Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "Da Nile Runs Through It" (Friday, February 27, 2026, Hour 1)
Transcript
- 0:02Speaker 1: Well, I have to finished testifying, making mornings great again.
- 0:07Speaker 1: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
- 0:12Speaker 1: Jeorde said, steal.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Me every one of his questions.
- 0:18Speaker 3: The son comes up, drops acute to school, Joe is
- 0:22Speaker 3: eying a dream.
- 0:23Speaker 4: Do all the treasure needs no one?
- 0:28Speaker 2: Joe zonies smile. He only is.
- 0:34Speaker 5: Joe.
- 0:35Speaker 4: And you thought that was the Hudson River going through Chappaquam.
- 0:40Speaker 4: Now that river is called denial. You know the joy
- 0:44Speaker 4: of of deny, deny, deny as a defense is then
- 0:49Speaker 4: it puts your pursuers, your prosecutors, your investigators on the
- 0:55Speaker 4: notice that they now have to prove that you were lying.
- 1:01Speaker 4: And you know you'd say, well, that gives you a goal,
- 1:03Speaker 4: that gives you a place. I know. I'm sorry the
- 1:06Speaker 4: nice cities have been forgotten when the Clintons are involved.
- 1:10Speaker 4: We forget our manners, don't we. This is the radio
- 1:14Speaker 4: program that tells you what went on last night. We'll
- 1:18Speaker 4: tell you our analysis of it, and then we want
- 1:21Speaker 4: to find out how it's impacting you where you are
- 1:24Speaker 4: at the intersection of what difference and does it make?
- 1:29Speaker 4: Does the Hillary's denials that she ever even met Jeffrey
- 1:34Speaker 4: Epstein and that she doubts Bill had any idea. There
- 1:37Speaker 4: were things going weird, like, you know, just a bunch
- 1:41Speaker 4: of kids hanging around. It's a summer camp here in
- 1:44Speaker 4: the Virgin Islands. That's the hot tub is just there
- 1:48Speaker 4: for the kids recreation after a day of lanyard making
- 1:52Speaker 4: and paper mache. But you see, now it goes back
- 1:58Speaker 4: to can you prove she's lying? Where are the pictures?
- 2:04Speaker 4: Where are photographs of her with Jeffrey Epstein that you
- 2:10Speaker 4: can now pin to her and her denial that she
- 2:14Speaker 4: ever met him? And so lawyered up? Was this that
- 2:20Speaker 4: a simple photograph posted to social media by Colorado Congresswoman
- 2:25Speaker 4: Lauren Bobert derailed the whole thing. Now we're going to
- 2:29Speaker 4: get a lot of testimony from within. My friend John
- 2:33Speaker 4: McGuire is a member of the committee and he's been
- 2:36Speaker 4: there all day. It was a text message I sent
- 2:40Speaker 4: to him, you know, right before the testimony all began yesterday.
- 2:47Speaker 4: I said, good luck and bring a food taster. We'll
- 2:54Speaker 4: have discussions with John after Monday's sit down with Bill,
- 3:00Speaker 4: who was kind of well, I had no idea. I
- 3:04Speaker 4: just thought he liked kids. You know, it was a
- 3:06Speaker 4: summer camp and everyone was having fun and tickling and well,
- 3:11Speaker 4: it depends on what your definition of pedophilia is. When
- 3:15Speaker 4: he said he had a map room, I didn't know.
- 3:17Speaker 4: I thought it meant that's where the cartographers worked Denial,
- 3:24Speaker 4: that river that runs all the way from Albany down
- 3:27Speaker 4: through Chappaqua and out on this Friday morning. I appreciate it.
- 3:33Speaker 4: We'll get to you at four three, four eight eight,
- 3:35Speaker 4: two four to two one seven. As the morning unfolds,
- 3:39Speaker 4: was lots more going on. This isn't This isn't the
- 3:43Speaker 4: sum total of all things Friday morning on the talk
- 3:47Speaker 4: media network. So let's get on it, dog on it.
- 3:50Speaker 4: These are our first things. Aside from Hillary's testimonies and testifying.
- 3:58Speaker 4: She did give a public press conference that you heard
- 4:01Speaker 4: a little clip from there. Chief Federal Judge for Minnesota
- 4:05Speaker 4: has issued a warning Thursday to the federal prosecutor for
- 4:09Speaker 4: the state as well as to the immigration and Customs
- 4:12Speaker 4: enforcement officials, warning them that they must comply with court
- 4:16Speaker 4: orders or they risk criminal contempt charges. Meanwhile, in Virginia,
- 4:22Speaker 4: the Democratic Party was told by the attorney general that
- 4:26Speaker 4: they don't have to comply with court orders to not
- 4:30Speaker 4: do anything regarding redistricting votes. Pakistan considers itself at open
- 4:37Speaker 4: war with Afghanistan. According to Pakistan's defense minister, it's the
- 4:43Speaker 4: worst escalation since late last year. Comments by Minister Kawajah
- 4:48Speaker 4: Mohammad Asif came after Afghanistan launched across border retaliatory attack
- 4:55Speaker 4: on Pakistan that saw Islamabad hit back with airstrikes on Kabul.
- 5:01Speaker 4: American sympathies after two years of unending pro Palestinian media
- 5:08Speaker 4: coverage have shifted, unsurprisingly, from fifty four percent of Americas
- 5:13Speaker 4: sympathizing with Israel to thirty one for the Palestinians. Now
- 5:18Speaker 4: it's forty one percent say they are more on the
- 5:21Speaker 4: side of the Palestinians and only thirty six say they
- 5:26Speaker 4: support Israel. The European Union said Thursday would back efforts
- 5:31Speaker 4: to support women seeking access to abortions, a nod to
- 5:35Speaker 4: the abortion tourism industry. A multi year campaign by about
- 5:40Speaker 4: a million citizens across the twenty seven nation bloc to
- 5:44Speaker 4: expand support for women paying for their abortions. Haaja Labibe,
- 5:51Speaker 4: former journalists now European Commissioner for Equality, said the EU's
- 5:56Speaker 4: one hundred and forty seven billion euro European Social funds
- 6:01Speaker 4: plus can be used by EU nations to defray the
- 6:05Speaker 4: costs of an abortion for a woman, regardless from where
- 6:09Speaker 4: they come from in the bloc. Christy Nome, Homeland Security Secretary,
- 6:14Speaker 4: said Thursday, the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security
- 6:18Speaker 4: is disrupting planning work for the twenty twenty six World
- 6:22Speaker 4: Cup and the nation's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebrations
- 6:26Speaker 4: because FEMA quote was in the final stages of reviewing
- 6:31Speaker 4: applications to ensure proper oversight when the Democrats shut down
- 6:36Speaker 4: the government and Iran and the United States finished their
- 6:41Speaker 4: marathon meetings yesterday with no new deal in place. We're
- 6:46Speaker 4: going to be heading to Washington, d C. For July fourth.
- 6:50Speaker 4: Will give you details coming up. Also heading to spack
- 6:54Speaker 4: in one month's time to bring you coverage to the
- 6:56Speaker 4: Conservative Political Action Conference here on first they today.
