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"Will (have to) Work for Food" (Tuesday September 2, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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but you know I don't want to. I don't want
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to just be you and me. You know, let some
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other people know Bill Clinton, famous Bill Clinton clip on
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work requirements.
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Speaker 1: We need it as individuals, we need to sense it
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and our fellow citizens.
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Speaker 11: And we need it as a society.
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Speaker 2: And as a people.
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Speaker 10: You think a guy that talks like that would be
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allowed in the Democratic Party these days, as we're already
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getting the rhetoric of all the quote people that are
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being kicked off of Snap benefits because we now say
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you have to work for food. Wasn't that the old
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you know the sign on the side of the road,
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will work for food. Well, now simply asking that you
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work twenty hours a week for Snap benefits is horrible
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and worse than that. Worse worse than that, as you
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ask that anyone who receives taxpayer funded Snap Benefits supplemental
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new It's the old food stamps programs. It became Snap
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when they were formed, and they went to the cards saying, oh, well,
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the cards can't be used to buy cigarettes or liquor,
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And then they figured out a way to use the
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cards to buy cigarettes and liquor. But at least now
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they have to work twenty hours a week to get
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on there, and they have to be a US citizen.
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All went into effect September first, and all the people
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you know, your neighbors, you watch I guarantee five and
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six o'clock news tonight, protests on the streets of your
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town organizing for insert name.
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Speaker 2: Of state here. All the old vestiges of.
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Speaker 10: The Obama campaign organizing four will have protests saying you
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were kicking our neighbors.
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Speaker 2: Off their benefits. Oh my gosh, it's horrible.
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Speaker 10: But back in the day when Bill Clinton, you know,
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and he loves to tell you how he balanced the budget.
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Of course, Newt Gingrich played a pretty big role in that.
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But our first things on this Tuesday morning, more than
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fourteen thousand, mostly Venezuelan illegals who were.
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Speaker 2: Trying to get into the United.
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Speaker 10: States of reverse course, because after eight months they realized,
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oh crap, Donald Trump is now in charge and the
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door is closed. Trump administration has imposed a freeze on
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all types of visa applications for individuals holding passports from
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the Palestinian Authority. As I said snap program, new requirements
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of citizenship and twenty hours of work per week. Treasury
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Secretary Scott Besson suggested yesterday that President Trump might consider
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some terror exemptions for housing construction material. Quote, we're trying
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to figure out what we can do and what we
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don't want to step in the business of the states, counties,
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and municipal governments.
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Speaker 2: President Trump said. Monday.
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Speaker 10: Hill award former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the
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Presidential Medal of Freedom. It's the nation's highest civilian honor.
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Two days after he was seriously injured in a car
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crash by the Way the Mayor of New York on
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September eleventh. Was released from the hospital late yesterday. An
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attorney representing protesters that were arrested for being on capital
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grounds on January sixth of twenty twenty one, has asked
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the Department of Justice to create a reparations panel. Mark
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McCloskey says he wants Janine Pirot, us attorney for the
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District of Columbia, to oversee this reparations community. US financial
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systems have been warned to look out for Chinese money
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laundries in money laundering networks used by Mexican based drug cartels,
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including some designated as foreign terrorist organizations. These money laundering
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networks are linked to individuals who hold US Chinese passports.
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the House Judiciary Committee, has announced he will not seek
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Speaker 3: A need to know basis, because you need to know
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Speaker 2: So it's not just Bill Clinton. We pick on.
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Speaker 10: Lots of notable Democrats have said something.
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Speaker 16: That's a fine.
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Speaker 5: How you working at least?
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Speaker 6: Damn damn it.
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Speaker 5: I'm supposed to get the risks. We can do it
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down when I won't.
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Speaker 15: Work.
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on welfare to a lifetime at the margins of our society.
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Speaker 23: Anyone who wants to receive welfare must sign an individual responsibility.
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Speaker 2: Contract, recognize that voice forced to.
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Speaker 23: Agree up front to the conditions placed on receiving the benefit,
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and so that they will have a plan from day
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one on how to get themselves off of welfare. Really Joe,
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Speaker 5: For them to go to work.
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Speaker 23: Be mandatory work requirement for anyone receiving welfare.
