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"Choosing By Committee" (Monday October 6, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: There are a whole range of things that I'm worrying
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me a great deal of the politicization of the Justice Department.
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Speaker 2: First thing today on the Talk media Network by Joe Thomas,
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the second most famous Thomas and Charlotte Smith Jewart said,
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steal me.
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Speaker 1: Like when Focahontas calls out a lie, so.
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Speaker 3: Comes up drops. Joe has all the treasure needs no
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one that Joe's smiled. He only is.
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Speaker 1: Joe here. Could you hold these truths the ones over
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there called self evident? No no, no, no, no no, not
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the ones marked evidence, the one s marked self evident
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on the radio program that tells you what went on,
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tells you what we see in the tea, leaves over
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what went on, and most important, wants to hear about
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how it's impacting you where you are the single most
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people aren't telling you that, they're not telling you of
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the whole story. Four three four eight eight two four
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two one seven that's the phone number. Emails come into
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JT in the Morning Radio at gmail dot com. I
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was asked about this. We were telling about Virginia's gubernatorial race.
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In New Jersey's gubernatorial race earlier in the program, and
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Maureen wrote in, and I think it's a mix back.
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There's this one of the hours WGSL has got us
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on in New Orleans. So, uh, the very last round
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of jungle elections in New Orleans. As I understand that
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they voted, and starting next year they go to like
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normal elections and the and the ranked choice voting people
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are conveniently leaving the story out of this. But this
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is another one of these races where it's, you know,
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can you get to fifty percent and if not, then
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they'll be runoffs and all that other stuff. And is
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anyone talking about this Frank Jenoosa guy. He's the quote
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reform candidate. That's that's the R word they want to use,
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because if you said Republican, then ah burst into flames.
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Going to need you know, somebody off of Canal Street
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and one of those side streets. That will be my
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favorite part of this. I was reading of Voter's Guide
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and the guy that got in trouble for taking bribes
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told the reporter that his campaign is about restoring trust.
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Oh you love this, but you know these jungle and
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was it Georgia? And we watched this mess. New York
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gives you Zohan Mandani for the race. And we talked
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with the conservative version of Eric Holder a couple of
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weeks back, Ken Coochinelli with the Election Transparency Initiative about
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these jungle primaries and stuff, and I want to get
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into a little bit of that as it's about to
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wreak havoc again. I guess it starts next week in
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New Orleans. I guess yeah. That's what they're telling me
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is it begins next week in New Orleans with the
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first round. It's round one, it's elimination round. It's survivor
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who gets voted off the island. Bogut into that, and
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I'll tell you, I'll play back what Ken said about
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these jungle primary things. But Louisiana, so you'll last buy
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that at one last chance to really screw up New Orleans.
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They're a beautiful city, great city, and none of these
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candidates talking about the homeless guys drinking hand sanitizer on
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Canal Street. Watched it myself just a couple of weeks ago,
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and they all say that the people who care. I
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don't know about what federal judge blocked President Trump's efforts
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to deploy National Guards troops into Portland late last night.
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US District Judge Karen Immergant ruled the action as unlawful
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the deployment of California's National Guard to Oregon. She says
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the ruling violates Statute ten of the US Code twelve
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four h six and the Tenth Amendment. Secretary of State
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Marco Rubio told viewers of Meet the Press, all twelve
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thirteen of them, that Hamas's release of all remaining hostages
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and the remains of those who didn't make it are
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Speaker 2: Absolutely the first thing today on the Talk Media Network
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by Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 1: You know, I was watching it going in the This
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is a jungle runoff in New Orleans and for mayor.
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And as an email came in, you're talking about all
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these racist Joe uh, and you're leaving out some New
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York mayor and New Orleans mayor and and and these runoffs.
