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"Mudslinging" (Friday October 3, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the
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this morning. You know us we tell you the news,
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we'll tell you what we see inside the news, but
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also most importantly, we want to hear how it impacts you.
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Bob and Esmond says, my plan is the death knell
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of the electoral college. I say just that that's the opposite.
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The electoral college becomes so much more important if we
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get rid of the Permanent Reapportionment Act that the racists
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got passed in nineteen twenty nine, and we go back
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to the apportionment that was the original First Amendment. You
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imagine an electoral college of sixty eight hundred people, and again,
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all those counties eighty five percent of all the counties
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in America that went Republican, they'd all have Congress people.
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I think Congress would be three quarters Republican at that point.
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But that's not the point of this. I'm just saying
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that these voices wouldn't be lost. Flyover country wouldn't be well,
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you wouldn't be able to fly over it anymore if
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you wanted to get anything done. We got guests on
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the line, hang on, Controversy swirls, and we all find
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out how the shutdowns impacting Northern Virginia and other areas
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of government employe But first things, though, we tell you
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what news is going on. The shutdown looks like it's
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going to continue into next week. Senate Majority leader John
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Thune said they'll have a fourth chance at a vote
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tomorrow to open up the government. If that fails, will
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give them the weekend to think about it. A Compact
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for Academic Excellence and Higher Education memos sent from the
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White House to nine US universities detailing a series of
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things they can do to receive preferential treatment for receiving
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federal funds. President Trump said he plans to use revenues
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collected from tariffs to aid US soybean farmers who have
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been hurt adversely by the tariffs laid in China on
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imports from the United States. UN data says that only
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nineteen percent of humanitarian trucks reached Gaza in the UN's
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attempt to bring aid to the region. The president says
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that's an indication of the UN's ineptitude in that party.
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The US Department of Energy is canceling two hundred and
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twenty three quote clean energy projects tied to the Biden administration.
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They report that this saves taxpayers seven point five billion dollars.
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in Uganda. He's the most talked about member of Virginia
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statewide races, and that will continue here because he is
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John Reid, former Reagan and George Allen aid broadcaster, newsman,
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and now candidate for lieutenant governor in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Polls tightened, and then immediately they had to release some
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poll that said, oh no, no, it's twenty points, it's
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a runaway. Nobody even bothered to vote there. So it
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fascinates me, John, how much mud they're slinging at you
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in a race they say isn't within fifteen percent. How
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are you doing this morning, sir.
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Speaker 8: I am doing very well. Thank you. I've just arrived
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in northern Virginia where I'm.
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Speaker 9: Speaking to a group of high school students this morning
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as as they examined statewide elections. Apparently I'm the only
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candidate who is running stay wide who agreed to come
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talk to these kids.
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Speaker 8: Wish me luck.
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Speaker 9: You know, they could be tougher than the national press scorps.
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Sure it may be an interesting couple of hours.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, it'll be a good indication of what they're
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hearing from their parents at the dining room table, or
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you know, when they go to bed and they hear
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their parents arguing about stuff, and I want to talk
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about Northern Virginia such a heavy government employee thing. Russ
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Vote at the Office of Management and Budget is talking
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about massive firings, not even just furloughing in this shutdown, John,
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are you concerned as somebody running statewide in Virginia that
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this Northern Virginia unemployment spike is going to cause problems
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for conservatives in Virginia?
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Speaker 9: Oh, I think you got to be concerned about it.
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I mean, you know, people's livelihoods, this is really important.
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And the unfortunate reality is that we're thirty seven trillion
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dollars in debt and no one actually wants to deal
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with the crushing ugliness of that number. And at some
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point we're going to have to make some really really
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tough decisions and some big time adjustments if we want
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to survive that kind of crushing debt. And you know,
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it's obvious, like Tim Kaine and Mark Warner are two
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Democrat senators. All they have done for the last two
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or three days is complain about the shutdown, and yet
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they voted to allow the government to shut down. They
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refuse to negotiate with President Trump. So you know, you
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can't have it both ways here, and we as a
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country have to be mature enough to know that. While
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there's probably a lot of blame to go around about
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how we wound up thirty seven trillion dollars in debt,
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including you know, printing money and spending during COVID, like
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that was the solution instead of getting back to work,
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we got a problem on our hands, and you know,
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maybe some sober responsible people need to step up and
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Speaker 17: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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Speaker 12: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
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Speaker 18: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom
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to petition the government.
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Speaker 2: Probably?
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Speaker 19: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
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Speaker 13: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: I'm pretty sober.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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Speaker 4: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
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and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
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Speaker 8: We've got to protect our phoney.
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this immediately, immediately, immediately.
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Speaker 3: On a need to know basis, because you need to
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know the first thing.
