October 23, 2025 • 53 mins
- (:00) Guest: more with TSO Drummer Jeff Plate / "First Things" (news)
- (:13) JCSgold Rept / Caller: Dr Clarke in AL "The OTHER John Anderson"
- (:28) Guest: Finish up with Jeff Plate from TSO
- (:44) Caller: "Addicted to Rage" w/ Dr Clarke in AL / Reax to Brennan
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We'll tell you the news, We'll tell you what we
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dot com, visiting Jeff Plate, founding member of the Trans
Siberian Orchestra at their drummer. To this day, they're out
getting ready to hit the road, and we're getting ready
to give away some more the tickets you've been entering
to win at Joe Thomas in the morning. Dot Com
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we'll send somebody to Queens, New York.
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Yeah.
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Sometimes it's a vindictive soul I have. But Mom, Donnie's
not mayor yet, but Jeff's hanging on align with us.
So let's get our first things into the pipeline. So
you know the news that we're talking about today. President
Trump has slapped sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies
after concluding that Vladimi or Putin was not being quote
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honest and forthright in the talks regarding Ukraine, the US
Treasury chief said yesterday. Besen said, the Trump Putin summit
and Buddha past has been shelved, and this is all
part and parcel of that. Finnish Prime Minister peteri Orpoh
told Politico that the United States should let Ukraine use
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American made long range Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike inside Russia. Meanwhile,
NATO Secretary General Mark Root on Wednesday endorsed the President's
decision not to send Tomahawk missiles to Kiev. Former President
Baranco Obama joined California Governor Gavin Newsom to urge support
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for the Democrat led redistricting initiative, which has to pass
the voters in November. Proposition fifty will be up on
the state's November fourth ballot, and if passed, it could
be enacted by the time of the midterms. A twenty
one year old illegal migrant from India crossed into the
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United States through Texas through a pardon me through southern
California and twenty two two and was released by the
Biden administration on the promise that he would come back
for his immigration hearing. Is now accused of causing a
horrific fiery semi trunk crash killed three people as he
plowed into slower moving traffic under the influence in southern California.
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Law enforcement said jos Joshan prit Singh first entered at
El Centro sector of California. He's arrested on gross vehicular
manslaughter charges while intoxicated. This happened on the I ten
in San Bernardino. The Senate tried again and failed to
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advance a measure to restore funding to the US government.
Senator John Thunne, majority leader, met with a group of
GOP senators to discuss what would happen after the government
reopens regarding healthcare, which may indicate a move regarding the
extent of the Obamacare subsidies. And after saying the hold
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on National Guards troops in Chicago was on hold for
two weeks, Judge April Perry extended that order indefinitely. And
those are some of our first things on this Thursday
morning along the Talk Media Network, and we get you
back to Jeff on the line. And I've told you
this story when Paul when Al Petrelli came in and said, hey, guys,
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I'll be away for a while, a little while, I'm
going to do a Christmas album, and we all chuggled like, okay, Al, goodluck.
I mean, he had just done a Widow Maker with
Dee Snyder and we're thinking Christmas, and we were trying
to figure out if it was a de Snyder Christmas
or something. And then here you guys come out with
Trans Siberian Orchestra and we're like, oh, Christmas. And it
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changed because, I mean, the world the world of rock
and Christmas was trying to find a way to you know,
make you know, some of these songs fit or some
pop music or icons. Mariah carry does she fit on
a rock station? And then to have this inventory of
amazing Christmas stories with drum kits and guitars and bass
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and the singers, and it was just it was like
everything I loved about music grew up and took its
spot amongst all the greats, like you said, Beethoven's Last
Night and you know, and there's the drum kit and
the electric guitar and the electric bass now there with
the harpsichord and the violins and and everything else. And
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I felt like I grew up when you guys released
that first album.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
It's amazing how different that song is. I mean, there's
a lot of artists. I think it maybe have taken
our lead now, but initially there's been a lot of
rock artists, pop artist, country, you name it that have
done Christmas songs and they've all been fairly safe, fairly cute.
Speaker 10 (06:02):
You know.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
It's a nice song, it's a nice version. That's you know,
and then TSO comes out with this bam, you know,
the beginning of Christmas seves are able to talk twenty
four starts like any other Christmas song, very pretty, very safe.
But when the band, when the band kicks in, it's
you're obviously listening to something very different. And I think
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this was a big attraction for so many people. Was like, wow,
we've got some You know, the metal head now has
a Christmas song he can rock to. Oh yeah, everybody
who's been looking for something a little different has something.
And you know, credit to Paul and his team, they
created a style in a sound that was so unique.
It just took off, you know, right out of the gate.
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It's and still to this day, that song is still
our most popular song when we play it live, so
very powerful.
