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"The Left Will Protest Anything" (Monday August 25, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: First Thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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the second most famous Thomas in Charlottesmooth.
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Speaker 2: I know you're sitting there with your equilibrium of who
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knew that they were from New York right, I've been
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on that train. By the way, do not adjust the
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vertical hold on your radio. No, no, no, no, it's it's
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we are here though, live from the French Quarter where
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we're here for the State Policy Network annual meeting, brought
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dot com as well as the Virginia Institute for Public Policy.
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It's one of the big players here. I didn't realize it.
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Daily Signal Acts actually asked me to come down here
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and I started going through the list of organizations and
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it's all Policy Network folks.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: These are the people who write the laws in a
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lot of cases, first spend a lot of time getting
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people to know what the laws need to be changed
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to and then going about changing them. Numerous laws and
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or constitutional amendments that I've watched being drafted, and it's fascinating.
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We are the ones who bring the pork to the
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sausage makers. Well, no, no, no, not that kind of pork.
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I mean, you know you've heard the expression nobody wants
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to see how the sausage is made. Well, we're the
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ones who grind, grind the pork for it or soy,
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if you insist, that's fine. I'm driven by this. If
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you go to my social media, my Facebook page, Seville
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Joe Thomas on Facebook, you'll see a photograph of our
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studio and it's got the bare brick wall. It's an esthetic.
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I mean it's I'm not sure. I'm not on an
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outside wall. I'm inside a building, but the esthetic is
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this bare brick wall behind me. And I feel like
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I should be charging a three drink minimum here. And
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it's funny, really ironic funny because when we landed in
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New Orleans, the steward is and I was flying Spirit
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air Spirit Breeze. I'm sorry that Spirit Breeze. It was
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one of these you know, you discount airlines whatever, you know,
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you know you have to help load the luggage kind
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of thing. So I was on Breeze Airways and we
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landed here in New Orleans and the stewardess comes on
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the microphone and says, welcome to New Orleans, ladies, and
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gentlemen where you come on vacation and leave on probation.
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Butom boom, it's like hold on a second year. I've
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been in New Orleans three four times. You really have
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to work to get arrested in New Orleans. I mean
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Las Vegas. To tell you about all the things that
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are illegal that you can do legally in Las Vegas.
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In New Orleans, you know, it's just one of those
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you know things we expected kind of thing here. You know,
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they look at it. If you get arrested in New Orleans,
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you have really done something. I say that knowing full
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well that folks listening at WGSO are like, no, that's
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what we hate about New Orleans. We wish it was
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cracking down a little bit more. Well, maybe the president
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will send the National Guard. We'll get into that coming
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up this morning. But it is time for our first things. No, no, no,
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We try to not become a burden. As my dad
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of several thousand National Guards troops as early as September.
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According to two leaks to the Washington Post, top Us
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Envoy Thomas Barrack arrived in Israel and met with Prime
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Minister Benjamin Netan Yahoo yesterday to discuss Syria and Lebanon.
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Barak had also met with Israel Katz Defence Minister and
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Israel's Minister's for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, who had just
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been back from Syria. Vice President J D. Vance told
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Meet the Press that Russia has made significant concessions towards
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a negotiated settlement with its neighbor to the south or
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in Ukraine, even though Ukraine continued on its Independence Day
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celebration with an bombardment of drone strikes into Russia. Kilmar
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Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran illegal immigrant who has continued his
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month's long flight, has reported to the Ice Field Office
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in Baltimore, where he's expected to be deported to Uganda,
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his attorneys told Fox News. Wildfires in California Wine Country
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and central Oregon grew through the night, prompting hundreds of
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Valley has grown to more than ten square miles, but
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officials say it's about eleven percent contained. Meanwhile, the flat
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fire in Oregon into Shoots and Jefferson Counties had grown
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to thirty four square miles with no containment, with four
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thousand homes in jeopardy, and a petition urging Florida officials
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to show leniency to Harjinder Singh, the illegal immigrant truck
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Speaker 6: And now a speech.
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Speaker 9: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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heart and brain.
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Speaker 2: Who's with me?
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Speaker 12: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody call.
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Speaker 13: Me a ride.
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Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the talk media.
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A couple of folks have said this, well, surely my
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state doesn't have a conservative group working on public policy.
