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Terrorism then (09/11/01) and now (09/10/25) (Thursday September 11, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: That America eleven trying to call. We have to play
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that one day, wie, I need be Okay, we are
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running today aboard the pirate.
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Speaker 2: Everyone can gap.
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Speaker 3: They're in the fact that they are playing.
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Speaker 4: They're not.
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Speaker 5: The hijacker.
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Speaker 2: They're in the cock pit home today. By Joe Thomas
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on the Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 6: I know you know.
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Speaker 7: Not to phone down to us.
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Speaker 8: We've got to get signed for the kills.
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Speaker 2: Let's go terrorism in America.
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Speaker 9: Okay, we did what connection.
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Speaker 2: This is CNN breaking News.
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Speaker 10: This justin.
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Speaker 11: You were looking at obviously a very disturbing liveshot there.
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That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed
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reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one
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of the towers of the World Trade Center.
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Speaker 2: I was on the air at that moment. I was
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on the air WTSS in Buffalo, New York, and the
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conversation began with my news person and my co host
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that it was an accidental plane flying. And I made
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this point, having grown up in New York too much, No,
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that's not an accident. That's a restricted no fly zone
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around Manhattan nowhere planes would be anywhere near there. But
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the story continued that it was an accidental small plane
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that flew into the World Trade Center accidentally got off
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course into But if you've ever flown into New York,
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even before September eleventh, there's no flight pattern that goes
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anywhere near there. But terrorism, terrorism became something more than
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just an abject theory to Americans on that day twenty
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four years ago, and again yesterday, when a terrorist did
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what terrorists do. Terrorists use our fears and the things
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that we hold dear as weapons against us in order
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to get us to stop being who we are. It's
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the nature of terrorism. You make people who you hate
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stop being what you hate because you cannot stand their existence.
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So therefore you must make them stop being who they are.
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And the terrorists, mark my words, no differently at Utah
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Valley University yesterday on the roof, and just like the
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airport's security in New Hampshire that allowed Mohammad ata to
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get behind security at Logan International, there are things that
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went very wrong at Utah Valley University that allowed the
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terrorists to get under the roof. And again we find
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ourselves facing the challenge of keeping true to who we
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are in the face of fear. On first thing today,
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we must have our first things, and we begin with
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the President.
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Speaker 10: To my great fellow Americans, I am filled with grief
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and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on
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a college campus in Utah. Charlie inspired millions, and tonight
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all who knew him and loved him are united.
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Speaker 12: In shock and horror.
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Speaker 10: Charlie was a patriot who devoted his life to the
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cause of open debate and the country that he loved
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so much, the United States of America. He fought for liberty, democracy, justice,
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and the American people. He's a martyr for truth and freedom.
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And there has never been anyone who was so respected
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by youth.
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Speaker 2: I had someone that lived in the public eye. Of course,
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Charlie Kirk's last moments were streamed live to many on
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the Internet, much like that fateful day on September eleventh,
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two thousand and one, who as America all tuned to
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see the first plane that it hit the aftermath watched
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live as the second plane flew into the World Trade
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Center South Tower at Utah Valley University. A man in
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a gray shirt had just asked the radio show host
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and founder of Turning Point USA, quote, do you know
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how many mass shooters there have been in America over
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the last ten years, Kirk replied, counting or not counting
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gang violence, and that was the moment the assassin's bullet struck.
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Turning Point USA has posted an official statement following the
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assassination of their founder. Quote, is what a heavy heart
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that we confirmed that Charles James Kirk has been murdered
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by a gunshot that took place during Turning Point USA's
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the American Comeback Tour campus event at Utah Valley University.
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May he be received in to the mercipul arms of
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our loving Savior who suffered and died for Charlie. We
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ask that everyone keep his family and loved ones in
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their prayers. We asked that you please respect their privacy
6:13
and dignity at this time. Today is the twenty fourth
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anniversary of the September eleventh terrorist attacks, and polling from
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the Miltglonklin and Associates Group says that American voters surveyed
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nationwide show that eighty three percent believed that every school
6:32
in America should be required to teach students about the
6:35
September eleventh attacks, specifically identifying the perpetrators as radical Islamists.
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Those are our first things On this September eleventh, twenty
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are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
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or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
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Speaker 15: Bruh, that's buzzed.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 15: And now a speech.
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Speaker 4: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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heart and brain.
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Speaker 5: Who's with me?
