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- 0:11Speaker 1: The first Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Chunk
- 0:15Speaker 1: Media Network, All natural and free of artificial Intelligence.
- 0:24Speaker 2: My friend BOBM. Good, host of the Good for America podcast,
- 0:28Speaker 2: is coming up with us. But we've got folks lining
- 0:30Speaker 2: up at four three four eighty eight two four two
- 0:33Speaker 2: one seven. A lot of contributors between Juneteenth and Father's
- 0:37Speaker 2: Day and all of that going on, and uh then
- 0:41Speaker 2: obviously Iran and Faiza and all of that to talk
- 0:44Speaker 2: about doctor Clark. Good morning, stir. How are you doing?
- 0:48Speaker 3: Oh good the listener, Sorry, folks, you got to put
- 0:51Speaker 3: up with me before it gets good. How much of
- 0:56Speaker 3: that did you watch yesterday?
- 0:57Speaker 2: Joe the President, the former president than speech at the
- 1:01Speaker 2: the Housing Complex that, Yeah, I.
- 1:04Speaker 3: Just well, I watched as much of the whole nine
- 1:07Speaker 3: yards on Sea Span as I could. And I'm gonna
- 1:10Speaker 3: tell you what happened. I've been watching for about twenty
- 1:13Speaker 3: minutes and it was horrible. It was. And my wife
- 1:17Speaker 3: came in and sat down, and she sat there for
- 1:21Speaker 3: about four minutes without saying anything, and then she looked
- 1:26Speaker 3: over at man. She said, Honey, watching this is as
- 1:28Speaker 3: bad as one of those medieval lunks would flagulate themselves
- 1:32Speaker 3: to expediate themselves of their sins. If you keep watching this,
- 1:36Speaker 3: it's not gonna make you a better person.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Nice.
- 1:39Speaker 2: See, that's a good spouse right there. That's a good
- 1:42Speaker 2: spouse right there.
- 1:44Speaker 3: I came away with a lot of questions though. Joe. First,
- 1:48Speaker 3: I'm not a big fan of Joe Biden, But who
- 1:51Speaker 3: did that to his face? That's horrible? Did you see him?
- 1:55Speaker 2: Oh my god, some people get you know, a little too.
- 2:00Speaker 2: Happens in Hollywood too all the time. People do you know,
- 2:02Speaker 2: have a little plastic surgery, a little tightening here and there,
- 2:06Speaker 2: and just keep tightening it and tightening it and tightening it,
- 2:09Speaker 2: and you know till the guy looks like it could
- 2:11Speaker 2: be a double in you know, Midway or you know,
- 2:14Speaker 2: any other movie where we need Japanese ship commanders.
- 2:19Speaker 3: He ought to be on when Under the Knock goes
- 2:21Speaker 3: horribly wrong the next episode or something. I will say
- 2:25Speaker 3: that Barry did a nice job of filling in for
- 2:27Speaker 3: the Easter Bunny, trying to show him which way off
- 2:31Speaker 3: the stage was Hillary. That was an interesting wardrobe choice.
- 2:36Speaker 3: And what exactly.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Clark, I don't know what he was about to say.
- 2:44Speaker 2: What exactly was did we get him back Hello, Yeah,
- 2:49Speaker 2: you just said what exactly was? And then your phone dropped?
- 2:52Speaker 3: Yes, what exactly? Was Mike so mad about having to
- 2:56Speaker 3: be there? Or I don't know?
- 2:59Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my gosh, you know do you know? In
- 3:02Speaker 2: my canvas pond last night, over a glass of wine,
- 3:05Speaker 2: I had this conversation and I said, I have looked.
- 3:08Speaker 2: I don't see an Adam's apple. And you know what
- 3:10Speaker 2: my wife's defense was of that, I can't see yours either.
- 3:15Speaker 1: I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- 3:17Speaker 2: Hang on a second here. I was like, all of
- 3:19Speaker 2: a sudden, I don't want to do the laundry anymore,
- 3:21Speaker 2: and I'm not going to do the dishes if that's
- 3:23Speaker 2: going to be the way this is going to roll.
