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"Pam Bondi Proves Norn-Busting Point" (Thursday September 18, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Quick first Thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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Joe Thomas, the second most famous. Thomas and Charlotte's went
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on jew.
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Speaker 2: Words that steal me. Stem you have a day at
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least for work.
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Speaker 3: When the sun comes up, drops a kid into scoot, then.
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Speaker 4: Joys everything agenda.
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Speaker 3: No one that Joe, Salace, smile, he on the eggs,
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be your Joe.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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this morning.
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Speaker 3: I want to be Joe.
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Speaker 2: We'll tell you the news. We break down the news
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from our perspective, but most importantly, we're here to hear
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how the news is impacting You's where you are, as
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we used to say at my hometown. So four three
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four eight eight two four two one seven. That's the
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multitasking phone number. You can text message to us. You
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can also hit us up with a phone call if
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you have time. This email came in last Friday, says Joe.
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Trust me on this. I'm an expert in the ancient
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Greek tongues, and there is no word in ancient Greece
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that means last minute. However, that being said, I agree
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with you that mornings seem to have been born specifically
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to be where all of our last minute things come
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to pass. Well, that's why I'm just being wistful when
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I say that. And I guess there is some irony
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to a guy who's been so pedantic about how people
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like Pampondi use words like hate speech, that I should
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be so cavalier with ancient Greek languages or tongues. But
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somewhere in Mesopotamia, some guy living at the Tigris Euphrates
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river saying, you know, this is going to be a
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really great dictatorship. Sometimes you know someone around there, somebody
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in O Devai Gorge, somewhere along there, somebody came up
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with the concept of last minute, and mornings were born
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specifically so that all those things you've put off to
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the last minute can be addressed at a time. We
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must give a time to those things, and mornings seem
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to fit the most neatly into our schedule for the
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time and all those things. This email we were talking
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about Pambondi and the story. Of course Pambondy on Monday
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suggested that the Department of Justice would develop plans to
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go after and clean up hate speech in the wake
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of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, she's walked that back.
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President Trump Tuesday in England said Pam Bondy has done
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an unbelievable job. Everyone agrees with that. See and this
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is part of Donald Trump's sales pitch days from when
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he was a property builder. See if he says everyone
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says that. And know her actions as Attorney General so
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far have nover. But the things she suggested she might do,
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she would go after you if you're targeting anyone with
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hate speech. Now, some of those phrases are very specific
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targeting somebody. That's very important if you're targeting somebody with
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hate speech. But what is hate speech? Because hate speech
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to a Republican administration is different to the hate speech
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from a Democrat administration. And it's a whole different country.
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And this is why democracy, as we were talking about
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it also earlier, is very important because if only twenty
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five or thirty percent of us vote on what is
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going to be the future of our country, well then
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I can convince their teen percent of anyone to go
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along with pretty much anything. So our first things for
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this morning, speaking of speech, a private corporation has decided
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that the statements of one of its employees has brought
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them into disrepute, and therefore they have suspended his working
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for them. That private corporation would be the Disney owned
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American Broadcasting Corporation, and the employee's name would be Jimmy Kimmel.
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In his monologue, he said, we hit new lows over
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the weekend with the Maga gang desperately trying to characterize
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this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than
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one of their own. Meanwhile, former President of Barack Obama
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finally got around to making a statement on the assassination
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of fellow Chicagoan Charlie Kirk, calling it a horrific tragedy.
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And the political leaders must be clear and fourth right
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in condemning violence on both sides of the political spectrum.
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What about all the other kind of violence, mister president.
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Current President Donald Trump Wednesday announced he's designated Antifa as
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Wednesday refused to allow the administration to proceed with an
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Senate Armed Services Committee have sent a letter petitioning Chairman
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Roger Wiker of Mississippi to hold hearing into whether or
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we reput or rejoice sin Well Joel way to be
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a wet blanket way to kill the rest of the program,
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because that's it. That's the mic drop is since and
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there's a story embroiling. Where's the email received overnight? And
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I've reported it locally as here comes the national media again.