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Hang on, Jeff, we've got to run to a break here.
We'll have some tickets, so do another drawing from the
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So much to get into Jeff's gonna hang on with
us for a moment, he had to go grab somebody else.
You know, it's a busy time getting these tours out there.
I just remember a moment. My wife is an enormous
John Anderson fan, and yeah, he played with Yes for
a while, and she'll she'll tolerate Yes as long as
John Anderson is singing it. She's very, very particular about
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this kind of stuff. But there was a year, and
I forget it was twenty ten. No, it was before
we were in Virginia, so it had to have been
like two thousand and five. Trans Siberian Orchestra did a
guest performers tour and they had all kinds of Steven
Tyler of Aerosmith, Pat bennettar I think, Dave Matthews, all
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kinds of folks came out and did a lick with him.
And in Philadelphia came out they said, joke, don't leave early.
Don't leave early like I would do that, and right
after their regular show was done, Paul comes out and says,
ladies and gentlemen, John Anderson and I watched Tso do
(14:35):
this song with John Anderson. I told him, they say,
you guys should re release all that. I don't know
the legalities of it all, but that would be a
billion seller record. All the guest spots that they did.
I don't know if it even exists. I'm sure recordings
of them there. But we'll get back to Jeff in
a little while there, as he had to go grab
(14:58):
another spot. But I want to circle back to a
couple of situations with this mania that they have over
the West East Wing and the renovations going on there,
as if this was if this was some foundational document
(15:21):
of the Constitution. And one of the things that I
wanted to point out is that the very people who
want to take the Bill of Rights down and rewrite
and come up with fundamental changes to the Constitution freak
out when the East Wing gets renovated and a ballroom
gets put on it. And this is indicative of what
(15:44):
the statist is about. The statist is about the trappings
of government. When Caesar took over power in Rome, he
wanted to make sure the edifices of the Roman Republic
remained so that the population wouldn't think about it. We
we celebrate, uh, these these icons rather than the buildings
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We'll get to you in a moment here on first
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I'm doing well, Joe, and gold and silver are back
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so far this morning.
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Now so holding strong.
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Just had a little bit of a sale moment yesterday,
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Well, I know that a lot of the nattering day
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I mean, it's not it's not a reason not to
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Right, Yeah, you know, and that's a really interesting thing.
I'm not really sure you can call gold and silver
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Uh.
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You know, they've been here for for longer than we
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thank you for that note, Sir, I appreciate it absolutely.
Always let me get to line too. It sounded like
doctor Clark was on the air on the phone with us.
Was that you Clark? Yes, sir, it was going to
be embarrassing if it wasn't, especially if it was a female.
Uh So, anyway, sir, what's on your mind?
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Well, Joe happenstance, I too. I'm a tremendous John Anderson fan.
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Oh you are, I didn't know that.
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Yes, well, I saw roses choking in the grass, flaking
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Everything I ever cared about is gone now, but memory
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Good stuff, good stuff, great lyrics there anyway, slightly different
John Anderson, but we appreciate.
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From both different ones.
Speaker 7 (21:15):
Yeah, both both incredible artists, and we're we are all
so lucky that we you know, as as I was
saying to Jeff off the air, we were talking about,
uh Paul O'Neill, the founder of the band, passing away
a few years ago, I said, this is why it's
good nowadays that we record all this stuff, because if
we don't record it, uh, you know, who knows where
(21:37):
it goes when we go away. And I know somebody one,
some keyboard out warrior out there is recording everything I
say to use it against me at a later date.
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Thank you for joining us visiting with Jeff Plate here
of the Trans Siberian Orchestra, And Jeff, I wanted to
ask you something because we love history here on this program.
And you guys went on tour with history, the prehistory,
the roots of trans Iberian Orchestra as a band called Sabotage,
(28:45):
and you guys just did a European tour, first time
in decades with that band. How did that go?
Speaker 9 (28:51):
It was amazing? It was amazing. I mean we Sabotage
had not done a proper tour since two thousand and two,
twenty years, and the fan base has always been beating
the drums so to speak, for us to come back
now a lot of things have happened in that twenty years.
(29:12):
But past year, actually about two years ago, the conversation
really started heating up about the band and we just
had a hey, I think we've all wanted to do this,
but the timing was right this time. And John Oliva,
the man who founded the Sabotage and was Paul O'Neill's
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writing partner, he you know, physically could not do the tour,
but he gave us his blessing to do the tour,
and John is involved in everything we do, from the
set list to you know who's playing well guitar solo,
you know, the vocal harmonies, et cetera, et cetera. So
this was a hurdle we had to get over, was
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you know, how are we going to do this without John? Well,
we brought it. We brought in a couple other people
to fill out the band, to expand ourselves musically and
vocally a little bit. But when the first idea of
this of this came about, the fan base went crazy.
