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"Affordability" (Monday, May 4, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Quick first thing today on the Talk Median Network by
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Speaker 1: Joe Thomas, Jets said to steal me Stem, you have
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Speaker 1: a day at least for work when the sun comes up, drops.
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Speaker 2: At this school the way Joe.
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Speaker 3: Has everything a dream do all the.
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Speaker 4: Treasure set and needs.
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Speaker 5: No one that Joe's smiled, he all the eggs.
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Speaker 6: Joe, thank you for letting us be of service to
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Speaker 6: you this Monday morning.
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Speaker 3: I want to be Joe.
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Speaker 7: May the fourth be with you?
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Speaker 6: And I learned this this morning. Apparently there's now a
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Speaker 6: movement to make the sixth revenge of the sixth. Okay, now,
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Speaker 6: human Resources is going to have to get involved in
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Speaker 6: their four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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Speaker 6: That's where we tell you what went on last night.
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Speaker 6: We are analysis of it for sure, and we'll see
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Speaker 6: how it's impacting you where you are. We have our
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Speaker 6: first things coming up, so fear not. If you feel
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Speaker 6: like you're joining us already in progress, well you kind
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Speaker 6: of are, but that's okay. We'll catch you up as
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Speaker 6: we go. Doctor Clark is on the line, Good morning, sir.
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Speaker 6: What's on your mind?
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Speaker 7: Sir?
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Speaker 8: Well, Joe, I keep thinking about the old saying, may
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Speaker 8: you live an interesting time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're doing that.
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Speaker 8: So you know, in my lifetime, Joe, we've had a
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Speaker 8: communist revolution in America. Started out slow, gradual, but like
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Speaker 8: snowball rolling the hell I mean downhill, it just kind
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Speaker 8: of picked up speed. We came within a basket of deplorables,
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Speaker 8: of them seemen in permanent power. And I think we're
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Speaker 8: looking into the counter revolution right now, Joe, realignments taking twice.
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Speaker 9: Wow.
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Speaker 6: I still want to see a day where we have,
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Speaker 6: you know, more honest and open congressional representation, more indicative
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Speaker 6: of our populations. You know, because if George Mason, of
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Speaker 6: all those people could say that the most important part
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Speaker 6: of the Constitution to protect Americans' rights was to make
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Speaker 6: sure that there were small, compact congressional representative districts, who
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Speaker 6: am I supposed to be to argue with that? Hang
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Speaker 6: on to that thought, because you know, it is redistricting
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Speaker 6: season now because of the Voting Rights Act, and there
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Speaker 6: are a lot of people who have been gas lit
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Speaker 6: on this. So I want to explore that in a second.
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Speaker 6: But I do need to tell everyone what has been
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Speaker 6: going on since last we spoke on Saturday morning or
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Speaker 6: Friday morning, depending on your affiliation agreements. They're at first
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Speaker 6: thing today and then you can weigh in. So we
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Speaker 6: mentioned the redistricting Alabama meeting today in their general Assembly. Mississippi.
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Speaker 6: In a couple of weeks, Florida has cemented THEIRS and
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Speaker 6: the governors signed THEIRS into action. Louisiana's governor has suspended
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Speaker 6: the primary election so that they can redraw their districts
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Speaker 6: in the weight of the Voting Rights Act ruling from
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Speaker 6: the Supreme Court. Georgia and South Carolina, however, have said
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Speaker 6: that voting has already started in the primaries and they
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Speaker 6: won't intercede there. However, in Virginia, the Supreme Court is
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Speaker 6: still mulling whether early voting is actually voting or not.
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Speaker 6: A shooting Sunday night near Oklahoma City has sent twelve
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Speaker 6: people to area hospitals. Edmund Police spokesperson Emily Wards had
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Speaker 6: authorities received reports of shots being fired around nine pm
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Speaker 6: near Arcadia Lake. She said that Sunday no arrests have
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Speaker 6: been made yet. Police are asking for the public's health.
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Speaker 6: In Amarillo, Texas As, a shooter killed two teenagers and
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Speaker 6: wounded ten other people who opened fire at an apartment
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Speaker 6: complex around two Saturday morning. Are asking local residents to
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Speaker 6: check doorbell and surveillance cameras for any unusual activity. Former
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Speaker 6: New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is in critical but
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Speaker 6: stable condition in a New York hospital, according to a spokesperson,
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Speaker 6: after telling his weekend radio show audience he was a
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Speaker 6: little under the weather. Two US Army soldiers went missing
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Speaker 6: while on a hike, according to US Defense Department officials
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Speaker 6: speaking on the condition of anonymity, also known as leaking. However,
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Speaker 6: the two Army soldiers were not actively taking part in
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Speaker 6: any training. They were out on what's called a recreational hike.
