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"This is Not a Test" (Wednesday, March 18, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Fiant.
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Speaker 2: I'm more megan now make America great again than I've
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Speaker 2: ever been.
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Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Chunk
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Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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Speaker 3: on this Tedsday morning, on a day if you're joining
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Speaker 3: us in progress, this is the day we set aside,
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Speaker 3: though it should happen every day, where we celebrate God's
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Speaker 3: special gifts to you. And we all have them. We
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Speaker 3: all have them. And the blessed are those who recognize
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Speaker 3: what their gift is. They've schooled up into it, to
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Speaker 3: being expert, and then they provide it to a grateful constituency,
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Speaker 3: all with all the zeal that you can muster from
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Speaker 3: somebody who's doing what God has intended them to do
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Speaker 3: on his planet Earth. And it's a blessing. It really
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Speaker 3: is a blessed. And I hope that more and more
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Speaker 3: people find themselves understanding what that blessing is. And if
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Speaker 3: you don't know, I'll take a second here. If you
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Speaker 3: don't know, there's a simple way I found. It was
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Speaker 3: actually taught to me by a radio consultant, same one
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Speaker 3: who taught Jimmy Kimmel how to bash Donald Trump. No,
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Speaker 3: he actually taught Jimmy Kimmel to be funny, and then
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Speaker 3: Jimmy forgot how to do it back when Jimmy Kimmel
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Speaker 3: used to do radio. But it's it's you got to
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Speaker 3: figure out who you are, what is your character, what
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Speaker 3: do you do? And you need maybe three, maybe four
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Speaker 3: close friends, maybe a sister or a cousin. Cousins are
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Speaker 3: really good because cousins get you without having any politics involved.
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Speaker 3: So you sit down with these folks and you kind
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Speaker 3: of do a research project. Tell me the best things
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Speaker 3: about me, tell me the worst things about me. And
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Speaker 3: you've got to be ready to take the good with
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Speaker 3: the bad, you know, tell me all the things that
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Speaker 3: really drive you crazy about me, tell me the things
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Speaker 3: you love about me. And you will see as you
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Speaker 3: boil this kind of research down, you'll find common things
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Speaker 3: that kind of cross over each other. You'll start to
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Speaker 3: get a feel for the things that you are really
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Speaker 3: good at. But you can also just sit there and
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Speaker 3: think about the things that really impacted you, the things
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Speaker 3: that you know. You know, even if it was something
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Speaker 3: that happened in school and you say, oh, well, I
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Speaker 3: remember when I was in that club. Maybe you like
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Speaker 3: the folks at camp kessm. We were just talking about
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Speaker 3: talking to some of the folks who are doing that.
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Speaker 3: Maybe this girl goes off and she's an accountant, but
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Speaker 3: she knows that organizing these kids at a summer camp
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Speaker 3: really made her day. So maybe you go into youth
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Speaker 3: ministry or you do something like that. I have a
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Speaker 3: dear friend who did that so much. Many things that
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Speaker 3: you could do. What are you good at? What has
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Speaker 3: God gifted you with the skill to do?
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Speaker 4: Me?
