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"Jefferson Lives" (Thursday September 11, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that America eleven trying to call.
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Speaker 2: We have Tom play say quiet and you'll be okay,
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what are you going to the air board?
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Speaker 3: Everyone to the stamp.
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Speaker 4: They're in the back of their plane.
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Speaker 5: They're not.
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Speaker 6: The hijacker.
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Speaker 7: They're in the cockpit.
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Speaker 5: Were playing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 2: I know you.
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Speaker 8: Not to.
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Speaker 3: Do upstanding. We've got to get signed.
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Speaker 9: Before the Joe.
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Speaker 3: That's terrorism then and now, and how do you combat it?
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Speaker 7: Okay, we did one connection.
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Speaker 6: This is CNN Breaking News.
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Speaker 9: This justin.
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Speaker 10: You were looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot
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there that is the World Trade Center. And we have
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unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into
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one of the towers of the World Trade Center.
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Speaker 3: And that's how it went down twenty four years ago.
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First plane hit the first tower. Just under half an
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hour from now, we'll observe a moment of silence on
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this program, like I said, in about half of an
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hour to commemorate that moment. And as you juxtaposed to
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the terrorist attack yesterday, which is from where we sit
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at this editorial desk, what happened at Utah Valley University.
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What is the reaction. The key is what do you
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do next? The phrase inflection point has been used frequently
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on this program and in conversations you've had elsewhere. Those
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inflection points that we were allowed to give into after
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the terrorist attack twenty four years ago and what they
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turned into. And I have no greater concern about an
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intelligence gathering apparatus than they do about a firearm. Plenty
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of rifles all over the country, just like the one
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that you was used at Utah Valley University, completely inanimate
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object until they're in the hands of somebody evil. The
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same thing's true with the intelligence apparatus that we constructed
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after the terrorist attacks of September eleventh, put in the hands.
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And one of the reasons our country was special was
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we realized that human beings are flawed. Our governing structure
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wasn't built around the idea of some perfect, deified king
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picking up excalibur from the lady of the lake. That
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those who would lead this country would be broken in
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corruptible men and women, and that we were to check
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and balance their powers and their authorities in favor of
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those they governed. Our first things on this September eleventh,
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twenty twenty five, begin with the President.
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Speaker 11: To my great fellow Americans, I am filled with grief
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and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk or
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a college campus in Utah. Charlie inspired millions, and tonight
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all who knew him and loved him are united in
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shock and horror. Charlie was a patriot who devoted his
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life to the cause of open debate and the country
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that he loved so much, the United States of America.
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He fought for liberty, democracy, justice, and the American people.
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He's a martyr for truth and freedom. And there's never
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been anyone who was so respected by youth those youth.
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Speaker 3: The leadership of Turning Point USA issued this statement. It
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is with a heavy heart that we confirmed that Charles
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James Kirk has been murdered by a gunshot that took
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place during Turning Point USA's The American Comeback Tour campus
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event at Utah Valley University. May he be received into
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the merciful arms of our loving Savior who suffered and
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died for Charlie. Today, being the twenty fourth anniversary of
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the September eleventh, two thousand and one terrorist attacks. Polling
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from the milklacklink group underscores americans feelings even twenty four
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years later, one thousand likely voters were polled nation wide,
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and eighty three percent of those voters believed that every
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school in America should be required to teach students about
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the September eleventh attacks, including and specifically identifying who the
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perpetrators were and what their radical Islamist beliefs were as
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they carried out and planned that attack. Meanwhile, in Europe,
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NATO has been called together. Poland has invoked Article four
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of the NATO Treaty. At least nineteen Russian military drones,
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some launched from Belarus, flew through Poland's airspace during a
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large scale assault on Ukraine. According to Polish and NATO officials,
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the incursion, described by Warsaw as a deliberate act of
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boundary violation, has raised concerned David Donald Tusk condemned the incident.
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He's the Polish Prime Minister. There is a large scale
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provocation and the most serious threat to European security since
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World War II. In response, Poland invoked Article four of
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the NATO Treaty, which provides for an immediate consultation among
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member states when a nation's territorial integrity or security is threatened,
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has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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Speaker 16: Brah, that's buzzed.
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Speaker 17: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 16: And now a speech.
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Speaker 18: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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art and brain.
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Speaker 6: Who's with me?
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Speaker 16: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
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Speaker 18: And my brain is saying when it's time to go home,
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Somebody call me a ride.
