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"Vigils" (Monday September 15, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Joe may never be a rich man, Lula Young Movistar,
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and man, I don't want the finest Jewish and and.
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Speaker 2: May I drive the nus.
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Speaker 3: Jew has everything A dream of all the Joses.
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Speaker 4: It needs no wonder Joe's smile.
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Speaker 5: He only aims into that.
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Speaker 6: You know, young Joe, thank you for allowing me to
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be of service to you this morning, operating off our
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battle bridge here because of a massive technology crash that
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may just be as simple as my in the studio,
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computers have grown so out of date with and I
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don't know if you do this or not, and sloth
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thy name be radio show host, but I don't have
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my computer automatically update, and so it's imperative that I
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remember to update it every now and then. And we're
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trying desperately to update some of the drivers, which, according
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to the the computer people that I've talked to, is
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the reason we're having these issues is, oh, your mouse
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driver is probably out of date. I'm like, really, that's
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kind of really snarky behavior for a computer that's just
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out of date.
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Speaker 5: That's just yeah.
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Speaker 6: I mean, I've I've had friendships with people who were
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kind of like this, but okay, if that's what you say.
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Speaker 5: So that's where we are right now.
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Speaker 6: We're trying to get the system to function at least rudimentally.
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It is a safe mode. This is this is first
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thing today by Joe Thomas. In safe mode, not all
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the features are there, but the most important ones, like
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your ability to call in or text in with questions comments.
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I don't know if you engaged in any of the
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tributes or vigils that took place over the.
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Speaker 5: Weekend I did for Charlie Kirk and.
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Speaker 6: Feelings after that, or if you've been assaulted and assailed
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by people that you thought were friends of yours and
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they're unhinged rhetoric regarding whether or not Charlie Kirk deserved
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to be assassinated. These are some of the same people.
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And I pointed this out about Irena Zarutska, the Ukrainian
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immigrant that was killed the end of last month on
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the Charlotte light rail train. People who would go on
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the Internet and say, well, what was she writing on
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her phone? Nothing that deserves being stabbed in the neck
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with a screwdriver or whatever it was that the killer
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had in his hand. And that's the world we're in now.
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Is victim shaming unless you victim shame and then you're told, wow,
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we're against victim shaming. Can't ask about George Floyd's toxicology
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report without being told that's victim shaving, mister Thomas, we
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don't engage in victim shaming here, okay, except when it's
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Irena Zarutzka and this becomes indicative of the world we're in.
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We're not supposed to mention things that you'll hear in
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the news about transgender lovers of the alleged accused assailant
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who's apparently being more cooperative than not with the press.
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Maybe at the end of the day not really thrilled
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with being dragged into that story. So anyway, we will
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get into that.
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Speaker 5: With you.
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Speaker 6: Will also, if you find it ironic that all the
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same people who were fine with canceling people because they
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had an American flag T shirt on, or kicking them
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out of school, or firing them from the hospital they
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worked for because they had a T shirt that celebrated
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the Constitution, these are the same ones who are saying.
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Speaker 5: It's a violation of free speech that he's you know,
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that this kid's.
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Speaker 6: Being fired because of their attitudes towards the Charlie kirk
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assassination is somehow a violation of free speech rights. But
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it with a family. Though, Utah's governor, Spencer Cox said
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Sunday that the alleged killer is not cooperating with authorities. Quote,
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he has not confessed to authorities. He is not cooperating,
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but all the people around him are and that includes
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a transgender roommate with whom FBI officials say he was
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romantically involved in. Officials have touted the individual's cooperation with
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investigators and saying the person is not accused of any wrongdoing.
