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- 0:02Speaker 1: Listen anytime you like. We won't tell your HR director,
- 0:05Speaker 1: but we might post it to your Grindr profile. First
- 0:08Speaker 1: thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
- 0:12Speaker 2: He's damn near every day.
- 0:14Speaker 3: Leaves for work when the sun comes up.
- 0:17Speaker 4: Drops the kids to school and all the work.
- 0:21Speaker 5: Joe has everything he dreamed of.
- 0:23Speaker 6: All the treasures that he needs.
- 0:25Speaker 5: No wonder Joe's always smiling.
- 0:28Speaker 7: He only aims.
- 0:29Speaker 8: To please you.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
- 0:35Speaker 2: this morning. On the radio show that first and foremost
- 0:42Speaker 2: is unabashed about calling itself a radio show. I don't
- 0:47Speaker 2: understand the self-loathing that goes in. Oh, I'm a media
- 0:52Speaker 2: of content. Listen, if we feel like we need to
- 0:56Speaker 2: score some cool points, how about I call you my
- 1:00Speaker 2: content creators? And then we can be kind of like
- 1:03Speaker 2: the internet-y thing. But 96% of the country listens to radio.
- 1:11Speaker 2: Why would I shy away from that? What we do
- 1:15Speaker 2: is I tell you what went on last night. I'll
- 1:17Speaker 2: give you my analysis of it, but I also want
- 1:19Speaker 2: to hear how it's impacting you where you are because,
- 1:23Speaker 2: whether they tell you or not, you are the most
- 1:26Speaker 2: important local aspect of the radio station. It can't be
- 1:30Speaker 2: local until I'm hearing from you at 434-882-4217. This was
- 1:37Speaker 2: Scott in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Bookmark your earlier monologue about
- 1:42Speaker 2: the Virginia schools. It should be required listening. If you
- 1:47Speaker 2: missed it, and again, podcasts, we've gotten back on the horse.
- 1:50Speaker 2: Podcasts go up every day and we're getting big downloads.
- 1:53Speaker 2: I don't know if Apple has decided that maybe we
- 1:56Speaker 2: should stick this into our algorithm and smoke it or not,
- 2:00Speaker 2: but it's getting out there and that's good. And if
- 2:05Speaker 2: you're listening to this saying, boy, why doesn't my station
- 2:08Speaker 2: in my neighborhood carry this show? Call them, ask them.
- 2:11Speaker 2: It's not like we're keeping it a secret and we
- 2:13Speaker 2: don't charge anyone extra for it. As a matter of fact,
- 2:16Speaker 2: we don't charge anyone to carry the show for you.
- 2:20Speaker 2: It's probably why, you know, my wife has to work
- 2:22Speaker 2: a second job to pay our mortgage, but you know, it's,
- 2:25Speaker 2: It's about serving you, and that's what we do. Just
- 2:29Speaker 2: help out. Go to a sponsor or two if you
- 2:32Speaker 2: need their stuff. I don't want you buying things you
- 2:34Speaker 2: don't need, but if you need something that our sponsors purvey,
- 2:40Speaker 2: have at it. Go at it. But we'll get back
- 2:45Speaker 2: into this. I want to reset that story for a
- 2:48Speaker 2: bunch of folks who didn't hear the earlier stuff about
- 2:53Speaker 2: an area that used to And this is the real
- 2:56Speaker 2: irony of it. The area in question used to absolutely
- 3:00Speaker 2: love showing up in the national news media until now.
- 3:05Speaker 2: And I'll explain why and why it has to do
- 3:08Speaker 2: with sex and adults and children and all those things
- 3:13Speaker 2: that Jeffrey Epstein has made us go, yeah, about. But first,
- 3:17Speaker 2: let's tell you those first things because we made a
- 3:21Speaker 2: big enough noise about the Wuhan Institute of technology and
- 3:27Speaker 2: their weapons lab. President Trump was buttonholed about Russian bio
- 3:32Speaker 2: labs because of the death of the technician in Siberia.
