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"When the 'Machine' Breaks Down" (FTTxJT Fri 102326 hr3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works hard to steal me, he's down here every day.
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  Speaker 2: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops the
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  Speaker 2: kids to school and all.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and what a sun up it is.
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  Speaker 2: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 2: he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only.
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  Speaker 4: Aims to please you.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 5: this morning. Although I have to say sunrise over the
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  Speaker 5: eastern seaboard just getting ready to take effect is a
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  Speaker 5: stunning sight this Friday morning. I know our friends down
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  Speaker 5: in the Four Corners area and Colorado having their issues
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  Speaker 5: with the rains. Probably not seeing much in the way
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  Speaker 5: of the sunrise. It'll start to feel less gray soon.
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  Speaker 5: There this morning at 434-882-4217. Coming to you from City Elders, cityeldersva.org
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  Speaker 5: is our group here. But you can have a City
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  Speaker 5: Elders site where you are if you don't already. Our host, Kevin,
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  Speaker 5: said you can email him and find out just how
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  Speaker 5: easy it is to set up a City Elders site.
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  Speaker 5: operation in your town, putting ethical people into elected offices.
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  Speaker 5: That's governing the city gates. That's their mantra there. We,
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  Speaker 5: for our part, will tell you what went on last
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  Speaker 5: night and I will give you my analysis of it.
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  Speaker 5: And certainly the story of ethical people holding elected office
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  Speaker 5: is center square as the most powerful Virginia Democrat is
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  Speaker 5: in jail this morning because of graft and stealing and
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  Speaker 5: money laundering, and drug dealing. So we'll get into that
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  Speaker 5: some more, plus the internet hack that nobody is talking
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  Speaker 5: about outside of Europe. But Joel was hanging on the
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  Speaker 5: line with us. So before we get to our first things,
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  Speaker 5: let me see what Joel has for us. Good morning, Joel.
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  Speaker 5: What's on your mind this morning, sir?
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Joe. Well, I think Americans take a belief
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  Speaker 6: that we have a trust in those we elected. And Nowadays,
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  Speaker 6: we're even more unsure who we elect because they can
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  Speaker 6: have chameleon-like appearances. But Louise Lucas has been transparent in
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  Speaker 6: the sense of her actions, but not necessarily totally in
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  Speaker 6: her business actions. And we had Eric Swalwell in California.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you were talking about those around her should
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  Speaker 6: be probably indicted, too. But how many people knew her?
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  Speaker 6: About Eric Swalwell and his doings.
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  Speaker 5: And then we had a.
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  Speaker 6: President who allowed over how many million of people to
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  Speaker 6: come in here illegally?
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  Speaker 5: See, here's his corruption. I'm going to insert this on you, Joel.
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  Speaker 5: His corruption was that, like Louise Lucas, he wrote laws
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  Speaker 5: to launder his illegality. He made laws illegal. and came
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  Speaker 5: up with policies, executive orders that excused his illegalities there.
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  Speaker 5: Hang on to that thought a second this morning at 434-882-4217.
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  Speaker 5: On this Friday morning from City Elders, our first things
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  Speaker 5: this morning, of which Joel is speaking of, Senate pro
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  Speaker 5: tempore President Luis Lucas of Virginia is in jail along
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  Speaker 5: with six co-conspirators, for money laundering and marijuana sales and racketeering.
