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"Russia's Pulling 4 Ukraine?" (Monday, December 29 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Russia wants to see you during sixty hundred to do list.
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  Speaker 2: Putting the radio on is the first thing today.
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  Speaker 1: George said, steal me Stem. You have a day at
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  Speaker 1: So all developing America two point zero, which we're living
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  Speaker 1: our lives through and trying to chronicle the travails of same.
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  Speaker 1: For this morning on a program where we tell you
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  Speaker 1: what happened, and we'll tell you what we think about
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  Speaker 1: what went happened, But most importantly, we want to hear
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  Speaker 1: how it's impacting you where you are. So we begin
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  Speaker 1: with our first things this morning. You heard the little
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  Speaker 1: clip of President Trump during the press conference with Ukrainian
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  Speaker 1: President Vladimir Zelenski yesterday at Mari Lago. He did say
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  Speaker 1: that he felt like the two sides in the war
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  Speaker 1: between the two nations is closer than ever before to peace,
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  Speaker 1: but he did warn that it could break down. He
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  Speaker 1: said it was an excellent two and a half hour
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  Speaker 1: conversation while the meeting was going on with Russian President
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  Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin. He said Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed
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  Speaker 1: and that it would be offering things like energy at
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  Speaker 1: low cost to the reconstruction effort. Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz's
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  Speaker 1: already been closed. Meanwhile, the FBI has deployed personnel to
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  Speaker 1: fraud schemes exploiting federal programs. China's military on Monday dispatched air, navy,
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  Speaker 1: island of Taiwan, move Beijing called stern warnings against separatists
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  Speaker 1: All right? Who broke it? Who broke the thing? Who
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  Speaker 1: broke the thing? And what is what do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: You don't know? You would? You mean nothing is running?
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  Speaker 1: Something is running, and therefore nothing else will run. All right,
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  Speaker 1: work on it Monday mornings. You know, this is what
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  Speaker 1: happens when people start packing boxes. We've got to vacate
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  Speaker 1: And everyone's got all this And this is one of
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  Speaker 1: everyone's expecting a year in review. Oh, let's do a
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  Speaker 1: year in review. I just did the year in review.
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  Speaker 1: We did it live, Q bill, O'Reilly? We did it
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  Speaker 1: as it happened. Do we need to go over it again?
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  Speaker 1: And so everyone gets focused in on you know, Christmas
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  Speaker 1: parties or you know, Hanukah celebrations, kwansa, whatever your your
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  Speaker 1: flavor are, you know, and you were focused on that
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  Speaker 1: and we forget all the other stuff. And it's so
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  Speaker 1: maddening when you're trying to get answers to business questions
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  Speaker 1: and things like, oh yeah, I'm I'm out of the
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  Speaker 1: office until January seventh, and it's December fifth. Man, can
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about you. I can't take a month
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  Speaker 1: and just mail it in. Rent's got to be paid
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  Speaker 1: and electric bills got to be the electric company doesn't say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, you don't need to bay us for
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  Speaker 1: the next month. Holy moly, God bless the businesses that
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  Speaker 1: are out there that stand with us. And you know
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  Speaker 1: I've made those plays. I know, I know you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at the radio center. You should have thought of that
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  Speaker 1: in advance, Joe, I just wait till December to start
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  Speaker 1: talking about some of this stuff. Well, I mean we
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  Speaker 1: have been you know what I've discovered. For the amount
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  Speaker 1: of technology you and I use, most technology companies have
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  Speaker 1: no interest in advertising to you. And I find that
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  Speaker 1: to be an interesting abstract. And let's stick a pin
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  Speaker 1: in this because I want to get into some other
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  Speaker 1: stuff at this point. But we're heading to the Consumer
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  Speaker 1: Electronics Show, whether they like it or not, not next
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  Speaker 1: week but the week after. No, Actually, what am I saying?
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  Speaker 1: Not this week but next week? So next Monday we'll
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  Speaker 1: be live from Lost Wages for the Consumer Electronics Show.
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  Speaker 1: And they all want to show you their stuff. When
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  Speaker 1: you say, hey, we're doing you know, national radio program
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  Speaker 1: cities San Antonio and Norfolk and send you know a
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  Speaker 1: Sacramento in Chicago and all these places, like, yeah, we
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  Speaker 1: don't do uh, you know, we don't do consumer marketing.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of marketing you do? Oh, we're mostly business
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  Speaker 1: to business, I said, I believe business owners listen to us.
