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"So Afraid of the Russians..." (Thursday October 9, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: The world has come together around.
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Speaker 2: His deal making mornings great again. First thing today on
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Speaker 3: But it showed tonas.
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Speaker 4: You know, I went looking on this eighty fifth anniversary
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of John, and I think there's a conjunction as we
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get a historic peace deal in the Middle East that
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it drops on the eighty fifth anniversary of John Lennon's birthday.
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And though they existed in the same zeitgeist for a
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short period of time in the late seventies, as Donald
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Trump started building buildings in Manhattan and John Lennon lived
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in the Dakota, I have very little. I can find
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very little where anyone said to him, Hey, John, what
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do you think of Donald Trump? So I went looking,
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though I thought maybe for a brief moment there we'll
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get our first things. But you know, and again a
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great hit to the US AID crowd, Trump putting thousands
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of AID workers out of work by bringing peace to
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the Middle East, or at least that's how the left
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will characterize it. Maybe it's a violation of the Emolument's clause.
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that'll tell you what happened, tell you what we think
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about what happened. But more importantly, want to hear how
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it's impacting you where you are.
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Speaker 3: And since we just.
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Speaker 4: Did a segment on the Russians saying the piece efforts
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have been exhausted. Non surprise phone rings. There's Bob in
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Moscow on the line. Bob, good to hear from you,
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my friend. How are you doing, sir?
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Speaker 3: Doing good?
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Speaker 5: Good?
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Speaker 4: App Yeah, I am.
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Speaker 6: It's afternoon here, it's after one o'clock in the afternoon.
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It's a typical fall. The leaves are falling and chain.
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But you have to understand what Ukraine's all about. They
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keep saying, Oh, Russia is attacking. Russia's attacking, sending drones
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every day. In the US media, it says a new
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wave of drones from Russia's the most it's ever been.
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How can it be increasing it every day? If on
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one hand, the US government and the Power Spiece say
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that Russia's running out of weapons, so they're contradicting themselves.
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Second thing is if Ukraine and the powers to be
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over there, I e. ASA truly wanted peace. Once they stop,
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I'm killing the infrastructure of Russia. All the infrastr A
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is done. Just like the Ukrainian citizens under approval from
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President Vladimir Zelenski built a group that's sabotaged in nord
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Stream pipeline. Why was this to reduce the ability of
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Europe to get inexpensive natural gas and oil from Russia
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or other sources. Now they're obligated to get it through Azov,
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Arisma and the United States big companies. So the people
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in the United States, just like here in Russia and Europe,
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which has already experienced it, better be prepared for a
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drastic increase in the oil and gasoline prices in the
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United States because of the supply. Twelve percent of the
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supply is basically going to be demolished, which means prices
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will go up as demand doesn't change, but supply the windows,
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which in turn will increase the cost of everything you
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get in the United States, especially in the world. Well,
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that's like food prices the colts are going up.
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Speaker 4: Well, hang on to that thought because I've got to
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get our first things out here. We can't really do
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a radio program about the news until we tell you
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the news. And two on what Bob was just throwing
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into the squared circle there, but our first things peace
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in the Middle East. During a meeting with Canadian Prime
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Minister Carney, where President Trump and Prime Minister Carney of
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Canada talked about reopening the Keystone XCEL pipeline. Since we're
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talking pipelines, blessed are the peacemakers, President Trump wrote to
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Truth Social after Hamas agreed to the peace deal broker
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by the President to end the war in Gaza get
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the hostages home, Benjamin Ett Yahoo said, with the approval
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of the first phase of the plan, all of the
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hostages will be brought home. This is a diplomatic success
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in a national and moral victory for the State of Israel.
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At the United Nations, Secretary General Gutieras said, I welcome
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the announcement of the agreement to secure a ceasefire and
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hostage release in Gaza. The United Nations will support full
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implementation of that. I mentioned the Keystone XL pipeline. Canadian
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Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the prospect during his White
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House visit. Government official familiar with the matter said on Wednesday,
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Canadian Company pulled the plug on it four years ago
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after they failed to persuade then President Biden to reverse
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his cancelation of the permits. Speaking of permits, gun owners
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Speaker 3: But I'm afraid of the Russians.
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Speaker 4: I can't sleep at light.
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Speaker 15: I'm so afraid of the Russians.
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Speaker 18: Afraid We've got to fight.
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Speaker 4: And that's always the problem with trying to get peace
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is you get used to the easier position of being
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against things. It's so much easier to determine what you're against.
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Speaker 3: Think about it. I mean, even in your own world.
