Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "If anyone knows dodgy citizenship..." (FTTxJT Fri 103026 hr1)
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- 0:03Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
- 0:09Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
- 0:12Speaker 2: Joe works at the steel mill, works damn near every day.
- 0:17Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up, drops.
- 0:19Speaker 4: The kids to school and all the work.
- 0:22Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of, all the treasures.
- 0:25Speaker 6: That he needs. No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only.
- 0:30Speaker 7: Aims to please you.
- 0:35Speaker 6: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
- 0:37Speaker 6: this morning on the radio program that is proud and
- 0:42Speaker 6: loud about being a radio program. We don't try to
- 0:45Speaker 6: pretend we're content creators or any of the other cool
- 0:48Speaker 6: phrases they use. Oh, it's spoken word, blah, blah. We
- 0:54Speaker 6: are broadcasting to you. You are basking in the amplitude
- 0:57Speaker 6: or frequency modulation goodness of your favorite radio station, and
- 1:01Speaker 6: we are proud of it. You know why? 97% of
- 1:04Speaker 6: Americans do this every day. So why am I hiding
- 1:11Speaker 6: under this? Oh, no, no. We're a spoken word and
- 1:14Speaker 6: we're a multi-platform. You can stream us. You can podcast us.
- 1:19Speaker 6: You can do pretty much anything they do except OnlyFans
- 1:23Speaker 6: with us on the Internet. And trust me, no one
- 1:26Speaker 6: wants to see that. Ding. We are here at Common Ground,
- 1:32Speaker 6: a great event space here in our flagship cities of Stanton, Waynesboro, Charlottesville,
- 1:38Speaker 6: and Harrisonburg. In this metroplex, a wonderful area, Fishersville, right
- 1:43Speaker 6: across the street from an Amazon distribution center. Yes, so
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- 2:06Speaker 6: doings this week. Victoria Cobb, the president of the Family Foundation,
- 2:11Speaker 6: you see her on Fox News and Newsmax out there
- 2:15Speaker 6: defending the unborn. And until we can give the unborn
- 2:19Speaker 6: a proxy vote, there's no better advocate for The rights
- 2:25Speaker 6: of the unborn, then Victoria Cobb, and the work that
- 2:28Speaker 6: the Family Foundation does there, it is in the crosshairs.
- 2:36Speaker 6: This is, it's crazy made world, you know, four, five,
- 2:39Speaker 6: six different states now with abortion, either amendments or legislation
- 2:45Speaker 6: on the ballot. Are men allowed to vote in these things?
- 2:52Speaker 6: I'm told that we're not allowed to have an opinion.
- 2:54Speaker 6: Does that mean we don't have to vote in this stuff?
- 2:57Speaker 6: I don't know. All of that stuff coming up for
- 3:00Speaker 6: you this morning here in Fishersville. We're also going to
- 3:03Speaker 6: talk about property rights and data centers and voting integrity
- 3:08Speaker 6: with one of my favorite people, former DHS Secretary Ken
- 3:12Speaker 6: Cuccinelli is going to be on the program, Good for America.
- 3:16Speaker 6: Max got the weekend set up for sports as well,
- 3:21Speaker 6: and you and me, because I'm going to tell you
- 3:22Speaker 6: what went on last night, and you're going to tell
- 3:26Speaker 6: me how it's impacting you where you are. It's a
- 3:29Speaker 6: pretty straightforward philosophy. We've been doing it since the 30s,
- 3:33Speaker 6: and I think radio is pretty good at making it happen.
- 3:37Speaker 6: So leave us begin our first things this morning. These
- 3:41Speaker 6: are some of the stories that are tickling our ivories
- 3:44Speaker 6: this weekend. Well, it sounded better in rehearsal. Ongoing investigation
- 3:51Speaker 6: into Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's controversial marriage and her citizenship
- 3:57Speaker 6: status apparently began under President Barack Obama in the last
- 4:04Speaker 6: year of his administration. 2016 is when the first investigations
- 4:09Speaker 6: into Ilhan Omar's citizenship, ironically, under Barack Obama began. citing
- 4:16Speaker 6: former federal government officials. The New York Times is reporting
- 4:21Speaker 6: that the Obama administration had originally, quote, found some evidence
- 4:27Speaker 6: that the marriage was fraudulent. The Justice Department for this
- 4:32Speaker 6: year is escalating its criminal investigation into the Alaska Senate
- 4:36Speaker 6: race and how a candidate who shares much of the
- 4:41Speaker 6: same name as incumbent Republican, wound up in the race.
