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"Duck Soup Anyone?" (FTTxJT Wed 100726 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: I'm more mega now make America great again than I've
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Speaker 1: ever been. Making mornings great again. First thing today on
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Speaker 1: the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 2: Music Bless you on a Ted's day.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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Speaker 3: on a day that we set aside, though every day
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Speaker 3: should be like this, just like every day is New
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Speaker 3: Year's Day. If you need to change something, don't wait
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Speaker 3: till January 1 to do it, especially with many months twixt.
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Speaker 2: Now and then.
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Speaker 3: On a day we celebrate God's gifts to you, your
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Speaker 3: acceptance of them your expertise in applying them to a
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Speaker 3: grateful constituency, and then the fact that that renders you.
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Speaker 2: Immune.
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Speaker 3: Let's just use that word since the World Health Organization
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Speaker 3: and the CDC appear quite frequently on the news headlines today,
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Speaker 3: and you know that's always a good time. To the
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Speaker 3: slings and arrows of the keyboard warriors today, Like I said,
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Speaker 3: life right now, especially in social media, is like trying
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Speaker 3: to have a conversation with your closest friends in the
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Speaker 3: middle of the busiest high school.
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Speaker 2: Cafeteria you've ever seen.
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Speaker 3: Complete with all the different bullies and weirdos and punks
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Speaker 3: and troublemakers that you remember in your high school cafeteria.
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Speaker 3: And if you don't remember that in your high school cafeteria,
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Speaker 3: either you didn't go to lunch in high school, or
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Speaker 3: tons of them where I was, and that's kind of
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Speaker 3: how I wound up being how I am.
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Speaker 2: Today for you.
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Speaker 3: At your service this morning, yesterday, 24 hours ago, we
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Speaker 3: were talking about the amount of energy we spend trying
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Speaker 3: not to look bad versus trying not to actually do bad,
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Speaker 3: and that it seems to be an inverse equation. We
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Speaker 3: spend an inordinate amount of time trying to avoid looking
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Speaker 3: bad and hardly any energy to avoid doing bad. And
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Speaker 3: there's a two-word phrase you're going to hear a little
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Speaker 3: bit on today's program, gas tax. And gas tax is
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Speaker 3: a great example of exactly what we were talking about
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Speaker 3: exactly 24 hours ago on this program. You can find
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Speaker 3: it on the podcast if you want. They're all up there. And, man,
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Speaker 3: it is voracious. People are downloading them like crazy because
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Speaker 3: not everybody gets.
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Speaker 2: All four hours of the program.
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Speaker 3: I know you're staring at the radio saying, you do
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Speaker 3: this for four consecutive hours, really, no break.
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Speaker 2: In there.
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Speaker 3: Our first things this morning, so we know what we're discussing.
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Speaker 3: Israelis gathered this morning as they commemorate the third anniversary
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Speaker 3: of the Hamas-led attack that killed 1,200 people, 251 taken hostages. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 3: while the commemorations are going on, An election is going on.
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Speaker 3: Nearly every poster, stump speech, or televised debate about the
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Speaker 3: parliamentary elections in Israel references the attack in some way, shape,
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Speaker 3: or form. NATO is preparing a new battle plan for
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Speaker 3: defeating a potential Russian attack on their eastern flank, with
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Speaker 3: strategy calling for forward-positioned troops, drones, AI, and other advanced
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Speaker 3: systems to blunt any incursion, and then destroy Moscow's ability.
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Speaker 2: To command its forces. Do we have that Marx Brothers
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Speaker 3: Russia said Tuesday that testing has found no cases of
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Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 7: In case you haven't heard before, I think they think
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Speaker 7: we're going to war.
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Speaker 2: I think they think we're.
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Speaker 10: Going to war.
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Speaker 11: We're going to war.
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Speaker 2: I think they think we're going to war. We're going
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Speaker 2: to war.
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Speaker 8: We're going to war.
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Speaker 15: We're going to war.
