Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "When There are No Consequences" (Wednesday August 20, 2025, Hour 4)
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- 0:02Speaker 1: A more megan now making norse there again than I've
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- 0:07Speaker 2: On your to do list. Putting the radio on is
- 0:09the first thing today.
- 0:32Speaker 3: Blessings to you on this ted sty as we celebrate
- 0:36the gifts God has given you, the talents that you
- 0:39hopefully have engaged in with your community with all the
- 0:43zeal of somebody who's doing something that Gosh, You're going
- 0:46to do it anyway. If God's gifted you with this gift,
- 0:50You're going to do it anyway. And you just the
- 0:54sad stories are when people have been gasoled away of
- 0:57even knowing what those gifts talents are and hopefully over
- 1:01childhood that's really childhood is where you're supposed to be
- 1:08schooling up into that. If you've reached adulthood and you
- 1:11don't have it yet, I get it, and I know
- 1:13a lot of folks who have been gasled away from
- 1:15the concept of even having one exist. And I have
- 1:20some tips if you want, you can text message four
- 1:23three four eight eight two four two one seven, call
- 1:27and chat. We'll do it with that number as well.
- 1:29We'll do it live, do it lot, or you can
- 1:33email JT in the Morning Radio at gmail dot com.
- 1:39A couple of stories, and I wanted to share these
- 1:42because every year when they gather in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for
- 1:47the Little League World Series, there's always something. You know.
- 1:49It used to be kids that were too old to
- 1:52be playing with the other kids. You know, oh wow,
- 1:55it's fake. It was forny birth certificates and fifty year
- 2:00olds playing. You know, where are the old days where
- 2:03you're just cheating? But now now it is managers who
- 2:08to be fair. I thought there was a run total rule,
- 2:13maybe not in the Little League World Series, but I
- 2:16thought ten runs and done, which I never personally liked.
- 2:20I'm like, hey, they just scored ten runs. You're saying
- 2:23that by fiat, we're not capable of scoring the same
- 2:27number of runs. Asked the Phillies and the Nationals. The
- 2:32other day in Philadelphia was up like eleven to two
- 2:36and piled on to win eleven to nine. But it
- 2:40was pretty close. As a matter of fact, technology was
- 2:47such that you could have seen as the Philadelphia Phillies
- 2:50were like, I don't know who else we got the pitch.
- 2:54So there's one. One of the games, Nevada won sixteen
- 2:58to one, and part of the problem, you know, now
- 3:00they're saying the Nevada coach was stealing bases when they
- 3:06were up sixteen to one, And okay, fine, but if
- 3:10you're going to keep playing the game, keep playing the game.
- 3:14How many injuries in football or soccer have happened because
- 3:17somebody's like, you know, our way ahead. We're just gonna
- 3:20take it easy, take the foot off the gas a little.
- 3:22But you can just play through the game. If they're
- 3:25still pitching, you should still be hidden. Always been my feeling.
- 3:30The dumb part was he he did it with his
- 3:34best batter at the plate. Why would you steal a
- 3:36base with your best batter at the plate, Because how
- 3:38I'm just going to walk the guy. And then the Connecticut,
- 3:43the Fairfield County, Connecticut, and this is you know, our
- 3:46friends at WGH, if you're related to any of these kids,
- 3:49I'm not slagging them for it. They found a tactical
- 3:52thing by by running. They caused confusion on the South
- 3:57Dakota infield and they kept getting you know, interference calls.
- 4:01Kids were getting in a way of other kids. You
- 4:04know that's not on Connecticut. Everyone's oh Connecticut was wrong
- 4:08for it? For what? Just causing havoc? Maybe Donald Trump
- 4:13is sponsoring the team from Fairfield County. Oh the heresy
- 4:16of that, And anyway, onto our first things this morning.
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- 4:25Sometimes the officials who are tasked with putting together the
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- 11:00Speaker 11: Brah that's buzzed.
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- 13:12Speaker 2: We're doing this thing today on the talk media.
- 13:14Speaker 3: Now we'll do it. Joe Thomas, do it, Lie I
- 13:17can go all write it now, We'll do it live.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Wat Man.
- 13:43Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us on this ted s morning.
- 13:48Oh them damn Yankees, they're all over the place. A
- 13:50lot of reactions four three, four eight eight two four
- 13:56two one seven grade peril, grade peril. I have call
- 14:01out people like, you know, the Fairfield County Little Leaguers.
