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"Not So Big on Forget-ness" (Monday October 6, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: You're a whole range of things back worry musation on
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  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.
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  Speaker 3: Jewort said, steal metem. You have a day at least
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  for work.
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  Speaker 4: When the sun comes up, drops a pet at the scoom.
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  Speaker 5: Joe has everything a dream, do all the Choasu said,
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  and needs.
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  Speaker 6: No one that Joe zais smile, he on the eggs.
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  Speaker 7: Joe, here, hold these truths. I want to be the
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  one smart self evidence over there eyes another dog, don't worry.
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  That's uh, that's a different kind of tape. It's self
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  evidence tape. As opposed to four three four eight eight
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  two four to two one seven. Those are the most
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  important numbers, know, not my lottery numbers, although it'd be
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  an interesting way to pick. That's how you interact with
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  us here on the business model, where we tell you
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  about the news, we tell you what happened, tell you
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  what we see in the tea leaves. But most importantly,
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  I want to hear how it's impacting you where you are.
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  Four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  That's the gateway. You can text message there because I
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  know how mornings are, unlike so many of the people
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  who you know do it because you know they think
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  it's a lucrative gig. I've been doing morning radio since
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  before Bill Clinton was president. I know how your mornings are. Uh,
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  and every now and then I get about of underemployment
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  where I have to be the one getting the kids
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  off to school. So again, unlike a lot of folks
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  who do what I do, I've lived your life as well,
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  so I know that shouting into voice to text when
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  I tweak you is sometimes the best way to do it.
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  And you can send them in to that phone number
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  as well. The voice you heard there was Eric Holder.
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  You probably didn't hear it unless you were amongst the
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  dozens who tuned into the Gavin Newsom podcast. And I
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  thought that was the clip of the weekend, considering this
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  was the guy whose Justice Department cooked up a scheme
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  to surveil and collect information on the opponent of his
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  handpicked successor. You know, and you have to listen for
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  the words they don't say. So Eric Holder in that
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  statement doesn't say he's troubled by the Trump administration specifically
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  oh oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He speaks of the Trump
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  administration and the James Comy case, but he doesn't say
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  that they invented the idea of politicizing the Justice Department.
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  Speaker 1: They are a whole range of things that worry me.
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  A great deal litization of the Justice Department.
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  Speaker 7: That I well, I don't think he invented it. I
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  think he ramped it up to eleven. He put the
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  paradigm to work. He said, Watergate plumbers, We'll use our
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  own law enforcement apparatus to survey our political opponents. That's
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  what will do. But I know he finds it troubling.
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  Maybe he finds it troubling because he didn't think there'd
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  ever be another Republican to hold the office and try
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  to use the same tactics. We have a do we
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  have that montage of all the talking heads going on
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  and on about how Jim Comeys is such an abomination
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  in justice, but the Trump Indictmonds I was perfectly fine.
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  Same heads. So we'll get it for you in a
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  little bit. Who's ever since text messages they wish they hadn't.
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  We'll get into that as well this morning. If you
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  missed Saturday Mornings program and believe me. We had a
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  great time Saturday getting into this. The Democratic Party nominee
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  for Attorney General sent text messages out saying that he
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  wanted to shoot then Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates,
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  Todd Gilbert and his children. His opponent, current Virginia Attorney
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  General Jason Miaris, at a speech over the weekend, called
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  the statements disqualifying, a phrase that President Trump also used
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  in Virginia. On Sunday at the two hundred and fiftieth
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  anniversary celebration for the US Navy, he called on the
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  Democrat candidate to drop out of the race while he
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  was endorsing Attorney General Mirais. He did raise some eyebrows
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  on Sunday speaking in Virginia and calling out many elected
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  Virginia Republicans who were service members in the Navy, including
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  Congressman John McGuire, Congressman Rob Whitman, and Congresswoman Jen Kiggins. However,
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  not mentioning Virginia's Lieutenant governor, Marine veteran Winsome Earl Sears.