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I live insert name of wacky left wing state here,
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New York, Oregon, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Oh, silly, mortal. As
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a matter of fact, just to prove you wrong, not
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in a mean spirited way, we've got John Charles coming
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up from the Cascade Policy Institute in Oregon. And then
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Republican governors, some of them even this century. So, I
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mean it seems like a lifetime ago, right and even
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then it was like George Pataki really but you know
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it did happen beat Mario the Pious, you know, the
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you know Cuomo the first. So yeah, they're out there.
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dot org, there's a searchable database if you want to
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find all these places. Illinois Policy Institute in Chicago, I mean,
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We've had folks from the Madison Institute on the program
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in the past, Commonwealth Foundation out of Pennsylvania. All these
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folks are here for the State Policy Network, of course
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in my flagship state. My friends at the Virginia Institute
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for Public Policy, one of our sponsors for the broadcast
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here along with it. You know, so wherever you are
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listening up in Lowell, yeah, even Massachusetts, the Pioneer Institute.
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So look these folks up. If you're sitting there in
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Minneapolis listening on kde I Z Center for the American
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Experiment and Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, two of them in Minnesota,
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you need it. You're bailing against the tide. There. Our
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friends in Colorado, KPPF, the Independence Institute, common Sense Institute,
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all of them here, and we've got them coming up
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on the program as well today. I mean, we've got
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a lot to get into. I don't want to overload
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on guess, Corey d Angelis. And as we were coming
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into New Orleans, I was riding the bus in from
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the airport, which I believe is in Arkansas, Holy Cow,
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Louis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans, is barely. I mean
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it's metaphorically in New Orleans. I guess New Orleans is
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the closest city to the airport, and I guess we're
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New Orleans Airport. I mean it just but it was
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a nice bus ride. I was talking to a fella
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who's here with a group that works on affordable housing.
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They're at a different conference, and we were just gosh,
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half of our breakout panels are how to get more
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affordable housing in a liberty minded way into communities. And
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we were talking about the segment we had last week.
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Who from the Mercadas Center was at Emily Hamilton from
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the Mercada Center. We were talking about Houston, Seattle, of
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all places that have done some remarkable things when it
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comes to freeing up the marketplace for housing and more
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housing gets built. Shocked, shocked you are, I know. So
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we were talking about this on the ride end and I
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started thinking about it. I said, so school choice. Corey
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DeAngelis coming up in a little bit, just you know,
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frontline battler for school choice, Virginia Public Policy and Middle
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Resolution Group and the folks here in Virginia working on
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school choice and Florida and places that have already done
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school choice and done it well and done it successfully.
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But we're seeing new parts of it. A free lance
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education now is booming. Never mind just finding a different school.
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We're watching people starting their own schools, the micro school movement.
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It's the return of the one rooms schoolhouse. And the
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unions are freaking out over at Corey DeAngelis. We'll talk
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to us a little bit about that coming up here
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on the program. Just another one of the folks here
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in the State Policy Network. But these networks, these these
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folks are out there, you know, working on public policy,
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like the Libertas Institute, in the Sutherland Institute for you
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guys at Salt Lake, Texas Public Policy Foundation, all all
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working very hard for you to craft the policy. It's
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not it's it's one thing to be a think tank.
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You just said. It's like a George Carlin routine, says
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the guy sitting in front of a brick wall, like
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I'm you know, it's mornings at the Improv. It's true,
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I feel like I'm sitting here like I should be.
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But seriously, folks, I get no respect. Just flew in
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from Virginia. Man, my arms are tired. Oh yeah, insert
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hackneyed cornball dad jokes here. But the think tanks, aside
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from thinking, see there and there are blessed them, people
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who will analyze policy till the cows come home. But
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what do you do with that? And that's kind of
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what the State Policy Network is about. These are groups
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of do tanks. I'm sure you think, and you think,
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and you think some more. But once you've thought the thunks,
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then you've got to do something with it. And these
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are the people, like my partners at the Virginia Institute
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for Public Policy, we do things with it. We find
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the folks who will shepherd these stories in We'll find
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the Democrats. I mean, you presume, just by the nature
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of conservative constitutionalist principles that most of the people who
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shepherd our legislation and our Republicans. But as we said,
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we're going to talk to the Cascade policy folks in Oregon.
