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"Open Minded or Vacant Minded?" (Friday September 12, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Nothing nothing, captain hailing frequency out.
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Speaker 2: Amaze your friends here in the first Thing Today by
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Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 3: JEORDI steal me.
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Speaker 1: A day at least for work.
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Speaker 3: When the sun comes up drops a pecoo.
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Speaker 4: Is a.
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Speaker 3: No one that Joe's smiled.
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Speaker 5: He on the eggs what we do every morning here.
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Speaker 6: Thank you for letting me be of service to you.
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Speaker 5: You're talking to Michael Harrison Charlie Kirk, the radio guy
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here on the Tonk Media Network, and Michael A thought
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struck me that I don't know who's putting a radio on.
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And now that we're syndicated, and you know it's KSFO
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in San Francisco, it's k UFO, and Portland it's w
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c AP and Lowell. I mean, could be anyone who's
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putting the radio on. And I've always said folks like
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Holland Cook will chuckle. He'll say, Joe, who's your demographic,
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who's your target audience?
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Speaker 6: And I'll say everybody, and he'll laugh. And I said, no, seriously.
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Speaker 5: I really truly would like to think that everyone should
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put my radio show on. I couldn't do it if
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I didn't think everyone a mother, a dad, a kid,
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whatever is listening to it. I have members of the
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West Virginia House who grew up listening to my show.
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Can you imagine I'm a kid and have people who
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grew up.
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Speaker 6: Listening to my show.
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Speaker 5: But I don't want to say you shouldn't listen to me,
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because you you know, And it was what Charlie was
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doing was such a talk radio.
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Speaker 6: Master class. And sure, throw something at me.
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Speaker 5: You've got some feeling about medicare, throw it at me
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and we'll debate it.
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Speaker 6: And for a pull upeal.
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Speaker 5: Zeitgeist that is constantly crippled with the idea of we
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need to have more.
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Speaker 6: Collegial debate, here.
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Speaker 5: Was a guy who was doing it and we don't
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know because the assailant is still at lose, but seemingly
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gunned down for doing the very thing that you know,
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proponents of the the marketplace of ideas say we need
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more of.
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Speaker 7: Well, we do, and that's what makes it so ironic,
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and that's what makes it so provocative and shocking. He
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was doing what the end, he was doing the answer
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to what we need, and that is more talk, civil talk,
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collegial talk, and none of the violence and none of
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the you know, the vitriol of course, Charlie was accused
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by many of being a hater and being a Nazi,
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and and and everybody is vilified and demon, you know,
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turned into a demon in today's political environment.
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Speaker 2: Sadly, just the way it is.
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Speaker 7: It's very sad, but he was he really was a
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great practitioner of free speech as protected by the First Amendment,
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and terrible loss. It's also again, ironically, his organization is
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called Turning Point USA. His assassination is a turning point,
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and I instinctively feel it. Other commentators and observers and
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analysts have said that none of us exactly know why,
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but there feels like it's a tipping point or a
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turning point in terms of us heading to a very
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dark place. I can't say this is good news, but
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do you follow what I'm saying? Do you feel it too,
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that there's something about this particular news event that is
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very ominous and does not bode well for happy times ahead.
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Speaker 5: I believe we're at a I think the phrase I've
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heard multiple times is inflection point.
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Speaker 6: Michael Michael Harris sctions.
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Speaker 5: Michael Harrison, Talker's magazine publisher and decades in the radio business.
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I've got to run and do our first things. Can't
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discuss the news, Michael. You know this until you tell
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people what the news is. Federal Appeals Court yesterday cleared
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the way for President Trump's administration to implement a provision
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of his recently enacted tax and spending bill that would
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deprive Planned Parenthood and its members of medicaid funding. A
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Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston agreed to put on
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hold a preliminary injunction from a lower court. The US
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budget deficit for August fell thirty five billion dollars, or
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nine percent from the year earlier, to three hundred and
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forty five billion dollars. It was pointed to the tariff
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collections as part of that. The majority of the Brazilian
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Supreme Court vote on Thursday to convict former President hair
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Bolosaro Bolosonaro, I'm sorry of attempting a coup to remain
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in office despite his defeat in the elections of twenty
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twenty two. President Trump urged his supporters Thursday to be
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peaceful in their response to the killing of Charlie Kirk,
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the founder of Turning Point USA, was murdered during a
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live event at Utah Valley University. The manhunt continues. The
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reports are that the FBI have recovered the rifle in
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the woods and perhaps a handprint. FBI is asking for
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anyone's help in identifying the shooter. They're offering a one
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Speaker 2: Hundred to do list. Putting the radio on is the
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first thing today.