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Speaker 4: Developing a list of the things you're are for is
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much more arduous of a task than coming up with
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a list of things you don't like. I don't like
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this vegetable, I don't like this kind of cuisine, I
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don't like this car, I don't like this weather. We
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all have we have a laundry list of things we're against.
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We're like Groucho Marx, the other the funny Marx brother.
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I'm against it, and it's it's easy to do that,
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And so when war ends and conflict ends, it's very
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difficult for a lot of people who have built their
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existence off of being an opposition position to somebody. And
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I remember one of the most stunning visuals of my
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adult life was at Ronald Reagan's funeral. There and the
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ceremonies at the Reagan Ranch and the beautiful California vistas,
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and the weather was amazing. But they're Amongst those who
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were saying goodbye to President Reagan was Mikhail Gorbachev, who
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who was the great rival of this man, Tip O'Neil
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would have been there had he not proceeded Reagan into
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the end.
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Speaker 3: And that to me, you know, you talk.
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Speaker 4: About presidents, you talk about people, but if people who
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disagree with you, you know, gather to pay tribute to
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you if you pass, that's a pretty big thing that says,
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you know, that speaks volumes about the character with which
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you conducted yourself.
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Speaker 3: And I think there have.
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Speaker 4: Been great missteps in the post Cold War, often driven
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by some of the same people who are out there
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screaming about peace in the Middle East. Now, Bob was
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on the phone with us, and Bob was talking, and
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I got a text message Bob during the break about
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your allegations about Ukraine's involvement in the Nord Stream sabotage.
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And you know, so far the only arrests have been
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made of Ukrainian nationals. So I think, I think, not
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to put words in your mouth, that's what you were
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referring to when you said that in the first part
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of the phone call.
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Speaker 6: Yes, but if you look at the information from Germany
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from what the arrest warrned states, is that it was
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a Ukrainian diver that had the approval of Vladimir Zolenski,
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who later after was all taken care of withdraw his
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approval for assuming for political reasons.
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Speaker 19: But the point I was saying is.
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Speaker 6: If you look at the appetative and if you look
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at the Polish government arrested this guy, there has to
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be some other ties going on to the whole situation.
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But in the arrest warrant it says he was part
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of the group that set up and sabotaged the Nord
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Stream pipeline, and it specifically states he had ties to
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Vladimirslenski's approval.
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Speaker 4: And that is all I'm saying, right that up, But
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that's not really what I was curious because you brought
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up this on the morning that they discuss reopening the
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Keystone or finishing the Keystone Axcel pipeline. You know this
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this ties into the Middle East as well. It feeds
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the hunger of the Greta Thunbergs of the world to say,
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we have to break free from the addiction we have
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in Western civilization to black gold and now to the
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natural gas that is created beyond it. And that's a
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fool's errand it is a fool's Errand to think that
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you can do that. And truly, you know, I thought
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and still do believe that Russia's development of their oil
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and natural gas, your resources, saved the country because if
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you think the Marxism of Lenin and Stalin was bad,
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the economic collapse that was going on, that was, you know,
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turning into the worst, worse chaos than existed in the
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mafia days of Chicago, where just you think, you know,
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oligarchs and their little gangs of thugs were running things.
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I mean, that's those were the stories people coming back
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from Russia were telling me, is that the only thing
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you could do was get right with the gang that
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ran your area and then you did, okay, And if
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he didn't, I mean, as one of my friends told me,
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he said, at least under the Soviet Union you knew
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who you had to pay off to get anywhere. With
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the mobs, it was always a changeable thing. So there
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was a really volatile period in Russia where it could
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have gone extremely more totalitarian than the Soviet Union had
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ever been. And I think, you know, just from a
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human standpoint, I would never have wanted to have seen that.
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Not that Putin has been George Washington, but he kept
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Russia from going in a much darker place from where
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I sat anyway, right, a.
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Speaker 6: Greek But it's no different than how any country has developed,
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including the United States, including England, including Germany. They all
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went through that period where it was small groups had organized,
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and these groups got more organized and more powerful and
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eliminated their competition. And that's where we're at in the
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United States. And that's what ended up happening in Russia.
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That's how they were able to develop their natural resources
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as a way to survive. And the only problem, the
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only problem they made was is setting up Ukraine as
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the juncture point. If they never had gone through Ukraine,
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Ukraine would be irrelevant.
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Speaker 3: At this point.
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Speaker 4: But also some of that already existed. Remember Ukraine was
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the bread basket of the Soviet Union, the Ukraine region, and.
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Speaker 3: So it had the whole resources.