When with the first shows were announced, we were selling
out shows in Germany, you know, almost like six seven,
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eight months prior to us even being there, and the
fans had not seen it, like I said, over twenty years.
So we knew that the shows were going to be great,
that the tour was going to be great, but honestly, Joe,
it was beyond all of our expectations. It was just
so exciting and so so rewarding to be able to
go out and play this music again in front of
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these fans. And now you know, ironically that it's it's
been this long. Now a lot of our old time
fans are bringing their kids. So we've got this whole
new this this whole new genre of this whole new
age bracket, this this turning getting turned down to sabotage again,
and it's it's really pretty. So we did fantastic. Next year,
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twenty twenty six is going to be another great year.
There's already some tour dates and owns for Europe. And
you know, we get I asked, We get asked all
the time about the States. If and when logistically it
makes sense for us to do our tour here, we
will trust me. But you know, right now we're still
building things back up.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Oh I know, I know, But I have to tell
people this. And it just happened to me the other day.
I came up in my Spotify playlist when the Crowds
Are Gone as one of the songs in my playlist,
and I started to I'm doing it now too. You're
well up. Anyone who understands the preciousness of anything in life.
I know it's kind of done from the milieu of
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a rock singer, but I think anyone who's ever you know,
felt that sting of losing something precious without realizing how
precious it was. You got to go go to Spotify,
go to YouTube wherever, and go go listen to this
song because you'll you'll never stop listening to it. You'll
play it like twenty times over.
Speaker 23 (32:03):
You know where the years of con memories can only
last so long. Black faded photocos for Cotten songs and
the things I never knew. When the skin is.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
Thin, the hot shows.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Knowing it, then it moves, It moves and moves and
moves visiting. Jeff played drummer on this too well.
Speaker 25 (32:37):
You true.
Speaker 23 (32:41):
Weas and Knights t again for the night to believe it.
Speaker 8 (32:48):
Then a note for.
Speaker 22 (32:51):
My recreaod the story is over when the crowds.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Yeah, and you know, anyone who's felt that sting knows
Jeff played on with us Trans Siberian Orchestra. We're going
to give away some tickets to and you do some
stuff from them in the show. But the show's getting
ready or in rehearsal.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
Absolutely absolutely, I tell you know, when people ask me
about the show and how to describe it, I say, really,
you've got to just come see it. It's it's one
of the most unique shows you're ever going to see.
And you know, honestly, we've been doing this for a
long time. This is our twenty seventh year of touring,
minus the COVID year. But it's a busy time of year.
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It's it's not like everybody you know has all the
time in the world these days, and especially during the
holiday season, there's a lot of folks that have never
seen our show before, many have heard about it, most
all of them know the music. But you know, every night,
Chris Caffrey, we'll ask the audience how many people you
know who's new year. The other crowd raises their hand.
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So it's just amazing how how many new people are
coming in every year. But that also just just indicates
how this fan base, this love for TSO is still
growing every year too, and this is why we're still
doing what we do.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
And you know, I see it now too as we're
doing the concert ticket giveaways and folks are posting at
Joe Thomas in the Morning dot com when I say, hey,
enter to win in your town, and I've got the
list up here at Jeff plate On with us Trans
Siberian Orchestra. And as an honor you guys have given
me because never before we had this chance. We just
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did the tickets for Colorado Springs and Youngstown earlier in
the week, very soon, salt Lake City and Portland. I
think we're gonna do salt Lake tomorrow, they say, and tomorrow.
So if you're in salt Lake listening to us or
Provo and jump in and get on there, or you
know the south side where you are, and you could
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if you're into the road trip, you're into the roadshow.
I can't drive you there. But then Portland will start
next week. Manchester, New Hampshire, Sacramento, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, New Orleans, Queens,
New York, San Antonio, Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington. We have tickets
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for these shows, enter to win, but so many of
the folks have told me, you know, as they enter
to win, I've never seen the show, and you say,
you know, great things. So I always and my wife especially,
she loves to get photographs. What she does, this is
her thing now, is she brings what she calls newbies
to the show and then tries to get their face,
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you know, get get an old wow shot the first
time you guys come out with the opening songs, whatever
it may be, just to get that oh my god,
what is this and it's just it's one of her
Christmas traditions. On a sidebar there, Jeff, thank you and
everyone night Castle for hooking up with us for that.
We can't wait to see you at the show we're
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coming to, which I think is Queens, New York at
the IBS. I mean, I'm sorry ubs arena there at
Belmont Racetrack, but I appreciate it, my friend rehearse well
and we'll talk to you again very soon.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
Sounds good, Joe, take care man, We'll see you soon.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
God bless four three four eight eight two four two
one seven you enter at Joe Thomas in the Morning
dot com there and it is. It's interesting. My dear
friend Chris, when he found out I was a big
TSO fan, He's like, well, then you like sabotage and
I said, well, no, I had never heard of it.