- 4:46Speaker 6: They've issued a raft of new grand jury subpoenas. According
- 4:50Speaker 6: to a person familiar with the matter, that means leaker,
- 4:54Speaker 6: told the Associated Press. President Trump was in South Carolina
- 4:58Speaker 6: yesterday campaigning for Senator Darlene Graham for a permanent election
- 5:04Speaker 6: to the seat that she was appointed to in replacement,
- 5:09Speaker 6: pardon me, won a special election to replace her brother,
- 5:12Speaker 6: Lindsey Graham, Democrat Annie Andrews, or Arnie if you like,
- 5:18Speaker 6: who cares, she's campaigning on transgender medical care and gun control.
- 5:23Speaker 6: President Trump took shots at both of those policies at
- 5:27Speaker 6: the event. This won't happen to gold, or at least
- 5:31Speaker 6: if it does, you have to show up with a
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- 5:48Speaker 6: it looks like there was a hack on Binance. The
- 5:51Speaker 6: company said the cryptocurrency firm has frozen more than $ 2. 5
- 5:56Speaker 6: billion in funds. Hope you weren't planning to go to
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- 13:21Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
- 13:28Speaker 6: You don't really need to find out what's going on.
- 13:33Speaker 7: You don't really want to know just how.
- 13:35Speaker 2: Far it's gone.
- 13:43Speaker 6: It makes one wonder, sitting where I sit, because you
- 13:49Speaker 6: may not see the patterns, but at least four separate
- 13:55Speaker 6: occasions over the last three months, there have been stories
- 14:00Speaker 6: that have been bad for Democrats that you would know about,
- 14:05Speaker 6: and they were reported in The New York Times. And
- 14:13Speaker 6: it makes me wonder, what transgression did the Democratic Party
- 14:18Speaker 6: commit to the Democrat machine? Or what transgression did the
- 14:26Speaker 6: Democrat machine do to the New York Times? Were they
- 14:29Speaker 6: left out of a big media buy? Were there column
- 14:33Speaker 6: inches that weren't paid for and perhaps expected to be
- 14:37Speaker 6: given to them out of the good graces of the
- 14:41Speaker 6: old gray lady? Did it have to do with the
- 14:47Speaker 6: election of Zaphod Madmoney to the Gracie Mansion in New York?
- 14:54Speaker 6: Or the allowance that he was able to run out
- 14:59Speaker 6: of town some good rock-ribbed Democrats who understood that the
- 15:04Speaker 6: greasing of the palms at a place like the New
- 15:06Speaker 6: York Times, who, you know, it's hard. They had classified money.
- 15:11Speaker 6: Once the classified money dried up, and I'd love to
- 15:14Speaker 6: give it some higher moral code or implication even, but
- 15:22Speaker 6: it was really when people stopped using the newspaper classifieds,
- 15:29Speaker 6: they started selling column space. What's it worth to you?
- 15:33Speaker 6: You want a two-page spread on your candidate? All right,
- 15:36Speaker 6: here's what that costs. I get it. I'm not going
- 15:40Speaker 6: to deny that radio stations don't do that. I don't.
- 15:46Speaker 6: It's probably why my wife is stressing out every time
- 15:51Speaker 6: the mortgage comes due. You know, if you sold some
- 15:54Speaker 6: time to these people, you know, I bet Tom Perriello
- 15:58Speaker 6: would pay for a half an hour. Yeah. Yeah. I'd
- 16:02Speaker 6: actually have to burn my clothes after, you know, oh, really, Tom,
- 16:06Speaker 6: how are you going to save us from the health
- 16:08Speaker 6: care plan that you brought along? Sorry, Joe, you can't
- 16:11Speaker 6: ask it that way because I'm paying you. And thus
- 16:15Speaker 6: goes the routine. I bring this up because it's the
- 16:18Speaker 6: New York Times, of all people, not the Washington Times
- 16:23Speaker 6: or the conservative Intelligencer or anything like that. It's not Newsmax.