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  Speaker 5: She has been in office for 34 years using her
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  Speaker 5: political power to insulate her operation and in many cases
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  Speaker 5: prop it up, creating a political machine in the area
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  Speaker 5: that she represents there. She is now in federal custody
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  Speaker 5: after turning herself in to the FBI yesterday. Governments and
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  Speaker 5: companies around the world shut down websites Thursday as they
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  Speaker 5: race to protect themselves from hacks. You're probably going to
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  Speaker 5: be impacted by something or another running slow this morning
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  Speaker 5: as the Internet continues to operate while a hack into
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  Speaker 5: the language called PHP, that is the undergirding language of
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  Speaker 5: more than 70% of all the world's websites. It's their
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  Speaker 5: security certificates. And the hacks actually went as far as
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  Speaker 5: creating spoof websites to steal your information and money and
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  Speaker 5: hack into your computers. Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday
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  Speaker 5: for New Hampshire to ban the use of student IDs
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  Speaker 5: for voting during the midterm election. Katonji Brown, the only
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  Speaker 5: justice in dissent. Russia continues to hit the Ukrainian capital
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  Speaker 5: of Kiev with ballistic missiles while voting. The American envoy,
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  Speaker 5: Steve Witkoff, tries to get Russian President Vladimir Putin and
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  Speaker 5: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky together for three-party discussions. Latest shutter
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  Speaker 5: of stocks in the AI world, probably driven by the
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  Speaker 5: hack that hit it, knocked the Wall Street folks down
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  Speaker 5: a little bit. S & P 500 fell 1.2% yesterday. NASDAQ, tech-heavy,
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  Speaker 5: fell 2.6%. percent yesterday. Airbnb guests can say goodbye to
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  Speaker 5: the requirement that they do chores like washing dishes and
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  Speaker 5: stripping beds and taking out the trash as new policies
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  Speaker 5: those are our first things this morning. You can find
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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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  Speaker 1: Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 7: Push on the shove, it don't mean much.
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  Speaker 10: Joker on jack, match on the fire. Cold on fire,
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  Speaker 10: it's a dead man's touch.
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  Speaker 3: Whisper on the screen. On the 43rd anniversary, as Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Clark reminded us of the truck bombings and the killing
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  Speaker 5: of all those Marines in Beirut, it is important that
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  Speaker 5: we remember and we commemorate. And if you know a Marine,
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  Speaker 5: thank them for putting themselves into the center of that target.
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  Speaker 5: Joel was on the line with us. We had to
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  Speaker 5: run to break there. We've got John Reed still on
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  Speaker 5: the line. He's doing the Reed Revolution podcast where we're
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  Speaker 5: talking about the Louise Lucas. But in the grander aspect, Joel,
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  Speaker 5: you were talking about the corruption that is part and
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  Speaker 5: parcel of what we're doing here at City Elders, City
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  Speaker 5: Elders meetings all across the country, I think in nine
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  Speaker 5: states now, trying to get ethical people elected into office,
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  Speaker 5: not these corrupted souls.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with you, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: And I was listening too, because I don't think, you know,
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  Speaker 6: offline that people can hear it, but I heard the
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  Speaker 6: prayer by the city elders. And that's one of the
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  Speaker 6: biggest things. I think that if you're a believer, you
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  Speaker 6: have to be in your heart, you have to do
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  Speaker 6: what's right with God. And of course you have to
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  Speaker 6: separate government and God, but part of your part of
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  Speaker 6: what you're doing, your allegiance to America is not just
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  Speaker 6: for yourself, but for the people. And these people who
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  Speaker 6: are in a position that were elected, we're not honoring
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  Speaker 6: them as God, but we're honoring them as a representative
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  Speaker 6: of ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 6: And they pledge allegiance not only to the flag, but
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  Speaker 6: to the Constitution.
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  Speaker 3: So important.
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  Speaker 23: Right.
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  Speaker 6: And so I think what we're looking at is the
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  Speaker 6: allegiance to not only to us as individuals in America,
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  Speaker 6: but but the Constitution and at least staying within those guidelines.
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  Speaker 6: And if we lose that trust, then we're going to
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  Speaker 6: think everybody, we're going to be suspicious of everybody. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: we should, in a sense, be suspicious in the sense
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  Speaker 6: that they're in a position and they're vulnerable as human
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  Speaker 6: beings and as God has told us, but you have
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  Speaker 6: to make decisions that reflect on Being in honor of
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  Speaker 6: helping people, not just helping yourself.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and that's such an important point. But there's a–
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  Speaker 5: what's my favorite expression from the gaming industry? It's not
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  Speaker 5: a flaw, but it's a feature. It's, I think, the
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  Speaker 5: business model of Bethesda Games. I think it's in their
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  Speaker 5: corporate creed. It's not a flaw.