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Speaker 5: Basking in the amplitude and frequency modulation goodness almost some
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some restrictions apply four three four eight A two four
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two one seven TNK Media Network and Michael Harrison, Tonkers
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Magazine Radio and Charlie Kirk is certainly the impact and
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email I received during the break. Well you don't think
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Donald Trump had something to do.
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Speaker 19: With Charlie Kirk's Well, but Charlie Kirk was.
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Speaker 5: Doing this, he said, you know the interims his radio
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career in the land between the Trumps.
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Speaker 6: But now the question is what happens?
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Speaker 5: And you know this radio if if somebody, if their
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favorite radio show host leaves a radio station, does does
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the listener leave and never come back? What happens? We
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were kind of watching this with Howard Stern as well.
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What's happened? These are millions of people now it's down
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to a one hundred thousand or so. Do does Charlie's audience,
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aka the kids who are part of Turning Point USA,
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stick around and and and move forward with what they
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had been doing? Or does it dissipate like what happens
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when a radio show host leaves their the station.
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Speaker 7: I think I think that the movement that he started
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will continue the whole idea of organizing young conservatives, setting
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up operations on high school and college and university campuses,
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having new leaders emerge to carry on with that work
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that already was underway. I think that the movement that
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Charlie helped start and nourish will continue without him I
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don't think that that's going to fade at all. I
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don't think there's a chance of that. That Operation Turning
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Point USA is far too big, mature, well oiled machine,
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and there's a market for it out there, so I
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think it will continue. My concern about it is people
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wanting revenge. My concern is politicians, politicians twisting it and
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spinning it for their own side. It's always the other
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side's fault.
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Speaker 5: Certainly, that would never happen, Michael, politicians doing that.
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Speaker 7: No, And too many and so many people in the
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talk radio and talk television and talk media business are
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really politicians. They're self styled delusional politicians. They forgot that
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they're broadcasters, they forgot that they're in radio and television.
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They actually think they're in politics. And that troubles me
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that the line between performers and newsmakers, between commentators and
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politicians has become increasingly blurry. Well, I've had this media
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should be a loop from independent.
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Speaker 5: I think, Michael, you and I have had this conversation.
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I was taught many, many years ago that the one
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thing you can guarantee about a radio listener is that
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they are almost one hundred percent of the time sitting
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by themselves, and if you think you're talking to more
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than one person, you're disenfranchising almost everyone who might put
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a radio on. And now they're the third wheel in
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our conversation. But I want to hear their thoughts as
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well at four three four two four two one seven.
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We've been doing this obviously all yesterday morning and today
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as well. Last question though, for you, Michael, And this
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is something Charlie said to me in a visit we had.
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He had fallen in love with the idea of broadcast
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radio he grew up. Rush speaks eloquently of how Charlie
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grew up in a house that was listening to Rush's show.
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Speaker 6: But then once he started.
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Speaker 5: Doing radio, he realized that here were people who didn't
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need to do anything special. They were in their car,
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they were doing other things. There's this this magic of
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radio that allows you to go on with your day
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while participating in it. And he really got that part
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of it. Are there other people like him? I see
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podcasters who don't get it. I see aging broadcasters who
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are trying to hold on for the gas while they can.
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Are there young people who get the magic of a
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radio being able to be something you can put on
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the counter, listen to it, get your breakfast together, get
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your kids off to school while the radio is talking
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to you, and not force you, like Marshall mccluwan would say,
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to force you to be a hot medium where your participatory.
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You can just sort of be in that cool zone
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where it's taken care of. It's told you it's going
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to rain, it's told you the traffic's bad, and now
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you know, you can get your kids together while they're
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talking about whatever's going on in the world.
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Speaker 7: I think there are enough people out there in the
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younger demos and in all the demos to make that continue.
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So yeah, I do believe that radio has the potential
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to be intergenerational. The problem is that radio has to
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create content that would attract people of all generations. That's
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where and that's the problem. Just because it's radio doesn't
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mean people are going to listen to it. That's true,
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if they'll listen to it if they have a reason to.
