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"They Know Not What They Do" (Monday September 22, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I've forgive him on a need to know basis, because
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  you need to know the first thing. Today jeords that steal.
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  Speaker 2: Me the best for them.
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  Speaker 3: That's where I disagreed with the work.
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  Speaker 1: When the sun comes up drops, I hate my opponent, Dad.
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  Speaker 4: All the treasure needs no one.
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  Speaker 5: That Joe's ismile he only as.
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  Speaker 6: Joe, do you ever forgiveness in you? And it's there's
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  an essence to this, there's an economics to this.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: And is this cornered animal paradigm that is the cornerstone
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  of mercantileism where there are only so many resources and
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  if I have a resource, then that's because you can't.
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  And it was something that was attempted to be debunked
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  by the founding of this nation, Scousan's great book, The
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  five thousand Year Leap, why humankind had stagnated until the
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  United States comes along in boom. This amazing explosion of
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  technology and invention and liberty is driven all of this,
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  disproving this mercantilist view that there are finite resource and
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  therefore if I've got mine, you can't have yours. And
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  this is as biblical because as I can get with this.
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  And so when President Trump says, I hate my opponents.
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  He's talking about in the sense of either one of
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  us is going to be president, either going to be president,
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  or you're going to be president. And there's a reasonable
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  argument to be made by many, many people who have
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  had success and lost success, that the how you attain
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  success is more important than the attainment of that success.
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  And actually the president's statement were a fairly warm admission
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  of his own weakness and that Erica Kirk would be
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  calling him to the carpet for not being able to
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  forgive his opponents. But this idea that everything is an
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  oppositional equation is also a big problem in our society
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  right now, that there's only enough for one of us,
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  and therefore if you have yours, then I don't have mine.
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  And will delve into that a little bit coming up.
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  But before we do our first thing this morning, chet
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  chats at four three, four, eight eight, two four two
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  one seven, we must run down the first things. A
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  story that I think needs a lot of attention. Out
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  of New Hampshire, the sky Meadow country Club in Nashaua
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  was torn apart by gunfire over the weekend when an
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  assailant named Kevin Rourke stormed in an open fire shooting
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  Robert de Caesar fifty nine, who lost his life in
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  the shooting. But more importantly, the patrons immediately upon the
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  first shot being fired, jumped the shooter and now he
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  is in custody in the account of second degree murder
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  for knowingly shooting to Caesar. But let's hear it for
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  those patrons who stood up and ended more violence. Natural
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  gas pipeline in Wyoming near the Colorado border burst into
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  flames early Sunday morning, catching fire to a freight train
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  and lighting up the night sky. Emergency cruise continue to
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  report explosions along Interstate eighty west of Cheyenne, according to
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  a statement from Laramie County Fire District. Ten Sunday, in
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  the desert of Phoenix, Erica Kirk, widow of the assassinated
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  civil rights activist and founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk,
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  said during an emotional memorial service that she forgives the
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  man who killed him. In a ceremony that talked quite
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  a bit about Charlie Kirk's bravery and speaking with those
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  who opposed him, ilhan Omar doubled down on statements she
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  made regarding Charlie Kirk's legacy being dispatched to the quote
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  dust bin of history, claiming he's spread hate.
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  Speaker 7: Jarring is that there's so many people willing to excuse
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  the most reprehensible things that he said, that they agree with,
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  that that they're willing to have monuments for him, that
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  they want to create a day to honor him, and
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  that they want to produce resolutions in the House of Congress.
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  Speaker 6: The Taliban government said Sunday they reject President Trump's overtures
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  to take back Bogram Air Force Base in exchange for
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  aid for the country. Senate Minority Leader Chunk Schumer was
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  on CNN because he wasn't going to Arizona apparently, and
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  said he would be open to President Trump's demand for
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  a clean stop gap bill, and in the deal between
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  TikTok and China that gets ever closer, the US will
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  run the company from within.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Now tell me what to do?
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  Speaker 4: Can it ball?
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  Speaker 21: Cramp?
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  Speaker 22: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I have a cramp.
