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"When Reverend Al Shows Up..." (Tuesday September 9, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: I've down to you, has said and been in loot
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  with things that I've later said because misunderstood.
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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 Smille Jewort.
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  Speaker 3: Said, steal men every day at least for work.
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  Speaker 7: He only ask.
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  Speaker 8: Let me be Jae. Thank you for letting me be
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  of service to you this morning. I want to be
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  here hold these truths. We break down the news for
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  really is part and parcel of how we grow and
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  See what happens when you make everything about the government.
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  So our first things this morning, and we'll get into that.
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  We'll actually go a reference back to the voice you
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  heard at the opening of the program, the great Al Sharpton.
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  He and I go way back, and I thought that
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  Associated Press spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying the
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  European Union leaders want President Trump to exert significant actions
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  to end the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russian forces strut
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  a thermal power generation facility in the Kiev area as
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  part of an overnight raid. Ukraine's energy ministry said it
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  led to blackouts and gas outages through the city. Federal
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  Appeals Court ruled Monday that nineteen mostly Democrat led States
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  lacks standing to challenge President Donald Trump's decision to fire
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  nearly twenty five thousand probationary government workers. The ruling came
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  down two to one in the Richmond based Rocket Dock
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  at Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals. It returned a
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  preliminary injunction to a lower court with orders to dismiss.
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  President Trump's approval rating rose two percentage points according to
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  the same CBS News Yugov poll that said fifty seven
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  percent of Americans disagreed with his use of the National
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  Guard puzzlement, though that may be His approval rating went
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  up the largest amongst independents, from thirty three to thirty
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  seven percent. President Trump announced Monday in a speech that
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  his administration will issue new guidance to provide quote total
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  protection for prayer in public schools. He said that the
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  Justice Department's Religious Liberty Commission and the Department of Education
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  Supreme Court allowed Donald Trump on Monday and the administration
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  from her post. She was appointed by Joe Biden. Rebecca
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  Speaker 1: You said in them barbicon that I've lab said from
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  this on the.
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  Speaker 2: First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 8: You know I'm not even interested in what Al was doing.
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  Thank you for letting me be of service to you
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  this morning, pompous. When baggery as a business model has
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  always been a part of human existence, there's always somebody
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  who insists that you must do what they say because well,
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  they say, so I know you're pointing your crooked finger
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  at the radio and saying, Jack Ques, I'm telling you,
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  I live in that industry, and you know we got
• 14:21
  to lay it out there for you and live with it.
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  And so I was curious because Zohan mad Money was
• 14:29
  sitting down with Al Sharpton, and if there are two
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  people in the world that probably should have had some
• 14:34
  sort of containment wall built around them while they were
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  in the room together, it's Zohann mad Money who's running
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  for mayor of New York, and the right Reverend Al
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  Sharpton not nearly as corpulent as he was in the
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  day when I first met him in Pu Kipsie. And
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  so when I heard Al open his interview with mad
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  Money saying.
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  Speaker 1: That I've down through the years said and been involved
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  in things that I've later said was misunderstood.
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  Speaker 8: Like I don't know the fact that you supported Tawana
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  Brawley in her case and her testimony that you had
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  been kidnapped and gang rape by a couple of New
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  York State troopers. Al you mean you mean like that,
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  or that you had a license as a minister in
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  the City of New York only to be exposed as
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  that church having been closed for five years. Mike Taibe's book,
• 15:38
  Unholy Alliances. Remember the NBC news report. You can't find
• 15:48
  the video. I don't know. Maybe Matt Tayibe still hasn't
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  Matt carrying on the family tradition of doing great investigative journalism.
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  But his dad, Mike Tayibe, was a reporter for NBC
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  four Peacock four in New York City during the days
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  of the Tawana Brawley case. It was eighty seven, so
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  long ago, and I was a kid, I mean I was.
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  I was in my first year of broadcasting, and the
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  news director said, listen, I know you're just doing the
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  afternoon show on our full service station, but I need
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  somebody to go up to this thing. We don't even
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  know what it is, but supposedly this girl was kidnapped
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  by some state troopers and there's a press conference going.
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  Can you just go up and record some audio for
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  our news and that's how we say it, you know,
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  go record some audio. So I went up there to
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  record the speechifications and mister Mason and Maddox or attorneys
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  and then they'll ride Reverend Al a much more corpulent
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  more cartoon tuny Al Sharpton shows up there and blusters
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  and bloviates and bombasts his way through the righteous indignation
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  of the community. And understand this is this is a
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  poor Hudson Valley community ethnically less diverse than others. And
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  they were tweaking the very harpstrings that would later be
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  tweaked by Johnny Cochrane. And no justice, no peace, and
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  all of that stuff was all beginning in this investigation,
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  which turned out to be completely debunked by the US
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  Attorney for the Southern District of New York named Rudolph Giuliani.
