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"Lawyers (and other Tools)" (FTTxJT Sat 082926 hr3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it live. Making mornings great again. We'll do
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  Speaker 1: it live. First thing today. Do it live. On the
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  Speaker 1: Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas. Yeah, we'll do it live.
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  Speaker 2: Joe works hard to steal me up. He's damn near
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  Speaker 2: every day. Pleased for work when the sun comes up.
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  Speaker 2: Drops a kid to school and I'm away. Joe has
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  Speaker 2: everything he dreamed of. All the treasures that he needs.
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  Speaker 2: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 3: He only aims to please you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Here's how we do it. First, we fire
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  Speaker 1: up the amplitude and frequency modulators connected to the program.
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  Speaker 1: You bask in that afterglow. Your efforts are to turn
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  Speaker 1: the radio on and tune it in. And my job
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  Speaker 1: is to tell you what went on last night, especially
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  Speaker 1: important on a Saturday as these Representatives like to try
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  Speaker 1: to sneak the bad news out the door on a
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  Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, preferably long after the late editions of the
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  Speaker 1: newspaper have gone to bed so that they can hope
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  Speaker 1: that you miss it and two or three days of
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  Speaker 1: other things go on before you gather again on Monday
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  Speaker 1: to talk about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Unfortunately, they,
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  Speaker 1: as they always are, are probably a decade behind the zeitgeist.
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  Speaker 1: You're out there working on a Saturday morning just like
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  Speaker 1: you are on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. And more and
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  Speaker 1: more people, more of the coffee shops, more of the
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  Speaker 1: bagel places, more of the bakeries are out there realizing, hey,
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  Speaker 1: there's as many people on the road Saturday morning as
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  Speaker 1: there are on Friday morning. Maybe we need to make
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  Speaker 1: sure we're open as well. Maybe you're one of those
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  Speaker 1: as well. I'm down with you. My son's got a
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  Speaker 1: degree in baking and pasturing. And I said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the most successful bakers are not the ones you see
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  Speaker 1: on the TV food network. They're the ones who figure
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  Speaker 1: out how to make an amazing scone and an incredible muffin,
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  Speaker 1: find somebody to roast some coffee for them, and they
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  Speaker 1: print cash from 4 a.m. until about noon, and then
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  Speaker 1: they go home and count it.
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because that's what we want. We want some good baked
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  Speaker 1: goods and a cup of coffee first thing in the
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  Speaker 1: morning and a chance to chat about the affairs du jour.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what we do here. That's our part of
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  Speaker 1: the equation here. And we'll tell you what went on
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  Speaker 1: last night. And we will tell you our analysis of it.
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  Speaker 1: We'll dissect everything up into easily digestible gummies for you.
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  Speaker 1: And then once the side effects start to kick in,
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  Speaker 1: I want to find out how it's impacting you, where
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  Speaker 1: you are. 434-882-4217 is the phone number. Emails come into
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  Speaker 1: JTInTheMorningRadio at gmail.com. Pardon me. Our first things this morning.
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  Speaker 1: House Republicans are going to try to force a resolution
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  Speaker 1: condemning socialism this week. He can't do the Save America Act,
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  Speaker 1: but Jeff Crank says he's introduced a measure to condemn
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  Speaker 1: and denounce socialism in all its forms. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: he includes all the things that grew out of the
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  Speaker 1: Great Society Movement, but he should. The folks in Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: are going to rename Nashville Airport for Dolly Parton, it appears,
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  Speaker 1: as Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and the Metropolitan Nashville Airport
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  Speaker 1: Authority have announced plans to do that.
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  Speaker 3: U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Officials said about 90 U.S. citizens remained unaccounted for in
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  Speaker 1: Nepal along the border at the foot of the Himalayas
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  Speaker 1: after a glacier caused a dramatic flood along a river
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  Speaker 1: there just at the foot of the Himalayas. 22 Americans
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  Speaker 1: associated with a spiritual organization in the area around the
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  Speaker 1: Chinese-Nepalese border there. A military judge, first after scheduling the
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  Speaker 1: trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for 2028, prosecutors have been
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  Speaker 1: trying to get 2027 down as the date for the
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  Speaker 1: alleged mastermind of the September 11th attacks, now says that
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  Speaker 1: his confession entered into the court in 2007 was involuntary.