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And this happens to me so frequently because I am
and I have been in music radio, but I've never
been the music guy. There are people just like in
our industry here now covering news. There are people who
do what I do, who are into it for the
politicians hang out with and the people who are behind
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the scenes. And I look at it the same way.
They're just like the people in music radio who want
to meet the big star. Oh here I am with
Taylor Swift, Oh here I am with And that was
all what it was. And their favorite part of the
day was when the record company people would call them
to get the new releases on the radio station. And me,
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I was always about the listener. Even when I was
doing rock and roll radio, I was about you. I
couldn't have cared less. I mean, I loved the songs
that you loved and I loved and I loved sharing
them with you when I was doing music radio, but
it was about you and me and the music and
the songs that we shared. It wasn't about the songs
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and then dragging you along with it voyeuristically. So I
never really got into like all that stuff. But when
I heard Sabotage, I was like, Wow, this band is
almost even better than Teah.
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Talk about the renovations at the White House and the
Left being upset about that. In the conversations with both
the Moscow Bob and Joel, as I was making my
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the mountain, I got to thinking, Joe, and we don't
talk about agit prop enough. Now, if you look at
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the roots of the words there, agitation and propaganda put together,
and agit prop is important for the left because the
left needs its base in a constant state of agitation
to make them more manipulatable. Right of course, Yeah, there's
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a flip side to that. I think, Joe and I
never had really thought about it before. You know, how
you read about nicotine addiction, and somebody uses nicotine, they
get increased nicotine receptors and it becomes a craving. And
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somebody uses drugs and the receptor for that drug becomes united.
They get more receptors, and that drug becomes a craving.
I think, Joe that there must be agit receptors interesting,
and the leftist needs to be agitated otherwise they may
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be agitated about something different periodically to maintain their levels
of agitation.
Speaker 7 (46:29):
That's interesting because better call Saul Olenski writes about that
very thing that you know, your movement better change enough
to keep to keep the interest of the agitators going,
it has to be fun for them, and it has
to be something that changes up so that they don't
get bored with it because none of this it's stuff.
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And this is the difference and I think you've touched
on a really essential difference between the left and the right.
See you and me, we don't get bored with this stuff.
We don't get bored with, you know, the right to
free speech or defend yourself or to be private. We
don't get bored with the abuses of the commerce clause
or any of that. It's you know, and maybe it's
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because we're fascinated with how the left has managed to
subvert all this stuff, almost from an anthropological viewpoint, where
like the Leakys, and we're investigating some civilization that we
don't fully understand. What we're fascinated by.
Speaker 17 (47:30):
Is it or was it or has it been necessary
to reduce people's attention span?
Speaker 7 (47:41):
I think that's been the goal rather than I think
I think. I think it's a I think it is
a happy accident. I think as entertainment became more easily,
you know, accessible, our attention span has become on a
mac Crow level, easier. But this is something, you know,
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I remember a point in my life where if you
had said to me, young people would be waiting in
line at midnight at a bookstore for a new book
to come out, so that because they had to get
it right away. I would have called you crazy. I
would have said, kids have stopped reading, kids don't want
to read anymore. They're on their machines, they're on their technology.
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And then JK. Rowling shows up. You know, agree, disagree whatever,
you know, the whole controversy. I agree with her on
the silliness that's going on there, and she's getting canceled.
But my kids, like so many others, and there I
was at midnight outside of Barnes and Noble waiting for
the next Harry Potter book to come out, like I
was going to buy Billy Joel tickets before they went
(48:46):
on sale. And so I don't think our attention spand
has been shortened. I think, you know, we've grown used
to being able to see a lot of things in
a lot of times. But when you're truly challenged by something,
when you're truly interested in it, you will stick with it,
and people do. I mean, I look at the time
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me that people put it on and listen for four hours.
I mean I barely listen for four hours, and you
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Doctor Clarke, you have a great morning, sir.
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I got this text message Andy sent this in post mortem.
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Thomas Jefferson did a similar thing to Patrick Henry and
I'm trying to So that was just after we came
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was out bashing Trump. That was one of the earlier segments,
and I think Andy was responding to that. We still
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Sometimes it's a vindictive soul I have. But Mom, Donnie's
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So let's get our first things into the pipeline. So
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American made long range Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike inside Russia. Meanwhile,
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on National Guards troops in Chicago was on hold for
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those are some of our first things on this Thursday
morning along the Talk Media Network, and we get you
back to Jeff on the line. And I've told you
this story when Paul when Al Petrelli came in and said, hey, guys,
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I'll be away for a while, a little while, I'm
going to do a Christmas album, and we all chuggled like, okay, Al, goodluck.
