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"Speech is a Powerful Thing" (Friday September 19, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Well, I asked you, Okay, you want to do a
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nonsense nonsense. I wanna need to know basis, because you
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need to know the first thing today.
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Speaker 2: You words that steal metemn every day, at least for work,
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when the sun comes up, drops a pet to school.
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Joe has everything, agenda, all the treasure, needs no wonder.
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Joe's smile he only as.
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Speaker 3: Joe.
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Speaker 4: Here hold these truths.
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Speaker 5: I want to be confess a little weakness.
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Speaker 4: Bob in Oregon, listening at Freedom nineteen seventy and all Portland,
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sent me a meme from the internet quoting a great
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Tina Fratus. She's a great Virginian. Uh And I tried
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to impress Bob by saying I know her and to
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prove it, here is her husband, Nick Fredis. Good morning Nick,
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and of course the host of the Making the Argument podcast.
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How are you doing this morning, sir?
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Speaker 6: I'm magging another Joe, how are you well?
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Speaker 4: You know, hanging in there is a great way to
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put it. I feel like that there is a battle
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royale going on for people who are taking too much
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time to associate themselves with the Charlie Kirk assassination and
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other ones who are trying to run screaming from it
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as quickly as they can, like Delegate Scott, a Speaker
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of the House in Virginia, who has seemingly found that,
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you know, three four days, that's enough, I'm done with
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this time to get the rhetorical knives back out there. Gosh,
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it seemed like George Floyd and Congressman Lewis got a
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whole lot more grieving time than Charlie Kirk did on
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the public stage. Nick, Well, yeah, of.
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Speaker 6: Course, because grieving over Charlie Kirk is not useful for
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up and so it's not time for us to get
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over it and move on. Because as we saw them
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demonstrated on social media, and not just among you know,
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again some weirdo in their mom's basement, we saw demonstrated
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among prominent members of the media, prominent politicians. They all
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either overtly said Charlie got what he deserved or they
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kind of steadily go along and try to create arguments
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why someone could think that. And so yeah, this is
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but I mean, part of what it is is they
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never quite understand what time it is, They never quite
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understand why we would grieve, because, after all, don't we
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realize they're the ones that are actually the victims. Right, So,
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even when in avowed leftist gets up and murders a
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husband and father in front of his children, even when
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hundreds of thousands of people rush to social media because
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they cannot contain their gleeed talking about how happy they
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are about it, the real victims are the Democrats. The
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real victims are the lives always and at all times.
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Why well, because of the oppressor of.
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Speaker 7: Test dynamic, Yeah, the US, and so to anything they do, anything,
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they say, anything they act out, all of it, all
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of it is ultimately morally justified, and any problem we
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have against anything they do is never morally justified.
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Speaker 4: It's interesting you say it that way, because that was
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the paradigm that I watched happen in the Middle East,
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where somewhere in the tunnels under Israel, Hamas realized their
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problem was that they were labeled incorrectly. They were being
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called terrorists and murderers, and they needed to be rebranded
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as an oppressed class, a marginalized group. And they hired
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a pretty good ad firm. I'm not sure if they
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were American or French, but they found a good ad
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agency to rebrand themselves. It's the making the Argument podcast,
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Nick fredis embroiled in a battle with the Governor of
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Virginia and the Speaker of the Virginia House over how
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to speak to the Charlie Kirk murder and is it
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now time just to get over it as the Democrats
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seem to want Nick hang on a second. We've got
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to get our first thing so that we can discuss
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the news. Speaking of Roe, Congressman from California tried to
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subpoena FCC Commission Chair Brandon Carr to testify before Congress
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about comments regarding ABC affiliates and the Jimmy Kimmel Show,
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but Republicans block those efforts. Meanwhile, the House of Mouse
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is meeting with the late night host Jimmy Kimmel today
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at Walt Disney headquarters to discuss the future of his
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program after ABC suspended his show. Democrats have denounced it
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as the Trump administration's threat against political critics, rather than
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a corporation deciding to get rid of one of their
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underperforming employees. Turning point, USA has unanimously elected Erica Kirk
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as their new chief executive office and Chairman of the Board.
