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"No Shutdown (partial or otherwise) Here!" (Wednesday October 1, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The sixty vote threshold having not been received achieved, the
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  bill upon reconsideration is not pasted.
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  Speaker 2: First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
• 0:18
  the second most chamous Thomas in Charles.
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: I'm checking here. We're still about two hours removed from
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  sunrise on the Eastern Seaboard, but we'll be watching to
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  make sure that the sunrise is in the same place
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  in the sky. I know we're all holding our breath
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  because what will we do without the federal government, well,
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  without most of the well all right, without a very
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  small portion of the federal government. What will we do?
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  What will we do? How will news directors in the
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  nation's capital fine time for anything else except shut down mania?
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  You have five hundred and thirty five elected officials, plus
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  countless thousands of ex officio political leaders ready to comment
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  on the first shutdown in five years. We never had
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  a shutdown during Biden's administration, and all of the rhetoric continues.
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  But I'm checking around here at First Thing Today, World
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  News Headquarters, and I thing seems to be working here.
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  So the electricity is on. The color teenies are splashing
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  about out along the interwebs and coming out your radio
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  so as far as I'm concerned, we're hunky and Dory.
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  At the same time. We can self identify as both
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  hunky and dory, but your results may vary. At four
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  three four eight eight two four two one seven. You
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  know the business model will tell you the news. We'll
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  break down the news from where we sit and our experiences,
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  but we also want to hear how it's impacting you
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  where you are. The singular most important local part of
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  any radio station is you. Nobody ever does promotional announcements
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  saying that we do here, and we roll that way
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  at four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  We can text message that way Bob and Portland already
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  with some neat graphics for me to cheer me up
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  as we head into the studio each morning and appreciate
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  you out Freedom nine to seventy Land, Chicago, Land, Oh
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  you guys, Evanston, Illinois, gotta be loving these mornings. Your
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  mayor of Chicago just continues to shine. And we're going
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  to start there, not in shutdown Land, since the government's
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  shut down, Why cover them right? Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson
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  was on CNN Tuesday before they broke in for twenty
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  four to seven shutdown coverage, calling President Donald Trump an
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  unstable human being who needs to be checked for his
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  use of military and US cities. However, legal experts have
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  already weighed in saying that he is doing exactly what
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  it's legal to do. This comes on the heel of
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  hundreds of federal agents in the Windy City carrying out quote,
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  a targeted immigration enforcement operation against trend de Argua gang members.
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  The FBI confirmed the operation to Fox thirty two TV
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  in Washington, noting that its agents assisted the US Board
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  patrol in the city's South Shore neighborhood. The operation involved
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  almost three hundred agents targeted six people associated with the
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  Venezuelan gang. Okay, okay, we will talk shut down. White
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  House Budget Director Russ Vote on Tuesday directed federal agencies
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  to begin implementing their shutdown plans after Democrats blocked a
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  Senate Republican plan to keep the government open beyond midnight.
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  Leaders of executive branch departments and agencies quotes, should now
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  execute their plans for an orderly shut down. The staff
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  and employees are expected to arrive this morning to execute
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  those plans before being furloughed. At least the Senate will
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  hold a vote today on legislation to reopen the federal government,
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  according to Senator John Thune, who expressed optimism that additional
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  Democrats would join folks like John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who
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  voted with the Republicans to continue funding the government. Tuesday's
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  mass meeting of US military commanders in Quantigo, Secretary of
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  War Pete Hegsith addressed genders and combat readiness. Quote, I
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  don't want my sons serving alongside troops who are out
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  of shape or in combat units with females that can't
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  meet the same combat arms physical standards as men. He said.
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  This job is life and death standards must be met.
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  He added that if this means no women qualify for
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  combat jobs, so be it, while stressing the military is
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  always welcoming to women in its ranks. President Trump announced
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  the launch of Trump Rx, Pfizer agreeing to lower the
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  cost of prescription drugs for Medicaid under a deal as well.
