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"20 Years Since Katrina" (Wednesday August 26, 2025, Hour3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Not that I don't have the right to do anything
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I want to do.
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Speaker 2: I'm the President of the United States.
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Speaker 3: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
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the second most famous Thomas and Charlotte's.
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Speaker 1: If I think our country is in danger, and it is
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in danger, and you said.
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Speaker 4: Welcome to it. Tedsday Live from New Orleans in the
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French Quarter where we are for the State Policy Network.
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The sound you heard in the background after you heard
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the president are the skull caps of all the never
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trumpers popping off. We haven't had a report. We were
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calling for a welfare check on folks like Liz Cheney
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and Adam Kinsinger, just to make sure they are okay there.
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I mean, I'm sure joy Read is somewhere splayed out
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on the floor after oh more of them popping off.
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You know that's not the full breadth and width of
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what the President said, should we do? We have a
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While we're here in New Orleans and appreciate everything they
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do there, and we're going to get into their role
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as a do tank in a little while, because there
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are think tanks, which are important things in the ecosystem,
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and then there are the do tanks who, once they've
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done did do the thunking, they're doing the dunking there afterwards.
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But here, as we learned on August twelfth of twenty seventeen,
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hard earned lessons. As I was still trying to get
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the pepper spray and the tear gas off of my
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clothes and out of my eyes, President Trump took to
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a podium and was answering press questions about the riots
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I had just experienced in Charlottesville. And then they edited
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his words, lifted out just sentence fragments, and used it
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to create a narrative that Donald Trump was somehow a
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racist Nazi, which wasn't true. You can call me and
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I can explain in further detail. But like then and
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now here is the president in all of his words.
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Speaker 1: So I would have much more respect for Prince Gurby'd
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called me up and say, I have a problem, can
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you help me fix it?
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Speaker 2: I would be so happy to do it.
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Speaker 1: I don't love not that I don't have the right
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to do anything I want to do.
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Speaker 2: I'm the president of the United States.
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Speaker 1: If I think our country is in danger, and it
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is in danger in these cities, I can do it,
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no problem going in and solving you know, his difficulties.
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Speaker 2: But it would be nice if they'd call and they say,
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would you do it?
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Speaker 4: And he sounds like a Jewish mother, it'd be nice
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if you called. It's nice, you know, I know you're
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doing okay. You're a doctor, you're a lawyer. Some people
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are doctors and lawyers. I know a few of them
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showing off hashtags, showing off. But you know, it'd be
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nice if you called, and you know, and I think
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there's I've said this in the past. Donald Trump, I
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think went into his first administration thinking it was like
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building a big, tall office building or a golf club,
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that everyone would do their best because they want their
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work to be seen as the best. American government right
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now will scuttle the ship just to make somebody we
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don't like look bad. So before we discuss and we
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get more folks sitting down with us at the table
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on first thing today, here are first things. President Trump
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held a cabinet meeting in which Health and Human Services
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Secretary Robert F. Kennedy pointed to September as an announcement
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to the causes of autism. Quote, we're finding interventions now
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that are clearly, almost certainly causing autism. Will have more
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for you in September. Also during this cabinet meeting, as
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if that wasn't a big enough bomb to drop, Treasury
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Secretary Scott Besson said that duty revenues from the tariffs
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may surpass five hundred billion dollars in collections this year.
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The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to intervene
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in its efforts to withhold billions of dollars from four
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and eight organizations and lifting junctions that are forcing it
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to keep making those payments. Senate Banking Committee is getting
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ready to hold hearings on Stephen Moran, president Trump's nominee
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to fill the questionably empty seat on the Federal Reserve
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Board of Governors. I say it that way because Lisa
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Cooke is challenging her dismissal in court. The Federal Reserve
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said that it will comply with whatever the court's ruling
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in the case. Gavin Newsom is climbing the polls in
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the twenty twenty eight Derby. Amongst Democrats, He's up to
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nineteen percent approval, climbing eight percentage points. Kamal Harris has
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dropped seven points, down to twenty nine percent. Pete Budages
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finishes fourth behind someone else. We're not sure who they
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are or where their yard signs are. And President Trump
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is appealing the court decision that found him guilty of
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fraud now that the penalty has been vacated. Are some
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freedom to petition the government.