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Sunday's memorial service at State Farm Stadium west of Phoenix,
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home normally of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals, on the road
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this week, but Charlie Kirk, of living in Arizona, will
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have his memorial service held at this NFL stadium, and
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the Secret Service is taking the point in securing it,
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with both President Trump and Vice President of Vance in attendance.
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US Senate has passed a resolution finishing our Charlie Kirk
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coverage as October fourteenth will be a National Day of
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Remembrance for Charlie Kirk that would have been his birthday.
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Onto other things, forty eight of the President's nominees are
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finally confirmed by the Senate. The Republicans have fixed a
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broken process, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said, after changing
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the chamber's rules to counter delays being orchestrated by the Democrats.
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Amongst the forty eight to include Kimberly Guilfoyle, US Ambassador
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to Greece. Supreme Court has put the docket out for
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oral arguments challenging the legality of the President's tariffs will
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be the day after election culmination day, November fifth. United
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States has veto to UN Security Council resolution and demanded
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immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, saying that the resolution
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didn't go far enough in condemning Hamas. President Trump said
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he's seeking to reclaim control of Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan,
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saying that the Taliban needs to get some things from us,
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and we're trying to get that back from them. And
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Speaker 1: First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by Joe
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Speaker 4: Hey hey Hey said, let's still use those. Mick Fradus,
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the host of the Making the Argument podcast and for
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a few months more a member of Virginia's General Assembly,
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the oldest elected representative General Assembly, still continuously operating on
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the planet Earth, founded in sixteen nineteen and still going strong,
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but embroiled in another one of these, he said, she said.
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Speaker of the House said that a right winger a
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Maga had assassinated Charlie Kirk, which was not true, though
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there were rumblings and rumorings going about, and Governor Youngkin
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and Nick Fred has called him out for it and
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now is seeking some retribution against Nick for calling him
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out for misinformation online. Nick, I have a question about this.
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Isn't this the ultimate and gas lighting, where you know,
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the abusive spouse tells the other or the significant other
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that it's their own fault that they do this to them.
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Speaker 6: I think it is. I think it is absolutely the
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pentacle of gas lighting. I think it's perfectly justified. This
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is the part where like Don Scott got upset with
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me because I said that what's going on here is
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not a civil debate among fellow countrymen. It's a war
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between biometrically opposed world views that can't peacefully coexist. So
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that can't that can't be true.
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Speaker 4: Really, have you looked wrong? That's that's the problem.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that must not be true. Like, Okay, well I
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get it, Okay, Well, I just want to I want
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to offer something out here. Has the other side of
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the aisle been regularly engaged in demonizing the other side
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of the aisle for practically any disagreement we have? Yes, okay.
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Do they perpetually call us racist, bigots, sexist, threats to democracy? Fascist?
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Speaker 14: Yes?
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Speaker 6: Do they also say that it's really really important for
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us to for you to combat them, otherwise we're an
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existential threat to the country.
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Speaker 14: Yes?
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Speaker 6: Do you also allow for this worldview which essentially says
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that you can do anything you want to oppressors because
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they're oppressors, and if you're the oppressed, you have to
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do anything you can do in order to achieve liberation, decolonization,
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whatever other buzzword they happen to be using this week, right, Yes, Okay, Well,
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I guess I'm not the crazy person for noticing that
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you don't like this very much, and there doesn't seem
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to be any and it doesn't seem to be anything
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we can do sort of abandoning everything we believe and
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adopting your world view that will save us from your animosity? Okay,
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you tell me, don how are we supposed to peacefully
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coexist if I'm not willing to be trampled on?
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Speaker 22: Right?
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Speaker 6: But we still got to live in the same country.
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Speaker 4: Well, isn't that, Nick, You lived through twenty seventeen in
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much of the same way I did, and you in
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the General Assembly, you know, trying to work with people
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who are you know, riding that like a bowl from hell.
