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"Good Enough?" (FTTxJT Mon 092826 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: What the hell is this?
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  Speaker 2: This is the bill that will convert the State Hospital
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  Speaker 1: For the Insane.
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  Speaker 4: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Taunt Media Network.
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  Speaker 5: Joe works at.
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  Speaker 6: A steel mill, works damn near every day. Leaves for
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  Speaker 6: work when the sun comes up, drops a kid to
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  Speaker 6: school in the long world. Joe has everything he dreamed of,
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  Speaker 6: all the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning. On the radio program that first and foremost
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  Speaker 1: we can co-opt some of the jargon that the cool
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you what went on last night. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you my analysis of it for show. All driven
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  Speaker 1: by one agenda only, which is to tell you the truth.
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  Speaker 1: things that are good for you based on the things
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  Speaker 1: that you need and that your family needs. And anyone
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  Speaker 1: walk from town to town. telling people, well, no, you
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  Speaker 1: are the special one. You are God's gift to this world.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let the other people tell you otherwise. Whatever happened
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  Speaker 1: to that message? But that's how we roll. That's the
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  Speaker 1: programming philosophy, if you will, of the program. But I
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  Speaker 1: want to hear how the news of the day is
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  Speaker 1: impacting you where you are at 434-882-4217. text message there
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  Speaker 1: is also part of it. So you can get to
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  Speaker 1: us that way. Very popular there. This one, Carrie listening
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  Speaker 1: to us in Pascagoula, Mississippi. I presume that you said
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  Speaker 1: you're down on the Gulf in Mississippi. That would be
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  Speaker 1: my process. She said, I'm not too conversant. I'm fairly young.
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  Speaker 1: What is this tea party you're talking about? It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a good idea. And why did they say you
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  Speaker 1: were all racists? Well, they said we were all racists
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  Speaker 1: because it was a good idea and they were afraid
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  Speaker 1: of it and they didn't want to debate it. But
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, Carrie, we will get into that
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  Speaker 1: a little bit further in. But we love the folks
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  Speaker 1: at the game. Is it 1580 the game? I don't
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  Speaker 1: play the game. Like Howard Cosell once said, I never
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  Speaker 1: played the game. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant got to hit
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  Speaker 1: the TV circuit on Sunday, said that Iran's economy, from
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  Speaker 1: where he sits, will have nothing in two weeks' time.
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  Speaker 1: He said there's two deliveries of oil to China, and
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  Speaker 1: then they will have nothing. President Trump justified... sending U.S.
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  Speaker 1: arms to Taiwan in a conversation with Chinese Chairman Xi
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  Speaker 1: last week, according to Chinese Ambassador David Perdue, by saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: you can buy arms from us too if you want.
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  Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes over killing nine Ukrainians and
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  Speaker 1: a Russian. Germany has called on Russia to stand down
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  Speaker 1: and cut off its escalation towards NATO and which was
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  Speaker 1: reported to them on Friday from the Central Intelligence Agency.
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  Speaker 1: Voters in Washington state will have a referendum on the
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  Speaker 1: November 3rd ballot. Initiative 26645 was certified. The referendum would
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  Speaker 1: kill a planned 9.9% income tax on earnings over $ 1 million.
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  Speaker 1: The tax increase signed by Governor Ferguson in March is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to take effect on January 1st. President Trump has
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  Speaker 1: that goes back to the Cold War. The police say
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  Speaker 1: are some of our first things this morning. Now we
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  Speaker 1: can discuss them at your convenience. at 434-882-4217. But Carrie,
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  Speaker 1: don't run away yet, unless work calls. But I want
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  Speaker 1: to answer your question about the Tea Party. And believe me,
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  Speaker 18: For the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence
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  Speaker 18: and the 37 who signed the Constitution.
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  Speaker 16: And here's to you, Mr.
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  Speaker 19: Jefferson.
