Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "Ike Knew" (Saturday, April 25, 2026, Hour 2)
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- 0:01Speaker 1: We'll do it making mornings great again. Well, the first
- 0:04Speaker 1: thing today on the Tunk Media acte by Thomas We'll.
- 0:08Speaker 2: Do it line Jewart said, steal men have a day
- 0:15Speaker 2: at least for work.
- 0:15Speaker 3: When the sun comes up, drops a pet at the school.
- 0:20Speaker 3: Joeys eything a.
- 0:21Speaker 4: Dream, do all the Joses out and needs no one
- 0:26Speaker 4: that Joe's all smiled.
- 0:27Speaker 5: He only aggs.
- 0:31Speaker 6: Let them be.
- 0:32Speaker 7: Joe, thank you for letting us be of service to
- 0:35Speaker 7: you this morning.
- 0:36Speaker 3: I want to be.
- 0:39Speaker 7: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven
- 0:42Speaker 7: in the program where first I tell you what went
- 0:44Speaker 7: on last night, and then you tell us how it's
- 0:47Speaker 7: impacting you where you are. We're talking about uh paid
- 0:51Speaker 7: sponsorships and spokespeople and why you just don't seem to
- 0:55Speaker 7: get the straight answer. Well, you know, another fellow who
- 0:58Speaker 7: wasn't always a Republican until he ran for president kind
- 1:03Speaker 7: of warned us about this back in nineteen sixty one.
- 1:07Speaker 6: In the same fashion.
- 1:09Speaker 8: The Free University Versity, historically the fountain head of free
- 1:14Speaker 8: ideas and scientific discovery. I've experienced a revolution and the
- 1:20Speaker 8: conduct of research, partly because of the huge costs involved.
- 1:25Speaker 8: A government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity.
- 1:32Speaker 6: Interesting.
- 1:33Speaker 8: For every old blackboard, there are now hundreds of new
- 1:37Speaker 8: electronic computers.
- 1:38Speaker 6: Nineteen sixty one.
- 1:40Speaker 8: The prospective domination of the nation scholars by federal employment
- 1:45Speaker 8: project allocations and the power of money is ever present
- 1:49Speaker 8: and is gravely to be regarded.
- 1:52Speaker 7: There it is there's your warning right there. In nineteen
- 1:54Speaker 7: sixty one government owned science starting with the answer that
- 2:03Speaker 7: government wants to get, and then the scientist's job is
- 2:06Speaker 7: to come.
- 2:07Speaker 6: Up with the equation that gets you there.
- 2:11Speaker 7: You would talk about gain of function research, and it's
- 2:18Speaker 7: this is the entire ball of wax. This is why
- 2:24Speaker 7: you know, we're in great peril of being the boy
- 2:26Speaker 7: who cried wolf. With this great technology and this great
- 2:30Speaker 7: technological ability to share information, no one's listening anymore, you
- 2:36Speaker 7: know why. Because we're tired of being sales pitched. We're
- 2:40Speaker 7: tired of every clip of everything out there trying to
- 2:44Speaker 7: sell us something. This is why social media influencers are
- 2:49Speaker 7: so popular these days. Because some twink putting makeup on.
- 2:55Speaker 7: At least I get it. She's paid for by Laoreal
- 2:59Speaker 7: to show me how to put the makeup on. I mean,
- 3:02Speaker 7: not that I watched that kind of stuff on. Anyway,
- 3:06Speaker 7: our first things this morning that we'll get to you
- 3:08Speaker 7: on the telephone. President Trump has intensified the attention paid
- 3:13Speaker 7: to the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center. At
- 3:16Speaker 7: a press gaggle in the Oval Office yesterday, he was
- 3:19Speaker 7: asked about it, and he said, if it's true, the
- 3:22Speaker 7: twenty twenty presidential election should be permanently wiped from the books,
- 3:28Speaker 7: leading to discussion in most corners of there he goes again. However,
- 3:34Speaker 7: while the US House and Senate can't pass the Save Act,
- 3:39Speaker 7: voters in California have collected enough signatures to put their
- 3:44Speaker 7: own version of the Save America Act on the California
- 3:49Speaker 7: ballot in November.
- 3:51Speaker 6: Already puzzled by the.