- 14:05It's a text message. Way to go, Joe B. Bold
- 14:09take on the power players in America, slam the Fairfield
- 14:13I didn't slam the Fairfield County Little Leaguers. That what
- 14:16you thought I was doing. I said they were great.
- 14:21Oh because I because I thought. I said they might
- 14:24be sponsored by the Trump administration, because they were causing chaos.
- 14:30I see, all right, So that's how that's in Fairfield County. Listen, listen.
- 14:35My cousin still lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut. My mother
- 14:39grew up there. Don't tell me about Fairfield County, Connecticut.
- 14:43I'll take it down by Riverside or poor Old Greenwich.
- 14:48So the controversy, if you missed it, there was apparently
- 14:56the Fairfield County Little League team had four consecutive plays
- 15:02of runner batter interference because they kept doing these double
- 15:06steals and they were running and players from the South
- 15:10Dakota team kept getting in their way, and so they
- 15:13kept moving up because you can't do that. And it
- 15:20does smack a little bit of the reaction of the
- 15:22American left to Donald Trump. Don't cause havoc, even if
- 15:27it's within the rules. You're causing havoc within the rules.
- 15:32My gosh, how dare you use the rules to create havoc?
- 15:39Where did you find those rules, mister Thomas. That's very funny,
- 15:46but I'm sorry I did. I'm certainly I am all
- 15:49for chaos. The more more ritualized you want to make everything,
- 15:56the more I'm into chaos. And if you look politics
- 16:02being downstreamed from culture, all of our culture has been
- 16:05built around control. To take the other side. From the
- 16:11Get Smart TV show, the heroes were always control, the
- 16:18enemies the villains. Heath Ledger played chaos. You don't want
- 16:24to be chaos, Joe. You don't The Fairfield County Little
- 16:27League team, we don't want to. We don't want to
- 16:29cheer them on because they brought chaos to the field.
- 16:33Did they break the rules? Well, that said, it's the
- 16:36spirit of the game, mister Thomas. No, the rules says
- 16:40you do this. I just don't get the thing. I understand.
- 16:45I've been at my fair share of little league games.
- 16:48But you think by the time you get to Williamsport, Connecticut,
- 16:51you get past the whole. You know you can't do
- 16:54that to my son. I mean, that's that's more fascinating
- 17:01to me than everyone who's been out of shape for
- 17:03the team that was stealing bases up thirteen to one
- 17:06or whatever it was. Kyle in Gordonsville writes in do
- 17:13It Live, It's the only way I know how to
- 17:17do it. Believe me, it takes so much more effort
- 17:22to tape this. I am down with the bo when
- 17:27he says, we'll do it live. Okay, we'll do it
- 17:31a lot, do it live.
- 17:33Speaker 8: I can all write it, and we'll do it live.
- 17:36Speaker 3: From the good old days of Inside Edition. But he
- 17:39goes on to write, I personally having heard me talking
- 17:43about those who have been gasolt away from their gifts
- 17:46and talents, or gasl it into thinking you don't have
- 17:49any Kyle and Gordonsville confesses to us here it's a
- 17:54one part text message line, one part confessional. I've been
- 17:59gas lit into shying away from my feminine side. Can
- 18:02you help? Let's see now I'm puzzled. See are you?
- 18:06Are you a female Kyle or a male Kyle. I
- 18:10asked this because my three children are all named Taylor, Kyle,
- 18:16and Morgan, and I dare you to guess which ones
- 18:20which genders. As a matter of fact, some of my
- 18:25I'll admit, you know, Kyle is my son. Kyle is
- 18:28less frequently a female name than Taylor or Morgan could be.
- 18:32To toss a coin and you get either side of
- 18:35that reminds me of I guess it was. It was
- 18:38the real big doping stuff with it with Lance Armstrong
- 18:43and the Tour de France and Landis, and we were
- 18:49particularly tuned into it because Landis, the other writer in
- 18:53the team USA, was from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where we were
- 18:58broadcasting from, so we were tuned in to his story
- 19:04and the whole brew haha for doping scandals. And this
- 19:09was kind of the fall of Barry Bonds. Was still
- 19:13everyone talking about Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire and jose
- 19:19Canseco and jose Can Sako broke the cardinal rule. No,
- 19:23he didn't steal second base when you were up thirteen
- 19:26to nothing. He admitted taking performance enhancing drugs and right
- 19:32in the midst of it all we did a stunt
- 19:36on my radio show where I got One of my
- 19:39co workers came in pretending to be an FCC inspector
- 19:43and he was arresting me for performance enhancing drugs. We
- 19:47were a female oriented station. We were trying to you know,
- 19:50get all. You know, we're playing Matchbox twenty was like
- 19:53the most masculine song. We played a lot of Britney
- 19:56Spears and Shanaia Twain and stuff like that, so we
- 19:59were to be number one with the ladies. And they
- 20:03came in and said, mister Thomas, your blood test came in.
