Latest / First Thing Today with Joe Thomas / "Beware of 'Reinterpreting Charlie' Attempts" (Wednesday October 1, 2025, Hour 3)
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The sixty vote threshold having not been received achieved, the
- 0:06bill upon reconsideration is not pasted. First thing today on
- 0:10the Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas, the second most
- 0:14tremorous times in shoots.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us and allowing us to be
- 0:40of service to you on this tedsday. We are outside
- 0:43of our studios here just to make a visual because
- 0:48it is shut down Mania, and I wanted to confirm
- 0:52for you, though we are still about two or three
- 0:55minutes removed from actual sunrise here on the Eastern Sea board,
- 1:00that it does appear. Yes, I think we can confirm
- 1:03with some certain tude that in the next two minutes
- 1:06sunrise will happen in the east, just as it always
- 1:11has done. So we can get back into our studios here,
- 1:15and thank you for taking this walk with me. All right,
- 1:23So there your visual confirmation, though I mean it is
- 1:27still a couple of minutes away, so if all of
- 1:31a sudden something goes pear shaped, you'll be the first
- 1:34to know. I mentioned this in a shutdown mania. You
- 1:38heard the official votes President Trump with a wonderful comment
- 1:44on whether it's a Trump shut down or a Schumer shutdown,
- 1:49which is I really wish the press could get off
- 1:53some of these things. Do We have the president's clip there.
- 1:57Speaker 3: Really well as the country.
- 1:58Speaker 1: So the last thing we want to do is down.
- 2:00Speaker 3: But if I think can.
- 2:03Speaker 4: Come down from shutdowns, we can get rid of a
- 2:05lot of things that we didn't want.
- 2:08Speaker 2: So President Trump there on the shutdown, of course, and
- 2:12then classy Maxine confronted on the steps outside the Capitol
- 2:16Building by a reporter and astor, are we are the
- 2:20Democrats shutting down the government to get more money to
- 2:24pay for health care for illegals.
- 2:26Speaker 5: God's demanding health care for illegal aliens. That's right, Democrats
- 2:31are demanding health care for everybody.
- 2:34Speaker 2: Everybody auditioning for Wicked in its next road tour there,
- 2:40Maxine Waters partial government shut down, John Thunewill, we're getting
- 2:46ahead of ourselves. We have first things coming up. We'll
- 2:49get into some of the details on shut down and
- 2:53that matter at hand. But the day haven't stopped the sunrise,
- 2:57although Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, my senators from Virginia,
- 3:00have already come out and said the Shenandoah National Park
- 3:04creates one point seven million dollars in local economic impact,
- 3:09and the Trump administration has shut that down, and it's
- 3:13all about prying voters away from one another. That's all
- 3:17it is. I would love to subscribe to some higher purpose,
- 3:22but all of this rhetoric is about prying voters away
- 3:28from a candidate. And in Virginia, that candidate is the
- 3:32GOP nominee for Governor, Winsome Earl Sears her ticket mates
- 3:38John Reid for Lieutenant governor and Jason Baris for Attorney General.
- 3:43Get mad because my neighbor got laid off because he
- 3:46was working as a bureaucrat, and gosh darn it. You
- 3:49know these bureaucrats need food too, and that's they're making
- 3:59that the campaign agenda in Virginia right now, and to
- 4:03a degree, New Jersey, there's a lot of federal lab
- 4:07right now. It's ethics is the issue in New Jersey,
- 4:10as it always seems to wind up being. Anyway. Our
- 4:13first things this morning, in a follow up to a
- 4:16story what he told you about on Saturday's program, and
- 4:19if you don't get Saturday's Program on your station or
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- 4:25But Superintendent of Iowa's public Schools in Des Moines, Ian
- 4:30Roberts resigned Monday after being arrested by Immigration and Customs
- 4:36enforcement over a federal deportation order. Is a native of Guyana.
