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"In Sickess and in Health" (Monday September 22, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Absolute qui first thing today by Joe Thomas on the
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  Chunk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be of service to you.
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  There's supposed to be musical accompaniment here, but apparently too
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  much time was spent going through audio and video of
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  the affairs of States in Phoenix yesterday that somebody left
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  the orchestra in the other room. Well we'll get them
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  squared away for you. But welcome into a Monday morning
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  musical accompaniment or not. At four three four eight eight
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  two four two one seven, we break the news down
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  for you, and then of course we want to find
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  out how it's impacting you where you are.
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  Speaker 3: The rally.
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  Speaker 2: In Phoenix reports of upwards of two hundred thousand people
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  descending in the desert to celebrate the life of Charlie Kirks.
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  Only about eighty thousand were allowed into State Farm Arena,
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  and then another twenty thousand were moved into the basketball
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  arena next door, and the remaining overflow listened to speakers
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  outside and a couple of hastily deployed video screens. And
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  of all the messages delivered during the event, the most profound,
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  provided by widow Erica kirk that was President Trump Erica Trump.
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  Erica Kirk said to the crowd, I've forgive him, referring
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  to the assassin that took her husband's life eleven days earlier.
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  Could you four three four eight two four two one seven?
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  Speaker 3: Could you will you? For everyone who.
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  Speaker 2: Asked over the past two weeks, how is it that
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  somebody could face people who disagreed with him and say,
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  go ahead, tell me what you got.
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  Speaker 3: How could you do that?
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  Speaker 2: It's a confidence that comes from knowing that what happens
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  here is only tangible if it's done with love and
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  a reminder.
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  Speaker 3: That this is not his domain.
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  Speaker 2: We are here to survive in the valley of darkness,
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  and the challenges that.
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  Speaker 3: Are born of the deceiver.
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  Speaker 2: That we have to survive, we have to overcome, and
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  when we do, we'll be exalted. And this is what
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  Charlie Kirk knew, and it was what was celebrated yesterday. Meanwhile,
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  there are some ugly things going on in the world,
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  and we will chronic that all for you, because most everyone,
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  like the people who are supposed to have our opening
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  music ready, we're spending too much time on what was
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  going on in Phoenix. But that's okay, and it's understandable,
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  but our first things.
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  Speaker 3: This morning.
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  Speaker 2: In Phoenix, the President, vice president, and the entire cabinet,
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  White House, Chief of Staff, and everyone on down spoke
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  in honor.
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  Speaker 3: Of Charlie Kirk. But Erica Kirk, the widow.
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  Speaker 2: Of assassinated founder of Turning Point Up and civil rights
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  activist Charlie Kirk, said during an emotional memorial service that
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  she forgives the assailant. President Trump says, though it's what
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  Charlie would have wanted, he finds it harder to do that.
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  He also said that the administration will be making an
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  announcement today on found findings into the cause of autism.
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  He said, I think it's going to be a very
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  important announcement. I think it's going to be one of
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  the most important things that we ever do. Sunday, the
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  Taliban government in Afghanistan rejected the administration's bid to retake
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  Bagram Airbase in exchange for things that they said Afghanistan
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  needs from the United States. Senate Majority minority leader Chuck
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  Schumer said on Sunday he would not rule out banking
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  President Trump's demand for a clean stopgap funding bill to
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  avert a partial government shutdown on October first look, we
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  hope it doesn't come to that, he said on CNN.
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  President Trump said he'll be nominating White House aide Lindsey
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  Halligan to serve as top federal prosecutor in the eastern
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  District of Virginia. Eric Sebert, the interim US attorney, stepped
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  Speaker 9: Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 11: Who's with me?
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  Speaker 8: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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  Speaker 12: Love that guy, me too, know.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk
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  Speaker 11: Leadings sweet.
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  Speaker 2: So the mayor of Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: That's a better viitual. Jails and incarceration and.
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  Speaker 18: Law enforcement is a sickness that has not led to
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  safe communities.
