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"A New York Conservative's State of Mind" (Monday August 25, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: A much higher chance of dying in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Speaker 2: They can do in New York City. The first thing
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Today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas, the
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second most famous Thomas and Charlotte smills your.
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Speaker 1: Words at steal metem.
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Speaker 3: You have a day at least for work.
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Speaker 2: When the sun comes up, drops a pet to scoop.
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Speaker 4: Joe has everything a dream, do all the treasure seven mets.
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Speaker 2: The one that Joe's as smile.
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Speaker 5: He only aims, it's.
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Speaker 3: Me let me be. I'm told I shoot like a girl.
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Speaker 6: I want to be.
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Speaker 3: And by that, my instructor means I listen to instructions
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and then do what I've been taught. Uh four three
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four eight eight two four two one seven that is
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our phone number. And you know he's he teased me
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me mercilessly about it. He says, jt you shoot like
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a girl. I said what he says, you do what
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I tell you to do. I'm like, he says. Every
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guy comes in here thinking they're you know, Donnie Wahlberg
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from some movie, and they're holding their nine millimeters sideways
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and they're, oh, I don't know. I was. I had
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never fired a gun before so when he was teaching
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me how to aim and shoot, I listened. Is that
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an unusual thing? I mean, do we think DNA it's
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it's a little bit like common sense. Not to go
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off on a tangent, but everyone says, oh, he has
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no common sense. I don't know. Has he been taught
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common sense? Has it ever been splained to him? Well,
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isn't it common No, it's not. That's the one of
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the things I hate about the phrase common sense. It's
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not common And if we don't say the things that
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are common sensical, then they become uncommon sense. And then
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you're here. It's like in spaceballs. So what are we
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seeing now? This is now now? That was then, this
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is now now? So we're watching now, Yes, we're watching now.
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Dark helmet. Oh so much to get into here in
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the big easy. I feel like we should be doing
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stand up because the studio we're in I posted a
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picture of it on social media. I have a giant
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brick wall behind me. I think, you know, the program
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should have a three drink minimum, and of course that
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drink should be first free in the morning. Coffee ding ding,
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more plugs than a Christmas tree in December. But you
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know by all means. It's a drink three drink minimum
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first free in the morning coffee. You get yours at
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one two seven dot Coffee. It is specifically roasted for
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this show, as opposed to Comedy Central someday having a
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roast of Thomas. Never got it and it's just it's
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it's kind of a funny scene. But there's a picture
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of me and the brick wall there. I used to
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have it on my Internet site. One of my very
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first Internet sites had a page on it and it
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was just a brick wall with spray paint on it
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saying congratulations, you've officially reached the end of the Internet.
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Now go outside and do something. But that's what I
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feel like. This is sitting here with a giant brick
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wall hovering over my shoulders here in the French Quarter
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for the State Policy Network, brought to you. The broadcasts
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are by the Daily Signal Daily Signal dot com as
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well as our friends at the Virginia Institute for Public Policy.
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We'll be podcasting a lot of different stuff from here.
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Some visual if you need to see what I look like.
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Obviously you went to Seville Joe Thomas on Facebook to
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look at the picture I mentioned of the brick wall
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and Joe and three drink minimums and no respect at all.
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But our first things today, the stories we're going to
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discuss you and me. US Department of Agriculture will no
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longer be funding solar panels on productive farmland to allow
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solar manufactured by foreign adversaries to be used in USDA projects.
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Since twenty twelve, solar panels on farmland nationwide have increased
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by fifty percent. Subsidized solar farms, according to Secretary of
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Agriculture Brooke Rolin, are pricing farmers out of the market
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of I don't know being a farmer. Good news. The
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Pentagon has reportedly been quietly planning a military deployment to Chicago,
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a leaker has told The Washington Post, which they published
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in their Pentagon Papers section. US Envoy Thomas Barrek was
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in Israel met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday to
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discuss Syria and Lebanon. The Israeli Minister for Strategic Affairs
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Ron Dermer and Defense Minister Israel Katz had been in
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Syria to talk with Ass'ad al Shibani on security arrangements.
