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"Convention-(of States)-al Wisdom" (Thursday August 21, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in first Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 2: Your words to steal me stem you have a day
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at least for work when the sun comes up, drops
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a cut to scoop. Non. Joe has everything a gender.
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Speaker 3: All the JASU needs no one that Joe's an smile.
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Speaker 2: He only exp.
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Speaker 4: Joe here hold these truths.
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Speaker 5: Joe, bless you for basking in either the amplitude or
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frequency modulation, whatever it is, whatever delivery method. I'm not
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sure what modulates. If you're listening to us online, you
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know on the streaming. You know, there's so many of
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our stations that stream. Fellow who told us the other
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day listens in Alabama to our station in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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I mean, it's so coming from so many places, American
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Forces Radio as well. And God bless you all for
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what you do for us. And it's on us to
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make sure your service is honored by making sure the
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things you're fighting for still exist. On the business end
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of everything, so much going on, obviously the Texas vote
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on the redistricting passing the House, and I will tell
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you about that coming up in there, but also the
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twenty twenty five Bellwether races that nobody's talking about. And
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that's the part that I think is the most important,
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is that we bring up the fact that it's very
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quite possible that Donald Trump doesn't lose this first bite
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at the midterms, and understand that because Donald Trum has
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kept everyone so busy in Washington, they haven't been able
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to go out and fluff the two Democrats running for
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governor of New Jersey and Virginia. It's like the priest
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in Blazing Saddles Sun.
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Speaker 4: You're on your own.
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Speaker 5: That's why the polls we reported to you yesterday have
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closed so much, well within the margins of error, all
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of a sudden, and we're just into the middle of August.
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Kids are just going back to school. People are just
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starting to have to have the brain waves free to
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think about these things. It's on like Donkey Kong.
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Speaker 4: As they say at.
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Speaker 5: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven
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mortgage fraud. Remember when Donald Trump is accused of it,
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it's a high crime and miss demeanor. When somebody like
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Adam Schiff or a member of the Federal Reserve Board
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is accused of it, Oh, this is just politics being played. Well,
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how are both possible? What sort of psychosis do we live.
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Speaker 4: In for that?
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Speaker 5: And in a quick note and apologies, I spend too
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much time worrying about you all. My brethren and sistern
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are like, dude, hey, where's your post for National Radio Day?
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Every day to me is national radio Day. I don't
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have one National radio Day. I think of Martin Luther
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King Junior every day, not just on Martin Luther King
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Junior Day. And apparently yesterday was National Radio Day and
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I missed it again. Texas House, as I said here
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on our first things, that have approved their redistricting plan,
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designed to provide fairer representation to rural voters, they say
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due to population shifts since the twenty twenty census. It
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passed eighty eight to fifty two. One member of the
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Texas House nearly committed a felony while taking an international
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fundraising call on the floor of the Texas House that
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involved Gavin Newsom and Corey Booker. Russian Foreign Minister Serge
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Lavrov is with the apologies to the Saturday morning ESPN
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college football shows, saying not so fast, my friend getting
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his lee Corso on saying that the president's phone call
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with President Putin simply raised the level of Russia's representation
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in the tonks with the Ukraine was not an acceptance
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of the idea of a summit meeting. Interior Secretary Doug
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Bergham says that the National Park Service is welcoming in
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border security guards. A federal law enforcement takeover continues in Washington,
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d C. President Trump tweeting that Cook must resign, now
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referring to Lisa Cook, member of the Federal Reserve Board,
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who has been accused by Bill Poulty, head of the
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agency that regulates Fannie May and Freddie Mack of mortgage fraud.
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Elon Musk was ordered Wednesday by a federal judge to
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face a lawsuit by voters. Doesn't mean the lawsuit's going
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to be successful, but they will actually have their day
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in court, saying that he defrauded citizens into signing a
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petition to support the US Constitution.
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Speaker 4: How dare he under the auspices of a chance to
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win a million dollars?
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Speaker 5: I guess that's the only way some folks will sign
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a thing that says they support the US Constitution. Declaring
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that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has
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become bloated, Tulsey Gabbard has begun an overhaul of the
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agency and the one hundred billion dollar intelligence industry, Gabart
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said in a statement. By focusing on our core mission,
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find the truth and provide objective, unby biased, timely, intelligent
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to the President and policymakers.
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Speaker 4: OD and I two point zero begins.
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Speaker 7: Yes?
