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"Un-Ring the Bells" (Friday October 10, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: The federal government has now been shut down for more
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than a week, but Donald Trump, Speaker Johnson, and Republicans
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in Congress are.
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Speaker 2: Nowhere to be found.
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Speaker 3: Jeorge said, steal mere stem have a day at least
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for work when the son comes up.
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Speaker 4: Drops a kid into school.
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Speaker 5: Anyway, Joey.
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Speaker 4: All the treasures out needs no one that jose smile.
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Speaker 6: He only aids pas.
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Speaker 7: Joe here hold these truths.
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Speaker 8: With apologies to the Senate Minority leader.
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Speaker 7: We found one here.
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Speaker 8: Member of the US House of Representatives John McGuire on
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Willis to answer some questions about the shutdown.
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Speaker 7: Hey, John, I wanted to ask you.
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Speaker 8: Chuck Schumer says the days just keep getting better during
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the shutdown. Do you have a reaction to his statements
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about the you know that each day goes.
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Speaker 7: On, things just keep getting better For Democrats, Yeah, I
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don't agree with that.
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Speaker 9: You know, if you do Democrat Poland probably says that
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because they manipulate numbers and stuff. But if you're on
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the ground talking to people that are suffering, you know,
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everybody I'm talking to calls it a Democrat shutdown because
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we passed it in the House of Representatives. But in
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the US Senate, you have to have sixty votes. Well,
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we only have fifty three Republicans, so we've got to
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have eight Democrats. As when some Sears said, because you
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know Rand Paul is going to vote no, you got
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to have eight Democrats. We have three w five more.
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Speaker 8: What about this Susan Collins idea of cutting a deal
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on the Obamacare substance which all of a sudden, I
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guess somebody in the back room said, hey, we could
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bring this up and distract from the Medicaid money for illegals.
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You know, this idea of giving open ended subsidies from
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the COVID era in the Obamacare subsidies, extending them indefinitely.
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Speaker 7: What have you heard about that? What's the mood in
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the House about that?
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Speaker 10: I've heard about that.
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Speaker 1: I don't like that.
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Speaker 11: I think it's terrible.
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Speaker 9: I mean, they want to take your taxpayer dial dollars
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and give it to people.
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Speaker 7: That don't deserve it. You know.
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Speaker 9: And if you look at the US Senate version of
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the CR that they proposed, they proposed a counter cr
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it was it took away fifty billion dollars for rural hospitals,
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and you know, we have rural hospitals in the fifth district.
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Speaker 7: I visited recently.
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Speaker 9: They are always struggling for money, and this is the
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biggest investment ever in President Trump did that to save
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those rural hospitals and their counter cr they would take
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that fifty billion away. They put money back in there.
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Speaker 7: For illegal aliens.
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Speaker 9: So it's America last, choosing these illegal criminals over the
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American citizens. And so, but this CR that we did
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pass out of the House, if you noticed, it was
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a tough negotiation because it's a bipartisan CR. I got
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to tell you it's tough for me to vote for it.
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But the alternative was worse. It's already a CR. It
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was spending that you know, as a conservative, I wouldn't like.
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So now that we've passed the CR that the Democrats
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have voted for thirteen times, now they're like, hey, things
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aren't looking our way. We might lose our reelection, and
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they're trying to throw more Democrat radical policies into the CR.
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Speaker 7: So it's a non starter.
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Speaker 9: As Mike Johnson says, we've done the negotiations. This only
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buys us seven more weeks so we can finish our
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spending bills.
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Speaker 8: And I don't love that either. Because it's right at Thanksgiving. Gee,
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I can't imagine that being controversial. John, last question, you
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brought it up the other day when you were on
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military pay. What do you hear about that? Mike Johnson said,
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there wasn't going to be a separate vote on something
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that would pay our soldiers and sailors and airmen.
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Speaker 7: Well, we already said that in.
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Speaker 9: All of those things are in the clean cr that
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we passed out of the House. However, and in the
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US Senate someone proposed a military pay only CR and
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the Democrats said no.