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Speaker 6: Iran's latest proposal to the United States calls for issues
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Speaker 6: end the war rather than extend the ceasefire. President Trump
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Speaker 6: I have a confession to make. I have a guilty pleasure.
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Speaker 7: It's mashups. It's just something, it's just it's just one
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Speaker 7: of those things.
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Speaker 6: I can't even explain why it is. We'll get back
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Speaker 6: to the whatether they call it MEMA's redistrict thing in
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Speaker 6: a little bit. But James Long is on the phone
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Speaker 6: guilty pleasures is we've got gold that we own, that
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Speaker 6: we hold on to, and James, I appreciate you. How
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Speaker 6: was your weekend, sir?
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Speaker 20: Absolutely, Joe and gold and silver are having a little
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Speaker 20: bit of a tough Monday morning here. Maybe they they
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Speaker 20: stayed up too late at a derby.
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Speaker 6: Party on Saturday or something, but.
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Speaker 20: Gold is down seventy five dollars, about one and a
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Speaker 20: half percent, to four thousand, five hundred and thirty eight dollars.
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Speaker 20: Silver's down about three and a third percent, down two
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Speaker 20: dollars and fifty cents. Is seventy two dollars and eighty
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Speaker 20: five cents. You know, Friday really was a strong day
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Speaker 20: for golden silver. After we spoke, they rallied pretty hard.
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Speaker 20: But feeling a little bit of that pulled back today.
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Speaker 6: Well, but there's still an opportunity considering where we were
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Speaker 6: a year ago and even five years ago, James. You know,
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Speaker 6: for those joining us in progress, James and I have
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Speaker 6: been talking about this stuff for some time, and you know,
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Speaker 6: the numbers were still talking about, though down from a
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Speaker 6: few months ago, are way up from where they were
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Speaker 6: a few years ago.
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Speaker 20: Absolutely, and they really are.
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Speaker 21: And like we said last week, you know, on about
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Speaker 21: a month ago, they really are in this comfortable level
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Speaker 21: here and they and they're about where they were, you know,
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Speaker 21: most of the week last week, taking out that Friday
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Speaker 21: at late week rally, but you know, they really are back.
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Speaker 20: To right where they they were last week. This really
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Speaker 20: is a comfortable zone for gold and silver. I know
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Speaker 20: a lot of my clients really like silver at this price,
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Speaker 20: they still see it undervalued compared to gold. You know,
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Speaker 20: they look at that gold to silver ratio that's on
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Speaker 20: my website there at jcscold dot com, and a lot
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Speaker 20: of people are still saying that even with silver's.
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Speaker 2: Rise over all of last year, it still is.
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Speaker 20: Undervalued compared to gold, and they're they're taking advantage being
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Speaker 20: a little dip like this that comes.
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Speaker 6: Up, and it's always going to be valued at something
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Speaker 6: and somebody is always going to be trading for it.
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Speaker 6: So we can't always say that about currencies, James, so
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Speaker 6: have a busy morning. It sounds like people may have
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Speaker 6: him a call after they open at ten Eastern at
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Speaker 6: four three four nine to seven nine coin. Thank you, James,
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Speaker 6: have a great morning.
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Speaker 20: Thanks Jerege too.
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Speaker 6: So get back to Clouk. You was saying, we live
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Speaker 6: in interesting times. But you know, I look at the
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Speaker 6: resurgency and people talk about vote suppression in a lot
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Speaker 6: of ways, doctor Clark. I think one of them is
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Speaker 6: to tell somebody, oh, you live in a community that
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Speaker 6: you're not even going to get a sniff of an
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Speaker 6: elected representative, and so why would you bother joining either
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Speaker 6: Democrat Party or Republican Party. I mean, I'm sure there
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Speaker 6: are some counties similar to the one I live in
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Speaker 6: in Virginia where Republicans out number probably two to one.
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Speaker 6: And I feel for Democrats because I used to live
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Speaker 6: in Charlottesville City where it was five to one Democrat.
