kill was the same as murder. This
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  Speaker 5: becomes the fruit of the never war movement, never defend yourself,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, You know, what the standpoint is, certainly
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  Speaker 5: taking of a life is not something you're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 5: But it does defend your position. If you are being attacked,
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  Speaker 5: you have to defend your life, and therefore that's not murder. Now,
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  Speaker 5: the depravity of the case regarding....
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  Speaker 13: Ms.
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  Speaker 5: Pike merits certainly a lot of people saying, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 5: how could you even be talking about defending the indefensible?
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  Speaker 5: But we talked about the ministry, the prison ministries that
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  Speaker 5: are being led by David Berkowitz, and that there are
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  Speaker 5: many people who have testified that they've been brought to
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  Speaker 5: Jesus through the prison ministries in New York State with
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  Speaker 5: David Berkowitz. So So if you were to have killed him,
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  Speaker 5: this is son of freaking Sam. And so that becomes
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  Speaker 5: a question is if we had killed him with lethal injection,
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  Speaker 5: as many people wanted to, or just leave him in
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  Speaker 5: a room with the victim's families and see what happens,
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  Speaker 5: that becomes a question is how many lives has he
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  Speaker 5: brought to Christ since his salvation?
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  Speaker 15: Correct.
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  Speaker 5: And it questions the ability. But the most important point
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  Speaker 5: is that the left, the agents of this political misfortune,
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  Speaker 5: are going to use this to split conservatives. And you
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  Speaker 5: can't let them do it. Good morning. You're on the
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  Speaker 5: air with Joe first thing this morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: It's Clark.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Clark. What's your thought on this?
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  Speaker 8: Well, let's start out with, I think, Adam Smith. Mercy
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  Speaker 8: for the guilty is cruelty for the innocent.
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  Speaker 5: Is it mercy? Because the definition of mercy, not to
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  Speaker 5: sound like a leftist, oh my God, I hear Mike,
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  Speaker 5: but if you're incarcerated for the rest of your life,
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  Speaker 5: all the things that everyone else in society is allowed
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  Speaker 5: to enjoy is taken away from you, is that mercy?
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  Speaker 5: Is that considered the same thing as mercy, or is
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  Speaker 5: mercy saying, we forgive you, go on with your life? Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 19: I guess it depends on how long your life is,
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  Speaker 19: because you could put them away for the.
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  Speaker 8: Rest of their life, and that's just like another four
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  Speaker 8: or five days.
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  Speaker 5: Could be. I mean, but is it also, if somebody
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  Speaker 5: is the agent of Satan, obviously like this woman was
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  Speaker 5: at that riverside, is not killing her, putting her at
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  Speaker 5: the side of her master at that point, which would
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  Speaker 5: then be merciful or make her at least live with
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  Speaker 5: the righteous and feel that burn?
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  Speaker 19: So I'm assuming that they had medical professionals of some kind.
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  Speaker 8: Involved in this lethal injection process.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, from what I understand is she had a medical
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  Speaker 5: condition that caused a reaction to the lethal injection, and
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  Speaker 5: that's why she didn't die.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So here's the thing.
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  Speaker 8: They're using tenobarbital.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: It is sick.
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  Speaker 8: It does a better job if it goes IV. Okay.
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  Speaker 8: But if I.
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  Speaker 20: Get a dog that comes in and it's very geriatric,
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  Speaker 20: it's got cardiac issues, severely dehydrated, the central venous pressure.
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  Speaker 8: Puts it, I'm not going to get in the veins.
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  Speaker 19: I'm not going to torture that dog by poking around
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  Speaker 19: and looking for veins, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just going to slip a dose in the abdomen.
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  Speaker 8: And he's going to get one.
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  Speaker 5: I'm losing.
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  Speaker 8: Instead of five seconds, it'll take 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Right. But, you know, what is humanity in that? I
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  Speaker 5: got you.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know, we're getting the same place and we're
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  Speaker 8: going easier. So here's the thing. I.
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  Speaker 19: Seriously got a question whether this was botched on purpose
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  Speaker 19: or not.
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  Speaker 5: That's very great. But like I said, this is the
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  Speaker 5: kind of thing that the left likes to drive a
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  Speaker 5: wedge between, you know, conservatives who want to see justice done.
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  Speaker 5: As you said, Adam Smith, you know, are we... coddling
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  Speaker 5: the murderer? And what about the family of the, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 5: I don't have her name on my tip of my tongue, Slemmer,
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  Speaker 5: who had her head bashed in on the side of
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  Speaker 5: the river?