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The racial discord when David Duke held his little reunion
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party in Charlottesville that in the aftermath, I was told
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by everyone and their grandmother that I needed to be
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open minded, I needed to listen to the other people.
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That that was our problem, is that we weren't listening
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to one another. And here was the guy who was
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the patron saint. Almost I don't want to start that one,
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because there's already people asking Pope Leo if he might
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consider Charlie's miracle of turning all these college kids around.
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But he was quote unquote the patron saint of listening
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to people. He was inviting people to come and say, Okay,
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tell me what you think we should do, and I
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will tell you why I don't agree with you. And
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it was working. I guess, as your podcast said earlier
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in the week, it was effective. And that must be
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why they can't stand him so much.
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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, because the question was is that if you
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want to go after somebody on the right that was
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more incendiary, you.
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Speaker 23: Could have fixed And I've only been saying there's some
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people that there's some people who claim the title of
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the right that say things or believe things that I
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completely disagree with. There's other people on the right who
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I may agree with, who say.
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Speaker 6: Things, you know, in a more forceful manner. But here's
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my question. If you look at the entire spectrum of
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speakers on the right, you have to go past dozens
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of them, Like prominent speakers on the right, you have
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to go past dozens of them, maybe hundreds of them,
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to get to Charlie Kirk when it comes to same
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things that might be considered controversial. Charlie was the guy
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that Charlie was the guy that, as you said, wanted
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to sit down and have a conversation. And there's a number,
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there's just a number of every time he went to
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a college campus, you can find demonstrations of this where
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somebody comes up and is either very very angry or
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disagrees with Charlie, but he's willing to have an honest
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conversation with him. And you see Charlie kind of explain
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his position. You see him talking to somebody that you
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know he disagrees with and saying, you know, look, what
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I want for you is, you know, for you to
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be happy. And you know none of this was insightful,
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But why shade him? Why hill him? Well? And the
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answer to that is because he was effective, because it
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was working. And here's what this tells you. Here's what
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this should inform us, This idea that oh no, no,
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they killed Charlie because he was hateful, because he was insightful.
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Because okay, if you wanted to do that right, if
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you wanted to explain that, there was a whole lot
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of people they could have targeted. This guy could have
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targeted that would have been a lot closer to some
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of those accusations than he make against Charlie. But no,
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you chose Charlie. Why probably because you were able to
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recognize that his approach, what he was doing, how he
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was doing it was so in fact, so effective, so impactful,
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that that's what you wanted to shut down. And what
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it demonstrates is.
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Speaker 4: For all the people.
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Speaker 6: And by the way, it's not just about the shooter,
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it's how every it's how so many people on the
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left reacted to it.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, what that tells me is what that tells me
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is it doesn't matter how nice we say it.
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Speaker 6: It doesn't matter how nice we say it with them, right,
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because they'd immediately diagnosed this as evil, biggoted, hateful fascists.
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And what do you do the evil biggot a hateful fascists. Right,
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This is the part I want to say to the
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Don Scots of the world, the guys that are trying
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to straddle the fence on this, or at least made
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some vague attempt to do it. Right, You guys were
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part of the people calling him a racist, tated in
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Septs as fascist So if you really believe that about him,
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why are you so upset? Right, why are you saying that, Well,
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we should never resort to this sort of thing. Really,
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you call everyone literally hitler. Well, we have all felt
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that if somebody had literally killed literally Hitler.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 6: If the answer is no, well then you're full Brad.
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You know what you're saying, you know why you're saying it.
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And you have a generation, you have a younger generation
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that has been fed this garbage sometimes since elementary school.
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And then when they act out on it, either by
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committing the act itself or praising it all over TikTok.
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You want to sit back here and like, oh my goodness,
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I can't I can't believe this happened.
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Speaker 4: Well and in your earbosolute Nick fred As, host of
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the Making the Argument podcast, and you see why he's
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got millions of followers on there. And please to say
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that I knew him back when when he was just
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some guy out of the army running for the Virginia
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House of Delegates. And I'm coming up on my news here.