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Speaker 13: Best anti poverty program as a job which confers not
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just income, but structure and dignity.
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Speaker 10: So it's not just you and me. It's just a
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mean old Donald Trump who said it. And sadly they
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forget these things. And most of it is in the
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pandering to this vast new workforce quote unquote.
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Speaker 2: And I warned you of this.
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Speaker 10: And I was talking to a friend of mine a
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couple of weeks ago, No, I guess it was about
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a week ago.
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Speaker 2: We were at the.
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Speaker 10: Conference, the State Policy Network conference had a lot of
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deep economic thinkers there, and I posited my feeling that.
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Speaker 2: This was an assault.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 10: I was talking to Cory DeAngelis. It was super you know,
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fighting the labor unions. I said, you know what about
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all these illegals that the bidens were letting in, because
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it appears to me that that is, in and of
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itself an assault on labor unions from the very people
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who cashed their paychecks from the labor unions. And he
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stopped and he thought about it. He said, oh my god,
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that's so dark. But how do you get the labor
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unions to give up on some of their labor demands?
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Is you promise them all these new members if you
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back down on some of the demands, and all of
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a sudden you can see his wheels turning on the
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idea that this wasn't a flaw but a feature.
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Speaker 2: The open borders.
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Speaker 10: Was actually a passive, aggressive Democratic Party attack on the
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unions and perhaps not even the union membership, but for
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the union leaders, because where does their money come from?
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The dues paid by the rank and file. Well, if
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somebody's not a citizen, and the government can make the
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case that we want them to go to work, and
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the unions have accepted these concessions in hourly wages. But
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these start up, these new dreamers, if you will, are
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without portfolio. So now we have to help them, and
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the government begins subsidizing their union dues. It becomes the
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new program, and they'll tell you that it's welfare to work.
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We're going to help these non citizens in their pathway
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to the American dream by helping them join the AFL CIO,
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the nfl CIA, whatever union that they need to join,
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AFTS me, you name it, and we'll make sure. Rather
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than giving them a welfare check, we're going to make
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sure that their union dues are covered so that they
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can put all the money. They are now legitimately in
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America as beneficiaries of the great American dreams, and all
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of a sudden, you're paying all these people's union dues.
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I know it sounds crazy. I know it sounds crazy,
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but it was going to wind up with you and
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me paying the union dues of these quote dreamers who
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you know, we have to we have to do something
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with them. There's so many of them, and they want
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to work. Let's get them legitimate work. But wow, certainly
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you know the wages, but the unions have conceded the
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wages and the wage sizes on these levels. We've created
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a second tier of citizenship so that you know, full
18:38
citizen gets bussed out union wages. But if you're on
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the you know, on the track to citizenship, you're in
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the pre citizenship clearance line. You can only get this much.
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But that's certainly a lot better than you were making
18:53
in Venezuela or Honduras or China or wherever it is
18:57
that you're seeking asylum from.
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Speaker 2: It's out of the humanity.
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Speaker 10: Tell me, the scenario doesn't make sense when you're sitting
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there and saying, well, if the Democrats were such big
19:10
union supporters, and we watched, I mean, almost as stunning
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as the percentage of the Black community that voted for
19:18
Donald Trump in twenty twenty four, the percentage of the
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union community that voted for Donald Trump, including union presidents
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going out on stage at the R and C convention
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endorsing the Republican because it hadn't they didn't have enough
19:36
time to finish the plan. They hadn't gotten to the
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point where they were going to create this sub citizen
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category that you know, maybe it's fifty percent of the
19:52
union rate, but will create jobs for them through the unions,
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and will subsidize them with instead of snap payments, will
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take care of their you know for a year, maybe
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two years, will cover their union dues. And there's the
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quid for the pro quote. That's how the union presidents
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go along with this, even if it screws over the
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rank and file citizen union members. And maybe you know,
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Steve Miller and Donald Trump were able to communicate this
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back channel to the union members that you know, you're snuffy,
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You're next. You think life is good just sitting here
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in the backyard eating carrots, but Snuffy is coming next.
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Hassenfeffer is on the way a couple of emails for you, Charles.
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Charles is upset because I beat him to the no ticky,
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no no money laundry line.
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Speaker 2: There.