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At a school board member here in our flagship area
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of Augusta County, at a school board meeting two weeks ago,
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was asked about a letter that had been sent out
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made some parents question, first off, why did you have
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to tell us this? And are you trying to pick
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on the floor of the school board meeting when this
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school board member said, very rightly, and I do not
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disagree with her statement on this, Sharon Griffin is getting
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national notoriety for herself and for our hometown, just like
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we did back in twenty seventeen. Isn't it exciting here
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they come? She asked, Evolution doesn't withstand or She stated,
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evolution doesn't withstand good science. I bring this up because
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I'm going to bring up a line from the play inherit,
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The wind the Scope's Monkey Trial was turned into a play,
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and in it, the question was whether or not God
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who created us in his image, and then we turned
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around and created God in our own image, saying that
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we were generous souls, that we just wanted to return
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the favor, that since God created us in his image,
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that we would now do the same and create God
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in ours. But that that is at the essence of
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what you asked Joel at four three four eight eight
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two four two one seven, and you asked the same Joel.
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Can't be the only one thinking this that we've now
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decided that not only have we created God in our
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own image, we're going to create God with our own
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failings and foibles. Is this a sin? Well, I mean
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depends on I was just trying to avoid an unpleasant
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scene when I bore felt false witness on my neighbor.
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There's any number of comedic film attempts at depicting somebody
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who can't lie and is just going to tell. I
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think Jim Carrey did the most recent one where he
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was a lawyer of all things. You know it couldn't lie,
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which is the gag?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 7: What is lie is lie?
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Speaker 2: Just not telling the truth is lie? Is it a
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lie to know something and not say something even if
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you weren't asked. There's one to chew on over your
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double half cap latte. I'll pop a half cap into
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your hand. It was a calf. I was half calf.
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See it. I take my coffee black insert airplane line here.
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But we've recreated sin into what is convenient for us.
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And there are theologians who blame this on Martin Luther
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and the development of Christianity, and even beyond that, Christ himself,
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because the hardcore Israelites will say, those ten commandments are
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irrevocable and they are forever sin, and you cannot get
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out of jail on it, so you cannot ever commit them. Therefore,
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do not ever commit that sin, because it doesn't matter
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how many stations of the Cross you do. It doesn't
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know how many Hail Mary's whatever you throw it doesn't matter.
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You can't get out of the sin. Once you've made
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the sin, your sin is forever and you're going to hell.
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Thanks for playing. And the issue that a lot of
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people were having was well, that's fairly that's fairly permanent.
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So when they would say I made a mistake, did
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you not know what you were doing was a sin? Yeah,
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I just I felt like it was well, now there
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you go. You're starting to negotiate with what is sinful
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and what is not. So the Christian faith came up
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with ways to Okay, you committed a sin, here's what
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you have to do for the church, and then we
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will forgive you based on the teachings that Jesus was
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about forgiveness. But we've extrapolated that beyond where we even
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have to worry about forgiveness because now we've defined what
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is it's not sinful to lie, it's sinful to lie
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to hurt somebody. All of a sudden, now we're qualifying that,
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So why should American law be any different? And sin
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itself if we can qualify it, it's not really bearing
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false witness against my neighbor when I was just trying
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to spare her feelings it's not really murder. It's kill.
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I killed, but it wasn't murder. So you see how
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we play and we negotiate ourselves. So Joel, your question
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is really to me, the essence of it all is
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we play with these words. So you know, the word
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is not the problem. The internet is not the problem.
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The gun is not the problem. These are in all
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cases inanimate objects, the clause of a hammer in the
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these are not the These are not the hate. Those
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are tools of people who hate. These are people who
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have committed crimes, and therefore they must be punished. But
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we don't want to do that because we want to
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have our tournament forgiveness. And this is where I sit
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on this. You can disagree with me on this, but
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I think the reason we want to forgive people and
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come up with excuses for why they commit crimes is
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we keep thinking, well, at some point, I might want
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to commit a crime. But if the government can create
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Which freedom can you live without? Fortunately, the First Amendment
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Speaker 5: One of our students yesterday received a WWE ten thousand dollars.
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Speaker 2: School scholar shift. Wow.
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Speaker 5: The wrestling people happy with his work of you know,
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helping with cameras and nice.
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Speaker 2: You know what. N XT.
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Speaker 5: NXT has been filmed on our campus for a long
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time in winter Park. Really just it's really but anyway,
29:16
this kid was, he was so excited all right to
29:19
the n C Double A. In a move that pleased
29:21
most college football coaches, the nc Double A agreed to
29:25
discard the spring transfer portal yesterday, which leaves just one
29:28
window each year for players to switch schools. Now, that
29:31
period as it sits now is January tewond through eleventh.
