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"Through the Black Mirror" (Friday September 12, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Nothing at the note amaze your friends here in the
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first thing Today by Joe Thomas Jord.
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Speaker 2: Said, steal me step every day at least for work.
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When the sun comes up, drops a pet to scoop
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the nights.
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Speaker 1: Joey is everything agenda all the Joses seven needs.
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Speaker 2: No one that Josea is smile he only as.
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Speaker 3: Joe.
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Speaker 4: Bless you for letting us be of service to you.
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This morning. We tell you the news.
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Speaker 5: We'll break down the news into easily digestible gummies and
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then figure out how it's impacting you. And most of
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that investigation is done by our tip line at four
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three four eight eight two four two one seven. You know,
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blowing your whistle on yourself is still being a whistleblower,
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but gaulin let us know how the news is impacting
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you where you are. You can also use that as
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a text message hotline Bob in Oregon. They who degrade
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or compromise the truth in order to reach larger numbers
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dishonor God and deeply injure the souls of men. I
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don't disagree with the sentiment. Who is the philosopher aw Towzer.
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They sent the quote from Bob I don't disagree with
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the statement. The problem is we've lost the grasp that
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our souls are important. We've become so transactional. From where
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I sit, and not all of us, just too many,
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notable ones of us have become so transactional. It is
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not the majority by any stretch of the imagination, but
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it's the majority of the people who seem to get
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attention have grown a healthy disregard for souls. Souls don't
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mean anything. We've become transactional in everything we do, and
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that is an infection that spreads little by little. This
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is the Overton window. We do this and then people
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are like, well, I mean, it seems mainstream. This is
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what we were told in twenty sixteen twenty seventeen about
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Russian and Chinese bot farms. Sewing Division member of Congress
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at the time told us that the Intel Committee had
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told him directly they had documented intel that bot farmers
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in Saint Petersburg and Beijing were sowing discontent by creating
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these accounts that looked like they had thousands and thousands
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of retweets, so that somebody would see article with tens
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of thousands of retweets and they'd say, wow, I gotta
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be real that wouldn't be retweeted so much when really
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it was just a setup to make you think that
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this was a mainstream thought. And you have to be
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the judicious consumer, you have to vet, you have to
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and this has always been the case. I think we've
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forgotten to a degree, and we'll spend some time with this.
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Also visit with members of the Trans Siberian Orchestra today.
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An arbiter of the world of radio. What was the
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importance of Charlie Kirk and radio? I know it seems
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somewhat self congratulatory to say this, but Charlie Kirk's popularity,
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though certainly great with Turning Point, had exploded as he
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moved into the oldest of mass media consumptions, the.
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Speaker 4: Great hot media of radio. So we'll get into that
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as well.
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Speaker 5: Bob and Farmville, Chair of the House, a freedom concaus former,
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all of that, but our first things this morning. Katari
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Prime Minister Sheik Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman al Tani will
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be visiting Washington today as expected to meet with President Trump,
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Vice President Vance Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Special
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and Voy Steve Whitkoff. This comes on the heels of
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the Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Cutter. President Trump
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urged supporters yesterday to respond peacefully to the killing of
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right wing and campus activist Charlie Kirk. The murderer continues
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to evade manhunt after twenty four hours, though now there
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is home security footage of someone that the FBI says
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is the person of interest, and there are reports that
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they have recovered the rifle and handprint.
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Speaker 4: The FBI does have a hotline now.
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Speaker 5: Available for anyone in the orum Utah area that might
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have information or information in general from a social media account,
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and a one hundred thousand dollars bounty. You can call
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one eight hundred call FBI, or go to FBI dot gov.
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Slash Utah Valley shooting. In twenty twenty one, as Newark
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Liberty Airport's old Terminal A was demolished, the staff preserved
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the sign for Gate A seventeen. That was the gate
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that United Flight ninety three departed from. That's the flight
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that came down on September eleventh, two thousand and one,
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in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, brought down by passengers having heard what
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had already happened at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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Speaker 4: The sign was.