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Speaker 15: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
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Speaker 7: 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 5: Love that guy, Me too, know your buzzed warning signs,
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Speaker 12: First thing today on the Talk Media Edward by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 2: Sadly sometimes they're not even all that far out there,
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and they're not anymore. That's the bigger problem to stand
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in front of you and do it. But we can
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the totalitarianism that will come to them. Do you want
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Speaker 13: Prayer?
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Speaker 2: Right after this?
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Speaker 16: Okay, the charelays before the House of Communication, the House.
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Speaker 12: Will be in order.
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Speaker 2: These are your representatives, thank you all.
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Speaker 4: The house will be in order to chair lads for
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the House of Communication.
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Speaker 17: Speaker, House of Representative, Sir, I have the honor to
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transmit here where they copy of a letter received from
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as D. J. Grigor, Director of Operations with a Virginia
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Department of Elections indicating that according to.
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Speaker 2: The end and then it went into regular business, that
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was the devolution of the House at the mere suggestion
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of a moment of silence for the assassination of someone
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who many of their younger constituents and hold to be
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a hero, somebody who in the face of an indoctrination
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culture that's designed to punish sadly discordant thought on campuses
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that were designed to be the place where that free
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thought was taught, encouraged, rewarded. The University of Virginia founded
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by Thomas Jefferson himself for the simple idea that the
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average American should have access to higher education than Amongst
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that education be the education of how to think critically.
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And that's what the terrorists want now. The terrorists want
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us to stop thinking critically. If you follow me on
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social media, you've seen many of my posts since yesterday afternoon.
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I was in meetings at three o'clock when this all happened.
16:26
It was just shortly afternoon, I guess it was two
16:28
o'clock Eastern when it began. When the shooting happened twenty
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four years ago, I was, as I said, sitting there,
16:39
just ironically, having just finished an interview with an author
16:43
of a book about the glass ceiling that reported that
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amongst some of the worst glass ceilings in America, Canter Fitzgerald.
16:58
I still have the cassette that was recorded of that show,
17:03
go back to it everything. That's just one of those
17:06
weird things. Not an hour before the first plane ostensibly
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landed on Candor and Fitzgerald's floors at the World Trade Center,
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we had been on the air in Buffalo, New York,
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talking to an author of a book who had said,
17:22
among American companies, Caunter Fitzgerald was one of the worst,
17:26
And I said, who are they? I'm very nerd of them,
17:34
and at your service. I fight the inclination to grow.
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Speaker 18: Cold.
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Speaker 2: This isn't the first morning I've had to come on
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the air like this, I said. I was there as
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it happened September eleventh, two thousand and one, watched it unfold,
18:01
came back on the air after round the clock news coverage.
18:05
A few weeks later, my partner and I, because we
18:07
were music hosts, were asked by the news department to
18:11
go out and do man on the street stuff and
18:16
was struck by the amount of anti Muslim hatred there
18:24
was your humble host. If you listen for five seconds
18:28
of this program, you won't be surprised that when confronted
18:31
with some of that, I said, you realize that the
18:33
worst terrorists prior to September one, two thousand and one,
18:37
was from Buffalo. Timothy McVeigh, Timothy mcvay's father, called me
18:45
after that broadcast that hits you. Now, you didn't call
18:51
me to complain because I didn't a sale him or
18:57
anything more than to point out that if we're going
18:59
to go and round up all the Muslims because Mohammad
19:03
Atta and Osama bin Laden hated America and the concept
19:13
that we would allow Israel to exist. I faced mornings
19:19
like this August fourteenth, twenty seventeen, dead bodies of state
19:27
troopers and political activists who I had even met shared
19:32
an office building with the radio station I was on.
19:37
But I had five oh six was going to arrive
19:41
eastern daylight time, whether I was ready for it or not.
19:44
And I had a responsibility to you to get your
19:48
day started and to get your day started with the perspective.
19:56
And I said on August fourteenth, at six am, still
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trying to grapple with what had transpired in my hometown,
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the hometown of Thomas Jefferson, as terrorists masquerading as conservatives,
20:19
for whom truly the only time I felt fearful for
20:26
my life was in the face of the folks who
20:29
pretended to be conservatives in Charlottesville that day, who used
20:35
threats and aggression to try to force me to let
20:38
them on my radio program when I disagreed wholeheartedly with
20:42
the dumpster fire they were trying to start. And I
20:45
disagree with terrorism, and I wasn't going to promote it.
20:51
And I worked with a security company to become situationally aware.
