Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "Icelanders Say N-O to the E-U" (FTTxJT Mon 083126 hr3)
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Do you support adding four more seats to the Supreme Court, Congressman?
- 0:06Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
- 0:06Speaker 3: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
- 0:11Speaker 4: Joe works at a steel mill, works damn near every day.
- 0:16Speaker 5: Leads for work when the sun comes up, drops a.
- 0:18Speaker 4: Kid to school in the long way. Joe has everything
- 0:22Speaker 4: he dreamed of, all the.
- 0:23Speaker 5: Treasures that he needs.
- 0:25Speaker 6: No wonder Joe's always smiling, he only aims to please you.
- 0:34Speaker 7: Bless you for letting me be of service to you. 434-882-4217.
- 0:42Speaker 7: That is our phone number. Emails come in to jtinthemorningradio
- 0:48Speaker 7: at gmail.com. You can also have text messaging like Scott
- 0:55Speaker 7: in Virginia Beach. We were talking about the.
- 1:01Speaker 7: Icelanders, not the hockey team that plays on Long Island,
- 1:06Speaker 7: but the Icelandic people voting against their government who wanted
- 1:11Speaker 7: to rejoin the European Union. Scott in Virginia Beach writes,
- 1:15Speaker 7: Europeans love government so much they created a government for
- 1:19Speaker 7: their governments. And part of it, somebody was talking about
- 1:27Speaker 7: the end of World War I. And Woodrow Wilson's battle
- 1:33Speaker 7: over Germany. And that England and France wanted to divide
- 1:41Speaker 7: up Germany into their control. Because that's what you did.
- 1:46Speaker 7: You won a war against the country and you got
- 1:48Speaker 7: to take over. And Wilson was trying to get away
- 1:53Speaker 7: from that model. So his compromise was.
- 2:01Speaker 7: Really the seeds that planted into World War II, which
- 2:05Speaker 7: might not have happened if just Britain and France had
- 2:08Speaker 7: taken over Germany and controlled their little segments of it, which,
- 2:12Speaker 7: by the way, by the end of the 1940s was
- 2:16Speaker 7: what they were doing anyway. I know, it was all
- 2:20Speaker 7: under UN and that kind of, you know, rebuilding Germany.
- 2:28Speaker 3: But the.
- 2:31Speaker 7: The idea of European government is always authoritarian. This was
- 2:36Speaker 7: why the Enlightenment was born out of Vienna and came
- 2:41Speaker 7: to the New World, because no one in Europe was
- 2:45Speaker 7: going to try these John Locke... Oh, my gosh, have
- 2:49Speaker 7: you read John Locke? Adolf, I mean, he thinks people
- 2:55Speaker 7: are born with rights... My God, what's going to come next?
- 3:01Speaker 7: People wanting, you know, to be able to vote for things?
- 3:07Speaker 7: People come into the world with rights. Don't they understand
- 3:10Speaker 7: that we give people, you know, the rights to do anything, right?
- 3:14Speaker 7: Very troubling.
- 3:16Speaker 8: I'm a devout person. I was a missionary in Honduras.
- 3:19Speaker 8: We've got other devout folks in this room, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, American.
- 3:24Speaker 8: The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't
- 3:28Speaker 8: come from the government but come from the creator. That's
- 3:32Speaker 8: what the Iranian government believes.
- 3:35Speaker 7: Tim Kaine, oh, so proud we are of him. For
- 3:38Speaker 7: all you folks with Adam Schiff and folks like that,
- 3:41Speaker 7: you know, you got nothing against the eyebrows that roar.
- 3:44Speaker 7: Our friends in the world, oil prices surged to $ 90
- 3:50Speaker 7: a barrel on some battles going on in the Strait
- 3:54Speaker 7: of Hormuz.
- 3:55Speaker 3: U.S.
- 3:55Speaker 7: Missile strikes against missile carriers encampments along the waterfront in
- 4:02Speaker 7: Hormuz in Iran. Meanwhile, nothing seems to have changed based
- 4:07Speaker 7: on the fact that Chevron is going to start trying
- 4:11Speaker 7: to reopen all the oil fields off of Venezuela. See
- 4:16Speaker 7: what that does to the price of oil. Trapped workers
- 4:20Speaker 7: in a dozen hydroelectric plant tunnels are the focus of
- 4:26Speaker 7: Lloyd's rescue efforts. along the Tibet-China border near the Himalayas
- 4:34Speaker 7: after the catastrophic flooding of last week. So far, 900
- 4:38Speaker 7: people are deceased and another 4,700 still unaccounted for. Meanwhile,
- 4:45Speaker 7: here in the United States, Colorado River flooded in the
- 4:50Speaker 7: Grand Canyon has killed one person, a 46-year-old, who was
- 4:53Speaker 7: found downriver, and 15 other people are still Department of
- 5:01Speaker 7: Homeland Security Sunday rejected a New York Times report alleging
- 5:05Speaker 7: that migrants in U.S. immigration detention experienced abusive and violent
- 5:10Speaker 7: treatment at the hands of ICE officers. Another day, another hoax,
- 5:16Speaker 7: DHS said on their ex-account. Former President Barack Obama is.
