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"What Have We Learned in 25 Years?" (FTTxJT Tue 090826 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works at a steel mill, he's damn near every day.
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  Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 4: Drops the kids to school and all the work.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 5: he needs.
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  Speaker 6: No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 7: Let me be your Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 3: this morning.
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  Speaker 8: I want to be your Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Tell you what went on last night. I'll give you
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  Speaker 3: my analysis. Faux show.
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  Speaker 9: But I want to hear how it's impacting you as
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  Speaker 9: the single most important local aspect of the radio station.
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  Speaker 3: That's you. How is the news of the day impacting
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  Speaker 3: you at 434-882-4217? Text message or call.
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  Speaker 9: Traditional phone call. However, Tom Drops Bombs is on with
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  Speaker 9: us for a minute or two. Before we get back
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  Speaker 9: into our sunrise sermonette, I hear my friend John Quesenberry
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  Speaker 9: sitting there facing his hands saying, please guys, put the
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  Speaker 9: sharp objects down.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to ask, you told me in the news
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  Speaker 3: break that.
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  Speaker 9: You were getting ready to do a video thing for
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  Speaker 9: Tom Drops Bombs and to delegate Tom Garrett on Facebook
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  Speaker 9: about September 11th. Give us your angle on that. I
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  Speaker 9: want to ask you about our trip out to Shanksville
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  Speaker 9: and why I think that's always where I wind up
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  Speaker 9: going there. But what are you guys doing at Tom
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  Speaker 9: Drops Bombs for September 11th?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, so I had probably the three most visceral moments
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  Speaker 10: of my adult life were holding my father's hands as
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  Speaker 10: he transitioned to heaven and watching a guy who I
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  Speaker 10: loved in the military die while I was there in 9-11.
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  Speaker 10: And If you're under 35, probably you just don't get it.
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  Speaker 10: And so I think it's important not to lose that.
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  Speaker 10: And this isn't about animus or it's a faith group.
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  Speaker 10: This is just about understanding how fleeting life is, how
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  Speaker 10: potentially quickly the world can change and then trying to
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  Speaker 10: live your life accordingly. So that's kind of the, and
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  Speaker 10: I owe a lot to the content creators. Joe, I
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  Speaker 10: will tell you, you're so good at what you do
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  Speaker 10: that I had no idea we weren't on there when
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  Speaker 10: we discussed this on break. But, yeah, that's our biggie.
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  Speaker 10: It should be before 9-11. That'd be good.
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  Speaker 9: So, you know, the initials ABC, you know, always be
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  Speaker 9: closing and, you know, blowing my own horn, which I'm
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  Speaker 9: terribly bad at. But there are other people in my
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  Speaker 9: industry who eat my lunch when it comes to blowing.
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  Speaker 3: Their own horn.
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  Speaker 9: Unfortunately, they don't have a very good horn, which is
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  Speaker 9: probably why they blow it so much. But me here,
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  Speaker 9: we do need to remember to promote stuff. And we're
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  Speaker 9: going out. We're going to be broadcasting everything. this show
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  Speaker 9: on Thursday and Friday morning from Shanksville. Is there an
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  Speaker 9: importance to, because I feel like there's an importance to
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  Speaker 9: remind people of what happened on that airplane when it
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  Speaker 9: became clear what had happened with the other three and
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  Speaker 9: that a uniquely American moment to me And your thought
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  Speaker 9: on that when a bunch of people said, well, we
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  Speaker 9: can stop this one. Is that important to remember as
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  Speaker 9: you talk about people who, you know, 25, 35 year
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  Speaker 9: olds don't really have a tangible feeling for September 11th, 2001?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's the most important thing to remember
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  Speaker 10: because that which defines you aren't the choices that you make.
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  Speaker 10: It's the choices that you have to make, right? These
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  Speaker 10: people were forced into the most unimaginably horrific situation and
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  Speaker 10: then had to act. And the people whose lives they saved,
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  Speaker 10: we'll never know their names because they saved their lives.
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  Speaker 3: By giving their own.
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  Speaker 10: And that's that's a moment in humanity. Not you can
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  Speaker 10: say uniquely American. That's a human moment.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 10: There were people risking their lives in defiance of the
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  Speaker 10: Nazis by sheltering those who couldn't shelter or defend themselves.
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  Speaker 10: And those people are heroes in the.