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  Speaker 4: For veterans concerned about their alcohol or drug use, seeking
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  help can be the first step toward recovery. Doctor Joseph Liberto,
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  national Mental Health Director for Substance Use Disorders with the
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  Speaker 5: May is Mental Health Month and VA is committed to
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  throughout the country. We also offer telehealth services. A better
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  in search of fruit. This remarkable work ethic is shared
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  wonderful pets at home, but because of their acute senses,
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  they also perform life saving work every day. Dogs keep
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  Speaker 8: Bruh that's buzzed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 8: 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 8: 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 10: Love that guy, me too.
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  Speaker 11: 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 4: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 12: Did you know that more than half our household energy
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  costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
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  good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
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  One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
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  improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs when
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  you shop for a new appliance, look for the energy
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  Speaker 13: As a family member or friend, you may be the
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  first to notice when a veteran you love has been
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  going through changes. Things like withdrawing, drinking more, or increased
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  anger could be a sign of a larger health concern.
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  But help is available. Listen to hundreds of inspiring stories
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  the veterans.
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  Speaker 10: In your life.
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  Speaker 13: Treatment works, Recovery is possible.
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  Speaker 7: Butt, if think can come down from shut dance, we
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  get rid of a lot of things that we didn't
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  want and.
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  Speaker 2: For you from Joe Thomas, it's first thing today.
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  Speaker 13: Turn it up, buddy, gonna shut you.
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  Speaker 9: It happened on the street where the road is.
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  Speaker 12: What to do?
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  Speaker 9: Short standing side bout Yeah, I'll intact to stay.
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  Speaker 14: Four thirteen were up our engines.
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  Speaker 12: And it sounds really good.
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  Speaker 13: Talk it out, tacking up, buddy, gonna shut you.
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  Speaker 5: We know you well, it's it got you, so the
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  lessing we want to do.
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  Speaker 2: Shut it down.
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  Speaker 7: But uh, Butt, if think can come down from shutdowns.
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  Speaker 5: We can get rid of a lot of things that
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  we didn't want.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of things we didn't want. And this
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  is the brakesmanship. And this is why I think a
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  lot of Democrats voted along with the Republicans for the
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  continuing Resolution because they saw what was going to happen
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  and that this is really a win for the president
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  now on the steps of the capital outside the gift
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  that keeps on giving, although I'm honestly like a well
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  off family's Christmas tree, Democratic Party in Washington is replete
• 14:34
  with gifts that keep on giving. Classy Maxie and Waters was.
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  Speaker 8: Asks demanding health care for illegal aliens.
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  Speaker 12: Democrats are demanding health care for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the quiet part out loud wasn't prepped for
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  the question, are you fighting over medicare for illegals for everybody?
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  Does this include people in France? Are we talking about Canadians? Mexicans?
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  You know, in Mexican I mean properly, in like Guadalajara.
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  I'm just curious because when you say and she got emotive,
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  she's like doing a scene from Wicked, you know it,
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  say everybody like to the questions, is.
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  Speaker 14: Prad's demanding health care for illegal aliens.
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  Speaker 12: That's right, Democrats are demanding health care for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: If you're a nurse or a doctor, hawes it feel
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  to be an enslaved Maybe you can call the same
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  ad agency that rebranded Hamas as a marginalized community and
• 15:47
  have yourself declared a marginalized community. I think that's something
• 15:51
  you should investigate, because you've now just been enslaved by
• 15:58
  the Democratic Party into servitude. That we see how it
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  works in the medical systems of places where government healthcare
• 16:11
  is the way of life. England more testimony born of
• 16:16
  English subjects who find going into a healthcare facility about
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  akin to what you and I face when we go
• 16:28
  into the Department of Motor Vehicles. Long waits, poor service,
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  disinterested staff. Why because they're conscripted into it. It's a job.
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  It's not a calling. America was driven on people who
• 16:43
  followed their callings. It's a premise behind tedsdy in the
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  first place. It's not that it was never particularly I
• 16:53
  appreciated Ted Nugent's songs, but I was one of those
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  guys who collected all the albums and all the posters
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  and knew all the tour nuances and knew what favored
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  sneakers he had or all that kind of stuff. No,
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  it's just you know, knew the songs, appreciated the songs.
