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"Governmental Survivor" (Thursday October 2, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Couldn't you at least tell her about the shrinkage fact.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm not gonna tell her about your shrinkage. Besides,
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  I think women know about shrinkage.
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  Speaker 3: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk Media Network,
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  All natural and free of artificial.
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  Speaker 2: Words at steal me, step me have a day.
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  Speaker 4: Lest when the son comes up, drops a kid to
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  school nights.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I used to have a large government. All
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  the jas needs.
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  Speaker 5: No one that Joe's smile he only as.
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  Speaker 1: Let them be.
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  Speaker 2: Joe, here hold these truths.
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  Speaker 6: I want.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  this morning. Congressman Ben Klein of the sixth Congressional disc
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  strict shutdown. How long do you think it's going to last?
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  And what's the plan going forward?
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  Speaker 7: Well, the Democrats have forced this shut down by not
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  agreeing to just a clean extension of current funding levels.
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  It makes no sense, and they've attached all these liberal
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  pet projects to their demands. I think ultimately they're going
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  to see from their constituents that they want the government
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  funded and they'll come around. We've already got three Democrats
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  who have voted with us.
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  Speaker 2: We just need five more. And what they really need.
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  And that was a member of the House Freedom Concus
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  been Klein at lunch with him yesterday and I said,
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  cand I ask you, I gotta ask you about shut
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  down mania. But wait, there's more. Some of the Senate leadership.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I have my doubts about our own senators ever
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  come into common sense understanding that we need to continue funding.
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  But I do think there are some senators out there
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  on the Democrat side who are going to hear from
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  their constituents that they need to continue to fund the
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  government and we don't need to be giving health care
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  back to illegal immigrants and other crazy projects that ought
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  not to be funded.
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  Speaker 2: So, of course when he says our own senators, he
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  doesn't mean Republicans, although there is Ran Paul. He's talking
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  about Tim Kine and Mark Warner. He's a part of
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  the Virginia delegation to Congress. But who joins Fetterman. Fetterman
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  is on the ascendancy. Fetterman is one of the most
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  popular figures in Pennsylvania right now, except amongst Democratic Party
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  leaders who think he is the anti Christ. And be
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  careful of that, because we've seen what happens when people
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  start thinking you're the antichrist, but he's very very popular
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  amongst conservatives especially, you know. But the the part and
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  parcel of this is the Fetterman is a canary in
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  the coal mine, pun intended representing Pennsylvania regarding this partisan divide,
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  and that if you're not with us, you're a Guinness,
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  Hatfield's and McCoy's stuff. And that these senators especially are
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  no longer representing their states, and that the House members
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  are no longer representing their districts. They're representing the party.
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  And I've told you the corruption that begins with this,
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  I hate to say, began with an idea that I
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  understand why it came to be. The Republicans had been
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  out of power since the forties. It had been fifty
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  four years since the Republicans held a majority. So when
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  they got it the incoming speakers, we need to have
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  a plan to build the party, and they started this.
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  You want a committee seat, you need to raise a
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  certain amount of money for the party. And Gingrich started it.
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  Nancy Pelosi stuck it full of steroids, made it bigger
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  and better and faster and longer than before. And the
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  next thing, you know it the party controls. You know,
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  your position, and you no longer are a representative of
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  the people. That's one of those things that has to
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  get changed. Anyway. Our first things this morning, as we discussed,
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  you can't have first thing today without first things shut down.
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  Another two votes yesterday in the Senate both failed the
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  same way the last two the night before did, so
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  we're still in shutdown. Russ Vote, director of the Office
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  of Management and Budget and the man who decides who
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  is and who isn't essential, said that the Trump administration
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  will start firing federal employees in the one or two days,
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  meaning today or Friday. FBI has cut ties with the
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  Anti Defamation League, pointing to a listing of extremism sites
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  that included Turning Point USA. FBI director Cash Bettel said
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  the bureau quo won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs.
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  A federal judge is issued a temporary restraining order stopping
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  the administration from pulling out thirty four million dollars in
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  counter terrorism funds from New York City because of the
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  city's sanctuary city status. Brendan Carr, chair of the Federal
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  Communications Commission, it will be testifying before the Senate Commerce
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  Committee because Ted Cruz has been critical and wants to
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  question him on statements made regarding TV broadcasters canceling programs
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  over con United States is, according to The Wall Street Journal,
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  going to provide the Ukrainian military with intelligence to make
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  long range missile strikes on Russia's energy infrastructure. Anyone else
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  remember at the start of this they both said not
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  going to target the energy infrastructure. I remember that too.