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Speaker 6: Yet you know, the Republicans would you know, cobble together
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Speaker 6: five or six volunteers on election day. So when I
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Speaker 6: see a lonely Democrat sitting in a Republican county at
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Speaker 6: their you know, volunteer booth on election day, I go
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Speaker 6: over and say Hi, I have empathy for them, I
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Speaker 6: know what it feels like. But that's vote suppression. When
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Speaker 6: you draw these districts that are so jerrymandered one way
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Speaker 6: or the other, that's going to drive down voter turnout,
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Speaker 6: isn't it.
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Speaker 8: Oh. I was just thinking like you must be a
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Speaker 8: really big Roland Stones fan or something. Sympathy for the
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Speaker 8: devil there. Oh well, you know.
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Speaker 6: Please will allow me to introduce myself. I'm the guy
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Speaker 6: who used to live in Charlottesville City.
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Speaker 8: But you know, the whole point of have in the
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Speaker 8: republic is so you don't have the tyranny of.
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Speaker 6: The mob right exactly, And you know.
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Speaker 8: In order to use mobocracy to get total control. And
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Speaker 8: understand that they see that as a transitional phase. You know,
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Speaker 8: they keep talking about our democracy. That's kind of like
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Speaker 8: you're redistricting. It's temporary.
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Speaker 6: Wells. As our friend Ray has pointed out, we have
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Speaker 6: to pronounce it correctly. We've been pronouncing it wrong all
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Speaker 6: these years. It's democratsy, yes, yes, So you know, here's
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Speaker 6: the thing with the dear redistricting.
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Speaker 8: I read an article last night this morning something like
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Speaker 8: half the seats that the Democrats currently hold in Congress
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Speaker 8: or in heavily gerrymander district. So wow, this could be
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Speaker 8: catastrophic for them. Now, no mistake. They will understand this,
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Speaker 8: and when all else fails, they will get violent. And
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Speaker 8: then the other thing. If we do get to the
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Speaker 8: point where Republicans hold, say three quarters, if half of
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Speaker 8: what the Democrats hold, and they can't get half with
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Speaker 8: half of it heavily jerry manders, They're going to figure
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Speaker 8: things out. Yeah, you know, you ever watched the Halloween
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Speaker 8: and the Friday the Thirteenth movies show.
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Speaker 6: I've seen some of them out of curiosity, you know,
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Speaker 6: But you know, I'm not a huge I'm not a big.
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Speaker 8: Fan, but I've seen enough of it. The Democrats, the left.
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Speaker 8: It's like Jason and Michael Myers had a baby, because
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Speaker 8: just when you think they can't come back, I'll figure
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Speaker 8: out a why.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, And that's the thing, and this is
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Speaker 6: why this undermannered country that we live in, the post
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Speaker 6: nineteen twenty nine Act to split up black communities. I
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Speaker 6: was explaining this to my wife driving back from our
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Speaker 6: anniversary weekend last night. I said, you got to understand,
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Speaker 6: you know, the Voting Rights Act of the sixties was
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Speaker 6: a second wrong trying to make a right. So was
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Speaker 6: the nineteen twenty nine Act for Permanent Reapportionment written specifically
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Speaker 6: so they could divide black communities, Black prosperous communities that
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Speaker 6: they hadn't rioted and burned to the ground like they
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Speaker 6: did in Oklahoma? You know? Was it designed to divide
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Speaker 6: them up so you would stop getting black congress people? Yes,
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Speaker 6: that much is a given. So then the voting rights
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Speaker 6: come the civil rights movement comes along, and rather than
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Speaker 6: just repealing the Permanent Act for Reapportionment, we do the
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Speaker 6: second wrong thing, which is government sanctioned, constitutionally mandated jerry mandering,
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Speaker 6: which is saying that, you know, no matter what you do,
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Speaker 6: every state's going to have at least one minority majority district,
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Speaker 6: which I get. I completely understand why they did it
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Speaker 6: at the time, because the Dixiecrats were trying to, you know,
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Speaker 6: split up Black communities of even moderate prosperity so they
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Speaker 6: wouldn't send more people to Congress. But rather than just
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Speaker 6: take the simple fix, which is to get rid of
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Speaker 6: the Act for Permanent Reapportionment, they said, well, it's right,
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Speaker 6: a second wrong thing, and that's what the Supreme Court
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Speaker 6: ruled on it was a second wrong thing. It was
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Speaker 6: racially biased district drawing. Whether it be white, moderate brown,
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Speaker 6: darker brown, it doesn't make a difference. It's you're considering
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Speaker 6: something other than where you live.