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Speaker 6: Actually three known gas is I I'm doctor Mitch, and
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nitric oxide is a gas that's readily made all day
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long to keep our arteries open by relaxing the blood
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vessel walls. By doing this, our circulation is increased, bringing blood,
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oxygen and nutrients to every part of your body. Both
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age and poor diet can lead to a loss of
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this precious gas, and in turn blood pressure can go up,
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Speaker 8: There's a lot going on right now, and broadcasters are
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on the ground covering all of it, bringing you the weather,
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the traffic, and breaking news, all while entertaining you twenty
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four hours a day. Someone needs to tell you what's
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going on around the world and in our hometowns. And
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that's someone is us.
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than from breast cancer, traffic accidents, or AIDS. Vaccines like
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the one for newmic coccle disease can protect adults from
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New macccle disease is an infection that can lead to pneumonia, meningitis,
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of an infection that can spread from person to person.
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Getting vaccinated can help protect you and those close to you.
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I'm doctor Susan Reem of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
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When I speak with my patients, I urge them to
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Speaker 12: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
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First Amendment. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of
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the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom to petition the government.
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Which freedom can you live without? Fortunately, the First Amendment
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you guys?
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Speaker 2: It's radio. It's one question.
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Speaker 1: For you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
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Speaker 15: Doctor, doctor the news.
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Speaker 13: I gotta case.
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Speaker 5: I got long case of loving you. Yeah, I've got
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long love. I've got long I've got a long case
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of loving you.
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Speaker 16: Uh.
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Speaker 5: There, and well, there is a pill that could cure
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my ill, but they're not allowed to give it to
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me because they'll lose their medical license if they do. Uh,
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except for the blue ones that cause it, and then
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I can just order it through the mail. I have
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a story that relates to all that in a moment
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or two, regarding Stars Cove two and gosh, if there
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was only somebody in twenty twenty warning us about this.
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But our friend James Luck is on the phone from
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the Jefferson Coin Shop jcsgold dot com, a family business
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that helps you navigate the tumultuous world of gold and
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silver and precious metal investing. Good morning, James, How.
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Speaker 4: Are you, sir?
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Speaker 17: I'm good.
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Speaker 18: Mojoe, how are you?
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Speaker 5: I'm you know, what do I say, I'm a cocker spaniel.
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Pay attention to me and it's the greatest day ever.
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Speaker 17: Well, then I did to see that silver is on
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sale this morning. Silver is at thirty seven dollars and
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seventy two cents, which is down about a half percent
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so far. Silver continues to give us a discount of
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days here, so we're going to take advantage of them
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while we can. Gold is at three three and thirty
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nine dollars, which is down just eight dollars, got a
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quarter of a percent so far today.
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Speaker 5: Well, I think it's very you know, good to see
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people being able to jump in. But as somebody pointed
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out to me regarding stock picking, my friend Joel Marx
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has told me this. You know, if you missed you know,
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if you do one of those like your stock picking,
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and all of a sudden the stock market goes down,
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so you pull all your money out of the stock market,
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and and you miss the next bounce back day because
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you haven't gone back in yet. And then you like,
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oh crap, it's gone off again. Let me buy back in,
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and you miss your one or two or three bounce
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back days. You could lose millions of dollars, and the
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same thing I think is true in gold and silver investing.
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Correct me if I'm wrong that if you are buying
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in and out like selling all the time, you're going
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to miss a lot of profit taking.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, gold and silver physical investing really is not for trading.
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It really is that investment. It is something that you
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buy and you hold, you hold for for years and
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you pass down to generation to generation. It's a it's
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a it's a way that you can stack silver, you
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can cost based average in to where you're just constantly
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buying silver. It's part of your portfolio. It's about ten percent.
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It's not your all eggs in one basket, a big
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silver basket. But you know, it is something that you have,
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is a head against the dollar, just in case you
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need it in the future.
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Speaker 5: Amen to that, James. Well you have a great morning, sir.
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And this is why I tell you ask a family business.
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Don't don't go through the call centers. Go get that
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family business help you with the idea of gold and
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silver investing. You can talk to actual members of the
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actual Luck family if you call them after ten Eastern
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at four three four nine seven nine coin James, you
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have a blessed day, my friend.
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Speaker 4: Thanks Joe, you too, and you get with.
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Speaker 5: Us at four three four eight eight two four two
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one seven silver. I'm going to go to the archives
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for a second. Are and habitual users of this program? Well,
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remember when I said this in twenty twenty, No do
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we not?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? Okay, all right, fine, when.