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Speaker 4: Oh I mean yes, I mean Ukraine agriculturally is rivals
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the American Midwest when it comes to the ability to grow,
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the ability to have But now we find rare earth
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minerals under there, so there's so much more reason to
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want to have control over Ukraine there. But I also
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think some of this, and this Europe versus Russia, you know,
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and I agree to a great degree with Nigel Faraj
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that you know, NATO should have stood down in the
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same way the FBI should have stood down when prohibition ended,
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since it was their job to go after those who
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were running across state lines with the liquor. NATO's whole
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purpose was to stand up as a unit against this
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Soviet block of countries Ukraine, Chech et cetera, Poland, and
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when the Soviet Union collapsed, NATO should have said, Okay,
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our mission here is done and shut the doors and
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put put.
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Speaker 3: Them in the history books.
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Speaker 4: And I think that you know, certainly you can't go
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back and undo history, but at least acknowledging some of
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the missteps might be a way towards a better tomorrow
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and not exhausting these opportunities. But thirty seconds, ten seconds.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, The quick thing is it was all about the
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people that left Russia, that came to United States and
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art of the parts of the West knew of the resources.
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And that's why NATO never stepped down, because NATO could
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Speaker 2: You from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
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Speaker 4: So when you talk about war, when you talk about peace,
28:30
you know, and it is again one of the vices
28:37
that humans are wired with. This is why Madison didn't
28:40
want a government with a lot of authority. Sheila writes
28:47
into four three four eight eight two four two one
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seven text message line additional headline for the left. Trump
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declares peace in Middle East to stracked from Pam Bondi's
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awful performance at the Senate hearing. Yes, that's it, that's it.
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We called Bibi net and Yahoo and said, listen, we
29:13
need peace because what a mess red flag. Pam was
29:18
well and this was a setup the whole You know, Wow,
29:21
what about Epstein and this Epstein situation. Since you brought
29:27
it up, Sheila, she's an awe, Sheila, she is since
29:33
you brought it up. Let's pull this in to the
29:37
goulash that we're cooking here, because this goes to peace
29:46
in the Middle East, Israel, Gaza. It also touches the
29:52
tearing apart, the rending. It's like vultures at a carcass
29:56
of a deer on the side of the road. This
29:59
turning point, USA. You know, who's more Charlie than Charlie.
30:05
Civil war that's going on amongst what the left is
30:10
gleefully reporting as Maga civil war, and some of it
30:17
is over the fact that there are people who say
30:22
Epstein was a and Israeli agent. We have on video
30:29
thanks to James O'Keefe, CIA investigator saying no he was
30:38
not CIA. FBI investigator saying no he was CIA. Now
30:43
that doesn't preclude that he wasn't also working for IDF,
30:49
the Israeli Defense Forces. The idea of double agents and
30:56
that kind of thing are you know, commonplace or even
31:02
without it being covert, being just a you know, a
31:05
ZeVA what was Zeva's last name? On n CIS I
31:09
forget now didn't they bring them back? It's you know,
31:13
because because they haven't drained enough blood out of the
31:18
corpse of n CIS. Now it's Tony and ZeVA. What
31:22
his TV show about Phil McGraw didn't resonate enough. Hey,
31:32
Weatherley's got to work just like anyone else. I'm not
31:34
begrudging him. He's got a story to tell. But Tony
31:37
and ZeVA really it's like Archie's Place, remember this spin
31:41
off the PostScript to All in the Family or After Mash.
31:47
I feel like Tony and ZeVA is going to in
31:49
the world of pop culture be filed next to After
31:53
Mash and Archie Bunker's Place, and all these shows are like,
31:57
really did we.
31:59
Speaker 3: Need to do this?
32:02
Speaker 4: Joni loves Chachi, all these things, you know, we really
32:06
didn't need that third season of arrested development.
32:09
Speaker 3: Did we.
32:15
Speaker 4: But in any event, the idea of MASAD agents and
32:19
CIA agents working together is not an unheard of thing.
32:25
But if Jeffrey Epstein was a government agent, that means
32:30
the government was subborting this kind of stuff. And that's
32:35
why you'll never really know about it. There'll never be
32:37
a true accounting of it because can you imagine what
32:41
would happen to all the presidents and all the president's
32:46
men who were involved, Because that becomes bigger than Watergate,
32:58
because it becomes a complacency even if you didn't know
33:06
specifically that this was going on, but it certainly predates
33:10
Bill Clinton. So does George H. W. Bush and he's
33:15
passed away. I mean, is it do we take away
33:17
as presidential library? Remember George W. Bush was the HW
33:28
Bush was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, So
33:35
you know, can you say this didn't happen then go
33:38
back to win. Epstein began the low leader flights to
33:44
his island and the Arizona little getaway spots, and that's
33:52
some of the stuff that you know, they don't want
33:55
coming out because that means that if he was CIA,
33:57
that means the government was subborting.
