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"VPOTUS get 'Trumped' by press" (FTTxJT Sat 101026 hr1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: Making mornings great again.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: And we'll do it live.
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  Speaker 5: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
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  Speaker 5: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops.
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  Speaker 6: The kids to school and on the way.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures that
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  Speaker 5: he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only aims.
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  Speaker 7: To please you.
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  Speaker 3: So, what do you say to someone when they say,
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  Speaker 3: who's Columbus?
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  Speaker 8: When Columbus's crew begged him to turn back, it's too scary,
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  Speaker 8: the water is too rough, the ship can't take it.
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  Speaker 8: But he pushed onward, discovered the new world, eventually leading
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  Speaker 8: to the creation of the most exceptional nation. Christopher Columbus
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  Speaker 8: changed the future of humanity forever. And in this administration,
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  Speaker 8: we know that Christopher Columbus is, to us, he's a hero.
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  Speaker 3: He's a hero. That's President Trump yesterday commemorating for the,
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  Speaker 3: I guess, what is it? For my world, I refer
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  Speaker 3: to this holiday in its rebranding as Disingenuous Person's Day,
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  Speaker 3: if you must. When I'm pressed, when I'm pressed by
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  Speaker 3: people who say, you're just going to trigger me too
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  Speaker 3: much if you say the C word. And then I
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  Speaker 3: have to figure out which C word they mean. And
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  Speaker 3: after I go through a few permutations and I think, well, no.
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  Speaker 3: And she's not. Oh, OK. She means Columbus. I will say, OK,
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  Speaker 3: so we're celebrating disingenuous persons day. That's not what it is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it actually kind of is. Because this isn't about elevating
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  Speaker 3: the position of. It's actually creating more indentured servitude for.
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  Speaker 3: In a socialist way. In a socialist way that I
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  Speaker 3: actually think J.D. Vance didn't do a half bad job
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  Speaker 3: given the question. Oh, yes, we're going to go there.
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  Speaker 3: But unlike everyone else in my industry, we're not going
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  Speaker 3: to be having that J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance.
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  Speaker 3: Because like the president he serves... in the administration with.
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  Speaker 3: What you're hearing is just the excerpt that makes the
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  Speaker 3: media people happy. Gets them the clicks. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 3: here for. I'm here for the clicks, baby. It's not
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  Speaker 3: a new scenario. I'd love to tell these internet nerds
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  Speaker 3: that they're doing something new, but ever since headlines became
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  Speaker 3: something they put on newspapers and newspaper boxes were things
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  Speaker 3: you started to see on the streets. Headline writers have
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  Speaker 3: been doing this for a century or more. Sorry, kids,
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  Speaker 3: not new, but you tell yourself you've invented something new.
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  Speaker 3: Hundreds of thousands of people, Alabama, Florida panhandle, as well
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  Speaker 3: as up even approaching Tennessee and western North Carolina without
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  Speaker 3: power as the storms from the remnants of Hurricane Isaiah's
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  Speaker 3: crashed through the inland areas north of the Gulf Coast.
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  Speaker 3: Isaiah's had increased to a Category 3 strength when it
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  Speaker 3: made landfall late last night. Crews continue to work, electric
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  Speaker 3: rain continues to fall and continues to head north and inland.
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  Speaker 3: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that this deal just helps
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  Speaker 3: Russia fund its war in Ukraine and called the deal unfair.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump also said Friday is committed to protecting the
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  Speaker 3: legacy of Christopher Columbus for at least the next two
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  Speaker 3: and a half years. Indian authorities deployed a sweeping security
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 14: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: No, you can't, you can't. You can't use this whole
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  Speaker 3: bumper anymore. Not even here in Charlottesville, where you'd think
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  Speaker 3: this kind of stuff would be permissible.
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  Speaker 13: See, what 10 years after forgets is then what do
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  Speaker 13: you do?
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  Speaker 3: See, they've brought you right up to the thing with
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  Speaker 3: the place, but they forget to tell you what happens
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  Speaker 3: when there are no rich no more. And they, like
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  Speaker 3: most other marijuana-ridden songwriters, just forget. They forget where they
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  Speaker 3: were and they write something else. They come up with
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  Speaker 3: another hook and they're gone. They ask the question, tax
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  Speaker 3: the rich and feed the poor until there are no
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  Speaker 3: rich no more, and then you're left looking around. I
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  Speaker 3: bring this up because the brouhaha Thursday, J.D. Vance announcing
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  Speaker 3: that Microsoft and a bunch of other tech firms had
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  Speaker 3: been caught defrauding the H-1B visa program. And if you
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  Speaker 3: heard the news, wherever you may have heard the news,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's left-wing media or right-wing media, You would have
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  Speaker 3: certainly been subjected to J.D. Vance's comments, and they would
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  Speaker 3: have sounded, with the apologies to Bob Newhart, something like this. J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance doesn't know what socialism is.