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If you want conservative constitutionalist free market policies, you're going
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to need to find Democrats to do it. California, I mean,
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listen to Gavin Newsom. How could you not have a
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public policy forum like the Pacific Research Institute or the
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California Policy Center in a place like California probably are
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having breakneck recruiting efforts. We'll find out about that as well.
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But if you join these organizations in your state and
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your home, you find you have input into how these
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policies are made. And that's a great American feeling that
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no place else on the planet Earth can the citizens
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feel like I've written public policy.
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Speaker 10: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
25:05
warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
25:10
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 Social Security employees will never
25:25
threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
25:29
call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
25:33
your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
25:38
or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
25:42
or prepaid debit cards report the call to our law
25:46
enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
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dot SSA dot gov.
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Speaker 2: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed. Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with
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the woots.
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Speaker 19: And now a speech.
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Speaker 20: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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art and brain.
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Speaker 2: Who's with me? Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
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Speaker 12: And my brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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Speaker 2: Somebody call me a ride.
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Speaker 8: Love that guy, me too.
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Speaker 7: 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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Speaker 14: Did you know that more than half our household energy
26:26
costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
26:30
good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
26:34
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
26:36
energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
26:40
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
26:50
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 Guide later. And
27:01
there are day to day things you can do. Lower
27:03
your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
27:06
close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
27:09
air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
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Speaker 1: Question for you from Joe Thomas, It's first thing today.
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Speaker 2: He is really This weekend was great for it. So
28:27
President Trump took off the fire hose for a little
28:30
bit this weekend. It wasn't as as just a cacophony
28:34
of just things going on. Of course, played golf with
28:38
Roger Clemens, and apparently people now people are trying to
28:42
get the Hall of Fame to bump Roger Clemens off
28:46
the I was just oh, because he played golf with
28:50
Donald Trump. Fine, and then you know, half the headlines
28:55
that come in my news feed. Yours might be different,
28:58
but my news feeds on my phone. Trump awkwardly tries
29:02
to hide his hand during Oval office meet. This is
29:06
what we're covering four years trying to get people to
29:11
pay attention to a president that was clearly reading somebody
29:15
else's script. Never mind the eight years we tried to
29:19
do it when Barack Obama was reading somebody else's script
29:22
and nobody seemed to care about Joe Biden's health or welfare.
29:28
If you want to be open minded about it, you
29:31
can say, well, they feel bad that they ignored Joe
29:36
Biden's mental health decline, so now they're being hyper sensitive
29:41
to it. Ah. Sure, whatever it is that keeps you
29:45
comfortable through the night, anyway. A couple of text messages, emails,
29:52
this one John Bolton was a subject of conversation and
29:57
how here's a question for you four three, four eight
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eight two four two one seven. How unliked must John
30:05
Bolton be to not have a thousand people lined up
30:10
to speak in his defense. I mean, just in conservative media,
30:16
whether it was Flynn or Rogers Stone, it didn't matter.
30:21
There were voices saying, why are you rating this guy's
30:24
home at six o'clock in the morning. It just struck
30:29
me as odd. Not so much for John Bolton. I
30:34
don't know what's what it is. John Bolton has stepped
30:36
on some toes. Mary writes in from Connecticut, where I
30:40
presume she's listening to WGH and and please, it's just
30:45
fun for me to acknowledge where people are listening. So
30:48
if you want to throw it into the text or whatever,
30:50
some people are listening online, like the fellow listening at Huntsville,
30:54
Alabama to the KFAR stream. It works for you hearing.
31:00
Like I said, I have a right to speak, I
31:02
don't have a right to be listened to. So God
31:04
bless you for doing it. But Mary writes in funniest
31:07
moment in radio when you described giving your candy covered
31:11
nuts to John Bolton. There's a photograph of me handing
31:14
the candy covered nuts to John Bolton, and it's not
31:19
one of those like Jeffrey Epstein kind of things. A
31:23
wonderful candy company in Central Virginia had sponsored. I think
31:29
we were at Sea Pack. And this is, of course
31:32
before John Bolton had whatever mental health crisis that sent
31:37
him off the edge and he was considered one of
31:39
Trump's top advisors at the point. I think it was
31:43
the Sea Pack just as COVID was breaking out. Maybe
31:47
Bolton's issue is long COVID. I don't know, but he
31:52
was on radio row with us, and there's a picture
31:54
of me handing these candy covered nuts to John Bolton.