- 3:25Speaker 2: But good stuff, doctor Clark and.
- 3:27Speaker 3: Oh my wait wait wait and her watch suit. Why
- 3:30Speaker 3: wouldn't they let commedy set up there with the big
- 3:32Speaker 3: people because they have abortion wagons parked at that thing.
- 3:36Speaker 3: So I just want to know, Well.
- 3:38Speaker 2: No, they reserved that for the political conventions.
- 3:41Speaker 3: Okay, Now that thing was so ugly. I was gonna
- 3:46Speaker 3: go with, you didn't build that, but I'm backed off
- 3:50Speaker 3: of that. Nobody but Bury deserves credit for that thing.
- 3:53Speaker 3: He didn't pay for it, but for God he built it.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't pay for it, and I feel bad
- 3:59Speaker 2: for all the contractors who have been left holding the bag.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Good stuff, Doctor Clark. Yeah, the last question, does it
- 4:05Speaker 2: look more like a prison or a housing like a
- 4:08Speaker 2: public housing complex? Clark? I'd be fa oh Walkers, Okay,
- 4:22Speaker 2: so maybe Bob has an idea. To me, it looks
- 4:24Speaker 2: like a prison without windows, big gray building on the
- 4:29Speaker 2: side of Lake Michigan. Bob Good. He is the host
- 4:32Speaker 2: of the Good for America podcast. You know, Bill Clinton's
- 4:36Speaker 2: presidential library looks like an airstream on the side of
- 4:38Speaker 2: the Mississippian Little Rock. So who am I to judge
- 4:41Speaker 2: I don't get a presidential library. How are you doing
- 4:44Speaker 2: this morning, sir?
- 4:46Speaker 1: And Joe? Doing well? I hope you are my friend,
- 4:47Speaker 1: always always doing that.
- 4:51Speaker 2: And uh, First, your reaction to President Obama's statement that
- 4:55Speaker 2: the Founding fathers you know, failed us in their efforts
- 5:00Speaker 2: to get this nation started, says the first black man
- 5:03Speaker 2: to win the presidency.
- 5:06Speaker 4: The Founders, as you know, Joe as well as anyone,
- 5:10Speaker 4: gave us the framework, the opportunity to work for this
- 5:16Speaker 4: more perfect union, if you will, this realization of our
- 5:21Speaker 4: God given creation, all being equal, all and down to
- 5:26Speaker 4: our Creator with our unanimble rights. It was the declaration,
- 5:30Speaker 4: It was the Constitution that created the opportunity for the
- 5:34Speaker 4: nation to further or to greater realize that. And Barack Obama,
- 5:39Speaker 4: if anyone, has been the great recipient of that, despite
- 5:42Speaker 4: his criticisms of those who gave him the opportunities that
- 5:45Speaker 4: he realized like few people who've ever lived.
- 5:49Speaker 2: So, I don't know if you want to pick up
- 5:51Speaker 2: on FAISA and the Save Act, because I think there's
- 5:56Speaker 2: a failure in the if there's one place in the
- 5:59Speaker 2: decal that I feel like, you know, we gave in
- 6:02Speaker 2: to South Carolina's insistence that there's beautiful treaties against slavery
- 6:07Speaker 2: taken out of it. I feel like the same thing
- 6:10Speaker 2: is happening to the Save Act. We've got people who
- 6:13Speaker 2: don't want to give in and do the right thing
- 6:16Speaker 2: and just make sure citizens are voting. I've talked to
- 6:18Speaker 2: everyone I can find. Nobody can point to a bad
- 6:22Speaker 2: thing in the Save Act except that it might cost
- 6:25Speaker 2: some constituent business. You know, a couple of their under
- 6:30Speaker 2: the table, off the books employees. Bob, what do you
- 6:33Speaker 2: know about the Save Act? That's keeping it from getting passed,
- 6:37Speaker 2: and should it be stapled onto the PFISA reauthorization.
