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"Is There a 'Right to be Listened To'?" (Friday September 19, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Well, I asked you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you want to do a non sense screw onsense.
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  Speaker 1: On a need to know basis, because you need to
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  know the first thing today.
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  Speaker 3: You words that steal me stem you have a day
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  at least for work. When the sun comes up, drops
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  a pet of the scoot. Joey is eying a dinger.
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  All the Joses seven needs no wonder. Joe's as smile,
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  he only asps.
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  Speaker 2: Joe here hold these truths. I want to be Joe,
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  thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  on this Friday morning here on the Talk Media Network.
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  Oh yeah, it reminds you don't forget to entering yourself.
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  Our friends at Trans Siberian Orchestra, and I know radio
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  people use that phrase all the time, but it's actually
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  true for me. My friends at Trans Siberian Orchestra have
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  given me tech ads to any shows that coincide with
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  this show. Since we're now on the Talk Media Network,
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  there's about fourteen places in America where this show is broadcasted,
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  and Trans Siberian Orchestra will be performing like Colorado Springs
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  and so enter online at the website Joe Thomas in
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  the Morning dot Com. I say that because it was
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  pointed out to me that my email address can be confusing.
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  My email address is JT in the Morning Radio at
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  gmail dot com, but the website is full out Joe
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  Thomas in the Morning dot com. You'll see the ender
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  to win thing and the menu and go get on
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  in there. Received this email from Mary who is listening
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  in San Bernardino. Kmet Do we have a right to
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  be heard? Is the title of the email. And we
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  were talking about this whole Jimmy Kimmel thing, and she says, Joe,
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  you seem fired up about this, and I understand, especially
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  in your position, it can be very concerning to think
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  of the government regulating whether or not a broadcaster or
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  a podcaster or a blogger can be fired or not.
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  But I do believe that we have, at this point
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  in time a right to be heard, and that if
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  anyone is infringing on my right to be heard, I
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  want there to be recompense. I believe that fits under
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  the fourteenth Amendment. And if she makes a case, I
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  may disagree with it, but she makes a case that
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  you can take the idea of the Civil Rights Act
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  and apply it to being listened to. This is where
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  and I understand the point, Mary, but I think you're
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  misunderstanding what rights are. So the right to speak is
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  God given. The right to be listened to is earned
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  by what you say. And that's an important misi difference
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  between them, because if we're just going to be promised
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  by the government an audience, I mean with what they
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  did in Germany, if Hitler, if Gebeles made a movie,
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  you had to go see it, otherwise the party would
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  know about it. That's not the same and that's I
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  think creates propaganda more than anything else. Much Ballyhood the
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  meeting of the Vaccine Board, Yes there is Charlie Kirk
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  news and we'll get to it. But Vaccine Board for
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  the Center of Disease Control and Preventions Recommendation have pulled
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  FBI Director Cash Ptel, pushing back on a Fox News
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  report that Attorney General Pam Bondi and a Deputy Attorney General,
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  Speaker 2: In the country from where the Democrats at full control.
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  They promised they.
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  they're going to do it again November and make it worse.
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  them on speed dial. And I said, is there a
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  statute of limitations on how long you can continue to
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  be referred to as a former Republican just for the
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  sake of tarring and feathering other Republicans or endorsing Democrats.
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  But they were talking about this healthcare issue and all
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  spending on people who aren't even citizens in the United States. Bob,
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  the money for, and to cut things that.
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  Speaker 16: Are not an appropriate role of federal government to begin with.
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  And the Biden administration massive expanded Obamacare during COVID for basically,
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  COVID with these federal subsidies, and they expire at the
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  end of this year. And Republicans are going to be
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  afraid to eliminate those emergency extensions expansions of Obamacare from
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  COVID because there again, they don't want to pledge their lives,
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  Their fortunes are sacred honor. They don't want to pledge
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  their next reelection in order to do the right thing.
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  Speaker 15: And we ought to hold Republicans accountable, but they'll keep
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  doing it as long as we continue to vote for them,
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  and we don't primary those who vote for this kind
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  of spending.
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  Speaker 2: So what is coming up for you this week? And
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  are you going to the what do they call it,
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  the Battle of the Blue Ridge. I know you're a
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  liberty flame, and are you are you going to be
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  going to the game, or you'll be settled in with
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  the grand babies watching it.