- 4:43The thirty thousand student school division has already held protests
- 4:48in his name. His attorney, Alfredo Parish says the legal
- 4:54team is seeking to reopen the case and get a
- 4:56stay of deportation. The Senate is planning a vote today
- 5:02on legislation to reopen the federal government. John Thune says
- 5:05he has optimistic about breaking the funding impast We picked
- 5:09up three tonight when we voted on this, meaning democrats
- 5:13that cross party lines, like Pennsylvania's John Fetterman. Tuesdays mass
- 5:19meeting of US military commanders in Quantico, Virginia, Secretary of
- 5:23War Pete Hegsith addressed gender and combat readiness. Quote, I
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- 6:03Stood said Tuesday that it seems that the Trump administration
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- 7:06Speaker 7: Yes?
- 7:07Speaker 6: Actually three known gas is I'm doctor Mitch, and nitric
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- 7:22By doing this, our circulation is increased, bringing blood, oxygen
- 7:27and nutrients to every part of your body. Both age
- 7:31and poor diet can lead to a loss of this
- 7:35precious gas, and in turn, blood pressure can go up,
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- 9:02Speaker 9: You were strolling along in Goodwill when just past that
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- 11:21Speaker 12: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
- 11:25Freedom of speech, freedom of.
- 11:28Speaker 13: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble.
- 11:35Speaker 14: Freedom to petition the government.
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- 13:12Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
- 13:23Speaker 20: On May Clancy, take devise and sit ound the house.
- 13:29Speaker 2: Might quick. So in Chicago, the police are running a
- 13:38foul of the mayor, and it's horse race right now.
- 13:43Of course, the Des Moines School superintendent has resigned, so
- 13:48I think he's the leader in the clubhouse. But the
- 13:51Mayor of Chicago still has time because he's still Mayor
- 13:55of Chicago. Out there saying that Trump is deranged for
- 14:04sending the troops in to help his police round up illegals,
- 14:10doubling down on CNN yesterday, saying that the president is
- 14:19an unstable human being who must be checked in his
- 14:23use of military power. I'm calling for Congress to do
- 14:28its job, Johnson told CNN. Hundreds of federal agencies agents
- 14:36carried out quote a targeted immigration enforcement operation, taking down
- 14:41a bunch of trend de Aarguas gang leaders on the
- 14:46South Shore neighborhoods of Chicago, and bringing again the mayor
- 14:50back to saying he wants to defend the undocumented citizens
- 14:56of Chicago. At what point do the citizens of Chicago?
- 15:00I mean this is this is what we got a
- 15:02text about earlier. I mean, it's like a case of here,
- 15:05hold my beer, you have zorhand mad money. Who's still
- 15:10clinging to a lead in the polls regarding running for
- 15:14New York City's mayor, although with Eric Adams stepping out
- 15:20and stepping down and endorsing it apparently Andrew Cuomo, it's
- 15:27become a horse race there. Too bad they can't do
- 15:30ranked choice voting for this one takes six weeks to decide,
- 15:35you know, That's what they did in the primaries for mayor.
- 15:40People are now going to Curtis Sliwa and saying, but
- 15:43you know, can't you make a deal with Andrew Cuomo.
- 15:47Can't you make a deal? Become like the police commissioner
- 15:50or something like that. When you see that, Curtis Lee
- 15:54was and curtisly was an interesting cat because prior to
- 15:58Charlie Kirk and I remember the first time I met
- 16:01Charlie Kirk, I compared what he was doing at Turning
- 16:07Point USA on a grander scale to what Curtis Sliwa
- 16:11had done with the Guardian Angels, and not in not
- 16:17in terms of the specifics, but in terms of see
- 16:20a need fill a need. College kids were being indoctrinated
- 16:25and miserable for it. Charlie Kirk came along and started
- 16:28turning point USA to give them a place to say, Hey,
- 16:32like doctor Clark was talking about last Hour, I think
- 16:35this is this doesn't make it like a sense, just
- 16:39as Kurtis Sliwa did in the Lawless Days, do they
- 16:43have a they used to have? I mean there were
- 16:45there were Guardian Angels outposts in a lot of major
- 16:51cities by the apex of Sleewa's you know term. I
- 16:56mean they had Guardian Angels in Philadelphia, and you know,
- 17:02and believe me, to do something that they were doing
- 17:04in New York in Philadelphia that hurts a lot of people.
- 17:09It's an uphill battle to get somebody in Philadelphia to say, oh,
- 17:12you mean the thing.
- 17:13Speaker 21: They're doing in New York, screw that, I ain't doing that.