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  Speaker 2: And I know everyone wants to talk about the Kirk
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  Memorial cho but when you have a mayor that talks
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  like that, when you what do you? You cannot And
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  I know that your forgiveness is a word that, thanks
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  to Erica Kirk, is on everyone's lips this morning.
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  Speaker 3: In the city.
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  Speaker 18: And we're using every single resource that's available to us.
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  Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that
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  has not led to safe communities. The fact of the
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  matter is we are driving bidence down in this city
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  and we're using every single resource that's available to sickness.
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  Speaker 2: Law enforcement is a sickness in a city with fifty
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  four shootings a week and more half a dozen to
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  a dozen deaths of young people, just like Charlie Kirk,
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  and the mayor calls the law enforcement the sickness. Brandon
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  Johnson is now trying to backwalk what he was saying,
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  but it seems pretty clear to anyone who's listening to it.
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  Speaker 18: Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that
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  has not led to safe community.
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  Speaker 2: The sickness law enforcement. And understand the phrase is important
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  because if there is a law against something, there is,
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  because we're a human, the possibility that it is an
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  unjust law. This was why government in this country was
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  meant to be limited in what its power was. But
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  even in the simplest terms, if you just establish what
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  the punishment is for a crime committed, you still have
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  to codify what that crime is.
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  Speaker 3: And in times past, the color of your skin could
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  be criminalized.
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  Speaker 2: So without question, we have and we cannot deny our
• 16:44
  ability to write horrifically unjust laws. Why we've even watched
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  them get dragged all the way up to the US
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  Supreme Court where they were considered constitutional laws aboutalizing people
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  because they needed public assistance. These are the same people
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  who insist that there needs to be public assistance. And
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  if you need public assistance because we won't let you
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  find a job because we also have laws against that,
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  you see how it could work. You keep all this
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  nicely hidden under your white sheet, and it seems so
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  much more genteel until the crosses start burning, of course,
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  but that's not the case in Chicago. Law enforcement is
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  not the sickness. The sickness is the attitude of the
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  elected officials that, because there's more voters in the block
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  of people who want to commit crime than those who
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  want to enforce the laws, it's an easier political punching
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  bag to say that law enforcement is the sickness. Now,
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  if you have unjust laws, Mayor Johnson, then you need
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  to talk to city council about changing those unjust laws.
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  Speaker 3: Lay them out for us.
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  Speaker 2: What is unjust about protecting somebody's property from theft or
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  is that what you're implying that owning property is a
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  sickness as well. I don't mean to extrapolate, but if
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  something protecting somebody's private property is a sickness, that I
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  can only assume, and yes, there's certainly lots to talk
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  about from Sunday's rally in Phoenix, but I feel it's
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  an urgency while every single other person is doing a
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  postgame show here coming up on twelve hours later. There's
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  a lot going on that needs our attention. But I
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  will adain to your judgment. At four three four eight
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  eight two four two one seven, Good morning, You're on
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  the air, first thing this morning by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Who's this Good morning? Joe's Joel. Well, sir, how are
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  you doing today? I'm doing okay. I'm a year older today.
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  Speaker 2: So happy birthday, Happy birthday, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 19: I think what people have to realize is the biggest
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  The biggest problem is sin. And then the second problem
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  is when you denounce law enforcement as being the enemy,
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  and you don't look in your own house, you don't
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  look in your own backyard, which is Chicago and other
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  places in the United States where you have crime. And
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  then you want to look at statistics. I don't mean
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  fake statistics, but real statistics, and whore where are these
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  where are these crimes taking place? And what are the
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  crimes and who are doing them? And I know it's
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  a tough subject to talk about. I mean, there's different
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  races that are causing problems, but majority of majority of
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  crime in Chicago is black on black crime. And if
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  you bring that up, if you're white, or if you
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  bring that up as as as a as a topic,
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  then you're a racist right away.
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  Speaker 3: But we're going to be racist. We're going to be
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  called a racist anyway.
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  Speaker 20: Right.
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  Speaker 3: That was a little bit of the point of yesterday's rally.
