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Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. The

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Speaker 1: Michael Berry's Show is on the air. It's Charlie from

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Speaker 1: BlackBerry Smoke. I can feel a good one coming on.

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Speaker 2: It's the Micah Berry Show.

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Speaker 3: Any attempt to restrict drinking and driving teer is viewed

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Speaker 3: by some as downright fundemocratic.

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Speaker 2: Two six packs shoener that mashes a little, then Luga's,

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Speaker 2: then a normal Paul Harvey peace, which means we can't

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Speaker 2: get it all into one segment, no matter how hard

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Speaker 4: Here is the rest of that piece. It's called freedom

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Speaker 4: to chains. It's like sort of from freedom to change

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Speaker 4: to change. It's how you go from being a free,

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Speaker 4: independent people to being enslaved. And what's interesting is, I'll

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Speaker 4: tell you when the bit is over the year it

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Speaker 4: came out. This thing came out before most of you

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Speaker 4: were born. But it's just as true today because every

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Speaker 4: failing of the human condition, every one of them, goes

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Speaker 4: back to very simple things. Who will make decisions for

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Speaker 4: the individual? Will it be the individual or will it

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Speaker 4: be the collective? Will it be the king, Will it

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Speaker 4: be the authoritarian? Will it be the slave master? It

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Speaker 4: is not natural for you and me to get to

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Speaker 4: make decisions for ourselves. We get to make decisions for

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Speaker 4: ourselves because those who came before us fought are a

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Speaker 4: system where we.

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Speaker 1: Would get to.

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Speaker 4: That's why I get angry when people give up their freedom.

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Speaker 4: Oh I have to take a shot because you tell

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Speaker 4: me to, because you're the expert. Okay, I will, and

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Speaker 4: I'll make sure that everybody else has to take a

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Speaker 4: shot too. You fight for your freedom at every turn,

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Speaker 4: because once it's gone, you'll never get it back. Here's

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Speaker 4: the rest of Paul Harvey's freedom to chains.

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Speaker 3: It was internal decay, it was not external attack that

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Speaker 3: destroyed the Roman Empire. Starting about one hundred and forty

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Speaker 3: six BC, internal conditions in Rome were characterized by a

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Speaker 3: welder of plast wars and conflicts, street brawls, corrupt governors,

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Speaker 3: lack of personal integrity and moral responsibility.

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Speaker 1: About two hundred and.

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Speaker 3: Ninety years after Christ, a Roman emperor named Diocletian took over.

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Speaker 3: He really grabbed the bull by the horns. He took

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Speaker 3: over in a period of turmoil and severe depression. The

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Speaker 3: first thing Diocletian did was call in the gold and

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Speaker 3: He reduced the power of the Senate delegated its power

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Speaker 3: they even had a transportation Act back there, prescribing the

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Speaker 3: fee required to rent one laden ass per mile, and

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Speaker 3: to today's rate of exchange, it would amount to do

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Speaker 3: about one eighth cent per mile, which meant that in

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Speaker 3: order to make a profit, a jackass would have to

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Speaker 3: the jackass. Diocletian put millions of people on the public payroll,

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Speaker 3: but when this failed to do the job the country

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Speaker 3: For a brief while. Incidentally they were stand by powers.

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Speaker 3: But then he used him all at once. He froze wages,

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Speaker 1: He dictated to the.

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Speaker 1: Much neurtion food. And what happened?

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Speaker 3: The labor market closed down, incentive was gone. Farm life

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Speaker 3: Dark Ages, lasting one thousand years. Just by turning to

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Speaker 3: the left, the world has gone in circles. A nation

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Speaker 3: would evolve from a monarchy into an oligard, from oligarchy

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Speaker 3: where finally the people would cry out from the chaos

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Speaker 3: and confusion of the streets, so please, God, give us

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Speaker 3: Our children are going to have to relive the Dark

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Speaker 3: Ages all over again. How come, after thousands of years

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Speaker 1: What is the secret of our success?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it had to do with a basic

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Speaker 3: were only Indian trails, or traces, as they were called

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Speaker 3: today you can roller skate from Miami to Seattle, from

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Speaker 3: as historical time is measured, our seven percent of the

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Speaker 1: How come well, sir?

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Speaker 3: When that early pioneer turned his eyes toward the West,

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Speaker 3: There was an old fashion philosophy in those days. The

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Speaker 1: Come to think of it, he didn't demand anything.

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Speaker 3: That hard handed pioneer just looked out there at the

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Speaker 3: and said, thank you God. Now I can take it

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Speaker 3: from here. Now that's fear. It isn't dead in our country.