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Vice President J. D. Vance says Russia has made significant
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concessions regarding security guarantees if Ukraine gives up the land,
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that Russia won't come back and invade for more Later,
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he told that to NBC News Kristen Welker on Face
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or Meet the Press. US. President Trump's envoy, Keith Kellogg,
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was in Ukraine yesterday for the celebration of their independence
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day Kiev. Instead of fireworks over their capital, they decided
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to shoot fireworks at Russia's capital as drone strikes near
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a nuclear power plant got the attention of the leadership
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in Moscow. New South Korean President Lee J. Mung is
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going to be in Washington today to meet with President
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Trump over China's saber rattling in the area, just like
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it was in the fifties. Wildfires in California Wine Country
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and central Oregon grew overnight. The Picket fire in Napa
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County is more than ten square miles now that it
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was eleven percent contained as of yesterday, according to the
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California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. In Oregon, the
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flat fire in Deshoots and Jefferson Counties has grown to
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almost thirty four square miles with no containment. According to
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the State Marshall's office and kilmar Garcia is due to
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turn himself into the Ice Field Office where he will
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be deported to Uganda today. And those are some of
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our first things on this Monday.
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I'm doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
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nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
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reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
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The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
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has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
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in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
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healthy cells even from radiation. Total wellness dot com where
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we help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy
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total wellness.
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Speaker 9: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
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warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
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Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
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personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
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are not from US. Real Social Security employees will never
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threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
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call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
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your personal information like your Social Security number or bank account,
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or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
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or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
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enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
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dot SSA dot gov. Share this information with your friends
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and family.
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Speaker 2: Hiyod and it's always a boy.
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Speaker 10: Growing up on a farm in Tennessee, I've been fascinated
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with animals. I'm not only in all of their beauty
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and kindness, but also their tireless work ethic. Just look
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at the birds who gather supplies to build nests, or
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Swiss foxes who work hard to provide for their young,
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or penguins who travel up to five hundred miles to
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secure food for their families, or bush babies whose impressive
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jump allows them to navigate the trees and the wild
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in search of fruit. This remarkable work ethic is shared
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by our best friends, the canines. We know dogs are
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wonderful pets at home, but because of their acute senses,
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they also perform life saving work every day.
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Speaker 3: Dogs keep us safe at airports.
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Speaker 10: They comfort returning veterans, some of whom suffer from PTS.
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They work with diabetics, alerting them when there's a change
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in their blood chemistry. Working dogs have a variety of
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highly trained roles that contribute to society and help those
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in need. So please join me an American Humane and
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supporting our heroic working dogs and all the amazing animals
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Speaker 3: Oh Brhu's buzzed. Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 10: And now a speech.
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Speaker 11: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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art and brain.
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Speaker 2: Who's with me?
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Speaker 12: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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Speaker 5: Somebody call me a ride.
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Speaker 13: Love that guy, me too.
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Speaker 14: Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
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it's time to go home.
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Speaker 5: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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Speaker 15: Did you know that more than half our household energy
11:31
costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
11:35
good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
11:40
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
11:42
energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
11:46
learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
11:49
That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
11:53
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
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improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy coststs is
12:00
when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
12:03
energy star logo and read the energy guide label. And
12:06
there are day to day things you can do. Lower
12:09
your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
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close fireplay stampers when they're not in use, and keep
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air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
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reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
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a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
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protection agency.
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Speaker 16: As a family member or friend, you may be the
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first to notice when a veteran you love has been
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going through changes. Things like withdrawing, drinking more, or increased
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anger could be a sign of a larger health concern,
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the veterans.
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Speaker 14: In your life.
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Speaker 16: Treatment works, recovery is possible.
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Speaker 9: The nine most terrifying words in the English language are.
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Speaker 2: Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the talk media.
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Speaker 3: Hey, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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All right. I appreciate the reget I didn't like the
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way you cut that in half. Live from New Orleans
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to the French Quarter and our friends Zebra New Orleans
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banded a fiftieth anniversary, you know, and people laugh at
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me and my wife were you know, you know, in
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the time of your life when you're supposed to be
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thinking about retiring. And we launch a network radio program
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and we buy our own radio stations. Zebra they're in
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their fiftieth anniversary as a band, and they were just
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putting out a new album. Working on that as we
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speak here in the French Quarter for the State Policy Network.
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We're going to visit with New York's. We figured, you
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know what, We're going to kick it off and a
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lot of people say this, how do you keep doing it?
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I used to get it all the time living in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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We just had an author, Oh my gosh, I confess.