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Speaker 19: For me personally, this is the most meaningful liberty of
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Speaker 3: You from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
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Speaker 4: This email earlier I equipped as we are approaching liberty weekend.
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We're also approaching the twentieth anniversary of the devastation of
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the ninth Ward here in New Orleans where we are
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of Hurricane Katrina. And I made a quip earlier that,
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of course everyone wants to blame George double Bush for Katrina,
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in the same way they blamed Donald Trump for so
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many things. And a couple of quick points. Teresa writes
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in from Massachusetts, how is it not George Bush's fault
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what happened in the ninth Ward twenty years ago? She
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also says, my god, has it really been twenty years? Yeah,
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It's been twenty years since the levees broke and the
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ninth Ward flooded. This is though, you have to understand
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the backstory of the ninth Ward. Now, I'm not a
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New Orleans you know, Like I said, BJ and the
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BJ rust and the folks at wgso much better equipped
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to talk conversely about this. But we covered it a lot,
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and we tried to give you the details, not just
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the punchlines of Katrina. And it is as we are
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I've been doing radio for for twenty years aside from
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my commercial work there in a do tank. You know,
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we think, sure, you know, certainly we think, but then
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we do with what we think. But on the Katrinas stuff,
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before we get Andrew Langer in here from SEAPAC that
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what happened in the ninth Ward was housing policy New
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Orleans facing you know, housing shortages, you know more, you know,
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forty years fifty years ago, said well, we've got this swamp.
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If we build the sea wall, if we build the levee,
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we can pump the water out of the ninth Ward.
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And see a lot of the nation only said, well,
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they built these houses below sea level. They built them
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below sea level because they were reclaiming swamp land that
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was unlivable. You couldn't build a house on it. But
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then they built the levee, and then once they pumped
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all the water out, it was dry, and then they
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could build houses on it for the poor communities of
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New Orleans. And then when the levee failed not because
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of George Bush. It failed because I mean it made
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it what thirty some odd years. It wasn't like it
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had been built six weeks ago, and it failed. The
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neighborhood flooded. But rather than seeing the poor community become homeless,
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they said, well, we've got to do something. This is something,
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so therefore we must do this. And it was creative.
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It was poorly executed because they didn't build the sea
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wall sturdy enough, nor as a municipality, did they spend
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the time inspecting. When you go out to Hoover Dam,
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they're inspecting that thing every couple hours. But they didn't
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inspect it enough. They didn't know where to inspect it.
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They didn't do the due diligence to make sure that
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there weren't problems afoot. Nor did they build it redundant
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enough that if something did happen, that there was protections.
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But that wasn't George W. Bush that did that. It
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was over years and years and years, Louisiana and New
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Orleans and they, you know, I'm sure at first checked
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and they was like it's important, and then over time,
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as is human nature, almost it isn't even a left
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or right thing. Human nature almost puts you in that
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point of like a all right, well it's okay, it's
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it's become standard operating procedure, fire seawall is there, the
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dyke's there.
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Speaker 3: And.
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Speaker 4: You forget. You become I don't know, sloppy isn't the
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right word because it's got a negative connotation. But you
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become haphazard with your inspections and things like that, and
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then all of a sudden it fails and horrors break out.
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And I was saying this to Mac the other day,
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I think it was Monday. He's coming up with our sports.
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You know, Yeah, there are places like Dodgers Stadium, Wrigley Field, well,
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places like that that have this aura about these stadiums,
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these these ball yards, you know what they call it,
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the you in the Ohio State University's field, you know,
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University of Michigan sign stealing Stadium, whatever it's called. You know,
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there is these arenas that have this grab and you
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would never expect a place like the Superdome. But I
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don't think you're ever going to get rid of. You know,
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Houston is trying to figure out what to do with
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the Astrodome. New Orleans is never going to get rid
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of the Superdome. It's a monument to trying to help people.
