Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "Celebrity Flotilla" (Tuesday September 2, 2025, Hour 2)
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- 0:02Speaker 1: I did get Italian citizens.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Doing the first thing today by Joe Thomas on the
- 0:09Tunk Media Network, all natural and free of artificial intelligence.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Jewart said, steal me stem.
- 0:16Speaker 3: You have a day at least for work.
- 0:19Speaker 2: When the sun comes up.
- 0:21Speaker 3: Drops a pet to scooping. Then Joe has a thing
- 0:25a gender all the treasure said and needs.
- 0:29Speaker 1: No one that Joe's as smiled.
- 0:31Speaker 3: He only eggs.
- 0:36Speaker 1: Where's Stewart Scott when I need him?
- 0:38Speaker 4: Now?
- 0:41Speaker 1: Hey, Jimmy Kimmel, don't let the door hit you where
- 0:44the Good Lord split you? Okay?
- 0:46Speaker 5: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
- 0:49Maybe he's just riding it out until ABC realizes nobody's
- 0:52watching his show either, so they should pull the plug
- 0:55on that as well.
- 0:56Speaker 1: You know what they should do.
- 0:59Speaker 5: Is bring back the old Andy Griffith Mattlock so that
- 1:03people can see how much better it was than the
- 1:05Kathy Bates Mattlock that they're subjecting you to now. But
- 1:10in any event, four three four eight eight two four
- 1:13two one seven. Those are the key digits as we
- 1:16tell you about the news of the day, and we'll
- 1:20even break it down into easily digestible gummies. And then
- 1:24after the side effects whereof you can give us a
- 1:27call or text how the news is impacting you where
- 1:31you are at four three four eight eight two four
- 1:34two one seven. That was Jimmy Kimmel, of course, announcing
- 1:37like Robin Wright as well, who's claiming that she has
- 1:42found freedom of self. We're still trying to track down
- 1:46what kind of psychobabble freedom of self means. It sounds
- 1:52like the same stuff that they foiced when they say
- 1:54that leftists are for freedom freedom from freedom from respect onsibility,
- 2:00freedom from rent, freedom from insurance payments, freedom from grocery bills,
- 2:10you know, freedom from rather than freedom four, because freedom
- 2:14four is just white supremacy, right.
- 2:18Speaker 1: Crazy.
- 2:19Speaker 5: It's a crazy world, but we just chronicle it for
- 2:22you here each and every day lots more to get
- 2:24into the economic tumult and this morning has been driven
- 2:31in the news cycle since last night has been people.
- 2:34Speaker 1: Bemoaning the.
- 2:36Speaker 5: Volatility of the American marketplace and how that's bad. Do
- 2:44you agree that a volatile moving market where money is
- 2:49not predictably going to the people that it usually goes to,
- 2:52is a bad thing. It is to the people who
- 2:56are getting who had gotten used to the money coming
- 2:59to them. Yes, and if you work for one of them,
- 3:01sure you might say, well, you know, here at Sheerson
- 3:05Lehman Brothers, we're really upset about all this. We have
- 3:10the we have the chairman of it's not Daimler Chrysler anymore.
- 3:15What's it called the Stiletto's or something. We have the
- 3:18chairman of Stiletto's saying that the tariffs on cars made
- 3:22in Europe are killing them. Okay, you used to be
- 3:26a Detroit automaker. Do you still have a factory there
- 3:29or has that all been turned into an abandoned warehouse monuments?
- 3:36In any event, we will get with you at that
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- 4:01Chairman she of China got together and signed a deal
- 4:05to run a pipeline through Mongolia. Mongolian President It's Oknagan
- 4:12Kurshuluk was there as well, which was nice of them
- 4:16to invite the President of Mongolia to be there to
- 4:20say okay to the pipeline going through his country, and
- 4:25that will bring natural gas from Russia to China. More
- 4:29than fourteen hundred, mainly Venezuela and migrants who were attempting
- 4:34to reach the United States have turned around and gone home.
- 4:37Why somebody finally translated to them the doors not open anymore.
- 4:42The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on all visa
- 4:47applications for individuals holding Palestinian authority passports. The Internal State
- 4:53Department cable leaked to the press was dated August eighteenth,
- 5:00which is to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP took
- 5:04effect on Monday, as we go into National Hunger Awareness Month.