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Speaker 5: I said this in twenty twenty, there is a constitutional
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way to deal with this. But my gosh, just telling
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everyone you have to shut your business down and then
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saying we'll send you the money to keep paying your employees.
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I can't wait to see what kind of fraud this engenders.
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Speaker 4: I hate.
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Speaker 5: I loathe the idea of I told you so. I
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really do, because I'd rather not happen. Eight more people
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sentenced to prison for wire fraud because of Payroll Protection
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Plan loans. It was either Tennessee Fred Smith of Cordova, Tennessee,
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the ring leader of an eight defended scheme to defraud
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the COVID nineteen disaster relief programs their particular slice of
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the pie seventeen million taxpayer dollars. The defendants obtained funds
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under the EIDL and PPP programs by submitting false and
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fraudulent loan applications prepared by this fellow Flowers, So I
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guess it was their accountant and others on behalf of
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businesses and entities that the defendants set up. The group
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allegedly lied on the fund applications about the entity's number
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of employees, gross revenues, and average monthly payroll and more.
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I know you're sitting there absolutely dumbstruck. How could this
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have happened? How could humans do this? Surely know yes,
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and don't call me Shirley. I warned you then you
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do this, and there was a constitutional way under the
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Fifth Amendment that you could have, but it would have
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required a lot more effort to close down businesses.
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Speaker 4: And this kind of ties back into what we.
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Speaker 5: Were talking about with Matt and the professional licensedure fixation
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we have in the United States, because it was always
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one of them. Why do I need a license to
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be a hairdresser? Then we discovered during Sar's Cove two.
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I'm sure your governor if it was anything like my
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governor said, I'm going to send the Health Department and
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our Alcoholic Beverage Commission out to make sure you're complying
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with our closed down orders. Because I have I mean
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never said. Because I have no constitutional right to close
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down your business, I can't send the state police and
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the Attorney General after you, but I can send the
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license police after you. Will take away your health department ticket,
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will take away your alcoholic beverage license, will take away
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your your occupancy license, all these things that you shouldn't
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need to get a license from the government to do.
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And because some bad actor, some fraudster, came along and
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defrauded some people, a podium jockey somewhere.
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Speaker 4: Said, we should fix this chart never happens again.
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Speaker 5: There's that phrase again, the anathema to American liberty.
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Speaker 4: We need to fix this so it never happens again.
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Speaker 5: It's part of the democrazy that they want to protect
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so badly. They want to protect their democrazy, and each
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time they do it, it becomes more of the I
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want to vote for everything so that I can vote
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the people I don't like off the island.
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Speaker 4: That's what it is.
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Speaker 5: Democracy is the final episode of each season of Survival
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survivor Pardon me, who gets voted.
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Speaker 4: Off the island.
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Speaker 5: Go if you want to see what democracy, democracy in
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their mind looks like, go to a planning commission meeting
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when somebody wants to open a business. My friend Neil
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Williamson has a great piece a brewery, Star Hill Brewing Company,
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Dave Matthews, etc. Wanted to put a mural on their
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building and the county said, what but he's on an
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entrance corridor. Shouldn't we be able to regulate what that
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mural looks like? So they want to regulate the paint
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on the side of your wall because it's on a
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road that leads into a town. How crazy have we become?
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And somebody will go along with it.
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Speaker 4: Saying, well, yeah, because it looks it's an eyesow. I
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don't like it, souins property.
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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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day dessert food made into your favorite form of ear candy.
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Oh my, those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger
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within you. Do you smell that? That's the sugary center
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Speaker 4: 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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generations get the benefits they've earned.
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Speaker 19: I'm cc My victory was finishing my education.
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Speaker 12: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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Speaker 16: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
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Speaker 21: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble.
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Speaker 12: Freedom to petition the government. Only the United States has
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these five freedoms. So simply bound together and guaranteed. Think First.
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Speaker 3: No word in the English language is less convincing than.
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Speaker 10: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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first date?
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Speaker 2: We'll probably stay together.
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Speaker 3: Probably, it's been twenty three minutes since I ate.
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Speaker 4: I can probably swim.
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Speaker 15: You should wait thirty minutes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'll tell me what to do.
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Speaker 1: Making mornings great again. First thing today on the Talk
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Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 6: Right, oh yes, wait a minute, disupposed?
