Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "You Say You Want an E-vo-lution" (Monday September 22, 2025, Hour 4)
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- 0:02Speaker 1: I forgive him on a need to know basis, because
- 0:06you need to know the first thing today George said,
- 0:10steal me the best for them.
- 0:13Speaker 2: That's where I disagreed with the work.
- 0:15Speaker 3: When the sun comes up drops a pet school.
- 0:18Speaker 2: I hate my opponent.
- 0:20Speaker 4: Joe has a dream do all the Joases needs.
- 0:25Speaker 5: No one that Joe's all smiled.
- 0:27Speaker 6: He only as.
- 0:32Speaker 7: Joe, thank you for letting me be of service to
- 0:35you this morning. You're choosing us over all these other
- 0:40radio programs out there where you know, honestly, I have
- 0:44to pick up for Erica Kirk. I have run into
- 0:48many instances where bad radio has been done and it
- 0:52hurts us all. It hurts us all. Joe, don't you
- 0:55love it when you're a former whatever. And don't you
- 0:58love to hear stories about things going No, I don't.
- 1:02I don't want to hear about clients that are mad
- 1:05at their the radio station owner, even if I'm not
- 1:09the guy, because you know what, we all get blamed
- 1:14for those things, and that's what community means. But I digress.
- 1:17We've got lots going on this morning, and yes we
- 1:19can delve into the memorial service yesterday evening. Did you
- 1:25share my trepidation about President Trump coming out after Erica
- 1:30Kirk's emotionally charged speech. Was on the edge of my seat.
- 1:34I looked at my wife and said, if it was me,
- 1:36I wouldn't do it. I would not come out after her,
- 1:40or maybe just come out and say we miss you, Charlie. Oh.
- 1:43I was nervous because I know how the press loves
- 1:46to lay in wait and mischaracterize what he says. Anyway,
- 1:53I was relieved, and I thought he did a great job.
- 1:56And man, you can't outdo what eric Kirk did. We'll
- 2:00get into that for you. We've got folks hanging on
- 2:02the line as well, so let's get our first things first. Obviously,
- 2:07the emotionally charged memorial service for civil rights leader and
- 2:13founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk was highlighted by
- 2:19the emotionally charged speech by Erica Kirk, in which she's
- 2:22so told the gathering she forgives the man accused of
- 2:26killing him, stressing that love, not hate must be the
- 2:29answer and to continue his legacy. I forgive him, she said,
- 2:34because it is what christ did and what Charlie would do.
- 2:38President Trump did say during his speech, and he reiterating
- 2:41what he had said on Saturday that sometime today there
- 2:44will be an Oval Office announcement regarding the causes of autism.
- 2:50Taliban rejected the administration's bid to take over Brogram Air
- 2:56Base four years after the chaotic withdrawal because they said
- 3:01they don't need the aid the US was offering. Senate
- 3:05Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said while he was not in Arizona,
- 3:08he was at CNN studios telling them he would not
- 3:11oppose Donald Trump's demand for a clean stopgap bill. He said,
- 3:15though we hope it doesn't come to that. Emerging deal
- 3:21between TikTok and China and the United States would ensure
- 3:25that the US companies control the algorithm and that the
- 3:29majority of the seats on the board overseeing US operations
- 3:33of TikTok and Byte Dance would be held by Americans.
- 3:38New Hampshire country club called the sky Meadow Country Club
- 3:44was torn apart by violence as a twenty three year
- 3:47old came in shooting, but patrons quickly subdued the assailant
- 3:53and only one person lost his life. Robert to Caesar
- 3:57fifty nine. Police have the suspect in the custody, and
- 4:01those are some of our first things this morning. Andy
- 4:05is hanging on from Sarasota, Florida, this morning. Good morning, Andy.
- 4:08How are you doing, sir?
- 4:10Speaker 8: Doing great? I wanted to first of all, share that
- 4:13I went back to Charlottesville, UH, to honor Tony Dennett
- 4:19h and Barry park Hill, who were both in that
- 4:22Purple Heart story. But additionally Bobara Tella, that.