31:58
It's the last time I spoke to John. And maybe
32:01
he didn't like the candy covered nuts, you know, I mean,
32:04
candy covered nuts is a is a taste. I mean
32:08
not everyone has a taste for candy covered nuts, especially
32:12
hot candy. Joel writes into the text message line at
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four three four eight eight two four two one seven,
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reacting to our presence here in New Orleans. He says,
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you have the great John Kennedy there, who is great?
32:30
You know, John Kennedy is not not that one. And
32:33
I'm sure the Democrats of Massachusetts, though most of the
32:36
Kennedys don't get votes in Massachusetts anymore. But the one
32:40
of Louisiana, who's this is a work in progress talking
32:44
about dose, we're confused.
32:47
Speaker 3: You understand the situation perfectly. The House bill did the
32:52
best it could do. The bill is now before us
32:55
in the Senate. We're going to try to improve it
32:59
and improve it substantially. But look, this is America. Everybody's
33:04
entitled of their opinion. I agree with mister Musk, for example,
33:08
that we're not reducing enough spending, and we're going to
33:13
work hard to try to reduce more spending. But at
33:17
the same time, we want to pass the bill because
33:19
if we don't pass it, we're going to have an
33:21
automatic full point three trillion dollar tax increase on the
33:26
American people, which will send our economy to the center
33:31
of the earth.
33:31
Speaker 2: But you know, I'm certainly we're working hard.
33:35
Speaker 3: I'll put it that way, and as long as everybody
33:37
takes their meds, we'll get it done.
33:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see what you mean, Joel John Getty. Lot
33:44
of folks that why can't we have a cent. You know,
33:47
our friends in California. I mean, they'll get Adam Schiff,
33:50
you know, never got it. You know, Adam Schiff is
33:54
out there all the time. I can't get Adam Shift
33:56
to stop, you know, and we can't give John Kennedy
34:00
more time on camera. Is take five percent of Adam
34:04
Schiff's coverage off. So yeah, I agree to Chuck Schumer.
34:09
I mean there's so many people. Well, it's not our
34:12
friends in Connecticut where it's either Chris Murphy or Danang
34:16
Dick Blumenthal, and of course our flagship so articulately represented
34:23
by Messrs Warner and Kin there. But I appreciate that.
34:28
So four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
34:31
The mania continues. But you know, some some real things
34:36
going on in the world, and this one just struck me.
34:40
So there's a petition at change dot org. And the
34:43
thing about change dot org is these signatures they started.
34:48
Somebody started a petition calling on Florida officials to show
34:53
leniency to a non citizen who shouldn't have been driving
34:58
the truck that they were driving that broke several traffic
35:02
laws that apparently they didn't understand and killed three people
35:06
in Florida, correct me if I've gotten any of the
35:10
salient facts wrong. But now there's a petition online. And
35:15
this is why juries are winnowed down by both prosecutorial
35:20
and defense attorneys before a trial begins, that we don't
35:24
all just get to vote on somebody's guilt or innocence.
35:29
Two point five million people have already signed this petition
35:33
calling on Governor Ron de Santis and the Florida Board
35:38
of Executive Clemency to re examine the case, saying he's
35:45
just trying to work. It was just a tragic accident, guys,
35:52
And certainly I don't think Singh was out there saying
35:56
I'm going to run me over some people or whatever
36:00
to seek you know, translation is whatever, no, no, no,
36:06
I'm not doing it. I'm not you know No. The
36:12
guy from the Simpsons got in trouble for doing that accent,
36:15
and he did a good one. I'm not even gonna
36:17
say no, I'm not if Hank Azaria can get it
36:20
get canceled for doing his what did he do? Appool
36:24
for fifteen years before somebody said hey, that might be offensive.