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This author has written a book on the riots of
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twenty seventeen in Charlottesville. And just earlier this year somebody
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debuted a play off Broadway play about Charlottesville in twenty seventeen,
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at least the playwright that wrote the play about Charlottesville
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came and talked to me, and I broadcasted live from
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the middle of it all I know all the players,
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and had them all mad at me. At some point
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or another. This author of a book on Charlottesville never
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came and said, hey, Joe, do you have perspective as
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all left wing anti Trump nonsense as you would expect
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it to be. But you hope you get up in
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the morning. You're hopeful, right, But so here in Charlottesville
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people would say, oh, Joe, how do you do it?
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How do you get up? And you're conservative and Russell
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Kirk and the heritage and Hillsdale, and how do you
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do it? Because for all of the parts of our
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society that they've co opted, entertainment, media, news, media, academia,
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all of it, they still only win half the time.
15:44
So to me, that means our views on constitutionality, common
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sense and all of this are much bigger than they
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think it is. And that's why they have to control
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all this narrative to get there, and they get rulings
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like this. So I want to pick up a story.
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We're here for the state Policy Network and one of
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our sponsors is the Daily Signal Daily Signal dot com.
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I'm a writer for it along with Victor David Hanson
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and Mary Mobley. Mary Mobley werete a great column published yesterday.
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Court of holds ban on quote unusually dangerous weapons. Federal
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Appeals Court refused to block two Connecticut mago gh gun
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control laws despite arguments that they violated the Second Amendment.
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The laws faced two separate challenges from the National Association
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for Gun Rights, the Second Amendment Foundation, and others, who
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asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to block the laws.
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On Thursday of last week. The three judge panel of
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the court declined to do so, saying the laws were
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constitutional and understand, judges are really bad at this. It's
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like the sad sack who goes to the track and says, yeah,
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I've been coming here for ten years and I know
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how to pick the winners. If you know how to
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pick the winners, why are you still coming here ten
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years later? Three judge panels said they were constitutional because
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they preserved numerous legal alternatives for self defense despite their
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restrictions on quote unusually dangerous weapons. Now I'm no jurist.
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I have a relative, my cousin, Matthew Matthew Crawford. By
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the way, if you're looking it up and you're listening
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to us at WGH, go look up Matthew Crawford, attorney.
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He's a great attorney. He's on the bar in like
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eight states. Just because he's showing off. He's a young fellow,
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much younger than I am, my uncle's son. But I'm
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no lawyer. I just know a lot of them, and
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I far be it for me to say that I'm
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smarter than a circuit court judge or a Supreme Court judge.
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But for the sake of argument, let's just read the
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Second Amendment into the public record here, so that when
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we're discussing the Second Amendment we know what it says.
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Because these judges who try to interpret all the different Oh,
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it's unusually dangerous weapons, really okay, so they're unusually dangerous.
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And where in the Second Amendment does it say these
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these amendments? So here a well regulated militia, and this
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becomes part of their debate. Is and it used to
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be it used to be sufficient for the gun grabbers
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to say, well, then you have to join your state
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militia if you want a gun, and they gave up
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on that because that was a losing argument. Again overton window,
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they keep saying crazy stuff about your right to defend yourself,
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and eventually it becomes normalized, a well regulated militia being
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necessary to the security of a free state. The right
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of the people to keep in bare arms shall not
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be infringed, period. So where in there does it talk
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about unusually dangerous weapons. Where does it talk about non
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lethal alternatives? Well, so you can argue the keeping bare
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arms can include non lethal alternatives. Could walk around with
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a stickball bat in my hand and it's a the
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effective weapon. I guess in an extreme case it could
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be lethal. I'm sure there's some action movie where somebody
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uses it lethally. But I have a right to bear arms.
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Nowhere in there does it say firearm. It says arms.
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If I want to walk down the street with a
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Scottish broadsword hanging from my kilt belt, well, I rummage
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for my cell phone in my sporin, I'm allowed to
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do it. That's a defended thing by the constitution of
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these judges in Connecticut. Yet again, maybe the reason they
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wear their robes because they're just you know, instead of pants,
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they have robes so they can get their head up
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their ass easier. Just seems to be this gotta be
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why they wear robes. Makes access to get for their
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head to go up their butts the simpler, and it
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will obviously it'll be appealed. We've reached out to the
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National Association for Gun Rights numerous legal alternatives for self defense.
