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"Between One Fern" (Saturday, January 24, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it making mornings great again the first thing today.
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  Speaker 1: Do it on the chunk media at Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do it.
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  Speaker 3: Long you words that steal me step day, at least
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  Speaker 3: for work.
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  Speaker 2: When the sun comes up, drops a kid to school.
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  Speaker 4: The joys, everything, all the chases, he needs.
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  Speaker 2: The one that Joe's allis smiled.
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  Speaker 3: He on the eggs, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: Bless you for joining us this Saturday morning. Good luck
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  Speaker 5: finding any bread or milk at your grocery stores if
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  Speaker 5: you are anywhere Texas, Oklahoma, that area.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's already.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: They've been there and written the Facebook posts about the
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  Speaker 5: snow and the frigid temperatures bearing down on the mid
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  Speaker 5: Atlantic and on its way to a Sunday rendezvous into England.
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  Speaker 5: Our friends in Lowell listening on WCAP, they're facing somewhere
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  Speaker 5: between twelve and eighteen inches of snow. Our friends at
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  Speaker 5: WRCN this morning, it.
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  Speaker 6: Could be four to six.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, it looks like the south side of the island
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  Speaker 5: might be spared a lot of this all together. As
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  Speaker 5: the storm continued to track north here in our flagship city, Stanton, Virginia,
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  Speaker 5: it's wavered. It went from as much as fifteen sixteen
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  Speaker 5: inches of snow. Now we're hearing six to eight. But
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  Speaker 5: the bigger problem is going to be the sleet that
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  Speaker 5: follows it. And that's where it becomes existential, because the
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  Speaker 5: ice built up is the key. Snow's going to do
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  Speaker 5: its thing, weigh down the trees and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 5: And I know that most electric utilities spend a good
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  Speaker 5: bit of the summer trying to make sure that the
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  Speaker 5: power lines are clear. Drones have been a huge game
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  Speaker 5: changer in getting power back on faster than it ever
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  Speaker 5: has been before. That's that's a sea change. Is it
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  Speaker 5: used to be find somebody who has a helicopter and
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  Speaker 5: get up there and try to find out where in
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  Speaker 5: some mountain range a tree has taken down some trunk line.
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  Speaker 5: The ability to send drones out to those spots and
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  Speaker 5: this is why the story earlier this week the Seattle
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  Speaker 5: company building drones is so big because you know, at
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  Speaker 5: some point the chi coom technology is not going to
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  Speaker 5: work and when the power goes out and the chi
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  Speaker 5: coms don't want us to be able to find it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm very sorry. Were you trying to fly that drone?
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  Speaker 5: It looks like you're out of luck. It's like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: when you get to that point on the ride and
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  Speaker 5: all the quarters you've put into it, Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, thanks for playing.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, it's not what isolation is to say,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we should be doing this ourselves, but we
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  Speaker 5: also need to have less confrontational situations with China. This
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  Speaker 5: is what maddens a lot of people. You know, the
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  Speaker 5: eye are all or nothing binaries is, you know, is
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  Speaker 5: to ignore the fact that China exists is a fool's
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  Speaker 5: errand but to treat them like there are best buddies
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  Speaker 5: and that they wouldn't want to see capitalism, even this
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  Speaker 5: role playing version of capitalism we're playing with now, this
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  Speaker 5: cronyism that isn't really capitalism at all and actually gives
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  Speaker 5: them all the opportunity they need to mess around with us,
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  Speaker 5: buy up our companies and buy up our land and
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  Speaker 5: play in the gray areas. Oh yeah, no, it's a
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  Speaker 5: we did this to ourselves. This is a self inflicted wound.