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  But I appreciate the attitude of somebody who doesn't care
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  what somebody says about them because they're vested in knowing
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  what they are good at. They've schooled up at it,
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  so they're expert at it. And they provide their services,
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  whatever they may be, to a grateful constituency who rewards
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  them justly. And that's it. That's all you have to do.
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  That's the secret to happy life. I know, I could
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  have saved the publishing industry trillions of dollars in the
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  eighties when everybody had a self help book. Who cut
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  the cheese? Who moved the cheese? All the somebody was
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  doing something with somebody's cheese all the time. The Seven
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  Habits of remarkably effective dog walkers, and and you know,
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  all those self help books that came along, and they
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  some of them may have helped you, because apparently we
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  weren't doing a good job of mentoring ourselves. But in America,
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  we're driven by people who follow their calling. They do
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  things because they have to not because they have to.
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  We do the things that God has gifted us with
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  our talents for whether it's making Trump twenty twenty eight
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  hats to give out to Hakeem Jeffreys and Chuck Schumer.
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  That was fun. Do we have the Do we have that?
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  Do we have that clip of President Trump and putting
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  he say, hey here, I got some point. It's Trump
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  twenty twenty eight hats for Hakim Jaid. Yeah, it's nice.
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  You know, it's one of those niceties we've forgotten in
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  the United States. If people come to your house, you gifts.
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  But whether it's making Trump twenty twenty eight hats or
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  treating ill people with readily available medicine so that they
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  can become healthy again, whatever it may be, you're supposed
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  to be allowed to pursue those things, and you should
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  be encouraged to pursue those things, not wait for the
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  government to assign you a task. And when you hear
• 19:38
  people talking about soul crushing pursuits, this is what they're
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  This is why they talk about that, Because when you're
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  just doing something because it's what you've been assigned to do,
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  there's no buy in, there's no urgency to do it.
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  The best you can, because you're going to be there
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  whether you do the best you can or not. So
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  and this is what the president's talking about when he
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  talks about this opportunity. And people go into government service
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  for all kinds of good reasons, patriotism. They want to
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  make sure America is great, America is safe. And what
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  unfortunately happens with a lot of folks in the gray
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  edifices of the bureaucracy is they discover that's not what
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  they're there to do. They're there to make sure a
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  stack of papers are available that when an attorney needs
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  to subpoena them, they can be subpoenaed and delivered in
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  boxes and trucks so that an attorney in some legal
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  case somewhere can pick up your piece of paper and say,
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  look at what this is. Executive Order seven one, seven, three,
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  four eight nine, executed by the Office of Gross Fluctuation
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  and Insoluble Body FATS, calling for one day in February
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  to be the day that we promote sausage. I'm sorry, groundhog.
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  So these folks, they just are paper pushers. They're making
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  sure that there's documentation and there is necessity, there's legal necessity,
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  to documentation. Nobody really explains that to somebody in a
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  bureaucracy that the paperwork is necessary because most people have
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  been so long since removed from the creation of the department,
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  nobody remembers why they're creating the paperwork, but there they go.
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  Now there.
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  Speaker 6: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas? Yes,
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  Speaker 15: In today's troubled world. Are USA Armed Forces stand ready
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  am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
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  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
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  cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
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  in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
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  healthy cells even from radiation. Totalwellness dot com where we
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  help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I'm Andrews. Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
• 25:05
  warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
• 25:10
  Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
• 25:13
  will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
• 25:17
  personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
• 25:21
  are not from US. Real 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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  your personal information like your solid security number or bank account,
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  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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  Speaker 8: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, He's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 8: And now a speech.
• 26:02
  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 8: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
• 26:11
  brain is saying when it's time to go home. Somebody
• 26:13
  call me a ride.
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: Love that guy, me too.
• 26:16
  Speaker 11: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
• 26:19
  it's time to go home.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 12: Did you know that more than half our household energy
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  Speaker 2: From the home of the First Amendment, first thing today.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  on this texty four three four eight eight two four
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  everything to the last minute. Oh, I'll get to that later.