- 4:27Speaker 6: The great sports psychologist who actually helped to get Roy
- 4:33mckelroy that that green jacket. Yeah, it was just fascinating
- 4:38being there at the Glenmore Country Club with those three people.
- 4:44And I was a guest of my my college roommate.
- 4:49Speaker 8: I had a house you know, housemate, so we used
- 4:54to cook together. It was that you know, mixed sex house,
- 4:58and it seemed to work just fine. And so I
- 5:01went back there and just was celebrating and got to
- 5:04spend some time with both owners. Her second husband was
- 5:09what nicer than her first husband?
- 5:12Speaker 7: That's often the case. Here's it interesting? You bring up
- 5:15Tony Bennett, and obviously we're speaking of the basketball coach,
- 5:19not the crooner, but Tony's career. And I think this
- 5:24is still a story. I don't know if he said
- 5:26anything or alluded to anything. The chapter that comes after
- 5:30him stepping away at the height of his career, it
- 5:33seems from a basketball and collegiate athletics landscape that was
- 5:38rapidly changing. Did he allude to anything that might be
- 5:41coming in regards to what he might be doing next,
- 5:46whether it be helping manage the name, image likeness, cash
- 5:50grab and land rush or anything like that.
- 5:53Speaker 8: Andy he answered the question that exact question with spending
- 6:00more time helping people understand his love of Christ. Oh,
- 6:08it was I wife was doing something with some other
- 6:12ladies in that world. And I mean she wasn't even
- 6:15in the audience, wrote Tella's wife was.
- 6:19Speaker 6: I didn't.
- 6:20Speaker 8: I'd never met him. I had never met her. And
- 6:23he's talking about his own father being really rough on
- 6:26him and that he'd been a Catholic all his life,
- 6:29and you know, New York City area and stuff, and
- 6:33it was just fascinating city. But one of the jaw
- 6:37dropping moments for me personally is the person I was
- 6:40sitting with had been a teacher and later a counselor
- 6:46at the middle school, but before that actually was in
- 6:52the elementary school. But before that she had been, you know,
- 6:56working at the high school.
- 6:58Speaker 7: I will hang on to that story India. I want
- 6:59to hear the rest of that story.
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- 13:22Speaker 1: First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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- 13:39Speaker 7: Keep Your Hands Off My Stack, Rivalry opponents us or them,
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- 13:51versus them playing against high school. This is why I
- 13:54hung on to Andy. He was about to tell a
- 13:56story about a school counselor he knew and ran into
- 14:00over the weekend. And it's so important because this is
- 14:04with tongue in cheek, made the case that you'd be
- 14:06really disappointed if you found out how much of our
- 14:09US House of Representatives and Senate breaks itself down pretty
- 14:13much the same way high school did with petty rivalries.
- 14:17And this idea that if you have something, it's at
- 14:21my cost that I've lost something. And Andy, I just
- 14:25want to kind of build out your resume. Is you
- 14:28you've been an athletic facility builder in years past before
- 14:33your retirement.
- 14:34Speaker 8: Before that, I was actually an incredible athlete so far.
- 14:37Speaker 7: I was recruited by by or Cherry.
- 14:40Speaker 8: Holland when he was at Davidson, So I was at
- 14:43that level.
- 14:44Speaker 1: Right.
- 14:44Speaker 8: So you're a you're a but the state told me
- 14:47I was not going to play there, but Davidson would
- 14:50be thought so.
- 14:52Speaker 7: But I'm saying the idea that you and even maybe
- 14:56more so because of your athletic career before that, you know,
- 14:59you can run in a race and win, and you
- 15:04can run in a wait race and finish second. And
- 15:07if you're doing the best you can and you and
- 15:10you don't succeed, you can go back and try and
- 15:12figure out, well, what do I need to do a
- 15:14little bit better? What do I need to do more of?
- 15:16But more over than that, when you left college and
- 15:19got into the business career of building athletic facilities, I'm
- 15:22sure there are instances where your company was chosen for
- 15:26a project and another wasn't, and vice versa happened, and
- 15:30there were projects that you did and some of you
- 15:32didn't do. This idea that you know, it's a nihilist
- 15:36you know, if it's all me or none you know me?