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This is the same thing Biden did when he said, well,
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if you want to take on the US government, you
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better get an F sixteen. I'm sorry to sound mean spirited,
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but you know, to those who have botched the leadership
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in places like Afghanistan, not a lot F sixteens until
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we left all that military equipment for them in the
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Taliban you have, the American Revolutionary Army was far less
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well equipped than the British. They had ships and guns
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in the eighteenth century version of F sixteen's we beat
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them back, didn't we? Ho Chi Minh didn't have a
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whole lot of F sixteens at the time. That's not
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what it takes.
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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm Brandt and her name is shay I Love.
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Speaker 17: She's a friend of mine whom we were just praying
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for because of a surgery. She just went through.
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Speaker 6: Yes, and I am very happy about something you actually
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talk about all the time, which is meta share.
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Speaker 18: That is right.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, So what was your experience like with meta share
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and health care ability?
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Speaker 6: Honestly, brandt seamless and what a blessing that is. When
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you're already nervous about a health issue, which I was,
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members shared my expenses. There were zero problems. And let
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me tell you, having people pray with you when you
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call in with your need that.
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Speaker 17: Is just refreshing.
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Speaker 6: Yes, that's what it is.
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Speaker 17: I keep telling people. People love meta share and they
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love saving money. The typical family can save five hundred
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dollars a month.
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Speaker 3: Hi.
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Speaker 1: I'm doctor Michael Bailey, President of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
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Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and now it's helping veterinarians deliver
23:11
better care for pets. From AI assisted radiographs that speed
23:16
up diagnoses to tools that help spot diseases. AI supports
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veterinary teams in exciting ways. We're using AI to develop
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personalized cancer treatments, predict chronic conditions like feline kidney disease,
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and even streamline record keeping so veterinarians can focus more
23:35
on patients. But, as with any new technology, always keep
23:40
a human in the loop to maintain the best pet healthcare.
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AI is a powerful tool, but not a replacement for
23:48
your veterinarians expertise, compassion and judgment, which remains at the
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center of our profession. For more information on AI and
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veterinary medicine, visit AVMA dot org.
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Speaker 8: Considered by most optimized curcumin is one of the few
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bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. Hi,
24:13
I'm doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
24:18
optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
24:22
nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
24:26
reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
24:32
The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and
24:35
inflammation has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can
24:42
prevent cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer,
24:46
and in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects
24:50
our healthy cells even from radiation. Total Wellness dot com
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where we help you to look good, feel good, and
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enjoy total wellness.
25:02
Speaker 9: I'm ANDREWS. Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
25:06
warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
25:10
Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
25:13
will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
25:17
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
25:22
are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
25:26
threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
25:30
call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
25:33
your personal information like your Social Security number or bank account,
25:38
or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
25:43
or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
25:47
enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
25:52
dot SSA dot gov.
25:55
Speaker 3: U Oh, Brahad's buzzed.
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Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots HM and
26:01
now a speech. I just want to say that Friendship
26:05
is about heart, art and brain.
26:08
Speaker 3: Who's with me?
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Speaker 12: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
26:11
brain is saying when it's time to go home.
26:14
Speaker 18: Somebody call me a ride.
26:15
Speaker 13: Love that guy, me too.
26:17
Speaker 14: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
26:19
it's time to go home.
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Speaker 15: Buzz driving is drunk driving. Did you know that more
26:24
than half our household energy costs go to heating and cooling.
26:29
Energy efficiency isn't just good for the environment, It means
26:32
lower utility bills too. One way to reduce your energy
26:36
waste is a home energy assessment. Your utility company can help,
26:40
or you can learn how to do it yourself at
26:42
energysavers dot gov. That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to
26:47
look for air leaks around windows and doors, check ducks
26:50
for holes, and improve your insulation. Another time to cut
26:54
energy costs is when you shop for a new appliance.
26:57
Look for the energy Star logo and read the energy
27:00
guide label. And there are day to day things you
27:02
can do. Lower your thermostat in winter and raise it
27:06
in the summer, close fireplace stampers when they're not in use,
27:09
and keep air filters clean. For more tips on saving
27:13
money by reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot
27:17
gov slash green, a tip from the Federal Trade Commission,
27:21
the nation's consumer protection agency.
27:24
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a part of me, like my arms and legs, so
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I'll be his no time for tired.
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Speaker 3: Nothing can disable this love.
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I need help.
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for you, restraint.
28:12
Speaker 2: Amaze your friends here in the first Thing Today by
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Joe Thomas.