- 17:17They're doing it in New York. Can't be any good.
- 17:20What did Bryce Harper do yesterday?
- 17:28Speaker 2: But the Guardian Angels were in an era very much
- 17:31like this one, where you have lawlessness running amok in
- 17:38the streets and elected officials pretending it isn't there. They
- 17:43didn't have names for it. At the time, they didn't
- 17:45have these justice warrior campaigns where you would say, you know,
- 17:52we believe in stopping the school to prison pipeline until
- 17:56somebody shoots up a school after having been arrested, did five, six,
- 18:00seven times. So both both movements kind of were born
- 18:08of the same sea a need fill a neede thing.
- 18:10But they're trying to pressure Curtis Lee would to step
- 18:14out and come up with a deal that would get
- 18:17him to endorse Cuomo the second for mayor of New York,
- 18:22a position that his dad could never win, despite Andrew's
- 18:26own offensive homophobic campaign slogan that he started as a
- 18:35whisper is it was vote for Cuomo, not the derogatory
- 18:40term about homosexuals that rhymes with Cuomo there is, Okay,
- 18:47So I just got to note there is a group
- 18:49of Guardian Angels that work out of Chicago as well,
- 18:54So good for them, because that's what this whole movement,
- 18:58just like Turning Points, started as a response to community
- 19:03saying please, please do something. And while at first the
- 19:12New York City Police and I'm sure the Chicago police
- 19:14are like, dude, we can do it ourselves, and we
- 19:16didn't want civilians involved, these and often cases were the
- 19:22true first responders. They would see a crime happening on
- 19:25the street and they would call the police, and over
- 19:28time it developed into a symbiotic relationship. You see, Curtis
- 19:34Lee was New York City Police commissioner. Wow, that would
- 19:39almost trump Trump doing that. I did mention I wanted
- 19:44to make a quick point about Charlie Kirk since we
- 19:46were just talking about Turning Point USA as well. Over
- 19:51the past week, I have noted, and you may have
- 19:54noted as well, an awful lot of people trying to
- 19:57spend an awful lot of time telling you how they're
- 20:00the next Charlie or they're going to take on Charlie
- 20:04Kirk's mission, They're going to oh, I'll be the next one.
- 20:09And it's starting to get disquieting to me. A lot
- 20:15of people are trying to parse and misrepresent things Charlie said,
- 20:20both both for good and bad. I mean, there are
- 20:23people who aren't necessarily trying to denigrate Charlie Kirk and
- 20:28the work he did at Turning Point USA, but they're
- 20:31parsing him. And then that allows the opponents, the ones
- 20:36who want to destroy, to take those parsings and then
- 20:41put them in association with people that would never have
- 20:47during Charlie's life. And this is unfortunately always what happens
- 20:52when somebody the leader of a movement is gone. You
- 20:56immediately have this jockeying for position. And I hope Erica
- 21:03Kirk is strong enough, is probably much stronger than Charlie.
- 21:08Charlie said so in as many visits, because she's going
- 21:12to have this battle of this isn't what Charlie wanted.
- 21:15This is what Charlie wanted, and so be aware there
- 21:25are going to be a lot of people trying to
- 21:27tear it. And I worry, just as it was with
- 21:29the Tea Party movement, that the people who will be
- 21:33tearing at the seams on the peripheries of the Turning
- 21:37Point USA movement. And I'm saying this not because I coveted,
- 21:41because I want people to be aware of it so
- 21:44that you can be on guard for people trying to
- 21:47yank the Turning Point USA movement away from the things
- 21:52that it stood for, much in the same way they
- 21:54say conservatism is a bunch of nonsense, that conservatism never
- 21:59actually stood for.
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- 24:04Speaker 6: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas?
- 24:08Speaker 7: Yes?
- 24:09Speaker 6: Actually three known gas is I'm doctor Mitch. And nitric
- 24:14oxide is a gas that's readily made all day long
- 24:18to keep our arteries open by relaxing the blood vessel walls.
