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"The Influence Industry" (Wednesday September 3, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Fiant and more Megan now make America great again than
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  I've ever been.
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  Speaker 2: First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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  the second most Famous Thomas and Charlott.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to it, ted Steam Morning. Thank you for letting
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  me be of service to you. A day we celebrate
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  God's gifts and talents that he has bestowed upon you,
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  us because Lori Lightfoot says, well, let's send the troops
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  into Chicago, send them to the gun makers. We'll get
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  into that. Federal Appeals Court Tuesday vacated at lower courts
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  ruling requiring the EPA and City Bank to continue funding
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  sixteen billion dollars in climate related grants. The judge guarantees
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  that the suit against the EPA would never prevail. Charles Bryer,
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  a federal judge in San Francisco appointed by Bill Clinton,
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  ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration violated federal law using
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  National Guards troops amid the Southern California immigration enforcement operations. Then,
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  in the shadow of that, the Trump administration said Tuesday
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  that they will deploy National Guards troops to Chicago, calling
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  the city a hellhole ravaged by gun crime. Quote. We're
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  going in security, sovereignty, tariffs, trade, drugs, and migration, all
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  issues for the Trump administration. As Secretary of State, Marco
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  Rubio starts to hit Central America this week. It'll be
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  his second week second trip to the area leaders in Mexico,
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  Ecuador on Wednesday and Thursday, and then he'll make a
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  case for a broader, deeper cooperation with the United States
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  and those are some of our first things coming into
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  this Tednesday morning on the Talk Media Network. Come on,
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  come on, you can get there. It's like driving that
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  Chevy Vega up a hill. There it is. Now we
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  can get to the phones at four, three, four, eight eight,
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  two four to two one seven. Good morning, doctor Clark.
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  What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Sir?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: So many things, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: So let's see.
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  Speaker 6: You know, as much as I hate to do this,
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  I'm going to disagree with the radio talk show hosts.
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  Good you said Bobby the murderer was fruit of a
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  poisonous tree. I'm gonna say, John, he's fruit of a
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  corporate plantation.
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  Speaker 3: How so one more than a ture.
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  Speaker 6: There's a lot more in the tree to produce that one?
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  Speaker 3: Well, how do you so? Corporate plantation? So yeah, and
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  I'm trying to and I know your mind works on
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  six levels. It's like playing three D chess. So which
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  corporate ideology?
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  Speaker 7: Start with?
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  Speaker 8: Transgender?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 7: So what is it?
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  Speaker 6: Eighty percent of kids the toy with this idea, But
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  don't get drugs or surgery. Outgrow the notion. You take
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  hormones or you get surgery. You're a client for life.
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  Speaker 3: Oh sure, Yeah, you have to keep taking thatstry hormone.
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  Speaker 6: Right, so legal industry, ooh, you're also a client for
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  a lot this is you know, people are making tremendous
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  money off of this, Joe. It's a corporate thing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, but there's also the side that says, the kid
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  you know, had had And we see this a lot
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  with these instances where the activism gets passe after a
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  while and the kid is still left struggling with the
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  mental health issues and that's where they killed themselves. Which
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  I think this kid's intention, all you know, was from
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  the onset. He just wanted to go out with a
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  flourish well.
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  Speaker 6: As horrible as the things he did were, at some
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  point we have to recognize he was a victim in
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  this in that he sought help.
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  Speaker 3: The help he got was horrible, but he sought help.
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  Speaker 6: Now moving on, Hollywood can't make an original movie anymore currently. Yeah,
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  and if you mix, if you mix peanut butter and chocolate,
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  that's a Reces cup, Joe, and everybody loves a ress cup.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So.
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  Speaker 6: Remember the movie back in the seventies with Clint Eastwood
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  and Jeff Ridges, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, kind of.