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Speaker 6: Amaze your friends here in First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 3: Now they're not in hiding anymore, Tom, they hold their
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meetings right out in public these days. Death to their
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opposition text message in the four three four eighty two
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four two one seven, Joe, how could you conflate what
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happened yesterday to what happened on September eleventh, two thousand
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and one? Simple because both were instances where somebody was
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so hell bent on ending somebody who disagreed with them
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that the Islamist terrorists that carried out the attacks of
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September eleventh, two thousand and one wanted us to stop
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disagreeing with them, to adopt their religious beliefs, and they
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want an end to all other beliefs. And the murderer
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yesterday wanted an end to any dissent. Anyone who disagrees
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with me must go. And this is why it's a
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Marxist belief. This is people are like, well, why do
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you always assume that an Islamist is a Marxist Because
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it is that dogmatic view that if you disagree with us,
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you need to be removed from the comunity. Paraphrasing what
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Marx wrote in his Manifesto, that there certainly will be
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people who will not agree with our way, and they
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will need to be removed from the community. Hamp down
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on treasure coasts. Are kids today not taught about nine
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to eleven? In many cases, no, they're not hamp or
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they're taught. Like ilhan Omar said, some people did some
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thing because they don't want to bring up the pain
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and suffering of September eleventh. They don't want to talk
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about the fact that there are beliefs. There are people
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who believe that the only descent is demise, that the
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only way to truly bring on heaven is to get
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rid of, not convince anyone's wrong. And this is the
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nuance that they want to get rid of anyone who
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disagrees with them. They don't have a vigorous debate and
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convince you that you might be wrong. They want to
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just end you. And that's the difference, and that's the
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inflection point that I'm worried about, is that somebody of
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conservative nature will take the same idea and says, you
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know what, fine, it's on like Donkey Kong. And it's
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always been the leftists. It's always been the people. That's
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the Chuck Schumers, it's the Nancy Pelosis, it's the ilhan Omars,
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it's the Jasmine Crockett from her massive palatial shoe closet
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talking about civil war. They're the ones who want it.
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They're the ones who fomented host of the making the argument.
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Pod cast Nick Fretis had this to point out about it.
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Speaker 6: Let's get one thing straight.
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Speaker 1: They didn't murder Charlie Kirk because he was an extremist
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or a fascist, or a threat to democracy or inciting
17:12
violence or any of the other reasons that they're now
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trying to put out on X and TikTok and everywhere else.
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They murdered him because he was effective. He was effective.
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The man made incredible arguments while at the same time
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always trying to seek out common humanity. He might have
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disagreed with arguments, but he didn't hate anyone.
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Speaker 3: And they murdered him that's what happened. The effectiveness of
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Charlie Kirk is redoubly frustrating for folks who have invested
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so much into the indoctrination of America. In a few
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short years. Really, if you think about it, in few
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short years, Charlie Kirk was able to undo billions of
18:04
dollars of expended time and treasure, and did it without
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nearly the effort nor the resources that the leftist had
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in order to win over the what do they call it,
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the ideological subversion.
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Speaker 8: America is stuck with demoralization. And unless even if you
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start right now here, this minute, you start educating new
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generation of America, it will still take you fifteen to
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twenty years.
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Speaker 3: That's your impagement off former KGB agent who in nineteen
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eighty four said they had already been at it for
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three generations in nineteen eighty four, and it didn't And
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that's what's made them lose their the tenuous grip they
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had on their last good marble. Because it took Charlie
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Kirk next to no time exposing college age students and
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high school age students our flagship city. It was a
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wonderful as a matter of fact, reached out to the
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young fellow who started the high school chapter of Turning
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Point USA. Western album are Western Charlottesville. And what's frustrating
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to the folks where he is is this is where
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all the university professors live. All of their students go there,
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and all of their children go there, and ah, my goodness,
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and there's a Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA chapter in
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the high school. Yes, and Charlie Kirk undid all of
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that in no time. That's why they As Nick said,
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it was effective. He didn't need the billions of dollars
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that the Soviet Union had spent on indoctrinating k to
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twelve students.
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Speaker 8: Serving terms as prisoners. Incredible says, and I quote, no
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defector from any country has the right of political asylum
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in any embassy on the territory of Indian Republic.
