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"Reenactment" (Friday October 17, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: This is when arrogance of dupres comes back.
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Speaker 2: By seeing the rear act. First Thing Today by Joe
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Thomas on the Chunk Media Network, What all natural and
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free of artificial intelligence?
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Speaker 3: Stuart said, steal me.
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Speaker 4: A day?
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Speaker 5: What was that?
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Speaker 2: Least for work?
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Speaker 3: When the sun comes up?
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Speaker 6: Drops a Scots.
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Speaker 5: Versus hang on, hang on, that's about Bolton one the
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Joe's smile, the only eggs Joe, you guys doing over there?
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All right now, I know that was about John Bolton. Okay,
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you guys have too much free time apparently. Can we
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work on rescheduling the production department, maybe maybe reassigning the
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whole thing to cut up chicken parts for airline food.
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Good Friday Morning to Good four three four eight eight
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two four to two one seven, the radio program that
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tells you what went on. We'll tell you what we
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see in what went on, and most importantly want to
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hear how it's impacting you where you are, wherever you
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are four three four eight eight two four to two
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one seven. And that's a text message or telephone calls
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as well. This morning, First thing today, John Bolton indicted
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grand jury and again this is the same thing with
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Letitia James this was not some Trump picked prosecutor. I'm
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getting frustrated with this as they they've got their twenty
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sixteen back on again, they've decided to go into the
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archives and say, well, you know, in twenty sixteen, we
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had some pretty good success doing this to President Trump.
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So they've just decided they'll tell you what's going on,
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and they'll portray the indictment of John Bolton as some
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targeted political hit, even though it was handed down by
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a grand jury citizens just like you sitting there in
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a room listening to testimony. And generally grand juries. Some
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grand jury indictments involve physical evidence, but most of it
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is vetting the stories of the two parties. It's why
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it's why they do grand juries rather than just make
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the indictment. If they had physical evidence, they could just
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make the indictment. And often grand juries are asked to
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indict people so that investigations can move forward to go
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looking for actual physical evidence. But that being said on
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Bolton facing an indictment now, an indictment passed down yesterday,
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and taking state secrets, and of course because President Trump
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was accused of the same thing, that's why everyone's out
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there saying, oh, This is just retribution. This is just
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Trump getting his retribution on that's all this is. It's
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politically motivated and all that stuff. So we'll get into
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that so much more as we see this Friday morning
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get underway. The massive denial. There was a dedicated denial
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of service Internet sites from Amazon on down crashing yesterday.
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We were here, but we were challenged. We had backups
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on our backups going yesterday. So luckily we had them
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because if not, we would have suffered what you know,
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Venmo and PayPal and all these other places had We'll
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get into that. Federal grand jury turned indictment against John Bolton,
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former National security advisor, accused of mishandling classified information. Senate
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Democrats yesterday voted to block the bill that would have
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funded the Pentagon for a full year, thwarting an effort
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by Republicans to restart some federal funding during the partial
4:23
government shutdown. The vote was fifty to forty four. John
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Thune Minority leader Chuck Schumer remain at odds, refusing to
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meet face to face. However, Russia and the presidents and
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Ukraine and the President will meet face to face today
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and in the week's coming, he said, President Trump said
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yesterday he'll be meeting with Russia's President Philadimir Putin in
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Hungary at an undisclosed date to work on ending the
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war in Hungary. Quote. Believe great progress was made with
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today's telephone conversation, Trump wrote on truth. Social Voladimir Zelenski
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is due at the White House for a quote working
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lunch today. Meanwhile, Russia's Defense ministry said that it strike
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its forces had carried out massive overnight strikes on Ukrainian
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gas infrastructure, supporting the military retaliation for what it said
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was Ukrainian attacks on civilian infrastructure, and Israeli airstrike targeted
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the top leaders of Iranian backed Huti rebels in Yemen
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yesterday killed the chief of staff of its military, according
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to Israeli officials. Yesterday, the UTIs have acknowledged the death
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of Major General Mohammad Abdul Karim al Kamari, who had
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been sanctioned by the United Nations for his role in
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the decays long war. India on Thursday hinted that it
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was looking to increase purchases of crude oil and natural
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gas from the United States companies as it quote diversifies
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its energy supplies. And those are some of our first
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things on this Friday morning. We can discuss now at
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Speaker 6: But you also had people that were very five people
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Speaker 2: First thing today.