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  South Dakota State Congressman Perry Pourier has switched from Democratic
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  Party to Republican, citing her alignment with legislative priorities and
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  the rhetoric. David Butler, author and noted member of the
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  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, has raised
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  three hundred thousand dollars for the family of the man
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  who drove his trunk into the church in Michigan, set
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  it a fire, and then started shooting congregants as they
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  tried to get out of the building. He says the
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  money is being raised for the family who lost their
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  bread winner and are as much victims in this as
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  the early days of the availability of email. And this
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  used window, or any variant of those that period of
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  time ten pm to eight am, wherever you felt most comfortable.
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  Any emails that you would compose and hit send on
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  would be held, and then in the morning, before sending them,
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  you would get a notification saying, do you really want
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  to send this email? This was supposedly to save ourselves
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  Speaker 17: I just start.
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  Speaker 7: I wonder if we couldn't find that software and have
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  it reissued for folks, of course, the political landscape would
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  be eighty percent less intriguing if Jay Jones, the Democratic
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  candidate for Attorney General of Virginia, had such a software
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  on his text messaging, because then he would have realized,
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  oh my god, I'm going to send that to a Republican.
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  What the hell? It's been years since we've had a
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  proper October surprise in politics, seems it seems like, I
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  think the last time we really had October surprises, and
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  to a degree, you know, we've had little ones, most
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  of them more self inflicted as really is this one.
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  But I think Billy Bush's video of Donald Trump in
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  the in the trailer in the I should have grabbed
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  her by her huha was the last attempt at at
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  an October surprise. And it's a political tactic used right
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  before or somewhere within the last month of an election,
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  where presumably the candidate who is being tarred and feathered
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  with the October surprise won't have sufficient time to launder
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  their image. It's going to cost them support, mostly amongst
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  their supporters. And that's where I worry about this release
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  of this story. Twenty twenty two, an errant text message
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  went to a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates,
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  Carrie Coiner, who, yes, as many of my friends on
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  the left say, sat on this text message until now. However,
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  the text messages where then Delegate I guess then j
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  Jones was a delegate, left and came back. Jay Jones
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  was expressing frustration to someone he called Mark that he
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  thought he was texting with frustration over Republicans expressing condolences
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  for the death of a Democrat member of the General Assembly.
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  You say, well, hold on the second, Joe, We're told
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  we're supposed to be open minded, We're supposed to feel
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  the pain, we're supposed to understand what. Well, apparently that
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  doesn't work for Jay Jones. So Jay was frustrated with
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  a lot of Republicans who had publicly said that they
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  had felt bad about this delegate's demise, and so this
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  text message goes wandering through the brambles and basically says
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  he wants to urinate. He said, if Todd Gilbert passes
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  away before me, I want to urinate on his grave.
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  If I only had two bullets, and I forget the
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  two I don't have. The actual text messages are rambling, bambling,
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  you know, as I said, beer goggles, sound other things.
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  But after saying he wanted to urinate on Todd Gilbert's grave,
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  he said, I have bullets, two bullets for Todd Gilbert
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  and his kids, at which point Delegate Coiners said would
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  you please stop in the text messages, to which Jay
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  Jones respondslol, which, for those who don't know, it's an
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  acronym for a laugh out loud, and then says, oh crap,
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  this was meant for Mark, whoever Mark is was supposed
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  to to be the person who he was sending this
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  text message to and herein lies my problem with all
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  the Democrats like Louise Lucas, leader of the Virginia Democrats titular,
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  who are saying these are horrific, But let's not forget
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  what's really at stake here, which is bringing justice to
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  the Attorney General's office. So they're still out there saying
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  j Jones should be the attorney general because Democrats have
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  checked their soul at the hatcheck counter. And here's where
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  I call bs on the Democrats that are out there
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  saying yeah. But because it appears that several of you,
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  whoever Mark Is, maybe Warner, whoever J Jones had been
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  texting with or had intended to send this text with,
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  knew that this is the kind of stuff J Jones said.
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  And he went through a primary system where he was
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  chosen amongst other Democrats, And this shows you the inner
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  workings of it. There were Democrats that knew of J.
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  Jones' attitude and perhaps even specifically this text message about
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  shooting Todd Gilbert, and none of them brought it up
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  during the primaries where he was chosen as their party's candidate.