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And it became, you know, the whole ninth ward. It
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seemed to move in there and if I can take
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a second, actually shameless and it's only relevant to Katrina tangentially,
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But an amazing book by our friend Jason F. Wright.
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If you Jason is the author of the Christmas Charts.
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Most people have heard of the Christmas Jar. Couple of
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movies adapted out of it, but Christmas Jar is a phenomenon.
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You may even do Christmas Jars because of the book.
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But Jason Wright has become a personal friend of mine
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and he wrote a book and he said, hey, I'd
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like you to read the book and tell me what
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you think. And I read it. I was bawling like
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a a small child. This book was so heartbreaking and
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it was mostly about a dad and a son and
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their relationship. It's called Recovering Charles, and it's about a
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young man who finds out that his dad has gone
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missing after Katrina and he's got to go down to
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New Orleans to try to find him and or the
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body because they don't know he may have been killed
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in the flood. Nobody had heard. He hadn't heard. He
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was estranged. The dad left, so there was acrimony about
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the kid, you know, the kids like my dad took
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a powder And now I'm not really you know, now
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I have to go look for the guy he hasn't
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looked for me for all these years. It's a really
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poignant book if you're looking for something to read the
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last few weeks of summer at the beach recovering Charles.
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If you've had I don't want to say daddy issues,
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that doesn't sound right, but if you've ever had a
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relationship with your father that's been tumultuous, it's a great book.
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And it is tangentially connected to Katrina because his father's
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gone missing in the aftermath of Katrina and he has
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to come down to New Orleans and find him and
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finds all these people who know his dad. And I
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think that's what touched me the most is as I
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got older in life, I always thought my dad was
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just the jerk who would put you Are you going
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to be a help or a hindrance? And then I
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started to meet the adults that liked my father, I'm like, well,
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these are good people. Maybe maybe my dad's not so bad.
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Speaker 7: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas?
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Speaker 11: Yes?
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Speaker 7: Actually three known gas is i I'm doctor Mitch. And
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nitric oxide is a gas that's readily made all day
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long to keep our arteries open by relaxing the blood
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vessel walls by doing this, our circulation is increased, bringing blood,
24:27
oxygen and nutrients to every part of your body. Both
24:32
age and poor diet can lead to a loss of
24:35
this precious gas, and in turn, blood pressure can go up,
24:39
energy can go down, and you can get tingling in
24:42
your hands and feet. Well our product, ultimate nitric oxide,
24:47
can easily help fix this lack of nitric oxide. Go
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to total Wellness dot com. That's total wellness dot com
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and enjoy total wellness.
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on the ground covering all of it, bringing you the weather,
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you recognize them? By their clothes, their age, the way
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they speak. Would you notice a sixteen year old boy
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who've got his first job for eks.
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Speaker 17: For spending money about to help feed his little sisters.
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Speaker 24: Or a mother who's in between jobs and sometimes goes
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to bed hungry so her kids can have dinner.
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Speaker 8: Or a fourteen year old girl who signs up to
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every after school activity not to make friends, but just
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Speaker 3: The First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk
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Media Network, All natural and free of artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 4: It is time for Mac McDonald to open his notebook
28:25
for us, with special guests along with him as well.
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Brought to you by the Lunch Pail Foundation helping kids win.
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That is is in what's important.
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Speaker 26: Now.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, brother Mac, Good morning coach Foster. How are
28:38
you doing this morning.
28:41
Speaker 6: I'm doing great, Joe. I appreciate you having me on
28:44
the air with sharing time with my brother Mac.
28:49
Speaker 4: Well, you know, Mac loves to say this is the
28:51
one thing he has in common with Bruce Smith is
28:54
his association with you. So I don't know how you
28:58
drafted Mac, but what you know, at whatever meeting you
29:01
had with his folks, you certainly got them recruited.
29:05
Speaker 27: Yeah, Bud was a natural, so it was easy. So
29:08
thirty for the folks around the country. Thirty eight years
29:11
on the sidelines. After a stellar career, Murray State safety
29:15
linebacker landed in Blacksburg in eighty seven. Thirty three years
29:19
at Tech, his defensive coordinator one of the best. In
29:22
nineteen ninety five he announced the Lunch Pale Mentality and
29:26
today the Lunch Pale Defense Foundation, as he carries it over,
29:30
which launch to O nine over one hundred and twenty
29:33
thousand dollars to students, over one hundred thousand dollars to
29:36
local organizations.
