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"Ever Realize a Mistake on the First Day of Work?" (Friday August 22, 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 9: Jerry wrote in listening to Us in Tampa, said, Joe,
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  you were talking about a US attorney. I missed some
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  of the story. It's about Trump and a loyalty pledge.
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  I saw a story online about Trump enacting more loyalty
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  pledge stuff. I like what he's doing, but I don't
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  like this idea of loyalty tests. All right, well that's
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  the yeah, May may I unwind the narrative. May I,
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  may I try to stamp down the echo chamber for
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  a moment, and we may have to bring this back
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  into the next segment. It takes a minute or six
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  to unwind all this story. He's talking about the story
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  of the US attorney for the Western District of Virginia
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  who resigned abruptly after being on the job for just
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  under five weeks. And then he posted to social media
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  picture of Ron Burgundy sitting on the couch with a
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  beer saying, well, that escalated pretty quickly, and so they
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  and the story amongst the Adam Kinsinger, Liz Cheney portions
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  of the media, the Bill Bowlings for those in Virginia,
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  the Rick Wilson's, the people who still want to be Republicans.
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  They just want the Republicans to go back to being
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  the Republicans they remember, the ones that were.
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  Speaker 3: Content being the.
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  Speaker 9: Anti Democrat outsider party that never actually had to govern.
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  That you know, the media outlets are portraying it as
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  Trump having a loyalty test that Todd Gilbert, the US attorney,
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  former US attorney from the Central Virginia area, stood up
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  to so heroic that he stood up to this loyalty of.
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  Speaker 3: I'll unpack that a little bit for you in a moment,
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  but first we have other news of the day and our.
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  Attorney for the Western District of Virginia right here where
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  This is audio from a video that many of you
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  seen made national headlines again Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Hannity,
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  all the nationwide folks, Joe Thomas in the morning now
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  doing it where Todd Gilbert is the first voice you're
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  to do that?
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  Speaker 20: You know, it's very unfortunate that the our physicians witnesses
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  were not able to attend today to speak specifically, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about your bill.
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  Speaker 9: How late in the third trimester could a physician perform
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  an abortion if he indicated it would impair the mental
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  health of the one.
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  Speaker 7: Or physical health?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I'm talking about the mental health, So I.
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  Speaker 6: Mean through the third trimester. The third trimester goes all
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  the way up to forty.
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  Speaker 3: Weeks, okay, but to the end of the third trimester, yep.
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  Speaker 18: I don't think we have a limit in the bill.
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  Speaker 9: And everyone went, oh my god, she's talking about being
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  able to abort a baby right up to the moment
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  of birth. Aside from the fact that she didn't seem
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  to know what was in the bill because it had
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  been written for her by Planned Parenthood, Aside from making
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  her look goofy. That was Todd Gilbert, who was up
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  until Wednesday at five pm, the US attorney for the
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  Western District of Virginia. Certainly, by that example, seems like
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  somebody who can interrogate somebody and try to get to
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  the right answer, try to cut through the bovine excrement.
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  Speaker 3: Right. So right, we're there.
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  Speaker 9: So he quits posts a graphic from Anchorman Boy. That
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  escalated quickly, and the rumor mill started turning that he
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  resigned because he was told if he didn't resign, the
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  administration would rescind his nomination. He hadn't gone through the
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  Senate confirmation process yet, so he was still technically acting
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  US Attorney for the Western District of New York, and
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  if he didn't resign, they were going to pull the
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  nomination anyway, because upon his swearing in, it was pointed
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  out to him. And I've had this confirmed back channel
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  three or four different ways from Sunday. Consumed way more
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  of my afternoon. So I'm glad you emailed about this
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  because this consumed an awful lot of my afternoon yesterday
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  chasing down what was really going on here, because it
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  was being portrayed that Gilbert resigned rather than past Donald
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  Trump's loyalty test. That's how the conservative is. It's called
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  Virginia scope. If you have to subscribe, I wouldn't give
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  him money because there's out there to start dumpster fires
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  it took too long for the first responders to come
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  and put out the dumpster fire we started.