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  Speaker 16: I'll have our granddaughter with me along with my wife
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  and daughter and son and daughter in law, and we'll
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  have our granddaughter nearly two year old grddaughter with us,
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  and we'll be hoping that the Flames can write the
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  Have Williams State tomorrow afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Well, enjoy the weekend. It looks like one of those
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  beautiful September mid Atlantic weekends as well. And we'll talk
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  to again very soon, Bob, Thank you, Joe. I also
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  want to get your thoughts on what's going on in
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  the news of the day, how it's impacting you at
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  four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  And since we're in the podcast world, yeah, I've never
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  So I promote the ones I like, and I'm hosted
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  But Nick Fradus is on with us from the Making
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  the Argument podcast online too, and follow up to our
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  pieces on this assassination, but also now here we are
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  in the in the future, we're living the future as
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  it comes out, where you have a gubernatorial race full
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  of endorsers that have said like dot Hefron, the Chesterfield
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  School board member, who, by the way, when did quitting
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  get to be like, well, in six months I'm gonna leave. No,
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  it was at four months. She said, all right, I resign,
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  but I'm going to stick around till December thirty first
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  and vote on a bunch of key stuff and then
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  I'll leave in December. Because she said, I thought we
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  shot national I thought we used to be okay with
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  shooting nationalists socialists. I say it that way, she said Nazi,
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  but I always like to remind people what a Nazi
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  actually was. And then Don Scott, as you said, who's
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  you know, sparring with you and the governor over his
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  The Governor's simple point of saying this is this is
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  not what we need in the Commonwealth. And Don Scott's
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  spare us this sanctimonious selective outrage from this guy when
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  when he's out there saying that it was a Trump
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  supporter that killed Charlie Kirk, when it wasn't at all.
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  Speaker 17: Well, I mean, did we stuck him, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: I would, I mean, well, but here's the problem, right,
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  here's the problem when.
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  Speaker 17: You believe that the truth is subjective. And I don't
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  mean we can't have different perspective on the perspectives on
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  the truth. I mean when you believe the truth itself
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  is nothing but different perspectives, then of course you're going
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  to pick whatever perspective works better for whatever your political
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  objective is. And that's what he's doing. It works better
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  for Don Scott to believe and to project that this
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  was some sort of craised maga person. That's right, that's right.
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  He was a maga person who was living with his
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  trans boyfriend. Yes, that sounds that sounds like maga to
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  a t Don Scott. That's an incredible analysis you've conducted there,
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  and I'm very impressed. No, that's just a narrative that
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  is useful. And when it's no longer about truth, it's
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  about you useful narratives. But then of course you picked
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  the useful narrative.
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  Speaker 2: And that's part of the.
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  Speaker 17: Problem that we have right now, is the super of
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  the House and the Commonwealth of Virginia is more than
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  happy to spread what he knows is false. Because I
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  will say this about.
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  Speaker 2: Don skin he's a smart guy.
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  Speaker 17: He knows this as garbage. But it's the truth isn't useful.
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  So if the truth is not useful to what they
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  consider to be their moral in state, well then you
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  get rid of the truth. You don't change the way
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  you think about the inn state. You don't change the
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  way you think about the events. You change the way
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  you think about the truth.
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  Speaker 2: So, with the early voting beginning and the key races,
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  the House hanging in a potential balance, maybe the Republicans
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  can overcome the massive bags of money that the Democratic
• 20:49
  Party have sent into thirteen different house races. I think
• 20:54
  is not the only way to change their idea on
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  this narrative and using narrative like this in the future
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  is to show them that it doesn't work, that it
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  doesn't win them elections. Because if and I agree with you,
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  that is exactly what Don Scott was doing. He's trying
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  to win elections by saying the things that he thinks
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  will win him an election. The only way to really
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  punish that is to prove him wrong and to overwhelmingly
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  defeat that ideology at the ballot box.
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  Speaker 17: No, you were one hundred percent correct. There's so many
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  people asking, well, what do we do now? Okay, Well, firstly,
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  you have to understand the nature of what just took place.
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  So Charlie was killed in part because this particular world
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  view has been allowed to run rampant. This particular rhetoric
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  has been successful. The reason why Democrats are using this
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  rhetoric and the reason why they have for so long
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  now is because it wins them elections. So the question
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  is what can you do right now? Well, there's a
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  lot of things, but first and foremost the rhetoric is
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  on the.