- 3:38Speaker 2: He was asked at a press gaggle yesterday if he
- 3:42Speaker 2: thought or the intelligence community had communicated to him whether
- 3:46Speaker 2: Russia was running a bio weapon lab there. He said,
- 3:51Speaker 2: we are going to find out soon enough, but we
- 3:54Speaker 2: don't think so. Meanwhile, fear not, the World Health Organization
- 3:59Speaker 2: is on the case. The UN Health Agency doesn't know
- 4:03Speaker 2: how a lab worker in Siberia died, but then again,
- 4:07Speaker 2: that's kind of what we were hoping they would be
- 4:09Speaker 2: able to tell us. The agency doesn't know what the
- 4:12Speaker 2: causative agent was. This is, we need more information. World
- 4:16Speaker 2: Health Organization was counted on to go get it, but
- 4:20Speaker 2: I guess they wanted to tell us they didn't have
- 4:22Speaker 2: it either. Robert Redfield, who used to head the Centers
- 4:25Speaker 2: for Disease Control and Prevention, was on Newsmax TV yesterday
- 4:29Speaker 2: saying he doesn't get it. Something doesn't add up. Quote,
- 4:33Speaker 2: if I was working in a plague lab and had
- 4:35Speaker 2: an accident with plague, one of the things that would
- 4:38Speaker 2: happen would be I'd be treated with antibiotics for plague
- 4:41Speaker 2: within 24 to 48 hours. Therefore, I wouldn't die. Redfield
- 4:46Speaker 2: said it's very treatable. In a more traditional way of
- 4:50Speaker 2: killing other people, Russian missiles landed around Kiev and other
- 4:54Speaker 2: Ukrainian regions overnight. According to Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine,
- 4:59Speaker 2: they killed at least 25 civilians, including five children. In
- 5:05Speaker 2: case the U.S. midterms don't go to your liking, there's
- 5:09Speaker 2: always Brazil. The conservative movement in Brazil has taken both
- 5:13Speaker 2: houses in Brazil's General Assembly. The Liberal Party, which is
- 5:18Speaker 2: what their conservatives are referred to, it's the traditional meaning,
- 5:22Speaker 2: and 20 other right-leaning parties won 276 of the Chamber
- 5:27Speaker 2: of Deputies' 513 seats. Meanwhile, the conservative candidate, Bolsonaro, leads
- 5:34Speaker 2: in the presidential race, but they have to go to
- 5:37Speaker 2: a runoff. And the Federal Reserve... voted unanimously yesterday that
- 5:48Speaker 2: they will discuss raising rates again at their October meeting
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- 10:59Speaker 14: Uh-oh, Brad's buzzed.
- 11:01Speaker 15: Oh, yeah?
- 11:01Speaker 16: Yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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- 13:15Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
- 13:34Speaker 2: We mentioned our seven vices earlier this hour, and one
- 13:43Speaker 2: of the reasons we tried to come up with a
- 13:45Speaker 2: municipally limited scope of our government is that our founders
- 13:54Speaker 2: and philosophers of the Enlightenment didn't share some wide-eyed Woodstock-esque
- 14:09Speaker 2: view of a new society, no Gene Roddenberry view of
- 14:14Speaker 2: an evolved human that was going to be released from
- 14:18Speaker 2: their seven vices. No, we wrote rules governing a government
- 14:26Speaker 2: knowing full well that the people who are going to
- 14:32Speaker 2: inhabit this government were going to come in with seven
- 14:35Speaker 2: vices already wound in. And yes, and yes, seven virtues
- 14:42Speaker 2: as well. But we know through human history, because I
- 14:48Speaker 2: believe personally Sloth is the emperor of all the vices,
- 15:02Speaker 2: because we give in and we choose the vice over
- 15:05Speaker 2: the virtue because it's easier. Yeah, it might be fun
- 15:11Speaker 2: attached to it too. Go back to Monday's program or
- 15:15Speaker 2: Tuesday's program where we talked about the amount of effort
- 15:18Speaker 2: we put into not looking bad versus doing good. Thus
- 15:25Speaker 2: is the story of schools all across the country. And
- 15:27Speaker 2: I went digging because I didn't want this to be
- 15:30Speaker 2: just a personal attempt to drag what people are trying
- 15:35Speaker 2: to hide into the sunlight. I wanted it to be
- 15:39Speaker 2: an illuminative moment for all about big centralized schools and
- 15:46Speaker 2: that 95% of all the people in them are doing
- 15:50Speaker 2: the right thing. They're there to educate kids. They're trying
- 15:55Speaker 2: to do their job. Many of them have grown disillusioned
- 15:58Speaker 2: because once they got into the school teacher machinery, they realized, oh,
- 16:03Speaker 2: this isn't so much about teaching the kids anyway. And
- 16:08Speaker 2: some of them break free. Some of them break down.