- 20:07Apparently you have elevated levels of estrogen and we're arresting
- 20:11you on the charge of taking performance enhancing drugs and
- 20:15violation of the SEC's anti doping regulations. And I said,
- 20:21anti doping. Have you listened to some of the folks
- 20:24in the.
- 20:24Speaker 8: Radio cosmetics Sundry.
- 20:27Speaker 3: Drug always got so yeah, you remind me of that
- 20:33when you say you're getting it, you've been gasoled away
- 20:35from your feminine side. Are they telling you at work
- 20:38you shouldn't be feminine? I mean, depending on what your
- 20:41actual gender is, Kyle, I mean that could be a
- 20:45sexual harassment workplace thing. But you know, you were not
- 20:48allowed to discuss that because that's a personnel issue. We
- 20:52learned that one too. Are you a government employee, Are
- 20:55you in the are you in the military, because we're
- 20:58you know, a year ago, you were probably in line
- 21:02for a promotion four three, four, eight eight two four
- 21:07to two one seven. Another text about the Little League
- 21:10World Series Joe, the worst part of the Little League
- 21:13World Series is it reminds me that these are the
- 21:17best children playing baseball in the nation, and I watched
- 21:22some really really bad baseball. Well, all right, you know,
- 21:26you see, here's the thing is, this is why I
- 21:27don't like it when ESPN sends their anchors there and
- 21:30these guys are used to calling the you know, the
- 21:33professional teams like the Detroit Tigers and the Los Angeles Dodgers,
- 21:39and even the semi professional teams like the Nationals, and
- 21:43so you have an expectation of what you know, these
- 21:46kids are learning baseball. Baseball is a sport where everyone
- 21:50can play it. It's like chess. It's easy to learn,
- 21:54hard to master, and you get another chance. That's the
- 21:59point of baseball.
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- 25:02Speaker 9: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
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- 25:55Speaker 11: Uh oh, brah's buzzed.
- 25:56Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
- 26:01Speaker 12: And now a speech.
- 26:02Speaker 13: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
- 26:06art and brain.
- 26:07Speaker 3: Who's with me?
- 26:08Speaker 11: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
- 26:10Speaker 13: And my brain is saying when it's time to go home.
- 26:13Speaker 11: Somebody call me a ride.
- 26:15Speaker 18: Love that guy, me too.
- 26:17Speaker 14: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
- 26:19it's time to go home.
- 26:20Speaker 4: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
- 26:23Speaker 6: Did you know that more than half our household energy
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- 26:41learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
- 26:44That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
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- 26:51improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
- 26:54when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
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- 27:01there are day to day things you can do. Lower
- 27:03your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
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- 28:12Speaker 8: What do you think about the problem?
- 28:14Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk Media Network,
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- 28:22Speaker 8: Definitely, I feel we have too many dogs.
- 28:23Speaker 21: Yes, what happens when there's not the threat.
- 28:43Speaker 3: Of an orange jumpsuit at the end of misbehaviors? Have
- 28:47you been a parent? Have you been a parent head?
- 28:51Do you recall when you were a child and you
- 28:53did something wrong and there was no recompense for it,
- 28:58did it encourage you to never do it again? If
- 29:03you're a parent, or you have loved ones that are parents,
- 29:08perhaps you're supposed to be a parent, perhaps you're parent
- 29:12adjacent and you've seen children who are allowed to continue
- 29:18with a barrant behavior without recompense. It only increases the
- 29:25likelihood they're going to do more and more and more
- 29:27and more egregious. And there are psychological reasons for it. Attention,
- 29:34whatever it may be, that's not the point. The point
- 29:36I'm going to bring up is why do we get
- 29:40surprised when elected officials, when they're told by the executive
- 29:44branch of a government to do something, they go nah,
- 29:49because there's never an orange jumpsuit waiting for them at
- 29:53the other end. Often there's a promotion. Often there's an
- 29:58easier job for more money. Just keep your mouth shut,
- 30:05such as the case. Perhaps you've heard the word loudun
- 30:09Louden is not what your friend says to you when
- 30:12he wants the stereo turned up. Louden is a county
- 30:17in Virginia. Louden is the county where, not just once,
- 30:22but twice, a child sex predator who happened to also
- 30:25be a child at the same time, pretending that he
- 30:29wanted to dress like girls so he could get into
- 30:31the girl's bathroom and then get into the girl's situations.