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Speaker 5: It's classic news this morning. Tell me if you've heard
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this one before. The President's a racist because he said
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nice things about Antifa and Black Lives Matter and radio
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station listeners that had been catfished into going into a
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white supremacist rally. Tell me if you've heard this one before.
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Trump is a bigot. Trump is a racist. Tell me
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if you've heard this one before. And I feel weary
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because how many times do we have to walk around
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this block? And I know I go back to my
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Saul Olynski, better call Saul. These repeatable, recyclable attempts. Now,
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that doesn't excuse these members of the Young Republicans who
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were apparently caught on text messaging in evolved in some
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horrifically racist statements, and I want to see this has
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to play out. I think JD. Vance made a mistake
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by getting out on it and saying these were just
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kids being kids, because some of them had jobs at
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the White House, alleged using all sorts of racial slurs
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and talking about things that quite honestly, we expect here
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in Virginia of our Democrat Attorney general candidates to say,
15:08
but the president did it again. The reporter said, you're
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building this arc de triumph in Washington, d C. I'm paraphrasing,
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of course, you're building this giant arch in Washington, DC.
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Would you be okay if they put a statue of
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Robert E.
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Speaker 17: Lee?
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Speaker 5: There's the answer was, I wouldn't have had a problem
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with it. Remember this is a West Point graduate, was
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leader at west Point, was the top American general before
15:42
leaving to defend his state from an invasion. So this
15:51
symbrolio is all because they're losing. So you have to
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understand and get the interpretive dance. They're back to twenty
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seventeen's tactic of Trump's a racist because he said nice
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things about Nazis when he didn't he acknowledged the fact
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that many of my listeners, and I take this personally
16:15
because they were my listeners who had gotten catfished into
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thinking that there was some conservative free speech rally going
16:23
on in Charlottesville, Virginia. And when they got there and
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heard David Duke get announced and will listen to people
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talk about blood and soil and anti Semitic rhetoric, many
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of them sought me out in the crowd as I
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was there doing my journalistic best live action role playing
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as a journalist there trying to chronicle the scene, and said, Joe,
16:51
what the heck's going on? And in each case I
16:55
would respond, get out of here. They had been sold
17:04
to Bill Goods, and because MSNBC and everyone took it
17:08
upon themselves to say these are the right, though I
17:12
think they were to unite the Reich is what they
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were more than unite the right, because as soon as
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I met them the first time, I said, ain't bupkis
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that's conservative about these people? Their self aggrandizing socialists who
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just want to kick out anyone who's not a wasp kids,
17:36
He's gonna have to google what that is. And there
17:44
was their lord high mugwump, David Duke walked right past me.
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I was there, unlike guys like Nick Pointes, who are
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out there saying that there's gripers in every fast of
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the Washington, d C. Establishment. And what did I tell
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you on September eleventh of twenty twenty five, watch out
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for this guy. This guy is just a cooler, younger,
18:19
better looking, more comfortable in front of a camera version
18:24
of the guy who started the dumpster fire in my hometown,
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Jason Kessler. And I told you then right after the
18:38
assassination of Charlie Kirk. And and here we are again
18:42
with him and his minions all talking about, you know,
18:46
and some of the racial slayers they were using in
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these texts alleged. But he's on video saying, guys, you
18:55
got to be more careful. So I'm going to take
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his testimony as an knowledgement that these texts are righteous,
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because he's on his little video stream telling his followers
19:10
to stop writing things down because you know, when you
19:16
need to find Nazis, the Nazis that are out bragging
19:19
about being Nazis make it really easy. It's the ones
19:23
that are hiding in the basement that you've got to
19:25
worry about. And he's just one of the multitudes are
19:33
out there trying to pick up the mantra of it,
19:37
and JD. Vans, just much like Trump did in the
19:41
first term, often gets into these conversations that he shouldn't
19:46
get into. Some of these people are working in the
19:51
US government. They should be smarter than that. I don't
19:53
care what their age is. Apparently stupid can happen at
20:03
any age. Now does that mean JD. Vance loses his
20:09
position as front runner in twenty twenty eight. I'm not
20:13
worried about twenty twenty eight right now. I'm worried about
20:16
the fact that now here we go again, they're losing
20:19
so desperately. The Schumer crowd watching support hemorrhage as people.