- 5:08Speaker 1: By the way, and you'll hear.
- 5:09Speaker 5: The phrase food insecurity frequently on most of your favorite
- 5:14radio stations. This sets up adjustments and eligibility and benefits
- 5:19for millions of recipients, including citizenship requirements. The change requires
- 5:26adult recipients to confirm that they performed twenty hours of
- 5:29work per week as well. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen suggested
- 5:34Monday that President Trump may consider some tariff exemptions for
- 5:38certain housing construction materials. The President said Monday he will
- 5:44award former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani the Presidential Medal
- 5:47of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. The former New
- 5:55York City mayor is also just released from the hospital
- 5:59last night after the car crash in New Hampshire. An
- 6:02attorney representing January sixth protesters has spoken with the Department
- 6:07of Justice about creating a reparations panel that would decide
- 6:11financial damages for those he asserts were unfairly prosecuted, and
- 6:17judge lawyer Mark McCloskey wants Jeanine Piro, us attorney for
- 6:22the District of Columbia, to oversee the panel. And those
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- 11:02Speaker 4: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would
- 11:05you recognize them? By their clothes, their age, the way
- 11:10they speak. Would you notice a sixteen year old boy
- 11:13who got his first job for extra spending money, but
- 11:16to help feed his little sisters. Or a mother who's
- 11:20in between jobs and sometimes goes to bed hungry so
- 11:23her kids can have dinner. Or a fourteen year old
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- 11:28Speaker 9: School activity not to make friends, but just to get
- 11:30something to eat.
- 11:33Speaker 4: Or a retiree who fell ill and had to.
- 11:35Speaker 2: Choose between getting medicine or groceries.
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- 12:02Speaker 15: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
- 12:05First Amendment. Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of
- 12:09the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom to petition the government.
- 12:14Which freedom can you live without? Fortunately, the First Amendment
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- 12:56Speaker 10: On Challenge the.
- 13:13Speaker 2: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk Media Network.
- 13:18Speaker 10: Nearly thirty years ago, Robert Kennedy said, work is the
- 13:22meaning of what this country is all about. We needed
- 13:26as individuals, we need to sense it in our fellow citizens,
- 13:30and we need it as a society.
- 13:32Speaker 1: And as a people. He was right then and it's
- 13:36right now.
- 13:38Speaker 18: Work work, work, work, work, work, work works work. Hello, boys,
- 13:41have a good night's rest. I missed you.
- 13:43Speaker 5: Ah, Snap, Now you have to go to work to
- 13:46get food benefits and you have to be a citizen.
- 13:49What horrible fascism you've woken up to. It's amazing what
- 13:55people will do uh to your tax dollars.
- 13:58Speaker 1: Uh. There we get into it. We've got folks.
- 14:01Speaker 5: Hanging on the line. I want to get into the
- 14:03new Snap requirements. Did anyone notice that it was going
- 14:07to be the beginning of Hunger Awareness Month? They just
- 14:10hand them the podium and let them all go on
- 14:12at every area of food bank about how the government's
- 14:16cruelly taking our neighbors food away, and they'll never talk
- 14:21about our neighbors who aren't citizens. But yesterday we reported
- 14:25on pretty heavy stuff as silver cracked the forty dollars
- 14:30level live during the program, and I want to see
- 14:33if it's still there. Our friends from the Jefferson Coin
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- 14:40investing in gold and silver with on the phone with us.
- 14:43Speaker 1: James. Good morning, James, How are you, sir? James?
- 14:48Speaker 5: Hang on a second here, I'm going to have to
- 14:52do it as the phone being wonky again. See there's
- 14:55a long weekends and the phone doesn't do what it's
- 14:58supposed to do all James. Let's see if we get
- 15:02him this way, James, how you doing this morning, sir?
- 15:06Speaker 19: I'm doing well, Joe. We have liftoff on gold and silver.
- 15:09Gold has gotten right up. It actually touched thirty five
- 15:12hundred dollars overnight and it's currently at three four and
- 15:16eighty one. And silver, of course is well over forty
- 15:21dollars at forty dollars and forty three cents, which it's
- 15:26pulled back even about twenty eight cents from its highs
- 15:29overnight as well. So we have we have a new
- 15:32territory for silver here in recent years.
