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"Storytelling vs Journalism" (Friday September 5, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: I'm not leaving too.
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Speaker 2: I get justice, exactly justice. I suppose my preferenda.
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Speaker 1: Making morning it's great again.
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Speaker 3: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 4: Your words at steal me.
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Speaker 2: Every day, at least for work.
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Speaker 5: When the sun comes up, drops a pecood.
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Speaker 6: Joe is everything all the JASU needs no one that
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Joe's as smile, He only as.
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Speaker 7: Joe.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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this morning.
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Speaker 5: I want to be.
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Speaker 2: We tell you the news, we break down the news
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into easily digestible gummies, and then we ask you how
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the news is impacting you. And the last is entirely
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your choice. There are no mandates from the centers for
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disease control and prevention. It's just cool to hear what's
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happening with the news where you are, because the news
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desks don't do that enough. They'll do the man on
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the street stuff only to the point where it makes
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their point. And it's all storytelling. Let me apropos of everything.
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It's all storytelling. Why does the Left do it? Because
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they're storytelling, it's not fact, it's not fiction, it's faction. So,
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for example, another famous Central Virginian aside from yours truly
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and that other Thomas Fellow who wrote the Declaration of Independence,
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it's John Grisham. John Grisham would burst into flames if
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he spent five seconds listening to this program. And I
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know this for a fact because I've lived in the
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same town as him for twenty years. By the way,
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John should update the pictures on his novels whoever may
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be ghostwriting folk, because I ran into John while having
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a cup of coffee with the common Old's attorney one day,
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and he came over and said, I Common Olal's attorney
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said Hi, walked away and said who's that? He goes,
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that's John Grisham. I had a John Grisham book with
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me and look, guys, said, that's not John Grisham. I
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went over to the bookstore and I said, that's not
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John Grisham. Oh, that's what he looks like today. But
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in any event, when John Grisham sits down to write
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one of his novels, he knows what the point of
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the novel is going to be. So when he does
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all the character development, et cetera, et cetera, he knows
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how to do it. So it all comes together at
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the end. He starts at the end, and then he
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writes a story that fits the ending and the point
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he wants to make. That's storytelling. When Esop wrote his fables,
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he knew what he wanted to teach kids, so therefore
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he knew how to tell the story to get to
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the lesson he wanted to teach. Journalism is about going
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and finding whatever story may present itself to you, and
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then telling your consumers what happened. But that's not what
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the modern newsroom does. The modern newsroom wants to tell
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you a story. It has a narrative, and then it'll
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go out and it'll do the man on the street stuff,
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but only to the point of it gets some clips
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that tell the story it wants to tell. I know
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this for a fact, if you missed the end of
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the last hour, before we went to the top of
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the hour news, we were talking about the insurance industry
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during the glory days of Obamacare, representative of the federal
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government came to a broadcaster's convention I was at and
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told the gathering and I quote, there are millions of
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dollars available for enterprising newsrooms that can come up with
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creative ways to tell the story of the Affordable Care Act.
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You were paying for the very things that we're ripping
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you off. Just saying these are truisms. This isn't. This
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is evidence not in question your honor, but our first
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things before we get further in and further up. Google
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has to pay four hundred and twenty five million dollars
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for invading users' privacy by collecting data over a period
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on millions of people who had supposedly or in their
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mind turned off a tracking feature in their Google account
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between twenty sixteen and twenty twenty four. A judge in
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San Francisco ruled Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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Kennedy Junior clash with both Republican and Democrat senators Thursday
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over the Senators for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan
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Monterez's assertion that she was fired for resisting unscientific vaccine recommendations.