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Speaker 5: Officially put up as part of the display at the
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National Park Service Flight ninety three National Memorial yesterday. A
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federal appeals court cleared the way Thursday for President Trump
6:13
and the administration to implement a provision of his tax
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cut and spending bill that would deprive planned parenthood of
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medicaid funding. Boston based First US Circuit Court of Appeals
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agreed to put on hold an injunction issued by a
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lower court in July. US budget deficit for August fell
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thirty five billion dollars, or nine percent. This is being
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touted as proof that the tariffs are having an impact
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on the receipts. They came in at about twenty two
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point five billion dollars for the month, and the Brazilian
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Supreme Court voted to convict former president har baal Sorrow
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any nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing
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or 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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cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
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in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
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healthy cells even from radiation. Total wellness dot com where
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we help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy
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warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
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Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
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personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
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are not from US. Real Social Security employees will never
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threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
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call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
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your personal information like your Social Security number or bank account,
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or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
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or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
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Speaker 12: Bruh, that's buzzed.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody
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call me a ride.
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Call for a ride when it's time to go home.
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Speaker 1: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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Speaker 14: Something wrong with.
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Speaker 12: The world today.
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Speaker 7: I don't know what it is.
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Speaker 2: Something's wrong with us?
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Speaker 4: Oh, I actually do think I know what it is.
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Speaker 18: Say things in a different way.
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Speaker 2: God knows it is.
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Speaker 4: Showing no surprise.
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Speaker 2: We live in only.
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Speaker 5: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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How is the news hitting you where you live? How
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is it dealing with your day to day paying the bills?
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And we're entering this place where radio what we do
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is unfortunately going to get a lot of negative reaction
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because we will move forward with the day, while television
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and print and the internet is going to remain in
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auram Utah for probably if I had to hazard a
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prognostication at least the next week, if not month. For
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my Jewish friends, this is sort of a societal sitting shiva.
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Whereas you and me, my responsibility to you is to
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not just do unending stories about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Can you tell me if you would prefer for us
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to do nothing but talk about the assassination of Charlie
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Kirk for however long it gets to where you're bored
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with it and it's not serving your purpose.
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Speaker 4: I get it.
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Speaker 5: I also get the fact that our perspective on it
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is different than an awful lot of people. And that's
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just how I dissect the news for you. As I
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always say, your results may vary. Of course, that's only
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one of the many side effects of treating your mornings
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with first thing today by Joe Thomas, programs for last
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that more than four hours should be treated by a
15:30
physician as well. The blowback, the investigation, the watching, the detectives,
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all of this is going to go on.
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Speaker 4: We will report these stories.
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Speaker 5: As they come in The Rifle Found in the Woods,
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sorting through what is Internet scuttle butt versus what is
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in hell? The Internet which has always been a dark mirror,
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a black mirror, if you will, borrowing from the TV
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show in the Well, and the TV show took it
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from what the Internet is? The Internet is a black
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mirror into our souls. What you see on the Internet
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is you. And I'm not going to indulge a lot
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of these trolls who sing along with Broadway show tunes
16:31
from the Musical Chicago or threaten other conservative activists. I'm
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not going to indulge their time. I'm not going to
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add to their notoriety anymore than if they ever figure
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out who this murderer is, am I going to add
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his notoriety. The only exception I made was Bobby the
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Milwaukee the Minneapolis murderer. Bobby the Minneapolis Murderer is specifically
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because I know his memory is tormented by the name Bobby,
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and that's fine with me. We're going to talk about
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the impact of Charlie Kirk in ways. There are still
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things to discuss, the importance of Charlie Kirk, the importance
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of you know, how he built, what he did, and
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how it goes further. That's important. What happens next, who
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carries the mantle? And if you look at the multitudes
17:40
at the Turning Point USA events, there's a vigil. I'm
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going to be going to a vigil on Sunday with
17:47
a local Turning Point USA group that there are people
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who carry on in its wake. But like the other
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flashpoint event that dominated yesterday's program, September eleventh, two thousand
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and one, I think supposed to I feel, which would
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qualify me to get on MSNBC by this is how
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I feel. I know how I feel, but I stop
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and think and sort the feel out into its appropriate
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jars for your service.