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  I'll get to the later is always right about now,
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  big John. After Pete's speech in Quantago meaning Pete Hegsath,
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  I felt a strong desire to re enlist and serve
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  after Pete's feet. Your text is repeating itself, repeating itself,
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  repeating itself, meaning the speech that Pete Hegsath gave at
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  the Quantico to all the commanders from in the field.
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  And there are people who are just losing their mind
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  over this, calling it sexist. Call you. But these are
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  also the people who say, followed the science and musculature
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  is different depending on what your body evolves to do.
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  These are also the people who talk about evolution. We evolve,
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  so it isn't a surprise to most people that the
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  male body is stronger in the upper body area, the shoulders,
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  the arms, the back, upper back, especially core female body.
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  Their strengths. They're real musculature. The parts of their body
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  that will do you in. Start at the core and
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  go down. You don't have to try to stop a
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  corner kick from mia Ham to understand that's some serious
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  firepower starting at the hip, and so understanding physiology says, Okay,
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  if the battle requires upper body physical strength, men are
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  going to be better at it in general than women.
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  That doesn't mean that there's not a female bodybuilder who
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  hundreds hundreds of female athletes that can out bench press me.
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  But if all things are remaining equal, training, etc. You
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  have to have a standard. I remember when I was
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  a kid, New York City was trying to get right
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  with its populism and was lowering the standards by which
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  firefighters were tested to see if they would qualify to
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  And it wasn't a measurement of your desire to run
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  towards fire, it was your ability to rescue somebody my
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  size from that building. Because they had a requirement that
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  you'd be able to carry two hundred pounds of dead
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  weight down two flights of stairs. That was one of
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  the tests, and the fire department tests where I grew up,
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  and they said we're going to lower it t one
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  hundred and fifty pounds. I say, well, that doesn't do
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  me a hell of a lot of good. I better
• 32:18
  not be in the upper floors of a burning building then,
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  and it was explained away, well, that's resource management, and
• 32:30
  battalion chiefs will not send a female firefighter up onto
• 32:35
  the second floor of a building knowing that they might
• 32:38
  have to carry somebody larger than them or be on
• 32:40
  their ability to carry down. We might send more firefighters
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  in if we need to. You see what's happening now
• 32:51
  as you lower standards and you say, well, we need
• 32:54
  to be able to carry a two hundred pound unconscious
• 32:57
  person down a few flights of stairs. Everybody in the
• 33:00
  battalion can do that, okay, So how many people are
• 33:05
  we going to send up? And then we get and
• 33:09
  then is the guy that has to always be the
• 33:11
  ones sent up to the second or third floor of
• 33:13
  a building. Start to say, hold on, why am I
• 33:15
  always getting the super hazardous duty? Not running into a
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  burning building?
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  Speaker 2: Isn't?
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  Speaker 3: And you see how you wind up in this chasing
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  your tail scenario. And it's all born out of just
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  not being honest, and it's and we live in this
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  world where we think everything is one or zero show
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  of hands unless you're driving. Show of hands. How many
• 33:44
  people have heard me talk about this insanity that we create,
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  creating these binary absolutes. It's what the left loves. Oh,
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  marx loves the binary absolutes. Remember Marxism is born on warfare.
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  So you have to have all one side over here
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  and all one side over there, men and women. That's
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  a great way we can well, all right, So they
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  screwed that up now because we can. Men can be
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  men and women can be men. It's like living a
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  Kink's song. But generally speaking, men or men, women are women.
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  So it's a great dividing line. It's a great place
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  to divide people. Why can't a woman serve in the
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  fire department? Sure they can. Don't send them up to
• 34:39
  the fourth floor of a burning building if there are
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  people who may need to be carried down, unless they
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  happen to be of that kind of physical strength, and
• 34:47
  then they would have passed the test anyway. So you
• 34:50
  see the craziness. You start by simply saying here are
• 34:53
  the standards. But it's Okay, we do the same thing
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  with our schools. Not enough kids graduate. Why not? Well,
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  they don't actually see any point in getting a high
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  school diploma for the jobs that are in their community. Huh. Okay,
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  So how about we lower the test scores. Will that
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  make them? No, because it doesn't address the problem with
• 35:16
  kids not caring about education. We do this over and
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  over and over again. We fail to address what the
• 35:30
  actual issues are. I hate my body. I want to
• 35:34
  start cutting parts of it off. Well, okay, here's a
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  doctor who can help you with that. Or geez, sit down,
• 35:40
  what started you hating yourself? We don't want to do that.