- 3:52Speaker 7: Fact that as candidates come and go, Republican Steve Hilton
- 3:58Speaker 7: continues to lead in all polls in this jungle primary
- 4:03Speaker 7: that's coming up. Could a Republican lead on November's ballot
- 4:08Speaker 7: in the Golden State and also have a requirement that
- 4:14Speaker 7: people show citizenship to get on California's voter rolls. Stay tuned,
- 4:20Speaker 7: Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcoffer. In Pakistan, so is Abbas Arachi,
- 4:25Speaker 7: the Iranian Foreign Minister Arachi says, don't count us not
- 4:30Speaker 7: as talking to one another, but we'll be there talking
- 4:33Speaker 7: with Pakistani go betweens. Meanwhile, commercial flights have resumed at
- 4:38Speaker 7: Tehran's International Airport for the first time since the bombardment began.
- 4:45Speaker 7: Spirit Airlines may not be one of those flying there, however,
- 4:49Speaker 7: the Administration on the subject said they're going to use
- 4:52Speaker 7: the Defense Production Act as the premise to bail out
- 4:56Speaker 7: Spirit Airlines. A source tells Reuters that they're going to
- 5:00Speaker 7: to take Title three of the Defense Production Act that
- 5:03Speaker 7: allows the US government to invest in industrial capacity to
- 5:08Speaker 7: ensure supply chains for national defense. It should be noted
- 5:13Speaker 7: that Spared Airlines flies mostly French made Airbus aircraft. New
- 5:20Speaker 7: York has sued the administration for withholding seventy three point
- 5:24Speaker 7: five million dollars in highway funding because the state continues
- 5:28Speaker 7: to give truck driving commercial licenses to non citizens. A
- 5:37Speaker 7: US soldier was arrested and charged with using classified information
- 5:40Speaker 7: to profit in an online prediction market. The signals that
- 5:45Speaker 7: authorities won't ignore this kind of Pete Rose esque behavior
- 5:49Speaker 7: any more, prosecutor said Army Master Sergeant gannon Ken van Dijk.
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- 13:10Speaker 1: Abstracted Twitter, Amaze your friends here in First Thing Today
- 13:15Speaker 1: by Joe.
- 13:15Speaker 7: Thomas, I love this story because it feeds into something
- 13:27Speaker 7: that I've said in abstract and it's an economic one too.
- 13:30Speaker 7: And I'm here now, traveling from the future to tell
- 13:35Speaker 7: you that by April twenty fifth of twenty thirty six,
- 13:40Speaker 7: if we haven't succumbed to all the climate catastrophes that
- 13:45Speaker 7: Greta Thunberg have foretold to us, we'll be listening to
- 13:50Speaker 7: congressmen and women, many of them in high school at
- 13:52Speaker 7: the moment, calling on the federal government to bail out
- 13:57Speaker 7: their alma maters because the advertising is dried up for
- 14:01Speaker 7: collegiate football broadcast because there are literally eight thousand of
- 14:06Speaker 7: them every Saturday, and now they can't afford to pay
- 14:09Speaker 7: the contracts. They're obligated to their starting quarterback and their
- 14:14Speaker 7: star linebacker under name image likeness, which apparently doesn't mean
- 14:19Speaker 7: anything anymore, because well, the quarterback ain't selling Mercedes like
- 14:24Speaker 7: he used to. And we begin the story with Carson Beck.
- 14:28Speaker 7: And if there is an embodiment of this execrable commerce,
- 14:34Speaker 7: it's Carson Beck. Are any teams he played for? He
- 14:38Speaker 7: is national about Georgia, then it's Miami, and he keeps
- 14:41Speaker 7: chasing and it couldn't happen to a nicer cat, from
- 14:44Speaker 7: what I'm told. And he goes number one in the
- 14:49Speaker 7: fourth round or third round of the NFL Draft to
- 14:52Speaker 7: the Atlanta Falcons.
- 14:56Speaker 6: So you know, he never escaped Georgia.
- 14:58Speaker 7: I gas it'll be a very popular clipboard holder for them.
- 15:03Speaker 7: And as one GM pointed out, he will make next
- 15:08Speaker 7: next season, he will make less money in professional football
- 15:12Speaker 7: than he did in his last season at the University
- 15:15Speaker 7: of Miami. And this is the world we're in now,
- 15:22Speaker 7: and and I'm still saying that college football should just
- 15:25Speaker 7: stop pretending that these are scholar athletes and just their
- 15:30Speaker 7: promotional tools to bring money to the university, just like
- 15:34Speaker 7: a high paid professor of whatever it is you want
- 15:38Speaker 7: to be considered nationally renowned for. Just quit the premise.
- 15:43Speaker 7: Put the best team on the field. Say these guys
- 15:46Speaker 7: work for the University of Alabama, Roll Tide or war
- 15:51Speaker 7: Eagle if it's Auburn or you know Holkham Horns, or
- 15:55Speaker 7: you know, well, my college didn't have a football team.
