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"Sorry Jimmy, NOT a Free Speech Issue" (Saturday September 20, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: We'll do it in the mornings again.
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Speaker 2: Well, the first thing today the media a Jo Thomas
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will do it Lin j Word said steal me.
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Speaker 1: Day.
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Speaker 3: But you also had people these for work when the
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sun comes up to scoop.
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Speaker 1: That were.
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Speaker 4: All the jers. No one that Josh is smiled.
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Speaker 2: He only very fine people on both sides. Now you
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have to behave like fine people. But here all these truths.
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It is a Saturday morning, and we do it live
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for you. Because they try to sneak sally through the alley.
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They try to get those uncomfortable news stories out on
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a Friday evening after the newspaper, hopefully after the newspaper's
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gone to bed, or at very least knowing that it'll
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be in the Saturday papers in the In the online
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surfing of Saturday news by statistics is lower. It's not
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as low as it used to be. I mean, if
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a newspaper like you know, the Stanton News Leader had
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a million subscribers on Friday, it would have like two
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hundred thousand on Saturday. That's why they do it. That's
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why they sneak the news out on a Friday, and
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that's why we're here for the eleventh commandment, thou shalt
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not get away with it, Joel texted in about Charlie Kirk. Still,
1:33
you know, they shut Charlie down because his youth and
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younger audiences are going to be the future and of
1:39
hope and direction through his belief in Jesus. Well, but
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you see, Joel, they didn't shut him down because like Jesus,
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he had begun an organization that is going to carry
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on in his name. Now hopefully the constantines of the
1:55
world don't co opt it. Here's what Bob Good, former
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chair of the Freedom Conkas, said about it.
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Speaker 5: So I think that the most important thing to come
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from this is all of us just pausing to reflect
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where do we stand for eternity? What matters truly in
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this life. That's one of the effective things about death,
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especially sudden death. All of us think, oh, gosh, that
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could have been me. That could have been someone close
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to me that I knew personally that I loved, someone
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in my family, someone who else who I hold in
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a high regard like many of us did Charlie Kirk,
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and Charlie would want us all to recognize more than
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ever that the most important thing is salvation through Jesus
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Christ and that to be prepared for eternity. That's what
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he stood for. But he also inspired us with his
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boldness and his courage, and that's why the left hates
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that so much and wanted to shut him down. Obviously,
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the ugliness of the left, particularly those who have espoused
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violent as a legitimate response to political disagreement, it manifested
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itself in his murder, trying to ultimately cancel him. But
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of course it has inspired many to speak out more
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boldly with more courage since his tragic passion.
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Speaker 2: So hopefully that helped you, Joel perspectivized. But the message
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doesn't stop just because somebody gets killed. We should have
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learned that on Calvalry. But sunrise sermon at over checking. Yes,
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sunrise happened in the same spot in the sky as
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it always does, as expected. So again, no reason for
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Chicken Little to be running around saying the world is ending. Senate, however,
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rejected competing measures on Friday in our Saturday Morning. First
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things to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when
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the new budget year begins on October first, increasing prospects
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for a possible partial government shut down on October first.
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Leaders of the two parties blamed each other shocked you
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are I know? Democrats accused Republicans of not negotiating with
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them to address some of their priorities on healthcare, which
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has become the phrase that pays. President Trump on Friday
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said the media coverage has been unduly negative on his
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administration and that could and should be illegal, stoking a
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debate now of people who say the government shut down.
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Jimmy Kimmel's show, we played you the length and breadth
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of his statements. You decide if you missed it, we
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may bring it back in a little bit. Meanwhile, a
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federal judge on Friday blocked the president's administration from taking
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money back from organizations deemed to be promoting gender ideology.
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US District Judge William Smith of Providence, Rhode Island ruled
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the policy the NAA adopted to implement Trump's executive order
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was unlawful because it violated some interpretation of the Free
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Speech Amendment free speech provisions of the First Amendment, which
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I did checked and doesn't have anything in there about
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federal funding. President Trump.
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Speaker 6: Is.
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Speaker 17: Benny comedian used his show to do serious issues?
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Speaker 2: That is not what I wanted for. Can't they say
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Speaker 10: You're no.
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Speaker 6: Do they think that just because you have it tonight's
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important feeling.