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  Speaker 19: Well, I am not suggesting that there's any kind of
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  Speaker 19: conspiracy or link between the two, but I do find
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  Speaker 19: it interesting that we have this and the Cornell alleged
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  Speaker 19: rape case in the news in October of Before I'm
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  Speaker 19: at term. I think most of them are designed to
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  Speaker 19: gin up some voter bait.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the left, I see, you know, you're taking this,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and the Cornell story is, again, another one
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  Speaker 5: of those by choice. It is a news story by
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  Speaker 5: choice because of releases, you know, and, you know, We
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  Speaker 5: haven't really gone in depth into it so far this
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  Speaker 5: morning there. But so you're thinking this is all designed
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  Speaker 5: to get, you know, the the pro sex on demand crowd,
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  Speaker 5: you know, do what you will. And then there's a
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  Speaker 5: pill to clean that up in the morning crowd excited
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  Speaker 5: for the midterms.
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  Speaker 8: I think we're getting people excited about the midterms.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: You know, these are the folks who were endorsed by
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  Speaker 5: the IRGC, the ones who hang the dissidents in Town Square.
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  Speaker 19: It's funny the disconnect we can have, isn't it?
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  Speaker 21: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. Well, I have the idea.
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  Speaker 8: But, you know, yeah, the.
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  Speaker 19: And, you know, now used for capital punishment. This lethal
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  Speaker 19: injection is cruel and unusual punishment according to people.
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  Speaker 5: Rights here in Virginia as an example of what they view,
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  Speaker 5: that these unborn babies should have due process. I think
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  Speaker 5: of time about the IRGC endorsing all the Democrats in
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  Speaker 5: Well, Bob, I know you're traveling. You're up in Biden
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  Speaker 10: Only the United States has these five freedoms so simply
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  Speaker 5: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 4: Sure. We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 8: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, don't tell me what to do. Cannonball!
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  Speaker 5: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 10: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 18: Who, me?
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  Speaker 21: Wait, what?
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  Speaker 23: Come again?
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  Speaker 5: Amen to that.
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  Speaker 4: 434-882-4217. The radio program born of the mindset that we
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• 44:41
  Speaker 5: Blue cheer comes.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: Matt in central Virginia said you can't leave out blue cheer.
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  Speaker 5: So the summertime blues, yes, as we're now a week
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: and a half past the end of the summer. It's
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: a little late, guys. Maybe that's where the blues come
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: from there. Herein, to bring a fine point around to
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: our discussion of, you know, where the right to take
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  Speaker 5: a life comes in. And I.
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  Speaker 5: And you know this, and I've received emails saying, no, Joe,
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  Speaker 5: you're wrong. We need to, you know, eye for an eye.
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  Speaker 5: I think what we're facing, and again, this goes back
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  Speaker 5: to Joe Feroxa and John Quesenberry and our friends, you know,
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  Speaker 5: all across America. The theological side, face palm in the morning,
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  Speaker 5: I understand. But thanks to Martin Luther, I'm allowed to
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: take my Bible home and I'm allowed to read it
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  Speaker 5: in my own language. There is, to me, that the
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  Speaker 5: rabbi from Galilee that showed up in Jerusalem that Passover
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: hoping to try to save his temple David's temple, he
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: was hoping to save it and they crucified him for it.
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: But what he taught us was about the forgiveness and
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: the things that maybe, just maybe, are a little bit
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  Speaker 5: different from Old Testament to New Testament. Remember, there are
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  Speaker 5: things in the Old Testament that we would never do,
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  Speaker 5: stoning somebody for wearing two different fabrics in public, that
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  Speaker 5: kind of thing. So there are points in between the
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  Speaker 5: New and the Old Testament where I think that's where
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: we're getting our disconnect on whether or not as a
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: people we support or should be supporting capital punishment or not.
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: And this email comes in from Valerie. who's listening to
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: us in Chattanooga on WGOW-AM, and Valerie, I really appreciate
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: meeting you, and please email anytime, is that she says,
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: your point about David Berkowitz is very interesting. I hadn't
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: thought about that, and I hadn't thought about him. I
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: only knew the name Son of Sam. I'm a little
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: younger than you, Joe.
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  Speaker 21: Wink.
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  Speaker 5: As she said in her email. But I certainly have
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: heard of Son of Sam, did not know the rest
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  Speaker 5: of that story, and I think that is an important
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  Speaker 5: point about life. At what point is a life sacrifice?