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Speaker 8: All right, Well, I appreciate that John McGuire, US House
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of Representative some insight in there on first Thing today,
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and I appreciate your visit also from the debate floor yesterday,
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as the both New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races have
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their only debates of the cycle, at least New Jersey
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hasn't started voting yet. There and plenty to get into
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Here are our first things this Friday morning. The stuff
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we're covering so that you can discuss. New York Attorney
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General Letitia James has been indicted on bank fraud, not
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by a Trump appointed prosecutor, but by a grand jury
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in the Eastern District of Virginia returned the indictment yesterday.
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Speaker 7: US is sending two hundred troops to.
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Speaker 8: No Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal
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in Gaza, as part of the team that includes partner
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nations and non governmental organizations. Meanwhile, in Chicago, a judge
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has said that the National Guard troops that were sent
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to the Chicago area will have to stand down for
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two weeks, finding no substantial evidence of danger of a rebellion,
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according to US District Judge April Perry, who didn't lay
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out details as to what she was looking for. Meanwhile,
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according to bright Art, black Chicagoans are cheering the arrival
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of ice into their communities. Democrats need to be held accountable.
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According to Danielle Carter in the Breitbart story, says she's
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the wife of a retired Chicago police officer.
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Speaker 7: We mentioned.
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Speaker 8: Defiant Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer told punch Bowl News
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every day gets better for Democrats. Chuck Schumer made the
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statements in an interview earlier this week, Vice President J. D.
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USA folks have announced they will be holding their own
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Speaker 2: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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Joe Thomas got myself a gunments set up.
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Speaker 4: Chosen.
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Speaker 7: So how do you unring a bell? How do you
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unring a bell?
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Speaker 8: In Virginia and New Jersey, there have been bells rung
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and people are now talking about, well, how.
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Speaker 7: Do you unring them?
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Speaker 8: In the New Jersey and both of them came up
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during the gubernatorial debate. One of them was brought up
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dragged onto the stage by the Republican to make the
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Democrat address the issue of one of her quote running mates.
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And I say it that way because in Virginia they
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don't run as it's it is conceivable that in Virginia
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you could have a mixed bag of political parties in
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the statewide races we have had in the past Republican
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attorneys general with Democrat governors, Republican lieutenant governors. Tim Kaine
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was governor and Bill Bolling, who at the time was
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a Republican, was the lieutenant governor, and Bob McDonald, who
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went on to be the governor, was attorney general while
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Tim Kaine was governor. It is possible, so they don't
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run as a ticket. You don't just vote for the ticket,
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you vote individually.
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Speaker 7: Which is why.
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Speaker 8: Abigail Spanberger won't decry j Jones's statements because she's looking
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at writing his storybook coattails. I pointed out the other day,
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and you can go to the podcast channel at Joe
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Thomas in the Morning dot com that Tim Kaine called
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for Ralph Northam to resign the governor's mansion, not just
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pull out of an election, resign the governor's mansion because
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he was found to be in a picture wearing either
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black face or white sheets in his college yearbook. But
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in Jay Jones's case, he's like, ah, he apologized, that's
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good enough. What could possibly be different between an old,
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longtime Democrat dixiecrat Virginian and a young and upcoming.
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Speaker 7: Story book delegate.
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Speaker 8: And look up Joe Biden's storybook definition of Barack Obama
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to understand what I mean when I say there's a
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storybook difference between And that's what Tim Kaine was in on.
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But so in those discussions, the moderator seemed more interested
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in asking Abigail Spanberger to talk about what she would
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do about all those Trump job cuts and job losses.
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In Northern Virginia and not talk about Jay Jones in
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New Jersey scubernatorial debate Mikey.
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Speaker 7: Mikey can't get over. So oh, ask Mikey. He'll eat anything.
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Go ask Mike.
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Speaker 8: That's what Chatterarelli should do, is he should He should
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get an ad that says, go go ask Mikey. She'll
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say anything.
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Speaker 23: Uh.
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Speaker 8: And we'll get into the details of what she said
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about this opioid crack. But it is a point I
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make regularly about inanimate objects. We we actually had a
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segment of this program. I think it's also up on
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the UH Facebook page UH and the podcast page in
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which we talked about what the actual medical use of
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fentanyl is.
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Speaker 7: But let me get to Mike. I think is hanging
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on the line with us.