- 15:39Is I think what's partially tearing us apart societally this
- 15:44idea that if you have something, I uh, it's because
- 15:49you've you've taken it from me somehow.
- 15:54Speaker 8: I totally agree with you, And it's sad, but it's
- 15:58that's actually people believe that. And my goal was to
- 16:04associate myself with the best purveyors of the best products
- 16:09and then take those things to the market. And I
- 16:12did that probably between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety nine,
- 16:17and just as I was about to kind of explode
- 16:21on the national scene, I was in a car wreck,
- 16:23which kind of stopped.
- 16:25Speaker 1: My Yeah, I mean it really was.
- 16:28Speaker 8: It was like t boned in downtown Richmond or near
- 16:31downtown to the thirtieth birthday.
- 16:37Speaker 7: So he was.
- 16:38Speaker 8: Married and had married a Vanderbilt lawyer, and she had
- 16:43gone to Uba and they had been a sweethearts for
- 16:46most of that time. And so my life changed dramatically.
- 16:50I had the best laid plans and never wants to
- 16:53ever do anything on tour to try and you know game, babe,
- 16:57and you.
- 16:58Speaker 7: Seem to have pivoted Wall in your life. So you
- 17:01were telling a story of a counselor, and I want
- 17:03to and there was a reason I kind of tie
- 17:05the two backgrounds together. So tell us this counselor story
- 17:08you were telling us this.
- 17:11Speaker 8: My host was a family that I've known for a
- 17:16long long time, a husband and wife. And you know,
- 17:19I've known her longer because we were cooking partners on
- 17:22Lewis Mountain Road, which is just up the street from
- 17:26both University of whatever. The basketball a little thing used
- 17:30to be and also where the I think the alumni
- 17:34association is still So I'm like walking down and there
- 17:37was no money for me as the white man back.
- 17:41You know, this is over fifty years ago. I had
- 17:43to drop out of school when my father hadn't paid
- 17:47a tuition bill at William and Mary, and so I'm
- 17:50like working my way through school, kind of figuring it
- 17:52out as I went. But I ended up in this
- 17:55really really interesting place. And the Lucy Craig of like
- 18:01Craig Builder's family. Uh, and you know, they were just
- 18:06I didn't know them very very well. They come by
- 18:09every once in a while, but mostly Lucy and I
- 18:12were shopping and cooking, and.
- 18:14Speaker 7: You were school, you were classmates, you know, you were
- 18:16working together, right.
- 18:18Speaker 8: And so But many years later, after I'd gotten out
- 18:23of this horrific uh you know, borderline personality disordered marriage,
- 18:28I reconnected with Lucy and she had supposed to being retired,
- 18:35but you know, she she ended up having been a
- 18:39counselor and a teacher, never left Elmull County schools. And
- 18:44the thing this story that was jaw dropping. There were
- 18:48probably three hundred people that read this at this event
- 18:52honoring Tony Bennett and uh, oh.
- 18:55Speaker 7: They you know, all the other folks. But so her
- 18:58story yeah and so but he uh that the great.
- 19:04Speaker 8: Motivator I'm going brain dead on his name right now.
- 19:07But anyways, that he had been chosen by the prom
- 19:14queen to escort her across the field as her father
- 19:18was dying of cancer and he died like a day
- 19:23after like the prom thing that are whatever the little
- 19:26field did that they do, the prom queen thing. And
- 19:30so he looked at her and he went not like, oh,
- 19:34I'm great, she said, I do remember that as as
- 19:39gently as Tony Bennett would not take credit for any
- 19:44of the stuff that his teammate died.
- 19:46Speaker 7: Well, and that's an important thing. And you talk about
- 19:48the great Motivator, I don't know if you met a person.
- 19:51I always just know that societally we were raised. Oh, Bob,
- 19:58Bob Rotell, Bob Rotel yea, the sports psychologist.