I mean, he had just done a Widow Maker with
Dee Snyder and we're thinking Christmas, and we were trying
to figure out if it was a de Snyder Christmas
or something. And then here you guys come out with
Trans Siberian Orchestra and we're like, oh, Christmas. And it
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changed because, I mean, the world the world of rock
and Christmas was trying to find a way to you know,
make you know, some of these songs fit or some
pop music or icons. Mariah carry does she fit on
a rock station? And then to have this inventory of
amazing Christmas stories with drum kits and guitars and bass
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and the singers, and it was just it was like
everything I loved about music grew up and took its
spot amongst all the greats, like you said, Beethoven's Last
Night and you know, and there's the drum kit and
the electric guitar and the electric bass now there with
the harpsichord and the violins and and everything else. And
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I felt like I grew up when you guys released
that first album.
Speaker 9 (05:43):
It's amazing how different that song is. I mean, there's
a lot of artists. I think it maybe have taken
our lead now, but initially there's been a lot of
rock artists, pop artist, country, you name it that have
done Christmas songs and they've all been fairly safe, fairly cute.
Speaker 10 (06:02):
You know.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
It's a nice song, it's a nice version. That's you know,
and then TSO comes out with this bam, you know,
the beginning of Christmas seves are able to talk twenty
four starts like any other Christmas song, very pretty, very safe.
But when the band, when the band kicks in, it's
you're obviously listening to something very different. And I think
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this was a big attraction for so many people. Was like, wow,
we've got some You know, the metal head now has
a Christmas song he can rock to. Oh yeah, everybody
who's been looking for something a little different has something.
And you know, credit to Paul and his team, they
created a style in a sound that was so unique.
It just took off, you know, right out of the gate.
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It's and still to this day, that song is still
our most popular song when we play it live, so
very powerful.
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So much to get into Jeff's gonna hang on with
us for a moment, he had to go grab somebody else.
You know, it's a busy time getting these tours out there.
I just remember a moment. My wife is an enormous
John Anderson fan, and yeah, he played with Yes for
a while, and she'll she'll tolerate Yes as long as
John Anderson is singing it. She's very, very particular about
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this kind of stuff. But there was a year, and
I forget it was twenty ten. No, it was before
we were in Virginia, so it had to have been
like two thousand and five. Trans Siberian Orchestra did a
guest performers tour and they had all kinds of Steven
Tyler of Aerosmith, Pat bennettar I think, Dave Matthews, all
(14:09):
kinds of folks came out and did a lick with him.
And in Philadelphia came out they said, joke, don't leave early.
Don't leave early like I would do that, and right
after their regular show was done, Paul comes out and says,
ladies and gentlemen, John Anderson and I watched Tso do
(14:35):
this song with John Anderson. I told him, they say,
you guys should re release all that. I don't know
the legalities of it all, but that would be a
billion seller record. All the guest spots that they did.
I don't know if it even exists. I'm sure recordings
of them there. But we'll get back to Jeff in
a little while there, as he had to go grab
(14:58):
another spot. But I want to circle back to a
couple of situations with this mania that they have over
the West East Wing and the renovations going on there,
as if this was if this was some foundational document
(15:21):
of the Constitution. And one of the things that I
wanted to point out is that the very people who
want to take the Bill of Rights down and rewrite
and come up with fundamental changes to the Constitution freak
out when the East Wing gets renovated and a ballroom
gets put on it. And this is indicative of what
(15:44):
the statist is about. The statist is about the trappings
of government. When Caesar took over power in Rome, he
wanted to make sure the edifices of the Roman Republic
remained so that the population wouldn't think about it. We
we celebrate, uh, these these icons rather than the buildings
(16:06):
that they speak to themselves. Hang on the line one second.
We'll get to you in a moment here on first
thing today. Okay, and uh, let's you know, but you
got it. You gotta watch out for the false idolatry
of oh my gosh, they're renovating the East Wing. He's
tearing down America and they're doing it to you. The
gas lighting is out of control. Time to check in
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with James at the jcsgold dot com site. James lock
on with this fourth generation of this family business helping
you navigate gold and silver investment. Good morning, James, how
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I'm doing well, Joe, and gold and silver are back
in the green today. That had a little bit of
a pullback yesterday, but gold held above four thousand dollars.
It's currently up eighteen dollars, about a half of percent,
to four and seventeen dollars. Silver is up one percent
to forty nine nine five, up about fifty five cents
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so far this morning.
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Now so holding strong.
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Just had a little bit of a sale moment yesterday,
but doing pretty well so far.