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  Speaker 3: It's a feature.
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  Speaker 5: Part of that distrust is important. That's why we only
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  Speaker 5: have 45 percent voter turnout. That's why we see such
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  Speaker 5: apathy among citizens when it comes to voting, when it
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  Speaker 5: comes to exercising their franchise, because they look at these
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  Speaker 5: stories and like, you know, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Just grifter after grifter.
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  Speaker 5: The Democrats accuse the Republicans of grifting, but the Democrats
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  Speaker 5: are actually the ones doing the grift. And what does
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  Speaker 5: our friend Chris Horner, the author of Red Hot Lies
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  Speaker 5: and Power Grab, call it? He saw it in the
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  Speaker 5: green industry when he worked for Enron and ran screaming
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  Speaker 5: from there and is perhaps the world's greatest whistleblower when
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  Speaker 5: it comes to the green scam. But he calls this rent-seeking,
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  Speaker 5: which is what it is. It's taking the government and
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  Speaker 5: using it to make yourself money. It's the world's second
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  Speaker 5: oldest profession. You know, at least, you know, you got
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  Speaker 5: to jump in the sack if you're a prostitute. Here,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you just write a law and that law
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  Speaker 5: starts to generate you money. It's nice work if you
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  Speaker 5: can get it.
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  Speaker 6: And the silence surrounding those who work with her, and
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  Speaker 6: I had mentioned Eric Swalwell and other people who are
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  Speaker 6: in government, those people, you said complicit. Well, they're complicit
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  Speaker 6: in the sense that they're not honoring the same thing
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  Speaker 6: for that.
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  Speaker 24: Not just.
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  Speaker 5: Here's a great example of it. Mark Warner yesterday, U.S. Senator,
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  Speaker 5: the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, as oxymoronic
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  Speaker 5: as that sounds, who for years, most of the Biden administration,
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  Speaker 5: every time there was an indictment of Donald Trump, was
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  Speaker 5: on social media saying this is further proof that Donald
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  Speaker 5: Trump should never be allowed to hold elected office. He
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  Speaker 5: was convicted as far as Mark Warner was concerned. convicted
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  Speaker 5: before any hearings were held. Yet yesterday he says, everyone
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  Speaker 5: is due process and everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Um, and,
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  Speaker 5: and so the hypocrisy just becomes why I, why two
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  Speaker 5: faced is never a good phrase for me because I
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  Speaker 5: think they have more than two. They're multifaceted. These people, um,
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  Speaker 5: when it comes to this kind of stuff, it's, well, um,
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  Speaker 5: I compare it to the New York Yankee fans, um,
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  Speaker 5: who were all up in arms about guys like Mark
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  Speaker 5: McGuire and Jose Canseco taking steroids. But when it became
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  Speaker 5: Alex Rodriguez, all of a sudden it was like, well,
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  Speaker 5: the guy's just, you know, he's just trying to stay
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  Speaker 5: competitive because it was their guy all of a sudden. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it can't be rule of law is rule
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  Speaker 5: of law. And this is where I talk about this
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  Speaker 5: degradation of trust is going to be used to bring
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  Speaker 5: on more authoritarianism. You know, I'm going to swing this
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  Speaker 5: story back to the data hack that shut down two-thirds
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  Speaker 5: of the European Internet sites yesterday. This is the next pandemic.
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  Speaker 5: AI and our distrust of each other. Only this time,
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  Speaker 5: when we're told to stay home and stay in our basement,
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  Speaker 5: we're not going to be allowed to go on the
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  Speaker 5: Internet either. And it's going to become even easier for
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  Speaker 5: the government to turn us against each other.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: And one other thing you said, too, is why did
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  Speaker 6: they do it now before elections? It has nothing to
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  Speaker 6: do with that. When they have enough evidence, then they
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  Speaker 6: pull the lever because it could be Christmas, it could
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  Speaker 6: be Easter, it could be whatever. But that's the way
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  Speaker 6: the Justice Department should work. And those indictments should come
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  Speaker 6: whenever they have everything in place to indict that person.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, to prove that this isn't a
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  Speaker 5: political thing, the indictments were handed down by the grand
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  Speaker 3: No, thanks, Joe. I appreciate it. What you said is true.