29:37
Speaker 4: I wish Bud would do something for the community. Uh
29:39
so he.
29:40
Speaker 27: Will next week and butter before we turn football and
29:44
Beamer Bowl coming up Sunday, which is the big one
29:47
with Tech in South Carolina. You're going to be serving
29:50
the drive through window at Boajangles, Is that right?
29:54
Speaker 8: Oh?
29:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, Now, we've been very fortunate, as you mentioned, I
29:58
appreciate you mentioned the founda and we've had that thing
30:01
running for a while and then, uh, actually we've been
30:04
we've given close to over half a minute about seven
30:07
hundred and fifty thousand dollars now since two thousand and nine.
30:11
Speaker 4: Which we're extremely proud of.
30:12
Speaker 6: But uh no, we're we're excited to partner with bo Jangles.
30:18
A friend of mine who actually works for Playfly in
30:22
markets for Virginia Tech, Sam Schoffing, he's the one that
30:25
really gets the credit for this.
30:26
Speaker 11: Uh.
30:27
Speaker 6: He talked about doing this my last season coaching and
30:31
maybe my last game when they had Bud Foster Day
30:33
to do that, but that never did materialize. But we
30:37
we got this thing now and so yeah, we've got
30:40
Bud's bow box, which is a tailgate lunch pail. It's
30:43
a replica of the lunch pail, much larger version. You know,
30:47
we could put a we can put a turvice in
30:50
my lunch pail. But we can put a lot more
30:52
food than beverage and things in this current maybe.
30:55
Speaker 27: Slipping a bottle of Wind vodka thank you, to.
30:58
Speaker 6: Sell her a incree cigar and Eventory wins cigar.
31:01
Speaker 4: But now we're yeah.
31:03
Speaker 6: Next Wednesday, a week from today, I am going to
31:06
be at one of our local affiliates in Christiansburg from
31:10
about one five to five, I think it. I'll be
31:14
signing some autographs, and then around three o'clock I'm gonna
31:17
be giving some boxes away, and then about three thirty
31:21
I'm gonna be working the window. So if anybody wants
31:24
to drive through and get a personalized version of the
31:30
lunch pail, of the lunch pail bowbox, I'll be there
31:33
to hand those out.
31:34
Speaker 27: Joe, I gotta have a picture of him and an
31:36
apron and Joe. Just in case you have not heard this,
31:40
it's an it's a great campaign that bo Jangles will
31:44
put together. Picture Bud walking on the field carrying the
31:48
original lunch pail and then of course switching to.
31:51
Speaker 4: The bow box.
31:52
Speaker 27: And this is the way it sounds around here.
31:55
Speaker 6: Tradition weighs heavy. Every game day. We carry something more
31:59
than gear. We carry pride. Now we've got a new
32:03
tradition built on the same grit and serve the same fire.
32:08
Welcome to the team Bojangles this season. Get your limited
32:12
edition lunch Pail teams Big Bobox, which benefits the Lunch
32:15
Pail Defense Foundation, and get ready to cheer on your
32:18
Hokies together. Co Jangles an official tailgate partner of the Hokies.
32:22
Speaker 27: Yeah, baby, And by the way, I'm gonna call Christina
32:25
today and tell her to change your website because if
32:27
you've done seven hundred and fifty thousand, then that is
32:29
not on the website yet.
32:31
Speaker 4: Man, I'm gonna tell her.
32:32
Speaker 27: But but this is an exciting time and a good
32:34
time really for the foundation. And you guys have done
32:37
such a great job, and I know you feel, you know,
32:40
you just feel really happy about your board, your staff
32:43
and everything you've done.
32:45
Speaker 4: Yeah.