- 16:14Speaker 2: But what I find interesting is a region of the
- 16:17Speaker 2: country that, for weal or woe, seemed up until then,
- 16:24Speaker 2: the beginning of 2026 to lust, see what I did there,
- 16:29Speaker 2: lust after the national limelight, whether it be taking down
- 16:34Speaker 2: Civil War monuments or leading social justice movements, rewriting American history,
- 16:45Speaker 2: erasing their most famous denizen and his achievements from history,
- 16:51Speaker 2: Thomas Jefferson. fighting Donald Trump-ism, fighting Nazis with fascists like
- 17:04Speaker 2: it's 1930s Eastern Europe all over again, rioting in the streets,
- 17:11Speaker 2: all for the fun and frolic to get a few
- 17:14Speaker 2: minutes mentioned and perhaps even interviewed by national news media.
- 17:22Speaker 2: And the university that is home to this city profits
- 17:26Speaker 2: from it. They've had record-setting attendance at the University of
- 17:31Speaker 2: Virginia each year since 2017. COVID was a bump, but
- 17:38Speaker 2: we're going to discount the COVID years for a couple
- 17:41Speaker 2: of minutes. But in normal academic pursuit years, the University
- 17:46Speaker 2: of Virginia has had more people apply to be there
- 17:49Speaker 2: each year since we started showing up on national television,
- 17:53Speaker 2: immolating ourselves. So then come January and a school teacher
- 17:58Speaker 2: gets arrested, charged with multiple counts of sexual assault on students.
- 18:06Speaker 2: In and of itself, not a national news story. But
- 18:11Speaker 2: then it comes out in the very first iterations of
- 18:14Speaker 2: the story that not only was he an elementary school teacher,
- 18:17Speaker 2: He was the elementary school teacher that was assigned specifically
- 18:22Speaker 2: to counsel elementary school students on sexuality. This was all
- 18:33Speaker 2: part of the trans movement, welcomed in and shepherded in
- 18:38Speaker 2: under Governor Spanberger and her new liberal view of the schools.
- 18:42Speaker 2: Thank God we got rid of that horrible Glenn Youngkin
- 18:46Speaker 2: and his fascistic ideas that we here in the school
- 18:49Speaker 2: should be doing something more than just preparing young future
- 18:53Speaker 2: Americans not to read or write or do arithmetic, but
- 18:58Speaker 2: to be social justice warriors. Oh, we're so proud. So
- 19:07Speaker 2: as the fruit of this trans agenda, each school promised
- 19:11Speaker 2: that it would assign a teacher or staffer to counsel
- 19:15Speaker 2: those young children who felt like maybe I should be
- 19:19Speaker 2: a boy or a girl, depending on what you are
- 19:21Speaker 2: to start with. And, of course, the teachers were trained
- 19:26Speaker 2: specially in how to deal with gender issues. And then
- 19:31Speaker 2: there's this guy, Michael Sweeney, who apparently, when little girls
- 19:36Speaker 2: came to him, said, I don't feel like I should
- 19:38Speaker 2: be a girl. Maybe I should be a boy. With
- 19:42Speaker 2: the peril of sounding crass, wanted to help them find
- 19:49Speaker 2: out what it felt like to be a woman. He's
- 19:54Speaker 2: facing 16 charges. Now nine children have come forth and
- 20:00Speaker 2: their families have contacted the police. And his story alone
- 20:07Speaker 2: is shocking enough because it shows exactly what happens when
- 20:12Speaker 2: you have these massive movement programs like the trans movement
- 20:18Speaker 2: take over a massive population of people like a school
- 20:22Speaker 2: division because the percentages are just not in your favor. Now,
- 20:29Speaker 2: we don't know because the superintendent has been fired and
- 20:33Speaker 2: is under the cloak of secrecy under human relations. So
- 20:40Speaker 2: have 16 other people related to the school where he
- 20:46Speaker 2: was performing his service, including the principal of the school
- 20:53Speaker 2: who's been fired and is also under the cloak of secrecy.