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And I referred to Kim Kuchini as the Eric Holder
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of conservatives, because Eric Holder, who you heard at the
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onset of the hour, uh, is the one who's helped
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craft all these laws permitting you know, everyone vote as
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many times as you want. One man six votes doesn't
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make a difference anymore. But we talked about this and
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how all this comes to pass with Ken. I called
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you the conservative version of Eric Holder. But as I
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look at what you're doing, you are doing for conservative
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constitutionalist principles, the same thing Eric Holder is out there doing,
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using the law, pointing out the law. But in Eric
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Holder's case, I see a lot of lawfare where they
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get somebody at ten o'clock at night in some General
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Assembly meeting to pass some bill when there's twenty percent
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of the caucus still they're awake enough to vote, and
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these things become law years before they ever manipulate them
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into you know, voter turnout fraud. Is that something that
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the listener really needs to be watching out their local
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state governments for.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 18: So what you're describing as a very strategic, long term effort,
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and the reality is that the left has been funding
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what i'll call election process, and I don't say that
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negatively that election process efforts since the two thousand and
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four election cycle, and the right did not seriously get
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into this until after the twenty twenty debacle, so they
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had a sixteen year head start on us. And that
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includes litigation, it includes, you know, recruiting election poll workers,
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something we Virginia was a leader in after twenty twenty
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called the Virginia model the way we do it around
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the rest of the country. And we've closed the gap
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on the number of election officials, We've closed the gap
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on litigation capability. They still lead on the left. They
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still have greater money and heft in here than the
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right does. But it isn't it isn't an abandoned field anymore.
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Now there's actually substantive contesting of the territory.
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Speaker 1: And that may be why some of them start to
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talk about violence, because they don't have the playing field
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to themselves and they haven't really trained up on what
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to do. It's like that high school football player that
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first time they step into Tuscaloosa and all of a
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sudden they're up against three hundred and seventy five pound
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twenty three year olds who have been through some crucibles
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and eating their lunch, literally eating their lunch, and so
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all of a sudden you push back on it, and
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the bully doubles down said, Okay, well, I'm not just
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going to threaten violence. Here it comes, Here comes the haymaker.
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Speaker 18: There.
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Speaker 1: Andy is on the phone with us, and I want
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to lead into Andy before I get to him in
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a second, because I last hour we were talking about authenticity,
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avoiding the corruption of being paid for and all that stuff,
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and I mentioned that I had been approached by a
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pharmaceutical company and I like this text message reaction to it,
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Maurice in Oregon writes into what pharmaceutical company would approach
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your program about advertising something that they do? Who was it?
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What was it? Do tell? I find it funny that
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they were paying so little attention to what your program
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is about that they thought you'd be a willing compliant.
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It was actually it was a piece about flu shots
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going into school. And I said, listen, I don't believe
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in mandates. I don't have a problem with the idea
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of giving somebody a little bit of the flu, but
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I also know that you're giving them last year's flu,
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but all the adge of it. And by the time
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I got into the adjuvants. They were like, Okay, yeah,
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you know what, We're going to go and find somebody
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who's just going to say.
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Speaker 5: So, why are the kids in danger if they don't
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get a flow shot her.
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Speaker 1: Which is what they were looking for. That's what they
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were looking for. And I wasn't going to do that
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because I couldn't sleep at night because then everything I
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tell you is tainted with bovine excrement. It's you know,
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if if if you've ever been in an apatois uh
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and and one misplaced blade cuts into an intestine on
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one of the on one of the soon to be
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prime ribs, all of the meat in that room has
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to get tossed, even if it wasn't touched by the
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exploding innerds, because the bacteria is in there infected. And
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that's what would have happened to me. I would have
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gotten that. That excrement would have gotten on me. And
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it never comes off, never ever ever come off. Trust
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is the only thing you got, asked the guy running
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for New Orleans mayor who was tossed out over bribery scandals,
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which I you know, like in Chicago, it's a movable feast, really,
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bribery in New Orleans. No shocked, shocked, I am for that,
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saying he wants to restore trust. I guess trust in
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a system where if you've got a few quid you
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could look the other way. Andy, I appreciate you hanging
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on the line. I know you said you wanted to
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talk about something pharmaceutical as well, or you're on pharmaceuticals
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or something.
