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"Imagine a World" (Wednesday September 17, 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Now the centuries you have slurred the meaning out of
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the words.
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Speaker 2: We the people making mornings great again. First thing today
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on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 3: This Tednesday Morning, we celebrate the gifts God has given
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you and your application of same. Doctor Clark, on line
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with us, We've got our first things coming up, and
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so much more to get into this Constitution Day where
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we celebrate the US Constitution. But doctor Clark, you were
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talking about tagging people like if they were hornets, and
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they stick you with the pheromone saying this is an
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enemy of the the hive, you know, and and I
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certainly see how that's happened, especially with a Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker 4: Well you look at the people posting horrible things about
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Charlie Kirk. Those people never listened to Charlie Kirk. I remember,
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watched him at best. They saw a ten second clip
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that was taken out of context at best. But they
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hate Charlie Kirk. And they hate Charlie Kirk because, oh,
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well so and so said he was a fascist. Right,
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I'm part of the hive, I have the hive mind.
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Speaker 3: I have to hate him too. Yeah, and then that's
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exactly what it is. And and then ive think is
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dangerous for this very reason, because you're not using reason.
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We went through it when we were in conquered New Hampshire,
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uh a, conquered Massachusetts, pardon me, where we were looking
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as gobsmacked by these people people walking around saying no tyrants.
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Then no tyrants now? And then I went to Webster's
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New World Dictionary and the definition of tyrant was exactly
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what they wanted it to be. Somebody who imposes laws
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in the way of fairness, and it opposes fairness. And
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hold on a second here, it's been a long time
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since I looked up tyrant in the dictionary, and somebody
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has done did erase the old definition of what a
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tyrant was and instituted this idea of somebody who gets
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in the way of fairness. But now that's how they
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can justify calling Trump a tyrant.
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Speaker 4: Well, won't it be better when everything is electronic, Joe,
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and they won't have to burn a book? Oh yeah,
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the redefine a definition, Well.
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Speaker 3: They can wipe it. They can wipe the wipe it
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well with a cloth.
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Speaker 4: And it does occur to me, who was the first
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person to label everybody they didn't like a fascist and
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use it as an epithet. That was another Joe who
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also said things about it really doesn't matter who votes
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or how they vote. What matters is who counts the votes.
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Speaker 3: Yep, yep, what crazy Joe Stalin.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the Iron Man.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's Joe Stalin and Mika Brazinski every morning on MSNBC. Anyway,
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Doctor Clarke, good stuff, my friend. We must bring our
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first things to the party.
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Speaker 4: Got to give them credit for being fair and balanced.
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Speaker 3: There, so our firse things. This Tedsday morning, This Constitution Day,
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President Trump in England. Interestingly enough, on Constitution Day we'll
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meet with King Charles the Third and then we'll head
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to Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Country Residents on Thursday to
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sign deals regarding the generation of nuclear electricity. The prosecutors
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in Utah have officially filed charges of aggravated murder against
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Tyler Robinson, the suspect and the shooting death of Turning
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Point USA founder Charlie Kirk Tuesday. They also announced that
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they would seek the death penalty. The Sheriff's office says
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that the twenty two year old is being kept in
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the jail's special housing unit On special wash status until
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cleared by mental health officials. FBI Director Cash Patel told
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the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that investigators are pursuing
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more than twenty individuals connected to the online chat room
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that the suspected shooter was engaging in these conversations. Texas
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Governor Greg Abbott, speaking of online presence, and the Texas
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Education Agency have announced that more than one hundred educators
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in the state of Texas are under investigation and could
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face suspension of their teaching certifications for social media posts
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related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The Department of
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Justice said Tuesday announced that it is suing the states
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of Oregon and Maine over what it described as their
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failure to provide information on voter lists and maintenance procedures
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and electronic copies of statewide voter registration lists. The Department
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said that the two states, Oregon and Maine, are in
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violation of a the National Voter Registration Act, be the
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Help America Vote Act, and see the Civil Rights Act.
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Federal laws that regulate vote registration and access have also
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been listed in the suit. Robert Redford passed away yesterday
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at the age of eighty nine, the actor known for
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his roles in Barefoot in the Park, All the President's Men,
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The Sting, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, also directing
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films like Ordinary People, founder of the Sundance Film Festival,
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passing away at the age of eighty nine. And those
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are some of our first things this morning. Thank you
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Speaker 6: Considered by most Optimized curcumin is one of the few
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bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. I
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am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
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optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
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nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
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reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
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The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
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has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
8:42
cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
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in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
8:51
healthy cells even from radiation. Total Wellness dot com where
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we help you to look good, feel good and enjoy
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to to Wellness.