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strangely enough, you could use that show as.
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Speaker 9: A form you could sway people, and I don't think
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you should as an entertainer.
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with Johnny Carson back in the day, and one are
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the rare. I mean, Johnny didn't do a lot of
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that stuff, which is interesting because you know a lot
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media attention, because they hope it can make them one
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scintilla as popular as Johnny Carson was, and he never
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did that kind of stuff, and I meant a couple
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of quick nuances to it. Number One, there's the old
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Michael Jordan rule of thumb. Republicans by sneakers too. So
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if you're trying to do mass media, if you have
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an attitude like me that says, I think everyone should
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be listening, well, how do you do that well? And
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over Donald Trump and what the press is tell you.
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Donald Trump said, and we will go back and inoculate
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we will, like we do so, like we've done since
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August fourteenth, twenty seventeen, play the president's entire statement plus
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the question, so you know, because the question really becomes
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the answer when the president doesn't give them what they want.
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But here's the thing, what are you doing with your broadcast?
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Are you doing your broadcast with the intent of serving
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the viewer slash listener? Because you can just like last week,
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we brought up the issue the question as to whether
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the Gropers were in somehow, way or shape or form
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involved with the murderer in Utah and a question which
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still hasn't been answered, by the way since last week.
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But I asked because it has been my personal experience
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that when I felt my position, my life, my family
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has been most in danger, it has either been at
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the hands of the quote unquote Unite the Right people
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or the Westboro Baptists. So although you know, I've been
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amongst Antifa and Black Lives Matter and I I nearly
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had a huge fistfight with a guy from Black Lives
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Matter because ironically, he thought because I had a particular
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color skin, he knew what I was all about. It's
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an irony in that that I think is a nuanced
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And then after the effect of the mob mentality war
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off on, the kid turned out he was like a
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Columbia University engineering student, soft, but he was caught up
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in the mob mentality of that riot in twenty seventeen
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here in Charlottesville. And when I got talking to him
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after the fact, I'm sorry, sir, and Hawk told me
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about you and it you really you like you hear
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and you listen and you care and I do and
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I'm not trying to make you think something. I just
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have time. I feel like I'm spending an inordinate amount
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of time debunking, debunk, debunk, debunk, debunk. It's like bouncing
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the rubber ball down the hall. Uh, the stuff that
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the agendized infomercial media wants to sell you so that
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you don't vote for somebody because that's all they've got.
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Everything comes from the government, every comes. It's like this
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judge's ruling in Rhode Island, and you want to talk
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about a tough group. I mean, I understand Republicans in
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New York City must feel like there are an endangered
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species to try to be a Republican Rhode Island. But
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this judge in Rhode Island saying that because the federal
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government isn't going to send some arts group money, that's
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a violation of the First Amendment. I challenge somebody right
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now while you're listening, call me at four three four
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eight eight two four two one seven what part of
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the First Amendment that I miss that said? And and
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this will all come with appropriate government funding. Man, we
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have gasoled ourselves into a weird place. Doctor Clark is
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hanging on the line with us down in Alabama. Good morning, Clark,
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how are you doing this Saturday morning?
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Speaker 14: I'm all good Joe, and you know you have thrown
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a project into my head. Oh oh, well, you said
18:21
the sun came up the same place as it always does.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean give her taking a little shift. I mean, yes,
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in the in the height of summer, it's not exactly
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as myths and whatnot. But in the east is what
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I was getting at. Yeah, no, I get that. But
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here's the thing.
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Speaker 14: We both know that it comes up a little bit
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different place every day.
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Speaker 11: Huh.
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Speaker 2: But I have never made.
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Speaker 14: It a point to measure just how much different every day.
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Speaker 2: And I think what I'm gonna do. You know I'm
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up every morning, well sound beat me up now the noon.
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I want to say, fifty.
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Speaker 14: One minutes later every day. I think that's what it is.
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I did pay attention to that one time. But what
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I'm going to do, thanks to Joe, is I'm going
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to take a picture.
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Speaker 2: During the equinox.
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Speaker 14: And then at the solstices.
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Speaker 2: From the same place.