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  What hair, well some hair. At the time, I remember
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  sitting there saying, what a bag of wind? I mean,
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  just railing on about the moral indignities. And then you know,
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  when it turned out to be false, he was out
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  the door like a cartoon character. So the three lines
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  and the puff of smoke, it was like when the
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  road Runner would exit stage right. And still to this day,
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  Tajuana Brawley, I believe, is still a nurse. She's a nurse.
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  She works, She basically works to pay the bills, the
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  legal bills behind the settlements that these two state troopers
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  had one of them wound up taking his life. The
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  other one is a private investigator in New York who
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  does not talk about it at all. I've talked to him.
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  I called his office. He's like, dude, just don't talk
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  about it. We won our lawsuit, tried to put my
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  life back together and just move forward from it. And
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  the black community. If there is a reason the black
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  community doesn't buy the bloviations of Al Sharpton, it's because
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  some of them still remember the fact that to Wanta
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  Brawley brought suit against Al Sharpton saying hold it, you
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  guys told me and inferring that these guys profited from
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  her pain, used her story to gain massive wealth, and
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  at that time Al needed massive wealth to cover well
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  other massive parts of his body. And I'm glad I'm
• 19:47
  playing for somebody who eats enough vegan food to not
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  look like your traditional vegan aside from being a testimony
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  to my wife's cooking, I understand, you know, losing a
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  few pounds would be a good idea for me, and
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  I'm proud of Al for doing that. I don't know
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  if it's so zimpic or if he had you know,
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  banding done or something along those lines, but knowing that
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  she has been trying to get Al and still to
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  this day, members of the black community are trying to
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  get Al Sharpton to do what's right because he profited
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  royally over the notoriety he gained by standing next to
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  Tawana Brawley, who now you know, is broke, working in
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  nursing homes in the Richmond area of Virginia, just trying
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  to you know, make enough money to pay the settlements
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  that she wound up with and his Andy Texan bearing
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  false witness. Yeah, and she bore false witness. Turned out
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  the truth when it finally came out, was she had
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  spent her weekend with her boyfriend. And there are any
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  number of retellings of the Tijuana Brawley story as to
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  how it got out of control. But it began with
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  her telling her mother some fanciful story about being kidnapped,
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  and I mean, she was supposedly covered in poop when
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  they found her, and I mean just bizarre things. And
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  then you know, once the lawyers and Al Sharpton showed up,
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  it was Johnny bar the door. And it was really
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  the beginnings of this discord economy where people like Reverend
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  al make big money and then trundle off to leave
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  the community to smolder while they count their money.
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  Speaker 13: Down.
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  Speaker 1: Through the years, said and been involved with things that
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  I've later said was misunderstood.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, like I believe Tajuana Brawley and we want to
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  tear down the New York State trooper ruined their lives.
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  compassion and judgment, which remains at the center of our profession.
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  dot org.
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  Speaker 10: Considered by most optimized curcumin is one of the few
• 24:07
  bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. I
• 24:12
  am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
• 24:18
  optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
• 24:22
  nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
• 24:26
  reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
• 24:31
  The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
• 24:36
  has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
• 24:41
  cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
• 24:45
  in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
• 24:50
  healthy cells even from radiation. Totalwellness dot com where we
• 24:55
  help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
• 25:02
  Speaker 11: 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
• 25:16
  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
• 25:46
  enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OYG
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  dot SSA dot gov.
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  Speaker 13: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
• 26:00
  Speaker 19: And now a speech.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
• 26:06
  art and brain.
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  first thing today?
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  Speaker 8: This great question Kareem Robin Hood joining s and P
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  five hundred after the game Stomp to Debacle, of course,
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  because it's all about riding the wave. It's about damage
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  control most things in life. It's it's like Al Sharpton said,
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  you can rewrite your history, just give it enough time.
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  And to be fair, I've found that to be a
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  truism as well. Things is things. It's how you react
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  to them that I've.
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  Speaker 1: Down through the years said and been involved with things
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  that I've later said was misunderstood by.
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  Speaker 8: The way his interview with Zohan mad Money. Everyone's making
• 29:00
  hay about it because supposedly Sohan mad Money has admitted
• 29:05
  to Al Sharpton that he is just like all the
• 29:07
  other politicians. He said stuff to get elected and then
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  changed his mind. So nothing new here. Move along, And
• 29:17
  if there's anything more damning to a democratic socialist who
• 29:22
  supports the global intefata, it's that he was just saying
• 29:26
  that to get your attention, and he just wants money.