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Speaker 8: If I heard his voice correctly in the in the
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back hall here, Uh, somebody is on the line of
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four three four eight eight two four.
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Speaker 7: Who is this?
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Speaker 25: I think you guessed correctly.
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Speaker 7: Well, you have a very unique voice, Mike.
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Speaker 8: So when I heard it, I said, ah, so what's
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on your mind?
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Speaker 25: Uh? I think I understand, like Abigail did not address
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the transistor.
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Speaker 7: What is it?
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Speaker 25: The transgender issue? Okay, like loud And County, Virginia. They
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were the center of a lot of this stuff that
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helped Governor Youngkin to care his eleutch in a couple
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of years ago, the saying, as everyone knows, there is
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no such a same as same sets rape. I'm being
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precetious here, so don't take me very seriously, but there's
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no such a sane as a same set rape. If
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you're a transgender and identified as a girl, you cannot
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rape a fellow girl in a bathroom.
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Speaker 7: I see not.
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Speaker 25: Saying that's what curtain lowl And County, but it just
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seems to fit the evidence. And then you get the
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superintendent to refuse to even a knowledge or report the
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rate to local law enforcement because it never happened. You
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can't have the same sets.
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Speaker 8: Rape well, and besides, we're already about making sure these
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kids are able to do what they identify as So
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at that moment, the the transitioning male felt like he
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wanted to have sex with the girl, maybe one last time,
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to see what it would would be like. I don't know,
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you know, And again we're being facetious here. We're trying
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to use sarcasm to point the hypocrisy in what they're saying.
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And this indulgence that you know runs rampant through the
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trans issue, you know, certainly leads to sexual encounters in
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the bathroom.
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Speaker 7: Uh. And it's just a crazy place, Mike.
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Speaker 13: Uh.
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Speaker 8: And and I don't know how we got dragged so
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far through the Overton window on this to even be
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discussing it. But but man, we need to push it
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back in there.
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Speaker 25: But we're not discussing that. According to Abigail, the locals
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are able to decide it for themselves, and yet they
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refused to a knowledge or accept a lawful directive from
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the governor and Board of education. So we're not discussing that. Well,
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we pretend we're discussing it at a local level. We're
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actually ignoring it.
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Speaker 8: But right because take yeah, the up and coming Democrats
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need to have a place to get there.
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Speaker 7: Swerve on too, Mike.
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Speaker 8: You know, we have to let them get out there
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and call people clansmen and say, you know, we used
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to like shooting Nazis. That's what happens at the local
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school board level here in Virginia. But good stuff, my friend,
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I appreciate it. Enjoyed the weekend always, Well, we'll be
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working Saturday morning. We have Saturday Morning Program Live six
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am to nine am to go over the stuff they
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tried to hide from you on a Friday afternoon.
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Speaker 7: So how do you unring the bell?
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Speaker 8: How do you unring a bell like the one that
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Mickey Cheryl Mikey Cheryl rang yesterday. They were talking about jobs,
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and certainly I understand why she rang the bell because
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Chadorelli certainly seemed like he had a pretty good plan.
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It was very much a young can esque plan on jobs.
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Speaker 20: Or he said, congresswoman, you know, my opponent likes to
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talk a lot about being a businessman, but I think
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what New Jersey doesn't know as much about his business.
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How he made his millions by working with some of
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the worst offenders and saying that opioids were safe, putting
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out propaganda, publishing their propaganda. Well, tens of thousands of
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New Jersey and died. And as if that wasn't enough,
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then he was paid to develop an app.
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Speaker 8: So this goes back and we were following up on
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the story because several of you are like, where was
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she making these claims? So Galen Publishing was a publishing
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company that took some advertising during the covid era about
21:22
ways to make sure you could see a doctor without
21:25
actually being in place with a doctor, and it was
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actually an app that was created to help you connect
21:36
with doctors without having to go see a doctor. So
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what happened is Cheryl's party set up a scenario where
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you weren't supposed to go and try to kill people
21:46
by spitting covid on them, and then Galen Publishing published
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a story about people who were trying to make it
21:53
so you could see your doctor without seeing your doctor,
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and now they're using it against him.