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That's the narrative the newsrooms want you to believe. That's
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not even what the senators claimed. Her Wall Street Journal
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report said she didn't want to take recommendations of a
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vaccine advisory panel filled with people who had publicly expressed
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anti vaccine rhetoric Kennedy said, I never had a private
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meeting with her and never pressured her to leave. So
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you're saying she's lying to the American people, asked Ron
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Wyden of Oregon, and Kennedy responded, yes, sir. In a
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virtual meeting on Ukraine about Ukraine on Thursday, President Trump
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told European leaders they were quote funding the war by
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buying Russian oil and urged them to cut off Moscow
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and pressed China to follow suit. Federal Appeals Court Thursday
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allowed the construction to resume at the federal migrant detention
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center known as Alligator Alcatraz in Florida. More courtroom battles,
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lots of billible hours in the first things today Connecticut,
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Rhode Island and a developer of an officer or wind
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farm that could power almost the size of a city
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the size of Charlottesville and homes. The two states said
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Thursday they're suing the Trump administration for stopping the nearly
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completed projects off the Rhode Island coast. More courtroom drama
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is Federal Appeals Court Thursday rejected President Trump's Administration's call
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to lift a George's order barring it from refusing to
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issue passports that identified the gender identities of transgender people
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rather than their biological ones, and an appeals court Thursday
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blocked the lower court ruling restricting President Trump's use of
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troops to support federal law enforcement in Los Angeles and Washington,
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DC is suing the Trump administration over the very same thing,
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saying the DC Attorney General said, a forced military occupation
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Speaker 1: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 5: You say you haven't done your.
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Speaker 7: King.
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Speaker 2: Reminder that when William shake Off Spears character said that
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he was trying to bring on anarchy so that he
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could use the ensuing anarchy to install himself as dictator, monarch, whatever.
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Just as a quick note, it's a fun, fun line
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to say. It tickles the tongue, But they were doing
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it to bring on anarchy. Because Tim Kaine isn't wrong
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about law. When we played that clip of Tim Kaine
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yesterday about law and his perversion of John Locke, because
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John Locke, in the same treaties that teaches us that
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our rights are God given, he also says, but you
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need a government to enforce those in a society. I mean,
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you can go off into the woods and if somebody
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comes on your property, you shoot them. But in a
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community where we're supposedly a society, I remember, conservatives are
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about conserving Western civilization. Civilization requires us interacting with one another.
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So when somebody's rights are violated, if when, because human
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nature ten commandments taught us that we are prone to
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bear false witness against our neighbors, and murder and steel
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and covet so when that happens, there has to be
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lawyers who understand the law so that justice can be served.
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Now we've chronicled the amassment of law on top of
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law on top of other law that has created this
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judicial black hole, law so dense that justice itself cannot escape.
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And it's done by dragging you through the Overton window
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where you have to agree. See, in this society, Overton
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only applies to countries like this. Overton doesn't work in
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Russia because if lad says so, it goes. It's nice
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to have. But he doesn't need the Russian citizens' approval
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to do stuff. He likes to have it because otherwise
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you're Stalin, and there's enough people in Russia comparing him
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to Stalin. In a country like the United States, you
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need popular opinions, so you need to use the Overton window,
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which for the first time in my broadcast career, which
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by the way, did not start yesterday glips and glitches
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last hour, not to bear witness to that, I have
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never seen a Republican administration use the Overton window in
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the way the left has always used it. Think about this,
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we are debating, We're going to have a testimony from
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somebody who was there. We have school divisions who insist
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that it is okay now for boys to play on
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girls' sports teams, and we've allowed that because the overten window.
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We got dragged towards it. We started arguing the point
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as if it was even a sane argument, and by
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doing so lended it enough gravity to start, Oh, well,
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you know, I guess you know, if the kid wants
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to say he's a girl, I guess that's okay, even
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though he's got bigger shoulders and forearms. And we are
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endorsing men getting into boxing rings to beat up women
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because we were dragged to the Overton window on it.
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Ten years ago, this would have been absolute insanity. This
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would have been the stuff of the most dystopian idea ever.
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But finally a Republican administration and R.
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Speaker 1: FK.
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Speaker 2: Junior is one of the chief operators of the Overton window.
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For President Trump, all our FK. Junior did was say
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we shouldn't be mandating vaccines, and every member of the
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insurance company paid for government class vacated their lower intestines
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on the floor or in their pants, and not just
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Jerry Nadler who had that happened because he's like one
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hundred and ninety five years old. But they started arguing
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in yesterday's hearings in Congress and the Senate is a
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great example because now people are debating to the conservatives,
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so they're like, well, I mean, he is just saying
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we're not going to mandate it that you take them.
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What if we mandated that you ate a certain amount
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of cruciferous vegetables. The Obamacare paradigm was that if you
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didn't do something, we could tax you for that. Think
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about what they the Pandora's box that that has opened
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since twenty ten. The government can now tax you for
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things you don't do. I mean, it's bad enough that
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in our flagship state of Virginia, you can spend your
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income can be taxed, and then we can tax you
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on the purchase of an automobile sales tax, and then
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each year we're going to come back and tax you
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again for the same automobile you've already paid two taxes on.