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Speaker 20: You mentioned the pharmaceutical people approaching you, and you had
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the just I'm not your guy, even though you would
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have been financially about think ten years or maybe twelve
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years ago, I was approached by somebody in the Middle
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East about building eight Olympic stadiums over the while, and
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I just, you know, it was probably worth twenty five
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million dollars back then. You know, my margin on that
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would have been twenty five and you know it's I'm
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I'm you know, kindly denied and said we're just too busy.
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But the reality of it was, I didn't like the
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way they treated women over there.
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Speaker 1: So ethically, you were you you found a way out
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of what you were.
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Speaker 20: I said, we were too busy, but the reality of
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it was I really didn't like the way that women
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were treated in the Middle East. I have since chosen
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a seventh of seven purple Hearts, which is just the
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It has nothing to do with the military award, but
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it's going to go to the Princess or Sheika and
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cut her because she is doing such incredible things both
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for the sport in the art world over there with
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her money. She spends a couple of billion dollars a
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year on the art and so I have chosen her
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because of her commitment to it. And you know, she's
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been She's actually been I think Jeff in the same
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room with Trump a couple of times. Well, and she
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is trumping, but he's way better than the rest of
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the dime.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's folks on you know, American Forces
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radio listening to us that know more about her than
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I do. But she certainly seems like a reformative voice.
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Speaker 20: If you will, oh, if I mean, there are only
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seven of these could I've made, and she's getting the
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seventh when I haven't hand delivered it yet.
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Speaker 1: Well, let me know, I mean, if you want, if
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you want somebody to carry your luggage, I'd love to
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you know, Andy, I appreciate it, my friend.
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Speaker 5: Thank you. Four three fourth man.
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Speaker 1: God bless you to Andy's favorite part of the program,
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by the way, is coming up as Mac opens his
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Speaker 3: When might you be buzzed?
27:28
Speaker 26: When you suddenly love everything you guys?
27:32
Speaker 27: I love this soign, I love these notchos, I love
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Archite fall League. Oh I love this guy.
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Speaker 5: What's your name?
27:43
Speaker 1: You know what?
27:43
Speaker 5: I love a ride when it's time to head out.
27:47
Speaker 26: If you see a buzzed warning sign, call for a
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ride when it's time to go home. Buzz driving is
27:51
drunk driving. A message from NITZA and the ad councils radio.
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Speaker 3: It's on on your to do list.
28:13
Speaker 2: Putting the radio on is the first thing today?
28:16
Speaker 1: Better be anyway. I'm so clock radios were such a
28:20
great thing. It was My last smartphone app actually had
28:24
a clock radio function in it, so you could say
28:27
a smartphone app to go off, just like the old
28:29
radios would. Mama didn't raise no dummy, Not so much
28:34
with my table manners, but no dummy. I he is
28:37
our sports director of mac McDonald and he is here
28:40
to open his notebook. I don't have to. You have
28:43
to put in extra sections for a weekend like this.
28:46
I mean, you got NASCAR Playoffs, football games and oh gosh,
28:50
it's with all the baseball and Virginia's cracked the top
28:54
twenty first time since And where did Texas? Where did Texas?
28:58
And Penn Stone?
29:00
Speaker 5: You know, yeh, we'd like to thank the Longhorns for
29:03
participating in the CFP because yeah, that was just I
29:08
loved it and I love watching Sorry, Joe, I know
29:11
I love watching Penn State get thumped by u CLA.
29:15
You know, all that was, you know, it was a
29:17
lot of fun. So it you know, with all that
29:20
going on. But here here's what I did yesterday because
29:23
Bud is leaving. Bud Foster of course, or we worked
29:26
very closely with Bud's leaving for a couple of days.
