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"Dare to be Stupid" (Saturday August 23, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it lit the first thing today.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do it by Joe Thomas. I'm the chunk media
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  that do it law all natural and free of artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 3: I can go alrighte it and we'll do it.
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  Speaker 4: Line Druart said, steal metem. You have a day at
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  least for work. When the sun comes up, drops a
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  pet to school. Joe has everything a dream, do all
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  the treasure.
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  Speaker 5: Said, needs.
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  Speaker 6: No one that Joe's allis smiling.
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  Speaker 1: He only exp let me be Joe, thank you for
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  letting me be of service to you. I want to
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  be here. Hold these truths.
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  Speaker 7: Four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  That is the phone number. It's also the text message line.
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  And I love talking to folks. But I understand how
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  mornings are. I used to get this all the time
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  out of bosses. You don't get a lot of phone
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  calls in the morning. I said, have you ever existed
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  in the morning?
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean? Said? Do you have to get
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  your kids off to school?
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  Speaker 7: Oh no, that's I'm I'm busy at that point. My
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  wife's handling. Yeah, all right, Mornings are a mailstrom of
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  a million things put off to the last minute. Morning
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  is the old Latin word for last minute.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't know that, did you? I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just it's like Ron Burgundy. Thank you for joining
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  in talk media networks. It's an honor to be on
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  with you, because on Saturday mornings they try to slip
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  these stories past you and not. On this watch, none
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  shall pass. We've already been into the Bolton raid, Kilmar
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  the Magnificent got out of jail, sanctuary rulings. We talked
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  a little bit about the redistrict thing just before we
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  came to the news. Here a quick note. Next week,
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  if you get the Weekday program, we're going to be
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  live from New Orleans starting Monday morning with the State
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  Policy Network annual meeting. We're going to be talking with folks,
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  yes even from New York, who lead the conservative charge,
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  like our friends Kevin and the Long Island Loud Majority.
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  These are the folks that Lee Zelden gets it from
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  and that kind of stuff, So we're going to be
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  out there amongst them. I work with one of such
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  groups at the Virginia Institute for Public Policy. The trip
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  and the broadcast will be sponsored by them, as well
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  as the Daily Signal online newspaper, who I write for
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  and put together Virginia coverage mostly, but I think it's
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  relevant to all of you wherever you may be interacting
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  with the program, and so that's coming up next week.
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  I hope you can tune in and enjoy some of
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  that because it'll be fun doing it.
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  Speaker 1: And it was like, oh, you've got to go on
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  to do get to go to New Orleans. It is
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  hard work. It really is.
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  Speaker 7: Constantly chasing people down and trying to get interviews and
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  content that means something to you.
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  Speaker 1: It is long. I'll be exhausted by the time we
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  get back. You know.
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  Speaker 7: Next Saturday, when you and I are together, will be
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  live from our home base in Virginia. Florida on our
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  an environmental concern saying you can keep the people there,
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  That's a great deal for America. Also a great deal
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  Speaker 1: Vice President when JD.
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  Speaker 7: Vance said the administration is in the very early stages
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure, oh my goodness, and amongst the things and
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  where where does somebody get the idea TikTok And I
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  I am classically trained to not blame the inanimate object.
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  Speaker 1: I don't blame TikTok.
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  Speaker 7: Or any of the other social Instagram or any of
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  these other places for the dump that people have.
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  Speaker 1: Receded to.
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  Speaker 7: So this teenager gets out of his car or gets
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  out it ghost runs up to a police car to
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  videotape himself peeing on a police car on the Long
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  Island Expressway. And now people are up in arms because
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  he's been arrested. This is the problem is the people.
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  It's not even so much the failure of the educational
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  system that thinks this is going to make him money,
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  and they do.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this is oh, I'll get a lot of hits.
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  Speaker 7: It's just like this, this new TikTok door kick challenge,
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  basically picking up on the old ring and run.
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  Speaker 2: Thing.