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Source also familiar with the investigation says the investigation is
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looking into leftist groups in Utah to see if they
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had any connection to the alleged shooter. Meanwhile, Turning Point
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USA has announced that an official memorial service will take
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place on September twenty first for Charlie Kirk at the
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State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. In other news, Secretary
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of State Marco Rubio in Israel this morning trying to
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get the fighting to stop between Israel and Hamas. Another
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attack in Gaza knock down a high rise building. According
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to eight officials, twelve Palestinians were killed. No word right
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now on what their association with Hamas was, Rubio said
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as he was heading to the trip. He's trying to
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get Israeli officials to tell him how they.
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Speaker 5: See the way forward.
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Speaker 6: It is first thing today here on the Talk media Network.
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Thank you for joining us and interacting, letting us know
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how the news is impacting you where you are. This
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one from Teresa rites in that she had gone to
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several Charlie Kirk vigils over the weekend. So one instance
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where somebody was hollering outside of the venue that was
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holding it about Nazis and white supremacists, even though our
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gathering had quite a few black people there. I gotta
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remember something, Teresa. It is we learned this with Larry
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elders can pain to unseat Gavin Newsom in California.
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Speaker 5: It is.
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Speaker 6: It is par for the course now for black men
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and women like Candice Owens to be white supremacist. Gene
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writes in Joe, I was listening to your program on
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Saturday here in Virginia, and I was struck by a
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point you made regarding the possibility that it is these
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gropers that follow Nick Fuentes. I had always been told
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that these were right wing groups. Yet you said that
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their leftist groups the same way Antifa or Black Lives
14:45
Matter might be. How does that work? Well, you know
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the point you were making, and I appreciate you listening
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to the Saturday program, and if you if your station
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doesn't carry us live discussion about the news on Saturday morning.
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Speaker 5: Ask nice. But we brought up.
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Speaker 6: This narrative that people were saying, and I'm told, well,
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they're distracting from the leftists. These are socialists, These are nationalists. Socialists.
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They want one race, They want one race to dictate
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to all others. That is socialism. And so when I
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made the point, what I said was that Donald Trump's
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point about left wing lunatanks being involved still applies, even
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if it turns out that it was a Nick Fuintes thing.
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Having confronted these folks who want authoritarian Marxism just because
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they say that their conservative doesn't make it true. We
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made that point during the twenty seventeen riots here in
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our flagship city of Charlottesville, that the organizers who Eventually,
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because I was there, I was able to see David
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Duke arrive for his reunion concert of his Knights in
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White Satin. I had said for months leading up to
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the riots in Charlottesville, just because they use the word
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doesn't make it true. These are people who will lie
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about everything, including what happens when you apply Marxism as
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a governing philosophy. They'll say, oh, no, no, no, we're
16:32
smarter now, we won't have all the arrests and the
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purges and the executions. No, that was Stalin. We've grown
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so much better since Stalin, Joe. We're going to do
16:44
a kinder, gentler Marxism, one that everyone will love, or
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we will arrest them or purge them or assassinate them.
16:57
So the point that President Trump wasn't wrong when he
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said there were left wing lunatics that led to this
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doesn't change the fact and it could be anyone. We
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don't know what made this kid decide to drop his
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last good marble and climb that roof.
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Speaker 5: But all of it, remember, all of this need that
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we have.
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Speaker 6: To figure out a reason why did they do it
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feeds the Marxist who wants to make it about the gun.
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Friend of mine posted a video of her thirty odd
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six mouser sitting on her porch. She had her security
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cam on it, and she kept posting, our twelve rifle
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hasn't done anything wrong to anyone. Mailman delivered the mail
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didn't seem intimidated by my mouser sitting on my deck.
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The point being, as it's been made so and so forth,
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is these are inanimate objects. We have to stop blaming
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the inanimate object. I've got people blaming discord and the Internet.
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I will admit that the Internet is a black mirror,
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but it's still a mirror. We get the kind of
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representation we vote for. This is why, in a lot
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of ways, the black community is turning away from the
18:40
progressive Democrats, because they realize that when a new, shiny
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group of people came in and became important for the
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Marxist authoritarians to woo, they were dropped like a bad habit.