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  Speaker 1: So in the wake of this story out of Washington
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  Speaker 1: state where brilliantly, as it seems like only the West
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  Speaker 1: Coast really gets this idea of a citizen-led referendum, But,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's really constitutional. It's based in Article 5,
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  Speaker 1: saying that if the legislature fails to be representative, that
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  Speaker 1: the citizens can force the issue on their own. They
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  Speaker 1: managed to get a referendum on November's ballot that would
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  Speaker 1: stop the governor from enacting a job-killing 9.9% tax. And
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  Speaker 1: we got talking about the taxed enough already movement and
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  Speaker 1: Kerry wrote in from Mississippi asking us about the Tea
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  Speaker 1: Party movement. And you think about it, this is 2010
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  Speaker 1: and that's 16 years ago. It's young people had no
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  Speaker 1: idea or at worse, they just think the Tea Party
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  Speaker 1: movement was a was full of a bunch of racists
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  Speaker 1: who just wanted to do anything to stop the first
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  Speaker 1: black president from giving everybody free health care. Now, Obamacare passed,
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  Speaker 1: and we have, in great irony, some of the congresspeople
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  Speaker 1: who were in Congress at the time campaigning to fix
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  Speaker 1: health care, fix the broken health care system. that they broke,
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  Speaker 1: don't fall for it. But so it was based on
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  Speaker 1: the idea of taxed enough already. And it was pithy
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  Speaker 1: and it was catchy, but maybe too catchy because it
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  Speaker 1: was too quickly lampooned by those who had been taxing
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  Speaker 1: us too much because they couldn't debate the point when
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  Speaker 1: we said, hey, You just took in $ 460 billion just
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  Speaker 1: last month, and you tell us you don't have enough money.
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  Speaker 1: Where did it go? It was simply asking for an
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  Speaker 1: accounting of where did it go? And we would point
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  Speaker 1: to the Constitution and say, where's your authority? Where did
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  Speaker 1: this go? And that's when they started to go after
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  Speaker 1: songs like that one by Mike Church. Mike Church wrote
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  Speaker 1: that song, and immediately the left said, see, we told
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  Speaker 1: you they were racist. Jefferson owned slaves. Madison owned slaves.
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  Speaker 1: They're celebrating slave ownership, and it's Barack Obama. And that
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  Speaker 1: was the narrative, Kerry, was that we were racist because
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  Speaker 1: we opposed this massive expansion of government, despite the fact
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  Speaker 1: that if you were old enough at the time to
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  Speaker 1: be listening— you would have heard discussions about how it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't work.
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  Speaker 5: Huh.
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  Speaker 1: Funny, 16 years later, and Obamacare didn't work. Much in
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  Speaker 1: the same way, the exact way we predicted that it would.
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  Speaker 1: And by all means, text anytime, Kerry. Bob Good on
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  Speaker 1: with us, the host of the Good for America podcast.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking about the debt, the value of the dollar,
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  Speaker 1: and the Republicans' inability to to message off of it
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to that wave of congressional candidates
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  Speaker 1: that won in 2010's midterms?
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  Speaker 21: Yes, we don't have a revenue problem. We've got a
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  Speaker 21: spending problem. The federal government is taking in more money
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  Speaker 21: than it ever has. It's taking in more revenue than
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  Speaker 21: it ever has. The problem is we're spending more than
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  Speaker 21: we ever have as well. Spending has actually increased under
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  Speaker 21: full Republican control of government, not to mention the gasoline issue.
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  Speaker 21: The gasoline issue, we've got record high gas prices. caused
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  Speaker 21: by the Iran war, the lingering Iran war, the seemingly
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  Speaker 21: war without a strategy for ending the war. And now
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  Speaker 21: we're seven months or so into the war with no
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  Speaker 21: end in sight. And so you've had the president, on
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  Speaker 21: one hand, deny the higher gas prices, pretend that they're lower.
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  Speaker 21: On the other hand, to say they don't even matter.
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  Speaker 21: And then to say, hey, they'll just drop right after
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  Speaker 21: the midterms. None of that is helpful for the Republicans
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  Speaker 21: in the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you see happening? Not to say crystal ball,
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  Speaker 1: because UVA will say that's our propriety. But here we
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  Speaker 1: are in Virginia. We're still 40 days away, but we've
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  Speaker 1: been voting for a couple of weeks now. It appears
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  Speaker 1: voter turnout is, according to numbers, more than twice what
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  Speaker 1: it was in 2022's midterms. So what are you sensing
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  Speaker 1: towards the midterms? Is there going to be a blue wave?
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  Speaker 1: From what you're seeing now, Bob, or can we pull
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  Speaker 1: this out before we wind up landing this plane right
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  Speaker 1: at the crash site, as it were?
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  Speaker 21: Well, I fear that surge in early turnout is on
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  Speaker 21: the Democrat side on the left. They're motivated because they're
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  Speaker 21: out of power. They're motivated because they're angry at President Trump.
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  Speaker 21: And in fairness, President Trump's done a lot of great things.
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  Speaker 21: that none of which would have been done if Biden
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  Speaker 21: or Harris was in office still, and all the things
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  Speaker 21: where Republicans have fallen short, Democrats would have been worse.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, 60 degrees in Crozet. I'm sorry, what was that?