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Speaker 3: I'm going to read some stuff to you about the
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Speaker 3: news that went on yesterday. We have primary results and
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Speaker 3: all sorts of things. But first, Iran has confirmed the
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Speaker 3: story that we told you about here yesterday morning. First thing,
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Speaker 3: that the man that many believed was running the country
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Speaker 3: anyway after the death of Ayatola, Senior Ali Larijani, was
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Speaker 3: killed in a missile strike yesterday morning, along with the
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Speaker 3: Iranian Republican Guard. Director of US National Counter Terrorism Joe
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Speaker 3: Kent announced his resignation yesterday, just a day before Tulsi
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Speaker 3: Gabbert and other intelligence officials were due to testify before
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Speaker 3: congressional committees on what we knew, why we knew it,
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Speaker 3: and why we went into Iran, etc. So he said
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Speaker 3: on social media that he could not in good conscience
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Speaker 3: can see you to back the Trump administration's bombardment of Iran,
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Speaker 3: and said it is clear we started this war due
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Speaker 3: to pressure from Israel. Iran's judiciary reported that an attack
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Speaker 3: struck a courthouse in the Fars province, killing some judicial
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Speaker 3: staff and wounding civilians. Administration national security officials are facing
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Speaker 3: those hearings as I mentioned, but interestingly, they can't fund
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Speaker 3: the Department of Homeland Security, but they are fast tracking
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Speaker 3: the hearings into Senator Mark Wayne Mullen's nomination to lead
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Speaker 3: the Department of Homeland Security without budget. According to an
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Speaker 3: ex post by Reuter's reporter David Shepherdson, the Senate Homeland
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Speaker 3: Security and Government Affairs Committee, led by Rand Paul of
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Speaker 3: Kentucky and Gary Peters of Michigan, will hold a confirmation
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Speaker 3: hearing later this morning. Darren Bailey will take another shot
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Speaker 3: trying to beat JB. Pritzker for governor in Illinois as
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Speaker 3: the winner of the gubernatorial primary. Meanwhile, in the race
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Speaker 3: for the Senate nominations, Dick Durbin is stepping down as
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Speaker 3: US Senator from Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton won the
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Speaker 3: Democratic Party primary in a moderate upset, and the GOP
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Speaker 3: primary went to Don Tracy. Speaking of Senators, Lisa Murkowski
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Speaker 3: of Alaska was the only no vote in a procedural
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Speaker 3: vote to bring the Save Act to the floor of
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Speaker 3: the Senate for a full vote of the body. She
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Speaker 3: Illinois nazis.
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Speaker 5: I hate Illinois nazis.
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Speaker 3: So interesting, and I worry about my brother and and
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Speaker 3: thank you, Jake, as well as Evanston blanketing the Windy
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Speaker 3: city with our intelligence and not Senate intelligence either. But
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Speaker 3: I worry because the press is out for JB. Pritzker
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Speaker 3: and and I'm finding some shot in freud Esque appreciation
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Speaker 3: for the fact that now the press likes to refer
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Speaker 3: to him. Has billionaire JB. Pritzker because he's been caught
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Speaker 3: out there owning or his family founded like the biggest
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Speaker 3: hotel chain in the world. And he never named his
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Speaker 3: daughter after one of the cities. What kind of hotelier
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Speaker 3: is he or his family? So the Pritzkers are not
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Speaker 3: the darlings of the press. However, in the electorate has
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Speaker 3: loved this story that the squad in Illinois got paddled.
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Speaker 3: The left suffered a virtual total collapse in the Illinois
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Speaker 3: Democratic congressional primaries Tuesday night, even in races where the
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Speaker 3: APAK backed that's the Islamist group candidate lost. Why does
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Speaker 3: it matter. It's a bad sign for dozens of insurgent
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Speaker 3: Democrats running in congressional races across the county country, both
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Speaker 3: in open seats and against in humbans. This by Andrew
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Speaker 3: Solander in Axios. Now, Axios is basically a Latin word
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Speaker 3: for Democrat Party pr and they're calling out the wild
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Speaker 3: far left for the fact that they lost Illinois. Uh,
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Speaker 3: they've lost grip on what Illinois residents actually believe.
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Speaker 12: Uh.
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Speaker 3: And so I think the press that's on this push
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Speaker 3: to like, oh JB. Princeker is a billionaire. What do
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Speaker 3: you get to call Bernie Sanders that just asking Doctor
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Speaker 3: Clark is hanging on the line with us at four
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Speaker 3: three four eight eight two four two one seven as
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Speaker 3: you can text, message or email. I've got some emails
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Speaker 3: about our friend Thomas Speciale, who worked in the Intel
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Speaker 3: community with Joe Kent and and and studied Iran for
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Speaker 3: almost a decade. Uh So he shared some great insight
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Speaker 3: which you can find on the podcast channel later today.
