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"Gaza Clans Push Back" (Tuesday October 14, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: H Lis.
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Speaker 2: We finally have her saying.
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Speaker 3: That George that steal me step every day, at least
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for work.
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the night in the well.
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Speaker 1: Joey is everything a gender.
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Speaker 5: All the JOSU needs no one that Joe's all smiled,
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he all the eggs.
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to you. I want to be awkward. Silence was brought
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dot com, as well.
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Speaker 6: In text messages as well. Very popular.
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Speaker 3: This one Charles emailed story that we actually reported on yesterday,
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and I apologize for this, I really do, because we
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are all too frequently out there reporting on stuff long
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before anyone else does, like the situation with the Katari
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air base, and especially through a holiday weekend. I really
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I feel like I really owe you an apology because
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we were here on Saturday, and because we were here
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on Monday and we didn't take in disingenuous People's Day off,
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and President Trump's speech kept us from even having any
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fun with disingenuous People's Day but also known as Columbus Day.
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But that being said, sometimes we are reporting on stories
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long before the rest of the people get to it,
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especially if they took the long weekend. And this is
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a case of that. India Today story Charles sent us
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this Hamas goes on killing spree in Gaza after releasing
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Israeli hostages. This was the clan's story I was telling
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you about yesterday. Clans in Gaza are now rising up
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against Hamas, and Hamas is doing what thug operations do,
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which is they get their violence on. This is what
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happens when you create that vacuum. And this is one
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of those things that I think is part of what
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President Trump did between Israel and Gaza, and part of
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what got Benjamin net and Yahoo to agree to this
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dance was this idea that by so thoroughly weakening Hamas
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that you would be able to then bring about, you know,
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change within Gaza and finally empower those people who we
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were told for all this time were out there just
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too afraid to say anything, do anything, because Hamas had
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all the thuggery on their side, and so finally we're seeing,
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you know, perhaps some of that come through fruition. And
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that's you know why this crackdown on the clans in
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Gaza City, because these are the people who are getting
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up Aty all of a sudden, they've watched the Americans
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come in, and they're now standing up and pushing back
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against Tamas, perhaps hopefully saying, you people brought this on us.
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Speaker 6: We want you out. So onwards and upwards.
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Speaker 3: President Trump left Israel yesterday morning and headed to Egypt,
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where a world summit of Arab country's leaders heard the
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Egyptian president say that President Trump's Mid East proposal was
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the last chance for peace in the region. At the
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Red Sea resort town of Sharm el Sheikh was where
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President Trump said Phase two has begun of the peace plan.
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They do get mixed together with each other, as the
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back at the White House, he will meet with Ukrainian
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whether there'll be any Tomahawk missiles out back for Zelensky
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and around. But today, if you notice a lot of
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Kirk who it would have been the anniversary of his
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Speaker 6: I pat myself on the back, but.
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Speaker 3: Radio as even being an accelerant into the impact of
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turning point USA.
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Speaker 21: Well, thank you. I appreciate that. We do have a
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great group at University of Virginia. And I'm a big
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Thomas Jefferson fan. And I'm not afraid to say that
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because I actually know my history of Jefferson. People that
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want to remove him from our society. He was a
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brilliant man, and any sort of moral shortcomings he had
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were actually a lot more nuanced than people would realize.
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Speaker 6: However, that's often the case.
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Speaker 3: And Charlie Kirk sent down with me years ago to
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talk about, you know, constitutionality, and I just thought, you know,
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one of the things that I thought was interesting was
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just how comfortable he was with his This is somebody
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who knew what he was talking about, knew the subject matter,
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and wasn't even afraid to say I don't know much
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about that subject matter, and then would go about finding Now.
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Speaker 21: I started the podcast a couple of years ago largely
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because I had a lot of people come up to
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me and they said, Charlie, we like your speeches, but
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we want to hear you explain these ideas more or
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I heard you mentioned this, and can you explore that more.
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So it's just kind of more out of just kind
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of trying to serve our audience and our followers to
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hopefully help them. And it's been amazingly successful. We've been
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so blessed. The Lord has been so good to us,
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and we continue to grow and the radio has been
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a real fun deal and learning a lot. It's a
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different type of medium, right, is that you've got to
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do it at a certain time every single day. So
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it's been a lot of fun kind of getting.
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Speaker 6: Used to that.