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  Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Tunk
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  Speaker 2: The best for them.
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  Speaker 5: That's where I disagreed with you.
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  Speaker 1: I hate my.
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  Speaker 6: Opponent opponents, and there are some things where there is
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  clearly opposition, but those are rare instances. The media portrays
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  them as being commonplace and the very thing that makes
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  capitalism work. Capitalism is not about screw the other guys.
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  Capitalism is about convincing somebody to purchase something, whether it
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  be a product or service from you.
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  Speaker 3: That's all. That's all it is.
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  Speaker 6: But in this media driven world, and I'm not and
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  I'm not blaming the television that gonngle box is an
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  inanimate object, unless we have grown so immoral as to
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  think that my place in the world is determined by
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  your existence. Even there's a lot of radio shows out there,
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  and I'm sure my network would then love to hear
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  me say that I'm not going to tell you where
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  to find them, but to deny that it's there would
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  create lazy good for nothing radio. The phrase lazy good
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  for nothing is one that we don't use enough. It's
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  victim shaming or some such like that. But you know,
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  as a set up in a punchline, lazy good for nothing,
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  You lazy good for nothing, insert whatever it is you do.
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  We've allowed that to become the American way. So I
• 15:31
  know President Trump was talking and I thought it was
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  a wonderfully remarkable kind of mea culpa that the press wouldn't,
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  you know, obviously not cover in that way, because President
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  Trump during the ceremonies yesterdays was like, listen, I can't
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  do it. But it also raises the bigger question of
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  how many things are we being told and understanding that
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  one of the founding premises of Marxism is this competition
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  between classes. You must have class warfare in order to
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  move the paradigm of Marxism forward. So you must have
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  enough of the population to think their lack of stature
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  is because your possession of stature. And that's why, you know,
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  people talk about in my industry always sanctify Edward R. Murrow,
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  and certainly at the beginning Edward R. Murrow as a
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  hero for pushing back against the purchasing of news media
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  and I think foretelling everything that we've seen corrupted in
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  the news desks of the infomercial evening news. However, he
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  got it grievously wrong when he went after Joe McCarthy,
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  because he was just going after Joe McCarthy was personal.
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  He wasn't doing it as a journalist. He didn't. He
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  set his journalism aside for a personal vendetta because friends
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  of his Robert Downey Junior, etc. I'm sorry that might
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  be communists, and therefore he's got to defend them. Well,
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  what happened to being a journalist? Your journalism should have
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  found that, perhaps though being wrong, and how he went
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  about getting rid of the communists in the American government
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  Joe McCarthy. Because Murrow was blinded by his hatred, didn't
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  actually notice McCarthy was right, he was wrong about the
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  way to go about it. Reagan understood that communism is
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  an economic system, so you beat it economically, and that's
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  the brilliance of the Reagan era and why the wall
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  fell because the economics didn't work. And that's the economics
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  driven of jealousy and hate, envy. You look up envy
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  you'll find it on the list of the Heavy seven,
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  the seven words we say too much on radio that
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  include gluttony and sloth. Oh, you know, the seven vices.
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  But we should be promoting the seven virtues, which is
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  what I heard a lot of yesterday. The seven virtues,
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  heavenly virtues if you will, that counteract pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust,
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  and gluttony and sloth, because there's just like rights, these
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  vices come with counterbalancing virtues and that you can have
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  prudence or justice and temperance, charity, that you can have
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  these virtues. Instead, we don't spend enough time. It's guilty
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  is charged. We tell the stories of the seven vices,
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  and we do it because conflict is good media too,
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  And that's how we become corrupted by communism because communism
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  needs conflict. Media loves conflict because it's clickthroughs. If you
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  love Donald Trump, you tune into this program because and
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  many of you get frustrated because I'm not out there
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  slamming ilhan Omar. I'll play you what she says and
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  let you I'm not slamming the mayor of Chicago when
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  he says crazy stuff like this.
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  Speaker 22: City and we're using every single resource that's available to us.
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  Jails and incarceration and law enforcement is a sickness that
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  has not led to safe communities.