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  Citing deteriorating conditions in Portland, President Trump says the National
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  Guard is now in place to protect immigrations and customs
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  and fortment efforts from quote domestic terrorists. Speaking of terrorists,
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  Hamas is reviewing the Gaza Plan presented by Donald Trump.
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  There on their second day of it, he said they
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  would give two to three days for them to look
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  at the proposal to end the war in the Middle East.
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  And a judge sentenced demand of thirty months in prison
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  for threatening to kill Christians and President Trump with an
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  ar fifteen rival.
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  Speaker 10: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
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  warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
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  Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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  will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
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  personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
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  are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
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  threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
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  call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
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  or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
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  Speaker 12: Oh bruh, that's buzzed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 12: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 9: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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  heart and brain.
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  Speaker 2: Who's with me?
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  Speaker 1: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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  brain is saying when it's time to go home. Somebody
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  call me a ride.
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  Speaker 12: Love that guy, me too.
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  Speaker 13: Know your buzzed warning signs, Call for a ride when
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  it's time to go home.
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  Speaker 5: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  first to notice when a veteran you love has been
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  Speaker 2: For you.
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  Speaker 3: From Joe Thomas, it's first thing today.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Apropos of nothing, and we'll get back into the shutdown
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  conversation and the gubernatorial races that are closing in.
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  Speaker 14: But there was a breach of some from where his
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  daddy would visit. He come along, wouldn't they gather on
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  his darned talking doesn't really would take me a walk
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  an I'll do the la yad and go walking.
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  Speaker 7: Then he looked.
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  Speaker 14: Into long those delights, the only one who could ever
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  reached me.
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  Speaker 2: Another, so it was a glypic. We were talking about
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  rom coms yesterday and sports of all things, and I
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  thought it was a little existential to be talking about
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  rom coms during a sports report. And I said that
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  I'll go back to watching rom coms when Quentin got Quentin,
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  Tarantino goes back to making them. And I didn't expect
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  it to be such a cause celeb Six emails later,
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  especially this morning, when I said Django Unchained was the
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  one I meant, meaning the last one that he did,
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  and all all the emails about true romance, and you know,
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  and I like this one. Gina writes in do you
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  mean pulp fiction? You know, there's a case to be
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  made that pulp fiction is a rom COM's It's got
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  some very funny moments and the whole you know, Bruce
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  Willis and the girl, and there's a rom com element
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  to the whole thing, right, He's trying to get the watch.
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  And and in Django, isn't Django spending the entire time
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  in the movie trying to get his girl? You know? Mike,
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  Mike and Lou both right in you know, are you
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  talking crazy? Joe Lou Wrights. Obviously kill Bill is his
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  rom com. I don't know. There wasn't as much calm
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  in that.
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  Speaker 13: See.
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  Speaker 2: The thing about kill Bill is that wasn't nearly as
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  funny as pulp fiction. And I know you're sitting the
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  other saying, hold it, Quentin. You're talking about comedy and romance,
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  and at Quentin and for a different generation you can
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  say Sam Peck and Paul he didn't nearly try to
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  bring the but true romance. I even Tarantino doesn't lump
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  it in with all of his movies because he didn't
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  direct it. So but you could say true romance because
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  he wrote it. But let's let's stick a pin in
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  the And I'm not saying absurd because people hear absurd
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  and to but it's it's it's proof that we get
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  so frustrated with the my team, your team stuff of
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  shutdowns and who's shut down? Is it? Is it the
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  Schumer shut down? Is it the Trump shut down? Is it?
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  Is the forest closed? No, the forest isn't closed this time,
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  but the last four times the government was shut down,
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  the forest was closed and we couldn't go into the woods.
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  And where's the bear? Gunna poop and all that, and
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  did the bear have to here's a here's a question
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  for you when when Tim Kaine and the rest of
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  the Senate would close down the National Park Service and
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  all the national parks had to close during shutdowns, where
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  did the bear get the toilet paper? And is it
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  like COVID did he have to hoard toilet toilet paper before?