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Speaker 5: Y wait, disupposed, So let me hit the mail bag
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here texts and emails in written form you can call
28:32
as well as Matt did I bet I just know
28:34
what a cacophony mornings are and to carve out five
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ten minutes to have a chat with me. Uh and
28:40
the listener is a lot, whether it's getting people off
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to start their day or finalizing all the stuff you
28:47
need to finish it wherever you are this morning. Kareem
28:52
writes in to the text message line at four three
28:55
four eight eight two four to two one seven, talking
29:00
about are underrepresentation and how we would dilute the power
29:07
of these political offices. And his question is I think
29:12
indicative of the sad, gas lit place we are as
29:15
a country, because, as Jefferson warned us, we've grown accustom
29:20
to this. We've grown a custom and in many ways,
29:23
we like having people to get mad at. We like
29:27
to have people in power, so we can get mad
29:31
at the people in power because we don't want the
29:33
people in power to be us. It was the line
29:37
from the comic strip Kudzu, We've met the enemy, and
29:42
the enemy is us.
29:44
Speaker 4: I know it was, but I know it predates that.
29:47
Speaker 5: But that's the in pop culture and the zeitgeist that's
29:50
from Kudzu. We've met the enemy, and the enemy is us.
29:57
We want people to do things for us, and when
30:02
they don't, we like it when they get mad at this.
30:05
So kareem asks under the idea of a more proportional
30:10
congressional size, diluting the power of each office, which corporations
30:15
or groups will fill the power void? You see, this
30:20
is the presumption that there would be a power void.
30:23
The power void was created by the technocrats in the
30:26
first place, the ones insistent like the Western sheriffs that
30:31
insisted on you checking your iron at the door so
30:34
they could be a deathspot in their little corner of Utah.
30:42
People forget the wild Wild West was the birthplace of
30:45
all the gun confiscation laws that the United States still
30:48
tries to get through Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi today,
30:53
That was where oh, no, no, what the sheriff and
30:56
his deputies will be the only ones with guns in
30:59
this town. Really, it's not what the constitution says, ah,
31:05
but out here in my town. And it was a
31:07
lot of the you know, the frontier towns. These were
31:10
territories not necessarily governed by the constitution. So the power
31:15
void is a creation of us. We don't want the power.
31:20
We don't want to be in charge. We want to
31:23
be lazy. We we don't want to make these decisions.
31:26
And take take the licensedure question, kareem, gameplay it out.
31:33
Why do we want licensure so I can sue somebody?
31:37
So I can sue somebody when they don't do what
31:39
they promised. That if I hired somebody to fix my roof
31:42
and he didn't fix my roof, well why can't you
31:45
sue him when he doesn't have a license.
31:47
Speaker 4: Why can't you sue the guy?
31:49
Speaker 1: Well?
31:49
Speaker 4: If he has a license, then I can sue the state,
31:52
I can sue somebody.
31:54
Speaker 5: I need to see because we need to go somewhere
31:56
with our vengeance. Go take a look and see where
32:00
vengeance falls on the lists of vices and virtues. Is
32:04
vengeance one of the virtues. Now, punishing somebody when they
32:09
do wrong is certainly an appropriate societal trait. But we
32:15
want to insert this licensure under this phony bologny premise
32:20
that we can stop bad people from becoming snake oil
32:25
salesman in our area, when all it actually does is
32:28
create the Bureau of snake oil Sales Regulation and cut
32:33
the government in for a piece.
32:35
Speaker 4: Of the pie.
32:36
Speaker 5: That's all it does. It doesn't stop the snake oil salesman.
32:39
It just creates a bureaucracy around the snake oil salesman.
32:45
And then Joel writes in and I don't know he
32:49
asked this question. I love these questions because they're out
32:52
a left field, but.
32:53
Speaker 4: They do hit home.
32:54
Speaker 5: What do you call country rap? I call it country
32:58
music music. I feel like what's the British comedian takes
33:05
questions from the audience, and it started with he would
33:07
always try to engage the hecklers now he just takes
33:10
a question. Jimmy Carr is Jimmy Carr, Right, what do
33:15
you call country rap?
33:17
Speaker 4: I call it country music.
33:21
Speaker 5: Just because Jelly Roll does it instead of Tupac doesn't
33:24
make it different. I don't necessarily have a genre. It's
33:29
urban music. It's music designed and written for an urban lifestyle.
33:35
But if you listen to some of the rap songs,
33:37
I said this. I said this when we were out
33:42
in California for Freedom Fest. Landed in Ontario airport where
33:48
heading out to pick up the rent a car, and
33:51
a guy drives by with a hip hop song, playing
33:54
urban contemporary song, rap song, whatever label you want to
33:58
put on it, so it's easily sort it onto a shelf.