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  Speaker 6: I'm playing the story for you. Your implication is yours. Do
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  you believe law enforcement is a sickness. The people who
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  promote the idea of this kind of rivalry for resource
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  for money, keep your hands off my stack. They're doing
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  the devil's work. The devil's work goes through Marxism. It's
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  one of the reasons the church has to be the
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  first thing out in Marxism. Can't have people realizing that
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  temperance and diligence and those kind of things are laudable, chastity, faith,
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  good you know, Oh my gosh, you can't have those temperance, diligence, kindness, patience, humility.
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  What kind of TV program or you're building out there.
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  Nobody's going to tune into a radio program about temperance
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  and charity and diligence, are they?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to try. We're going to do our best here.
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  Because most things in life are not me or you,
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  the hero and the vanquished. There's only a very very
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  very small amount of things where one person is in
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  and one person is out and just begin. And even
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  in places like employment, Okay, you didn't get this job,
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  Speaker 27: Or a mother who's in between jobs and sometimes goes
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  Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 6: It's time for our sports director, a man who's heard
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  He is the great Mac McDonald at full Sale University,
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  Sportscasting and acc football and basketball. I think you've called
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  swim meets and everything in between.
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  Speaker 9: How are you, Mack?
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  Speaker 3: Tennis. Yeah, I mean tennis.
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  Speaker 6: We have some paradigm for I mean, we see golf,
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  you know, never called squash.
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  Speaker 29: So that's because then again, it's still a club's boy.
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  Speaker 6: As as as Rich Eisen said during that wonderful Brockmeire
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  mockumentary that funnier Die made.
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  Speaker 3: What does he do.
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: He's a broadcaster. He broadcasts, and I could see that
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  being a little bit of you there in the men's
• 29:06
  room calling play by play, but probably he went too
• 29:10
  far already in this story.
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  Speaker 9: Well we have you.
• 29:13
  Speaker 29: Know, every every Monday's overreaction Monday, and we have hot
• 29:17
  seats and hot takes.
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: Okay, so that's.
• 29:20
  Speaker 29: What I'm just gonna start, like every Monday. Well, it's
• 29:23
  hot seats and hot takes, all right. According to Manny,
• 29:27
  Shane Beemer is currently not close to taking the Virginia
• 29:31
  Tech job. Now, a lot of colleague football insiders going,
• 29:34
  it's not gonna happen, even though to me it's a natural.
• 29:38
  But then of course you got buyouts and you got
• 29:40
  you know, being comfortable with one program. Whatever the strong
• 29:43
  ties we all know. Uh, he's got the commitment to
• 29:45
  South Carolina where just three years ago or two years ago,
• 29:49
  a kindergartener. A five year old saw that Shane Beemer
• 29:53
  walked in to watch his family in a kindergarten play.
• 29:56
  We set two rows behind him. And after he's only
• 30:00
  they were four and six at the time or something
• 30:03
  like that, he goes.
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: Hey, coach, coach, you have four wins.
• 30:07
  Speaker 29: That was That was a five year olds are not.
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: Easy in the SEC.
• 30:13
  Speaker 29: They say, here's why he's not a legitimate candidate because
• 30:17
  colleague football there's a guy named Matt Zenitz who he
• 30:20
  just doesn't see Beemer or of course Michael Vick's not
• 30:22
  a legitimate candidate either because TeX's got to make a
• 30:26
  major splash. And Beamer's in his fifth year as head
• 30:29
  coach and in January twenty five signed the new contract.
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: We talked about this last week.
• 30:33
  Speaker 29: It's an eight point one to five million dollar deal
• 30:36
  at that time a year and in twenty twenty one,
• 30:39
  when the Hokey's job was open, Beemer stated that South
• 30:42
  Carolina was his dream job.
• 30:43
  Speaker 9: He wanted to be.
• 30:44
  Speaker 29: There, and the buyout clause is a five million dollar
• 30:47
  buyout if he were to leave South Carolina before the end.