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  Was it because he was out of central casting? Did
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  somebody in the Democratic Party of Virginia say he was
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  storybook man where people saying this guy's got a future,
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  he could be governor someday. And so they were convinced
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  that to ride those coattails, they'd keep mum about text
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  messages regarding shooting other members of the elected body. That's
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  the dark hearted black hole that I get most concerned about.
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• 24:22
  nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
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  reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
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  The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
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  has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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  help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
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  Speaker 10: I'm Andrews Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
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  warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
• 25:10
  Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
• 25:13
  will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
• 25:17
  personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
• 25:21
  are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
• 25:25
  threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
• 25:29
  call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
• 25:33
  your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
• 25:37
  or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
• 25:42
  or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
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  Speaker 13: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 12: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
• 26:06
  art and brain.
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: Who's with me?
• 26:08
  Speaker 13: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
• 26:11
  brain is saying when it's time to go home. Somebody
• 26:13
  call me a ride. Love that guy, me too.
• 26:16
  Speaker 14: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
• 26:19
  it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 15: Did you know that more than half our household energy
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  Speaker 14: For you.
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  Speaker 2: From Joe Thomas, It's first thing to do.
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  Speaker 7: But I'm here rider. Is this till time for forgiveness?
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  Won't you tell me? Could you do this? And I
• 28:32
  know a lot of folks have brought up Erica Kirk
• 28:36
  and her forgiveness point in the tribute couple of weeks
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  ago where she forgave the assassin who took her husband
• 28:45
  from her and leader of a movement of young people,
• 28:50
  and now comes this story out of Michigan, and I'm
• 28:54
  just throwing this out there. Could you do this beyond
• 28:58
  just forgiving? Could you raise money for the family of
• 29:02
  somebody who burned down one of your churches and shot
• 29:08
  the parishioners as they were trying to leave the burning building.
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  Speaker 17: Brady Wimbley reporting as the community continues to pour out
• 29:15
  its support on the victims of the attack on the
• 29:17
  LDS Church and Grand Blank, one man is doing a
• 29:21
  fundraiser for the suspect's family.
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  Speaker 7: What this is about is the teachings of Jesus Christ.
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  That is absolutely right.
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  Speaker 20: David Butler, an author based in Utah and member of
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  the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, was
• 29:36
  grieved upon learning of the attack on the LDS Church
• 29:40
  in Grand Blank Township and felt compelled to start a
• 29:43
  fundraiser in support of the suspect, Thomas Sandford's family, saying,
• 29:49
  they two are.
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  Speaker 7: They two are victims. So could you do that? I
• 29:55
  mean even beyond just forgiving. I mean I think a
• 29:58
  lot of us these days find it possible to even forgive.
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  What's the line from the Deadpool movies, I'm big unforget. No,
• 30:08
  it's not Deadpool, it's Red Notice. I'm big unforgiveness, not
• 30:11
  so much unforgetness. Could you do that? Could you could
• 30:15
  never mind forgive? Could you raise money? He's According to Butler,
• 30:22
  over a thousand people have given money to his fundraiser.
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  It's over three hundred thousand raised for the family of
• 30:31
  the assailant. I don't know if I'd like to think
• 30:37
  I could do something like that when I've never been
• 30:41
  wronged quite in that way. I've had some things go wrong.
• 30:44
  We may find out some things out of a courtroom
• 30:46
  in Central Virginia this morning. I don't know. But I
• 30:50
  don't know how much forgiveness I have, or forgettness for
• 30:54
  that matter. Bob and Moscow was calling it right as
• 30:57
  we were coming out of break. So I have absolutely
• 30:59
  no idea which is the way I like it. People
• 31:01
  are like, well, Joe, you know, you talk show hosts,
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  you have a call screener and you pick and choose,
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  and you cherry pick.
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  Speaker 18: No.
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  Speaker 7: I don't, no, I don't. I answer my own phones,
• 31:11
  partially because I'm a control freak, a morning bob. Sorry,
• 31:14
  I didn't have a chance to find out what you
• 31:15
  were calling about. So hit me with your best shot, Hey.
• 31:19
  Speaker 21: Hitting you with the best shot. They keep talking about
• 31:21
  the jobs report, all these reports that are coming out.