- 20:58Speaker 2: So a member of the school board started telling people
- 21:01Speaker 2: what's what in his community, his constituents. He's an elected
- 21:05Speaker 2: representative of these people and said, here's what's going on.
- 21:09Speaker 2: And for that, he's been sanctioned. He's been driven to
- 21:14Speaker 2: resign his position on that school board. And do we
- 21:18Speaker 2: have time for the clip of the woman, the school
- 21:22Speaker 2: board chair? I mean, her point is, and listen to
- 21:27Speaker 2: her tell the tale of what it was that he did.
- 21:33Speaker 18: What we saw throughout the time is that Mr. Dillenbeck
- 21:35Speaker 18: really wanted to be as transparent as possible and Sometimes
- 21:39Speaker 18: it was hard for him to keep that information that
- 21:42Speaker 18: was supposed to be confidential content.
- 21:43Speaker 2: Maybe it wasn't or maybe it shouldn't have been confidential
- 21:47Speaker 2: because it involved the school kids we were paying you
- 21:51Speaker 2: to take care of, not hand over to a predator
- 21:54Speaker 2: who had everything except an island and an airplane.
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- 25:02Speaker 11: I'm Andrew Saul, Commissioner of Social Security. I'm here to
- 25:05Speaker 11: warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
- 25:10Speaker 11: Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
- 25:13Speaker 11: will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
- 25:17Speaker 11: personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
- 25:21Speaker 11: are not from us. Real Social Security employees will never
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- 25:29Speaker 11: call like this, hang up. Never give the caller your
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- 25:38Speaker 11: or send money in any form, cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
- 25:42Speaker 11: or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
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- 25:55Speaker 14: Uh-oh, Brad's buzzed.
- 25:56Speaker 17: Oh, yeah?
- 25:57Speaker 16: Yeah, he's starting with the woots.
- 25:59Speaker 15: And now a speech.
- 26:02Speaker 12: I just want to say that friendship is about heart.
- 26:06Speaker 12: Heart and brain. Who's with me?
- 26:08Speaker 13: Good thing is, he knows when he's buzzed.
- 26:10Speaker 16: And my brain is saying, when it's time to go home,
- 26:13Speaker 16: somebody call me a ride.
- 26:15Speaker 7: Love that guy.
- 26:16Speaker 3: Me too.
- 26:17Speaker 6: Know your buzzed warning signs? Call for a ride when
- 26:19Speaker 6: it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
- 26:23Speaker 10: Did you know that more than half our household energy
- 26:26Speaker 10: costs go to heating and cooling? Energy efficiency isn't just
- 26:30Speaker 10: good for the environment. It means lower utility bills, too.
- 26:34Speaker 10: One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
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- 28:11Speaker 1: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
- 28:15Speaker 6: Tell me why.
- 28:23Speaker 12: Transparency.
- 28:25Speaker 2: That's the movement we should have. I mean, if you
- 28:27Speaker 2: want to have a trans movement, a transparency movement, but
- 28:33Speaker 2: it is the fruit of expecting masses of people to
- 28:39Speaker 2: all have your self-interest at heart. And this cover-up that
- 28:47Speaker 2: is going on, which is why, unlike every other instance
- 28:51Speaker 2: where Charlottesville did something notorious, they haven't gone out to
- 28:56Speaker 2: drag the national news media down to say, look at
- 28:59Speaker 2: the boom boom I just made, is because this blows
- 29:04Speaker 2: up the more important agenda for the school, which is
- 29:09Speaker 2: the trans movement, which is being seen right with this
- 29:16Speaker 2: LGBTQ for Hamas crowd. They're not there to teach reading
- 29:24Speaker 2: and writing and arithmetic. No, no, they're there to do
- 29:29Speaker 2: social engineering. And we said this at the onset, and