- 15:35Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the undiscovered country certainly. But still, you know,
- 15:39you are a great value for buying silver because you
- 15:42have a great spot rates.
- 15:43Speaker 1: Right, that's right.
- 15:45Speaker 19: You can still buy silver at our website at jcschool
- 15:48dot com. On our daily deals page. You can buy
- 15:51silver at spot, which is usually unheard of. Usually there's
- 15:55a little bit of a buy premium over the spot price,
- 15:58but these days you can buy sober for the exact
- 16:01spot price that you see there on the market at
- 16:04gcschool dot com. So go ahead and take advantage of
- 16:07that before this silver run really gets out of control,
- 16:12which is going to be exciting to see. Remember all
- 16:14time highs for silver or fifty dollars that was hitting
- 16:17the nineteen eighties and twenty eleven, so we'll see how
- 16:20soon it takes us to get there.
- 16:22Speaker 5: Well, and don't do anything just because some guy inside
- 16:24the radio call these folks. These are the experts that
- 16:27I deal with when I want to get into gold
- 16:29and silver and precious metals. James, hope you had a
- 16:33good Labor Day weekend, absolutely, Joe.
- 16:36Speaker 19: I spent some time with some family and enjoyed nice weathers.
- 16:39That's great.
- 16:40Speaker 5: Well, I'm sure there's going to be a lot of
- 16:41orders for you to pack and ship out when you
- 16:43get to the shop this morning. So get an extra
- 16:47cup of that first free in the morning coffee and
- 16:49we'll talk to you in.
- 16:50Speaker 1: A little bit.
- 16:51Speaker 19: Soun's great, thanks Joe.
- 16:52Speaker 5: Silver and Rarefy their gold as well there and so
- 16:58lots of folks benefit from all of that. Doctor Clark
- 17:02was on the line with us first though. Let me
- 17:04just go through this snap changes. Now you have a
- 17:07citizenship requirement. Horrors of horrors, and you have to work
- 17:12twenty hours a week in order to qualify for SNAP benefits.
- 17:18And I think you know a lot of folks are
- 17:21going to demigogue this and they're going to try to
- 17:24make it out like this is some sort of horrible
- 17:27rebuke against the people, and you'll hear these phrases. I
- 17:31want to inoculate you against these phrases, like people are
- 17:36losing their food assistance, our neighbors. You're going to hear
- 17:41the phrase our neighbors a lot when it comes to
- 17:45the changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program. Our neighbors
- 17:50are going to lose their food support that You'll hear
- 17:53the phrase food insecurity frequently as well during this And
- 18:00you were going to anyway, September is National Hunger Awareness Month,
- 18:05and sorry about that, and therefore they were going to
- 18:14be lots of public service messages. And we have good
- 18:17friends Feeding America in the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank.
- 18:20I've been working with them forever on making sure there
- 18:23is food for those who are getting squeezed. Because our
- 18:27jobs are not paying as much, We've diluted the value
- 18:30of our dollars. Everything's costing more it's inflationary, but it's real.
- 18:35So let's make sure people can get by while we're
- 18:37fixing the economy. Doctor Clark on the line with us.
- 18:40Have we fixed the phone system?
- 18:41Speaker 4: Now?
- 18:42Speaker 5: Let me see if we got doctor Clark in here
- 18:44properly in through the system. Good morning, Clark, How are you, sir?
- 18:48Speaker 20: I'm here, Joe.
- 18:49Speaker 5: All right, Well, good job on the engineers, Scotty. You
- 18:52get an extra bottle of Scotch for it. Now get
- 18:55back down to the warp drive engines. So what's on
- 18:57your mind this morning, sir?
- 19:00Speaker 7: Well, right now, I'm just processing that my neighbors are
- 19:05gonna have to get some sweat on their brow to
- 19:07eat my bread.
- 19:09Speaker 1: I know, isn't it. Don't you? Don't you feel horrible
- 19:12about that? I do, Yeah, I can hear it.
- 19:16Speaker 7: So who told Robin Wright and Jimmy Kimmel that we
- 19:21care what their opinion is?
- 19:23Speaker 5: Well, all the people who sign up in line up
- 19:26for their autographs, I guess, oh okay.