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  Speaker 1: that he gave to FBIs and cannot be used as evidence.
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  Speaker 1: He said prosecutors failed to prove that Muhammad's statements to
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  Speaker 1: the FBI were voluntarily given. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh
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  Speaker 1: said tax hikes on Friday, pardon me, interest rate hikes
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  Speaker 1: may feel like the same. Interest rate hikes are coming
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  Speaker 1: in the months to come to help tamp down inflation.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump said Friday the U.S. has entered into agreement
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  Speaker 1: with Venezuela, which Marco Rubio points to $ 100 billion in
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  Speaker 1: private investment in the South American country, creating high-paying jobs.
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  Speaker 1: And for America's part in that, the United States will
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  Speaker 1: take control of 65 billion barrels of oil. The administration
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  Speaker 1: is also taking its first shots after economic D-Day, trying
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  Speaker 1: to limit an Egyptian bank's operations in the United Arab
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  Speaker 1: Emirates because the bank has been connected to funding the
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  Speaker 1: Iranian government. And those are some of our first things.
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  Speaker 1: September 11th, for our part, we are going to be
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  Speaker 1: in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at the site of the Flight 93 Memorial.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it. Obviously, I've seen pictures
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  Speaker 1: of it. But we were there to broadcast on the
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  Speaker 1: fifth anniversary of the attacks, and nothing had been done yet.
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  Speaker 1: It was still basically an old strip mine that a
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  Speaker 1: plane landed in. You could see the charred trees across
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  Speaker 1: the pit from where we were broadcasting from, and there
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  Speaker 1: was a makeshift chain link fence full of messages from
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  Speaker 1: a grateful nation that wanted to pay homage to these
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  Speaker 1: heroes who stopped the terrorists on that flight. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: News and analysis, now without artificial colors. First Thing Today
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  Speaker 1: by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 14: You say you haven't been the same since you had
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  Speaker 14: your little crash.
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  Speaker 18: But you might feel better.
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  Speaker 17: If they gave you some cash.
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  Speaker 14: The more I think about it, old Billy was right.
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  Speaker 14: Let's kill all the loggers, kill it tonight. You don't
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  Speaker 14: want to work, you want to live like a king.
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  Speaker 14: But the big bad world doesn't owe you a thing.
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  Speaker 14: Get over it.
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  Speaker 1: I will remind you, the Shakespearean character that uttered the phrase,
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  Speaker 1: first we will kill all the lawyers, was trying to
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  Speaker 1: bring on anarchy so that he could ascend to the
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  Speaker 1: throne under the guise of bringing order to a disordered world.
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  Speaker 1: Just saying. I have friends who have legal degrees, and
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  Speaker 1: I love them. Not their legal degrees, but I love
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they exist. I've needed lawyers. Lawyers are
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  Speaker 1: like firearms. They're completely inanimate objects until you use them
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  Speaker 1: for something. Are you using them for good or for bad?
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me? Okay.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So technically a lawyer is not an inanimate object. All right.
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  Speaker 1: But as a jurist, I see I have human beings
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  Speaker 1: who have legal degrees and I can have wonderful conversations
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  Speaker 1: with them. And then if I need them, I can
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  Speaker 1: switch on the lawyer part and then we can have
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  Speaker 1: a lawyer conversation. It's weird, but yeah. So I was
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  Speaker 1: talking about the part of the human beings that are
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  Speaker 1: lawyers when they're being lawyers. Oh, gosh. So I want
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  Speaker 1: to debunk a couple of things, like that bouncing ball
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  Speaker 1: at the start of the Pixar movies. Debunk, debunk, debunk, debunk, debunk.