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  Speaker 5: We started doing this in the nineties, we ramped it
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  Speaker 5: up under the guise of the norm busting events of
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  Speaker 5: September eleventh, and here we are today. But we gather
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  Speaker 5: because the documents that give us the life, liberty, and
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  Speaker 5: pursuit of happiness are still there, and that's what we
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  Speaker 5: battle for each and every morning. I am Joe, and
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  Speaker 5: these are the things we're going to be talking about,
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  Speaker 5: the stories you tell us, how they're impacting you. At
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  Speaker 5: four three, four eight eight, two four two one seven.
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  Speaker 5: Russian attacks in Ukraine killed one and wounded thirty overnight
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  Speaker 5: into this morning. As negotiators from Ukraine and Russia and
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  Speaker 5: the United States are in the United Arab Emirates for
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  Speaker 5: a second day of talks, Iran will treat any attack
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  Speaker 5: as an all out war against US, as senior Iranian
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  Speaker 5: official set on Friday, as THEUSS Abraham Lincoln and her
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  Speaker 5: destroyer force arrived in the Gulf. The chair of the
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  Speaker 5: Federal Vaccine Advisory Panel is calling for a reassessment of
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  Speaker 5: whether routine polio shots remain necessary, arguing that individual freedom,
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  Speaker 5: not rigid public health mandates, should guide federal health decisions.
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  Speaker 5: Kirk Millohan made the comments on a podcast titled Why
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  Speaker 5: Should I Trust You? Vice President JD. Vance Friday was
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  Speaker 5: at the first part of the March for Life, which
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  Speaker 5: continues again this morning, and counting their blessings that the
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  Speaker 5: storms aren't due to hit until later today.
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  Speaker 6: He said that.
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  Speaker 5: The US will pull back federal money from any international,
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  Speaker 5: non government organization that quote performs or promotes abortion abroad.
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  Speaker 5: FBI Director Cash Battel has fired as many as eight
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  Speaker 5: agents connected to the bureau's investigations of President Trump. The
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  Speaker 5: FBI's Special Agent in charge of Atlanta moved, along with
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  Speaker 5: the acting Assistant Director in charge of New York Field Office.
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  Speaker 5: California has sued the federal government Friday for approving a
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  Speaker 5: Texas based company's plans to restart two oil pipelines along
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  Speaker 5: the state's coast, escalating a fight over the administration's removal
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  Speaker 5: of regulatory barriers to offshore oil drilling for the first
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  Speaker 5: time in decades. And those are some of our first
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  Speaker 5: things this morning. Father Frank Pavone from the Priest for
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  Speaker 5: Life will join us talk a little bit about the
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  Speaker 5: March for Life, which continues today again facing high snowfall
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  Speaker 5: totals in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 6: And all through the Boston area.
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  Speaker 5: But a little bit better for those on Long Island
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  Speaker 5: as the storm tracked north, and even better for us
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  Speaker 6: It is absolutely question for you.
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  Speaker 1: From Joe Thomas, It's first thing today it's the cold
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  Speaker 1: that will get you.
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  Speaker 6: Great.
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  Speaker 5: Richie Blackmore, who you know, nearly had my son named Darren.
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  Speaker 5: But it's a long story and it involves Port Jeff
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  Speaker 5: Station and years gone by and the kids thirty.
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  Speaker 6: So get over it.
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  Speaker 5: As we gather on this frigid Saturday morning across of
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  Speaker 5: the listening areas. You know Long Island looks like from
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  Speaker 5: the modeling. I'm looking at the weathermen. We used to
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  Speaker 5: joke in our vain attempts to find humor anywhere. We
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  Speaker 5: had a consultant at one of the radio stations I
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  Speaker 5: worked at insisted that we had to brand our weather forecasts,
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  Speaker 5: which were read by me and my co host Chris
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  Speaker 5: at the time up in Middletown, New York. We had
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  Speaker 5: to call it the KOJ. Was it the KOJ ten
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  Speaker 5: minute weather Guarantee? And of course, we, being smart ass
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  Speaker 5: is added that's how long we'll guarantee the forecast for
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  Speaker 5: ten minutes. After that, all bets are off. Called into
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  Speaker 5: the office a few times about that.