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Speaker 21: But I love radio. I love the magic of it.
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I love how spontaneous it is, I love how conversational
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it is. And just being able to talk to millions
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of people every single week has been an extraordinary honor.
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And when I get emails and letters from people saying,
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you know, Charlie, because of you, I'm going to go
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take back my school board, or because of you, I'm
17:58
going to go run for a local, or because of you,
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I am going to have that conversation that I was
18:03
afraid to have. That's the most fulfilling thing a person
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can hear.
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Speaker 3: Which was at the beginning and end of it, the
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whole point of Turning Point USA for college kids who
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felt like, gosh, I don't feel like I've belong in here,
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And this is no worse feeling eighteen years old already
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it's a weird world because all of a sudden, you
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set your own schedule. Whatever happened to, you know, Dean
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Wermer trying to get me in trouble because I was
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late to class.
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Speaker 6: Oh gosh, but one of the things.
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Speaker 3: And it's always perilous when you lose a public figure,
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Martin Luther King Junior, Thomas Jefferson.
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Speaker 6: I mean, any number of.
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Speaker 3: These people you get retold who they are. And Charlie,
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I think poignantly mentioned all the people that want to
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retell who Thomas Jefferson was. And we're, you know, two
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hundred years removed from his death and we're still trying
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to retell his story because we retell these stories so
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they fit our stories. That's my view on it is
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redo these people, whether it's Locke or Jefferson, and it's
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happening to Charlie Kirk, and it's happening with some darkness
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attached to it. And I just want to try to
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with a nod to doctor Robert Malone and dose Equi's
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commercial that needs to be made at some point that
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you need to be warned that the retelling of people's
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stories isn't always for you know, the celebration, the aggrandizement
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of them. Jefferson is a great example of it. I
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remember the first time I read the amended out treaties
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in the Declaration of Independence on and people were calling
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me saying, that's that's fake news, that's a conspiracy theory,
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that's uh what was the group that everyone was afraid of.
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Speaker 6: QAnon. Oh that's q Andon, Joe.
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Speaker 3: That would it's Reddit from the Library of Congress's website.
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W because they had been told in the echo chamber
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that anyone who tells you Jefferson wrote this isn't telling
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you the truth. That's a q and On conspiracy theory,
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because they figured if they threw that grenade out there,
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nobody wants to believe a q Andon conspiracy theory, so
20:38
you would go away and stop talking about the fact
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that Jefferson and the colonial governments had been trying to
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get rid of slavery for some time legislatively.
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Speaker 6: This is what I mean.
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Speaker 3: And it's and we're watching it happen, and and the
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forces of darkness are using this to try to assail
20:58
this peace deal with it. Nick foyintes out there on
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a rant and lower lumer at Pete Hagseeth never said
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there was going to be a military base. They were
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building a facility to fly Katari pilots, teach them how
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to fly F fifteen so we don't have to. And
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maybe it's good these you know, these folks exposed themselves
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for you know, these just like the people who marched
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around me in Charlottesville in twenty seventeen. The people who
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don't want a Jewish community, and unfortunately, though slightly more
21:44
well behaved than Hamas is often for the same reason,
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they do some of the same things that Hamas does.
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And I'm glad to see these clans in Gaza City
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rising up against Hamas.
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Speaker 13: Uh oh, Brahad's buzzed.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 9: And now a speech.
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Speaker 12: 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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Speaker 12: Somebody call me a ride.
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Speaker 13: Love that guy, me too.
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Speaker 10: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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Speaker 22: The First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk
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Media Network.
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Speaker 3: Yeah story, I didn't get to last week, but the
28:21
Palisades wildfire, and I know it impacted my racing reporter
28:27
Brian Blanski was on with us. His house was right
28:29
in the middle of the Palisades fire. They arrested a
28:33
guy at the end of last week, Jonathan Ryder, necked
28:40
and he's charged with intentionally starting the Palisades fire, which
28:44
killed twelve destroyed thousands and millions of dollars worth of property.
