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"Women, Combat and what 'F.A.F.O.' Means" (Wednesday October 1, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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got our news round up coming up in a moment,
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Folks already on the line here. I think I recognized
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the voice Big John. Maybe online one here? Big John?
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Speaker 4: Is that you?
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Speaker 5: That's me? You got me?
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Speaker 3: Ja, I heard your voice just for a second. But
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it's so unique, Big John. What's on your mind, sir?
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Speaker 5: How about that Secretary of War yesterday? State?
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Speaker 3: So, yeah, he yield his meeting with all the commanders
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at Joint Base Quantico there, and are you talking about
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his statement on women and men serving in frontline positions?
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Speaker 5: Hey? Absolutely, I'm talking about his pulling the pin to
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do away with the DEI, the gender equity, the men
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in skirts, and the fa FO. I mean he laid
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a smack.
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Speaker 3: Down when I broke this down a little bit earlier
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on in the program. And it's why I thought you
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were on the phone and I know that you have
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some strong feelings on this. It's not to say that
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women are subservient. And this is always how the activists
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go when you say that, Oh, you're saying men are
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better than women. No, nobody ever said that. I listened
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to Pete Haigsath's statement. He didn't say men are better
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than women. He just said they need to all meet
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the same standards if they're going to be in a
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forward position where physicality and your ability to defend yourself
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and your brothers and sisters and arms is going to
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be critical.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely so, absolutely so.
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Speaker 3: Now, what do you expect the fallout as a military planner,
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what's the fallout? What's the next wave? What are we
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going to hear for the next week?
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Speaker 5: Now, Big John, we'll probably see a number of field
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grade officers resigning their commissions because of their inability to
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wrap their mind around the fact that they are there
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and they are there for one purpose, and that is
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to bring hell, fire and damn nation down upon the
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heads of those who oppose America.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, break stuff and blow things up.
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Speaker 5: You know that.
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Speaker 3: It's really you know what we can't grasp and we
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are and our soldiers are some of the best ambassadors
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we have once the dust is settled and they're in
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theater with those we've liberated. But that's not their primary
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role to be ambassadors. Their primary role is to break
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things and kill people, exactly.
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Speaker 5: And we are going to get back to that core value.
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You know. In watching him speak, you know, I was
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thinking about Teddy Roosevelt, really, you know, yes, And I
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was like, YO, speak softly, carry a big stick. So
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what do you do?
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Speaker 3: You expect a lineup of female veterans who are going
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to mischaracterize this as sexism.
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Speaker 5: I tell you women that I know who's served, who
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were proud of their service to a woman that I
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have spoken with in the last sixteen hours, are saying
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we want this because the lowering and watering down of
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standards waters down the accomplishments of women who have served
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and have served in key roles as pilots, as technicians, etc.
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Who have the capability who want to be judged on
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their merit, and they see the women who use their
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sexuality to gain position.
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Speaker 3: Hang, I know that one second, John, We really need
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to get our first things in here, So hang on
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the line with me here on that. But our first
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things this morning, so we can discuss the news. Here
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is the news, Pete Hegseith as we were discussing, spoke
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at Quantico yesterday and told the gathering that I don't
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want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape,
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or in combat units with females that can't meet the
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same combat arms physical standards as men. Of course, the
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federal government is looming into a shutdown this morning, a
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small portion of it. White House Budget Director Russ Vote
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has said that all staff needs to appear at their
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desks this morning and start to execute their plans for
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an orderly shutdown. Meanwhile, Senate Leader John Thune of South
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Dakota expressed optimism in a vote he has scheduled for
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this morning that they'll be able to get to three
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or four more Democrats to break ranks like John Fetterman
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how are you, sir?
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Speaker 18: I'm Jill, Well Joe, and you're exactly right. Silver is
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up strong again today. It's pretty much been every single
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day for the past two weeks. Now, silver is up
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over one and a quarter percent to forty seven dollars
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the same strength there in gold of just shy one percent,
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up twenty nine dollars to three tho eight hundred and
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Speaker 18: Silver not stop these days on their upward trajectory.
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you do you even worry about that right now? Are
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you just hanging on until the bell rings?
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Speaker 18: Yeah, I'm really just hanging on and seeing where we
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go with price discovery mode for gold. You know, most
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of my clients that I've talked to, they're they're already
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this is exciting to see and we'll see where soilber lands.
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You have a great morning, and thanks for everything you
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Joe four three four eight A two four two one
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seven And just real quick before we get back to
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Big John. This situation in Chicago, Mayor of Chicago still
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defiant on the behalf of Venezuelan drug dealers over Chicago residents.
