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"Indulgence is NOT Compassion" (Friday August 29, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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days in the industry, just to smattering A Whitman sampler
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of the news coverage from the shooter in Minnesota.
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Speaker 7: At our Law Enforcements, identifying the shooter as Robin Westman
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formerly known as Robin Westman, formerly known as Robert, but
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filed for a name.
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Speaker 3: Change in twenty nineteen to use female.
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Speaker 2: Pronoun for the first time.
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Speaker 8: We are now learning who that shooter is. The minor
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child quote identifies as.
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Speaker 9: A female and wants her name to reflect.
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Speaker 6: That she identifies as a female and wants her name
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to reflect that identification was underage. It's now Robin Wes.
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Speaker 7: Robin Westman, twenty three years old.
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Speaker 9: When you have mass shooting investigations so often, there is
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a pattern. I think police are trying to get after that.
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Speaker 3: Tonight.
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Speaker 9: You see obviously some real clues here as to what
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a motive could be, but they're not saying for what
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it is yet.
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Speaker 3: We don't have a motive at this time.
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Speaker 10: It's unclear what the motive was.
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Speaker 6: Again, there's just nothing specific in the evidence that's been recovered.
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Speaker 9: There's no information, nothing specific to identify a specific motive.
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Speaker 6: But they'll be continuing to talk.
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Speaker 2: To people to see if there was a flag, if
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something may have popped up that they can look into.
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Speaker 11: There's no clear motive, and that's what we want to know.
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Was this a revenge because there were prior affiliations to
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the school?
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Speaker 12: Is this notoriety the should identified We are told as
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female legally change their name from Robert to Robin.
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Speaker 7: There's no connection yet from that to the motive.
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Speaker 13: I don't believe that how the shooter identifies currently in
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this investigation right now is of significant importance.
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Speaker 14: The mayor also calling on people to quote stop villainizing
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the trans community after learning that the suspect who was
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born male identified as female.
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Speaker 6: Spoke about this so profoundly and powerfully.
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Speaker 13: I have heard about a whole lot of hate that's
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being directed at our trans community that is going to
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use this as an opportunity to villainize our trans community.
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Speaker 11: This is not the time to jump to conclusions about
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the shooter, right what his ideological views might have been,
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what his own.
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Speaker 6: Person in the emergency rooms around the news networks are
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full of people who have injured themselves, falling all over
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themselves to let's use the financial term, lunder the story
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out of Minnesota. And it doesn't change, and it doesn't
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bring back the two dead children. No, and it doesn't
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help those family members heal. But what we need to do,
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as these incidences do increase is look at the real
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sources and kidding ourselves and fooling ourselves into not being
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honest about what's going on. And believe me, this Robert kid,
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he told us all chapter and verse. We'll get into that,
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but we have to get down the first things, and
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certainly Minnesota qualifies as the top. As the investigation continues,
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authorities given no choice but released more information through the
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police chief in Minneapolis of the quote pure indiscriminate hate
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that the shooter, Robert Westman, was feeling. He left behind
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hundreds of pages of writings, according to police, filled with
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Speaker 1: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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Speaker 3: Story is never.
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Speaker 6: Where you join in. The story has always been going
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on for a long time. And so we can talk
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about the mayor of Minnesota, Minneapolis with his calls for
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three four eight A two four two one seven. But
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this story where we pick it up, where you and
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I find ourselves outside of Annunciation Christian School, staring in
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horror at the devastation of death and wounding and hatred.
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That's the end of the story. The beginning of the
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story is years and nobody was paying attention to the
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Westmans years and years and years before Robert Westman's mother.
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And by the way, I know that generally I have
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a policy not to mention names of these terrorists, these murderers,
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but given the media's insistence that they fall all over
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themselves to not use his name, Robert I am so
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Robert before he goes and shoots up Annunciation Catholic Church
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and school was boiling and roiling in this hatred that
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you read in the writings and what eventually became his manifesto.