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Speaker 7: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
9:05
warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
9:10
Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
9:13
will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
9:17
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
9:21
are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
9:26
threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
9:29
call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
9:33
your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
9:38
or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
9:42
or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
9:46
enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
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dot SSA dot gov. Share this information with your friends
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and family.
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Speaker 8: Hi, Eyboddy, I'm Jack and it's always a boy. Growing
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up on a farm in Tennessee, I've been fascinated with animals.
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I'm not only in awe of their beauty and kindness,
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but also their tireless work ethic. Just look at the
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birds who gather supplies to build nests, or Swiss foxes
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who work hard to provide for their young, or penguins
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who travel up to five hundred miles to secure food
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them to navigate the trees and the wild in search
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of fruit. This remarkable work ethic is shared by our
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best friends, the canines. We know dogs are wonderful pets
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at home, but because of their acute senses, they also
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perform life saving work every day. Dogs keep us safe
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at airports. They comfort returning veterans, some of whom suffer
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from PTS. They work with diabetics, alerting them when there's
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a change in their blood chemistry. Working dogs have a
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variety of highly trained roles that contribute to society and
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Speaker 9: Oh brah, that's buzzed.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 10: And now a speech.
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Speaker 11: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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art and brain.
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Speaker 12: Who's with me? Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed,
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and my brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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Speaker 2: Somebody call me a ride.
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Speaker 13: Love that guy, me too, know your buzzed warning signs,
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Call for a ride.
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Speaker 14: When it's time to go home.
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Speaker 13: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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It means lower utility bills too. One way to reduce
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your energy waste is a home energy assessment. Your utility
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company can help, or you can learn how to do
11:47
it yourself at energysavers dot gov. That's energysavers dot gov.
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You'll learn to look for air leaks around windows and doors,
11:55
check ducks for holes, and improve your insulation. Another time
11:59
to cut energy costs is when you shop for a
12:01
new appliance. Look for the energy Star logo and read
12:04
the energy guide label. And there are day to day
12:07
things you can do. Lower your thermostat in winter and
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raise it in the summer, close fireplay stampers when they're
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not in use, and keep air filters clean. For more
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tips on saving money by reducing your energy waste, check
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out FTC dot gov slash green, a tip from the
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Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer protection agency.
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first to notice when a veteran you love has been
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going through changes. Things like withdrawing, drinking more, or increased
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anger could be a sign of a larger health concern,
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Speaker 2: For you. From Joe Thomas, It's first thing today.
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Speaker 18: Fast, some emails, a couple of text messages.
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Speaker 3: What doctors don't give cures.
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Speaker 2: Especially to this stuff?
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Speaker 3: So bat scratch fever on this Tednesday morning. Four three
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four eight eight two four two one seven, Make a
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phone call if you have time. I know that, uh fancifully.
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I like to imagine that the word morning roots from
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some ancient Greek word meaning last minute, because that's what
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everyone's morning seems to be the suppository of all the
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last minute things that you've put off. And oh God,
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so I get it. That's why it seems to be.
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Text messaging has become the most popular way to interact
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with the program, and I do my finest and darnedest
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to translate your thoughts into what you meant to say
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to hamp down on the treasure Coast. Robinson cleared of
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mental health issues. That's rich. Well, you know this. This
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is a bigger on this constitutution day point on what
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we were saying about an hour hour and a half
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ago about what your rights are, what you're allowed to do,
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what you because if somebody does not understand that it's
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wrong to and this became a defense that if you
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didn't understand that it was wrong to kill, then incompetency
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could be the ruling and you could go to a
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cushy cell and just be kept out of general population
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and our indulgences into this, this idea that your truth
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is a bigger face card than the truth. I have
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a full house of truth, yes, but I have four
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of my truths. I win. That's the paradigm that they've
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set up, Hamp is that there's a reason, Oh well,
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what made And I understand the original question because as
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a society okay, yes, we we were living through the
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fifties and sixties as a society that understood that in
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order to be just, somebody actually had to commit a
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crime first before being punished for it. Now, we're much
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more evolved now than we used to be. Now we
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can punish you before you commit that crime because we
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don't like you, and thus the efforts that we see
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silence people and take away their constitutional rights. On this
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September seventeenth, two hundred and thirty eight years since they
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signed the darned thing and amended out a couple of
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fairly important prohibitions. We said this earlier in the program.