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  Speaker 1: Same exact way.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 10: Well, that's the best of it, though. And I just,
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  Speaker 10: you know, I think about Todd Beamer and Let's Roll.
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  Speaker 10: You know, you think he wanted to charge those guys?
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  Speaker 10: You think they wanted to fly that plane into the ground?
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  Speaker 10: Because I'm going to guess no and no. But they
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  Speaker 10: didn't have any choice except for bad choices, and they
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  Speaker 10: made the best bad choice. And, you know, again, here's
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  Speaker 10: the tragedy. We're human, and we want the slap on
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  Speaker 10: the back and the trophy and the recognition. We'll never
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  Speaker 10: know the names of the people whose lives they saved.
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  Speaker 10: And they're never going to get that recognition, that clap
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  Speaker 10: on the back on this earth. But we can extol
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  Speaker 10: the virtue of those who would put others ahead of themselves.
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  Speaker 10: So as, frankly, as a society to lift up that
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  Speaker 10: virtue and encourage it in others. And I hope I
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  Speaker 10: never owe my life to someone who's willing to give
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  Speaker 10: everything for me. But if I do, please and thank you.
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  Speaker 10: Jesus already did that on a much larger scale. But
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  Speaker 10: that's what happened that day, and we shouldn't let.
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  Speaker 3: Go of it.
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  Speaker 9: So well said. Now you make me feel inadequate for
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  Speaker 9: our trip out there.
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  Speaker 3: Hang on.
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  Speaker 9: Tom Drops Bombs on YouTube is where you find him there.
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  Speaker 9: And also on Delegate Tom Garrett on Facebook and other
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  Speaker 9: social media platforms. But I did promise to tell everyone
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  Speaker 9: what went on last night. So here are our first things.
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  Speaker 9: Iran is telling through state-run media, which I believe means
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  Speaker 9: the New York Times, that they have a new ballistic missile.
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  Speaker 9: with improved capabilities that will, quote, take out actions against
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  Speaker 9: any threat even before it is carried out. Of course,
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  Speaker 9: this is on the heels of the news that Russia
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  Speaker 9: has been working with them on their defense ministry. Canada, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 9: at 12.01 this morning, began tariffing U.S. goods going into Canada,
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  Speaker 9: including dairy, which has been hit very hard by that
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  Speaker 9: or will be. Steel and aluminum appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp
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  Speaker 9: and paper, plastics and electronics. All told, $ 27. 6 billion worth
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  Speaker 9: of industry. Tomorrow, the weird new midterm convention for the
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  Speaker 9: Republican National Committee begins. President Trump will keynote both nights
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  Speaker 9: of the goings-on. We were mentioning September 11th. New York
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  Speaker 9: City Mayor Zorhan Mamdani announced yesterday that despite criticism by
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  Speaker 9: family members and former Mayor Giuliani, he will attend the
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  Speaker 9: New York City September 11th remembrance. And a wave of
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  Speaker 9: Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia in Yemen has threatened the
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  Speaker 9: peace that has reigned for four years there.
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  Speaker 1: First thing today, by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: Jump around, jump around, jump up and get.
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  Speaker 14: Down, jump around.
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  Speaker 9: Virginia Elliott, former congressman, but now host of the wildly
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  Speaker 9: successful YouTube channel Tom Drops Bombs, has given me grief
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  Speaker 9: about my pool.
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  Speaker 3: I think he is, but you're comparing me to my neighbor.
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  Speaker 9: Who's got like a lazy river and me and my
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  Speaker 9: little canvas pond in my backyard.
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  Speaker 10: Does the guy with the above ground pool hate the
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  Speaker 10: guy with the lazy river?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 19: No.
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  Speaker 20: Right.
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  Speaker 21: So.
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  Speaker 10: Just let me have my pool.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Don't take away my pool because it's smaller or bigger
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  Speaker 9: than the other guy's pool. And that's the problem with Marxism.
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  Speaker 3: Is an abstract.
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  Speaker 9: Anyway, Tom, is is it's actually and this is what
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  Speaker 9: we've seen since the onset of the American Marxist movement
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  Speaker 9: under the Great Society, our American Marx moment. is that
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  Speaker 9: instead of creating prosperity for more people, we've created poverty
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  Speaker 9: for more people. So it just seems like you're less
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  Speaker 9: poor because there's more people in the boat with you.
