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"The 'Original' First Amendment" (Friday October 3, 2025, Hour 2) · 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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English language are.
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Speaker 2: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the chunk
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media networks steal me.
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Speaker 3: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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Speaker 4: Okay, left that part off. Gave me a moment there.
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Speaker 5: The Joss smiles.
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Speaker 4: Jo basking in the amplitude or frequency modulation. Goodness. Bless
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you for taking me along with you so that we
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can tell you the news. I tell you what we
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think of the news, certainly, and then more importantly interact
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with you about how it's impacting you where you are.
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Dianne writes into the text message line of four three
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four eight eight two four two one seven. All good here,
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still ours removed from sunrise, but feeling like it will
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rise in the same place. Thank you for the poll data.
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I'm sorry for those who still think it might come
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up somewhere different. Well, these are the same people that
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believe that al Gore is going to save the planet
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along with Greta Thunberg. So we can and there's some
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clawing back going on there as well, but I appreciate it.
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Dian Mark writes in Joe, I live and listen to
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you here in Southern California. Our Alzheimer's Walk is tomorrow
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as well. I guess you can't make both, can you. Now?
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That would require one of those Phil Collins kind of things.
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You know it just hop in the and they and
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we don't fly the concorde anymore. So I don't think
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I'll be able to make the Greater Augusta County Walk
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and the San Bernardino Walk or Santa Clarita is where
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to technically the walk there, but doing good? Doing good
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looks like you are doing pretty well on goal. You're
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at sixty six percent of goal. The Greater Augusta Walk
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is over ninety percent. I'm I am pushing that we
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cross our one hundred percent goal while the walk's going on.
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There's nothing cooler than that. Then to reach and surpass
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the goal, It's like when you're doing a telethon or
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a radiothon and you reach that goal and you have
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that moment like, oh my god, we've made it. And
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Luise writes in amen to Doctor Clark and the Crazy
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Party pass out the Rainbow are in bands. Joel writes
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in I disagree with Bob. Europe is instituting the digital ID.
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That's not private, they can track every move. But there
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are people who say that's okay. There are people who
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say that that's a reasonable thing to exchange for security.
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And the Franklonians that follow the teachings of Ben Franklin say,
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you know, you can exchange one for the other, but
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you'll wind up with Boe with neither. And that's the
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thing is it's and this is the dangerous, perilous place
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when you have somebody like Trump, who after only nine
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months in office, seems like he's already had four years.
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I think there's been more done in the nine months
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of Trump two point zero than well, certainly we're done
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in Biden or even Obama one in two. And some
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of it is to undo the few things that were
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done in Obama one and two. But what happens when
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an Eric Holder or a Merrick Garland winds up at
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the controls. Now, we can fix that, and I've told
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you the constitutional fix to that, but we must first
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lay out your first things. Cered Majority leader John Thune
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said that they're going to take a shot at a
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vote at ending the government shut down today. It's the
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same two continuing resolutions, but he'll take a shot at it. Today,
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and he says if it fails, we'll give them the
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weekend to think about it, and we'll come back on Monday.
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White House Wednesday sent a memo titled the Compact for
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Academic Excellence and Higher Education. It fast tracks nine elite
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universities to receiving federal funds, including capping international undergraduate enrollment
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at fifteen percent, banning the use of race or sex,
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and hiring and admissions which believe there was a constitutional
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amendment ending but okay, I guess it's still going on.
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That would be weird and defining genders based on biology.
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Governor Gavin Newsom of California immediately responded, saying, if any
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California university signs this radical agreement, they'll lose billions in
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state funding instantly. United Nations data shows that only nineteen
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percent of humanitarian aid reaches the Gaza Strip in that
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war torn region. The Trump administration is blaming the UN
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for that. Vladimir Putin in soci in a Black Sea
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Resort event at the Valdai Discussion Club, said he woulds
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to get full scale restoration of relations between the United
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States and Russia. The US Food and Drug Administration has
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approved a generic version of MIFA pristone. Vita Pharmaceuticals will
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be manufacturing the abortion pill, and their company mission on
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their website describes their mission as being to normalize abortion.