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Speaker 3: But I have some email reactions to it. But let
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Speaker 3: me see what doctor Clark has first. How are you
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Speaker 3: doing this morning, sir?
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Speaker 6: Better than I was? Still not where I want to be.
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Speaker 3: Well, life's a journey.
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Speaker 6: There, it is. So on Joe Kent's removal, he was CIA.
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Speaker 5: That's the same CIA Joe that helped promel Gate, cross fire,
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Speaker 5: hurricane and give that creziness.
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Speaker 3: I don't think he was in when that was happening,
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Speaker 3: but he was. He was in the Center for Counter Terrorism.
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Speaker 3: After President Trump came back to the White House.
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Speaker 5: You had a coach talking about creating culture earlier, so.
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Speaker 6: That culture and you know, thinking about like.
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Speaker 5: X CIA people, are there any x CIA people. Convinced
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Speaker 5: me that your governor's not still working for the CIA,
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Speaker 5: and this whole takeover is not some kind of scene
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Speaker 5: the operation.
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Speaker 3: Well, they're certainly, they're certainly looking to see how far
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Speaker 3: they can go. They even had a bill, briefly, or
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Speaker 3: an amendment to a bill, that would have allowed Virginia
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Speaker 3: General Assembly members to leave their firearms unattended in their cars,
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Speaker 3: not only in violation of the law that they were
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Speaker 3: promoting to put out, but in violation of currently existing
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Speaker 3: Virginia law. And I'm like to me, and I said
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Speaker 3: this to Todd Starns on Newsmax last night. Yeah, I
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Speaker 3: drop in names, but I was on Newsmax last night
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Speaker 3: and I pointed out, isn't it interesting that Virginia Democrats
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Speaker 3: apparently owned firearms?
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Speaker 15: Doctor Clark, Well, the hypocrisy never ends. So on the
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Speaker 15: Save Act coming up for a vote and whatnot. You know,
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Speaker 15: I've been thinking about this, Joe, and I've got a
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Speaker 15: quote from a Sage master.
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Speaker 6: Let me see how this will work.
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Speaker 16: Always with you.
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Speaker 17: Can give you nothing that I said.
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Speaker 6: You must right?
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Speaker 3: Is that is that Kamala Harris's campaign manager right before
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Speaker 3: he said unburden yourself from that, which was.
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, we should have paid more attention to that.
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Speaker 5: But no, that that's you know, kind of think of it.
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Speaker 5: I can solve all the Republicans' problems. Can we just
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Speaker 5: load them up on some kind of ship and send
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Speaker 5: them to day Goo bought to train with Yoda for
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Speaker 5: a while.
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Speaker 3: Try not. But do you know when Lisa Murkowski and
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Speaker 3: bless our friends at KF are up in Fairbanks. UH
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Speaker 3: for suffering through this ignominity. UH is out there because
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Speaker 3: and this is what she's spent out of shape about Clark.
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Speaker 3: She's spent out of shape because somebody suggested that instead
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Speaker 3: of just getting able to say, philipbuster, you know, and
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Speaker 3: then go home for dinner, you actually would have to
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Speaker 3: stand there and philibuster. And and for that heresy, She's like, no, no,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna kill everything. I'm gonna kill everything. I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: just it'll be like a Sam peckin Paul movie. And
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Speaker 3: she's just bent out of shape because somebody might actually
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Speaker 3: have to physically filibuster if they wanted to. What a shock.
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Speaker 5: So I'm sitting here looking at a frozen frame of
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Speaker 5: Yoda and you bring up Lisa Murkowski, and I can't
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Speaker 5: help but to think about that space bar where they
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Speaker 5: had all the freaky Loican aliens.
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Speaker 6: When you bring her name.