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  Speaker 6: An adventure movie there, yeah, a little bit, and then
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  I believe it was the nineties that brought us Susan
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  Sarandon and Teena Davis, Thelma and Louise, Yeah, Liz Warren, Lori, Lightfoot,
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  Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. It's a girl adventure movie where they
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  drive a convertible. Did they argue about the name of
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  Thunderbolt wants to call it America, Lightfoot wants to call
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  it Chicago, but leftist will love it because they drive
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  the car off a cliff.
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  to keep our arteries open by relaxing the blood vessel walls.
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  By doing this, our circulation is increased, bringing blood, oxygen
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  and nutrients to every part of your body. Both age
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  and poor diet can lead to a loss of this
• 8:36
  precious gas, and in turn, blood pressure can go up,
• 8:39
  energy can go down, and you can get tingling in
• 8:42
  your hands and feet. Well, our product, Ultimate nitric Oxide
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  Speaker 2: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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  Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 19: Just what the doctor Rotter.
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  Speaker 3: You know, just because you can do something doesn't mean
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  you should do something. And there's deep subtexts to this,
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  the subtextual parts of the story of Bobby the Minneapolis
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  murderer and how we get here, and there's there's some
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  truisms that you have to get into, and we'll get
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  there coming up this morning. We also we haven't even
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  Back to Alabama Huntsville there for their HQ. But first,
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  James Luck is on the phone with us. James, of course,
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  gold and silver? How are you doing this morning, James.
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  Speaker 20: I'm doing well, Joe, and gold and silver had a
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  monster day yesterday. Silver got all the way up to
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  forty dollars and eighty two cents, which is currently where
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  it fits, which is just below even. It's actually down
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  about eight cents from a tie that to forty dollars
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  and ninety cents yesterday, and gold got even higher all
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  time highs and record setting prices here at three thousand,
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  five hundred and thirty five dollars, currently about two dollars
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  over even so far this morning.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just blue past thirty five hundred and planted
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  itself there and now is growing and sounds like silver
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  is doing the same thing over the forty dollars plateau.
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  Speaker 20: That's exactly right, golds and price discovery mode here. So
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  we'll see where it settles and then kind of consolidates
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  a little bit. But so far it's it's on the
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  up move and silver, you know, all silver's all time
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  highs fifty dollars, it's hit that twice before nineteen eighty
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  and then twenty eleven. It's really inflation driven, so we'll
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  we'll see how quickly it can go from forty dollars
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  to fifty dollars, and as you and I have been
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  been saying for a while now, once it gets about
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  that forty dollars market really seems like fifty s right
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  around the corner.
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  Speaker 18: So we'll see how fast the move.
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  Speaker 3: And it's well, it's already gone at the you know,
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  ear popping pace. It's a wild ride, but you know,
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  and if you say, oh gosh, I may have missed
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  that's why I say, talk to a family, not a
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  call center about your gold and silver investing. I appreciate it, James.
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  Of course people go to jcsgold dot com. I hope
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  it wasn't too busy for you all the packing and
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  Speaker 8: My hands are a little sore, but we got another
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  within twenty four hours to people, you know, and we
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  just keep moving.
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  Speaker 3: So we appreciate all the business. Course, well, thanks, thank you, sir,
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  you have a great morning.
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  Speaker 21: You two Joe four.
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  Speaker 3: Three four eight eight two four two one seven. So
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  the society of indulgence and we mix indulgence and compassion up.
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  They said this on Monday, as I said it the
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  day after the You know Bobby the Minneapolis murderer, and
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  we see in his story, in his narrative that the
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  left has dropped like a potato for various reasons, including
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  his fixation with anti Israel Hamas support. And I don't
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  believe that that part can be left out. But this
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  is the fruit of this misinterpretation that indulgence is compassion,
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  and compassion has to be genuine and it has to
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  be personal. Clark was talking about the medications and the
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  medical treatment, and you know, you become a client of
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  the medical industry forever rather than you know, for the
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  time being while you try to figure out the issues
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  you have, and it adds to a higher suicide rate later.
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  So all the things you are seeking to avoid with
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  your indulgence in lieu of compassion still manifest and it generates,
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  It becomes the progenitor of more. And there's a societal
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  thing that again I don't want to blame inanimate objects,
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  but this one's on the borderline of not necessarily being inanimate.