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  Speaker 6: We have to have the light coming in. And then
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  Speaker 5: Well, in this case, it's the bottom of the hour
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  Speaker 3: We will.
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  Speaker 5: Our friend, Mac McDonald, our sports director. And a guy
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  Speaker 5: who thinks PHP is something that Bill Cosby got caught
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  Speaker 5: using in a drink and doesn't know anything about Internet hacking,
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  Speaker 5: except for that moment he had a coughing fit in
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mac. How are you doing this morning, sir?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Jojo.
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  Speaker 22: Happy Friday. It's funny you say that. My wife was
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  Speaker 22: talking about today. Her Advent hospital check did not register today,
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  Speaker 22: so she thinks she has a problem with HR, and
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  Speaker 22: she got into a whole soliloquy about Russian hacking. She goes,
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  Speaker 22: do you suppose the Russians hacked my hospital check?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. You didn't hear the story.
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  Speaker 27: No.
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  Speaker 3: No, this is serious.
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  Speaker 5: Some group, and it's a question right now whether AI
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  Speaker 5: found the hack or caused the hack, but a group
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  Speaker 5: hacked into the PHP language, which undergirds 70-some percent of
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  Speaker 5: all the websites. It's the HTTPS, the certificates, hacked into
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  Speaker 5: it and started spoofing websites. So Amazon for a while
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: was telling people, don't go to our website because it's
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: not us. They literally copied people's websites. so that's what's
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: happening to your wives Hospital server.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I hope.
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  Speaker 22: And with Advent, I mean, the power of Advent's pretty
• 29:47
  Speaker 22: big down here. So, well, if the if the race,
• 29:51
  Speaker 22: if the if the Brewers or the Rays have hacked
• 29:53
  Speaker 22: into each other's game plans, they're not talking about it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 22: Jacob Mizorowski is going to throw up for Milwaukee tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Game one.
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  Speaker 22: Of the world series. Nick Martinez will pitch tonight for Tampa.
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  Speaker 22: It was going to be drew Rasmussen, but he's going
• 30:05
  Speaker 22: to go in game two. So anyway, the brewers have
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  Speaker 22: the race and this is the guy with an ad.
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  Speaker 22: He's just, he's an attitude. He is straightforward against both
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  Speaker 22: the Padres and Dodgers. The 24 year old was unable
• 30:18
  Speaker 22: to get through five innings and, 88-94 pitches, respectively. Gave
• 30:23
  Speaker 22: up a total of three earned runs.
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  Speaker 3: He's a Cy Young lock.
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  Speaker 22: And as I said, when he talks to the media,
• 30:29
  Speaker 22: so naturally a writer asked Mizorowski, who can throw 100, are.
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  Speaker 3: You thinking about a championship? They're going into game one.
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  Speaker 3: You would think.
• 30:42
  Speaker 22: That somebody would know something about the process. God knows
• 30:44
  Speaker 22: the talk is all over the place. Miz was very straightforward.
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  Speaker 24: Right now, all I'm thinking about is game one. For me,
• 30:53
  Speaker 24: this is the spot we want to be in, and
• 30:55
  Speaker 24: we're lucky enough to be here and have the opportunity
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  Speaker 24: with everything that might happen or could happen. So for
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  Speaker 24: right now, I could care less about all that stuff.
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  Speaker 22: Yeah, about all the talk, all the noise, you know,
• 31:07
  Speaker 22: as they say. 16-5, a 1.80 ERA. He had 252 strikeouts.
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  Speaker 22: And he's just been, you know, he has been terrific.