32:46
Speaker 6: I've been lucky and blessed to have a you know,
32:49
a great board or majority or of Hokies. One of
32:53
them is a local attorney who really reached out to
32:56
me when Mike, we're kind of losing our trademark and
33:02
we've had this thing trademark for a while, the lunch
33:04
pail that win logo part of the lunch pail, and
33:08
but he reached out and really said, hey, coach, we
33:11
can't let the lunch pail die. We as the lums,
33:14
cannot let the lunch pail die. So that to me
33:18
really meant a lot. And it shows me that it
33:23
just it just didn't affect our players on the on
33:25
the sideline. And you know, and you and I have talked,
33:27
the lunch pail means much more than what it means
33:29
on the for you on the football field, it carries
33:31
over into life. And you know, Jeff Mitchell's is the gentleman.
33:37
And Jeff said, we as Hokies, we can't let this
33:40
thing go away. That's who we are, that's our brand,
33:43
that's who were who we identify with, and how we're identified,
33:48
you know, as our blue collar work ethic mindset. So
33:51
it's pretty cool that this thing is really we've actually
33:55
the snowball is actually growing right now with so much momentum,
33:59
and and it all starts with having.
34:01
Speaker 4: A big time board.
34:03
Speaker 6: I've got some Hokies that are rock stars in their
34:07
own right, in their own field, that have given their
34:10
time to make our foundation really really special right now.
34:14
And then like you said, we've We've really proud of
34:17
who we're supporting and who we're giving men. Primarily, we're
34:20
giving back to young people in the community. The youth
34:23
is our future, and so we want to make sure
34:25
that some of them have the resources they need. Sometimes
34:29
around here it affects first generation students, so that not
34:35
only affects them now, but then it'll affect their families generationally.
34:38
So we're excited about what we do and the people
34:40
we're partnering with, and they're very appreciative of us giving
34:45
to them as well.
34:46
Speaker 27: He's now an assistant to the athletic director with Babcock.
34:49
We're speaking with Bud Foster, former defensive coordinator under Frank Beemer,
34:53
speaking of which we got about a minute, but the
34:56
Beamer Ball. You'll be in Atlanta Sunday Beamer Ball South
35:02
Carolina and Virginia Tech. Uh, what what a beginning you
35:07
guys got Vanderbilt a second week at home. I mean,
35:09
you guys, would you move to the SEC and not
35:11
tell us?
35:12
Speaker 6: That wouldn't be a bad move. You know, it'd be
35:14
a tough move, but it wouldn't be a bad move.
35:16
Speaker 18: No.
35:16
Speaker 6: But I'm you know, number one, I'm really proud of Shane.
35:19
You know, I've known Shane since Uh. He was a
35:21
toddler knee high to me, and he's done great things
35:24
that at at South Carolina.
35:27
Speaker 26: Uh.
35:28
Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to us, as saying, Virginia Tech and
35:31
probably Shane the same way of playing somebody besides themselves.
35:35
Speaker 4: They've got a.
35:36
Speaker 6: Whole new roster. They lost a bunch of people. We
35:39
have a whole new roster. I really like the look
35:42
of our football team. We're under the radar, I think
35:45
we have. We've we've helped ourselves up front, which is
35:48
where it starts, particularly if you go to play the
35:50
SEC teams because they're usually big and physical upfront. But uh,
35:53
it's gonna be a great atmosphere uh in Atlanta, and
35:57
I'm looking forward to being that ball that stadium. I've
36:00
we've been to Atlanta several times and played in the
36:02
old stadium, but this will be the first time for
36:05
me at Mercedes Benz.
36:06
Speaker 27: Yeah, the Bens and real quick before we let you
36:09
go to breakfast at bow Jangles, of course picking up
36:13
a biscuit today. How much consulting have you done now?
36:18
Are you doing a lot with the defense?
36:21
Speaker 6: A little bit not very much at all, Just a
36:24
little a couple of things here and there. But I've
36:26
got a lot of confidence in Sam Sefki is the
36:29
new defensive coordinator, and he's gonna do a great job.
36:33
And so I'm here for him if he wants to
36:36
bounce some things off of me.
36:37
Speaker 4: I go to practice every day.