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And I don't know if you're driving in from the
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north listening to us in Evanston or it's a seam,
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or if you're in the land of Joliet, Jake, but
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wherever you're coming in to the Windy City, I mean,
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it's it's like they've looked at San Francisco and everything
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that went on there to the point where pro law
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enforcement district attorneys get elected in San Francisco and they
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still can't read the tea leaves and say, yeah, maybe
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the train is left Union Station and wish you were
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on the wrong side of this one. Or are they
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too busy wondering where the Chicago White Songs are going
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to play?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: You know, at this rate, they could play in Caracas
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and get about the same fan base. But Big bust
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the South shore of Chicago, hundreds of agents, trend de
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Aragua busted up a big drug importer there and drug
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gang that's just killing kids, either by their conscripting them
18:37
into service or just getting them hooked on the Colombian
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marching powder. Big John was hanging on with us talking
18:45
about Pete Hegsith and the the standards of military service.
18:52
Now you served a few years ago, John, But maybe
18:58
I was talking about the importance of of making sure
19:01
there are standards of physical ability. If somebody can't keep
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up physically, that puts the whole unit at peril, regardless
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of their gender, right.
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Speaker 5: Yes it does. I had a company commander one time
19:19
when I was on active duty, and the guy never
19:24
met a donut he did not like, and he was
19:33
out of breath just to go from the parking lot
19:35
to his office to sit down to eat his donut.
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Speaker 3: My gosh.
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Speaker 5: Yet he was the guy who was evaluating and in
19:44
charge of our physical standards for the unit. Yet he
19:48
could not meet the standard that was set. Now, ultimately
19:54
he was rifted reduction in force because when I was
19:58
in it was in the Vietnam era on and the
20:05
army was cutting down after Vietnam, trying to get rid
20:09
of people. And luckily they got rid of a lot
20:14
of these.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, straphangers. I like that straphangers, so to speak.
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Speaker 5: And it ultimately then morphed into the Reagan years where
20:30
the military was built back up and we had confident
20:33
people running things. Now here it is we have competent
20:39
people running things. You know, I'm so sorry that during
20:46
the first Trump administration that General Mattis you know, ran
20:52
into a brick wall and ultimately left the position. But
20:57
a lot of what Pete is espousing, you know, it
21:01
goes back to that standard, the warrior ethos, Okay, and
21:06
we need to have that to have that that that
21:11
sharp scalp, scalpel.
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Speaker 3: You know, the the point of the spear, Big John.
21:18
And so at the end of the day, does this
21:20
help recruitment or hurt recruitment, because I know this is
21:23
still an issue a lot of our service divisions are
21:28
struggling with is outside of I believe the Marines. Over
21:33
the past four years, No, no coincidence that I'm aware of,
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wink wink.
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Speaker 5: Retention attention has been a problem for the military oh
21:45
as well.
21:45
Speaker 3: Okay, so you know I want your thought on on
21:48
recruitment because I know that you're an ardent and passionate
21:53
speaker in terms of the things that are our men
21:56
and women can do in the service of our grateful nation.
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22:07
actually three known gas is I'm doctor Mitch, and nitric
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oxide is a gas that's readily made all day long
22:17
to keep our arteries open by relaxing the blood vessel walls.
22:22
By doing this, our circulation is increased, bringing blood, oxygen
22:27
and nutrients to every part of your body. Both age
22:31
and poor diet can lead to a loss of this
22:35
precious gas, and in turn, blood pressure can go up,
22:38
energy can go down, and you can get tingling in
22:41
your hands and feet. Well, our product, ultimate nitric oxide,
22:46
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Speaker 5: My name is Jim. I'm a veteran and I lost
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both legs in Vietnam. My victory was proving that the
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disability is not a limitation.
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Speaker 13: I'm Julius.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely the first thing today by Joe Thomas on the
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Tunk media network, all natural and free of artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 3: Big John was on with us, so I left with
28:39
you question, John, does this help or hurt?
28:43
Speaker 5: Over the last several months, military quotas are over one
28:48
hundred percent for recruitment. Hell Joe, after that speech yesterday,
28:53
if I was fifty years younger, I agree, up.
28:56
Speaker 3: I bet you still have skills from your service that
29:01
we won't discuss publicly, that you could. You could apply
29:05
to the government. I'm sure, I'm sure the Army would
29:08
be pleased to have you back. Big John.
29:11
Speaker 5: Well, I can't meet the physical standard. You know, age,
29:15
age and infirmity have caught up with me. But I
29:19
tell you when not hearing him speak, I'm proud to
29:24
say I knew Pete before he was Pete so to speak,
29:29
when he was with CVA, and.