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His final is couti gras if you will, against the
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society that allowed all these people that he just couldn't
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stand to continue.
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Speaker 3: To exist.
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Speaker 6: They are, from what I understand and what you know
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we're learning. And his mother had a very strange reaction,
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and again my heart breaks for anyone who's in that position.
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I can't even begin to imagine. The press in this
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plays an all too stereotypical role, calling the mother and
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being the one that tells the mother, Mary Grace Westman,
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that her child is the shooter. So when I say
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this story began years before, the amount of hatred that's
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on display in the writings of this kid Robert, for
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somebody in the psychological world and the psychiatry world, seems
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to be almost textbook. From where I said it was
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just a reporter on these matters, textbook cases of somebody
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who's not just calling for help, but at some point
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begging for help. Because you don't get to the point
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where somebody has that amount of hatred in them. In
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a day, you don't get cut off in traffic and
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all of a sudden decide I hate everyone, and I
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just want to kill as many of them as I can.
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And I say this, but Joe, I understand the horrors
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of being a parent at this end of a story.
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But there were lots of points during the story. And
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this has nothing to do with the Westmins. It has
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to do with all of us and all of our
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children and all of our grandchildren, and what are our
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responsibilities to one another. I've told you the story before.
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When my oldest son was born, I look like death
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warmed over. I've been awake for forty eight hours, not
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necessarily in the best health we've had flus. It was January.
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I hadn't slept in forty eight hours. I looked a mess.
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He was born with his eyes opened, and I remember
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a voice in my head saying, you are no longer
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the center of the universe, son, meaning me.
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Speaker 3: I was a rock and roll DJ.
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Speaker 6: I was the center of the universe at least in
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the four or five hours. And from that moment on,
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everything I did, with certainly spending my morning with you,
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is important because I want to serve you. But at
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the end of the day, the commerce that's involved in
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it is to support and take care of my family.
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And it doesn't matter what you do. There are plenty
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of people who go off to plenty of jobs, butchers, bakers,
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the things they need to grow into good people. And
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we talk about if there was the possibility to start
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an organization that would help people plan out their parenthood,
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what would you call that? Okay, take tongue out of cheek, Joe,
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that parenthood is the most important job that we have.
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in pain and hurting, compassion isn't as society seems to
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be hellpent making it out to be indulging that pain,
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saying that that pain is fine, normalizing the things that
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aren't normal. We do it medica.
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Speaker 3: We tell people, well.
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Speaker 6: Your shoulders injured, and we'll give you some physical therapy
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that will help ease it. And here's some medication that
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will help ease it. But we're not going in to
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try to fix it. And it could be for a
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myriad of reasons, most of it actuarial we've become indulgent.
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When a child says I don't like something, we're like,
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that's okay. Well, not necessarily. We want to have one
21:35
size fits all, generic answers for these things when we're
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a world with billions of individuals. That's why parenting is
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so important, and you need each one of us needs
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to be attuned to the pain that our kids are
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will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
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personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
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Speaker 16: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 16: And now a speech.
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Speaker 9: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
26:06
art and brain.
26:07
Speaker 3: Who's with me?
26:08
Speaker 16: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
26:11
brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody
26:13
call me a ride.
26:15
Speaker 4: Love that guy, me too, know your buzzed warning signs,
26:18
call for a ride, when it's time to go home.
26:20
Speaker 7: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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26:34
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leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
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improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
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for your strength.
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Speaker 1: About question on your to do list putting the radio
28:14
on is the first thing today?
28:22
Speaker 3: What that is life?
28:29
Speaker 6: And I want to finish up on something And actually
28:34
I failed your point here as the beginnings of this knowledge,
28:41
the beginnings of an honest brokerage begins.
28:46
Speaker 3: With a simple truth.
28:50
Speaker 6: As we try to break down this story in the
28:54
nightmare of the shooter's manifesto, which the presses are, I
29:03
don't know what the motive is. When you read this
29:05
stuff in five seconds, you know what the motive is.