- 19:30Speaker 7: So well, okay, all right, there's people that line up
- 19:34for their autographs, and I guess what the message is
- 19:40here is things are bad.
- 19:44Speaker 20: So I'm going to abandon y'all. I can leave y'all.
- 19:47Speaker 1: Can't when the going gets tough, the tough leave now?
- 19:52Speaker 7: Or are they trying to swing the undecided people but
- 19:59den them of their presence?
- 20:03Speaker 20: Is that what this is about?
- 20:05Speaker 7: Oh, you like to hang out with Robin Wright because
- 20:08she's in England. Oh, that changed my mind on something.
- 20:12Speaker 5: So the first question then, logically, you know, if you
- 20:15follow the Socratic method, would be so how much.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Were you hanging out with Robin Wright?
- 20:20Speaker 11: Uh?
- 20:20Speaker 1: And yeah, because that would be my question?
- 20:24Speaker 7: What?
- 20:24Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
- 20:27Speaker 20: So I'm sorry, Joe, No you're not.
- 20:30Speaker 7: But these people are basically dancing monkeys there for our
- 20:34edification and entertainment.
- 20:36Speaker 1: Mmm.
- 20:37Speaker 7: No, I'm not saying they don't have a right to
- 20:39an opinion, but I really care about hearing it.
- 20:43Speaker 20: I just want to see the monkey dance.
- 20:45Speaker 5: Well, I mean this goes back to something else and
- 20:48and to me, there is a sanctification to the storytellers.
- 20:52And I say that because I count myself on the
- 20:56roster of storytellers. We are the chroniclers of life in
- 21:01a society. Society has to have those who tell the
- 21:05story of the nation. It sort of puts me in
- 21:09the mind of the horrific fifteen minutes I wasted while
- 21:12I was eating my lunch yesterday watching this new Thomas
- 21:15Jefferson documentary that basically said he was this horrible person,
- 21:20this duplicitous snob, and then when they finally got to
- 21:24the point of him actually trying to legislate slavery out
- 21:27they said, we have no evidence of it, so he
- 21:29must have just been lying about it. And I'm all right,
- 21:32I can't take this anymore. If you're just going to
- 21:35do character assassination, don't put the brother's name on the
- 21:39head of your documentary.
- 21:41Speaker 1: I mean, it was just a slam.
- 21:45Speaker 5: I think there was more nice things said about Richard
- 21:48Nixon in All the President's Men than in the fifteen
- 21:51minutes I was watching this Thomas Jefferson documentary. But there
- 21:55is a role for the storytellers, and part of it
- 21:58is making sure you have the story. We've got the
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- 28:06Speaker 2: H the first thing today on the Talk media network
- 28:17by Joe Thomas, the second most famous Thomas in Charlottesville.
- 28:43Speaker 25: I do have that, and what's going on is UH
- 28:46is as bad as you thought it was gonna be
- 28:49way worse. It's so much worse. It's just unbelievable. Like
- 28:54I feel like it's probably even worse than he would
- 28:57like it to be.
- 28:59Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, just it's so horrible.
- 29:03Speaker 5: I'm this wealthy for no particularly good reason, and I was.
- 29:07We went into the news talking about the importance of
- 29:09the storyteller, and the storyteller is important to Western civilization,
- 29:16I think, to civilization in general, almost as much as
- 29:19agriculture is. When we settled in the Tigris and Euphrates River,
- 29:24at some point somebody had to explain to the little
- 29:27ones how we got there. So history and social mores
- 29:34were transmitted more easily through the storytellers. Esop's Fables, Grim Brothers.
- 29:42These were the ways we taught the young ones without
- 29:45lecturing them the safety concerns that they needed to have
- 29:50and the smart ways to behave. So the storyteller is
- 29:54an important cog in society. The problem is when the
- 29:59storyteller starts telling you what they believe their stories should mean,
- 30:05and start tainting their stories with their own agendas. That
- 30:11cheapens the story. The story is never any more about
- 30:15what's right and wrong. It's about what the storyteller wants. Remember,
- 30:20as I've said to you pedantically before, your right to
- 30:23speak freely does not convey a right to be listened to.
- 30:30And that's what you're seeing in the ratings of these
- 30:32programs and the millions of dollars that they're losing.