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Any Conservative activists are surprised that the Trump administration's FDA
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would take such a stab. And recruiting for the US
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Navy is at its highest level since the early two thousand,
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just two years after the service missed its active duty goal,
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along with the Army and Air Force missing their recruiting
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goals in twenty twenty three. And those are some of
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your first things on this Friday morning here on the
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the traffic, and breaking news, all while entertaining you twenty
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and from breast cancer, traffic accidents, or aids. Vaccines like
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When I speak with my patients, I urge them to
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they speak. Would you notice a sixteen year old boy who've.
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or a mother who's.
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her kids can have dinner.
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Speaker 11: Or a fourteen year old girl who signs up to
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every after school activity not to make friends, but just
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to get something to eat. Or a retiree who fell
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ill and had to.
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strong and the AD Council. Think about this.
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Speaker 13: There are five freedoms guaranteed in the First Amendment. Freedom
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of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom
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to peaceably assemble, freedom to petition the government? Which freedom
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can you live without? Fortunately, the First Amendment doesn't make
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you choose. It protects all five freedoms equally.
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Speaker 4: Think First.
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Speaker 13: Go to Think First Amendment dot org to learn more.
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Speaker 14: When might you be buzzed when you suddenly love everything
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you guys.
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Speaker 15: I love this song.
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Speaker 4: I love these nachos.
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Speaker 11: It's on.
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Speaker 5: We've got to protect our phoney by only job.
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Speaker 10: Gentlemen.
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Speaker 17: We must do something about this immediately, immediately, immediately.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna need to know basis, because you need to
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know the first thing today comes.
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Speaker 11: On just.
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Speaker 4: Dif goes on without me because I ain't got no
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money either. This one's going on. Long distance dedication to
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Chuck and Nancy in the DC Metro gets.
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Speaker 18: Falling, Sadom, Satan, don't suck swim Mama, come and take.
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Speaker 4: A chip from Don and Bedminster, New Jersey.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 4: They ain't got nobody, they ain't got no money, and
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life goes on without you. Four three four eight eight
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two four two one seven. Text message here from Gene
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who said, Joe, you said something earlier about the states
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creating the country. Can you detail what you mean by that, Well,
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here's here's what I mean, Gene, is that the states
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created the United States. And I'm talking about constitutionally. I'm
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not talking about when we did the Articles of Confederation.
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All that I'm talking about, you know, the US Constitution
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and prior to the sixteenth Amendment, how the federal treasury
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was filled by taxes collected at the state level. And
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that's why the sixteenth Amendment had to be passed, because
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one of the problems with the Civil War was that
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that the states that seceded took all their tax money
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with them, and so the federal government. And this gets
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into a whole thing where the binaries in the world.
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Well you said this, which means you mean that, and
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the race baiters and everything else you can if you
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are actually intellectually adept, you you can understand that the
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cessation of the Southern States from the United States was
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over slavery, but the invasion of the Southern States by
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the Northern States was over tax revenue, and so they
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had to fix that. But now we can take that
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same constitutional premise, blow up some of the amendments, especially
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the sixteenth, and get back to a place where the
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US treasury is filled by the state, and therefore guys
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like John Thune would actually have some reason to have
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some disproportioned to the authority over the budget. Our friends
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at jcsgold dot com, Day three of shutdown, James Locke
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is on the phone with us, and as David Lee Roth,
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the noted philosophers said years ago, life goes on without them.
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How are gold and silver handling the government shutdowns this morning? James, Yeah,
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Gold silver don't seem to be phased so far.
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Speaker 11: Joe.
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Speaker 12: Gold is still in the green, up about a quarter
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of a percent to three thousand, eight hundred and sixty
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four dollars, and silver up about three quarters of a
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percent of forty seven dollars and forty cents. So golden
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silver not phased at all, still moving upwards. We'll see.
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If silver continues on this path, we might be talking
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about fifty dollars this time next week.
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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, can you imagine such a thing. I mean,
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we were at one point, not all that long ago,
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we were musing as to whether silver would cross twenty dollars,
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and here we are. But you can check these meteoric
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efforts they make to being as transparent about it as
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possible in the process, and I explained, I don't want
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to make it like mysticism. But my suggestion is somebody
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after ten am Eastern and talks with you because everybody's
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financial world is different, so they don't you know, how
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much do you have? What are you willing to risk?