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Radio has to give people a reason to continue to
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listen to it with their families. You mentioned earlier, the
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audiences have one. A lot of that has been prompted
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by the technology.
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Speaker 2: Of the day.
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Speaker 7: A significant percentage of radio listening is done with earbuds. Sure,
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you know, with headphones, and that turns it into a
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one on one if anything the technology. But one of
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the things that we've done at Talkers is we've gotten
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involved with the National College Radio Convention, the Intercollegiate Broadcasting
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System the IBS, and we are we're sponsoring. In other words,
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we're giving them money to be able to have their
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convention and have young broadcasters from around the country. If
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you want to know that radio is alive and well
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and has a potential, take a look at all the
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radio the thousands of broadcasters that are under the a
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age of twenty five operating on college, in high school
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and university campus radio stations all across the country. And
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who do you think is listening to them? Young people?
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The colleges is where it's happening, and we've been tapping
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into that and supporting them and finding some very talented
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people who love radio. Radio will never be the iconic
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pillar of you know, movies, television, radio broadway of the
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nineteen fifties or the twentieth century, but radio has a
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place as an iconic major method of communication, and if
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you target the audience properly. I know that goes against
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your philosophy of I want everybody hey, but if you
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target the audiences properly, you do it with some planning
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and strategy. This thing could go on for the next
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twenty thirty years.
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Speaker 5: From your lips to God's ears. Because I got loans
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to be of Michael Harrison Talkers dot com. You listen
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to his sit down with Charlie Kirk. We're going to
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post hours. I sat down with Charlie a couple of times.
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Lawyers have to look at that. Michael, you know how
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much fun that is because it's sort of like that
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David Letterman NBC versus CBS thing going on with me.
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But I appreciate it as always, sir, and on a
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grand or abstract like what Charlie did. This is the
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place to talk.
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Speaker 18: And I.
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Speaker 5: Would be the sound of one hand clapping if I
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weren't for the folks texting and emailing. This one from
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Terry said, Certainly, Charlie realized that reaching out to people
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where they are is the way to go. Too many
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people on the internet expect you to come to them
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and then wonder why you don't. Terry and I can't
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disagree with you there in Tampa. And I appreciate listening
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on WHBO because I get emails from podcasters all the time.
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help feed his little sisters.
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every after school activity not to make friends, but just
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to get something to eat, or a retiree who fell
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Speaker 27: When might you be buzzed when you suddenly love everything
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you guys?
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Speaker 18: I love this song, I love these nachos, I love
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archidefall League. Oh, I love this guy.
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Speaker 2: 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 5: Somewhat weak and in the actual intelligence sometimes, but that's
28:26
just you know, all those years in rock radio. Too
28:28
many late night concerts and beach bars for me, but
28:32
we dance around it as best we can, and.
28:35
Speaker 19: Nights in beach bars. There's your book. There's your book.
28:38
Speaker 5: That's a chapter in the book. The book is just
28:43
the unauthorized autobiography of Joe Thomas. But Mac, how are
28:48
you it's the actual title, believe.
28:50
Speaker 6: It or not? Is are you being a help or
28:51
a hindrance?
28:52
Speaker 28: Have you seen the company? Have you seen the company
28:55
called Books by Anyone?
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Speaker 6: No? I haven't.
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Speaker 28: You go to this website and it's Books by Anyone,
29:01
and you give them information about you, your family, your friends,
29:07
your your hobbies. No, and then they write a two
29:12
hundred and fifty page story about you.
29:17
Speaker 19: And your friends show up in the book.
29:18
Speaker 6: Whatever.
29:18
Speaker 28: For example, Okay, I entered my wife. I gave my
29:21
wife a gift for our anniversary. It looks like something different, right,
29:24
instead of flowers and candy and you and she's a
29:28
nurse and I entered all this stuff and then you
29:31
they put her on the cover and they do an
29:34
AI drawing of her picture and it was on the
29:36
cover and it's very neat versus the hospital aliens or whatever.
29:41
And it comes out of this hole. It is the great.
29:43
So I turned it onto a buddy of mine. He
29:45
did it for his daughter's daughter cried because it's a
29:48
it's a my story is about beach.
29:51
Speaker 19: What's it called beach beach bums and concerts or something.
29:54
So it's just really interesting.