28:17
Speaker 3: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
28:19
joining us now here Here is at the Estate Policy
28:22
Network Annual meeting. And I've spent a good bit of
28:26
this show just showing folks listening in all these places
28:31
that just like my flagship city of Charlottesville. The stereotype is, oh,
28:36
there's no conservative voices there, and there are. There are
28:39
so many of them. And I've told you the story
28:41
more as a as a way to give you hope.
28:46
I mean, I grew up in New York City, and
28:48
if there's a blue place on the planet outside of
28:51
San Francisco, it's New York City right now. But that's
28:54
not how it always was, and it's not the way
28:56
it still is for the most of them. This is
28:59
how Adams wound up falling out of favor with the
29:03
Biden administration was because he realized the residents of New
29:07
York didn't like the open borders. We'll put a bunch
29:10
of people who aren't supposed to be here and we
29:12
don't know who they are in our elementary schools with
29:15
our kids. Confronted with that, even moms who I'm sure
29:19
voted five to one in favor of Joe Biden for president,
29:22
said not just no, but hell no. And these are
29:25
the things we hang our hats on. And joining us
29:28
is Zilvinius Salinas from the Empire Center. It's New York's
29:33
one of New York's conservative voices here at the State
29:36
Policy Network did I say that is Silvinus Salinas z Okay, Well,
29:46
I appreciate it, Z, And I appreciate what you do
29:49
in New York because it's my home state or I
29:52
grew up, and I just feel like, whether it's our
29:55
listeners and Beacon, Newburgh and Poughkeepsie or Mayra or you know,
29:59
wherever New York listening to us Westchester, there's so many
30:05
more conservative voices, common sense voices in a city that
30:09
I thought invented the idea of common sense? How do
30:12
you reach out to people in New York to get
30:15
more people involved in reconserving the message? Right?
30:22
Speaker 11: So, I think many of these places you mentioned a
30:24
definitely conservative. I would say New York City is the
30:29
big exception, as is almost everywhere. Urban centers are more
30:34
blue outside of urban centers to get more red. But
30:38
regardless of the color, I think we have the right approach.
30:41
We're talking to people about common sense. So one of
30:44
the ways, one of the issues, one of the tactics
30:47
to talk to people is rather than approaching issues from
30:50
that partisan point of view, what we do is we
30:55
did that partisanship and we say, Okay, let's say New
30:59
York has this outrageous climate policy which was enacted in
31:05
twenty ninety. And now the chickens are coming to roost
31:08
and your energy prices are getting higher. Your energy price
31:12
are getting higher. They're higher than in neighboring states. They're
31:15
higher than in New Jersey of Pennsylvania. And it's not
31:18
going to stop. And in fact, here are the plans,
31:20
here the papers, Here are the receipts that would increase
31:25
energy prices even further. You know, we think this doesn't
31:28
make sense. We think it doesn't make new or better.
31:31
We think it does nothing to fight climate change. We
31:34
think it's just means more or less control of government,
31:40
government control over power industry. We think it's wrong. But
31:44
what do you think? And in fact many people agree.
31:47
Speaker 3: Oh sure. And when you lay it out without political party,
31:51
I mean it's like asking you are you a Yankees
31:53
fan or a Mets fan or you know, maybe that's
31:56
a bad example, but you know, Jets are there still
31:58
Jets fans? I'm not sure? But you get my point?
32:02
Ze is that the issue? And when you look at
32:06
it and say, has the climate got any better for
32:09
all of this or is it just more money out
32:11
of your pocket into somebody else's pocket. New Yorkers get that.
32:15
I mean I schooled up on this arguing with my
32:18
friends through college in the Diners of Queens. I think
32:22
there's people in New York that would stand up for it.
32:24
And maybe, you know, looking at a guy like Zorhan, Mom,
32:31
Donnie is a wake up call saying, hold it, have
32:34
we gone too far? What do you think?
32:38
Speaker 11: Well, I think it's worse than a wake up call.
32:42
That are some people who say, well, if Zora and
32:46
Mandani gets elected, that's finally how people's that's when New
32:51
Yorkers will realize that socialism and I would say that
32:55
that's too high a price to pay for such an
32:59
educational life.
33:02
Speaker 3: I agree with it, so yeah that I have.
33:04
Speaker 11: Reasonable New Yorkers, And we do opinion polls all the time.