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Speaker 24: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would
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Speaker 31: Would you notice a sixteen year old boy who got
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his first job.
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Speaker 5: For ex for spending money, but to help feed his
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little sisters.
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Speaker 32: Or a mother who's in between jobs and sometimes goes
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Speaker 24: Or a fourteen year old girl who signs up to
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Speaker 2: The First Thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 8: It is time for us to turn over our sports notebook.
28:20
See what's been scribbled in there by our sports director
28:23
at Mac McDonald.
28:24
Speaker 7: Good morning, Mac, how are you doing this Friday morning?
28:26
Speaker 10: You know, it's been a weird week, a very just
28:29
a weird week, and I'm happy to wrap it up
28:31
today with you, because you know, Jackson Dart of the
28:37
Giants he high five to a referee last night.
28:40
Speaker 18: You got to love it.
28:40
Speaker 10: Tiki Barber did that long time ago nineteen ninety six
28:43
when Virginia beat Texas at home. Tiki Barber high fight,
28:47
high five the referee after scoring a teschdown.
28:50
Speaker 18: Well, Jackson Dart did it.
28:51
Speaker 10: Cam Skataboo with the Arizona State ran for ninety eight
28:55
three touchdowns. And then he's the I think the only
28:58
guy in the NFL running back at he used to
29:00
could do a backflip.
29:01
Speaker 2: You know.
29:01
Speaker 18: It's just so it's been a weird week.
29:04
Speaker 10: And then how the Dodgers won, you know, the orient
29:09
and Curdery made the mistake. He could have gone to first,
29:13
but the ground ball he went home and threw it.
29:15
Just that we've been outside, and then of course game
29:18
said match and the Dodgers are in.
29:20
Speaker 18: So it's just been a weird week.
29:21
Speaker 10: So I'm gonna I'm just going to continue the madness
29:25
with a couple of people, all right, Okay, Well, and
29:28
of course I want to talk about sister Jean, who
29:29
passed away last night.
29:30
Speaker 7: All Right.
29:31
Speaker 10: Will Wade North Carolina State was hired in March. He
29:34
was last year the Wolfpack twelve and nineteen five and fifteen,
29:38
and so Will Wade got a six year deal. Now,
29:40
how big is Will Wade? Well, at McNee State he
29:44
went twenty two and two and twenty eight and seven.
29:46
He coached at VCU. He followed Shaka fifty one and
29:50
twenty he left for LSU he was one oh five
29:54
eighty one. But has he learned something from Kurt Signetti
29:57
of Indiana.
29:58
Speaker 18: I'll get to that just a second, could because SIG's
30:01
having another pretty good year.
30:03
Speaker 10: So at the ACC meetings, Will Wade sits down with
30:07
the TV guys, right, he decides he was asked the
30:10
question about do you feel are you gonna walk the
30:13
walk talk to talk the way Signetti did when he
30:16
talked about Ohio State Michigan dropping a couple f bombs
30:19
along the way.
30:20
Speaker 18: Well, Will Wade decided to say, look, this program can
30:24
beat anyway prominence states.
30:25
Speaker 1: We focus so much on those guys.
30:27
Speaker 7: We need to focus on ourselves. We got to get
30:30
our sho in order first.
30:32
Speaker 23: Well, we get our stuff together.
30:33
Speaker 22: We're as good as anybody in our area, is anybody
30:36
in the state and anybody in the country.
30:38
Speaker 18: Yeah.
30:39
Speaker 10: So, because even that's quas by Carolina and Duke, he goes,
30:42
you know, what.
30:44
Speaker 18: To hell with Carolina and Duke. I just you know,
30:47
coach here all right.
30:48
Speaker 10: But so because that reminded me of the Sig who
30:52
is sixteen and two okay.
30:54
Speaker 18: At Indiana since he started ten to one of the Big.
30:56
Speaker 10: Ten five and oh this year ranks seventh in both polls.
31:00
One of three undefeated teams in the Big Ten. They
31:02
got a great one this weekend. They're in Oregon. Okay,
31:05
So this little montage just reminds us of how much
31:09
we love Kurt Signetti.