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Speaker 16: Today.
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Speaker 2: Life goes on without me.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, send this out, Chuck and Nancy in DC. Life
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goes on without you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: We are now eight whole minutes past sunrise on the
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Eastern Seaboard, and I can speak with some authority. Well,
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because I have a window. The sun rose in the
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east just like it always has. So the rumors of
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the government shut down and its impact in America I
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have been greatly exaggerated. We're visiting with good friend, but
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also an example, and I don't want to overplay this, John,
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but an example to all of us wherever you are,
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that they're going to Everyone says, oh, it was Trump. Well, no,
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it's everybody. It's if you run for a school board seat,
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if you run for your local general assembly, or you
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run for your town council, you're going to get this.
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You're going to get this kind of assault. And the
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reason they do it is because most people are like
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I don't want to deal with that. So I do
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spend time trying to point at people saying, look at
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what they're doing to this guy. And he's still smiling
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and dial in as they say, and and and you know,
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dealing with it bravely. It's it's what we all have
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to do to stand up. There's way more of us
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than there are of then if you look at how
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it goes. But this rhetoric. I know that the gubernatorial
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candidate from the Democratic Party has received quite a bit
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of coverage for her let your rage fuel you comments.
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We've spent a good deal amount of it on here.
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But we see threats being made against candidates, House of
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Delegates candidates and in places New Jersey. I mean, my gosh,
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I was telling you to a friend of mine, is
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like New Jersey. I mean it's New Jerseys, the home
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state of threats against people you don't like. And I
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heard correct me if I'm wrong. You John have taken
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to wearing a bulletproof vest at public appearances outdoors. Is
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that true?
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Speaker 9: You know in my closet now, next to the suits
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and the blue blazers is a bulletproof vest. And every
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morning I have to decide, is this a place where
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I'm going to be vulnerable. And you know a lot
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of people have said, well, John, now, you can't campaign
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with you know, outdoors, you can't shake hands with people
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you don't know. I'm not running for president, I'm running
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for lieutenant governor of Virginia.
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Speaker 8: And I refuse to be.
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Speaker 9: Cowed into silence or bullied off of the campaign trail
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because no one wants to discipline criminals in this society.
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It's one of the reasons I'm running. I'm sick and
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tired of Democrats letting criminals off the hook. And we've
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sent a message to every nutcase in this state and
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across the United States, quite frankly, that it really doesn't
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matter whether you commit crime, we'll excuse it as long
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as it's directed at the people we hate. Well, I
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don't play like that. If you commit a crime, you
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need to go to prison. The fact that John Hinckley Junior,
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who tried to kill my old boss Ronald Reagan, is
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now walking around three in Williamsburg, what does that say
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to the next would be political assassin. It says we
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don't really care were eventually we're going to let you
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out because we're a weak, soft headed bunch of fools
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for allowing criminals to.
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Speaker 8: Run loose amongst us.
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Speaker 9: Well, I think now those of us who are in
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the political world have to deal.
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Speaker 7: With it well, and most of us don't, don't cottonto that.
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But again, the fear mongering or I don't want to
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get involved, is what's keeping us from weighing in. We
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look at the temple assault, the murders in Manchester, England
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just yesterday Yam Kippor and they go into a house
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of worship, the LDS Church in Michigan. These are assaults
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that people are going beyond even the politics of this.
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John uh and talk about lawlessness and what the difference.
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 7: We just had the attorney general candidate from the Democratic
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Party arrested, not just cited, but arrested for driving one
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hundred and sixteen miles an hour. And I imagine he
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was surprised that that was against the rules. But this
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is the guy that wants to be the attorney general
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and he thinks he can just go one hundred and
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sixteen miles an hour down Virginia roadways. This idea of Walla.
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Speaker 9: You love it, don't you love it that they're calling
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that a speeding ticket. I was like, oh, actually it
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was a reckless driving ticket, which I guess happens occasionally, Okay, But.
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Speaker 8: I was trying to think. Even when I used.
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Speaker 9: To drive in Nevada and North Dakota and South Dakota
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where they have you know, highways where you can see
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twenty miles ahead of you with you know it's a
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straight shot, I don't think I ever went one hundred
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over one hundred miles an hour?
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Speaker 8: Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 9: You know that this is the disingenuous nature of the
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media today, that this is a legitimate, documented situation in court,
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not made up, not an attack. I mean, go ahead
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and answer why you were doing it. And then they
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put that right next to completely fabricated garbage from other
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people that makes no sense, that's to a total lie,
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and they try to compare the two. I will tell
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you this is a sick situation that we've got politically.