- 29:34Speaker 2: this is the real subtext, is they don't want people
- 29:37Speaker 2: like you and me to know that everything that we
- 29:41Speaker 2: warned about in the trans movement has been manifest in
- 29:46Speaker 2: this case. That a teacher in a room with little
- 29:54Speaker 2: girls saying, I feel weird sexually... as if a second
- 29:59Speaker 2: or third grader should even be having these conversations. But
- 30:04Speaker 2: because the trans movement is out there recruiting, and yes,
- 30:07Speaker 2: I said recruiting, and is it solely to create a
- 30:15Speaker 2: generation of eunuchs halfway through sexual reassignment surgeries and medical treatments,
- 30:23Speaker 2: barren for the next century? Go read Paul Ehrlich's Population
- 30:31Speaker 2: Bomb and tell me, as we already are at record
- 30:34Speaker 2: low birth rates in the United States, if a generation
- 30:38Speaker 2: that has medically turned themselves into eunuchs, under the guise of,
- 30:44Speaker 2: I feel bad, maybe this will make me feel better,
- 30:47Speaker 2: now I feel worse, of course they don't want us
- 30:51Speaker 2: to know about this. If this gets out of the lab,
- 30:55Speaker 2: it's going to be a bigger pandemic than COVID. So
- 31:01Speaker 2: they must cover it up. They must get rid of
- 31:04Speaker 2: the elected officials who are engaged in the heretical act
- 31:08Speaker 2: of transparency to their voters. This is Lexington and Concord
- 31:21Speaker 2: in the world of social engineering versus education. But they're
- 31:26Speaker 2: not alone. And we've got folks on the phone, but
- 31:30Speaker 2: This isn't a personal vendetta. This isn't Joe trying to
- 31:33Speaker 2: make his flagship city look stupid on national radio. No, no, no.
- 31:39Speaker 6: Oh, no.
- 31:40Speaker 21: Oh, no.
- 31:40Speaker 2: I've got stories from all over the world. This one
- 31:43Speaker 2: from Wisconsin. 19, pardon me, 2025. A year-long investigation by
- 31:50Speaker 2: the Cap Times found that the State Department of Public
- 31:54Speaker 2: Instruction investigated more than 200 Wisconsin teachers and aides, substitutes,
- 32:00Speaker 2: and administrators who were accused of sexual misconduct or grooming
- 32:07Speaker 2: behaviors towards students. No one in Wisconsin had ever been
- 32:12Speaker 2: told that these investigations took place. Certainly not the outcome
- 32:17Speaker 2: of them. Here, Lawsuit Information Center, California. Sexual abuse lawsuits
- 32:26Speaker 2: and settlements. More Texas teachers, this is from Texas Scorecard,
- 32:34Speaker 2: more Texas teachers temporarily suspended for sexual misconduct. Dateline July
- 32:40Speaker 2: 20th of this year. Oconto Falls students sued district alleging
- 32:49Speaker 2: years of staff sexual misconduct. That's out of, where is
- 32:56Speaker 2: Oconto Falls? Wisconsin. Oh, there's another One of those must
- 33:01Speaker 2: be the cold and the cheese. Philadelphia, Conestoga high school
- 33:07Speaker 2: teacher sentenced after admitting to having sex with a student.
- 33:11Speaker 2: This is a female with a male student. Lacey family,
- 33:18Speaker 2: this is kings5. com out of Seattle. Lacey family claims school
- 33:23Speaker 2: failed to protect their son from ongoing sexual assaults. Oregon
- 33:29Speaker 2: public broadcasting. I mean, it's all over the country, the
- 33:33Speaker 2: coverups of these situations. And like with many of our stories,
- 33:44Speaker 2: the news is covering when it covers a small percentage
- 33:49Speaker 2: of the people, but the coverup is the thing. Why
- 33:54Speaker 2: are you covering it up? Because it doesn't tell the
- 33:56Speaker 2: story you want to tell. which is of young people
- 34:00Speaker 2: who are following unicorns to the end of the rainbow,
- 34:03Speaker 2: where instead of a pot of gold, they have sexual
- 34:06Speaker 2: liberation and the attention that their parents so richly want,
- 34:12Speaker 2: because that's a big part of this story. It's not
- 34:14Speaker 2: the only part, but Munchausen's by proxy is part of this.