31:10
Speaker 14: What are you are for the first time in program
31:15
history coach a bad pow?
31:17
Speaker 7: Are we not right now seated for a home game? Yeah,
31:21
it's pretty simple.
31:21
Speaker 33: I win one hundred and twenty six years of Indiana football.
31:25
Best season in Indiana history, number one, not a one.
31:29
Twenty six got our way of doing things, and you know,
31:32
we kick ass and take names. We had to wake
31:35
some people up and create some excitement. And after all,
31:37
this is the entertainment business too.
31:39
Speaker 10: We don't just beat top twenty five teams.
31:41
Speaker 7: We beat the.
31:45
Speaker 10: Kurt Signetti you know who is just quieted jamu waiting
31:49
for his turn, waiting, you know, to get that job higher.
31:52
I mean he's one, you know, he coached with Nick Saban.
31:56
Speaker 18: He has won everywhere.
31:57
Speaker 10: So thank you will wait in Kurt Signetti, just keep
32:00
walking the walk and talking to talk because it gives
32:04
us plenty too. All Right, I want to touch on
32:06
Sister Jean, who died yesterday at one hundred and six.
32:11
In third grade, she met a teacher who belonged to
32:13
the Sisters of Charity. The Blessed Virgin Mary.
32:16
Speaker 18: Was out west.
32:17
Speaker 10: The interaction inspired her to recite the same prayer almost
32:20
every day that she would you know what she wanted,
32:24
Dear God, help me understand what I should do. Please
32:27
tell me I should become a BVM. Sister Sister Jane,
32:31
we called the memoir wake Up with Purpose. What I've
32:34
learned in my first one hundred years was her book,
32:38
and she said, I guess God listened to me. She
32:40
eventually made her way to the order's mother house in Dubuque, Iowa,
32:44
made her vow. Sister Jean would then head back to California,
32:48
where she taught at various Catholic schools. She even coached
32:51
girls basketball. She eventually made the decision to move Chicago
32:54
for a position at Mondoland College in nineteen sixty one.
32:58
The school would merge WITHLA in ninety one, and then
33:01
Sister Jean was tasked to help students transition during the period,
33:06
and then in ninety four she was asked to help
33:09
the student basketball players keep their grades up. And then
33:12
later that year she was named the chaplain of the
33:14
men's team. Well, of course all that was perfect because
33:17
she just did her job. And then during the twenty
33:19
eighteen tournament she became an icon. Loyola was upset Miami
33:24
in the first round, buzzer beating three. The team went
33:26
on to be Tennessee in the round of thirty two.
33:28
Loyola went to its first Sweet sixteen and thirty three years,
33:31
and then of course ended up at the Final four.
33:35
And her energy and for them, the ninety eight year
33:38
old captivated fans crossing. I mean, she she had bibbleheads.
33:43
You know, some of the figures like on eBay were
33:44
selling for three hundred bucks. But anyway, the Amblers ultimately
33:48
advanced to the Final four for the first time since
33:50
sixty three. Sister Jean got more press then, you know,
33:54
she could deal with and anyway, passes at the age
33:57
of one hundred and six, so she will. I mean,
34:00
I'm sure there'll be a statue soon, you know with
34:03
the with the scarf. The Loyola scarf was her you know, was.
34:07
Speaker 18: Her big deal.
34:08
Speaker 10: All right, So let me get back to the Eagles
34:11
and the Phillies. The City of Brotherly lot of good
34:15
day in Philly. The cars were set on fire last
34:18
night in Philly.
34:18
Speaker 7: Well, you got to also remember MAC.
34:20
Speaker 8: That is seventy percent of all radio broadcasts in Philadelphia
34:24
are sports talk. You know, I just told you. Even
34:27
the rock stations. Oh, it's a sports talk in the morning.
34:31
I'm the big Rocker, Classic Rock all day, sports talk
34:35
all morning. I mean it is My god, can we
34:37
have enough people talking about sports in Philadelphia?
34:40
Speaker 7: It's insane. Yeah.
34:43
Speaker 10: I followed Tony Bruno for years. I thought Tony Bruno
34:46
was just one of the greats, and I stole from
34:48
him and I still use it to this day. But
34:51
I stole from him because I'll even use it with
34:53
my buddies on the golf course.