- 24:23By doing this, our circulation is increased, bringing blood, oxygen,
- 24:28and nutrients to every part of your body. Both age
- 24:33and poor diet can lead to a loss of this
- 24:36precious gas, and in turn, blood pressure can go up,
- 24:40energy can go down, and you can get tingling in
- 24:42your hands and feet. Well. Our product, Ultimate nitric Oxide,
- 24:47can easily help fix this lack of nitric oxide. Go
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- 27:02Speaker 12: Think about this. There are five freedoms guaranteed in the
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- 27:27Speaker 3: When might you be buzzed?
- 27:28Speaker 2: When you suddenly love everything you?
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- 27:32Speaker 15: I love this song, I love these notchos, I love
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- 27:42Speaker 20: What's your name?
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- 27:44Speaker 20: I'd love a ride when it's time to head out.
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- 28:11Speaker 1: The First Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by
- 28:15Joe Thomas, the second most famous Thomas in Charlottesville.
- 28:20Speaker 2: Ah, this Ted's d Morning, the first most famous Mac
- 28:24in Charlottesville. Well, you know, you know, until they take
- 28:29a statue down, I'm going to have to be content
- 28:32with the silver metal.
- 28:33Speaker 26: Were they going to put your statue? I mean, wait,
- 28:35you know they put it over there on Pepsi drives.
- 28:37Speaker 2: Right right outside the right outside the men's room at
- 28:41the King Pavilion. Uh. He is the great one. He
- 28:46is Mac McDonald and brought to you his notebook report,
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- 29:02paildefense dot org. Good morning, Mac, what's going on? What
- 29:06do you have scribbles down there?
- 29:07Speaker 26: The Virginia Tech Board of visitors a thirteen to one vote.
- 29:10We'll talk about the no vote in just a minute.
- 29:12But the Board of visitors said no, no, no, we
- 29:15need to compete. And even Tim sand says, this is
- 29:17our reset. This is the president of Virginia Tech. This
- 29:21is this is how we get back in it. And
- 29:23other schools around the country are going to be looking
- 29:25at what Virginia Tech did because if they're at the
- 29:27bottom of their conference and they're losing games, there may
- 29:30be a reason.
- 29:31Speaker 19: All right.
- 29:32Speaker 26: Anyway, the budget increase for Virginia Tech is on a
- 29:35four year plan two hundred and twenty nine. Officially two
- 29:38hundred and twenty nine point two million will be invested
- 29:41into the athletic department, as I said.
- 29:43Speaker 20: Over a four year period.
- 29:45Speaker 26: The goal is the investment aims to make Virginia Tech's
- 29:48athletics program more competity, especially in the Atlantic Coast conference. Okay,
- 29:52funding sources now, The funding will come from a mix
- 29:55including donor support about one hundred and twenty million, a
- 29:59potential incre in student fees. The board vote the Virginia
- 30:03Tech Board of Visitors yesterday on a virtual vote thirteen
- 30:06to one yes. And the timing is the approval comes
- 30:10as Virginia Tech is preparing to find a new head
- 30:12football coach.
- 30:13Speaker 20: So that brings me to this transition.
- 30:15Speaker 26: Philip Montgomery yesterday at his press conference had plenty of
- 30:18good things to say about the Board of Visitors with
- 30:20the with the vote coming down the pike. Pretty good
- 30:23for a guy who's probably not going to get the
- 30:25job unless they run the table. If they run the
- 30:27table and all of a sudden, the Hookies just turned
- 30:29things around like crazy and they have a chance to
- 30:32win their third game in a row. Well, phili Montgomery's
- 30:34going to be in the mix, I think.
- 30:36Speaker 2: Well.
- 30:36Speaker 20: He had a lot of good things to say about
- 30:38the board.
- 30:39Speaker 27: Division that the Board of Visitors has for the future
- 30:43of Virginia Tech athletics and football and all of that
- 30:47that encompasses that just a tremendous growth potential of what
- 30:53can happen can open a lot of doors for the
- 30:57athletic department. I think it shows the you know, I
- 31:00think it shows the passion, and I think it allows
- 31:04Virginia Tech to continue to keep building and being at
- 31:07the top of this conference where it belongs.
- 31:09Speaker 26: Yeah, with anything like this, naturally, the you know, the
- 31:12academic people.
- 31:13Speaker 20: Are going to take a long look at it and go,
- 31:14do we really need this? Should we really you know,
- 31:17put this kind of money into it? And doctor Nancy
- 31:19Dye was the no vote.