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Speaker 6: and said, Joe wasn't the Department of Justice, it was
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Speaker 6: the Department of Transportation. I saw Sean Duffy say it
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Speaker 6: was Pete Boudages that did it. See that's where politics
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Speaker 6: rears its ugly head. See they're trying to make sure
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Speaker 6: that they tag Pete Boudages with stuff because Merrit Garland
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Speaker 6: isn't running for anything. Pete Boudages wants to be pre
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Speaker 6: so you you know, and do I want Pete Buodhage
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Speaker 6: used to be president, Oh god no, But he had
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Speaker 6: very little to do with the decision to keep Jet
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Speaker 6: Blue from buying Spirit. It was the Department of Justice
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Speaker 6: that made the ruling under their Sherman antitrust saying that
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Speaker 6: taking you know, Spirit becoming part of Jet Blue would
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Speaker 6: create a restriction in airline prices and less competition, having
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Speaker 6: somehow not noticed that Continental and United or American and
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Speaker 6: US air merging wouldn't. And that's the hypocrisy in it,
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Speaker 6: Koreem is that, yes, in the frozen moment of twenty
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Speaker 6: twenty six, sure you don't have a government bailing out
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Speaker 6: an airline. And I still don't want a government bailing
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Speaker 6: out an airline. But I don't want the government standing
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Speaker 6: on the neck of the airline to make sure they
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Speaker 6: can't go find a bail out of their own. And
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Speaker 6: I don't know if that was the intent of the
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Speaker 6: Department of Justice under Merrick Garland. He was busy persecuting
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Speaker 6: parents threatening to run against school board members at the time,
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Speaker 6: so I'm sure he wasn't personally out there trying to
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Speaker 6: say we want to take over Spirit Airlines. But the
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Speaker 6: complacency of the federal government in the arc of the
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Speaker 6: story that brings Spirit Airlines to its collapse cannot be ignored.
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Speaker 1: In this case.
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Speaker 6: Predictably again, now, you know, stories of racism are coming
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Speaker 6: out of Oklahoma City, this shooting, and you know, six
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Speaker 6: seven different people have sent me videos sell cell phone
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Speaker 6: videos all over the place. You know, we'll be this
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Speaker 6: police chief, Emily Ward, she's not the police chief, she's
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Speaker 6: the spokesperson trying to ride her on a world full
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Speaker 6: of cell phone video from the party before the shooting started.
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Speaker 6: I see a racially mixed party there in all the
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Speaker 6: videos that I've seen. Now, maybe that was what triggered
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Speaker 6: those shooters in this case. Maybe they just weren't invited.
50:46
Speaker 6: So any number of things could have led to this.
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Speaker 6: But again, this is not your right to do. You
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Speaker 6: do not have the right to murder. Thou shalt not murder, period,
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Speaker 6: no debate, no learned jurists, saying, but my client was
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Speaker 6: stressed because the failed assassination attempt, and he wanted to
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Speaker 6: make a sad no, no, stop making excuses. Thou shall
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Speaker 6: not murder now I didn't murder or they I'm told
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Speaker 6: that there may be two shooters on the hoof in Oklahoma,
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Speaker 6: sent twelve people to the hospital and has a predictable
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Speaker 6: line of people lining up, saying this is why we
51:31
Speaker 6: need better gun control. As if these things don't happen,
51:45
Speaker 6: it's all it's all still pushing you into that same
51:48
Speaker 6: COVID nineteen place of critical public health emergency that must
51:53
Speaker 6: be dealt with in severe but kind hearted manners. So
52:01
Speaker 6: you know, stay inside your house, shut down your business
52:03
Speaker 6: while we while we fix this health emergency, people are dying.
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Speaker 6: So uh yeah, there's still plenty not known about this.
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Speaker 6: But as I said, it's just the creature that we
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Speaker 6: live with now, is this creature of social media. And
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Speaker 6: everyone was posting videos from everyone having a grand time
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Speaker 6: at this Oklahoma city party. Doesn't mean they deserve to
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Speaker 6: get shot at. And I sure there are you know,
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Speaker 6: black kids, white kids, Latino kids all partying together. Maybe
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Speaker 6: that's what got the guy Ben out of the shooter
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