- 34:19Speaker 2: And real children with real body dysmorphia are being left
- 34:27Speaker 2: by the sideline as simply tools to an agenda because
- 34:32Speaker 2: apparently the left has grown bored with aborting children. Let's
- 34:36Speaker 2: just make children barren through sexual reassignment surgery, incapable of reproducing,
- 34:44Speaker 2: and then we don't have to worry about abortion. Hey,
- 34:47Speaker 2: you conservatives, you should love this. All of a sudden,
- 34:52Speaker 2: Bugs Bunny is the spokesperson for the liberals. Kareem's hanging
- 34:55Speaker 2: on the line with us. Sorry, Kareem, I wanted to
- 34:57Speaker 2: stick the landing on that bit of this cover-up story
- 35:01Speaker 2: because the cover-up, as horrific as the acts of this
- 35:05Speaker 2: teacher are alleged to be, the cover-up is, to me,
- 35:08Speaker 2: the more telling part of the story. What's on your mind? Joe, honestly,
- 35:14Speaker 2: I agree. Usually a cover-up is worse than the crown.
- 35:18Speaker 2: It's tough with this one. It's tough to say that
- 35:22Speaker 2: a 30-something-year-old man getting grabastic with second and third grade
- 35:28Speaker 2: students could be less worse than something. So I'm going
- 35:31Speaker 2: to be careful how we say that. But yes, because
- 35:34Speaker 2: the coverup is indicative of something deeper and darker, I think. Joe,
- 35:40Speaker 2: I got the best example we have so far. I
- 35:42Speaker 2: don't know if anybody's already brought up Epstein.
- 35:44Speaker 21: He was a math teacher, and that's how he got
- 35:46Speaker 21: prominent and invited into the.
- 35:48Speaker 2: Because he was Bill Barr's father's teacher. Really? I forgot that. Oh,
- 35:53Speaker 2: my gosh. You're brilliant. Thank you for remembering that. You're
- 35:56Speaker 2: like artificial intelligence.
- 35:59Speaker 21: Oh, I wish.
- 36:00Speaker 2: I'd grab more of that stuff and hoard it if
- 36:02Speaker 2: I could. But, Joe, this has been going on for
- 36:05Speaker 2: quite a while.
- 36:06Speaker 21: I'm not saying this is connected to that, but I'm
- 36:08Speaker 21: saying it is taking liberties with children. That is something
- 36:11Speaker 21: that we should– government in general, again, like I said
- 36:16Speaker 21: with Cornell– the Title IX, the schools do their own investigations.
- 36:20Speaker 21: We need more transparency. And honestly, that school member who
- 36:26Speaker 21: had to resign.
- 36:27Speaker 22: Or fire because he shared too much, that's like the
- 36:31Speaker 22: one who quit the election because somebody on his staff,
- 36:36Speaker 22: a third-party proxy, said something that was a faux pas.
- 36:41Speaker 2: Well, a lie. I mean, something unprovable about his opponents.
- 36:45Speaker 2: And And so he's like, I can't run a campaign
- 36:48Speaker 2: that's going to have this hanging over it. And I
- 36:51Speaker 2: give him some credit for it. But remember, lust is
- 36:55Speaker 2: number two on the hit parade when it comes to
- 36:57Speaker 2: our seven vices. So the bigger you make a school division,
- 37:01Speaker 2: the more people you populate in a school, the more
- 37:04Speaker 2: likely percentages. We did this earlier in the show. 16%
- 37:07Speaker 2: of an internet search said 16% of males are minor attracted.
- 37:16Speaker 2: And so you do the math. How big is your
- 37:18Speaker 2: school division? How many male staffers are at your school division?
- 37:23Speaker 2: And then do the math as to what 16% of
- 37:25Speaker 2: them could wind up being.
- 37:30Speaker 21: I need more details than that, but I do see
- 37:32Speaker 21: where you're going. I do understand 16%. Tell you what,
- 37:36Speaker 21: out of 10 males, two of them you can't trust.
- 37:40Speaker 2: I get that. Well, I'm just saying that this is
- 37:44Speaker 2: why we should put guardrails on what kind of authority
- 37:47Speaker 2: they have. You know, if you're just the math teacher, well,
- 37:50Speaker 2: then your opportunities go way down. But if you're telling kids,
- 37:55Speaker 2: go talk to this guy if you're feeling weird sexually
- 37:57Speaker 2: and That's where I think the real frightening part of
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- 44:13Speaker 1: We could tell you what 6-7 means, but where's the
- 44:15Speaker 1: fun in that? First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on
- 44:19Speaker 1: the Talk Media Network.