- 30:38Twice kid was caught, kid was punished. His punishment was,
- 30:43We're going to send you to another school where the
- 30:46girls don't know to avoid the bathroom when you're in there.
- 30:51That was punishment. But I'm not talking about the young
- 30:55man in question. This was the fulkroom that really launched
- 31:00Governor Youngkin's campaign of parents Rights, parents responsibilities because the
- 31:04school division said, you have no right to know. It's
- 31:08a personnel matter. There's that grand defense again, it's a
- 31:14personnel matter. The parents screaming, you know you saw the
- 31:19Fox TV even covered the dad arrested during a school
- 31:23board meeting because he couldn't get an answer. It's it's
- 31:26a personnel matter.
- 31:27Speaker 8: Services and definitely I feel we have too many dopes.
- 31:31Speaker 3: And it's all because nobody is facing an orange jumpsuit.
- 31:35Nobody is getting a purp walk after this kind of behavior,
- 31:39and it just goes on and on. Now we have
- 31:41a situation. Department of Education is coming after a bunch
- 31:45of Northern Virginia school districts with their money, and oh
- 31:52it's they're taking money. Trump is taking money away from
- 31:56poor children. And I've got Republicans apple plaque dick about
- 32:02it because they're like, damn it, we need to win reelection.
- 32:06And now these people are out there saying Trump's taking
- 32:08money away from poor black kids. The school districts in
- 32:13question are loud and Fairfax. Prince William Arlington and Alexandriafed
- 32:20defied rules both within the state governor. Four years ago.
- 32:26The governor said, here are the rules of how you're
- 32:29going to operate your schools. And you know what, they said,
- 32:32make us. That was there. They used more words because
- 32:36lawyers get paid by the punctuation mark, I think, but
- 32:40the upshoot was make us. And nothing happened, nothing befell
- 32:47the schools, no punishments, knowing anything, make us. So you
- 32:50know what, four years they've basically scratched the bottom of
- 32:53their chin. My Italian friends knows what it means when
- 32:58you scratch about when you chune ayah. Now the Department
- 33:06of Education, Federal Department of Education, Linda McMahon proprietor, is saying, okay,
- 33:13you want to play, let's play. We're going to take
- 33:15away federal funding for your programs because you're not following
- 33:19Title nine, which I used to recall that the Democrats
- 33:24who mostly wrote Title nine were very much in favor
- 33:28in protecting girls, especially from the assaults of those steroid
- 33:35leaden boys. I thought that's what you were for. Apparently
- 33:40I missed a meeting because you're not anymore. But these
- 33:45schools have continued to do this. Their own governor said
- 33:49don't do it anymore, and they said, now you know what,
- 33:51we're going to keep doing it anyway. I bet you
- 33:53they're still teaching the kids. I have parents who telled me,
- 33:56but I don't have to bet. I've had parents tell
- 33:58me they're still teaching the white kids that they're bad
- 34:02simply because they exist. This is why school attendance has
- 34:06been cratering across the country, because schools have become indoctrination centers.
- 34:15They were just debating that on one of the chitty
- 34:17chatty shows on TV in front of tens upon tens
- 34:21of viewers about whether schools should be buildings of education
- 34:28or indoctrination. And they made the case for indoctrination because
- 34:35there's never an orange jumpsuit when you need it. They
- 34:39were making the case on cable granted cable network television
- 34:46that schools are supposed to be for indoctrination, to teach
- 34:51the students what is the right societal way forward? Woof,
- 35:02And because when you break a rule, there's never a punishment.