29:29
But Bud got named on Friday. It was released Friday
29:32
by Virginia Tech regarding the committee that will be in
29:36
charge of the search. Now, I'm gonna just throw some
29:38
names out for you and then we're gonna I'm gonna
29:40
talk to two head football coach, right, Shane Beemer is
29:43
the number one guy, and we'll probably I'll just be
29:46
shocked if Shane Biemer doesn't get the job. Okay, the
29:49
Virginia Tech Search Committee is now a thing, all right.
29:53
Former Tampa Bay Super Bowl winning coach Bruce arians is
29:56
which makes sense. Bridget Ryan Berman, managing part of Ryan
30:00
Berman Advisory. Lynn Dowdy, retired CEO of KPMG, one of
30:05
Fortune one hundred, one hundreds most Powerful Women. Brad Hobbs,
30:09
the CEO of Air Control Concepts. Ryan McCarthy of the
30:12
US House Committee of Foreign Affairs, worked with the Secretary
30:15
of Defense Robert Gates. J. Pearson founded kerry On Trailer
30:19
and Vehicle Accessory, one of the top accessory parts in America.
30:23
Thousand employees. Former wide receiver Eddie Royal, first Team All
30:27
Conference and I was seven drafted by the Broncos. And
30:29
then there's Bud Foster. Now when I don't say that slightly,
30:33
because Bud is a great fit and natural has already
30:37
done his homework, which I'm going to share in a
30:40
little bit. So yesterday Bud and I talked about the
30:43
committee being named of the committee and he's got a
30:47
ton of meetings today already zooms with with Babcock. Babcock's
30:52
going to lay the foundation of what he wants in
30:53
the Virginia Tech search, and so Bud says, this is
30:57
one solid committee.
31:00
Speaker 4: That they put together. Is extremely knowledge knowledgeable about Virginia
31:05
Tech athletics, They're extremely knowledgeable about football. They have a
31:09
great passion for football. They're just not folks that they
31:12
just you know, grab out of the year. I think
31:14
this is a group that's really been evaluated and their
31:19
rock stars in their own world as far as leadership
31:21
and and what what they have done in their background.
31:24
And I'm excited. It's gonna be an interesting dynamics the
31:27
first time I haven't been involved in doing this, and
31:29
I'm probably I'm sure for several others.
31:32
Speaker 5: So Bud due diligently gave me eleven candidates yesterday. Wow,
31:37
which I'll get into just a little bit. I'm gonna
31:39
because I'm gonna tell you about why Shane Beemer is
31:41
the will be the new and I'll just be shocked
31:45
if he's not.
31:46
Speaker 1: He's gonna be out of a job soon in South Carolina.
31:48
Speaker 5: October sixth. The announcement probably won't come till December. Just
31:52
make a little mark that Max said October sixth, Shane
31:56
Beemer will be the new head coach. Okay, and I'll
31:58
tell you why in a second. All right, So now
32:00
as far as with Babcock, he is advising, but he
32:03
is staying away from the committee.
32:05
Speaker 4: Win has done it several times, and he's going to
32:07
kind of get lay the found the foundation for us
32:10
to do the work. But it's going to be amongst
32:13
us to collaborate and talk, you know, talk about who
32:18
our candadates are. I know Virginia Tech wants to hire
32:22
a former head coach.
32:23
Speaker 5: Okay, so that's the criteria right there. They're not going
32:26
to the assistant ranks because they got that two hundred
32:28
and thirty million. Now they're putting a lot into the uh,
32:31
you know, to the money we're talking about, by the way,
32:33
the figure that came out when you know, talking about
32:36
Virginia and Tony Elliott and his fifty forty players and
32:40
how they spent twenty to thirty million in NIL to
32:43
get these guys, Virginia Tech spent only seven And Bud
32:47
was telling me yesterday, he says, just look at what
32:49
schools are spending. And he goes, the good schools are
32:52
spending money, and he goes, just look at what Virginia's done,
32:55
and he goes and by the way, one footnote, I'm
32:58
going off the rails here, and I'll get back on track.