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  Speaker 7: They come up and they kick your door. It was
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  a local police sheriff who's just issued a warning saying
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  there's a lot of people in this area that are
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  armed and defend their homes and that if you do this,
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  the law enforcement will take the side of the people.
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  Speaker 1: Who blast you through the door.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you know there's a defense attorney out there somewhere
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  just waiting.
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  Speaker 1: To take that. Gus, Oh, your honor. He was just
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  taking part in a prank. He was kicking on the
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  door of somebody's house who opened.
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  Speaker 7: Up a Quentin Tarantino grade shotgun on him. But ye know,
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  there is a point to be made about natural selection,
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  I guess. But the people who bother me the most
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  of the ones who are up in arms over the
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  teen who got out and urinated on the police car
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  to videotape it for himself and share it on social media.
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  I mean, that's the part that just stuns me in
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  this is how do you? I mean, what does mom think?
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  Does mom think about this stuff? I mean, yeah, are
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  there big a gun violence up? It's like one of
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  the few areas Suffolk County that says gun violence is up.
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  Everyone else will saying no violence is down. Don't let
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  Trump send in the troops. But this kid thinks the
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  most important thing he can do with his time is
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  go run out and videotape himself with his phone in
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  one hand while using the other to pee on the
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  police car while his brothers and sisters are out there
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  kicking on people's doors, which, granted, in a place like Washington,
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  d C. Probably not all that dangerous because it's a
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  gun free zone. But what if you kick on the
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  door of somebody who is, let's.
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  Speaker 1: Say, involved in the drug trade.
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  Speaker 7: You see my point, You know, you kick on the
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  wrong door, and it's it's some MS thirteen gang banger
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  waiting for Kilmar Abrago Garcia to get there on his
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  way back to house arrest. So the dump that we'd
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  recede to is just amazing to me. But don't defend them,
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  don't call and write posts and do social media. Oh,
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  we need legal funds for this poor teenagers falsely and
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  unjustly and that's one of their favorites, unjustly accused.
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  Speaker 1: Regard me. That's a first free.
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  ever wonder how does he get like this at five
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  is suing to block the Justice Department from enforcing conditions
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  that would the judge has already ruled on this one.
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  Your mixed two stories. We just did this the Rhode Island, sorry,
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  along with New York and Connecticut and all these places.
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  And they're saying, you can't cut funding.
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  Speaker 1: To states if it refuses to.
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  Speaker 7: Honor civil immigration enforcement requests. But this is the same
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  dump that a kid peeing on a police car is doing.
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  And this Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Los Angele, all
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  these places that were in this suit that.
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  Speaker 1: Now has become a court order against.
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  Speaker 7: The recision of the funding, it's the same thing. It's
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  this disrespect, this ignorance, this wilful ignorance of the law.
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  Speaker 1: So why should we expect.
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  Speaker 7: A kid on Long Island to not get out of
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  you know, a little yah yah and pee on the
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  police car? Why should why should we expect him to
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  do it? If our own governments right there said.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to enforce the law.
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  Speaker 7: Apparently that's an option I wasn't taught when I was
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  a kid. And that's what I think the biggest problem is.
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  And I don't think it's a flaw. I think it's
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  a feature. They want us so good as lid into
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  thinking that there's there's multiple levels of justice, that we
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  will allow the system to be torn apart, because think
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  about it, they need the US citizens to say, you
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  know what, we're done with the Constitution, We're done.
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  Speaker 1: With the Bill of Rights.
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  Speaker 7: Until we are ready to do that, they're going to
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  keep trying to move the Overton window. These things were
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  ridiculous ten years ago, boys playing girls basketball. We actually
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  had a law that was passed specifically to set up
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  women's only sports. And now and now ten years later,
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  we're trying to normalize the conversation. That's the Overton window,
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  something that was ludicrous ten years ago. By just pushing
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  the pushing it, pushing it every time everyone calls you stupid,
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  you bring it back up again until people are like,
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  you know, I was thinking about what he was saying,
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  and the Overton window has opened. Trump is the first
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  Republican who's tried to do the same thing. This is
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  forward and it keeps people talking about the things he's saying.