- 15:58Speaker 7: I mean, you know, we ran into each other a lot,
- 16:00Speaker 7: but that was mostly in the parking lot. Doctor Clark,
- 16:04Speaker 7: speaking of War Eagle, is on the phone.
- 16:06Speaker 6: With us at four three four eight A two four
- 16:08Speaker 6: two one seven Morning Clark. How are you doing, sir?
- 16:12Speaker 13: I'm all good, And you know, you bring up a
- 16:14Speaker 13: really good point, because.
- 16:17Speaker 7: Clark, I hate it when somebody says I brought up
- 16:22Speaker 7: a really good point and then their phone call drops.
- 16:25Speaker 7: That happened to us when the power went out earlier
- 16:27Speaker 7: this week. We had a colossal power failure at the
- 16:31Speaker 7: main headquarters and cut us off of the Mumford tea
- 16:34Speaker 7: firefly suck it from the sky down link Antennae.
- 16:38Speaker 6: Clark, Are you still there?
- 16:40Speaker 13: I think I am.
- 16:41Speaker 7: Well, you cut out right after you told me something brilliant,
- 16:44Speaker 7: I said, and you never got to tell us what
- 16:46Speaker 7: brilliance that was.
- 16:48Speaker 18: Yeah, when was the last time the XYZ Corporation drafted
- 16:53Speaker 18: the top physics student from the University of Miami?
- 16:56Speaker 7: And well I got the point there again, Cell Services,
- 17:04Speaker 7: Is there some sort of you know, the chiicom's doing something?
- 17:07Speaker 7: Is this part of that whole AI four version four
- 17:11Speaker 7: of the chi cooms AI that they're working on?
- 17:16Speaker 6: But yeah, it's it's true.
- 17:18Speaker 7: You know, you don't You don't find those folks all
- 17:21Speaker 7: the time going out there and drafting the but there
- 17:24Speaker 7: is competition for it. And this is actually the fulcrum
- 17:27Speaker 7: of the name image likeness stuff, because a physics student
- 17:32Speaker 7: at the University of Auburn can go out and work
- 17:38Speaker 7: summer internships and externships and things like that and make
- 17:42Speaker 7: money while they're going to school, and it helps the school,
- 17:47Speaker 7: it helps the student and all those other things. I
- 17:49Speaker 7: think we have somebody back on the line here is
- 17:52Speaker 7: this clerk back with us? So okay, well it sounds
- 17:57Speaker 7: like you are unless that's AI generating your voice anyway,
- 18:00Speaker 7: what'd you call about?
- 18:03Speaker 18: Well, I'm doing my plateload fitness, got my arteries, making gases.
- 18:08Speaker 13: Listening to Joe Thomas, and I learned that.
- 18:11Speaker 18: According to the Sorrow's Paid Liars Club, Joe and I
- 18:15Speaker 18: are boat knots.
- 18:16Speaker 6: Yep.
- 18:19Speaker 18: I guess I should open with an appropriate greeting. Joe,
- 18:24Speaker 18: how span Bay guy, Maybe that's the way we u
- 18:28Speaker 18: You should answer the phone that way from now on.
- 18:30Speaker 13: I don't know. So, you know a couple of things,
- 18:36Speaker 13: and then I'm gonna go a little dark.
- 18:39Speaker 18: Redistrict team. I don't know how y'all stuff is going
- 18:44Speaker 18: to turn out. I hope that the Supreme Court rules
- 18:47Speaker 18: according to the law, and they haven't had seventy million
- 18:51Speaker 18: dollars spent on them. But you look at the blue
- 18:55Speaker 18: states in the Northeast, where it's thirty six forty five
- 19:00Speaker 18: percent Republicans in those various states, and they have zero
- 19:05Speaker 18: congressional representation.
- 19:07Speaker 6: Yep.
- 19:08Speaker 18: And now there is talk of red states retaliating by
- 19:14Speaker 18: redistricting to do the same thing. And here's what somebody's
- 19:18Speaker 18: gonna say about that, Joe, you know what they're gonna
- 19:20Speaker 18: say about it, Well, ty rounds don't make a riot.
- 19:24Speaker 7: It seems to be their political ambition. How many wrongs
- 19:28Speaker 7: can we do in our rhymes?
- 19:30Speaker 18: Sometimes it makes a point now when we get to
- 19:36Speaker 18: things about points being made. All this is coming out
- 19:40Speaker 18: about the sorrow's paid Liar's club, the twenty twenty fifth
- 19:44Speaker 18: that you brought up this morning, crossfire, hurricane, and for
- 19:48Speaker 18: the love of the very worst thing is arctic frost
- 19:52Speaker 18: where how many people got locked up for how long?