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Speaker 3: Up, ding ding ding ding d d. I'm not the
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Speaker 3: only one who remembers that tune, you know. But yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: But that's the Senate right now, is if there's a
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Speaker 3: place that is exemplar of Republicans who are trying to
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Speaker 3: ride out the Trump term. Thought they were done with
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Speaker 3: him in twenty twenty, and then he came back, and
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Speaker 3: there's still said the Mitch McConnell's and the Lisa Murkowski's
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Speaker 3: and the Susan Collins and the Tom Tillis who are like,
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Speaker 3: you know, we we put our lives into rising up
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Speaker 3: through the Republican Party. I'm not going back to just
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Speaker 3: being a guy. Get over it and get on. You know,
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Speaker 3: as you said, try not to.
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Speaker 6: Do right and not do is going to be acceptable.
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Speaker 2: Not but this is.
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Speaker 3: About making sure that only citizens vote. How can you
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Speaker 3: sit there if you're a resident of Alaska right now
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Speaker 3: listening to us on kfar, how do you square the
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Speaker 3: idea that your senator doesn't want to make sure that
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Speaker 3: only US citizens vote in US elections. I mean, that's
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Speaker 3: the part that don't get.
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Speaker 5: Let's put a finer point on what the Dems are saying.
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Speaker 5: The Save Act will cost millions of American citizens their
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Speaker 5: right to vote. No Joe, if they're American citizens, they'll
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Speaker 5: get to.
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Speaker 3: Vote, their vote will cot Well, this is it, you know,
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Speaker 3: A Federation for American Immigration reforms to eighteen point six
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Speaker 3: million illegals in this country right now.
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Speaker 6: And you know, think about when Chuck Shemer.
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Speaker 5: You know, when Chuck Schumer said this will cost twenty
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Speaker 5: million people their.
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Speaker 6: Right to vote. I told you his looks for moving,
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Speaker 6: so you knew he was lying about something.
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Speaker 5: Probably he's exaggerated the number, and then within a leak
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Speaker 5: we find out it's eighteen point six million.
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Speaker 6: Yep, so he was close. He just rounded a little.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's surrounding error, and that it's Chuck Schumer's career.
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Speaker 8: Again, we got our friend from military intelligence.
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Speaker 21: Can you tell us what you have found out about
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Speaker 3: But let's set aside for a little bit and we
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Speaker 3: The Pentagon is a bureaucracy, just like the Department of
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Speaker 3: we turn the other way. Too many people, most of
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Speaker 3: Was the expression to break things and to kill people.
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Speaker 3: If you're not giving them the logistical support to do
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Speaker 3: it's it is a failure. He was detailing it, and
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Speaker 3: will be very few, if any Iranians in the USA
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Speaker 3: still continue to make money off their own citizens of Iran,
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Speaker 3: leader has been selected already. Where did the former Shah
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Speaker 3: of Iran and the whole family get their wealth. Yes,
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Speaker 3: This is one of the reasons. That was one of
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Speaker 3: why aren't we? Is your premise that Vladimir Putin is
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Speaker 3: still on American Forces Radio, so good. I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to do it to you this text message about my
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Speaker 3: last statement before we went to break Joe, why would
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Speaker 3: you support the idea of war? War unfortunately is necessary
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Speaker 3: from an American standpoint when we see places where human
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Speaker 3: rights are not being fought for. And one of the
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Speaker 3: reasons that Donald Trump is a change maker. See George
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Speaker 3: Bush went to war w because we were pissed. We
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Speaker 3: had just had thousands of our marriage consitizens killed, and
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Speaker 3: we were out to go get the sobs. It was
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Speaker 3: very much like post Pearl Harbor. You came and attacked us,
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Speaker 3: We're going to come and attack you ten times worse.