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  Illegal immigration is one of them. This is an eighty
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  to fifty issue. I know because I was going to
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  the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and it was maybe
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  it was fifty five forty five. Now it's an eighty
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so email, you've you've grown the natives have grown restless.
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  Dear Joe, At what point during today's program will you
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  discuss the released Gallain Maxwell interview or are you hiding
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  from it because like Trump, you're afraid that it makes
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  you look bad if you talk about it. You see,
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  that's you put the you put the aggressive in passive aggressive. No,
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  we just there have been other stories that, in my
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  to go first.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: I just it wasn't wasn't any It wasn't an agenda
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  of mine that we hadn't talked about this nothing burger.
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  I mean, as a matter of fact, I mean what
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  am I what I care about? I mean, the closest
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  in Ocean City. That's just a bar restaurant, Epstein Island.
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  I think I've been on Grand Island in Buffalo once.
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  I didn't even go to Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard. When
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  I lived in Hyennas and worked for a radio station
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  that had free ferry service to the islands. I didn't
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  go to the islands in any event. You want some
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  love for the story of Gallaine Maxwell's interview with Todd Blanche.
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  I don't know why you emailed me with such passive
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  aggressiveness but not covering it up. It just didn't seem
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  shot down claims that former President Bill Clinton had traveled
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  Clintons were friends, were her friends, not Jeffrey Epstein's. I
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  do believe that Epstein did a lot of not all,
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  but some of what he's accused of, and I'm not
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  here to defend him in any respect. What's soever, Glaine
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  Maxwell told the FBI investigator Blanche. I don't want to
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  and I don't think he requires nor deserves any type
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  of protection from me in any way to sugarcoat what
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  he did.
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  Speaker 1: Or didn't do.
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  Speaker 7: Meaning Epstein some more, but that flies in this face. Actually,
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  testimony and court documents from nineteen ninety eight insisting that
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  Speaker 1: But are you stated that?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, tell me if you don't think we've given
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  ordnance amount of ordinance to the Gallaine Maxwell. There were
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  just other things on the docket that I felt like
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  deserved more of our time. And apologies to you, I
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  Speaker 1: There is.
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  Speaker 7: It is called the Empire Center. Go to Empirecenter dot org.
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  Speaker 17: No, it's certainly causation. And in particular, where we see
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  We have a housing and you know sure Glaine Maxwell,
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  sure border in the sanctuary cities. And these things are campaigns.
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  going to support it. And I thought Republicans just wanted
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  so why should they care about school choice?
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 7: Interesting that, And now that's changed four years later. We
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  have micro schools and co op schools and things like that.
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  So these are essential issues conservatives, you know, and we
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  these other issues, but you know, the bigger, more essential ones,
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  like how do we afford housing. We seed the battlefield
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  to the left too frequently. And Emily Hamilton talked with
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  unless you're going to get a houseboat in the sound.
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  And then, bro, now you've got the federal government regulating
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  they can move into Waynesboro until Northrope Grumman comes in.
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  And now Waynesboro's becoming too expensive. You keep going further
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  and further away, as she said earlier, creating more commutes
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  by the same people who are trying to be green.
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  We were talking about correlation and causation, but I mean,
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  as you said, Emily, it's like trying to get a
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  politician to not do something. I mean politician not named Trump.
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  Speaker 10: That's right, and.
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  Speaker 17: We're luckily seeing some cases where policymakers are correctly diagnosing
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  the problem and changing their rules to make it easier
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  to build more housing, doing things like speeding up permit
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  approval processes that can reduce the cost of building housing.
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  And in the places where these reforms are taking place,
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  we're seeing the market respond by building more housing and
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  in some places even doing enough to lower rents, making
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  it possible for more people to live in the location
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  where their best opportunities are located.
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  Speaker 7: I guess that's part of it as well, is where
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  do people want to be. I know that there is
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  a push from some segments to cluster everyone together, therefore
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  eliminating the need for automobiles and transportation and that kind
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  they're going to be working, right, emily.
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  Speaker 8: Right, And this is.