29:56
Speaker 28: I recommend for a gift. It was around sixty bucks.
29:59
I wreck come in for a gift. That's interesting that
30:02
you do because it's hardbound. It looks so professional. I mean,
30:06
it's it's professional looking. And then Scott, I'll show it
30:09
to you like Va Monday.
30:11
Speaker 19: I'll yeah.
30:12
Speaker 5: I mean that's interesting. I actually have been written into
30:16
one book.
30:16
Speaker 6: I think.
30:17
Speaker 5: I think John Grisham's written you into several of his books.
30:19
Speaker 6: Mac.
30:20
Speaker 19: But people used to pay a lot of money to
30:24
have their names, you.
30:25
Speaker 6: Know John Grisham's books.
30:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah, Jason Wright put me in one of
30:30
his seventeen second Miracle. If you want to find it,
30:32
there's a chapter about Joe Thomas and a radio station.
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I'm not allowed by legal injunction to mention anymore. But anyway,
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What's important now? When it is scholarships, A lot, a lot.
30:51
Speaker 28: To uncover this weekend, there's a lot that's going on.
30:54
I mean not that you know, you got Georgia Tennessee,
30:56
and you got you know, the Virginia game, which is
30:58
going to be you know, a very dramatic with you know,
31:02
the strong game and you know, honoring the football guys
31:06
that were you know that were killed three years ago.
31:09
And then but Virginia Tech and Old Dominion. This was
31:11
interesting because back in July.
31:15
Speaker 19: They they reworked a seven game contract.
31:18
Speaker 28: Doctor wood Seely, who's the athletic director at Old Dominion
31:20
used to be at UVA of course, and a good friend.
31:23
They renegotiated a seven game series following an original thirteen
31:27
game contract which was put together in twenty twelve.
31:29
Speaker 19: So Old Dominion is going to play in Blacksburg.
31:32
Speaker 28: In twenty five, twenty six and thirty Well games in
31:36
Norfolk scheduled for twenty seven, twenty nine and thirty one
31:39
have been canceled. So undoubtedly all the working you know
31:42
in Blacksburg where Brent Price is, why do we go
31:45
to Norfolk and with Babcock then cuts the deal?
31:48
Speaker 19: Here's it? So wood Ceily says, Okay.
31:51
Speaker 28: We'll agree to this contract and play our games. But
31:55
your basketball team has got to cut a deal with
31:57
the men's basketball team and have it no later than
32:00
twenty twenty seven to twenty eight. So what is taking
32:02
the basketball team and Old Dominion using it as a
32:06
chip to be able to you know, to put together.
32:09
Speaker 19: A you know, to make sure the football series days alive.
32:12
So let's just step back the little.
32:13
Speaker 28: History lesson and followed by Brent Pry knowing how tough
32:17
this team can be.
32:18
Speaker 19: Yeah, it was three years ago in Nuffolk. Second down
32:23
inside the one again it is Watson. This time he
32:27
is in for sure, Light up the fireworks.
32:30
Speaker 6: Old Dominion is in the lead for real.
32:33
Speaker 29: This time Wells lay down the field. It is in
32:39
the conference, It is intercepted, it is over Bomario James
32:45
has sealed the victory parole dominion.
32:49
Speaker 30: You know these guys, we know, we're familiar with a
32:51
lot of these guys, you know, so, and it's been
32:54
I think it's four to two in the series. I mean,
32:56
you know we had won over there till last year,
32:58
and you know it's a they'll come in here and
33:00
give us a tough battle.
33:01
Speaker 6: I know that.
33:02
Speaker 28: Yeah, they're three and zero, I mean there and this
33:04
is uh, you know Tech should win and win easily
33:08
by three scores.
33:09
Speaker 19: They said that about Vanderbilt too.
33:12
Speaker 28: Yeah, I know, this is it's a big, big weekend
33:16
for Tech for sure. Uh, They've got Wafford the next
33:19
week and then they you know, they'll get into.
33:21
Speaker 19: The throws of I think they got well, I think
33:23
it was Wawford.
33:24
Speaker 28: But then they'll get into the throws of uh, you know,
33:26
the acc and and but this is a big weekend
33:31
at six o'clock and you know, Virginia can't afford an
33:34
upset or a hiccup against Mike London.
33:36
Speaker 19: But he's going to bring a really good team.
33:37
Speaker 6: So you know, here's here's a.