- 19:55Speaker 18: We've got thousands of years of incarceration here, Joe, not
- 20:01Speaker 18: the Department of Justice, not the Trump administration, but we
- 20:06Speaker 18: the people. Our response to this needs to be so horrific,
- 20:13Speaker 18: not for revenge, not for retaliation.
- 20:17Speaker 13: But as a deterrent.
- 20:19Speaker 18: It will needs to be so bad that in the
- 20:22Speaker 18: year thirty twenty six, somebody says, hey, let's rig an election,
- 20:28Speaker 18: and somebody says, are you insane?
- 20:30Speaker 6: Well, that's the.
- 20:31Speaker 7: Whole point of the American American justice system is supposed
- 20:34Speaker 7: to work that way. And one of the cons that
- 20:36Speaker 7: we get fed as American citizens is that our justice
- 20:40Speaker 7: system is supposed to stop crime. I mean, as an
- 20:43Speaker 7: abstract function of the criminal justice system, it will stop
- 20:50Speaker 7: purportedly the person we arrest and maybe anyone who sees
- 20:53Speaker 7: what happens to them, you know, from dissuading them from
- 20:58Speaker 7: doing future crimes. But we can only go after, if
- 21:02Speaker 7: we're going to stay a free society, crimes that have
- 21:05Speaker 7: already been committed.
- 21:07Speaker 6: So these high functioning.
- 21:14Speaker 7: Cripples that hold these political offices that are claiming that
- 21:18Speaker 7: we can't go back and talk about the twenty twenty
- 21:21Speaker 7: election because it's already happened. I presume then since the
- 21:26Speaker 7: Gilgo Beach murders happened in you know, twenty years span
- 21:30Speaker 7: up through like twenty eleven, then we shouldn't have thrown
- 21:33Speaker 7: this guy in jail, this architect that was guilty of
- 21:36Speaker 7: them because while that was years ago, and we you know,
- 21:39Speaker 7: we need to live in the now.
- 21:42Speaker 18: Well, the state that you're currently in, the state motto
- 21:46Speaker 18: is sixcee for tyranns. Thus ever to tyrants. Where I
- 21:50Speaker 18: sit right now, is we there to fend our rights?
- 21:54Speaker 18: We better defend some rights. And if it ain't us
- 21:57Speaker 18: ever to tyrants, Joe, you know, here's what's the thing.
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- 28:15Speaker 1: On a need to know basis, because you need to
- 28:18Speaker 1: know the first thing today?
- 28:24Speaker 5: What did you ever go back into one of these
- 28:27Speaker 5: long way?
- 28:27Speaker 7: Better not?
- 28:29Speaker 5: There's things out there to be the world with.
- 28:32Speaker 9: The bug a stroll Land the Pride, Thanks to Crown,
- 28:36Speaker 9: Thanks God, Thanks creeping around on the ground had.
- 28:39Speaker 12: To say that, no, stop, you're just cleaning.
- 28:41Speaker 10: It's up man.
- 28:42Speaker 3: He walks down.
- 28:45Speaker 7: No, you can't be careful when you go walk in
- 28:47Speaker 7: the swamp. So you know, you know, in one of
- 28:50Speaker 7: those wonderful moments, Doctor Clark has a has a mouse
- 28:54Speaker 7: run across as Wayne Scotting right as he's ramping to
- 28:57Speaker 7: what was going to be a beautiful finish to the
- 28:59Speaker 7: news and right then.
- 29:00Speaker 6: Says, and another thing.
- 29:02Speaker 18: Uh.
- 29:02Speaker 6: It's like it's like, uh what was the Uh it
- 29:06Speaker 6: was the the.
- 29:06Speaker 7: Comic that gave root to uh fog Horn Leghorn that
- 29:11Speaker 7: used to be on the old sitcom Uh there Cleghorn.
- 29:16Speaker 6: Was this, I say, I'll say and another thing. Boy,
- 29:19Speaker 6: look at me when I'm talking to you.
- 29:20Speaker 7: But we so since we cut you off in mid
- 29:23Speaker 7: another thing, Clark, we held on to you just to
- 29:25Speaker 7: get your another thing out there.
- 29:28Speaker 6: And and by the by the way, on that subject,
- 29:30Speaker 6: I don't.
- 29:31Speaker 7: Know you guys in Alabama didn't redistrict this year, but
- 29:34Speaker 7: your neighbors are about to. Uh Mississippi's about it. Just
- 29:37Speaker 7: called a special session, uh to say, you know what,
- 29:40Speaker 7: if Virginia can't do it, we'll do it down here.