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You witnessed it with Donald Trump, and he got a
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lot of attention. And fortunately he's got a billion dollars
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so he can hire attorneys and he can fight back,
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and he can get ten people to go out and
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push back for him. But what's not reported is what
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happens for the member of the House of Delegates who's
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running who winds up being maligned, somebody like me who's
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running for lieutenant governor, who is mistreated and lied about,
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And no, wonder good people don't want to do this.
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Speaker 2: Why would you.
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Speaker 8: I have to be honest with you. This stinks. It's terrible.
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Speaker 9: And the only reason I'm still doing it is I'm
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a fighter.
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Speaker 8: I'm not putting up with this crap anymore.
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Speaker 7: Well, And I think that's why I brought it up
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the way I did, John, because I think it has
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to be exemplar to other people that sure it's going
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to hurt. I think about Meg Bryce. Meg Bryce was
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running for a local school board. Her dad happened to
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be named antonin Scalia, so that became the entire crux
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of her opponent's campaign, funded by more money than I
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can recall, at one point being spent on a lieutenant
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governor's race just for one little school board seat, and
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then having vanquished her from that, they went and had
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her kicked off the Board of Education where she was
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appointed by Governor Youngkin.
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Speaker 15: So the.
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Speaker 7: Assassination you see it, you've got, You've got now a
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cadre of I think almost a dozen Democrats that have
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started campaigning for you, including one of those guys who
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always seemed to get that Joe Morrissey was a Virginia
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Senator for many years but was always getting assailed in
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the press.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, there are a lot of Democrats who are tired
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of it. They've been the victim of it too, and
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I think, if I'm being honest, they've watched me stand
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up to some really horrible attacks and bullies, and in
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the back of their mind, even though we don't agree
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on everything, they're saying, this is the kind of guy
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we need to lead.
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Speaker 8: We need someone who is decent.
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Speaker 9: And honest, who will fight back against the thugs who
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are trying to take over Virginia.
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Speaker 8: And you know, not every.
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Speaker 9: Democrat as a thug, but there are enough of them
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that it's a problem.
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Speaker 7: Right, And they always want us to do something about
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some white supremacist who wears a MAGA hat. How about
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they do something about some of these guys. At John,
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what's your website again?
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Speaker 8: It's John Reid for Virginia dot com.
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Speaker 2: Ri Id.
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Speaker 9: I'm on Facebook. I hope you'll follow me there and
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24:39
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25:05
on the ground covering all of it, bringing you the weather,
25:09
the traffic, and breaking news, all while entertaining you twenty
25:13
four hours a day. Someone needs to tell you what's
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25:20
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Speaker 23: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would
26:05
you recognize them by their clothes, their age, the way
26:10
they speak.
26:11
Speaker 21: Would you notice a sixteen year old boy who got
26:13
his first.
26:14
Speaker 23: Job for extra spending money, but to help feed his
26:17
little sisters, Or a mother who's in between jobs and
26:21
sometimes goes to bed hungry so her kids can have dinner.
26:25
Speaker 21: Or a fourteen year old girl who signs up to
26:27
every after.
26:28
Speaker 27: School activity not to make friends, but just to get
26:30
something to eat.
26:33
Speaker 21: Or a retiree who fell ill and.
26:35
Speaker 29: Had to choose between getting medicine or groceries.
26:40
Speaker 23: I am the one in aid Americans who struggle with hunger.
26:44
People you passed by every day but never knew were hungry.
26:48
Speaker 21: I am hunger in America.
26:51
Speaker 29: Hunger can be hard to recognize. Learn why at I
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am Hunger in America dot org, brought to you by
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Feeding America, two hundred food banks Strong and the AD Council.
27:02
Speaker 17: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
27:05
First Amendment. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of
27:09
the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom to petition the government.
27:14
Which freedom can you live without? Fortunately, the First Amendment
27:18
doesn't make you choose. It protects all five freedoms equally.
27:23
Think First. Go to Think First Amendment dot org to
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learn more.
27:27
Speaker 5: When might you be buzzed when you suddenly love everything you?
27:31
Speaker 21: Guys?
27:32
Speaker 20: I love this song, I love these notchos, I love
27:37
our kickball league.
27:39
Speaker 8: Oh, I love this guy.
27:42
Speaker 13: What's your name?
27:43
Speaker 8: You know what?
27:43
Speaker 13: I love A ride when it's time to head out.
27:47
Speaker 5: If you see a buzzed warning sign, call for a
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Speaker 3: For you from Joe Thomas.
28:14
Speaker 7: It's first thing today. It is time for us to
28:18
shake off the cobwebs go. You know, hang on a second.