29:36
This is like going on vacation. Can't wait to go, love,
29:39
love my vacation, But I have no idea where we're
29:41
going to stay for how long? The narrow slot now
29:45
is naturally up for debate. And nothing has ever done
29:48
easy when it comes to the NC Double A and
29:50
football coaches and basketball coaches, nothing is ever ever easy.
29:56
You know, a player on one of the final four
29:57
playoff teams holds out for a better dal, well, then
30:00
he gets the deal. Now all of a sudden, he's
30:02
not in a playoff game. Remember we talked about Yeah,
30:05
all right a couple of way in Steve Sarkizi and
30:08
the head coach of ut of course the Longhorns. He
30:12
likes the move, but he's not sure about what's going
30:15
to happen.
30:15
Speaker 24: That December portal window was brutal where we had I
30:20
think nine guys go in and then ten guys go
30:23
in the next year while we were still playing in
30:25
the college football playoffs, and that was very difficult. So
30:28
I'm definitely an advocate for that portal being after the
30:32
playoffs are done?
30:33
Speaker 3: Is that late January?
30:34
Speaker 5: Is that February?
30:35
Speaker 16: Is that March?
30:35
Speaker 5: I don't know, you know, what does that exactly look like?
30:38
Speaker 24: And I haven't heard everybody's thoughts on that, and that's
30:40
what these meetings are forced to try to figure that out.
30:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, of course. And then last week, and i'll
30:45
play it here in just a second. Last week I
30:47
had a Ryan day reaction to head coach Ohio State.
30:50
Since the introduction of transfer portal windows, the NC two
30:53
has made them smaller each year. The windows were open
30:56
for a combined sixty days back in the twenty two
30:59
to twenty three three day's forty five in the winter,
31:01
fifteen in the spring, and then they moved to forty
31:04
five total days. And YadA, YadA, YadA. They keep going
31:06
to the whiteboard and go, well, we could do this,
31:08
and then what about this? And you know it's a
31:10
lot like you know, the way our taxes work. So
31:13
LSU coach Brian Kelly, when they asked about Ryan Day's comments,
31:17
which I'm gonna play here in a minute, said he
31:20
supports the January second date and he this is a
31:23
great quote and it's only Brian Kelly. He goes quote,
31:25
I know there's probably twelve or sixteen teams that might
31:28
be in the playoffs. I'm sorry, there's no crying on
31:31
the yacht. Okay, thank you, Brian Kelly. We appreciate anyway.
31:36
Ryan Delli, Ryan Delly, Ryan Daily, Ryan Day Daily, Ryan
31:42
Day critical. I played it, but I'll play it again,
31:45
and I better shut up. I don't think it's a
31:47
good idea at all.
31:49
Speaker 17: In the conversations that we had with the Big Ten coaches,
31:51
I think the majority of them agree. I just don't
31:55
quite understand how for teams that are playing in the
31:59
playoffs acted to, you know, make the decisions and sign
32:03
their upcoming players while they're still getting ready to play
32:06
for games. It doesn't make any sense to me. I
32:09
know the calendar is funky, you know. I know that
32:12
the Big Ten and Antoni Petiti's been working hard because
32:14
he doesn't believe it either, and neither to the coaches in.
32:16
Speaker 1: The Big Ten.
32:17
Speaker 17: We've had a a lot of long discussions about that
32:19
and tried to work through the different windows.
32:22
Speaker 5: But I don't agree with it being in jail, and
32:23
so what happens, what happens. A lot of colleges classes
32:26
begin January fifth, and so you know, to get a
32:29
guy transfer to whatever, So I agree, move it from
32:32
December to jail. But then you know, maybe we go February.
32:36
But then say, well then now you're dealing with spring.
32:38
Speaker 2: Football, and you see, Mac, Mac, you've left out the
32:40
wild card in this. See you know all sports have
32:43
to have a wild card. Now, yeah, of course the
32:46
American Civil Liberties Union, when do they weigh in? Because
32:49
at some point somebody will hire a lawyer saying you've
32:52
restricted my student athletes constitutional rights?