- 30:35Speaker 1: And everyone's like, oh, they were losing millions of dollars
- 30:38on Stephen Colbert Show.
- 30:40Speaker 5: Yeah they were because guess what, the big pharmaceutical companies
- 30:43and stuff that were counting on them to sing their
- 30:47song for them were no longer sponsoring them. You know,
- 30:53the simpler days of the soap opera where you know,
- 30:56during the mid days of the housewife would watch the
- 30:59stories of intrigue and sex and love and all sorts
- 31:06of bad behavior going on, and they'd watch and they'd
- 31:08watch their cereals, and then they'd see the commercials for
- 31:12the cereals and the soaps, thus the name soap opera,
- 31:16and they bought the soaps.
- 31:17Speaker 1: But you didn't need.
- 31:20Speaker 5: Luke and Laura holding a bottle of washing soap and saying,
- 31:24I don't know Laura before we run off to this
- 31:26Caribbean island. Let's do our laundry, and here's the soap
- 31:29that we use. But that's what's happening politically now is
- 31:32you've got these storytellers who have insisted that they want
- 31:35to tell you their story, and they don't live in reality.
- 31:40We don't give tours of real cities and real neighborhoods.
- 31:44Nobody is taking a little golf cart full of tourists
- 31:49through your neighborhood saying and here's where Bob and Moscow
- 31:52lives and here's where Joel lives. And nobody's doing that
- 31:56because we don't give tours of real places. We take
- 31:59tours of these fanciful little enclaves where reality never touches
- 32:04the feet of these besotted nitwits. So while I've said
- 32:09storytelling is important, go find people like Jim cavizl and
- 32:13let him tell you stories. Jim Cavizel's stories are worth seeing.
- 32:17Doctor Clark was on the phone with us. Nobody's giving
- 32:19a tour of doctor Clark's neighborhood. I bet you there
- 32:21aren't you know, guided tours of the radio call in stars.
- 32:28Speaker 7: Well, Joe, if somebody was I'd be getting a call
- 32:31from the neighborhood watch.
- 32:32Speaker 1: So there's that anyway. So you were saying before I
- 32:37ranted our way up to.
- 32:38Speaker 20: The Yeah, so I guess you know.
- 32:41Speaker 7: We got the storytellers and the story fabricators and story revisionists.
- 32:48Speaker 1: Sure you gotta go through editing.
- 32:51Speaker 7: If somebody wants to tell the story, I'll be glad
- 32:53to listen to it, But if you want to fabricator
- 32:56to revise it, I'm not interested.
- 32:59Speaker 5: But isn't that Isn't that analogous to the diminishing ratings
- 33:04of all these programs because the gas lighting sitcoms and
- 33:09the lecturing late night talk shows have lost multitudes per
- 33:15enormous percentage thirty forty percent of their audience in the
- 33:18last three to four years. And it's not just because
- 33:21Donald Trump got liked it. It's because the American citizens
- 33:24started to realize, hold it, you were lying to me
- 33:27back then, or you're gas lighting me into thinking that
- 33:30somehow being a committed dad in a household is something
- 33:34goofy and a punchline. So you know, I should just
- 33:38count my jackson go home. And the consumers of the
- 33:44stories have left in droves. That's the And it's exactly
- 33:48what you're saying there, Clark, exactly.
- 33:52Speaker 20: I think I'm probably representative more so than fabricated stories. Yeah,
- 34:00the real story, yep.
- 34:02Speaker 5: I mean it's like me and this Jefferson documentary fifteen minutes.
- 34:05I mean, and I could have turned it off after
- 34:07five minutes because everything was his hypocrite everything. Oh and
- 34:12they weren't even being cutesy about it. Some of these
- 34:14things about Thomas Jefferson are like, well he was conflicted.
- 34:18He's like no, they were just coming around out and
- 34:20saying it was a hypocrite. He was a hypocrite because
- 34:23you know, you you were tied to this slave child
- 34:27who was born the same year you were, and they
- 34:29were yours and so he knew from a young man's
- 34:32age that he had dominion over these people. And okay,
- 34:36because that was the British society and they tried to
- 34:39legislate it out and they don't want to tell that
- 34:41story anymore.