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You may just be joining us in progress, but the
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actual original first Amendment to the Constitution laid out how
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apportionment was going to happen, making sure that no congressional
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district would ever be larger than fifty thousand people. Can
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you imagine such a thing, Maureen writes in to JT
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in the Morning radio at gmail dot com, listening in
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Utah and Provo. Jim Swarthout's still a realtor there. I'm sorry,
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it's a fletch nod. So the she asks about this
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apportionment in the original Bill of Rights, and I brought
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it up not to say, oh, look that George Mason
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agreed with me. Gosh, I don't you know. I don't
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need to get endorsements to know that I was right
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when I said we're underrepresented. But Maureen's question, I think
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speaks to it on level. Joe, I heard you and
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Bob from Moscow talking about tort reform and it struck me.
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I have also heard you talk about there not being
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enough courthouses when you usually talk about there not being
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enough congress people. How would not having enough congress people
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and tort reform work together?
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Speaker 4: Well?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, First off, I I think regardless of how many
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courtrooms we have in the United States, how many judges
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we have ready to hear our cases, tort reform is
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a winning loser pays especially. I mean, you can do
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tort reform as a thing and not have it turn out.
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It's just like the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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is not about protecting patients or providing affordable care. So
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you could call something tort reform and make it worse.
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What you want is loser pays tort reform, frivolous lawsuit protections,
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that kind of thing. I think Bob even talked about
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suspending a lawyer's license if they bring a frivolous suit.
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But a couple of things need to happen in order
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to really make this a holistic fix, because nothing happens
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more in isolation. I think we need to look again
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at gosh, was it four hours three and a half
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hours ago, we opened the program talking about the place
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in the US Constitution on this Constitution Day that has
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been perverted the most. This has been the most perverted
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portion of the Constitution, and it is the Commerce Clause.
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So we need to fix the Commerce Clause so that
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we don't have K Street full of major corporations, massive corporations,
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the whole idea of big anything, big pharma, big weapon,
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big gun, big cigarette, big liquor, big All these bigs
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exist because we have big government. So you shrink government,
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you can then shrink the companies. You fix Wall Street
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so that again the turn of the economy goes relentlessly
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through bad performing, bad behaving companies and they go under
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and there's money available for new, upstart companies. So you
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need to do a couple of those things before you
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get more courtrooms. But yeah, I think one of the
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reasons Americans, the average person, you me, look at our
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judicial system not so much as a place to get justice,
20:57
but to get screwed over is an important thing. We
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need to reform. Part of that, though, also falls into
21:07
the executive branch, because the executive branch has allowed his
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or their cabinet each to establish administrative courts. And my
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friend Wayne Cruz from the Competitive Enterprise Institute on this
21:23
program said that he had a working theory on how
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to really increase the number of courtrooms in America without
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going too far. You take all these administrative courts from
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the EPA and the IRS and the you name it BATF,
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and you turn them into Article three courthouses, appropriate judges,
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protecting your right to be innocent until proof and guilty,
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all of that stuff, and you've almost doubled the number
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of courthouses. I think it was maybe just a little
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bit more than that. And then we start seeing courtrooms
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as a place to seek.
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She's a friend of mine whom we were just praying
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for because of a surgery. She just went through.
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talk about all the time, which.
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and health care ability?
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you're already nervous about a health issue which I was,
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me tell you having people pray with you when you
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call in with your need.
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Speaker 4: That is just yes, refreshing.
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Speaker 20: Yes, that's what it is.
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Speaker 19: I keep telling people people love meta share and they
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love saving money. The typical family can save five hundred
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Speaker 4: Hi.
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Speaker 21: I'm doctor Michael Bailey, President of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
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Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and now it's helping veterinarians deliver
23:11
better care for pets. From AI assisted radiographs that speed
23:16
up diagnoses to tools that help spot diseases, AI supports
23:20
veterinary teams in exciting ways. We're using AI to develop
23:25
personalized cancer treatments, predict chronic conditions like feline kidney disease,
23:31
and even streamline record keeping so veterinarians can focus more
23:35
on patients. But, as with any new technology, always keep
23:40
a human in the loop to maintain the best pet healthcare.