- 20:01Speaker 8: He helped. Yeah, but he helped. He told the story
- 20:05of of you know, sort of his early ones and
- 20:10then but then he focused on the Masters that was
- 20:14won by Rory McKell and so you know, he can
- 20:20take a little bit of credit for that, and people
- 20:22wanted to give him more credit than he was.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Wait.
- 20:24Speaker 7: But Rotella's thing. Rotella's thing is your ability is always
- 20:28in you, and it's trying to find the thing that
- 20:30you're you're torpedoing yourself with that that is often you
- 20:36know what's standing in the way of whatever it is.
- 20:38The accomplishment I know I know Bob well enough to
- 20:42know that is that he's always He's always looking for
- 20:45the thing that you're doing to yourself there. But this
- 20:49is the thing about COUNTS. I was curious about high
- 20:53school and this counselor working with COUNTSL kids and helping
- 20:58them through that same kind of situation because I think
- 21:02the sooner and we don't give kids enough credit. We
- 21:04have about a minute left here, Andy. We don't give
- 21:07kids enough credit for being able to learn these things.
- 21:10And and that's where I feel like we're at peril.
- 21:12And one of the things Charlie Kirk really did a
- 21:14great job of tapping into is giving young people credit.
- 21:19Speaker 8: Now you're here exactly right they I was shocked by
- 21:23what happened to Charlie. I actually just sent you a
- 21:28testimonial that James o'keef had, you know, he sent something.
- 21:34I'm him a chance to read it all but I'm
- 21:36forwarded and I had actually gotten to photographs James o'keef
- 21:44over at Turning Point over on the other stop of Florida,
- 21:48not knowing anything about it. I just was James James's
- 21:52guest as a friend, and we've.
- 21:54Speaker 7: Got we've got the news here. Andy, I've got to
- 21:56run my friend. You have a blessed morning.
- 21:58Speaker 8: Hey, keep you too, Sank, thank you.
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- 25:06warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
- 25:10Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
- 25:13will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
- 25:17personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
- 25:21are not from US real solid security employees will never
- 25:26threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
- 25:29call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
- 25:33your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
- 25:38or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
- 25:43or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
- 25:46enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
- 25:51dot SSA dot gov.
- 25:55Speaker 12: Uh oh, brah's buzzed.
- 25:57Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
- 26:01Speaker 12: And now a speech.
- 26:02Speaker 4: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
- 26:06art and brain.
- 26:07Speaker 3: Who's with me?
- 26:08Speaker 12: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
- 26:11brain is saying when it's time to go home. Somebody
- 26:14call me a ride.
- 26:15Speaker 3: Love that guy, me too.
- 26:17Speaker 14: Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
- 26:19it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
- 26:23Speaker 15: Did you know that more than half our household energy
- 26:26costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
- 26:30good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
- 26:34One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
- 26:37energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
- 26:41learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
- 26:44That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
- 26:47leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
- 26:51improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
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- 26:57energy Star logo and read the energy Guy label. And
- 27:01there are day to day things you can do. Lower
- 27:03your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
- 27:06close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
- 27:10air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
- 27:13reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
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- 28:57Speaker 1: For you from jel Thomas first thing today, Now consider
- 29:02that some time for you to think about.
- 29:03Speaker 7: They kind to have them both in the same place
- 29:05at the same time, well the last time prior to
- 29:11Trump and Pence. Well, and I should say outside of
- 29:17the State of the Union address, which is why there's
- 29:21a designated survivor. There's another show that going to Netflix
- 29:26ruined because you have the president and vice president in
- 29:32the same place. And we used to live in Buffalo,
- 29:35and there are historical monuments and markers to where I
- 29:40think it was. It was the World's Fair it was
- 29:44it was the first city wide electrification was going on
- 29:49in Buffalo. They were using the Tesla generator at Niagara Falls,
- 29:54which by the way, they still use to generate electricity,
- 29:58and they were going to illuminate this entire World's fairground.