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Speaker 2: We're going to war.
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Speaker 3: debate last week? No, sir.
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Speaker 20: Someone asked about the situation in Fredonia, and Barbara said
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Speaker 20: that he was studying it.
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Speaker 2: Hail Fredonia! No, it was.
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Speaker 3: What's the country on the island in the Rhine? Liberland,
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Speaker 3: that's right. I actually have a Liberland flag lapel pin.
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Speaker 3: But that's not Fredonia. You know, the thing about Duck
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Speaker 3: Soup is it was, you know, when they were doing
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Speaker 3: the whole saber-rattling bit, I mean, that's in the middle
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Speaker 3: of this. This was like, you know, almost like, you know,
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Speaker 3: if you had Hollywood reporters, almost like the little dictator
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Speaker 3: from Charlie Chaplin.
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Speaker 2: They're doing.
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Speaker 3: Bits about going to war and saber rattling in the
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Speaker 3: middle of World War II. War is not something to
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Speaker 3: be taken in lightly. And the story out of NATO,
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Speaker 3: I took heat. I take heat for a lot of
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Speaker 3: things because I say and I believe it's not that
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Speaker 3: I just say stuff for the sake of clickbait. But
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Speaker 3: on this third anniversary of the attacks on the Israeli
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Speaker 3: show and parasailors and kidnappings and.
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Speaker 3: Combat is different than terrorism. Combat, you have two armies.
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Speaker 3: You actually have law protecting the combatants in a war,
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Speaker 3: a declared war, You have international law that protects the
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Speaker 3: war fighters.
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Speaker 2: And I think that's good. But I also think that
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Speaker 2: we as a.
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Speaker 3: Society do this for spurious reasons sometimes. And this NATO
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Speaker 3: story really drives that home to me. And I mentioned
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Speaker 3: as I went into the idea that I took some
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Speaker 3: heat for something, I guess it's about a year ago,
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Speaker 3: maybe two. How long ago did Russia begin its two-week
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Speaker 3: invasion into Ukraine? Four and a half years ago? But
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Speaker 3: somewhere within that four and a half years, Nigel Farage,
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Speaker 3: the man who led the Brexit movement, the guy they're
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Speaker 3: still trying to destroy personally because they can't destroy him politically,
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Speaker 3: the movement of Reform Party in Britain, wrote an op-ed
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Speaker 3: for one of the European papers. It may have been
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Speaker 3: one of the European syndicates. And it got picked up
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Speaker 3: here in the United States. Because it talked about how
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Speaker 3: NATO and the European Union... He was specifically going after
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Speaker 3: Germany and the European parts of NATO. But NATO is
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Speaker 3: a lot of United States too. Rather than looking at
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Speaker 3: the collapsed Soviet Union.
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Speaker 3: As we did to many, and this is the irony
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Speaker 3: I think that Farage brought up in his column, is
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Speaker 3: that we showed great compassion internationally to what was now
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Speaker 3: going to be called the Czech Republic, brotherly Czechoslovakia, as
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Speaker 3: Yuri Bezmenov refers to it in discussing destabilizations. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine,
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Speaker 3: all of these former Iron Curtain countries, the West bent
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Speaker 3: over forwards for. We went to great lengths to try
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Speaker 3: to help them put together, I mean, even to the
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Speaker 3: point of putting our own political and international military capital
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Speaker 3: on the line for Ukraine if they gave up all
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Speaker 3: those nuclear missiles that the Soviet Union had left behind,
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Speaker 3: saying that we would defend them if anything happened. Funny,
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Speaker 3: and then something happened. But Farage's piece was built around
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Speaker 3: the idea that had NATO been extended the same efforts
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Speaker 3: to Russia that we extended to many of the former
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Speaker 3: Soviet iron curtain countries, we wouldn't be in this situation.
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Speaker 3: His point being that the West's behavior towards Russia begat Putin's.