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  Speaker 1: Democratic National Committee. News item. Dateline. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Democratic National Committee
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  Speaker 1: is establishing its first internal litigation department and mobilizing tens
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of poll observers ahead of a legal battle
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  Speaker 1: with Republicans over the 2026 midterm ballot rules. Oh, where
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  Speaker 1: to begin? Where, where, where to begin? First off, Lie
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  Speaker 1: number one is that the Democratic National Committee does not
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  Speaker 1: have a team of lawyers standing by to go sue
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  Speaker 1: over the conduct of any election anywhere. Towards the end,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and pop culture sometimes gives you good references.
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  Speaker 1: Back before knowing this stuff wasn't bad, But I've been
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  Speaker 1: in the room when the lawyers are there saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll head out to the county office building in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: One of my favorite, most delicious pieces of irony of
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  Speaker 1: the 2026 midterms is former Congressman Tom Perriello holding a
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  Speaker 1: rally at a postal facility in talking about defending Virginians'
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  Speaker 1: right to cast their ballots by mail. He's a Democrat,
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  Speaker 1: of course, so, Joe, where's the irony? So in 2008,
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  Speaker 1: November of 2008, Tom gathered a bunch of lawyers, just
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  Speaker 1: like the ones the DNC says they hadn't had until
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  Speaker 1: this year, aww, And they all gathered in Charlottesville's famous
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  Speaker 1: historic courthouse because there were bags and bags and bags
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  Speaker 1: of mail-in ballots in 2008. Now, the only group that
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  Speaker 1: was trying to mail in ballots were soldiers who were deployed.
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  Speaker 1: And these bags and bags of votes had come in
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  Speaker 1: from soldiers who had been deployed in And Congressman Perriello
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  Speaker 1: and the lawyers that the DNC wants you to believe
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have in 2008. Why, they didn't have them
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  Speaker 1: until just now.
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  Speaker 17: Liars.
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  Speaker 1: The lawyers from the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: National Congressional Committee and the Democratic Socialists of America, they
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  Speaker 1: all gathered. Everyone pitched in lawyers. Because Tom was ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the incumbent Republican, Virgil Goode, by a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And that if these ballots from soldiers would break by
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  Speaker 1: the usual percentages Republican, well then Virgil would be the winner.
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  Speaker 1: So Tom fought tooth and nail with lawyers to keep
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  Speaker 1: those ballots from being counted. But now... Tom loves mail-in ballots.
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  Speaker 1: Irony aside, the point I'm making is the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 1: and the Republican Party have lawyers every year. And they
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  Speaker 1: send them where they feel like shenanigans are going to
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  Speaker 1: take place. Unless they're, what's the political word for it? Stupid.
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  Speaker 1: And then they don't. The in-house legal shop is led
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  Speaker 1: by Dan Freeman and Ken Martin. There'll be support lawyers
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  Speaker 1: in every state ready to go into court to challenge
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  Speaker 1: the results of the election. Now, I thought, and tell
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  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, I thought that when Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: questioned the results of both the 2020 election and well,
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  Speaker 1: mostly the 2020 election, he was a traitor. He was,
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  Speaker 1: committing sedition or seduction. Was it seduction or sedition? I
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  Speaker 1: think pretty sure that Donald Trump was trying to tear
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  Speaker 1: down the United States itself. by challenging the results of
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  Speaker 1: the 2020 election. Why, he even had, remember, Joe, he
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  Speaker 1: had fake electors. He had illegal electors set. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: each one of those cases of the illegal electors has
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  Speaker 1: been dismissed, just so you know. Didn't make the front page.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't have it, did it? So I'm looking at this
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  Speaker 1: story saying, yeah, DNC always has lawyers. Why is this?