20:55
So I grew up in New York, and you know,
20:57
and to be fair, when they started teaching me to
21:00
be situationally aware, there was a lot of stuff I
21:03
already knew, dark parking lots and how to be aware
21:08
of the exploits and places people can be hiding. But
21:15
as these days add up and we do more and
21:18
more of these days, it redoubles my belief that the
21:25
only way the terrorists, whether it be this single terrorist
21:29
on the roof at Utah Valley University or the eleven
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that took over the airplanes twenty four years ago, the
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only way they win is if we change ourselves to
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become more like them, Because they hate us for what
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we believe in, They hate us for having conversations. They
21:49
hate Charlie Kirk because he would engage them with debate
21:53
and wouldn't shout them down, said tell me. As a
21:55
matter of fact, his tour was called prove me wrong.
21:59
They couldn't take.
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reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
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has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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Speaker 13: 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
25:16
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
25:21
are not from US. Real solid 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 solid security number or bank account,
25:37
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
25:51
dot SSA dot gov.
25:55
Speaker 19: Uh oh bra, that's buzzed.
25:56
Speaker 15: Oh yeah yeah.
25:57
Speaker 2: He's starting with the woots.
26:00
Speaker 15: And now a speech.
26:02
Speaker 7: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
26:06
art and brain.
26:07
Speaker 2: Who's with me?
26:08
Speaker 20: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed and my
26:11
brain is saying, when it's time to go home, Somebody.
26:13
Speaker 12: Call me a ride.
26:15
Speaker 19: Love that guy, me too.
26:16
Speaker 5: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
26:19
it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
26:23
Did you know that more than half our household energy
26:25
costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
26:29
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.
26:43
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 labor and
27:00
there are day to day things you can do.
27:03
Speaker 6: Lower 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
27:13
reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash
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consumer protection agency, for.
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Speaker 12: Hundred to do list.
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Speaker 2: Putting the radio on is the first thing today, and
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it's an honor that you do that with me. I
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have three public speaking engagements in the next week, including
28:25
one today at noon as part of September eleventh. Americans
28:31
for Prosperity has invited me to speak, and those who
28:35
do what I do in the public eye are always
28:40
of this mind. But as I posted to social media yesterday,
28:43
as the news first struck that Charlie had been shot.
28:47
Charlie Kirk I posted that for the most part, I
28:51
had found that the only time I really ever felt
28:54
my life and threat was when somebody felt like I
28:58
had screwed them out of Aerosmith tickets and called and
29:01
threatened to kill me for it. The Suffolk County Police
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generally monitor our phone calls for the next week and
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had police officers stationed around the building and on buildings
29:13
nearby because they felt like it was a credible threat.
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They said. In July and August of two thousand and seventeen,
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I felt nervous about some of the folks who wanted
29:27
to try to convince my listeners that they were conservative
29:31
like they were, and they really weren't it and bore
29:35
it out on August twelfth of twenty seventeen, when conservative
29:39
patriots who wanted to defend free speech and honest telling
29:43
of history and Robert E. Lee and that kind of
29:46
thing arrived only to find themselves in the midst of
29:51
a David Duke reunion white sheets conference catfished into it,
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and each one that came to me amidst the tear
29:58
gas and the spray, I told get out, told you
30:03
not to come here. And it wasn't that I don't
30:07
believe in conservatives or I don't believe in telling the
30:11
honest truth about things. Hide Robert E. Lee know all
30:15
that despot was offensive to me, but the people who
30:20
were using it for their own profit offended me as well,
30:25
perhaps even more so. And those folks had me concerned
30:31
and more hyper aware of the things that can happen.
30:36
But the way, there's several emails already and a conversation
30:41
with my thirty one year old son was born the
30:44
same year as Charlie Kirk, who years ago was not
30:49
a Charlie Kirk fan. I was one of the biggest supporters.
30:55
You may remember there was this fella named Rush Limbaugh
30:59
and he used to do a radio show at noon.
31:03
Speaker 8: And the conference what was it, three Turning Point USA.
31:10
How many kids were there? And there three thousand student
31:14
activists here in was actually over to West Palm Beach.
31:17
And this is a group that has been put together
31:20
and operates under the auspices of Charlie Kirk, right, who
31:25
is a you're going to be hearing that name if
31:28
you haven't, He's enough.
31:30
Speaker 12: Charlie.
31:31
Speaker 2: Let me just tell you. Let me just tell you.
31:33
Speaker 12: I don't want I don't want to jinx him, but.
31:36
Speaker 2: I'm just going to tell you.