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Speaker 3: Because economically, what was going on rather than building a
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Speaker 3: Western-style free market was creating a Chicago-style criminal market that
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Speaker 3: the black market that had developed during the last years before...
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Speaker 3: Gorbachev tried to reform under Perestroika, that black market just
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Speaker 3: took over, but still behaved like it was a black market.
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Speaker 3: just with the mobsters running around, like it was Chicago.
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Speaker 3: The mobsters, Al Capone's walking around talking on the TV
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Speaker 3: news and the newspapers are putting his picture. He's not
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Speaker 3: trying to be quiet about it. John Gotti wasn't trying
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Speaker 3: to be quiet about what was going on in New
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Speaker 3: York's five families. And so the chaos and the ensuing
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Speaker 3: chaos abject poverty that was being driven into the Russian
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Speaker 3: citizens gives rise to a guy like Putin. And this
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Speaker 3: is Washington's repeat. This isn't a new scenario. Time in
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Speaker 3: memoriam has chronicled economic collapses, strong-armed dictators rise from the
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Speaker 3: ashes of them. Doesn't always have to be Hitler. But,
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Speaker 3: you know, like any conversation on 4chan, eventually somebody gets
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Speaker 3: called Hitler. And now comes the story that NATO.
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Speaker 2: Says, we will destroy Russia.
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Speaker 3: You mean like Russia said it would take them two
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Speaker 3: weeks to completely conquer Ukraine? And I understand that when
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Speaker 3: things are going bad in a country, you want to
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Speaker 3: gin up some support, some esprit de corps, us versus them.
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Speaker 3: So it's kind of the point of the Marx Brothers
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Speaker 3: in Duck Soup.
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Speaker 12: Uh-oh, Brad's buzzed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 13: And now a speech.
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Speaker 15: I just want to say that friendship is about heart.
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Speaker 2: Heart and brain. Who's with me?
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Speaker 11: Good thing is, he knows when he's buzzed.
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Speaker 16: And my brain is saying, when it's time to go home,
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Speaker 16: somebody call me a ride.
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Speaker 5: Love that guy.
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Speaker 2: Me too.
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Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 15: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: When my unauthorized autobiography is published, there will be a
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you. And within.
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Speaker 3: half an hour of calmly saying, okay, we'll find an answer. Okay,
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Speaker 3: I was on the phone.
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Speaker 2: Five minutes. If it was five minutes, it was a minute.
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Speaker 3: I get a phone call from my project manager saying, yeah,
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Speaker 2: Everything's fine now. The trench diggers are digging. And I'm like, really?
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Speaker 2: Tom Cruise is out there digging?
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Speaker 3: I mean, he's got to be on a promotional tour
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's what I said to the guy. I said,
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Speaker 3: Tom Cruise come out and make it a promo for
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Speaker 2: What a mess.
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Speaker 3: But it is a parable to keep your heads when
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Speaker 3: all around you are losing theirs.
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Speaker 2: You've got to do that. Email.
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Speaker 3: Joe, I didn't thank you for being one of those peaceniks,
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Speaker 3: never war people. Are you on the same line with
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Speaker 3: the no tyrants protest?
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Speaker 2: No, no.
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Speaker 3: And who has been the one? And I understand your
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Speaker 3: Who has not said that what's going on between the
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Speaker 3: United States and Iran is not a new war It
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Speaker 3: is President Trump trying to end the oldest war in
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Speaker 3: American history. There are instances where military combat is absolutely necessary.
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Speaker 2: The first day of Russia's two-week invasion.
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Speaker 3: Of Ukraine, four and a half years ago, I said,
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Speaker 3: look at these Ukrainian farmers with their rifles and their
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Speaker 3: an exact, a perfect example of why our second amendment existed.
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Speaker 3: I am not one of those people that says no
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Speaker 3: war ever, you know, that, that absolutism first and foremost
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Speaker 3: is dumb as a bag of hair. And it's a
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Speaker 3: But beyond that, it's just not true because it's the
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Speaker 3: reason murder is in the Ten Commandments, not kill. When
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Speaker 3: not murder. That's the one I go with, not the
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Speaker 3: plant their root. Oh, the Ten Commandments says thou shalt
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Speaker 3: not kill.