28:23
I need to take a dandelion break and sit amongst
28:27
the genteel folks who watch things like the Ryder Cup
28:30
in New York City and check in with mac McDonald
28:34
at our sports desk down there at Full Sale University
28:38
and the Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting where he is
28:41
program director. But more importantly, in the mornings, he puts
28:44
on the cowl and cape and does the sports for us,
28:47
brought to you by the Lunch Pail Foundation, col cape
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and lunch pail that he's got in hand. He's the
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only superhero with a lunchbox.
28:54
Speaker 30: There's still so much chatter. Everybody is weighing in film.
29:00
Minicholson might have the best idea.
29:01
Speaker 2: And in fact, I'm getting ready to see I'm getting
29:04
ready to start this see the philm midchleson book. You
29:06
can't see anyway. Phil mchleson might have had the best idea.
29:11
Speaker 30: He wants Mike Krzyzewsky as the next Ryder Cup uh
29:14
a coach.
29:16
Speaker 7: He doesn't have to be able to play golf, just
29:18
something you can make executive disease, he said, either.
29:21
Speaker 2: Lou Holtz or coach k That's that's what we need
29:24
to get.
29:25
Speaker 21: Is there anything in.
29:25
Speaker 7: The rule that says they have to be a golfer?
29:30
Speaker 2: No, they can offer anybody. I like it. You and me,
29:33
we can go right.
29:34
Speaker 7: Donald Trump in a couple of years, he's going to
29:36
have time. But yeah, we're he's busy right now.
29:38
Speaker 30: So yeah, all right, a couple of things, you know,
29:41
for the weekend. Of course, the uh the wildcar or
29:44
the divisional rounds now are set, and uh, you know,
29:47
we got our cities in Chicago, New York, Philly, Los Angeles, Detroit,
29:52
Seattle will be at Saturday night and in l A.
29:55
Philly at six, New York, Toronto at four, Chicago and
29:59
Milwaukee Saturday he will begin at two o'clock. So the
30:02
division round is set. Some really good baseball yesterday, bad calls,
30:06
this bad call, good calls.
30:08
Speaker 2: Great play.
30:09
Speaker 30: And then of course I've been practicing Cam Schlittler's name
30:12
all day. You got to go get the l I
30:14
can't wait to hear our students try to pronounce that
30:17
name because you got to be very careful. But he
30:20
was stellar with twelve strikeouts, eight innings, and you know,
30:23
setting records, you know. So anyway, this is Quarterback Friday
30:28
for me today, just to tell you, Chandler Morris is
30:31
the quarterback for the University of Virginia. His legend is
30:33
certainly growing and now most fans recognize him QB one
30:37
for UVA. He was a true freshman for Oklahoma in
30:40
twenty twenty. I'm gonna get to the point here. He
30:42
played in five games, three passes, migrated to Fort Worth,
30:46
log three years with TCU, played fifteen games, had knee issues,
30:50
A sprained MCL kept him out a month. Some guy
30:52
named Max Dugan took the Frogs to the national title game. Yeah,
30:56
and you know there was Morris on the sideline with
30:58
a hat on backwards going all right, so guys, all right?
31:01
Then Denton, Texas became Chandler's next home. He started twelve
31:05
games for North Texas, went six for six, leading the
31:08
American Athletic Conference with thirty seven hundred george passing and
31:11
thirty one touchdowns. So his record was six and six
31:14
right now, finally year of eligibility. The relationship with Tony
31:17
Elliott came from the father Chad Chad Morris. Chad and
31:21
Tony were on the Clemson staff together with Dabo. His
31:25
first trading card. I'll get to this story too. His
31:27
first trading card was worth one hundred and two thousand
31:30
dollars from this company called Pennina America that's offering NBA
31:35
box sets now for over one thousand bucks. I'll get
31:37
back to that in just a second. Anyway, the first
31:41
trading card, and then North Texas said all right, we'll
31:44
give you five hundred k to be and Chandler goes,
31:48
not so fast. That's not going to do it, all right,
31:50
So now who wanted Morris? Okaombas State U see f Memphis,
31:55
Lane Kiffin and ole Miss made an offer wow Uva
31:59
which spent twenty to thirty million on some fifty players
32:03
that they're bringing, you know, the portal and all that,
32:04
you know, trying to get.
32:05
Speaker 2: But you know, for Chandler Morris, you know, he pocketed it.
32:09
Speaker 7: Cool.
32:09
Speaker 30: He's you know somewhere, you know, somewhere in that two
32:12
three million dollar range. We don't know for sure, but somewhere.
32:17
And his first trading card was worth one hundred and
32:19
two thousand. I don't know if I said that trading
32:22
cards got, you know. Anyway, with all that being said,
32:25
Chandler Morris, being interviewed, says, you know what, it's nice
32:28
to be in a place where I'm appreciated.