23:44
AI is a powerful tool, but not a replacement for
23:48
your veterinarians expertise, compassion and judgment, which remains at the
23:53
center of our profession. For more information on AI and
23:57
veterinary medicine, visit AVMA dot org.
24:03
Speaker 6: Considered by most optimized curcumin is one of the few
24:07
bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. Hi,
24:13
I'm doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
24:18
optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
24:22
nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
24:26
reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
24:31
The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
24:36
has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
24:42
cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
24:46
in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
24:50
healthy cells even from radiation. Total Wellness dot com where
24:56
we help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy
24:59
total w illness.
25:02
Speaker 7: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
25:06
warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
25:10
Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
25:13
will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
25:17
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
25:22
are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
25:26
threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
25:29
call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
25:33
your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
25:38
or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
25:43
or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
25:46
enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
25:51
dot SSA dot gov.
25:55
Speaker 9: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
25:57
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
26:01
Speaker 10: And now a speech.
26:02
Speaker 11: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
26:06
art and brain.
26:07
Speaker 12: Who's with me?
26:08
Speaker 22: Good thing is he knows when he's.
26:10
Speaker 11: Buzzed, and my brain is saying, when it's time to
26:13
go home, Somebody call me a ride.
26:15
Speaker 9: Love that guy, me too.
26:17
Speaker 13: Know your buzzed warning signs, Call for a ride when
26:19
it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
26:23
Speaker 16: Did you know that more than half our household energy
26:26
costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
26:30
good for the environment, it means lower utility bills too.
26:34
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
26:37
energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
26:41
learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
26:44
That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
26:47
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
26:51
improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
26:54
when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
26:57
energy star logo and read the energy label. And there
27:01
are day to day things you can do. Lower your
27:04
thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer, close
27:07
fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep air
27:10
filters clean. For more tips on saving money by reducing
27:14
your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
27:18
a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
27:22
protection agency.
27:24
Speaker 23: For those fortunate enough to help the person who has
27:26
always been their hero, find the care guides you need
27:29
to help at AARP dot org slash caregiving.
27:33
Speaker 6: Hope you enjoyed your meal, and I just want to
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say he's lucky to have.
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Speaker 2: A blover like you, lucky. Caring for my brother is
27:41
far from easy, but he's a part of me, like
27:44
my arms and legs, so I'll be his no time
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for tired.
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Speaker 3: Nothing can disable this love. He needs me.
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Speaker 14: But I'm a lucky one, even though I need help.
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Speaker 23: Known then, if you're caring.
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Speaker 10: For a loved one, visit arp dot org slash caregiving
27:57
for care guides and community support for your.
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Speaker 24: Right now on behalf of people who are er.
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Speaker 3: That's a sideways, a caddy wampus, pear shaped, what's the
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word you want to use? Snaff who whatever? The player
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just decided to go sideways again. We thought we had
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fixed that is you're claiming it's a different ghost in
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the latrine. Okay, well, let's whatever it may be there
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at four three four eighty two four two one seven
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my fault. I was answering a couple of emails during
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the break and didn't notice we were having an issue
28:43
with the player the playback there on this Ted's Day morning.
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Actually we had on the player. You may have heard
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this is Ted and his wife on Charlie Kirk that you.
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Speaker 24: Have a real America's Voice podcast titled Faith and Freedom,
28:58
and that the assassin that killed Charlie Kirk would be
29:02
joyful to kill you because of faith and freedom. What
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are you feeling right now on behalf of people who
29:09
are trying to process this heartbreaking, this loss.
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Speaker 3: And that's the thing about processing. And you look at
29:21
the vigils that have been going on across the country
29:24
and how quickly it was a a one of the
29:30
citizen journalists was in the hallways of the congressional offices,
29:36
down in the bowels of the basement where you walk
29:39
in between the Capitol Building and your congressional office without
29:44
ever having to go out in the public. What does
29:47
it say about a government that hides in tunnels underneath
29:50
the city caught up with ilhan Omar and she brushed
29:55
them off. We're not ignoring Charlie Kirk. Here's a great
30:00
comparison on the very short shelf life that Charlie Kirk
30:08
and his assassination has had amongst the governing class. Go
30:15
back to you never even mind members of Congress, what
30:22
about police officers? And all of a sudden, everyone who
30:28
was involved or associated with January sixth, on the negative side,
30:34
got a state, got to lay in state in the
30:37
US Capitol Building. Does Charlie Kirk get to lay in
30:40
state the US Capitol building. Never mind some of the
30:46
congressional leaders that have been allowed to lay in state.