- 44:25Speaker 2: 434-882-4217. I want to jump this email to the head
- 44:28Speaker 2: of the class because we are constitutionalists and I think this,
- 44:38Speaker 2: and we live in broadcast to areas where that a
- 44:47Speaker 2: lot of lawyers live in. So it's okay. Joe, if
- 44:52Speaker 2: I was the attorney for this teacher, I would take
- 44:55Speaker 2: today's recording of this program and play it for the
- 44:59Speaker 2: judge saying, Your Honor, I at very least need a
- 45:02Speaker 2: change of venue because there is absolutely no way that
- 45:06Speaker 2: my client could get a fair trial in any area
- 45:10Speaker 2: served by this radio program. You have so completely tainted
- 45:14Speaker 2: the gene pool that including and not limited to mentioning
- 45:18Speaker 2: the accused's name, only briefly and derisively using words like
- 45:24Speaker 2: alleged on the air. And you've highlighted an elected official's
- 45:31Speaker 2: abuse of power by reporting to his constituents that which
- 45:37Speaker 2: a timeline might prove to be completely unrelated to the
- 45:41Speaker 2: matter and only violations of civil code, and nothing in
- 45:46Speaker 2: relation to an actual act of sexual misconduct outside of
- 45:50Speaker 2: their responsibility to report saying, I understand the zeal of
- 45:57Speaker 2: a community to feel like somebody like this needs to
- 46:00Speaker 2: be arrested, but aren't you the guy who have said
- 46:04Speaker 2: in the past, 10 guilty people should go free lest
- 46:08Speaker 2: one innocent one be put in prison?
- 46:14Speaker 15: No.
- 46:15Speaker 2: And as a jurist, I will tell you this way,
- 46:17Speaker 2: guilty on all charges. I'm not reporting on this story,
- 46:21Speaker 2: and this is where the cover-up gets its traction. So
- 46:27Speaker 2: do we have the school administrator who's talking about why
- 46:32Speaker 2: the school board member was driven out? And this is
- 46:35Speaker 2: how they make cover-ups legal. and defend it. So they
- 46:43Speaker 2: write laws that say you can't discuss human resources issues.
- 46:49Speaker 2: And more frequently, you'll hear this as an excuse when,
- 46:53Speaker 2: let's say, a new commissioner of parking revenue is hired,
- 47:00Speaker 2: for lack of another thing. I think of Randy Quaid
- 47:07Speaker 2: in that movie, The Paper, chasing down Jason Alexander. Why me?
- 47:13Speaker 2: It was your turn. Michael Keaton. It was actually a
- 47:19Speaker 2: fun paper. And Robert Duvall plays a role in that,
- 47:23Speaker 2: as he will in an email that comes up shortly.
- 47:31Speaker 2: But your community hires some new school superintendent and you
- 47:36Speaker 2: want to know how much is my school board paying
- 47:38Speaker 2: the school superintendent. We're sorry, sir, you're not entitled to
- 47:42Speaker 2: that information.
- 47:43Speaker 1: Why?
- 47:43Speaker 2: It's a human resources matter. Why am I not entitled
- 47:47Speaker 2: to public school human resources material? I'm a member of
- 47:51Speaker 2: the public whose taxes go to pay his salary because
- 47:56Speaker 2: the board and the county supervisor and the state have
- 47:59Speaker 2: allowed us to segregate certain parts of the information away
- 48:05Speaker 2: from public scrutiny.
- 48:08Speaker 17: Why?
- 48:08Speaker 2: Because we voted to. You voted us in, so therefore
- 48:11Speaker 2: suck it. And that's the response. And for you, read
- 48:17Speaker 2: Chris Horner's book, The Liberal War on Transparency. They wrote
- 48:21Speaker 2: transparency laws and then wrote amendments to the transparency laws
- 48:26Speaker 2: so that only liberals can be protected by intransparency. Same
- 48:33Speaker 2: with sunshine laws. Every new sunshine law comes with a
- 48:36Speaker 2: new stack of loopholes to keep the sunshine from getting in.