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And if you sell the automobile, we're going to tax
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you on that too. But now, thanks to the Patient
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Protection and Affordable Care Act, the government can now tax
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you for things you haven't done. And they got us
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arguing supposedly out of the logic of it, because we're
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smart people and we want to have a we want
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to teach these people how crazy it sounds. But by
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doing it, we lended it so much credibility that enough
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people started to believe in it that it won electorally.
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Obamacare is a wilder scheme than hillary Care ever got
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to be. Hillary Care was pardon the phrase, aborted before
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it even had its first meeting. All Bill Clinton had
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to do was announce that he was forming a commission
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to reform the healthcare industry in the United States. Hillary
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Clinton was going to chair it, and it was going
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to include all the operators of all the big hospital
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systems and all the big insurance companies, and the American
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citizens said in one voice, not just no, but hell no,
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left wing right. It didn't matter. Bill Clinton was about
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to lose, He was probably going to get primaried in
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four years over such craziness. And yet here we were
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a scant, you know, twelve years later and going, oh,
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it's all good to be because of the Overton window.
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And finally we have Republicans Conservatives RFK Junior saying hey,
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let's just not mandate, and they're all arguing it like
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it's a logical point, and we're winning it back towards
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the Overton window because you have to drag people back
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to think logically.
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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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Speaker 14: When might you be buzzed when you suddenly love everything
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you guys?
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Archide fall League. Oh, I love this guy.
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Speaker 1: What's your name?
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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27:49
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Speaker 23: It's on.
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Speaker 2: From the home of the first amendments.
28:13
Speaker 1: First thing today.
28:16
Speaker 2: It is time for our sports director Mac McDonald to
28:19
open his notebook in and amongst the doodles some great
28:24
stuff on what's happening on the field with a play
28:27
for pay. As Howard Cosell used to go, that's all
28:31
the fields now. I mean think even high school kids
28:33
are getting name image likeness deals crazy, right, Yeah.
28:37
Speaker 24: I can't wait to see a high school sophomore doing it.
28:39
You know, this is why I drive a Honda. This
28:41
it'd be perfect.
28:43
Speaker 1: Of course it's of course.
28:44
Speaker 24: It's a seventy six Honda, but I still recommend.
28:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's terrific.
28:48
Speaker 24: All right, Well, first of all, last night's you know,
28:51
that's the way the NFL wanted to kick off it's
28:54
one hundred and sixth season with a spinning contest. It
28:58
should have been watermelon seeds instead of Dak Prescott and
29:01
Jyalen Carter going into each other. But that's what happened.
29:04
Twenty four to twenty was the final. Last night, I'll
29:06
talk more about the game next hour, of course. Uh
29:09
but anyway, before the first play from scrimmage, Dak Prescott
29:14
thought that Jalalen Carter was messing with one of his
29:17
rookie linemen, and so he just kind of spit in
29:20
the direction of Jalen Carter. Now he says, I spent
29:22
a thousand times a day, you know, the game. He goes,
29:25
it's maybe something I should cray. But anyway, then then
29:28
Carter walked up to Dak and goes, what's what's up?
29:31
And he then spent on his jersey, and of course
29:34
the official was right there.
29:35
Speaker 1: The referee through the.
29:36
Speaker 24: Flag, and so Carter was gone and he apologized and
29:40
Dak Prescott, well, Nick Siriani said that, you know, he said, look,
29:45
this is going to be in house with what we do.
29:48
But as far as Dak Prescott is concerned, he did
29:50
try to describe.
29:51
Speaker 25: He was troll and I guess you could say trying
29:53
to mess with Tyler Booker. I was right here by
29:56
the two linemen, and I guess I needed to spit
29:58
and I wouldn't gonna spind on my liman and I
29:59
just a head. But where he goes, you're trying to
30:01
spin on me. He was insulting me, like, I don't
30:04
I wouldn't spin on somebody. I'm Davis, You're not trying to.
30:06
Speaker 1: Spin on you. They were about to play a game.
30:07
Speaker 25: I don't wish for anybody to get out of the game.