- 5:24Speaker 7: Holding a big fundraiser for his buddy Eric Holder, who
- 5:28Speaker 7: was his attorney general for many years, and is on
- 5:31Speaker 7: the campaign to redistrict America in a way that will
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- 5:41Speaker 7: the agenda at NBC's Meet the Press, as Congressman James
- 5:47Speaker 7: Clyburn said he would be all for adding four more
- 5:50Speaker 7: seats to the Supreme Court. Three years after it was
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- 13:20Speaker 23: So why do I draw this comparison to Governor Spanberger
- 13:26Speaker 23: and James Clyburn and.
- 13:29Speaker 2: These folks.
- 13:49Speaker 7: Who are out there trying to cheat their way into
- 13:54Speaker 7: power and authority.
- 13:55Speaker 15: Home and simply wanted the dignity of being able to
- 14:03Speaker 15: fully participate in our democracy. The right to vote is
- 14:09Speaker 15: about more than a ballot.
- 14:10Speaker 17: It's about whether we.
- 14:12Speaker 8: Believe that every person should have a voice in our democracy,
- 14:16Speaker 8: and I do.
- 14:17Speaker 7: And I do. Every person should have a vote. Not
- 14:21Speaker 7: every citizen. And, of course, Clyburn talking about court packing.
- 14:27Speaker 24: Court?
- 14:27Speaker 17: Congressman?
- 14:30Speaker 2: Yes, I do. I think that we are in a
- 14:33Speaker 2: position now that calls for some significant actions taken by
- 14:40Speaker 2: the Congress. And we ought to expand. And 13 is
- 14:44Speaker 2: a pretty good number. A biggest dozen... It will be
- 14:47Speaker 2: a good number to have on the court. And I
- 14:49Speaker 2: would hope we would get people on the court who
- 14:51Speaker 2: will follow the constitutional underpinnings of this great nation of ours.
- 14:58Speaker 7: Constitutional underpinnings. Now, add that statement to Governor Spanberger's statement
- 15:05Speaker 7: about every person having a right. And then you look
- 15:08Speaker 7: at Barack Obama holding a big black tie fundraiser. for
- 15:13Speaker 7: Eric Holder's redistricting organization, the one that wants to gerrymander
- 15:18Speaker 7: the districts to protect Democrats from ever having to lose
- 15:22Speaker 7: an election again, and you realize that this entire political
- 15:26Speaker 7: party is Wile E. Coyote. They can't catch the roadrunner,
- 15:33Speaker 7: so they want to buy tools and implements that Acme Corp.
- 15:39Speaker 7: says is.
- 15:44Speaker 7: Going to help them achieve their ends. So Wile E. Coyote,
- 15:49Speaker 7: waiting patiently as the postal delivery truck delivers a box
- 15:55Speaker 7: of Supreme Court justices and then drops in partisan gerrymandering
- 16:05Speaker 7: slingshot and a pair of rocket-loaded voter turnout Vote harvesting
- 16:18Speaker 7: roller skates. And they're all hopefully going to blow up
- 16:23Speaker 7: in their face. Listener earlier said, hey, Congressman Clyburn, go ahead.
- 16:29Speaker 7: Let's expand the court by four and let President Trump. See,
- 16:33Speaker 7: this is the thing. He doesn't want to expand the
- 16:35Speaker 7: court by four new justices now. He wants to wait
- 16:40Speaker 7: two years and allow President Spanberger to President Newsom, President Shapiro,
- 16:49Speaker 7: President Holder. There's a name you haven't heard. Oh, yeah, sure.
- 16:54Speaker 7: Kamala Harris. Why not? That was the premise of Kristen
- 16:58Speaker 7: Walker's question is that Kamala Harris brought up the idea
- 17:04Speaker 7: of expanding the court. And she was She was pressing
- 17:15Speaker 7: him on Kamala Harris's statements about expanding the Supreme Court
- 17:19Speaker 7: so that they could get their way. They could invent
- 17:24Speaker 7: rights that don't exist somewhere else. And you need, and
- 17:28Speaker 7: that's where Clyburn's statement about the constitutional underpinnings of a case,
- 17:36Speaker 7: as opposed to determining whether or not the Constitution actually
- 17:40Speaker 7: says you have a right to something, The constitutional underpinnings are, well,
- 17:45Speaker 7: they're poor, and maybe we should give them the right
- 17:49Speaker 7: to get some government assistance so that they can buy
- 17:55Speaker 7: groceries at Zorhan Mamdani's cheap groceries R.S. Emporium. And, of course,
- 18:04Speaker 7: Governor Spanberger will allow everyone who's here, regardless of whether
- 18:10Speaker 7: they're citizens or not, to vote. For such a behavior,
- 18:13Speaker 7: because who wouldn't?
- 18:15Speaker 1: Let's speak more broadly about it. Former Vice President Kamala
- 18:19Speaker 1: Harris shares some of your criticisms clearly. She's called for
- 18:23Speaker 1: expanding the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13.