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Speaker 4: Of course, I.
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Speaker 5: Think that we need to be careful because what we
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did in the response to September eleventh, two thousand and
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one has grown into our response to the SARS Cove
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two lab leak, unintentional bat Soup bat Soup crazy. How
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we reacted to that how we reacted to September eleventh
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gave birth to the idea of how we were going
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to react to the WU flu, and not just through
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the Patriot Act, but through our own behaviors. The Patriot
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Act is just a tool used by the people to
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tweak our behaviors to get the desired.
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Speaker 4: Results, like itching powder on our societal skin.
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Speaker 5: So we will certainly have other things to cover in
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the assassination of Charlie Kirk, but it will not dominate
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our time the way it is already some news networks.
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I will not give notoriety to the trolls who are
20:05
out there singing he had it coming from the Chicago
20:13
soundtrack and things like that. But the black mirror that
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we look into as we open up the internet, first
20:29
and most importantly, begins with political parties. Yes, political parties who,
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as this program has said countless times over the twenty
20:44
years it's existed in this Virginia based, Charlottesville based manifestation,
20:55
are so hell bent on being next to the bag
20:58
of other people's money that they set us against one another.
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This elected monarchy that we create has this on either
21:17
side of the hill. And as God as my witness,
21:19
this is not the first time we've had this discussion
21:22
about how it's like we're two armies on either side
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of a field running towards each other with our metaphorical broadswords,
21:33
hacking at each other, and every now and then somebody
21:36
does something less metaphorical, like we saw an or a utah.
21:43
They are, truly, if I mix the metaphors here, the
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ones who have started this bar fight so that they
21:50
can rob the till while we're all brawling on the floor,
21:54
and they can sneak out the back door, And they're
21:56
the ones that I will continue to hold in contempt
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for this.
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Speaker 9: Forty Considered by most optimized curcumin is one of the
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few bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market.
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I am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation,
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our optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to
24:21
any nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing
24:26
or 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,
24:36
has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer and
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in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
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healthy cells even from radiation. Totalwellness dot com where we
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help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
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Speaker 10: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Solid Security. I'm here to
25:05
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 Social 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,
25:38
or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
25:42
or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
25:46
enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
25:51
dot SSA dot gov.
25:55
Speaker 21: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
25:56
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
26:00
Speaker 21: And now a speech.
26:02
Speaker 14: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
26:06
art and brain.
26:07
Speaker 2: Who's with me?
26:08
Speaker 13: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed and my.
26:11
Speaker 14: Brain is saying, when it's time to go home, somebody
26:14
call me a ride.
26:15
Speaker 21: Love that guy, me too.
26:16
Speaker 15: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
26:19
it's time to go home.
26:20
Speaker 2: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
26:23
Speaker 16: Did you know that more than half our household energy
26:26
costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
26:30
good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
26:34
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
26:36
energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
26:40
learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
26:44
That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
26:47
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
26:50
improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
26:54
when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
26:57
energy star logo and read the energy guide later. And
27:01
there are day to day things you can do. Lower
27:03
your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
27:06
close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
27:09
air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
27:13
reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green.
27:18
A tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
27:21
protection agency.
27:24
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always been their hero, find the care guides you need
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to help at AARP dot org slash caregiving.
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Speaker 9: Hope you enjoyed your meal, and I just want to
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say he's lucky to have a.
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Speaker 22: Blood like you.
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Speaker 2: Lucky.
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Speaker 3: Caring for my brother is far from easy, but he's
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a part of me, like my arms and legs, so
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I'll be his no time.
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Speaker 2: For't tired. Nothing can disable this love. He needs me.
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But I'm a lucky one, even though I need help.
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Speaker 12: Known.
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for your strength.
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Speaker 1: At First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Tonk
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Media Network.
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Speaker 4: Thank you for letting me be of service to you.