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Speaker 3: His pop when we went into Kuwait was on a
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Speaker 3: mission of liberating the Kuwaitis from what turned out to
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Speaker 3: be one of the world's biggest bank robberies because Sadam
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Speaker 3: and people. You know, this is a part of the
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Speaker 3: whole Kuwait story that people forget is right before Sadam
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Speaker 3: invaded Kuwait, Kuwait had lent Iraq quite a good sum
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Speaker 3: of money. Do you have the exact I mean, it
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Speaker 3: was a good chunk of change. And Kuwait had begun
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Speaker 3: discussing with Satam them when they were going to start
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Speaker 3: to expect payment back. And I don't know if he said, hey,
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Speaker 3: I've got a tank division that I'll send to you
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Speaker 3: with our first installment or not, but that's when he
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Speaker 3: invaded and when he left with the Iraqi Republican Guard,
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Speaker 3: et cetera in tow, leaving all the conscript eaves to
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Speaker 3: surrender to Storm and Norman Schwartzkough. The Kuwaiti treasury had
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Speaker 3: been completely gutted, all the oil fields were on fire.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it was the world's biggest bank robbery. The
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Speaker 3: only thing missing was Saddam Hussein with white face paint
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Speaker 3: and big red joker lips on. Now I killed the
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Speaker 3: bus driver. What bus driver? Because it was it was
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Speaker 3: one of the world's biggest bank robberies. It was a
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Speaker 3: bank heist. But we were in there because they were
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Speaker 3: occupying Kuwait, and the Kuwaitis were, hey, what the hell
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Speaker 3: is going on? So we went in and we liberated Kuwait.
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Speaker 3: And I think at the time George H. W. Bush's
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Speaker 3: approval rating was like seventy five or eighty percent. Right
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Speaker 3: after that, right after he told Storm and Norman, no,
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Speaker 3: we are not going to chase them into bang that
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Speaker 3: we have accomplished our mission. The coalition Israeli and Arab
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Speaker 3: pilots flying together and all of that, we're standing down,
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Speaker 3: We're coming home. And the people thought this guy was crazy.
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Speaker 3: Nobody does that. We were liberators. We liberated we left,
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Speaker 3: and somehow he frittered that away by the time Bill
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Speaker 3: Clinton came along to the point where Bill was going
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Speaker 3: to win that election, you know, with like forty six
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Speaker 3: percent of the vote and Bush forty five and the
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Speaker 3: rest went to Ross Bureau. But war has unfortunate efficacy
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Speaker 3: in places where liberty needs to be one, and the
50:13
Speaker 3: natural human cycle is to give in to our lesser angels,
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Speaker 3: and we wind up becoming the subject of tyranny. Liberty
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Speaker 3: is hard won through the blood of patriots spilled on
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Speaker 3: the battlefield. That liberty becomes prosperity. When the country is
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Speaker 3: allowed to continue to live free, they become prosperous. That
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Speaker 3: prosperity leads generations to become apathetic, disconnected from the harsh
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Speaker 3: realities of how that freedom was one, which leads into denigration, depravity,
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Speaker 3: d morealization, which then leads to authoritarianism and tyranny. And
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Speaker 3: then you're back at the start of the cycle again.
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Speaker 3: Wash rints repeat and maybe just maybe the human animal
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Speaker 3: in this iteration, because we have such an ability to communicate,
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Speaker 3: if we do it right, can avoid that cycle. But
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Speaker 3: we need to stand up for people who are being oppressed,
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Speaker 3: and after we couldn't get the Iranians to promise not
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Speaker 3: to build nuclear bomb vests. We you know, as Tom
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Speaker 3: specially told us. It seems like right after the Iranians
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Speaker 3: walked out of that first meeting in you know, an
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Speaker 3: hour barely there to have that first croissant on the table,
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Speaker 3: they decided at that point, okay, it's game on. These
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Speaker 3: guys are not going to negotiate themselves out of it.
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Speaker 3: And then when the riots started in Tehran over the
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Speaker 3: collapsing real. I'm still looking for the Iranian translation for
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Speaker 3: Weimar Republic, but the real had dropped to one reale
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Speaker 3: for one point two million US dollars and that's and
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Speaker 3: that's the US dollar post Joe Biden US dollar. And
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Speaker 3: so there were breadlines and there were food riots in Iran,
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Speaker 3: and so they know we went in to help those people.
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Speaker 3: Now we need to see those people come back to us,
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Speaker 3: because I'm.
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Speaker 2: Coming until tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: I am Joe Thomas, so long and thanks for the fish.
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