- 18:28Speaker 7: Because anything Kamala Harris says has got to be good.
- 18:31Speaker 7: I mean, I'm amazed she managed to get the sentence
- 18:34Speaker 7: out to where it's clear enough that that's what she
- 18:37Speaker 7: was talking about. But this is what Wile E. Coyote
- 18:41Speaker 7: was always doing. And what's fascinating is here we are
- 18:46Speaker 7: rebranding Wile E. Coyote in this new movie where he's
- 18:50Speaker 7: the victim. He's the victim of the big greedy corporation.
- 18:58Speaker 7: Acme told him, you know, don't try to catch the Roadrunner.
- 19:02Speaker 7: Our stuff will make it impossible for the Roadrunner to
- 19:06Speaker 7: get away. So they're rebranding Wile E. Coyote to the zeitgeist. Again,
- 19:13Speaker 7: politics downstream from culture. If you can't get the Roadrunner, cheat.
- 19:19Speaker 7: Buy things that will help you catch the Roadrunner. Order
- 19:25Speaker 7: up a case of Supreme Court justices or a redistricting
- 19:32Speaker 7: slingshot and hope they don't blow up in your face.
- 19:38Speaker 7: as already the redistricting slingshot number one has already blown
- 19:43Speaker 7: up in the Wile E. Coyote's face. And I know
- 19:50Speaker 7: it seems like a stretch, but on this weekend where
- 19:54Speaker 7: everyone's like, hey, did you see, did you see? I don't,
- 19:59Speaker 7: I want to see it, but I don't want to
- 20:00Speaker 7: see it. It's just like one battle after another. I
- 20:04Speaker 7: had a feeling that he was, when they said a
- 20:06Speaker 7: conspiracy theorist and he's you know, battling all these conspiracies.
- 20:12Speaker 7: I thought he was going to be some, you know,
- 20:15Speaker 7: Trump supporting, you know, and then, you know, abandoned by
- 20:18Speaker 7: the MAGA movement. No, he's the other way around. So
- 20:23Speaker 7: I haven't finished watching it. It's a very tough watch.
- 20:27Speaker 7: It's a very, very tough watch. But his girlfriend, baby mama,
- 20:35Speaker 7: is a revolutionary. You know, she's going after... Sean Penn,
- 20:41Speaker 7: who is apparently a military commander, if that doesn't tell
- 20:44Speaker 7: you a little bit about the movie. And in the
- 20:46Speaker 7: same way, Coyote versus Acme looks like, oh, poor Coyote
- 20:51Speaker 7: is the victim of corporate greed and cronyism, which is
- 20:57Speaker 7: funny because that's what we fight here every morning.
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- 26:40Speaker 17: I am the one in eight Americans who struggle with hunger.
- 26:44Speaker 17: People you pass by every day but never knew were hungry.
- 26:48Speaker 15: I am hunger in America.
- 26:51Speaker 22: Hunger can be hard to recognize. Learn why at IamHungerinAmerica.org.
- 26:56Speaker 22: Brought to you by Feeding America, 200 Food Bank Strong,
- 27:00Speaker 22: and the Ad Council.
- 27:02Speaker 13: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
- 27:05Speaker 13: First Amendment. Freedom of religion. Freedom of speech. Freedom of
- 27:09Speaker 13: the press. Freedom to peaceably assemble. Freedom to petition the government.
- 27:14Speaker 13: Which freedom can you live without? Fortunately, the First Amendment
- 27:19Speaker 13: doesn't make you choose. It protects all five freedoms equally.
- 27:23Speaker 13: Think first. Go to thinkfirstamendment.org to learn more.
- 27:27Speaker 4: When might you be buzzed when you suddenly love everything?
- 27:31Speaker 25: You guys, I love this song. I love these nachos.
- 27:37Speaker 25: I love our kickball league. I love this guy.
- 27:42Speaker 9: What's your name? You know what I love? A ride
- 27:45Speaker 9: when it's time to head out.
- 27:47Speaker 4: If you see a buzzed warning sign, call for a
- 27:49Speaker 4: ride when it's time to go home. Buzz driving is
- 27:51Speaker 4: drunk driving. A message from NHTSA and the Ad Council.
- 27:55Speaker 15: Radio.
- 27:56Speaker 4: It's on.
- 28:11Speaker 3: We could tell you what 6-7 means, but where's the
- 28:14Speaker 3: fun in that? First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on
- 28:18Speaker 3: the Talk Media Network.
- 28:21Speaker 7: That means it is time for our sports director, Mac McDonald,
- 28:25Speaker 7: to join us from Phil Sale University's Dan Patrick School
- 28:28Speaker 7: of Sportscasting, where he is program director, and they just
- 28:32Speaker 7: call him Per-fessor. There, Professor Mack, what's going on this
- 28:37Speaker 7: Monday morning, sir? Busy weekend. How was week zero for you?