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  Speaker 3: But they've got, you know, rumor mill stuff about.
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  Speaker 9: Todd Gilbert being asked by the administration to get rid
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  of one of the weapons against humanity. The attorneys in
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  his office had been connected to the Biden corrupt Justice
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  Department that we're targeting Virginia citizens, American citizens all across
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  the country, and they said we want him let go
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  or them, I don't know, male, female, but they wanted
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  this attorney from the US Attorney's office, a holdover from
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  the bidenministration, to be let go. And you wouldn't do
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  it so either, you know, like I did when I
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  got to Hyennas, Massachusetts, and I said, oh my gosh,
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  this is what I had nothing against Hyenas. It was
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  said you picked the wrong you took the wrong job,
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  sparky or The administration said, we're fighting this corrupt justice
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  system that was out there weaponized against the American citizens,
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  and we need to get them out of our halls
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  of justice and he wouldn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a loyalty test, you tell me. I certainly
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  see how it could be.
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  Speaker 9: Characterized as a loyalty test, but.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see it as a loyalty test.
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  Speaker 9: I see it as an administration saying, Okay, great, you're
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  our new top cop here in the Western District of Virginia.
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  You got to get rid of the people who had
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  been using the justice system to target American citizens. And
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  he didn't want to do it. So they said, okay,
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  then we're not going to nominate you. We're going to
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  rescind your nomination, or you need to resign, and he
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  resigned his choice. But it wasn't a loyalty test. It
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  was loyalty to the American citizens who have been the
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  target of a weaponized judicial system.
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  Speaker 3: That views them as the enemies of the state.
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  Speaker 9: So the FBI and the CIA and all the different
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  intelligence apparat high can be weaponized against the citizens because
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  we're the big problem.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm sorry to see him go. I like the guy.
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  Speaker 9: I'm actually personally friends with the guy who took his place.
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  Speaker 2: On a need to know basis, because you need to
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  know the first thing today.
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  Speaker 9: Dove for our sports director mac McDonald's to take us
• 28:21
  to his notebook.
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  Speaker 3: And what does he scribble down there? I have no idea.
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  I can't even read his handwriting.
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  Speaker 9: It's but I think that stain on one of the
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  We will not rebrand Mac. No, he's still mac McDonald.
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  Speaker 8: How many Bojangles do you have in your area?
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  Speaker 3: Uh? All right, get Vinnie. I'm gonna I'll tell you
• 28:47
  why this minute.
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  Speaker 8: You gotta get you gotta get Vinnie on the track here,
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  so i'll tell you all. Okay, breaking news first before
• 28:53
  I get into what I really wanted to bring to
• 28:55
  the table. The New York Police Department arrested a thirty
• 28:58
  two year old man from Ohio for allegedly throwing a
• 29:02
  sex toy that hit other fans during a w NBA
• 29:05
  game earlier.
• 29:06
  Speaker 29: Again with this not again. They caught the guy August fifth.
• 29:11
  They caught the you know, the the green dildo bitcoin
• 29:15
  or whatever. They Yeah, they caught the guy.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: He flung up you know.
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: And it hit a girl. It didn't even make the court.
• 29:22
  It shows how athletic that guy was. He faces ten
• 29:26
  criminal charges. Oh my god, multiple counts of assault. Good
• 29:30
  for him charge second degree attempt an assault. No, that
• 29:35
  that's a court, that's a trial.
• 29:36
  Speaker 30: I'd like to just sit in on you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 8: I would just like to say, Okay, more importantly now,
• 29:42
  more important news than than than that. We remember that
• 29:48
  we talked all week about the Virginia Tech Athletic director
• 29:51
  with Babcock, who got the Board of visitors together and said,
• 29:54
  we just need more coin.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: It's that simple.