• 31:26
  They're a bunch of blowing because has when has one
• 31:30
  of these jobs report and they're saying how it affects
• 31:33
  the federal Reserve? When has one of these jobs reports
• 31:36
  not been revised after three months?
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: Well not even three months. Sometimes it only takes two
• 31:42
  or three weeks and you get a little notice. It's
• 31:46
  the classic, the headline on the front page jobs up
• 31:49
  and laate'st jobs report, and then three four weeks later,
• 31:52
  you know, a little story will appear on page fourteen. Yeah,
• 31:56
  jobs numbers readjusted down for statistical you know. And they're
• 32:03
  talking about actually turning this over to artificial intelligence to
• 32:08
  just pour through the data that gets sent in through
• 32:11
  the various tax organizations, But it's still statistics. You know,
• 32:18
  there were points where the economy was so woe begotten,
• 32:23
  yet the jobs numbers were quote okay, And some of
• 32:27
  it was because people were working two or three jobs.
• 32:31
  Still post COVID, Bob, you've got a lot of people
• 32:34
  who have three or four jobs. None of them are
• 32:37
  full time, but they they are one person holding down
• 32:41
  three or four quote jobs in these statistics. Right to survive, sure,
• 32:48
  but it's what we've always done. I mean the depression.
• 32:51
  You know, people were doing whatever people think. We invented
• 32:54
  the gig economy in twenty twenty. Now you go back
• 32:58
  and talk to people who have written the history of
• 33:01
  the depression. People were selling whatever they could at even
• 33:06
  without Etsy. People would get a table on the street
• 33:09
  corner and say, hey, I got this stuff, anyone give
• 33:12
  me a few cents for it, and whatever they could
• 33:15
  do to survive. It's a dangerous place because people in
• 33:19
  survival mode will do a lot of questionable things out
• 33:25
  of that desperation to survive. That's why a great free
• 33:29
  country has to be careful of that kind of economy.
• 33:32
  It's always been my view, but you were saying, right.
• 33:37
  Speaker 21: And it's just great how believable are they Can you
• 33:40
  really trust what they're recording? And it's just like anything
• 33:44
  that comes out of the government right now, can you
• 33:47
  believe anything they're telling us?
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: Well, it's I think we've grown to that jaded place, Bob,
• 33:53
  where what was Reagan's old line, I'm from the government,
• 33:57
  I'm here to help. Now it's if devolved to I'm
• 34:01
  from the government and I'm here to spin. Everything's got
• 34:04
  to be positive. And this is one of the things
• 34:07
  true about Donald Trump. Forever. Donald Trump will never say
• 34:12
  something is bad that he's doing. Everything has got to
• 34:16
  be positive because if he and his belief is built
• 34:21
  off of the idea that if he's not saying something
• 34:24
  is good, why would somebody else say something is good?
• 34:29
  So he you know, and people make jokes about President
• 34:32
  Trump all the time, say, oh, it's the best. There're
• 34:34
  coffee mugs you can buy online for Mother's Day. You're
• 34:38
  the greatest, and I mean this, all the other ones
• 34:40
  are complete loser's mother ever, and and so there's a
• 34:45
  certain tongue in cheek about it. But the but the
• 34:49
  sales pitching is just the price you pay I think
• 34:55
  for a democratic process in politics, everyone wants to be
• 34:59
  seen as the good guy. It's it's like this Jay
• 35:01
  Jones story, the Attorney General that text messaged people about
• 35:06
  shooting a member of the House of Delegates in the head.
• 35:10
  You know, his party leadership is out there saying sure,
• 35:14
  it's horrible, but and then they go on to it.
• 35:17
  But there are much more important things here than this,
• 35:20
  And this is winning the country, the Commonwealth back for
• 35:24
  check your soul at the door man, you know. But
• 35:27
  that's that's this. What do I compare it to Bobby?
• 35:30
  You've heard me say this before. This would be like
• 35:32
  asking the CEO of McDonald's, uh, which which his favorite
• 35:36
  hamburger was, and being surprised if it was the Big Mac.
• 35:40
  Really he chose the Big Mac. I can't imagine that.