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Speaker 14: Where I can look and see just how far apart
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it is from where it comes up in the winter
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and comes up in the summer. Never have really look
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at that. I don't know if it's ten degrees or
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twenty degrees.
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Speaker 2: Have no idea. It is noticeable. My wife and I
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spend our evenings when we can. We have one of
19:50
those canvas Coleman pools in our backyard. And I say
19:54
that because when I say I'm sitting in my pool,
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it sounds like I'm an elitist goob. But we have
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a know it came with a and we sit in
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it in the evening and have a cocktail. And I noticed,
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it's noticeable that the sun is going down in an
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entirely different part of the sky because it's not shining
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in my face in the same way it used to
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in the height of the summer. So it is noticeable.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, so it took me sixty four years to decide
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that I need to figure out just how much different
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that is every day.
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Speaker 2: Well, we've given you a project. There you go.
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Speaker 14: You were talking about Donald Trump and the things he says.
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Now here's the thing, Joe, We've had for a president
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clean and bright and articulate. And as long as clean
20:51
and bright and articulate. It was on telefronter. He told
20:55
you what the narrative told him to say. Now, if
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you could get him off teleprompter every now and then,
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he'd mess up and you'd.
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Speaker 2: Hear what he really thought. Yeah, squeak a little bit
21:06
of truthiness out there. Yes.
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Speaker 14: Now, here's the thing. If it comes out of Donald's
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Trump's mouth, it's what he's thinking.
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Speaker 10: Now.
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Speaker 14: It might be strictly forebrain might not be thought out yet,
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but it's what he's thinking. Do you think Donald Trump's
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ever messed up and told you the truth?
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Speaker 6: No?
21:30
Speaker 2: I think He's told us the truth every time, and
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sometimes his handlers feel like it's a mess up. That's
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the difference.
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Speaker 14: Well, the Donald thinks out loud a lot of time.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, without question these and this is one
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of the reasons I love the Hallway sessions on Air
21:47
Force one and these Oval office afternoon sit downs because
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it's not quite fireside chat, but it's stream of consciousness.
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Speaker 11: I'm ANDREWS. Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
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warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
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Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
25:16
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
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are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
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threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
25:29
call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
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your personal information like your Social Security number or bank account,
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or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire
25:41
transfers of prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our
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law enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at
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Speaker 13: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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art and brain.
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Speaker 2: Who's with me?
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Speaker 15: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
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Speaker 16: And my brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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Speaker 13: Love that guy, me too.
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Speaker 6: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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it's time.
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Speaker 2: To go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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a part of me, like my arms and legs, so
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I'll be his no time, fort tired, nothing can disable
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this love.
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Speaker 2: Your friends here.
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Speaker 18: In First Thing Today by Joe Thomas, Oh, this information.
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Speaker 3: Wandering is really quite ferocious.
28:19
Speaker 13: It's right up ups to take the line and makes
28:21
them sound precocious.
28:22
Speaker 3: Plus seeing them in Congress.
28:24
Speaker 14: Or mainstream out that so this information's origins are slightly
28:28
less atrocia.
28:29
Speaker 2: It's a confession, isn't it? Need how delighted lie It's
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how four three four eight eight two four two one
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seven Doctor Clark online one with us get your thoughts
28:39
how the news of the day is impacting you because
28:44
we're all going to have different reactions to it. And
28:46
that's one of the things that Big Pharma doesn't get
28:49
is everyone's DNA is different. So you can't just give
28:53
somebody an inoculation for one thing and expected to work
28:56
the same way or have the same adverse side effects.
29:00
Why choice. There used to be a political campaign about
29:04
my body, My choice, You remember those, and were unfortunately
29:11
grabbed into this idea that the president and the administration
29:15
is clamping down on free speech. It's because Jimmy Kimmel's
29:19
PR firm has decided this is going to help Jimmy
29:23
Kimmel out. Do we have to clip the Corolla Club.
29:26
So Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel for years were you know,
29:31
Martin and Lewis, SpongeBob and Patrick. You know, it doesn't
29:36
matter what comedy team you're thinking of. And and then
29:42
so he was doing his Adam Carolla podcast. Of course
29:45
he's now taken up the promotion of dry bar comedy.