- 29:43Speaker 7: So I imagine that will become a redder state than
- 29:46Speaker 7: it already is.
- 29:48Speaker 13: There, you go, good for them things say rebels too.
- 29:53Speaker 13: So not another thing, Joe. Let's just call this the
- 29:57Speaker 13: whole thing. And here it is.
- 30:00Speaker 18: If we don't have secure, fair elections, then they don't
- 30:05Speaker 18: have the consent that the moral authority is supposed to
- 30:08Speaker 18: be derived from. And if they don't have our consent,
- 30:12Speaker 18: and if they don't have that moral authority, we are
- 30:14Speaker 18: not being governed being ruled.
- 30:17Speaker 6: Well, yeah, this is, but this is not a flaw
- 30:21Speaker 6: a feature.
- 30:21Speaker 7: They want us to accept this, and I'm going to
- 30:24Speaker 7: unpack that a little bit in a In a little bit.
- 30:26Speaker 18: Doctor Clark, my grandmother would have said, we need to
- 30:30Speaker 18: rare up on our hind legs and let them know,
- 30:33Speaker 18: one know, in certain terms will just be tolerated.
- 30:36Speaker 6: Yeah. But you know, here's the thing.
- 30:38Speaker 7: When Republicans can't even pass the Save America Act, an
- 30:42Speaker 7: act that even California voters said, you know what, we
- 30:45Speaker 7: should have this on our docket to discuss, not wait
- 30:49Speaker 7: for the federal when you can't, when you've got you know,
- 30:53Speaker 7: these these politico's who are ringing their own bells and
- 30:57Speaker 7: singing their.
- 30:58Speaker 6: Own gospel too.
- 31:00Speaker 7: You've got to you've got to have better candidates, and
- 31:04Speaker 7: I just don't see.
- 31:05Speaker 18: You have somebody else to hold the football, Joe. We
- 31:08Speaker 18: cannot keep relying on the Republican Party. We cannot win
- 31:12Speaker 18: us versus them when the vast majority of us is.
- 31:16Speaker 6: Them, right, I mean, this is the point that's been made.
- 31:19Speaker 7: Is the government in his answer crowd, which is a
- 31:22Speaker 7: long winded, kind of awkward way of calling somebody a
- 31:24Speaker 7: fabian socialist, is in Republican and the Democratic Party anyway, Clark,
- 31:29Speaker 7: good stuff, my friend, have a great weekend.
- 31:33Speaker 18: Take care.
- 31:35Speaker 13: And you know the.
- 31:39Speaker 6: Concentration of power.
- 31:40Speaker 7: And I know my dear friend Bob in Virginia rails
- 31:43Speaker 7: when I bring up redistricting and the nineteen twenty nine
- 31:46Speaker 7: Permanent Act for And there are Republicans who are like,
- 31:52Speaker 7: I don't want to lose power because I want to
- 31:54Speaker 7: gain power so I can use it. I want to
- 31:56Speaker 7: gain power so I can take it out for a
- 31:58Speaker 7: walk and do Republican issue things. But that nineteen twenty
- 32:03Speaker 7: nine Act for Permanent Reapportionment might as well have also
- 32:06Speaker 7: included a guarantee that the Republicans and Democrats would be
- 32:11Speaker 7: the only two participating voices, and so.
- 32:21Speaker 6: The paradigm there.
- 32:22Speaker 7: That centralized control of who we get to choose from
- 32:28Speaker 7: becomes a subtext of the fact that we don't have
- 32:31Speaker 7: a sufficient number of congressional districts to match our population.
- 32:36Speaker 7: And this begins with a simple piece of arithmetic. In
- 32:40Speaker 7: nineteen thirty, we had one third as many American citizens
- 32:48Speaker 7: as we do today. So why don't we look back
- 32:51Speaker 7: and say, in nineteen thirty we have a third as
- 32:54Speaker 7: many congressional districts because we had grown and grown and
- 32:58Speaker 7: grown each time, and yet our congressional representatives, because of
- 33:09Speaker 7: the size of our population, gets further and further away
- 33:11Speaker 7: from us. So that first breakup first off puts us
- 33:20Speaker 7: closer to our congressional representatives, but it also gives rise
- 33:24Speaker 7: to districts that are compact, contiguous. And if you remove
- 33:29Speaker 7: the Republican and Democratic Party's automatic ballot placement, which they
- 33:33Speaker 7: enjoy in most all states, watch the sparks fly, watch
- 33:39Speaker 7: third party candidates, watch Libertarians and maybe even Green Party candidates,
- 33:43Speaker 7: and at least then you know you're not left with
- 33:47Speaker 7: this kabuki theater.