30:09
I'm sure he probably regretted that to some extent. I'm
30:11
pretty sure he knows I didn't try to spin on him,
30:13
or wasn't even aiming to spin on him, something that's
30:15
probably gonna get a lot of coverage and a lot
30:17
of attention that I'm so sorry for him.
30:20
Speaker 24: Surely a major grocery chain, Publics or you know, Win
30:25
Dixie or somebody giants, somebody's got to step up and
30:27
do the national commercial with them with watermelon seeds, you know,
30:31
trying to win a contest.
30:32
Speaker 2: Well, and of course you know the cowboy you know
30:34
the cowboy haters out there saying, well, if he was
30:37
trying to spit on him, he would have been intercepted anyway.
30:40
Speaker 24: So yeah, exactly, but it would have ended up in
30:42
somebody else's feet.
30:44
Speaker 1: Okay.
30:45
Speaker 24: The football game between JAMU and Louisville will be played tonight.
30:48
It was scheduled after Louisville needed to replace an non
30:51
conference game against Indiana that was canceled. This is kind
30:54
of the second phase of my Friday Reporter. Because Louisville
30:57
signed a single game contract with JMU and October twenty
31:00
twenty three, people ask questions like and I'm going to
31:04
get to the Virginia and Cya state thing.
31:06
Speaker 1: Because I had four people yesterday, including.
31:08
Speaker 24: Your boy Vinnie, wanted to know, how can this be
31:10
a non conference game? Okay, I'll explain, but anyway, so
31:13
the date change was in March. It was announced the
31:16
game was moved from Saturday to Friday because of TV,
31:19
of course, and the second time that Jamie. Now Bob Chesney,
31:23
who if you ask him one question will carry an
31:25
entire lunch. I love Bob Chesney. You know he's a
31:28
quote machine. But he went in and I had to
31:31
do a little editing. But he talked about what we
31:33
try to do is win matchups where we can win matchups.
31:37
Speaker 1: He goes, look, we know Louisville's gonna get theirs. I
31:40
think that's that was a quote.
31:42
Speaker 24: Anyway, Bob Chesney, I'm playing the Cardinals tonight and being
31:45
an underdog on the road. But then again, you're gonna
31:48
make about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
31:50
Speaker 26: And we know they're going to get theirs right. It's
31:52
not going to We're not just gonna shut any team down.
31:55
So we got to be able to live through the
31:57
emotional part of it as well. So not only the
31:59
you know, you know toughness, the mental toughness, but then
32:02
the emotional toughness that comes with it are things that
32:04
have to be handled.
32:05
Speaker 24: Yeah, so you spend all week watching film and say, well,
32:08
maybe we can win this matchup, so we'll try to
32:10
throw it to that guy fifty times.
32:12
Speaker 1: I mean that's just kind of the way it's it's played.
32:14
Speaker 2: Oh no, wouldn't it be bad? I mean because we
32:16
see what happens when the ACC plays the SEC, but
32:19
when the AC, what what happens if Louisville gets smacked
32:22
around by JMU? I mean JMU is a program on
32:25
the com anyway, that between JMU and Liberty, you know,
32:30
they're growing into being a team that people are like taking.
32:33
We get them up and yeah, New Year's Day Bowl
32:36
games for both of them. What if Louisville loses to them,
32:40
and and they've lost to a bunch of sea where
32:42
does that leave the AACC.
32:44
Speaker 24: Well, I mean, you know, because there's so many teams now,
32:48
it's like, you know, you're so watered down.
32:50
Speaker 1: All the leagues are watered down. So what does it mean?
32:53
I don't know. Louisville move on, put on your big
32:55
boy pants and beat Appalachian State.
32:58
Speaker 24: Speaking of which, all right, Chili in NC State, I
33:00
had I had four four tex yesterday. Mac Inventning was
33:05
one of them, and Benny tried to win an argument.
33:08
All Right, the Cavalis and wolf Pack will play each
33:10
other in week two.
33:12
Speaker 1: Okay, we know that that's the game tomorrow.
33:14
Speaker 24: Now.
33:14
Speaker 1: It's a non conference game aimed to boost each other
33:18
strength of schedule.
33:19
Speaker 24: It takes place after a scheduling merry go round with
33:22
Louisiana Tech and Apple Legend State matchups that had to
33:25
be rescheduled. So anyway, UVA and Nancy State said, all right,
33:31
let's play.