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Speaker 5: That's when they realized, oh, this.
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Speaker 6: Is what those radio show hosts were saying all along.
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We didn't know, we didn't realize, and that's okay. This
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is part and parcel of what Charlie stood for and
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what we've done for twenty years on this program is
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just lay it out here. It is start to finish
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our analysis of it. The details of it. You decide,
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and if you decide that I'm wrong, that's fine. I
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hold no ill will because at some point my feeling
19:49
is that I will be proven right. And there are
19:53
moments ask Ray Ray is that we can nuance or
19:59
I can straight up say you know what, I may
20:02
have had that wrong, But it's just been my experience
20:09
that I will see things like this and see, you know,
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the connection three four, five different places and say, this
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might be something you want to think about, whether it's
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the groupers or AOC or Maxine Waters. Who knows this guy,
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I mean he was into transgender. I mean he's got
20:29
Maxine Waters cheesecake posters on his bedroom ceiling. And then,
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you know, looked on the at the dude that's becoming
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not a dude a subdude and said, I think you're hot.
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Speaker 5: But it's the human being.
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Speaker 6: We've we've lost this ability to realize that, and it's
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part of the dehumanization of Marxism.
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Speaker 5: I believe that.
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Speaker 6: You're no longer at fault for your doings until the
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Stazi comes and arrests you and takes you away, and
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even then it might just be your grandmother. They arrest
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and take two of the gulag so that you can
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stop making mistakes. It's just a lesson for you, because
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these are all Marxists. They want authority over you because
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they don't believe you have anything to offer them their
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elitist goons. Just like the goons in hockey that dive
21:33
into the corner to get your best scorer to drop
21:36
the gloves and spend the next five minutes in the
21:38
penalty box. That's what they're trying to do with us.
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And one of the reasons I went to these vigils
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over the weekend and it sounds like you did it,
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all did as well, is to see the peace and
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the love that was the response, not the hate and
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the vitriol that we see in these hands off my
21:58
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Speaker 9: Pretending to be government employees.
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Speaker 8: Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
25:13
will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
25:17
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
25:21
are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
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threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
25:29
call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
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your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
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or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers.
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Speaker 11: Uh oh, brah's buzzed. Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with
25:58
the woots and now a speech.
26:02
Speaker 12: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
26:06
art and brain.
26:07
Speaker 5: Who's with me?
26:08
Speaker 13: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
26:11
brain is saying, when it's time to go home, Somebody
26:14
call me a ride.
26:15
Speaker 15: Love that guy, me too.
26:17
Speaker 17: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
26:19
it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
26:30
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26:34
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
26:37
energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
26:41
learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
26:44
That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
26:47
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
26:51
improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
26:54
when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
26:57
energy Star logo and read the Energy Guy label. And
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there are day to day things you can do. Lower
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close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
27:09
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Speaker 6: Twitch First Thing Today Apollo thirteen edition. As we sit
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here with our computer systems down, waiting for Gary Sinie
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to come up with a process to start them up
28:26
without killing the battery system there and hopefully I'm going
28:32
to get the lunar module back to Earth in one piece.
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But I appreciate you coming along for the ride. At
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four three four eight eight two four two one seven
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emails come into JT in the morning radio at gmail
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dot com. This is all because we've had this ghost
28:51
in the machine that's created a phantom mouse that keeps
28:56
clicking on programs along my taskbar. This one, this is
29:03
so bad I shouldn't even read it. Oh but I'm
29:07
having one of them days where you know, the filter
29:09
goes a little sideways sometimes. And of course these are
29:13
apocryphal stories, but they don't make for a bad joke either.
29:19
Maurice writes in have you been playing a lot of
29:23
Richard Gear songs from the Chicago soundtrack Joe.
29:29
Speaker 5: Wayward Mouse?
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Speaker 6: Never mind, it's like I said, it's an apocryphal's thing.