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  Speaker 22: So as far as, you know, I told you a
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  Speaker 22: couple of weeks ago or last week, I was talking
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  Speaker 22: about the pitching lab that the Brewers have, where they
• 31:22
  Speaker 22: all get together and they post such great numbers. And
• 31:24
  Speaker 22: Miz talked about it with the writers saying, boy, the
• 31:27
  Speaker 22: lab has helped him tremendously.
• 31:29
  Speaker 24: With the guys here, you know, everyone in the pitching lab,
• 31:31
  Speaker 24: they've really... helped me go a long way and take
• 31:34
  Speaker 24: that next step to be a pitcher and not just
• 31:37
  Speaker 24: a thrower. I mean, I joke around saying middle, middle,
• 31:39
  Speaker 24: and pray, but that is a big key for me
• 31:43
  Speaker 24: in the fact of just.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Not walking guys. Like, you know, making the.
• 31:47
  Speaker 24: Guys respect me and respect me in the zone. is
• 31:50
  Speaker 24: definitely huge for my improvement.
• 31:52
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: You gotta love it. Middle, middle, middle, middle, middle, you know, swing, whatever.
• 31:56
  Speaker 22: So his ratio of walks plus hits to innings pitched
• 32:00
  Speaker 22: that is known as the whip was the lowest by
• 32:03
  Speaker 22: a major league starter since Pedro Martinez, 26 years ago.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's been awfully good.
• 32:10
  Speaker 22: So anyway, I got split screen going tonight because Virginia
• 32:14
  Speaker 22: and Duke will play football tonight in a pretty big
• 32:17
  Speaker 22: game for both schools with two losses.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Duke's 1-2 in the league.
• 32:23
  Speaker 22: UVA has two losses in the league, and they're saying
• 32:25
  Speaker 22: if you're going to push for any type of upper
• 32:27
  Speaker 22: division finish, this is a big one tonight. The Hoos,
• 32:31
  Speaker 22: of course, they haven't played a gauntlet, but they haven't
• 32:33
  Speaker 22: lost at home.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how many people will show up, but
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: it should be a good one.
• 32:38
  Speaker 22: Now, with all that being said, let's not forget about Sunday,
• 32:41
  Speaker 22: and I'll tell you why. Because there are three races left,
• 32:46
  Speaker 22: all right, three races left in the NASCAR chase. Denny
• 32:50
  Speaker 22: Hamlin has got one of the great podcasts. Even if
• 32:52
  Speaker 22: you don't like racing, just listening to Denny Hamlin.
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  Speaker 3: Is worth the price of admission.
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  Speaker 22: So Denny is sitting, you know, he's sitting right there, okay,
• 33:02
  Speaker 22: right in the mix of the, you know, of the
• 33:05
  Speaker 22: of the chase okay uh it is the yellowwood 500
• 33:10
  Speaker 22: 56 points separates tyler reddick who is seventh and leader
• 33:14
  Speaker 22: kyle larson christopher bell just five points behind in the
• 33:18
  Speaker 22: chase and there's denny hamlin sitting just you know 31
• 33:21
  Speaker 22: back so he was asked about what's going to happen
• 33:24
  Speaker 22: in talladega Then he says, it's going to be chaos.
• 33:28
  Speaker 19: Of course.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: There is no game plan. The game plan is to
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: go out there and try to run as far up
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: front as I possibly can. If we crash, we crash.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: And hopefully the other six guys are with me. I
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: think that all these guys are going to end up
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: fighting for stage points and more than likely. I would
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: think there's going to be a crash at the end
• 33:44
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• 33:46
  Speaker 4: fight for every stage point? It's 56 back. I'm telling
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: you that the blocks will be massive, and someone's going
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: to make a bad one, and it's going to be
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: a big old crash. And then you got, by the way,
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: 8 through 36 that don't give two sh.
• 33:58
  Speaker 22: Okay, we know where that was going anyway, since it
• 34:01
  Speaker 22: is a podcast. But Sunday is going to be, you know,
• 34:05
  Speaker 22: that's a 2 o'clock start at Talladega, too, with everything.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Going on this weekend.