- 31:21Speaker 26: She's on the Board Academic Research, Student Affairs Committee chair. Uh,
- 31:25been a part of uh, you know, Southwest Virginia politics
- 31:28for a long time. And she just said she did
- 31:30not want to see an increase in student fees and
- 31:33uh and I get that because you know, we're teetering.
- 31:36You know, as you well know a parent that you
- 31:38know that sent kids to college, you know how how
- 31:42you know tough it can be.
- 31:44Speaker 20: But if you're you know, if if your program is
- 31:47bringing in all.
- 31:47Speaker 26: Kinds of cash you know, and just letting you before
- 31:51we went on the air, Joe made a good point
- 31:53just asking the University of Georgia and the University of
- 31:55Alabama how their academic side is doing with what they've
- 31:59been able to do.
- 32:00Speaker 2: It should you should be easy to figure out if
- 32:02they've got if their professors have you know a lot
- 32:05of resources in the biosciences lab in uh, what is it? It's
- 32:11Alabama's in Birmingham, Yeah, Tuscalusa. Right, So so if Tuscaloosa
- 32:16has you know, a fully funded bio med lab there,
- 32:21that's the envy of you, you know, the world. Then yeah,
- 32:24you see the fruit of it. Sometimes sometimes it doesn't
- 32:27pencil out. Now, my question is that comes out to
- 32:30fifty seven and change million dollars a year, which albeit
- 32:34more than you and I will get right, but is
- 32:36that a lot? It just doesn't strike me when they
- 32:39said two hundred and twenty nine million dollars, is said, whoa,
- 32:42And they said, well it's over four or five years.
- 32:44I'm like, all right, so is that really increasing a lot?
- 32:48Or is that just wow?
- 32:50Speaker 20: That's a great question. I mean, I yeah, I think so,
- 32:53because I think.
- 32:54Speaker 26: It gives, it will give first of all they'll be
- 32:56able to really go after And it kind of was.
- 32:59It was down to a coaching staff, like now you
- 33:02can get a big time coach if you want, because
- 33:04a big time coach will take a long look at oh,
- 33:08Blacksburg's doing this?
- 33:09Speaker 20: Now, are that kind of money?
- 33:10Speaker 26: Because you know the talk among coaches and the talk
- 33:12about you know his staffs, Well, it's this program really dead.
- 33:15Speaker 2: It's been the.
- 33:15Speaker 20: Talking in Charlotteville forever forever.
- 33:18Speaker 26: And I'm not saying Tony Elliott was a bad high
- 33:20I don't mean that, but I mean Virginia could never
- 33:23really outgrow came in two thousand and I get that
- 33:25he came from the pros. His son went there, he
- 33:28had some connections. But when you know and Georgia, we're
- 33:30going back when when money really didn't make that much difference,
- 33:34and unfortunately now cash television coaching. I mean coordinators, coordinators
- 33:40okay in college who are now some of the most
- 33:45recognizable people in your football staff and they talk to
- 33:47them all the time. We never get back in the
- 33:50eighties when I start, we could have cared last about coordinators.
- 33:52We didn't know the coordinators where we could have cared last.
- 33:54But now with their foot they're they're getting into four
- 33:58and five and six million dollars a year, two point
- 34:01this and three point this.
- 34:02Speaker 2: Well, but also you you talk about Alabama, you know,
- 34:06we're talking about practice all of a sudden now Ivan.
- 34:10Speaker 26: You know, coordinator buyouts are getting you know, as done
- 34:13so anyway.
- 34:14Speaker 2: But also you look at you know, as you mentioned
- 34:17the University of Alabama and all the scouting coordinators and
- 34:21the scouting assistants and the guys who are out there
- 34:24looking in the transfer portal and finding it, finding these
- 34:28jewels in some junior college. You know. Alabama you said
- 34:31has something like forty people on their coaching staff.