36:28
Dandian people. It's the same crew that said I think
36:32
the Washington redskins is offensive Dandian people the other ones. Yeah,
36:39
so I'm not doing it. I don't care if I
36:41
have a brick wall behind me and it's the morning
36:43
at the improv No, I'm not doing that. I'm just
36:46
saying he didn't get behind the wheel of the truck,
36:48
saying I'm good to kill people do. But they're asking
36:53
for clemency, saying it was just a terrible accident. But
36:58
he shouldn't have been there. If he wants to drive
37:02
a truck, he is a citizen of India. Go drive
37:05
a truck there. I'm sure they need things delivered by
37:09
truck where he lived. Despite the caste system and all
37:17
of the racially divisive casts and class warfare that goes
37:22
on in India, I'm sure somebody can be a truck driver.
37:28
Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe the truck drivers union is very
37:31
strong there. But he shouldn't have been behind the wheel.
37:35
Now he's charged with vehicular homicide in this case and
37:42
can face some serious charges. The most important is he
37:46
going to have to be sent back home or are
37:49
we going to let him stay in the country even
37:51
if it is in prison. Two point five million people,
37:55
this is why you don't have juries of two point
37:58
five million people who only get the news.
38:03
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Speaker 12: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
42:25
Speaker 6: Freedom of speech, freedom of religion.
42:30
Speaker 4: Freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble.
42:35
Speaker 2: Freedom to petition the government.
42:38
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43:35
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Speaker 1: Is the sound absolutely from the home of the First Amendment.
44:18
First thing today?
44:24
Speaker 2: Sometimes do do you ask why enough?
44:30
Speaker 4: Lincoln?
44:33
Speaker 2: Sometimes asking why? It gives you the wrong feeling? Inside Getaways,
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all those million.
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Speaker 22: Getaways four thirty four eight eight two four two one
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seven Mornings at the improv Here in a studio with
44:49
a giant brick wall, because nothing says soundproofing better than
44:53
a brick wall.
44:54
Speaker 2: And if it sounds like we're doing like nineteen sixties
44:57
radio with the echo, go to warning, darl how are you?
45:01
It's I thought, you know you do studio soundproofing, But
45:06
I guess the esthetic is the thing. Now it's a
45:09
creator's space. So you can have this. I guess if
45:12
I was doing a vlog, it would be better vlog
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the impaler, that's what you'd call me in the morning.
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Doctor Clark is on the phone, already triggered him this
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morning and we've barely covered any ground yet. Good morning,
45:56
doctor Clark. How are you, sir.
46:00
Speaker 3: One?
46:00
Speaker 23: Pretty good on the story about the illegal alien truck
46:05
driver with a CDL from California.
46:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, how'd he get that? Huh?
46:11
Speaker 23: Ford A Singe it's his name.
46:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's sing, but con Union Sing is
46:18
what I call him.
46:18
Speaker 23: But anyway, accountability matters. I've heard that severity of the
46:27
charges et cetera, et cetera. Joe, it occurs to me
46:32
that if you're going to hold this guy accountable.
46:35
Speaker 4: M h.
46:37
Speaker 2: There's some other people that need.
46:38
Speaker 23: To be held accountable here. How about the place where
46:42
he got his CDL from. He wasn't driving illegally. He
46:48
had a valid CDL from California.
46:52
Speaker 2: Now I'm no barrister, but I would like to argue
46:55
that point in court somewhere, you know, because if somebody
46:58
is not a legal citizen, and I know that they've
47:00
written all the giant freaking loopholes to drive a tractor
47:04
trailer over a family of three through, but you know
47:09
just because you say it, so you've got the insanity
47:13
begins when you drag the point of saying they're people
47:16
they should have work, Well, you're already presuming that you're
47:21
just going to let them in anyway. That's the argument
47:24
that the fraudulent, I believe ill balanced argument that they
47:29
make is that they're here, might as well let them work.
47:32
That's California's reasoning for giving them driver's license. Am I wrong?
47:36
Is that, well they're here, they're going to drive anyway? Well, no,
47:39
they're not supposed to be here. You're just shrugging your shoulders.
47:43
It is the ultimate in gas lit you governance.
47:50
Speaker 23: Somebody at the California DMV gave him a license. They
47:56
were given a directive to do that, probably, right.
47:58
Speaker 2: Joe, Oh yeah, it goes up to the California legislature.