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But one of the points and what you were saying
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about the indoctrination, and I think one of the things
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that infuriated them. As you said, Charlie's impact is that
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for the trillions of dollars they had invested in owning
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k through well the halls of academia and higher education,
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Charlie could deprogram them in a few minute conversation. And
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it isn't even that he deprogrammed them, it's how much
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of their time and treasure they've invested into the indoctrination
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27:31
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27:32
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27:38
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27:42
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Speaker 1: For you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
28:16
Speaker 4: And that means it is time for our sports director
28:19
Mac McDonald to tee it up. Se either what they
28:23
did there, Mac, You know, I know you're a golf guy.
28:25
Nobody else knows that. You know. He's He's got a
28:28
cup with a word writer on it for next week.
28:31
And yes, that's closest he.
28:35
Speaker 32: The writer excited, just because the spectacle in the storylines
28:39
of of watching Americans get just out of their heads
28:43
over this is, you know, part.
28:45
Speaker 14: Of the story play.
28:46
Speaker 4: I mean, that was the That's the beauty of golf
28:48
and this is why absolutely we all pick up the sticks.
28:52
Golf is like chess. It's easy to figure out. It's
28:56
horribly difficult to become great at, or even passable at.
29:02
I'm having more fun.
29:03
Speaker 5: I played you remember, I think it was last week
29:05
or a couple of weeks ago, I played you that
29:07
sound body to the guy imitating a golfer, and he's
29:09
a recreational guy, and he goes, yeah, that I shouldn't
29:11
have shot eighty seven. That's twelve month on eighteen. Just
29:14
you know, he goes, we but I made a mistake.
29:16
I had two hot dogs and of a beer at
29:18
the turn. And it's so.
29:20
Speaker 4: Good Scottie Scheffler impression. Yeah, it's so good.
29:23
Speaker 5: Well, whether it's the beer barrel or the little brown
29:27
jug or the Golden egg or Paul Bunyan's axe, what
29:32
thank you? Vin Scully Liberty and James Madison will rekindle
29:37
the rivalry ninety seven miles from the two cities. Well,
29:42
the contract is set for the Battle of the Blue Ridge.
29:45
By the way, get used to this rivalry. It runs
29:47
through twenty forty now they put together the deal. So anyway,
29:52
the Battle of the Blue Ridge will be in Lynchburg,
29:54
you know, this Saturday tomorrow, and the series includes ten
29:58
football games through twenty twenty five. Now this rivalry, which
30:02
you know dates back to twenty fourteen anyway, and the
30:04
fc S playoffs. But the teams have not played since then,
30:08
which you know, that's that's an oversight. Liberty and am
30:12
you should be you know, be playing a lot. Well,
30:15
the two coaches with you know, Bob Chesney goes, yeah, Ano,
30:19
there's some hatred. Jmu hates Liberty and vice versa.
30:23
Speaker 33: There's a little bit of a I don't want to
30:24
say it dislike, but maybe it just is what it is.
30:27
I don't I don't know them enough to feel that way,
30:30
but I think if our fans do, then you know,
30:32
that's from history, right, and that's the time spent, you know,
30:35
with probably your neighbors and the people that have gone
30:37
there to school because you're in this general you know
30:40
the area like they are, so there's a lot in there,
30:42
you know. I just hear about it from our lums
30:44
and you know how they feel about it.
30:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, Coach Chesney, I love you, but I'm not buying that.
30:48
I can't believe that. The jam you do school, we've
30:51
got we've had Liberty on our schedule on our minds
30:54
since No, they haven't, you know, anyway, it'll be good now.
30:59
Speaker 4: Well at one and two. At one and two, they've
31:02
got the game on their sclender because they need to win.
31:05
Speaker 5: And on the on the other side, Jamie Chadwell, of course,
31:08
the head coach of Lynchburg and doing his Coaches show
31:11
from a restaurant with all the Duke's cheerleaders and I
31:14
mean all the Liberty and the Flame cheerleaders and everything.
31:16
He goes, this is a game that should be played.