29:51
No cussin just crushing is the slogan. I love that slogan,
29:54
no cussin just crushing. Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel used
29:59
to a host of Man Show. I remember the good
30:02
old days when we used to be able to just
30:03
assail Jimmy Kimmel for the stuff he used to do
30:07
on The Man Show. But so they asked Adam Carolla
30:11
about whether or not the government should be firing Charlie
30:17
Charlie Jimmy Kimmel over his Kirk comments.
30:20
Speaker 24: But my feeling is this, I don't think he should
30:24
have been fired. It's a weird thing the right and
30:27
the left always sort of misinterpreting things. No, he was
30:32
inaccurate about something. It wasn't like he was necessarily attacking
30:38
Charlie Kirk. He was trying to dump it on Trump
30:42
and inaccurate about it.
30:46
Speaker 2: And that's not wrong. But that's also not why ABC.
30:50
Disney has said he was fired. He was fired and
30:53
had been considered for his firing for some time because
30:57
his program was not delivering viewers for the advertisers, and
31:03
that's a problem, and they were paying a lot of
31:06
money for a show that was actually hurting them in
31:08
the ratings and getting complaints and things like that, and
31:11
at some point there's a return on investment. But the
31:16
FCC didn't shut down Jimmy Kimmel, because this idea that
31:23
somehow Disney ABC is an apparatus of the Trump administration
31:28
is laughable and it's a dangerous one, as I said
31:32
on Friday's program, because you're starting to assume the premise
31:37
that the government gives you jobs and guarantees you the
31:41
right to a job, and that's a bad place. But
31:44
the President's discussion on Friday in the Oval Office, has
31:48
the media send see Donald Trump proved it, and we'll
31:51
play the whole press conference, the question and his answer
31:55
in its entirety, because you're just getting parshed moments of it,
31:59
like when he said Trump said Nazis or fine people
32:02
and he didn't. But that's that's neither here nor there.
32:06
We had to play the entirety of his August twelfth,
32:08
twenty seventeen press conference in order for you to know that,
32:12
and since then, whenever this happens, we'll go and play
32:15
the President in his whole words. But I mean, you know,
32:18
doctor Clark, you know I'm not wrong, though sometimes I wish,
32:22
I wish some of the words would be more nuanced than.
32:25
Speaker 14: Some that always deeply considered a lot of times it's
32:30
just right off the top of the head. But whatever's
32:33
coming out of his mouth is what he's thinking. And
32:36
I don't know, Joe, I kind of appreciate it.
32:39
Speaker 2: Oh so do I. And one of the reasons we
32:42
take great pains when these flashpoint moments like this morning,
32:46
where your throat deep, you're Adam's apple deep in people
32:50
telling you that Trump is a fascist because he's coming
32:54
after the media and Brendan Carr is going to shut
32:57
down the media and he's you know, there's cartoon UNEs
33:00
with General Lissimo uniforms on President Trump and it's you know,
33:05
state run media and all of that, you know, with
33:08
Newsmax's banner over it, by the way, But but it's
33:13
it's all to tell this story to pry away. And again,
33:17
this is all about one percent, two percent. Some voter
33:21
in you know, Patchhog Long Island is going to say,
33:25
you know what, sco, I can't take this anymore. And
33:28
that's all they need. They need just that one person
33:31
each day, that one percent each time they do it.
33:33
One percent here, one percent there, one percent that just
33:37
think chink, kink, kink, think, just chipping them off until
33:41
it's forty percent and they win the mid terms because
33:44
that's all this is about. Is we talked the other
33:47
day during the weekday show, this is an infomercial. This
33:50
is a This is going to be a year long
33:52
infomercial into the mid terms, so that the political action
33:56
committees that are giving money to these news agencies and
34:00
sometimes just trading access. It isn't even you know, I'll
34:04
give you the scoopage if you report it this way.
34:08
And and so these news bloggers and bloggers and floggers
34:12
are all doing this as an ad campaign so that
34:16
the Whopper will beat the big Mac in the midterms.
34:21
Speaker 14: Well, Joe on Donald Trump as a fascist. Yeah, we're
34:27
gonna have to lensky the follow out of this. Every
34:30
time any of them says fascist, why don't you just
34:36
say I hate you and I want everyone else to
34:41
hate you.