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  Speaker 19: Right, But forget all that, And if you really want
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  to if if this was a person that was hemorrhaging,
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  or for doctor Clark's sake, and animal or something that
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  got was bitten and is hemorrhaging, what's the first thing
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  you're gonna do. You're not going to put oxygen on them.
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  You're going to try to stop the bleeding, because if
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  you don't stop the bleeding, you're gonna sanguinate, you're gonna
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  lose all your blood.
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  Speaker 20: You're gonna have no.
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  Speaker 19: Supportive tissue, which blood is tissue, the hemoglobin. Most animals
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  need have iron in their blood other than some animals don't.
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  And you need that supportive tissue to support oxygen, to
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  bring oxygen to your lungs and all your vital organs.
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  So what are the vital organs in shu cargo in
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  the United States? The people, So if you keep relaying
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  a message that's negative and doesn't make any sense, it
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  is a lie. And your parents or groups around you
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  had no hope. Then the you know, the no hope
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  message being we can't find jobs. There's drugs all around us.
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  You know, the family is broken, the unit of the
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  family is broken. Then you're going to have problems.
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  Speaker 2: Well you know, and you I'm going to go back
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  to the statistics you mentioned earlier on Joel. We're coming
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  up on our news here, but when we come back,
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  I want to delve into what you brought up with
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  statistics and communities and ethnicities that might find themselves both
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  the prey and the predator in criminal activity. But happy birthday.
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  I hope you have some good things planned.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 19: Not really don't. I don't really know a lot of
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  people around here. I've tried to meet people, but it's
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• 24:07
  bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. I
• 24:12
  am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
• 24:18
  optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
• 24:22
  nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
• 24:26
  reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
• 24:31
  The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
• 24:36
  has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
• 24:42
  cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
• 24:45
  in many instances make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
• 24:50
  healthy cells even from radiation. Totalwellness dot com where we
• 24:56
  help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: I'm Andrews. Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
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  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
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• 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
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  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
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  dot SSA dot gov.
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  Speaker 8: Uh oh, bra, that's buzzed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: He's starting with the woots and now a speech.
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
• 26:06
  art and brain.
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  Speaker 2: So Joe brought up an interesting point about Chicago and
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  the mayor and the sickness that he feels law enforcement
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  has become in his city. And he brought up the
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  idea of statistics and how it can be made to
• 28:48
  look like communities are in greater risk one way or
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  the other. And you know the expression, there's lies, there's
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  damn lies, and then there are statistics and the hierarchy
• 29:02
  of all needs. This is what you find and what
• 29:16
  they wind up doing. And this has been It could
• 29:19
  be correlation, it could be causation, it could be a
• 29:21
  little bit of both.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Within the great.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Society that we live in, you've created more poverty and
• 29:38
  then turned around and told people that stealing, violating other
• 29:46
  people's rights is okay because of your poverty. And then
• 29:57
  you compile the statistics of it and say, these communities
• 30:01
  of color are being unfairly targeted by law enforcement. And
• 30:06
  this becomes the statistic that you flounce around.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Trying to make your case that this is a racial issue.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I know you want to talk about the Charlie Kirk rally,
• 30:22
  and that's fine, you can do so at four three
• 30:24
  four eight eight two four two one seven. But these
• 30:30
  are bigger, more essential matters because your mayors and your
• 30:37
  city councilors, some of them perhaps more cautious about their words,
• 30:42
  they think the same thing as the Chicago mayor. They
• 30:51
  think the same thing that law enforcement is a sickness.
• 30:57
  And you know why they think that is because they
• 31:00
  don't want to be held accountable for the laws that
• 31:04
  they write. They would rather blame the law enforcement officer
• 31:10
  than the law. And and that's whether it be in Charlottesville, Virginia,
• 31:20
  or Chicago, Illinois.