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  Just asking? These are inquisitive minds want to know, But
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  we grow so weary some of it that that every
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  now and then you hear something like Quentin Tarantino and
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  rom com and it takes off like a fire in
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  a dry portion of Arizona, just because it's just not
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  the whole team. A team be tastes great less filling donkeys, elephants,
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  And as doctor Clark said earlier in the program, at
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  some point, it's just the Democrats are out there as
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  the advanced team for stuff Republicans are going to want
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  to do later. So sometimes we do want to argue
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  over whether or not, you know, Django Unchained or pulp
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  fiction is the better romantic comedy from the directorial chair,
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  I mean, and it's for fun, but there are deeper abstracts.
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  I think it is indicative of the fact that we
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  get sick of this whole. Well, we just don't want
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  to increase the government as fast as the other team
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  does stuff, which is what we wind up with these
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  shutdown manias, is that we don't want to grow the
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  government as fast. And this is the point Ron Paul
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  was making, you know, before Rand Paul got took over
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  the family business of being a burr under the saddle
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  of the ever expanding US government. And as it was
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  during the Biden administration, the biggest problem is the value
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  of your dollar. The more dollars that the government prints
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  and sends out to people, the less valuable each one
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  of them becomes. That simple math. But I did point
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  out Donald Trump never ran on being a fiscal hawk.
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  As a matter of fact, he is famous for saying,
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  I know how to work with debt. I don't know
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  what you guys are all worried about the debt for
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  I know how to I know how to use debt
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  like like currency. So the the shutdown is doing what
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  it's going to do, it is just there. Meanwhile, I'll
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  back at the ranch extremism on the March, and I
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  played the clip from Monday's program where I think, you know,
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  we cracked the code if you will, on what is
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  and isn't extremism, because at some point you just get
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  everyone's an extremist. Everyone's on somebody's list, somebody's on the
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  Southern Poverty Laws, and somebody's on the ad L list,
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  And at some you have to just wake up and say,
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  hold on, what are we doing here? Because exist they
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  mean Christian. That was from Monday's program. Right wing extremist
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  means Christian if you go and you look at all
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  the stories. That's what they're starting to get at is
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  if you espouse Judeo Christian ethics. But then even within Christianity,
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  you've six emails in the last week about post Kirk religiosity,
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  people saying that these you know, Oasist churches and gatherings
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  this is are all in Jesus's name, but are not
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  doctrinal religion. There they're community centers, not churches, because they
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  don't deal in doctrine and they don't deal in Biblical
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  They they parse, they do. You know, it's it's a
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  friend of mine is it just hates the concept of
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  these smartphone apps that give you a Bible passage every day,
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  and he's like he's he like it's a love hate
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  thing for him. Do you feel the same.
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  nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
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  reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
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  Speaker 10: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
• 25:06
  warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
• 25:10
  Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
• 25:13
  will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
• 25:17
  personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
• 25:21
  are not from US. Real Social Security employees will never
• 25:26
  threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
• 25:29
  call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
• 25:33
  your personal information like your Social Security number or bank account,
• 25:38
  or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
• 25:43
  or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
• 25:46
  enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
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  dot SSA dot gov.
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  Speaker 12: Uh oh, brah's buzzed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
• 26:01
  Speaker 12: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 9: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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  art and brain.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Who's with me?
• 26:08
  Speaker 12: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and.
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  Speaker 3: My brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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  Speaker 15: Somebody call me a ride.
• 26:15
  Speaker 12: Love that guy, me too.
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  Speaker 5: Know your buzzed warning signs. Call for a ride when
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  Speaker 3: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: So, and if you don't know this about me yet,
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  you know that I have a simple belief that your
• 28:37
  sins are yours and and we all have our position
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  where we're going to meet our maker and we're going
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  to be held to account for our lives. And if
• 28:51
  you go through most faiths, that that is a running
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  gag that we're all going to be standing naked before
• 29:00
  our creator answering for our lives. So let's begin there,
• 29:10
  and you know, we were talking about this holy war
• 29:13
  that is bubbling to the surface. ADL is now in
• 29:17
  trouble with the FBI. You want to talk about a
• 29:19
  religious group. Cash Bettel has delisted or outed, the ousted
• 29:27
  the Anti Defamation League from their position with the FBI.