- 48:40Speaker 2: So here's the school superintendent over this central Virginia Charlottesville
- 48:46Speaker 2: area school board.
- 48:47Speaker 18: One of the things we saw throughout the time is
- 48:49Speaker 18: that Mr. Dillenbeck really wanted to be as transparent as possible.
- 48:53Speaker 2: And we're against that.
- 48:55Speaker 18: Sometimes it was hard for him to keep that information
- 48:58Speaker 18: that was supposed to be confidential confidential.
- 49:01Speaker 2: Why was it supposed to be confidential? 16 staffers from
- 49:07Speaker 2: the school and the administration leave while this investigation is
- 49:14Speaker 2: going on. Parents in the school division want to know,
- 49:19Speaker 2: is this... a cover-up? Are they being investigated? Because now
- 49:24Speaker 2: two of them have been properly charged. So under legal terms,
- 49:28Speaker 2: we have two people this afternoon yesterday were formally charged
- 49:37Speaker 2: with the cover-up. Formally charged with covering up information they
- 49:45Speaker 2: should have reported. So as much as I get what
- 49:48Speaker 2: you're saying, that I am technically tainting the gene pool
- 49:51Speaker 2: or jury pool, although I argue I've tainted the gene
- 49:56Speaker 2: pool a few times as well, that these are facts.
- 50:03Speaker 2: Charges have been filed against school administrators, Title IX executives,
- 50:09Speaker 2: for covering up for failure to report the things they
- 50:13Speaker 2: were supposed to report. And I'm going to take you back.
- 50:16Speaker 2: I'm going to take you back to November 26th of 1987.
- 50:21Speaker 2: The human being, the one person in my high school life,
- 50:28Speaker 2: my scholastic career that made an impact to me, pulled
- 50:33Speaker 2: me aside after a senior project and said, Joe, if
- 50:37Speaker 2: you want to do the stuff you do, you better
- 50:39Speaker 2: go into radio. Don't do television. And I said, well,
- 50:43Speaker 2: thank you, Mr. Friedman. I appreciate that. And I went
- 50:46Speaker 2: off to pursue a career in radio. Not five years later,
- 50:54Speaker 2: I'm actually working on a radio career. I wandered off
- 50:57Speaker 2: into restaurants for a while. And what should I find?
- 51:00Speaker 2: The only person on my neophytical resume that is being
- 51:05Speaker 2: perp walked out of his house on the front page
- 51:10Speaker 2: of New York Newsday and the New York Post because
- 51:13Speaker 2: of sexual assault on children who were going to his
- 51:17Speaker 2: computer classes at his home. It's actually the subject of
- 51:21Speaker 2: a documentary. So I know a thing or two about this.
- 51:23Speaker 2: He never touched me. I'm not victim zero or anything
- 51:27Speaker 2: like that. He was a good teacher. And there's questions
- 51:33Speaker 2: as to whether his son did it and he just
- 51:36Speaker 2: took the fall for him or not. So I get
- 51:39Speaker 2: what you're saying about understanding guilt and innocence. Oh, by
- 51:44Speaker 2: the way, look up Capturing the Freemans. And this last
- 51:48Speaker 2: text from Terry, who writes in, Joe, did you ever
- 51:52Speaker 2: see or read To Kill a Mockingbird? Are you saying
- 51:59Speaker 2: that we should just unloose every Boo Radley In the community,
- 52:05Speaker 2: and I read it in high school, believe it or not.
- 52:07Speaker 2: I had read the play. Never saw the movie until
- 52:11Speaker 2: last year because I found out Robert Duvall, like at
- 52:14Speaker 2: the age of 21, plays Boo Radley in it. So
- 52:18Speaker 2: that's two Robert Duvall mentions in the same segment of
- 52:21Speaker 2: the radio program. Do we want vigilante justice? No, but
- 52:27Speaker 2: the problem is the less transparent a government is, the
- 52:31Speaker 2: more you drive people to feel like, well, vigilante justice
- 52:35Speaker 2: is all we've got. So the government has a responsibility
- 52:39Speaker 2: to be transparent. Otherwise, vigilantes are what they're going to get. Anyway,
- 52:45Speaker 2: I'm out of here until tomorrow morning. I am Joe Thomas.
- 52:48Speaker 2: So long and thanks for all the fish.
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