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  Speaker 6: I got chewed out.
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  Speaker 5: I get chewed out a lot, as Aldo Raine told us.
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  Speaker 5: But on this bitter cold morning, that's going to be
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  Speaker 5: the bigger problem. And I want to use that as
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  Speaker 5: a fulcrum to go into one of the dumbest things
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  Speaker 5: in And I think there's a couple of stories I
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  Speaker 5: want to throw together here into this hot pot so
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  Speaker 5: we can gather around it for ambient heat. First, the
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  Speaker 5: Washington Examiner must have been listening to yesterday morning's program somewhere,
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  Speaker 5: maybe in Stanton, maybe in Hampton Roads, wherever it was
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  Speaker 5: that they were carrying it, because writers for the Washington
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  Speaker 5: Examiner have stolen my line. Yesterday morning. We began the
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  Speaker 5: program by positing my feeling that as these governors in
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  Speaker 5: Virginia and New Jersey and New York, the mayor lurch
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  Speaker 5: full on robot Marxist, I just mean, drop the anchor
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  Speaker 5: off the starboard bow and y'all to the left.
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  Speaker 6: I mean it is stunning.
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  Speaker 5: Ever since the old days of Ted Turner and Captain outrageous.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I've seen a sailboat tack the way
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  Speaker 5: some of these governments have in the last few weeks.
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  Speaker 5: And I think this is putting the Democratic Party in peril.
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  Speaker 5: And the Washington Examiner is picked up on that narrative.
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  Speaker 5: I said it at five h nine Eastern Standard time
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  Speaker 5: yesterday they published it yesterday afternoon five. So I'm claiming
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  Speaker 5: that I said it first, that this lurts to the
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  Speaker 5: left by these governors like Spanberger and Cheryl and Mayor
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  Speaker 5: zeyfad mad Money are putting the any regardless of district,
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  Speaker 5: drawing any hope of Democrats winning, because at some point,
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  Speaker 5: at some point, as God is my witness, conservatives are
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  Speaker 5: going to stop being fooled. We're not going to be
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  Speaker 5: Charlie Brown anymore. Please, as I sit here before you
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  Speaker 5: humbly inside your radio, please stop being Charlie Brown, because
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  Speaker 5: we fall for this every time. Oh well, they're centrist
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  Speaker 5: and Trump is such a chaotic Chaos is the theme
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  Speaker 5: of Davos, Donald Trump and Davos. Everything is about chaos.
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  Speaker 5: You know what's in chaos. Liberty is in chaos. You
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  Speaker 5: want control. So in amongst this, Gavin Newsom taking his finger,
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  Speaker 5: moistening in it, thoroughly.
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  Speaker 6: Putting it into the air set.
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  Speaker 5: Uh oh, Abigail Spanberger is actually making me look too conservative.
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  Speaker 5: So out in Davos, he warns that democracy will die
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  Speaker 5: without a distribution of wealth. If we don't democratize our
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  Speaker 5: economy and allow for the distribution of wealth, democracy will
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  Speaker 5: die he posted that to Instagram. And here's where you
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  Speaker 5: may be surprised, and some keyboard warrior will go out
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  Speaker 5: and say conservative radio host agrees with Gavin Newsom, and
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  Speaker 5: I agree with the sentiment of the statement. I don't
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  Speaker 5: believe he wants to do it the way I would
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  Speaker 5: do it. And this is often the case with these
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  Speaker 5: phony boloney facade progressives. The issue he's pointing out is
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  Speaker 5: absolutely one right, because we have fiddled around in the
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  Speaker 5: management of our economy since I'm going to say the
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  Speaker 5: mid nineties. The Clinton administration, Robert Reich was was awful
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  Speaker 5: at this. He and who is the little fed chair
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  Speaker 5: at the time, green Span. Robert Reich and Alan Greenspan
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  Speaker 5: helped usher in more little do gooder laws that were
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  Speaker 5: promoted as you know, a boon for the poor that
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  Speaker 5: created way more poor than even Lyndon Johnson. He should
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  Speaker 5: have won the Lyndon Johnson Loose Fitting Pants Award for
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  Speaker 5: screwing the economy over Bill Clinton, because well, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Bill he rode he rode in on, while Jimmy Carvill's
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  Speaker 5: it's the economy stupid.