33:32
Speaker 1: We've already got our eight.
33:33
Speaker 24: Game conference schedule, so let's go ahead and play, and
33:37
then we will we'll worry about everything, you know later,
33:40
So anyway, we'll take there. They're four hundred and fifty
33:43
four yards of total offense from last week, and a
33:46
guy named Chandler Morris, who Tony Elliott loves.
33:48
Speaker 1: Chandler Morris is the new QB one. Okay for UVA
33:52
had a great day.
33:53
Speaker 24: Granted it was Coastal Carolina, an announced crowd of forty
33:57
six thousand. It was more like four hundred and sixty,
33:59
but the four hundreds and another there were a lot
34:01
of students there.
34:02
Speaker 1: Anyway, this would be.
34:04
Speaker 24: A feather, a feather in Tony Elliott's cap, a thing
34:07
on the road and get this one. And some people
34:09
are saying, yes, Chandler Morris is the real deal. This
34:12
can happen anyway, Tony Elliott who loves his transfer quarterback.
34:16
Speaker 27: And once he got settled, he was able to distribute
34:18
the ball, manage the system, put together some scoring drives.
34:23
Love to see him go down feet first right there.
34:25
But that's what you love about him is he's such
34:28
a competitor. He was that close to the goal line
34:30
and even down on the field. When I got to him,
34:33
he had he had a little bit of a sense
34:34
of sense of humor. He said that wasn't very smart,
34:37
but he's like coach, I was so close and all
34:39
I saw was the goal line. So I think we
34:41
got to see the competitor. But then also we got
34:45
to see a little bit of the gainsmanship of what
34:47
he can do as a veteran veteran quarterback.
34:50
Speaker 24: Yeah, so Chandler Morris. You know, if he has a
34:52
good game to more and Uva. He's got a lot
34:54
of nice pieces. The running game is better. The receivers
34:57
I think are better. You know, Uva held the Chanticleers
35:02
to two hundred and fifty four yards. Granted it was
35:04
Coastal Carolina, including ninety one on the ground, and they
35:08
blocked a punt that turned into a touchdown and Morris
35:11
was nineteen to twenty seven for two sixty four. So
35:14
with all that being said, that could be that could
35:17
be a feather. Now moving to Blacksburg second game into
35:22
a season should not mean much. However, this is huge
35:30
for Brent Prye for the fact that, okay, since he's
35:34
been trying to turn things around, now it's gonna be
35:37
a drunken crowd. You know, when Metallicus starts to play
35:42
an inner Sandman, I mean it'll be primed and Vanderbilt
35:46
comes to town with you know, Diego is one of
35:49
the best quarterbacks in the world's playing He's played like
35:51
twelve years now in.
35:52
Speaker 2: College and he pommeled him last year.
35:55
Speaker 24: And Vanderbilt has got two other guys. Now they're challenging
35:57
the NCAA. There's a lawsuit by two defense guys who said,
36:00
you know what we should get if we're gonna read shirt,
36:03
we should be eligible for all five years, we should
36:05
be able to play five years.
36:06
Speaker 1: And so anyway, but this is huge for.
36:10
Speaker 24: Blacksburg and Virginia Tech because if they go into granted
36:15
it's two SEC teams, Granted it's an improved Vanderbilt team
36:18
that that shellacked Alabama last year, Granted that beat Tech
36:22
in overtime. Brand price team needs to prove they can
36:26
win a game like this one. That's you know, it's
36:30
that simple. And before I go, it was last week?
36:36
Was it last week? We had Bud Foster on It
36:38
was right, Yeah, So Wednesday was his bo Jangles Day
36:42
for Bojangles now joining the foundation and they have the you.
36:45
Speaker 1: Know, give a plug for Bojangles.
36:46
Speaker 24: They have this lunch box now in thirty five stores
36:49
and you can well they have Bud Foster cutouts and everything.
36:53
He was making biscuits Wednesday and I said, so that's
36:57
the only time you really rolled in the dough and
36:59
he became and he laughed about I know, he laughed
37:02
about it. And he goes, well, I might need this
37:05
game the gig later. Guys, you're killing try the veal.
37:10
But anyway, Bud was just he said it went well.