• 35:44
  It's all sales pitching, it's all you know, it's a
• 35:47
  floor wax, it's a dessert topping. So you know, each
• 35:51
  each person's individual results vary, right, And that's why.
• 35:57
  Speaker 21: We everyone has to take any thing that comes out
• 36:01
  with the reports or anything tongue in cheek. I mean,
• 36:05
  has there have you even recorded or has anyone in
• 36:08
  the United States reported about Germany about pulling arresting on
• 36:13
  a German warrant the Ukrainian citizen that has been alleged
• 36:19
  to have sabotaged the nord Stream pipelines.
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: We've talked about it, you and I have. I know
• 36:24
  we had the news story in a blurb at one point.
• 36:28
  Speaker 21: Anyone, Yeah, but has anyone talked about it?
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: Because anyone except us? Is that what you're saying, Bob?
• 36:34
  Is that what you say? Anyone, anyone of any any gravity,
• 36:37
  Not this little BS radio program that I call all
• 36:40
  the time. You You can't be any good Joe. You
• 36:42
  take my phone calls all the time.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: It's it's that fear and self loathing that I love
• 36:47
  about you, Bob.
• 36:49
  Speaker 21: But the big thing is is it's just it goes
• 36:52
  to a bigger picture because they're not reporting about it.
• 36:55
  And now all the drones that have been pulling over Luxembourg,
• 36:59
  over Munit, Germany, and now today on the news they're
• 37:03
  saying it's all Russians. Come on, we are Technology in
• 37:06
  the United States is the best in the world, except
• 37:11
  maybe for Israel. We know exactly right now where those
• 37:15
  drones are coming from.
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: I don't doubt that either. But the question is is
• 37:22
  what can you prove? That's always the bigger issue is
• 37:25
  if there are drones, we'll report over the drones and
• 37:29
  wait to, you know, come up with some information. This
• 37:32
  is why the investigative journalism has to take place. I've
• 37:36
  got a break coming up here, Bob. I'm just needling you,
• 37:38
  by the way. Don't don't take it to heart, all right,
• 37:42
  you have a good morning, sir.
• 37:45
  Speaker 21: Thing. Yeah, one quick thing. Curse wife, Charlie Curse's wife
• 37:51
  did the exact same thing that John Paul the Seconds
• 37:53
  did after he was shot.
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he actually went and visited the guy in prison.
• 37:58
  Thank you, Bob.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
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  Speaker 18: Sh Do you smell that?
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  Speaker 5: No word in English language is less convincing than probably.
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  Speaker 19: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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  Speaker 4: Sure?
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  Speaker 11: We'll probably stay together.
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  Speaker 7: Probably, it's been twenty three minutes since I ate. I
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  Speaker 4: You should wait thirty minutes. Okay, I'll tell me what
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  Speaker 7: Can it bar.
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  Speaker 7: Oh? I have a cramp. I can probably hit the
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  Speaker 2: Probably?
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  Speaker 7: I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
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  In out of loll that's fine, but just you tell
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  Many more coming, I think November. First down the Treasure Coast,
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  Speaker 21: So it was.
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  Speaker 7: Concerning to me as we head into October and we
• 46:47
  get towards further and further in to this election season,
• 46:52
  and I thought there was an interesting note. Normally post
• 46:56
  a presidential election, whether it's twenty twenty one or twenty seventeen,
• 47:03
  there's a lot of attention on New Jersey and Virginia
• 47:08
  scubernatorial races because they are right there. Boom the next
• 47:13
  big thing the Bell Weather and both. This revelation about
• 47:22
  Mickey Cheryl's ethics violations in the Naval Academy, along with
• 47:28
  President Trump being at the Navy base in Norfolk for
• 47:32
  the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Navy, brought
• 47:36
  thoughts on ethics to me, because we complain a lot.
• 47:46
  If we didn't have ethically challenged elected officials, what world
• 47:51
  would we talk about all morning? I mean, we'd be
• 47:54
  doing movie reviews. But these ethically challenged souls like Louise Lucas,
• 48:02
  the drug dealing head of the Virginia Democrats, and I
• 48:08
  mean that truthfully, she has one of them head shop
• 48:11
  kind of scurriless. You know, oh it's THC vapes or not.
