Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "They Didn't Try to Shut Down the Forrest" (Thursday October 2, 2025, Hour 1)
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- 3:03you know I'll get you the tickets. No, don't call
- 3:08me like I'm the your uber driver. Our first things
- 3:11this morning, Senate once again rejected continuing resolutions to keep
- 3:15the government funding, having failed both votes on the Senate
- 3:19Democrat and gop crs. The GOPCR was hoping to gain
- 3:25five votes to meet the sixty vote threshold, but failed
- 3:29fifty five to forty five. Meanwhile, Office of Management and
- 3:33Budget Director Russ Vote told Republicans Wednesday the administration will
- 3:38start firing federal employees in the next day or two.
- 3:44FBI said yesterday and that it has cut ties with
- 3:48the Anti Defamation League, prominent Jewish group that tracks, according
- 3:54to their website, an anti Semitism after Republicans pointed out
- 3:59the group criticized slain activist Charlie Kirk's organization in a
- 4:04glossary of extremists on a social media post. FBI director
- 4:09Cash Pttel said the bureau won't partner with political fronts
- 4:13masquerading as watchdogs. A federal judge has issued a temporary
- 4:18restraining order stopping the administration from pulling about thirty four
- 4:22million dollars in counter terrorism funds from New York City
- 4:30based on their position on sanctuary city status. Federal Communications
- 4:38Commission Chair Brendan Carr is going to testify before the
- 4:44Senate Commerce Committee, led by Ted Cruz of Texas, who
- 4:49criticized Carr publicly for pressuring Disney and ABC over comments
- 4:55made by Jimmy Kimmel during a monologue referring to the
- 4:59assassination of Charlie Kirk. The United States is going to
- 5:05provide Ukraine with intel for long range missile strikes on
- 5:09Russia's energy infrastructure. This and a report from The Wall
- 5:13Street Journal citing officials in the administration. They also say
- 5:17that NATO allies will be providing similar support, citing deterioration
- 5:23if conditions. In Portland, Oregon, President Trump said on Wednesday
- 5:28the National Guard is in place to protect immigrations and
- 5:32customs enforcement efforts in the city. Hamas is reviewing President
- 5:38Trump's Gaza peace plan, while Palestinian factions continue to reject
- 5:43proposals and Israel bombed key sites in Gaza City, and
- 5:48those are some of our first things on this Thursday morning.
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- 9:02Speaker 14: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
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- 9:58Speaker 15: Hi everybody, I'm Jackhannah. It's always a boy growing up
- 10:01on a farm in Tennessee. I've been fascinated with animals.
- 10:04I'm not only in awe of their beauty and kindness,
- 10:06but also their tireless work ethic. Just look at the
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- 11:00Speaker 16: Bruh, that's buzzed. Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the
- 11:03woots and now a speech.
- 11:06Speaker 13: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
- 11:10heart and brain.
- 11:12Speaker 2: Who's with me?
- 11:13Speaker 10: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
- 11:15brain is saying when it's time to go home. Somebody
- 11:18call me a ride.
- 11:19Speaker 17: Love that guy, me too.
- 11:21Speaker 12: Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
- 11:23it's time to go home.
- 11:25Speaker 2: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
- 11:29Speaker 6: Did you know that more than half our household energy
- 11:31costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
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- 11:39One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
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- 11:56improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs when
- 12:00you shop for a new appliance, look for the energy
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- 12:29Speaker 8: As a family member or friend, you may be the
- 12:32first to notice when a veteran you love has been
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- 13:11Speaker 3: From the home of the First Amendment, First thing today, understand.
- 13:23Speaker 7: It's understand, shut.
- 13:28Speaker 2: Up, shut up, shut down Mania hit in a world.