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  Speaker 6: And it was because George H. W.
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  Speaker 5: Bush cut the defense budget because the Soviet Union had collapsed,
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  Speaker 5: and with it places like Riverhead. Our friends out there,
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  Speaker 5: I mean I was there at the time. We were
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  Speaker 5: working on was seventy two West Main Street and Riverhead.
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  Speaker 5: We had staffers who were full time employees at the
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  Speaker 5: Calverton grumming facility, cranking out fighter jets, buzzing us on
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  Speaker 5: twenty five a on the way to Callahan's, got that
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  Speaker 5: new fighter jets smell and everything, and they were getting
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  Speaker 5: laid off by the yeah, a dozens every week because
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  Speaker 5: once the defense budget went up, don't need no more
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  Speaker 5: fighter jets, and that Calverton facility was closed within the ear,
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  Speaker 5: which sent shock waves through an economy that didn't have
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  Speaker 5: cell phones, didn't have laptop computers, didn't have tablets, didn't
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  Speaker 5: have Roku, didn't have Wi Fi. You gotta remember what
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  Speaker 5: nineteen ninety one nineteen ninety two was like. Technologically, all
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  Speaker 5: this stuff was military tech. Everything you and I are
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  Speaker 5: doing right now is on was only stuff available to
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  Speaker 5: the military at the time. So Bush cuts the defense
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  Speaker 5: budget before those people have a chance to innovate and say, gee,
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  Speaker 5: I wonder if somebody will want to surf the Internet
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  Speaker 5: if we open it up to everybody.
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  Speaker 6: You think.
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  Speaker 5: Bill Clinton comes along and he and Robert Reich and
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  Speaker 5: Alan Greenspan start playing Frankenstein with the regulations of Wall
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  Speaker 5: Street and the economy. So from that moment, we've created
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  Speaker 5: this this oh crippled, this crippled obscenity of an economy
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  Speaker 5: that isn't capitalism. So, while Gavin Newsom, I will agree
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  Speaker 5: with your statement about democratizing our economy, you know how
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  Speaker 5: you do that with capitalism. Capitalism is the ultimate democratization
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  Speaker 5: of an economy. Why because you vote with your dollars.
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  Speaker 5: How about we go back to trying that used to
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  Speaker 5: work for us here in the enact States.
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  Speaker 5: my god, fern because I'm afraid of somebody named fern.
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  Speaker 6: They all do this.
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  Speaker 5: that all of this, you know, and this whole affair here.
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  Speaker 20: My prayer's got to everybody. I'm in southwest Florida, so
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  Speaker 6: Bet it involves a key lime so.
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  Speaker 20: Uh well, no, I'm actually swimming. But all right anyway,
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  Speaker 6: He's there to push for a proposed.
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  Speaker 6: Speaking at the Idaho Capital. Dessantas said the amendment who
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, here's one of the things that dessanders said
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  Speaker 5: they just can't live within that. Go back to the
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  Speaker 5: and I do believe in the Convention of States process.
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  Speaker 5: But if you get to thirty thirty two states and
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  Speaker 5: budget be balanced, it ties growth of the budget to GDP,
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  Speaker 5: why it's called that. But I just thought it was
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  Speaker 5: a Julie Lushetta and NPR in Idaho wrote the story.
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  Speaker 5: But again, Steve, I appreciate you sending it to me.
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  Speaker 5: There is off of somebody's substack page. It may have
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  Speaker 5: there and sending that on because he knows how ardently
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