33:38
Speaker 5: Good point about the college football playoff that I like though,
33:42
is it took away this whole oh, we lost week
33:45
two of the season. Our season's over attitude. You can
33:50
still come back win conferences and things like that. And
33:53
so if all the things that we say are that
33:55
bad about the college football playoff, it hasn't you know,
33:58
got a bunch of kids checking out after week two
34:01
if you lost to vander.
34:02
Speaker 28: NFL field like everything else it's got in NFL fields.
34:06
Speaker 19: Like the Ravens. I mean, you know, the Ravens aren't two.
34:08
They're not too concerned.
34:09
Speaker 28: They get reel off fifth, sixteen in a row and
34:11
be in good shape. And here's your here's your story
34:14
for the week. Because we were talking about this last night.
34:17
I had dinner with some friends and Alex Golish is
34:20
in his third year at South Florida. Okay, he owns
34:24
two seven and six years, two bowl wins and a
34:27
two and zero start. This year he knocked off number
34:29
twenty five Boise. He stayed at home and then went
34:31
into Florida and won at the Swamp.
34:33
Speaker 19: All right, the sixth head coach of the Bulls.
34:36
Speaker 28: Now there are a seventeen and a half point dog
34:39
to Miami. The world is putting seventeen and betting South Florida.
34:45
I mean I don't play the ponies, but all these people,
34:48
all my friends are talking to me. Oh yeah, here's
34:50
a guy. Here's a Here is John DMan. Sorry, here's
34:53
a guy. He grew up in Russia, this head coach.
34:57
He crossed country, skied, he played soccer is in first grade.
35:01
His parents were there in the military. And he said,
35:04
I moved to New York and I was trying to
35:06
learn English. And then he marries a girl from Arkansas.
35:08
So I mean, you know what, why not right? But
35:12
he knew, he knew that mixed in Florida with Miami
35:16
and Florida State and Florida and you know, all these schools.
35:20
He knew that he had to find an identity for
35:22
this program. So this week he defined identity.
35:26
Speaker 21: Internally, we knew what it was and your bits and
35:29
pieces you're preaching and selling and showing and teaching and
35:32
preaching and selling and like. But to be able to
35:35
put it up, talk through it, and then through fall camp,
35:38
be able to show real life examples of what it
35:41
is identity, you have to be able to see it.
35:45
This looks like a focused team. This looks like a
35:47
detailed team. They don't do anything to hurt themselves. They
35:49
look like a team that's locked into winning in the margins.
35:53
Speaker 19: Sounds like a guy's been around eight schools nineteen years.
35:56
Speaker 28: He was a student assistant No. Four at Ohio State
35:59
and worked his way, you know, through on the staff
36:03
and so you know this is but anyway, they're getting seventeen.
36:06
Will they win if they knock off Miami, Oh my god,
36:08
they're going to land on the cover Sports Illustrated, which
36:11
is now a monthly magazine.
36:12
Speaker 19: I mean, if the Bulls pull.
36:14
Speaker 28: Off and they want you know, they they scorched Syracuse. Course,
36:18
Syracuse played band members in that Bowl game because everybody.
36:21
Speaker 19: Was opting out. But I mean they had.
36:23
Speaker 28: They beat Syracuse forty five nothing in the Boca Raton Ball.
36:27
You know, so this is a this is a dangerous team.
36:30
You don't want something well now and some nobody's going
36:34
to schedule this. Nobody's gonna schedule outlong next year, nobody,
36:38
you know.
36:39
Speaker 5: So it's and when everyone abandons the ACC for the
36:42
SEC you know, maybe we you know, ACC can bring
36:45
them in to play, you know, Virginia and Virginia attack and.
36:48
Speaker 28: Yeah about or you know, let's add another team, you know,
36:53
so let's just go ahead and add nothing but details.
36:56
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the thing to see. Everyone talks about,
36:58
you know, how, oh how did this upset happen? I mean,
37:00
if you've got an offensive line that maybe isn't as
37:03
well known or as highly recruited or whatever, but they
37:05
don't miss blocks and they trap the way they're supposed
37:08
to and open a hole. You don't have to open
37:11
a big hole for EMMITTT. Smith to get your running
37:15
back five yards. You do that a few times you're
37:18
moving down the field, you know. And that's the thing
37:20
is is that you know, as much as it's name, image, likeness,
37:24
it's the team that's three yards the cloud of dust,
37:27
the ones that don't miss blocks, the ones that don't
37:29
get turned around on pass coverage. Those are the teams
37:33
that you know are going to bite you in the heinie.