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Speaker 3: If not paying for it.
34:06
Speaker 4: And that part is outside of the fact that you know, controversial, sure,
34:10
and if it's in there, and this FBI guy is
34:14
saying that he was CIA puts a whole different light
34:21
on Jeffrey Epstein. But Jeffrey Epstein, and this is why
34:25
we should not support Israel, And that's the premise. These
34:29
are the leaps of logic that some of these folks
34:33
like Candice Owens are making, which is, you know, we
34:37
need to terror apart conservatism because Jeffrey Epstein, because Israel,
34:44
because we want to be seen as caring for marginalized communities,
34:50
because we believe that terrorists are now a marginalized community.
34:57
And I don't know all the logic to it. And
34:59
often when it's hard to find logic, you can probably
35:02
find commerce because there's money to be made. And tearing
35:07
apart the carcass of Turning Point USA and the movement
35:12
just to give yourself some a grandizement. All these people
35:19
existed in it for years before. Where were these statements?
35:23
Some supposedly all these conversations with Charlie Kirk happened months
35:28
and months before his assassination.
35:31
Speaker 3: Where were those statements?
35:32
Speaker 4: Tucker Carlson likes to tell us that now he's a
35:35
free agent and he's got his own podcast show, he
35:37
can say whatever he wants. Apparently that's not true because
35:41
this is a conversation that he said he had with
35:44
Charlie Kirk months and months before his assassination. Where was
35:48
that on the Tucker Carlson podcast with your supposed independence?
35:55
But it's the same thing the Marxists do. So whether
35:58
the Marxist paid off Kansas Owns or Tucker Carlson, or
36:01
they've managed to create this idea that it profits them
36:06
to tear apart that which Charlie Kirk built, there are
36:14
easy answers to it. You need young people to stand
36:17
up and say These Turning Point USA chapters were not
36:20
about Jeffrey Epstein or even Charlie Kirk per se. It
36:25
was about giving young people a position, a place where
36:29
they felt like discussing constitutional liberty was not going to
36:33
be as sailed as white supremacy and colonialism and all
36:38
the other ways they.
36:39
Speaker 3: Shout you down.
36:41
Speaker 4: Just as a point of order, there's a billboard on
36:44
the side of one of our interstates here in our
36:46
flagship area telling you to vote for the Democrat for
36:51
governor and I find it funny because it's the whole
36:55
premise is to defend free speech, and the speaker, the
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character in the billboard is shrieking into a bullhorn, is
37:09
shrieking at somebody into a bullhorn free speech. When I
37:18
think of free speech, I don't think of somebody shrieking
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into a bullhorn. As a matter of fact, that people
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I've had shriek at me through a bullhorn are generally
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the furthest from anyone who wants free speech. But it
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all connects. It all connects in trying to dehumanize you,
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to de individualize you, which was one of the very
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essences of what Charlie Kirk wanted was to bring back
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the individual. But everyone wants to fill this leader follower
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just a guy doing a job.
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Speaker 2: From Joe Thomas, It's first thing today.
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Speaker 4: Thank you for letting me be of service to you.
44:21
As the temperature starts to change, we have frost warnings
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here in the mid Atlantic. So reminder, Christmas is nigh
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and we're about a month away from the beginning of
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the Trans Siberian Orchestra Christmas Tour. And it is a
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Speaker 3: Individually through this show.
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Speaker 4: And I appreciate this the radio stations that carry us,
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Speaker 3: Saying I heard your work given away.
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Speaker 4: They're they're not I am, and it's not up. It's
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more of a don't hassle somebody over this, because you know,
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if you need to hassle somebody, that's what I'm here for.
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But I have tickets to shows in all the cities
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Very soon we'll start doing drawings from those who have entered.
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There's a little check mark box where you pick the
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Speaker 3: Tickets to, and if.
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Speaker 4: You're listening in Tampa and you don't want to go
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see the show in Tampa, that's okay.
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Speaker 3: Entered it.
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Speaker 4: When one of the other ones of the menu. If
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you're in Fairbanks and you want to go to the
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one in Portland, I'm I'm not.
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Speaker 3: Going to judge.