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  Speaker 21: Everything where the Republicans have fallen short over the last
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  Speaker 21: two years, Democrats would have been miserably worse. Democrats are
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  Speaker 21: never the solution to our problems. However, there's going to
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  Speaker 21: be a turnout issue, I think, for Republicans, because the
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  Speaker 21: motivation of, hey, we're not as bad as the Democrats,
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  Speaker 21: or the Democrats are worse than us, is not a
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  Speaker 21: great driving factor. I think that's what Republicans are running on. Now,
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  Speaker 21: there was predicted red waves in 22 and in 24
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  Speaker 21: that didn't materialize in the House and the Senate. The
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  Speaker 21: Democrats may find the same thing, that the wave won't
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  Speaker 21: be as big as they think. But I think on
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  Speaker 21: the Senate side, you're looking at anywhere from three seats
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  Speaker 21: pick up, which means J.D. Vance continues to break the tie.
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  Speaker 21: to six seats where Democrats have a three-vote majority. The
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  Speaker 21: House seems to be more in Democrats' favor, of course,
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  Speaker 21: but there's only a couple of dozen races that are competitive.
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  Speaker 21: That's just the nature of what the gerrymandering and the
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  Speaker 21: redistricting that's going on and the concentration of Democrats in
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  Speaker 21: blue cities and the Republicans in suburbs and rural areas.
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  Speaker 21: There's not as many competitive districts, which make waves harder
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  Speaker 21: to accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Bob, what's coming up this week on the Good
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  Speaker 1: for America podcast? More of this We're going.
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  Speaker 21: To be talking a lot about the midterms and a
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  Speaker 21: lot about the issues for the midterms, a lot about
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  Speaker 21: what Republicans have done to put themselves or haven't done
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  Speaker 21: to put themselves in the position that they are, and
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  Speaker 21: also what they should be doing over these final 30
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  Speaker 21: days and during the lame duck period after the midterms
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  Speaker 21: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate it, Bob. Goodforamerica.org is where you find
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  Speaker 1: the Good for America podcast, plus on all the distribution nexuses.
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  Speaker 1: You have a wonderful week, sir. You as well, Jeff.
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  Speaker 21: Thank you, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: We were mentioning this on both Friday and Saturdays, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more on Saturday's program, that populism has become
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  Speaker 4: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: And our friends from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation is,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and you hear more about it, I can recall, because
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: we've been doing this a long time, I can recall
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the first time I heard about Crohn's and colitis, and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: it needed a great deal of explaining. I think people
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: are better well-equipped to know what it means and what
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: it is, what it isn't. Rachel Dyckman is on with
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: us from the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. Good morning, Rachel.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: How are you doing this fine autumn day?
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: Good morning. I'm doing well, thank you. How are you?
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Excellent. But then again, I am not a sufferer. Talk
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: about what happens to people and how hard it is
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to really get a grip on a diagnosis of having
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Crohn's and colitis.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah. So Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis impact one in
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: 100 Americans, and they are chronic lifelong conditions that cause
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: inflammation in the digestive tract. And together, they're known as
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: IBD or inflammatory bowel disease. And typically they are diagnosed
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: by a gastroenterologist, usually a combination of different tests, blood work, colonoscopy, endoscopy.
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: It can be tricky initially sometimes to get a diagnosis,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: but once you are diagnosed, one of the greatest daily
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: challenges for people living with IBD as well as other
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: digestive conditions is really figuring out what to eat, which
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: is exactly why the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation created Gut-Friendly Recipes.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: which is an online resource with over 500 dietician-approved recipes
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: specifically for people with Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and other
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: digestive issues as well.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate doing something that doesn't require me to
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: go get something pharmaceutical done there. Rachel Dykeman, Crohn's and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Colitis Foundation.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Correct, correct. So people with IBD typically will be running
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: to the bathroom frequently. Of course, this is going to
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: be very individualized. It depends on the form of IBD,
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: the severity, the extent of the disease, where it is located.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: It can vary person to person, but oftentimes someone will
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: be running to the bathroom frequently, urgently. They may have
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: blood in their stool. They may experience a lot of
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: abdominal pain, cramping, potentially nausea, weight loss, malnutrition. potentially even
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: fevers and what they call extra intestinal manifestations, which are
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: essentially just symptoms that occur outside of the gut. So
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: some people will have eye inflammation, skin inflammation, joint inflammation.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: So again, it's very individualized, but definitely important if you
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: suspect to see a gastroenterologist to be evaluated.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I do know also medically, I don't know Dr. I,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: but I talked to a lot of them that inflammation
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: is one of the more, you know, We're finding out
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: more and more about how other things are connected to
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: scar tissue that comes from inflammation, specifically things like our
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: blood vessels. The more we have inflammation there, the more
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: scar tissue, the more cholesterol buildup, the more the risk
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: of high blood pressure and stroke, those sorts of things.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: So you talk about the inflammation in the gut and
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the bowel areas. That can be dangerous if the scar
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: tissue is allowed to keep building up. Correct, Rachel?