- 13:38You know, it's like we're living a movie trailer in
- 13:42a world where nothing really is going to change. There
- 13:47are men who want you to think that. I thought
- 13:51this was particularly notable. Our flagship is right in the
- 13:55midst of a national park. We're bifurcated by the Shenandoah
- 14:01National Park, and every year, for pretty much every government shutdown,
- 14:08the forest has been closed. And I make great hay
- 14:12and I have great fun at the expensive guys like
- 14:14Tim Kaine who will call every press office they can
- 14:18find and go on zoom and tell them all about
- 14:23how the forest has been closed. We've furloughed the bears
- 14:27and the rabbits can't go into the woods anymore. Call
- 14:33Bill Bryson, No more walks in the woods. The forest
- 14:36is closed. And I know, I know, mockery maybe beneath me,
- 14:42but not this morning, because I received a press release
- 14:48yesterday from the National Park Service via their branch at
- 14:53Shenandoah National Park, telling me that I've been right all along,
- 14:58not that I needed the National Parks to tell me
- 15:00I was right all along. I knew I was right
- 15:02all along, but it's nice to see the government admit it.
- 15:10This from the National Park Service, regarding the traditional shutdowns
- 15:17of national parks across the United States, the Shenandoah National
- 15:23Park Trust statement sent to me. Quote, there is no
- 15:28formal rule or law mandating the closure of national parks
- 15:33during a government shutdown. Past decisions on park closures have
- 15:40been discretionary in a world. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Mike
- 15:49Johnson in Shutdown twenty twenty five. This time it's personal.
- 15:57It is it's getting silly. But the National Park Service
- 16:01and maybe the national parks in your area did the
- 16:04same thing in your senators, especially if you've got guys
- 16:06like Hickenloopin and whatnot are out there. Oh, Adam Schiff,
- 16:11I'm sure Adam Schiff will tell you all about how
- 16:13the woods, how the forests can't go to joshua A
- 16:18Tree because the high desert and all the cactuses are
- 16:22shut down. We've sent them all home. And it is
- 16:28always one of those abstracts. Is the most crazy thing
- 16:32that the government feels like it has the authority to
- 16:35close the woods. Oh but child, they're talking about the
- 16:39amenities and the gift shops, and like you need the
- 16:41amenities and the gift shops and the portageons, which by
- 16:47the way, they can't close either unless they're going to
- 16:50take them all away and you could always just take
- 16:54the bear paradigm. I mean, if you really got to
- 16:58go and you're in the woods, and I'll get an
- 17:02email from somebody saying that it's irresponsible to say to
- 17:05go into the woods without government assistance, because that's how
- 17:10gas lit we are. We can't even take a walk
- 17:13in the woods without the government watching over us. But
- 17:19it was just nice to see that unofficial National Park
- 17:23Service letterhead saying that all those years Tim Kaine has
- 17:28called me and said the government has shut the forest.
- 17:33I mean they even sent out Tim Kaine and Mark
- 17:35Warner Virginia senators, and yours may have done the same.
- 17:38Adam Schiff, Maxine Waters may have sent similar press releases
- 17:43out to you decrying how much economic impact loss of
- 17:52the national parks are going to be. Marconi Beach is
- 18:03going to be closed in Hyennas October two. Anyone in
- 18:07Hyennas lives in Hyennas, they ain't going to Marconi Beach. Well,
- 18:11I mean except for the homeless veterans that live at
- 18:14Marconi Beach, but they were going to stay there anyway.
- 18:17They just don't have to deal with as many state
- 18:21troopers and park police officers as usual. It's a true story.
- 18:27At least it was when I was living in Hyannas.
- 18:31Marconi Beach is the national seashore out there at the
- 18:34very end of Cape con huge homeless veteran population living
- 18:39there intentionally and with the knowledge of the National Park Police,
- 18:43who understood that nobody was going to Marconi Beach to
- 18:47go to the woods. I mean, just you know, pine
- 18:50barrens are only so interesting, you know, Montana, And you
- 18:59know you've received these emails. The National Park Services closed
- 19:04and the economic impact came out this weekness the economic
- 19:07impact of Shenandoah National Park one one hundred and seventy
- 19:11four million dollars annually into the local economy. These are jobs,
- 19:16These are tipped and I always point out it's their
- 19:21choice to close the woods. And if people don't want
- 19:24to come to the woods because Ranger Smith isn't watching
- 19:28over Yogi Bear and Booboo, so be it. I can
- 19:33walk in the woods without the government holding my hand.
- 19:38I did get a chance to run into a Member
- 19:40of the House Freedom Concuss, current Member of the House
- 19:43Freedom Concuss yesterday, Ben Klein, who I asked about this
- 19:48shutdown of what comes next forward?