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  Speaker 18: I think in reality, what it actually means in the
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  Speaker 18: American context is that you want to replace American workers
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  Speaker 18: with foreign workers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, the vice president doesn't know what socialism is.
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  Speaker 3: And you can insert whichever political side of the aisle
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  Speaker 3: the commentary was being made at. Everyone, this is bipartisan.
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  Speaker 3: Except here. I'd like to think, especially our friends, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: how long have I known you here on Long Island
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  Speaker 3: at 103.9 FM? I mean, there's the whole period in
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  Speaker 3: the early 90s where you and I spent lunchtime together
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  Speaker 3: playing rock and roll music. And now here we are
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday mornings breaking bread or bagels. More likely leftover
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  Speaker 3: pizza at this point. Columbus Day weekend was always a
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  Speaker 3: pretty big deal around. It was that last gasp. It
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  Speaker 3: was that one last weekend of frolic. At least the
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  Speaker 3: storms that came to Long Island were last weekend. You
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  Speaker 3: know we don't cut the same tack that everyone else does.
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  Speaker 3: And part of the reason goes way back to 2017.
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  Speaker 3: Because we're flagged, for those who don't know, out of Charlottesville, Virginia.
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  Speaker 3: And in 2017, we had a bunch of Nazis come
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  Speaker 3: here from mostly Ohio. And David Duke, who organized the Nazis,
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  Speaker 3: or Klansmen, really, Klansmen wannabes, was like a recruiting driver,
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  Speaker 3: a pledge event for David Duke's Klan rally. And he
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  Speaker 3: was there. He walked right past me. I know this
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  Speaker 3: because I was standing there trying to cover the whole
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  Speaker 3: thing live. And it went David Duke. I went, holy crap.
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  Speaker 3: And I felt vindicated because I had always felt that
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  Speaker 3: these people were not conservatives. And there went David Duke.
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  Speaker 3: And in and amongst the attempts to get the tear
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  Speaker 3: gas out of my eyes and the pepper spray off
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  Speaker 3: my skin, I felt vindicated. So I've always felt, and
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  Speaker 3: especially at that night when everyone said, Donald Trump said
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  Speaker 3: Nazis are fine people, which is not what he said.
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  Speaker 3: We've developed a habit around here of trying to play
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  Speaker 3: things in their fullest context, play Play the clip of
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  Speaker 3: President Trump from that day and then you'll understand.
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  Speaker 24: I'm not putting anybody on a moral plane. What I'm
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  Speaker 24: saying is this. You had a group on one side
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  Speaker 24: and you had a group on the other and they
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  Speaker 24: came at each other with clubs and it was vicious
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  Speaker 24: and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing
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  Speaker 24: to watch.
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  Speaker 3: But there is another side.
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  Speaker 24: There was a group on this side, you can call
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  Speaker 24: them the left, you've just called them the left, that
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  Speaker 24: came violently attacking the other group.
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  Speaker 2: So you can say what you want, but that's the
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  Speaker 2: way it is.
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  Speaker 3: And it goes on, and, of course, you get to
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  Speaker 3: the point where he says, you know, the— But.
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  Speaker 24: You also had people that were very fine people on
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  Speaker 24: both sides.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, truth be told, I thought it was fascinating
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  Speaker 3: to get to a world where a Republican president acknowledged
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  Speaker 3: that there were very fine people in Black Lives Matter
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  Speaker 3: and Antifa, which was the other side. So ever since then,
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  Speaker 3: we've had a programming model that says we're going to
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  Speaker 3: play the whole thing, often to the distraction and inclusion
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  Speaker 3: of the question. Because what I've learned about the media
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  Speaker 3: and the Trump administrations is that they ask the question,
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  Speaker 3: the question becomes the answer, and what you say is
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  Speaker 3: almost irrelevant to them. So let's start with the question
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  Speaker 3: that J.D. Vance was asked on Thursday. How do you
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  Speaker 3: define socialism personally?
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  Speaker 11: And why do you think socialist candidates are popping up
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  Speaker 11: everywhere across the country?