20:26
You know, twenty five percent of polsters can't find somebody
20:30
who even noticed that the governments shut down. For heaven's sake,
20:40
they're struggling so badly. They're candidates and statewide races are
20:46
screwing up royally and sometimes getting caught wishing assassination on
20:52
political opponents. In other times, grievously mischaracterizing their own parties,
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attempts to create medical practices, trying to tag their opponents
21:11
with it, rather than talking about what they would do
21:13
for their state. So badly are they losing? They went
21:18
back to the playbook and said, hey, you know, in
21:20
twenty seventeen, this really worked well. One can only hope
21:26
that the administration has learned from twenty seventeen and is
21:32
having a long conversation with JD. Vance about what life
21:35
was like in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen as this
21:39
narrative continued to derail the mid term elections. But don't
21:46
kid yourself. All this stuff is all there because they're losing.
21:51
They were hemorrhaging support. They couldn't even get Democrats to
21:56
support him anymore, so they had to go back to
21:59
the classic Hey.
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warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
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Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
25:13
will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
25:17
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
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are not from US. Real Social Security employees will never
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threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
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call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
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your personal information like your Social Security number or bank account,
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or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
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or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
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enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OYG
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Speaker 12: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed, Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with
25:58
the woots and now a speech.
26:02
Speaker 16: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
26:06
art and brain.
26:07
Speaker 2: Who's with me?
26:08
Speaker 12: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
26:11
brain is saying when it's time to go home. Somebody
26:13
call me a ride.
26:15
Speaker 13: Love that guy, me too.
26:16
Speaker 1: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
26:19
it's time to go home.
26:20
Speaker 2: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
26:23
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costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
26:29
good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
26:34
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
26:36
energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
26:40
learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
26:43
That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
26:47
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
26:50
improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
26:54
when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
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energy Star logo and read the Energy Guide labor and
27:00
there are day to day things you can do. Lower
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your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer.
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Close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
27:09
air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
27:13
reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
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a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
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protection agency.
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Speaker 2: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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Joe Thomas.
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Speaker 3: So how do you get a new civil war started?
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Speaker 5: Tell people how noble and wonderful The last one was
28:44
celebrate civil war and you're guaranteed to get another one.
28:49
And I'm not saying, you know, commemorate, that's without question,
28:54
you commemorate the suffering in an attempt to make sure
29:01
people know history. And this is a tightrope. It's a
29:04
real fine line between acknowledging and analyzing and studying history
29:11
and celebrating it. And what the left is doing again
29:15
with the twenty seventeen style rhetoric about racism in the
29:22
Oval Office, is trying to rekindle that battle of Civil War.
29:34
And like the Marxists when they couldn't get the black
29:37
community or they lost the Black community, and then they
29:40
went after the Christian community and they said, well, the
29:44
Jews are trying to replace you, and they're always trying
29:51
to pit us against each other. This is what they
30:02
have to do because they don't have the support of
30:11
the majority of people. So what they have to do
30:14
is make it untenable for you to be part of
30:18
the conversation because you don't want to have to deal
30:21
with the questions about Robert E. Lee or the Confederacy
30:26
or that kind of stuff.
30:27
Speaker 22: Or if you said you're having a war, I think
30:29
you have a good reason not to build it again.
30:32
You know, they were building the Washington Monument, then they
30:34
stopped and you could see where they stopped because they
30:36
showed us a little different color when you get up
30:39
to the middle. But anyway, they stopped here, and then
30:42
they were in nineteen oh two they were going to
30:44
put a statue of Roberty Lee. Would have been okay
30:48
with maybe a lot of people, would their liking, and
30:50
it would have been okay with me.
30:53
Speaker 5: And remember, you know, so what we've lost in all
30:56
this is the historic Roberty Lee. What we've lost is
31:02
the historic Abraham Lincoln. What we've lost is the history.