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Speaker 2: So, oh, really?
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Speaker 3: Well, can we explain this to the army that's invading
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Speaker 3: my country or trying to do terrorism in my backyard?
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Speaker 3: They apparently don't have a problem with killing. So in
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Speaker 3: my self-defense, I'm going to kill them back. That's not murder.
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Speaker 3: That's why it's an important demarcation, it twixts them. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: Just sticking the needle. Good morning. You're on the air
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Speaker 2: with Joe. First thing this morning, who's this?
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Speaker 8: Good morning. This is Moscow Bob and a beautiful sunny day.
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Speaker 2: And apparently nobody dead from the plague, just like you
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Speaker 2: said yesterday. Funny that, Bob.
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Speaker 3: You were like 12 hours ahead of the National Network News.
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Speaker 8: Because we use common sense, you and I.
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Speaker 3: Why does it seem like that name is not applicable
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Speaker 3: to it anymore?
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Speaker 2: We need to put the common back in common sense.
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Speaker 8: Yes, but what I'm calling about, this thing about NATO
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Speaker 8: saying they're going to destroy Russia or whatever the case
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Speaker 8: may be, they've got more things to worry about, especially Europe,
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Speaker 8: than they do Russia. They need to worry about the
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Speaker 8: immigration and how the Muslim countries are taking over their country.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Sharia.
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Speaker 3: I mean, and this goes back to, you know, this
34:51
Speaker 3: goes back to Syria and the refugees into Germany and
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Speaker 3: entire towns being turned over by Angela Merkel to them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, if anything, this was, when I read.
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Speaker 3: Farage's piece about how NATO treated Russia after the collapse.
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Speaker 3: I thought about, I thought about, you know, Russia could
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Speaker 3: be really handy if they were partners with Europe, considering
35:19
Speaker 3: what the most populous part of the country of Russia
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Speaker 2: They, you know, in.
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Speaker 3: This battle for, you know, cultural realities and liberal Westernism,
35:36
Speaker 3: which says, you know, you can practice your faith, just
35:39
Speaker 3: don't impact me. And apparently the radical Islamists still haven't
35:44
Speaker 3: figured that out. Go back to my point about the
35:47
Speaker 3: oldest war in American history. Russia could be a huge partner.
35:51
Speaker 3: Imagine a world where NATO treated the Yeltsin administration. And
35:59
Speaker 3: believe me, he's as corrupt as anyone. and a party
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Speaker 3: boss from longer than Gorbachev was around. But in the
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Speaker 3: fallen wild, wild west that was the former Soviet Union
36:17
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36:40
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36:43
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36:45
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36:48
Speaker 3: be okay with it. It's just the secret policeman's other ball.
36:52
Speaker 3: One whole point is, look at how Russia.
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Speaker 8: Under Putin's leadership, you know, he deals with all the,
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Speaker 2: Deals with the U.S.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 2: Deals with the U.S. I mean, Ian.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, but Russia's not, with their immigration, not becoming like
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Speaker 2: Well, different.
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Speaker 11: They're not being.
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Speaker 3: Well, and, you know, you're living in Moscow right now.
37:34
Speaker 3: You know, it's a different, it's a different legal system.
37:37
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Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 10: I'm afraid of the Russians.
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Speaker 13: I can't sleep at night.
44:27
Speaker 10: So afraid of the Russians.
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Speaker 13: Afraid we've got.
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Speaker 2: My Sputnik, you are at 434-882-4217.
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Speaker 5: And the.
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Speaker 3: I know it's easy hit to go back to Eisenhower
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Speaker 3: and the buildup of the military-industrial complex, but if you
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Speaker 3: but when the two greatest generals in human history, first off,
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Speaker 3: are both American, battling for freedom and liberty and liberation—
45:13
Speaker 3: warn you about your international entanglements and the buildup of
45:17
Speaker 3: a military industrial complex, I think it's something you're worth
45:20
Speaker 3: listening to. And this NATO saber rattling, we will destroy Russia.