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: We need more change, okay, And the board of visitors
• 29:59
  in the context said, you know, we think you're right.
• 30:01
  His presentation emphasized the need for an increased investment in
• 30:05
  Virginia Tech Athletics. Wanted him to remain competitive, you know,
• 30:10
  just from a marketing standpoint, from a viewership standpoint, from
• 30:14
  a student fun standpoint, and all this all right, So
• 30:17
  a little shameless plug because yesterday Bud Foster, who does
• 30:22
  Foster and Friends, he's my cohort and just you know,
• 30:25
  an insight. He gives us great insights at a lot
• 30:28
  of time. So tomorrow we have an interview with an
• 30:32
  offensive coordinator who Bud used to face, and a quarterback coach,
• 30:36
  Tom Sherman, from the University of Virginia. It is a
• 30:39
  wonderful visit between these two guys. Tom Sherman is one
• 30:42
  of the funniest guys in the world. Tells a couple
• 30:44
  of great stories about Herman Moore and everything. So with
• 30:47
  all that being said, not to plug the show and
• 30:50
  thank you very much, Joe, But anyway, go ahead. Bud
• 30:52
  commented on what was happening in Virginia Tech and simply stated,
• 30:56
  this is a mission to put Virginia Tech back in
• 30:59
  the forefront.
• 31:00
  Speaker 20: And not just from on the field, but the impact
• 31:03
  it makes in the classroom and the impact it makes
• 31:06
  in the community, impact it makes across this you know,
• 31:09
  the state and around around the country. And so I
• 31:13
  think there's gonna you're gonna see some movement and commitment
• 31:15
  from our administration to help support and put us in
• 31:19
  a position to be in the upper echelon of the ACC,
• 31:22
  which hopefully will get us back in the upper echelon
• 31:24
  of college athletics.
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah, some of the Hokies old guard I mean, they're
• 31:28
  not excited that they're in the lower third of the ACC.
• 31:31
  And I give you this example when yet millions and
• 31:34
  millions of dollars can separate the investment, but while there
• 31:38
  was a period where Virginia Tech had I think it
• 31:41
  was during the Justin Fluente period when they only had
• 31:44
  five people recruiting and helping with recruiting, Clemson had twenty two.
• 31:49
  See and again I pointed out a couple of days ago,
• 31:51
  just have fun and go to the Alabama website.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Look up the staff director. It's crazy. Look at the
• 31:56
  jobs in the job. There are Division two schools that
• 31:59
  have fewer players than Alabama has on theirs and I understand.
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: Okay, So with all that being said, now the really
• 32:06
  the positive news, and this is what every morning that
• 32:09
  I'm with Joe.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Joe credits the Lunch Pale Foundation.
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: The lunch Pale Defense Foundation, Okay, started when Bud and
• 32:17
  Frank Biember came up with the lunch pale idea. The
• 32:20
  lunch pale idea come on because Bud let a member
• 32:23
  of the defense, always carry a lunch pail to the sideline.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: It had VT, it had win.
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: What's important Now it's now become a famous It's become
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  a vodka from one of our sponsors, the River City
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  Speaker 3: Okay. So with all that being.
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: Said, Bud's foundation is ridiculously successful. They have given thousands
• 32:43
  and thousands and thousand dollars of scholarships for local kids
• 32:46
  Okay in the valley, and his golf tournament raises. He
• 32:50
  has a golf tournament September. I mean, it's just ridiculous
• 32:53
  how successful it is. Well, now they have cut a
• 32:55
  major marketing deal and I saw the TV spot yesterday.
• 32:59
  Bud said, you got to look for it because it's
• 33:01
  going to be really, really good. So I bring to
• 33:03
  the table the audio. It's edited a little bit, but
• 33:06
  you'll get the gist. Because now Bud is teaming with
• 33:10
  bo Jangles, and yes, the lunch pail.