36:38
Speaker 6: But other than that, I stick my head and sit
36:41
down with him. I sat with him on Monday for
36:43
about thirty minutes, and him and then Coach Priy came in.
36:45
But yeah, if I'm here if they need me. But
36:48
but I get a chance to look at all the film,
36:50
and but I'm not setting in meetings and you know,
36:53
brow beating them and doing all those things.
36:55
Speaker 4: It's just Joe.
36:56
Speaker 27: What happens is is Bud passes Coach. He gets in
36:59
a in the hallway and just says, I got one word, attack,
37:03
Will you please attack? That's it Budd's favorite word. So hey, Coach,
37:08
I'll talk to you in a few more minutes. We
37:10
have a great foster and friends coming up this week.
37:13
Nicole Brisco of ESPN is going to join us. She
37:16
does an outstanding job. I think she's one of the best. Anyway,
37:19
I'll see you later this morning, and then Bud takes off.
37:21
He gets ready to go to Atlanta and do his things. So, hey,
37:25
good luck. September three, Christiansburg, two to five. Go through
37:28
the drive through and say hello.
37:30
Speaker 4: But hey, coach Foster, I just want to say, you're
37:33
lucky that nobody tied into the hokey stone and you'll
37:37
have to work in a quarry. You know, it's you
37:39
worked out much better.
37:40
Speaker 6: For this, Hey, Joe, I am too old for that
37:43
right now. So yeah, carrying this lush pail is a
37:46
lot better than trying to carry.
37:47
Speaker 27: He rocks anyway, It's all right, yeah, he rocks anyway.
37:51
Oh Joe, have a terrific morning.
37:54
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Speaker 3: Amaze your friends. Here in the first Thing today by
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Speaker 4: D Live from the Big Eaz here in Louisiana. As
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four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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After we tell you the news, I want to hear
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how it's impacting you where you are. Emails come into
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JT in the Morning radio at gmail dot com. Charles
44:58
writes in memo for Lisa Cook if you missed the
45:03
news earlier. Lisa Cook, the ousted member, a former member
45:08
of the Federal Reserve Board, is in court demanding that
45:15
she can't be dismissed and the President had no authority
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to So this is Charles's email memo for Lisa Cook,
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mss Cook one, you are no longer employed by the
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Federal Reserve. Two. You have thirty minutes to clean out
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your desk, turning your government badge, and exit the building. Three.
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If you have not exited the building within thirty minutes,
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you will be arrested for criminal trespassing in a federally
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restricted area. Charles, it sounds like you've received that email before.
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I mean I've had that. I've been escorted out of buildings,
45:50
unfortunately more recently than i'd like to admit. But you
45:53
know that's not going to happen to me now unless
45:55
my wife all of a sudden realizes that, you know,
45:58
all those divorce lawyers that sent her spam emails mostly, Hey,
46:01
you know this guy, sounds like it's a pretty good deal.
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There is appreciate that one. This one text message to
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four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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Jerry writes in from Connecticut where he's listening to us
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on WGC and there I do the Christmas jars every year.
46:23
I can't believe you know Jason Wright. What's he like
46:27
and how do you know him?
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Speaker 26: Well?
46:29
Speaker 4: I know him because he grew up in the city
46:31
we flagship from. He grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. And
46:37
you know it's really, most people don't know that. So
46:40
when I say I'm the second most famous Thomas from Charlottesville,
46:45
I'm keeping the subset because certainly Jason is far more
46:49
famous than I am, and for the Christmas Jars alone,
46:52
but so many great books. Actually, and my attorneys are
46:57
concerned about this. I shouldn't promote it. But there's a
46:59
book called The Is it seventeen second Miracle? I should
47:05
give his book titles out, but it actually includes a
47:10
section in which I was written into the book. It's
47:14
a segment where a guy goes on a radio station
47:18
that I can't mention anymore because of the aforementioned being
47:21
escorted out by security, but it mentions the station by
47:26
call letters, and I don't know if he's allowed to
47:28
do that anymore. But Joe Thomas is the host on
47:31
this fictitious radio station, and the guy's life is changed
47:35
by coming onto my radio show. So to honor that
47:39
spirit of the seventeen second miracle, Good morning, You're on
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the air, first thing this morning with Joe Thomas. Who's this?