37:35
Speaker 28: Ask also watched the watch watch Georgia Tech pull off
37:38
the upset against Clemson too, So that's going to be another.
37:41
Speaker 19: Biggie this week. So anyway, it's a good weekend. Looking
37:44
forward to a lot of rain here over the weekend.
37:46
But that's what happens in Florida.
37:48
Speaker 5: Is you don't have to know all my commanders fans
37:50
are happy you haven't mentioned Thursday nights to bockle.
37:53
Speaker 19: Yeah, I got it, I got it the other Yeah,
37:55
I know.
37:56
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Speaker 25: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would
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42:10
they speak. Would you notice a sixteen year old boy
42:13
you've got his.
42:14
Speaker 17: First job for extra spending money about to help feed
42:17
his little sisters.
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Speaker 26: Or a mother who's in between jobs and sometimes goes
42:22
to bed hungry so her kids can have dinner.
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Speaker 1: Or a fourteen year old girl who signs up to
42:27
every after school activity not to make friends, but just
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to get something to eat. Or a retiree who fell ill.
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Speaker 3: And had to choose between getting medicine or groceries.
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Speaker 25: I am the one in aid Americans who struggle with hunger.
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People you passed by every day but never knew were hungry.
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Speaker 32: Business of plagis.
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four three, four eight eight two four to two one seven.
44:32
You know I know friends of mine in the business
44:34
like to talk about September twelfth, two thousand and one
44:40
and I've always pushed back. I received an awful lot
44:43
of very ugly phone calls between August. Between September twelfth
44:49
and September twentieth, when it became clear I wasn't going
44:51
to sit there and support, you know, rounding up, you know,
44:54
anyone just based on their religious beliefs, because I just
44:58
didn't feel like that was the right way to go.
45:01
You punish people for their actions, you know, punish everyone
45:04
who looks like them for someone else's actions. That kind
45:07
of thing you can discuss with me at four three
45:10
four eight eight two four two one seven. The idea
45:14
of allowing somebody to have a differing opinion. We certainly
45:18
saw what happened with Charlie Kirk in Utah and joining us.
45:23
Speaker 6: We like to call him.
45:23
Speaker 5: Bob and Farmville now a man in the podcast universe himself,
45:28
as Charlie was for many years the host of the
45:31
Good for America podcast, former chair of the Freedom Concuss
45:35
Bob Good, Good morning, Bob, How are you, sir?
45:37
Speaker 7: Good one?
45:38
Speaker 32: And Joe doing well? All considered? Hope you are certainly
45:43
difficult days for our country, did you?
45:45
Speaker 5: I know Liberty University your alma mater and a place that.
45:49
Speaker 6: You do a lot of work.
45:50
Speaker 5: We were working in the financial side of Liberty University
45:55
for years on the athletic department, and I know it's
45:59
very important to you, but I know Liberty was very
46:01
important to the turning point USA story.
46:03
Speaker 6: Did you get to know Charlie through that?
46:07
Speaker 32: I didn't get to know him through Liberty in particular,
46:10
although he had a very close relationship with Liberty. He
46:13
was scheduled to speak there again next month. Their campus
46:16
has just been really the students have been devastated by
46:20
the terrible tragedy, the terrible loss of Charlie Kirk. But
46:23
I did know Charlie through my time in public service
46:27
and in politics from at events together a number of
46:31
times and spoke together, had a friendly relationship with him.
46:34
We weren't super close like some of my colleagues, where
46:38
we weren't the type of texts, regular that sort of thing.
46:40
But I didn't know him and I had a friendly
46:42
relationship with him to spend some time with them some
46:44
different events we did together.
46:46
Speaker 5: Well, you know, our feelings go out to you and
46:48
our prayers for anyone who feels the loss and talk
46:52
about the concern of you know what kind of reaction.