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  Speaker 5: Correct. So really the goal of treatment is to keep
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: inflammation levels low, ideally to get someone into remission where
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: they do not have active inflammation in the gut to
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: prevent the scar tissue from forming. Or in the case
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: of Crohn's disease, people can develop something called a stricture,
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: which is a narrowing of the intestine due to scar tissue.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: So through a combination generally of medical treatment, medication, and diet,
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: that can really be helpful in keeping those inflammation levels controlled.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Now, aside from staying comfortable, the diet plan that you're
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: talking about, first off, where do you find it? But also,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: I imagine these are diet plans that would help accomplish that, right, Rachel?
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Exactly. So the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation created this online resource,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: Gut-Friendly Recipes. which has over 500 dietician-approved recipes that are
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: really built around what works. So for example, things like soft,
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: lean proteins to provide the building blocks that the gut
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: needs to heal and repair. Also things like vegetables that
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: are prepared in a way so that they're very gentle
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: on the gut and easier to digest. Fruits that are
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: blended into smoothies to help break down the fiber so
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: that it's a lot easier on the gut. Healthy fats,
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: gentle grains and starches. So it really helps to take
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: the guesswork out of what to eat and turns it
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: into real, practical, flavorful meals. It really also shows that
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: you don't have to eat in a bland, boring way
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: when you have a gut issue. It's all about these
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: little subtle adjustments in portion size, texture, to really make
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: the meal a lot better tolerated.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate it, Rachel, there. And again, Crohn's and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Colitis Foundation, you have a great morning and thank you
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: for Heads up on the meal plans.
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  Speaker 5: You too.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 13: And it.
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• 36:32
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• 36:39
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• 36:45
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• 36:49
  Speaker 1: get into it in great Bob writes in, one of
• 36:57
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• 37:02
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• 37:05
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• 37:45
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  Speaker 14: Get moving. Visit checkupamerica.org or call 1-800-DIABETES, a message from
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  Speaker 14: the American Diabetes Association.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Jim. I'm a veteran, and I lost
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  Speaker 1: both legs in Vietnam.
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  Speaker 4: My victory was proving that a disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Julius.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 4: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 19: At DAV, we're on a mission, helping veterans of all
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  Speaker 19: generations get the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 25: I'm CeCe.
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  Speaker 14: My victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 19: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  Speaker 19: more victories for veterans.
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  Speaker 1: Go to DAV.org.
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  Speaker 18: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms.
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  Speaker 1: In the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 12: Freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 20: Freedom of religion.
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  Speaker 25: Freedom of the press. Freedom to peaceably assemble.
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  Speaker 1: Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 2: Only the United States has these five freedoms so simply
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  Speaker 2: bound together and guaranteed.
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  Speaker 1: Think first. Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org.
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  Speaker 20: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 25: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 25: first date?
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 11: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 1: Probably?
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  Speaker 20: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 1: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 20: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, don't tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 20: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 23: Cramp!
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  Speaker 20: Oh, I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 8: I can probably hit the green from here.
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  Speaker 1: Probably....
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  Speaker 25: Can I get a mulligan?
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  Speaker 1: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 5: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 20: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 20: and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
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  Speaker 20: or a friend. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. A message
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  Speaker 20: brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
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  Speaker 25: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
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  Speaker 25: also know this law protects teens. Find out more at DontServeTeens.gov.
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  Speaker 25: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
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  Speaker 25: the Federal Trade Commission.
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  Speaker 4: News and analysis, now without artificial colors. First thing today,
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  Speaker 4: by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: Scott in Virginia Beach says, please don't underestimate the power
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: of government-mandated wages, minimum wages. Sure, because what the government
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: is doing is populism. They will tell the voters, I
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: will get you more money. And is it their job
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: to get you more money? Is it their job to
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: determine what the rent is for an apartment in your town?