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  Speaker 17: One of the pieces of the problem, is that the
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  places where opportunities are located in terms of the highest
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  paying jobs have shifted, and in many cases that's interacted
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  with the zoning regulations that have been in place historically
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  to make it really difficult for the housing market to respond.
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  And to take a few examples, the city of Seattle
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  and they have taken some steps to make it a
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  in Seattle rents are lower than other cities like Boston,
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  for example, that has seen a similar increase in demand
• 48:50
  for housing, but has made it just about impossible to
• 48:54
  build that housing in a lot of places.
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  Speaker 7: What was the calculus in that, I mean, one doesn't
• 49:02
  expect to see that kind of thing happening in a
• 49:05
  town like Seattle. Was it just a matter of it
• 49:09
  became too overwhelming for them to ignore?
• 49:14
  Speaker 17: Uh, that's a great question. They have focused on a
• 49:18
  plan called urban Villages where they are allowing less expensive
• 49:26
  types of housing like apartments, to be built along some
• 49:30
  of the city's bus corridors. But there are certainly other
• 49:35
  approaches that are working as well, and as you suggest,
• 49:41
  it's generally not those big cities and blue states that
• 49:46
  are the success cases. We can also look to cities
• 49:50
  like Houston and other Texas cities that have actually taken
• 49:56
  in some ways a similar approach, allowing more housing to
• 50:01
  be built on less land, therefore making it possible for
• 50:07
  people to rent or buy housing in those cities at
• 50:11
  prices they can afford, and.
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: She goes on and if you want, if you go
• 50:15
  to Joe Thomas in the Morning dot com, there's a
• 50:18
  link to my podcasts. You can subscribe at Apple Podcasts
• 50:22
  or Spotify all the big players, Deezer Podchaser, iHeart.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Et cetera. And you can get the whole interview up
• 50:34
  on there.
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: I think she was on Tuesday Mornings program, but she
• 50:38
  talks about Houston and what Houston did, and this is
• 50:40
  where it's relevant to like what they're talking about in
• 50:44
  Charlottesville and Waynesboro and also Green Acres Mall. You know
• 50:48
  this email and the reason I went and got the
• 50:51
  clips from from Emily Hamilton is that I received this email.
• 50:57
  We were talking earlier about redeveloping the mall and housing,
• 51:01
  and Joe, the area where the mall is is zoned
• 51:06
  business and light industrial. You cannot build housing there. Well,
• 51:12
  Houston actually eliminated that kind of zoning. You can build
• 51:17
  a manufacturing facility and houses right next to it.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: You can't do that in a lot of places.
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: Because you have this restrictive like the only thing we
• 51:26
  want here is work. And I don't know when we
• 51:31
  lost sight of the illogic of that, but we did
• 51:34
  somewhere along the line we just said, Okay, maybe it's
• 51:38
  because these planning commission meetings and these zoning board meetings
• 51:42
  are poorly attended. My grandfather was a zoning commissioner in Greenwich, Connecticut.
• 51:47
  Is GH taking us on the weekends or just the weekdays,
• 51:51
  I don't know. I hope GH is there because Bill Crawford,
• 51:55
  my grandfather, was one of the zoning pioneers in that area.
• 52:03
  But zoning is designed to keep certain types of housing
• 52:06
  in certain places, and it never moves to the idea
• 52:10
  of maybe something else should be there. And I think
• 52:14
  a robust activity of like a Prop thirteen like they
• 52:17
  did in all places California and eliminating this kind of
• 52:22
  zoning like they did in Houston, could really be a
• 52:25
  sea change in the housing issues. But there's plenty of
• 52:29
  stuff to cover for this Saturday morning. I hope you
• 52:31
  enjoyed it. As I said, we'll be back from New
• 52:35
  Orleans by this time next weekend. If you're listening to
• 52:37
  us only on Saturdays. If not, go to the podcast channel,
• 52:41
  like I mentioned, talk to your station about getting me
• 52:43
  on the weekdays. But until next Saturday, so long and
• 52:47
  thanks for all the fish.
• 52:51
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