31:38
Speaker 8: They brought Charlie Kirk to the golf course to meet
31:41
me about a month ago. He was in town to
31:45
set up this turning Point thing, and they brought him
31:48
to the golf course to meet me. It was during
31:49
We're getting ready for a eight forty five am start,
31:54
and they brought him out while I was getting ready
31:55
to go to the range loosen up, and I spoke
31:58
with him for about a half hour, and he told
32:00
me how he grew up in a home where my
32:04
program was on all the time. He was just effusively
32:09
complimentary to me, which which I of course understood, and
32:16
told him he's very wise.
32:17
Speaker 2: He's very wise. He chuckled, he laughed.
32:20
Speaker 12: This is the kind of guy.
32:24
Speaker 8: That you can see really becoming big in politics as
32:29
he gets older. He just has the kind the carriage
32:33
the person out of the charisma.
32:35
Speaker 2: So when it came to pass that time and illness
32:39
took Rush Limbaugh from the radio station I was running
32:41
at the time. In the face of opposition ownership, wanted
32:47
to go with the people who were considered already anointed
32:51
as the and I said, no, you got to listen,
32:53
and I played other clips Rush Limbaugh speaking at Turning
32:56
Point USA rallies about Charlie Kirk, and I was able
33:02
to convince them out on a limb that I was
33:06
right and everyone else in America was wrong, and that
33:11
we should put this guy, who I think at the
33:12
time was really just doing podcasts, and the network he
33:16
was on, I think it was on about twenty or
33:18
thirty stations at the time, they really weren't pushing him
33:22
as the case in what I called his network. They said,
33:25
you sure you don't want this other guy as much bigger,
33:27
he's hosted some debates with presidential candidates, much bigger. Said no,
33:31
I want this Charlie Kirk guy. So we're on in
33:34
a college town, and I think being on in a
33:38
college town, and of course being in the radio business,
33:40
you want to keep a young audience coming in. It
33:43
was important and as I said at the time, my
33:46
son not a big fan of Charlie Kirk. Last night furious,
33:51
and I felt this urgency to be a parent again
33:53
and say, listen, you can't fight anger with anger. Hate
34:02
only redoubles more hate, Removing the stars I'm paraphrasing here,
34:07
removing the stars from a no increasing the darkness in
34:13
a night already devoid of stars. I said, you can't
34:16
you can't win by becoming like them, and I think
34:23
I talked him off the ledge a bit, but he
34:25
was very angry, which I thought was, as I said,
34:27
funny because my son at the time when I made
34:30
the switch and I brought Charlie Kirk into my hometown
34:33
and onto the station that I ran, not so much
34:36
a big fan of Charlie Kirk. That's changed over time
34:40
because over time you get to know somebody. I even
34:43
talked to Charlie about it, and it just said, no pressure,
34:47
no pressure. Taking over from Russia. Limbaugh, Well, you know, the.
34:50
Speaker 1: Pressure shows the man is what the old expression is.
34:53
So I hope I can live up to it. But
34:55
I appreciate the words, and I love Charlotteville, and I
34:59
love that the world so honored to be able to
35:01
speak to everyone every day and home to a.
35:03
Speaker 2: Great turning point USA group here at the University of
35:07
mister Jefferson here and fighting to keep it, you know.
35:11
And I still think the most daunting thing is is
35:14
encouraging young college kids not too far removed from where
35:18
you are, Charlie, to be brave in the face of
35:20
the onslaught of the cancel culture run amock, you know,
35:26
and and on a daily basis, you guys are out
35:28
there and growing every every minute. And and to me,
35:32
that's that's gobsmacking, that that is something we all could
35:36
school on.
35:37
Speaker 1: Well, thank you. I appreciate that we do have a
35:39
great group at University of Virginia. And I'm a big
35:42
Thomas Jefferson fan. And I'm not afraid to say that
35:45
because I actually know my history of Jefferson. I'm like
35:47
the people that want to remove him from our society.
35:51
He was a brilliant man and any sort of moral
35:54
shortcomings he had were actually a lot more nuanced than
35:57
people would realize. However, I did not come here to
35:59
talk about that, but more broadly, yes, what we're doing
36:02
at Turning Point USA is trying to educate and inspire,
36:06
activate and train the next generation to stand boldly and
36:08
with courage against this kind of cultural onslaught.