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Charles writes in, sounds like a communist mouse making you
29:36
do what you don't want to do, something like Obama's
29:40
socialist broom. He also thanked me for a good job.
29:44
I had a speaking engagement. We were having a Convention
29:48
of States celebration of the US Constitution on Saturday.
29:53
Speaker 5: Of course, Constitution Day is where are we at? Two days?
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Speaker 6: So the seventeenth celebrate the US Constitution, the rule book
30:07
by which we were drawn. And it's with that in
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mind we played a little bit of this earlier. Because
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this really, as much as it has been applicable in
30:18
the past. The one part of your vegment offs warning
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to us all is this little bit about once you've
30:27
been demoralized, and that is, you know, having your morals removed.
30:33
Most importantly, as I pointed out, when shown the US
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Constitution for the first time, John Adams said, well, this
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will only work if we're a moral nation. Yeah, So
30:46
the Soviets demoralize us, get us to take the Ten
30:50
Commandments out of our schools, tell our kids that regardless
30:54
of what right or wrong, it's what's fair. And then
31:03
you destabilize, and then you bring two crisis.
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Speaker 24: Process will go that fast. The next stage, of course,
31:13
is crisis. It may take only up to six weeks
31:16
to bring a country to the verge of crisis. You
31:19
can see it in Central America now. And after crisis,
31:23
with a violent change of power, structure and economy, you
31:27
have so called the period of normalization. It may last indefinitely.
31:32
Normalization is a cynical expression borrowed from Soviet propaganda. When
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the Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia in sixty eight, Comrade
31:40
Bresions said, now the situation in brotherly Czechoslovakia is.
31:44
Speaker 6: Normalized, and that's what's awaiting us. So you shoot and
31:51
kill somebody who is making the argument eloquently and without
31:56
much problem against Marxism. So you bring on the crisis.
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You send the goon to take your best scorer into
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the corner and try to get him to drop the gloves.
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We have to not drop the gloves. We have to
32:12
take the impetus of a Wayne Gretzky and say, Okay,
32:16
I'm going to go bury one in the corner of
32:18
the net. That's going to be my dropping the gloves.
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We have to push harder against the Marxist who wants
32:27
us to engage into a fight so they can send
32:31
in the tanks and normalize. Because what will eventually happen
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is the great mass middle of America will say, please,
32:45
as God as my witness, make it stop, and they'll
32:51
be offered a choice. They'll be offered to vote. We'll
32:55
have a vote. We need authority like Caesar, and Caesar
33:00
had convinced the Roman Senate that the galls were an
33:05
existential threat to the Department of Homeland Security. No, he
33:10
didn't have a Department of Homes have a Patriot Act. No,
33:14
but once he anyway, once he had determined that the
33:20
galls were a threat, then he could take dictatorial power.
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And it took hundreds of years for that to finally collapse.
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Why did it take so long because people got used
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to it. They figured out how to work the system.
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They figured out whose rumps to kiss. And that's the
33:42
real dangerous Sirens song is that once Marxism starts see
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America's version of Marxism aka the Great Society, you figure
33:53
out how to game the system, You figure out how
33:55
to make it work. All right, So it's Marxism. I'm
33:58
making money, I've got the stuff I want, and you
34:04
don't engage anymore. In that mass, American middle will see
34:09
the peril of their stuff becoming less valuable, becoming less existent,
34:16
and then they'll vote to take down these bills of rights.
34:21
They'll be asked to vote. You'll be asked to vote
34:24
on things like new rights. Tell me you haven't heard
34:29
somebody talk about new rights. I've played the clips for you.
34:38
The rights to a domicile, the rights to medical treatment,
34:42
the rights all things that John Locke said is slavery
34:47
is the anathema of Enlightenment, freedom and liberty, because what
34:55
you're doing is you're taking liberty you're in slave someone
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you're saying to a home builder, you must build a
35:08
home for this person. And sure it's you know, maybe
35:12
it's not scale up. You're building an apartment complex or
35:15
some sort of some other sort of daka and and.