32:56
Speaker 5: Does he can't transfer because he's on a playoff team
32:59
and he's not right the clipboard?
33:02
Speaker 2: And it's only one time a year. This is America.
33:05
America is a free country. And blah blah blah blah
33:08
blah blah. I get it. So don't stay tuned.
33:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, all right. Next week is one of my top
33:15
weeks of the year. It's why I love September October
33:18
so much. The Writer Cup is next week and they're
33:20
gonna play at Bethpage Black and Brooks. Koepka won the
33:24
twenty nineteen PGA there by three shots over Dustin Johnson,
33:28
only eight under par and seven golfers finished it even
33:32
part or better at the end of the week. That's
33:33
how this is seventy five hundred yards. It's the famed.
33:37
You know, you got to sleep overnight in the public course,
33:40
it's a public There was a writer who uncovered a
33:43
scheme in which internet bots were snatching up tea times
33:48
before golfers could even long in, because you can log
33:51
in seven days in advance and get a tea time
33:53
at bed Page Black. But now you know, that's why
33:55
they're partying. They're cooking out overnight, you know, for a
33:59
seventy time on Saturday ns.
34:02
Speaker 2: This is why nobody goes to the Hamptons anymore, because
34:05
they all go and party at beth Page.
34:07
Speaker 5: I can't wait till next week. It's gonna be rockets.
34:09
It's gonna be a lot of fun. And uh uh.
34:12
They're calling it Scottie Scheffler's team, and I hope Scotti
34:14
plays well. But it's wow, it's gonna be just such
34:17
an event.
34:17
Speaker 2: Is this the first? Is this the first Ryder Cup?
34:21
Correct me, because you recover this? Is this the first
34:25
Ryder Cup attempt since nil? Not nil? That's name? Image
34:29
like the Live Tour?
34:31
Speaker 5: Well ugly, hell no, no, no, no, because they played
34:34
two years ago. And I think that when two years
34:36
ago in Rome Live had just started. Am I right
34:39
Live had two seasons. I think that's right.
34:41
Speaker 2: I gotta check.
34:42
Speaker 5: I judged. I follow you and you tell me the
34:44
Ryder Cup is in September. I know I think liv
34:47
was playing that summer. Because I don't have to go back.
34:50
That's a great question. I have to go back and
34:52
look who was on that team who played because didn't
34:56
kept I think Kepkam made the Ryder Cup team to
34:59
go to Okay. So and I think there was some
35:02
controversy about that. So I think that's right. I'll look
35:04
that up. But that's a great question. How about this,
35:08
you know sports member Bill is is? You know I've
35:11
got I don't know what do I have around my office?
35:13
A Bud Foster picture, Yeah, Larry the cable guy, you know.
35:17
So I mean, I don't know how far member you know,
35:19
Frank Kelly endo autographed picture. I don't know how far
35:22
member Biley can go. But how about this? Muhammad Ali's
35:26
draft card is at the auction now. It's been in
35:29
a family, say for twenty six years. He was convicted
35:33
of draft evasion. We remember all right, jury since five
35:36
years in prison, find ten thousand dollars, stripped of his
35:39
heavyweight championship, stripped of his license, He lost three and
35:42
a half years of his career. He kept his notice
35:45
of a one A classification and it's dated March fourteenth,
35:49
nineteen sixty seven, and it's signed by the Louisville Selective
35:53
Service System Local Board forty seven Jay Allen Sherman. The
36:00
OTIS identifies the fighter as Cassius Marcellus Clay, misspelling the
36:05
middle name. They spelled an m A R s E.
36:09
Speaker 2: Here's your loophole.
36:10
Speaker 5: Middle name is Marcellus m A r c E L
36:13
l U s. So anyway, the blurnout. But the draft
36:15
card is going up next month. It's going to be
36:18
uh one of those auction houses or whatever.
36:19
Speaker 2: So see that's not necessarily just sports. Member of Billia,
36:23
I mean history.
36:25
Speaker 5: Yeah you're exactly right. Yeah, you're exactly right. And I
36:29
tell I still tell the story and a lot of
36:31
a lot of my students. But I do have a
36:34
picture standing next to Mohammad Ali in Nelson County. He
36:36
was dedicating uh that's when I had hair, and he
36:39
was dedicating a little league Ballpark in Elion County when
36:43
the new high school opened, and that's when Muhammad Ali
36:47
agreed to speak to the sold out auditorium. And I
36:50
am c the event because I got the invitation from
36:53
one of his bodyguards because they jumped in our radio
36:55
truck and uh so I was asked to MC this event.