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That kind of thing. But then after you've spoken to them,
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you can go and spend hours on their website kind
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of vetting and backing up what they say out of
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full transparency, right.
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Speaker 12: James, Absolutely, you can always give us a call and
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whatever questions you may have, give us a call. You know,
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we can talk about your financial position and what works
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just to put part of your portfolio into gold and silver,
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just so you're prepared for moves like this. You're prepared
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for high inflation, you're prepared for a weekending dollar, you know,
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and and hopefully you never need the gold or silver
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or you know, you you know, silver doesn't have to
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double within a year, but if it does, you have
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it and you're you're ready for it.
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Speaker 4: And that's what we can help you with at jcschold
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Speaker 12: Absolutely, and you know, I mean it is, uh. You know,
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usually silver and gold or seen as kind of boring investments,
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they don't really do a whole lot, you know, kind
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of poke poke in the shiny metal with a stick.
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Speaker 19: Uh.
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Speaker 12: And then you you see times like this where silver
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has doubled in or almost doubled in price within about
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a year, which is an incredible move. And a lot
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of our clients talk about this day. You know, I've
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been buying silver forever, you know, and at twenty dollars
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an ounce and here we are on over forty and
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they're very happy.
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Speaker 4: With the absolutely, James, will you have a wonderful weekend.
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It's open twenty four to seven at jcsgold dot com.
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We'll give them a call this morning if you have time,
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or Monday at four three four nine seven nine Coin.
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Thanks James, absolutely, Joe, thank you and for you. So
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we were to follow up on what we were just
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talking about regarding states and the sixteenth Amendment. I want
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to go back to Amendment one A.
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Speaker 5: What is the virtue of a proportional response?
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Speaker 4: Proportional meaning how much of your representation these cats have.
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So when we talk about the importance of different things,
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and a lot of folks, especially in my industry, will say,
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the first Amendment is the first amendment because this is
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what the founding father said was the singularly most important
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thing on their mind. But it wasn't you know what
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the singular most important thing on the mind of the
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Founding fathers were when they wrote the Bill of Rights
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was apportionment. There shall be no not less than one
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hundred representatives up to a point, and then when those
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representatives reach forty thousand persons, until the House of Representatives
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gets to two hundred persons. After that the proportion of
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citizen to representatives shall be regulated by Congress that there
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shall be no less than two hundred representatives, no or
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more than one representative for every fifty thousand persons, no
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more than one representative for every fifty thousand persons. Look
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at the map. We're going to the news here at
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bottom of the hour, But look at that map. I'm
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sure you have that map of the eighty five percent
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of all the counties in the United States that voted
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Republican in twenty twenty four, and realize what a congressional
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map capped at fifty thousand citizens per congressperson would look like.
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And how many more Republican congresspeople would you have from
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even a state like California, New York. Think about that,
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look at that map and realize what the founding fathers
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had in mind and why this was the most important
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thing on their mind mind.
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Speaker 15: Sweet Strawberry Icing, You were strolling along in Goodwill when
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just past that mid century side table and denim jacket,
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you spotted them nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings.
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Oh yes, yes, your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all
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Oh my, those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger
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Speaker 2: My name is Jim, I'm a veteran and I lost
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both legs in Vietnam. My victory was proving that the
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disability is not a limitation. I'm Julius. I'm a veteran.
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Speaker 13: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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Freedom of speech, freedom of.
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a need.
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Speaker 2: To know basis, because you need to know.
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Speaker 4: The first thing today, so proportional representation. Why was this
28:41
the most important thing to the founding fathers. This was
28:45
in the original sent out to the state's draft of
28:50
the Bill of Rights. The original first Amendment was about apportionment.