31:09
We talked about this yesterday. James Hankins, the Harvard professor.
31:16
Don't hold that against him, just written the first of
31:20
a two part series of books called The Golden Thread,
31:24
talking about Western civilization and doing it in a dispassionate
31:29
academic way back when academia actually meant you looked at everything,
31:36
Oh the good old days. And he told me, and
31:44
I didn't realize this because I had left the educational
31:47
system by this point, but about five to seven years
31:50
after I left Bayside High School with Eric Adams, Jordan
32:00
belfourd Yes and Jordan. Right after the three of us
32:04
graduated based Out High school. About six seven years later,
32:07
an intentional effort was made on behalf of the educational system,
32:13
top down out of Washington.
32:15
Speaker 14: D C.
32:16
Speaker 5: To stop doing Western civilization education because I asked him,
32:22
we were talking about this ptome on Western Civilization, and
32:25
I'm like, yeah, I get it, professor, I've known this
32:29
since sophomore year of high school. How is this in
32:34
need of a new book? It's like they don't teach
32:37
it anymore, Joe. And that includes teaching the bad stuff
32:45
that the Southern states seceded because they didn't want to
32:50
be forced to give up slavery as a business, and
32:54
then the North invaded them because they lost all their
32:57
tax revenue. Robert E. Lee left the US Army to
33:08
join the Confederacy to defend Virginia against Northern invaders, and
33:21
after the fact said things like, don't build statues to
33:25
me true story And are there legitimate instances where people
33:34
were putting up statues to Confederates and to the Confederacy
33:40
in the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties. Yeah. About the
33:45
same time, the same Dixiecrats were enacting the Permanent Reapportionment
33:51
Act of twenty of nineteen twenty nine because they were
33:56
afraid that these freed black populations would grow to the
34:00
point of having overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate. Oh,
34:06
their way of life would be ruined because these are
34:11
un American bastards who don't understand all men are created equal.
34:16
And if you can't proceed from all men are created equal,
34:21
you're an American. You're not an American conservative, Nick Fondes,
34:26
if you don't begin all your thoughts with all men
34:30
are created equal.
34:31
Speaker 23: Period.
34:32
Speaker 5: And that's just the viewpoint of this host, this analyst
34:36
who's been doing this a few years. God, Western civilization
34:44
taught to me as far back as high school, and
34:48
we need to bring this back so you can have
34:50
the perspective of what it means to be an American.
34:53
And I love all the column spaces that are being
34:57
dedicated to what does it mean to be an American?
35:02
A couple of pieces of paper documents no more than
35:05
two or three pages long. It's pretty straightforward. And yes,
35:13
are there people who fail to live up to that. Yes,
35:16
that doesn't take the whole concept apart. But that's what
35:22
the Marxists want us to do because they want civil war.
35:26
The Marxists love civil war because that's how they come
35:30
to power, and then once they're in power, you ain't
35:35
going to have civil buppkis. You're going to have your
35:42
responsibilities to the party, to the government, and if you
35:49
fail in those, Grandma goes to the gulog. We can't
35:54
have you going to the gulog. We need you to
35:56
work harder at the factory, but we'll take your grandma.
36:04
And this isn't even fanciful philosophy. This is what happens
36:08
under Marxism. You get arrested if you don't do what
36:12
the government tells you to do. And that's why they
36:17
want us to forget the Civil War so they can
36:20
get a new one. They want us to talk about
36:23
the nobility of fighting against white supremacy in the Civil
36:26
War when the phrase didn't even exist. They were fighting
36:36
for liberty, they were fighting for freedom. They were fighting
36:39
for the opportunity to do as they saw fit with
36:42
their lives and their families. And with the saddest of ironies,
36:50
the very people who are promoting this stuff are the
36:54
ones who are the least interested in actually allowing that
36:59
to continue to have happened into modern day America. They
37:02
want tenant farmers, they want people living in public housing,
37:05
as long as they behave in a way that befits
37:09
what the government says. They want you to have government jobs,
37:15
even down into the government grocery stores, so that you
37:22
have to do what the government says. They want you
37:24
to get government income regardless of what you do, so
37:28
that you have to do what the government says. And
37:34
they've created this cacophony of noise swirling around back to
37:39
twenty seventeen again because why because it worked then, it
37:44
isn't working now, So let's go back to something that
37:47
we know worked, but it may not work this time.