- 28:41Speaker 9: Yeah, it was fun. Yeah, it was fun with everything
- 28:43Speaker 9: that's going on. Try to follow the SEC story, too,
- 28:45Speaker 9: with Daquan Wright. People are probably getting so tired of this,
- 28:48Speaker 9: but now the latest is pretty, you know, is a
- 28:51Speaker 9: lot of fun, too. Just to go back a little bit,
- 28:54Speaker 9: I think years and years and years ago, maybe when
- 28:57Speaker 9: I first met you, I think we brainstormed a game
- 28:59Speaker 9: by Parker's Brothers, and I think it called Sports Courts.
- 29:02Speaker 9: And it was going to be, you know, you move
- 29:04Speaker 9: around the board, you roll dice, you move around the board,
- 29:06Speaker 9: you land on a square that says, oh, judge says
- 29:08Speaker 9: you can't play, go back two spaces, you know, paycheck,
- 29:12Speaker 9: whatever it is. Well, now, because the SEC backed off
- 29:17Speaker 9: apparently this weekend and said, hey, all right, we're going
- 29:20Speaker 9: to back off this thing right now. But there will
- 29:22Speaker 9: be a hearing. Judge William Jordan will decide this Thursday
- 29:27Speaker 9: whether to replace the current Temporary restraining order, referred to
- 29:31Speaker 9: as the TRO, with a longer lasting preliminary injunction. If
- 29:36Speaker 9: the players win, they'll be legally eligible. to play Saturday
- 29:42Speaker 9: against Clemson. See, Clemson goes to LSU this weekend. But
- 29:48Speaker 9: there's a contempt. The court will also consider a motion
- 29:51Speaker 9: for contempt against the.
- 29:55Speaker 9: And the Southeastern Conference. It stems from the SEC, you know,
- 29:59Speaker 9: trying to pass the bylaw to levy severe penalties, and
- 30:02Speaker 9: they were talking about half-season coach suspensions and 50% budget
- 30:06Speaker 9: cuts against schools. So the defendants, the lawsuit targeted the NCAA,
- 30:12Speaker 9: but was recently amended to include SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey
- 30:16Speaker 9: in the SEC. So anyway, Thursday, we'll know more.
- 30:19Speaker 7: I'll stop hyping. So they're not going to be. They're
- 30:22Speaker 7: not going to be allowed to enforce any rules until
- 30:26Speaker 7: this injunction is settled on regarding whether these pro players
- 30:31Speaker 7: can come back and play more college ball.
- 30:34Speaker 9: So basically, Lane Kiffin does not know what his roster
- 30:36Speaker 9: looks like until Thursday.
- 30:38Speaker 7: You know, Cal could use Aaron Rodgers for a few,
- 30:43Speaker 7: you know, games.
- 30:44Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, we'll have to find out if he
- 30:46Speaker 9: has any eligibility left. But it does go back to,
- 30:50Speaker 9: you know, it's a 22-2. Okay, a little play-by-play for
- 30:53Speaker 9: you on this Monday.
- 30:54Speaker 7: Hey, that's an important point. Don't brush past that. This
- 30:56Speaker 7: all has to do with COVID, right? This is because
- 30:59Speaker 7: the NCAA said– Because we shut everyone down, you get
- 31:04Speaker 7: bonus years. That's why you've got 30-year-olds claiming they have eligibility.
- 31:08Speaker 17: Right.
- 31:21Speaker 9: That's where it is, from the class of 2022. Highlighting
- 31:26Speaker 9: and underlining, this will be the last time something like
- 31:29Speaker 9: this happens.
- 31:30Speaker 3: Right, right.
- 31:31Speaker 7: Until the next time.
- 31:33Speaker 9: Until I have my Parker Brothers game sports courts and
- 31:36Speaker 9: then we roll the dice and we realize, okay, oh,
- 31:39Speaker 9: you have eligibility left.
- 31:40Speaker 12: You get them.
- 31:40Speaker 3: Okay.
- 31:41Speaker 9: A couple of play-by-play moments over the weekend, which were good.
- 31:45Speaker 9: The Yankees took three of four for the Boston Red Sox.
- 31:47Speaker 9: It was a big weekend. It always is when the
- 31:49Speaker 9: Yankees and Red Sox get together. One of the top
- 31:51Speaker 9: rivalries in sports, as we know. The Yankees took control
- 31:55Speaker 9: of a scoreless game on the five-run fifth. A center fielder,
- 32:00Speaker 9: Sadan Raffaella's glove determined to be on the grass. He
- 32:04Speaker 9: caught a jazz chism sinking line drive. It trapped the
- 32:07Speaker 9: ball resulting in a hit. The Red Sox challenged, but
- 32:10Speaker 9: the call was upheld. Anyway, then things got, you know,
- 32:13Speaker 9: got out of hand because the Yankees had a a
- 32:17Speaker 9: nine run eighth. And they were just, they were off
- 32:19Speaker 9: and rolling.
- 32:19Speaker 7: Well, some guy hit two home runs in that.
- 32:22Speaker 17: Yeah.