- 34:34Speaker 26: Yeah, the recruiting, the recruiting side, and the staff they
- 34:37have just in recruiting and especially now, I mean you
- 34:40get general managers. You know, it's just like an NFL model,
- 34:43You got general managers. So anyway, I'm gonna play this
- 34:46for you because I got sucked in, and I have
- 34:49to say, for about an hour and a half yesterday
- 34:52I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Hulu and Chad Powers. Uh,
- 34:56the Glenn Powell movie who was in you know, Top
- 34:59Gun Maverick and has been all over TV. You know,
- 35:02he's kind of the new Tom Cruise, I guess, good
- 35:04looking guy and it's the Eli Manning store, you know,
- 35:07where he put on the makeup and he tries to
- 35:09make another team.
- 35:10Speaker 22: Uh he blew he.
- 35:11Speaker 26: I don't want to give too much away, so I
- 35:13just said, but anyway, he plays quarterback and to learn
- 35:15the role.
- 35:17Speaker 20: He for the South Georgia Catfish. By the way, he
- 35:23and their logo is great.
- 35:25Speaker 26: But he he went to quarterback camp with Eli and
- 35:28Peyton Manning because he you know, and he's pretty athletic
- 35:31and he wanted to learn all the tricks of the trade.
- 35:33Speaker 20: He said, it was the roughest time in his life.
- 35:35Speaker 16: They are the most brutal quarterback oers.
- 35:36Speaker 2: I was like, please be brutal.
- 35:38Speaker 16: And they put me in front of real, you know,
- 35:40real defenses, and and they had they had real guys
- 35:43running at me the whole time and re reading the
- 35:46defenses like they were. They were so technical about where
- 35:49my eyes were and how I was processing the field.
- 35:51So you know, I can I can fake it enough,
- 35:53but I gotta say the football checks out him.
- 35:56Speaker 20: And I will say this, it's kind of called the
- 35:58cast has got.
- 35:58Speaker 26: A couple of really good guys. And the girl who's
- 36:01the daughter of the coach was in a movie. Her
- 36:04name is Perry Mattfield, and she was in a movie
- 36:06called The Dark Side and for I don't know, eight
- 36:09ten episodes whatever it was. When I got sucked in
- 36:11over a year ago, she was blind. She played a
- 36:14blind girl, and oh my goodness, I fell in love
- 36:17with her as an actress. Nobody knows, but she's the daughter.
- 36:20Now she is up to the daughter of the coach.
- 36:22Speaker 7: So uh.
- 36:23Speaker 26: The first two episodes streamed next week we get the third.
- 36:27It's uh, it's pretty funny. It's it's good, it's lighthearted.
- 36:31Speaker 20: Right now, okay, And Glenn Powell.
- 36:33Speaker 26: Is doing an excellent job and putting on the makeup
- 36:37and acting like a QB and then he acts like
- 36:39he's from West Virginia, and you know, it's it's just
- 36:42pretty funny. It's uh, it's got its moments, so uh.
- 36:46And they don't know what's wrong with him because he
- 36:48acts real.
- 36:48Speaker 2: You know, kind of goofy.
- 36:50Speaker 20: But right now, it's a good watch that way. If
- 36:53I get tired of it.
- 36:54Speaker 26: It's easy to get tired of these because it's like, okay,
- 36:56we should have ended this a month ago, but we're
- 36:59still doing that episodes.
- 37:00Speaker 2: Yeah, I can already smell the rom com coming, you know,
- 37:03where the daughter of the head coach falls for the
- 37:06fake quarterback and then she works.
- 37:09Speaker 26: She loves it, you know, as ugly as he looks,
- 37:11and he's got this bad hair and doesn't want to get.
- 37:14Speaker 20: In the swimming pool. They had a summer training session
- 37:16with the coach and all that. Yeah, he doesn't want
- 37:18to take a shower. They had a couple of great lines.
- 37:22Speaker 2: I won't go into those.
- 37:23Speaker 20: You just have to see it.
- 37:24Speaker 2: But anyway, Yeah, it's.
- 37:25Speaker 26: Already she giggles at him now already, So yeah, it's uh,
- 37:30it's it's it's.
- 37:31Speaker 20: Her manic comedy. Wait, yep, it's right there, Joe, you're right,
- 37:35come right around the corner.
- 37:36Speaker 2: Well, if Matthew McConaughey is given up on rom com,
- 37:39so have I.
- 37:40Speaker 26: So I know, yeah, well this is this has got
- 37:43a lot of good football in it and really good stuff.