- 34:44Speaker 7: Well, when you want to denigrate the country, you can
- 34:49detegrate a founder. Yeah, then you pretty well detegrated the country.
- 34:54Speaker 5: Yeah, and then his work product is you know, and
- 34:58this is there's a clip that we haven't gotten to
- 35:01the Rashida Talib clip to jump in with her squad mate.
- 35:05It was out there saying you haven't seen anything yet
- 35:09and we're not done with you in this rally in
- 35:13a Muslim community. And I guess she wasn't intending that
- 35:17story to get out. But I mean, this is the thing,
- 35:19is what is Americanism? What is the United States stand for?
- 35:25We have freedom of religion, but there are people who
- 35:28don't want that. They just want freedom for their religion.
- 35:33Speaker 20: Well, the interesting thing, Joe, I'd like to know.
- 35:38Speaker 1: As you watch.
- 35:41Speaker 7: A documentary, well, okay, supposed to be a documentary, I
- 35:46guess there was a document involved somewhere as you watch
- 35:50this detigrading Jefferson, is there a similar show being shown
- 35:56in England Detigrating Block or the Nakkarta. What's going on
- 36:02in Italy with the founding of their country. This is
- 36:07none of this is happening in a vacuum, you know,
- 36:12when every Western country, everything that we would consider a
- 36:18Western country, has the same things going on simultaneously.
- 36:25Speaker 18: Hmm.
- 36:25Speaker 20: What was it we said about coordinated stuff. Somebody's coordinating it, yep.
- 36:32Speaker 5: And who's against who's And I remember I told you
- 36:35about this. There are five or six stories out on
- 36:38the wires of people, you know, leaders in the economic
- 36:41world complaining about the tumultuous and unpredictable economy. I like
- 36:46an unpredictable economy. That means, you know, the people can't
- 36:49predict who's getting the money.
- 36:52Speaker 7: Well, yeah, predictable economies there was in which the people
- 36:58running them can predict just how much they're gonna make exactly.
- 37:02Speaker 11: I like.
- 37:03Speaker 5: I like them having to work for it. If you
- 37:04want me to buy your washing powder, go put it
- 37:07on my favorite show. Don't don't you know, tell me
- 37:10my favorite star of my favorite show is using it,
- 37:12or don't pretend that somehow Luke and Laura have you know,
- 37:16washing soap in their car I'm not tuning in for that,
- 37:21but I will support somebody who's on the program, like,
- 37:24you know, the guy who wants to get you know,
- 37:26good gas in your blood veins.
- 37:27Speaker 1: You know. Okay, so yeah, maybe I want better gas
- 37:30in my blood veins.
- 37:33Speaker 16: There you go.
- 37:35Speaker 20: So before I leave the Joe, I got something for
- 37:38you to think about.
- 37:41Speaker 7: Charles Schultz and Peanuts had that long running gag, or
- 37:47at least he would hold the football for Charlie Brown
- 37:49to ticket, but then she threw it away.
- 37:51Speaker 20: But not this time. She wasn't going to do it.
- 37:53Speaker 5: Right each time. Yeah, that was that was her gag.
- 37:56Was No, No, Charlie Brown, Come on, how many times
- 37:58do you think I could do that to you?
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- 44:08Speaker 2: And the college question for you from Joe Thomas its
- 44:15first thing today.
- 44:18Speaker 19: It is signed.
- 44:19Speaker 9: It's a signed document.
- 44:21Speaker 7: I guess if you have a signed document in your possession,
- 44:24you can't go wrong this year.
- 44:26Speaker 9: I'm really going to kick that football.
- 44:35Speaker 1: He had a signed document.
- 44:36Speaker 5: At that time, Doctor Clark, we were talking about Linus, Lucy,
- 44:42Charlie Brown and the storytelling and why it's important to
- 44:47have those kind of characters in it.
- 44:50Speaker 20: Well, was the point of that.
- 44:54Speaker 7: That Lucy would continue to pull the football away? Or
- 44:59was the point that every time Charlie Brown could be
- 45:04coached and believing she'd held it for him and he
- 45:06kept falling for it.
- 45:08Speaker 20: Just something to think about, m and then might revisit that.
- 45:13Speaker 1: Well and again storytelling. Who do you identify with?
- 45:17Speaker 18: Are you?