48:02
They they said, yeah, we're going to permit. I mean,
48:05
the DMV couldn't the guy could The DMV couldn't say
48:08
this guy shouldn't have a license, he's not permitted to.
48:12
Speaker 23: Around seventy five, eighty years ago, they had some trials
48:15
at this place called Nurrenberg. And you didn't want to
48:19
do an accident a minute ago.
48:21
Speaker 2: But I'm a big one.
48:21
Speaker 9: That won't get me in trouble.
48:22
Speaker 2: I promise, okay.
48:25
Speaker 23: I was only following to all us was not unacceptable
48:31
defense then, nor should it be now.
48:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, Quentin Tarantino had quite a movie about, well how
48:36
that didn't become, you know, a great defense when the
48:39
bear jew came out of the tunnel. But yeah, but
48:44
you're right, I mean, just just following orders is flimsy
48:49
when the orders are ridiculous. And yeah, humanity says people
48:55
deserve a right to make a living. And I don't
48:58
think he was out there trying to kill people. But
49:01
he also had no idea how to drive in the
49:05
United States. By that, I mean what he did, quite honestly,
49:10
could have been a perfectly legitimate truck driver move. And
49:13
there are so many damn people in India who's going
49:16
to miss three? But in the United States, we have
49:19
a different set of guidelines. Let's call them guidelines since
49:23
we feel like we can make them up as we
49:25
go along. But the rules of the road are don't
49:30
run over people. And if your country doesn't have that rule,
49:35
maybe we shouldn't give you a driver's license. But really
49:39
drives me wild is the two point five million people
49:42
who weren't run over by this guy signing a petition
49:45
saying he's just he had a tragic accident, don't ruin
49:50
his life for it. Where are the petition signatures for
49:53
the three people who were killed by him?
49:56
Speaker 23: Two point five million? Is that how many people were
49:59
still watching in the view or something?
50:02
Speaker 2: They should be so lucky? Uh, Mike writes into three
50:05
four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
50:08
He says, Joe, you understand what a small percentage of
50:11
the American population two point five million signatures is? Yeah, yeah,
50:15
I get it. I mean it's like ten percent of
50:18
the population. One percent of the population.
50:22
Speaker 23: Were they auto generated? Are those AI signatures? Where did
50:26
they come from?
50:28
Speaker 2: Well, half of the Biden administration's executive orders were auto
50:32
pen signatures. So you know, why wouldn't.
50:34
Speaker 23: It is that part of the eighteen million disappearing votes.
50:39
Speaker 2: That could be too. I mean, gosh, technology is very
50:42
fanciful these days, isn't it.
50:45
Speaker 23: Yeah, Well, there's no accountability as long as you know
50:51
this guy's hell, let's collect for the low guy on
50:55
the totem pole here, I mean, I meaning the DMP car.
51:03
He should be charged, But everybody complicit in putting him
51:09
in the position he was in should be charged as well.
51:12
Speaker 2: And that included Gavin Newsom for shepherding and and the
51:17
General Assembly for allowing. And then also, if you're going
51:21
to do that, let's talk about the Biden administration and
51:25
the Department of Homeland Security and Border Guards and all
51:29
of these folks. They should be held accountable too, shouldn't they.
51:33
If you, I mean, if you're going to use the
51:34
Nuremberg standard, I'm good Neuremberg. That's the hashtag Neuremberg.
51:45
Speaker 1: Uh.
51:45
Speaker 2: And you know, of course that you have a great morning,
51:47
doctor Clark, always well thought out, Keep doing what you do,
51:52
Corey DeAngelis coming up as we cover the State Policy Network,
51:57
one of the great voices in parents rights, school choice,
52:01
anti teachers union, and you know, you don't want to
52:07
define yourself by what you're against, but my gosh, at
52:10
what point do we not agree that the teachers' union
52:14
is perhaps a lot of the problems, especially for teachers.
52:18
I mean, if you're a teacher, how many years have
52:21
you been in the teachers union? And yet you still
52:23
every four years or two years that the midterms, you
52:26
come out and you say, I make less than you know,
52:30
survival wages in my community. By the way, it's less
52:34
than one tenth of a percent. It's seven hundredths of
52:39
a percent. Of the American population is two point five million.
52:43
So that is the population as we counted it. We
52:48
should add the illegals to it, right.
52:54
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