- 7:01Speaker 2: Let's see if something costs less a lot less, but
- 7:04Speaker 2: people are actually happier with it. That sounds like something
- 7:07Speaker 2: to look into. And that's meta share. Maybe you've heard
- 7:10Speaker 2: joining meta share can save you or your family up
- 7:13Speaker 2: to five hundred bucks a month, and that's huge, but
- 7:16Speaker 2: it's also true people are just happier with it. They
- 7:18Speaker 2: love being part of something that reflects and promotes their
- 7:21Speaker 2: values and what they believe in.
- 7:23Speaker 4: Meta Share works too.
- 7:24Speaker 2: It's been around for thirty years now and members have
- 7:27Speaker 2: shared more than seven billion dollars of each other's bills.
- 7:31Speaker 2: People love having telehealth and a huge nationwide PPO networks.
- 7:34Speaker 2: So yeah, really, you can save a ton and like
- 7:37Speaker 2: it better. Imagine being happy with how you're taking care
- 7:39Speaker 2: of your health care, whether you're self employed or part
- 7:42Speaker 2: of the gig economy, or you just want to plan
- 7:44Speaker 2: that you're happy with.
- 7:46Speaker 4: Here you go.
- 7:46Speaker 2: You can call right now and get a price within
- 7:48Speaker 2: two minutes. A very very smart use of two minutes.
- 7:51Speaker 2: Here's the number you need. It's eight five to five
- 7:53Speaker 2: share forty eight five five share forty eight five five
- 7:58Speaker 2: share forty.
- 8:04Speaker 6: Considered by most, optimized curcumin is one of the few
- 8:07Speaker 6: bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. Hi,
- 8:13Speaker 6: I'm doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
- 8:18Speaker 6: optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
- 8:22Speaker 6: nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
- 8:26Speaker 6: reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
- 8:31Speaker 6: The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
- 8:36Speaker 6: has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
- 8:42Speaker 6: cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
- 8:46Speaker 6: in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
- 8:51Speaker 6: healthy cells even from radiation. Total Wellness dot com where
- 8:56Speaker 6: we help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy
- 8:59Speaker 6: total wellness.
- 9:02Speaker 7: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
- 9:05Speaker 7: warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
- 9:10Speaker 7: Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
- 9:13Speaker 7: will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
- 9:16Speaker 7: personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
- 9:21Speaker 7: are not from US. Real Social Security employees will never
- 9:25Speaker 7: threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
- 9:29Speaker 7: call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
- 9:33Speaker 7: your personal information like your Social Security number or bank account,
- 9:37Speaker 7: or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
- 9:42Speaker 7: or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
- 9:46Speaker 7: enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
- 9:51Speaker 7: dot SSA dot gov. Share this information with your friends
- 9:56Speaker 7: and family.
- 9:58Speaker 8: Hi, everybody. I'm Jack Hannah. It's always a boy.
- 10:01Speaker 9: Growing up on a farm in Tennessee, I've been fascinated
- 10:03Speaker 9: with animals. I'm not only in alle of their beauty
- 10:05Speaker 9: and kindness, but also their tireless work ethic. Just look
- 10:08Speaker 9: at the birds who gather supplies to build nests, or
- 10:11Speaker 9: Swiss foxes who work hard to provide for their young,
- 10:14Speaker 9: or penguins who travel up to five hundred miles to
- 10:17Speaker 9: secure food for their families, or bush babies whose impressive
- 10:20Speaker 9: jump allows them to navigate the trees and the wild
- 10:22Speaker 9: in search of fruit. This remarkable work ethic is shared
- 10:25Speaker 9: by our best friends, the canines. We know dogs are
- 10:28Speaker 9: wonderful pets at home, but because of their acute senses,
- 10:32Speaker 9: they also perform life saving work every day.
- 10:34Speaker 8: Dogs keep us safe at airports.
- 10:36Speaker 9: They comfort returning veterans, some of whom suffer from PTSS.
- 10:39Speaker 9: They work with diabetics, alerting them when there's a change.
- 10:41Speaker 8: In their blood chemistry.
- 10:43Speaker 9: Working dogs have a variety of highly trained roles that
- 10:45Speaker 9: contribute to society and help those in need. So please
- 10:48Speaker 9: join me An American Humane and supporting our heroic working
- 10:51Speaker 9: dogs and all the amazing animals on this planet, we
- 10:54Speaker 9: inhabit together.
- 10:55Speaker 8: Go to American Humane dot org to learn more.
- 11:00Speaker 10: Bruh, that's buzzed.
- 11:01Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
- 11:05Speaker 9: And now a speech.
- 11:06Speaker 12: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
- 11:10Speaker 12: heart and brain.
- 11:12Speaker 4: Who's with me?
- 11:13Speaker 12: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
- 11:15Speaker 12: brain is saying when it's time to go home.
- 11:18Speaker 13: Somebody call me a ride.
- 11:19Speaker 10: Love that guy, me too.
- 11:21Speaker 14: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
- 11:23Speaker 14: it's time to go home.
- 11:24Speaker 4: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
- 11:28Speaker 15: Did you know that more than half our household energy
- 11:31Speaker 15: costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
- 11:35Speaker 15: good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
- 11:39Speaker 15: One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
- 11:42Speaker 15: energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
- 11:46Speaker 15: learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
- 11:49Speaker 15: That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
- 11:52Speaker 15: leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
- 11:56Speaker 15: improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs when
- 12:00Speaker 15: you shop for a new appliance, look for the energy
- 12:03Speaker 15: star logo and read the Energy Guide label, and there
- 12:06Speaker 15: are day to day things you can do. Lower your
- 12:09Speaker 15: thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer, close
- 12:12Speaker 15: fireplay stampers when they're not in use, and keep air
- 12:15Speaker 15: filters clean. For more tips on saving money by reducing
- 12:19Speaker 15: your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
- 12:24Speaker 15: a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
- 12:27Speaker 15: protection agency.
- 12:29Speaker 16: As a family member or friend, you may be the
- 12:32Speaker 16: first to notice when a veteran you love has been
- 12:35Speaker 16: going through changes. Things like withdrawing, drinking more, or increased
- 12:40Speaker 16: anger could be a sign of a larger health concern,
- 12:43Speaker 16: but help is available. Listen to hundreds of inspiring stories
- 12:48Speaker 16: at makethconnection dot net and learn how you can support
- 12:52Speaker 16: the veterans.
- 12:53Speaker 17: In your life.
- 12:54Speaker 16: Treatment works, Recovery is possible.
- 13:12Speaker 1: First thing today on the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas,
- 13:22Speaker 1: The Acquisition.
- 13:24Speaker 4: To show the acquisition.
- 13:26Speaker 18: Here we go. We know your wish that.
- 13:29Speaker 8: Week go, but the acquisitions pay. Talk about what do
- 13:37Speaker 8: you say?
- 13:38Speaker 9: I just got back from the order to fame?
- 13:41Speaker 8: What's an order to fame?
- 13:42Speaker 19: It's what you ought to do, what you do anyway.