30:50
This was a thing that you reserve for presidents. Not
30:55
that I love the idea of a president being better
30:58
than a member of the US House of Resident Representatives.
31:05
But it's been a week since the assassination of Charlie
31:09
Kirk and we're already listening to people say, yeah, I've
31:15
had enough of this whole Charlie Kirk stuff. And I'm
31:20
not saying wallow. I told you three four days ago.
31:23
We need to be careful of the wallow, the idea
31:28
that we're just going to do nothing but Charlie Kirk
31:31
talk for a while. But gosh, oh man, some of
31:42
these people Capitol police officers. Again, it's a tragic loss
31:47
of life spuriously connected to the riots on January sixth,
31:53
that lay in state in the Capitol rotunda, in the
31:56
state ceremonies, and Charlie Kirk get any of that. So
32:04
it's don't make your moral equivalencies here. And I'm not
32:10
even talking about members of Congress, and as if you're
32:13
a left winger, especially if you've been elected to Congress.
32:19
They'll have a state funeral for you. There'll be just
32:22
three weeks worth of tributes on the floor. They'll rename
32:27
one of the meeting rooms after you. They love to
32:32
celebrate themselves. And that's what I was talking about this
32:36
on Constitution Day, the proposed first amendment to the Constitution,
32:43
that first thing, and I cannot overstate it. Darien writes
32:48
in from Massachusetts, probably listening on WCAP. I appreciate you, know,
32:54
telling me at least where you're at regarding the Bill
33:06
of Rights and why it was important. And he said,
33:10
thank you for pointing out, Joe, that the Bill of
33:12
Rights was the deal maker. A lot of kids don't
33:16
get the fact. They just thought the Bill of Rights
33:18
in the US Constitution were written together. Well, if the
33:23
Bill of Rights and the Constitution, Darien, it sounds like
33:26
you get this. But if they were one unit, then
33:29
the Bill of Rights would have been incorporated into the
33:32
Constitution the way it is in Virginia, our flag state,
33:39
what we call our Bill of Rights is actually Article
33:42
one of our Constitution. But we had to make them
33:47
amendments because they already had gone through the parliamentary procedure
33:51
and committees and people had approved, and then it was
33:55
the very last minute the Virginia delegation said, we're not
33:59
supporting this. This creates big centralized government, or as Karra
34:03
rights in we were talking about big government and big business,
34:08
and she writes in big homelessness, illegal alien border transportation,
34:14
and big anonymous child drops offs, big Catholic services, et cetera,
34:18
et cetera. Yeah, Well that's what happens, Cara, is the
34:22
government becomes the source of all revenue, and so you
34:29
have to be big as big as the government in
34:31
order to get an attention. So my radio station, the
34:35
flagship station of this is a radio station in Stanton, Virginia,
34:39
serves Central Virginia from Jefferson's Land all the way through
34:43
Woodrow Wilson's Gosh, and we're just a little independent radio station.
34:51
Yet the state spends an awful lot of advertising dollars.
34:55
And you know who gets all the advertising dollars, the
34:58
big chains, because the state can place one ad buy
35:03
with a corporation and then it runs on twenty thirty
35:07
stations in the state. Spending ad money on a station
35:13
as well, it's just one station. Then we'd have to
35:15
buy thirty or forty others to get the same impact
35:18
of just making one deal with one big broadcast. That's
35:22
what it is is big, big for big government, big
35:25
for big business, even big nonprofit business. But the first
35:35
proposed amendment to the Constitution as part of the deal.
35:42
And it's important, Darien, that you understand that it was
35:47
part of the deal to get the Constitution ratified that
35:54
there had to be a list of restrictions on the
35:57
federal government's power in order to get Virginia. And I
36:04
think we had a couple of other states. I think
36:07
we may have had North Carolina and South Carolina in
36:09
our pockets. So Madison was already facing a scenario where
36:14
this one wasn't going to pass and then it would
36:16
just default back to the mess that was the Articles
36:20
of Confederation. So in order to strike that deal, they
36:24
put together this Bill Rights and the first thing they
36:26
said is no congress person, no member of Congress, should
36:30
represent more than fifty thousand people. And that's stunning because
36:42
that tells you that this is what George Mason and
36:47
James Monroe and all these folks thought was the biggest
36:50
threat to individual liberty was big government. And they said,
37:05
no congressional district should be more than fifty thousand people.