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So first off, he was, yes, asked, how do you
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  Speaker 3: define socialism personally? But the punch off of the question
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  Speaker 3: where it's left in J.D. Vance's hand is, why do
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  Speaker 3: you think democratic socialist candidates are popping up all across
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  Speaker 3: the United States? That's important because J.D. Vance's answer is
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  Speaker 3: much more about that than anything else. Oh, man. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I guess.
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  Speaker 18: It's honestly it's a hard term to define these days
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  Speaker 18: because very often socialism, you know, classically, you would think
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  Speaker 18: socialism is about prioritizing workers. And yet, in reality, I
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  Speaker 18: guarantee that most of the self-described socialists running across the
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  Speaker 18: United States of America are going to howl about this
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  Speaker 18: announcement today, which is prioritizing American workers over foreign workers.
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  Speaker 18: So I don't know what the term means anymore. I
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  Speaker 18: think in reality, what it actually means in the American
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  Speaker 18: context is that you want to replace American workers with
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  Speaker 18: foreign workers and you want boys to play in girls' sports.
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  Speaker 18: That's what unites the socialists that I see running across
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  Speaker 18: the United States of America today.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's And he goes on and he says
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  Speaker 3: some interesting things after that. But think about Zorhan Mamdani.
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  Speaker 3: Think about all the democratic socialists in California and Illinois
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  Speaker 3: and Connecticut. The Connecticut ones are fun. The Virginia ones.
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  Speaker 3: The Floridians. Think about those democratic socialists. Tell me J.D.
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  Speaker 3: Vance is wrong about what he said. Now, you hear
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  Speaker 3: the clip. J.D. Vance thinks socialism is about boys playing
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  Speaker 3: a girl's sports. That's not what he said, nor is
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  Speaker 3: it the question he was answering. Now, I'm not picking
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  Speaker 3: up for J.D. Vance. But if you want to dislike somebody,
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  Speaker 3: dislike them for real things, not for something concocted by
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  Speaker 3: people with an ax to grind. It's funny.
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  Speaker 18: Back in 2016, one of the most interesting things that
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  Speaker 3: On the Talk Media Network. 434-882-4217 is how you hook
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  Speaker 3: up with us. So the question as it was asked is,
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  Speaker 3: what is socialism? And the best part of this is
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  Speaker 3: And what J.D. Vance faces, as far as I can tell,
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  Speaker 3: you expected from. But now we know who has skin
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• 30:04
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  Speaker 3: genuine about what J.D. Vance said. And I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: too much like a politician. A little bit less than
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  Speaker 3: that way, which leaves us to play out the full
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  Speaker 3: statement because they'll lift a sound clip off and then
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  Speaker 3: I haven't read The American Spectator or Conservative Treehouse or
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: any of these other places, but they're all taking the shots,
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  Speaker 3: the ones that have, saying J.D. Vance doesn't know what
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: socialism is when that wasn't the question he was asked.
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  Speaker 3: But it did give Fox News Digital a chance to
• 31:28
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  Speaker 3: went to a farmer's market in Washington, D.C. to ask
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  Speaker 3: the regular folk. And by regular folk, I mean the
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: ones who only have one unnatural hair color in their
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  Speaker 3: spiky pointed hair. T-shirt slogan on those normal people. What
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  Speaker 3: does socialism mean to you?
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  Speaker 1: Because there seems to be some disagreement about what exactly
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: it means.
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  Speaker 14: Well, I mean, I think.
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  Speaker 28: It's a poor choice to call it socialism because none
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  Speaker 28: of what we're talking about when we're talking about economic
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  Speaker 28: theories is anything in a pure form, right? There's no
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  Speaker 28: version of... I've never seen a version of socialism that
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  Speaker 28: isn't corrupt.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, she's done a very good job of
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  Speaker 3: remembering what some economist told her while he was trying
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  Speaker 28: And I've never seen a version of communism that isn't corrupt,
• 32:36
  Speaker 28: but I've never seen a version of capitalism that isn't
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  Speaker 28: corrupt either.
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  Speaker 3: Hey sister, by the way, her t-shirt said Aunt Tifa
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we used to refer to our elders as
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  Speaker 3: blue hairs because their white hair almost looked blue in
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  Speaker 3: the sunlight. Now it's actually Little Mermaid blue. But I
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  Speaker 3: you and I talk about all the time on this program.