- 32:22Speaker 9: Austin Wells hit two runs in the same inning. And
- 32:24Speaker 9: then the seventh Yankee to do that. Then there was
- 32:27Speaker 9: jazz Chisholm. Nobody was covering third. Nobody was covering second.
- 32:32Speaker 9: So Chisholm just strolled to third base and stole the base.
- 32:36Speaker 9: Now Boston announcers, Will Fleming and Will Middlebrooks had a
- 32:40Speaker 9: little bit of a rant and they, they wanted that retribution.
- 32:45Speaker 7: Chisholm's doing it again. By the way, look, you're up six.
- 32:49Speaker 7: It's the eight.
- 32:50Speaker 9: The team is electing not to hold you on.
- 32:53Speaker 5: That's the white flag, right?
- 32:54Speaker 7: And normally in that situation, you don't run.
- 32:57Speaker 24: Wouldn't you sort of like to see Moran Drill Wells
- 33:02Speaker 24: right here.
- 33:03Speaker 7: That's selfish play. That's just padding your stats. Well, he's
- 33:06Speaker 7: a Bush League player. But guess what?
- 33:08Speaker 25: One of the unwritten rules, like if we're holding you on, sure,
- 33:11Speaker 25: if you get a jump, go.
- 33:12Speaker 7: But if I'm going to play behind you at first base.
- 33:14Speaker 5: That's us just saying, just play the game.
- 33:17Speaker 9: I love it. When announcers are sitting in a booth,
- 33:19Speaker 9: major league guys who have been doing it for years
- 33:21Speaker 9: and years and years, and if they're saying, you know,
- 33:23Speaker 9: we should just throw in Austin Wells here. We, we, they.
- 33:26Speaker 7: The rules.
- 33:28Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 33:28Speaker 7: All these unwritten rules about.
- 33:30Speaker 9: Unwritten rules of baseball.
- 33:32Speaker 24: Hey.
- 33:33Speaker 9: Jazz Chisholm took 30, scored on the Austin Wells home
- 33:35Speaker 9: run anyway. It didn't make any difference. Okay, so now
- 33:38Speaker 9: there's nothing I love more because I launched my career
- 33:43Speaker 9: at Shenandoah High School, actually before that, at Northwest Missouri State.
- 33:49Speaker 9: Tape recording, Maryville Spoofhound football. That's how we learned sitting in.
- 33:54Speaker 3: Yeah, the Spoofhounds.
- 33:56Speaker 9: I didn't make that up. What is a Spoofhound? You'll
- 33:59Speaker 9: read it in the book. So with that, we sat
- 34:04Speaker 9: with a cassette machine in the rain, made up names,
- 34:07Speaker 9: learning play-by-play. Took it in Monday. The director of broadcasting said,
- 34:11Speaker 9: oh my God, I haven't heard the score for 10 minutes.
- 34:13Speaker 9: You guys are the worst. But nothing now... I love
- 34:18Speaker 9: high school play-by-play. I've got some old Relic stuff in
- 34:23Speaker 9: a file that I will dig out for you.
- 34:25Speaker 3: Oh, sure.
- 34:26Speaker 9: It's football season in high school.
- 34:27Speaker 17: All right.
- 34:28Speaker 4: Pedal.
- 34:29Speaker 9: Mississippi Petal stole the Leaf River rivalry on Friday night,
- 34:35Speaker 9: beating Hattiesburg 35-34. It was a last-minute touchdown and an
- 34:39Speaker 9: extra point that should not have gone through because it
- 34:42Speaker 9: looked like they blocked it. The Tigers led most of
- 34:44Speaker 9: the night. They held an advantage with a minute 56
- 34:47Speaker 9: to go. They tried to kneel out the clock. Hattiesburg fumbled.
- 34:51Speaker 9: You fumbled kneeling. Anyway, Peddle recovered at its own 40,
- 34:54Speaker 9: no timeouts. They get in a position. They score with
- 34:58Speaker 9: a minute eight to go. Now there is a point
- 35:02Speaker 9: after a touchdown, which the announcers didn't quite see and
- 35:06Speaker 9: couldn't figure out how it happened.
- 35:09Speaker 8: After a way from the lead, 108 to play.
- 35:13Speaker 6: Haydale.
- 35:14Speaker 23: High snap.
- 35:15Speaker 6: It's down.
- 35:16Speaker 7: It is blocked. It went through. How'd it go through?
- 35:20Speaker 7: It was blocked. Can you believe that?
- 35:25Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 35:26Speaker 9: So people on social media, people on social media are going,
- 35:29Speaker 9: I've watched this 35 times. I haven't seen the ball
- 35:31Speaker 9: go through the uprights. Apparently it did. And Peddle gets
- 35:37Speaker 9: the win in the Leaf River game.
- 35:40Speaker 3: Uh, rivalry.