29:31
Speaker 3: Oh we would certain veterans for America exactly, and he
29:36
espoused these I have heard him espouse these ideas.
29:41
Speaker 5: And he doesn't drink anymore but over beer, so to speak.
29:44
I have heard him speak and say these same things. Now,
29:47
did you notice there were no teleprompters in front of
29:51
him as he spoke. He was speaking from the heart
29:54
and he knew his subject inside and out because he
29:58
has been arguing these since since since he was commissioned.
30:06
Speaker 3: And it's a turrent as well. And this goes back
30:09
to something that is a Reagan era point. You know,
30:13
peace through strength if we have the best army out there,
30:18
and that includes planning. Because I think our men and
30:20
women in service have been great, their planners have not
30:26
been so great, and so that weakens the whole chain.
30:30
But you know, from the top on down, if people
30:33
are concerned, oh crap, the US is going to show up,
30:36
they're going to stay in line.
30:40
Speaker 5: Exactly. You don't want it. F A f O.
30:45
Speaker 3: I'm afraid to find out what that acronym means because
30:48
I know there are a bunch of them in the
30:49
military service that we can't broadcast the meanings of it.
30:54
Hey real finishing point though, and pun intended. The finish
30:58
president was asked about President Trump's position with Putin. He said,
31:04
he said, He's transitioned from the carrot mode to the
31:07
stick mode, and now we just have to see how
31:10
big the stick is. What do you what do you
31:13
what's your gut tell you about what's going on in
31:16
between Russia, Ukraine and US possibly being more involved.
31:21
Speaker 5: Well, I hate to say this, but I think that
31:26
we are going to soon be involved with American blood
31:32
on the ground in Ukraine.
31:35
Speaker 3: I worry about It's not that I worry about our
31:38
men and women. I want to make sure that our
31:39
men and women go into harm's way for serious purpose
31:44
and beyond behalf of those who are equally vetted in it.
31:49
I think about the time that you weren't quint quink
31:52
wink in Southeast Asia, and a lot of those governments
31:55
weren't necessarily as committed to the cause as the America
32:00
and soldiers were told they were. Doctor Clark is hanging
32:03
on the line with us at four three four eight
32:05
eight two four two one seven. Good morning, Clark. How
32:09
are you doing down in Alabama.
32:12
Speaker 23: I'm good, Joe good so about an hour ago. Okay,
32:19
the question about the rage of a differ over or
32:24
differing opinion.
32:26
Speaker 3: Right, we have a school board member, another one. So
32:28
we have the governor of goubernatorial candidate here in our
32:31
flagship state of Virginia saying, use your rage to fuel
32:35
you to fuel your to vote for her.
32:38
Speaker 5: I guess.
32:39
Speaker 3: And now we have a school board member faced with
32:42
having somebody Victoria Cobb from the family Foundation speak at
32:46
the high school at the request of students. She's enraged
32:51
by this. I mean, this is the hand that rocks
32:54
the cradle. These people are, you know, and then you
32:57
add into it the the illegal alien school superintendent in
33:01
des Moine. You know, the hand that rocks the cradle
33:05
is a very troubling investigation, doctor Clark.
33:10
Speaker 23: So let's think about this for just a second, now, Joe.
33:15
The first thing I do when I get up in
33:17
the morning is either tune in to listen to you
33:21
or catch the end of the Larry Elders Show, depending
33:24
on what time I get up. Okay, now, I like
33:29
your perspective. I like Larry Elder's perspective. I like to
33:32
hear your opinion. Sometimes I hear news from you I
33:35
haven't heard, and listen to what you think probably affects
33:43
what I think. But I don't listen to what you think,
33:48
so you can tell me what I think.
33:51
Speaker 1: That's fair.
33:52
Speaker 3: I would never presume to either.
33:55
Speaker 23: Yeah, And you know, when you and I have conversations,
33:59
some of what I say might affect how you think,
34:01
but you don't talk to me so you can find
34:03
out how to think.
34:04
Speaker 3: No, but it's a perspective. I think you know this
34:07
is this is the point though. This is something we've lost, though,
34:10
is the consideration that somebody might see things differently, or
34:14
their experience might lead them to a different place.
34:18
Speaker 23: Let's step over to the dark side for a minute. Okay,
34:23
little kids, And it gets worse when your adolescent want
34:30
to sit in.
34:31
Speaker 5: They want to be part of the group. Sure, okay.
34:37
Speaker 23: Now the left has made the determination that whichever expert,
34:43
do you sure they're listening to is the smartest, most
34:48
cleverest person that has ever been on the planet.