• 33:13
  Speaker 14: Is back around here. Tradition weighs heavy. Now we've got
• 33:19
  a new tradition built on the same grit and served
• 33:23
  the same fire. Welcome to the team Bojangles Together, we're
• 33:28
  celebrating Hoky Nation before and after the game this season.
• 33:32
  Get your limited edition lunch Pail teams the Big Bow Box,
• 33:36
  which benefits the Lunch Pail Defense Foundation, and get ready
• 33:39
  to cheer on your Hokies together. Coo Jangles an official
• 33:42
  tailgate partner of the Hokies.
• 33:44
  Speaker 8: So what they did to become the official tailgate sponsor.
• 33:48
  What they did was they have built a big lunch
• 33:51
  box looking thing, and so the the bigger lunch pail
• 33:54
  for chicken and slough and iced tea and the whole
• 33:58
  nine yards, and Bud is.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Gonna have cut out.
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: I think there's going to be cutouts, flat buds, you know,
• 34:03
  all over the Bojangles whatever. But Bud appear. This TV
• 34:06
  spot is really good. It's got him walking around the stadium,
• 34:09
  it's got him walking on the field, it's got Bud
• 34:12
  carrying a Bojangles box. And I'm so proud of it because,
• 34:15
  first of all, when Bud and I first met No. Four,
• 34:18
  and I've told the story a thousand times, we got
• 34:19
  paired up in the July acc kickoff playing golf. When
• 34:23
  we were done, we became best friends. In our golf
• 34:26
  cart looked like Animal House two. Budd is one of
• 34:29
  the great guys in the world and just has been.
• 34:32
  You know, He's just a loyal, loyal friend. And I
• 34:35
  can see why he had And even yesterday Tom Sherman
• 34:38
  texted me, he says, I had more fun talking about
• 34:41
  I haven't talked to Bud Foster in years. People may
• 34:43
  not know the story, but Terry Holland wanted to hire
• 34:46
  Bud to be head coach at Uba in two thousand,
• 34:49
  when George Welsh was being asked, you know, seven lions
• 34:52
  is not enough, and Tom Sherman with to Fredericksburg and
• 34:55
  actually interviewed Bud to see if he was interested. They
• 34:59
  sat in a Frederick's for restaurant. They talked, and Tom
• 35:04
  Sherman went back to Terry Hollins says, you're gonna hire him.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Bud's gonna be pretty.
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: But then Terry said, you know, He goes, Bud, you'd
• 35:12
  be good here. I'd love to have you here. But
• 35:14
  he goes, I don't think the Virginia people and somebody
• 35:16
  got in Terry's ear and just said, you can't hire
• 35:19
  a hockey.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: There's no way. I mean, the rivalry was so white hot.
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: He says, you cannot hire a hockey, and so Bud
• 35:26
  Bud said thank you very much. But he goes, look,
• 35:29
  my degree is from Murray State. He goes, yeah, I
• 35:32
  coached here, but I'll bring you know, can you imagine
• 35:36
  maybe the whole change. Now, Grug did a good job,
• 35:39
  don't get me wrong. The two thousands had Matt Shob,
• 35:42
  Heith Miller. You know, it was the Dunning, the new Era.
• 35:46
  But meanwhile, Virginia Tech was recruiting Michael Vick and UVA
• 35:50
  lost out on that recruit you know.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: So anyway, with all that being.
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: Said, I know I rambled on here bud Is every day.
• 35:58
  Every week. I'm more excited about speak, you know, spending
• 36:03
  time with him. And we're into our third year of
• 36:06
  a very successful you know, thanks to people like you
• 36:09
  and Joe and you know, and the people around the state.
• 36:12
  But our podcast numbers have gone way up. I don't
• 36:15
  believe in podcasts. I believe in the radio. We just
• 36:18
  do the podcast to stay you know, kind of relevant.