31:19
Speaker 34: You get to win an actual trophy for winning a game,
31:22
you know, during you talk about winning trophies. I think
31:24
that's a coolie. I grew up in you know, Tennessee.
31:26
So Tennessee Kentucky was a big ribble and they played
31:28
way back in over the beer barrel. And so all
31:30
these games that are rivalery games acrost the college, they
31:32
play for some type of trophy or whatever it may be.
31:35
And now we're part of that. I think that just
31:37
I think that's an awesome experience for our players and
31:40
and our fans. Be a part of something. You get
31:42
a chance to celebrate.
31:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think they've unveiled, and I could be wrong.
31:46
I look for it trying to find the Blue Ridge
31:49
Battle Trophy. There's going to be a trophy that they're building.
31:51
Probably will fail it, you know, for the winner on
31:55
Saturday Night so anyway it should be you know, you know,
31:58
we should get at least close to home. It's a
32:00
game that we should, you know, look at and follow.
32:02
Speaker 4: As the uncle of a current student at West Virginia,
32:06
at the University of West Virginia, and every time they score,
32:10
they sing the song about Western Virginia. That is mischaracter
32:13
I think I think the Battle of the Blue Ridge
32:15
should actually be a silhouette of West Virginia because because
32:20
we live in their heads, you know, and they can insist.
32:24
Every one of my friends, including my nephew, refers to
32:26
it as Best Virginia. All of that, I think we
32:29
should just hand out a trophy that looks like West Virginia.
32:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, well I'm noting this and we will certainly
32:37
contact as bumbling it.
32:39
Speaker 4: Up and throwing it away giving it all the thoughts.
32:42
Speaker 5: You know, it could have been the WT O N
32:45
Blue Ridge Trophy. You know that it could very I
32:47
don't have.
32:47
Speaker 4: That kind of marketing budget. I have to get behind Mercedes.
32:53
Speaker 5: Yes, speaking of speaking of serious, So while the Battle
32:56
for the Blue Ridge is going on, the Brain Bowl
32:58
will be held in Charlottesville. Since you got Stanford and
33:03
UVA and so Stanford for an ACC game. They've got
33:06
a little six thousand mile weekend. The Cardinal one of
33:09
the three first time opponents on the UVA schedule this season,
33:13
Stanford and then Washington State and Cal also Virginia will
33:17
be playing.
33:18
Speaker 1: Now.
33:18
Speaker 5: The Cavaliers have put up some pretty good numbers already.
33:21
Stanford had a you know, a good outing last week
33:24
and they were down seventeen to six, and they you know,
33:27
but when you look at what Virginia's doing, and quietly,
33:30
what Tony Elliott's doing. He brought fifty four guys. You know,
33:33
it's like a new boy scout, you know, meeting boy
33:37
scout people getting together in the woods and you know,
33:39
trying to get to know each other. Virginia, how about this.
33:42
Only Virginia Army, Cincinnati, Oregon, and TCU have not allowed
33:48
a sack this season. Now Stanford comes in on the
33:51
other side. They are they average three sacks per game,
33:56
so you know, this is just one of those little
33:59
outings that's to be good. But but Virginia scoring forty
34:02
points a game, no, no, granted, granted, Okay, letsten I
34:06
get all you know hyped up here Coastal Carolina, William
34:10
and Mary, but they had the chance to be n
34:13
C State and roll in to be to be three
34:16
and oh. But anyway, the two in one start and
34:19
you know coach Elliott trying to get to three and
34:21
one and get things off on the right foot. So
34:23
definitely a storyline for the weekend. And for Tony Elliott,
34:26
it's exciting for these guys to play in the Brain Bowl.
34:29
Speaker 35: They got some things that challenge you in all three
34:31
phases that we got to be prepared for. So I'm
34:34
excited to see how our guys respond to to to Stanford,
34:39
a team that we haven't played before them. I'm excited
34:40
too because it is the first time that Virginia Stamford to play.
34:43
You can see some of the pro influence on what
34:46
they do offensively, so it's gonna be a fun challenge.