34:43
Speaker 2: You know, that's what we should do, That's what we
34:45
should hear them say. Nick Fredis Nick Fredis was on
34:49
Friday's show, and he has a wonderful Instagram post in
34:54
which he comes to an epiphany as to what's going on.
34:58
I'll tell you. I'll let him play it for himself.
35:00
I don't want to miss misquotify him, but it really
35:05
it's it is epiphematic of you know, what the left
35:09
is doing. When they call you something, it's like you're
35:11
going to a doctor and they're diagnosing what's wrong with you,
35:15
and and then they're gonna come with a prescription for
35:17
what's going to fix it, or perhaps a vaccine to
35:21
prevent you from infecting other people with it.
35:26
Speaker 14: You know, every time they call somebody a fascist, nazi, racist, homophobe,
35:31
et cetera at all, it's just like the red wasp.
35:35
We even the pheromone on you to mark you for
35:37
the rest of the nest.
35:39
Speaker 2: Well, but it's also it's also the olinski. They need
35:42
to call you that because they are that. And if
35:45
we out there hose, oh, you're just rubbered and glue
35:48
when they were just doing that because I called you that.
35:51
And it's name calling when there's some real stuff going
35:55
on here. And that's the other part of this ephemerara. Okay, okay,
35:59
you've taken it to a new level. Now, oh now
36:01
I did it.
36:03
Speaker 14: Here you go, Wait a minute, Wait a minute. When
36:06
they say fascists, we can interpret this to mean I
36:12
hate you and I want everyone else to hate you,
36:16
and fascism is what's on my mind right now when
36:19
they say racist, I mean I hate you and I
36:23
want everyone else to hate you, and I'm being pretty
36:27
racist right now.
36:28
Speaker 2: Homophobe, same thing.
36:31
Speaker 14: So now we've learned the different applications of the various
36:36
terms it is these. I thought it was just a
36:38
new term, desure, but perhaps it has different connotations.
36:44
Speaker 2: We're going to put your picture on this chapter of
36:46
the Joe Thomas in the Morning Field Guide to the
36:49
American Marxist uh, and we'll call it the English to
36:53
Marxist Marxist to English English Translator. How about that?
36:57
Speaker 14: You can figure out what they're saying. You just have
37:00
to know how to listen to them, right, Yeah?
37:05
Speaker 2: Is it? You know, if you're speaking the same language,
37:09
if you if if somebody is in there, going you know,
37:12
I don't know what he's saying. And that's what the
37:15
American left wants you to do. They say one thing
37:17
and mean another. Especially when they call you something, they
37:22
call you a fascist, it's because they are a fascist
37:25
and they don't want anyone to notice. So what's the
37:28
best way to keep people from paying attention to the
37:30
fascist in the room? Call somebody else the fascist in
37:33
the room. And it's some of what President Trump was
37:42
talking about regarding legality and illegality, because there's a borderline
37:51
of you know, a public person, and you can have
37:53
some some wiggle room, but there's a point when you
37:57
can't defame even a public figure.
38:01
Speaker 18: To you believe, with all the recent violent protests, looting,
38:05
and destruction, some areas are considering either defunding or abolishing
38:09
the police. At a time when America's neighborhoods need the
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protection of police the most, some elected officials would rather
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elected officials caving in to demands of the radical left,
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mid century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them
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nestled in their display case. Miniature donut earrings. Oh yes, yes,
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your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all day dessert food
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made into your favorite form of ear candy. Oh my,
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those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger within you.
40:28
Speaker 20: Shh do you smell that?
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And with every item you buy, you fund local job
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training and more. So, go forth, bring home those doughnut
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earrings and bring home so.
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Speaker 18: Much good to your commuting.
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Speaker 17: Goodwill, bring good home.
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Speaker 15: Exercise is hard, so is maintaining a healthy diet. Of course,
41:03
neither is half as hard as dying. Sadly, type two diabetes,
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heart disease, and stroke kill nearly a million people a year.
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Even sadder, most of these deaths are preventable with a
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Speaker 16: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
42:25
Speaker 13: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
42:28
Speaker 18: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom
42:36
to petition the government.
42:38
Speaker 16: Only the United States has these five freedoms. So simply
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bound together and guaranteed, Think First. Learn more at Think
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42:47
Speaker 4: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
42:52
Speaker 22: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
42:55
first date?