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  Speaker 1: Because they want you to believe. And see, now the
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  Speaker 1: story needs to be, why would they have lawyers if
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  Speaker 1: they didn't think Donald Trump was going to cheat? Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean anything because we know they're going to. Because where
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  Speaker 1: they're sending the lawyers and where the Republicans are sending
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  Speaker 1: the lawyers is nowhere near to where the ballots are
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  Speaker 1: being cast, which is in somebody's sitting room or the
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  Speaker 1: event space at a senior living facility. That's where these
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  Speaker 1: lawyers need to be. These lawyers need to be at
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  Speaker 1: the distribution hub of the Postal Service, making sure ballots
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  Speaker 1: don't go to people who aren't citizens. That's where the
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  Speaker 1: lawyers need to be. not at the electoral board headquarters
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  Speaker 1: on November 6th. But they're telling you this because you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be like, oh, Trump must be trying some shenanigans. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he must be trying something. Why else would they have lawyers?
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  Speaker 1: They always have lawyers.
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  Speaker 5: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Tonk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: All natural and free of artificial intelligence. Coming home this
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  Speaker 1: Christmas day. Oh, hey, that reminds me. Just before we
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  Speaker 1: leave for Shanksville, Pennsylvania, there's going to be a concert
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  Speaker 1: announcement and a chance for you to do something we
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of fun with last year. I can't
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  Speaker 1: really tell you much more about it there, but just
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  Speaker 1: infer from it what you will. But if you were
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: around last year listening to the program, you know we
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: had a great time giving away some concert tickets. But
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you what concert or anything like that. There,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: we'll get to you. A couple of text messages and
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a phone call here. I think that beats an inside straight.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: But first, a text message from earlier in the program.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Dan writes in saying, Joe, what is your problem with superheroes?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: superheroes are America, Superman, Captain America. Marxists don't like superheroes.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Marxists think we are the superhero. No, actually, Jefferson, Madison,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: these guys thought you were the superheroes. I think of
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: all of them, George Washington would find the idolatry on
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: behalf of George Washington to be embarrassing. Not that he
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: wouldn't use it. He'd probably try to use it to
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: do some things with. I know for a fact that
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Robert E. Lee, the statue of all statues, the avatar
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: of all the hate the Southern Poverty Law Center and
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: all these goons could muster, had specifically told people, don't
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: build statues of me. The heroes of our lives are
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the ones who don't want. They're Sully. They're the guys
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: on Flight 93. They're the people who say, I'm not
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: waiting for Superman to come take the terrorists out, or Homelander,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: for that matter, if you want to really play in
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the superhero world. One of the reasons, I mean, even
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: for a guy who doesn't mind a Quentin Tarantino or
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Sam Peckinpah film, I think sometimes the boys can be
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a little rough. But stop waiting for Superman to come.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: You're Superman. I'm Superman or Batman or Kaiser Jose or
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: something along those lines. And the sad thing is the
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: story of the superheroes... originally were the story of Americans
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: helping the superheroes, the Americans who made Clark Kent who
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: he was. And that Batman was just a kid who
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: was processing the death of his parents and happened to
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: see stuff. He was America's retelling of Sherlock Holmes. Maybe
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: it's because we don't trust the police. Maybe our zeal
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: for the superhero is that we hate the cops now
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: because Bernie Sanders and Tim Walz and these folks have
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: so salted the field regarding law enforcement that we just
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: want a superhero to come in and dictate to us
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: what is truth, justice, and the American way. A dangerous,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: dangerous place, don't you think? Anyway, now to the phones
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: at 434-882-4217. Good morning. You're on the air with Joe
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: first thing this morning. Who's this?
• 32:30
  Speaker 20: Good morning, Joe. It's Kareem.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: You know, I knew that, Kareem. I don't know. Again,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: stop writing these moments down. They're keeping notes on moments
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: where I either repeat myself or I repeat myself. So anyway,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: what's on your mind?
• 32:44
  Speaker 20: Oh, Joe, there's a lot there. I'll try to keep
• 32:47
  Speaker 20: it less controversial today.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, boring.
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  Speaker 3: Boring.
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  Speaker 6: It's good that you.