- 30:02And you can still go there. It's still there in
- 30:03Buffalo and all. But this is where William McKinley was
- 30:07assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt as vice president became president there
- 30:14but there was an attempt made at the same time
- 30:17on Roosevelt's life, and this became the Treasury Department's call
- 30:21that they were never going to be in the same
- 30:24place at the same time. At least if the Treasury Department,
- 30:28who operate the Secret Service, by the way, has anything
- 30:32to say about free speech to slander somebody, they can
- 30:48be punished for it. If the same was true, if
- 30:54people were saying, let's take John Solomon for an example.
- 31:00Quick So, John Solomon at the very early moments of Russia,
- 31:04Gates started to smell something not right in Russia. Gates
- 31:08started to unpeel and stack evidence on top of evidence,
- 31:13starting with the Steel dossier. It's dodgy background. But then
- 31:18how they managed to go to the president and James
- 31:22Comy went to the president, he got told him about it.
- 31:25But then once he had told him about it, then
- 31:27you could leak it to the press, and then the
- 31:30press leak became the premise for the PISA warrant and
- 31:35all this stuff. John Solomon, little by little let out
- 31:40as he vetted the sources, and once he had proven something.
- 31:44So John Solomon has never been sued by anyone. James
- 31:48Comy has not sued John Solomon for slander struck in
- 31:55page I mean, they may have called a lawyer and said, hey,
- 32:00this guy is on the radio saying that we're lovers
- 32:02and we're not lovers, and well, you know, your text
- 32:04message is sort of BELI that. But and most ethical
- 32:08lawyers will tell somebody whether you have a case or not.
- 32:11Lord knows if we had tort reform, loser pays tort reform.
- 32:15But back to Maurice's email about just an offhand comment
- 32:19I made. I use the word evolution, meaning societal evolution.
- 32:23How we wind up in this place where we have
- 32:27this mercantilist Marxism that's playing on our own seven vices,
- 32:34jealousy being one of the most powerful ones. That you know,
- 32:38you don't have everything the TV commercial says you should have,
- 32:42so therefore somebody has taking your birthright from you. So
- 32:47like if somebody loses their job as a radio show host,
- 32:51where they the victim of some sort of agenda, I
- 32:54run into this. I just very recently lost a job
- 32:57doing radio for the Temeritus. Recent I purchased my own
- 33:03radio station. I guess I guess it was good that
- 33:05I purchased my own radio station because doing so found
- 33:08me unemployed from the one I had been running with
- 33:12all of my heart and soul for decades. But I
- 33:15didn't lose it because the government got rid of me. So, Maurice,
- 33:25your question about my comment about evolution is based in
- 33:29a story right here in our hometown. I guess, almost
- 33:34a month ago, maybe a little bit less than a
- 33:36month ago, local minister who also hosts a podcast, inspired
- 33:44by folks like Charlie Kirk to get out there and
- 33:47spread the message. And for every person that says having
- 33:50this radio show is some sort of supremacy act, I
- 33:55don't see YouTube putting high bars towards getting a program
- 34:00out of your own. So this minister, Corey, I wasn't
- 34:06planning until your email came in. Maurice just held bent
- 34:09for leather over my question over this evolution story. And
- 34:15I should be aware that my quips need to be
- 34:20vetted just as much as my commentaries, because sometimes somebody
- 34:23like Maurice will question them. So this podcaster and minister
- 34:30brought up a letter that had come out from local
- 34:33school board that interestingly said, hey, and here's what we're
- 34:37going to be teaching your kids. These are some of
- 34:39the things that are in program, and for some reason
- 34:41they felt it urgently important to tell parents in this
- 34:45central Virginia school district that evolution was going to be
- 34:48a big part of the science curriculum this year, to
- 34:53which some of the parents said, well, hang on a
- 34:55second here, do you mean evolution and creationism or just evolution?
- 35:04And this made it all the way up to a
- 35:06school board meeting about a week and a half or go.
- 35:09Maybe a little bit more, but I think it's about
- 35:12and a half maybe two weeks ago school board meeting.
- 35:14It comes up in conversation. People are activated by this
- 35:18idea that you know, it's going to be all one
- 35:21side or another on how we got here. And you
- 35:29might want to file this, Maurice under my famous new
- 35:32heading porque nolos dos. But I'll explain why in a second.