35:19
Speaker 5: But they're enslaved. They have to do it.
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Speaker 6: Doctor, nurse, pharmacist. You must serve this person. What if
35:29
I don't want to, then you'll go to prison. That's slavery.
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And it's only going to continue to get worse until
35:41
somebody says we need to fight back, and then the
35:44
body bags get filled up and eventually we'll win liberty back.
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Human history has said we will because the human spirit,
35:53
and this is what made Charlie Kirk so effective. The
35:58
human spirit is for liber whether it be in the
36:02
face of nationalist socialism or globalist socialism or Islamist socialism.
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The idea of dehumanizing centralized thought is offensive to most people.
36:25
The truly heartbreaking places are where you see people who
36:29
don't care anymore. They've decided ah. And that's where the
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Marxist wins because the fun and this is where as
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I was at one of these vigils and we talked
36:41
about Jesus and Charlie's faith. Remember when he got to Samaria,
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Jesus didn't go even to the pious, He didn't go
36:51
to the elected officials.
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Speaker 5: He went to the broken. And my heart breaks for
36:55
those who believe.
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Speaker 6: In this stuff and are helping bring it on in
36:59
because because as besmin Off points out, Stalin taught them
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Speaker 24: This is what will happen in the United States if
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you allow all these schmucks to bring the country to crisis,
37:14
to promise people all kinds of goodies and the paradise
37:17
on earth, to distabilize your economy, to eliminate the principle
37:23
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37:27
government in Washington, d C. With the benevolent dictators like
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Walter mont Dale who will promise lots of things, never
37:36
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Speaker 2: Hi, Oh, he's right, you know, and that happens.
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Speaker 6: Too four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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The fun of having a computer system meltdown like we
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had this morning is now little bits and pieces of
44:53
the computer system were coming back as the engineers try
44:56
to figure out if there was a particular piece of.
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Speaker 5: Software that did it.
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Speaker 6: So now we get little bits and pieces that are
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working here. We ran out a time before the commercial
45:06
break of Uri Bejaminof's punchline for the academic.
45:10
Speaker 24: They are instrumental in the process of the of the subversion,
45:14
only to destabilize the nation. When their job is completed,
45:19
they're not needed anymore. They know too much, some of them.
45:24
When when they get disillusioned, when they see that Marcus
45:27
Lennin has come to power, obviously they get offended. They
45:30
think that they will come to power. That will never happen.
45:33
Of course, they will be lined up against the wall
45:35
and shot.
45:36
Speaker 6: That's that's that's what they learned under that other Joe
45:40
in the morning Joe Stalin and joining us. One of
45:43
the fellows who's been such an eloquent chronicler but also
45:47
a great legal mind too in helping win back the
45:51
country is the great Horace Cooper of Project twenty one.
45:54
Good morning, Horace, how are you doing, sir, and welcome
45:56
back to the show.
45:58
Speaker 14: It's always a pleasure to cover the program.
46:01
Speaker 6: So talk about in abstract. A lot of folks have
46:05
been comparing Charlie Kirk's assassination to the assassination of Martin
46:10
Luther King Junior and the peril of quote the movement
46:15
that at that crossroads, what happens without its titular leader.
46:23
You know, what is your feeling knowing what was going
46:26
on at Turning Point USA?
46:28
Speaker 5: And is that a righteous concern?
46:32
Speaker 14: Well, there's no doubt that Charlie Kirk is a martyr
46:38
for free speech.
46:39
Speaker 3: Now.