37:00
And he walked on stage. All the portable cameras, you know,
37:03
the warm Walmart cameras and paper cameras. Uh He walked
37:06
on stage with two sets of boxing gloves and gave
37:09
me a parents that put them on, and the crowd
37:12
going crazy, and I took off my sport code and
37:14
I shadow boxed Muhammad Ali for about sixty seconds, flooded
37:18
like a butterfly and stung like a beef. Nobody hit
37:21
but I acted like Joe Frasier because I was a
37:24
you know, an idiot and I didn't know what else
37:25
to do.
37:26
Speaker 2: No, what are you gonna do? Mohammad Ali says, box
37:29
with me.
37:29
Speaker 5: You get a box with them, put them on, you
37:31
lace them up. When Alas said lace them up, that's
37:35
one of the to me, that's one of the greatest
37:37
days of my life.
37:38
Speaker 1: For sure.
37:39
Speaker 2: There you go and sometimes the memorabilia is just the memory.
37:42
Speaker 5: But I have no other doubt. I have a jar
37:44
of M and m's. That's about as deep as it.
37:47
Speaker 2: Well, you know, if there are brown ones in there,
37:50
you know you're you're safe for the fan show.
37:53
Speaker 5: All right there, Friday tomorrow, brother.
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Speaker 8: It's on.
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Speaker 1: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today, hat.
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Speaker 2: But you know, I am loath to say that. That's
44:27
why we have country Western songs queued up and ready
44:31
to go there for you, so the singer can tell
44:36
you I told you so for you. But I want
44:39
to harken back. We referenced this as we are discussing
44:43
the mailstorm, the excrement storm that is going on over
44:48
Pam Bondi's comments, a couple of quick thoughts on it.
44:51
Number one, she has backwalked the idea and saying, no, no, no, no,
44:56
we're looking for specific, specific terrorist threats that are made
45:01
and publicly made. I understand that. And you know, here's
45:06
the thing that you always have to remember that you're
45:15
not always going to be the one in charge. This
45:22
is the point of the American system is that there's
45:29
always going to be the chance that somebody else comes along.
45:34
Speaker 8: I know, I know.
45:38
Speaker 2: Democrats don't seem to ever think that way, do they. No, no, no,
45:51
But they then it happens somebody like Donald Trump comes along,
45:54
and this is part of why they vacate their lower
45:56
intestines over guys like Donald Trump, because because he's not
46:01
supposed to happen he was.
46:03
Speaker 18: He was a.
46:05
Speaker 2: Radical in the equation. It was supposed to be Hillary,
46:11
and then Hillary would have eight years, and then it
46:14
was going to be you know, I don't know, Corey
46:17
Booker or somebody, Gavin Newsom or Andrew Cuomo. There was
46:21
a pecking order of people that were already lining up
46:25
for the next forty years of Democratic Party rule. And
46:30
you say, oh, gosh, Jo, that's crazy talk. Understand that
46:34
in between the end of World War Two and Newt
46:37
Gingrich and the Contract with America people, the US Congress
46:46
had gone forty years without a Republican Party majority. Forty
46:56
years was that is that three generations, two generations, people
47:05
live their entire lives with ever knowing what it would mean,
47:09
and in some case it was laughable Democratic Party majorities.
47:22
And then you know, Reagan comes along and gets the presidency,
47:26
but he's still facing a Democratic Congress for all eight
47:30
years he was president, and then all four years of
47:34
HW's presidency. Wasn't until ninety four that Newt Gingrich wins
47:41
the majority and the contractor with the America people come
47:44
in and immediately invent the term rhino because and here's
47:49
doctor Clark mentioned how he doesn't like the term rhino
47:52
anymore because the presumption is Republican equals conservative. And I
47:57
have always agreed with that. But the phrase roots back
48:01
in nineteen ninety five when Americans started to say to
48:06
their newly elected Republican majority, what up a scenario that
48:13
would play out again later in twenty ten when the
48:16
Tea Party Congress would go in. And so these situations
48:30
do happen. So when people say, oh, but it's a
48:34
conservative that wants to go after hate speech, that's okay, no,
48:38
because at some point it's going to be someone else.