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  Speaker 1: We do direct marketing to businesses and they'll incorporate our technology.
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  Speaker 1: So well, you're a cybersecurity company. Yeah, yeah, we get
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  Speaker 1: downloaded into programs and we don't we don't ask it.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe that's eighty percent of the problem of the
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  Speaker 1: consumer of the digital world is none of them are
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  Speaker 1: asking you do you want this security function? You're just
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  Speaker 1: getting it. Oh, you've got an app and that's got
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  Speaker 1: a security thing already woven into it. It's almost like
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  Speaker 1: money laundering, you know, or you know, because if a
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  Speaker 1: government agency did this, oh faster than you can say,
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  Speaker 1: Tim Waltz, people would be on it like white on
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  Speaker 1: rice for collusion and you know, but business to business,
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  Speaker 1: we'll find some sponsors for our broadcasts. You know, there
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  Speaker 1: are some people out there who do sell technology directly
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  Speaker 1: to the consumer. Most of them, though, seem more interested
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  Speaker 1: in selling it to each other. Seems a little incestuous,
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  Speaker 1: but that's just me. And we may just have to
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  Speaker 1: take it on the chin and pay for it ourselves,
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  Speaker 1: because I think it's important stuff and we're not. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said about the New Year's Best ofs or Urine review,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, they actually take more time away than they're
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  Speaker 1: useful for. And several folks have said, well, you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to stop talking about the news just to talk
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  Speaker 1: about high Texas. Hell no, hell no. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: may go over and see what Cisco is doing, or
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  Speaker 1: Crisco or Crisco or whatever companies are uploading the down
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  Speaker 1: links from the Mumford tee, firefly suck it from the
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  Speaker 1: sky down link antennae, things like that. But we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to stop telling you what's going on in between
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  Speaker 1: Russia and Ukraine. And there we slide over to yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: press conference. One of the things I wanted to play
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  Speaker 1: for you is a clip of President Trump. Have you
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  Speaker 1: resolved the issue with the thing, all right? So this
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  Speaker 1: is President Trump yesterday. Do you know you rebooted it?
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  Speaker 1: Way to go it? President? He was very generous, and
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  Speaker 1: it was very toward Ukraine, very generous in his feelings
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  Speaker 1: towards Ukraine. Russia wants Ukraine to succeed. How can that
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  Speaker 1: be true, Joe, hasn't he spent the last four years
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  Speaker 1: conducting a war that wasn't supposed to take more than
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  Speaker 1: two weeks? Well, now you're just being means spared. You
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  Speaker 1: must be be with CNN because CNN's reporter kept insisting,
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  Speaker 1: mister President, didn't you I promise to end this war
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  Speaker 1: in twenty four hours? Yeah? Like Putin promised to have
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  Speaker 1: it done in two weeks too. I grew up with
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  Speaker 1: Ukrainian Americans and I'm gonna tell you they are no joke.
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  Speaker 1: And if if things go pear shaped and let's say
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  Speaker 1: an establishment of beverage consumption, you want friends who are Ukrainian. Right,
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  Speaker 1: So what does the president mean when you say Russia?
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  Speaker 1: Russia wants Ukraine to succeed? How can that be true?
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  Speaker 1: Why would he have been invading them for so long?
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  Speaker 1: Because he wants he wants Ukraine to succeed as part
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  Speaker 1: of Russia. That's how it convened. True, Russia is going
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  Speaker 1: to be helping.
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  Speaker 17: Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed once. It sounds a
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  Speaker 17: little strange, but I was explaining to the president Putin
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  Speaker 17: was very generous in his feeling towards Ukraine succeeding as.
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  Speaker 1: Part of Russia. That's the part that Vlad the Invader
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  Speaker 1: didn't mention, And that's the whole premise of the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: is that Putin hates these agreements that Yeltsin signed into
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  Speaker 1: back at the end of the Cold War. I saw
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  Speaker 1: an interesting clip. I don't know, I'm not even sure
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  Speaker 1: why because it's had no bardon me, connection to the date.