- 13:46Speaker 4: So not since the great days of the advertising executive Torquemada.
- 13:54Speaker 4: Has there been such a successful marketing campaign. I mean,
- 13:58Speaker 4: it's right there, up there with Ronald McDonald or have
- 14:03Speaker 4: a cocain a smile, the rebranding of Hamas and Hezbollah
- 14:09Speaker 4: as marginalized communities, therefore demanding that anyone who's aligned with
- 14:14Speaker 4: the Democratic Party must support them, because for the decade
- 14:20Speaker 4: prior to this campaign, the Democratic Party said, if you're
- 14:25Speaker 4: a marginalized community, regardless of how that happened, we will
- 14:30Speaker 4: stand by you. We will set aside special places for you,
- 14:34Speaker 4: will create special governing campaigns for you. D We'll even
- 14:40Speaker 4: create investment strategies ESG for your marginalized community. Yes, come
- 14:46Speaker 4: to honest abes marginalized communities. OI. What a deal. And
- 14:55Speaker 4: in the last half decade of this campaign to re
- 15:00Speaker 4: Hamas and Hezbola as a marginalized community, it's worked. More
- 15:07Speaker 4: Americans support terrorists now than ever before because they've aligned
- 15:14Speaker 4: themselves with Democrats who are also giving out free stuff
- 15:18Speaker 4: from Washington. It's great work, if you can get it.
- 15:24Speaker 4: We'll get into that some more. This is from a
- 15:27Speaker 4: new Gallop poll that says the sport for Israel is
- 15:30Speaker 4: down from fifty four percent to thirty four percent. This
- 15:34Speaker 4: reported by the Associated Press, who actually can't write a
- 15:38Speaker 4: story about Israel without saying how bad they've been to
- 15:43Speaker 4: the Gaza strip. But let me get to folks hanging
- 15:46Speaker 4: on the line with us, see what they have already
- 15:49Speaker 4: into this Friday morning. Good morning, Bob is enjoying an
- 15:54Speaker 4: afternoon in Moscow? How are you doing? Certain no more
- 15:58Speaker 4: car bombings or anything like that, not yet, but no.
- 16:03Speaker 20: It's spring is here. The the spring birds are back,
- 16:07Speaker 20: so you know, for us, spring is around the.
- 16:10Speaker 4: Corner, springtime for Vladimir in Saint Petersburg.
- 16:17Speaker 20: Anyway, my question is why is Hillary and Bill Clinton
- 16:22Speaker 20: getting special treatment? If you or I were called to Congress,
- 16:28Speaker 20: would they come to our homes or our location where
- 16:31Speaker 20: we wanted them to come and spend billions hundreds of
- 16:34Speaker 20: millions of dollars of taxpayers' money just to go there?
- 16:39Speaker 20: Second point, Hillary Clinton, isn't she the one that made
- 16:42Speaker 20: her her fame as a lawyer by crucifying victims of rape?
- 16:48Speaker 20: And you know what Jeffrey Hepstein did.
- 16:51Speaker 4: The bimbo eruptions squad. Well that's how she got her
- 16:55Speaker 4: husband elected. I mean, the bimbo eruption squad. Uh, started
- 16:59Speaker 4: with her buddy Jane Tames. You know, you fifty dollars
- 17:02Speaker 4: out of Taylor Park. You never know who you're gonna
- 17:04Speaker 4: get a sailing a friend. Guy who's become my friend,
- 17:07Speaker 4: John John Whitehead. What was that?
- 17:12Speaker 20: Even before that, she you know the court system. She
- 17:15Speaker 20: took down a young girl that was raped by a
- 17:19Speaker 20: vip man like her husband, and she defended, ripped the
- 17:24Speaker 20: girl apart. And now she wants us to believe that
- 17:27Speaker 20: she had no contact with Epstein, who was invited her
- 17:30Speaker 20: her wedding. That just does not make any sense. And
- 17:35Speaker 20: if there is one picture of her with Epstein, then
- 17:40Speaker 20: she should be immediately arrested and thrown in jail for
- 17:44Speaker 20: lying to Congress.
- 17:45Speaker 4: There's an interesting precedent going on in England where apparently
- 17:49Speaker 4: the British government, well, you know, once you can arrest
- 17:52Speaker 4: you know, one of the members of the royal family
- 17:54Speaker 4: Bloodluss gets it gets on. I mean they've been arresting
- 17:57Speaker 4: people like crazy just for having your name in an
- 18:00Speaker 4: Epstein document. Now this former chief of staff of kir
- 18:06Speaker 4: Starmer's been arrested. So I don't know if that's going
- 18:09Speaker 4: to weigh precedentially into the United States. Investigations. He uses
- 18:15Speaker 4: air quotes there for this. It's bordering, though, And I
- 18:20Speaker 4: want to ask your thought on this and anyone's every
- 18:24Speaker 4: day I opened my newsfeed and there's some other person
- 18:28Speaker 4: who's mentioned in the Epstein files. Like I said when
- 18:31Speaker 4: they went live, I searched just to make sure Joe Thomas,
- 18:35Speaker 4: any of the Joe Thomas is out there, don't show
- 18:38Speaker 4: up in the search because it has become almost almost
- 18:44Speaker 4: McCarthy esque. If your name shows up on anything, even
- 18:49Speaker 4: just in relation to Hey, wouldn't it be nice if
- 18:52Speaker 4: we could invite what be Goldberg to a fundraiser? Well,
- 18:57Speaker 4: now she has to answer for this. You know, it's
- 19:00Speaker 4: crazy this guy, you know, just by saying your name,
- 19:03Speaker 4: he could ruin you, just by having your name in
- 19:06Speaker 4: an email. Hey, Bob and Moscow. I was listening to
- 19:10Speaker 4: Joe Thomas in the morning, and Bob and Moscow he
- 19:13Speaker 4: could tweet that and next thing you know, you and
- 19:15Speaker 4: I are both completely out of jobs and our mortgage
- 19:20Speaker 4: kids canceled. There's a dangerous bloodlust in this, and I
- 19:28Speaker 4: know why because I mean, it's the little kids being abused.
- 19:31Speaker 4: But it just being mentioned in an email by some
- 19:34Speaker 4: guy doesn't mean, you need to be dragged down as
- 19:38Speaker 4: if you were out there on the island recruiting kids
- 19:40Speaker 4: to come down.
- 19:43Speaker 20: Right, But that's all because of Trump derangement syndrome and
- 19:49Speaker 20: what the Democrats have done to Trump and anyone associated
- 19:53Speaker 20: with Trump. So now it's coming back.
- 19:57Speaker 4: To roost at home. Oh, I see what you Democrats.
- 20:01Speaker 20: They don't like it.
- 20:01Speaker 4: So the president is it doesn't matter if Whoopy Goldberger
- 20:05Speaker 4: was just tangently mentioned in an email. We can drag
- 20:09Speaker 4: her down so that we the precedent is now set
- 20:12Speaker 4: that we can drag Trump down for being in pictures
- 20:15Speaker 4: with Epstein.