• 29:33
  One wonders what their position was if you read the
• 29:36
  news story about it. His quote is they won't partner
• 29:43
  with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs. Okay, Cash, My next question,
• 29:50
  if you're taking questions from the gallery is how much
• 29:55
  influence do these groups have and is there a list
• 29:58
  of groups that the FBI can bounce on for watchdogness?
• 30:04
  Is there a license to be a watch dog? Do
• 30:06
  you get a government badge if you're a watch dog?
• 30:11
  Did Merit Garland have a different list of watch dogs
• 30:15
  like this, maybe the Southern Poverty Law Center. And if
• 30:19
  you have a nationwide police force that's relying on NGOs,
• 30:27
  non government organizations like either the Southern Poverty Law Center,
• 30:31
  the Anti Defamation League, you know, the Heritage Foundation, that
• 30:36
  doesn't make a difference. If there's some group that's calling
• 30:39
  the FBI saying, yeah, you should check into these guys.
• 30:45
  Who's vetting that what's the process, because in order to
• 30:50
  have due process, there needs to be process, at least
• 30:54
  from where I sit. Again, i'm when it comes to
• 30:58
  the judicial system, though I'm learning about the tort side
• 31:01
  of it quickly. No, nothing to do with you, No, no,
• 31:05
  don't worry about There's no other behind the scenes stuff.
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  Though I've spent the good number of my years trying
• 31:13
  to avoid interactions with courtrooms and law enforcement officers. Sometimes
• 31:19
  you just have to. But I'm a lay person when
• 31:23
  it comes to the legal world. But I believe that
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  in order to have due process, you first have to
• 31:28
  understand what the process is. When the Department of Homeland
• 31:34
  Security says veterans and conservative commentators are the biggest threat
• 31:41
  to domestic terrorism, there's a there's a real world ramification
• 31:52
  to that. Brandon rowb was arrested and taken to a
• 31:55
  mental hospital where he was held because he set up
• 32:00
  a red flag. That's for you, Pam BONDI set off
• 32:08
  a red flag in the Department of Homeland Security, Janet
• 32:13
  Napolitano at the time proprietor, my friend Chris writes, FBI
• 32:21
  outsourcing enemies lists since twenty twenty one. Yeah, whatever, happened
• 32:26
  to the good old days with the FBI made their
• 32:28
  own enemies lists, God darn it. So the Jewish groups
• 32:37
  have the Muslim groups on their enemies lists and some
• 32:40
  of the Christian groups, and the Christian groups have the
• 32:43
  Jewish groups and the Muslim groups on their enemies list.
• 32:48
  And I guess it depends on who you will like
• 32:50
  president and who they appoint to chair the FBI outsourcing
• 32:55
  outsourcing enemies lists since twenty twenty one. Oh, that was
• 33:00
  good stuff there is. I appreciate that. But at the end,
• 33:03
  it goes back to this battle between these religious groups
• 33:13
  for your attention, for you to join their church. In
• 33:22
  a lot of ways, all I have to do is
• 33:24
  mention Martin Luther, and I will receive a half a
• 33:28
  dozen emails. Oh you know, here's a pedophile, Joe. And
• 33:35
  so when you you almost you can't have these conversations,
• 33:40
  but you need to because otherwise you can rationalize almost
• 33:54
  anything in this And that's why I say my belief
• 33:59
  begins with your life is yours to live and the
• 34:02
  American construct and this is Jefferson comes into the theology
• 34:08
  here and I often insert Jefferson into my own visual
• 34:13
  timeline of faith, Moses to Jesus, Martin Luther, then Thomas Jefferson,
• 34:20
  Jefferson seeing that for time and Memoriam. Every time faith
• 34:24
  gets corrupted, it's corrupted by a government that wants to
• 34:28
  use the faith as their cudgel to weld authority. Whether
• 34:34
  it's the Romans in Jerusalem when Jesus gets there for Passover,
• 34:39
  or you know, the Holy Roman Empire that Martin Luther
• 34:44
  is fighting against, or and then Jefferson comes along and says,
• 34:47
  hold on a second here, maybe if we can put
• 34:49
  a firewall in between government and church, they can be
• 34:54
  happy and they can go about their business. And maybe
• 34:58
  if we're outsourcing our enemies lists to the FBI through
• 35:04
  faith groups in general, we need to check that process
• 35:09
  so that we can have due process, don't you think so?