- 37:45Speaker 20: So and they've done it the right way, so it's
- 37:47not fake.
- 37:48Speaker 2: All right. You know, I'll go back to rom coms
- 37:50when Quentin Tarantino does another one. Uh, and I'll leave
- 37:54that for everyone to sit there say another one h
- 37:57and uh, that way, we'll talk to you.
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- 44:17Speaker 1: First thing Today by Joe Thomas on the TUNK Media Network.
- 44:23Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us and letting us be of
- 44:26service to you this morning. Four three four eight eight
- 44:29two four to two one seven. That is our phone
- 44:32number and emails come into JT in the Morning Radio
- 44:36at gmail dot com. Uh this one from Charles didn't
- 44:40that sob in Des Moines get arrested with a u
- 44:45an the illegal gun as well. Yeah, well yeah, not
- 44:48being a citizen. It probably goes without saying that the
- 44:51firearms that they own would probably make them an illegally
- 44:55purchased firearm as well. And all the things that kind
- 44:58of spider web away from this school superintendent in Des Moines.
- 45:03Just when you think you can't get crazy enough, and
- 45:07believe me, if you go back to the podcasts of
- 45:09Saturday Mornings program and the school board chair who they've
- 45:13kept off camera ever since the ridiculous statements she made
- 45:17on Saturday. But man that now we have members of
- 45:20Congress calling for her recall there as well. But I
- 45:24promised the Conservative's version of Eric Holder. He is former
- 45:27Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Virginia, former DHS secretary
- 45:33as well. He is Ken Kuchinelli Election Transparency Initiative there.
- 45:38Good morning, Ken. How are you doing, sir?
- 45:41Speaker 19: I'm doing just sign How are you?
- 45:43Speaker 2: Well? You know better than I deserve considering you know,
- 45:46what we've allowed to happen in our country, Ken, and
- 45:49I know that we're going to talk about, you know,
- 45:52trying to make sure the elections are continue to be
- 45:57and I think we've seen quite a bit change in
- 46:00terms of election integrity over the past oh say four years.
- 46:06Just say, wink wink, nudge, nudge. You know where are
- 46:11what is the state of the election right now? We
- 46:14still have tons of states that do mail in balloting.
- 46:17More and more states are falling prey to the siren
- 46:20song of rank choice voting. I feel like there's slippage
- 46:24going on in the country. What are you seeing at ETI.
- 46:30Speaker 19: So I don't see slippage. I see a slower pace forward.
- 46:34But I will say that is concerned that after twenty
- 46:37twenty four is election, that forward progress might come to
- 46:42a halt, and that just hasn't happened. For example, right now,
- 46:46we at ETI are focused on legislation in North Carolina
- 46:51that makes a number of improvements to the point where
- 46:56sort of squabbling over is the complete elimination of foreign funding,
- 47:00including the loopholes for letting that in. This is something
- 47:03that other states like Ohio have done. It's been upheld
- 47:08in federal courts, and you know, that's an effort that
- 47:12we're participating in, much like we have done getting rid
- 47:15of zucker Bucks, something you and I talked about here.
- 47:18So there's still progress being made. There's you know, elections
- 47:22have a lot of pieces to them, so there's an
- 47:24awful lot to do on the reform front. So we're
- 47:28continuing to do it, and we're continuing to see success.
- 47:31Speaker 2: Well, let for folks who don't know what you mean
- 47:34when you talk about foreign money. Now, zucker Bucks, you know,
- 47:38and and I presume most listeners would make the leap that, okay,
- 47:43zucker Bucks. They were funding election officials and going into
- 47:48cities like Philadelphia and saying, hey, here's a bag of money,
- 47:51sort of like what Bloomberg tried to do with climate change. Here,
- 47:54we're going to hire some lawyers for you. You don't
- 47:56have to pay them, but they're just going to work
- 47:58on going after people who give money these climate deniers.
- 48:03You know that is that the same thing foreign money
- 48:06coming in to buy election officials, pay for quote helpers
- 48:11and that kind of thing.