- 35:40So one of the school board members said that evolution
- 35:45has not lived up to the strictest scrutinians of science.
- 35:53And this has got everyone, oh, my gosh, it's the
- 35:56Scopes monkey trial all over again, and all it's and
- 36:01it's not. It's a simple question. And I run into
- 36:05this frequently with big bangers who say, Joe, how can
- 36:11you question the science. We've traced all these elements, and
- 36:15we've used the Hubble telescope and now the Jim Webb
- 36:19former Senator, and I don't think it's Jim Webb, but
- 36:22the Web telescope, and we've gone all the way back
- 36:24and we've got we've got evidence of everything that happened
- 36:29just after the Big Bang. We can get almost all
- 36:33the way back to the Big Bang. So okay, how
- 36:37does that debunk my idea that God sat there and
- 36:41went well, because we can get almost all the way
- 36:45back to the Big Bang, whether it just the elements
- 36:47in our age. Yeah, and you can't get back to
- 36:51the Big Bang or that which came before it. So
- 36:55certainly what happened after the Big Bang doesn't seem to
- 37:00be questionable. You've got all the science that you've been collecting,
- 37:04but you still can't take me back before the Big
- 37:07Bank to say what was happening?
- 37:09Speaker 22: That was it?
- 37:10Speaker 7: The collapse of a universe. There's a theory about that.
- 37:12Speaker 1: Was it?
- 37:13Speaker 7: God saying, go, you can't do it. So scientific inquiry
- 37:20gets you only to a point. You see what I'm
- 37:26saying about creationism, and that you to be a fair scientist,
- 37:31you have to look at creationism as much as you
- 37:33have to look at evolutionism and all the other scientisms,
- 37:43as Robert Malone calls them, designed to make you do
- 37:47one thing or another. And the danger right now is
- 37:50not so much the idea that there is, you know,
- 37:53evolutionary science, but what it's being used for. There won't
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- 44:19Speaker 1: At all of us, making mornings great again. First Thing
- 44:22Today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
- 44:43Speaker 7: So what do I use the scientism for? And that's
- 44:51the more important thing, is not that there is scientism. Scientism,
- 44:55like many other things in the natural universe, exists, and
- 45:00it's inanimate until it's used, until it's weaponized. So science
- 45:09says that you investigate something, you keep poking around it,
- 45:12you keep until you answer your question. And the scientists,
- 45:18the cosmologists and the cosmetics designers and all the other
- 45:23folks who have pointed out very aptly that we have
- 45:27traced all the matter in the universe back to this
- 45:31moment just after the Big Bang, which is great. I mean,
- 45:37it's amazing science to think that we can back engineer
- 45:41all of this stuff and look back in time and
- 45:44see all of the movement of matter and find all
- 45:48that stuff, as Carl Sagan called it, right up till
- 45:52the point right after the Big Bang. And it's no
- 45:59blot sliding against anyone who's done that. This is where
- 46:02the scientism comes in. This is for all the folks
- 46:05in Augusta County, here, our flagship city, who have lost
- 46:08their bowel control over this scientific inquiry, says, keep trying
- 46:13to figure out what came before the Big Bang? Was
- 46:16it God saying go? Or was it an imploding universe.
- 46:22Let's just say, let's say we're sitting at the diner
- 46:25at the restaurant at the edge of the universe, at
- 46:27the end of the universe. Pardon me bad, Douglas Adams references.
- 46:32Let's say you and I are sitting here having a
- 46:35bit milliways the restaurant at the end of the universe.
- 46:39The universe is about to end and start again. Okay,
- 46:43but you can't take me there. Science can't get me
- 46:46to milliways, can't go forward fast enough to get there,
- 46:49and can't go back far enough to get there, So
- 46:52you can't prove that it happened. You can prove that
- 46:54all this other stuff happened after the Big Bang. So
- 47:00excuse me if I sit there and say there's a
- 47:02reasonable scientific chance fifty to fifty even that somebody like
- 47:07God said go, and then everything started, and now we've
- 47:14scientifically gone right back to the moment right after the
- 47:17Big Bang. That's it. That's all it is is scientific inquiry.