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  But things as things This is a mantra that I
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  carry with me because I've had plenty of things that
• 29:39
  have happened, even in the past three four months that
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  many people would have gone into Defcon five and run
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  to the war room over and I don't know where
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  this all. There's no weekend spend in a spa and
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  dagobao with Yoda that taught me this. But over time
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  it has just become self evident that if you overreact
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  and adverse adversely react at the moment, the flashpoint moment
• 30:20
  of something bad happening or something that everyone else says
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  is bad happening, something you didn't plan on happening, is
• 30:27
  maybe a better way of saying it that you create
• 30:33
  the the badness, You create the negative spin on something.
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  So the game Stop Debacle robin Hood the app still
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  some court battles going on in it, but used by
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  hackers to run up the game stop this day Trading,
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  and they're running TV ads. They have enough money to
• 31:04
  run ads on NFL football games, which is not cheap.
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  Robin Hood's out there banging away with TV ads and
• 31:13
  internet digital pop ups on your phone telling you you
• 31:18
  know how great day trading is. First and foremost day
• 31:21
  trading is not a good idea, but people like it.
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  And there are people who, unless they're bearing false witness,
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  have made money day trading, and they sit there by
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  their computer all day. Bye sell sell bye bye, sell
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  bye bye. It's like the these old market places in
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  the old Middle East and the beginnings of human civilization
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  where everyone would line up on one street and try
• 31:50
  to sell you whatever it is they had from their home.
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  It's a lot like Etsy, really, So they're joining the
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  S and P. Five hundred. They've survived the storm. They
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  didn't overreact. And if you like day trading, I personally
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  think that's like going to a casino investment guru. Friends
• 32:20
  of mine said, you know that typically the day trader
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  misses the biggest days of the year and they wind
• 32:29
  up costing themselves millions of dollars in unrealized gains. That's okay,
• 32:37
  it's it's your choice to do that. But you know,
• 32:42
  S and P. Five hundred, they've got their own rules
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  to make and it's just another sign that you can
• 32:48
  remake yourself like Zoehan mad Money, who's remaking himself to
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  be just like everyone else in the Democratic Party. I
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  will say all kinds of crazy stuff to get your
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  attention and then just turn around and bank the cash.
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  I mean, at the end of the day, for you
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  guys commuting in out of Greenwich on GCH. Is Zohan
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  mad Money any different than Eric Adams or Andrew Kowalla,
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  aside from the fact that I didn't go to high
• 33:19
  school with Zohan mad Money. I did with Eric Adams.
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  Are they any different? Are they any different? Are they
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  any shades of even gray away from each other? They
• 33:34
  all believe the government's supposed to help you. And the
• 33:37
  thing that if there's a rebuke about guys like Zohann
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  mad Money is that they're lying to you. In Robin
• 33:51
  Hood's case, it's marketing a joke, it's an ad campaign.
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  They're telling you fictions, maybe factions. They weave enough fact
• 34:11
  in it to have it be called a faction, not
• 34:14
  a fiction. But whatever the case may be, they're telling
• 34:18
  you mistruths in order to get you to allow them
• 34:25
  to traffic the money that goes through the city government
• 34:28
  or the state government or the county government, you decide.
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  Wherever they are lying to you, they are lying to you.
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  They're lying to you because it's about everyone's money. Trafficking
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  through them and going to their friends. This is why
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  doze and the reduction in the size and scope of
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  the federal government and its authority A is good for
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  individual liberty. B is good for our fiscal responsibility because
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  we're spending a lot of money on stuff we shouldn't,
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  just to make good on promises made during campaign fundraisers.
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  from a giant shoe closet. That's that's the picture you
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  closet and Jasmine Crockett in there saying I'm a person
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  of the people. Ilhan Omar's thirty million dollar bankroll obviously
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  investing in the Nancy Pelosi investment strategy. Never mind Robin Hood,
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  just do what Nancy did. I actually believe there is
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  an app that will invest your money into everything Nancy
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  Pelosi is invested in if somebody has used the app
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  by all means, but I do believe that there is
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  an app out there that will invest you in all
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  the things that Nancy Pelosi has invested in because she
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  ain't hurting for money, and apparently ilhan Omar and Jasmine Krockett.
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  As much as they complain about the old leadership, they
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  sure do like to copy how they use taxpayer money
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  to fill their own giant shoe closets with fancy shoes.
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  So I don't care about Robinhood. I care about the
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  people who mischaracterize what Robinhood the story was about, which
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  was about stealing tax money back from the government.