42:56
Speaker 14: Sure?
42:57
Speaker 25: We'll probably stay together.
42:58
Speaker 18: Probably.
43:00
Speaker 4: It's been twenty three minutes since I ate I can
43:04
probably swim.
43:05
Speaker 14: You should wait thirty minutes.
43:07
Speaker 2: Okay, tell me what to do?
43:09
Speaker 14: Can it?
43:09
Speaker 10: Bar?
43:11
Speaker 4: Cramp?
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Speaker 2: I have a cramp.
43:16
Speaker 1: I can probably hit the green from here? Probably?
43:23
Speaker 19: Can I get a mulligan.
43:26
Speaker 2: Ready to go?
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Speaker 18: Hey?
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Speaker 22: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
43:29
Speaker 17: Yeah?
43:30
Speaker 22: I'm pretty sober.
43:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
43:35
Speaker 4: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
43:39
and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
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44:10
Speaker 1: Absolutely crazy first thing today by Joe Thomas on the
44:14
Talk Media Network.
44:19
Speaker 2: Hey hey, hey, hey, easy people. Evendn't have those anymore.
44:30
This would be JPEGs translate this song. Oh my god,
44:47
what a racist statement that is. You're stealing my truth
44:51
from me. Four three four eight eight two four two
44:56
one seven is the phone number. And this is the
44:59
crazy made world we're in, you know, we were talking
45:03
about my friend Nick Fredis, who was on the program Friday.
45:06
If you go again the podcast channel Joe Thomas in
45:09
the Morning dot com subscribe, so then Spotify or iHeart
45:14
or Geezer Deezer or whatever podchaser. They'll send you a
45:18
notification when they go up, and we will podcast this
45:21
program this Saturday morning program as well. I'm not going
45:24
to go back and play what Nick was saying, but
45:26
Nick was pointing out that what's happening now is becoming dangerous,
45:34
and this was one of his posts.
45:36
Speaker 7: So I noticed something a couple of years back, and
45:38
that was that the terminology that Left was using in
45:41
debates had shifted a little bit. We were all used
45:43
to them calling us racist or sexist whenever we disagreed,
45:46
and we all knew that was a way of shutting
45:48
down debate, right because after all, if you're a racist
45:50
or a sexist, why should I listen to anything that
45:52
you say.
45:53
Speaker 2: But then it shifted.
45:54
Speaker 7: They started claiming that any sort of disagreement with them
45:57
was a form of violence. If you disagreed with ideology,
46:00
then you were engaging in transgenocide, and that was different.
46:05
And I started to deposit this theory a couple of
46:07
years back, where I said, you know what, I don't
46:09
think they're trying to shut down debate the way they
46:11
used to. I think they're trying to come up with
46:14
a moral framework whereby they can engage in aggressive violence
46:17
toward you and claim that it's merely self defense.
46:23
Speaker 2: Seems like that may have manifested in orm Utah, and
46:28
it is it's the justification. They'll go in and there
46:31
will be court hearings. I don't know if this murderer
46:34
in orm Utah is going to try that defense since
46:38
he was living with a trans person. And you know,
46:46
for my friends that say, see, he's not a groper,
46:48
he's living with a trans person. Okay, I didn't say
46:53
that one was necessarily exclusive of another. And it's still
46:57
a question. It's a question that hasn't been answer or
47:02
and for everyone who says, well, the governor of Utah
47:05
said it's left wing ideology. Have you listened to nationalism, nationalists,
47:09
socialists like the Unite the Right people from back in
47:13
Charlottesville or some of these folks that want, you know,
47:15
nationalism and the government to give all this stuff to
47:20
their their causes. They're socialists, just the same. They want
47:25
the government to be involved in their stuff, not the
47:28
other guy's stuff. And that's okay too. You can have
47:31
that viewpoint. I'll call you out for it because I
47:34
still don't think it's right from whichever side you're coming from,
47:38
but because so much of your day today is going
47:41
to be dominated by people telling you that the president.