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Is it their role? And I ask this not because
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: there aren't places where it is, but does it work? Sure,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: you can do it, but does it work? That's the
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  Speaker 1: thing about socialism. And the reason Rush Limbaugh said, I
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: hope Barack Obama fails, was not because he was a
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  Speaker 1: black man, but because he was a red man. He
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: was a Marxist. He wanted the government to scrap the U.S. Constitution.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Michelle said as much. He said as much. And so
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: saying you want, and this is nuance, if you want,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: but the argument being, I want his policies to fail
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: is a more actual way of saying what you're wishing
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  Speaker 1: to have happen. but Barack Obama wanted to make it personal.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: All these guys want to make it personal because that's
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: where the money is. That's just where the money is.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: It's dig me. So the question is, who gets to
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: determine whether your wage is sufficient? Shouldn't it be your employer?
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: Go back, Labor Day, we were talking about relationships. What
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: does the job pay? I don't know. What are you
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: going to do?
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  Speaker 21: Huh?
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  Speaker 1: I could pay you more if you create more for
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: the company. Well, why would I want to do that?
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: You're just a rich guy who's sopping off of me. No,
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: I risked everything I own to start a business. Therefore,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: you should respect that. If I can't pay you enough
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: to subside your lifestyle, either your lifestyle needs to change
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: or you need to generate more revenue for my business.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Or go start your own business and find out. That's
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: the issue of economics is what do you do for money, honey?
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: How do you get your kicks? And perhaps America has
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: fallen prey, as Barack Obama wanted us to, to Marxism.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: This is all the fruit of Lyndon Johnson's, quote, great society.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: He didn't eliminate poverty. He eliminated semi-prosperity. He took the
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: middle class and made them poor. So now the poor
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: look around and say, well, I mean, I guess I
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: must be middle class. It's a mind trick. Here's a
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: great example of it ripped from your baseball headlines. Los
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Angeles Dodgers headline yesterday. Los Angeles Dodgers win 100th game
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: of the season. I had just read that the Milwaukee
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Brewers had won their 103rd game on the baseball season.
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: So I just asked, co-pilot, said, Google, compare the Dodgers
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: payroll to the Brewers. Dodgers payroll is somewhere around $ 400 million.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: The Brewers payroll is somewhere around $ 125 million. And the
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Brewers won more games than Does that mean they were
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: ripping off Christian Yelich? No, you get paid what you
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: are creating for your business. Says the guy who started
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: his own company, bought a radio station, and has not
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: taken a paycheck home since, what was it, 2004? end
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: of 2004, beginning of 2005, I have not taken a
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: paycheck home. Because everything stays in the company. Now, there
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: are people, business people, who will say that's dumb. I
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: should take a paycheck. I mean, we do disperse ourselves
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: the monies to pay our mortgage so we don't lose
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: our house. But in terms of like having cash in
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: my pocket, I'm not doing that. Not until the station
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: is solvent. A couple of text messages. I was mentioning
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: this Clinton documentary. Joe, if you're looking back at Clinton
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: versus Obama, who was a bigger threat to the country? Well,
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: obviously Obama was, and it has nothing to, again, the
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: color is red, not brown. And there's an interesting connection.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: So Bill Clinton grew up poor in Hope, Arkansas, right?
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton grew up poor. Grandmother was running some sort
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: of sketchy brothel-esque business out of the back of her house.
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  Speaker 1: Bill was dirt poor. Barack Obama was dirt poor in Guam,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: one of the American protectorate islands. And his mom would
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: complain that the government never gave them enough money to
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: take care of their bills. So little Barry, growing up,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: listening to mom, said the government should do more for
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: poor people, not do more to help them not be poor,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: but just to pay their way. And by the way,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: just to drop a bag of burning excrement, this documentary
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: reminded me one of the great things that has bugged
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: me through my life, which is why, and then watching
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: it as Ken Starr's investigation gets Bill Clinton on lying,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: why they didn't then tie that to Whitewater. Because Whitewater
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: was all based on the testimony of Bill and Hillary
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: saying they didn't do anything wrong. And that the McDougals were,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: or at least the male McDougal was lying about them.
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: And so the perjury, the lying under oath was supposed to,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Ken Starr, have been connected back to impeach Bill Clinton's
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  Speaker 1: testimony about Whitewater, you know, where he made money by
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: using his government office to make himself money. one of
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: the great failures in American history. Anyway, it's time for
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: us to roll up the carpets, ride them out of here.
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  Speaker 1: Until tomorrow morning, I'm Joe Thomas. So long, and thanks
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  Speaker 1: for all the fish.
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