29:11
Chief O'Hara did say that there was a manifesto, and
29:15
it's there. It's along with a lot of other stuff,
29:18
but just the writings on the ordinance that he was carrying,
29:23
all the anti Semitic hatred and the kill Donald Trump.
29:30
He wrote, I don't want to do it to spread
29:36
a message, meaning the shooting annunciation. I do it to
29:41
please myself. I do it because I am sick. That's
29:45
the words of somebody who has been indulged in that sickness.
29:52
And we were talking about the journey for us began
30:00
on Wednesday. It ended not just literally in his suicide,
30:10
but it was a it was a journey that was
30:13
ending for him of pain, of self loathing that wherever's
30:19
on display. And now with this manifesto and his fascination
30:36
with people like the shooter in Sandy Hook and the
30:40
shooter in Florida, When did this hate begin? When did
30:57
the hate first start? Who planted and where was it planted?
31:01
And and there will there are, without questions, moments and
31:04
places in the history of this Robert kid where the
31:10
seeds were planted and then they were propagated. And as
31:15
a society we are indulgent. If somebody is different, that's fine.
31:21
If it's different and dangerous, that's not. This is what
31:32
conservatism means when we talk about conserving the moral underpinnings
31:39
of a community and of a society. We talk about
31:43
it because there are things like thou shalt not.
31:48
Speaker 3: Murder, regardless of what is not.
31:50
Speaker 6: There's no amendment to the phrase thou shalt not murder.
31:55
You know, thou shalt not murder unless you're really really
31:58
in pain and you really really think that the Jewish
32:01
people are the reason for your pain.
32:03
Speaker 3: Now it's just not.
32:06
Speaker 6: There's no there are no amendments to it. But we
32:13
try as compassionate people. And that's part of the problem
32:17
is we misunderstand what compassion means as a as a society.
32:26
We think that compassion is indulgence. Has it been your
32:30
experience that compassion is indulgence or sometimes and if you're
32:34
paying attention and an honest broker with yourself, the most
32:38
compassionate things that have ever been done to you, or
32:40
the things you didn't like as they were happening. But
32:50
at some point this Robert Kidd didn't get thou shalt
32:53
not murder in there into his programming. At some point
33:03
he began blaming everyone else for his troubles, and nobody
33:06
stepped in and said, no, that's not true. At some
33:11
point he said, it's not what you know, it's who
33:14
you know, and nobody corrected him on that and said,
33:17
well you got to know good people then, And we
33:23
know this because we see the things, and I'm not blaming.
33:29
That's the other thing is we immediately go into these
33:32
defensive modes and we're trying to make sure the next
33:35
one doesn't happen. What does a free society do when
33:40
somebody violates the rights of someone else. We come up
33:44
with a judicial process of investigation so that we can
33:48
safely prove who it was, and then we met out
33:56
the punishments that we've agreed to as a community. But
34:04
we've again corrupted ourselves, corroded ourselves, diluted ourselves in this
34:12
idea that justice means getting to do whatever you want,
34:19
and it doesn't somebody, I think that might be the
34:26
Domino's delivery at the door, Sorry for that. Well, hello,
34:34
we've got the ring camera on. See if we're getting
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something from Amazon at this hour. But hug your kids.
34:43
I don't care how old they are. Hug your kids
34:45
because parenting never stops. Your kids always need advice because
34:54
they're always running into something that they've never run into.
34:59
Before Tivor Mac to give us a look at what's
35:03
going on on his sports tests this morning, mact Joe,
35:06
here are.
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Speaker 12: The stories where you're following on this Friday. Keith Jackson's
35:10
famous line holds up, it's time to light the candle.
35:13
The party is about to begin. Seventeen NC two A
35:16
games were showcased last night as Week one began five.
35:19
Speaker 3: Straight days of college football.