- 45:17Speaker 1: Are you Charlie Brown? Are you Linus? Are you good?
- 45:22Speaker 5: Storytellers will put a little bit of everybody into each character.
- 45:27So you know, if if you've got an ensemble, take
- 45:31that TV show Northern Exposure. I mean you had Maurice Minifield,
- 45:35who was, you know, an avatar of you know, the
- 45:38stereotypical Americana. But then you had Joel Fleischman, who was
- 45:43modern America and he was a doctor. And then you
- 45:45had you know, the folks who had gone to Alaska
- 45:49to get away from America, you know, and and all
- 45:51these different bits of the zeitgeist could be displayed in
- 45:55a character Charlie Brown. Charlie Brown was a trusting soul.
- 46:00Do you want to be a trusting soul? Do you
- 46:02want to be somewhere a little closer to linus where
- 46:05you realize your sister is probably pulling your blue blanket
- 46:08over your eyes? Or are you, Lucy, who's you're trying
- 46:12to push some buttons? I don't think she was trying
- 46:14to rip off Charlie Brown, but she was trying to
- 46:16teach Charlie Brown to not be so damn trusting all
- 46:19the time.
- 46:21Speaker 1: And so I think there's a lot.
- 46:24Speaker 5: In storytelling that, you know, requires good characters and characters
- 46:29who sometimes embody, you know, a particular belief structure, and
- 46:35and I'm fine with that. I'm fine with stories that,
- 46:39you know, tell Marx's story, Tell the story of all
- 46:43the things that happened as as Stalin. There's a wonderful movie,
- 46:47you know what you should watch and it was kind
- 46:50of the last kind of Monty Python esque thing out there.
- 46:53Speaker 1: It's called Death of Stalin. Have you ever seen the movie?
- 46:58Speaker 20: A lot?
- 46:58Speaker 1: Okay?
- 46:59Speaker 5: It stars Michael Palin as Molotov, uh and uh. Steve
- 47:05Buscemi is wonderful as Nikita Khrushchev, and Jeffrey tambour is
- 47:10in it.
- 47:11Speaker 1: All these folks who are all.
- 47:13Speaker 5: The sycophantic, you know, pilot fish around Joseph Stalin and
- 47:18then Stalin dies and in its goofy, Jason Isaacs is
- 47:24marvelous as the military commander who you know, ordered the
- 47:29slaughter of all the Russians and you're laughing at some
- 47:32of the most horrific things that have ever happened in
- 47:35human history. But it's a brilliant story of what these
- 47:38authoritarian states become. There's one Joe Thomas's movie watch list.
- 47:43Go get Death of Stalin.
- 47:45Speaker 20: This weekend, all right, I'm gonna check that out.
- 47:49Speaker 5: All right, Well, you have a good morning, Clark, take
- 47:52care now. Jeffrey tamboor is Malenkov, Isaac's is a Zukov
- 47:58the military or just the cast is wonderful and there
- 48:04it's you're laughing at things, but there this is really
- 48:08what happened as this and go back and then look
- 48:10into the into the history of the fall of the
- 48:13Soviet Union and and you can get there. And I
- 48:19think we lost somebody there on the line, uh, bringing
- 48:23in at four three four eight eight two four two
- 48:26one seven, So we'll get you back on the line
- 48:28here into the into the storytelling zeitkest the archetypes that
- 48:34you would that you would want to use.
- 48:36Speaker 1: Good morning.
- 48:36Speaker 18: Who's this, Yes, this is John calling from viro Beach, Florida.
- 48:41Speaker 1: Hey, John, how's it going on the Treasure Coast this morning?
- 48:45Speaker 18: It looks like it's a little overcastle foggy, I would say,
- 48:50a little foggy. Temperature probably round and round seventy psalm
- 48:54eighty degrees.
- 48:56Speaker 1: So that's not bad, no good, good deal. What's on
- 48:58your mind?
- 49:00Speaker 18: Yeah? I was listening to your show about Linus, about
- 49:03being trusting some trust people, some people don't. And I
- 49:08was always trusting.
- 49:09Speaker 2: You know.
- 49:09Speaker 18: I loved it because I was born in nineteen I
- 49:12was born in nineteen forty five, and I'm eighty years
- 49:17old now, turn eighty and Mother's Day.