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Speaker 3: Intolerance, intolerance of different ideas. This was what happened on
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September eleventh, two thousand and one. If you go and
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de Coon strunked Osama bin Laden and his campaign that
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led to the terrorist attacks in nineteen ninety four and
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in two thousand and one on America, it was because
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we had Israeli pilots Jews flying from Saudi Arabia from
21:20
an airport his family had to build. Because as much
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as we talk about Halliburton and their big construction projects,
21:27
the bin Laden family is as just as big and
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their black sheep. Obl was bent out of shape because
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he had to muster up people to build an airfield
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that Jews were going to fly from. And we're still
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here on the very college campuses where Charlie Kirk went,
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and I wouldn't be halfway surprised if there isn't. Once
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we find this guy, the manhunt continues for the assailant,
21:55
for the murderer, and I do hope we find him
21:58
alive and not dead in the woods somewhere.
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24:22
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24:26
reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
24:31
The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
24:36
has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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Speaker 14: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
25:06
warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
25:10
Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
25:13
will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
25:17
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
25:21
are not from US. Real Social security employees will never
25:26
threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
25:29
call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
25:33
your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
25:38
or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
25:43
or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
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enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
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dot SSA dot gov.
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Speaker 16: Uh oh, brah's buzzed.
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Speaker 17: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
26:01
Speaker 22: And now a speech.
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Speaker 18: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
26:06
art and brain.
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Speaker 6: Who's with me?
26:08
Speaker 16: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
26:10
Speaker 18: And my brain is saying when it's time to go home.
26:13
Speaker 23: Somebody call me a ride.
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Speaker 16: Love that guy, me too.
26:17
Speaker 19: Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
26:19
it's time to go home.
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Speaker 6: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
26:23
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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
26:41
learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
26:44
That's energysavers dot Gov. You'll learn to look for air
26:47
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
26:51
improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
26:54
when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
26:57
energy Star logo and read the energy Guy label. And
27:01
there are day to day things you can do. Lower
27:03
your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
27:06
close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
27:09
air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
27:13
reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
27:18
a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
27:22
protection agency.
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Speaker 11: Was the sound.
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Speaker 5: From the Home of the First Amendment. First Thing Today.
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Speaker 3: Email to JT in the Morning Radio Gmail dot com. Joe,
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you were saying last week that Edward R. Murrow failed
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the journalism because when he had Joe McCarthy, he didn't
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dig and find out that McCarthy was right, but just
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had the wrong answer. What was wrong about McCarthy's answer,
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We're seeing what Marxists do. You just said so yourself,
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this is what Marx said to do with dissenters. If
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their plan is to get rid of in quotes, then
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arresting them is exactly what needed to be done. And
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Edward R. Murrow was a failure, not because he didn't
29:21
realize that there were Marxists in the government and that
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needed to be exposed, but that the Marxist seeks to
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undo everything, including the lives of those who disagreed with them.
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It's it is a hard place on this morning to
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deeply disagree with you because without again without really knowing
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what this person's vent was. And here's a better question,
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throw this one back at you. Playa are we going
30:01
to know any more about this assailant? Then we know
30:11
a year later about the kid on the hot tin
30:16
roof in Butler, Pennsylvania. Regardless of whether you know anything
30:24
about Jeffrey Epstein or not, what about the kid on
30:28
hot tin roof in Butler, Pennsylvania. How did a guy
30:33
just walk out onto the roof of a college campus?
30:36
Aren't those doors locked? Don't alarms go off? At very
30:41
least most of the buildings I've ever lived in and
30:44
existed in, especially the more modern ones, have fire alarms
30:48
if you open the wrong door, unless there was preparation.
30:53
And then you're really talking about something scary regarding the
30:57
assassination of Charlie Kirk. But your point is, if Joe
31:03
McCarthy wasn't wrong about all the Marxists in the American
31:07
government and we are watching Marxists assassinate people in front
31:13
of crowds of onlookers, wasn't arresting them the right idea?
31:21
I think from there, you have to go through the
31:23
perspective to me anyway, and your results can vary. I
31:29
always maintain your results can vary. You arrest somebody for
31:32
their actions, not their thoughts. I know people who don't
31:40
think an awful lot of ethnic minorities, but don't act
31:44
upon that thought. There is true. Story is twenty twenty five,
31:48
and I know people who don't think a lot of
31:49
people with ethnic minorities. Thinks that stereotypes all come from
31:54
a place and that they should, but they don't act
31:57
on them. They don't. They don't not hire somebody because
32:02
of the color of their skin. And some of it
32:09
might be fear of the law or something along those lines,
32:14
but you can be arrested for your actions, not your thoughts.