• 36:20
  But I watch all these other shows. I watch all
• 36:23
  this other stuff on YouTube. Ninety percent of it is
• 36:26
  just crap people from people from garages, people that don't
• 36:31
  have any insight. They're shooting from the hip, they don't
• 36:34
  source anything, and it's so.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Anyway, I don't know why.
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: I guess I'm on a coffee run here because a
• 36:39
  rocket woke us up last night. Elon Musk launched a
• 36:43
  rocket at midnight last night and it it rad We're
• 36:47
  we are We're ten miles I don't know, maybe fifteen
• 36:50
  twenty miles from this launch pad, our house shakes like
• 36:54
  Wizard of Oz when they put the rocket in the air.
• 36:58
  I mean we and then there was a sunny boom
• 37:01
  last night. I mean our cat went for cover and
• 37:05
  it was.
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: Anyway, how often is as as as Jake said to Ellwood,
• 37:10
  how often does that happen?
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: So often you don't even notice, You.
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: Don't even and I yeah, So anyway, my wife walked
• 37:16
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• 37:19
  and you know, so our our water heater. So anyway,
• 37:22
  with all that being said, Happy Friday. College football kicks
• 37:25
  off tomorrow in Dublin. In Dublin, Iowa State and k
• 37:30
  State are playing in Ireland tomorrow, so that'll that'll get
• 37:33
  things underway.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: So what is the end game on all these europe games? Football?
• 37:38
  College and and well.
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: Let's promote and let's make America great again in college football.
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  Speaker 19: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas?
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• 39:14
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• 39:18
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• 39:28
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• 40:06
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• 41:37
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• 41:43
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• 41:47
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• 41:50
  we have a sustainable drinking water supply for the future.
• 41:53
  Visit Drink tap dot org to learn more. This message
• 41:57
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• 42:00
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• 42:02
  Speaker 26: If you came across someone struggling with hunger. How would
• 42:06
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• 42:10
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  Speaker 27: Would you notice a sixteen year old boy who've.
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  Speaker 26: Got his first job for eks, for spending money, but
• 42:17
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  Speaker 27: Or a mother who's in between jobs and sometimes goes
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  Speaker 26: Or a fourteen year old girl who signs up to
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  Speaker 26: Or a retiree who fell ill and had to choose between.
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  Speaker 1: Getting medicine or groceries.
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  Speaker 26: I am the one in aid Americans who struggle with hunger.
• 42:44
  People you passed by every day but never knew were hungry.
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  Speaker 18: I am hungered in America.
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• 43:02
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• 43:05
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• 43:10
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• 43:31
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• 43:32
  Speaker 28: I love this song, I love these nachos. I love
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  Speaker 5: It's one.
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  Speaker 2: Quick amaze your friends here in the first thing today
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  by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: Johnny I said.
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  Speaker 9: We call him Bob from Farmville now former Chair of
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  the House Freedom Concus Congressman Bob good now podcaster host
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  of the Good for America podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Bob. How are you doing, sir?
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  Speaker 31: Good morning Joe doing well? I trust you are also.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, you know me, I'm like a cocker spaniel. Pay
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  a little attention to me. And it's the greatest single
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  day ever until tomorrow, which will be the greatest single
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  day ever.
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  Speaker 3: So have you pre ordered your.
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  Speaker 9: Copy of one hundred and seven Days Kamala Harris's rebranding tome.
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  Speaker 3: Busted Joe.
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  Speaker 31: I'm in line right now, slept overnight, first in line
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  for the book signing. Yeah, the most one of the
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  most disastrous campaign operations in the history of presidential elections,
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  I think, And it's interesting that some would think of
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  her as a potential nominee for the Democrats in twenty eight.
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  Republicans could only dream that the Democrats would nomine Kamala
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  Harris again. But we'll see how that plays out of
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  the next three years.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know what, you look at the derby that's
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  out there. I mean, you know, you've got.
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  Speaker 9: Governor Newsom in California and now you've got JB. Pritzker
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  in Illinois. You have all these folks who are coming
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  out of the woodwork saying no, no, no, pick me,
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  pick me, and each one gets about twenty percent of
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  the people to say, yeah, we could go with that.