34:52
Speaker 5: And if they will listen to what.
34:57
Speaker 23: The smartest most cleverest person has ever been on the
35:00
planet says, and then parrot that they too are the smartest,
35:06
most cleverest people that have ever been, no independant thought whatsoever,
35:12
just like the baby ducks that all turned in unison
35:15
to go to the pond. But then they're part of
35:19
the group, and they're the smartest cleverest people that have
35:21
ever been. And the thing is is that burning desire
35:27
to be part of the group keeps them in line
35:30
ninety nine percent of the time.
35:31
Speaker 3: Joe, sure, sure, And that's what that's why it's important
35:35
to establish the group think and the hierarchy so that
35:40
you then you say, okay, this is how you become popular.
35:44
I was talking about this over dinner with my wife
35:47
and kids last night. You know, the twenty five and
35:52
thirty year old that that we see this with the
35:57
trans movement is that it did. And there's a there's
36:01
an aspect where you have, like I've said in the past,
36:04
this this sad, despicable place where people who are hired
36:09
to help children with their pain and suffering counselors, guidance counselors,
36:15
that kind of thing, are turning on them and saying, oh,
36:19
you're in pain, you don't like yourself. Here, here's a
36:21
doctor that will start cutting you up to make that work.
36:26
But then you also have that other subset that that
36:30
celebrity class like oh uh, Sally has become Sammy and
36:37
everyone you know, you know, thinks they're special. Now I
36:41
want to be special, so I'm going to try to
36:44
become Jane instead of John. And you see, you know,
36:49
because it becomes a self feeding fire, it does, and.
36:55
Speaker 23: Let's get to that in a minute.
36:56
Speaker 1: Yes, so.
36:59
Speaker 23: Time that burning desire to be part of the group
37:02
will keep them in line. But there's that every now
37:05
and then where one of them says, wait a minute,
37:10
wait a minute, what about this?
37:14
Speaker 5: Or no, let's look at that.
37:18
Speaker 23: They cannot have that, Joe. When your entire ethos is
37:23
based on a lie, you cannot allow members of the
37:26
group to question anything, because then it's all the danger
37:30
falling apart. So if a member of the group questions anything,
37:36
they are automatically ostracized. A foat wall will be issued
37:42
and they are separated and excommunicated from the group. Now
37:48
we wonder, how do they just get more and more
37:54
and more radicalized.
37:55
Speaker 3: Well, we'll have to wonder about that in a second,
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doctor Clark, hang on.
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Speaker 1: Conna need to know basis because you need to know.
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Speaker 18: Is just what the doctor roda.
44:20
Speaker 3: So I've had the confirmation bias thrown out here for me.
44:28
Ray wrote in and explained what FAFO is an acronym for.
44:33
And I'm glad I didn't ask John in the air
44:35
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44:38
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44:51
to us in Evanston said, Joe, thank you for saying
44:54
what you've said about the Chicago mayor. I worry about
44:58
friends of yours growing up in New York or because
45:01
you're about to go one step further and elect Zorhan
45:07
Mom Donnie as mayor. Well, you know, I don't know
45:10
my classmate Eric Adams has stepped out of the race,
45:13
and polling now says that it's become a horse race
45:17
between Cuomo the Second and Mad Money, as I call
45:25
him there, So we'll see. I guess everyone's trying to
45:29
pressure Curtis Sleewood a step out of the race as well,
45:33
because that would that would push all the chips over
45:36
to Cuomo the Second there. But yeah, I mean it's
45:39
a race to see whose mayor can just get nuttier.
45:43
It's a case of here hold my beer. And the
45:46
funny thing is is the the the birthplace of this ideology.
45:52
San Francisco has turned the tide. They've started to elect
45:55
albeit Democrats. They're running on platforms of fighting crime. My god,
46:03
what a thought that is. So Doctor Clark had a
46:07
thought as we were heading to break but I wanted
46:09
to share this text message that came in Clark from
46:13
Steve listening in Florida. He said, do you ever put
46:16
Doctor Clark's phone calls up on your podcasts? And Steve,
46:21
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46:24
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46:52
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46:55
I wanted to hear what doctor Clark said, and it
46:57
was in this, you know, the second hour of the program,
47:00
you can look it up and say, Okay, there he is,
47:03
and go back and listen to anything. Anything ever said
47:06
on this program is up there on that website anyway,
47:09
doctor Clark. So you were saying right before our bill
47:14
paying segment had to come along, so pick up where
47:17
you left off.