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Speaker 10: I appreciate that, but you know I was I was
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just glad the first person who emailed was not complaining
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about it, although I did get this one saying, what
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the hell are you talking about? What is a Chinese laundry?
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I mean that is one of the dangers of doing
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what you and I do. You and I might remember
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when that was the stereotype. I think most twenty somethings thinking, well,
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what is he talking about Chinese laundry? I mean even
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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
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Speaker 19: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
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Speaker 13: Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 19: And now a speech.
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Speaker 25: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
26:06
art and brain.
26:07
Speaker 2: Who's with me?
26:08
Speaker 19: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
26:11
brain is saying, when it's time to go home, Somebody.
26:14
Speaker 25: Call me a ride.
26:15
Speaker 17: Love that guy, me too.
26:17
Speaker 15: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
26:19
it's time to go home.
26:20
Speaker 6: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
26:23
Speaker 22: Did you know that more than half our household energy
26:26
costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
26:30
good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
26:34
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
26:37
energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
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Speaker 10: So I don't we don't spend a ton of time
28:32
on this, but one of my favorite actors and we
28:35
we spend a little bit of time in storytelling. And
28:41
you know that my bent is to satire. Why we
28:45
say this program is satirized for your protection because satire
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and characters within satire can often tell stories that you
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know you never can could tell just by walking up
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to somebody saying, Hey, you know how dumb that is
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that you're doing? And I know it teeters on the
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gas lighting that I've said that often is what the
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left has done with sitcoms and things like that. But
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with the passing of Graham Green, who's obviously a stellar
29:21
actor and great career full of you know, highlights. My
29:30
personal one is the character he portrayed repeatedly as Edgar
29:37
Montrose Munitions and explosives expert, you know, like hold it, Joe,
29:42
What the movie was that in that mission? Impossible? Was
29:47
he in that? I thought that was Ving Raims? And No,
29:50
that was on a program called The Red Greens Show.
29:55
Speaker 13: Yeah, in the old days, like the Bridge over the River?
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Speaker 5: Quiet? Did you see that? Baby? You go up at
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the end.
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Speaker 13: The train went crashing.
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Speaker 7: Into the river.
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Speaker 13: Won an Oscar for Best Picture, But that one now,
30:09
Bridges of Madison County. I waited for one of those
30:14
bridges to go up, but no, And I wasn't the
30:19
only one disappointed. Everybody in the theater was crying by
30:22
the end. Movies today just don't deliver.
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Speaker 27: I do have to disagree with you, because they're having
30:29
some great films Maine, you know, like Forrest Golf, the
30:31
Piano Dances with Wolves.
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Speaker 5: I saw that one. Now the Native guy was okay?
30:45
Speaker 2: Which was Graham Green?
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Speaker 5: The Oscar.
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Speaker 10: If you've never seen any of The Red Green Show,
30:53
I think it's somewhere out there and you may have
30:55
to go to YouTube to get it. But regularly Graham
31:00
Green would just show up, this munition's expert, just no hearing,
31:06
you know, just blown one too many things up. And
31:09
the show is about this kind of men's club in
31:13
the woods of Canada, somewhere you're not really sure where,
31:19
but you know, sad to hear about Graham Green's passing.
31:24
Because this is why it's good that we record these
31:26
videos so that you know, when these folks are gone,
31:29
we can still watch them do funny stuff. No, Graham
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Green passing away yesterday at the age of it wasn't
31:40
all that old either. I mean, that was the sad
31:44
thing is you know I didn't it may have been illness.
31:48
I don't stay up with the with the Hollywood. Yeah,
31:53
seventy three. I mean this day in age seventy three
31:56
is you know, they say that seventy is the new fifty,
32:02
and then we start losing people, you know, at seventy three,
32:05
and he say, well, hold on a second here, if
32:07
we lost somebody at fifty, somebody would.
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Speaker 2: Start a coroner's inquiry.
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Speaker 10: And famous for playing Native American roles, Indian roles, dances
32:22
with wolves like the Indian fella, just you know, easy
32:30
going fella about himself and not of the bent of
32:35
having to tell you what their politics is all the time.
32:45
Here's the headline, New York Times. Graham Green, Canadian actor
32:49
who portrayed indigenous characters, you know, and this is the
32:54
kind of stuff he railed about. Some of this too,
33:01
some of the you know, the dancing with pronouns stuff.