28:48
He was arrested in Florida. He's arrested saying the charge
28:56
is that he started a small fire with a lighter
28:58
on January first, later reignited and spread due to high
29:03
winds through on January seventh. And this is, you know,
29:07
kind of an important point about wildfire. Anyway, now they're
29:11
they're claiming that it was intentionally set, So I don't
29:20
have all the stories as to how they're coming up
29:25
with the idea that it was intentionally set. They say
29:29
it was an uber driver, but it was set maliciously
29:37
according to the charges. The charges are destruction of property
29:45
by means of fire. Acting US Attorney for the Central
29:49
District of California announced on act authorities said the Palisades
29:55
fire was a holdover fire or continuation of the Lockman fire,
29:59
which right is alleged to have started on New Year's Day. Now,
30:05
we don't have any information. Ryder Neck, previously lived in
30:08
the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, had just finished working as an
30:12
Uber driver when he started the blaze. According to the complaint,
30:15
two of the passengers he picked up told investigators that
30:19
rinder Neck appeared agitated and angry. Uber told the NBC
30:27
affiliate in Los Angeles he was immediately removed from accessing
30:31
the platform after they learned of his involvement. Well, you know,
30:34
there you go. He's in Florida. Maybe he's driving people
30:37
all around. It reminds me of Jesse Matthew Junior. Jesse
30:41
Matthew was a Charlottesville cab driver who, if you recall
30:48
The Man Hunts twenty fifteen or something, it was twenty
30:52
physicist Morgan Harrington went missing and Hannah Graham, and he
31:00
had murdered them both in the Charlottesville area cab driver
31:06
there this time. Uber authorities alleged that after he dropped
31:10
off a passenger in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, Rindernack drove
31:14
towards Skull Rock Trailhead, he took photos on his cell
31:21
phone and listened to a song by a French artist
31:24
whose music video included things being lit on fire. According
31:28
to the Justice Department news release on his arrest, he
31:35
took two videos on top of the hill that where
31:38
no fires were visible. According to the complaint in twelve twelve.
31:42
On January first, censors indicated fire in the area. Authorities
31:46
say Rindernack tried to call nine one one several times
31:49
but could not get through because his cell phone was
31:53
out of range. The complaint says, and again all of
31:56
this laying out the US attorney for the Central District
31:59
to California, I'm not seeing where malice comes in here.
32:06
He followed the fire trucks back to the blaze just
32:09
after one pm. So with that being said, fire, you know,
32:13
wildfires like that are in the news, welcome in some
32:16
insurance focus.
32:16
Speaker 23: On Well, thanks for having us.
32:19
Speaker 6: So what are some of the things.
32:20
Speaker 3: Certainly our fire companies give us a lot of good
32:24
information about what we need to do for ourselves, But
32:27
what about protecting your homes from wildfire?
32:32
Speaker 25: Yeah?
32:32
Speaker 27: So Hi, this is vankovid Iris. One of the biggest
32:36
and most important things that you can do to protect
32:38
your home from wildfire is to just get ready for
32:41
the embers that are going to come flying on the wind.
32:44
So there's a couple of key things that you can
32:46
do there. First and foremost, do you want to have
32:48
a Class A roof? Good news is if you have
32:51
a metal roof or a tile roof. For an asol
32:53
shingle roof, it's likely a Class A roof. You need
32:57
to be worried about this. If you have a wood
32:59
shake roof, that's the kind you might want to think
33:01
about replacing. And then there's two more things that you
33:04
can do. You want to check your vent your attic vents,
33:08
and your cross space vence. And most critical thing is
33:12
that you need to have landscaping that is wildfire resistant.
33:16
So you need to have a beautiful safety zone right
33:19
around your home the first five feet nothing combustible, nothing
33:23
that can burn right there. In the five feet closest
33:27
to your home. Move the landscaping so that you can
33:30
appreciate it from the window or the porch, but don't
33:32
have it right next to your home. Those are the
33:35
three key things that you can do to reduce your risk.
33:37
Speaker 6: Well, go back into that for a second.
33:39
Speaker 3: And you know the certainly moult is mult one of
33:42
those combustible things.
33:43
Speaker 6: It certainly seems like it.
33:45
Speaker 27: Absolutely wood molt, it is highly combustible, and it's one
33:50
of the last things that's always burning here when we
33:54
do our experiments at the laboratory in South Carolina. Wood,
33:58
mult bushes, wood and thing firewood, your trash can. These
34:05
are all things that can and will burn, and can
34:08
and will catch houses on fire by lighting the siding
34:12
or lighting the underreave area of the home. So if
34:15
you're in a wildfire prone area, you need to move
34:17
all of that stuff. Now, people keep their trash can
34:20
right next to the house, but on a day when
34:22
a wildfire might threaten, move that thing into the garam.