32:30
Speaker 31: Really just kind of get to a spot and really
32:33
feeling appreciated, and that's what I feel appreciated here. And
32:37
getting the opportunity to kind of put Virginia back on
32:40
the map is extremely rewarding. I mean, just the opportunity itself.
32:44
So trying to take advantage of that opportunity and keep
32:48
things rolling and having fun with my teammates.
32:51
Speaker 30: Finally, final year of eligibility, knock down a couple of
32:55
mill play in football, living the life.
32:57
Speaker 2: He's probably taking one class.
32:59
Speaker 30: I mean, this is why would you want to go
33:02
pro fifty year or even think about wanting to go pro.
33:06
Speaker 2: I mean, this is there.
33:07
Speaker 7: We're gonna get to a point where we're gonna have
33:09
thirty year olds starting at quarterback for some of these schools.
33:13
Speaker 30: You know, the NCAA will allow you eight years to play,
33:16
you know, eight years to play seven you know.
33:19
Speaker 7: You know, the the Drama Major took six years, so
33:24
I should be a.
33:24
Speaker 2: Lot of things. Yeah whatever, I agree.
33:26
Speaker 30: So anyway, all right now, Virginia Tech kyroon drones a
33:29
little you know, different story, and they've got a big
33:31
one with Wake at Home. Oh of course, Virginia going
33:35
to Louisville tomorrow and they've got to validate the Florida
33:38
State win. They don't have to, but I mean it
33:40
would be you know, huge for them to move on
33:43
and go.
33:43
Speaker 7: Five in the top twenty five.
33:45
Speaker 2: You got to live up to number twenty four. Now
33:47
you got to play like it. Louisville is undefeated. They
33:49
played like Eastern Kentucky and they played J and U
33:51
and so they really JM.
33:53
Speaker 7: You gave them all they could handle to.
33:55
Speaker 30: Yeah, yeah, so it'll be fun Mill and then Virginia Tech.
33:59
Kyroon Drones came from Texas Tech. He transferred to twenty
34:02
three from Baylor. He only played five games with the Bears,
34:05
but that's when it was just kind of, you know,
34:07
get getting going. So Drones is making a paltry three
34:11
hundred thousand blacks just you know what a drop, I mean,
34:15
three come on, ky Ryan. But anyway, struggles. But but
34:20
he's found you know now, that Philip guy. And he
34:22
loved it when Philip Montgomery got there, the offensive coordinator
34:24
because they are on the same page.
34:27
Speaker 32: Oh yeah, it's definitely a difference. Like my last two
34:29
coordinators were both Olaeman when they played. There's definitely a
34:32
difference from somebody that has been in that backfield and
34:34
has played the QB position, So they know probably what
34:37
you're thinking after a play, like you just got sack
34:40
and you got a clock in your hair now, so
34:42
they know how to call to play from there. And
34:44
then they just know like if they see you in
34:46
a rhythm, not to go out there and just keep
34:49
running the ball for you to get out that rhythm.
34:50
Speaker 7: So it's just as a huge difference.
34:52
Speaker 30: Yeah, that's a little more research that I have to do,
34:54
like how many offensive linemen or offensive coordinators because I
34:58
can't see you know, an offensive limon, you know, being
35:01
in oc to be real effective for a quarterback, and
35:03
a quarterback wants somebody to talk real quarterback now.
35:06
Speaker 2: Edge offensive limbings is just getting there, you know, you.
35:09
Speaker 7: Know, run the round playway.
35:12
Speaker 30: So just to compare now, just because to think about
35:15
your weekend and uh, you know, trying to pay a
35:18
heating bill or electric bill or whatever. Arch Manning's value
35:22
is around six point eight million. He's also with America Panini.
35:27
Speaker 7: Uh, and that's not a sandwich. That's a that's a company,
35:31
that's a market, that's a that's not a sandwich.
35:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an online store. Okay.
35:37
Speaker 30: So they have all these different trading cards and all
35:39
these different things that that are certified.
35:41
Speaker 2: They've got all kinds of merch. You could get shoes.
35:45
Speaker 30: Uh the Angel Reefs autographed, uh Barbie photograph.
35:52
Speaker 2: Is three hundred and fifty bucks.
35:54
Speaker 30: Now, the day you tell me I'm gonna put an
35:56
Angel resigned card in my office will be the day
35:59
that it's over and you can just put you just
36:01
turn off all the machines.
36:03
Speaker 7: You know, you know, But here's the thing, you know,
36:04
and I would like to rail in holy indignation over this,
36:09
But we had a story locally common aalth of Virginia
36:13
set a it went up twenty two percent in betting
36:17
gambling in August over August of last year. And what
36:22
they say, the majority of that activity comes this coming
36:25
from the state, comes over mobile betting apps like you know,
36:29
the MGM all this because.