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  Speaker 9: So I must be doing better. And it's sad, but
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  Speaker 9: that's kind of where we've become.
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  Speaker 10: Resentment. Right. I mean, so you can't build based on hate.
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  Speaker 10: And the whole leftist movement is based on hate, resentment, jealousy, envy, covetousness.
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  Speaker 10: And so was it Churchill who said that capitalism or
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  Speaker 10: free markets is the unequal distribution of wealth and communism
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  Speaker 10: is the equal distribution of poverty? But, gee, Tom, we're
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  Speaker 10: talking about socialism. Socialism is just a word for communism
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  Speaker 10: before they get your guns.
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  Speaker 20: Right.
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  Speaker 10: So, yeah, that's what it is. They would rather tear
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  Speaker 10: you down than spend the time and effort and energy
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  Speaker 10: and sweat equity and take the chances.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 10: Because the probability of success begets the possibility of failure.
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  Speaker 3: So that's that's or vice versa. But you were talking
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  Speaker 3: about the, you know, and what would Jesus do?
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  Speaker 9: Those great bracelets from the 80s, is the idea that
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  Speaker 9: you were doing volunteer work. I was just listening to
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  Speaker 9: our friend, the preacher, does a ministry on our flagship station.
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  Speaker 9: I mentioned this Monday, too. He talked about the second mile.
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  Speaker 9: And I thought it was ironic that I brought it
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  Speaker 9: up because we were being carried in State College. And
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  Speaker 9: there's a whole other implication of that phrase. But the
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  Speaker 9: phrase comes from the Bible in which Jesus told his
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  Speaker 9: followers that, sure, the Romans require you, if you're ordered to,
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  Speaker 9: to carry an officer's equipment for a mile. He said,
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  Speaker 9: I suggest you do a second mile because the message
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  Speaker 9: then is I'm doing this for you out of my heart. And,
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  Speaker 9: you know, the point being that, sure, there are things
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  Speaker 9: we're compelled to do. based on our life and our
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  Speaker 9: community and what our laws are. But if you go
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  Speaker 9: that second mile, that has an implication and impact far
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  Speaker 9: beyond there. And that's sort of what you were talking
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  Speaker 9: about earlier about the compelled giving of a government versus
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  Speaker 9: the voluntary giving of a community that believes in looking
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  Speaker 9: out for their neighbors.
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  Speaker 10: Well, we don't have enough time on the show. There
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  Speaker 10: were two things going on there. The Romans were allowed
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  Speaker 10: to compel you to carry it for a mile, but
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  Speaker 10: not an inch further. And so the rebellious side of
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  Speaker 10: Jesus was saying, you know what, we're going to take
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  Speaker 10: the government's dictatorial mandate that you have to carry it
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  Speaker 10: for a mile, and we're going to use it to
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  Speaker 10: get them. Because if the Roman soldier made you carry
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  Speaker 10: it for more than a mile, he could get in
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  Speaker 10: a lot of trouble under law. That's back in a
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  Speaker 10: society that actually obeyed laws, right? I mean, I was
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  Speaker 10: listening to something this morning. Yeah, they just changed the
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  Speaker 10: law around. I was listening to something this morning. Because
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  Speaker 10: at a mile and a half, if somebody goes, hey– Josephus,
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  Speaker 10: I'm just picking a timely contemporary name. Why is that
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  Speaker 10: guy still carrying your armor? You got to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 10: he wants to. He wants to. Right. But yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 10: it's look, we live in the worst country in the
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  Speaker 10: world except for all the others. And to people who
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  Speaker 10: are listening, no matter how this ends, if you're if
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  Speaker 10: you're if you're putting the grain in the right silo,
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  Speaker 10: you can be all right, because we're leaving here sooner
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  Speaker 10: or later. But yeah, I mean, I think if you
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  Speaker 10: go back to what would Jesus do, I think Jesus
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  Speaker 10: would tell you to vote and know that every one
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  Speaker 10: of them was a flawed, fallen person whose farts smell
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  Speaker 10: bad just like yours. Because that's the nature of governance
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  Speaker 10: by people, right? Romans 3.23. So, golly, it's like a
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  Speaker 10: theological hour this morning. But there's so much to be
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  Speaker 10: learned there, right? And then just.