33:00
If you look at Virginia schedule, they have a chance
33:04
to be like nine and one with going to Duke,
33:09
you know, and then they got Virginia Tech at home.
33:12
This Virginia could be playing for the conference title against Miami.
33:18
Speaker 1: The Louisville game. The Louisville game is going to be
33:21
their big test. They were undefeated, they were on the
33:23
road a.
33:24
Speaker 5: Bye week, yeah, bye week, Washington stayed at home. Then
33:28
they go they go to cal and I just I
33:31
looked at up here, if I got I got it
33:32
right here. Okay, they go to cal Wake Forest at
33:34
home at Duke, which you know that's not going to
33:37
be easy. But then they come home to Virginia Tech.
33:40
This could be magical for UVA. And I'm not I'm
33:43
always Oh, they got Carolina coming up on October twenty,
33:47
which will be a wash. But but yeah, here's the.
33:49
Speaker 1: Thing about this committee and and and I love Bud
33:52
as much as it, but I always get queasy feeling
33:58
because you know, what is what is your friend? Pete
34:00
Gillen say coaches, coach, players play, and pickers pick.
34:05
Speaker 5: Yeah.
34:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know, I'm just trying to get the
34:10
ball in bounds.
34:12
Speaker 5: Exactly.
34:12
Speaker 1: You look at Virginia University of Virginia, nineteenth ranked in
34:16
the country football program. As you said, you could track
34:19
to a nine to one record, says mac as. He's
34:22
going to jinx them.
34:23
Speaker 5: Heading into two, heading into the final two games.
34:25
Speaker 1: Yes, but they were woe be gone. They were already
34:31
done with their head coach until the season. Still he
34:36
owned the hot seat. I mean, it was like, how
34:38
much time are you going to give this guy? But
34:40
he gets a quarterback who rallies the team, and the
34:44
team rallies around the quarterback. Quarterback had a mediocre game.
34:48
Speaker 5: Million thirty million in nil money? Can do? You know?
34:51
Speaker 1: But but but I'm going to go converse here on this.
34:55
All right, Virginia Tech, Virginia Polytechnic Institut. It is their
35:00
detractors like to call them, they mailed it in their
35:04
offensive line half. Their offensive line has announced they're in
35:07
the portal half. Their defensive line is already in the
35:10
portal because they fired the coach. This is and the
35:14
story is what this name image likeness transfer portal is
35:19
doing to teams that struggle. I mean it was hard
35:22
the whole nother.
35:23
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's exactly.
35:25
Speaker 1: I mean. The playoffs were instituted because a team that
35:28
lost once figured they're out of the situation for the
35:32
national title unless you were Alabama. So you institute the
35:35
playoffs so that other schools may maybe you lost a
35:38
couple of times, but you can still play for it,
35:40
and your players had still had something to go for.
35:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, look at Texas. How much money had that how
35:46
much money they put into Arch Manning and he's he's
35:49
been average. Yeah, and so you know that that immediately.
35:53
You know it's the most important.
35:55
Speaker 1: But the other players, the other players bail, you know,
35:58
and and you see it. Used to just see it
36:00
in attitude. Now they're literally saying, no, I'm getting into
36:03
the transfer portal.
36:04
Speaker 18: Yeah.
36:04
Speaker 5: All right, So anyway, here's the deal, real quick. Bud
36:09
gave me eleven names yesterday. I won't give you all,
36:11
but I looked up with all right. Dan Mullen, offensive
36:13
coordinator at Florida. Right now, Mark Stoops, Kentucky, struggling with
36:17
the Kentucky program. He is a candidate, but his buyout
36:21
is forty million with Kentucky. Frank Golesh is the rock
36:25
star now at as Bud says, at the University of
36:28
South Florida with a high point and offense offense. His
36:32
buyout is three million, and that's estimated because the USF
36:36
Foundation is private. But anyway, Clark Lee Vanderbilt his buyout
36:40
thirteen to fifteen million. Barry Otam at Purdue is six
36:44
to eight. Al Golden is being mentioned really as you
36:49
know return the former Virginia was the defensive coordinator at
36:53
Notre Dame. With all that being said, Shane Beamers buyout okay,
36:58
Shane Beemers buyout is owned only in the in the
37:02
three to four or the four million dollar range, four
37:05
to five million dollar buyout, which actually it's five million.