37:11
San Bernardino where Kmet carries us that's two hundred and
37:16
twenty two thousand people, and San Bernardino. That means you
37:19
would have four Congress people just for San Bernardino. I'll
37:23
bet you there are parts of San Bernardino and this
37:26
is what they don't like about it. Look at the map,
37:30
look at the eighty five percent of all the counties
37:33
in the United States that carried that Donald Trump carried,
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and realized how many Republican representatives an apportionment that would
37:44
have been based on that constitution would have been, how
37:47
hard it would have been for the progressive left to
37:50
ramrod things like No Child Left Behind and the Patient
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Speaker 15: You were strolling along in Goodwill when just past that
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mid century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them
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nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings. Oh yes, yes,
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your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all day dessert food
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made into your favorite form of ear candy. Oh my,
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those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger within you.
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Speaker 17: Sh Do you smell that?
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And bring home so much.
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Speaker 2: Good to your community.
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Speaker 15: Goodwill bring good home.
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Speaker 10: Exercise is hard, so is maintaining a healthy diet. Of course,
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neither is half as hard as dying. Sadly, type two diabetes,
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heart disease, and stroke kill nearly a million people a year.
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Speaker 11: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
42:25
Speaker 22: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
42:29
Speaker 25: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble.
42:35
Speaker 11: Freedom to petition the government. Only the United States has
42:39
these five freedoms. So simply bound together and guaranteed, Think first.
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Learn more at Think First Amendment dot org.
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Speaker 14: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
42:52
Speaker 23: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
42:55
first date?
42:56
Speaker 15: Sure?
42:57
Speaker 24: We'll probably stay together.
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Speaker 14: Probably, it's been twenty three minutes since I ate.
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Speaker 15: I can probably swim.
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Speaker 4: You should wait thirty minutes.
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Speaker 15: Okay, I'll tell me what to do. Can it bar.
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Speaker 6: Cramp?
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Speaker 15: Oh?
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Speaker 2: I have a cramp.
43:16
Speaker 16: I can probably hit the green from here?
43:19
Speaker 2: Probably?
43:24
Speaker 16: Can I get a mulligan.
43:26
Speaker 3: Ready to go?
43:27
Speaker 4: Hey?
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Speaker 23: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
43:29
Speaker 15: Yeah?
43:30
Speaker 3: I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
43:35
Speaker 14: Probably okay isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking
43:39
and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab a car
43:42
or a friend. Buzz driving is drunk driving. A message
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Speaker 23: You know the legal drinking age is twenty one. You
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Speaker 2: The home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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on this texty W special text is the two hundred
44:25
and thirty eighth anniversary of the Constitution.
44:30
Speaker 2: Just so.
44:33
Speaker 3: And as we bring it home, let's, you know, remember
44:36
the things and I hate the fanciful retellings of history.
44:42
I mentioned this text message. What what JFK story about
44:51
Karl Marx? All right, we have a minute here. This
44:55
this is is a press corps. I was talking about
44:59
the the Publishers Association, something along those lines, and he
45:03
was making this throughout nineteen sixty one.
45:05
Speaker 26: They remember that in eighteen fifty one, New York Harold Tribune,
45:12
under the sponsorship and publishing of Horace Greeley, employed as
45:17
its London correspondent an obscured journalist by the name of
45:21
Carl Marx. We are told that foreign correspondent Marx, stone
45:26
broke and with a family ill and undernourished, constantly appealed
45:31
to Greeley and managing editor Charles Dana for an increase
45:36
in his munificent salary of five dollars per installment, a
45:40
salary which he and Ingalls ungratefully label as the lousiest
45:44
petty bourgeois cheating. But when all his financial appeals were refused,
45:51
Marx looked around for other means of livelihood and fame.
45:55
It's eventually terminating his relationship with the Tribune and devoting
45:59
his talent full time to the cause that would bequeath
46:02
to the world the seeds of Leninism, Stalinism, revolution, and
46:07
the Cold War. If only this capitalistic New York newspaper
46:12
had treated him more kindly, if only Marx had remained
46:17
a foreign correspondent, history might have been different. I hope all.