34:26
Speaker 3: And certainly try to landscape without mulch. And I imagine
34:30
if you lived in a wildfire fire area, your your
34:33
contractor isn't suggesting a wood deck on the other side
34:36
of your house.
34:37
Speaker 27: Well, you know, surprisingly there are a lot of wood
34:39
decks out there in a wildfire prone area.
34:41
Speaker 13: So you want to.
34:42
Speaker 27: Keep them clear of all of the leaves and pine needles.
34:45
You want to keep clear underneath them, and you want
34:48
to have a separation if you can between that wood
34:51
deck and the house.
34:53
Speaker 3: Michael, how do you how do you protect yourself if
34:58
this does come to pass, to make sure you can
35:00
be made whole again.
35:03
Speaker 23: Yeah, that's a great question.
35:04
Speaker 6: Right.
35:04
Speaker 23: So you want to make sure that you're prepared financially, right,
35:09
particularly for American families. Most families, the home is the
35:12
biggest financial asset that they have, so it needs to
35:15
be protected. And insurance is the critical backup plan that
35:18
enables you to rebuild your home after wildfire catastrophic event,
35:22
and unfortunately, federal disaster grants aren't enough to rebuild a home.
35:26
So you want to make sure that your family's financial
35:28
safety is tended to in advance of any potential wildfire
35:32
risk or really any catastrophic risk. So you want to
35:34
reach out to your agent and conduct an annual insurance
35:37
check up, right, you want to get in touch with them,
35:39
make sure your policy reflects the right square footage and
35:42
materials of your home.
35:43
Speaker 6: And you want, well, let me ask you this.
35:49
Speaker 3: You know, we're just finding out about, you know, the
35:51
source of the Palisades wildfire and authorities there does does
35:57
insurance look at the source of a wildfire when it's
36:02
trying to determine whether or not to help you rebuild
36:05
your home.
36:08
Speaker 23: Your homeowners insurance policy covers the structure, and that's really
36:10
kind of the important framework you need to understand when
36:13
you're dealing with it. So if it burns down, it
36:14
burns down in your hometay importantly in Los Angeles is
36:19
a good example. Those insurance policies are already be paid.
36:22
You know, they've already people have gone to their insurance
36:25
companies with insurance companies have sent them the checks. You know,
36:28
there's to some degree, you know, some sort of trail,
36:30
some degree of trailing claims that exist to some degree,
36:34
but you know that it's really not a significant consideration.
36:38
Speaker 3: Are there places that are wildfire zones and this guys
36:42
for either of you and I know we have to go,
36:44
but that our wildfire zones or our wildfire zones expanding
36:49
to areas we had several here in Central Virginia where
36:52
we were as well.
36:53
Speaker 27: So you know, there's not really a national map that
36:57
people can easily get to. California has a map. Oregon
37:01
tried to create a map and they repealed it. People
37:03
get really nervous about maps coming out. Here's what you
37:07
need to know If you live in an area where
37:10
there's a dense enough population and you have drought conditions
37:14
and high winds and the idea that something can spark
37:17
and the wild land can burn around you, you need
37:20
to be ready. Pigeon Forge has had a wildfire Louisiana, Hawaii, Colorado, California.
37:26
Wildfires can happen in lots of places. Everybody remembers when
37:29
the sky was orange in New York City because there
37:31
was wild land burning in Canada. It can happen in many, many,
37:35
many places. Be prepared, know what your risk is by
37:40
knowing what's around you, and just be ready.
37:42
Speaker 3: Michael Richmond Crumb he's director of Personal Lines and Council
37:47
at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association and COPE is
37:52
with IBHS, and thank you both for your time this
37:57
morning and give us some insight into this.
37:59
Speaker 27: Thank you for having us.
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Speaker 6: Hi.
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Speaker 1: You were strolling along in Goodwill when just past that
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mid century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them
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Speaker 12: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
42:26
Speaker 9: Freedom of speech, freedom.
42:29
Speaker 27: Of religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble,
42:36
freedom to petition the government.
42:38
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42:41
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Speaker 25: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
42:53
Speaker 2: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
42:55
first date?
42:56
Speaker 1: Sure?
42:57
Speaker 16: We'll probably stay together.