33:07
It's all about climate and we say, hey, which direction
33:11
should New York take? Go faster on emissions reduction if
33:15
it means higher prices to you, or should we go
33:20
should we do everything to low the prices? And even
33:25
if it increases the emissions. And most people basically have
33:29
twenty percent of people on one side twenty percent of
33:31
people on the other side who balance each other out,
33:34
and you have a silent majority who basically say, yes,
33:37
let's save the planet, but only if it doesn't cost
33:39
me anything. They're called casual environmentalist, right. And then the question,
33:44
of course, so why are we pursuing policies that only
33:48
twenty percent of people implicitly support.
33:52
Speaker 3: That's a great point.
33:53
Speaker 11: That is the type of questions that we're asking. Going
33:57
back to Mandaani, I think the threat is the here.
34:00
Then most people realize I would like to realize. I think,
34:04
unless something big happens, unless I think changes, or the
34:09
other three candidates consolidate, we must have a socialist as
34:13
a leader of the New York's of US's largest city.
34:18
Speaker 3: You know, it would be scary to think about that.
34:21
But you know when he talks about things like government
34:24
run grocery stores, and I don't know where you stop
34:27
from there, the government run clothing stores, government run real estate.
34:33
You know it's Johnny bar the door at that point,
34:35
isn't it.
34:38
Speaker 11: Well, unlike Monday, I've actually had a misfortune of shopping
34:42
in grocery in government own grocery stores. I was born
34:46
in Soviet Union, not by choice, but for ten years
34:51
of actual socialism, and I can tell you that government
34:54
government run grocery stores are not fun at all.
34:57
Speaker 3: No, I don't.
34:58
Speaker 11: He doesn't. He he doesn't know what he's talking about.
35:01
He knows nothing about grocery business. His idea of government,
35:05
of how governments run grocery stores are going to be better,
35:09
he's saying in those rare moments when he actually elaborates
35:13
what this looks like. He says, well, we're not going
35:16
to charge you own property tax, or he says, the
35:19
government owes a whole bunch of empty buildings, which is
35:22
going to give it to those state run grocery stores,
35:25
and that's how they will lower the price, which of
35:28
course is ridiculous. I mean, don't charge property tax or
35:32
give fee premises to any grocery store and they will
35:36
be able to lower the prices. So that's one and two.
35:41
New York has already tried it. There was a semi
35:45
public private partnership in Buffalo that's failed miserably. I know
35:49
everyone is now talking about Kansas, which still failed miserably.
35:53
There are other thirty two grocery stores in New York
35:57
City that receive state support in terms of grants and
36:00
things like that, and I bet prizes in those bodegas
36:04
of corner stores.
36:05
Speaker 3: I'm not lower, No, definitely not. It's a first radio
36:09
program in America that had a phone call from an
36:12
American who lives in Moscow and a Soviet national who
36:16
lives in New York. Now, so you know we've balanced now, Zie,
36:19
I appreciate that you talk about the work you do.
36:24
Empire Center, by the way, if you're looking for them
36:26
and you're listening to us in New York, Empirecenter dot org.
36:30
And every state has great groups like this, and we're
36:33
going to try to highlight a lot of them, whether
36:34
it's here on the radio show while we're here in
36:37
New Orleans, or in the Daily Signal podcast I'll be
36:40
doing all week as well. But one of the big
36:45
issues is school choice, and you have a great piece
36:48
on the school enrollment and how it's cratering in New York.
36:53
Is parents opting out and doing things like we're seeing
36:57
here in Virginia with micro schools, or are they just
37:01
taking the hit and paying the massive property taxes and
37:05
going to a private school.
37:07
Speaker 11: Anyway, it's it's all of the above, and it would
37:12
be much more pronounced if New York wasn't occupied by
37:17
teaching unions because to open open it. I think to
37:21
open a charter school you have to jump through a
37:24
whole lot of proverbial hoops. We just had a case
37:29
in which two charter schools with denied license at the
37:34
night that the permit to be opened because apparently somewhere
37:38
on there get this seven hundred page application. Some of
37:43
the approving members weren't convinced that they're using the right
37:48
teaching method.
37:49
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, they get they get that far into
37:51
the weeds. Uh. It's the Empire Center is Empire Center
37:56
dot org. Uh and will continue in a moment. Hi.
38:03
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40:06
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40:09
nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings. Oh yes, yes,
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42:24
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Speaker 4: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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Speaker 8: Cramp?
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Speaker 4: I have a cramp?