- 48:13Speaker 19: Yeah, yes, it is the same sort of thing. And
- 48:18this begins with an organized effort on the left. There's
- 48:22a particular Swiss billionaire actually who pumps a ton of
- 48:27money into American elections. And the way they do it,
- 48:31you know, I'll go to Ohio. They will fund, for example,
- 48:36the pro abortion effort and a referendum there. Well, if
- 48:39you're doing that, you're turning out votes for Democrat candidates indirectly.
- 48:44And they know very well that they're doing that. In fact,
- 48:46their whole effort is structured to take advantage.
- 48:49Speaker 20: Of that fact.
- 48:50Speaker 19: So that's a very one more good reason to eliminate
- 48:54foreign money in our elections. These elections should be buying
- 48:58about Americans and our views and opinions and so forth.
- 49:02And money is a form of speech.
- 49:05Speaker 2: Well, especially when it helps, you know, bring in you know,
- 49:09the voters. And that's you know, goes back to the
- 49:12was the nineteen twenties and walking around money of the
- 49:15old bird machine here in Virginia. You know, give give
- 49:18the church pastor a couple of thousand dollars and say, yeah,
- 49:21give this to some of your parishioners. Is thank you
- 49:24for going out and knocking on doors for you their
- 49:27father and oh we didn't tell them who to vote for,
- 49:32but you know, I mean it's the same thing we
- 49:34were seeing with the ballot harvesters covered in you know what.
- 49:38The restaurants used to call it flair. So they all
- 49:40have the Joe Biden pin or the Kamala Harris pin
- 49:43and had a basket full of ballots. Oh, I could
- 49:45sign you up to vote, mister Kuchenelli, and you can
- 49:49vote right now, and I'll bring it back for you.
- 49:51I mean this, This idea of voting secretly in public
- 49:56is completely gone. And I was curious I brought this
- 49:59up once. The idea of these ballot harvesters seems to
- 50:02fly in the face of the electioneering law that says
- 50:06there's a certain number of feet in every state. It's
- 50:08different from the actual voting booth that the politicians the
- 50:13politikers have to stay away from. But the concept of
- 50:17these ballot harvesters seems to blow that up.
- 50:23Speaker 19: Well, no question. And obviously this is different in every
- 50:27state because every state has its own laws. That's one
- 50:31of the beauties of our system and it's part of
- 50:34the laboratory of democracy functioning. And you know that's helped
- 50:40us frankly. But it also means that the work for
- 50:43groups like ETI is state by state. We don't just
- 50:47make some national plea for a change. We have to
- 50:50go convince individuals, state legislators and governors and secretaries of
- 50:55state that proposed alternatives are the best thing for a safe, secure, transparent,
- 51:02confidence inducing election, and we've done it, and we've done
- 51:07it state by state by state among the swing states,
- 51:10and I use that term pretty loosely. I'll include Virginia
- 51:13and Pennsylvania in that for example. Things have improved in
- 51:18all the swing states except Michigan and Nevada, where things
- 51:22have gotten worse. But overall, we're probably better in eight
- 51:26and worse than two over the last four or five years.
- 51:30And you know, overall, there's no question we've seen significant improvement.
- 51:35I mentioned Zuckerbucks. This is the funding of election officials
- 51:39as a way to do voter turnout that was made
- 51:42famous or infamous by Mark Zuckerberg. That's the name zucker Bucks. Well,
- 51:47we've gotten that band in twenty eight state and so
- 51:51that you know the referee isn't going to be putting
- 51:53his thumb on the scale in those twenty eight states,
- 51:57and that's pretty significant. When UBA plays you NC and basketball,
- 52:02if UVA was hiring the rest in Charlottesville, I don't
- 52:06think u NC fans have a great deal of confidence
- 52:09in how that's all going to go, and vice versa.
- 52:12Speaker 2: Well, and I think there have been basketball games where
- 52:15the fans base has felt that way on a case,
- 52:18especially over the last ten years at UVA basketball Ken
- 52:22Kochinelli on with his former Attorney General for the Commonwealth
- 52:26of Virginia and acting director of the Department of Homeland Security.
- 52:32There now with find them online at election Transparency dot org.
- 52:39And you know I, you know, I speak effluently about No, No,
- 52:44effortlessly about Ken and his position, And Ken, I called
- 52:49you a name before you know. It's true.
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