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Well, I know that a lot of the nattering day
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is bursting. When it came back down over the weekend,
I said, look at the graphs that they put at
jcsgold dot com. You'll see that it's not it's not
a bubble. I mean, it's just a steady climb. Perhaps
some of it's in the decline and the value of
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the dollar, but gold keeps being that good hedge against that.
I mean, it's not it's not a reason not to
buy gold, it's the value of the dollar is actually
the reason you should be.
Speaker 14 (17:46):
Right, Yeah, you know, and that's a really interesting thing.
I'm not really sure you can call gold and silver
bubble that. It's nothing new about him silver. From empire
to fire, civilization, the civilization, gold and silver have been
the unit and measure of money.
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Uh.
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You know, they've been here for for longer than we
have for sure. So uh, you know, it is the
kind of the bedrock, you know, and it is the pressure,
It is everything that you know that our financial system
was originally based off of and it really is proof
to show the like you said, the devaluing of the dollar,
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Jcsgold dot com. You have a great morning, James.
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He listens see you every morning, so you fount out
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And I appreciate that because you know, otherwise, there's no
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thank you for that note, Sir, I appreciate it absolutely.
Always let me get to line too. It sounded like
doctor Clark was on the air on the phone with us.
Was that you Clark? Yes, sir, it was going to
be embarrassing if it wasn't, especially if it was a female.
Uh So, anyway, sir, what's on your mind?
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Well, Joe happenstance, I too. I'm a tremendous John Anderson fan.
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Oh you are, I didn't know that.
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Yes, well, I saw roses choking in the grass, flaking
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Everything I ever cared about is gone now, but memory
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Good stuff, good stuff, great lyrics there anyway, slightly different
John Anderson, but we appreciate.
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From both different ones.
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Yeah, both both incredible artists, and we're we are all
so lucky that we you know, as as I was
saying to Jeff off the air, we were talking about,
uh Paul O'Neill, the founder of the band, passing away
a few years ago, I said, this is why it's
good nowadays that we record all this stuff, because if
we don't record it, uh, you know, who knows where
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some keyboard out warrior out there is recording everything I
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Amaze your friends here in first thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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Thank you for joining us visiting with Jeff Plate here
of the Trans Siberian Orchestra, And Jeff, I wanted to
ask you something because we love history here on this program.
And you guys went on tour with history, the prehistory,
the roots of trans Iberian Orchestra as a band called Sabotage,
(28:45):
and you guys just did a European tour, first time
in decades with that band. How did that go?
Speaker 9 (28:51):
It was amazing? It was amazing. I mean we Sabotage
had not done a proper tour since two thousand and two,
twenty years, and the fan base has always been beating
the drums so to speak, for us to come back
now a lot of things have happened in that twenty years.
(29:12):
But past year, actually about two years ago, the conversation
really started heating up about the band and we just
had a hey, I think we've all wanted to do this,
but the timing was right this time. And John Oliva,
the man who founded the Sabotage and was Paul O'Neill's
(29:34):
writing partner, he you know, physically could not do the tour,
but he gave us his blessing to do the tour,
and John is involved in everything we do, from the
set list to you know who's playing well guitar solo,
you know, the vocal harmonies, et cetera, et cetera. So
this was a hurdle we had to get over, was
(29:56):
you know, how are we going to do this without John? Well,
we brought it. We brought in a couple other people
to fill out the band, to expand ourselves musically and
vocally a little bit. But when the first idea of
this of this came about, the fan base went crazy.
When with the first shows were announced, we were selling
out shows in Germany, you know, almost like six seven,
(30:19):
eight months prior to us even being there, and the
fans had not seen it, like I said, over twenty years.
So we knew that the shows were going to be great,
that the tour was going to be great, but honestly, Joe,
it was beyond all of our expectations. It was just
so exciting and so so rewarding to be able to
go out and play this music again in front of
(30:40):
these fans. And now you know, ironically that it's it's
been this long. Now a lot of our old time
fans are bringing their kids. So we've got this whole
new this this whole new genre of this whole new
age bracket, this this turning getting turned down to sabotage again,
and it's it's really pretty. So we did fantastic. Next year,
(31:03):
twenty twenty six is going to be another great year.
There's already some tour dates and owns for Europe. And
you know, we get I asked, We get asked all
the time about the States. If and when logistically it
makes sense for us to do our tour here, we
will trust me. But you know, right now we're still
building things back up.
Speaker 7 (31:21):
Oh I know, I know, But I have to tell
people this. And it just happened to me the other day.
I came up in my Spotify playlist when the Crowds
Are Gone as one of the songs in my playlist,
and I started to I'm doing it now too. You're
well up. Anyone who understands the preciousness of anything in life.