- 35:07They're like little children in the grocery store when they
- 35:11grab a bag of cookies and rip it open and
- 35:14start eating it before mom's paid for it, and mom
- 35:16just goes, isn't he cute? That kid's going to grow
- 35:20up to be a school superintendent. That kid's going to
- 35:24grow up to be a school board chair. The most
- 35:31eloquent these things these people do municipally anymore is give
- 35:35the government the middle finger. I wish the liberty seeking
- 35:39people were this adept at ignoring the government. The liberty
- 35:45seeking ones, we pay our taxes, the liberty seeking ones,
- 35:48we follow the laws. If the law says we can't
- 35:51carry the gun in Washington, DC. We don't carry the
- 35:53gun in Washington, d C. These school boards, the way
- 35:57these school boards operate. If the law said don't carry
- 36:01the gun in Washington DC, they carry the gun and say,
- 36:04go ahead, do something to me. See conservatives, No, you
- 36:07carry a gun in Washington DC, you get arrested. School
- 36:11Boards flaunt their authority. Oh, it's federalism. I thought all
- 36:16you conservatives were about federalism. Yeah. And if you read
- 36:21articles nine to ten of the Bill of Rights, it
- 36:23says that you have responsibilities in your state and that
- 36:27you can't violate any of the other amendments to the Constitution.
- 36:33And where the Constitution is open ended, you get to
- 36:37fill in the blanks. But when the Constitution is specific,
- 36:41the Constitution wins. These people misinterpret the Bill of Rights
- 36:51to suit their needs, almost as badly as they don't
- 36:55teach their kids how to read the language. We just
- 36:59had this in one of our cities, Harrisonburg. The schools
- 37:02are out there. Apparently a parent was passing out a
- 37:06flyer saying the Harrisonburg school test scores stink and they do.
- 37:12They're like, well, but that doesn't take into effect all
- 37:14the non English speaking kids here hold it. All the
- 37:19kids who can't read in high school. Why do you
- 37:22have so many kids that can't read in high school?
- 37:24And why are they on the same track. I'll tell
- 37:26you why, Because the US Department of Education doesn't give
- 37:30the same amount of money if you've got a remedial
- 37:33kid who's still trying to learn how to read the
- 37:36language in high school, never minding the ones who have
- 37:41spurious attachments to citizenship, and all the while they do
- 37:49this stuff, they flaunt the authorities that pay for them.
- 37:53And if they say we're not going to pay for
- 37:55it anymore, then you're taking You're taking money from the poor.
- 38:01Speaker 11: In twenty twenty four, the American Heart Association celebrates one
- 38:05hundred years of life saving service as the world's leading
- 38:07nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health. Heart disease
- 38:12still kills more people in the United States each year
- 38:14than all types of cancer combined, but more than half
- 38:17of Americans are unaware of this fact, according to a
- 38:20recent Harris Pole survey conducted for the American Heart Association. However,
- 38:25the majority of heart disease is preventable. New research has
- 38:28improved the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of heart disease and
- 38:32its risk factors. Efforts led by the American Heart Association
- 38:35have reduced deaths from heart disease by half over the
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- 38:45To learn more about the American Heart Association's century of
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- 39:02Speaker 18: Crime across the country is at an all time high.
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- 40:02Speaker 15: You were strolling along in Goodwill when just past that
- 40:05mid century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them
- 40:08nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings. Oh yes, yes,
- 40:16your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all day dessert food
- 40:20made into your favorite form of ear candy. Oh my,
- 40:24those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger within you.
- 40:28Speaker 16: Sh Do you smell that?
- 40:32Speaker 15: That's the sugary center of shopping success, for this is Goodwill,
- 40:39and with every item you buy, you fund local job
- 40:41training and more. So go forth, bring home those donut
- 40:47earrings and bring home so much good to your community. Goodwill,
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- 40:57Speaker 12: Exercise is hard, so is maintaining a healthy diet. Of course,
- 41:03neither is half as hard as dying. Sadly, type two diabetes,
- 41:08heart disease, and stroke kill nearly a million people a year.
- 41:12Even sadder, most of these deaths are preventable with a
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- 41:50Speaker 3: My name is Jim. I'm a veteran and I lost
- 41:53both legs in Vietnam. By victory was proving that the
- 41:56disability is not a limitation. I'm Julius, I'm a My
- 42:00victory was going from homeless.
- 42:02Speaker 14: Toll at dav We're on a mission helping veterans of
- 42:06all generations get the benefits they've earned.
- 42:09Speaker 12: I'm cc My victory was finishing my education.