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  Speaker 5: And do we get to have that determination? Because there
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: are purposes, and perhaps the bollocksed lethal injection... is indicative
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: of that purpose. As Ellen said earlier, maybe this Pike woman,
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: her failed execution is God's use of her to get
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: us talking about this again. Maybe. Certainly seems like something,
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: you know, no lightning strikes around here. 434-882-4217, coming to
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  Speaker 5: you from our city elders meeting here, governing the city gates,
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: and certainly something... great opinions here about this. But let
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  Speaker 5: me see what you've got for us on the phone.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning. You're on the air with Joe first thing
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  Speaker 5: this morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 8: It's Andy.
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  Speaker 13: I just wanted to weigh in on a.
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  Speaker 5: Couple of things.
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  Speaker 8: Keep doing what you're doing.
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  Speaker 13: You've got, you know, better and better guests.
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  Speaker 8: All the time.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that includes you guys. I mean, you are my guests.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: You know, because, you know, it's me and the listener.
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  Speaker 13: More fan than guest. I mean, you know, when you
• 49:28
  Speaker 13: did your 17 years in your.
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  Speaker 8: Former place where you can't talk about it.
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: I can't talk about that. It didn't happen. Who knows
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: where I was for 17 years.
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  Speaker 13: Well, you were the person that actually came to my
• 49:40
  Speaker 13: house and actually delivered the instructions to me from the
• 49:48
  Speaker 13: Commonwealth attorney about this. just incredible corruption that had heretofore.
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  Speaker 8: Not been reported.
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  Speaker 5: And unfortunately, small towns have that kind of corruption, for sure.
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  Speaker 13: Well, you know, you're talking about a university with tens
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  Speaker 13: of billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 8: Of cash flow, but most of it was.
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  Speaker 13: Through the hospital. The aforementioned has been, you know, he's
• 50:21
  Speaker 13: gone to the other side now.
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  Speaker 11: Anyway.
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: He's faced the more harsh judge than anyone on this
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: planet can bring for him anyway. So what other things
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: are on your mind from this morning's program?
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  Speaker 13: I'm getting inspired by Dr. Not that Dr. Brad, but
• 50:42
  Speaker 13: our good friend in Alabama.
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  Speaker 5: Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Clark, yeah. Yeah, go plant more trees.
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  Speaker 5: All right, I like that. More trees are better, especially chestnuts.
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  Speaker 5: And one of the things people ask me about history
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  Speaker 5: growing up in New York, the smell of New York
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  Speaker 5: City when the chestnut vendors come out. I mean, it's
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: a whole different thing. It's a whole different animal. There's
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: something about Manhattan Island, especially around Central Park in that area,
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  Speaker 5: when the roasted chestnut vendors come out around Christmastime, I
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: can almost smell it now. And I don't get wistful
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  Speaker 5: about New York City all that much, but that's just
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: one of those things that when the roasted chestnut carts
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  Speaker 5: came out, that was something else.
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  Speaker 13: That blight is one of the legendary transformations of an
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  Speaker 13: entire tree population. That was probably the greatest tree ever
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  Speaker 13: created by God, right?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: I went to Northwest to interview two companies. One I
• 51:56
  Speaker 13: ended up getting offered.
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  Speaker 8: The other one didn't.
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  Speaker 13: But Boeing was the one that did offer me the warehouse.
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  Speaker 13: It was the one that didn't, which I thought was
• 52:05
  Speaker 13: kind of ironic because I've just always been a, you know,
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  Speaker 13: pragmatic tree.
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  Speaker 8: Hugger, I guess, for lack of a better term.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and it's also important to note, and we're running
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: out of time here, but it's also important to know
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  Speaker 5: that Conserving means conserving, meaning that you've got to protect
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: things like trees and clean water and things like that.
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  Speaker 5: Blessings on you, Andy. Have a wonderful Friday.
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  Speaker 21: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 8: Do the best you can.
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  Speaker 5: Always do.
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  Speaker 8: Trying to leave it there, and I found it here.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, exactly. Do the best you can, and anything else,
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: hide in the closet. No, that's not how that goes.
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: Thank you, cityelders.org. If you don't have one of these
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  Speaker 5: groups in your city, start one. Until tomorrow, so long
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: and thanks for all the fish.
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  Speaker 21: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
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  Speaker 21: leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 17: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 17: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Sam. I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 16: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 16: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 4: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 4: of their lives.
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  Speaker 21: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 1: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 4: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 4: the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 15: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 4: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support.
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  Speaker 5: For victories great and small.
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  Speaker 21: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 15: My victory was getting my service dog a new best friend.
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  Speaker 4: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 4: they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 5: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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