35:21
Speaker 12: Eleven more contests are tonight and then Saturday kicks off
35:24
with Ohio State in Texas. BUCKEYEAD coach Ryan Day is
35:27
seventy and ten in his seventh season in Columbus. OSU
35:31
is also coming off in Natty. Texas is the underdog tomorrow. However,
35:35
coach Day, who will break in two new coordinators, is
35:38
anxious to see how his transfers and young players perform.
35:42
Speaker 2: I say it's like raising a sun or having children.
35:44
Speaker 7: You know, you bring them along, you show them, you
35:45
see the growth, but ultimately they have to go live
35:47
their life.
35:48
Speaker 3: Well, it's the same thing here. They got to go
35:49
play the game now, and we're ready to go play.
35:52
Speaker 12: Texas and Ohio State begins Saturday at twelve noon. We'll
35:55
have Thursdays wrap up next hour. One other note, a
35:58
fake post on a Clemson fan side stated their quarterback
36:01
Cade Klubnick was injured in a car accident and wouldn't
36:04
be available for the LSU game tomorrow night. It upset
36:08
the entire club. Nick family and Caid told the world,
36:11
all is okay.
36:12
Speaker 9: You know, interes didn't talk about it anymore, but you know,
36:15
it was just it was a messed up joke and whatever.
36:17
Speaker 20: But I'm okay.
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Speaker 12: If you are a YouTube subscriber and Fox as part
36:22
of your football fix, you can breathe easier. This weekend,
36:26
the two entities reached a short term resolution regarding their
36:29
carriage dispute. This prevents an immediate blackout, and the Texas
36:33
Ohio state game on Fox will be aired on YouTube,
36:36
as well as future college and NFL games this weekend.
36:40
The Hunt for October and Major League Baseball closes August
36:43
and moves to month number nine. The Brewers travel north
36:46
of the border for a showdown with Toronto. The Mets,
36:48
now four games back of the Phillies, welcome Miami, and
36:51
the Phills entertain Atlanta. The best race is now in
36:55
the National League West. The Dodgers lead the Padres by
36:58
two games and welcome Arizona. San Diego is in Minnesota.
37:02
That's our sports uptap for this hour.
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Speaker 8: Exercise is hard, so was maintained a healthy diet. Of course,
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Speaker 3: I'm a veteran and I lost both legs in Vietnam.
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My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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I'm Julius, I'm a vet.
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Speaker 9: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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Speaker 23: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
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Speaker 13: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble.
42:35
Speaker 2: Freedom to petition the government.
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Speaker 24: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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Speaker 21: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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first date?
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Speaker 19: Probably. It's been twenty three minutes since I ate.
43:03
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43:29
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43:32
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43:35
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43:39
and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
43:42
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Don't Serve Teens program and the Federal Trade Commissions.
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Speaker 3: On your to do list.
44:14
Speaker 1: Putting the radio on is the first thing today.
44:18
Speaker 25: Asty christ the King, every brand.
44:26
Speaker 10: Day show, scream.
44:30
Speaker 7: This some time, this giant some s.
44:40
Speaker 6: You and I may not have had a long time together,
44:44
habitual users of the program know that many many years
44:48
ago a friend of mine, who is a session musician,
44:51
UH used to come in and give us intel on
44:54
what bands he was working with on new albums and
44:58
stuff like that. So we always were the no which
45:00
is important when you're doing you know that kind of music.
45:03
Radio came in and said, Hey, I'm going to be
45:06
gone for a while. I'm going out to California to
45:09
do some kind of Christmas album, and I said, okay. Al.
45:15
Speaker 3: That Al was Al Petrelli.