37:08
It drops a million because he just signed an extension.
37:12
If Shane Beemer is not name and and and somebody
37:16
mentioned this week and it was on social media, I
37:18
will triple my donation to Virginia Tech if Shane Biemer
37:23
gets hired as the new head coach. Shane Beemer is
37:26
the leader in the clubhouse. He takes the Virginia Tech job,
37:30
comes to work with his dad. You can you can
37:32
book it that I set it October six. Now, I
37:34
could be all wet, I could be wrong. If Shane
37:37
Biemer doesn't get the job, I'll be shocked, Okay, because
37:40
it's just right. It's it's perfect for him right now.
37:44
Well there, Yeah, they're only and they are one in
37:48
one in three in the SEC.
37:49
Speaker 1: And they're facing LSU next week.
37:52
Speaker 5: Exactly They got LSU next That's exactly right.
37:54
Speaker 1: So I'd say it's a tough road for him. He
37:56
might be free. Uh if you wait long enough. Good stuff,
37:59
matt Imam.
38:01
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43:10
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43:38
archadefall League. Oh, I love this guy.
43:42
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43:43
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Speaker 3: It's on on.
44:11
Speaker 2: A need to know basis, because you need to know
44:15
the first thing today.
44:17
Speaker 9: J Yeah, what can I do for you?
44:20
Speaker 1: Rod?
44:20
Speaker 3: You just tell me what can I do for you?
44:22
Speaker 9: It's a very personal, very important.
44:26
Speaker 1: So I get this text message a boom hour presume
44:34
that's his real name. But show me the money, he says.
44:40
He says, Joe, you don't sound very much like a
44:43
capitalist to me. First you're complaining because a big company
44:47
will be allowed to buy up your radio station. Then
44:50
you're complaining about centralized industry making money. Then you're complaining
44:55
about college football players being exploited by the colleges who
45:00
make tons of money, simply asking for their fair share.
45:05
Where's your capitalism and where can I find Adam Smith
45:10
in the morning? Well, I am a capitalist. But here's
45:14
the thing. We have long since ridden the boat away
45:18
from basic capitalism. So there's a there's an adjective that
45:24
you have to add to what we're existing under. Now,
45:26
which is crony capitalism. And I think we talked about
45:32
this last week. When that the adjective takes over, it's
45:37
it's not crony capitalism anymore. It's just cronyism. Once you
45:42
allow and and so it becomes imperative that the right
45:45
people get elected to office. And these people in that
45:49
play it's not just a marketplace. If it was just
45:53
a marketplace, I would be absolutely well. I mean I
45:57
might sit there and face palm over the machinations of
46:01
a committee that's going to sit there and naval gaze
46:05
for six months and then hire somebody that's gone through
46:08
sixteen different focus groups and the thing and how many
46:11
times has that happened? And tell me, boom Hower, what
46:18
focus group met for six months before climbing the escalator
46:22
at Trump Tower and mister Trump, we'd like to have
46:26
you run for president. The Republican National Committee did not
46:33
have a candidate search and say, you know, we only
46:37
have thirteen maybe we can make it an even what
46:40
do we see if Trump wants to run the world
46:45
goes to those who have their eyes open and head
46:50
on a swivel. And we talked about this boom Hower
46:54
last week about ah and I said it in a
47:00
particular way last week, and I'm trying to just because
47:03
you brought it up, and it was it was about
47:11
prosperity versus profit and yeah, right right you. Thank you,
47:23
thank you for remembering, thank you for paying attention to
47:25
Saturday's program. It was Saturday morning. That's why you may
47:28
not have heard this unless your station carries our Saturday
47:31
morning live program as well, and they're welcome to It's
47:35
talk medianetwork dot com. And let me take a quick
47:40
second here in a dear dear friends, and one truly
47:43
one of the reasons I'm here is my dear friend Willis,
47:47
who lost his wife last week. And I just can't imagine.