- 20:18Speaker 20: No, it's the opposite. That all started because of Trump
- 20:21Speaker 20: because they were getting so they wanted all this leaf
- 20:25Speaker 20: and I'll really and now that it's released, there are
- 20:28Speaker 20: some true journalists that are opening up and mentioning everyone's names.
- 20:34Speaker 20: And for me, unfortunately, all these people that the Democrats
- 20:38Speaker 20: are preating forth and saying they're victims. And the gal
- 20:41Speaker 20: that stood up during the State of Union address, she's
- 20:44Speaker 20: not a victim if she doesn't come forward, press charges
- 20:49Speaker 20: or named names.
- 20:50Speaker 4: Well that's the that's the bigger problem.
- 20:54Speaker 20: Yeah, she's she's not a victim until she says names.
- 20:57Speaker 20: She says, let's produce everything. Why does why does it
- 21:01Speaker 20: have to be released? When she knows exactly if it
- 21:05Speaker 20: actually happened, then she was traffic. She knows exactly who
- 21:08Speaker 20: did it. How come she's not speaking.
- 21:10Speaker 4: Out well hat it's the day yeah, or.
- 21:18Speaker 20: Or the other thing? Is this she was never involved in.
- 21:22Speaker 20: She's making all this money, she's being paid by someone
- 21:26Speaker 20: to protest this way.
- 21:27Speaker 4: Well, and this becomes one of those you know, this
- 21:30Speaker 4: is why prosecutors hate, you know, the idea of these
- 21:34Speaker 4: these abuse cases, because in order to investigate, you have
- 21:38Speaker 4: to you have to ask questions, and then you have
- 21:40Speaker 4: defense attorneys saying you're victim shaming or you're harming my client.
- 21:45Speaker 4: I got to run to the news. Bob, good to
- 21:46Speaker 4: hear from me, my friend. Have a good rest of
- 21:49Speaker 4: the afternoon. Bye bye four three four eight eight two
- 21:53Speaker 4: four two one seven JT in the Morning Radio at
- 21:57Speaker 4: gmail dot com.
- 22:01Speaker 5: Hey guys, I'm Teddy Savage, National League Training for Planet
- 22:04Speaker 5: Fitness and the American Heart Association recommends that we all
- 22:07Speaker 5: get at least one hundred and fifty minutes of moderate
- 22:10Speaker 5: aerobic activity in a week's time. But here's the thing.
- 22:13Speaker 5: That one hundred and fifty minutes does not need to
- 22:15Speaker 5: be super intense. As a matter of fact, it could
- 22:18Speaker 5: just be you moving your body and doing what you
- 22:20Speaker 5: already love to do, like exercise. And a stronger heart
- 22:23Speaker 5: doesn't just mean cardio, right, it means also infusing your
- 22:27Speaker 5: workout routines with strength training as well. So we are
- 22:30Speaker 5: super excited to be launching our new plateloaded Strength series
- 22:34Speaker 5: and all of our gems. It's already fitted in seventeen
- 22:37Speaker 5: hundred locations, with the goal to have all twenty seven
- 22:40Speaker 5: hundred fitted by the end of twenty twenty five. So
- 22:43Speaker 5: if you need more information, go to our website at
- 22:45Speaker 5: planetfitness dot com or better yet, download our free Planet
- 22:49Speaker 5: Fitness app.
- 22:49Speaker 4: And with convenient locations.
- 22:51Speaker 5: All around the world and most of our gyms being
- 22:53Speaker 5: open twenty four hours, it's bound to be one close
- 22:56Speaker 5: by you.
- 22:56Speaker 21: For decades, America's offshore oil industry has relied on import
- 23:00Speaker 21: fouschaw in Louisiana, but now as Win Energy continues to grow,
- 23:04Speaker 21: many of these vessels, these companies, these people are building
- 23:08Speaker 21: and servicing the offshore wind industry, moving equipment, installing turbines,
- 23:13Speaker 21: transporting crews. It's a huge opportunity, and we're proud to be.
- 23:16Speaker 4: A part of that.
- 23:17Speaker 10: US Offshore wind has already announced over twenty five billion
- 23:20Speaker 10: dollars in infrastructure investments.
- 23:22Speaker 22: Learn more at cleanpower dot org, sponsored by the American
- 23:25Speaker 22: Clean Power Association.
- 23:26Speaker 2: Let's see if something costs less but people are happier
- 23:29Speaker 2: with it. Maybe you've heard switching to meta share to
- 23:32Speaker 2: pay for healthcare can save the typical family five hundred
- 23:35Speaker 2: bucks a month. You can save a ton and like
- 23:38Speaker 2: it better. Imagine being happy with how you're taking care
- 23:40Speaker 2: of your health care. Whether you're self employed or part
- 23:43Speaker 2: of the gig economy, or you just want to plan
- 23:45Speaker 2: that you're happy with.
- 23:47Speaker 4: Here you go.
- 23:47Speaker 2: You can call right now and get a price within
- 23:49Speaker 2: two minutes. A very very smart use of two minutes.
- 23:52Speaker 2: Here's the number you need. It's eight five to five
- 23:54Speaker 2: share forty eight five five share forty eight five five share.
- 24:03Speaker 6: Considered by most optimized curcumin is one of the few
- 24:07Speaker 6: bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. Hi,
- 24:12Speaker 6: I'm doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
- 24:18Speaker 6: optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
- 24:22Speaker 6: nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
- 24:26Speaker 6: reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
- 24:31Speaker 6: The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
- 24:36Speaker 6: has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
- 24:42Speaker 6: cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
- 24:45Speaker 6: in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
- 24:50Speaker 6: healthy cells even from radiation. Totalwellness dot com where we
- 24:56Speaker 6: help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
- 25:02Speaker 7: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
- 25:05Speaker 7: warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
- 25:10Speaker 7: Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
- 25:13Speaker 7: will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
- 25:17Speaker 7: personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
- 25:21Speaker 7: are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
- 25:25Speaker 7: threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
- 25:29Speaker 7: call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
- 25:33Speaker 7: your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
- 25:37Speaker 7: or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
- 25:42Speaker 7: or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
- 25:46Speaker 7: enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
- 25:51Speaker 7: dot SSA dot gov.
- 25:55Speaker 10: Uh, oh, Brad's buzzed.
- 25:56Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
- 26:00Speaker 23: And now a speech.
- 26:02Speaker 12: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
- 26:06Speaker 12: art and brain.
- 26:07Speaker 8: Who's with me?
- 26:08Speaker 12: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
- 26:11Speaker 12: brain is saying when it's time to go home.
- 26:13Speaker 13: Somebody call me a ride.
- 26:15Speaker 10: Love that guy, me too.
- 26:16Speaker 14: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
- 26:19Speaker 14: it's time to go home.
- 26:20Speaker 4: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
- 26:23Speaker 15: Did you know that more than half our household energy
- 26:25Speaker 15: costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
- 26:29Speaker 15: good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
- 26:34Speaker 15: One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
- 26:36Speaker 15: energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
- 26:40Speaker 15: learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
- 26:44Speaker 15: That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
- 26:47Speaker 15: leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
- 26:50Speaker 15: improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
- 26:54Speaker 15: when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
- 26:57Speaker 15: energy Star logo and read the energy guide later, and
- 27:00Speaker 15: there are day to day things.