• 30:50
  But you know what, where Virginia Tech's putting fifty million
• 30:53
  into a program and into their athletic department. I just
• 30:57
  don't see how Bebcock doesn't get this done. Now, Bud
• 31:02
  has got his Bud Foster has got his charity tournament
• 31:05
  today in Richmond and for the foundation, and I'm I'm
• 31:09
  reaching out to several people trying to get somebody that,
• 31:12
  you know, just somebody to talk about it this week.
• 31:14
  But if you go back to and listen to Shane Meember,
• 31:17
  like for example, after they lost to Missouri and did
• 31:20
  not play all that well, they could have gotten the
• 31:22
  top twenty five win on the road on Saturday.
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: It didn't happen. Sunday. Not a good day for coach Beemer.
• 31:29
  Speaker 30: I'm paid to end up there and be responsible and
• 31:31
  I'm going to offend our players and have their backs.
• 31:33
  And you know, each team is different, each week is different.
• 31:36
  But you know there's no coming in here Sunday John
• 31:39
  and patting everybody on the back and hey, good.
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: Job, guys.
• 31:41
  Speaker 30: We went on the road and we were a two
• 31:42
  touchdown underdog and we had a chance to win it.
• 31:44
  There's there's none of that today.
• 31:45
  Speaker 9: It's our guys.
• 31:47
  Speaker 30: Well, are well aware of my feelings about where we
• 31:50
  are right now. It's a six sick feeling today.
• 31:52
  Speaker 29: Yep, Sundays are not good in coaches offices after losses.
• 31:55
  So here, Ryan Silverfield Memphis is is one of the
• 32:00
  guys they.
• 32:01
  Speaker 9: Are talking about. A forty five year old from Florida.
• 32:03
  Speaker 29: He went to Hampton Sydney, all right, James Madison and
• 32:07
  coach Bob Chesney who was being rumored to replace Tony
• 32:10
  Elliott at UVA.
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: He's still being talked about. Jame. You had the big
• 32:13
  win over Liberty this.
• 32:14
  Speaker 29: Weekend and USF head coach Alex Golish off to a
• 32:17
  fast start and the Bulls still are. You know, they'll
• 32:20
  start playing great. But anyway, that's your coach is update.
• 32:23
  We'll just, you know, try to stay on the top
• 32:25
  of the best we can. Well, but I mean, you
• 32:26
  certainly know what's going to happen. I just really, if
• 32:30
  you put a gun to my head, well I'd be
• 32:32
  really mad. But if you put a gun to my head,
• 32:35
  I would say that Chane Beemer. This is such a natural.
• 32:39
  It's not hard to read the headline the buyout to me,
• 32:42
  doesn't you know. I think they do everything in the
• 32:45
  world to get him back. I could be wrong. I
• 32:47
  could be you know, you know, it's you know, I
• 32:50
  don't want to step in the fun you know, because
• 32:52
  if he goes and lays an egg in three or
• 32:54
  four years under the you know, the Beamer name, well
• 32:58
  that's not going to be good either.
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: So there might be a lot of reasons.
• 33:00
  Speaker 29: In Shane's family saying I don't I don't want to
• 33:02
  follow my dad in black.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but I mean it's I have some family members
• 33:07
  with South Carolina ties. There the engines be restless, uh
• 33:12
  down there and uh and there there are a lot
• 33:15
  of folks saying, why don't you let him go to
• 33:17
  Virginia Tech? Why don't you well, let's go get a
• 33:19
  because there's there's always been this attitude in South Krakolaki
• 33:23
  that he isn't a real SEC coach. Uh that I
• 33:26
  don't know what a real SEC coach is. I imagine
• 33:29
  it looks and sounds something like the Nictator. But but
• 33:35
  other than that, you know, you know, I don't know
• 33:37
  what an SEC football coach sounds like. But there's always
• 33:41
  been this disquiet that Shane Beemer ain't one, and that
• 33:46
  South Carolina is always going to be And now you
• 33:48
  look at Vanderbilt Vanderbilt is like running rough shot over
• 33:51
  people now and it's crazy. But but you know, South Carolina,
• 33:57
  I think the the Natives are wrestling when it comes
• 34:00
  to Shane Beemer.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: And it might just have a thirty five.