45:31
Speaker 3: And Europe's got way more problems than we do. So
45:35
Speaker 3: I feel like this is just sort of that, oh,
45:38
Speaker 3: pay no attention to all the problems we're having. We've
45:42
Speaker 3: got an enemy that and you should all rally behind
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Speaker 3: us because we've got an enemy. Remember, before things got
45:52
Speaker 3: ugly in France, Germany was at war with Russia in
45:57
Speaker 3: the early 30s. I mean, I'm just saying for context. Bob,
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Speaker 3: in Moscow, we were saying if the U.S. and NATO.
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Speaker 2: Had treated Russia... the.
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Speaker 3: Fallen Soviet Union, the same way we were treating the
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Speaker 3: former Iron Curtain countries like Czechoslovakia and Ukraine, it would
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Speaker 8: We wouldn't have all the problems. And Europe would not
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Speaker 8: be having the problems that we're having because Europe would
46:26
Speaker 8: look at what Russia's doing with their immigration control and, hey,
46:30
Speaker 8: it's okay to come here, but there's not going to
46:34
Speaker 8: be a Sharia rule. And you.
46:38
Speaker 8: Assimilate into the Russian culture and the Russian legal system.
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Speaker 2: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: And that's the point I was getting at is that
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Speaker 3: Europe would be a much greater situation if Russia was
46:52
Speaker 3: partners with them. Why couldn't Russia have joined the European Union?
46:57
Speaker 3: I think the European Union would have been a pretty
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Speaker 3: big economic force if Russia was a part, not an.
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Speaker 2: Opponent.
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Speaker 8: I think a lot of it has to do with
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Speaker 8: the United States. The United States would have never let
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Speaker 8: that happen. I think that's part of the problem.
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Speaker 3: And look at what it's done for us. Hang on
47:16
Speaker 3: to that thought. That's a great point. But look at
47:18
Speaker 3: what that has done to us. What did I say
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Speaker 3: 24 hours ago? I said we spend too much time
47:24
Speaker 3: trying to not look bad versus half the effort in
47:29
Speaker 3: looking good would have been much more fruitful if we
47:33
Speaker 3: had been the ones.
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Speaker 2: That had led it. if George H.W.
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Speaker 3: Bush had gone to Moscow and sat down with Yeltsin
47:41
Speaker 3: and said, going to do it, going to do it,
47:44
Speaker 3: let's build this, the world would be a far different
47:49
Speaker 3: and better place, I would argue.
47:52
Speaker 8: Go even farther back. If Ronald Reagan would tear down
47:57
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Speaker 2: It's the timing of it.
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Speaker 3: People forget that Russia didn't fall under the Reagan administration.
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Speaker 3: The Soviet Union collapsed under Bush in 91. Anyway, let
48:17
Speaker 3: me get to line two here. I appreciate it, Bob.
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Speaker 3: You have a good morning.
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Speaker 2: Yes, bye.
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Speaker 8: Spasibo. 434-882-4217.
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Speaker 2: I used to know this. Drozdvichy. Since we're speaking Russian
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Speaker 2: this morning.
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Speaker 5: Здравствуйте.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. Who's this?
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Speaker 10: Good morning, Joe. It's Kareem.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Kareem. How are you doing this morning, sir?
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Speaker 10: Trying to figure out what other words I know besides товарищ. Oh, да. Да.
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Speaker 2: I got that one.
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Speaker 3: Да is good. So I was taught Sputnik is fellow traveler.
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Speaker 3: Спасибо is I'm okay, if I remember correctly. Dras, which
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Speaker 3: is sort of like aloha. It could be a greeting,
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Speaker 3: a salutation of greeting or farewell. And that's about it
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Speaker 3: for my Russian. Putin, I know Putin, which is, I think,
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Speaker 3: an epithet these days. But anyway, what else is on
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Speaker 3: your mind?