28:57
And this seems so wonky and nerdy. You know the
29:00
first Amendment. Now it's about free speech and religious freedom,
29:04
and it's soaring inspiring. Why would you devote the first thing,
29:14
you know, the first most important thing in your foundational
29:18
document to something as wonky as the apportionment, because they
29:24
knew that the bigger that government got, the more populous
29:28
the United States became, the more likely usurpers could steal
29:40
the representative out of the representative Republic. And this is
29:43
how we get turned into this Battle of Bannockburn, where
29:49
we're just hacking at each other with the rhetorical broadswords,
29:55
and sadly all two more frequently actually taking aim at
29:59
each other with re weapons rather than just our forked tongues.
30:04
To win elections for people who are never going to
30:07
see you again. If you see them at a campaign event,
30:11
good luck, that's the next time. It's what's the old cartoon?
30:15
You know, a woman wakes up on a bed in Iowa,
30:19
fifty dollars on her dresser. The note says, it's been fun,
30:24
We'll see you in four years, signed the Democratic Party.
30:27
You know, these places that nobody cares about outside of
30:37
election time. So the founding fathers of this country said,
30:42
we need to make sure that congressional districts don't exceed
30:46
fifty thousand citizens so that there's a better than middling chance.
30:53
I mean, think about the city city council seats in
30:58
many cases sent that many people depending on where you
31:02
are this email, Maurice writes in Joe, do you realize
31:06
how many congress people a city like Chicago would have? Well, sure, sure,
31:11
you look at the map of Illinois and you know
31:15
all the blue counties, but you have you have counties
31:20
like Lake County or what is the other one that
31:29
was close by Kendall County that was you know hack,
31:33
if one point five percent there didn't vote for Bobby Kennedy,
31:38
Trump would have carried that one. So you have counties
31:43
that would have, you know, their own congress person. Get
31:47
out into LaSalle and all the red counties in Illinois
31:55
and all the red counties in California and New York.
31:59
You think about, Sure, the city of New York might
32:02
have a bunch of congressional representatives, the city of Richmond,
32:08
the city of Northern Virginia, but all the other ones
32:12
would overwhelm them with their votes because you'd have maybe
32:19
four congress people per district, no more than that. I
32:22
mean our average congressional district seven hundred thousand people right
32:26
now for perspective, seven hundred thousand people per congressional district.
32:36
How's one person supposed to even here, never mind represent
32:40
those needs. And I know the people's Joe, I want
32:44
small government, Yes, I want small government. I want big representation.
32:52
I want people to be able to know their congressperson.
32:56
And you fight corruption by diluting the power. All of
33:01
a sudden, k Street doesn't care about Congress and understand
33:05
something about the Permanent Reapportionment Act that cap the size
33:09
of the US House of Representatives. This was promoted by
33:12
the Dixiecrats who were watching the growing black population, black
33:18
business owners, Blackwall Street, all of these things that were
33:24
scaring them that the black population was going to grow
33:27
in representation if they didn't cap the size of the
33:31
US House of Representatives. So for all the folks who
33:34
say the Constitution is a racist document, well no, the
33:40
racists are the ones who came along later and started
33:44
putting these prohibitions in these restrictions on your representation. And
33:53
certainly folks like Gavin Newsom would never support it because
33:56
he realizes how many Republican Congressmen there would be. For California,
34:05
eighty five percent of all the counties in the United
34:08
States voted Republican and they would all have congress people
34:13
for the most but I mean some of them. It
34:15
might be two or three or four of them in
34:17
a district, and then as the country grows. But that's
34:23
why it was the most important thing. Let me get
34:27
your thoughts on it. It's controversial, I understand because as
34:31
Jefferson said, we grow used to the government that we have. Well,
34:36
while they're shut down, don't you think it's fair to
34:40
poke around and say, hey, what happened with this, and
34:43
what happened with that? What happened to the senators actually
34:47
representing the states? That kind of thing, and vice versa.
34:51
Good morning, you're on the air first thing this morning
34:54
with Joe Thomas. Who's this?
34:56
Speaker 25: Hey, this is pharmacist Bob calling And you were at
35:00
certainly correct. We need to go back to the original
35:05
constitution and have all those representatives. But the people the
35:10
powers to be now don't want that because when they
35:13
changed the law, they realized how much money they can
35:17
make and they would never ever get fired because they
35:21
had control. If you make more senators, congressmen and everyone
35:29
is representative, then they have to work together for the
35:34
benefit of the people in that line their pockets.