- 33:51Speaker 6: When I was growing up in New York, and I
- 33:53Speaker 6: believe there's still a vestige of it. In the New
- 33:57Speaker 6: York elections.
- 34:00Speaker 7: That a candidate did not run as a member of
- 34:04Speaker 7: a party, they collected the endorsements of those parties. So
- 34:10Speaker 7: David Dinkins was endorsed by the Democratic Party.
- 34:15Speaker 6: To run for mayor of New York.
- 34:18Speaker 7: Mario the Elder was endorsed by the Democratic Party to
- 34:23Speaker 7: run for governor. Ed Kach was endorsed by both parties
- 34:31Speaker 7: in New York City one year. So popular was he
- 34:34Speaker 7: as a mayor, Republicans said, you know what, go vote
- 34:38Speaker 7: for him to But with the parties getting these permanent
- 34:47Speaker 7: ballot placements, so the king making has to go on.
- 34:50Speaker 7: And then do we whatever happened to that clip of
- 34:54Speaker 7: that film the swamp.
- 34:57Speaker 6: Memory hold? Did day memory hold that thing?
- 35:00Speaker 7: We have to find that video of the original documentary
- 35:04Speaker 7: that was done on YouTube and got so many hits
- 35:08Speaker 7: that Netflix picked it up and said, can you do
- 35:11Speaker 7: it again detailing all the things that go on under
- 35:16Speaker 7: the water in the swamp so that we can drain
- 35:23Speaker 7: it out and not allow it to happen again.
- 35:30Speaker 6: That's all right. The idea that.
- 35:36Speaker 7: Politicians picked their voters is not just reserved to gerrymandering.
- 35:45Speaker 7: Republicans and Democrats alike are simply moving the deck chairs
- 35:53Speaker 7: around on our cruise ship.
- 35:59Speaker 6: And what the and we're filing through video archives.
- 36:04Speaker 7: It's a radio show. How many videos do you think
- 36:07Speaker 7: a radio show has? Gosh, but the Swamp the original one.
- 36:12Speaker 7: It was Tom Garrett and Tommy Massey and oh the
- 36:18Speaker 7: guy from Florida, Matt Gates, all detailing what was going
- 36:23Speaker 7: on behind the scenes in the House of Representatives. And
- 36:28Speaker 7: the most telling one was that after nineteen ninety four
- 36:32Speaker 7: when the Republicans, for the first time since the end
- 36:37Speaker 7: of World War Two, took a majority in the House
- 36:41Speaker 7: of Representatives, imagine a fifty year walk through the desert.
- 36:47Speaker 7: So they needed to find a way to build the team.
- 36:50Speaker 7: So they started building these apparatuses where you would have
- 36:59Speaker 7: to pay them to get on committees. And they even
- 37:04Speaker 7: had special buildings rented out fitted out with phones so
- 37:09Speaker 7: that you could go and make fundraising phone calls.
- 37:14Speaker 6: And you only got a committee seat if.
- 37:20Speaker 7: You reached a certain level, and if you raised a
- 37:23Speaker 7: little bit more than you got the seat you wanted.
- 37:27Speaker 7: And if you wanted to be a committee chair, oh
- 37:30Speaker 7: my goodness, Johnny.
- 37:35Speaker 6: So that's one of the.
- 37:37Speaker 7: Ways the parties have corrupted the system because your fealty
- 37:42Speaker 7: now is to the party, not the person. I'm sure
- 37:51Speaker 7: there are Pennsylvania Democrats that would love to invoke that
- 37:54Speaker 7: on John Fetterman.
- 37:58Speaker 6: Okay, we'll be right back.
- 38:01Speaker 2: Can you believe with all the recent violent protests, looting,
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- 42:20Speaker 14: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
- 42:25Speaker 14: Freedom of speech, freedom.
- 42:28Speaker 19: Of religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble,
- 42:35Speaker 19: freedom to petition the government.
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- 42:47Speaker 22: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
- 42:52Speaker 21: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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- 42:55Speaker 22: Sure?
- 42:56Speaker 23: We'll probably stay together.
- 42:58Speaker 2: Probably.
- 43:00Speaker 6: It's been twenty three minutes.
- 43:02Speaker 5: Since I ate I can probably swim.
- 43:05Speaker 13: You should wait thirty minutes.
- 43:07Speaker 5: Okay, I'll tell me what to do.
- 43:09Speaker 18: Can it bar.
- 43:11Speaker 14: Cramp?
- 43:13Speaker 6: I have a cramp.