46:57
This brings Charlie, you know, oddly enough, and I know
47:02
you've been confronted by this, that we need to be
47:05
open minded, we need to be open to debate, we
47:08
need to and then the very person who is doing
47:13
that is the one they revile the most. I can't
47:18
fathom how hard they are trying to, you know, hold
47:22
back derision over this. I've got videos I can't even
47:26
play them on the air, using Broadway show tunes from
47:30
Chicago like and saying horrific things on the internet. The
47:36
commentators are even they're they're slipping their little the derision
47:41
over the very thing that the people say we need
47:44
more of Bob.
47:44
Speaker 6: It just it's it's stunning to me.
47:48
Speaker 32: Yes, think how different the country would be today if
47:52
this had happened to some similar figure on the left.
47:57
I don't even know who to point to as an
48:00
equivalent of that, but let's just say, Momdanni, youre AOC
48:03
or somebody like that, if this terrible act of violence
48:07
had been perpetrated against someone on the left, how the
48:09
country would be different today in terms of the reaction
48:12
in our cities and on our college campuses, and the
48:14
violence that would be taking place We have seen that
48:17
over and over and there is no equivalency here. Truth
48:21
and righteousness does not have versions. Truth is exclusive and
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divisive by nature, or it can be inclusive in unifying
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when it's embraced and recognized that it is truth. And
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what we can't take from this is to pretend there's
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a moral equivalency between the evil that is the radical
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left in this country that tries to destroy their political
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enemies and tries to prohibit and shut down. You know,
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it is only conservatives and those on the right who
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are prohibited from having the opportunity to express themselves or
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to speak, or to have their views heard and so forth.
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Ultimately meant that Eve that evil manifested and what we
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saw happened to Charlie Kirk just two days ago now.
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And you know, this kind of thing makes us recognize
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or reminds us of things that matter most, the brevity
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and the preciousness and frailty of life. That you know,
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the most important thing in life is to be prepared
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for eternity, to be prepared for death and eternity. That
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you know, we only live eighty year or so years here.
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If we live a long life as typical and then
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there's trillions of years in eternity, and the most important
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thing is to be ready for etornity. And Charlie Kirk
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was ready for eternity. He had a testimony about his
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Christian faith. He was open about that. So, but we're
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reminded about the evil in the world that has to
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be confronted, and we can't shirk away from that. I
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think of the Apostles in the Book of Acts where
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they were threatened to stop talking about Jesus after the Resurrection,
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and they said, we can't stop talking about what we
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have seen and heard what happened to us, and they
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considered them that they prayed for boldness, They pray for protection,
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They pray for boldness to go ahead and keep speaking
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about Jesus about the resurrection, because they had witnessed the resurrection,
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they knew it was true. That's why they're willing to
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die for that. And Charlie Kirk is an example to
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us about how he lived out his faith. And you know,
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and so we need to be bold in our response
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and our you know, double down our commitment to speak
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out and to speak truth and try to make a
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difference and to make our lives count and make our
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days count, but we don't. What we don't want to
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do again is to accept some kind of unity with
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the evil that man was manifested in this act, or
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the evil that the radical left is trying to perpetrate
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upon the country. There are fundamental differences, Joe, fundamental differences
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in the world views of the radical left and what
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we on the on the right conservative side do believe
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things about the sanctity pressions of life, the fact that
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we're creating the image of God for an eternal purpose,
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that there is despite what Tim Kaine said, now, natural law,
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inherent rights that come from our Creator, that biblical morality
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and marriage and family are fundamental to a healthy society,
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a sustainable society.
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Speaker 6: That that it's.
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Speaker 32: Necessary that we have the influence of faith, specifically the
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Christian faith, on our government, on our society, and that
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government power only comes from the consent of the government.
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It's you know, and the only purpose of government is
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to protect those God give a natural inherent rights that
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were in doubt to us by our creator. And last
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I'll say, I'll shut up for a moment, but that
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what difference is fundamental difference is we don't believe that
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violence is an acceptable choice to try to destroy your
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political opponents or achieve political gain, or to shut down
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you know, the expression of others or the viewpoints of others.
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Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 5: And as one who practitions in a in a in
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my own way, what Charlie did every day. Uh, he didn't.
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He didn't say that I'm accepting evil. I'm I want
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to hear from the people who have been convinced by
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evil that it's it's righteous and and and by his testimony,
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let hopefully help them see the light the way Jesus did.
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He didn't. He went to the fallen woman in Samaria Samaria. Uh,
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instead of going to find the elected leaders. He wanted
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to find the good in everyone, even if you were
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convinced that evil was good, which is what the deceiver
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