46:10
Speaker 4: I can't drive you there, but you know that's that's
46:13
just the way it rolls. They are at four three,
46:15
four eight eight two four two one seven year text
46:18
messages and your email's peace. Hamas has agreed to the
46:24
Piece deal. We'll get further into the details of this
46:28
and the first steps towards a twenty point piece and
46:32
trade arrangement built off of the Abraham Accords, built by
46:36
many of the same architects of the Abraham Accords, and
46:44
so a lot of the discussion, of course now in
46:47
the commentariat is going to revolve around people whose wallets
46:53
are going to get lighter.
46:54
Speaker 3: If there's peace, and.
47:02
Speaker 4: It's real, you can't argue it, but it exists and
47:06
it must be pointed out so that you can remain
47:10
free from it. People not killing one another in a
47:15
battle for somebody else's aggrandizement is a good thing that
47:29
without specifocity and without looking at what is going to
47:32
be done, I think Hamas has signed into a bad
47:35
deal for them in terms of their power.
47:42
Speaker 3: I believe that this is.
47:43
Speaker 4: Built around the idea of Hamas and Iran being marginalized
47:47
and pushed to the side. Has Bollah and these folks
47:51
won't have the power if there is economic hef Now,
47:54
that's not something that is easily done, and it is
47:58
certainly not something that is easily protected. To see the
48:01
United States, especially USA mark two point zero, where we
48:07
live now in this crony capitalist live action role playing
48:15
of a constitutional republic, and it is I mean it
48:21
started under Woodrow Wilson and the technocrats because the technocrats,
48:25
perhaps out of the goodness of their heart, saw people
48:28
who were poor, saw people who didn't have enough to eat,
48:31
and said we should do something about that, or moreover,
48:35
we should actually make somebody do something about that.
48:38
Speaker 3: So they started this. But that's the.
48:43
Speaker 4: Sanitized retelling of what the technocrats wanted. The technocrats of
48:50
Woodrow Wilson and all these folks and Margaret Sanger became
48:58
popular after the Civil War, after the Emancipation Proclamation. Why
49:07
would you pick that landmark in American history, Joe, Because
49:12
it's where and how the Dixiecrats built their firewall around
49:19
what they had they were afraid. I mean, it was
49:22
the technocrats and the Dixiecrats which sounded awful lot like
49:26
Democrats who were trying to protect what they had and
49:33
they wanted to keep this newly freed black society from
49:39
growing so large, so they did things like past the
49:42
Permanent Reapportionment Act to take away the States' rights to
49:51
impede the burgeoning black communities from getting more Congress people
49:57
by freezing the amount of Congress people there were. So
50:02
when Woodrow Wilson talks about technocracy, these are the people
50:06
who believed that there was a master race and a
50:17
slave race. And anything that was grown in the soil
50:23
out of the technocracy movement, all the agencies and all
50:30
the legislations that were born in this despicable foundry of
50:36
hate and ill will needs to be called out, and
50:40
we do, and we do to what impact it seems
50:49
to have an impact on you. And I understand that
50:52
we've grown used to America two point zero with its
50:55
crony capitalism and those things. We've figured out how to
51:02
exist under it. But it's wrong. There is an ill
51:05
will to it, and you have to stand up for
51:10
the fact that we are all created equal, whether we
51:13
lived up to that belief or not.
51:15
Speaker 3: At first.
51:16
Speaker 4: There are people who don't believe that there are people
51:18
that believe that they're to be chosen higher over someone
51:24
else and that they should have dominion over them. And
51:29
America wasn't built on that. So if you're an American conservatism,
51:34
if you're an American conservative seeking to conserve the constitutional Republic,
51:41
you have to stand against all these implications. Text message here.
51:47
We were talking earlier about why it's easier to hate
51:50
than to love. It's easier to point out and to
51:53
come up with a list of things you're against. Who says, hey,
51:56
it reminds me of the old Don Williams song.
51:59
Speaker 3: I believe in you. I mean this one.
52:02
Speaker 1: I don't believe in superstars, organic food and foreign cars.
52:08
Speaker 3: I don't believe the.
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Speaker 1: Press of gold, the certainty of growing old, that right
52:15
is right and left is wrong, that north and south
52:19
can't get along, that east is east and west is west,
52:23
and being first is always best.
52:26
Speaker 4: But I believe this is almost you know, his list
52:31
there is that I believe in day and it's a
52:34
wonderful theory. But just like John Lennon's Ode to Peace,
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mom and.
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Speaker 11: And I believe believe in you.
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Speaker 4: That's really the programming model of this program isn't it.
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 4: It's true.
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