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  Speaker 3: It's not the system. It's the people. And the reason
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  Speaker 3: socialism falls so easily to corruption is that we expect
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  Speaker 3: somebody to do things for us. So as long as
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  Speaker 3: they successfully or semi-successfully accomplish those things, make sure I
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  Speaker 3: have a place to live, make sure I have food
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  Speaker 3: in my refrigerator, make sure I have a place to
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: go every morning and then they give me some sort
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  Speaker 3: of currency every week. I don't pay so much attention. However,
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: the problem with socialism is when that starts to come apart,
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  Speaker 3: when that starts to not work so good. Antifa also
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  Speaker 3: pointed to why the DSA is so popular.
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  Speaker 28: Is this a decision I'm making through democratic means?
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  Speaker 3: Then yes.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I would be so game.
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  Speaker 28: If I voted for it, sure.
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• 34:25
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  Speaker 3: want to start with the guy with the radio show
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  Speaker 3: or the popular podcast. That's who I want to start with.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: I want to start with the small business owners. That's
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  Speaker 3: who most socialists, Marxists, whether it's Lenin or Stalin or
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Hitler or Lyndon Johnson, go after, those middle-class business owners,
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• 35:06
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• 35:08
  Speaker 3: the bills for their campaign. But the reason they're all
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  Speaker 3: corrupt is because we're all corrupt, Aunt Tifa. And the
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• 35:26
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  Speaker 3: given maximum power to these people. Fox News Digital continued
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  Speaker 1: Just look around.
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  Speaker 11: All of these people are trying to make good on capitalism.
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• 36:52
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  Speaker 3: Freedom to petition the government.
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  Speaker 7: Only the United States has these five freedoms so simply
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  Speaker 7: bound together and guaranteed.
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  Speaker 22: Think first.
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  Speaker 14: Learn more at thinkfirstamendment.org. No word in the English language
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  Speaker 14: is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 6: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 6: first date?
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 10: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 22: Probably?
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  Speaker 14: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 3: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 14: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, don't tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 14: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 2: Cramp!
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I have a cramp. I can probably hit the
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  Speaker 3: green from here. Probably. Ready to go?
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  Speaker 19: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 14: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 14: and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
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  Speaker 14: or a friend. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. A message
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  Speaker 1: Come on, baby, don't you.
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  Speaker 17: Want to go?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, baby, don't you wanna go? Back to that.
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  Speaker 29: Same old place, sweet home in Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Bob?
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  Speaker 3: Real good.
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  Speaker 12: Real good. Once again, we're coming to you from Ditka's
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  Speaker 12: Restaurant in the heart of Chicago, the city of the
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  Speaker 12: big shoulders.
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  Speaker 3: Home to a.
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  Speaker 12: Certain team, which come January will run roughshod over the
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  Speaker 12: competition in Super Bowl XXVI. A team that is known
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  Speaker 12: as the Bears.
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  Speaker 3: The Bears. We say goodbye to Mike Ditka. And passed
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  Speaker 3: away yesterday at the age of 86. I know some
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  Speaker 3: of you, he was still alive. Yeah. He was one
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  Speaker 3: of those people that I imagine that... The Grim Reaper
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: came to visit several times only to get the beep
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  Speaker 3: out of here. And the history of football, and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people make a lot of hay about Buddy
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: Ryan and his defensive coordinator, and it was the defense
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: of the Bears that were the reason, and that Mike
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  Speaker 3: Ditka was more of a, creation of the post-coaching era
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  Speaker 3: where he went on TV and sort of got a
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: chance to polish his reputation and wear in the realities
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  Speaker 3: or whatever. But you think about winning Super Bowls, putting
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  Speaker 3: together a team of some hundred guys and getting them
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  Speaker 3: all rowing in the same order. How many people do it?
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  Speaker 3: How many people do that? Bill Belichick is known as
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  Speaker 3: the great genius until Tom Brady left. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this is the thing, you know, you say what you will.
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  Speaker 3: Do we have the max sports? Oh, we'll get for
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  Speaker 3: next hour. Okay. Max Mac did a whole piece on
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Nick Saban, the dictator who, you know, along with Belichick
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  Speaker 3: are considered the, you know, the, progenitors of this process
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: seven seconds in a cloud of dust always just focus
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  Speaker 3: on the next play in front of you it's a
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  Speaker 3: good plan I think living your life that way is
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  Speaker 3: important but Bill Belichick and all of his Super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: rings as soon as Tom Brady takes a powder and
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: goes to Tampa the Patriots fall apart and Tampa wins
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  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl so You know, at what place do coaches,
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: and it's the whole, you know, which is more important.