• 48:18
  She got caught selling actual THHC laced snack bars made
• 48:26
  out of fruit loops. Can you imagine such a thing.
• 48:31
  You know, it's bad enough you get the munchies from
• 48:33
  the stuff allegedly, not that I would know or anything,
• 48:39
  but you're getting it in a fruit loops.
• 48:43
  Speaker 21: Bar?
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: I mean, is it? Fruit loops weren't bad enough? For you,
• 48:46
  let's cover them in high fructose corn syrup and then
• 48:51
  lace it with THC. So Louise Lucas got in big
• 48:55
  trouble because her head shops were selling this stuff against
• 48:59
  the law in Virginia. But she's still the head titular
• 49:02
  head of the Virginia Democrats, and she's out there saying, well, yeah,
• 49:06
  Jay Lucas's texts about shooting Todd Gilbernland head are scandalous, sure,
• 49:13
  but we've got bigger issues that's her phrase, quote, bigger
• 49:17
  issues at foot And the same thing is happening in
• 49:20
  New Jersey with Mickey Cheryl. And we sit here and
• 49:23
  then we navel gaze over why we have a pun
• 49:27
  not intended there over why we have our problems with
• 49:33
  these multiple multifaceted elected officials who seem to stick their finger,
• 49:41
  their moistened finger in the air to see which way
• 49:43
  the wind is blowing. And then we'll tell you whatever
• 49:45
  they think the room wants to hear, because we keep
• 49:49
  electing people who are suborting ethics violations, saying well, I
• 49:56
  caught somebody cheating, you know, And here there's several folks
• 50:01
  have made this comment to me because I've brought up
• 50:03
  the Mickey Cheryl story out of New Jersey in the Navy. Joe,
• 50:07
  you weren't supposed to know about that. It was one
• 50:09
  of the more common ones that would come from Dean
• 50:12
  by text message last week when we were talking about it. Yeah,
• 50:19
  it was all redacted, but people knew we weren't supposed
• 50:23
  to know about Jay Jones. He was supposed to be
• 50:25
  sending this to some Democrat friend of his name, Mark,
• 50:28
  not a fellow Republican from the General Assembly. We weren't
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  supposed to know about these things doesn't mean they're not there.
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  And one of the things that Madison baked into the
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  cake as opposed to injected into the fruit loops cookie
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  bar was a firewall to this because I hear from
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  people all the time, well, Joe, what are you gonna do?
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  People are corruptible. That's why we're not supposed to be
• 50:59
  giving them so much power. So one of the things
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  that we love about the Trump administration is he seems
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  like he's taking power away from all these ethically challenged souls.
• 51:12
  While they all run around saying Emolument's Clause, he's violating that. Well,
• 51:17
  now it's the Hatch Act. Now they've got Hatch Act Jesus,
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  because apparently some out of office messages said we are
• 51:24
  not at the office right now because of the partial
• 51:27
  government shutdown brought on by the Democratic Party, and now
• 51:31
  they're saying that's a Hatch Act violation. Campaigning with a
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  government office with these folks who turned the other way,
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  Eric Holder laughable as we started the program out and
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  we'll come back to this in a little bit. Great
• 51:50
  comment over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a whole range of things that worry me
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  a great deal. The politicization of the Justice Department.
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  Speaker 7: And I love the fact that he didn't say that,
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  you know, Pam Bondi is doing no, no, He's just
• 52:05
  saying it's been politicized.
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  Speaker 21: How do I know?
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  Speaker 7: I was the Justice Department for a while. I ought
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  to know. Go look up crossfire, hurricane kids. But none
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  of these people are supposed to hold the authority over
• 52:21
  our lives. The analogy I make in this particular blood sport,
• 52:28
  where we're watching more and more people do violence based
• 52:31
  on politics, is we're all drug addicts that have been
• 52:35
  convinced by the pusher that if we don't protect them
• 52:40
  from the DEA agent, we're not going to be able
• 52:45
  to get our fix anymore? So what do you expect
• 52:48
  us to do? Huh? In today's troubled world? Are USA
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  way of life?
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