- 19:51Speaker 1: Well, the Democrats have forced this shut down by not
- 19:54agreeing to just a clean extension of current funding levels.
- 19:57It makes no sense, and they've attached all these liberal
- 20:01pet projects to their demands. I think ultimately they're going
- 20:05to see from their constituents that they want the government
- 20:08funded and they'll come around. We've already got three Democrats
- 20:11who have voted with us. We just need five more.
- 20:14Speaker 2: Do you think you can get them with some of
- 20:17the Senate leadership.
- 20:19Speaker 1: Well, I have my doubts about our own senators ever
- 20:24come into common sense understanding that we need to continue funding.
- 20:28But I do think there are some senators out there
- 20:30on the Democrat side who are going to hear from
- 20:32their constituents that they need to continue to fund the
- 20:38government and we don't need to be giving health care
- 20:42back to illegal immigrants and other crazy projects that ought
- 20:47not to be funded.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Unfortunately, this is a continuing resolution that goes to surprise
- 20:51everybody right before Christmas. What's the prognosis once we get
- 20:55the continuing resolution of trying to do something so it's
- 20:59not right back at Christmas time.
- 21:01Speaker 1: Yeah, We've got three appropriations bills in negotiation right now
- 21:06and hopefully can be done soon, plus the rest of
- 21:08the government funding, we could reach an agreement. If we
- 21:11could get one more extension through. I'm optimistic about that.
- 21:16But Democrats are listening to their extreme base, and their
- 21:21extreme base is saying they want to see fight, and
- 21:24so unfortunately they're fighting. But they're fighting over things that
- 21:29we can talk about. But you know, really, the American
- 21:32people voted last November for change. They didn't vote for
- 21:36this Green New Deal stuff. They didn't vote for healthcare
- 21:39for illegals, and they don't want to go back to
- 21:42the way it was.
- 21:43Speaker 2: As Congressman Ben Klin I had lunch with him yesterday,
- 21:46say hey, give me a couple of minutes here, and
- 21:48he's like sure. So talking about the insider's view of
- 21:54the shutdown budget hawk as he has been for many years.
- 21:58First thing today by Joe Thomas.
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- 24:03Speaker 13: Considered by most optimized curcumin is one of the few
- 24:07bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. I
- 24:12am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
- 24:18optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
- 24:22nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
- 24:26reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
- 24:31The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
- 24:36has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
- 24:42cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
- 24:45in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
- 24:50healthy cells even from radiation. Totalwellness dot com where we
- 24:56help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
- 25:02Speaker 14: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
- 25:05warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
- 25:10Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
- 25:13will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
- 25:17personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
- 25:21are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
- 25:25threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
- 25:29call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
- 25:33your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
- 25:38or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
- 25:42or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
- 25:46enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
- 25:51dot SSA dot gov.
- 25:55Speaker 16: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed. Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with
- 25:58the woots and now a speech.
- 26:02Speaker 13: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
- 26:06art and brain.
- 26:07Speaker 2: Who's with me?
- 26:08Speaker 10: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
- 26:11brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody
- 26:14call me a ride.
- 26:15Speaker 17: Love that guy, me too. Know your buzzed warning signs
- 26:18call for a ride when it's time to go home.
- 26:20Speaker 2: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
- 26:23Speaker 6: Did you know that more than half our household energy
- 26:25costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
- 26:29good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
- 26:34One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
- 26:36energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
- 26:40learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
- 26:44That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
- 26:47leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
- 26:50improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
- 26:54when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
- 26:57energy star logo and read the energy guide later. And
- 27:01there are day to day things you can do. Lower
- 27:03your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
- 27:06close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
- 27:09air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
- 27:13reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
- 27:18a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
- 27:21protection agency.
- 27:24Speaker 18: For those fortunate enough to help the person who has
- 27:26always been their hero, find the care guides you need
- 27:29to help at AARP dot org slash caregiving. Hope you
- 27:33enjoyed your meal, and I just want to say he's.
- 27:36Speaker 13: Lucky to have a blother like you.
- 27:38Speaker 2: Lucky.
- 27:39Speaker 5: Caring for my brother is far from easy, but he's
- 27:43a part of me, like my arms and legs, so
- 27:45I'll be his no time.