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  Speaker 1: It had nothing connected to anything else except that my
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  Speaker 1: son and I were having a conversation and he mentioned
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  Speaker 1: Richard Nixon. So mysteriously in my newsfeed came up a
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  Speaker 1: flashback to the day Richard Nixon died, which, if you're
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  Speaker 1: checking your calendar, is nowhere near the end of December
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety was it six ninety four? Clinton? They
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  Speaker 12: I'm afraid of the Russians.
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  Speaker 23: I didn't think we played poorly. We just didn't make
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  Speaker 24: So still got this call thing, but I'll get past it.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a kind of a different kind of communism.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean I think it's Capital D Democrat state. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Farmer's Democratic Party of Minnesota or whatever it's called.
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  Speaker 24: There's no way those Democrats allowed there to be nine
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  Speaker 24: substantial cut.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely not. I mean this is these programs
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  Speaker 24: Yes, there's no way that the Democrats that run Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well they may have turned it up to eleven.
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  Speaker 15: First thing, today by Joe Thomas on the Chunk Media Network.
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  Speaker 1: To cycle liberty, prosperity, apathy, decline, and then tyranny Washern's repeat.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily for us, we have technology on our side. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's my that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
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  Speaker 1: We have the opportunity, unlike many of the previous generations,
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  Speaker 1: to know what's happening, so maybe we can do something
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  Speaker 1: about it. We were talking about the you know, Governor
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  Speaker 1: Waltz claiming that he's not the one making it purple
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  Speaker 1: rain up in Minnesota there, uh, and that the fraud.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, Governor Walls is cracking down on it all.
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  Speaker 1: He's already closed some of those daycare centers. Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: close the leering center there, doctor Clark.
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  Speaker 24: We just need to pay more attention to where the
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  Speaker 24: real fraud is in this deal.
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  Speaker 1: Well, whenever there's a bag of other people's money, there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be fraud because the people who and this
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: is the problem with the bureaucratic idea of aid to
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  Speaker 1: the homeless or the helpless or the sapless, is that
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: you're asking someone whose money it is not to oversee it.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: This is why the government does a bad job of
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: investing in things, because the person who makes the final
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: decision isn't a shark tank billionaire who's out there saying, hmm,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I wonder if I can make a profit off of this.
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  Speaker 1: It's some bureaucrat saying, hey, am I going to get
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: yelled at, you know, at the next monthly meeting? Or
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: can I do something that will get me a gold star?
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: And that's the best case scenario. Then you start to
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  Speaker 1: get the drifters, and the drifters in there with with
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: their hands out or the hands into the bag saying Okay,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you ten of these dollars. I'm
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: keeping two of them for myself. Don't tell anyone, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Yes, so we fix it by
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: stopping this lunacy and allowing the money to stay in
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: the hands of the people. And you know what, if
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: the government wants to run public service announcements saying hey,
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: there are Somali refugees in this area and here's the
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: phone number to go help them out, I have no
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: problem with that. You know what do they call it?
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: The ad Council was the was the organization that used
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: to run all those PSAs. I think they're still around, right, probably,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: so well, feel better, doctor Clark, and and we'll talk
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: to you again in the morning.
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  Speaker 24: A man, take care.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump said the very same thing to the UN
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  Speaker 1: uh this weekend. He's like, listen, we're going to give
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: you some money for humanitarian aid, but you better start
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: flying because this and UN is whining. Oh, this is
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: lower than it's ever been before. Everyone should see this documentary.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: And I fell in love with this documentary a few
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: years ago. I saw it during the Anthem Film Festival,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: which is adjunct to the Scouson's great event, Freedom Fest.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: I think we're going back to Freedom Fest. My wife
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: is such not a Las Vegas person, and to be fair,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: neither am I. I think the mountains around Las Vegas
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: are beautiful, but it's where Freedom Fest is going to
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: be for the next four or five years, and it's
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  Speaker 1: a great event. And I saw this movie when I
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  Speaker 1: was there. It was a documentary called Poverty, Inc. And
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: the filmmakers actually set out to make a documentary about
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: all these Greade eight organizations that were doing all this
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: great work and helping all these great people. What they
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: found was a bunch of people who were really getting
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: screwed over by an industry that's really driven by those
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: drifters and grifters who are keeping you know, themselves fat
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: and happy, including the Clinton Family Foundation, and and not
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: actually helping the people on the street. So so dynamic
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: is this so anthem film festival? Freedom Fest perhaps one
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: of them is certainly most economically libertarian, uh free market
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: based events out there took best of show amongst the
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: libertarian free marketeers, and in Aspen amongst you know, the
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: Paul Newman crowd, the Robert Redford crowd. So so the
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: granola crunching snow bunnies loved the movie as much as
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: the uber libertarians in the desert, because it's it's it's
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: inquestionable that you know, all the do gooders are just
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: making themselves wealthy while the people who need the help
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: get shaft and are told to be grateful that they
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: got a shaft. Joel's on the line with us at
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  Speaker 1: ready to move into our new digs in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 26: I'm praying I have a position. So yeah, I'm there.