32:20
John Reid on with US John Reid for Virginia. He's
32:23
running for lieutenant governor, but spent many years as a
32:27
talk radio show host and out there at the edge
32:32
of public discourse. The thing I'm driven back to what
32:37
doctor King said about darkness just begetting more darkness, and
32:41
that we need to do more of what Charlie Kirk
32:44
was doing, which is having these discussions about policy out
32:47
in the sunlight so that you can see. And maybe
32:50
this is what made people so angry about him was
32:53
the more I know that you did on your radio
32:55
show and I do and I try to do every
32:58
day on mine, is to have these discussions and you
33:02
mentioned the ugliness that you see on the campaign trail,
33:05
certainly manifested in the photograph that said to your running mate,
33:09
Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears running for governor, Hey, wins if
33:13
trans can't use my bathroom, you can't use my water fountain.
33:18
And that kind of imagery is ugly, but it smacks
33:21
back to what doctor King was saying about that the
33:24
hatred rather than embracing the fact that we are so
33:27
much more alike one another than otherwise. And I don't
33:31
mean to be pollyannic about it. And the reason we
33:34
invited you on was you received great news shortly before
33:37
this horrific news. You are now leading in the polls
33:41
in the race for lieutenant governor.
33:45
Speaker 21: Yeah.
33:45
Speaker 9: I don't take anything for granted. And of course the
33:47
Democrats have not spent the million dollars.
33:50
Speaker 3: That they have waiting in the bank.
33:53
Speaker 9: They haven't spent that yet to try to turn me
33:56
into a toxic devil, which i'm is coming. But I
34:02
am appreciative that it appears that the voters who are
34:05
beginning to pay attention are seeing my daily work ethic.
34:10
I hope that they're hearing my rhetoric as compared to others,
34:15
including my opponent. In every speech I give, I'm trying
34:19
to talk about finding common ground with people that I
34:22
disagree with. I'm talking about stepping back from the abyss
34:28
which we are close to, of political violence and open hostility.
34:34
And I tell the story about how when I was
34:37
working in the Senate twenty years ago, there was this
34:43
constant gridlock, even things that people agreed with. They wouldn't
34:48
let the Republicans pass the bill to save children because
34:55
they didn't want to give them a win in an election,
34:58
which is sick to me. And we've got to have
35:01
leaders who will make their case hopefully strongly, eloquently, passionately,
35:09
but when push comes to shove, they'll do what's right
35:12
for the public, for the people, and not just try
35:15
to extend the conflict to the next election cycle so
35:20
that they can be victorious in the election. And this
35:22
is about solving problems and clearing government and impediments out
35:28
of the way so people can live their lives, be happy,
35:31
be prosperous, be fully employed, be free. And I think
35:37
if you listen to that rhetoric from people like me
35:40
and my ticket bates, and then you watch very closely
35:43
the way a lot of the Democrats are behaving. If
35:46
you want a peaceful, prosperous, free future, not free like
35:53
free dollars, but freedom, it should be clear that you
35:57
at least need to give us a good, a good
36:00
once over as we head towards early voting, which starts.
36:04
I mean, this is shocking next Friday, not this Friday,
36:07
but next Friday.
36:08
Speaker 3: Early voting starts, right, you know, cash that vote out,
36:12
you know, and and and please you know, protect your
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vote by voting early so that nobody else can get
36:17
in there and vote in your name, which we've seen
36:20
happen in elections. Uh, John Reid On, things just come up.
36:26
Speaker 9: Well, yeah, you know you saw the special election up
36:30
at the eleventh Congressional district. We had an amazing candidate,
36:33
this guy Stuart Whitson, combat Army officer at the I Agent,
36:40
beautiful family, beautiful.
36:41
Speaker 3: Wife, great kid.
36:42
Speaker 9: I mean, he's like the perfect candidate.
36:45
Speaker 3: Nice guy.
36:46
Speaker 9: I mean, I I've been arounded up politicians where sometimes
36:51
it's two faced. The guy's a super nice guy. If
36:54
you met him, you'd love him. He conducted himself well
36:57
on the trail. But our guys, honestly, when you look
37:01
at the numbers. It was in the summer and it
37:04
got distracted. They didn't turn out. I think a lot
37:07
of Republicans are just counting on Trump to do all
37:10
the heavy lifting for them. We cannot allow that to happen.