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  Speaker 10: You know, at some point, though, Joe, you know, you
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  Speaker 10: let go. You just go, I did the best I could,
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  Speaker 10: and I'm going on to the next thing.
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  Speaker 9: Well, and I think the idea of being self-governing starts
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  Speaker 9: with being self-governing. And it's one of those great English
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  Speaker 9: lessons that they taught you, you know, the implication of,
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  Speaker 9: And I appreciate it. Tom drops bombs on YouTube and
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  Speaker 9: understanding that the more we ask the government to do,
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  Speaker 9: the less it's ever going to change because government can't
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  Speaker 9: invent the computer. Did you see what the computers looked
• 19:18
  Speaker 9: like when Microsoft and Apple first rolled out? And those
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: were minuscule compared to what the government was using. There's
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  Speaker 9: a documentary out there about, who was.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, this thing looks like it wouldn't even fit
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  Speaker 9: as a carry-on bag. But it was literally a computer
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• 20:04
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  Speaker 3: It might be. I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: I remember the idea of it being, you know, that
• 20:13
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• 20:15
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• 20:31
  Speaker 9: The government invented the hypertext transfer protocol, thus why Al
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: Gore gets to say, oh, I invented the internet, because
• 20:39
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• 20:43
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• 20:56
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• 21:01
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• 21:14
  Speaker 9: Now you just say, you know, JoeThomasInTheMorning.com and the HTTPS is.
• 21:22
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• 21:22
  Speaker 9: It's assumed. But the government's idea of a computer took
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: up an entire room. And it didn't have the computing
• 21:31
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• 21:38
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• 21:46
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• 28:11
  Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: have that allowed you to thrive.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: else made that happen.
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: That is the sound of a young man who grew
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: up in an American protectorate with a single mom who
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: was struggling to get by on government assistance because the
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: DNA donor deadbeat dad had hightailed it back to Africa
• 29:12
  Speaker 9: to become the subject of his absentee son's memoir, The
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: Dreams of My Father. Dreamed about not being around for
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: your ass. But that's the sound of somebody who sees
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: the government as the answer.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: And I understand it. I get it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 9: That's how he grew up. He grew up in that
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: world of the government. going to fix it for you.
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: His predecessor, the one that his job was to clear
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: the Democrat Party from these rednecks from Hope, Arkansas, he
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: talks about his mother basically running a brothel.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: To make money.
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: Government didn't build that, I'll tell you how much. But,
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: you know, the idea of somebody invested in roads and somebody,
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: you know, all that.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: had that allowed you to thrive.
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: Somebody did something somewhere. It sounds like Ilhan Omar's statements
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  Speaker 9: on September 11th. And this is the president of the
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: United States and his beliefs on this mystery place that
• 30:41
  Speaker 9: just exists in an isolation. Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: You know what those are called, Mr.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: President? Taxes.
• 30:55
  Speaker 9: And you have that money to invest in roads and
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: bridges because you they would come along to Americans and
• 31:02
  Speaker 9: the companies that the Americans worked for and said, here's
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: what you owe us for protecting you, for making sure
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: that your ideas stay protected, patents, copyrights, that your business
• 31:19
  Speaker 9: stays protected. Because, you know, there are things like State
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: Corporation Commission has my company on you know, on a list.
• 31:30
  Speaker 18: Why?
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: Because I don't want somebody to come along and start
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: calling on my advertisers and collecting money in my name
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  Speaker 9: like the scammers did in the story we told you
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  Speaker 9: earlier about the crypto con.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, the email we got after I told this story.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: I want to get that email.
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: Look at the, you know, and yes, there are things
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: that you need expertise to build. I don't want somebody
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: who's walking up and saying, I want to put a
• 32:02
  Speaker 9: bridge here.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: But you know what? We used to.
• 32:06
  Speaker 9: There's a bridge in our flagship city, and it crosses
• 32:13
  Speaker 9: the Rivanna River from basically the city area to the
• 32:18
  Speaker 9: rural area outside of town. And it was all farms
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: there at one point, and it used to, I'm told, historically,
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: have half dozen to a dozen bridges that ran across
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: the Rivanna River there in Charlottesville. All to take you
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  Speaker 9: to various places, all basically maintained by the city, except
• 32:41
  Speaker 9: for the one that was there to get you to
• 32:44
  Speaker 9: this guy's farm. It was the bridge that would allow
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: the business community to get to this guy's farm to
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: get food. Community could get there too. So you know
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  Speaker 9: what he did? He said, you know what?