34:55
Speaker 26: You know.
34:55
Speaker 10: Well, I'd like to thank the Philadelphia Phillies for participating.
34:59
Speaker 18: It's just one of the the great lines after that.
35:01
Speaker 8: Well, you know, and also from a Nationals fan, And
35:04
that's commercial because I used to be in National's affiliate
35:08
and I was there and we broadcasted the twenty nineteen
35:11
World Series Improbable and just go one and oh Today,
35:14
and it was great and Max sures Are and Trey
35:17
Turner and you know, and I think with the exception
35:21
of Trey Turner, and that was with the Dodgers, not
35:24
a single one of the uh was who's the superagent
35:28
that gets them all at hates hates the Learner family.
35:32
If if oh, yeah, I knew you'd tell me you
35:37
say that, and I call myself. I told me, I said, well,
35:39
you know the major League Baseball superagent that is Soto
35:43
and Sures here and Trey Turner and Harper and all
35:45
these guys. And he says, like, no, we're never staying
35:48
in Washington. I think he'd rather sign a guy to
35:51
play in Kansas City than in Washington.
35:54
Speaker 7: DC's Morris Horas Scott Boris.
35:56
Speaker 8: Yeah, so so every one of these Scott Boris people
36:01
hasn't sniffed a World Series ring since twenty nineteen with
36:05
the Nationals, And nothing can make me happier. I'm sorry
36:08
for indulging my shaden freud. But with the exception of
36:11
Trey Turner's Dodgers run that he had will he was there.
36:16
None of these guys, Oh sure they make the postseason
36:18
Nationals or you know, sixty and one hundred and two
36:21
or whatever, but you know, and there, But they I
36:26
have a feeling that you know, c J. Abrams and
36:29
Mackenzie Gore and James Wood and those guys are gonna
36:33
win a World Series before Bryce Harper, Trey Turner or
36:37
Jon Soto ever do again. And nothing can make me
36:40
happier because I hate this greed in sports that says, hey,
36:44
the team helped you grow the teams, but we're just
36:47
going to go off and tell them to jump in
36:49
a lake because you can make more ad money in
36:52
San Diego or New York. I just I'm so pleased
36:56
when these guys get oust or don't even make the postseason.
37:00
I'm sorry, I'm venting here a little bit.
37:02
Speaker 18: Well that's cool.
37:03
Speaker 10: That's good because bors had going back because Boris had
37:06
a rod.
37:06
Speaker 18: If I'm not mistaken, he had a rod. He had
37:09
Bryce Harper, he had one.
37:11
Speaker 10: Soto U oh yeah, he remembers remember that guy named
37:16
Steven Strassburg, Yeah, and who got beat by Virginia in
37:19
the Colleague World Series and I don't think it was
37:22
ever the same since.
37:23
Speaker 7: Well, you know, World Series m v P and then.
37:27
Speaker 18: His arm his arm was done the first time. He's
37:30
in spring training, so anyway.
37:33
Speaker 10: But having good weekend, it's gonna be a you know,
37:35
a fairly good weekend with a lot of stuff going
37:37
on with you know, baseball and everything else that's happening,
37:41
so it should be a good one.
37:42
Speaker 18: So it's a good one. Okay, it's raining here again.
37:45
Speaker 7: Imagine that.
37:45
Speaker 8: Oh, you know, and in Orlando there's no bread and
37:48
milk on the shelves.
37:49
Speaker 18: People are freaked out.
37:51
Speaker 7: Our friends at w R O D.
37:53
Speaker 8: And you know, never never say Columbus Day weekend in
37:57
a beach run community like Daytona with rain in there,
38:00
Thank you sir.
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Speaker 24: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would
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you recognize them by their clothes, their age, the way
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they speak.
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Speaker 31: Would you notice a sixteen year old boy who've got
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his first job for exst spending money about to help
42:17
feed his little sisters, Or a.
42:19
Speaker 32: Mother who's in between jobs and sometimes goes to bed
42:23
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42:25
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every after.
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something to eat.
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Speaker 14: Or a retiree who fell ill and.
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Speaker 4: Had to choose between getting medicine or groceries.