- 16:30Speaker 6: that broke the story that it was the Obama administration,
- 16:36Speaker 6: perhaps redefining the term awkward. Um, and you know, if
- 16:43Speaker 6: there's anyone who ought to know about dodgy birth, you know,
- 16:47Speaker 6: certificates and, and birth records and citizenship, it'd be the
- 16:51Speaker 6: Obama administration. There was actually a meme somebody shared with
- 16:56Speaker 6: me yesterday of, it looked like obviously the, AI-generated cartoon
- 17:01Speaker 6: drawings of Ilhan Omar on the cell phone with Barry,
- 17:05Speaker 6: little Barry Sotero. And he's in the Oval Office, and
- 17:10Speaker 6: she's on the campaign trail. And the speech bubble over
- 17:18Speaker 6: her head says, Mr. President, do you still have that
- 17:21Speaker 6: birth certificate guy on speed dial? I love long memories.
- 17:27Speaker 6: And let's not forget Let's not forget who began the,
- 17:31Speaker 6: is Barack Obama a citizen? Who began that question? Who
- 17:36Speaker 6: first asked it? Hillary Rodham Clinton. Well, I mean, truth
- 17:45Speaker 6: be told, it was her Pennsylvania campaign chair who first said, appropriately,
- 17:51Speaker 6: by the way, because it's the Democratic and Republican Party's
- 17:55Speaker 6: job to in exchange, part of the quid for their
- 17:59Speaker 6: pro quo, their permanent guaranteed ballot access nonsense, that they
- 18:06Speaker 6: are the ones who have to authorize. So if there
- 18:09Speaker 6: was ever a question of somebody's citizenship or qualification legally
- 18:15Speaker 6: to hold an office, it's the party chair that goes
- 18:19Speaker 6: to jail first. Well, maybe right after the candidate. Because
- 18:24Speaker 6: they're the ones that signed the documents that say we,
- 18:27Speaker 6: the insert name of party here, chair, authorized that we
- 18:35Speaker 6: have vetted the qualifications based on federal law, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
- 18:45Speaker 6: But I think this redefines the term awkward. While Ilhan Omar,
- 18:50Speaker 6: much like Virginia's own Louise... Left Eye Lucas, who, you know,
- 18:57Speaker 6: is standing charges for drug smuggling and racketeering and, you know,
- 19:04Speaker 6: all the stuff that you used to charge John Gotti
- 19:06Speaker 6: with and people like that. And from what I understand,
- 19:09Speaker 6: you know, this is sort of how Portsmouth, Virginia runs anyway.
- 19:14Speaker 6: You know, she's the boss. Remember the opening scene of
- 19:20Speaker 6: Godfather 1 when it was just called What is Don
- 19:28Speaker 6: Corleone's plan for Michael? Michael was not supposed to be
- 19:32Speaker 6: involved in the family business. That was Sonny's job. That
- 19:37Speaker 6: was Fredo's job. Michael was a Marine. He was a
- 19:42Speaker 6: decorated serviceman, an officer, and he was going to go
- 19:47Speaker 6: to the U.S. Senate. Because the Corleone family trafficked in influence.
- 19:55Speaker 6: And they needed people in City Hall. He was trying
- 19:59Speaker 6: to get somebody in the U.S. Senate. So, you know,
- 20:05Speaker 6: it's important to have your low friends in high places.
- 20:08Speaker 6: Like Ilhan Omar. who, you know, again, is facing this inquiry.
- 20:14Speaker 6: And I'm curious because they've dropped this whole, is she really,
- 20:19Speaker 6: was she really old enough? And I think it's the
- 20:24Speaker 6: press that has dropped that question because it's really hard. Oh,
- 20:28Speaker 6: is it, did she lie about her citizenship? Was her
- 20:31Speaker 6: father even a citizen in order to do this? Because
- 20:36Speaker 6: multiple frauds from multiple agencies would have to take place
- 20:40Speaker 6: in Minnesota. Because that would never happen. And now we
- 20:48Speaker 6: have new allegations that come out against sweet retiring Ilhan.