- 27:02Speaker 1: You can do.
- 27:03Speaker 15: Lower your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
- 27:06Speaker 15: close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
- 27:09Speaker 15: air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
- 27:13Speaker 15: reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
- 27:18Speaker 15: a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
- 27:21Speaker 15: protection agency.
- 27:24Speaker 17: For those fortunate enough to help the person who has
- 27:26Speaker 17: always been their hero, find the care guides you need
- 27:29Speaker 17: to help at AARP dot org slash caregiving.
- 27:32Speaker 8: Hope you enjoyed your meal, and I just want to
- 27:35Speaker 8: say he's lucky to have a.
- 27:37Speaker 17: Blover like you.
- 27:38Speaker 4: Lucky.
- 27:39Speaker 5: Caring for my brother is far from easy, but he's
- 27:43Speaker 5: a part of me, like my arms and legs, so
- 27:45Speaker 5: I'll be his no time for tired.
- 27:47Speaker 4: Nothing can disable this love. He needs me. But I'm
- 27:51Speaker 4: a lucky one, even though I need help knowing.
- 27:53Speaker 23: Then, if you're caring for a loved one, visit ARP
- 27:55Speaker 23: dot org slash caregiving for care guides and community support
- 27:59Speaker 23: for your strength.
- 28:12Speaker 4: On your to do list.
- 28:13Speaker 1: Putting the radio on is the first thing today, City.
- 28:22Speaker 5: City of it.
- 28:26Speaker 4: By this Friday morning. Habitual users of this program and
- 28:31Speaker 4: by the way, first thing today by Joe Thomas that
- 28:35Speaker 4: last for more than four hours should be treated by
- 28:37Speaker 4: a physician. Please see a list of side effects. Habitual
- 28:45Speaker 4: users of this program have heard me in the past
- 28:48Speaker 4: say that I don't like the phrase two faced, not
- 28:53Speaker 4: because it insults me or hurts my feelings. I feel
- 28:56Speaker 4: like it's insufficient for most of the multifaceted people we
- 29:02Speaker 4: find on the public stage, like Hillary Clinton, who you
- 29:09Speaker 4: know when she makes statements.
- 29:14Speaker 15: Like this as fully as I could based on what
- 29:19Speaker 15: I knew, and what I knew is what I said
- 29:22Speaker 15: in my.
- 29:22Speaker 4: Statement, AKA, what you can prove I knew. What you
- 29:28Speaker 4: know in this statement is that somewhere the electronic version
- 29:34Speaker 4: of the Rose Law Firm shredding machine has been working
- 29:37Speaker 4: overtime since Jeffrey Epstein assumed room temperature or the body
- 29:48Speaker 4: in the cell that they claimed was Jeffrey Epstein, however
- 29:51Speaker 4: you look at it. Ever since then, ever since Jeffrey
- 29:54Speaker 4: Epstein found himself in custody of the authorities, there's been
- 29:59Speaker 4: some electronic version of the Rose Law Firm shredding machine
- 30:06Speaker 4: wiping her hard drives, you know, with a cloth, making
- 30:12Speaker 4: sure there was nothing that could be found that could
- 30:15Speaker 4: prove Hillary Clinton, you know, hung out with Jeffrey Epstein,
- 30:20Speaker 4: took money from Jeffrey Epstein, raised money with Jeffrey Epstein.
- 30:24Speaker 4: Ever said Jeffrey Epstein, you know you name it, and
- 30:30Speaker 4: Hillbilly there the power couple. Hillbilly's are perhaps the mount
- 30:37Speaker 4: rushmore of the multifaceted and their political step children have
- 30:46Speaker 4: been on the march. And when I read this story
- 30:48Speaker 4: out of Minnesota preparation for the program, I had to
- 30:54Speaker 4: laugh because we also have a similar, if tangential story
- 30:58Speaker 4: here in Virginia regarding the redistricting that we are required
- 31:03Speaker 4: to allow the government to temporarily suspend our constitution to
- 31:08Speaker 4: allow the story of the federal judge in Minnesota that
- 31:13Speaker 4: issued a warning to the Immigrations and Customs enforcement officials
- 31:19Speaker 4: and federal prosecutor in the state, both who work for
- 31:26Speaker 4: you know who that they had better comply with all
- 31:34Speaker 4: court orders or they risk criminal contempt charges. We will
- 31:38Speaker 4: arrest people here in Minnesota. Purple is the new black.
- 31:45Speaker 4: You will find yourselves doing hard time. We may even
- 31:48Speaker 4: send you to Saint Paul. The attorney, Daniel Rosen accused
- 31:59Speaker 4: the judge of overstating the extent of ICE's non compliance
- 32:03Speaker 4: with court orders because they were issuing court orders saying
- 32:10Speaker 4: stop stop stop stop. Nice kept arresting illegal aliens non citizens.
- 32:20Speaker 4: So travel southeast a little bit to Virginia, where apparently
- 32:28Speaker 4: a cord order. According to Virginia Attorney General j two
- 32:36Speaker 4: taps Jones, look up Jay Jones and two bullets. That'll
- 32:49Speaker 4: be a good search engine. That won't that won't get
- 32:52Speaker 4: you flagged by Google searching that. So Attorney General j
- 33:03Speaker 4: doubletaps Jones has issued a ruling from the Attorney General's
- 33:09Speaker 4: office saying that no Virginia election official needs to worry
- 33:17Speaker 4: about the court order, the restraining order that was issued
- 33:23Speaker 4: on the voting involved in the necessary kabuki theater of
- 33:30Speaker 4: collecting votes to gain the allowance to temporarily suspend Virginia's
- 33:39Speaker 4: constitution so that they can, I don't know, beat Trump
- 33:46Speaker 4: because Texas did, because Texas redistricts, and now Virginia must
- 33:51Speaker 4: do something for another. That's their argument. That's their argument.
- 33:56Speaker 4: And there was a court order a town called Daswell,
- 34:00Speaker 4: Virginia that said that there was going to now be
- 34:03Speaker 4: a restraining order put on any election activities. So Jay
- 34:10Speaker 4: double tap Jones said that only by his opinion the
- 34:17Speaker 4: Attorney General, that only applied to the town of Daswell
- 34:24Speaker 4: and its election officers. So now terrific lawyer, terrific Legislator
- 34:31Speaker 4: Tim Anderson has led the charge into Lynchburg, Virginia to
- 34:36Speaker 4: challenge this, and this proves the lie to it. So
- 34:41Speaker 4: the ruling in Daswell, the restraining order has shut the
- 34:50Speaker 4: Virginia State Board of Elections out of any election operations.