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: Year old quarterback at Vanderbilt. I mean, Pabi, you know
• 34:07
  he's not thirty five.
• 34:08
  Speaker 29: I'm just kidding tongue in chake, But all right, speaking
• 34:11
  of quarterbacks, that's a that makes the transition. Tampa Bay
• 34:15
  blew a big lead yesterday and the second half in
• 34:17
  the NFL. The Jets got back in at twenty seven
• 34:20
  to twenty sixth the lead. It was an improbable block
• 34:22
  field goal touchdown with a minute forty nine to go,
• 34:24
  but then Baker Mayfield, you know, still managed to lead
• 34:28
  the team forty eight yard drive culminated with the game
• 34:30
  winning field goal by Chase McLaughlin. Now Mayfield, of course,
• 34:34
  when he was this was the tail end of his
• 34:37
  postgame presser yesterday after the win, he called out the
• 34:41
  Jets decordinator.
• 34:43
  Speaker 9: I loved it.
• 34:44
  Speaker 30: And it's also their decordinator was the one that cut
• 34:46
  me in Carolina, so it was a lot of stuff
• 34:48
  was personal.
• 34:49
  Speaker 9: That son REDI former Jet.
• 34:50
  Speaker 29: Yeah, that was Will Steve Wilks, who used to be
• 34:53
  the decordinator at Carolina and was was the interim coach
• 34:58
  there in that twenty twenty two season where.
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: You know, was just all memory, all right.
• 35:04
  Speaker 29: The Steelers scored on their first couple of drives and
• 35:06
  then went quiet after that, and Aaron Rodgers went sixteen
• 35:10
  for twenty three for one to thirty nine. But as
• 35:12
  Aaron Rodgers does, when you're forty years old, you can
• 35:15
  call out your offense because right now the defense is
• 35:17
  playing well and Pittsburgh offense is just non existent.
• 35:21
  Speaker 31: Well, I mean, they've been taking on the chain low,
• 35:23
  but I think the last couple of weeks and didn't
• 35:24
  really appreciate it. So they came out and played incredible.
• 35:27
  We were terrible on offense after the first two drives.
• 35:30
  I didn't have a good game, but the defense every
• 35:32
  time kept us in. I mean into the first half,
• 35:34
  deflection in the reception going in for a touchdown, fumble, touchback,
• 35:38
  I mean, the defense win the game. This was a
• 35:41
  classic Blitsberg performance. Hats off of those guys offense. We
• 35:45
  got to get in the film room and get better
• 35:48
  because we can't have our defense save it for us
• 35:50
  like that.
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: Every week, right, it's the way it's gonna go.
• 35:52
  Speaker 29: And by the way, maybe on Monday we should pass
• 35:54
  out game balls. We used to do that long time
• 35:57
  ago on radio. But I would have to give it
• 35:59
  to Fran Brown, the head coach to Syracuse. They went
• 36:01
  through that long weather delay. Uh, they were seventeen and
• 36:04
  a half point underdogs on the road and took care
• 36:06
  of Dabo. Dabbo cried on the sidelines and when in
• 36:10
  you know, he congratulated Syracuse did everything to coach, you know,
• 36:13
  and so they got Dabbo moving all over the country
• 36:16
  as well, taking the Oklahoma State job with you know.
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: Who's on the hot seat you know this week.
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: I think he's custom made for you uc LA.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, if if.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: There's a city that would fall in love with Dabo's act,
• 36:29
  at least for a few years, it would be La
• 36:31
  La Lamb.
• 36:31
  Speaker 29: Yeah, yeah, Billy Napi or Florida hot seat, Mike Gundy,
• 36:35
  Oklahoma State, Yes, and Dabbo Sweeney Uh. Nick Saban even
• 36:40
  on college game Day called him out and he said,
• 36:42
  you know what, you know, hey, Dabbo, you're a good coach,
• 36:45
  but you got to change with the times. You know,
• 36:48
  you can't add just one or two portal guys in
• 36:50
  this day and age, you know, and look, you know,
• 36:53
  give Tony Elliott some credit close to home. And I know,
• 36:56
  you know, we're all over the country, Joe, and I
• 36:58
  get that.