- 20:55Speaker 6: Of more money laundering, almost Louise Lucas-esque fraud. aid money
- 21:01Speaker 6: that she didn't even bother to traffic through her, you know,
- 21:05Speaker 6: street urchins, her Baker Street irregulars in Minnesota. The money
- 21:14Speaker 6: was just going directly to Somalia. Which it wasn't intended for, but,
- 21:23Speaker 6: you know, aid is aid is aid. And she, you know, Trump.
- 21:28Speaker 6: And that's the answer for everything. Well, you know, Trump.
- 21:31Speaker 6: We need Ilhan Omar to fight Trump. So while she
- 21:35Speaker 6: steals money from you, that's okay because she doesn't like
- 21:38Speaker 6: Donald Trump? Is that all it takes to get in
- 21:42Speaker 6: and take all the money out of your bank account?
- 21:45Speaker 6: All I have to do is say I wear a
- 21:47Speaker 6: No Kings t-shirt and a pink genital hat? Because if
- 21:54Speaker 6: that's the case, bank robbery is going to become a
- 21:56Speaker 6: lot easier in the United States than.
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- 25:55Speaker 6: Uh-oh, Brad's buzzed.
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- 25:57Speaker 14: Yeah, he's starting with the woots.
- 25:59Speaker 7: And now a speech.
- 26:02Speaker 11: I just want to say that friendship is about heart.
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- 26:07Speaker 6: Who's with me?
- 26:08Speaker 12: Good thing is, he knows when he's buzzed.
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- 28:22Speaker 1: You know, what does it say in a world where.
- 28:34Speaker 6: Captain Kirk outlives Captain Picard? And I say this to you, again,
- 28:40Speaker 6: defending my honor as not a Trekkie, but somebody who
- 28:44Speaker 6: is an aficionado of science fiction. and understand storytelling. Why
- 28:52Speaker 6: is it that William Shatner is going to outlive... It's
- 28:56Speaker 6: almost like that Saturday Night Live skit that wound up
- 29:00Speaker 6: being eerily prescient of John Belushi dancing on the graves
- 29:05Speaker 6: of all the other Saturday Night Live not ready for
- 29:08Speaker 6: primetime players when he was the first one to die.
- 29:12Speaker 6: And maybe that was the gag, was that everyone knew...
- 29:15Speaker 6: what direction he was going. Um, and the gag was that,
- 29:20Speaker 6: you know, despite his lifestyle, he was going to outlive everybody.
- 29:23Speaker 6: But I mean, there's, there's Bill Shatner still recording heavy
- 29:29Speaker 6: metal songs, much in the same way he recorded Mr.
- 29:33Speaker 6: Tambourine Man all those years ago. You have to appreciate
- 29:36Speaker 6: somebody who says, you know what? The kitsch is in.
- 29:42Speaker 6: Somebody who embraces the remix of his public service announcement
- 29:47Speaker 6: about deep-frying turkeys. Somebody who understands who he is well
- 29:53Speaker 6: enough to take a role on the third rock from
- 29:56Speaker 6: the Sun TV show, And play the great big giant head.
- 30:03Speaker 6: Patrick Stewart on the other hand. Who passed away the
- 30:06Speaker 6: other day at 86. Who's like 10 years younger than Shatner.
- 30:12Speaker 6: Has done some amazing things. And one of the ones
- 30:16Speaker 6: that stands out. And there's a series of these films.