37:53
But they've got to acknowledge what they're trying to do.
37:58
It doesn't change some of the stuff these guys like
38:00
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40:08
nestled in their display case, miniature donut earrings. Oh yes, yes,
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your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all day dessert food
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those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger within you.
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Speaker 8: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
42:25
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Speaker 24: Of religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble,
42:35
freedom to petition the government.
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Speaker 20: Are you sure we should get matching tattoos on our
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Speaker 7: We'll probably stay together.
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Speaker 2: Probably.
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Speaker 5: I can probably swim.
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Speaker 5: Okay, Now tell me what to do?
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Speaker 3: Can it ball?
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Speaker 9: Cramp?
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Speaker 18: Oh?
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Speaker 5: I have a cramp.
43:16
Speaker 2: I can probably hit the green from here? Probably?
43:23
Speaker 5: Can I get a mulligan ready to go?
43:27
Speaker 24: Hey?
43:27
Speaker 20: Are you sure you're okay to drive?
43:29
Speaker 2: Yeah?
43:30
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay.
43:35
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43:39
and driving. If you're drinking, call a cab, a car,
43:42
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Speaker 6: But you also had people that were very five people
44:16
on buzzone on your.
44:17
Speaker 2: To do list. Putting the radio on is the first
44:20
thing today?
44:21
Speaker 22: The rights, the constitutions, what's it work?
44:29
Speaker 6: You know they're going to grind us down until they're ready.
44:36
Speaker 2: I'm not leaving until I get justice. Oh not exactly justice.
44:39
I suppose more like preferential treatment.
44:40
Speaker 5: But I'm not leaving until I get It's what we're
44:42
being torn out on. I mean it was a punchline.
44:45
It was a punchline designed to make you.
44:47
Speaker 9: Go, WHOA.
44:48
Speaker 5: I don't want to be like that, but as much
44:51
of the things we see on the goggle box, we
44:55
want to be like that. Yeah, I want a little
44:58
preferential treatment. Well, yeah, I want a little preferential treatment.
45:03
I'm an American and a couple of reactionary texts here.
45:14
Andy says he's getting ready for the Mesa's Institute summit.
45:20
Good on you enjoy. I love mess to pieces mesas
45:26
very free market, I mean, faster than you can say,
45:28
Adam Smithy. These guys get why this live action role
45:34
playing we're doing. You know, under constitutional law is a
45:39
con job, and it's the oldest con job in the
45:42
book when the Roman emperors wanted the citizens to still
45:48
think that they lived in a republic, they kept all
45:52
the institutions of the republic, though they were rendered emasculated,
46:00
had no power, but they had property and they didn't
46:02
want to lose that or any other body parts. So
46:08
Caesar said, you're going to keep your land, You're going
46:10
to keep your family safe. Remember I know where you live.
46:14
But you're going to pretend like you're actually calling the shots.
46:20
And we're doing the same thing here. The poll we
46:25
reported to you yesterday, thirty nine percent said they think
46:29
Republicans this was a Yugov poll. Thirty nine percent said
46:34
it's a republican's fault the partial government shutdown, and thirty
46:39
three percent said it's the Democrats. Well, as Ronald Reagan
46:43
once told us, if you do a little arithmetic, he
46:47
realized there's still twenty eight percent of the respondent's unaccounted for.
46:51
And I really truly believe that they are. As the
46:55
Babylon b headline said, Democrats to keep the government shut
47:01
down until someone notices. I mean, you ask the average
47:05
person on the street. Now, you are far more than
47:08
average by your attendance on this program in the morning.
47:11
But if you ask the average person once you get
47:15
to your destination this morning, if you ask ten people,
47:21
eight of them don't realize the government's shut down. The
47:24
other two have family members that have been furloughed. Joel
47:30
writes in isn't that what people do? The same? Editing
47:35
the Bible, the news, the thoughts, the social media history
47:39
hasn't changed. It's those editing it as their own bowl
47:42
of word soup to fill the minds of the hungary.