36:13
Speaker 2: That was one of many conversations I've had with Charlie
36:17
Kirk over the time. And that's the message on this
36:23
morning is the terrorist and I use that word not
36:29
just because it's true. It's what the assassin on the
36:33
roof of the University of it was a Utah Utah
36:38
Valley University. That terrorist wants you to stop. It wants
36:47
you to stop listening to programs like this. They want
36:50
you to stop reading the Bill of Rights. They want
36:53
you to stop loving one another. They want you to
36:57
stop believing that God has endowed you with un and
37:00
alienable rights. They want you to stop all the things
37:06
that make America unique, make America exceptional, and they want
37:10
you to become like them. You can be mad at me.
37:18
You say, no, Joe, it's time. And this was a
37:20
conversation I had with my own thirty one year old
37:23
son yesterday. No, it's time for us to go and
37:26
do the things that they're doing to us. No, it's not.
37:32
Now's the time to do just the opposite. And I
37:37
warn you that that is going to make them more
37:40
insane than they already are. And we watched. I mean,
37:45
I could spend the next four hours just playing clips
37:47
of unhinged people on social media, which is an ugly
37:52
black mirror into the soul of the human animal. Don't
38:00
be like them.
38:02
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Speaker 3: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
42:25
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42:29
Speaker 7: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom
42:36
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42:38
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Speaker 21: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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Speaker 22: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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first date?
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Speaker 16: Sure?
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Speaker 5: We'll probably stay together.
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Speaker 22: Probably, it's been twenty three minutes.
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Speaker 12: Since I ate. I can probably swim.
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Speaker 16: You should wait thirty minutes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'll tell me what to do.
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Speaker 16: Can it bar.
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Speaker 4: Cramp?
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Speaker 11: Oh?
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Speaker 2: I have a cramp. I can probably hit the green
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from here?
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Speaker 12: Probably?
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Speaker 6: Can I get a Mulligan.
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Speaker 2: Ready to go?
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Speaker 21: Hey?
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Speaker 22: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
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Speaker 19: Yeah?
43:30
Speaker 12: I'm pretty sober.
43:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
43:35
Speaker 21: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
43:39
and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
43:42
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44:13
Speaker 7: For you from Joe Thomas.
44:16
Speaker 12: It's first thing today.
44:18
Speaker 2: Are you a hockey fan? You know what a coon is?
44:23
In hockey?
44:25
Speaker 4: All across America, talk radio and the voices of freedom.
44:31
Speaker 12: Don't stop talking.
44:32
Speaker 2: That's what this guy in the roof was. Don't stop laughing,
44:37
don't stop caring. As long as you God, don't ever stop,
44:44
and we never will because that's what makes them mad.
44:49
Acknowledging that poverty is an issue and that there are
44:52
different ways to do it, different ways to discuss it.
44:57
That somebody who hates their body in to mutilate it
45:02
probably needs to talk to someone, and that offends somebody
45:08
saying that somebody needs help, and that they're calling out
45:13
for it. That's hate. We play a clip and it's
45:24
been over and over, and sometimes I try not to
45:29
because it's so easy to apply this clip to so
45:37
many instances, so I try to hold off, though the
45:45
inclination is I could probably play this every five minutes
45:48
and it would be formatically correct. I'm not leaving until
45:54
I get justice. Oh not exactly justice. I suppose more
45:57
like preferential treatment. But I'm not leaving it. And that
46:03
is the world we're in. We want preferential treatment. We
46:07
want to be special, which isn't not an misunderstood thing.
46:14
People have wanted to feel special. But what are you
46:17
doing for that specialty? What are you doing to earn
46:22
that specialness? The blowback from some of the leftists unhinged
46:37
remarks regarding victim shaming. Ironically, the same people who will
46:46
tell you that they're against victim shaming seem to be
46:53
all for it. Yesterday, in the wake of the assassination
46:55
of Charlie Kirk, the terrorist, the goon that's trying to
47:00
get us into a hockey fight with them, That's why
47:03
I referred to him as a goon. Them still at large,
47:07
Utah officials still looking for him goon, Because what a
47:12
goon does is goes after your best hockey player and
47:17
tries to get them into a hockey fight, so that
47:20
he who couldn't score a goal if there wasn't a
47:23
goalie or anyone else on the ice, spends five minutes
47:26
in the penalty box. But so does your best scorer,
47:31
And so a goon does. And that's what this goon
47:34
in Utah did, And he wants us to get into
47:40
a hockey fight with him. He wants us to drop
47:43
the gloves so that you and me and everyone else
47:45
goes into the hockey penalty box, the societal penalty box
47:50
with them. They don't care. They weren't doing anything anyway
47:54
we are. Don't let them get you to drop the
48:00
Do what Wayne Gretzky used to do. You know what
48:02
do you do? You know what Mark Messier would do.