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Speaker 15: I can probably hit the green from here?
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Speaker 2: Probably?
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Speaker 11: Can I get a mulligan.
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Speaker 3: Ready to go?
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Speaker 19: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
43:30
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43:35
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44:13
Speaker 2: For you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today, But.
44:18
Speaker 8: Now, honey, a little Evan.
44:24
Speaker 3: The New York Times, the or the New York Post.
44:32
Billy don't forget The New York Post is one of
44:33
the few newspapers people still reach.
44:36
Speaker 11: Jumps down to reality.
44:39
Speaker 8: Fine with me because I'm.
44:41
Speaker 3: Let its launch city that used to live on reality.
44:44
Speaker 17: Jarabas China's around rivers?
44:47
Speaker 3: Can he still sing this song? Is politically we don't
44:51
have any reasons. I've left them all behind. They don't
44:56
have any reason anymore.
44:58
Speaker 5: I'm in New York state of.
45:00
Speaker 3: Mind, Selina's Empire Center, visiting with us. So what did
45:09
they mean when they said they weren't using the right method?
45:12
Is there is there a prescribed method for teaching z Well, no,
45:19
there isn't.
45:21
Speaker 11: They just were sure about the methodology, which of course
45:24
is rich. Coming from a state which, by its own
45:28
standards has only about fifty percent proficiency in reading and math.
45:33
That are entire school districts in which reading proficiency is eighteen.
45:38
Speaker 3: Percent, that's awful.
45:39
Speaker 11: So basically, yes, So this establishment that, let me remind you,
45:44
spent the most in the country and the world to
45:47
educate a single student thirty five thousand dollars. This is
45:51
a given take on a on average, this is goy
45:54
talking average. We have school districts that spend one hundred
45:57
thousand dollars per king, who spend the most, who spend
46:01
the most in the world, achieve very mediocre results. In fact,
46:07
since we're in Louisiana, I think in grade four it's
46:11
reading of mathematics. New York falls the low Louisiana. So
46:15
those folks who spend the most in the world achieve
46:17
very mediocre results. Then look an application of seven hundred
46:21
pages and say, well, we're not quite sure you're up
46:24
for the tax. I mean if the same if the
46:28
same criteria were applied to district schools or government run schools,
46:33
then we probably have to shut three quarters now. So
46:37
that's that's what I mean. That's what I mean by that.
46:40
You know, the group of teachers unions. If New Yorkers
46:42
were giving given choice, if New Yorkers were allowed to choose,
46:48
we would probably have much bigger flight from district schools.
46:50
And because district schools spend so much, we could do
46:55
one hundred percent school choice in New York and in
46:58
fact we'd be saving money instead less money than we
47:00
do right now.
47:01
Speaker 3: Well, we were talking with Corey DeAngelis earlier, and he
47:04
was saying, I mean, you know that the teachers' union
47:07
grip and the teachers are the ones who take it
47:10
on the chin. Yet they line up every year to
47:12
vote for the people who are allowing the unions to
47:16
keep them down. I mean, I talked to teachers all
47:18
across the country and they are almost to a man,
47:21
woman and child, They're like, oh, we get paid crappy salaries.
47:25
And I said, why are you still in the union
47:27
if you can't get a decent salary for what you do.
47:30
That's the part that doesn't make any sense to me.
47:32
Speaker 11: See, well, when so think about this, it's a self
47:38
fulfilling prophecy because the grip is so tight, and because
47:43
there are of fuel alternatives in terms of schools. If
47:47
you're a teacher, in terms of employment, you also have
47:50
that fuel alternatives, so you are stuck in a system.
47:53
So in this way, it's hurts not just the parents
47:57
of the families, it teaches themselves. For ninety five percent
48:02
of whom employment at a district school and the state
48:06
transistem is probably the only they see that the only
48:09
viable place of employment.
48:12
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it's that monopoly idea. See what's coming up
48:17
with the Empire Center. I can't wait to meet you
48:19
in person here at the State Policy Network Annual meeting
48:24
Empirecenter dot org. What are you guys working on coming up?