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: It cost me a lot of money to build this bridge.
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: Because I didn't want it to fall into the river.
• 33:05
  Speaker 9: I wanted it to be built to the best of capability.
• 33:10
  Speaker 9: So I built this bridge to my farm, and I'm
• 33:13
  Speaker 9: not going to charge you to cross it. It became
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: known as the Free Bridge. It's still called Free Bridge.
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: The whole area around there is the Free Bridge area.
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: It's the only bridge of all those that still exists.
• 33:29
  Speaker 9: It was the free bridge, but it was not free.
• 33:33
  Speaker 9: It was free to anyone who wanted to go to
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: this guy's farm.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: You know why?
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: Because he wanted people to get to his farm to
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: buy his produce. Why would he want to make it
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: harder to get his produce or for him to get
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: his produce to market? So he built a bridge. Government
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: didn't build him the bridge. He built the bridge. And
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: instead of charging you to cross it, he said, I'm
• 33:56
  Speaker 9: not going to charge you at all to cross it. Sure,
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: it cost me some money, but over time, you're going
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: to buy enough of my produce and I'm not going
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: to have to throw out as much of my produce
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: because you can get here. So it pays for itself.
• 34:10
  Speaker 9: It's what now we call return on investment. So even
• 34:15
  Speaker 9: this idea of, you know, the government didn't build roads,
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: the government didn't constitutionally doesn't have any mandate to build roads.
• 34:25
  Speaker 9: It has the constitutional mandate to make sure they stay open.
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: Read the Establishment Clause. This is the part that everyone
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: forgets about the Postal Service. Especially important as President Trump
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: is again asking the courts to make the states that
• 34:52
  Speaker 9: are using the U.S. Postal Service to basically be their
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: election headquarters to verify that the mail is not being
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: sent fraudulently and the justices just can't get their head
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: out of their ass. I don't understand why. I think
• 35:11
  Speaker 9: President Trump needs better lawyers. I think, you know, Alina
• 35:15
  Speaker 9: Haba or, you know, somebody needs to take over this deal. And,
• 35:23
  Speaker 9: you know, get it right because they're asking the wrong questions,
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: from where I sit anyway. But the Constitution doesn't say
• 35:35
  Speaker 9: the U.S. government's going to build roads in between the
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: post offices. It's going to have post offices and it
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: will maintain roads to connect them.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: And we just don't.
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: Over time, we forget that it was supposed to be
• 35:52
  Speaker 9: on us to build the roads and the U.S. government
• 35:55
  Speaker 9: was just going to make sure we didn't close them
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: off to our neighbors. See, again, the Constitution is a
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: list of prerogatory negatives. The government is there to make
• 36:10
  Speaker 9: sure I don't do something bad to my neighbors by
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: having a law that says, here's what happens to you
• 36:17
  Speaker 9: if you do it. Not We're going to prevent it
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: by making you fill out all of these forms. We're
• 36:25
  Speaker 9: just going to say you can't shut your road down
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: to your neighbors. Again, the country in its founding was
• 36:33
  Speaker 9: so simple, and even in the application of our modern day,
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: and the idea of building things, creating things, government doesn't
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: do it. Even as I said, the one place where
• 36:48
  Speaker 9: you can point to the government and say, well, the army,
• 36:50
  Speaker 9: the Pentagon created the internet. Do you know why the
• 36:57
  Speaker 9: army created the internet? So that they could exchange information
• 37:02
  Speaker 9: in real time with one another in bases, hours and
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: time zones away. That's a good reason to have one.
• 37:14
  Speaker 9: And it was also a good reason to not let
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: everyone on the planet know you had this communication ability.
• 37:24
  Speaker 9: So if you're listening to this program on a web stream,
• 37:27
  Speaker 9: whatever station you're listening to the web stream of, this
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: was the original intention of the Internet, was that you
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: and I or the two army officers could interact in
• 37:38
  Speaker 9: real time. But the computers were massive in order to
• 37:42
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• 37:54
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• 38:04
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  Speaker 22: starting right now. It's your life. Listen to your doctor.
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  Speaker 18: Eat better.
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  Speaker 4: Get moving.