33:06
So I went and I came.
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Speaker 2: Across, and it reminded me.
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Speaker 10: I always saw it on the newswires and apropos of
33:13
not necessarily anything except you know, another celebrity story this
33:19
morning on TMZ in the morning U and I apologize
33:24
for that because that's not our intent. But I was
33:27
looking for the news coverage of the Minneapolis murderer. Bobby,
33:38
the Minneapolis murderer has seemed seemingly fallen out of the news.
33:47
Speaker 2: I could it was hard to find.
33:48
Speaker 10: I mean, it was all over looking for news on
33:52
Bobby the Minneapolis murderer. And was there something, you know,
33:58
was it the earthquake in afghan and a stand that
34:00
drew everyone away? I thought maybe some of the Minneapolis
34:07
TV stations, or was it this stunning appearance of ilhan
34:17
Omar on TV that killed the interest in covering this story?
34:24
Speaker 2: Or was it.
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Speaker 10: An insistence that we talk about the realities and that
34:36
driving people away from the story. New York Times has
34:43
moved on. Last story about Bobby the Minneapolis murderer is
34:48
two days ago, three days ago for ABC News, four
34:52
days ago for Reuters. This is what Rush Limbaugh used
34:55
to refer to as the drive by media, CBS News,
35:07
two days ago, five days ago for Sahan Journal's international paper.
35:16
Even some of the aggregators have stopped. And I think
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it is because enough people like you and me dragged
35:29
the manifesto out into the light and they realized, Hmm,
35:32
this isn't the this isn't the narrative we wanted to
35:36
make it out to be. So let's shut off the cameras,
35:41
go find something else. I'm sure Donald Trump will do
35:43
something that will give us something to cover. Get an
35:47
extended clip from Dances with Wolves of Graham Green. Go
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get the go, get the last, Go, get the last
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interview you know our Hollywood reporter did with Robin Wright
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before she left the country. Four three four eight eight
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two four two one seven. Good morning, You're on the
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air with Joe Thomas. First thing this morning.
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Speaker 2: Who's this?
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Speaker 10: Hang on a second, Moscow, Bob, let me let me
36:13
get you in the system here, Bobby.
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Speaker 28: There, I'm still here.
36:19
Speaker 10: Okay, good now we can all hear you because it
36:21
was just me and that was gonna get weird after
36:24
a bit.
36:24
Speaker 2: So what's on your mind?
36:27
Speaker 28: Well, two things. The reason why we don't hear about
36:29
Bobby is because Bobby is all what the Democrats il
36:36
r Omar and all the media wants. And the reason
36:40
why Robin Wright left the country is because she's filthy rich,
36:44
so she can go to places outside the country and
36:47
other countries, just like Rosie o'donald. What's the guy's name?
36:52
I can picture the Batman.
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Speaker 2: Guy, Christian Bale. No, no, oh, George Clooney.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, but George Clooney has owned George Clooney has owned
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a villa on Lake Como forever. As a matter of fact,
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that's where the exteriors in the Oceans was at Ocean's twelve,
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the final scene with him and Julia roberts that that's
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actually George Clooney's home on Lake Como. So he's he's
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had a home in Italy for a long time. Doesn't
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excuse you know why you abandoned, and you know they
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want us to come to their movies and all that,
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but and they'll lecture us on who the hell we
37:36
pick as president.
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Speaker 28: Yeah, I'm not saying about abandoning, but he's they have
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the ability to move out of the country and move
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to the countries where they can get cheaper protective servants
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and have armed guards around their building and everything else.
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We do not have the ability to do that.
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Speaker 6: But I'm afraid of the Russians. I can't sleep.
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Speaker 10: Bob from Moscow is on the phone with us. We're
44:27
talking about these celebrities leaving the country. But Bob, you know,
44:30
I know, listeners know you, I'm not talking about Moscow, Ohio.
44:33
Speaker 2: You left. You did that.
44:36
Speaker 10: You left the country, Bob, to get medical care that
44:40
the food and our good administration wasn't going to allow
44:42
you to get here in this country.
44:43
Speaker 28: Right Well, I could get it, and I could go
44:48
abroad and get in this country, but it had jump
44:50
through hoops to have to come back. So traveling to
44:53
Europe to Germany back, you know, was too constantly. I
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couldn't I couldn't justify doing that.