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  I don't know why. I really, it's easy to say.
• 35:49
  It's victim shaming, it's Marxism, it's easy to It baffles
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  me how human beings, possessing whatever intellect God has gifted them,
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  can sit there and not see this for the obviousness
• 36:03
  that it is. And it's a struggle for me every
• 36:07
  morning to sit down here inside your radio and chronicle
• 36:11
  this kind of stuff without just starting to pound my
• 36:17
  head on the table. Because I can go back in
• 36:21
  my life and start seeing the every child gets a
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  trophy stuff, and I can flash back to nineteen ninety
• 36:29
  seven and everyone on the morning show with me having fun. Hey, Joe,
• 36:34
  even you get a trophy in this Oh and it
• 36:37
  was great fun. It was great comedy. We didn't realize
• 36:42
  the horrors it was going to start unpinning our society
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  for But Pete Hagsith said the quiet part out loud,
• 36:55
  just like Maxine and Waters said the quiet part out loud.
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  Democrats don't want healthcare just for illegals. They wanted for everyone,
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  and probably citizens of other countries as well. But you
• 37:11
  can have different thoughts on that. Joel's texted. We'll get
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  want to head to our friends. We've discovered a couple
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  the mayor of the year. And how is it Chicago
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  can't look at San Francisco and say, my gosh, they
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  figured it out and started electing. You know, I don't
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  know district attorneys who said, you know, we're going to
• 37:45
  arrest people for committing crimes. I guess you can't be
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  home to the Barack Obama Presidential Library and arrest illegals
• 37:56
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  Speaker 9: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 18: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 16: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 15: Probably.
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  Speaker 18: It's been twenty three minutes since.
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  Speaker 4: I ate I can probably swim.
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  Speaker 19: You should wait thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 14: Okay, Now tell me what to do?
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  Speaker 18: I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 2: Probably?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you ever joining us on a tedsday. I want
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  to head to the Midwest flyover Radio because we is
• 44:25
  a fascinating story because it involves something that was going
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  through some school board members and school board candidates.
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  Speaker 15: Bios.
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  Speaker 3: We've got here in our flagship city, this, I mean
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  makes Maxine Waters seem deliberative and conservative by comparison, who
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  wants to run the schools in my home city, Palmyra.
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  And we have another one who's out there talking about
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  now enraged. She is that Victoria Cobb, who was on
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  twenty four hours ago in the segment we talked to
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  Victoria Cobb of the Family Foundation, an interview you can
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  But Victoria COM's up there, she's enraged about it. More
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  of these school board elected officials rage over somebody differing
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  in their opinion. Why so serous? What is it about
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  your agenda that makes you so hell bent to be
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  hell bent over some of these things? But I want
• 46:05
  to follow up on one of my favorite stories from
• 46:08
  our Saturday program Friday afternoon of last week, car chase
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  through des Moines, Iowa with ice agents in hot pursuit
• 46:17
  of an illegal, non citizen alien that had been flaunting
• 46:21
  the law so badly even the Biden administration had asked
• 46:26
  him to leave the country, so flagrant were his violations
• 46:31
  of immigration law. Finally crashing his car just outside of
• 46:38
  Des Moines footchase involving canine officers into the woods where
• 46:43
  finally he is arrested. And this horribile it is Ragua
• 46:54
  no no is the school super intendant from Des Moines, Iowa.
• 47:10
  And it wasn't that part wasn't even the best part
• 47:14
  of the story. The school board president and her hand
• 47:27
  ringing statement regarding the book that apparently the school superintendent
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  had authored over radical empathy, that.
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  Speaker 15: Roberts conversation.