• 34:09
  Speaker 22: You know, the WNBA Finals, and Angel Reese hasn't cussed
• 34:13
  Speaker 22: in the last 10 minutes.
• 34:14
  Speaker 16: What?
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: That's a record.
• 34:16
  Speaker 22: She's, she's, they've got viral cuts now of Angel, and
• 34:20
  Speaker 22: I know it sounds like, But she was bad-mouthing this
• 34:25
  Speaker 22: Valkyries center and just abusing her. You know, she scored
• 34:30
  Speaker 22: 31 and 12 rebounds, whatever the number was. So with
• 34:33
  Speaker 22: all that being said. But week eight in college football, too.
• 34:37
  Speaker 22: So with everything that's going on, Pitt will play at
• 34:40
  Speaker 22: number one Miami at noon. Pretty interesting for Miami. Miami
• 34:44
  Speaker 22: wins by a couple of touchdowns there anyway. Number six, Indiana,
• 34:46
  Speaker 22: will travel to Michigan. While Michigan's not ranked, it's still...
• 34:50
  Speaker 22: You know, the Big Ten, week after week, always has fireworks.
• 34:52
  Speaker 22: And number 18 LSU on the road to face Auburn.
• 34:56
  Speaker 22: Of course, Coach Golish and his team winning and beating
• 35:01
  Speaker 22: on their little soiree against Georgia. And out west, top
• 35:05
  Speaker 22: 20 matchup. Number 14 Houston plays number 10 Utah in
• 35:08
  Speaker 22: Salt Lake, if you care. Now, with only 12 spots,
• 35:11
  Speaker 22: 12 spots in the playoff, you know, it's going to be,
• 35:15
  Speaker 22: that's why this weekend is going to be good.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: So it's week eight already.
• 35:18
  Speaker 19: Week eight.
• 35:19
  Speaker 22: In the college football season.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: So can I suggest something?
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 35:24
  Speaker 22: It's your airways.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Far be it.
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: For me to be politically incendiary. But can all of
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: us protest the WNBA in the same way that the
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: players are in mass protesting the national anthem? Because I
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: thought this was something that ended with George Floyd. And
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: the excuse making makes me makes my stomach turn. Oh,
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: it's because we have international players. You know, can you
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: go to a hockey game and sit through?
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, Canada.
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: You know, this drives me crazy. I'm watching this. And
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: they were just talking about it because of LeBron apparently
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: did something during their opening game with.
• 36:11
  Speaker 22: Yeah, he got mad at a guy talking about the
• 36:14
  Speaker 22: West Coast players being soft.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: So he did something disrespectful during the anthem, I guess.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, so I didn't see that.
• 36:24
  Speaker 22: I got to admit, I didn't see if he did something.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: He didn't seem like he was going along with it,
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: I guess is what I'm reading here.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: He did have a comment about Trump.
• 36:36
  Speaker 22: He did make a comment. I just saw that briefly
• 36:39
  Speaker 22: this morning. He had a comment about Trump. He goes, well,
• 36:41
  Speaker 22: he must not have much to do. Or something like that.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: Please.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because Trump actually called it out and said it
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: was disrespectful. But the national anthem is more than that.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: I mean, it was just the 43rd anniversary of Beirut,
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: and we're watching these WNBA players protesting the national anthem. Okay,
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: go play in South Sudan. See how far you get.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: It just bugs me.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Mac. I didn't mean to.
• 37:12
  Speaker 14: No.
• 37:12
  Speaker 22: That's a disrespectful anthem. I am typing it because I
• 37:18
  Speaker 22: should know. LeBron James laughs off President Trump's criticism about
• 37:22
  Speaker 22: National Anthem.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Sixers coach calls it outside noise.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: Of course they do.
• 37:29
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: It's just a mess. It's a mess. 30 seconds. I
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: don't know what he did.
• 37:35
  Speaker 22: James appeared to practice a golf swing and a jump
• 37:38
  Speaker 22: shot as the Star Spangled Banner was playing.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, I missed that whole thing. And they came.