- 30:20Speaker 6: And I have tried to figure out what the. commonality is,
- 30:27Speaker 6: is there one producer? It just strikes me that these
- 30:31Speaker 6: are all done in the same fashion, yet they don't
- 30:35Speaker 6: seem to be done by the same film house or
- 30:37Speaker 6: the same director or the same producer. They are reimaginings
- 30:44Speaker 6: of Shakespeare. In the original dialogue, they don't change a
- 30:51Speaker 6: word of the script whatsoever. but they insert them into
- 30:55Speaker 6: modern milieus. And Patrick Stewart did an incredible, um, and,
- 31:04Speaker 6: and I'm being in a theater adjunct business. I will
- 31:08Speaker 6: refer to it as we do in the overly superstitious
- 31:12Speaker 6: theater world as the Scottish play. I don't, I don't
- 31:17Speaker 6: know why you can't say Macbeth on the air or
- 31:20Speaker 6: in a theater or anything like, um, But he's like
- 31:25Speaker 6: playing Joseph Stalin in a bunker, and it's just remarkable
- 31:32Speaker 6: the way that the story, the Shakespearean story of Macbeth
- 31:38Speaker 6: can just pick up all the words, all the words,
- 31:41Speaker 6: and reinsert them into a modern milieu, and they work.
- 31:45Speaker 6: And to me, this is a great example of why
- 31:50Speaker 6: great stories are great stories. They're timeless. And this idea
- 31:54Speaker 6: that there are new stories out there is sort of
- 31:58Speaker 6: fooling ourselves. Now, there are new interpretations. There are new inferences.
- 32:04Speaker 6: But just like the economy, we're going through a technological
- 32:09Speaker 6: revolution much in the way that we went through the
- 32:12Speaker 6: industrial revolution 150 years ago. Ironically, about the same time
- 32:19Speaker 6: we started our civil war and pretended that it had
- 32:22Speaker 6: ended only to see it come up again.
- 32:26Speaker 3: Oh, I.
- 32:28Speaker 6: Was just reminded since I mentioned Saturday Night Live and
- 32:32Speaker 6: the not ready for primetime players and these music. If
- 32:36Speaker 6: you want to see a wonderful Bill Murray movie, there's
- 32:40Speaker 6: the Hamlet. I think it was made in 2000. Hamlet,
- 32:47Speaker 6: Bill Murray. is in it along with Liev Schreiber and
- 32:53Speaker 6: Kyle MacLachlan, and Ethan Hawke plays Hamlet. Steve Zahn is Rosencrantz.
- 33:01Speaker 6: Bill Murray plays Polonius. Sam Shepard's in this. Julius Stiles.
- 33:07Speaker 6: I mean, this is what these Shakespeare remakes were. Romeo
- 33:11Speaker 6: and Juliet stars Leonardo DiCaprio in one of the... I
- 33:16Speaker 6: forget the young lady who starred as Juliet, but I mean, these...
- 33:20Speaker 6: And it's little European sports cars instead of horses. It's
- 33:26Speaker 6: gunfights instead of swordfights. It literally takes these stories out
- 33:35Speaker 6: of Shakespeare and put them in your modern action adventure.
- 33:40Speaker 6: I used to think that it was a series because
- 33:44Speaker 6: I would come across them on like Turner Classic movies.
- 33:46Speaker 6: I was like, oh my gosh, this is This is
- 33:48Speaker 6: an amazing, Patrick Stewart is great in this. I always
- 33:52Speaker 6: felt he got short shrifted by Star Trek. And then
- 33:57Speaker 6: just ironically, I think the day before he died, I
- 34:01Speaker 6: happened to have a three minute washing machine was still running.
- 34:06Speaker 6: And I put Paramount Plus on. I wouldn't subscribe to
- 34:09Speaker 6: Paramount Plus, but my son did. So I happened to
- 34:13Speaker 6: have access to that series that they made, Picard. Where
- 34:17Speaker 6: they tried to take Captain Picard and make him a
- 34:20Speaker 6: more Captain Kirk-ish character. And I had to chuckle. The
- 34:28Speaker 6: final episode is he's battling the Borg again. And the
- 34:32Speaker 6: Borg were a great creation. You want to talk about
- 34:35Speaker 6: a modern enemy. Star Trek, you know, in the 60s,
- 34:39Speaker 6: it was the Klingons and obviously, you know, communism versus
- 34:44Speaker 6: democracy and freedom. So what's the villain in the 90s? Technology.