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Speaker 24: I am the one innid Americans who struggle with hunger.
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People you passed by every day but never knew were hungry.
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Speaker 2: On a need to know basis, because you need to
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know the first thing today.
44:25
Speaker 8: Joining us former Chair of the House Freedom Concuss now
44:28
host of the Good for America podcast, he is Bob Good.
44:34
Thus the name Good morning, Bob. How are you doing, sir?
44:37
Happy autumn, Bob, Bob?
44:43
Speaker 7: Where'd you go? Oh? There you are? Yeah, now you're
44:48
coming back into focus. There.
44:50
Speaker 8: I thought I lost you for a second there. Happy
44:53
Columbus Day weekend. How are you, sir?
44:56
Speaker 1: Doing well on a beautiful Friday morning in Central Virginia?
44:59
Speaker 2: Gre you with you?
45:00
Speaker 8: These are the best kind of days. I love this
45:03
kind of weather, Bob. So I wanted to ask you
45:06
first and foremost the President's trade deal, which has brought peace,
45:13
or at least the first phase of peace in between
45:16
Gaza and Israel. From where you said, as somebody who
45:22
is strongly behind the Judaeo Christian ethic in the United
45:27
States and understands why it's under attack so much.
45:31
Speaker 7: It was the deal on the eighth.
45:37
Speaker 8: Profound moment in history, again building off the Abraham Accords,
45:41
saying countries that trade with one another don't fight with
45:44
one another.
45:45
Speaker 1: Generally, that's a great point. I think President Trump obviously
45:51
deserves tremendous praise from his first term in the deals
45:54
that he made, particularly Abraham Accords, and the things that
45:56
he did, and by the way he achieved those taking
46:00
unprecedented action on things like recognizing Jerusalem as the capital
46:04
of Israel. So by standing with Israel, he was still
46:07
able to achieve unprecedented peace accords to the Abraham Accords.
46:11
And I think if he had been the winner in
46:16
twenty twenty and sort of the consecutive term, I think
46:19
he would have progress on that that we didn't have
46:21
obviously during the Biden administration, which was a disaster on
46:24
many levels. But it is a day for it is
46:28
a wonderful time to see there has been a ceasefire.
46:31
Israel is stronger than they were and safer than they
46:35
were I would submit two years ago, because of the
46:37
great work that their military and their troops have done
46:41
to weaken Hezballah and obviously Jumas, but even Iran, and
46:48
so Israel is in a stronger position today. President Trump
46:51
has tried to balance his strong support for Israel with
46:54
trying to bring peace to the region or use his
46:57
influence to do so, and obviously the United States, there
46:59
is no substituent United States strength economically to your point
47:03
with with with how he and his his team has
47:06
tried to use trade and things like that to for leverage.
47:10
But I think, uh, there's hope here. Obviously there's a
47:15
lot to be worked out. At least he have a
47:16
cease fire, at least that the hostages, that the ones
47:19
they are still living are gonna come home, and obviously
47:22
the bodies of those who've been killed, some of those,
47:25
but we will we will see about, you know, the
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disarming of U Amas. Who's actually going to govern Gaza?
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What about US troops? We're talking about two hundred that
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won't actually be in Gaza, but I'll be monitoring it
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in the area. Who's going to pay for this, Who's
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responsible for this? The lines on the map apparently haven't
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been fully agreed to yet. But yet we've got to
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cease fire. Israel stronger than they were two years ago.
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Hamas has obviously been far as far weaker as the
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law is a weaker, Iran is weaker. Be humiliated, and
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President Trump has late and overarching, obviously role in this
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and deserves great credit.