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Speaker 10: So you moved to Moscow and we're able to get
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you know, your medical change.
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Speaker 28: It was the easiest. It was the easiest place where
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I could get you know. Before you know, this is
45:09
back in twenty seventeen. Everything was hunky dory here. There
45:13
was no problems with the world. Everything was peaceful.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 28: I could travel back and forth the United States on
45:19
direct lights to New York. Sure, you know that made
45:24
a big difference. But we don't have the ability in
45:28
other countries that the wealthy can have.
45:34
Speaker 2: Well, and that's part of the problem.
45:36
Speaker 10: And this is another one of those not a flaw
45:38
but a feature, uh to me, because this is this
45:42
is what they want us to start saying. This is
45:46
you know, when when Lenin was putting together the revolution
45:50
in Russia, he was pointing to the rich people. But
45:53
you know, the scam was the rich people were going
45:56
to stay the rich people and the and the proletariat,
46:00
if you will, was going to feel a little bit better.
46:04
Maybe the middle class would go away and the middle class.
46:07
Speaker 2: Would become poor ish.
46:10
Speaker 10: And so therefore you were able to sell it to
46:14
the population that you had equalized everything and everything was
46:18
fair now. But you know, at the end of the day,
46:23
the gig was that, you know, the rich we're going
46:27
to get protected by the Marxists, not punished by them.
46:32
And so while we sit here and say, oh, well,
46:34
these people are too rich and they have too much,
46:37
it's designed to drive us to revolt.
46:41
Speaker 28: Right and in Italy I wouldn't be wanted to move
46:45
to Italy right now, or Spain because the people there
46:48
are upset with all these people moving into tourists and
46:52
everything else coming to their country. Really, Oh goyches, there's
46:58
they have you know, timmis ttrations. They throw things at
47:02
people to tourists this summer and everything else because they're
47:05
tired of all the people. That's why the Louver in
47:08
France was closed because they have twenty thousand people, thirty
47:13
thousand people you know coming, you know the thing, and
47:19
it's just ridiculous. They may have five thousand people in
47:22
the museum at one time. It's ridiculous.
47:25
Speaker 2: And Ron Howard can't film another movie there. That's horrible.
47:29
Speaker 28: But who's the who's the talk show? Who's the talk show.
47:32
Speaker 10: Host that says he's moving overseas?
47:37
Speaker 28: Yeah, and just got Italian citizenship. So he's another one
47:41
that we've paid for him. He makes millions of dollars.
47:45
So what do you do. He went to the Italy
47:47
bought citizenship.
47:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, bought citizenship.
47:50
Speaker 28: I think President I think I think President Trump should
47:53
just say, hey, write an executive order if it's possibly
47:56
say no more dual citizenship. If you decide you want
48:00
to live in another country citizen and get citizenship there,
48:03
which I don't have here. I'm on a Magion visa
48:07
even though I'm not working.
48:09
Speaker 2: Don't die. I won't tell anyone.
48:10
Speaker 10: But yeah, you're right, because a lot of other countries
48:12
you can't have dual citizenship. It's like the guy who
48:15
gave all the money to Abigail Spanberger is either a
48:19
Chinese citizen or he you know, he's lying about getting
48:22
all these awards from the Chinese government for being their
48:26
top communist.
48:28
Speaker 28: Same thing as Singamore. You can't have dual sy if
48:31
you got a president Trump got rid of dual citizenship.
48:34
Where do you think these multimillionaires would go? Would live?
48:39
Would they stay in the countries they're at, or would
48:42
they give up their citizenships and come back to America.
48:45
Most of them would come back to America because of
48:47
the tax structure.
48:48
Speaker 10: Well, sure noticed they don't go to Canada. I'm just
48:53
just saying they're not going anyway. Good stuff, Bob, You
48:56
have a great morning.
48:58
Speaker 28: You too.
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Speaker 2: I want to make something right.
49:02
Speaker 10: We could have done it Saturday, we could have done
49:04
it Monday, but beating.
49:06
Speaker 2: Holidays, I wanted to kind of do it.
49:08
Speaker 10: In traditional format where you know, your life is your life,
49:13
and so you're tuning in because you tune in.