- 43:16Speaker 19: I can probably hit the green from here?
- 43:19Speaker 6: Probably? Can I get a mulligan ready to go?
- 43:27Speaker 13: Hey?
- 43:27Speaker 21: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
- 43:29Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 43:30Speaker 21: I'm pretty sober.
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- 44:03Speaker 24: The hierarguve of power in Washington d C is special
- 44:05Speaker 24: interest groups, leadership, rank and file members. It's who can
- 44:10Speaker 24: raise the money, and the special interest groups control the money.
- 44:14Speaker 25: The lobbyists.
- 44:15Speaker 6: That's the swamp.
- 44:17Speaker 25: Members of Congress are expected to pay for their committee.
- 44:20Speaker 6: That's who can raise the ship rank and file from
- 44:22Speaker 6: Washington d.
- 44:23Speaker 25: C is my mission in Congress, the pologist on a
- 44:42Speaker 25: need to.
- 44:42Speaker 1: Know basis because you need to know the first thing today.
- 44:47Speaker 24: The hierarchy of power in Washington, d C. Is special
- 44:50Speaker 24: interest groups, leadership, rank and file members. It's who can
- 44:55Speaker 24: raise the money and the special interest groups control the money.
- 44:58Speaker 25: The lobbyists, that's the swamp.
- 45:02Speaker 22: Members of Congress are expected to pay for their committee assignments.
- 45:05Speaker 25: Two hundred thousand, five hundred thousand.
- 45:08Speaker 3: It becomes the perpetual campaign.
- 45:11Speaker 6: It's basically how to whore yourself out for money.
- 45:15Speaker 14: You care about healthcare, the environment, you got to care
- 45:18Speaker 14: where the money's coming from.
- 45:20Speaker 7: And when you talk about the purchasing of committee seats,
- 45:25Speaker 7: So committees are pretty much where the decisions are made
- 45:29Speaker 7: what is going to come to the floor. Speaker of
- 45:31Speaker 7: the House has dictatorial control over a bill that might
- 45:35Speaker 7: come to the floor. But first and foremost they have
- 45:38Speaker 7: dictatorial control over who gets what committee assignments based on
- 45:43Speaker 7: how much money you raise for the party. That's just
- 45:49Speaker 7: the trailer of the documentary is Matt Gates, Ken Buck,
- 45:54Speaker 7: Tommy Massey, Rocanna, my friend Tom Garrett. You've heard on
- 45:58Speaker 7: this program before, all members of the SWA, all members
- 46:02Speaker 7: of the House that were interviewed in this documentary. And
- 46:12Speaker 7: so when you say, well, why doesn't anything happen. It's
- 46:14Speaker 7: because it's about moving.
- 46:18Speaker 6: Money.
- 46:19Speaker 7: It's about moving the power to move the money. Who's fundraising,
- 46:27Speaker 7: whose legislation is going to move the needle for this
- 46:32Speaker 7: interest grouper that is healthcare, automotive, you name it, big ed.
- 46:39Speaker 7: That's the one that's amazing to me because here's here's
- 46:42Speaker 7: you know, education. Every teacher I know says their job
- 46:46Speaker 7: is horrific and too hard. Yet they keep supporting the union,
- 46:50Speaker 7: and the union keeps lobbying Congress and keeps filling their
- 46:55Speaker 7: conference so that they get on the right committees. So
- 47:00Speaker 7: I understand the daisy chain of this corruption. Congressperson needs
- 47:07Speaker 7: to raise money to get on a committee so that
- 47:10Speaker 7: the committee can help you, so that they can bring
- 47:14Speaker 7: forward agenda items that you, the voter, supposedly sent them
- 47:17Speaker 7: to Washington to do. So they have to go up
- 47:24Speaker 7: K Street to find lobbyists that will support that. The
- 47:28Speaker 7: thing is, lobbyists have a very narrow focus on what
- 47:34Speaker 7: they want. They want this healthcare bill pass, so you know,
- 47:38Speaker 7: more money for pharmacies, and so they pay for congress
- 47:45Speaker 7: people to get on the Health and Human Services Committee.
- 47:49Speaker 7: They'll give more money to them saying.
- 47:51Speaker 6: All right, you're a good guy.
- 47:52Speaker 7: You're going to come along, so we'll give you the money,
- 47:56Speaker 7: Not you, Joe, because you still don't convince me that you're,
- 48:00Speaker 7: you know, a stand up guy. Using phraseology from the
- 48:04Speaker 7: old mafia days, are you a stand up guy? And
- 48:11Speaker 7: you know, the idea was he wanted to be a
- 48:13Speaker 7: stand up guy because then the mob would back you.