47:46
No matter if those words aren't nutritious facts or making
47:50
civilization real and coherent. That's it because you want to
47:58
if you want a future, you need to start somewhere.
48:01
And all these people are like science fiction authors. They
48:04
want to engineer some future world. So first they have
48:09
to set up how you get there. I mean, that's
48:12
where we really are. We're living.
48:13
Speaker 2: Like a.
48:15
Speaker 5: Novelist will sit down and say, well, where do I
48:18
want the hero and the antagonists and all these folks
48:21
to wind up at the end of the book, And
48:24
then they go back and start filling in the blanks
48:27
on how they get there. And science fiction all you
48:31
go faster than you can say, Isaac Asimov, well you've
48:35
got to create an entire world and what's the history
48:38
of that world? And that's what we're living through. It's
48:40
like we're writing Stranger in a strange land. What sort
48:45
of world is this? I don't know. What sort of
48:47
world do you want it to be? And I mentioned
48:53
my conversation with James Hankins. Is some terrific program that's
48:57
going to be over the weekend, Virgin Institute for Public Policy.
49:02
You can stream it on our flagship station Sunday morning
49:04
at eight Wtonradio dot com. I don't think the other
49:11
stations that carry it are on the talk media networks,
49:14
so I'm not going to hook them up. But one
49:16
of the things, one of the most important things we
49:18
talked about was morality, your ability to fight back that
49:23
urge to want preferential treatment rather than justice.
49:26
Speaker 23: Oh yes, now, what have you given us, mister Franklin,
49:29
And he says, a republic if you can keep it,
49:32
And Adams makes the same point that a republic requires virtue.
49:37
This is the fundamental principle in Mantusky, which they all loved,
49:42
the spear of the laws that they all read the
49:44
confounding fathers. But the idea is very old and the
49:49
Romans and the Greeks had a model of saying that
49:52
the man who cannot rule himself cannot rule others. So
49:57
you had to have virtue meetia a kind of self
50:00
controlled but also courage and justice and wisdom to be
50:06
able to rule a society. Is not enough to have
50:11
political institution and laws. There have to be the people
50:15
who write the laws. The people who enforce the laws
50:18
have to be people of virtue as well. And these
50:21
systems don't work on their own. They're not like a
50:24
machine that you turn on and will automatically give you
50:27
good government. You need to have good governors as well
50:31
as good government. You need people in charge who have
50:36
a respect for tradition and respect for religion, respect for
50:41
the past and the achievements of our civilizations. They have
50:46
to have that.
50:47
Speaker 24: They have to be good people who are in our
50:51
tradition a good person to someone who combines the nationality
50:56
of the Greeks and the devotion to law of the
51:00
Romans with Christian values.
51:02
Speaker 23: That's what the Western tradition is, a combination of Greece,
51:06
Rome and Christianity all come together and create a new civilization.
51:11
Speaker 5: So it's just a little bit of our conversations we
51:15
devote an entire hour to Western civilization, because what the
51:20
hell else are we doing here? We are as a conservative.
51:26
And you go back to Russell Kirk, no relation to Charlie,
51:31
I believe. He says that now all of a sudden,
51:35
a little bell and he says, are you sure? I
51:36
don't know, but go to Kirkcenter dot Org. Russell Kirk
51:42
is the one who starts American conservatism by pointing out
51:47
that Edmund Burke in England in seventeen seventy sakes, upon
51:53
reading our declaration of independence and all the abuses and
51:57
usurpations of the king, said I don't know, guys, seems
52:03
like he's got us dead to rights, this Jefferson fella,
52:08
and stands up for accepting our divorce decree under Magna
52:17
Carta because the rule of laws sposed to be bigger
52:21
than the rule of king. And he only got a
52:25
little bit of support. Many years later, as the war
52:28
had been dragging on, as Von Steuben Council Washington, more
52:35
and more members of Parliament said, yeah, are we really
52:38
doing the right thing there? And eventually they pulled the
52:41
plug on corn Wallace and the gang in Yorktown and
52:45
we were a sovereign nation by conservatives.
52:51
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52:52
Speaker 2: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
52:55
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52:58
weightlifting champion.
53:00
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53:04
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53:06
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