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Speaker 5: Understanding and maybe this is my problem, if there is
28:33
a problem with me that I understand, perhaps more tenuously
28:37
than anyone else, that while I have a right to
28:40
speak freely, I don't have a right to be listened to,
28:43
and I have to be of service to you. Will
28:44
break down the news the Katari president, the indictment of
28:50
the Brazilian former Brazilian president, all of that, but more
28:54
importantly this, as I said, this Battle of bannock Burn,
29:00
that we're being turned into every four years, every two years, really, Congression,
29:05
Oh you got to have our that I have pointed
29:11
out over a decade now that this is indicative of
29:15
a government that has grown disproportionately important. So you have
29:22
leftists telling their supporters that if Conservatives get majorities in
29:28
the House, Senate or the presidency, they're going to lose
29:32
their ability to oh, I don't know, get health care,
29:36
you know, be treated for cancer, get a job, be
29:42
who they feel like they are, and.
29:44
Speaker 4: All these things that aren't true.
29:47
Speaker 5: And to be fair and honest with you, conservatives, you know,
29:51
will you know, go out and tell their supporters that
29:55
the left is going to take all their money and
29:58
give it to someone else. Unfortunately, sometimes in the life
30:00
like Bernie Sanders says, well.
30:02
Speaker 4: Yo, that's exactly what I want to do. And if
30:06
you point out the.
30:09
Speaker 5: Mistakes of Marxism, that Marxism is the only political ideology
30:15
that comes with body bags, it's not to say to
30:18
somebody you're a bad person for believing in Marxism. I
30:22
get it. If you don't have, and you've fallen prey
30:25
to your vice of envy because the politicians that need
30:31
your vote to get into the power place where all
30:33
the other people's money.
30:35
Speaker 4: Is that they can traffick in. I get it.
30:37
Speaker 5: They tell you, oh, look, these guys have so much
30:40
more than you. Why do you think that is? I
30:43
will be your champion and they won't. And this is
30:48
something that sadly, Charlie Kirk was doing so eloquently. And
30:54
Janel Jelinik is back at Epoch times in the newsmaker's line,
31:00
but before I get to him and talk about political
31:03
assassination and the irony of the fact that the one guy,
31:07
the one guy who never got a dinner. No, I'm
31:11
sorry Red Buttons fans, but the one guy who did
31:15
what the leftists always tell me, you know, the the
31:20
faren Thorpe's and all these folks who do these open
31:23
mind society meetings and oh we have to listen to
31:26
one another, Charlie Kirk, who was the one guy who
31:28
was actually doing it, and winds up getting mocked on
31:33
Comedy Central and the uh was it?
31:36
Speaker 4: South Park? South Park's polled all of their episodes, but
31:40
of course the Internet being that black mirror.
31:43
Speaker 5: Uh still has all those streaming episodes where I think
31:47
Cartman is playing Charlie King.
31:49
Speaker 4: Me dig night.
31:51
Speaker 5: And you know, oops, sorry, we may have gone too far.
31:57
You know, lampoon is one thing. Satire is fine. It's
32:02
a good sign, just like Gallo's humor is a good
32:05
sign of a healthy society. But it's the reaction I
32:11
won't I will not disavow this murderer's responsibility. Don't blame
32:17
the rifle, don't blame the Comedy Central shows, don't blame
32:21
the black mirror of the Internet. We have to start
32:24
getting back to being responsible for who the hell we
32:27
are and what the hell we do, because we're going
32:30
to fill up hell pretty quickly if we don't.
32:33
Speaker 4: First though, to you.
32:34
Speaker 5: At four three four eight eight two four two one seven,
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stand and deliver Good morning.
32:39
Speaker 4: Who's this on the air? First thing this morning?
32:42
Speaker 23: Good morning, Joe, it's Joel.
32:44
Speaker 4: Hey Joel, you have a pep in your step this morning?
32:46
Speaker 5: Is drinking some of that first free in the morning coffee.
32:51
Speaker 23: No, I don't have a yet, but when I if,
32:54
I whenever I get my new position. I haven't applied
32:57
yet for anything yet, but I'll definitely, yes, subscribe.
33:00
Speaker 5: The world needs nurses. I can't believe that there are
33:03
unemployed nurses in the world. The world needs more nurses.
33:08
Speaker 12: Well, yeah, it's kind of like with your job.