36:32
Speaker 2: In Florida you can only use one.
36:34
Speaker 7: Right, So in the city, you're saying, is this ridiculous
36:37
that a player you know sells three hundred and fifty
36:40
dollars photos of her self dressed like Barbie and uh,
36:44
and I'm thinking no, because we're dropping, you know, fifty
36:48
two million dollars five hundred and ten million dollars betting
36:52
on them anyway. I mean, right, how many groceries could we.
36:55
Speaker 30: Have bought with a five with a five tier six
36:59
tier bet that you know has everything? Say, okay, they will,
37:03
they'll throw for three hundred, they'll score three touchdowns, and
37:07
they'll eat four snow cones before you.
37:10
Speaker 7: Know they get what color will the gatorade be?
37:13
Speaker 2: Yeah?
37:13
Speaker 30: Well, you know, and by the way, if you hit
37:15
all those four uh you know, and your chances like
37:18
six hundred whatever. But all these trading cards and all
37:21
these things, you know, they just when I went to
37:25
this website, I was just like, boy, that goes a
37:27
long time in that pack of gum and what we
37:29
used to do, uh, sitting in the garage going, hey,
37:31
I got two Mickey mantles.
37:33
Speaker 2: How about a moose scouring for ay?
37:35
Speaker 7: You know, it's just uh, it's your project for the
37:39
next ten minutes. Just go look up moose scouring. Yeah exactly,
37:44
So google moose scouring and if you still it's gonna.
37:47
Speaker 2: Be a great, great weekend baseball football.
37:49
Speaker 30: It's going to rain here, so I hope you have
37:51
a tradeing weekend and we'll have it all for you Monday.
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40:09
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40:20
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Speaker 34: Every year more American adults die from vaccine preventable diseases
40:37
and from breast cancer, traffic accidents, or AIDS. Vaccines like
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the one for new Maccle disease can protect adults from
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41:00
Getting vaccinated can help protect you and those close to you.
41:04
I'm doctor Susan Reem of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
41:08
When I speak with my patients, I urge them to
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get all their recommended vaccines.
41:12
Speaker 13: Now, I'm urging you to.
41:14
Speaker 34: Speak with your doctor to find out which vaccines you need.
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For more information about the vaccines that are recommended for
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41:37
does that water come from? Your water provider encourages you
41:40
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41:43
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41:46
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41:50
we have a sustainable drinking water supply for the future.
41:53
Visit Drink tap dot org to learn more. This message
41:57
is brought to you by the American Waterworks Association and
42:00
your local water provider.
42:02
Speaker 23: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would
42:05
you recognize them? By their clothes, their age, the way
42:10
they speak.
42:11
Speaker 21: Would you notice a sixteen year old boy who've got.
42:14
Speaker 19: His first job franks for spending money about to help
42:17
feed his little sisters.
42:19
Speaker 23: Or a mother who's in between jobs and sometimes goes
42:22
to bed hungry so her kids can have dinner.
42:25
Speaker 21: Or a fourteen year old girl who signs up to
42:27
every after.
42:28
Speaker 27: School activity not to make friends, but just to get
42:31
something to eat.
42:33
Speaker 21: Or a retiree who fell ill and.
42:35
Speaker 29: Had to choose between getting medicine or groceries.
42:40
Speaker 23: I am the one in aid Americans who struggle with hunger.
42:44
Speaker 21: People you passed by every day but never knew were hungry.
42:48
I am hunger in America.
42:51
Speaker 29: Hunger can be hard to recognize. Learn why at I
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Am Hunger in America dot Org brought to you by
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Feeding America two hundred food banks strong and the AD Council.
43:02
Speaker 17: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
43:05
First Amendment. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of
43:10
the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom to petition the government.
43:14
Which freedom can you live without? Fortunately, the First Amendment
43:19
doesn't make you choose. It protects all five freedoms equally.
43:23
Think First. Go to Think First Amendment dot org to
43:26
learn more.
43:27
Speaker 5: When might you be buzzed? When you suddenly love everything you?
43:31
Speaker 13: Guys?
43:32
Speaker 20: I love this song, I love these nachos, I love
43:38
architefall League.
43:39
Speaker 8: Oh I love this guy.
43:42
Speaker 2: What's your name?
43:43
Speaker 8: You know what?
43:44
Speaker 13: I'd love a ride when it's time to head out.
43:47
Speaker 5: If you see a buzzed warning sign, call for a
43:49
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43:51
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43:56
Speaker 6: It's on.
44:09
Speaker 2: The sound of.
44:12
Speaker 3: The First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by
44:15
Joe Thomas.