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Speaker 10: Well, honestly, John, I'm here to agree with you.
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Speaker 15: What?
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Speaker 5: What?
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Speaker 2: No, no. This is like, you know, this is bizarro world.
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Speaker 3: This is where Superman is, you know, landed in Moscow
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Speaker 3: and is Uberman.
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Speaker 10: Joe, I'm thankful for you six days a week, and
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Speaker 10: this is no different day. I can look at Jeffrey D. Sachs.
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Speaker 10: He's a professor at Columbia, and he was actually in
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Speaker 10: the Kremlin. He's better than Victoria Newland. I'll just put
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Speaker 10: it that way. He was actually in the Kremlin when
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Speaker 10: Boris Yeltsin won.
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Speaker 2: He was what?
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, not right then. I wanted to hear
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Speaker 3: what Kareem said. So he was in the Kremlin when
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Speaker 3: what happened? When Yeltsin walked in?
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Speaker 10: When Yeltsin walked in, he says, gentlemen, I just got
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Speaker 10: off the phone with Mikhail Gorbachev. The Soviet Union is
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Speaker 10: no more. He was an economist who had helped Poland
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Speaker 10: with their economic recovery thanks to the United States and,
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Speaker 10: I believe, a billion-dollar loan. And then Russia was going
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Speaker 10: through the same issues. And so Jeffrey said, well, let
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Speaker 10: me talk to the U.S. government. I will ask– because
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Speaker 10: it was a workable solution. At that time, Russia was
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Speaker 10: very much wanting to do business with the U.S., wanted
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Speaker 10: to be good friends. And so he talked to the
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Speaker 10: White House, and they said, no.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 10: They're not going to help him. Now, fast forward to Putin.
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Speaker 10: In 2003, he actually was in New Jersey celebrating the
50:55
Speaker 10: grand opening of Luke Oil gas station. And there are
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Speaker 10: still a couple of Luke Oils in New Jersey, but
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Speaker 10: they were wanting to do business with us. Go ahead, Joe.
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Speaker 3: Well, no, but this is the point I was making
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Speaker 3: in just an abstract, and it wasn't like I knew
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Speaker 3: this was coming or anything. But yesterday, it's a social
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Speaker 3: abstract that I said, you know, as humans, we spend
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Speaker 3: so much time trying not to look bad, trying to
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Speaker 3: avoid those things that make us look bad, that when
51:26
Speaker 3: the opportunity comes to do good, we're too worried about
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Speaker 3: if it'll make us look bad by doing good at
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Speaker 3: the moment. And this is where our fixation with Democrats-y
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Speaker 3: comes in because it's all, oh, I've got to vote,
51:42
Speaker 3: you know, I've got a re-election campaign in three months.
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Speaker 3: I don't have time to unspin this. If I'm seen
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Speaker 3: as being friendly to Russia or listening to, look at
51:51
Speaker 3: what they do to Trump. Every time Trump has a
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Speaker 3: phone call with Vladimir Putin, you got, you know, a
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Speaker 3: dozen or so nut clusters who still think the Steele dossier,
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Speaker 3: you know, was brought down from the And so this
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Speaker 3: constant need to always be appearing like you're on someone's
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Speaker 3: side because we need you to vote for us in
52:19
Speaker 3: the upcoming election, I think is part of the reason
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Speaker 3: Americans are starting to feel so, pardon the phrase, war-weary
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Speaker 3: over our political intrigue because the politicians aren't doing anything.
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Speaker 3: They're out there trying to campaign. That's the only thing politicians...
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Speaker 3: seem right now to be good at is hitting the
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Speaker 3: campaign trail, hammering in yard signs, speeching on, you know, well,
52:43
Speaker 3: I proposed this. It never made it out of committee,
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Speaker 3: but I proposed this. And I think we're just growing.
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