37:15
The fans were excited. You know, Virginia Tech fans would
37:17
show up at a you know, I mean, but Bud
37:23
Foster says, hey, come have a cocktail. You know, there'd
37:26
be three hundred people there to hear. But I mean,
37:29
he's the pope anyway, and uh and really a lot
37:32
of fun.
37:32
Speaker 1: I walked.
37:33
Speaker 24: I walked with him during the spring game one time, and.
37:37
Speaker 1: He can only walk steps. He's signing another baby's bib.
37:41
He was crazy.
37:42
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, you know, but here's did they raise
37:44
a lot of money or did we?
37:46
Speaker 23: He did?
37:46
Speaker 1: He did good, And they're gonna raise more because bow
37:49
j Angles.
37:49
Speaker 9: Yeah.
37:49
Speaker 1: Well and and let's have it.
37:51
Speaker 2: But we're trying to get bow Jangles back on our
37:54
flank flagship station for Virginia Tech football. But I haven't
37:58
been successful yet, So have him dropped a good word
38:00
for me?
38:00
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Speaker 1: It's on for you From Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
44:18
Speaker 2: Cheez one half of the great radio famous radio duo
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Crackers and Cheese. I'll let you decide which one he is.
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He might be on the storefronts out in front of
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Cracker Barrel. You never know. He is Doctor Clark. But
44:35
Bob Good our friend Bob and Farmville, not to be
44:37
confused with kilmar In Farmville is on hold. Check in
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with him, the host of the Good for America podcast
44:45
coming up at Doctor Clark. Thank you for hanging on
44:47
the line. What's on your mind?
44:48
Speaker 1: Sir Joe?
44:50
Speaker 16: There was a TV show I don't know thirty years ago,
44:54
Connections with British show, Thanks work.
44:57
Speaker 2: You remember that I watched every single episode. Matter of fact,
45:00
my son was stelling me you're watching them.
45:02
Speaker 23: Yeah.
45:03
Speaker 16: So let's pretend or maybe even work on a rough
45:09
draft for a radio connection show. You were talking about
45:15
medical insurance companies jamming people up if they hadn't gotten
45:20
the job. Now, there are three premier global investment houses
45:30
in the world that I know about. Right now, take
45:34
a look at how many former executives of said investment
45:42
houses were part of the Biden administration. How many spouses
45:46
in laws and cousins of executives in those investment houses
45:52
were part of the Biden administrations? Easy to find that out.
45:54
Speaker 17: Now.
45:55
Speaker 16: The reason I bring that up is it suggests a
45:57
pattern to me, Joe. Now look at the holdings that
46:04
these three major investment the premier investment companies have. They
46:11
own some of everything. Now you picked the insurance company
46:17
that was requiring someone to get a JAB, and I
46:21
promise you ten percent of each was owned by one
46:27
of the premier investment companies. Okay, So you know what
46:34
we think should be independent entities, and maybe we even
46:41
think there should be an adversarial relationship, like lawyers that
46:48
do medical malpractice suits should not have a commensal relationship
46:55
with the companies that provide malpractice liability insurance to doctors. Right,
47:02
wait a minute, Yeah, if it wasn't for the insurance,
47:11
then the lawyers wouldn't be able to file the lawsuits
47:16
for the amounts that they filed them for. If it
47:19
wasn't for the lawyers, the doctors wouldn't need to pay
47:22
the outrageous sums. Who pays for those insurance premiums?
47:27
Speaker 1: Joe taxes? Yeah, we pay that.
47:33
Speaker 2: Yep. No, absolutely pay for medical insurance.
47:36
Speaker 1: We pay that.
47:37
Speaker 2: Who pays for a pharma?
47:38
Speaker 1: We pay that.
47:40
Speaker 16: So all of this ultimately is at our expense. So
47:45
when you go wondering, why would the insurance company require
47:50
that I get this vaccine? Well, because the people that
47:54
own both of them are not making money if you
47:58
don't go do this now. They can't exert the force
48:01
they want through the company making the JAB, but they
48:04
can do it through the company that they own that's
48:06
providing the insurance. Yeah, you get the JAB, so we
48:10
make that money at that end. I don't know, Joe,
48:14
you know, we like to think of it as calculus
48:17
or something. It's just arithmetic. Our problem is getting all
48:22
the numbers on the same page and lined up.
48:25
Speaker 2: Well, that's why they should do that.
48:29
Speaker 16: The plussin and monuson, Ain't that hard.