44:21
Speaker 7: Thank you for letting us be of service to you.
44:23
That is how we roll and joining us A host
44:27
of the Good for America podcast, Former Chair of the
44:31
House Freedom Concus Bob good Good morning, Bob. Happy Friday.
44:36
How are you doing, sir?
44:37
Speaker 22: Good morning Joe. Doing well. I hope you are happy
44:40
Friday as well.
44:41
Speaker 7: I went and I checked seven to eleven this morning,
44:44
just to make sure the sun was rising in the east.
44:46
Apparently rumblings about this government shutdown are greatly exaggerated.
44:51
Speaker 22: Oh thanks for reminding me that there was a shutdown.
44:54
Speaker 35: That funny thing is most Americans Joe wouldn't even know
44:57
about it if the federal government, excuse me, if the
45:01
media folks like us and politicians weren't talking about it,
45:06
and it's not affecting most americans lives. I was with
45:09
the Trump administrations not trying to wield it in a
45:12
way to cause as much harm and discomfort and pain
45:15
as Obama did during previous shutdowns. So most Americans would
45:20
even know about it. So thanks for remind me of
45:22
way to shut down.
45:23
Speaker 7: Well, and that's what I worry about for our friends,
45:26
you know, who hold elected office. I've been playing that
45:29
old David Lee Roth song. Life goes on without me?
45:32
What happens, you know when Chuck Schumer has to get
45:35
a real job. I don't think he's passed the bar
45:37
examine a long time.
45:39
Speaker 35: Well, too many people in Washington, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer
45:42
and Nancy Gelosi and so forth, have never had real jobs.
45:46
Speaker 22: You know, I was fifty when I got asked to
45:48
run for.
45:48
Speaker 35: County Zuper, fifty five when I got asked to run
45:50
for Congress.
45:51
Speaker 22: So these were later decisions in life.
45:54
Speaker 35: But I'm glad to hear Trump and his great budget
45:57
director Russville. He is a good friend of mine talking
45:59
about utilizing it in a way to help the American people.
46:03
Dems stand for the three million federal employees who are
46:07
not military. Dems you Mark warnered him, Kaine, all they.
46:10
Speaker 22: Care about it. And Aboguel Spanberger is the federal employees.
46:13
Speaker 35: While the federal eployees are supposed to serve to the
46:15
benef of the American people. And eighty percent of them
46:17
weren't even working come January when President Trump got sworn
46:22
and they were quote working from home after four years
46:25
of COVID supposedly, and so it's a good start. They
46:30
talk about sixteen thousand layoffs, but that's one half of
46:34
one percent of three million are sitting to cut hundreds
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of thousands and don't bring them back in a deal
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with the Democrats to reopen the gun.
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Speaker 7: Well, here's the thing, and we were kind of talking
46:44
in abstract, Bob, about the administrative courts that are part
46:48
of every cabinet office in the executive branch, and they
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all are based on the premise of guilty until proven innocent.
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If you get dragged in front of the IRS, you're
46:58
guilty and you have to prove that you didn't do
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whatever it is they say, or the EPA or the FDA.
47:05
And that's sort of how the whole federal bureaucracy operates.
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Is I need money for my farm, Okay, prove that
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you needed, prove that you're not guilty of something that
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will keep us from giving it to you. And I
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just feel like these bureaucrats for years have been building
47:22
this oppositional position to the American people. And maybe that's
47:27
why the American people are like, yeah, I really didn't
47:30
know they were shut down. As a matter of fact,
47:32
things might get better for him.
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Speaker 35: Yeah. The less the government does to us will pretending
47:37
to do things for us the better. Less is certainly
47:40
more when it comes to government. Even as a county
47:42
supervisor almost ten years ago, we had a policy in
47:47
Campbell County where you had to come to the county
47:49
and beg and plead with them in order to do
47:51
something on your own property. Like in other words, you
47:53
couldn't put a shed or a garage that went out
47:56
further than the front of your house. And I fought
47:58
for four years to try to we send that, to
48:00
cancel that, to change that, to say, if somebody wants
48:03
to do something stupid to their property, where it's unsightly
48:06
to their property, it's not the business of the county
48:09
government decide whether or not they can do that. It
48:11
hurts the market value of their own home. It should
48:13
be their decision. They shouldn't begging and pleading with the county.
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Speaker 22: Government do that.
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Speaker 35: Gosh, that's on steroids when it comes to the federal government.
48:20
But I think you could literally lay off about half
48:22
of the civilian workforce. You could probably lay off one
48:25
point five million and a three million, and you know
48:29
it would work just as well or just as poorly
48:32
as it does now.