- 6:41Speaker 4: Well, you can measure a lot of it just by
- 6:44Speaker 4: the fact the two champions and the two respective houses
- 6:47Speaker 4: are Senator Mike Lee from Utah, who I would submit
- 6:51Speaker 4: is one of the top two or three centators in
- 6:52Speaker 4: the country, and Chip Roy from Texas, who I would
- 6:55Speaker 4: also submit, is one of the top two or three
- 6:57Speaker 4: Congressmen in the House. They're the most visible vocal champions
- 7:02Speaker 4: have been since this bill was first presented. And it's
- 7:05Speaker 4: very basic, very foundational, and what it calls for, as
- 7:08Speaker 4: you know, it calls for proof of citizenship to register
- 7:13Speaker 4: to vote. It's an eighty percent issue. Most Americans believe
- 7:16Speaker 4: that only citizens should vote in our elections. The autoime
- 7:19Speaker 4: have to demonstrate you are a citizen we registered vote. Secondly,
- 7:22Speaker 4: it requires a voter ID that you have to prove
- 7:26Speaker 4: or demonstrate you are who you say you are. Again,
- 7:28Speaker 4: another eighty percent issue. It's incredible, Joe, that all Republicans,
- 7:33Speaker 4: apparently elected Republicans anyway, don't favor the Save Act. Why
- 7:37Speaker 4: wouldn't it this be an automatic that one hundred percent
- 7:39Speaker 4: of Republicans in the House the Senate would support the
- 7:41Speaker 4: Save America Act, and it actually why wouldn't Democrats support
- 7:47Speaker 4: these principles unless unless, of course, they wanted to achieve elections, unless,
- 7:53Speaker 4: of course, they wanted non citizens to vote. So it
- 7:56Speaker 4: is important legislation. It ought to be enacted. It ought
- 7:59Speaker 4: to pass overwhelmingly in both houses. It ought not to
- 8:02Speaker 4: be a political tool for the Democrats. But we know
- 8:05Speaker 4: why the Democrats are against We can only include logically
- 8:07Speaker 4: why they're against it. I am a little concerned, and
- 8:11Speaker 4: I'll predict that if it doesn't pass before the midterms, however,
- 8:16Speaker 4: that President Trump will abandon it and not care anymore
- 8:18Speaker 4: about it for twenty eight and beyond, simply because it
- 8:22Speaker 4: doesn't benefit impersonally.
- 8:24Speaker 2: Okay, well, that's a take I didn't expect on it.
- 8:28Speaker 2: One can hope you're not correct on that, But you've
- 8:31Speaker 2: been around it a lot closer than I have. I
- 8:34Speaker 2: want to talk about the deal to end hostilities and
- 8:38Speaker 2: missile fire between Iran and the United States. Bob Good
- 8:44Speaker 2: is on with us Good for America dot Org is
- 8:48Speaker 2: his podcast.
- 8:50Speaker 5: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
- 8:53Speaker 5: leg to a roadside bomb. My victory was going from
- 8:56Speaker 5: a wheelchair to becoming a weightlifting champion.
- 8:59Speaker 1: I'm Sam, I'm a veteran.
- 9:01Speaker 4: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
- 9:03Speaker 4: of and supporting my family.
- 9:05Speaker 6: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
- 9:08Speaker 6: of their lives.
- 9:09Speaker 1: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless to home.
- 9:13Speaker 6: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
- 9:17Speaker 6: the benefits they've earned.
- 9:18Speaker 4: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
- 9:22Speaker 6: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
- 9:26Speaker 6: for victories great and small.
- 9:28Speaker 1: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
- 9:32Speaker 4: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
- 9:35Speaker 6: We help more than a million veterans every year as
- 9:37Speaker 6: they face and conquer their challenges.
- 9:40Speaker 1: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
- 9:43Speaker 6: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
- 9:46Speaker 6: more victories for veterans. Go to DAV dot org.
- 9:58Speaker 3: The challenge pas the.
- 10:01Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk Media Network,
- 10:05Speaker 1: All natural and free of artificial intelligence.