48:29
Speaker 11: So, we're working on a New York's energy plan. We're
48:31
going to send me to our comments. We're going to
48:33
march straight to the to those public consultations, and we're
48:37
going to give them a piece of our mind about
48:39
how bad of a job they do in planning New
48:42
York's energy policy. Then we run an education project which
48:46
is called Kate twelve s the West, and then that
48:50
we provide detailed data on each school district. We can
48:55
hear that school district to other school districts. We look
48:57
at every school and how they are doing. And my
48:59
point is to empower parents and families with that kind
49:02
of information. My colleague Bill Hammond is ripping New York's
49:06
healthcare apart and showing how kind of similarly they spend
49:10
the most in attention and don't shift anything. And we're
49:13
big on protecting the property tax camp and some other
49:16
same policies. Then it comes to.
49:18
Speaker 3: Taxation, well, thank you so much.
49:20
Speaker 11: Yeah, a whole lot of work.
49:23
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for doing that in my home state.
49:25
It's been years since I've lived here, but I still
49:27
have family here, so and my best friends. So you know,
49:31
keep writing the ship in New York if it can
49:33
be If it can be corrected in New York, it
49:35
be corrected anywhere. And I can't wait to meet you
49:39
in person. Have a great morning, and we'll talk to
49:41
you again very soon.
49:43
Speaker 11: Thank you.
49:45
Speaker 3: True. Sorry. All people say to me all the time,
49:49
whether it's Charlottesville or New York growing up, how could
49:53
you be a conservative from New York? I said, how
49:58
could you not be? If you're in a subway car
50:02
with half the population all jammed in there together, you
50:06
better understand individual rights because it's right up against you.
50:11
And unfortunately, Jefferson here in Charlottesville warned us about piling
50:16
on to one another in how did he put it
50:21
on paraphrasing, I'm sure but and somebody might have the
50:24
direct quote, but he wrote eloquently that if we pile
50:29
ourselves upon one another in European style cities, we will
50:37
be apt to I think it's the phrase he used,
50:39
the same corruptions that we've seen in these European style cities,
50:44
Because when you have that kind of mass population. The
50:51
authoritarians use that, They use that as a premise for
50:58
government control. They say, oh, well, look at how many
51:01
people there. Somebody needs to be in control of this. Otherwise,
51:04
Lord knows what will go on. And every year they
51:08
do it more and more and more, and it never works,
51:16
It never makes anyone's lives better. But they keep coming
51:22
back for more. As you said, you know, every every
51:25
year it's a little bit more. No, give us, give
51:27
us this time. This time, we'll do it right. We'll
51:30
get it right. This time. It's always this time, we'll
51:33
get it right. So more to come. State Policy Network
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My efforts here the State Policy Network going on here
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know who your group is, then go and take a
51:56
look at SPN dot org. And they've got a directory
51:59
of memory organizations like the Empire Center if you're listening
52:02
to us in New York, the Virginia Institute, the Pelican
52:05
Institute if you're listening in New Orleans. At WGSO, where
52:10
these guys came from coming back with their fiftieth anniversary album.
52:13
At one of these points, I'm going to talk to
52:15
them about it. I'm going to go enjoy probably some
52:23
Cajun breakfast food somewhere along the lines, and maybe some
52:27
of you. Somebody said there was a really good coffee
52:29
shop like right near here. I'm going to go sniff
52:32
that out and get over to the conference center. It
52:34
starts in just a little while. For you. Thank you
52:37
for letting me do what I do for you and
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try to make sense of it all. Chop up the
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news stories and easily digestible bits until tomorrow. So long
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and thanks for all the fish.
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Speaker 22: A few years ago, my youngest son had something minor
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turned into something very major in a matter of hours.
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Speaker 11: It was metashere that came through for us, and there
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was no hassles, there was no problem.
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Speaker 22: That's what's so wonderful about knowing that you're a part
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of such an incredible ministry.
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Speaker 21: Meta share is a Biblical approach to healthcare where Christians
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share each other's medical expenses.
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Speaker 14: Medishare is a family, a group of people that stick
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with you through the hardest times of your life.
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Speaker 21: Metashare isn't insurance it's a nonprofit ministry over thirty years old,
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and members have shared over eight billion dollars of each
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other's medical bills.
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Speaker 11: We don't have to spend so much on health insurance.
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Speaker 3: You can focus on on supporting other people.
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Speaker 21: Meta share is affordable, Medishare is biblical.
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Speaker 13: Medishare is family.
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Speaker 21: Join thousands of Christians who can help you save on
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your healthcare and support your family when.
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Speaker 15: You need it.
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Speaker 21: Call eight five five Share forty eight five five share forty.
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That's eight five five share forty