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Speaker 7: Well, and that's controversial here in Virginia. I know it's
48:36
come up in the gubernatorial race. And wherever there are
48:39
federal employees, you know, you get southern California, you know,
48:43
upstate New York places where there are military bases and
48:47
contractors that are working off of, you know, government contracts
48:51
that all of a sudden, you know, their private company
48:54
has been quote laid off because they've they've decided their
48:59
business model was to contract to the federal government. I mean,
49:02
these are the people that are going to be dragged
49:04
down onto the TV sets of all the local TV
49:07
stations and say, look at what the insert epithet, you know,
49:10
Trump or re Ssumer shutdown is causing. When the question
49:14
is never asked, were these things the government should have
49:17
been spending taxpayer money on in the first place.
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Speaker 35: Right in the interest of the three hundred million American citizens,
49:25
not the three million federal workers or the millions of
49:27
federal contractors.
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Speaker 22: We don't have the money. It's not working.
49:31
Speaker 35: We've got a two trillion dollar annual deficit and coming
49:34
up on thirty eight trillion in debt. We're suffering an
49:36
affordability crisis primarily based on the government spending.
49:40
Speaker 22: It's not working. It's not helping the American people.
49:42
Speaker 35: And that's not to say there wouldn't be some pain
49:44
for some people, as you just illustrated, but the wealthiest
49:47
counties in the country are the counties that surround Washington,
49:49
DC because of the people getting rich off the federal
49:52
government on the backs of the hard working American taxpayers
49:54
spread throughout the country.
49:55
Speaker 7: Yeah, imagine if the value of your dollar doubled in
49:59
a day, you know, because the government, and we've already
50:03
seen some of its seven point five billion dollars in
50:06
green programs just got cut yesterday. So there are recisions.
50:12
I guess is the word that the cool kids are
50:14
using bob in this federal spending right.
50:18
Speaker 35: Yes, what President Trump is doing, what leads out in
50:21
Director of the EPA, what the Energy Secretary is doing,
50:24
Interior secretaries for are doing to roll back and to
50:28
rescind and cancel some of the green climate subsidies and
50:32
credits and spending the stuff.
50:33
Speaker 22: That's just horrible.
50:35
Speaker 35: But what I'll tell you what really needs to happen
50:36
now across the country is these utilities need to stop
50:40
being able to pass on to rate payers the cost
50:43
of wind and solar. They need to only be able
50:45
to pass on the rate payers the most efficient, affordable, reliable,
50:50
sustainable energy from a quick, easy access all the time
50:55
twenty four to seven, which is not wind and solar.
50:57
Speaker 22: As long as they can keep passing on those costs
50:59
to the rate payers.
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Speaker 35: It's it's even bigger deal than with the federal government
51:02
spending and subsidies.
51:04
Speaker 7: And it turns into a point far well, no, no,
51:07
it becomes a political football because then you're electric company
51:11
who we all have Democrats and Republicans, we all have
51:13
an electric bill. You know, they'll say, oh, this is
51:16
because of insert the politician you want to tar and
51:20
feather with.
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Speaker 22: That El Stanberger.
51:24
Speaker 35: Energy should be a big issue in this election right now,
51:27
because what if she's elected, it will hurt us from
51:31
an from an energy cost standpoint, utility cost standpoint, in
51:34
a massive way.
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Speaker 22: Another reason to vote for Winston series.
51:37
Speaker 7: Well, and it already is same for our friends in
51:40
New Jersey Mickey Cheryl. Also in the House of Representatives.
51:43
A lot of this stuff comes out of the House
51:45
and then goes down to the state level for the
51:48
utility companies to pass along to the rate payers.
51:52
Speaker 35: Absolutely, if they can pass it on to you and I,
51:54
and regardless of how much it costs, regardless of its reliability,
51:57
regardless of his efficiency, then keep doing it because they're
52:01
getting rich. They're making the money off of the federal
52:04
and state policies.
52:05
Speaker 7: Absolutely good for America podcast coming up and what have
52:12
you been covering? What's coming up this week?
52:13
Speaker 35: Bob, Well, we did cover as much as we make
52:18
fun of it, but we did cover the government shut down.
52:20
Speaker 22: We'll continue to keep an eye on that. I suspected the.
52:23
Speaker 35: Last a few more days where Schumer can try to
52:25
tell his base that he fought hard and he got
52:27
some promises from Republicans. But watch for November twenty one,
52:31
when this cr is supposed to expire. Republicans vote against
52:36
these policies. When the Democrats had controlled, they have copy
52:39
pasted the Biden budget into multiple surs now this year,
52:42
and they're going to do another something November twenty one.
52:45
Speaker 22: Stay tuned.
52:46
Speaker 7: It was just in time for Thanksgiving, of course.
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