46:39
Speaker 14: I actually first met Charlie Kirk at a White House
46:45
event during Black History Month for the first Trump presidency,
46:51
and I was just amazed as a young man at
46:56
how approachable he was. And then when he asked me
47:00
about being a part of what they were doing, I
47:04
was indeed very very much honored. And I believe that
47:09
what he was doing all the way up until the
47:14
point that he died was signaling that what our founders
47:19
gave us, the greatest gift that they gave us, was
47:24
this idea that we were going to be a republic
47:27
where people were persuaded with regard to public policy, rather
47:34
than have a firearm or a rifle pointed at them
47:40
and forced to embrace a particular type of public policy.
47:45
Those that snuffed him out. I said this just recently
47:49
the day of the shooting on Fox News. They're going
47:54
to the mindset the so called cancel culture, the so
48:00
called if we don't like you, we must turn you off.
48:05
That group is going to come to regret what has
48:10
ended up happening. And I pledged then, as I repeat now,
48:15
I will be a champion for free speech. I am
48:19
honored to stand shoulder to shoulder with Charlie Kirk and
48:25
say free speech is important and it is a value
48:30
that we must be willing to die for. But I
48:33
also said that I fear that the norm busting event
48:40
of such a thing as this assassination will come with consequences.
48:46
I commented that COVID had really really devastating effects, particularly
48:54
on the loss of life. But after a few years
48:58
we turn back then became America again. But you know what,
49:02
after September eleventh, we were changed permanently. And I wonder,
49:09
are we now going to get a new round of
49:14
online monitoring, of the ability to surveil so that if
49:22
you go to a ball game, all of the people
49:26
who attend will have to pass facial recognition. These are
49:31
the kinds of things that when you see really consequently
49:37
events happen, they have an effect on the society.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 6: And we brought this up, and I felt like maybe
49:46
I was just reading the tea leaves too closely that
49:49
this was September tenth and September eleventh, and of course
49:52
our breaking down of the horrors that had happened in
49:55
Utah were taking place in and amongst our commemoration of
49:59
the twenty fourth anniversary of those terrorist attacks. But I
50:03
reminded people that the shock that went through the nation
50:07
was the same, and I see it gives me hope
50:15
that I wasn't so paranoid that I saw some of
50:19
the same things in the reactions to this, And we
50:22
need to fight back that lesser angel and look for
50:28
what Charlie wanted, which was a godly, peace loving ability
50:33
to talk to Because ever since then September eleventh, but
50:36
also twenty seventeen here in Charlottesville, you know, we've been
50:40
told you need to listen to people more, and Charlie
50:44
was the patron saint, if you will, of listening to people.
50:48
Hit The whole point of what he was doing in
50:50
Utah was come and tell me why I'm wrong. And
50:55
I think that's what infuriated a lot of people quite
50:58
a bit, is that he was doing knowing what they
51:00
said we should do, and still not capitulating to their agenda.
51:05
Speaker 5: Horace.
51:08
Speaker 14: Well, once again we have an example of how the
51:11
Left actually doesn't live up to its commitments. Now, I'm
51:16
going to just give a brief recount when I say
51:19
norm busting. For decades, for more nearly a century, we
51:26
have had an understanding that when an outgoing president leaves office,
51:31
the incoming president protects the prerogatives of the outgoing president,
51:36
regardless of party, whether that was Nixon, whether that was Carter,
51:40
whether that was Reagan. With mister Biden, we had our
51:44
very first instance where the incoming president disregarded the idea
51:51
that if a president declared executive privilege that it would
51:55
be protected. That's a huge norm buster. With the the
52:00
indictment decision of former President Trump, as a citizen again
52:05
who was likely to challenge mister Biden, broke another norm
52:10
and he was supported by the left. We are seeing
52:15
a threat to the actual system that we all live
52:20
in by people who say that they're more arrested in
52:24
transforming America than in maintaining it. Now, the reason I'm
52:29
apprehensive about this terrible, terrible, tragic assassination is that it
52:36
means that you and I and your listeners can in
52:41
fact be in jeopardy because this is asymmetric attacks.
52:47
Speaker 6: Horace, hang on a second for you so long and
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