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  And again it comes back to it's our fault. We
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  did it. The isolation that we've created, and ah, gosh,
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  I've talked about internet driven isolation in this era of
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  social media. Doesn't it strike you as sadly ironic and
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  in some cases dangerous that we are more isolated from
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  one another than ever before, even though we have all
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  of the social media, it's made us less social and
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  that's the that's the soil that we've borne these seeds in.
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  And so when people say, well, how did we get here, Well, first,
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  it begins with this idea of I need to be special,
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  because that's what social media's currency is is how special
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  are you? How many followers do you have? Being an
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  influencer is an industry now that's getting Arabella Advisors to
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  pay you eight thousand dollars a month to post social
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  media messages promoting certain political ideologies like we don't have
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  that already. But the isolation that the irony of the
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  isolation that social media creates, the immediate gratification of attention
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  being paid to you and each I can see you
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  rolling your eye at the radio saying, yeah, Joe, typical
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  talk radio show hosts, got radio stations all over the country,
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  and all of a sudden he wants to rail about
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  isolation and social media. You're just jealous because they have
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  more listeners than you do. And that's where we have
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  to if we're going to heal this as a community,
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  we have to go back to humanity, which is not
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  eggs in a social media landscape. It's not insults hurled
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  in a social media landscape that is easy. And so
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  try to put all that into perspective because kids like
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  Bobby the Minneapolis murderer do not just happen, but there
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  are things that they're looking for it because we're all
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  looking for it. We're all looking for attention, we're all
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  looking for affirmation. And so in an attempt to do that,
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  parents do it, but then elected officials do it, school
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  teachers do it. And it turns out, you know, the
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  pain and suffering doesn't go away, the pain of being
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  who you are doesn't go away.
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  Speaker 10: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas? Yes?
• 22:07
  Actually three known gas is I'm doctor Mitch, and nitric
• 22:12
  oxide is a gas that's readily made all day long
• 22:17
  to keep our arteries open by relaxing the blood vessel walls.
• 22:22
  By doing this, our circulation is increased, bringing blood, oxygen
• 22:27
  and nutrients to every part of your body. Both age
• 22:31
  and poor diet can lead to a loss of this
• 22:35
  precious gas, and in turn blood pressure can go up,
• 22:38
  energy can go down, and you can get tingling in
• 22:41
  your hands and feet. Well our product, Ultimate nitric oxide,
• 22:46
  can easily help fix this lack of nitric oxide. Go
• 22:50
  to total Wellness dot com. That's total wellness dot com,
• 22:55
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• 22:57
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  Speaker 3: The influence industry, says the man, bearing in mind that
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  how hypocritical he may sound over the next moment or two,
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  given that his industry is part of the influence industry,
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  isn't it The industry industrialized conversation, industrialized interactions. So we
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  were talking about the social media and how ironic it
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  is that our society seems more isolated. You tell me,
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  are they more? Are we more isolated or less isolated
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  than we were before social media came along? And we're
• 29:12
  more siloed? And yeah, COVID was like the grand emulsifier
• 29:19
  in this. Threw in COVID nineteen and the lockdowns and
• 29:22
  it just became like ken Kesey and the LSD tests
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  of the sixties. But the influence industry leads to some
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  of this, because every conversation, every interaction has to be
• 29:41
  a battle, a combat, a debate where there's a winner
• 29:46
  and a loser. Hell, I mean, at some point, I
• 29:49
  imagine fan duel will begin, you know, taking bets on
• 29:53
  who wins the conversation between and it's crazy making, and
• 29:59
  it's truthfully traced crazy making where people are doing things
• 30:05
  to get attention. And yes, some of Bobby the Minneapolis
• 30:09
  murderer's story is about getting attention, and we're not one
• 30:15
  hundred percent sure because his mother lawyered up. Was it
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  Bobby's attempt to get attention or his mother's. We have
• 30:23
  chronicle volumes of instances of what I call Munchausen's esque
• 30:32
  behavior by parents who take a child who says, yeah,
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  I'm not really happy with myself and like, oh, that's it.