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  Speaker 22: Visit CheckUpAmerica.org or call 1-800-Diabetes. A message from the American
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  Speaker 3: My name is Jim. I'm a veteran, and I lost
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  Speaker 3: both legs in Vietnam. My victory was proving that a
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  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 21: At DAV, we're on a mission, helping veterans of all
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  Speaker 21: generations get the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 23: I'm CeCe.
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  Speaker 22: My victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 21: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  Speaker 21: more victories for veterans.
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  Speaker 3: Go to DAV.org.
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  Speaker 2: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms.
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  Speaker 3: In the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 4: Freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 3: Freedom of religion.
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  Speaker 15: Freedom of the press.
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  Speaker 23: Freedom to peaceably assemble.
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  Speaker 3: Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 10: Only the United States has these five freedoms so simply
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  Speaker 10: bound together and guaranteed.
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  Speaker 19: Think first.
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  Speaker 3: Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org.
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  Speaker 12: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 23: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 23: first date?
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  Speaker 18: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 15: Probably?
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  Speaker 12: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 3: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 12: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, don't tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 12: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 6: Cramp!
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  Speaker 12: Oh, I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 10: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 14: Probably.
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  Speaker 10: Can I get a mulligan?
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  Speaker 3: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 23: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 12: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 12: and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
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  Speaker 12: or a friend. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. A message
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  Speaker 23: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
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• 43:56
  Speaker 23: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
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  Speaker 23: the Federal Trade Commission.
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  Speaker 1: We could tell you what 6-7 means. Who was the
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  Speaker 1: fun in that? First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on
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  Speaker 1: the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yes, wait a minute, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Bozeman.
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  Speaker 2: Bozeman.
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  Speaker 9: Ah, now the text messages come in there. No, Joe,
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  Speaker 9: the postal service is guaranteed to us by the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Constitution. Actually, it is not.
• 44:37
  Speaker 9: The existence of postal offices is guaranteed by the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Constitution.
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  Speaker 9: It's been just one of those mission creeps, if you will,
• 44:53
  Speaker 9: that has turned into, oh, can we deliver on Saturday?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, even the idea of delivering it to your
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  Speaker 9: house is not in the Constitution anymore. little of anything
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  Speaker 9: that the U S postal service does is.
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  Speaker 3: In the constitution.
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  Speaker 9: And it's, you know, it's sad that, you know, but
• 45:19
  Speaker 9: that's what's happened is we've just become accustomed to people saying.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, Oh yes, Oh yes.
• 45:24
  Speaker 9: They both reached for the gun or something more akin to, um,
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: postal delivery, but you get my point. So it guarantees
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: Section 8, Clause 7. The postal clause says that it would,
• 45:54
  Speaker 9: that the U.S. government was to guarantee the existence of
• 46:03
  Speaker 9: post offices that people could have mail delivered to them at,
• 46:11
  Speaker 9: and that roads in between them would be kept open.
• 46:15
  Speaker 9: You know those roads by the little white and black signs.
• 46:20
  Speaker 9: If you see a white and black sign with a white,
• 46:23
  Speaker 9: looks like a police shield and a number in it,
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: 1 to 101, those are postal routes. As a matter
• 46:33
  Speaker 9: of fact, US 1 is called the Post Road. And
• 46:39
  Speaker 9: it goes all the way down to Florida from, I think, Boston.
• 46:51
  Speaker 9: But it only says that the government will establish post
• 46:54
  Speaker 9: offices and post roads. What happens in between them? I mean,
• 46:58
  Speaker 9: there's nothing that says that your FedEx or your UPS
• 47:02
  Speaker 9: packages couldn't get dropped off at your post office box,
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: just the same as it is delivered to your door.
• 47:09
  Speaker 9: But if you want it delivered to your door, pay
• 47:10
  Speaker 9: for a few extra bucks.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: And guess what?
• 47:16
  Speaker 9: You would have a few extra bucks. That's the part
• 47:18
  Speaker 9: they leave out when they say, oh, it'll cost you
• 47:21
  Speaker 9: more money. You'll have more money. But I wanted to
• 47:26
  Speaker 9: get back to a story.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: We had earlier. These scammers....
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: Ripped off, you know, what did Kareem did the math?