34:02
But it was just and I forgot all the lyrics,
34:04
but it was basically a folk song. This could have
34:07
been Woody Guthrie. He was singing about how the government
34:11
doesn't care about the people and the projects, and I
34:14
was saying, this could be Woody Guthrie. You put an
34:17
acoustic guitar and a mouth harp and can't use the
34:22
old name for it. It's insensitive apparently, But you know
34:28
that mouth harp not c C.
34:31
Speaker 4: You know if you're old enough.
34:32
Speaker 5: You know what the original name for it was that
34:35
you can't say anymore on the radio otherwise there's a fence.
34:38
Oh that's racist. Hamas must have paid you. But if
34:43
you did, if you changed the instrumentation, this song could
34:47
have been a Woody Guthrie folk song, because they are
34:51
folk songs successful, you know, any different than Bruce Springsteen
34:57
and Nebraska. So I don't I hate labels on these
35:02
kind of things. There are songs of the urban contemporary
35:07
that I find very entertaining.
35:09
Speaker 4: Country.
35:10
Speaker 5: What do you like kid rock? Is kid rock country rap?
35:15
Or is he rap rock or is he rap country?
35:18
Speaker 18: Or?
35:19
Speaker 5: I mean, how do you label these things? I mean,
35:21
you find a song you like, it doesn't mean you
35:23
like everything. I remember, since you asked. There was a
35:28
group called Extreme Gary Charon and I forget the other
35:33
fellow who was in Extreme. Gary Sharon had thirty seconds
35:37
of fame because he replaced Sammy Hagar in Van Halen
35:42
for like a Song. But Gary Sharon and Extreme had
35:47
a very big hit.
35:49
Speaker 2: More than words.
35:51
Speaker 5: There was this lilting haunting, almost a cappella ballad, that
35:57
every single radio station on a planet was playing. And
36:01
I remember I was coming on the air after a
36:03
DJ who stopped and said, now, now, ladies, before you
36:08
buy the album, you should know that not all the
36:12
songs on this album sound the same. And they didn't,
36:16
And there was some terrific songs on the album, but
36:19
not a single maybe one other song.
36:22
Speaker 4: Sound more than words.
36:26
Speaker 5: So yeah, labeling something, I'm not a fan of it
36:31
anymore than I'm the fan of somebody saying, you know,
36:34
what kind of radio show do you do? One that's
36:37
on in the morning, one that's designed to help people
36:40
get on with their day and and do what they
36:43
must do.
36:46
Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, just.
36:47
Speaker 5: To make my point, if you've heard the extreme song
36:51
more than Words, this is on the same album. So
36:58
the guy was right, there's most to the rest of
37:00
Porno Graffiti is not the same.
37:10
Speaker 4: I preferred this song to more than words, by.
37:12
Speaker 5: The way, And by the way, Joel, you're right, corn
37:19
Pop was a bad dude.
37:29
Speaker 4: This is for the gues.
37:30
Speaker 5: This is long before the phrase Karen ever existed as well,
37:33
But you know it's.
37:34
Speaker 2: A let's.
37:44
Speaker 4: So f U n K by the way, entirely different. So,
37:55
my goodness, what happened to the bad lude? More than
37:58
which I don't like le stuff?
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Speaker 16: Uh oh bruh, that's buzzed.
42:01
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
42:05
Speaker 23: And now a speech.
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Speaker 12: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
42:10
heart and brain.
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Speaker 2: Who's with me?
42:13
Speaker 12: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
42:16
brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody.
42:18
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42:23
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Speaker 1: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
44:15
Joe Thomas.
44:20
Speaker 5: Those helicopters are Cavin Newsom's you know he wants to
44:23
stop Donald Trump's authoritarianism from getting in the way of
44:27
his authoritarianism because you know you don't want to get
44:31
his peanut butter on your chocolate.
44:33
Speaker 6: Uh.
44:34
Speaker 4: There, this was a fascinating so a couple of quick stories.