45:16
Speaker 6: And he, along with Paul O'Neill and the crew, created
45:22
a phenomenon known as Trans Siberian Orchestra. And every year
45:26
I get excited around this time as we approached my birthday,
45:31
which is usually that moment when I'm like, aha, the
45:34
new tour gets announced, and the new tour got announced yesterday,
45:38
and the twenty twenty five tour for the Trans Siberian
45:41
Orchestra Ghosts of Christmas Eve twenty twenty five, and this
45:45
year because of you and me being together. I was
45:49
talking to the folks who put together the tour and
45:52
I said, there are all kinds of places like Portland,
45:57
Oregon and Minneapolis, Pois they need a TSO show right now.
46:02
Speaker 3: Guys, give up the rest.
46:05
Speaker 6: We need to do a show in many Minnesota right
46:07
Minneapolis at least, but yeah, Minneapolis, all over the place, Manchester,
46:16
New Hampshire, all the places that people are here at Tampa.
46:21
So I send a list to them saying we should
46:23
do something cool with the radio show now, rather than
46:27
just giving away tickets in my hometown, which it's been
46:30
my honor to host them in my hometown and bring
46:35
them to my community. And I want to bring you
46:38
It's just it's a phenomenal program. You can't help but
46:43
leave feeling better and have a pep in your step.
46:49
And as somebody who is a rock and roller from
46:51
the seventies and eighties. It's fun to see the electric
46:55
guitar grow up and become an instrument along with the
46:59
grand piano and some of the other instruments that are
47:02
quote esteemed in the world. But the show, the tour
47:07
went on announcement trans Siberia dot com is where you
47:11
can read all about it. Tickets don't go on sale
47:14
until mid September for the tour, but I'll let you
47:19
know if we can cook up a deal where if
47:22
you're hearing me and they're playing near there.
47:26
Speaker 3: It was a long list.
47:28
Speaker 6: It was about fourteen fifteen different cities that have tso
47:34
shows coming to them that that we could potentially do
47:44
some sort of giveaway too. And I'm sure it'll make
47:47
some rock and roll station in the neighborhood mad, but
47:50
you know, rub some dirt on it, get back into
47:53
the game as far as I'm concerned, because I'm not
47:57
here to make everyone feel about. You'll see Youngtown, Ohio, wyoh,
48:02
Colorado Springs KPPF. They're playing there in November sixteenth. Salt
48:08
Lake City for you listening KBJA and also in Provo too,
48:13
you get their Portland k OQ. Folks listening in Portland, Manchester,
48:18
New Hampshire. The folks listening on w c AP and Lowell, Jacksonville.
48:23
Of course, you got a great affiliate in Saint Augustine
48:25
at wfo Y w r D in Daytona. You'll drive
48:30
to Orlando right to see the show. It's incredible and
48:33
if you've seen it, bear testimony to the other folks
48:36
who haven't. Tampa and our friends at WHBO Nollins just
48:41
back from there, got to meet bj Rust and Linda
48:45
and all the folks at WGSO they'll be in Nollins, Queens,
48:49
New York, my old neighborhood, and of course WRCN our
48:53
Saturday affiliate, wg N Y and w g H. Will
48:58
you come with me to see him in Newark, New Jersey.
49:01
Security not included San Antonio. For you folks listening on
49:05
the Loop, they'll be there December twenty one, Minneapolis. As
49:10
much as they needed today, they will be there. So
49:14
you guys listening on Katie Iz, we're going to work
49:17
on trying to get you tickets to give away to
49:20
these shows so that you can join me me. I'll
49:22
probably be going back to my old stomping grounds of Queens,
49:26
New York where they're going to be. But it doesn't matter.
49:30
You're not going to be I'm not hosting the show.
49:33
I'm not up on stage with these guys. Believe me,
49:35
that would distract from the amazing show that they put together.
49:38
Trans Dash Siberian dot Com. Clark is on the line
49:43
with us at four three four eight eight two four
49:45
two one seven. Good morning, brother Clark. What are you doing,
49:47
sir Clark? We had trouble with the phone system before Clark.
49:57
Speaker 3: There, I think I'm here now now.