- 34:53Speaker 6: The connected universe. So what better enemy could you have
- 34:58Speaker 6: but the Borg? But they never really fleshed them out
- 35:00Speaker 6: until this final episode of Picard and the Queen is
- 35:05Speaker 6: screeching about being a world where there is no war,
- 35:09Speaker 6: a world where there is no suffering, a world where
- 35:12Speaker 6: there is no want or need. And I just sat
- 35:15Speaker 6: back and again... trying to defend my honor here, not
- 35:19Speaker 6: a Trekkie. But I do know that one of the
- 35:22Speaker 6: things that hamstrung the next generation, Patrick Stewart's Star Trek,
- 35:28Speaker 6: for several years was the fact that Gene Roddenberry was
- 35:32Speaker 6: still alive and had determined that he, because he had
- 35:36Speaker 6: become friends with.
- 35:40Speaker 11: L.
- 35:40Speaker 6: Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, and had Apparently beamed
- 35:46Speaker 6: up into his own mind. And was now existing only there.
- 35:50Speaker 6: Because he felt like it was his job. To bring
- 35:53Speaker 6: on this. New world order. Of everything is peace. And
- 35:58Speaker 6: there couldn't be any conflict. In the episodes. And it
- 36:01Speaker 6: was really frustrating. For Star Trek fans. My best friend
- 36:05Speaker 6: Pete and I. Got some beers and sat down. To
- 36:08Speaker 6: watch the first new Star Trek. Outside of a couple
- 36:11Speaker 6: of movies. And I just. I was like, what was
- 36:16Speaker 6: that episode even about? It was some space octopus or
- 36:21Speaker 6: jellyfish or something like that. And who's this Q guy?
- 36:25Speaker 6: John Delancey is a treasure, by the way. Took an
- 36:28Speaker 6: awful role that was tacked on and made it special.
- 36:32Speaker 6: Proof of an actor's performance. But I have to shake
- 36:37Speaker 6: my head in a world where I think William Shatner
- 36:39Speaker 6: is going to outlive everybody in Star Trek. I mean,
- 36:43Speaker 6: he may actually do another Star Trek movie. They were
- 36:46Speaker 6: talking about somehow weaving him in because Chris Pine didn't
- 36:51Speaker 6: want to do Captain Kirk anymore. They're like, well, we
- 36:54Speaker 6: got to flog this cash cow some more. And maybe
- 36:59Speaker 6: we can get Bill Shatner to play Captain Kirk again.
- 37:04Speaker 6: And he's done some, you know, noteworthy. I think his
- 37:07Speaker 6: turn in Boston Legal creates the blacklist of You know,
- 37:11Speaker 6: Boston Legal was just a remarkably fun show to watch.
- 37:15Speaker 6: It was guilty pleasure kind of stuff. But you look at,
- 37:20Speaker 6: you know, what he was able to do with that.
- 37:25Speaker 6: And so, you know, still kicking 96, I think now
- 37:30Speaker 6: going into space, riding horses. God bless him. You know,
- 37:33Speaker 6: knock wood that we're all 96 and still doing all
- 37:36Speaker 6: the things that God has gifted us to do with us,
- 37:39Speaker 6: our notes for. Ted Steve, don't you call me a Trekkie.
- 37:45Speaker 6: And don't you send me a clip of the last
- 37:47Speaker 6: eight minutes and say, how dare you try to claim
- 37:50Speaker 6: that you're not a Trekkie. While we collect more awkwardness
- 37:55Speaker 6: out of the Department of Justice for you in a
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- 42:21Speaker 8: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms.
- 42:24Speaker 6: In the First Amendment.
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- 42:32Speaker 19: Freedom to peaceably assemble.
- 42:35Speaker 3: Freedom to petition the government.
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- 42:43Speaker 6: Think first.
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- 42:47Speaker 5: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
- 42:52Speaker 19: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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- 44:55Speaker 6: A young lady a couple of weeks back, and she
- 44:59Speaker 6: asked me, who did my Dolly Parton impression on that
- 45:05Speaker 6: re-entry music? I said, that's not an impression. That's Dolly.