49:15
Speaker 2: Cara out in Oregon.
49:17
Speaker 10: We had an interchange over text last week that Cara
49:23
was concerned. It made it sound like and this is
49:26
the trouble with text messages is sometimes you don't get
49:30
the implication or the inference correctly, and maybe that certainly
49:35
would be my fault for misreading it or or inferring
49:40
that it was somehow a rebuke of me, And I
49:43
just wanted to make sure that after I talked to
49:46
her about it, she's like, oh no, I wasn't saying
49:48
you did these things.
49:49
Speaker 2: I was saying they.
49:51
Speaker 10: The they people that are out there, the amassed, the media,
49:58
the media types that sit there, the Robin Wrights of
50:01
the world, and the Jimmy Kimmels of the world. And
50:04
you know, again, as we ramp towards the end, we
50:09
remember Graham Green for his great work in Really if
50:13
you've never seen him in his best it, says Edgar Montrose,
50:18
it's his one most recurring character for the Red Green Show.
50:25
Speaker 27: May I'm not pulse in personal We're going to meet
50:27
expulsive enthusiast Edgar Montrose, going to chance to look at
50:31
the man behind the powder burns. Edgar, maybe you could
50:35
take us back to the beginning when you were growing
50:36
up as a kid.
50:38
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, well read My father wasn't accountant and my
50:42
mom was a librarian.
50:43
Speaker 29: It was a very quiet house up until my seventh birthday.
50:49
That's when I got the chemistry set.
50:53
Speaker 27: So was it a large house?
50:54
Speaker 5: Edgar Well got a little smaller that day.
50:59
Speaker 27: Are you starting bay many with explosives at a very
51:01
early age?
51:02
Speaker 5: I would say so.
51:03
Speaker 13: I kind of lost track of time there. I'd blow
51:07
something up that it might take a while before I
51:09
regain consciousness, But I.
51:13
Speaker 5: Got right back at it.
51:15
Speaker 29: I was curious to know where things go when they explode,
51:20
and where do they go.
51:22
Speaker 5: A long way.
51:25
Speaker 29: Once I filled my bicycle handlebars with dynamite. When I
51:28
set that off, it blew my horn halfway to port asbestos.
51:34
Speaker 27: You know, you can get hurt having that kind of fun, Meger, Oh, I.
51:37
Speaker 5: Didn't do it for fun, Red It was educational. I
51:42
learned a lot.
51:44
Speaker 29: For example, I learned that an explosive is very strong,
51:50
stronger than say a finger.
51:56
Speaker 3: Why that must have been dainful.
52:01
Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
52:03
Speaker 13: They said they might have been able to reattach the
52:05
finger after the explosion, but it took.
52:07
Speaker 5: Too long to come down.
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Speaker 10: The Great Graham Green recurring role. If you've never seen
52:15
The Red Green Show, and I don't know how many
52:18
years they went on doing it, They went on doing
52:20
it forever.
52:21
Speaker 2: It was one of those staples.
52:23
Speaker 10: Of if there was a reason to watch public broadcasting,
52:26
it was every now and then when the Red Green
52:29
Show would show up on there. But God bless you,
52:32
Graham Green, seventy three seems too young, says the guy
52:36
who's about to turn.
52:41
Speaker 2: Sixty two in a few days.
52:45
Speaker 10: Hold on, I'm all lot closer to seventy three that
52:48
I am the thirty three these days.
52:54
Speaker 25: Hi, I'm Mark Falter with the Financial Fitness Show. Have
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you been keeping up on the big beautiful bill. There's
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a lot of information in this bill. It's eight hundred
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and seventy seven pages long. And for that reason, we
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are offering a free webinar, free webinar July thirty first,
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at six thirty pm Central where you can actually get
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on and ask your questions. Come with your questions, come
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with your scenario, and hopefully we'll have time to answer.
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It's gonna be about thirty forty five minutes long, going
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to be more interactive, and if you want to know how,
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you can get on that webinar eight six six seven
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six four two six three five Hugin eight sixty six
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seven sixty four two six three five July thirty first,
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at six thirty pm Central Free webinar eight six six
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seven six four two six three five eight six six
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seven sixty four two six three five Hugin eight sixty
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