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  I'm an influencer. Now I can be a leader in
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  this community, and they use it for their attention. And
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  I'm not saying everybody does. But when your child comes
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  to you and says I hate my body, I hate myself,
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  your first thought shouldn't be Let's get a Facebook page started,
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  Let's get a substack account going, Let's begin a daily
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  travelog almost which is there. I mean, it's of the
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  horrific things that you can find if you wander around
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  the internet long enough. It's like a it's like a
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  neighborhood in Chicago. You wander around it long enough, You're
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  go find some pretty ugly stuff. Hopefully you have some
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  National Guards troops there with you. I'm kidding, kidding, mirror
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  and well, cirt do we got that? We still haven't
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  delved into space force or the ten percent of Intel,
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  which all of a sudden, as the people woke up
• 31:42
  and we're like, hold it, when did that happen? What
• 31:44
  do you mean?
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I was on vacation. Happens. People talk about the grievance
• 31:52
  industry all the time. I'm going to sue you, you know,
• 31:57
  your honor. I represent Karen here, and everything that goes
• 32:04
  wrong becomes a lawsuit. Every time a business doesn't provide
• 32:09
  what it is inferred that it was promising to provide.
• 32:13
  There in court, and there you are, you're in court.
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  But there's the underpinning of that is this influencer industry.
• 32:23
  And as I said, bearing in mind that it sounds
• 32:27
  pretty hypocritical from a guy in my industry, but I
• 32:32
  can only be popular with you if we have an honest,
• 32:37
  forthright conversation. I'm not a publicity stunt guy. Like the
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  long hair that used to be on rock radio that's
• 32:43
  now hanging up. Was a serious ExM with this publicity stunt.
• 32:51
  I remember classic story. I think it's actually depicted in
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  some it may be private parts. How Howard Stern was
• 33:01
  supposed to have Roseanne bar on his show, and this
• 33:06
  was at the height of the Roseanne TV Show, and
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  it was a big, you know, star visit, and that
• 33:13
  was beginning to become What Howard was about at that
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  point was look at the celebrities that hang out with me,
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  and I'm an ass, you know. And he gets on
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  the air at six o'clock in the morning saying, and
• 33:26
  where hey, Robin, Hey Robin, where is Rosie? She's not here, Howard,
• 33:32
  damn it. She was supposed to be here at six thirty.
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  She had never been scheduled to be there any earlier
• 33:37
  than nine am. But he starts using this publicity stunt
• 33:41
  rhetoric of like she's blowing him off. And then then
• 33:50
  comes eight o'clock and oh, Rosie's here. She wasn't there yet.
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  Oh Teller's a wait, I'm not ready for now. Now
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  she's got a wait till nine till I'm ready. And
• 34:00
  then when Roseanne Barr showed up at nine o'clock like
• 34:03
  she was scheduled to, I was like, all right, Rosie,
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  you're going to say you're sorry to me. And luckily
• 34:08
  she had heard the gag and was you know, she
• 34:11
  was willing to play along. But this whole serious exem
• 34:15
  thing is just another publicity stunt in the world of
• 34:17
  Howard Stearn's never ending publicity stunts. And it works because
• 34:21
  I just mentioned him. But it's in reference to this
• 34:24
  influencer economy that we've created, this influencer industry where everyone's
• 34:31
  looking for that publicity stunt that's going to get them
• 34:35
  people clicking through to their podcast. By the way, my
• 34:40
  podcasts are up there on Apple Podcasts, and iHeart just
• 34:45
  saying not everybody gets all four hours. That's all I'm saying.
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  There is no end to the depth of my shallowness.