37:14
You gotta go vote and on election day, if if
37:18
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37:21
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37:24
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37:26
vote early, make sure it's done because the Democrats are
37:30
I mean, they are renting vans and taking sick people
37:35
from the nursing homes to go.
37:37
Speaker 3: Vote well without question, John, and you know, as my
37:40
friend of my most recent column for The Daily Signal
37:42
points out that if everyone who had voted for the
37:45
Republican van meter in Virginia's eleventh district last year voted,
37:51
he would have Whitson would have won by fifty thousand votes.
37:54
But they didn't, and that's one of the problems. John
37:57
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Speaker 6: For you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
44:17
Speaker 3: I love this email. Joe. You've talked in the past
44:20
about Abraham Lincoln and assassination and how the Dixie Kratz
44:25
successfully undid forty acres and a mule, which was the
44:29
second phase of the end of slavery. So though they
44:36
martyred him and we had a holiday, they succeeded in
44:41
ending what they were afraid of. And you know, you
44:47
bring this point up about Charlie Kirkin and whether or
44:50
not the movement can be stopped through martyrdom by fear,
44:58
by fear of the same thing. I'm going out. I
45:00
have a noon public speaking engagement because of September eleventh
45:05
and the anniversary, and then I have a public speaking
45:09
engagement on Saturday. These are not things my wife is
45:12
real thrilled about right now. Then I have and it'll
45:15
be at first Free Coffee in Charlottesville. And then I
45:20
have a public speaking engagement on the eighteenth with the
45:25
Women for the American Constitution. And these are important things
45:32
to engage with. Ross. I think it brings up a
45:34
great point email to JT in the Morning Radio at
45:37
gmail dot com. Charlie and turning Point had proven to
45:40
be a big threat to the Democrats and progressivism. I'd
45:45
say Marxism, Russ, but that's okay, It's just what Nick
45:49
Fretis was saying. And the clip we played so far,
45:51
the sniper assassin has seemed to have disappeared, so I'm
45:54
guessing he was not a crazed left winger about a
45:57
hired assassin. Charlie's in ones may rise uh and may
46:03
have been too much to bear. We get to you
46:08
at four three, four eight eight two four two one
46:10
seven as we tell you the news of the day
46:12
and then find out how it's impacting you where you are.
46:14
Good morning, You're on the air first thing today with
46:16
Joe Thomas. Who's this good morning?
46:19
Speaker 6: Joe's Joel.
46:20
Speaker 3: Hey, Joel, how are you feeling? My friend? I know
46:22
that you've posted and I think I read a few
46:24
of them, very very poignant, faith reaffirming messages. So I
46:30
appreciate that.
46:32
Speaker 27: Thank you.
46:32
Speaker 17: Yeah, I just got out of church. I'm not saying
46:35
that as a banner, but I figured that was a
46:38
good place to be, and while you're everybody's working and
46:43
I could be in a solemn place. I just wanted
46:46
to bring this up to a lot of people. Don't
46:50
think about what impacts the others besides those who died
46:56
in nine to eleven and Charlie Kirk and all those
47:01
firefighters and first.
47:03
Speaker 3: Responders one hundred and forty three.
47:06
Speaker 17: Yeah, so it's not just twenty nine hundred and seventy seven.
47:09
And also with Charlie Kirk, he has I guess a
47:13
five year old and a three year old daughters and
47:16
his wife. He also has a father and a mother
47:19
and friends and we're all I would say, we're all friends,
47:22
even though I didn't talk to him as you did,
47:24
and we all feel some companionship to him and the
47:29
value of what he did, and what the value of
47:32
those other people did nine hundred and seventy seven and
47:36
three hundred and forty did you say.
47:39
Speaker 3: Forty three first responders? You have firefighters and police and ems,
47:46
you know, and the dozens that just lost their lives
47:49
yesterday in murder and in crime and in horrific accident.
47:55
You know. This is what I was saying to Tom earlier.
48:00
I live every minute. I squeeze every moment out of it.
48:05
Sometimes the producers back in Colorado, they're like, oh, I
48:08
talked right into the commercial, or oh he was, because
48:11
I'm trying to squeeze that last word out, because I
48:13
don't want to let a second go and un utilized
48:18
to the nth degree. And that's how I live when
48:21
the show is done, too, I don't I hate myself
48:25
when I succumb to my sloth because I feel like
48:28
those were seconds that I'm not going to get back,
48:30
that I didn't squeeze every inch of essence out of it.