- 48:17Speaker 7: And this all began, and it's understandable to a degree.
- 48:20Speaker 7: So Newt Gingridge wanted to build the political party back up.
- 48:25Speaker 7: He said, we need to, you know, help the Republicans
- 48:28Speaker 7: from wandering in the woods. So when Newt Gingridge became
- 48:32Speaker 7: Speaker of the House, you remember the Contract with America
- 48:35Speaker 7: and all of that. One of the things that was
- 48:39Speaker 7: remarkable about that is the Republican Party had no money
- 48:45Speaker 7: because it had been the minority party since the end
- 48:48Speaker 7: of World War two. Think about this. Fifty years there
- 48:53Speaker 7: had never been a Republican Speaker of the House. Fifty
- 49:00Speaker 7: years there had never been a Republican agenda at the
- 49:03Speaker 7: forefront of congressional representation.
- 49:11Speaker 6: And some years it got so bad that they were
- 49:13Speaker 6: barely two to one.
- 49:16Speaker 7: So when Newton Gingrich wins the Contract with America crowd
- 49:20Speaker 7: goes into Washington with this Republican majority, we need to
- 49:24Speaker 7: do some things to make sure that doesn't happen again.
- 49:27Speaker 7: So they created this committee price list as a way
- 49:31Speaker 7: to party build. And I don't have a problem with
- 49:36Speaker 7: a political party trying to raise money. I have a
- 49:39Speaker 7: problem with them using the already elected members of Congress
- 49:44Speaker 7: and their position in Congress to do that. Now it's
- 49:48Speaker 7: not just the Republicans, because the next Speaker, Nancy Pelosi,
- 49:52Speaker 7: comes along and goes, ohoh, what a great idea, and
- 49:56Speaker 7: she fires it up to eleven. And now it's just
- 50:02Speaker 7: standard operating procedure in Washington. Whether it's a Democrat or
- 50:06Speaker 7: a Republican majority, you have to pay money to get
- 50:09Speaker 7: a committee assignment to the party. So who do you
- 50:14Speaker 7: think controls these people? That's why Fetterman is facing primary
- 50:20Speaker 7: challengers already. I mean he's only been in office the
- 50:23Speaker 7: year and there are already people talking about who's going
- 50:27Speaker 7: to try to take him out. There recall questions in
- 50:30Speaker 7: Pennsylvania and things like that Democratic Party has turned on him,
- 50:38Speaker 7: Rand Paul, anyone who steps out of the orthodoxy on anything.
- 50:43Speaker 7: Tommy Massey, we chronicle this on Tuesday's program. The Republican
- 50:51Speaker 7: Party spent over one hundred million dollars on campaigning against
- 50:59Speaker 7: Tommy and against Ken Paxton, but they couldn't send any
- 51:05Speaker 7: money to Virginia to stop a Democrat led jerrymandering overturn
- 51:12Speaker 7: of the Virginia Constitution. This speaks to priority, This speaks
- 51:23Speaker 7: to why this bipolar party system has to absolutely got
- 51:28Speaker 7: this text message during the break. Do you think there
- 51:33Speaker 7: would be a sufficient number of people willing to be
- 51:36Speaker 7: candidates to represent us if we had three times the representation?
- 51:41Speaker 7: I would say hell yes. First off, because you know,
- 51:44Speaker 7: part of this has to and I think there are
- 51:48Speaker 7: multi facets to this.
- 51:50Speaker 6: We need to first.
- 51:54Speaker 7: Take away the Republican and Democratic Party's permanent ballot access.
- 51:58Speaker 7: Then we can get into the reforms of getting rid
- 52:01Speaker 7: of the nineteen twenty nine Permanent Reapportionment Act which allows
- 52:07Speaker 7: for this jerrymandering stuff to go on. But there are
- 52:12Speaker 7: so many moving parts to it, so one doesn't work
- 52:15Speaker 7: without the other. But yes, I believe there are and
- 52:18Speaker 7: I believe there are other political parties that would rise
- 52:22Speaker 7: up if they didn't have to face this herculean task
- 52:26Speaker 7: of resting a representative away from one of the two
- 52:32Speaker 7: political parties that behave like they are the fourth and
- 52:35Speaker 7: fifth branch of government.
- 52:37Speaker 6: But this is why the swamp it came out.
- 52:41Speaker 7: First one came out in twenty eighteen, then it came out,
- 52:44Speaker 7: remade it in twenty twenty with the backing of HBO.
- 52:47Speaker 6: But the first one is really a kick in the keyster,
- 52:51Speaker 6: you know. It's true.
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