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  Speaker 26: I thought you were talking about the movie Shaft.
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Well there's a several versions of that one there, and
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about a new position into twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six. That's often been my New Year's resolution, is
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: to not find myself in a new position. But in
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: any event, what's on your mind.
• 49:44
  Speaker 26: So the civialians got caught and it's big time, and
• 49:48
  Speaker 26: it's supposedly the largest in the United States history as
• 49:53
  Speaker 26: far as the fraud and graft. But let's go to
• 49:56
  Speaker 26: New York City. Let's get a let's go to the
• 49:58
  Speaker 26: president former president and the United States with lllc'sle which
• 50:04
  Speaker 26: which are shell companies. Let's go to New York City
• 50:07
  Speaker 26: where there's fake storefronts and they're selling counterfeit goods. And
• 50:12
  Speaker 26: most of the police in the area know that these
• 50:15
  Speaker 26: these places are people on the street are selling counterfeit goods.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: They go, oh, well, it's.
• 50:19
  Speaker 26: Only a small group of people. But let's say you
• 50:22
  Speaker 26: take New York City with about what is it four
• 50:25
  Speaker 26: point six million people or more, I don't know, but
• 50:28
  Speaker 26: let's say maybe a thousand of those people are selling
• 50:32
  Speaker 26: goods on the street different corners, maybe Houston and and
• 50:36
  Speaker 26: Broadway and all kinds of places like that. They go, oh,
• 50:39
  Speaker 26: it's only a couple hundred dollars, but pennies add up.
• 50:43
  Speaker 26: And just like with with a Hunter uh, you know,
• 50:47
  Speaker 26: doing all his things and and people.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to follow, you know, because because you're definitely
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: hitting two different types of fraud. And I mean that
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: goes back, I mean my childhood. And you know how
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: how is Gucci spelled? Is Gucci spelled with two seas
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: or three seas? That is that a roll a or
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: a role axe? You know, I mean that that's you know, knockoff,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: ripoff stuff is almost you know, part of the cottage
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: industry of uh downtown New York, and it has been
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: since gosh, I was a kid there. But you know,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: when you talk about industrialized grift like Hunter Biden uh
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: and what the Biden family was doing, you're you're talking
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: about the exact reason you wind up with the Somalis, who,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: to be fair, they were caught because ilhan Omar can't
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: keep her pie hole shot or whatever it is she eats,
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: you know, and so you know, she kept sticking her
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: neck out. So people are like, well, let's go, oh,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: hold on. She's a big advocate for this group. Let's
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: investigate them with a microscope. And that's how you wind
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: up with this fraud because there's lots of other fraud
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: going on because it's other people's money.
• 51:56
  Speaker 26: Wasn't there somebody in Virginia recently that are you mention that?
• 52:00
  Speaker 26: It was like, I know, she's working for local government
• 52:04
  Speaker 26: and she kept taking out like for it was like
• 52:07
  Speaker 26: twenty years or thirty years or something, and this has
• 52:10
  Speaker 26: ended up take you know, like one hundred dollars here
• 52:13
  Speaker 26: and a dollar here, and from different taxpayers and it
• 52:17
  Speaker 26: added up to like three hundred or five hundred thousand
• 52:19
  Speaker 26: dollars over.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a couple of stories. I think you're mixing
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: a couple of the most recent ones. Somebody who was
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: using the government credit card to buy herself Christmas presents
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: and lunches and get her car repaired, and you know,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: not necessarily flashy things like buying herself a house. But
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: it wasn't her money to be spending it on. She
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: just decided that as a hardworking, diligent member of the bureaucracy,
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  Speaker 1: it was it was her Christmas bonus self determined in
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