33:11
Speaker 23: You want to get the right you want to get
33:13
in the right area, right place and write. With nursing,
33:16
there's so many variables. But what I what I wanted
33:19
to bring up because I know the limited time on
33:21
speaking with you know, commercials and stuff, but I just
33:24
wanted to say this, what what do you think at
33:27
a radio and TV and when you hear and see things.
33:32
What is the most important audience that we have to Uh,
33:36
you know that that it affects.
33:39
Speaker 5: The most import important audience for anyone? Is is that
33:45
what you're asking?
33:46
Speaker 12: Yeah?
33:46
Speaker 4: Who would you say? It affects the most? I'd like it. Yeah,
33:53
it's funny.
33:54
Speaker 5: I'm going to be talking a little while with editor
33:56
of talk radio trade paper and and we were joking,
34:01
joking and the planning of it. When people ask me
34:03
what my target audience is, I said everyone, if you're awake,
34:08
I want you listening. As a matter of fact, if
34:10
you're asleep, leave the radio on. But I think the
34:14
most important audience to reach is young people exactly.
34:19
Speaker 23: And that's what I was going to say, because I
34:22
remember things. When I was three, I remember we were
34:26
like probably three and a half four. We took a
34:29
train from from a Union terminal Cincinnati to Grand Central
34:33
Station in New York City. Nice, and it was yeah,
34:37
and we were going there to go visit my grandmother
34:39
in the Bronx. But also with all that, with all
34:43
those thoughts and pictures and smells and sounds, when you
34:47
when you get to places, you hear. The first thing
34:49
I remember was you hear radio, you hear commercials, you
34:52
hear then you TV. Certain people you remember for certain cliches,
34:57
certain words. So I just wanted to say that that
35:03
if if young children are hearing educators, if hearing things
35:07
on radio and TV, hopefully it's things that's going to
35:11
help them develop and and change them to be to
35:15
be a productive and a worthwhile human being, because they're
35:20
the future of our nation and they're the future of
35:25
the world. And I've never had children, I'm not married,
35:28
but I know how a lot of things influenced me
35:31
and the way I think.
35:33
Speaker 5: The You know, it's interesting you talk about media, and
35:37
I hope that your mom and dad interacted with you
35:40
while the media was impacting you. I know mine did,
35:43
and I know that my wife and I did with
35:45
our kids that you know, when my son was born.
35:49
I've told this story. It's funny story to me. We
35:53
were those parents. We were the parents that, oh, our
35:56
children will never watch television, and we managed to make
36:02
it like three four months something like that until George
36:06
Carlin met my son, and I mean the actual George
36:10
Carlin and he I had no idea because.
36:13
Speaker 4: We were ignoring television.
36:14
Speaker 5: So are you watching Thomas the Train He had become
36:18
the presenter, the storyteller on britt Alcroft's Thomas the Tank
36:24
Engine stories.
36:24
Speaker 4: So we're like, well, I guess you know.
36:26
Speaker 5: So we went and started getting the but we watched
36:29
the stories with our kid all the way through things
36:33
like SpongeBob's SquarePants. I would watch with my kids and
36:38
make points of oh, that's funny because of this. And
36:41
so they now as their adults and they see training
36:44
videos at their jobs, like, oh, that's like what dad said.
36:47
Speaker 4: It is true. It is mockery and especially satire.
36:51
Speaker 5: You want to sit and help the kid digest the media,
36:56
because if you just leave the kid with the media,
36:59
they become like, uh, was we have a listener fellow
37:03
listener and named Mike. He calls himself Mike Radio instead
37:06
of was the kid in uh Willie Wonka was Mike TV?
37:13
And uh and so we have Mike Radio that listens frequently, but.
37:17
Speaker 4: But you know Mike TV.
37:19
Speaker 5: The point of Roll Donalds caricature was that if the
37:23
kid just is left to be raised by the television
37:27
or now this black mirror of the internet, you're going
37:31
to get what you get and parents.
37:33
Speaker 4: Need to be engaged through this.