- 42:13Speaker 14: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
- 42:16more victories for veterans. Go to dav dot org.
- 42:21Speaker 13: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
- 42:25Speaker 11: Freedom of speech, freedom.
- 42:28Speaker 2: Of religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble,
- 42:35freedom to petition the government.
- 42:38Speaker 13: Only the United States has these five freedoms. So simply
- 42:41bound together and guaranteed Think First. Learn more at Think
- 42:45First Amendment dot org.
- 42:48Speaker 3: No word in.
- 42:48Speaker 19: English language is less convincing than probably.
- 42:52Speaker 20: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
- 42:55first date?
- 42:56Speaker 15: Sure?
- 42:57Speaker 14: We'll probably stay together.
- 42:59Speaker 3: Probably, it's been twenty three minutes.
- 43:02Speaker 4: Since I ate.
- 43:03Speaker 15: I can probably swim. You should wait thirty minutes. Okay,
- 43:08Now tell me what to do?
- 43:09Speaker 2: Can it bar.
- 43:12Speaker 19: Cramp?
- 43:12Speaker 15: Oh?
- 43:13Speaker 3: I have a cramp.
- 43:16Speaker 4: I can probably hit the green from here?
- 43:19Speaker 2: Probably?
- 43:24Speaker 6: Can I get a Mulligan.
- 43:26Speaker 3: Ready to go?
- 43:27Speaker 5: Hey?
- 43:27Speaker 20: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
- 43:29Speaker 15: Yeah? I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
- 43:35Speaker 19: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
- 43:39and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
- 43:42or a friend. Buzz driving is drunk driving. A message
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- 43:48Speaker 20: You know the legal drinking age is twenty one. You
- 43:50may also know this law protects teens. Find out more
- 43:54at Don'tserve Teens dot gov. A message from the We
- 43:57Don't Serve Teens program and the Federal Trade Commissions.
- 44:16Speaker 2: On a need to know basis, because you need to
- 44:19know the first thing today, I'm coming.
- 44:25Speaker 14: Just so.
- 44:30Speaker 3: Thank you for letting us be observers to you on
- 44:32this Tedsday. As we wrap up, I wanted to bring
- 44:37this up because we have been railing about, you know,
- 44:40all these polls, about all these races that are going
- 44:43to happen in twenty twenty six. I'm like, hey, we've
- 44:46got governor's races coming up this year. You know. Crazy
- 44:51Virginia starts voting in one month. That's right, we have
- 44:55forty five days of unfettered early absentee voting. Can't possibly
- 45:02go wrong there. And New Jersey a little bit more
- 45:08common sensical. But two poles just out of Virginia. One
- 45:13is interesting to me because they surveyed seven hundred likely voters.
- 45:18And this is something that I've said to a lot
- 45:20of folks, is look for the polls that sampled likely voters,
- 45:24not registered voters. Because these are lower turnout races. So,
- 45:30and we have one in New Jersey that did the
- 45:32same thing, and guess what, Just like your humble host said,
- 45:36they're closer. So in New Jersey, Chatterrelli is six points
- 45:42down in the governor's race to Mickey Cheryl, and that
- 45:51still leaves about five percent elsewhere, but there's some undecided
- 45:58in there. In Virginia it's seven points, but that's down
- 46:02from like twenty points. This is what the polls had
- 46:05been saying. And actually the lieutenant governor's race and the
- 46:08attorney general race are within the margin of error three points.
- 46:14The margin of error on the survey is almost five
- 46:17because in both cases the a two Insights one in
- 46:20New Jersey and this Roanoke College one in Virginia, they
- 46:23surveyed a whopping six and seven hundred people, respectively. We're
- 46:28talking about states with millions of people, and you're going
- 46:32to get a sample of six hundred people. I laugh.
- 46:36Because there's an industry. There's a company that does ratings
- 46:41for radio stations and you might have heard of them.
- 46:45They also do ratings for TV programs called Nielsen. And
- 46:50a city of two hundred thousand people a metropolitan area
- 46:53of two hundred thousand people. They will send over an
- 46:56eight week period, four hundred diaries out do the math
- 47:04each week. It's like ten fifteen diaries out to people
- 47:09who you know. Then and you look at the results
- 47:11and it's ridiculous. It's nowhere even close to an accurate survey.