- 27:47Speaker 2: For't tired. Nothing can disable this love. He needs me.
- 27:50But I'm a lucky one even though I need help.
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- 28:00Speaker 3: Mhe for you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today?
- 28:21Speaker 11: Who can it be knocking at my daughter?
- 28:25Speaker 20: Cool?
- 28:27Speaker 3: Don't come down here nor more?
- 28:29Speaker 7: Don't you see that it's late at night.
- 28:32Speaker 5: I'm very tired and I'm not feeling right.
- 28:37Speaker 11: All I wish to be here now, stay away.
- 28:42Speaker 3: Don't see where it made my house?
- 28:44Speaker 12: Let up?
- 28:45Speaker 20: If you hang outside, don't come in.
- 28:50Speaker 7: I don't lay around, and I do get it down?
- 28:55Speaker 19: Who getting down?
- 28:59Speaker 6: Who? Get?
- 29:05Speaker 20: So?
- 29:05Speaker 2: Let me ask you a quick question, because I know
- 29:08how I feel about this, and I know the Constitution
- 29:14deals with it directly. But we live in a world
- 29:17where words like democracy or, as our friend Ray likes
- 29:23to remind us, it should be pronounced democratsy as in
- 29:27Nazi and democracy all put together to help protect democrats.
- 29:33But our modern misuse of democratsy and democratic principles. We
- 29:41vote for everything. It's like what was that? What was
- 29:47the movie with? Oh? It was one of the Pirates
- 29:51of the Caribbean where they're all sitting the one where
- 29:53they finally got Keith Richards to do the obvious role
- 29:59as Jacksborough Dad, But they were all sitting around it
- 30:02be the pirate council. We ain't had a pirate king.
- 30:09And that's what they want your town square to become.
- 30:15That's what they want the economy to be is a
- 30:18room full of people with their own self interests, voting
- 30:22for their own self interests, are prepared to be boarded.
- 30:29So democracy, democratic principles are being misused all over the place.
- 30:37And the newest one.
- 30:40Speaker 10: Is this.
- 30:43Speaker 2: Self created democratic surveillance network. And I'm all for law enforcement,
- 30:50and I do not have a problem with the local
- 30:52police chief saying, hey, there was a mugging, there was
- 30:56some crime committed, and anyone with ring cameras or what
- 31:02all the different types of cameras that you have on
- 31:05your house. You have the nature cameras, the motion sensitive
- 31:11nature cameras, stuff like that. And when the sheriff calls
- 31:16out through the local media, hey can you help us
- 31:19out if you have any ring camera footage, go to
- 31:23the local businesses, say hey to any of your security cameras.
- 31:28A serial killer caught here in our flagship city of Charlottesville,
- 31:33Jesse Matthew Junior caught on security camera footage with the victim,
- 31:40and eventually the police were able to connect him not
- 31:42just to that, but multiple murders of college co eds
- 31:46in the area. Hannah Graham, Morgan Harrington, any of these
- 31:52names save the next girl you've heard these. I'm sure
- 32:00I have a problem with police saying, hey, we need
- 32:02to look. I don't even necessarily, although I think judges
- 32:06are too permissive about some of this stuff. If the police,
- 32:10let's say, I don't want to give you my security
- 32:12camera footage, I don't know what reason you would have
- 32:15outside of I don't like the police or whatever. But
- 32:18I don't believe you can be compelled to without a warrant,
- 32:22and I don't believe you should be compelled to without
- 32:24a warrant. I don't think the police can come and say,
- 32:27give me your ring camera footage, but if they come
- 32:34back with a warrant saying we need to see this
- 32:36from this date to this date, specifically the place to
- 32:40be searched, etc. That's protected for law enforcement within the constitution,
- 32:46But now local police and it's especially prevalent, and I
- 32:50was looking around I see instances of this popping up
- 32:55in the news feeds. Reddit is all over this, which
- 32:58I mean can be scared enough for it. But Florida, Virginia,
- 33:03I've seen stories about it in Utah as well, where
- 33:07police are putting together registries and I'm beginning to think
- 33:14anything with the word registry and it is just out
- 33:20of hand something you should be concerned about. And they
- 33:23want to create a registry where you will voluntarily give
- 33:28the police log in information so that they can come
- 33:32in and take a look at your security camera footage
- 33:35in the in their efforts to battle a crime, to
- 33:39solve a crime without having to go through that clunky,
- 33:42messy process of calling the local radio station and hope
- 33:46that there's still a local radio station that hasn't all
- 33:49been bought up by iHeart or Saga, and then you know,
- 33:53if there is still a local radio station being able
- 33:56to talk to somebody who can go on the air
- 33:57and say, hey, can you help the sheriff out and
- 34:01call them at in certain number of sheriffs, they want
- 34:04to avoid all that and have you self access, self
- 34:13capitulate in advance to police being able to access your
- 34:18security camera footage whenever they need it. You're okay with that,
- 34:24I'm not, and I wouldn't do it. But if what happens,
- 34:28and this is a scenario, I want you to think
- 34:30about what happens if most of your neighbors do it
- 34:33and you don't, and then your city council takes a
- 34:37vote saying all citizens of the area must comply with
- 34:40this registry. And if you're a gun owner, you know
- 34:45what I'm talking about. Good morning, You're on the air,
- 34:48first thing this morning with Joe Thomas.