37:35
Speaker 5: It's the most important eighteen year job you're ever going
37:38
to have. But you're right, I have to pay my bills. Here, Joel,
37:41
good stuff, my friend. Thanks Joe hanging there, my buddy
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Speaker 1: Twist for you from Joe Thomas. It's First Thing Today.
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Speaker 4: Thank you for letting me be of service to you.
44:19
Speaker 5: And I told you that because I have dear friends
44:22
in this band that's a legend, Trans Siberian Orchestra. We
44:26
have a very unique opportunity through First Thing Today, and
44:32
it's going to give you an opportunity to see the
44:35
band where you are for the first time in all
44:37
the years I've known the band. We have an affiliate
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list and find a show where they're going to be
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playing and we have tickets for you to go see them.
45:10
Joel Hoakstra, lead guitar player, is on the band, is
45:14
on the phone with us this morning getting ready.
45:17
Speaker 4: Tickets just went on sale. How's the summer been, Joel?
45:21
Speaker 12: Oh great. I mean I've got a really busy year
45:24
guitar wise. I always stay really active musically, just you know,
45:29
obviously out of desperation to make a living as a
45:32
guitar player I often joke, but also just out of
45:36
my will and want to improve as a musician on
45:39
a daily basis. So yeah, man, you know, it started
45:42
out great having I played with Share at the SNL
45:45
fifty homecoming concert. Share somebody I've been playing with for
45:48
a number of years, and counciled a rock and roll
45:51
fantasy camp, recorded my own album. I'm recording a couple
45:55
albums right now that are sort of all star class
46:00
rocker type projects, one called Revolution Saints Sets with Dean
46:03
Castronovo from Journey and Jeff Pilson from Foreigner. So you know,
46:07
still stay busy and working NonStop. And you know, I
46:12
if I want, I could tell you the entire year
46:14
and it get old in a hurry here, But Yeah,
46:17
just kind of constantly busy, and obviously they know the
46:20
big the big finish to every year is getting together
46:23
with everybody at Tso it's it's just got its own
46:27
special energy. It's like it's not like anything else that
46:30
I'm a part of really in any way, shape or form.
46:33
It's just so unique and continues to be. Really one
46:38
of the best moves I've ever made was joining trans
46:41
Iberian Orchestra back in twenty ten, and here I am
46:43
all these years later, and just so many great experiences,
46:47
met so many wonderful people, not just the musicians but
46:49
the fans, and we're glad. You know, our signing line
46:53
is back this year. That's kind of a big deal.
46:54
Speaker 27: I don't know if you've ever seen that, but yeah,
46:58
after every evening show you have an opportunity to come
47:00
through and meet the band, shake our hands, have a
47:02
sign whatever you want, take pictures, et cetera, things of
47:05
that nature.
47:05
Speaker 12: So you know, we're excited to have that come back.
47:09
Obviously that kind of got shelved during the COVID years
47:12
and then maybe as a protective measure even in subsequent years, hoping, hey,
47:17
we don't want to derail the tour. Here of the
47:19
band gets sick and have it go down, so they've
47:22
been cautious. But now we're getting back into it this
47:25
year and you get back out there and doing that.
47:27
So we're excited about that. And we've got that great
47:29
Ghost to Christmas Eve story on the front half this year,
47:32
which is, you know, musically a greatest hits or a
47:35
best of if you will. So if you've never seen
47:37
us before, it's a good year to hear all the
47:39
popular songs, all the songs that put us on the
47:42
map and made us who we are today. And then
47:44
you know, we have obviously an incredible production. As always,
47:49
we're always thinking bigger and better and yeah always And
47:53
in the back half, it's the twenty fifth anniversary of
47:55
the Beethoven's Last Night record, so I think people can
47:58
expect some of that record and holy and uh yeah,
48:03
I know there's some music that hasn't been performed in
48:06
over a decade that we're going to be playing. So
48:09
we're excited. It's it's gonna be just fresh enough. It's
48:12
that delicate balance between having that element of tradition for
48:16
everybody that this is the tso I know and love,
48:18
and also like not not wanting to make it mundane
48:21
in the same exact show every year, So we try
48:23
to reinvent it for people.