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Speaker 8: What about the Iran and you know, and you playing
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chess with this and their ties to Russia and what
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this does to that alliance, especially when it comes to
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trying to get peace in between Russia and Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: Well it makes me think of the back in the
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days of Bush talking about w Bush talking about the
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access of evil. And it is true Iran, Russia, and
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North Korea, and to a large extent China certainly with
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its relation growing relationship with North Korea, and it's a
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stronger alliance at the moment with Russia seemingly. So these
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are bad actors who have in common. They're an enemy
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of the United States. They are an enemy of the
48:47
things that we stand for, their enemy of Israel. But
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Russia has been weakened too, you know, Russia. It was predicted,
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you remember when the war started in what now twenty two,
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so three and a half years ago, it was predicted
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by some that Ukraine would fall in two weeks. Right,
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Russia is in much larger country, Russia. I don't agree
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with those who said all along. We've had this conversation
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several times on air as well as all there. I
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don't agree that Russia has been in moolden or strengthened
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because of what Putin has done. They've been exposed. President
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Trump has pointed that out that that Putin and Russia
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have been exposed as much weaker than many thought because
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they haven't been able to achieve victory over Ukraine. And
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so you know, hopefully Ukraine will prevail, hopefully Russia will
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not be successful. But at any case, I don't think
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Russia is stronger.
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Speaker 7: Is what they've done.
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Speaker 22: With his last three answers.
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Speaker 8: So one of your favorite people was apparently being interviewed
49:42
and said, every day just keeps getting better. Chuck Schumer
49:46
talking about now approaching the tenth day of the government shutdown.
49:51
Speaker 7: Is he right?
49:51
Speaker 8: Is the Democratic Party having their salad days over the shutdown?
49:59
Or is he just singing a brave song whistling past
50:02
the graveyard.
50:03
Speaker 1: Well, I do think the primary point for those who
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are anti shutdown, so whether it's politicians, whether it's citizens,
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whether it's media, hoomever, who's bemoaning a shutdown which is
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not a real shutdown, as you know, with the majority
50:16
of the government continue to operate. However, it's very simple.
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The House did vote to fund the government. It was
50:23
a bipartisan with what one or two I think just
50:26
one Republican from Maine, Jared and I mean one Democrat
50:29
from Maine, jar Jared Golden, voting for it. But it
50:31
was bipartisan. And then you had bipartisan support in the Senate,
50:35
a majority for opening a couple of Dems and two
50:39
or three Democrats and all but one Republican. But you
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only had fifty five votes to keep the government open.
50:45
So you have forty seven or so Democrats, forty four
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Democrats I think it is who are voting to keep
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the government closed. Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the
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Senate have closed the government and refused to keep the
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government open. That is the simple factual matter of On
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the left, you might say, oh, well, we want to
51:02
use this as leverage to get some new things, to
51:04
add some things to get these healthcare health insurance spending
51:08
that when government provided health insurance, we want to trillion dollars. Yes,
51:13
So the simplicity of it is shut tchumor has shut
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down the government. Chuck Schumer is refusing to reopen the government.
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The Republicans, and I don't even agree with what they've
51:20
done in the ceear, but they have voted to keep
51:22
the government open. Almost every Republican has done that. But
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do I think the Democrats have had some success of
51:29
making the messaging about health insurance. Yes, they've had some
51:33
success on the messaging side of it. But Democrats are
51:36
clearly wrong on this. If your belief is that we
51:38
should keep the government open and operating, I have never
51:42
had that belief in totality, you know. I think there
51:45
are reasons to not continue to fund the government, as
51:47
you know, and I think Republicans should be taking advantage
51:49
of this to cut spending, to reduce the federal workforce,
51:53
and frankly, to break the Democrats politically.
51:56
Speaker 8: Do you think that's happening on the administrative level Russ
51:59
Vote and what he's been doing, I know we talked
52:02
about this a little bit last Friday, and his cuts
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to the federal workforce, I don't.
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Speaker 1: Know, because they haven't actually followed through with it yet.
52:12
I hope they are not over promising undelivered. I hope
52:16
that Trump and Vote will follow through with this and
52:18
will actually lay off staff. I don't think they ought
52:20
to pay the seven hundred and fifty thousand or so
52:23
furthered workers that are apparently non essential. That's twenty five
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percent of federal workforce. Eighty percent of federal workforce wasn't
52:30
coming back to work in person after four years at
52:32
COVID and the president that's worn into office back in January.
52:35
So I don't think they ought to back pay these
52:36
federal workers that have been declared non essential. The ones
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who are working, you know, obviously deserve to be paid
52:43
for the work that they've done, but the twenty seven
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or five thousand should not be paid.
52:48
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