- 35:40Speaker 9: So, uh, there it is. You just, you know, God,
- 35:43Speaker 9: I'll tell you, I'll, there will be, and thanks to the,
- 35:46Speaker 9: the internet now, but there will probably be a lot
- 35:48Speaker 9: of high school play by play that we'll be able to, uh,
- 35:50Speaker 9: to follow up. Um, tough night last night in the, uh, the,
- 35:53Speaker 9: you know, the U S open tennis is underway kind
- 35:56Speaker 9: of silently, you know, playing. And I watched the highlights
- 36:00Speaker 9: today of Novak Djokovic. Five sets. Took four and a
- 36:03Speaker 9: half hours. He lost to a 39th-ranked player. And to
- 36:09Speaker 9: Amara Ellen Navone was his name. And he had 70
- 36:14Speaker 9: unforced errors. And so the highlights today had him throwing
- 36:18Speaker 9: up in trash cans, medical doctors rubbing his back. He
- 36:23Speaker 9: had cramps. He had lower back cramps. He's throwing up after,
- 36:27Speaker 9: you know, he had nothing. He had nothing.
- 36:29Speaker 7: His body.
- 36:30Speaker 9: He had nothing. Well, the four and a half hour
- 36:33Speaker 9: match put Venus Williams last night. The start of their match. 12.13 a.m.
- 36:41Speaker 7: Oh, my goodness. Nobody wants to be in that part
- 36:45Speaker 7: of Queens at 12.13 a.m.
- 36:48Speaker 9: Yeah, and then Venus got beat, and so there you go.
- 36:52Speaker 9: And it was fun to watch. Again, I was all
- 36:55Speaker 9: over Scotty Scheffler and what he was accomplishing yesterday, a
- 36:58Speaker 9: couple of Tiger Woods records, and he made a boatload
- 37:01Speaker 9: of money with a bonus and then another $ 10 million
- 37:04Speaker 9: check yesterday and just was solid as can be. Only
- 37:07Speaker 9: two players were four under par. He matched the lead
- 37:11Speaker 9: of the round of the day, and it was great.
- 37:14Speaker 9: And so you'll hear next hour. Scott, I don't want
- 37:18Speaker 9: to give it away because next hour there's a great
- 37:21Speaker 9: soundbite with Scotty talking about things, and he's just so
- 37:26Speaker 9: down-to-earth and level-headed. So anyway, with that being said, and
- 37:30Speaker 9: if that wasn't enough at Daytona, Tom Cruise and Anne
- 37:34Speaker 9: Hathaway showed up at Daytona in the new Cole Trickle
- 37:39Speaker 9: car for Days of Thunder, which will not be shown
- 37:43Speaker 9: until the summer of 2028. But let's start the promotion early.
- 37:47Speaker 7: Anne Hathaway will.
- 37:48Speaker 9: Be the owner of the Cole Trickle car with Tom
- 37:51Speaker 9: Cruise at age 64. So there you go. Big stuff
- 37:54Speaker 9: at Daytona.
- 37:55Speaker 3: All right.
- 37:55Speaker 7: Thank you. All brought to you. And I'll tell you
- 37:57Speaker 7: what a spoofound is next.
- 37:59Speaker 3: Okay, good.
- 38:01Speaker 27: According to a new report from Discovery Education, 92% of
- 38:05Speaker 27: students say that engaging lessons make school more fun, and
- 38:08Speaker 27: more than 90% of educators said engagement is critical for
- 38:11Speaker 27: student achievement. Student engagement is essential for learning, but gaps
- 38:16Speaker 27: remain about how to achieve, measure, and sustain students' interest
- 38:19Speaker 27: in the classroom. Although 63% of students agreed that students
- 38:24Speaker 27: are highly engaged in school, only 45% of teachers and
- 38:27Speaker 27: 51% of principals surveyed agreed with the same statement. Educators
- 38:32Speaker 27: disagreed on the top indicators of engagement. 72% of teachers
- 38:37Speaker 27: said asking thoughtful questions was the strongest indicator of student engagement,
- 38:41Speaker 27: while 54% of superintendents rate performing well on assessments as
- 38:45Speaker 27: a top engagement indicator.
- 38:47Speaker 15: Also, two-thirds of.
- 38:49Speaker 27: Students said they believed that AI could help them learn faster,
- 38:52Speaker 27: yet fewer than half of teachers report using AI themselves
- 38:55Speaker 27: to complete tasks. Visit discoveryeducation.com to learn more and view
- 38:59Speaker 27: the full report.
- 39:04Speaker 18: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas? Yes,
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- 42:02Speaker 17: If you came across someone struggling with hunger, how would
- 42:05Speaker 17: you recognize them?
- 42:07Speaker 15: By their clothes, their age, the way they speak?
- 42:11Speaker 17: Would you notice a 16-year-old boy who got his first job,
- 42:15Speaker 17: not for extra spending money, but to help feed his
- 42:17Speaker 17: little sisters?
- 42:19Speaker 15: Or a mother who's.
- 42:20Speaker 1: In between jobs and sometimes goes to bed hungry so
- 42:23Speaker 1: her kids can have dinner?
- 42:25Speaker 15: Or a 14-year-old girl who signs up to every.
- 42:28Speaker 18: After-school activity not to make friends but just to get
- 42:31Speaker 18: something to eat.
- 42:33Speaker 17: Or a retiree who fell ill and had.