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  Speaker 3: Coaches do right. How many times did Jim McMahon win
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl outside of that Super Bowl 20, huh?
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, I hope, you know, brother is doing the
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: best he can for the advocacy for CTE. He's one
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: of those folks. I mean, it's frightening what's happened to
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Jim McMahon. And one of my favorite stories in NFL
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: lore is a kid comes from BYU, Brigham Young University,
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: and becomes this crazy man for the Bears. But how
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  Speaker 3: do you get all these people rowing in the same order?
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: It's a business paradigm that most of us struggle with
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: on a day-to-day basis. Most of us don't have that
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  Speaker 3: seminal moment of a Super Bowl, but we might have
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  Speaker 3: a presentation. We might have a a contract we're trying
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  Speaker 3: to close or a business we're trying to open or
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: a deal we're trying to make or just get through
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  Speaker 3: lunch rush. Whatever it is, we're trying to get together
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  Speaker 3: as many people as we can to help to that end.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: So the fact that the only Super Bowl ring the
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: Ryan family owns and all of their coaching is is
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: the one that Buddy won as defensive coordinator for the Bears,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: I think is notable in that point. That it's an
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: administrative function. Some people are horrible assistant coaches and really
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: good head coaches. Joe Gibbs was an unknown kind of
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: ignored assistant coach, but apparently knew a thing or two
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: about organizing a team. currently a team of lawyers, but
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: that's a NASCAR story for another time. Bill Belichick, maybe
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: it's a little easier to build a championship winning team
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  Speaker 3: when you're paying them. And it's only just a new
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: business model of paying your college athletes. So North Carolina
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: not succeeding as well as the Patriots did. But to
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: be fair, the Patriots lost an awful lot. before they
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: started winning Super Bowls an awful lot. Credit has to
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: be given where credit's due for the things that are done.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: And Mike Ditka put together a team that even in
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: the years up to and after the Super Bowl, the
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: Bears were always a team to contend with. Bill Parcells
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: of the Giants... said that what made the Giants capable
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: of winning the next Super Bowl was that they had
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: to face the Bears. And then you have Bill Walsh
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  Speaker 3: and the 49ers. I mean, it was a crucible to
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: try to win eight out of seven out of 14
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  Speaker 3: games back in those days. Because you had the 49ers,
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: the Bears, the Giants. You know, woe be you if
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: you were the Green Bay Packers or the Atlanta Falcons.
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: Who do you think you are, New Orleans Saints? So
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: credit where credit's due. Mike Ditka passing away yesterday at
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: the age of 86. A couple of things. The flooding,
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: I was just checking the maps of where Isaias is
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: right now. And just updating the radar screen. And it
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: looks like right now, Isaias is approaching eastern Tennessee. Lots
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: of rain. This was why one of the things that
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  Speaker 3: we covered yesterday is that very much like Helene, though
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: not nearly as strong a hurricane, Helene was Cat 5
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: by the time it hit landfall, Isaias had just achieved...
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Category 3 right before it hit landfall. But it was
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: like Helene carrying a ton of water, which is really
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: what's impacting and the flooding along the Panhandle and into
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Alabama and is going to continue up through eastern Tennessee.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: Our friends in Irwin there that just, I mean, you
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: Their eyes are twitching. They've been there, done that, seeing
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: these storms come up the valley and just flood everything.
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  Speaker 3: So hopefully you've battened down by now. It should be
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: arriving here in our flagship city by tonight. And we'll
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: see what happens with that. But a lot of the
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: utility crews, this is one of the kind of neat
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: things about our hurricane response, is watching the electric utilities
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: reviled most of the time. until the power is out,
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: and then you see trucks from six states away driving
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: into your community to help fix the lines in your town.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: So it's all hands on deck as Isaiah skinned to
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  Speaker 3: Valdosta and Pascagoula and all those.
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  Speaker 17: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
• 52:54
  Speaker 17: leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 14: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
• 52:58
  Speaker 14: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Sam.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 20: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 20: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 15: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 15: of their lives.
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  Speaker 17: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 23: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 15: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 15: the benefits they've earned.
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  Speaker 27: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 15: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support.
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  Speaker 3: For victories great and small.
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  Speaker 17: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 27: My victory was getting my service dog a new best friend.
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  Speaker 15: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 15: they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 3: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 15: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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  Speaker 15: more victories for veterans.
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  Speaker 3: Go to DAV.org.