42:59
Speaker 25: Probably, it's been twenty three minutes since I ate. I
43:04
can probably swim.
43:06
Speaker 1: You should wait thirty minutes.
43:08
Speaker 6: Okay, I'll tell me what to do. Can it bar.
43:12
Speaker 25: Cramp?
43:13
Speaker 6: I have a cramp?
43:17
Speaker 19: I can probably hit the green from here?
43:19
Speaker 22: Probably?
43:24
Speaker 9: Can I get a Mulligan.
43:27
Speaker 6: Ready to go?
43:27
Speaker 20: Hey?
43:28
Speaker 2: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
43:30
Speaker 1: Yeah?
43:31
Speaker 18: I'm pretty sober.
43:33
Speaker 21: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
43:36
Speaker 25: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
43:39
and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
43:42
or a friend. Buzz driving is drunk driving. A message
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Don't Serve Teens program and the Federal Trade can.
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Speaker 22: Absolute question on a need to know basis, because you
44:14
need to know the first thing today.
44:22
Speaker 3: Text message comes in from Larry's g Joe angry self
44:30
aggrandizing cell phone video taker starts wildfire that kills a dozen.
44:37
Speaker 6: Let me guess what his voting record looks like. Well,
44:41
you know, if he is a.
44:42
Speaker 3: Registered or a habitual Democrat voter. I'd like to point
44:47
out that this was not exactly green and maybe that
44:52
was the problem. Maybe he didn't like all the houses
44:55
on the hills. Be interesting to see how this Riding
44:59
Necks trial goes, if they lawyer up, if they try
45:04
to sequester him from public view, as they drop the
45:10
several of the charges. And now a popular opinion on the.
45:17
Speaker 6: Murderer of.
45:19
Speaker 3: The US Healthcare CEO continues to crater, and it speaks
45:30
Larry to a bigger question, which is, what are you
45:34
expecting other people to do for you that you're not
45:37
having sated. These people are doing violence against other people
45:45
because they didn't get their way. What kind of societal tantrum.
45:50
Speaker 6: Are we throwing I don't get my way all the time.
45:56
Speaker 3: I won't even begin to tell you the project we're
45:58
undertaking on our flagships that no radio station ever does.
46:03
Speaker 6: We have to move the lease.
46:06
Speaker 3: Under our transmitter tower got pulled, so we have to
46:09
move the entire radio station to a new tower or
46:12
build all new tower.
46:14
Speaker 6: Nobody ever has to do that anymore. They just go
46:17
off the air. I guess that's it. We had a
46:20
nice run. We're not.
46:22
Speaker 3: We're not because we bought the station to stay on
46:25
the air, and amazing people have helped us do it.
46:29
But you know, I don't go on a violence spree
46:34
just because I didn't get my way or some challenge
46:37
got thrown in my way. And maybe that's one of
46:39
the essential difference between us and them, is that they
46:46
believe that there's some birthright. And this is where I
46:48
go back to where these politicians cavalierly say.
46:53
Speaker 6: Stuff about healthcare. I mean, it was the most egregious period.
47:00
Speaker 3: It was the development and the and the passage of Obamacare.
47:03
Aside from the silly Nancy Pelosi, we've got to pass
47:07
it before we can read it. That's nutty enough. That's
47:12
a big old pile of squirrel dung.
47:17
Speaker 6: But beyond that the narrative that drove me crazy.
47:22
Speaker 3: And the next time I felt like this was when
47:25
the Unite the Right people were out there espousing their
47:29
death to Jews stuff and you blood and soil. I'm like,
47:33
that's not conservative, and I was trying to tell anyone
47:38
who would listen to me that wasn't conservative. But they
47:41
because they glossed themselves with the name right, everyone in
47:45
the media thought they were, you know, William F. Buckley readers.
47:55
But when they were pitching Obamacare the way they were
48:00
painting this picture as if it was going to give
48:03
you healthcare, So this is dangerous.
48:07
Speaker 6: And so.
48:09
Speaker 3: The murderer that shall not be named here, but oh
48:12
everyone's sexy murderer of us healthcare was born in this
48:18
crucible of narrative echo chamber nonsense that was making it
48:24
out that Obamacare was going to give you healthcare. And
48:31
I know plenty of the cunning linguists will come out
48:34
and say, we never said that exactly. Well, of course
48:37
you didn't, but you said it in a way that
48:39
that was the implication of what people heard. And we
48:42
need to be judicious listeners. We need to sit there
48:47
and pore over what's being said and not just take it. Well,
48:55
he made a speech behind a podium, it must be true.