34:49
Speaker 5: It's one of four night games and Virginia has two
34:51
wins in its first three games for the third time
34:53
in four seasons.
34:54
Speaker 4: Under Tony Elliott.
34:55
Speaker 5: So and the Cavaliers are heavily They're heavily favored in
34:58
this one as well.
35:00
Speaker 4: That's a change too. And when he says pro Andrew
35:02
Lunk is still coaching the Cardinal right.
35:07
Speaker 5: No, no, Andrew luck is in is an ad and
35:11
a general.
35:11
Speaker 4: No, he's in the front office of the school. I
35:13
knew he was involved somewhere. Yeah.
35:15
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's moved to the front office for sure. Florida,
35:19
Miami is getting a lot of noise. And here locally,
35:23
in my backyard forty five minutes away, Bill Belichick brings
35:30
his Carolina tar heels to UCF University of South Florida.
35:34
So that's gonna be a did you beat this thing?
35:38
Because some of our students go shoot the games. They
35:41
have a couple of press passes and they will go
35:43
shoot practice and do stand ups in sports. I tried
35:47
to bribe one of the students. Could I pay it
35:49
for your present?
35:52
Speaker 7: I don't know.
35:53
Speaker 4: I don't know if the dean of your school needs
35:55
to hear that.
35:56
Speaker 1: Mac.
35:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, that his buddy. Dan's Dan's busy right now is
36:01
buddy Keith Olberman and is in enough trouble. So Dan's
36:04
busy with him. So he's not thinking about did you
36:07
see this story? Everyone's making Hey, Apparently the process is
36:12
they're saying, well, well, look at the Virginia Tech transfers.
36:17
Certainly we'll welcome any Virginia Tech transfers.
36:20
Speaker 5: Somebody asked about it. Yeah, one of the writers said,
36:23
do you do you look at and you know, naturally poaching,
36:27
you know, that's one of the words that But no,
36:29
we would never do that. We would never make a
36:31
phone call. Right, that's the That's the best lie in college.
36:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, waiting just for one coach to say, oh, they
36:37
were terrible. Why would I pick up any of their players?
36:40
They're all in three? Why would I want any of
36:42
their players?
36:42
Speaker 3: Yeah?
36:43
Speaker 5: Yeah, who's on that roster? But that's that's a storyline
36:46
of the weekend too. Now, I granted it's just Wafford,
36:49
but Virginia Tech has.
36:50
Speaker 14: To, you know, feel wow, you know, you lose it.
36:53
Speaker 4: Isn't Wafford still Wafford in Division three or something like that.
36:57
And then I mean Pennsylvania p the league or something.
37:01
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I'm not saying Watford's bad. But last week
37:04
they had a kickoff blocked.
37:05
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, hey, Bob Bukers, Bob Bukers ghost is
37:11
on the fine and never mind, Charlie Kirk, can I
37:13
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37:15
Speaker 5: I'll talk about it next hour. But Clayton Kershaw has
37:19
called it quits seven years old. Make his fine he'll
37:22
make his final regular season start tonight. Eleven time All Star,
37:25
three sounds, age thirty seven, eighteen years. He won two
37:29
hundred and twenty two games, lifetime era of two point
37:32
five to four, that second among pitchers who have thrown
37:35
over fifteen hundred innx, and he will be pitching in
37:38
the postseason, but Clayton Kershaw decided to call it quits.
37:41
Speaker 4: So, man, you know a lefty like that, you could
37:44
pitch into your fifties if you're left handed. Well, yeah,
37:48
just not at the level he wants. I guess good stuff.
37:51
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37:57
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Speaker 1: Business Making Mornings great again. First Thing Today on the
44:15
Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
44:22
Speaker 4: Check in with the host of the Good for America podcast.
44:27
He is former chair of the House Freedom Caucus and congressman.
44:33
He is Bob. Good Good morning, Bob. How are you
44:35
doing this Friday morning?
44:37
Speaker 22: Good morning, Joe, doing well? I'll considered trust you're doing well.