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  which is why there's a designated survivor. There's another show
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  It's still there in Buffalo and all. But this is
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  where William McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt, as vice president,
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  the same time on Roosevelt's life, and this became the
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  in the same place at the same time, at least
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  outside of the State of the Union address, presidents and
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  vice presidents generally don't go to the same place. Oh
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  to President pro tem of the Senate, who I think is,
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  the President pro ten of the Senate is. But generally speaking,
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  the Secret Service frowns on the president and the vice
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  president being in the same public place at the same time.
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  Now this giant football stadium, they're going to be in
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  the same press box, and secret Service is going to
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  at the Gaylord just north of DFW Airport, which is
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  nice because it's close by the airport we can get out.
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  booths because the Secret Service apparently doesn't start work until five.
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  dogs and stuff like that. Point being if you're going
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  I mean, it is such a and I think it's
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  due diligence. I'm not complaining that it shouldn't take place,
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  especially with the amount of notable people that will be
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  in attendance, but get online today, That's what I'm saying
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  is if you want to be in by what time
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  to Sunday the ceremonies are going to take. I think
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  it's early. It's it's pre football kickoff and such. But
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  so if you're going to try to get in early
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  because it's going to take a long time. If you're
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  talking about seventy thousand people. Obviously you're expecting if you're
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  going to have it at a football stadium, just from
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  somebody who's had to get through and I have special credentials,
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  and the line of general population to get in woof,
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  the Secret Service don't move the line quickly, but it's
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  a line, and it's long, and trying and trying to
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  wrap my brain around that kind of security for seventy
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  keep this Sunday for that event Nick and I were
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  come along. Licensing journalists and that kind of thing. We've
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  watched the FCC already under President Trump allow and I
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  think anything under market one hundred and that considered small
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  cities to be entirely owned by one TV company. So
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  all the TV stations in any of the smaller cities
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  you know at Flint, Michigan, or Harrisonburg, Virginia, or you
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  name it, of Corpus Christi, Texas, San Bernardino, California, could
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  all the TV stations could be owned by the same company.
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  They teetered on doing that with radio where uh, you know,
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  some mid range Cumulus or wanna be iHeart could buy
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  all the stations in four Corners, Colorado, and they're all
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  owned by the same company. And therefore you're not getting
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  any variety of thought. And these are the same people
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  who tell you you need to be open minded, you
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  need to be considering your point of view, meaning I
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  have to accept your point of view. So frustrating. I
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  want to thank Marcus for playing along in Connecticut listening
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  on WGH. He said the these re elections, that they
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  should lose your point about redistricting and reapportionment and the
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  fact that the first first Amendment of the Constitution said
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  only congressional districts of no more than fifty thousand people.
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  Wouldn't that pain at the ballot box be easier to
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  met out if we had smaller congressional districts. Hell yeah,
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  at number one, All these congressional districts at number one
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  would not cost that much to run. For number two,
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  You've diluted the power of each seat, so therefore each
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  seat doesn't become so necessarily corruptible. You've opened it up
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  to more people, because with fifty thousand people, you're going
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  to know your congress person. More likely they're going to
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  represent the general ethos of your area. I was speaking
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  about this last night at a ranked toy voting event
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  with former Virginia Attorney General Ken Coochenelli, former acting DHS
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  Secretary Ken Couchenelli. When we were talking about ranked choice voting,
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  Oh right out of Charles Dodgson's playbook. If you don't
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  If you don't know Charles Dodgson, he wrote a theory
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  called liquid democracy, where you could you could trade off
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  your vote, your vote became currency, you could proxy vote,
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  you could give your whatever. And one of his theories
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  was ranked choice voting. But I mentioned this idea that
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  the Constitution of the Original Bill of Rights provided that
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  congressional districts be no more than fifty thousand people. He said,
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  my god, Joe, six thousand people in Congress. Yeah, plenty
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  of theaters with more seats than that. It's not an
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  incredibly over large building. We're going to have seventy thousand
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  people in Arizona for Charlie Kirk's memorial. Six thousand people
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  all sharing the jobs of going into committee and whatnot
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  and trying to get to answers. But holding them accountable
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  becomes easier because you're in a district of fifty thousand people.
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  And think of all the people that voted for Donald Trump.
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  And this was my point on this, all those eighty
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  five percent of all the counties in America that Donald
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  Trump won the majority of votes in, each one of
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  them would practically have their own congress person. What a
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  day that is? Anyway, Saturday morning for those who get it,
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  if not Monday morning. I'm Joe Thomas, so long and
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  thanks for all the fish. My name is Bobby.
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  weightlifting champion. I'm Sam, I'm a veteran.
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  of their lives.
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