I know it's kind of done from the milieu of
(31:43):
a rock singer, but I think anyone who's ever you know,
felt that sting of losing something precious without realizing how
precious it was. You got to go go to Spotify,
go to YouTube wherever, and go go listen to this
song because you'll you'll never stop listening to it. You'll
play it like twenty times over.
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You know where the years of con memories can only
last so long. Black faded photocos for Cotten songs and
the things I never knew. When the skin is.
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Thin, the hot shows.
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Knowing it, then it moves, It moves and moves and
moves visiting. Jeff played drummer on this too well.
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You true.
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Weas and Knights t again for the night to believe it.
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Then a note for.
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My recreaod the story is over when the crowds.
Speaker 7 (33:00):
Yeah, and you know, anyone who's felt that sting knows
Jeff played on with us Trans Siberian Orchestra. We're going
to give away some tickets to and you do some
stuff from them in the show. But the show's getting
ready or in rehearsal.
Speaker 9 (33:15):
Absolutely absolutely, I tell you know, when people ask me
about the show and how to describe it, I say, really,
you've got to just come see it. It's it's one
of the most unique shows you're ever going to see.
And you know, honestly, we've been doing this for a
long time. This is our twenty seventh year of touring,
minus the COVID year. But it's a busy time of year.
(33:38):
It's it's not like everybody you know has all the
time in the world these days, and especially during the
holiday season, there's a lot of folks that have never
seen our show before, many have heard about it, most
all of them know the music. But you know, every night,
Chris Caffrey, we'll ask the audience how many people you
know who's new year. The other crowd raises their hand.
(34:02):
So it's just amazing how how many new people are
coming in every year. But that also just just indicates
how this fan base, this love for TSO is still
growing every year too, and this is why we're still
doing what we do.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
And you know, I see it now too as we're
doing the concert ticket giveaways and folks are posting at
Joe Thomas in the Morning dot com when I say, hey,
enter to win in your town, and I've got the
list up here at Jeff plate On with us Trans
Siberian Orchestra. And as an honor you guys have given
me because never before we had this chance. We just
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did the tickets for Colorado Springs and Youngstown earlier in
the week, very soon, salt Lake City and Portland. I
think we're gonna do salt Lake tomorrow, they say, and tomorrow.
So if you're in salt Lake listening to us or
Provo and jump in and get on there, or you
know the south side where you are, and you could
(35:01):
if you're into the road trip, you're into the roadshow.
I can't drive you there. But then Portland will start
next week. Manchester, New Hampshire, Sacramento, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, New Orleans, Queens,
New York, San Antonio, Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington. We have tickets
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for these shows, enter to win, but so many of
the folks have told me, you know, as they enter
to win, I've never seen the show, and you say,
you know, great things. So I always and my wife especially,
she loves to get photographs. What she does, this is
her thing now, is she brings what she calls newbies
to the show and then tries to get their face,
(35:44):
you know, get get an old wow shot the first
time you guys come out with the opening songs, whatever
it may be, just to get that oh my god,
what is this and it's just it's one of her
Christmas traditions. On a sidebar there, Jeff, thank you and
everyone night Castle for hooking up with us for that.
We can't wait to see you at the show we're
(36:05):
coming to, which I think is Queens, New York at
the IBS. I mean, I'm sorry ubs arena there at
Belmont Racetrack, but I appreciate it, my friend rehearse well
and we'll talk to you again very soon.
Speaker 9 (36:18):
Sounds good, Joe, take care man, We'll see you soon.
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dot com there and it is. It's interesting. My dear
friend Chris, when he found out I was a big
TSO fan, He's like, well, then you like sabotage and
I said, well, no, I had never heard of it.
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And this happens to me so frequently because I am
and I have been in music radio, but I've never
been the music guy. There are people just like in
our industry here now covering news. There are people who
do what I do, who are into it for the
politicians hang out with and the people who are behind
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the scenes. And I look at it the same way.
They're just like the people in music radio who want
to meet the big star. Oh here I am with
Taylor Swift, Oh here I am with And that was
all what it was. And their favorite part of the
day was when the record company people would call them
to get the new releases on the radio station. And me,
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I was always about the listener. Even when I was
doing rock and roll radio, I was about you. I
couldn't have cared less. I mean, I loved the songs
that you loved and I loved and I loved sharing
them with you when I was doing music radio, but
it was about you and me and the music and
the songs that we shared. It wasn't about the songs
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and then dragging you along with it voyeuristically. So I
never really got into like all that stuff. But when
I heard Sabotage, I was like, Wow, this band is
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Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Doctor Clark on the Align with Us at four three
four eighty two four two one seven on that so
tell them what you were telling me about your observation.
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So listen to you.