- 47:26But the scientism what is it? And this is part
- 47:30and parcel of what went on yesterday in Phoenix, the
- 47:34hundreds of thousands of people that descended into the desert.
- 47:40One of the reasons Charlie Kirk was so effective is
- 47:43that he understood what his role in the world was.
- 47:49And it wasn't that he did or didn't believe in evolution,
- 47:53or that we started at a point, we evolved from
- 47:56there and where did we come from? And where's the
- 47:59missing link? And how can we all of a sudden
- 48:01we're here but not there and all of those questions,
- 48:04which are scientific questions. But the scientism is weaponized to
- 48:15make you stop believing that there is some higher purpose
- 48:19to your life in the world. We're just consumers of
- 48:23the things that Earth produces, and this becomes the weapon
- 48:28of the frightening technocrat that wants to depopulate the earth,
- 48:39the climate change zealots, the paul Erliks. Interesting, how that's
- 48:46such a Nazi name. Alek Vice moscl Aerlech is here.
- 48:54He has a wonderful theory on too many people, many
- 48:58of them must be jewls Field Marshal Elick so Paul
- 49:05Erlik and his population bomb and the addicts to the
- 49:10adherence to this that they are just too many consumers,
- 49:15excess consumers of resources on this planet. Have the leaky
- 49:26at the World Economic Forum two or three years ago,
- 49:29asked the questions, she said, well, I think population should
- 49:33go back to where it was about fifteen hundred. I'll
- 49:37get a couple of good plagues going and we can
- 49:39do that. They tried with the Wu flu and we
- 49:42were damned too. Smart form people figured out ways to
- 49:46get ivermecnum and treat sick people. Society keeps evolving because
- 49:53we keep adding more stuff to the cosmos of human experience.
- 50:00It's what we do here. We share it, we lay
- 50:04it out there. Maurice, your email, nobody is subjecting you
- 50:08to anything. And this is the part that really is frustrating,
- 50:10because again, this is constitutionalism. You think your free speech
- 50:18is this mandate to be you know, celebrated for your beliefs,
- 50:26and that's fine. Go find people who will do that.
- 50:30But don't yell at me because I'm not doing that
- 50:33for you, or that I'm questioning the things you question.
- 50:37As I said, your email is fine, and I agree
- 50:40that you have great points about science. It's the scientism
- 50:45and how that gets weaponized against us and turned into
- 50:49population control eugenics, which is also a science, by the way.
- 51:00And it's a horrific place, and it's an ungodly place.
- 51:05And maybe I'm wrong. I don't care. It's how I
- 51:07live my life. I live my life to serve you
- 51:11the best I can. And this is why I said
- 51:18put it under my favorite new heading, pork nolos dose.
- 51:24The irony of somebody who took four years, eight semesters
- 51:29of Spanish and had to go look up pork nolos
- 51:32dose in Google Translate, just to make sure as a
- 51:36why can't it be both? Why can't it? And this
- 51:45is this absolutionism that, economically speaking, gets back to President
- 51:50Trump's point about having rivals, and I can't look like
- 51:54my opponent. We're not each other's opponents. There are instances
- 51:59where you might get a job or not get a job.
- 52:02I've been fired and new people were on the radio
- 52:05the next morning at five am. It's a real gut
- 52:08punch when you hear the older you're my caller, You're
- 52:12not my caller. You're a caller to a radio station
- 52:16who needs to know and explore and question things. So
- 52:22if they fire me tomorrow, somebody else will be on
- 52:24your radio tomorrow morning and you'll call them. Hopefully they're
- 52:28taking phone calls to anyway. An It's not a zero
- 52:34sum game. This is what the Marxist wants you to believe.
- 52:38This is why if you take anything from anything, it's
- 52:45ms Kirks. I forgive them until tomorrow morning. I'm Joe Thomas,
- 52:49so long and thanks for all the fish.
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