- 10:13Speaker 2: He is the host of the Good for America podcast,
- 10:17Speaker 2: and Ken had texted and said, Joe, please, please please
- 10:22Speaker 2: don't ask Bob Good about the Iran deal. It's just
- 10:24Speaker 2: going to give him a chance to say bad things
- 10:27Speaker 2: about Donald Trump. Again. Well, I mean, but he is
- 10:30Speaker 2: a judicial thought mind that has seen the inside of this,
- 10:35Speaker 2: and you know he has his conservative principles, so I'm
- 10:38Speaker 2: curious to see where he comes down in this. So, Bob,
- 10:42Speaker 2: what is what is your take on the deal the
- 10:45Speaker 2: fourteen point Memorandum of understanding? Because the left and the
- 10:50Speaker 2: right are losing their minds over it.
- 10:52Speaker 4: It seems, well, it's hard to be very optimistic or
- 10:57Speaker 4: excited about the deal, if you will. I saw something
- 11:01Speaker 4: out a National Review, and I'll give credit where it'sdue
- 11:03Speaker 4: as far as a source, but it was quoting a
- 11:05Speaker 4: State Department official in nineteen seventy two after Nixon's Christmas
- 11:08Speaker 4: bombing campaign in North Vietnam, where the State Department officials said,
- 11:12Speaker 4: we bombed them into accepting our concessions, we bombed them
- 11:16Speaker 4: into accepting higher concessions. And it feels a little bit
- 11:20Speaker 4: like that. It's concerning. I would submit that Trump's repeated
- 11:25Speaker 4: primary defense of the deal is look at the stock market.
- 11:29Speaker 4: Look at the stock market. Think about that. How you
- 11:31Speaker 4: can say, look at the stock market. The stock market
- 11:34Speaker 4: is surging as a justification or a validation of the deal.
- 11:37Speaker 4: I like to see the stock market surge. But just
- 11:41Speaker 4: a few questions. Why would they be so determined to
- 11:45Speaker 4: delay the release of the MoU if it was a
- 11:48Speaker 4: great deal? Who wanted the deal more? Who seemingly wanted
- 11:52Speaker 4: the deal more? We've talked about this many times, whether
- 11:55Speaker 4: it's in budget negotiations between Republics and Democrats or House
- 11:58Speaker 4: and Center, what have you with the president whomever, who
- 12:00Speaker 4: wants to deal more, who fears the government shutting down?
- 12:04Speaker 4: Or uh, who wants to deal more is always the loser.
- 12:08Speaker 4: And Trump ought to know that better than anybody, from
- 12:10Speaker 4: being the author of the r of the deal. But
- 12:12Speaker 4: what happened to unconditional surrender? We were the President was saying, Hey,
- 12:16Speaker 4: it's Iran just a couple of months ago. Iran must
- 12:19Speaker 4: unconditionally surrender, and yet we negotiate with them as a
- 12:23Speaker 4: as almost unequal if you will, uh? And who's still
- 12:27Speaker 4: in charge of Iran? After all that was said that
- 12:30Speaker 4: we're gonna, you know, create a climate for the regime
- 12:32Speaker 4: to be overthrown, or we're gonna overthrow the regm ourselves.
- 12:34Speaker 4: We're gonna choose the leader ourselves. President Trump said that
- 12:37Speaker 4: at different times. One of the President's problems is he'll
- 12:40Speaker 4: say the objectives have been clear. It's ABC or X
- 12:43Speaker 4: y Z or one two three, and those are often
- 12:45Speaker 4: very different. But I think it's you know, it's it's
- 12:49Speaker 4: obviously concerning that you've got, uh, you know, you've got
- 12:53Speaker 4: the three hundred billion in financing that apparently will be available. Uh,
- 12:59Speaker 4: and you've got these promises in these vague agreements that
- 13:02Speaker 4: if they do these things in the future, which we
- 13:04Speaker 4: know Iran will not do, they will not keep the deal.
- 13:06Speaker 4: They will not keep their word. You can't make a
- 13:08Speaker 4: deal if you have two choices with the RAN, make
- 13:10Speaker 4: a bad deal or make a fake deal. We've got
- 13:13Speaker 4: the relaxed sanctions, a lifted naval blockade. So in the
- 13:17Speaker 4: three hundred billion, it's almost humorous. We're saying, oh, these
- 13:20Speaker 4: other allies are going to pay this three hundred million dollars.