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  But it's an industry now driven on how many people
• 35:02
  can I get to go to my Facebook page? And
• 35:06
  I almost wonder what life is going to be like
• 35:08
  twenty years from now when you have confessions of these
• 35:12
  folks who you know, get towards their sixties and seventies
• 35:16
  and start to realize how vapid their contributions to society
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  turned out to be. Because you certainly, being able to
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  communicate something with somebody is important. Certainly being able to
• 35:37
  help them through issues or show them stories or tell
• 35:41
  them stories that are of interesting import that's all well
• 35:45
  and good, but that's not what the influencer industry has become.
• 35:50
  The influencer industry is seventy five percent soft core pornography
• 35:59
  and the other percentages are divvied up amongst curiosities and grievance,
• 36:10
  and it is something that we all have to fix
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  because you know, somebody like Lori Lightfoot or the Pope
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  will blame the computer or the tablet or the five
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  G internet service or the website. They'll blame Facebook, they'll
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  blame X, they'll blame TikTok. And for the record, you
• 36:33
  can go back through the aforementioned podcasts. You can find
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  them all at Joe Thomas in the Morning dot com,
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  including some subscription links. But I said a long time ago,
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  and I've said it frequently since, I was against the
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  TikTok band, not because I'm pro chi coom surveillance, but
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  you're blaming an inanimate object for the behaviors of the
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  people who are you using it. Let's blame this on
• 37:02
  the people and maybe we'll get less of it. That's
• 37:04
  the whole point of a free society and the judicial
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  system is that when you find the bad actors, and
• 37:11
  they don't have to be criminal, but they have to
• 37:14
  be behaving in an abbarant fashion for the societal norms.
• 37:19
  And if they're trying to change the societal norms, then
• 37:22
  by all means we can discuss it. But if they're
• 37:25
  just being Johnny Knoxville and Bam Migera. Has it been
• 37:30
  that long since the Jackass movies were out there? Who
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  are just doing it to go, oh my god, what
• 37:39
  did they just do? What are we doing to society?
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  Speaker 2: Hundred to do lists. Putting the radio on is the
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  first thing today?
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Or the eyes of the world now look into space,
• 44:22
  to the Moon and to the planets beyond, and we
• 44:26
  have vowed that we shall not see it governed by
• 44:31
  a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of
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  freedom and peace. For space science, like nuclear science, and
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  all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it
• 44:46
  will become a force for good or ill depends on man,
• 44:51
  and only if the United States occupies a position of
• 44:55
  pre eminence can we help decide whether there's new ocean,
• 45:02
  will be a sea of peace, are a new terrifying
• 45:06
  dinner of war?
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  Speaker 3: Such and so forgotten? And obviously everyone here is that
• 45:12
  we choose to go to the moon in this decade
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  and do the other But the other things are all
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  of that. Most people only hear that five second or
• 45:21
  ten second snippet of Kennedy's speech at Rice University talking
• 45:26
  about space, but you know that ocean. That's how the
• 45:30
  view of space was. This was an ocean that could
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  be dominated by the ships of war, the ships of conquest,
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  the ships of ttalitarianism, will.
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  Speaker 1: Be a sea of peace, are a new terrifying thender.
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  Speaker 3: Of war, And that was why it was important to
• 45:51
  get out there. I bring this up as we I
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  know we have listeners in Huntsville, Alabama. We don't have
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  an affiliate there, but they're listening on the k kfar
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  webstream out of Fairbanks, which is interesting. It bounds all
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  the way to Fairbanks and then come back on the stream.
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  Gotta love the Internet for that. And I want to
• 46:17
  stick a pin in Kennedy's point about technology not having
• 46:21
  a conscience of its own, because that ties into the
• 46:25
  last couple of segments about the influence industry and Bobby
• 46:34
  the Minneapolis murderer. But for now, it's let's now jump
• 46:41
  forward sixty plus years to JD vance on moving the
• 46:54
  Space Force yesterday.
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  Speaker 25: Jaguation.
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  Speaker 26: Oh sure, well, mister President, thank you all.
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  Speaker 3: Be very brief here.
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  Speaker 26: I lobbied the President hard to put it in Ohio,
• 47:10
  but he said, these people behind us, these Alabamas, are
• 47:12
  just too powerful and too persuasive, and so it's in Alabama.