- 34:56Speaker 4: They cannot, by court order, have anything to do with
- 34:59Speaker 4: your lo local registrars. The registrars are saying, hold on,
- 35:08Speaker 4: we can't hold an election without the State Board of
- 35:11Speaker 4: Election helping us out. We need all this wherewithal and
- 35:15Speaker 4: the Attorney General says, we're supposed to keep having the election,
- 35:21Speaker 4: but the State Board of Election is closed to them
- 35:25Speaker 4: because of the restraining order. But in Virginia you see
- 35:31Speaker 4: restraining orders and court orders stopping you from doing things
- 35:36Speaker 4: are ignorable. They're just a piece of paper. They have
- 35:47Speaker 4: no authority. We have j double tap Jones. Our attorney
- 35:53Speaker 4: general says there will be no prosecutions of anyone who
- 35:56Speaker 4: violates these illegal court orders. I say they only so, Jay,
- 36:04Speaker 4: here's the question. While you're reloading the clip. Why don't
- 36:11Speaker 4: you ask somebody at the state Board of Elections why
- 36:13Speaker 4: they are not allowed to help the local election officials
- 36:17Speaker 4: out if this court order has no bearing outside of Dazwell.
- 36:25Speaker 4: And this is what I mean about this hypocrisy. So
- 36:28Speaker 4: in Minnesota, court orders, oh yeah, court orders are that
- 36:32Speaker 4: you better follow these court orders, but not in Virginia.
- 36:39Speaker 4: Are Virginia court orders different than Minnesota court orders? Or
- 36:46Speaker 4: is it permissible to commit a crime as long as
- 36:49Speaker 4: you include something sanctified by the American left like voting?
- 36:54Speaker 4: So suppose some election worker is out there doing ballot
- 36:59Speaker 4: harvesting and robs your house. Is he or she allowed
- 37:04Speaker 4: to be released and not charged for burglary because they
- 37:10Speaker 4: committed the burglary while ballot harvesting. Well, suppose an election
- 37:18Speaker 4: official is caught skimming your identifications. They have one of
- 37:23Speaker 4: those cameras in their eyeglasses and they're scanning your driver's license. Oops,
- 37:28Speaker 4: when you show it to vote or skimmed some of
- 37:32Speaker 4: your information out of the voter rolls and sold it
- 37:35Speaker 4: to someone, Are they not guilty because they did it
- 37:39Speaker 4: in the pursuit of voting, because voting is a sanctified thing.
- 37:43Speaker 4: So crime in the efforts of voting is okay. Boy.
- 37:48Speaker 4: That'll come as a relief to the folks in Fulton County, Georgia,
- 37:52Speaker 4: won't it. They were actually starting to feel concerned. Oh
- 37:57Speaker 4: it's okay. We can commit crimes as long as we
- 37:59Speaker 4: do it while we're voting.
- 38:02Speaker 6: In a study, it was found that thirty three percent
- 38:04Speaker 6: of forty four herbal supplements had no trace of the
- 38:08Speaker 6: advertised herb. Don't let that happen to you, Hi, this
- 38:12Speaker 6: is doctor Niche. If you want to ensure quality, please
- 38:16Speaker 6: go to Total Wellness dot Com. Supplements made for physicians
- 38:21Speaker 6: only now available to you too. Total Wellness dot Com
- 38:26Speaker 6: helping you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
- 38:31Speaker 22: From border to border, from sea to shining Sea. More
- 38:36Speaker 22: than sixty one thousand ordinary American citizens are serving their
- 38:39Speaker 22: communities every day as a member of the Civil Air Patrol,
- 38:43Speaker 22: the official auxiliary of the United States Air Force, from
- 38:46Speaker 22: disasters large and small, natural and man made. We answered
- 38:51Speaker 22: the call to serve. To find out more information or
- 38:54Speaker 22: to find a unit near you, log on now go
- 38:58Speaker 22: Civil Air Patrol dot Com.
- 39:02Speaker 10: Crime across the country is at an all time high.
- 39:05Speaker 10: It feels like even a family road trip is taking
- 39:07Speaker 10: a risk. We don't want the feeling of being unprotected
- 39:10Speaker 10: and vulnerable. We found GETCCL dot com. Get CCL dot
- 39:15Speaker 10: com give us the help we needed to apply for
- 39:17Speaker 10: a legal concealed carry permit that's recognized in over half
- 39:21Speaker 10: of the country. Get CCL dot com simplifies the process
- 39:24Speaker 10: to apply, and it's all online. We used their free
- 39:28Speaker 10: qualification process to answer a few questions and applied for
- 39:31Speaker 10: our permit right from home. Thanks to reciprocty laws between states,
- 39:34Speaker 10: when you're issued a new Hampshire concealed carry permit, you
- 39:37Speaker 10: can legally carry in any state that recognizes your New
- 39:41Speaker 10: Hampshire permit. It only takes minutes to apply, so don't wait.
- 39:44Speaker 10: Exercise your rights today. Ensure you're protecting your family at
- 39:48Speaker 10: home and in other states have peace of mind. Apply today.
- 39:52Speaker 10: Go to GETCCL dot com. That's get CCL dot com.
- 39:56Speaker 10: Go to GETCCL dot com. Exercise your rights today. Go
- 40:00Speaker 10: to get CCL dot com.
- 40:02Speaker 19: You were strolling along in Goodwill when just past that
- 40:05Speaker 19: mid century side table and denim jacket, you spotted them
- 40:08Speaker 19: nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings.
- 40:13Speaker 13: Oh yes, yes, your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all
- 40:19Speaker 13: day dessert food made into your favorite form of ear candy.
- 40:23Speaker 13: Oh my, those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger
- 40:27Speaker 13: within you.
- 40:28Speaker 19: Sh Do you smell that?
- 40:32Speaker 13: That's the sugary center of shopping success, for this is goodwill,
- 40:39Speaker 13: And with every item you buy, you fund local job
- 40:41Speaker 13: training and more.
- 40:44Speaker 19: So, go forth, bring.
- 40:46Speaker 13: Home those donut earrings and bring home so much.
- 40:49Speaker 1: Good to your community.
- 40:54Speaker 19: Goodwill, bring good home.
- 40:57Speaker 23: Exercise is hard, so is maintaining a healthy diet. Of course,
- 41:03Speaker 23: neither is half as hard as dying. Sadly, type two diabetes,
- 41:08Speaker 23: heart disease, and stroke kill nearly a million people a year.
- 41:12Speaker 23: Even sadder, most of these deaths are preventable with a
- 41:15Speaker 23: few lifestyle changes, including regular activity, healthier eating, and not smoking.
- 41:22Speaker 23: Talk to your doctor about your risk for type two
- 41:24Speaker 23: diabetes and heart disease, and if your doctor recommends lifestyle
- 41:28Speaker 23: changes or medication, listen. The reason so many die is
- 41:33Speaker 23: because not enough are willing to change. You can stop it,
- 41:36Speaker 23: starting right now. It's your life. Listen to your doctor,
- 41:41Speaker 23: eat better, get moving, Visit check up america dot org
- 41:45Speaker 23: or call one eight hundred diabetes. A message from the
- 41:48Speaker 23: American Diabetes Association.
- 41:50Speaker 18: My name is Jim. I'm a veteran, and I lost
- 41:53Speaker 18: both legs in Vietnam. My victory was proving that disability
- 41:57Speaker 18: is not a limitation.