• 31:22
  Speaker 18: That is the truth is we're using every single resource
• 31:25
  that's available to us. Jails and incarceration and law enforcement
• 31:30
  is a sickness that has not led to safe communities.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: The affect the.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Sickness is the laws that are written to forgive those
• 31:44
  who violate somebody else's constitutional rights their right to privacy,
• 31:53
  their right to property ownership, because those are seen as racist.
• 32:02
  Because and this is the extrapolation of this is exactly
• 32:07
  how they work it. Because one hundred plus years ago,
• 32:17
  the European viewpoint was that human beings could be property.
• 32:22
  It's the reason that the essential philosophy of life, liberty,
• 32:29
  and property is left out of the preamble of the
• 32:32
  Declaration of Independence. We hold these truths to be self evident,
• 32:37
  that all men are created equal, and they are endowed
• 32:40
  by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Now, the unalienable rights,
• 32:45
  as the philosophy and sociology goes, are life, liberty, and property.
• 32:50
  But because South Carolina and several of the other states
• 32:56
  were too afraid of change, too dubious about the Enlightenment,
• 33:06
  two entrenched in the idea that their constituents had lots
• 33:11
  of money and lots of power, and therefore they didn't
• 33:13
  want to change the business model that at least on
• 33:20
  three other occasions general assemblages in the colonies had tried
• 33:26
  to overthrow. The idea of owning property remains a sickness,
• 33:37
  the sickness that Chicago Mayor Johnson doesn't want to call out.
• 33:42
  So we create this massive poverty and then we say
• 33:48
  crime in the name of poverty isn't really crime, and
• 33:52
  then use those statistics to say it's a racist issue
• 33:57
  to win win for the Marx's the win win for
• 34:02
  somebody who's trying to divide a country along racial lines
• 34:06
  because they were unsuccessful in doing it along economic lines.
• 34:16
  So Joel's not wrong, he says, you know, they play
• 34:18
  with these statistics, but it begins with a darker, more
• 34:22
  sinister place. The sinister place is dehumanizing. It is the
• 34:34
  reason Marxism has to be fought at all times, is
• 34:37
  the dehumanizing that it causes. But the Chicago mayor said
• 34:52
  the quiet part out loud, and we've bless him for
• 34:55
  the whether it be agitation or inclination to finally say
• 35:01
  I'm tired of playing qts with this and this issue
• 35:05
  of law enforcement, and we're.
• 35:06
  Speaker 18: Using every single resource that's available to us. Jails and
• 35:10
  incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that law.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: But it's not the law enforcement. It's the existence of laws.
• 35:19
  It's the idea that you have private property. It's the
• 35:23
  idea that you have some individual right to exist. And
• 35:30
  if you're listening to us this morning, anywhere in and
• 35:32
  around the city of Chicago, get out. This is the
• 35:36
  same thing. I mean, Chicago is just filling the vacuum
• 35:41
  that even San Francisco realized was an untenable location. So
• 35:48
  when even San Francisco starts to elect pro law enforcement
• 35:55
  Democrats and they can't bring themselves to elect you're Republican yet.
• 35:59
  But when the district attorney and the mayor promised to
• 36:02
  clean up the crime in San Francisco, somebody has to
• 36:06
  fill the vacuum as the most lawless city in America,
• 36:10
  and Chicago has stepped up into that. Four coming up
• 36:13
  on a break. But let me see who's on the
• 36:15
  line here with us at four three four eight eight,
• 36:17
  two four two one seven. Good morning.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Who's this Hey, Joe, It's Clark Morning Clark.
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  Speaker 20: Well, go to the break and then come back and
• 36:28
  we'll get down with the sickness.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Well, we got We've got about a minute and a
• 36:31
  half here, so let me get line too. Then let
• 36:35
  me see who this line is. Good morning, who's this?
• 36:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah? This is Matt.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Hey, Matt, what's on your mind? Sir? We got about
• 36:41
  a minute and a half here.
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: First thing I wanted to do is wish Joel a
• 36:45
  happy birthday.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Good for you.