44:40
Speaker 5: Now, now that Texas has voted to redistrict and will
44:46
ostensibly create five new Republican majority congressional seats, California Governor
44:52
Gavin Newsom has announced there will be a November special
44:55
election on a bill called the Electionction Rigging Response Act,
45:02
which of course rigs elections. It's the bill that would
45:07
lead to California's redistrict. But he had a referendum. We
45:11
are talking about emergency measures to respond to what's happening
45:15
in Texas and nullify what happens in Texas. And remember,
45:20
this is all a self inflicted wound caused by the
45:24
fact that in nineteen twenty nine, approaching one hundred years ago,
45:28
we stopped adding congress people while we were adding citizens.
45:33
This email comes in from Terry Joe. I had never
45:37
heard of the Permanent Reapportionment Act. I thought the size
45:41
of Congress was mandated by the US Constitution. Can you
45:45
reread the part you read? I didn't hear what you
45:48
said regarding the Congress in the Constitution. Here is in
45:54
controversial because the Permanent Reapportionment Act was written actually by Races,
46:00
by members of the klu Klux Klan who had become
46:04
Dixiecrat congress people and wanted to stop the growing black
46:09
population from having full throated representation in Congress. But they
46:15
did it because the portion of the US Constitution that
46:19
deals with the size of congressional districts is also the
46:23
one that has the three fifths compromise in it. So
46:27
because this is bad, we can't take that sentence out.
46:30
We have to take the whole thing, grumble it off,
46:33
and throw it in the ash can. The number this
46:37
is from Article one, Section two, Clause three of the
46:40
US Constitution. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one
46:45
for every thirty thousand, shall not exceed one for every
46:51
thirty thousand. Pretty clear regarding the size of a congressional district,
46:59
one for every thirty thousand. We are currently at seven
47:04
hundred and twenty thousand per congressional district. So this old
47:11
cot and that's why they rearrange the deck chairs. That's
47:14
why it's like, ooh, we're going to draw the districts
47:16
this way, because they have to get to seven hundred
47:19
thousand people somehow, So they have to keep drawing.
47:21
Speaker 4: These districts so that reaches out.
47:24
Speaker 5: And it's got a little of Austin in it, and
47:25
it goes all the way out into the rural area.
47:27
And how are we doing this? And now California is
47:32
going to do the same thing because they're drawing these
47:38
districts based on political party, not on citizen representation in
47:42
a pox on the house of people who don't do that.
47:45
But given the fact that eighty five percent of the
47:49
counties in the United States voted to Donald Trump in
47:54
the majority, more than fifty percent of the population in
47:59
each of the eighty five percent of the counties in
48:02
America voted for Donald Trump, and ten more percent maybe
48:08
it was fifty one forty nine, fifty two forty eight.
48:12
The districts would look a lot different if we had
48:15
a proportional representation. This is all I was saying about
48:19
the Permanent Reapportionment Act. But I appreciate you not having
48:23
never heard of it, because nobody it's arcane stuff. I mean,
48:26
this is nerd prom but it's such the essence of
48:32
where we are because we we just give Gavin Newsom
48:35
And if you don't like Greg Abbott, then Greg Abbott
48:38
or Kathy Hokel or Glenn Youngkin, these these authorities by
48:43
diluting our voice by a third. Because the population in
48:49
nineteen twenty four was one hundred and fourteen million, that
48:52
includes the territories that would eventually become US states, and
49:01
in twenty twenty four it's three hundred and thirty nine million.
49:05
So yeah, I would like to see a world where
49:07
we have three times as many congress people and one
49:10
third as many bureaucrats, if not twenty five percent as
49:14
many bureaucrats, because we view the inhabitants of Washington, d C.
49:25
The same way. So California, they were doing a fundraising
49:31
call and some knitwidth member of the Texas General Assembly,
49:35
one of the runaways, was doing a zoom feed into
49:40
this fundraising call with Corey Booker and Gavin Newsom from
49:45
the chambers of the Texas General Assembly until somebody off
49:50
camera said you're committing a felony, and she went, I
49:56
gotta go, literally said I gotta go, hung up, and
50:01
Corey Booker then said she has more integrity committing a
50:05
felony inside the Texas General Assembly chambers than Donald Trump
50:10
has in the Oval office. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness,
50:17
it is a crazy world that we live in. Joanne
50:21
Butler is back from Life Minute TV to move in
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day here in our flagship area, Charlottesville, UVA JMU. But
50:29
I mean then places like Corvallis. It doesn't happen till September.
50:32
But I remember when my daughter moved into Virginia Commonwealth University.
50:37
In that first dorm experience, it was crazy time, Joe,
50:41
And can you help?
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Speaker 5: You mentioned even the books with the hidden compartments because
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that was actually one of the things my daughter is
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