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Speaker 3: It's dorm and it's been discredited in some circles, driven underground,

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Speaker 1: We want security. We don't want opportunity.

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Speaker 3: They said we want security, and they said it so

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Speaker 1: We wanted security, and they gave us chains, and we

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Speaker 3: Suddenly, with our constitutional guarantees depleted, with our national character

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Speaker 3: this was a disguised blessing too, Maybe a dramatic accomplishment

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Speaker 1: If we can revive.

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Speaker 3: In ourselves, then in our youth something of that basic

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Speaker 3: For man stands now on the threshold of his highest adventurable,

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Speaker 1: Into space twenty years from today.

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Speaker 3: Half of the products you will be using in your

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Speaker 1: History promises only this for certain, we will get exactly

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Speaker 1: what we deserve. Man Michael Barry in the system to

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Speaker 4: I have always been one nuto for America's public servants

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Speaker 4: or people who sacrifice for others. And you may not

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Speaker 4: know this since we're paying tribute to Paul Harvey. Paul

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Speaker 4: Harvey's father was a policeman who was killed in the

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Speaker 4: for me because I've had officers in my family. Of course,

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Speaker 4: but there's a good chance they haven't. It's called what

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Speaker 3: I guess, a mingling of saint and center, dust and

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Speaker 3: he's conceited. If he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant,

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Speaker 3: must make instant decisions, which would require months for a lawyer.

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Speaker 3: But if he hurries, he's careless. If he's deliberate, he's lazy.

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Speaker 3: he's a coward. If he hits you, he's a bully.

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Speaker 3: A policeman must know everything and not tell. He must

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Speaker 3: know where all of the sin is and not partake.

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Speaker 3: The policeman from a single human hair must be able

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Speaker 3: he's a dullar. The policeman must chase bum leads to

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Speaker 3: out by a shameless, shamous or an honorable who isn't honorable.

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Speaker 3: The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat,

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Speaker 4: One of the things that's near and dear to my

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Speaker 4: heart is the bylaws by which we operate this country.

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Speaker 4: My brother in law murdered too Native Americans to Michael.

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Speaker 1: Berry, showy, you have my chance to do.

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Speaker 4: chase false idols rather than what matters. That didn't start

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Speaker 4: in the modern era. That's as old as mankind. The

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Speaker 4: temptation to serve yourself and not those you love, The

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Speaker 4: temptation to let time get away from you didn't start

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Speaker 4: with sitting in front of the computer for four hours

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Speaker 4: or scrolling on TikTok that is as old time. Those

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Speaker 4: are failings of human beings. Life is what happens on

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Speaker 4: the way to do what you'd planned to do. Life's

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Speaker 4: what happens right here, right now, on Thursday afternoon or

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Speaker 4: Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, when what you really want

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Speaker 4: to do is do something other than play with your

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Speaker 4: kids or your grandkids, or coach them, or go throw

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Speaker 4: a ball with them, or help them with their homework.

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Speaker 4: You don't want to do that. You want to do

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Speaker 4: something else. You want to do something more self serving,

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Speaker 4: and you want to do something more self serving all day,

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Speaker 4: every day, in bit by bit. But in your mind

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Speaker 4: you want to be a good mom. You will be

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Speaker 4: a really good mom, really good dad. Well, that means

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Speaker 4: doing what you need to do when you least want

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Speaker 4: to do it. And that's the hard part. That's what

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Speaker 4: makes it hard. You know, this is such a wonderful country,

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Speaker 4: and I don't believe that in most of the world

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Speaker 4: I've traveled a pretty good bit that people love their

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Speaker 4: country the way we love our country. They may love

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Speaker 4: their country because it's their country, but they don't love

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Speaker 4: the things about that country that make it a country.

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Speaker 4: We are the United States of America because we were

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Speaker 4: a breakaway nation that sought to create something. We were

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Speaker 4: the proof of concept of self governance, without a king,

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Speaker 4: without a monarchy. We were We became the proof that

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Speaker 4: we could do this.

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Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin's great line, a republic if we can keep it.

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Speaker 1: It's not easy to keep.

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Speaker 4: There are so many temptations as a nation to spend

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Speaker 4: our time and waste our time and be distracted by

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Speaker 4: things rather than doing the equivalent of helping our kid

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Speaker 4: with homework, teaching our kid discipline, because right now we'd

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Speaker 4: really rather do this silly thing. And that's important to understand.

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Speaker 4: It's important to understand that maintaining this great nation takes a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of work.

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Speaker 4: It's hard, and we're going to lose a lot of battles.

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Speaker 4: We got cheated in twenty twenty. We got cheated out

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Speaker 4: of that election. There's no question we watched Donald Trump

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Speaker 4: have to be in I felt like Seamus when they

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Speaker 4: when they were when they were killing William Wallace in Braveheart.