48:43
This was just from Monday's edition of this program. I
48:46
was talking to perhaps one of the great jurists and
48:50
legal minds in America, and you know, a blessing to
48:54
the black community for what he has done for them.
48:56
At Project twenty one at the National Center for Public
48:59
Policy researched, the great Horace Cooper on this program said
49:03
to us that I fear that's the.
49:07
Speaker 19: Norm busting event of such a thing as this assassination
49:12
will come with consequences. I commented that.
49:19
Speaker 16: COVID had really really devastating effects, particularly on the loss
49:24
of life.
49:25
Speaker 19: But after a few years we turned back and became
49:29
America again. But you know what, after September eleventh, we
49:34
were changed permanently. And I wonder, are we now going
49:40
to get a new round of online monitoring of.
49:47
Speaker 16: The ability to surveil so that if you go to
49:52
a ballgame, all of the people who attend will have
49:57
to pass facial recognition.
49:59
Speaker 19: The These are the kinds of things that when you
50:03
see really consequently this happen, they have an effect on
50:10
the society.
50:11
Speaker 2: So that was Horace Cooper on Monday's program. We re
50:16
aired it for the early seedings on Tuesday's program. You
50:20
can find it in the podcast pages of Joe Thomas
50:24
in the Morning dot com. Hopefully you're already subscribing to
50:28
Spotify or Ieunes Media or whatever the Apple podcasts iHeart
50:35
all the usual suspects to distribute.
50:43
Speaker 17: Is.
50:43
Speaker 2: Then you'll get it anyway when it shows up in there.
50:45
But if you go there, you can find that it
50:47
was in the first hour of Tuesday Morning. And that's
50:53
what we're seeing. And this is what the reaction to
50:55
Pambondi is in note, you know, September eleventh, this assassination
50:59
of Charlie Kirk. These things happen with Republicans in office
51:03
and majority. And it's a progressive policy. Why because it
51:10
can become bipartisan. You get a Rick Scott and a
51:14
Pam Bondi in Florida after Trayvon Martin trying to lunder
51:19
their reputation because what happens is the radical left calls
51:24
them racists for not reacting or perhaps investigating carefully George
51:28
Zimmerman and the case, and so they just knee jerk
51:32
react into well, to pick a pop culture reference like
51:38
Dom Deluiz and Blazing Saddles. They said, politically, not the face,
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not the face. So of course they get hit everywhere
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else except the face. But you didn't get hit in
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the face. And I always go back to Rudolph Giuliani,
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not the mayor of New York. Long before he was that,
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he was the US Attorney for the othern District of
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New York. Confronted with a horrific story of two New
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York State troopers who were alleged to have kidnapped a
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young black girl and held her over the weekend of
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sexual debauchery and then left her on the side of
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the road covered in human feces. So horrific, horrific story,
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and it wasn't true. But everyone New York's Republicans, certainly
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every New York Democrat you know, Alf Sharpton became Al Sharpton.
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He was born publicly on this event, on the crucible
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of Tijuana Brawley. But Rudolph Giuliani wouldn't do what Pam
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Bondi and Rick Scott did in the face of Trayvon Martin.
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He pushed and pushed until he got to the truth,
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which was it was all bovine excrement.
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Speaker 25: Much of neck and spinal pain is caused by the
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compression of spinal nerves. According to doctor Jeff Fisher, an Irvine,
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California based chiropractor with more than thirty years of experience,
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this compression can stem from a chronic condition, acute injury,
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or simply aging. Traction is the most effective way to relax, stretch,
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and decompress the spine and surrounding muscles and ligaments of
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the neck and back. Doctor Fisher explains his inventions the
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Fisher Traction Neck Device and Fisher Traction Low Back device
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safely separates bones to eliminate pain and restore function so
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the body can heal naturally. The Fisher Traction devices are
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designed to restore the natural curves of the neck and
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back and gently induce hydration and motion into the spine
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with the use of a release strap. The devices are
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convenient and easy to use in the comfort of your
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home and Doctor Fisher's series of YouTube videos provides helpful
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videos and detailed instructions. For more information, visit Fishertraction dot
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com radio It's on