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Speaker 11: Hey?
47:48
Speaker 26: This is Moscow, Bob.
47:50
Speaker 4: Hey Bob, how are you doing this morning? Sir?
47:54
Speaker 26: Doing pretty good? My question is how could she have
47:58
been allowed back in a federal building after being fired.
48:03
I don't technically once you're fired. She was sent the letter,
48:07
it's had immediately terminated. How was she allowed back in
48:11
the office on Monday and Tuesday of this week.
48:14
Speaker 4: I don't know. You know how that all worked if
48:17
there's injunctions involved, because you know it could it could
48:22
be there was an injunction. Do you have to do
48:24
you have to show up with a lawyer? Do they
48:26
have to bring coffee for the rest of the office.
48:28
I don't know how it is. But her contention is
48:32
that President Trump had no authority to fire her, and
48:36
I guess the debate is because no president has has
48:41
ever done this before. Nobody knows if he does or doesn't.
48:46
I think he does. I looked at the charter, but
48:49
but I don't know if she if she actually ever
48:51
came back in the building or immediately went to her
48:54
attorney's office.
48:57
Speaker 26: But my question is if she had filed an unction,
49:00
it would have been all over the news. If she
49:03
showed up at the Federal reserve. And if she still
49:07
has access to federal information, how is that allowed? Because
49:15
she can say, Hey, the president can't fire me. I
49:18
can say to my boss. You can't fire me.
49:20
Speaker 4: You don't have the legal grounds.
49:22
Speaker 26: But once he fires you, you are no longer employee
49:26
of that business. You can contest it in court and
49:30
get retro pay. But she should not have federal clearance,
49:35
security clearance, or the ability to enter any federal building,
49:40
because she's just basically saying to all federal employees, if
49:45
they're terminated and they're not given denied access, then who's
49:52
to say they're not going to come back in with
49:54
a gun and shoot everyone.
49:56
Speaker 4: Or still sensitive information, or you know, change the interest
50:00
rate to ten percent or zero point one percent and
50:04
immediately call her husband go apply for that loan right now.
50:08
You could do any number of things, I imagine fancifully.
50:12
But here's the thing. This is not an unusual scenario.
50:16
We're watching it in school boards across the country. We're
50:20
watching it at universities. Why did the University of Virginia
50:25
have to fire its president George Mason? University facing the
50:29
same thing, Stamford, several other universities, Harvard, all these schools
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that when they were told by the Department of Education,
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here's the new regulations you have to comply with in
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order to continue to get federal money. They stuck their
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hands in their pockets. Some of them got cutesy about
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it two Q by half and started pretending like they
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got rid of diversity, equity and inclusion when they just
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changed the name of the office to inclusion, equity and
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diversity and that kind of thing. So this ignorance of
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the president is common.
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Speaker 26: Hey, I got one word that doesn't define everything that
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those people are doing. Insurrection.
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Speaker 4: No, surely, no, Bob, No, we can't. I thought only
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conservatives could engage in insurrection.
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Speaker 26: Well, they may be conservatives, but it's an insurrection, and
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it's treasonous if you understand what the definition of treason is.
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It's treasonous because they are affecting the security of the
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United States, just as like all these senators, just as
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like all these senators Republicans and Democrat that Philipbuster or
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don't pass nominations as the president, for the Federal Reserve,
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for the military, for the Defense Department.
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Speaker 4: US attorneys, it would be considered a Bob, did we
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lose you?
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Speaker 26: No?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you just stop talking for a second. I'm like,
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do we need to send, you know, a welfare check
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to Bob's I mean, it's a long distance welfare check
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that probably need passports.
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Speaker 30: Well, it's just there's because of the Ukrainian drones that
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have been being sent into Russia. Even though Ukraine says
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they want peace, you'll President Putin is going to reply
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with more drones. Ukraine would stop sending drones and nuclear
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facilities to infrastructure, President Putin would stop sending because that
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would give Trump the advantage.
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