- 34:50Speaker 20: Who's this Hey, good morning, Sandy, call him from Florida.
- 34:54So many things to talk about, but I think the
- 34:59first good place to start with be Tim Kane being
- 35:02a carpetbagger. I got accused him of being at the
- 35:07breakfast table with my second wife, the former first Lady
- 35:13of the University of Virginia, and she was incensed by that.
- 35:17I say, go look up the definition.
- 35:20Speaker 2: Well, and he was. He was one of George Sorows's
- 35:23first pet projects. For some reason, George Sorows thought the
- 35:28mayor of Richmond was Hindley. That's the unhinged, right, That's right.
- 35:33Speaker 20: Who's also you know, I was assaulted at my own
- 35:38home three different times after I'd been in a really
- 35:41bad car wreck, and Jim unhinged has refused to actually
- 35:47prosecute these.
- 35:49Speaker 2: He is one of the chief abusers of the you know,
- 35:53he's the district attorney in the Charlottesville area. That is
- 35:57one of George was the one.
- 35:59Speaker 20: That told me to to actually how to report the
- 36:04sexual assault. The president University Virginia is now dead. It's
- 36:11a good thing because he was just an incredibly evil man.
- 36:14Speaker 2: Well it's you know, and he's talking. He's not telling
- 36:17you about the one you've all read about in the news,
- 36:19Jim Ryan, he's talking about one for many years previous
- 36:23to that. John Castey, you don't want to mix people up.
- 36:27What are they hearing on the radio? But you know,
- 36:29I wanted to ask you on this, you know, since
- 36:31we're on the subject of these surveillance cameras, Andy, would
- 36:35you be okay with a mandatory surveillance camera network managed
- 36:42or accessed by the local police.
- 36:46Speaker 20: Managed by or I would much rather the sheriff's department,
- 36:51which we have here. I think Sherifsota City actually has
- 36:55their own police force, and it's not I mean that's
- 36:59a reason not to actually buy in the city of Sarasota. Also,
- 37:04Venice an adjacent sort.
- 37:06Speaker 5: Of thing, are a little uh.
- 37:09Speaker 20: They have their own police force as well, and those
- 37:12those are like don't buy them. Seeing Andy's like freedom
- 37:17and brom I understand that share this. I live in
- 37:23a neighborhood that's called the Legacy Estates and it's right
- 37:28adjacent to the little Legacy Trail. So you can go
- 37:31out and you can bike down to Venice in probably
- 37:35twenty minutes. And I was in such a bad car
- 37:39wreck I can't even get on a bicycle and go.
- 37:41So it's not something that.
- 37:43Speaker 2: Is I use it. Got ten seconds, Andy, we got
- 37:46ten seconds of the brakes in.
- 37:47Speaker 20: Well we need we need to roll into the next
- 37:50because I've got a couple other things I really do
- 37:52need to hit with you.
- 37:53Speaker 2: All right, Well, I just think about it though, think
- 37:56about police managed network of your secure cameras.