48:35
And that's how we all have to live every day.
48:37
And that's what the Marxists don't want. The Marxists want
48:39
dehumanizing egalitarianism based around the idea of you your poor
48:46
and remember one of the great sins envy. We go
48:50
through the list of seven vices and you'll find all
48:53
the tools that the Marxist uses against us, whether it's
48:56
sloth or envy. You know, all of these things can
49:00
be played against us to me, well, I don't have
49:02
as much as he does. Well, it makes him so special.
49:05
I should have that too, And that's how Marx plays it.
49:09
Speaker 17: And also, Joe, adultery isn't just with another person, it's
49:14
adultery of it's not adultery. Excuse me, I'm sorry. Wrong work, idolatry,
49:20
No idolatry.
49:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, where are you going
49:23
with this, Joel, I'm a little worried.
49:25
Speaker 17: No, no, no, I'm sorry. I'm just tired of hear
49:29
I mean people, the people, the idolatry of worshiping items
49:34
and worshiping things, yea, rather than rather than worshiping who
49:39
comes first, which is God, Lord Jesus Christ.
49:43
Speaker 6: So that's what we have to focus on.
49:45
Speaker 3: And it's that humility that drives you know both. Twenty
49:49
four years ago, the Islamist extremists wanted the liberty that
49:54
Jesus spoke about for us to go away to their authoritarianism.
49:58
They cannot, in their their beliefs, cannot allow anyone to
50:05
exist that doesn't agree with them. And and that's where we're
50:08
getting with the American left when when you listen to
50:11
some of these folks, and just yesterday, I mean, a
50:14
person hasn't even assumed room temperature is room you rush
50:18
used to say about it, and they were out there saying, well,
50:21
he really brought it on himself. I mean, these are
50:23
the same people who will who will tell you victim
50:26
shaming is bad until it's a conservative, you know, uh,
50:30
college campus activist and radio show host, then victim shaming
50:34
is perfectly fine.
50:36
Speaker 25: Yeah.
50:37
Speaker 17: I wonder if they could say that in front of
50:40
Charlie Kirk's two children. Are all those people that lost
50:43
members of their family say that right in front of
50:46
their face while there while they're talking to them.
50:49
Speaker 3: I don't even know if they know.
50:51
Speaker 17: Instead of it, instead of a protected I would say
50:54
antiseptic area over the airwaves or over uh you know, is.
51:01
Speaker 5: Right?
51:02
Speaker 19: Right?
51:02
Speaker 3: Good stuff, my friend, You have a blessed morning, and
51:04
hang in there, all right. Don't let the don't let
51:07
them win. Don't let them win. I first met Charlie
51:12
because another great voice passed away and left us.
51:15
Speaker 28: Rush Limbaugh is a group that has been put together
51:19
and operates under the auspices of Charlie Kirk, right, who
51:23
is a You're gonna be hearing that name if you haven't.
51:27
He's enough, Charlie. Let me just tell you. Let me
51:30
just tell you.
51:31
Speaker 6: I don't want I don't want to Jinxon, but I'm just.
51:34
Speaker 28: Gonna tell you. They brought Charlie kirk to the golf
51:38
course to meet me about a month ago. He was
51:42
in town to set up this turning Point thing, and
51:45
they brought him to the golf course to meet me.
51:47
It was during We're getting ready for a eight forty
51:50
five am start, and they brought him out while I
51:53
was getting ready to go to the range loosen up,
51:55
and I spoke with him for about a half hour,
51:58
and he told me how he grew up in a
52:01
home where my program was on all the time. He
52:04
was just effusively complimentary to me, which I of course
52:11
understood and told him he's very wise, his family is
52:15
very wise.
52:16
Speaker 6: He chuckled, he laughed.
52:18
Speaker 28: This is the kind of guy that you can see
52:25
really becoming big in politics as he gets older.
52:28
Speaker 3: And that's what they were afraid of is he was?
52:32
But Russia's gone, and the message lives. Charlie's gone, The
52:35
message lives Jefferson, John Locke, Russell Kirk. They all come
52:41
and go, but the message, the Enlightenment continues until tomorrow morning.
52:47
So long and thanks for all the fish.
52:51
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