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Speaker 4: He was having to witness this awful, awful transgression, this

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Speaker 4: awful injustice.

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Speaker 1: We have had to be witnesses.

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Speaker 4: To awful violations of everything this nation stands for, by

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Speaker 4: the Obamas and the Clintons and the Bidens and beyond

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Speaker 4: the media and the Cheneye and Kin singers and Rubens.

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Speaker 4: We've had to be witnesses to a history that I'm

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Speaker 4: not proud of or happy about, and get back up.

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Speaker 4: And that's the beauty. That's why I love to read

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Speaker 4: the emails. You said, is how many of you get

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Speaker 4: up every day and you don't make a dime off

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Speaker 4: of politics. You ain't trying to sell anything to the government,

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Speaker 4: not one thing. But you get up every single day

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Speaker 4: and try to make our country better. Try to make

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Speaker 4: your household better, try to make your family better, your

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Speaker 4: neighbors better, your kids better, your students better, your employees better.

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Speaker 4: And that's who our listeners are, which is pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: People ask me why I.

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Speaker 4: Still have so much hope for this country. I read

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Speaker 4: my emails, I hear from you, hear what you say here.

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Speaker 1: It is in a way let me not know we're talking.

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Speaker 1: It's called if I were the devil.

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Speaker 3: If I were the devil, If I were the devil,

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Speaker 3: if I were the Prince of darkness. I'd want to

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Speaker 3: engulf the whole world in darkness, and i'd have a

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Speaker 3: third of its real estate and four fifths of its population.

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Speaker 3: But I wouldn't be happy until I have seized the

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Speaker 3: ripest apple on.

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Speaker 1: The tree the.

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Speaker 3: So I'd set about, however necessary to take over the

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Speaker 3: United States. I'd subvert the churches first. I'd begin with

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Speaker 3: a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent,

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Speaker 3: I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve,

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Speaker 3: do as you please. To the young, I would whisper

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Speaker 3: that the Bible is a myth. I would convince them

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Speaker 3: that man created God instead of the other way around.

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Speaker 3: I would confide that what's bad is good, and what's

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Speaker 3: good is square, and the old I would teach to

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Speaker 3: pray after me our father, which aren't in Washington.

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Speaker 1: And then I'd get organized.

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Speaker 3: I'd educate authors in how to make the lowrid literature exciting,

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Speaker 3: so that anything else would appear dull and noninteresting. I'd

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Speaker 3: threatened TV with dirtier movies and vice versa. I'd peddle

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Speaker 3: narcotics to whom I could. I'd sell alcohol to ladies

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Speaker 3: and gentlemen of distinction.

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Speaker 1: I'd tranquilize the rest with pills.

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Speaker 3: If I were the Devil, I'd soon have families at

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Speaker 3: war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations

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Speaker 3: at war with themselves until each in its turn was consumed,

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Speaker 3: and with promises of higher ratings. I'd have mesmerizing media

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Speaker 3: fanning the flames. If I were the Devil, I would

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Speaker 3: encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions.

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Speaker 3: Just let those run wild until before you knew it.

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Speaker 3: You'd have to have drug snipping dogs and metal detectors

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Speaker 3: at every school house door. Within a decade, i'd have

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Speaker 3: prisons overflowing. I'd have judges promoting pornography. Soon I could

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Speaker 3: evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and

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Speaker 3: then the houses of Congress and in his own churches.

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Speaker 3: I would substitute psychology for religion and deify science. I

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Speaker 3: would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls

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Speaker 3: and church money. If I were the Devil, I'd make

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Speaker 3: the symbol of Easter an egg, and the symbol of

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Speaker 3: Christmas a bottle. If I were the Devil, I'd take

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Speaker 3: from those who have and give to those who wanted

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Speaker 3: until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious, And

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Speaker 3: what will you bet? I couldn't get whole states to

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Speaker 3: promote gambling as the way to get rich. I would

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Speaker 3: caution against extremes in hard work, in patriotism, in moral conduct.

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Speaker 3: I would convince the young that marriage is old fashioned,

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Speaker 3: that swinging is more fun, that what you see on

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Speaker 3: TV is the way to be.

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Speaker 1: And thus I could.

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Speaker 3: Undress you in public, and I could lure you into

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Speaker 3: bed with disease for which there is no cure.

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Speaker 1: In other words, if I were the devil, I just

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Speaker 1: keep right on doing what he's doing. Paul Harvey, good day,

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Speaker 1: he neverman, Elvis has left for doing me. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: and good night,