47:19
Speaker 23: So, yeah, on the left, there is that burning desire
47:24
to be part of the end group and to go
47:27
along with the group.
47:28
Speaker 3: Think put every now and then.
47:31
Speaker 22: On them will say wait a minute, can a man
47:35
really be a woman? They will immediately be ostracized and
47:41
next communicated.
47:42
Speaker 3: So once you got is a.
47:45
Speaker 23: Bus that's out of control going downhill, and anytime anybody
47:51
suggests touching the brake, they get thrown off the bus.
47:56
They can only go downhill faster. You know we ken't wondering, Well,
48:02
clearly the squad is more radical than Chucky and Nancy
48:07
and that crew was the cretic comes behind them is
48:11
going to be more radical, and.
48:14
Speaker 3: The squad will not be radically enough.
48:18
Speaker 23: It can only get more and more radical.
48:21
Speaker 5: That's all it can do well.
48:23
Speaker 3: And there's part here's part and parcel of why because
48:26
and I hate to say this for our friends and listeners,
48:29
and I'm glad if you are a Democrat listening, they're
48:33
lying to you. The reason each passing generation of Democrats
48:38
becomes more radical is each passing generation of Democrats points
48:42
at the one before them and says they haven't delivered
48:45
on what they promised, so they promise more. And so
48:49
you've got a classy Maxine confronted by the press of
48:55
all people saying, are you trying to get healthcare for
48:58
non citizens? To get health care for everybody? Like she
49:04
is a character and wicked on Broadway. And so each
49:11
generation has to try to one up the one before
49:14
because they're they failed at delivering on the Marxist dream.
49:19
Because enough people wake up and say, hold it, that
49:21
doesn't pencil out.
49:24
Speaker 23: Yes, and you know, Joe never had really considered it.
49:26
But if you do have Democrats listening y'all can think
49:32
for yourselves. Don't do it out loud today, but just
49:38
do it inside your own head for a little while.
49:40
Speaker 5: See how it feels.
49:42
Speaker 23: You might like it.
49:45
Speaker 5: Well.
49:45
Speaker 3: And that's why you get this rage about people who disagree.
49:49
That's what you know, you know, brings people to hate
49:53
Charlie Kirk or Joe Thomas. Oh and by the way,
49:58
for standards and for planning purposes only. I want to
50:01
do a piece on Charlie Kirk and all the people
50:04
trying to insert themselves into Charlie Kirk now and change
50:08
that line because that didn't come out sounding good. But
50:12
but you know, that's that's what makes them so enraged
50:14
about people who question it, even if it's just simple
50:17
common sense, because they have to have you go along
50:21
with the group think, because Marxism says, if there are
50:25
going to be people, it allows for the fact that
50:28
there are going to be people who don't go along
50:30
with the utopia, and they're going to have to be
50:32
removed from the community. And that's in the that's in
50:36
their foundational documents.
50:38
Speaker 23: Clark, yes, anabastically, yeah, you say they.
50:45
Speaker 3: Say the quiet part out loud. Will you have a
50:47
good morning, sir, so you keep doing what you do well,
50:51
it say, as long as as long as I don't
50:53
ever become the tree folding in the woods with no
50:55
one there to hear it, because you know, I don't
51:00
FAFO to be on any emails coming from the talk
51:06
the talk media network brass as it were. But I
51:09
do I do want some Ken Coochinelli, former Department of
51:12
Homeland Security boss. He's going to join us. I think
51:17
I think we'll get into some things right now. He's
51:20
working with the Election Transparency Initiative, so voting is important.
51:25
He is he is the conservative version of Eric Holder,
51:31
and I don't know if he intentionally went out to
51:33
be the conservative balance point to Eric Holder. And you know,
51:37
when they go low, we kick them. But he's been
51:40
working on shining the light on all the little shadowy places.
51:45
Eric Holder has been trying to hide non citizens voting,
51:49
hide the liquid democracy stuff that Charles Dodgson wrote all
51:55
those years ago. And if you don't know Charles Dodgson,
51:58
oh you don't know, Susie. Charles Dodgson is the guy
52:04
that invented all this proxy voting, vote by mail. Nobody
52:11
needs to see you vote, vote as often as you can.
52:14
Voting is a currency, kind of stoff, and then to
52:18
make money because these Marxists, they don't make any money
52:21
being Marxists. Only the politicians that apply marxism't make any money.
52:27
But in an effort to pay the bills, Charles Dodgson
52:30
had to write other stuff. And the same mind that
52:36
conceived most of what the left wing wants to do
52:39
with elections also conceived of this book called Alice in Wonderland. Yeah,
52:47
he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Now it
52:49
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