- 13:23Speaker 4: We know from past history other folks don't pony up
- 13:26Speaker 4: the money. The United States does Number one, Number two,
- 13:29Speaker 4: Why would these other entities pay for this war? If
- 13:33Speaker 4: you will or pay for the rebuilding when this was
- 13:36Speaker 4: obviously a war between the United States and Israel versus Iran.
- 13:39Speaker 4: If you will, and for that matter, Israel, why would
- 13:42Speaker 4: Israel comply with this MoU especially to absorb attacks, continue
- 13:48Speaker 4: to absorb attacks from Hesbalah, show restraint. That's like saying, Ukraine,
- 13:51Speaker 4: keep letting Russia bomb your cities, attack civilian structures, and
- 13:56Speaker 4: you just show restraint. So there's lots of promises, vague
- 14:00Speaker 4: men's lack of specifics. Even ICBMs. Oh, we were saying, hey,
- 14:04Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia has missiles, so we got to let Iran
- 14:07Speaker 4: have missiles after we said they couldn't have missiles, and
- 14:09Speaker 4: that was one of our primary objectives We've said that
- 14:11Speaker 4: for months, was to they wouldn't have any missile capability. So,
- 14:15Speaker 4: you know, it seems as if we wanted a deal
- 14:17Speaker 4: no matter what we wanted to end it. Whether it's
- 14:19Speaker 4: because the midterms, whether it's because of the stock market,
- 14:22Speaker 4: whether it's because of oil and gas prices, it's hard
- 14:26Speaker 4: to be excited or optimistic about this deal.
- 14:29Speaker 2: Wow, I have taken a different tag to me. Bringing
- 14:35Speaker 2: Iran into the Community of Nations exposes their people to
- 14:41Speaker 2: what the West has got in ways that haven't happened
- 14:45Speaker 2: since the I would say since the insertion of the
- 14:48Speaker 2: Shah in the fifties. But more than that is the
- 14:55Speaker 2: oil and the weakening of China's position. This is another
- 14:59Speaker 2: China Russia ally that seems to be coming out from
- 15:04Speaker 2: behind them and into the into the arms, if you will,
- 15:08Speaker 2: or at least into the parlor with the West. Is
- 15:11Speaker 2: there anything to that or is that just grasping at straws.
- 15:16Speaker 4: Well, I think you make a good point, and there's
- 15:20Speaker 4: and you know, I've talked about this before. Foreign policy
- 15:22Speaker 4: issues are complex, they're nuanced, they're not easy, they're not simple,
- 15:27Speaker 4: and they're hard to predict ultimate outcomes in the future
- 15:32Speaker 4: down the road. But we can predict Iran will break
- 15:34Speaker 4: this deal, Iran will not keep this deal. Iran is
- 15:37Speaker 4: taking the long term view. They're not looking to the midterms,
- 15:39Speaker 4: they're not looking at twenty twenty eight. They're looking long term.
- 15:43Speaker 4: President Trump has even said in the last couple of days, Hey,
- 15:45Speaker 4: we never cared about regime change. Hey, these new leaders,
- 15:48Speaker 4: these leaders, they're not radicalized, they're actually rational, nice people.
- 15:52Speaker 4: When the IRGC is still in place, these are still
- 15:57Speaker 4: the Mullahs running the country. The eye Tola is still
- 16:00Speaker 4: in the new eye told that the sun is still
- 16:02Speaker 4: in place. You do make a fair point, though America's
- 16:06Speaker 4: enemies have been weakened in recent years. Russia has been
- 16:09Speaker 4: weakened during the Ukraine War, China has been weakened and
- 16:13Speaker 4: diminished by extension for some of these things. And Iran
- 16:18Speaker 4: is certainly weaker. There's no question. They're weaker from the
- 16:20Speaker 4: Twelve Day War last summer, from the war that has
- 16:22Speaker 4: taken place this time. But they don't care about their people.