- 45:10Speaker 6: And she said, I've never heard that song before. She said,
- 45:13Speaker 6: I've heard 9 to 5. When did she remake? I
- 45:16Speaker 6: said she remade it for 8824217. It's one of those
- 45:22Speaker 6: where first you say it, then you do it. We
- 45:25Speaker 6: had the internet go down and all of that happens.
- 45:30Speaker 6: It's like when you're running a cryptocurrency bank and all
- 45:35Speaker 6: of a sudden somebody hacks into you. And we're talking
- 45:40Speaker 6: about this story. This cryptocurrency bank was apparently hacked into
- 45:46Speaker 6: and they've frozen all of their assets and which as
- 45:51Speaker 6: winter approaches, many people will say, yeah, I get it.
- 45:56Speaker 6: But if you have one of those cryptocurrency accounts, the
- 46:01Speaker 6: Visa card that taps into it more and more folks,
- 46:05Speaker 6: I think it was $ 2. 5 billion worth of cryptocurrency is
- 46:08Speaker 6: frozen right now because somebody was able to hack into Bitmancer,
- 46:15Speaker 6: is that what it's called? And I don't do the
- 46:18Speaker 6: crypto thing. You know my situation with gold and silver.
- 46:22Speaker 6: If I can't hold it, I don't believe in it.
- 46:26Speaker 6: Stop it. I hear you snickering about the whole Star
- 46:28Speaker 6: Trek thing we just did. Binance. Binance is frozen $ 2. 5 billion.
- 46:36Speaker 6: They're the largest cryptocurrency firm. in the country. And boy,
- 46:41Speaker 6: if they had what happened to me just a few minutes,
- 46:44Speaker 6: I think it was a minute before we were supposed
- 46:47Speaker 6: to come on the air, the internet said, rebooting.
- 46:50Speaker 16: What?
- 46:51Speaker 6: And it's, you know, it's unfortunately, you know this because
- 46:55Speaker 6: you're up with me at this hour of the morning.
- 46:57Speaker 6: This is when all the computer systems determine arbitrarily that, well,
- 47:02Speaker 6: nobody's around. We're nobody. We're all nobodies. Oh, yeah, we
- 47:07Speaker 6: can reboot the whole system. Do it at 5.50 a.m.
- 47:13Speaker 6: Nobody's working at that time. And it's just frustrating because
- 47:18Speaker 6: you sit there and say, I get it. At some point,
- 47:21Speaker 6: these systems do need to do some maintenance and things
- 47:24Speaker 6: like that. But there needs to be, if I had
- 47:29Speaker 6: a perfect world, some way where you could control it locally.
- 47:36Speaker 6: Or at least get some heads up saying, hey, at 4.57,
- 47:40Speaker 6: we're going to reboot this whole system here. And then
- 47:45Speaker 6: send you a software upgrade as well, because that'll make
- 47:48Speaker 6: your morning even more fun. So more things going on
- 47:53Speaker 6: this morning that need discussing besides Binance and its $ 2. 5
- 47:58Speaker 6: billion that could go poof on that subject. British intelligence.
- 48:06Speaker 6: Ever since Sean Connery passed away, British intelligence just ain't
- 48:10Speaker 6: getting it done sometimes. They've just lost several hundred hard
- 48:17Speaker 6: drives and external drives. They don't have an exact number.