46:23
Speaker 3: So, you know, and again, you know, like I said,
46:25
fanciful Retellings, I'm sure that if Carl Marx had remained
46:29
and became more and more famous and as a favorite
46:32
part of the story is where Kennedy refers to his
46:35
pursuits as looking for fame. But I'm sure had he
46:40
remained foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, Marx
46:45
would have still wound up being Karl Marx. But the
46:49
fanciful retellings, the fanciful retellings of from the world of
46:54
the press, that the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights,
46:57
it protects the the news media as part of a
47:04
grander publishing world. Yeah, but it's not specifically yours. In
47:11
seventeen eighty nine, the word the press meant, and I
47:16
hate to go antonin Scalia on you, the word press
47:20
meant the printing press. Your right to publish shall not
47:25
be infringed, your right to go online. And this goes
47:30
into something that Joe Scarborough was talking about, is that
47:34
all these people trying to get cant or losing their
47:38
jobs because of hateful things they said about Charlie Kirk.
47:40
You have a right to say what you want. It
47:43
doesn't mean your employer has to keep you on. If
47:47
I walk into a coffee shop, let's say I walk
47:50
into first Free in the Morning coffee. It's the place
47:52
you can purchase in a cop brewed for you, First
47:56
Free in the morning coffee, and our phrase free coffee.
48:00
Or if I walked in there with a T shirt
48:01
that said I Love Starbucks on it and tried to
48:04
go to work, they'd make me at very least take
48:07
off my shirt and change it for something that doesn't
48:09
say I love our competition. Quick story. I wanted to
48:15
get into this. A lot of people are raising hay
48:18
about this. Somehow a judge in New York has determined
48:22
that the assassination of United Healthcare CEO on the street
48:28
in front of his hotel is not terrorism and draws
48:31
a very specific list of what terrorism is. And it
48:37
was brought to my attention the story yesterday an email
48:40
because we had referred to the twenty two year old
48:44
in Utah as terrorism. And this is where definitions matter,
48:53
and if you're going to have a legal term and
48:55
if you're going to increase penalties and punishments for crimes
48:59
if they are based in terrorism, and you're talking to
49:06
somebody who doesn't like all the hyphenations, I don't think
49:13
murder is better if it isn't done in the name
49:16
of terrorism. I'd be hard pressed to think of a
49:19
way that murder isn't done as a terrorist act. Hate crime. Well,
49:28
so crime is okay, but hate crime is not all
49:31
those hyphenates that we've created. The world needs fewer adjectives.
49:36
We've over abused our adjectives. So Luigi Mangioni is still
49:44
facing the death penalty and murder charges, but now they're
49:47
not terrorism charges, according to the judge in his case yesterday.
49:56
And I'm fine with getting rid of terror is a special,
50:01
extra bonus crime you can be charged with, because I
50:04
think we throw eighteen nineteen twenty different versions of the
50:08
same crime on too many people, and it allows our
50:12
justice system to be unjust rather than just dealing with
50:16
the case before it. So we, you know, we go
50:28
and we look at these stories and why so how
50:30
could they? And the judge of the headlines were great?
50:33
In New York judge drops two charges against Mangioni. I'll
50:38
bet you that headline sold a few newspapers or a
50:41
few online subscriptions. And he's still facing murder charges and
50:47
everything else. But in a constitutional paradigm, why does murder
50:55
have to come with something special and extra? And if
50:57
you have the death penalty, this is what a lot
51:00
of people do to avoid having the death penalty, But
51:04
still having the death penalty is they'll make it. You
51:08
conscrew it on six or seven modifying adjectives on top
51:12
of thou shalt not murder. And if you read the
51:16
fine print on the ten Commandments, you'll see them all there.
51:20
Thou shalt not murder, unless than the case of so
51:27
as this Constitution day, I thought I would leave you
51:31
off with just a little bit, a little treatise, a
51:34
little recitation on the US Constitution, for you still can't
51:40
pay to get them to do it. Live.
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Speaker 1: Look at these three words, written larger than the rest,
51:45
with a special pride, never written before or since, tall
51:49
words proudly saying we the people, that what you call
51:55
ed lebnista was not written to the chiefs of kings,
52:00
of the warriors, or the ritually powerful, and for all
52:02
the people.
52:04
Speaker 2: Down the centuries.
52:05
Speaker 1: You have slurred the meaning out of the words we
52:11
the people of the United States, in order to form
52:15
more perfect union. Establish justice is sure, domestic frontibility, provide
52:20
for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure
52:25
the blessing sub liberty.
52:27
Speaker 5: Ourselves and our posterity and.
52:36
Speaker 24: A life.
52:38
Speaker 3: So celebrate it by living by its coming till tomorrow.
52:44
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