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  Speaker 5: He is the host of the Good for America podcast,
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  Speaker 5: former chair of the House Freedom Caucus. They're in the
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  Speaker 5: headlines today looking to expel some members from the House
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  Speaker 5: Freedom Caucus over ethics, believe it or not. And ethics
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  Speaker 5: offices so that we can stop worrying about people like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, Louise Lucas turning around and using her
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  Speaker 5: office to feather her nest or her hair or whatever
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  Speaker 5: she was feathering. Bob, good morning, sir. How are you
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  Speaker 5: doing today?
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Joe.
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  Speaker 23: Doing great.
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  Speaker 3: Hope you are.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 5: You've spent years in public representation. You've also spent years
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  Speaker 5: in the finance world. Which one has more problems with
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: ethical challenges? It seems to me the public representation world,
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: the elected office holders, really can't keep their hands out
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  Speaker 5: of the cookie jar.
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  Speaker 3: Am I wrong?
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  Speaker 23: Unfortunately, I think that you're correct. I would say that
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  Speaker 23: by comparison, on average, there is a higher quality of
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  Speaker 23: individuals in the finance world that I worked in and
• 45:52
  Speaker 23: there is in the political world. Unfortunately, the political world
• 45:55
  Speaker 23: seems to draw the most opportunistic, most ambitious, most self-serving,
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  Speaker 23: most prideful people among our population, if you will. That
• 46:06
  Speaker 23: seems to be what's rewarded most. in politics today and
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  Speaker 23: unfortunately it draws the wrong kind of people for the
• 46:13
  Speaker 23: wrong kind of reasons.
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  Speaker 5: So in this, and I've talked to an awful lot
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  Speaker 5: of Democrats and I've reached out to Democrats that I
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: know here in Virginia who have used words like grifter,
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: about time, getting her just deserves. Is this going to
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: be somewhat almost a Shakespearean play of somebody who built
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: her own political machine until it wound up grinding her
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  Speaker 5: up inside of it?
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  Speaker 23: Well, what we all want is justice. We want truth.
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  Speaker 23: We want everyone to be treated equally under the law.
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  Speaker 23: We want everyone to be, especially those who are in power,
• 46:52
  Speaker 23: to be held accountable if they've broken the law. And
• 46:54
  Speaker 23: that's what we should all want and desire in this
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  Speaker 23: case as well. Certainly, what we're reading seems overwhelming. and
• 47:01
  Speaker 23: compelling in terms of the charges against her, the accusations
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  Speaker 23: against her, seemingly the evidence against her. And it's interesting
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  Speaker 23: to your point, talking to Democrats, I presume somewhat privately,
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  Speaker 23: it's different what you'll get from Democrats. And I haven't
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  Speaker 23: talked to any of them about Louise Lucas in full
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  Speaker 23: disclosure here. But it's interesting what you would be likely
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  Speaker 23: to get privately versus what they will say publicly as
• 47:26
  Speaker 23: they tow the company line, if you will, Because as
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  Speaker 23: you know, this investigation began years ago, pre-Trump administration. This
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  Speaker 23: investigation began under the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great point to remind people.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 23: And so this is not just the last two years.
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  Speaker 23: This has been going on for several years. And it seems,
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  Speaker 23: based on what we're reading and what we're hearing and
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  Speaker 23: what the reports are, that she simply was trying to
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  Speaker 23: abuse power and to utilize her office to make money
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  Speaker 23: for herself and her family, significant amounts of money. And
• 48:07
  Speaker 23: it seems like she's in deep.
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  Speaker 3: Dark trouble.
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  Speaker 5: Is this an example? And I said this earlier, so
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  Speaker 5: I'm curious to see if you agree with me. All
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  Speaker 5: the more reason, never mind the financial bankruptcy. We just
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  Speaker 5: got the news earlier this week that the national debt
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  Speaker 5: is $ 1.
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  Speaker 3: 99 trillion.