• 47:34
  Speaker 9: There's like 4,000 bitcoins back in 2024, which Kareem did
• 47:39
  Speaker 9: the math, said it was worth like a quarter of
• 47:41
  Speaker 9: a billion dollars. From this one cryptocurrency investor, I said, gosh,
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: you know. You'd think these would be the savvy people
• 47:51
  Speaker 9: because Bitcoin, I'm told, again, all the science I don't
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: understand suggests my job five days a week. The blockchain
• 48:02
  Speaker 9: technology that goes into Bitcoin is actually considered probably one
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: of the best options for security that there is. As
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: a matter of fact, for some time, five or six
• 48:15
  Speaker 9: years ago, Blockchain technology was floated as a way to
• 48:19
  Speaker 9: do secure internet voting.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: I know. You have the same reaction. Hold it. We're
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: going to vote online?
• 48:30
  Speaker 9: Britney Spears is going to wind up being the president.
• 48:36
  Speaker 9: The Olsen twins. Ladies and gentlemen, the first twins to
• 48:39
  Speaker 9: be elected president. But the idea was that by using
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: blockchain technology, your vote is actually in a million places
• 48:57
  Speaker 9: and can only be put together by the transdator or.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: Whatever at the other end.
• 49:04
  Speaker 9: So you send it off, it gets fragmented into a
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: million parts, and only the thing that knows how to
• 49:09
  Speaker 9: unscramble it all can.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: Put it together as a vote. Most people didn't trust
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: that so much.
• 49:16
  Speaker 9: So that went by the wayside. But the crypto scam,
• 49:30
  Speaker 9: I was making light to a degree. I felt horrible
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: for the guy who had all this money stolen. And
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: maybe I just didn't make it clear enough that I
• 49:39
  Speaker 9: do have empathy for him. Larry wrote in, said, sounds
• 49:44
  Speaker 9: like you're having a grand time talking about these petty
• 49:47
  Speaker 9: anti-Robin hoods. They should be sent to prison for as
• 49:53
  Speaker 9: long as somebody who robbed a quarter of a billion
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: dollars in currency would be sent to jail for. Okay,
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: I can see your point. that the scam is the thing.
• 50:14
  Speaker 9: What had fascinated me was the fact that they did
• 50:17
  Speaker 9: this in such an old-fashioned way using the decidedly low-tech
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: telephone to call this guy and ostensibly rob himself. So
• 50:28
  Speaker 9: what they did, they said, can we have your login information?
• 50:32
  Speaker 9: I'm here at your cryptocurrency advisors and we want to So,
• 50:37
  Speaker 9: I mean, historically speaking, he robbed himself because he believed them. Now,
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: there are punishments for behaving in this deceptive manner. But
• 50:52
  Speaker 9: I didn't want you to think I was celebrating, what
• 50:55
  Speaker 9: did you call them, these petty, petty, anti, penny, anti
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: Robin Hoods. And, and, Of course, Andy, as you well know,
• 51:10
  Speaker 9: Robin Hood was stealing from the government to give back
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  Speaker 9: to the people, regardless of what Russell Crowe's new biopic
• 51:19
  Speaker 9: is going to.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: No, not Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman.
• 51:25
  Speaker 9: Despite Wolverine versus Robin Hood, He was stealing from the
• 51:34
  Speaker 9: government to give back to the citizens. And as long
• 51:38
  Speaker 9: as we're allowing ourselves to be dragged off that center ground,
• 51:45
  Speaker 9: we're always going to have problems. And I think it
• 51:49
  Speaker 9: does relate to the postal service thing because after a bit,
• 51:52
  Speaker 9: you just become accustomed to it. Jefferson understood that. Prudence
• 52:00
  Speaker 9: itself dictates that Governments accounted under long-standing environments should not
• 52:08
  Speaker 9: be changed for spurious reasons, and that all forethought be
• 52:13
  Speaker 9: put into the governing body you want to put together. So,
• 52:27
  Speaker 9: bringing it all full circle around, you didn't build that building.
• 52:32
  Speaker 9: But we paid the taxes to pay for the guys
• 52:34
  Speaker 9: who did build that. So, you know, I'm paying for
• 52:37
  Speaker 9: this microphone, Mr.
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: President.
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  Speaker 9: So we'll get things together, working on some special guests
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  Speaker 9: for September 11th. Until tomorrow morning at 5, I'm Joe.
• 52:48
  Speaker 9: So long and thanks for all the fish.
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