Speaker 17 (44:46):
Talk about the renovations at the White House and the
Left being upset about that. In the conversations with both
the Moscow Bob and Joel, as I was making my
healthy ardor he's make gas walking around up and down
the mountain, I got to thinking, Joe, and we don't
talk about agit prop enough. Now, if you look at
(45:11):
the roots of the words there, agitation and propaganda put together,
and agit prop is important for the left because the
left needs its base in a constant state of agitation
to make them more manipulatable. Right of course, Yeah, there's
(45:33):
a flip side to that. I think, Joe and I
never had really thought about it before. You know, how
you read about nicotine addiction, and somebody uses nicotine, they
get increased nicotine receptors and it becomes a craving. And
(45:55):
somebody uses drugs and the receptor for that drug becomes united.
They get more receptors, and that drug becomes a craving.
I think, Joe that there must be agit receptors interesting,
and the leftist needs to be agitated otherwise they may
(46:20):
be agitated about something different periodically to maintain their levels
of agitation.
Speaker 7 (46:29):
That's interesting because better call Saul Olenski writes about that
very thing that you know, your movement better change enough
to keep to keep the interest of the agitators going,
it has to be fun for them, and it has
to be something that changes up so that they don't
get bored with it because none of this it's stuff.
(46:50):
And this is the difference and I think you've touched
on a really essential difference between the left and the right.
See you and me, we don't get bored with this stuff.
We don't get bored with, you know, the right to
free speech or defend yourself or to be private. We
don't get bored with the abuses of the commerce clause
or any of that. It's you know, and maybe it's
(47:12):
because we're fascinated with how the left has managed to
subvert all this stuff, almost from an anthropological viewpoint, where
like the Leakys, and we're investigating some civilization that we
don't fully understand. What we're fascinated by.
Speaker 17 (47:30):
Is it or was it or has it been necessary
to reduce people's attention span?
Speaker 7 (47:41):
I think that's been the goal rather than I think
I think. I think it's a I think it is
a happy accident. I think as entertainment became more easily,
you know, accessible, our attention span has become on a
mac Crow level, easier. But this is something, you know,
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I remember a point in my life where if you
had said to me, young people would be waiting in
line at midnight at a bookstore for a new book
to come out, so that because they had to get
it right away. I would have called you crazy. I
would have said, kids have stopped reading, kids don't want
to read anymore. They're on their machines, they're on their technology.
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And then JK. Rowling shows up. You know, agree, disagree whatever,
you know, the whole controversy. I agree with her on
the silliness that's going on there, and she's getting canceled.
But my kids, like so many others, and there I
was at midnight outside of Barnes and Noble waiting for
the next Harry Potter book to come out, like I
was going to buy Billy Joel tickets before they went
(48:46):
on sale. And so I don't think our attention spand
has been shortened. I think, you know, we've grown used
to being able to see a lot of things in
a lot of times. But when you're truly challenged by something,
when you're truly interested in it, you will stick with it,
and people do. I mean, I look at the time
spent listening on this program, and it's an honor to
(49:06):
me that people put it on and listen for four hours.
I mean I barely listen for four hours, and you
know that's with tongue in cheek but I must run
Doctor Clarke, you have a great morning, sir.
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Keep doing what you do.
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And on top of that, I see the downloads at
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the plays and the downloads that come off of our
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Later today. I mean, it doesn't happen right away, but
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Bless the places like KFAR that get all four hours
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I got this text message Andy sent this in post mortem.
(51:07):
Thomas Jefferson did a similar thing to Patrick Henry and
I'm trying to So that was just after we came
on the air. Oh, when Brennan and Trump. So Brennan
was out bashing Trump. That was one of the earlier segments,
and I think Andy was responding to that. We still
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have the Brennan clip, right. This is fascinating from the
CIA director and the man behind the big boss, behind
the stealed osage.
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There's something that is deeply flawed about Donald Trump, even
though he has enormous political power, much more so than
any previous public presidents, and he's exercising that, he's pushing
the boundaries of it. And what I find most shocking
is that his base as Nugget Basse continued to be
hoodwinked by a world class charlatan.
Speaker 7 (52:03):
Is that what you wrote? Is that what you told
Michael Steele to write in his Steel dossier? Christopher Steele? Now,
Michael Steele is the left wing agitator who masqueraded as
the gopach here for a while. Christopher Steele's dossier? Is
that how you told him? Did you call him up
(52:24):
Brennan and say, hey, I need something that makes this
guy look brilliant but unhinged. It's like he's a bond
villain there, and so you know, he said. Thomas Jefferson
did a similar thing to Patrick Henry. You're not wrong.
Founding Rivals is a great book that chronicles how the
Bill of Rights kind of gets made through this crucible
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