• 36:58
  Speaker 9: But uh, when you've got when you're.
• 37:01
  Speaker 29: On the hot seat and you get fifty four new
• 37:03
  players and you know, thirty two guys, you never never
• 37:06
  really been on a college campus. I mean, now all
• 37:09
  of a sudden there, I mean, they're at forty five
• 37:11
  points a game. They took Stanford to the woodshed.
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: To use a clue in their quarterback.
• 37:17
  Speaker 29: They coming in Friday night. Hey, hey, uva, why not
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• 37:23
  Speaker 6: Well, so they actually are. They're promoting it. They're promoting
• 37:26
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• 37:29
  unis and stuff like that to the Yeah, maybe it might.
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  Speaker 29: Grow throughout the first pitch anyway, but that it's gonna
• 37:36
  be a great It's gonna be a good weekend. And
• 37:38
  that boy that kicks off the weekend. That's a great
• 37:40
  Friday night game just to see, you know how Virginia answers.
• 37:43
  But god, they're good on offense they scored on their
• 37:46
  first four possessions.
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  Speaker 17: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
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  Speaker 21: When might you be buzzed? When you suddenly love everything
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  Speaker 28: I love this song, I love these notchas, I love
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  Speaker 3: What's your name? You know what?
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  Speaker 9: I'd love a ride when it's time to head out.
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  Speaker 21: If you see a buzzed warning sign, call for a
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  Speaker 4: It's one.
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  Speaker 1: For you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
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  Speaker 6: A couple of reaction emails to my realization that after
• 44:30
  watching Charlie Kirk's memorial and the touching speech Erica Kirk
• 44:35
  talking about forgiveness and President Trump, and I confessed I
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  sat on the edge of my seat because I looked
• 44:41
  at my wife and I said, if it was me,
• 44:46
  I wouldn't come out, or if I came out, I'd
• 44:48
  just say simply, God, bless you, Charlie, we miss you,
• 44:51
  we love you, and we're going to honor you by
• 44:54
  continuing your legacy because I don't. I just didn't know
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  how you topped the emotional outpouring that was Erica Kirk's
• 45:04
  speech and won't be labored and to be fair, apologies
• 45:07
  to you. There's so much going on this morning, and
• 45:11
  I grew We were watching on one of the online streams,
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  and when the President finished and very heartfelt, and Erica
• 45:21
  came out and hugged him. We got to the process
• 45:27
  of making dinner. It was seven pm Eastern daylight time,
• 45:31
  and we're like a we probably should have dinner, And
• 45:35
  so my wife got to making some dumplings and stuff,
• 45:38
  but the stream was still on. And by the time
• 45:41
  my wife was finished with the dumplings and putting them
• 45:43
  out on the table, I looked at him. I said,
• 45:45
  why does this need a post game show? The guys,
• 45:51
  you're on the very stream that I just watched the
• 45:57
  ceremony on. Why are you going back over it? Why
• 46:02
  do you have special guests to tell me what I
• 46:04
  just saw? Do we need a post game wrap up show?
• 46:09
  So there may be some of that coloring my editorial
• 46:13
  decisions this morning. We have some clips, and we've played
• 46:15
  some clips, and we've had some abstracts based on what
• 46:19
  I was struck by in the Kirk memorial, and several
• 46:22
  of you have called in and emailed in that you
• 46:24
  were watching. I haven't run into any of my friends
• 46:28
  yet that are flying back from Phoenix from it, but
• 46:32
  I'm sure before the week is done, I'll have run
• 46:34
  into some of the folks I know that were there.
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  Love to find out the young guys who started. We
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  have Turning Point USA chapters in local high schools, and
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  those are the people I mean. This is the miracle
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  of Charlie Kirk was to get young people engaged and
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  engaged into things that the Marxist had been in doctrinating
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  him against for their entire lives. So sensible were those things.