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  But as Tommy said, this is exactly the right place
• 47:18
  for Space Force and Space Command. I think Americans ought
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  to appreciate and ought to appreciate the fact that you
• 47:24
  can't win the battle of the future unless you control
• 47:26
  the skies, the cyber security, the communications, the entire infrastructure
• 47:31
  of the battle in the twenty first century will be
• 47:34
  in space. It was a visionary move in the first
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  administration for the President to set up Space Force, and
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  I think an equally visionary move to make sure that
• 47:41
  Space Force is right where it should be in Huntsville, Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
• 47:44
  Speaker 26: So.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Now, as flowing rhetoric, as.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Like nuclear science and all technology has no conscience of
• 47:51
  its own, whether it will become a force for good
• 47:56
  or ill depends on man, and only if the United
• 47:59
  States occupies a position of pre eminence can we help
• 48:06
  decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of
• 48:10
  peace or a new terrifying theater of war.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: What Jack Kennedy didn't understand is that there were people
• 48:20
  holding the very position JD. Vance hoolds now that didn't
• 48:25
  think that way. They were interested in the weapons of war.
• 48:36
  So when Jack said this part of his speech.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: We avowed that we shall not see space failed with
• 48:45
  weapons of mass destruction.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: People bring that up, the leftists bring that up all
• 48:50
  the time when we talk about space force and stuff
• 48:53
  like that, and it's all right, so we how do
• 48:58
  you juxtapose one versus the other. You have weapons of
• 49:01
  mass defense up there, ready to protect against e MPs
• 49:09
  and Leiser beams, all the things that there are multiple
• 49:16
  reports of Chicom platforms up there ready to take out
• 49:21
  star Net sky Net no Starlink, Sorry, just tweaking you elon,
• 49:27
  just tweaking you take out the Skylink satellites. As more
• 49:38
  and more people get hooked on that, and for a
• 49:41
  good reason, I mean, it's cut the cable. I'm all
• 49:45
  for anything that's bringing back broadcast. Oh hold, it's broadcast Internet.
• 49:50
  You mean, like like waves going through the air to
• 49:53
  receivers that decode the message. What a strange thing. I
• 50:02
  wonder if that could work in other mel use as well.
• 50:08
  And it's interesting because you know, the Biden administration loved
• 50:12
  Space Force for a political party that lampooned it to
• 50:19
  the point of getting Steve Carrell to try to do
• 50:23
  a situation comedy around an Air Force commander who was
• 50:28
  punished by being put in charge of Space Force. I
• 50:36
  would have preferred if if they had accepted the fact
• 50:40
  that they were just knocking off F Troop and made
• 50:44
  j you know, made Steve Carell's character incapable of closing
• 50:48
  his maps on his on his laptop or something, which
• 50:53
  is one of the running gags in F Troop is
• 50:55
  that Captain Parmenter couldn't fold his maps, you know, just
• 50:59
  just a running gag. It would have sated me. I
• 51:02
  was watching it just out of curiosity to say, all right,
• 51:05
  they're going to make fun of President Trump in Space Force.
• 51:09
  And then they got into the Oval office and I
• 51:11
  was like, oh, you know this is and yet nobody
• 51:14
  brings up why Kennedy wanted us out there, and Lyndon Johnson,
• 51:21
  who was sitting there with Kennedy at Rice University in Texas,
• 51:28
  was more interested in the weapons systems than the defensive
• 51:34
  need to have them. So just saying the United States
• 51:44
  has to have a pre eminence in space predictates the
• 51:50
  idea that the United States still is the United States
• 51:54
  and that we're for liberty for all and will fight
• 51:59
  tyranny whoever it befalls upon, rather than become pregenditors of
• 52:08
  a kinder, gentler kind of authoritarianism, which is something you
• 52:13
  and I talk about all the time, some text messages,
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  phone calls four three four eight eight two four two
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  one seven. China already has satellite killers. Yeah, and that's
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  why I brought them up laser beams to Alabama and beyond.
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