- 41:58Speaker 8: I'm Julius.
- 41:59Speaker 1: I'm a My victory was going from homeless.
- 42:02Speaker 14: Doll at DAV we're on a mission helping veterans of
- 42:06Speaker 14: all generations get the benefits they've earned.
- 42:09Speaker 23: I'm cc My victory was finishing my education.
- 42:13Speaker 14: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
- 42:16Speaker 14: more victories for veterans. Go to DAV dot org.
- 42:21Speaker 12: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
- 42:25Speaker 10: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
- 42:29Speaker 22: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble.
- 42:35Speaker 4: Freedom to petition the government.
- 42:38Speaker 12: Only the United States has these five freedoms. So simply
- 42:41Speaker 12: bound together and guaranteed, Think first. Learn more at Think
- 42:45Speaker 12: First Amendment dot org.
- 42:48Speaker 3: No word in the English language is less convincing than probably.
- 42:52Speaker 17: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
- 42:55Speaker 17: first date?
- 42:56Speaker 11: Sure?
- 42:57Speaker 8: We'll probably stay together.
- 42:58Speaker 1: Probably.
- 43:00Speaker 3: It's been twenty three minutes since I ate I can
- 43:04Speaker 3: probably swim.
- 43:05Speaker 23: You should wait thirty minutes okay.
- 43:08Speaker 1: I'll tell me what to do.
- 43:09Speaker 18: Can it bar.
- 43:12Speaker 3: Cramp?
- 43:13Speaker 4: I have a cramp.
- 43:16Speaker 15: I can probably hit the green from here, probably, Can
- 43:24Speaker 15: I get a Mulligan.
- 43:26Speaker 4: Ready to go?
- 43:27Speaker 10: Hey?
- 43:27Speaker 17: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
- 43:29Speaker 19: Yeah? I'm pretty sober.
- 43:32Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm probably okay.
- 43:35Speaker 4: Probably okay.
- 43:36Speaker 3: Isn't okay, especially when it comes to drinking and driving.
- 43:40Speaker 3: If you're drinking, call a cab, a car, or a friend.
- 43:43Speaker 3: Buzz driving is drunk driving. A message brought to you
- 43:45Speaker 3: by NITSA and AD Council.
- 43:48Speaker 17: You know the legal drinking age is twenty one. You
- 43:50Speaker 17: may also know this law protects teens. Find out more
- 43:54Speaker 17: at Dontserve Teens dot gov. A message from the We
- 43:57Speaker 17: Don't Serve Teens program and the Federal Trade Commission.
- 44:11Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in the first thing today by
- 44:15Speaker 1: Joe Thomas.
- 44:30Speaker 4: You gotta be all fired up. All fired up this morning. Yesterday,
- 44:35Speaker 4: we're supposed to have our friends from City Elders, but
- 44:38Speaker 4: technical difficulties got in the way. They're on their way.
- 44:41Speaker 4: They have every Friday they get together at a great
- 44:44Speaker 4: coffee shop called Common Crowns. And I love the movement
- 44:49Speaker 4: of these coffee shops developing this one in our flagship
- 44:53Speaker 4: Stanton area, and they'll be getting there. But you know
- 44:59Speaker 4: the work they do is to me, it's sad. We
- 45:04Speaker 4: talk about the marketing campaign that has got us to
- 45:07Speaker 4: a place where fewer people in America surveyed by gallops
- 45:12Speaker 4: support Israel over the terrorists in Hamas. So you know
- 45:18Speaker 4: that's what the media does. So we have to bail
- 45:20Speaker 4: against that tide. For groups like City Elders based out
- 45:25Speaker 4: of Oklahoma and Kansas, Wichita, Oklahoma City, great places there,
- 45:30Speaker 4: but all over Virginia, Norfolk and the Virginia Beach area
- 45:35Speaker 4: here in Charlottesville and Stanton and more. You should get
- 45:39Speaker 4: to go to City Elders dot org and find out
- 45:42Speaker 4: about starting a chapter there. It's governing the city Gates
- 45:46Speaker 4: is the slogan, and it's about getting people who are
- 45:51Speaker 4: men and women of faith elected to office. Yeah, yeah,
- 45:54Speaker 4: you're they're just diving headfirst into the attack of the
- 46:00Speaker 4: killer tomatoes on the idea of a separation of church
- 46:04Speaker 4: and state. Marshall, Patty, and a special guest who is
- 46:08Speaker 4: a man of the cloth who's now also a school
- 46:10Speaker 4: board member is don't tell anyone, Marshall, welcome back.
- 46:15Speaker 24: How are you doing, sir, I'm doing great, Joe, thanks
- 46:18Speaker 24: so much for having us back on.
- 46:20Speaker 4: Do you think? And I know you work kind of
- 46:23Speaker 4: public in private, you work with a lot of folks.
- 46:27Speaker 4: Am I wrong that we allowed kind of similar but
- 46:33Speaker 4: not the same language to kind of drive a wedge
- 46:37Speaker 4: in between what reality was and what I think the
- 46:40Speaker 4: progressive authoritarians wanted us to think all along.
- 46:47Speaker 24: Yeah, and if you look at it the past decades,
- 46:50Speaker 24: like our language has changed so much so that you know,
- 46:54Speaker 24: it starts in you know, elementary school where you're said, oh,
- 46:56Speaker 24: you can't say that, you can't say it that way,
- 46:58Speaker 24: you have to interpret this way. And we saw in
- 47:01Speaker 24: that intense period around COVID for that, you know, five
- 47:04Speaker 24: years around there, and you couldn't say anything. You know,
- 47:08Speaker 24: you couldn't say, you know, a woman can't be a man,
- 47:12Speaker 24: and you know you're you know, I'm automatically blacklisted from
- 47:15Speaker 24: professional services. And so, yeah, the language has changed dramatically.
- 47:19Speaker 24: And so when we talked about church and state, you know,
- 47:22Speaker 24: you have you know, again decades of training of pastors
- 47:25Speaker 24: through school and education where they said you need to
- 47:28Speaker 24: avoid this topic. You know, you don't want to get
- 47:31Speaker 24: politics involved because the LBJ act there and you just
- 47:35Speaker 24: need to be very careful. And I think it's it's
- 47:37Speaker 24: just going to take a lot to kind of reverse
- 47:38Speaker 24: that language so that you know, people can share their
- 47:41Speaker 24: hearts and their views on issues that are important to them.
- 47:44Speaker 4: Oh it's you know, and I went through it. We
- 47:47Speaker 4: we talked to several doctors, some from right here in
- 47:49Speaker 4: Virginia who were trading sick people in the emergency room
- 47:53Speaker 4: with readily available medicine and they were they were getting fired,
- 47:57Speaker 4: and I was getting banned off of every platform for
- 48:00Speaker 4: discussing such things. I mean, that's that's a crazy world,
- 48:03Speaker 4: where Marshall and so, you know, I guess that's when
- 48:09Speaker 4: up it becomes down. But I also think that that
- 48:12Speaker 4: has set the equilibrium in place where organizations like City
- 48:17Speaker 4: Elders are seeing such success because there's this I think
- 48:21Speaker 4: there's a weird like feeling of of you know, maybe
- 48:27Speaker 4: like our equilibrium is off. And and then you talk
- 48:30Speaker 4: to somebody who says, well, it's because we've been demoralized.