48:58
And it's with that going to shout this morning back
49:02
here in the Commonwealth, in our flagship state where we
49:05
just had and the polls came out. We had John
49:08
Reid on earlier talking about how the polls have cratered
49:11
for all the Democrats. The shoot him in the head
49:15
Attorney general guy is six points behind and couldn't happen
49:18
to a nicer guy. But even the gubernatorial candidate has
49:23
failed because this debate performance has made I believe Democrats
49:28
flee from her.
49:30
Speaker 28: In cases across we go back to the question.
49:33
Speaker 29: I'll use girls' bathrooms.
49:35
Speaker 6: Yeah, I want the whole question.
49:36
Speaker 29: The question was should transgender girls who are biological males
49:40
be allowed to use girls' bathrooms and play on girls
49:43
sports teams? In K through twelve, you have fifteen seconds
49:46
to clarify.
49:49
Speaker 28: In cases across Virginia, I think it's incumbent upon parents
49:54
and educators and administrators in each local community to make
49:58
decisions locally.
50:00
Speaker 23: That's what this is about.
50:02
Speaker 28: There should never be in lackness.
50:06
Speaker 2: We finally have her saying that, but you voted.
50:09
Speaker 29: For that misery.
50:13
Speaker 3: And I will remind you that four years ago Terry
50:16
mcculloff told us, you know, his secret, which was parents
50:21
should have no say over education. In the same tactic, listeners.
50:25
Speaker 30: Mister mccalloff, your campaign website promises you will implement a
50:29
Virginia Department of Education's New Model policy to project protect
50:33
transgender students. Now, that's a policy that allows students to
50:36
use the restroom and locker room that matches their gender identity,
50:40
and requires school employees to address students by their children.
50:43
Speaker 3: I know this is trends as well, but this isn't
50:45
that you got to jump ahead a little bit in
50:47
here to get where a governor.
50:50
Speaker 6: Now, Governor Younkin comes up.
50:53
Speaker 5: She doesn't like mine because it's better than his, And
50:55
he picked up another one and is using that for
50:57
all of these baseless comments. And with regard to our
51:01
kids in schools, we are called to love everyone, to
51:06
love everyone, And I agree with your conclusion, Terry, that
51:10
we should let local school districts actually make these decisions,
51:14
but we must ask them to include concepts of safety
51:19
and privacy and respect in the discussion. And we must
51:23
demand that they include parents in this dialogue. What we've
51:27
seen over the course of the last twenty months is
51:30
our school systems refusing to engage with parents. In fact,
51:33
in Fairfax County this past week, we watched parents so
51:36
upset because there was such elicit sexually explicit material in
51:40
the library they had never seen.
51:42
Speaker 6: It was shocking.
51:43
Speaker 5: And in fact, you vetoed the bill that would have
51:45
informed parents that they were there. You believe school systems
51:48
should tell children what to do. I believe parents should
51:51
be in charge of their kids' education.
51:54
Speaker 6: Thirty seconds.
51:58
Speaker 31: So, first of all, this shows that's how clueless Glenn
52:01
Younkin is. He doesn't understand what the laws were because
52:03
he's never been involved here in helping Virginia. But it
52:06
was not the parents had to write to veto bills,
52:10
vito books, Glenn not to be knowledge about it. Also
52:13
take them off the shelves. And I'm not going to
52:15
let parents come into schools and actually take books out
52:18
make their own decisions. You veto So yeah, you stopped
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the bill that I don't think parents should be telling
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schools what they should teach, you know.
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Speaker 3: I And there it went, just like with Abigail Spanberg
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and I think this is a tactic that you're going
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to see more of. Don't let them, don't let them
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fill a buster. Just keep saying, you know what your
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point is, men and men in girls' locker rooms, men
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in girls lockers room, and you'll get to the truth anyway,
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until tomorrow morning at five Eastern. So long and thanks
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for all the fish.
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Speaker 23: Hi.
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Speaker 18: I'm Mark Falter with the Financial Fitness Show. Have you
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been keeping up on on the big beautiful bill. There's
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a lot of information in this bill. It's eight hundred
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and seventy seven pages long. And for that reason, we
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