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: I understand what it is like to be surrounded by
• 36:53
  strangers at times like this.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 36:56
  Speaker 9: Also to emphasize on his point a little bit, as
• 37:01
  we have discussed in the past, for the Bill of
• 37:05
  Rights to work, you need the Ten Commandments. And I
• 37:11
  think the Chicago mayor has missed the point. I think,
• 37:17
  as you noted, the sickness is in the law making,
• 37:22
  not the law enforcement.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: This is the truth, and they don't want to address that.
• 37:29
  It's okay, so somebody's committed a crime, you don't want
• 37:32
  them to be charged for take the crime off the book.
• 37:35
  And that's the disingenuity of it. From where I said
• 37:38
  is you don't have the intestical fortitude to try to take.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: The crime off the book the statute.
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: Yeah, but also I mean this gets back to a
• 37:50
  basic question, why do people run for office?
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: That's the question of the century. Matt hang under that
• 37:58
  thought for a moment, first thing this morning.
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• 38:26
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• 38:28
  principles surveyed agreed with the same statement. Educators disagreed on
• 38:33
  the top indicators of engagement. Seventy two percent of teachers
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  said asking thoughtful questions was the strongest indicator of student engagement,
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  while fifty four percent of superintendents rate performing well on
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  Speaker 24: Can I get a Mulligan.
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  Speaker 3: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 24: Hey, are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay. Probably okay.
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  Speaker 10: His opponents, he wanted.
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  Speaker 3: The best for them.
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  Speaker 1: That's where I disagreed with Charlie.
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  Speaker 21: I hate my opponent.
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  Speaker 1: For you. From Joe Thomas, it's first thing to do.
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  Speaker 11: Jones I left.
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  Speaker 2: Matt was on the line with us and asked the
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  essential question in all matters, and the question that we
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  learn pretty much as we start to learn language. The
• 45:05
  question that's on the tip of every three year old's mouth,
• 45:10
  why why? Is always the question, isn't it Matt Well?
• 45:15
  Speaker 9: The answer is power, yep, whether whether it's money or
• 45:20
  sex or the ability to pick up the phone and
• 45:23
  say do this. And this is the thing that we
• 45:29
  have seeded too much power to these elected officials who
• 45:35
  then pass laws which suppress the people and hang on
• 45:42
  to the power for the politicians.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: And some of it is because people are saying, Mark,
• 45:49
  did you not notice what went on Sunday?
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: Joe?
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Sunday is Sunday. And one of the overarching themes in
• 45:57
  Sunday was individual responsibility.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: And when we talk.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: About crime, we talk about the law lawlessness, and you're
• 46:06
  very right to talk about the Ten Commandments. We have
• 46:09
  to understand that there are things that man cannot make legal,
• 46:14
  and we pretend we can, or we can pretend we
• 46:18
  ignore them, but it's not going to make them legal.
• 46:22
  And the power we've seated is in this idea that
• 46:25
  either A I need help or B I believe somebody
• 46:30
  else needs help. I'm not really inclined to do it,
• 46:33
  but I voted for somebody who has Is that a
• 46:36
  reasonable layout of the field of play.
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: Well, we've gotten into this whole notion that you take
• 46:46
  care of your fellow man through your vote. Yeah, you
• 46:51
  solve poverty by voting for people who are going to
• 46:55
  steal tax money from citizens and give it to others
• 47:01
  instead of instead of I'm going to help the guy
• 47:04
  down the street who is in poverty right now by
• 47:11
  getting him a job or helping him pay for his
• 47:14
  car or whatever. Yeah, it's gone. It's gone from a
• 47:19
  personal element to this sort of vague societal element.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Well, and I think some of that is driven by
• 47:27
  one of the great vices in America, which in the
• 47:30
  humanity is sloth. It's easier to say I'm helping the poor.
• 47:36
  I voted for John Hickenlooper or Gavin Newsom or you
• 47:41
  name it. Or I voted against Carrie Lake or whoever.
• 47:46
  You know, I don't blame me. I voted for Robert
• 47:50
  Francis O'Rourke, you know, because he was going to help
• 47:53
  people are still poor, because dirty Ted Cruz he wanted
• 47:57
  the Senate race. Thank you for hanging on, doctor Clark.