- 49:19Speaker 5: And an important part of that story, you know, Johnny,
- 49:22here's an important part, because Lucy. Lucy would always look
- 49:25at Charlie Brown say, don't be such a blockhead, you know, meeting,
- 49:28you know, And so she wasn't doing it just to
- 49:31be mean. She was doing it to say, listen, stop
- 49:33trusting me all the time.
- 49:35Speaker 4: You know.
- 49:36Speaker 1: It was Reagan's old trust, but verify.
- 49:39Speaker 18: Yeah, so what happened with me? Long story short, I
- 49:43trusted two guys to come in and clean my home
- 49:45because I had known him from working in my car.
- 49:47They came in and in my home, they cleaned my home.
- 49:50They stole my fay medications. Oh no, and I reported
- 49:54to the euro police or reported to the VA. Everybody
- 49:59got copies of police reports. And then the VA stopped
- 50:02my pain medications. They blamed it on me.
- 50:04Speaker 1: Oh oh that's horrible.
- 50:07Speaker 5: So so you wound up badly losing your pain medication,
- 50:10but also you lost the pain medication in general.
- 50:15Speaker 18: Absolutely, and for three years, I was up all night
- 50:19crying in pain, losing weight. I lost thirty pounds and
- 50:23then finally I said the heck with this, So I
- 50:24went outside the VIA system and got a civilian doctor
- 50:28and she took one look at me and she immediately
- 50:30sent me to pain management doctor. And now I'm back
- 50:33on the pain. That's now I'm April the first time
- 50:35in three years. Now I'm getting sleep, my weight is
- 50:39starting to pick up again, and my appetite.
- 50:43Speaker 5: Left for God well, and unfortunately this is, you know,
- 50:48the federal bureaucracy, and of all the places that we
- 50:51don't need, but I guess you have to have, the
- 50:54federal bureaucracy is the VA.
- 50:57Speaker 1: And it's so audit cratic because it has to be.
- 51:02Speaker 5: I mean, they don't know, but there needs to be
- 51:05more effort put into making sure you have. And I
- 51:09thought President Trump with his I forget the name of
- 51:13the rule where you could actually go and use your
- 51:16VA benefits at local hospitals if a VA was not available,
- 51:21but that it may not have applied to you. But
- 51:24I have friends in Virginia that used it. That we
- 51:28need to unbureaucratize the VA more because I think this
- 51:32also drives a lot of those veterans to suicide as well.
- 51:37Speaker 18: Absolutely, and I know of a lot of senior citizen
- 51:41friends of mine have found out they at least they
- 51:44say that the VA paying management actually gets credit from
- 51:48the drug enforcement or kicking veterans who are desperately in
- 51:53need of paying medications through the fall of their own
- 51:56kicking them off. Gosh, they don't want, they don't want
- 52:00any exposure to the drug enforcement agencies. The Bay. I
- 52:06also heard ten years ago West Palm Beach was busted
- 52:12because to it her one of their excuse me, one
- 52:16of their pharmacists was stealing pain medications giving it to
- 52:20her son. Her son was busted hawking him on the
- 52:23street and an FBI sting that led right back to
- 52:26West Palm BEACHBA Farms, you know.
- 52:28Speaker 5: And sure, and what always happens is they instead of
- 52:32just punishing the bad actors, then they punish all the
- 52:36you know, good actors by making the bureaucracy that much
- 52:39more difficult to get through.
- 52:42Speaker 1: John is good.
- 52:43Speaker 5: I'm glad you got clear of that and you're doing better.
- 52:45And you have a blessed morning, sir, you two.
- 52:49Speaker 18: And God bless you Joe. Thank you so much.
- 52:54Speaker 24: Hi, I'm Mark Falter with the Financial Fitness Show. Have
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- 53:17on and ask your questions. Come with your questions, come
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- 53:23It's gonna be about thirty forty five minutes long, going
- 53:25to be more interactive, and if you want to know how,
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- 53:35at six thirty pm Central, Free webinar eight six six
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- 53:42seven sixty four two six three five Hugain eight sixty
- 53:45six seven sixty four two six three five. If you
- 53:56want to know how, you can get on that webinar
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- 54:04July thirty first, at six thirty pm Central Free webinar
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