48:32
Speaker 2: Beg you, Doctor Gorge as well said, the plusin and
48:35
minus and ain't so hard. Little Abner's on the phone
48:37
to thank you for bringing us back to old home
48:41
and will meet you at the cracker barrel. But yeah,
48:44
you're absolutely right. And that's why they're so abjectly afraid
48:47
of Robert F. Kennedy Junior is because he's doing the
48:51
plus and and the minus in. He is Bob in Farmville,
48:54
not to be confused with Kilmar in Farmville, who we
48:57
find out is Bob Good's neighbor down there in the
49:00
correctional facility where he's holding and waiting wherever it winds
49:04
up he's going. But he is the host of the
49:06
Good for America podcast. Good morning, Bob, How are you
49:09
doing this Friday morning?
49:11
Speaker 23: Morning? Joe doing well?
49:12
Speaker 2: I hope you are. You know, how is your I'm
49:14
sure there's lots of folks, you know, the the penal
49:17
tourism industry to come see, you know, Saint Kilmar the
49:21
patron saint of runaway Girls is got to be very
49:25
popular down there in Farmville.
49:28
Speaker 23: Well, I honestly don't hear a whole lot about that.
49:30
So you're ahead of mostlks Farmville on that.
49:33
Speaker 2: I thought, that's all right, that's fine, And so I
49:35
wanted to ask you because you know, in and amongst
49:38
all the hoot nanny about RFK Junior in his testimony
49:41
the other thing, very quietly, people like, hey, anyone doing
49:44
anything about the government shutdown that may happen at the
49:46
end of the month. You know, what do you hear
49:49
from your friends there? I was very disheartened last week
49:51
when you were telling us about all the members of
49:53
the Freedom concuss that aren't going to be in the
49:55
Freedom concass next year. So we need to we need
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to revamp that one. What are you hearing about the
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possible shutdowns? Tim Kaine's already out there's in I'm going
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to close the forest if you don't give us money.
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So never mind Tim Kane and where our rights come from.
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I don't know if you heard that amazing leap of faith, but.
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Speaker 23: I did. With Tim Kaine. I mean to be a
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US senator and former governor of Virginia, of all places,
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had the most influential founders, of course, came for Virginia.
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We proudly proclaim, I don't know if you've ever heard
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of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and so forth, Patrick Henry. But
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to not recognize that the founding document, the Declaration, that
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laid the case for the reason why we needed to
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fight the Revolutionary War was because the founders recognized that
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it was inherent in humans to throw off a government
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that was not protecting their god given rights and to
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form a new government, and that our rights come from
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our created that there's natural law, natural rights self and
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you know, inherent rights, and that the purpose of government
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is to protect those and if government doesn't do that,
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then government is in violation of its very purpose. And
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Tim Kane not only not recognizing that, but comparing that
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to some kind of radicalism like what happens in Iran
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and other Islamic countries, radical Islamic countries, it shows he
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spoke the quiet part out loud. I've often said that
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elected democrats, they hate, the Constitution, they hate, the Founders,
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they hate are founding principles. And Tim Kaine said it.
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Speaker 29: The right on National TV for everybody to see who
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and what the Electric Democrats have become, what the Democrat
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Party has become, what a threat it is to the
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very essence of what is the United States and what
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makes us unique among the nations.
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Speaker 23: Of the world.
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Speaker 2: And it's what allowed us, you know what is not.
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Mark Skofs and his brother wrote the book five thousand
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Year Leap about you know how great book. Yeah, a
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human the human experience jumped five thousand years since the
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founding of the United States, and it's unheard of. But
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that's what happens when human creativity becomes untapped and we
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were able to for our own devices, go out and
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achieve whatever it is that's itching in the back of
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our heads. And that's where you get these amazing inventions,
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the automobiles and the spaceships that are carrying us into
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space and putting us on other planets perhaps at some
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point or another. It's a speaking of that. Earlier this week,
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everyone was bent out of shape because they moved the
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Space Force out of Colorado. When I thought Space Force
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was a punchline to them before, but apparently money was
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attached to Space Force now they want to keep it.
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Speaker 1: But my name is Bobby.
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Speaker 6: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
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Speaker 18: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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weightlifting champion.
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of and supporting my families.
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of their lives.
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the benefits they've earned.
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