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  Speaker 5: Not deficit, that the government has an authority that begs
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: people to be corrupt, that begs people to answer their
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: lesser angels, and we can't afford it either. So doesn't
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: this make a two-pronged argument for dramatically reducing the authority
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  Speaker 5: and the spending of federal and state government.
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  Speaker 23: Well, in this particular case, again, I think it represents
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  Speaker 23: the worst of the worst, it seems, in terms of
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  Speaker 23: politics and abuse of power. In this case, think about
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  Speaker 23: what she's alleged or accused to have tried to profit from.
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  Speaker 23: It's you know, trying to get more to profit from
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  Speaker 23: people using an addictive behavior altering recreational drug that preys
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  Speaker 23: upon the business of this, the most vulnerable in our society,
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  Speaker 23: in our culture, if you will. And in her case,
• 49:33
  Speaker 23: trying to capitalize on the opportunity to make millions of
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  Speaker 23: dollars for herself, apparently. before there is an actual open
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  Speaker 23: market or a legal market for the sale of marijuana.
• 49:46
  Speaker 23: And what it does, I think, demonstrate again is that
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  Speaker 23: our political climate and our government, the opportunities within our government,
• 49:58
  Speaker 23: the weaknesses of our government draws, again, the worst kind
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  Speaker 23: of people motivated by the worst kind of things.
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  Speaker 5: And even the ones who go there with best intentions
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: are immediately hit. Well, if you want to do those things,
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  Speaker 5: you've got to do these things. It's like almost that
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  Speaker 5: movie Training Day, you know, where a guy wants to
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  Speaker 5: be a good police officer. And in order to be
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: a police officer, he's got to break the law. And
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: it's just it's crazy making. That being said, and I
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  Speaker 5: know that this isn't a political concoction of the media,
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  Speaker 5: as a matter of fact, I'm watching the media try
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: to move other things ahead of the Louise Lucas story,
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: this Brandon Gill story. I know you were chair of
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: the House Freedom Caucus and a lot of your friends
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: are still on the Freedom Caucus. Is this a media concoction?
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: I've gotten to meet some of these folks like Ralph
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: Norman and Elan Crane and folks from the Freedom Caucus
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: circling the wagons around him saying this is a media concoction.
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  Speaker 5: There's no Nobody in the Freedom Caucus that's trying to
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: get rid of Brandon Gill there. Is this more of
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: the media trying to drive down voter turnout for Republicans
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  Speaker 5: a week and a half before the midterms?
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  Speaker 23: Well, the quick, transparent answers, I don't know. I haven't
• 51:15
  Speaker 23: talked to anybody since I saw a story yesterday about this.
• 51:19
  Speaker 23: I'm not sure if there's more than one story. I
• 51:20
  Speaker 23: saw one story about it. I will just add some
• 51:24
  Speaker 23: context and some sort of background commentary based on my experience.
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  Speaker 23: number one, there are unfortunately a significant number of individuals
• 51:35
  Speaker 23: who joined the Freedom Caucus to burnish their conservative image
• 51:43
  Speaker 23: and their conservative credentials, if you will, back home, often
• 51:48
  Speaker 23: to protect themselves from a primary challenge. So they back
• 51:52
  Speaker 23: home perceive, hey, I'm a Freedom Caucus member, and then
• 51:55
  Speaker 23: they may in Washington not actually be a a practicing, effective,
• 52:00
  Speaker 23: true Freedom Caucus member in the way that they operate
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  Speaker 23: in D.C., but they get to carry the badge, if
• 52:05
  Speaker 23: you will, the membership, if you will, show that card
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  Speaker 23: to help protect them from a primary challenge and to
• 52:10
  Speaker 23: be perceived as a conservative. It's kind of like, again,
• 52:13
  Speaker 23: I often say every Republican plays a conservative on TV,
• 52:16
  Speaker 23: but very few conservatives are really conservatives in practice when
• 52:20
  Speaker 23: they get to Washington. And that was something that I
• 52:25
  Speaker 23: saw over and over again. in Washington. I'll give you
• 52:28
  Speaker 23: one just transparent example.
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you what, hang on to that example
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