- 38:02Speaker 13: In a study, it was found that thirty three percent
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- 39:02Speaker 17: Crime across the country is at an all time high.
- 39:05It feels like even a family road trip is taking
- 39:07a risk. We don't want the feeling of being unprotected
- 39:10and vulnerable. We found GETCCL dot com. Get CCL dot
- 39:15com give us the help we needed to apply for
- 39:17a legal concealed carry permit that's recognized in over half
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- 39:24to apply and it's all online. We used their free
- 39:27qualification process to answer a few questions and applied for
- 39:31our permit right from home. Thanks to reciprocty laws between states.
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- 39:37can legally carry in any state that recognizes your New
- 39:40Hampshire permit. It only takes minutes to apply, so don't wait.
- 39:44Exercise your rights today. Ensure you're protecting your family at
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- 40:02Speaker 7: You were strolling along in Goodwill when just past that
- 40:05mid century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them
- 40:08nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings. Oh yes, yes,
- 40:16your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all day dessert food
- 40:20made into your favorite form of ear candy. Oh my,
- 40:24those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger within you.
- 40:28Speaker 3: Shh do you smell that?
- 40:32Speaker 7: That's the sugary center of shopping success. For this is goodwill,
- 40:38And with every item you buy, you fund local job
- 40:41training and more. So, go forth, bring home those donut
- 40:47earrings and bring home so much.
- 40:49Speaker 3: Good to your community.
- 40:54Speaker 7: Goodwill bring good home.
- 40:57Speaker 19: Exercise is hard, so was maintaining a healthy diet. Of course,
- 41:03neither is half as hard as dying. Sadly, type two diabetes,
- 41:08heart disease, and stroke kill nearly a million people a year.
- 41:12Even sadder, most of these deaths are preventable with a
- 41:15few lifestyle changes, including regular activity, healthier eating, and not smoking.
- 41:21Talk to your doctor about your risk for type two
- 41:24diabetes and heart disease, and if your doctor recommends lifestyle
- 41:27changes or medication, listen. The reason so many die is
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- 41:50Speaker 9: My name is Jim.
- 41:51Speaker 2: I'm a veteran and I lost both legs in Vietnam.
- 41:54My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
- 41:58Speaker 3: I'm Julius.
- 41:59Speaker 5: I'm of that.
- 42:00Speaker 3: My victory was going from homeless.
- 42:02Speaker 12: Tall at dav We're on a mission helping veterans of
- 42:06all generations get the benefits they've earned.
- 42:09Speaker 18: I'm cc. My victory was finishing my education.
- 42:12Speaker 2: When America's veterans win. We all win. Help us support
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- 42:21Speaker 4: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
- 42:25Speaker 9: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
- 42:28Speaker 8: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom
- 42:36to petition the government.
- 42:38Speaker 7: Only the United States has these five freedoms.
- 42:40Speaker 13: So simply bound together and guaranteed Think first.
- 42:44Speaker 7: Learn more at Think First Amendment dot org.
- 42:48Speaker 21: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
- 42:52Speaker 18: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
- 42:55first date?
- 42:56Speaker 12: Sure? We'll probably stay together.
- 42:58Speaker 9: Probably, it's been twenty three minutes since I ate.
- 43:03Speaker 3: I can probably swim.
- 43:05Speaker 7: You should wait thirty minutes. Okay, I'll tell me what
- 43:08to do.
- 43:09Speaker 3: Can it bar.
- 43:12Speaker 13: Cramp?
- 43:12Speaker 12: Oh?
- 43:13Speaker 2: I have a cramp. I can probably hit the green
- 43:18from here?
- 43:19Speaker 3: Probably?
- 43:23Speaker 6: Can I get a mulligan.
- 43:26Speaker 2: Ready to go?
- 43:27Speaker 20: Hey?
- 43:27Speaker 18: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
- 43:29Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 43:30Speaker 2: I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
- 43:35Speaker 21: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
- 43:39and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
- 43:42or a friend. Buzz driving is drunk driving? A message
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- 44:11Speaker 3: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Chunk Media Network.
- 44:22Speaker 2: So that is the question, isn't it who's watching? So
- 44:31this text comes in from a friend of mine who
- 44:34has experience on both the creation of and the enforcement
- 44:40of the law, and so I take his gravitas seriously.