- 48:33Speaker 4: Demoralized as in, our morals have been pulled out from
- 48:37Speaker 4: under us, and that's why we feel unbalanced a little bit.
- 48:41Speaker 4: Which is my goal in helping you guys spread the
- 48:45Speaker 4: word about City Elders. And you have a special guest,
- 48:48Speaker 4: an actual, honest to do dad elected official. Uh there Marshall,
- 48:54Speaker 4: which he introduced us to our guests.
- 48:58Speaker 24: Yeah, Mike Laston, who's on the Augusta County school Board.
- 49:02Speaker 24: It kind of was part of that early group in
- 49:04Speaker 24: Augusta County at City Elders and didn't understand politics, didn't
- 49:08Speaker 24: really like politics, and then over a multi year process,
- 49:13Speaker 24: was convinced the run at the last minute and one
- 49:17Speaker 24: big and so we're just thrilled to have Michae Lawson
- 49:20Speaker 24: as part of the team and producting our kids in schools.
- 49:22Speaker 4: Now, Mike, welcome to our segment here. What was it
- 49:27Speaker 4: that changed your mind maybe even more than that, What
- 49:32Speaker 4: was it that made you think that, you know, politics
- 49:34Speaker 4: was something you couldn't be involved in, and then what
- 49:37Speaker 4: changed your mind into your feeling like you had to
- 49:39Speaker 4: be involved in it? Yeah?
- 49:43Speaker 11: Well, thank you, thank you Jeff for having me, and
- 49:45Speaker 11: thank you Marshall for the introduction. I appreciate that I
- 49:49Speaker 11: had when I got involved with City Elders. It was
- 49:52Speaker 11: just when it was beginning back in twenty twenty, twenty
- 49:55Speaker 11: twenty one, it was after the national election, and I
- 49:59Speaker 11: just as a aster. I was frustrated, and I felt
- 50:02Speaker 11: like there's got to be more that I can do
- 50:04Speaker 11: outside of the church to get involved.
- 50:06Speaker 4: In the community and civic government.
- 50:09Speaker 11: That's when I got a message from from Brad Helston.
- 50:12Speaker 11: He and Kevin Harris had had had met and looked
- 50:16Speaker 11: at city olders and so so I decided to go
- 50:18Speaker 11: and attend a meeting. And I just I saw a need.
- 50:21Speaker 11: I saw a need for people to get involved and
- 50:25Speaker 11: represent and I was very hesitant to do it because
- 50:28Speaker 11: I'd never you know, I've heard you know, separation of
- 50:31Speaker 11: church and state my whole life. And but I saw that, well,
- 50:35Speaker 11: wait a minute, if we don't get involved, how can
- 50:37Speaker 11: we make a difference. And so that was really the
- 50:40Speaker 11: thing that led me to do it, and and Marshall
- 50:44Speaker 11: and I talked, and I had said no twice to
- 50:46Speaker 11: running for anything. I was like, I really don't want
- 50:48Speaker 11: to do this. I'll I'll help you guys, I'll support you,
- 50:50Speaker 11: I'll pray for you, you know, come to the meetings,
- 50:53Speaker 11: I'll do all these things and support. But we'll find.
- 50:55Speaker 18: Somebody to do it.
- 50:56Speaker 11: But it got to the point where we didn't have anybody,
- 50:59Speaker 11: and I thought, well, I'm here, and I you know,
- 51:02Speaker 11: I prayed about it and felt like, well, let me,
- 51:04Speaker 11: let me give it a shot and if it's if
- 51:05Speaker 11: it's meant to be, then I'll win. And so uh
- 51:09Speaker 11: so I did that first year. I won a special election,
- 51:13Speaker 11: and then I ran again, uh the next year for
- 51:16Speaker 11: a four year term, which I'm in the middle of now.
- 51:18Speaker 11: And so I think it just I just saw that
- 51:21Speaker 11: there was more to be done, and not that I
- 51:24Speaker 11: would stop doing what I'm doing is in my profession
- 51:27Speaker 11: as a pastor, in my calling, but I felt like
- 51:30Speaker 11: there need to be representation for you know, our community
- 51:33Speaker 11: and our viewpoint. And so that was kind of what
- 51:36Speaker 11: did it. But it was a process. It didn't happen quickly.
- 51:38Speaker 11: It took me a couple of years to kind of
- 51:41Speaker 11: kind of readjust my thinking to what was going on
- 51:44Speaker 11: and to actually see what was going on, because, like
- 51:46Speaker 11: you said earlier, we've been kind of under undermined and
- 51:49Speaker 11: our thought process and the constant pounding from all of
- 51:52Speaker 11: the media and and different things that we can't be
- 51:56Speaker 11: involved and we shouldn't be involved and we should stay
- 51:58Speaker 11: away and keep separated. And I I just saw that
- 52:01Speaker 11: that wasn't true, and so I decided to get involved
- 52:04Speaker 11: in Marshall was a great coach. He helped me get started,
- 52:09Speaker 11: and I did start late, about as late as you
- 52:12Speaker 11: could and still still get your signatures the day before.
- 52:18Speaker 20: Yeah, it was it was.
- 52:19Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 52:19Speaker 11: It was funny because we went out to get signatures
- 52:22Speaker 11: and we were racing to see who could get the
- 52:24Speaker 11: most signatures and hit the most houses.
- 52:26Speaker 4: So appreciate it. My hang on this second, We've got
- 52:29Speaker 4: the news coming up here. City elders dot Or governing
- 52:33Speaker 4: the city gates, blowing up this whole separation of church
- 52:36Speaker 4: and state and putting morally underpinned people, not morally undermined
- 52:42Speaker 4: people into the offices where when the bad decisions come up,
- 52:46Speaker 4: we know how they're going to decide on the side
- 52:49Speaker 4: of right. On first thing today, my name is Bobby.
- 52:52Speaker 4: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
- 52:55Speaker 3: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
- 52:58Speaker 3: weightlifting champion. I'm Sam, I'm a veteran. My victory was
- 53:02Speaker 3: finding a career I can be proud of and supporting
- 53:05Speaker 3: my family.
- 53:06Speaker 14: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
- 53:09Speaker 14: of their lives.
- 53:10Speaker 8: I'm a veteran.
- 53:11Speaker 1: My victory was going from homeless tall.
- 53:14Speaker 14: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
- 53:17Speaker 14: the benefits they've earned.
- 53:19Speaker 5: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
- 53:23Speaker 14: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
- 53:27Speaker 14: for victories great and small.
- 53:29Speaker 18: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
- 53:33Speaker 23: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
- 53:36Speaker 14: We help more than a million veterans every year as
- 53:38Speaker 14: they face and conquer their challenges.
- 53:41Speaker 19: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
- 53:43Speaker 14: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
- 53:47Speaker 14: more victories for veterans. Go to DAV dot org.