• 35:23
  When the ADL has Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA on
• 35:31
  an activist list, it's because Charlie Kirk's group was unabashedly Christian.
• 35:42
  Does that deserve to rise to the point of the
• 35:46
  Anti Defamation League saying that they're an extremist group? And
• 35:50
  that's why I said on Monday, it's striking me that,
• 35:52
  especially in the press, when they say right wing extremism.
• 35:56
  They mean Christian, but that being said, there are people
• 36:03
  who take it too far and that the American construct
• 36:11
  has to if it's going to survive. And that's what
• 36:16
  conservatism means, is to keep the society going. We have
• 36:23
  to understand our judae or Christian ethics, but we also
• 36:26
  have to understand that our rights end when they impact
• 36:30
  someone else, and that the most important ones Thou shalt
• 36:34
  not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt
• 36:37
  not murder, are woven into the fabric of all of
• 36:43
  our public policy, and they have to be because your
• 36:48
  rights don't extend into someone else's life. This is the
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  whole debate about sharia law was at a luncheon yesterday.
• 37:05
  And when sharia law is allowed to create their own
• 37:13
  court systems, working beyond and in many cases parallel with
• 37:19
  the municipal courts of a neighborhood, you're in a troubling
• 37:23
  place because it presumes that there are people who are
• 37:36
  subservient to one another, and that there are people individuals
• 37:41
  that have dominion over others and that are allowed to
• 37:45
  do things to them because of their relationship. And we're
• 37:47
  going to keep it as abstract as possible, because in
• 37:50
  order to understand the americanism is that you don't have
• 37:54
  that right. I don't care if you're married to somebody,
• 37:56
  you don't have a right to beat them up.
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  Speaker 1: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, we'll probably stay together. Probably, it's been twenty three minutes.
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  Speaker 5: I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 15: Okay, Now tell me what to do?
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  Speaker 2: I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 5: Can I get a mulligan.
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  Speaker 2: Ready to go?
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  Speaker 16: Hey?
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  Speaker 14: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sober.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  Speaker 16: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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  Speaker 3: Amaze your friends. You're a first thing today by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: So to secure these rights, governments are instituted amongst men,
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  created direct deriving their just powers from the government. Right.
• 44:28
  That's that's philosophically even older than the United States, but
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  it is a core provision of the US Creed, of
• 44:39
  of the US faith, that we have our rights, and
• 44:44
  that the government is designed so everyone says we shouldn't
• 44:47
  have a government. That's wrong too. We've allowed the government
• 44:52
  to grow too distant from us. I've detailed to you
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  of easy fix both on a FED roll on a
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  state level for that, because we need the government to
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  secure those rights. As much as we sit and say, oh, well,
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  you know, I don't want to know too much about
• 45:24
  politics or Republican or Democrat, it becomes important because these
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  are the people that we are asking to represent ourselves.
• 45:36
  And I thought this was an interesting email from Ruth,
• 45:42
  writes in Joe, have you watched television over the last
• 45:46
  twenty five years? This is what most of the adults
• 45:50
  twenty five to thirty four grew up around. You're talking
• 45:54
  about Big Brother Survivor and all the other realcy TV
• 46:01
  competition shows where everyone gets to vote somebody off the
• 46:05
  island at the end of the program. That's what you're
• 46:09
  seeing in our public policy now. They want their life
• 46:13
  to be I can vote you off the island. Ruth,
• 46:17
  thank you for listening to us up in Sacramento. It's
• 46:20
  a very cool station up there in northern California, and
• 46:26
  I think your point is exactly one that I agree with.