35:38
Speaker 4: Hey, I had a question for you since you called back.
35:41
Joel texted earlier from Florida and wanted, you know Europe
35:44
and it's digital ID. You know is you were talking
35:49
about privacy and things that European police can't do. But
35:55
is there they're all signing in on you know, digital ID.
35:59
Speaker 25: Correct, there's digital ID everywhere. There's been digital ID for
36:05
at least twenty five years. People that think there hasn't
36:09
been aren't looking in the real world. Well, but I'm
36:13
just saying, put mean, every time you sign into your phone,
36:18
that's digital ID. Sure you think all these phone companies,
36:21
you think all these apps aren't taking your data and
36:24
sharing it with someone else.
36:25
Speaker 4: Well, they say so right in the user agreement. I
36:28
think the bigger problem is that most people click I
36:31
accept on these apps for their phone and their user
36:34
agreements without realizing what that means. We found out a
36:38
little bit about it when we started to get into
36:42
the Biden administration in COVID because we had contact tracing
36:47
and people said, well, what do you mean the government
36:50
can find out where I am? January sixth, and they
36:53
pined all the cell phones.
36:56
Speaker 25: And my reply to Joel is what's wrong with visual ID?
37:01
What's wrong with that? If you're not doing anything wrong,
37:05
what are you afraid of?
37:07
Speaker 4: See they don't want it.
37:08
Speaker 25: Maybe you're doing maybe you're doing something wrong. You just
37:11
don't want the government or the law of enforcement to
37:13
find out.
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Speaker 4: That's that becomes the bigger issue, and it always is,
37:18
is that you know, well, under Merrick Garland, I was
37:21
doing plenty of things wrong, maybe under cash, but tell
37:24
I'm not. And that's what I think the US Constitution
37:28
was designed to forestall was the idea of, Okay, well
37:32
I'm going to go after my political opponents, and ironically
37:36
these are the folks are out there's and Trump's going
37:38
after his political opponents. Anyway, Thanks Bob, good to hear
37:42
from you again.
37:45
Speaker 25: If we went to what you were talking about with
37:47
the original Constitution, we would never have a government shutdown
37:52
because there would always be a high enough percentage that
37:55
would vote not to shut the government down.
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Speaker 2: The question First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the
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Talk Media Network.
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Speaker 4: Thank you for letting me be of service to you.
44:28
Just you know, in this abstract do you say, well, Joe,
44:31
what does this have to do with a shutdown? Well,
44:33
while the government is shut down, why don't we investigate
44:37
what it is we're looking at him for? Right now?
44:41
You have the fruits of a an elected monarchy. And
44:48
I say this not because I don't like Donald Trump
44:52
or you know, and there are some of the things
44:53
like ten percent of Intel and that kind of stuff
44:56
that I don't think fit into my mind. Said as
45:00
to what the American government should be doing. But right now,
45:10
and since two thousand and two, we have had a
45:15
presidency whose administrative departments the cabinet each have a police
45:23
department and a court system of their own. They're called
45:28
administrative courts. And these courts, unlike the Article three courts
45:34
of the US government, don't work under the premise innocent
45:40
until proven guilty. It's exactly the opposite. So you have
45:44
an elected executive with the power to send these ministers
45:50
out like the sheriff of Nottingham, to go and do
45:56
as they command, and only upon court battle, upon court battle,
46:03
can you push back on it and get some presidential
46:07
rulings like we've seen in Loper v. Bright and that
46:10
kind of thing. So how do you control that, Teresa
46:14
writes in Joe Corruption. You add that many corrupted people
46:19
into the system, it's just going to make the corruption worse. Oh, certainly,
46:23
I can see how you would look at it that
46:26
way if you added that many more congress people. I
46:29
think we did the math once before on the US
46:34
adult population how many congress people there would be under that,
46:42
But obviously it's more than four hundred and thirty five, right,
46:45
And so that number of congressional representation would lead you
46:53
to believe, well, that's going to be that many more
46:55
corrupted people. But what you're also doing is you're diluting
47:02
their individual power. Each one of their votes means less.