44:40
Speaker 4: Also, absolutely, it was a treat to run into you.
44:43
Last Sunday, Bob and I were both at a vigil
44:47
for Charlie Kirk held by one of his Turning Point
44:49
USA chapters, this one at a local high school with
44:54
high school kids who, honest to goodness, Bob, comport themselves
44:58
better than a lot of the adults watching walking the
45:01
halls of your former place of business, thousand of representatives.
45:06
I wish more adults, especially the kind that walk around
45:09
with a D next to their name, could comport themselves
45:13
with the grace and to be fair, adultness of these
45:18
high school kids.
45:20
Speaker 22: Yes, Western and Albamaro High School just outside Charlottesville started
45:24
a turning point in USA chapter about a year ago.
45:26
As you know, you and I both had the opportunity
45:28
to speak there a couple of times, and they were
45:31
the ones who were behind hosting the event in memory
45:34
of Charlie Kirk, but really in memory and recognition of
45:38
what he stood for his faith, his Christian belief and
45:43
his Lord and savor Jesus Christ, and his boldness and
45:45
his courage and influence that he had.
45:47
Speaker 6: In such a positive way in our country.
45:49
Speaker 22: And it really was a great event, a packed house
45:51
at First Free Coffee there in Charlottesville that was willing
45:53
to host the event for us, So it was great
45:56
to be there and very moving time for all of us.
45:58
Speaker 4: So, you know, and one of multitudes across the country
46:02
that I've seen and people have sent me videos of
46:05
across the country that are exactly that. They were revelations
46:09
of faith of where you get your power and your
46:13
grace from Bob. And I think that's such an important
46:17
message in these days when we watch people out there
46:20
calling names and we're back, you know, four days later.
46:23
I think John Lewis had a longer morning period than
46:26
Charlie Kirk's been allowed by folks like Hakeem Jeffries, who
46:30
you know, Oh, I had a meeting, I couldn't go.
46:32
Speaker 22: Uh.
46:33
Speaker 4: And now it's name calling again and fascist and and
46:36
that kind of thing has all become appropriate again. We
46:40
couldn't do this when we you know, if we dared
46:43
to bring up George Floyd's blood of alcohol or drug content,
46:49
we were racists, even if it was six months later.
46:52
And and it just seems to be hypocritical how this
46:56
morning period is going. But TPUSA groups across the country
47:01
are leading by example, and maybe that's why they're so
47:03
mad at them.
47:04
Speaker 22: Bob, Yeah, And I think that the most important thing
47:08
to come from this is all of us just pausing
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to reflect, where do we stand for eternity? What matters
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truly in this life. That's one of the effective things
47:18
about death, especially sudden death. All of us think, oh gosh,
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that could have been me, That could have been someone
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close to me that I knew personally, that I loved,
47:26
someone in my family, someone who else who I hold
47:29
in a high regard like many of us did Charlie Kirk,
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and Charlie would want us all to recognize more than
47:35
ever that the most important thing is Cian salvation through
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Jesus Christ, and that to be prepared for eternity. That's
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what he stood for. But he also inspired us with
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his boldness and his courage, and that's why the left
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hates that so much and wanted to shut him down. Obviously,
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the ugliness of the left, particularly those who have espoused
47:54
violence as a legitimate response to political disagreement, manifested itself
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and his murder trying to ultimately cancel him. But of
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course it has inspired many to speak out more boldly,
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with more courage since his tragic passion.
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Speaker 4: Well speaking out. I mean, we just had Constitution Day
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as well, where we celebrate this document that protects and
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it's supposedly established as a government to protect our god
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given right to speak freely. And I've said to some
48:24
controversy because nobody likes it when somebody says something bad
48:28
about somebody you like. But I take the point that
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let them say it. Let them say these horrible things
48:37
in public so we know them for who they are
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and they're not hiding in secret in the basement. And
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if you lose a job, like everyone's been out of shape,
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and I worry about what could come from your old
48:48
business in Congress about free speech regulations in the wake
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of what's his name, Jimmy Kimmel's show being canceled by ABC.