• 32:53
  Speaker 20: Repeat yourself because I think what most people only remember
• 32:55
  Speaker 20: about 15% of what they hear in a lecture. Not
• 32:58
  Speaker 20: that your show is a four-hour lecture. It's a four-hour
• 33:01
  Speaker 20: rollercoaster ride.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I get you. Yeah, I hear you. I feel you, player.
• 33:05
  Speaker 20: But go with the Tom Perinello just for a quick–
• 33:09
  Speaker 20: before I jump into other topics– You know, he's going
• 33:12
  Speaker 20: to be in the news a lot more lately, I think. Now, granted,
• 33:16
  Speaker 20: there's no bad publicity. So those three investigations, the SPLC, the.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: What were the other ones?
• 33:25
  Speaker 20: The CAIR– that third one was– was.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: That the Open Border Society? Well, the Open Society Foundation.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: That's the one that Tom used to run for George Soros.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: That's the clearinghouse of all of George Soros'– funny money
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: uh and then the council of american islamic relations that's
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: care uh and the southern poverty law center are all
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: being investigated by the treasury department for playing fast and
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: loose with the laws regarding non-profits and political activities.
• 34:01
  Speaker 20: I'm seeing rumors online of uh not just those but
• 34:05
  Speaker 20: uh some other foreign organizations or uh that are recently
• 34:10
  Speaker 20: retroactively branded terrorist supporting organizations. So like Brad Krasenstein, I
• 34:15
  Speaker 20: think I'm getting that guy's name right. He funded one
• 34:18
  Speaker 20: of those groups and that was like, he's going to be, well,
• 34:22
  Speaker 20: there'll probably be a due process for that.
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 20: Bless his heart. But going on from there, Joe, I'm,
• 34:29
  Speaker 20: I'm seeing all these investigations coming through and I think
• 34:32
  Speaker 20: they might be wrapped up by, Oh, maybe the end
• 34:34
  Speaker 20: of October.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: That'd be interesting. Or maybe it'll just track home for years.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: So do you think somebody is going to wear, you know,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: an orange jumpsuit at the end of this? Because I
• 34:42
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  Speaker 1: we have people that say this is against the law
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  Speaker 1: and we'll point to where it's against the law, but
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: then nobody ever gets punished for breaking the law because they, claim, oh,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you're just weaponizing politics and you're using the justice system
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  Speaker 1: to go after your political opponents. And it's a con
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  Speaker 20: Joe, this may be the most controversial thing I say.
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  Speaker 20: Hopefully they're in this phone call. The people that wear
• 35:28
  Speaker 20: orange jumpsuits, I look to Reality Winner. I look to
• 35:32
  Speaker 20: John Kiriakou. John Kiriakou is a CIA guy. He's the
• 35:37
  Speaker 20: only guy that went to prison for the CIA torture program,
• 35:40
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• 35:44
  Speaker 20: and she leaked something, and because she leaked something.
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  Speaker 1: It got out.
• 35:48
  Speaker 20: But the last thing I'll do for the weekend, Joe,
• 35:50
  Speaker 20: because you've only got a few minutes left on the show,
• 35:52
  Speaker 20: and everybody wants to hear what you have to say.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I know I do.
• 35:56
  Speaker 20: That prophet guy from Muhammad overseas, I think he was
• 36:01
  Speaker 20: not big on making idols.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: In fact, if I'm not mistaken, he didn't even want
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: his face shown. Anyway, Joe, have a great weekend, and
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: thank you for taking my call. Not at all. Thank
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  Speaker 1: I'm just sitting here. I'd be talking no matter what.
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• 36:30
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• 36:36
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• 37:28
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  Speaker 5: Probably?
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  Speaker 18: It's been 23 minutes since I ate.
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  Speaker 1: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 12: Uh, you should wait 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, don't tell me what to do.
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  Speaker 19: Cannonball!
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  Speaker 13: Cramp!
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  Speaker 21: Oh, I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 1: I can probably hit the green from here. Probably.
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  Speaker 17: Can I get a mulligan?