- 44:44It says depends on where the camera is pointing. No
- 44:48expectation of privacy in a public place. And this is
- 44:51a concept I agree with. People talk about surveillance cameras
- 44:55on main street in your town. It's the same thing
- 45:00as having a cop walking around. And I know there
- 45:02are civil rights attorneys that will say, no, having a
- 45:06cop walking the beat requires you hiring a cop, training
- 45:10a cop, teaching the cop what somebody's civil rights are,
- 45:14assuming the liability of that police officer if they don't
- 45:19behave properly. Civil rights attorneys love live police officers over
- 45:26surveillance cameras because they can impeach a police officer much
- 45:31more easily than they can impeach a camera a frozen
- 45:36moment off of a security camera. I would argue they're
- 45:40lazy because I could impeach that easily saying it's a
- 45:43frozen moment without contacts. But not being said, I'm not
- 45:49a defense attorney, and unfortunately I've run into a lot
- 45:52of them in my life, so I do have some
- 45:54failing But anyway, this friend of mine that has an
- 45:57experience on both sides of the law, no expectation privacy
- 46:02in a public place. If a downtown business has video
- 46:06of a shooting on the street, does law enforcement need
- 46:10a search warrant to obtain that video? That's a good question.
- 46:15Is it because it's the owner's video, but it is
- 46:20video of a public place. I think I think you
- 46:23still need a warrant. Just from where I said, I
- 46:26would think you would still need a warrant to get
- 46:28the private businesses video. But I'm also not one of
- 46:32those people who say there shouldn't be municipal security cameras
- 46:37taking a look around and keeping an eye and being
- 46:41aware because you are in public. I think the bigger
- 46:44problem is all of us who think we're in private
- 46:47while we're going out over the internet, and you know,
- 46:50we're really sitting on our front lawns and our underpants.
- 46:54But that's the visual I probably didn't want to leave
- 46:57you with. Right then, this one text message all to
- 47:02talk about the shutdown. No one mentions debt and deficit.
- 47:05We'll get back into that. Andy was on the line
- 47:09with us at four three four eight eight two four
- 47:12two one seven. As those text messages came to the
- 47:15same number, Andy, you said you had another thought for
- 47:17us before we headed to break there.
- 47:20Speaker 20: Yes, and what I wanted to do was to let
- 47:23you know about the these sort of overwhelling neighborhoods where
- 47:27you'reself servicing, like the gate management and that kind of thing.
- 47:33I had their there are two lanes coming into my
- 47:37neighborhood and one is like a service truck kind of thing,
- 47:41and the other is like the homeowners right okay, And
- 47:45they've given us one of these little apps. They call
- 47:48it the Butterfly app, and so people are like, you know,
- 47:52just you know, opening the gate from half a mile away,
- 47:56and then when they get there and the gate they're
- 47:59saving kind of a back up. There's like this irritation
- 48:03in there, like rhythm. And I had somebody pass me
- 48:07in my neighborhood after I had slowed down going through
- 48:11the gate. And I immediately when I saw the guy,
- 48:16it's a little mailbox, and I said, what in the
- 48:19world are you doing? He said, you were slowing me down?
- 48:23And I said, do you know you were just passing
- 48:25me on a public street or in a private street?
- 48:29Speaker 2: And and I said you do you also.
- 48:33Speaker 20: Know that there's a video camera at the gate. And
- 48:36he very quickly ran just you know, jumped in his
- 48:39car and drove around the corner. What was interesting about
- 48:42the guy for me is that he was he knew
- 48:47he'd been caught and there there really wasn't any anything
- 48:51that anybody can do other than I need to go
- 48:54do a police report. Well, I went to the neighborhood associations,
- 48:58like the monitor whoever it is it runs that thing,
- 49:02and and I said, well, how do I do a
- 49:05police report?
- 49:06Speaker 2: And there's like, we don't know.
- 49:09Speaker 20: And I was like, you can't be serious. You have
- 49:11eight they're eight hundred homes in here, they're like six
- 49:15fifty on the other side. This neighborhood just they didn't
- 49:19have even though the place was packed, they didn't have
- 49:22enough people to actually to have to vote to approve
- 49:28the previous year's minutes.