48:58
You know these are you worried that people might come
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up with some sort of government regulating body over free speech?
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You can have free speech as long as we give
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you a license for it or something like that.
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Speaker 22: Yeah, absolutely, very concerned about it. And as you know, Joe,
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so much government tyranny, so much suppression of our freedoms
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and trampling on our constitutional rights comes after crisis, after tragedy,
49:24
after emergencies and emotions. Think back to nine to eleven
49:28
with Faisa, think to what the government did during COVID
49:32
and what the government tries to do after some kind
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of a mass shooting or what have you. And in
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this case, we all and this is not popular with
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all of my friends when I say this, but we've
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got to speak truth, Joe, irrespective of who it makes
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uncomfortable and irrespective of who it implicates, if you will.
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But it's one thing for Disney and ABC to say, gosh,
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you know, we just don't really want a guy like
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Charlie Kirk on our network, on our Broadcast System for whatever.
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We don't like, you know, we think he's not very
50:02
good at it, or we just think he's Jimmy Kimmel.
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Jimmy Kimmel. What did I say?
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Speaker 4: You said, Charlie Kirk. But that's oh, thank.
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Speaker 22: You, thank you for getting that Jimmy Kimmel. ABC say, hey,
50:12
we don't want Jimmy Kimmel's show on anymore because of
50:14
ratings are because you know, he's become a nasty guy,
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or he's too you know, dishonest and things that he says.
50:19
That's fine for NB, excuse me, ABC and Disney to
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say that, because Jimmy Kimmel doesn't have a right to make.
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Speaker 6: Millions of dollars and to have a show on ABC
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at night.
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Speaker 22: However, when the FCC chair threatens Disney and ABC to
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take down Jimmy Kimmel, uh, that's a problem. That's the
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government getting involved in regulating speech. And frankly, President Trump
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has said he thinks some of these broad cast companies
50:44
ought to lose their licenses because they're critical of him
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or they're too negative about him. That is not consistent
50:50
with First Amendment protection of speech from government interference.
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Speaker 4: And as we learned with the Patriot Act. You know,
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it's all well and good if it's a Republican we say, oh, well,
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you know, I remember Tom Ridge telling me, oh, these
51:03
fis of courts, they're going to be really strict. And
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I liked Tom. I was working in Pennsylvania at the time.
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We had done quite a bit together, so I accepted it.
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And then, you know, even if the Bush administration could
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have been doing some of the things, the Obama administration
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wound up using those warrants and those surveillance techniques for
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it's you know, it's it's got to be in everyone's head.
51:30
It's if you're going to establish something in government, you
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have to be ready for when the other guy, if
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you will, is in charge of it.
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Speaker 22: That's right, and we shouldn't be. All the Democrats did it,
51:44
so we've got to do it. No, we got to
51:46
push the rock up the hill and fight back because
51:48
there will be a future to your point, Democrat president,
51:51
Democrat administration, Democrat controlled FCC, who will say, oh, Joe Thomas,
51:56
you know he's too divisive, We don't think, we don't
51:58
agree with what he's saying, and we'll shut down Joe
52:00
Thomas or we'll shut down Fox News or I don't
52:03
mean to you know, our newsmacks exactly right, or One
52:07
America or Real and what have you. You know, we
52:10
don't we don't like what. We don't like this podcast
52:12
you're here. We don't like this radio host. We don't
52:15
like this TV host or this network or this broadcast
52:18
company or whatever it might be. So we've got to
52:20
stand up for the First Amendment, and you know, the
52:22
right again for you. You know, I may disagree with
52:25
what you say, usually agree with Joe Thomas, but might
52:27
disagree with what you say, but sure then you're right
52:30
to say it. That's critical, foundational, fundamental to who we
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are as country.
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Speaker 4: Bob good He is the host of the Good for
52:37
America podcast, available at Good for America dot org. You
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download it there. I want to find out what's coming
52:45
up there and coming up on it remind you of
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