- 42:35Speaker 3: To choose between getting medicine or groceries.
- 42:40Speaker 17: I am the one in eight Americans who struggle with hunger.
- 42:44Speaker 17: People you pass by every day but never knew were hungry.
- 42:48Speaker 15: I am hunger in America.
- 42:51Speaker 22: Hunger can be hard to recognize. Learn why at IamHungerinAmerica.org.
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- 43:02Speaker 13: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
- 43:05Speaker 13: First Amendment. Freedom of religion. Freedom of speech. Freedom of
- 43:10Speaker 13: the press. Freedom to peaceably assemble. Freedom to petition the government.
- 43:14Speaker 13: Which freedom can you live without? Fortunately, the First Amendment
- 43:19Speaker 13: doesn't make you choose. It protects all five freedoms equally.
- 43:23Speaker 13: Think first. Go to thinkfirstamendment.org to learn more.
- 43:27Speaker 4: When might you be buzzed when you suddenly love everything?
- 43:31Speaker 9: You guys, I love this song.
- 43:35Speaker 25: I love these nachos. I love our kickball league. I
- 43:41Speaker 25: love this guy.
- 43:42Speaker 9: What's your name?
- 43:43Speaker 4: You know what I love?
- 43:45Speaker 9: A ride when it's time to head out.
- 43:47Speaker 4: If you see a buzzed warning sign, call for a
- 43:49Speaker 4: ride when it's time to go home. Buzz driving is
- 43:52Speaker 4: drunk driving. A message from NHTSA and the Ad Council.
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- 44:11Speaker 3: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
- 44:23Speaker 7: Enter lawyers. Enter lawyers. For John Myers writes in, enter
- 44:31Speaker 7: lawyers ruin everything. You got to remember though, the lawyers
- 44:38Speaker 7: are only doing it because somebody asked them to. All right, yes,
- 44:41Speaker 7: there are the ones who will convince you. Come on,
- 44:44Speaker 7: come on, I got a case. I think we can
- 44:46Speaker 7: win this. I think we can make a lot of money. Yes,
- 44:50Speaker 7: I won't deny that there are lawyers who will go
- 44:53Speaker 7: out and find some college kid and say, hey, I
- 44:56Speaker 7: think we could win this case against, you know, the SEC, the, well,
- 45:01Speaker 7: the Pac-10 has no money. So nobody's suing the Pac-10.
- 45:06Speaker 7: They have no money there. And John goes on to write, oh,
- 45:10Speaker 7: and the politicians too. Because, and this is one of
- 45:14Speaker 7: the points I made about the college athletics and all
- 45:17Speaker 7: of this stuff is that this is this is almost
- 45:20Speaker 7: too easy for the politicians to come in and grab
- 45:25Speaker 7: a quick soundbite and have something to say about something
- 45:28Speaker 7: that really is not going to have any, but it
- 45:31Speaker 7: gets them the free time on the TV. And that's
- 45:36Speaker 7: what they want. They want the free time on the
- 45:39Speaker 7: TV because if they're on TV, then that's a, I
- 45:44Speaker 7: think there's a mathematical equation that says, um, For every
- 45:49Speaker 7: time you appear in a newscast as a newsmaker, it's
- 45:56Speaker 7: worth like a hundred commercials that you have to buy.
- 46:00Speaker 7: Because most of us, we kind of zone out during
- 46:02Speaker 7: the commercials, except you. I understand you guys, you know,
- 46:05Speaker 7: you're down there with Dr. Mitch and Jefferson Coin Shop
- 46:09Speaker 7: and the folks like that. And I appreciate you for that. But,
- 46:16Speaker 7: you know, music, radio, and the sitcoms that still exist
- 46:21Speaker 7: and all of that. You know, the commercials come on
- 46:23Speaker 7: and a little screen comes down, checking our email, whatever.
- 46:29Speaker 7: And so, you know, if you show up in the news,
- 46:39Speaker 7: it's like, oh, Congressman so-and-so said this about, you know,
- 46:42Speaker 7: the college players. I believe in the children's freedom to
- 46:47Speaker 7: earn a living. And if they can't do that, they
- 46:49Speaker 7: should be able to because an engineering student gets to.
- 46:52Speaker 7: And it's all the claptrap that they throw around there.
- 46:56Speaker 7: But I received another email on lawyers this weekend that
- 47:02Speaker 7: I thought since John brought up lawyers, I would pull
- 47:05Speaker 7: it in here. Because I made a statement, was it
- 47:10Speaker 7: Saturday morning? I referred to lawyers as inanimate objects, just
- 47:15Speaker 7: like a firearm. They only cause harm if we ask
- 47:20Speaker 7: them to. Janine writes it, she said, LOL, I hate
- 47:28Speaker 7: that acronym, but I can't think of a better one
- 47:31Speaker 7: from my reaction to hearing you describe lawyers, parentheses, my
- 47:36Speaker 7: husband is one, as inanimate objects. I couldn't stop giggling
- 47:44Speaker 7: at the idea, but you're right, though. Lawyers are generally
- 47:47Speaker 7: just doing what their clients ask them to do. Some
- 47:52Speaker 7: of them are doing really good work trying to defend
- 47:54Speaker 7: people's civil rights, the real ones, and the other ones
- 47:58Speaker 7: are all in there trying to make somebody some cash.