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 12: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
• 43:35
  Speaker 21: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
• 43:39
  Speaker 21: and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
• 43:42
  Speaker 21: or a friend. Buzzed driving is drunk driving. A message
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  Speaker 21: brought to you by NHTSA and the Ad Council.
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  Speaker 17: You know the legal drinking age is 21. You may
• 43:51
  Speaker 17: also know this law protects teens. Find out more at DontServeTeens.gov.
• 43:56
  Speaker 17: A message from the We Don't Serve Teens program and
• 43:58
  Speaker 17: the Federal Trade Commission.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: the second most famous Thomas in Charlottesville.
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  Speaker 14: Here's to the babies in a brand new world Here's
• 44:23
  Speaker 14: to the beauty of the stars Here's to the travelers
• 44:28
  Speaker 14: on the open road Here's to the dreamers in the
• 44:32
  Speaker 14: bars Here's to the soldiers of the bitter war.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. You can go now. That's just easy. I appreciate
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: every minute you share with us because I just, Somebody
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: asked me once how I knew. I think it was
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: in adjunct to our discussions about Ted's D and the
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: inner Tedness that we all have. We all have something.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: And I realized I just love talking to people. I
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: love finding out what they're doing. I love finding out
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: what they're all about. And that's, to me, the greatest
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: gift of doing this is that each day, I run into,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: whether it's via a text message.
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: Or an.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Email or a phone call, somebody who I didn't know
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: anything about. And I got this text message last Saturday
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: at the end of the show. I didn't really have
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: a chance to get into it. And Dean writes in,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: he says, Joe, why did you get in trouble with
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: your bosses back in the day for talking to listeners? Well,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I guess there's still a modern connection to it. This
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: is why John and the folks at JVC are so awesome.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: And they were around then, too. They owned a station
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: called The Bone back then. It was keeping all that,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: you know, new rock alive there. The stuff that had
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: been on... What was it? LIR? You know, the Talking
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: Heads and Blondie and all that stuff that was the
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: alternative scene back then. But, you know... It was the
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: beginning of an era where what we were putting out
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: of radio became more important than what you were giving
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: into it. And I think you see, if you follow
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: any industry trades, and I don't imagine that you would
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: care one iota what some big corporation that owns hundreds
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: of stations in hundreds of cities does. does. But every
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: time a quarter ends, a financial quarter ends, I'll read
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: in the trade papers about this corporation or that corporation,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: 9% down, 10% down. And I'm like, how do you
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: run a business like that? I mean, we've had colossal
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: capital expenditures hit us, but they're one-time things. So the
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: whole point of a capital expenditure is it's It's an
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: emergency situation that you're going to have to deal with.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: So you want to have that capitalization ready to deal
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: with them. But if you take that away, and I
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: know that's an accounting game, we're up from last year
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: by a considerable amount. Just my little old company, just
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: one group of stations in Harrisonburg and Stanton and Charlottesville,
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Virginia and Waynesboro. Plus the program, Thomas Media produces this
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: program for the Talk Media Network, and I write a
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: column for the Daily Signal. So as far as a
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: media company goes, Thomas Media, unlike all these big corporations,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: is actually plus from last year at this time. And
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: so when I see these, I think back to what
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: you were saying, Dean, which is I was joking last
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: week that when I was on 103.9 on Long Island, gosh,
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: 30 years ago, was it 30 years ago? And my
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: son's 30, so it was 30 years ago. I would
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: get consulted vigorously because we used to do an all-request show.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: I was on at lunchtime, so we would take requests.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: And I had a pretty wide window, 10 a.m. till 10.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: three in the afternoon, I could play requests, take phone calls.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: And then it got narrowed and it was just noon
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: till one. And then that got narrowed to no more
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: phone calls on the air, just take their request and
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: play their song or play the artist that they asked for,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: whatever it came down to. And it just kept getting narrowed.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: And I would get, you know, consulted when we were