50:00
Speaker 6: It's a we rebooted our phone. We need we may
50:02
need to reboot the phone system again. During the news
50:05
Clark was calling in the midst of us, you know,
50:08
resetting it there so uh, you know, hang on, hang
50:11
on for a minute. We're coming up on our news.
50:13
Can I can I get the full width and breadth,
50:15
give us a give us a taste of what you're
50:17
calling about, and then we'll uh, we'll get more details
50:21
coming up after the news at Sex or Eastern.
50:24
Speaker 25: Anyway, you're not allowed to yell fire in a crowded
50:27
theater show.
50:28
Speaker 6: No, no, I'm sorry, I'm not I cannot allow that
50:31
statement on my radio show. The hell you say I'm not.
50:34
I am. I am damnably guaranteed by the First Amendment
50:38
that I have a right to yell fire in a
50:40
crowded theater and we can do it.
50:42
Speaker 25: What'sale, what's the rationale behind at work with me?
50:46
Speaker 6: Well, because if there's a fire in the crowded theater
50:48
and I don't yell at then I'm I've committed you
50:51
know some you know, some even more heinous crime.
50:55
Speaker 25: What if there's not a fire, Joe, Why aren't you
50:57
allowed to yell fire if there's not a.
50:59
Speaker 6: Fire, Because I can be punished for inciting a riot. See,
51:03
we have punishments for wire.
51:06
Speaker 25: You could create a bad situation by doing that.
51:11
Speaker 6: Well, you can create a bad situation by cutting somebody
51:14
off in traffic too, you know.
51:16
Speaker 3: So that's the that's the slippery.
51:18
Speaker 6: Slope totalitarianism is built on, is the idea that there
51:22
are things you're not allowed to do. I'm not allowed
51:25
to infringe on someone else's rights, but I have to
51:30
be allowed to expose that barrent behavior before I get
51:34
punished for it. So it's it's the same thing conservative
51:38
district attorneys get hung up on, I will stop crime,
51:41
I will you fight crime. In a free society by
51:45
arresting the sobs that committed the crime, punishing them justly
51:50
and publicly, so that the rest of the community says, damn,
51:53
I better not do that. That's how you fight crime.
51:56
And maybe we're post that. Maybe we're maybe we're post
51:59
that constitutional republic and we really want an authoritarian state
52:04
where people can arrest you just because you're on a
52:06
block that you're not supposed to be on.
52:09
Speaker 25: So we've got this admonition that we're not supposed to
52:12
yell fire in a crowded theater if there's not a fire,
52:15
because you could create a panic, people get trampled.
52:19
Speaker 6: Din't do that, right, You should be taught that. This
52:22
is what I was talking about with parenthood. Now, now
52:24
here's the thing. I don't want you to ramp up
52:26
to a point. Hang on a second, Clark, because we're
52:28
right now. Our time has expired. The news must be
52:32
laid out there, So hang on. We'll get you into
52:35
the phone system properly. Here and here the point here.
52:40
I am sure you're going somewhere with this, So hang
52:42
on for me for a minute.
52:44
Speaker 25: I got it.
52:45
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm here all right, And we'll get him into
52:48
the system properly and come right back.
52:51
Speaker 3: My name is Bobby.
52:52
Speaker 24: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
52:55
My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
52:58
weightlifting champion.
53:00
Speaker 19: I'm Sam. I'm a veteran.
53:02
Speaker 5: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
53:04
of and supporting my family.
53:06
Speaker 7: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
53:09
of their lives.
53:10
Speaker 1: I'm a veteran.
53:11
Speaker 3: My victory was going from homeless to hall. At DAV.
53:15
Speaker 7: We're on a mission to help veterans get the benefits
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they've earned.
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53:23
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for victories great and small.
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53:33
Speaker 8: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
53:36
Speaker 7: We help more than a million veterans every year as
53:38
they face and conquer their challenges.
53:41
Speaker 19: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
53:43
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