- 48:02Speaker 7: How do we fix that? Oh, I generally... Janine, go
- 48:09Speaker 7: back to something they do in Europe, which is a
- 48:14Speaker 7: rarity for me to suggest we try something that they
- 48:18Speaker 7: do in Europe, but it's called loser pays. Loser pays
- 48:23Speaker 7: is a scenario in which you can bring a lawsuit,
- 48:28Speaker 7: but if you lose your lawsuit, you have to pay
- 48:31Speaker 7: the legal fees of the person you're suing. And it has,
- 48:40Speaker 7: from what I've seen, worked to the benefit of the citizens.
- 48:46Speaker 7: There are fewer frivolous lawsuits, which therefore don't feed into
- 48:52Speaker 7: higher prices, because higher prices are usually the offshoot of
- 48:57Speaker 7: these frivolous lawsuits or lawsuits based on sketchy details. Because
- 49:05Speaker 7: if it's something that winds up forcing a company to
- 49:10Speaker 7: change its packaging or the way it markets something, it's
- 49:16Speaker 7: going to cost you more at the checkout counter. But
- 49:26Speaker 7: I have found that over time that it seems like
- 49:29Speaker 7: the idea of loser pays has been good for both
- 49:38Speaker 7: the economy and the outlook of a legal profession. But
- 49:44Speaker 7: my point still is the case that just like a
- 49:47Speaker 7: firearm or a stickball bat, a lawyer can be used
- 49:51Speaker 7: for good or for ill. It's what is it being
- 50:00Speaker 7: asked to do, and then, you know, obviously it's going
- 50:04Speaker 7: to do what's best by its canons. to serve its client, sure,
- 50:10Speaker 7: that would be malfeasance if it didn't do that. Good morning.
- 50:15Speaker 7: You're on the air with Joe. Who's this?
- 50:17Speaker 24: Hey, this is Moscow Bob. And what you're talking about,
- 50:21Speaker 24: tort law, is exactly what in England Elton John and
- 50:25Speaker 24: Harry got themselves in big trouble and owe what, like
- 50:29Speaker 24: $ 15 to $ 50 million in lawyer fees for the defendants?
- 50:34Speaker 7: That's right. They are probably one of the more famous
- 50:37Speaker 7: cases of loser pays. And it kind of went underreported there.
- 50:45Speaker 7: But I believe that this helps the whole scenario, including
- 50:52Speaker 7: the economy, because you're not caught up. Plus, it opens
- 50:56Speaker 7: up courtrooms for more judicial proceedings of folks who actually
- 51:02Speaker 7: have to have their rights defended.
- 51:05Speaker 24: And also the jury gets to say when they get
- 51:09Speaker 24: called and they waste their time and they have these
- 51:11Speaker 24: frivolous lawsuits for no reason, the jury can make significant
- 51:17Speaker 24: claims demands.
- 51:19Speaker 3: Right, right.
- 51:20Speaker 7: And so they can actually weigh in.
- 51:23Speaker 24: Yeah, instead of paying the plaintiff, they're paying the defendant
- 51:27Speaker 24: and rewarding them for wasting their time and their money.
- 51:30Speaker 7: Or punishing them for it as well because they can
- 51:35Speaker 7: enact that as well if they have a say in it.
- 51:38Speaker 7: Good stuff, Bob. How's your weekend been? Hey, one quick thing.
- 51:42Speaker 3: One quick thing.
- 51:43Speaker 24: What's wrong with the Lada? Ladas last for years and
- 51:46Speaker 24: years and years. They're built like the old Chevys used
- 51:48Speaker 24: to be of heavy steel and everything else. And a
- 51:51Speaker 24: good old Lada is still running and you can fix it.
- 51:54Speaker 24: You don't have to pay someone thousands of dollars to
- 51:57Speaker 24: take it into a shop to fix because everything's computerized.
- 52:01Speaker 7: I think I inferred the air quotes in where you
- 52:03Speaker 7: said running. Are they the ones that were made out
- 52:08Speaker 7: of fiberglass that doesn't decompose? There's a Russian car that's
- 52:15Speaker 7: made out of fabric and fiberglass, and it just doesn't decompose. Anyway, Bob,
- 52:22Speaker 7: good stuff, my friend.
- 52:23Speaker 24: Hey, have a great day.
- 52:25Speaker 7: By the way, a spoof hound is exactly that. It
- 52:28Speaker 7: is a hound that is lazy and shiftless and does nothing.
- 52:32Speaker 7: And yes, somebody decided that's what he wanted to nickname
- 52:36Speaker 7: his high school football team because he said they were
- 52:39Speaker 7: laying around like a bunch of spoof hounds. It goes
- 52:43Speaker 7: back to World War I, where I guess some GI
- 52:47Speaker 7: decided that there should.
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