• 46:30
  I've said it before as well. There is a pop
• 46:33
  culture nature to it. It isn't shallow to say our
• 46:42
  thirty year olds that are holding many of the positions
• 46:46
  of authority grew up in a world of Okay, we're
• 46:51
  all going to vote the guy we don't like off
• 46:54
  the island. And that's the zeitgeist we're in. And they're
• 47:04
  supported by boomers who are still trying to recreate the
• 47:12
  Summer of Love, or at very least the Bonfire of
• 47:16
  the vanities of the seventies. And that's the bigger problem,
• 47:20
  is that you've got the millennials who grew up watching
• 47:24
  Survivor voting their enemies off the island, so born by
• 47:29
  the young boomers, the seventies boomers who grew up in
• 47:38
  the bonfire of the vanities of Live Fast leave a
• 47:44
  good looking corpse. If it's good for me, it's good
• 47:50
  for me. And this is the power structure of our
• 47:54
  country right now. The sixty year olds who are still
• 48:00
  you know, holding on or clinging to some power through
• 48:03
  their elder statesman like physician who grew up in the seventies,
• 48:11
  where if it's good for me, well then it's good
• 48:13
  for me. Playing with the survivor generation, where if I
• 48:19
  don't like somebody, I can just vote to get him
• 48:21
  off the island and conspire against him. And this is
• 48:24
  why we can't get anything done. And we vote, then
• 48:28
  we vote for the elected officials who populate that government
• 48:32
  that's supposed to be there to secure our rights. This
• 48:36
  is why you get people like Alison Spilman, the school
• 48:39
  board member, saying that she's irate and that somebody could
• 48:44
  say there are only two genders. She claims to be
• 48:51
  a proud mom of a transgender person. Have we checked
• 48:56
  her from Munchausen syndrome or child expressing some grave dissatisfaction
• 49:05
  with who they are, decided to indulge it rather than
• 49:08
  help them through it. Right, we're supposed to be out
• 49:15
  there helping each other and sometimes helping each other says,
• 49:18
  you know, let's get an intervention because somebody is going
• 49:22
  too far and we need them to snap out of it.
• 49:33
  But that is essentially ruth. What you're pointing to is
• 49:37
  that we get a government that we ask for. This
• 49:40
  is a representative government. It's a government full of sixty
• 49:44
  somethings who want to relive the Thomas Wolf era and
• 49:51
  thirty somethings who are thinking we can vote the people
• 49:55
  we don't like off the island, and Madison understood that.
• 50:02
  Madison understood that that will happen. That's why he limited
• 50:07
  the power of the government so that when you had
• 50:15
  generations that weren't necessarily as ethically anchored as they could be.
• 50:27
  He says, trying to be as politically correct as and
• 50:30
  I'm not good at politically correct as you can probably
• 50:33
  imagine you probably you know, ten to the last five minutes.
• 50:36
  You know, he doesn't usually play politically correct. But I'm
• 50:40
  just trying to make sure people stay listening. I don't
• 50:43
  want people to stop listening, because then they don't get
• 50:46
  the point. You can't make a point to somebody who's
• 50:50
  walked away and left the room that we have to
• 50:56
  stop getting government to go after our enemies, have to
• 51:00
  stop using government to force people to agree with us
• 51:04
  and to listen to us. You don't have a First
• 51:06
  Amendment right to be listened to, and that's okay. That
• 51:12
  just means you need to work harder to be listened to.
• 51:14
  That's not mean. And for those when you run into
• 51:22
  the people who believe that you have a First Amendment
• 51:25
  right to be listened to help them through that pain
• 51:28
  and suffering. They are dealing in a psychosis almost or
• 51:35
  more and more appropriately, they're having a tantrum. So you
• 51:40
  help them, you help them out. That's why it seems,
• 51:55
  you know, that's why, as funny as it was, everyone
• 51:58
  kind of jumped on the Quentin Tarantinos stuff this morning.
• 52:01
  I get it. It's a chance to break away from
• 52:05
  donkeys and elephants and which gubernatorial race is tied and
• 52:14
  which one is close, and what's at stake if the
• 52:18
  other one, because it's getting existential. We are a month away,
• 52:22
  thirty two days away from election day, so it's understandable
• 52:27
  that it's all starting to get a little tense. You
• 52:32
  got to blow off some steam under and understand the
• 52:34
  bigger abstracts. So we do that as well as you know,
• 52:39
  a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer in
• 52:41
  your pants, and we get on with our day and
• 52:44
  understand that our rights end where your rights begin. I'm
• 52:47
  Joe Thomas, so long and thanks for all the fish.
• 52:51
  Speaker 12: Crime across the country is at an all time high.
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