47:53
I mean, I Willis. I love you, my brother, and
47:56
I have since the days you put billboards up for
47:59
me when we you were with wo Or But God
48:02
bless you, my friend, and anything I can do to help,
48:06
because I know that when my wife goes away for
48:08
two weeks, I'm a rudderless I would I'm just horrified
48:11
at the idea of not having her with me, and
48:15
my heart breaks for you, and I love you, but
48:20
the idea of money over meaning, and I think I think.
48:28
One of our Saturday morning listeners sent me a text saying, Joe,
48:31
I can't take meaning into King soupers and buy groceries.
48:40
But you can, because when you take meaning into the
48:43
grocery store, you're not buying a lot of things that
48:46
people who don't have meaning by, like lots and lots
48:50
of alcohol, lots of lots of prescriptions. People who are
48:56
bereft of meaning need more creature. I don't even want
49:02
to call them comforts, because we often wake up in
49:05
the morning after a lot of the Southern comforts and
49:09
feel not so comfortable. But we call them creature. We
49:13
we cover up for our feelings of meaninglessness with that.
49:28
But I don't I don't, per se have a problem
49:31
with a big radio corporation existing. I have a problem
49:36
with a big radio corporation or a big retail corporation
49:39
with a big office on K Street whining and dining
49:43
congressional leaders or state house leaders in Sacramento to sway
49:49
the playing field away from everyone having an equal shot.
49:53
We're right at a period where across the country, individual
49:57
people are buying individual radio stations and bringing back the
50:01
idea of hey, you know, Joe, dry cleaner can I
50:05
help you know Sentas is staling all your business. I
50:09
can get you on the radio and make you sound
50:11
just as big as Sentas for a few bucks, the
50:15
interested in that. Just help me pay my electric bill
50:20
because unlike these corporations, we don't have debt service and
50:24
stuff like that we have to be freaking out about.
50:26
We can be of good service to our customers. And
50:30
that's the difference the big gray edifice bureaucracy. And we
50:35
discussed this regarding aid to the poor and the homeless.
50:39
You go to a big, faceless bureaucracy, they don't care
50:45
about you. They say they do, they're paid to say
50:49
they do, but they don't. Actually the way a parishioner
50:54
in the church you go go to might care about
50:58
you and raise money. The story out of Michigan and
51:05
Utah where the what was the name Butler from the
51:10
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, that author
51:13
famous leader in the LDS church has raised three hundred
51:18
thousand dollars for the family of the guy who torched
51:24
an LDS church in Michigan. That's the difference between money
51:30
and meaning, because you can have one and the other,
51:34
but you can't have one without so it might sound
51:40
I'm anti crony capitalism. I'm against whoever the president is
51:46
or whoever the governor is, having that big or the
51:49
mayor having that big of a say over my ability
51:54
to do anything. You know, get out of the way
51:59
of businesses. We were looking at that New Orleans and
52:01
they've got their mayor race and the reform candidate wants
52:07
to get New Orleans out of the way of business
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so that that, you know, people can start hiring and
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doing things. It's a different abstract than a lot of
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people are used to. But that's the difference, is how
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I'm not when I rail against the money, and because
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you're teaching kids that if it's not working for you,
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just quit. That's the bigger problem. When the chips come down,
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quit that's not teaching meaning, that's just teaching money. And
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I know it sounds you know, oh crimudgin in the
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old I don't care if a kid makes money, what's
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he learning about money?
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