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  Speaker 8: It's interesting to me. You know, when you when you
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  run out of public policy things, it goes back to
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  the same old character assassination, and it's interesting and so
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  so you don't have to I when I saw what
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  the Democratic Members of Congress released yesterday as Donald Trump's
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  birthday car to Jeffrey Epstein, I mean I almost expected
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  it to be published by the Babylon Bee, that online
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  satire news. I'm looking at it, saying, no, this isn't
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  what this actually was, right, because you know, we had
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  been told it had a drawing of a naked woman,
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  and gosh, the stories I was told it was basically
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  a stick figure with two circles around the chest area.
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  And now it's a script to script, you know, coaching
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  dialogue between supposedly Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein about how wink, wink, nudge, nudge,
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  you know, the life is. So I'm looking at this thing.
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  Let's say, you realize how catfished you are in this
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  and maybe that's the point, is to catfish the people
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  who are out there. And of course they leave out
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  the Bill Clinton letter, which is just simply a note
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  saying happy fiftieth and a couple of you know, what
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  appears is a childlike curiosity, the drive to make a difference,
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  and the love of Friends. Alan Dershowitz, of course, is
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  Epstein's attorney, is in this birthday book, this sign in book,
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  the birthday cards like the ones supposedly from Donald Trump
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  in there. I'm like, okay, this is all well and good.
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  This guy we already knew was bent on associating with
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  rich and powerful people for what purpose manipulation. Some say
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  it was to make himself large amounts of money by
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  saying I have powerful friends. And that's Dershowitz's position on
• 47:28
  it is that this guy was a pyramid scheme waiting
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  to happen. And in all this what I would like
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  to see, And because this is an era of character
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  assassination that has no bearing on anything, if this is
• 47:57
  a scenario that was concocted, aside from Jeffrey Epstein being
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  a sick pervert, if it was a concoction by Gilaine
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  Maxwell to manipulate powerful people. First off, America's government is
• 48:18
  supposed to be that powerful. But that's a that's a
• 48:21
  bigger abstract. We don't we don't have this kind of corruption.
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  If we stuck with what Madison said, I mean, it
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  was probably would have some, but it would be easier
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  to find easier to prosecute. But here's the question born
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  of a child who grew up in the era of
• 48:44
  what did the president know and win? What I want
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  to know is if this was all about influence peddling,
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  if this was getting Bill Clinton or Donald Trump, show
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  me what they did, Show me what they voted for,
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  Show me what treaties were signed, Show me what expenditures
• 49:06
  were approved based on trying to keep Jeffrey Epstein's pie
• 49:11
  hole shut. That's what I want to see in this.
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  Don't show me birthday cards and say, oh, look Bill
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  Clinton was at his birthday party. Oh look, Donald Trump
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  was at his birthday party. Jeffrey Epstein was at Donald
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  Trump's wedding. Come on, this is what is so maddening.
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  If there was corruption, I want to see it. You
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  guys are supposedly investigating all of this corruption and what
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  Jeffrey Epstein was doing, and you're doing the same thing
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  they did with the blue dress. They couldn't get Bill
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  Clinton on Whitewater because the Rose Law Firm and the
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  Hillary Clinton memorial shredder was very very good at wiping
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  what then was considered a hard copy. Then later it
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  was hard drives, which you wiped with a cloth, right,
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  Hillary and Vince Foster took any details of what he
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  ran through that shredder into the DC park with him
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  that night and supposedly his own gun. So failing to
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  get that, they decided to go with the sex. I
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  want to know if the president is selling access to
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  my country to make himself money, because if you can
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  prove that he was doing it with Whitewater in Arkansas,
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  then he's doing it in the Oval Office. I don't
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  care about the sex, but they got fixated on the
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  blue dress, and they went off with the blue dress
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  out of pursuing Whitewater. And the same crap is happening
• 51:06
  with Epstein. Show me what decisions were changed, nuanced, manipulated,
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  purchased at the behest of silence regarding somebody's attendance on
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  Epstein Island. Show me aid packages that were sent, contracts
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  that were given to government contractors, Show me arrests that
• 51:38
  were made the behest of somebody who wanted something hushed up.
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  That's what you should be investigating. And if you're not,
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  you're as bad a fraud as everyone before you, whether
• 51:50
  it be Bill Barr or Merrit Garland, or it's just
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  you know, maybe it's our fault, Maya Kulpa. We're we're
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  we want the sex, we want sexiness, we want TMZ.
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  We don't want, you know, the real corruption, which is
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  the bigger problem. And I'm sorry Dan Bongino and all
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  these folks who are at the FBI, if you're doing
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