- 16:28Speaker 4: They don't care about their civilian infrastructure. All they care
- 16:32Speaker 4: about is their ability to finance their proxies, their terrorism,
- 16:35Speaker 4: their clear capability keeping their missiles and so forth. And
- 16:42Speaker 4: the money from the oil revenue that will begin to
- 16:44Speaker 4: flow again. And the money from any of this three
- 16:46Speaker 4: hundred million dollars that they do receive is going to
- 16:48Speaker 4: be used for nefarious purposes. I fear, because why would
- 16:53Speaker 4: we put any trust or faith in those who are
- 16:55Speaker 4: ruling Iran today? They don't seem any different than those
- 16:58Speaker 4: who are ruling Iran six months ago.
- 17:01Speaker 2: He is the host of good for America. I imagine
- 17:04Speaker 2: some of this will be coming up this week on
- 17:06Speaker 2: the Good for America podcast.
- 17:08Speaker 4: We're about to do our hundredth podcast, Joe. We're a
- 17:11Speaker 4: special one hundredth podcast episode. We're going to talk about Iran. Obviously,
- 17:15Speaker 4: we're going to talk about Israel. We're going to talk
- 17:16Speaker 4: about Israel being seen by some on the right. It's
- 17:19Speaker 4: very concerning as the big boogeyman that's behind everything that's
- 17:22Speaker 4: that we don't agree with in the country's the fault
- 17:24Speaker 4: of Israel. That's a deeply concerning position to me.
- 17:27Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you sir for digging into that. It's
- 17:30Speaker 2: really a concern to me as well. Thank you, sir.
- 17:33Speaker 2: God bless and I have a wonderful Father's Day weekend.
- 17:35Speaker 4: It was well, Joe, Happy Father's Day to you and
- 17:37Speaker 4: our listeners.
- 17:38Speaker 2: And thank you for being along. I hope, and I
- 17:42Speaker 2: know not everybody has the greatest relationship with your day.
- 17:46Speaker 2: I didn't. It's interesting. I think back on the story
- 17:51Speaker 2: arc of me and my dad and the things that
- 17:54Speaker 2: he did and the things that I wanted to do,
- 17:56Speaker 2: and of the things that got in between us, and
- 18:02Speaker 2: I think it's important to look through the lens of
- 18:06Speaker 2: the child and the father, and you understand each other
- 18:08Speaker 2: a little bit better as to what's going on and
- 18:11Speaker 2: what the roles are. That's where we talked to Tim
- 18:15Speaker 2: yesterday about the book Family Unfriendly. Go look that one up.
- 18:19Speaker 2: There's a Father's Day gift for you. It's about the
- 18:22Speaker 2: importance of fathers and mothers in there. So please, you know,
- 18:27Speaker 2: get there and find those for you. And for that,
- 18:32Speaker 2: I'm going to get into juneteenth mode and we will
- 18:36Speaker 2: see you tomorrow morning at six. So long and thanks
- 18:39Speaker 2: for all the fish.
- 18:40Speaker 5: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
- 18:43Speaker 5: leg to a roadside bomb. My victory was going from
- 18:46Speaker 5: a wheelchair to becoming a weightlifting champion.
- 18:49Speaker 1: I'm Sam. I'm a veteran.
- 18:51Speaker 4: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
- 18:53Speaker 4: of and supporting my family.
- 18:55Speaker 6: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
- 18:58Speaker 6: of their lives.
- 19:00Speaker 1: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless to home.
- 19:03Speaker 6: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
- 19:07Speaker 6: the benefits they've earned.
- 19:08Speaker 4: I'm a veteran and my victory was finishing my education.
- 19:12Speaker 6: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
- 19:16Speaker 6: for victories great and small.
- 19:18Speaker 1: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
- 19:22Speaker 4: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
- 19:25Speaker 6: We help more than a million veterans every year as
- 19:28Speaker 6: they face and conquer their challenges.
- 19:30Speaker 1: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
- 19:33Speaker 6: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
- 19:36Speaker 6: more victories for veterans. Go to dav dot org.