48:25
Speaker 5: And there's the lead guitar man, and you and Chris
48:29
do such a great job on tour, and of course
48:32
Alba Trelli the the evolution that I think TSO. You
48:39
know when we when history is written of rock and roll,
48:41
there's the TSO is going to have a special place
48:44
that that link between you know, just Chuck Berry and
48:48
you know, three chords and you know a backbeat to
48:52
this elevation and you talk about doing Beethoven's Last Night,
48:56
uh and and there's so much of just the Christmas
49:00
albums are.
49:02
Speaker 4: Classically thorough.
49:05
Speaker 5: And I've talked to music teachers and they say that
49:07
the greatest part is to show kids, Look, that's a
49:10
guitar player who's playing something that probably here to before
49:14
TSO came along, was the harpsichord or the harp or
49:19
the piano. And you know, in these concertos for electric guitar,
49:25
nobody would have ever imagined it before you guys put
49:28
it out on the stage. And I can't believe it's
49:29
been twenty five years since Beethoven's Last Night was released.
49:35
That's that's stunning to me. But to your credit that.
49:39
Speaker 4: Next step in the electric guitar. Your fingerprints are all
49:43
over at Joel Hostra.
49:45
Speaker 12: Oh, thank you so much. I mean, Paul O'Neill's vision,
49:48
I think, was to have something that brought people together.
49:51
So the music is even as such. I mean, it's
49:53
obviously i'd say rock at the core, but the theatricality
49:57
of it is unique. Yeah, certainly the influx of classical
50:01
music that you're speaking about, and I think at times
50:03
there's even R and B influences on some of the materials.
50:07
So there's a lot there. There's a lot there to
50:10
bring people together. As the cliche with go, there's something
50:12
in the show for everyone, right, but it really does
50:16
ring true with TSL. I think it's amazing how people
50:19
can watch the show and there's different things for different
50:22
people that they really gravitate towards. I think our older
50:25
audiences really loved the story, puts them in the holiday spirit.
50:29
The kids love the visuals of it. Man all the
50:31
pyro and the laser light show happening, and all the
50:34
performers on the hydraulic lifts out performing over the crowd
50:37
and running through the crop playing directly for.
50:39
Speaker 4: Them ac YEA.
50:42
Speaker 12: Guys like me are just like, hey, this is a
50:43
cool rock concert.
50:44
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's all it is everybody, and it is
50:48
really you know, what we all need each year. It
50:51
seems like every year we need it. And thank god
50:54
you're still doing it, Joel Hochstra. Again, I suggest you
50:58
go to Trans Dash Siberian Die Calm or Live Nation
51:02
to get tickets for yourself.
51:04
Speaker 4: But enter before you do that, and we'll.
51:06
Speaker 5: Start doing drawings in a little while for all these
51:09
shows from Salt Lake City and San Antonio and you name.
51:15
Speaker 4: It, all these shows where we're doing.
51:18
Speaker 5: Manchester, New Hampshire and three different shows in Florida that
51:23
we have affiliates in the cities of. So we're gonna
51:26
get tickets for that. And TSO Trans Siberian Orchestra is
51:29
so generous to make this opportunity available for us, Joel.
51:33
I can't wait to turn the key for a whole
51:36
bunch of people who have never seen you before into
51:40
you know, TSO devotays that need to do what my
51:45
family does every year. And bless you, sir, and thank
51:49
you for taking some time and getting the band back together.
51:52
Speaker 12: Man, well, thank you for your time, man, and everything
51:56
you've done for us over the years, helping us spread
51:59
the word. We really appreciate you very much, so Dave,
52:02
thank you and appreciate the conversation. And I hope you
52:06
have a great day and a great rest of the
52:08
year and hope to see its show.
52:09
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, no, we will be there.
52:10
Speaker 5: Actually, I think my wife and I were going to
52:12
be going to the one in Queens, New York again
52:16
for this one, just if we have to travel. I
52:19
know you guys are playing in Washington, d C. Which
52:21
is near our flagship station, but I've got so much
52:24
for so many family and friends in New York that
52:27
you'll probably see us out at the IBS Center. I mean,
52:30
I'm sorry Ubs Center in Queen's for that show.
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