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  But I didn't want a lot of the things to
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  get unsaid this morning on Saturday morning, just even in
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  the build up to it, so much was going on
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  regarding the President and this characterization that he's going after
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  free speech, which he isn't. And I think we debunked
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  that earlier if you've been hit by that, But I
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  wanted to pick up on a couple of things I
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  get tarred and feathered sometimes. I'm a huge proponent of
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  volunteer firefighters. I think the numbers diminished since I first
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  got into radio. When I first got into radio, guys,
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  it was in excess of eighty percent of all the
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  homes and businesses in the United States were protected by
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  volunteer fire companies. And I have been at the bottom
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  of enough dunk tanks and enough county fairs to raise
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  money for local volunteer firefighters I know. But more and
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  more municipalities are insisting on what they like to use
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  the phrase professional. What they mean is paid paid firefighters.
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  Employees county or city employees in a guarantee that there
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  are people nearby at any time to answer the call.
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  And in both cases, and I get people who think
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  I'm against paid firefighters. I'm not anyone who voluntarily runs
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  into a place that all human evolution has told us
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  societal evolution don't start don't start writing me letters, Augusta County.
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  I'm talking about the evolution of our society. Our societal
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  evolution has told us fire burns us get away from
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  fire if it's out of control. But these folks, men
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  and women, bravely run into the building. There was a
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  firefighters memorial the Wall of Honor in Colorado Springs, and
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  it was struck by the emotion of family members knowing.
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  And here's the thing about losing somebody who's doing what
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  they love. And I thought about it in abstract to
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  what Erica Kirk was saying at the memorial, because she
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  lost her husband while he was doing what he loved.
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  But every family member of every lost firefighter.
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  Speaker 3: Knows that pain.
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  Speaker 6: And I was thinking about it, reading about it in
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  the Colorado Springs Gazette and looking at the loss. But
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  it's a melancholy that is tempered by the knowledge that
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  these folks were killed in the action of doing what
• 49:50
  they were commanded to do. By their very essence, run
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  in where everyone else runs out. And I think it's
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  important to remember those folks in the ways that they
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  would want to, whether it be people from all over
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  the country, in Colorado Springs, Orange County, California, to Boston, Massachusetts,
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  all points in between. That there is the sadness for
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  our own loss, for that person in our lives that
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  we no longer can call and sit down with, and
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  that pain, but it has to be tempered with the
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  idea that that loss was suffered doing what someone loved.
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  It's often what you hear folks talk about the men
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  and women who didn't come back from war. On Memorial Day,
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  we give memory to those who didn't come back from
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  war and the reminder that as municipal leaders, we need
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  to live up to the things that they went to
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  war to protect. The same is true with firefighters and
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  law enforcement officers, if you will. Anyone who loses their
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  life doing what they were called to do is only
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  a loss in my view if we don't honor them
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  by continuing to do the things that they did. Whether
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  that means becoming a firefighter, or if that's not your thing,
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  supporting the firefighters and first responders, and understanding that the
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  loss is personal, but the community writ large was strengthened
• 51:45
  by the lives saved by those people run in where
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  people run out. And I know the keyboard warriors will
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  say somehow I was making a moral equivalency between Charlie
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  Kirk and a fallen firefight.
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  Speaker 3: I wasn't.
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  Speaker 6: I was just saying that these are people who knew
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  the risks of what they did, and somewhat much more
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  acute than others, and sadly what Charlie Kirk was doing
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  shouldn't have been a risky pursuit. Firefighters, you know it is.
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  But if you live every day like somebody who's doing
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  what you were called to do, and you do it
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  with all the sinew you can pull together, then the
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  loss is a personal one, but the community at large
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  has been strengthened by that.
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  Speaker 3: I was just struck by.
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  Speaker 6: The neat and poignant events I was reading about in
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  Colorado Springs and across the country. We all need to
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  remember that when there's loss.
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  Speaker 1: In today's troubled world, are USA armed forces stand ready
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  to protect you and our American way of life. When
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