- 47:19One rating period, you'll have a ten share in the
- 47:22next rating period. Nobody's listening at all because you're sampling
- 47:27such a small percentage. But these are again polls that
- 47:33get released so that people hold onto their wallets and
- 47:36not give money to candidates. I mean the upside to me.
- 47:41I watched as immediately the Virginia left media started taking
- 47:46shots at the Republican ticket again, going back to the
- 47:49same They don't like each other, they don't appear together enough,
- 47:53they're not which is a two month old story. It's
- 47:57been put to bed by all of them. As a
- 47:59matter of fact. On my social media, I just shared
- 48:02a video with John Reid and Winsome Earl Sears, the
- 48:06governor and Lieutenant governor candidates, respectively. The two flash points
- 48:10of this they don't like each other. First off, we're
- 48:16not hiring best friends, We're hiring people to do jobs. Secondly,
- 48:21it seems like their campaign of going around, driving around
- 48:27and visiting all these towns is working because they're eating
- 48:30away and there'll be some debates amongst the candidates. At
- 48:34least the governors are going to have a debate on
- 48:37September ninth. I believe it is down in Hampton Roads,
- 48:42which is a win for Sears because that's her home
- 48:45turf down there, being a marine, but it's still you know,
- 48:55it tells me when the first thing that happens as
- 48:59soon as a poll comes out that says win, some
- 49:01Sears is catching up to Abigail Spanberger, the first thing
- 49:06that has to come out is a story saying, oh, look,
- 49:09remember they don't like each other. Don't vote for them.
- 49:11They don't like each other. She doesn't like him because
- 49:14he's gay, whatever, you know, And they've got to bring
- 49:19this minute show up that doesn't seem to be true
- 49:22because I've asked the particulars, and the same thing with CHATTERRELLI,
- 49:29Oh he isn't go He's just he's a Trump goon.
- 49:32That's what they're telling everybody in New Jersey. Still fascinated.
- 49:37You go to the eleventh Congressional District and ask him
- 49:40who their congressperson is. They don't know. And then you say, so,
- 49:43are you going to vote for Cheryl for governor? Oh? Yeah,
- 49:47we like her very much. But she didn't know who
- 49:49your congress person was. Yeah, I don't know. It was
- 49:52Mickey Cheryl. Really, Oh, I guess she was doing a
- 49:57good job. Then got to impeach Trump. Yeah, can we
- 50:03got concussion protocol going on here? It really is. I mean,
- 50:07at some point you talk to you listen to some
- 50:08of these folks, and you're like, somebody needs to be
- 50:11doing concussion protocol on the sidelines of these interview shows.
- 50:16And as I said, they were debating whether schools should
- 50:19be indoctrination centers, and somebody was on the side of yes. Oh,
- 50:27I just know. I know I should be happy given
- 50:30what you and I do every morning. I should. You know,
- 50:33it's a target rich environment. But my goodness, I think
- 50:41I can find targets elsewhere. I don't need people actually
- 50:45defending the concept of there being indoctrination centers in the
- 50:53area of schools. I just don't. I think we can
- 50:56come up with other stuff. I think we're smart people.
- 51:01I think if push came to shove, we could if
- 51:05need be come up with other topics besides just indoctrination
- 51:11in our kids' schools. But you don't think so. All right, Well,
- 51:18your results may vary, but I appreciate you joining in
- 51:24with us each morning. But the polls are tightening in
- 51:27the two bell weather. That's also why they want you
- 51:30to be paying attention to twenty twenty six. Let's talk
- 51:33about the midterms, because these races will jumpstart the midterms.
- 51:39If Abigail Spanberger, I'm sure she's perfectly probably just about
- 51:46as pleasant as you would expect the next CIA case
- 51:51officer to be. That she's just not inspiring people. And yeah,
- 51:57there's Mickey, Cheryl and it's on Chatterrelly and sears to
- 52:02get out there and do it. It seems like their
- 52:04downticket races are doing just that. But you'll imagine the
- 52:11momentum going into the midterms. If the Republicans carry New
- 52:15Jersey and Virginia, it would there would be some reason why, oh,
- 52:24Trump cheated ballot stuff. It's always Trump cheated. It was
- 52:29Russian collusion. You got it anyway, Until tomorrow morning, five
- 52:33am Eastern and get everything fired up for you. I'm
- 52:39heading home for the day until tomorrow morning. I am
- 52:43Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network until tomorrow, So long,
- 52:47Thanks for all the fish.
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