• 48:01
  What's on your mind, sir?
• 48:03
  Speaker 20: Hey, Joe, So you talked about where you went to
• 48:08
  high school. Was that a pretty big high school, Joe.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: It's a very big high school.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: And still after all these years, building nineteen thirty three,
• 48:17
  still not full. But yeah, some of those work project
• 48:23
  edifices could be the front of a prison, could be
• 48:25
  a high school.
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: You choose so big.
• 48:29
  Speaker 20: High school, so it might be hard, but it just
• 48:33
  first names. I don't want to like docs anybody or anything.
• 48:36
  Can you name the trans kids when you were in
• 48:40
  high school that were in your high.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: School, Joe? Trans kids.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: See again, this is the early eighties, and it was
• 48:46
  tough to tell whether you were just you know, one
• 48:49
  of those kind of dressers or not, you know, and.
• 48:54
  Speaker 20: How many kids were transitioning and I mean, you know,
• 48:56
  not dressing like Madonna or something.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: I'd probably say zero.
• 49:03
  Speaker 19: Zero.
• 49:04
  Speaker 20: See, I went to a big high school too, Joe.
• 49:08
  And uh, I mean I can name everybody that went
• 49:11
  on to play pro ball or anything.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: Like that, but uh, yeah, no, we didn't have any.
• 49:17
  Speaker 20: But I learned this morning as I was reading that
• 49:21
  in the state of Utah there is a strong trans community.
• 49:27
  So apparently, in what two decades, a decade and a half,
• 49:34
  we've gone from never heard of it before to strong communities.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Some of it, and I get into this bramble about autism,
• 49:47
  and I know the President says there's going to be
• 49:49
  a big announcement today about the cause of autism and
• 49:51
  the statistics, And here we are bank on statistics. And
• 49:55
  I'll be the first one to tell you we have
• 49:57
  expanded what fits on the spectrum and that has added
• 50:01
  to the statistical explosion of autism.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Doesn't mean it doesn't yeah, yeah.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: And and the ADA and a lot of corruption in
• 50:12
  that has come from that.
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: You can throw down at me, Ego, you said bad
• 50:18
  things about the ADA. But the issue of.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Allowances and indulgences for issues we have and it's been
• 50:35
  a corruption of our natural inclination to compassion, that which
• 50:40
  Erica Kirk, you know, I think eloquently. You know, said
• 50:44
  how she forgives the assailant for taking her husband from her,
• 50:49
  something I don't know if most of us would have
• 50:51
  the courage to do, though it would be.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Nice to think we would.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: The indulgences are are the is where the this has
• 51:00
  become a problem. So when somebody says I hate my body,
• 51:05
  they don't hate their body. You don't have to be
• 51:08
  Sigmund Freud, or even just have a weird relationship with
• 51:11
  your mother to understand that hating your body is just
• 51:14
  a manifestation of hating who you are, and that's that's
• 51:18
  a bigger problem. That's that's you know, you have to
• 51:22
  get to the bottom of what's made you hate yourself.
• 51:26
  And if you can do that, then you've actually helped somebody.
• 51:31
  If you just say that's okay, you go on hating
• 51:34
  yourself and we'll just start cutting off body parts until
• 51:37
  that hate goes away. You know, we've we have turned
• 51:42
  compassion into allowance, which is worse. It's it's it's pouring
• 51:49
  gasoline on the fire of self hate and mental illness.
• 51:56
  Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm thinking somebody saw an opportunity and capitalize on
• 51:59
  it fairly. Well, so hating your body Now, the person
• 52:07
  that the person that shot Charlie Kirk was involved with
• 52:12
  was a man transitioning to a woman.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm told.
• 52:17
  Speaker 20: Yes, well, let's just operate under the assumption for the
• 52:21
  moment that you could transition to a woman.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Joe, Okay, now make the audi in any I guess
• 52:28
  is what it would be called.
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