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  Speaker 3: This is the school board yesterday voting to accept his resignation.
• 47:54
  They wouldn't fire him. They couldn't bring themselves to fire
• 47:58
  somebody who lied to them, not only about his citizenship
• 48:01
  and I presume his social Security number. But now we
• 48:05
  even find out from some of the colleges he claimed
• 48:09
  to have postgraduate degrees that they never conveyed those to him.
• 48:19
  So as bad as this situation is, and the guy
• 48:22
  apparently started his career as the the what was the
• 48:29
  character Frank Abognail. He's the Frank Abognail of illegal aliens.
• 48:36
  You just said, you know what. I'm a teacher, got
• 48:39
  a job in the Washington d c. Schools, was so
• 48:42
  much better than the American citizen teachers. He won awards,
• 48:47
  nationally recognized, nationally fetid as a great teacher, writes a
• 48:53
  book called Radical Empathy, gets hired in Des Moinese I
• 48:58
  away to be the school super intendant, and then finally
• 49:05
  gets arrested by ice. And it's just it's it is
• 49:18
  such a stunning story. The Department of Justice has launched
• 49:25
  an investigation into how Des Moines's public schools managed to
• 49:31
  hire a non citizen to be their school superintendent's it
• 49:47
  is so bizarre. I'm trying, you do We still have
• 49:50
  the clip of the I know it's in the podcast
• 49:52
  from Saturday to the school board president says we need
• 49:59
  to take a page from the doctor's book Radical Empathy,
• 50:09
  and to take a moment to wait for all this
• 50:12
  and they wouldn't even fire him. No, brother had to
• 50:15
  quit and they grudgingly accepted his resignation at last night's
• 50:27
  school board meeting.
• 50:34
  Speaker 14: Doctor Rob.
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  Speaker 3: It's a sad day. It wasn't a sad day when
• 50:39
  you discovered that you had hired a non citizen to
• 50:43
  teach your children. That wasn't a sad day. It wasn't
• 50:53
  a sad day when you didn't bother checking in because
• 50:57
  he told you he was from Guyana and an immigrant
• 51:07
  doctor Ian Roberts or I guess not the doctor, faux
• 51:10
  doctor Ian Roberts. His defense is that he had the
• 51:16
  impression from an attorney that his immigration case was quote
• 51:21
  resolved successfully. It's I don't like I said. This has
• 51:36
  fascinated me. And then the protests outside of the school,
• 51:44
  outside of the federal building where this Roberts character was
• 51:50
  being held signs education not deportation free Doctor Roberts.
• 51:58
  Speaker 10: Begin with Cass Kayla James, who's at a protest at
• 52:01
  the Federal building in Kayla.
• 52:02
  Speaker 11: There is a strong response there to doctor roberts arrest.
• 52:08
  Speaker 20: And Laura and Ben that response just keeps getting stronger. Now,
• 52:12
  this demonstration started at four pm, and you know, like
• 52:15
  I said, back then, there were more than one hundred people.
• 52:18
  Now we know for sure that there's easily more than
• 52:20
  two hundred people. And there's people from across the metro
• 52:24
  area who are here, including some teachers that I spoke
• 52:28
  with both DNPS teachers and well some teachers who told
• 52:30
  me they are not within des Moines Public Schools district.
• 52:33
  There are also students here. We saw a few signs,
• 52:36
  one saying the least our superintendent held by a young girl.
• 52:42
  Now people have talked to us and they're talking about
• 52:44
  just the work that doctor Ian Roberts has done for
• 52:47
  des Moines Public Schools.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: Like lying to them right.
• 52:51
  Speaker 10: Crime across the country is at an all time high.
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• 53:13
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• 53:16
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• 53:19
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• 53:22
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• 53:26
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• 53:29
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• 53:32
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• 53:36
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• 53:39
  Apply today. Go to GETCCL dot com. That's get CCL
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  dot com. Go to GETCCL dot com. Exercise your rights today.
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  Go to get CCL dot com. Carry permit. You can
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  legally carry in any state that recon nice is your
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  New Hampshire per