47:44
You're a president, remember that guy, you're red. And it's
47:46
all it's all to make you take the red ball
47:49
cap off. It's all for you. Do you take that
47:52
Republican yard sign out of your front yard? So for
47:59
your edification, and I want you to share this with
48:03
other folks too. This is the full interaction that everyone
48:08
in the media is saying. Donald Trump is calling the
48:10
press illegal and he's gonna arrest us all and oh
48:13
my god. And here is the entirety of what he said,
48:17
including the question, which, in cases involving Donald Trump, is
48:21
usually what the news media will use as quote. His answer.
48:27
Speaker 10: At an hour I.
48:28
Speaker 25: Follow up with Charlie Kirk.
48:29
Speaker 17: There's been a lot of talk about free speech this week.
48:32
Speaker 2: Do you see a difference.
48:33
Speaker 13: Between cancel culture and consequence culture?
48:37
Speaker 3: I'm in your questions a little trick question.
48:40
Speaker 2: And by the way that ties into what Nick was
48:42
saying consequence culture. But go ahead, mister president.
48:47
Speaker 3: I like, I'm a very strong person for free speech.
48:51
At the same time, when you have networks that where
48:56
I won an election, like in counties, I guess it's
48:59
two in six hundred to five hundred and twenty five,
49:02
it's called landside a landslide times too.
49:06
Speaker 2: When you have.
49:06
Speaker 3: That kind of that level of popularity or voter support,
49:10
as I did in the last election, and yet ninety
49:13
seven and ninety four percent different numbers. You see different
49:17
numbers with different stats, But ninety seven, ninety four, ninety five,
49:23
ninety six percent.
49:24
Speaker 2: Of the people are against me in.
49:28
Speaker 3: The sense of the newscasts are against me the stories
49:33
and ninety they said ninety seven percent bad, so they
49:37
gave me ninety seven. They'll take a great story and
49:40
they'll make it bad.
49:42
Speaker 2: See.
49:43
Speaker 3: I think that's really illegal personally.
49:46
Speaker 2: And so that's there's the punchline right there, and that's
49:50
what the press is all running with. There's the press
49:52
is illegal. You know, reporting something that didn't happen is
49:58
technically illegal. Lying about something is technically illegal by FCC law. Now,
50:05
the FCC under Bill Clinton changed a lot of things.
50:08
The famous George Carlin's seven words you can't say on
50:12
television or radio are gone. What can get you fined
50:18
by the FCC or at least brought in front of
50:20
one of their administrative courts. Remember we've talked about the
50:24
cabinet and their administrative courtrooms. What can get a broadcaster
50:28
in front of an administrative courtroom is enough letters from
50:31
the community saying that the broadcaster has violated community standards.
50:38
There's a famous story out of Oregon where a broadcaster
50:44
was fined fifty thousand dollars because of the word Jesus. Now,
50:49
I don't know the application. He may have been taking
50:51
the lord's name in vain in the community took umbrage
50:56
by it, or maybe they took umbrage it is Oregon
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just being reminded that there is Jesus. Whatever it may be.
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The community sent enough letters to the FCC that they
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investigated and at the end of the investigation find his
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company fifty thousand dollars. And it wasn't a big say.
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It was like Bend, Oregon, where it was quite possible
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that was the entirety of this radio announcer's yearly salary.
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But that's how the FCC works. Now. Brendan Carr may
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not understand it, which is the same since he's the chair.
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But you know a lot of these folks get microphone
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stuffed in their face and say, what do you say
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about this? And I wish to god we had more
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people who had the ability to say, I don't have
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an opinion on that, or I don't know all the
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facts about it. You go back to the Johnny Carson
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clip where he talked about why late night TV shows
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like Jimmy Kimmels shouldn't be getting into politics. It's because
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where we are right now, there's seldom an absolute until
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you dig deep into it, and then you've spent all
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the time you should have been spending writing jokes about things,
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investigating whether this is true or not, or what the
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other side is saying. Leave that to the morning talk
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show host. But you can deal in political issues if
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you're looking at it from the standpoint of what serves
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the listener, and what serves the listener is making sure
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they're not being gas lit, making sure they're not being lied,
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to make sure they're not being manipulated. You, I mean,
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that's all we try to do here. Unfortunately, it sucks
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up so much of our time. We haven't even gotten
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into the Chicago mayor on what policing is. We'll do
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that next. You know.
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