47:06
You're decentralizing, and tell me the truth, Teresa and anyone.
47:11
Isn't the idea of decentralizing something good. You decentralize media,
47:18
and we're one of the biggest industries that would love this,
47:22
I mean would hate it because we love centralized government.
47:26
So we can send one reporter into Washington, DC and
47:30
they can cover all the important stuff for you. You
47:35
don't think San Bernardino County, Californy. Just just a quick
47:40
search and these are just the websites dedicated to news
47:48
West Side Story, San Bernardino News Daily, and you have
47:52
the TV stations obviously, Press Enterprise Daily bullet And these
48:00
aren't the blogs. Go to substack and search San Bernardino.
48:04
I'm just picking on our friends at KMET. Trump carried
48:10
the county by four or five percentage points in twenty
48:14
twenty four. You would certainly have I think I think
48:16
we did. The population there just that area of California
48:19
would have two Republican representatives in the House of Representatives,
48:27
just from the San Bernardino area, there would be sixty Yeah,
48:37
thank you, you found my notes. Sixty eight hundred members
48:43
of the US House of Representatives based on current population.
48:46
I know that's an eye popping number. But while they're
48:49
shut down, while they've proven that they're incapable of just
48:54
functioning as a representative body. And this is not new territory.
49:02
Habitual users of this program have heard me talk about
49:05
this before. We are under represented now. In nineteen twenty nine,
49:11
when the racist clansmen, the real klansmen, the ones who
49:17
went to Woodrow Wilson's White House and screened After Birth
49:20
of a Nation, the Knights in White Satin, and all
49:27
the Congressional representatives they had from the Dixie South managed
49:33
to pass the Permanent Reapportionment Act of nineteen twenty nine
49:37
because they were afraid this growing black population of business
49:41
owners and business leaders were going to take over Congress.
49:46
There's your inherent racism in America, the Permanent Reapportionment Act
49:51
of nineteen twenty nine. But there are at least twenty
49:59
theaters within walking distance of the US Capital with more
50:02
than six thousand seats in it, So don't tell me
50:05
you can't do it. You can't have that many people
50:12
in there. But what immediately becomes unnecessary is k Street,
50:16
big centralized business can't manipulate government. The two political parties
50:23
become potentially irrelevant because I could have a party in
50:27
San Bernardino or Evanston, Illinois and start a third party
50:34
because the Republicans and Democrats don't represent Evanston, Illinois all
50:38
that much. Or Stanton, Virginia because there's a congress person
50:45
from this area, and you know, I can get out
50:48
and meet fifty thousand people or at least thirty thousand
50:51
of them to win their votes over So all of
50:54
a sudden, you have third and fourth parties that are
50:58
doing a better job of me up with the goals.
51:01
And like I said, it's not like you wouldn't have
51:03
news coverage because every county in America has at least
51:07
four or five bloggers and sub stackers out there writing
51:12
about what they saw at the school board meetings and
51:14
at the county board a supervisor's meeting, and what's going
51:17
on with the sheriff, and they're eking out a living
51:22
on that. You imagine their world when there's actually a
51:25
congress person from down the street from them that they
51:28
can call up and say, hey, what about this vote
51:31
on your government budget. That's the world, and that was
51:37
the world that George Mason and Thomas Jefferson and James
51:43
Madison envisioned when they made this. The pre eminent amendment
51:48
to the Constitution in the Bill of Rights was that
51:52
you're guaranteed that you were going to be no less
51:56
than one fifty thousandth of somebody's representation. And I say
52:03
it that way because that's how you have to look
52:05
at it. You are now one seven hundred and twenty
52:09
seventh it's one hundred and seventy seven hundred and twenty
52:12
seven thousandth of a voice in the ear of your
52:21
congress person. So do you feel representative? And it's a
52:25
bipartisan issue because Democrats and Republicans alike both feel like
52:30
their representatives aren't hearing from them enough. It's one of
52:37
the original corruptions of what this country could be and
52:41
should be. And while they're shut down, I don't think
52:44
it's inappropriate to talk about ways they could be doing
52:48
their job better since they're not doing it at all.
52:51
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