- 49:31Speaker 2: That's that is wild, but that is actually one of
- 49:34the you know, wild wild West kind of things about
- 49:37these gated communities. You think that there's security, and there's
- 49:42there's sense of place and all that. When you buy
- 49:47into one and you pay extra money for it over
- 49:49you know, the bust out retail for the house anyway,
- 49:53and you find that, you know, it's a bunch of
- 49:55people who have never I was gonna be in Italy
- 49:59any well, but I'm saying regardless, Andy, I mean, these
- 50:03people who run these gated communities are you know, mostly
- 50:07you know, a political people who all of a sudden
- 50:10find themselves in political position. The scary moments are when
- 50:14you've got the people who all of a sudden fancy themselves,
- 50:17you know, the mayor of New York and and or
- 50:22president of the United States. And that's that's when these
- 50:25neighborhoods can become really uncomfortable for people because, like I said,
- 50:30you're charged a lot of extra money for it. But
- 50:33the idea that the police, you know that well, who
- 50:35is the police. We don't know who the police are
- 50:37and who's got jurisdiction and what can they do.
- 50:39Speaker 20: And I definitely know because I've had them knock on
- 50:42my door and that son hadn't heard from me in
- 50:45a while, and you know, son with a crazy one. Anyway,
- 50:48It's just these kinds of things. But one final thing though,
- 50:51it's there's a missing four foot diameter pipe by one
- 50:56hundred and fifty foot long pipe. It has now been
- 50:59identified as the cause of all the flooding that we
- 51:05had in my neighborhood whenever it rains more than a
- 51:08couple of inches because all this water some gets jumped
- 51:12into a couple of little ponds and they feed into
- 51:15each other. And but apparently it's actually I mean seriously,
- 51:18I could take me probably five minutes to plant another
- 51:22ten minutes to execute it, and because that's what.
- 51:25Speaker 2: I used to do, well, but I you know, that's
- 51:28but that's classic. Somebody one contractor didn't call the other
- 51:32contractor and get it done. Good stuff, Andy, I appreciate it.
- 51:36A great morning, keep going winning.
- 51:38Speaker 9: They just don't know it.
- 51:40Speaker 2: That's a I appreciate it. My friend Joel writing in
- 51:47that that's yeah, talking about neighborhood associations and that you
- 51:54heard it all, but I mean, this is this is
- 51:56what the is now happening, is that you've got police
- 52:00departments who are now saying we would like to start
- 52:03a registry. And the reason I brought this up is
- 52:06that if you're a gun owner, you know, and if
- 52:09you've been a gun owner for a long enough time,
- 52:11you know that, oh well, it's a voluntary registration. We
- 52:14just want to know where the you know, the while
- 52:17it says militia and we just want to kind of
- 52:19have a list of who are militia members are in
- 52:22the area. And the second amendment.
- 52:25Speaker 8: That the.
- 52:28Speaker 2: That the police want to create this voluntary registry of
- 52:33your surveillance cameras, your ring doorbell cameras and things like that.
- 52:38And are you comfortable seeing how it's evolved with the
- 52:43firearms over this same kind of voluntary association.
- 52:51Speaker 17: Crime across the country is at an all time high.
- 52:54It feels like even a family road trip is taking
- 52:56a risk. We don't want the feeling of being unprotected
- 52:59and vulnerable. We found GETCCL dot com. Get CCL dot
- 53:04com give us the help we needed to apply for
- 53:06a legal concealed carry permit that's recognized in over half
- 53:10of the country. Get CCL dot com simplifies the process
- 53:13to apply, and it's all online. We used their free
- 53:16qualification process to answer a few questions and applied for
- 53:20our permit right from home. Thanks to reciprocty laws between states,
- 53:23when you're issued a new Hampshire concealed carry permit, you
- 53:26can legally carry in any state that recognizes your New
- 53:29Hampshire permit. It only takes minutes to apply, so don't wait.
- 53:33Exercise your rights today ensure you're protecting your family at
- 53:36home and in other states have peace of mind. Apply today,
- 53:40go to GETCCL dot com. That's get CCL dot com.
- 53:44Go to GETCCL dot com. Exercise your rights today. Go
- 53:48to GETCCL dot com.