48:05
Go score on them, Go bury one in the corner
48:09
of the net on them. That's what makes them mad,
48:13
not giving into them, not dropping the gloves in the corner.
48:18
By the way, just so you know, other things are
48:22
going on. Do you know that Poland has invoked Article
48:26
four of the NATO Treaty, which requires all the nations
48:30
to gather because their airspace was invaded by Russian drones.
48:36
By the way, other things going on in the world.
48:40
Good morning, You're on the air. First thing this morning
48:42
with Joe Thomas. Who's this? Hey Joe, It's Clark, Morning Clark.
48:47
How are you, sir?
48:49
Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm alright.
48:50
Speaker 2: I guess I understand. I understand the feeling.
48:54
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, Joe.
48:57
Speaker 16: It occurs to me that until we just accept and
49:01
embrace the fact that the left hates the country and
49:07
they hate us because we love the country, we're never
49:14
going to grasp the situation we're in.
49:17
Speaker 2: I think that that is the situation, and I believe
49:21
present company included, I think we do grasp that that
49:25
these are people, and until until people like Chuck Schumer,
49:31
until people and pardon me again, if I want to
49:35
make a moral equivalency, When somebody like the organizers of
49:42
the David Duke reunion in Charlottesville, as they walked around
49:47
pronouncing themselves to be conservatives, I was asked dozens of
49:52
times do you renounce this concern? And I'm like, what
49:56
am I supposed to renounce? What does renounce mean? Donald Trump,
50:00
do you renounce conservatives that support a fair telling of
50:05
the Civil War? Do you renounce every Everyone wants to
50:08
renounce from the left, But nobody ever asked Chuck Schumer
50:12
to renounce anyone. Nobody ever asks Nancy Pelosi to renounce anyone.
50:17
Nobody ever says, hey, AOC, do you renounce this guy?
50:21
When are they going to be held to account for
50:24
the behavior of the people. When did Bernie Sanders Bernie
50:27
Sanders reaction to his supporter, his Bernie bro that nearly
50:31
killed Steve Scalise and all those congressional baseball players. His
50:37
reaction was, I'm not in charge of what he does.
50:42
At what point? At what point is Maxi and Waters
50:45
held to account for saying when you see these people
50:48
get in their face at because I said this to
50:52
my son, I said, because I truly believe that there
50:55
are people who have a tenuous grip on their last
50:59
good and some of them listen to this program. Some
51:02
of them are big Donald Trump fans, and I don't
51:05
want to be the guy who, like Jeff Bridges in
51:09
the Fisher King, pushes them over the edge. We need
51:13
to be better than the people who go up on
51:15
a roof. And by the way, at some point, Utah
51:19
Valley University needs to explain to me how somebody gets
51:23
onto that roof, just like the folks in Butler. Probably
51:26
at some point should be explaining how the teenager became
51:31
the teen on the hot tin roof. But I'm giving
51:34
up holding my breath for that. But am I wrong
51:36
to say? When do these people start to be asked
51:39
to renounce this stuff?
51:43
Speaker 16: When we accept the fact that they hate us and
51:45
hate the country. And when I use the term wee Joe,
51:49
I don't mean Jellen Clark. We're there. The rest that
51:53
we are not there, Ah, And that's our problem.
51:57
Speaker 2: I think a lot more of we are there. I
52:00
think a lot more of we are there. Thus, twenty
52:02
twenty four, you know what, you know what day? And
52:04
here's one and I'm going to hang on to you.
52:06
I'm sure we got the news coming up here. But
52:08
you want to know something that's going to really infuriate them.
52:10
And I hate to make it about politics, but you
52:13
know what really is going to make them mad? The
52:17
swearing in the swearing in of Governor Winsome Earl Series
52:22
of Virginia, the swearing in of Jack Chatterrelly, Governor of
52:26
New Jersey, the swearing in of Curtis sliwa Is, the
52:30
Mayor of New York. That that will that will blow
52:33
their mind. You want to make them mad. Make that happen.
52:37
Make that happen. That's instead of dropping, like I said
52:41
Wayne Gretzky, when he got thugged up, he went out
52:45
and buried a goal into the corner of the net.
52:48
That's how he gets back.
52:51
Speaker 19: Crime across the country is at an all time high.
52:54
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52:56
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