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: still doing the phone calls on the listeners on the air.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Why'd you go on so long with them? And there
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: was some point to, you know, get, you know, get
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: on with it to the other listeners. The learning experience
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: was great. I needed to make sure that a phone
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: call with a listener was doing something for the other listener.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Because remember, you are not on the phone with me.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: I'm here for you. And if anyone calls into the program,
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: they have to understand their call is to serve your ends.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: If there's a question, maybe they're asking a question you're
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: thinking of as well. Because if I'm talking to somebody
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: on the phone, whether it's a guest or a caller,
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: we're doing this for your benefit. And I learned that then.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: I learned that because I would come home and they
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: told me I was playing too many phone calls or
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: phone calls went on too long. And I didn't get
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: it until I talked to a sage consultant. He's like, no, well,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: you have to understand, Joe, the person listening is the
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: one you're serving, not the one on the phone. That's it.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: So you forget because you're having a direct conversation with
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: somebody on the phone, but I'm supposed to be talking
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: to you And I'm like, hey, somebody else wants to
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: talk with us. And once I realized that, it became
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: a whole much more holistic then. So I appreciate the
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: question on it, but that's why they used to get
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: on my case, not because I was mean to callers
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: or I didn't do anything, but because I was too
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: young in my radio career to understand that if I'm
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: talking to a listener on the phone, It is for
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: your benefit, not just me and the caller. And this
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: is a dangerous thing because a lot of people don't
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: get that. A lot of people forget that because there's
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: a phone call online so you have that direct attention,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to this caller. Well, no, we are supposed
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: to be here talking to you because it's a three-way
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: deal going now. Once there's a caller or a guest
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: on the air, It's a three-way situation. There's you, me,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: and the caller or the guest. But you're the one
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: that we're supposed to be thinking of. And that's what
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: I didn't get my first go-round on WRCN, which makes
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: John and his team's choice to put us back where
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: it all started. My wife's up on Long Island right
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: now listening to us on Long Island News Radio. And
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: it's kind of cool because The only reason I dated
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: her was because she couldn't hear the radio station where
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: she lived and had no idea who I was. Much
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: like Bruce Blakeman. She wanted to date me even though
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: she had no idea who I was. Just like New
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: Yorkers all want to vote for Bruce Blakeman, it seems.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: And a last question came in on that poll. Joe,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: I've looked at all these polls and it makes it
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: look like Blakeman's trailing by 15 or 20 points. I
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: see one poll.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: That was done a few weeks back that says he's
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: down by four. Is that the one you're talking about?
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: And why do you choose that one? Because they polled 2,000 people.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: All the other polls, they polled like 800, 600 people.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Look at them. I will gather with you next Saturday
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: or Monday. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
• 52:51
  Speaker 12: Much of neck and spinal pain is caused by the
• 52:53
  Speaker 12: compression of spinal nerves, according to Dr. Jeff Fisher, an Irvine,
• 52:57
  Speaker 12: California-based chiropractor with more than 30 years of experience. This
• 53:01
  Speaker 12: compression can stem from a chronic condition, acute injury, or
• 53:05
  Speaker 12: simply aging. Traction is the most effective way to relax, stretch,
• 53:09
  Speaker 12: and decompress the spine and surrounding muscles and ligaments of
• 53:12
  Speaker 12: the neck and back, Dr. Fisher explains. His inventions, the
• 53:16
  Speaker 12: Fisher Traction Neck Device and Fisher Traction Low Back Device,
• 53:20
  Speaker 12: Safely separates bones to eliminate pain and restore function so
• 53:24
  Speaker 12: the body can heal naturally. The Fisher Traction devices are
• 53:27
  Speaker 12: designed to restore the natural curves of the neck and
• 53:30
  Speaker 12: back and gently induce hydration and motion into the spine
• 53:33
  Speaker 12: with the use of a release strap. The devices are
• 53:36
  Speaker 12: convenient and easy to use in the comfort of your home.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: And Dr.
• 53:39
  Speaker 12: Fisher's series of YouTube videos provides helpful videos and detailed instructions.
• 53:43
  Speaker 12: For more information, visit FisherTraction.com.
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  Speaker 4: Radio. It's on.