- 48:23Speaker 6: But I don't mean to be harsh, but if you're
- 48:30Speaker 6: in intelligence-gathering organizations, private or public, I mean, let's say
- 48:38Speaker 6: you own a bunch of flock cameras and you've spent
- 48:43Speaker 6: money on the cameras and you're going to recoup that
- 48:46Speaker 6: money by selling what you see on those cameras to
- 48:49Speaker 6: police departments and things like that. You'd think that the
- 48:54Speaker 6: places where that data is stored would be the singular
- 48:59Speaker 6: most important thing to you, like the $ 2. 5 billion worth
- 49:03Speaker 6: of cryptocurrency. Is that a lot of cryptocurrency or a
- 49:08Speaker 6: little bit? I never know where we are. I mean,
- 49:11Speaker 6: sometimes $ 2. 5 billion worth of cryptocurrency is like five you
- 49:16Speaker 6: know bitcoin and sometimes it's 2.5 billion bitcoin but this
- 49:26Speaker 6: just is a thought and and yeah we're going to
- 49:30Speaker 6: put it under the heading of yet another reason expecting
- 49:35Speaker 6: the government to do these things and National security is
- 49:39Speaker 6: something I think we can all agree that we need
- 49:42Speaker 6: someone doing, you know, watching out, helping collect evidence, making
- 49:46Speaker 6: sure there is evidence to collect of people, you know,
- 49:51Speaker 6: malefactors out there trying to do things that they shouldn't
- 49:55Speaker 6: be doing. Amazingly, how much misdeed goes on without these
- 50:04Speaker 6: nets finding them. Flaw, feature, you decide. But if you're,
- 50:11Speaker 6: and I could give it if it was the Lithuanian
- 50:15Speaker 6: or the Liberland intelligence agency, and even some of these
- 50:21Speaker 6: former Soviet, it's the Czech Republic's intelligence services. You're new
- 50:27Speaker 6: at this. This is British intelligence. I believe they were
- 50:31Speaker 6: founded by the people who had been running the British
- 50:35Speaker 6: East India Company That's not facts and not an evidence
- 50:40Speaker 6: on that, but it just seems like these people have
- 50:42Speaker 6: been collecting intelligence on people for hundreds and hundreds of years.
- 50:50Speaker 6: And maybe it's just the new generation of spy doesn't,
- 50:54Speaker 6: you know, it just takes this for granted. What did
- 50:56Speaker 6: you think? We were going to send all of our
- 50:58Speaker 6: classified intelligence data on Russia to the cloud and And
- 51:06Speaker 6: maybe it's as simple as that, that some 25-year-old Cambridge graduate,
- 51:13Speaker 6: upper-class twit of the year for the Monty Python fans
- 51:16Speaker 6: out there, I'm Reginald Smith Smythe of Upper West Derby,
- 51:24Speaker 6: and my father-in-law is the shadow minister for intelligence. I've
- 51:33Speaker 6: been appointed. All right, kid, you handle the storage of
- 51:37Speaker 6: the hard drives. Hard drives? No one uses hard drives anymore.
- 51:42Speaker 6: I'm going to leave them here in the kitchen. I mean,
- 51:46Speaker 6: has it gotten that bad where, you know, somebody sees
- 51:49Speaker 6: a hard drive and thinks, oh, nobody uses those anymore.
- 51:53Speaker 6: Put them in the recycling bin. Investigatory, and this is
- 52:02Speaker 6: actually a job, Investigatory Powers Commissioner Brian Levison said the
- 52:10Speaker 6: commissioner's office at British Government Communications Headquarters, quote, still cannot
- 52:15Speaker 6: tell me what happened to the media that may hold
- 52:18Speaker 6: sensitive data. Years after I first raised the question with him, years, years,
- 52:24Speaker 6: we've just, Maybe this is where Vlad Putin gets his
- 52:29Speaker 6: opportunity to go have a little vacation with his troops
- 52:32Speaker 6: in Ukraine. Hard drives go missing at one of the
- 52:40Speaker 6: largest intelligence ages. It just proves that the greatest oxymoron
- 52:45Speaker 6: of all is government intelligence, doesn't it?
- 52:51Speaker 9: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
- 52:54Speaker 9: leg to a roadside bomb.
- 52:55Speaker 5: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
- 52:58Speaker 5: weightlifting champion.
- 53:00Speaker 14: I'm Sam.
- 53:01Speaker 1: I'm a veteran.
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- 53:04Speaker 18: of and supporting my family.
- 53:06Speaker 3: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
- 53:09Speaker 3: of their lives.
- 53:10Speaker 1: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless to home.
- 53:14Speaker 3: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
- 53:17Speaker 3: the benefits they've earned.
- 53:19Speaker 14: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
- 53:23Speaker 3: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
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- 53:36Speaker 3: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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