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  Nobody likes even in California, nobody likes Gavin Newsom. I
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  guess he better run for president because because it doesn't
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  sound like he's going to win re election as governor
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  there very soon. What do you make of this redistricting battle?
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  I made the case, and I'm pedantic about this. I
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  don't think we have enough congressional districts. I think the
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  country has grown three times in size since the last
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  time there was an extra congressional district added. I know
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  you represented seven hundred and fifty some odd thousand people
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  as best you can, but I think we did ourselves
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  a bad deed. But take us into the redistricting they
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  did in Texas to better reach out into the rural communities,
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  and now California says, well, we'll do the same thing,
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  only pack in the urban areas to make California more
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  blue than it was before.
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  Speaker 31: Well, as you know, the Constitution requires a census every
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  ten years, and therefore redistricting to follow that census, so
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  that you can't go more than ten years without that happening.
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  But it doesn't limit states to that, and as you know,
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  some states do it very often. North Carolina, our southern neighbor,
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  very often does redistricting. Virginia tends to stay on the
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  ten year cycle. But the Democrats have been farther ahead
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  of Republicans in the hyperpartisan for political purposes gerrymandering or redistricting.
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  And you have to all you have to do is
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  look at the makeup of the representation in the respective
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  states that are controlled by Democrats, which by the way,
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  the population is decreasing in most of these states, as
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  particularly California, the before mentioned California. You got one hundred
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  thousand people fleeing California because the Democrat policies. But all
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  of New England has twenty one representatives and no Republicans,
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  not a single Republican in those six states that make
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  up New England, despite the fact you've got states like
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  Maine and New Hampshire where Trump got upwards forty eight
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  percent main forty six percent in New Hampshire in their
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  presidential election, but no representation there. And then you've got
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  states like Maryland. It's seven to one, so eighty eight
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  percent of that represents our Democrats. California is already forty
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  three to nine, Oregon's five to one, Illinois fourteen to three,
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  Washington's eight to two. So the Democrats have been doing
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  it longer. And Kathy Hulkel, what a hypocrite because she
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  did it last term because of working in New York.
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  They flipped three Republican districts in the New York metro area.
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  New York City Metro Area because so frankly, it's permitted
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  within the law as long as you're not doing it
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  for racial purposes. It's permitted within the law to do
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  it for political purpose. And I think Republicans have to
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  fight fire with fire. They shouldn't latterly disarmed, and they
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  ought to not be apologetic for districting when they can
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  for political game. And so I hope that they will
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  follow through in Texas and some other states and do that.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I'm going to make my case to what I
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  was saying, because when they passed the Permanent Reapportionment Act
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  in nineteen twenty nine, the House was frozen at four
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  hundred and thirty five representatives, and since then, the population
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  we did the math. If you take all fifty states,
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  even though the most of the were territories, in nineteen
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  twenty nine, the population was one hundred and fourteen million people,
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  it's three hundred and thirty nine million now. If you
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  look at the map, and Donald Trump carried eighty five
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  county eighty five percent of all the counties in America.
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  If you increased congressional representation back to what it was
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  in nineteen twenty nine, you have almost three to one
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  Republicans in the House of Representatives, because so many counties
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  and so many regions of so many states are read,
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  even in places like California and New York, that you
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  would have so many more Republican voices, and these are
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  people who are not being heard in their halls of government.
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  That's my argument in favor of a larger body. Plus,
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  then you don't have the kind of retractable leadership fights
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  that you had to fight over Kevin McCarthy's dictatorial rule
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  over Congress.
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  Speaker 31: Well, you make a great point there. You're right, even
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  states like New York and California are largely read. From
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  a geographic standpoint, the blue control Democrat control its concentrate
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  in San Francisco, in La or in New York City
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  in Albany, and the majority of the state is red.
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  And of course you can look at any map after
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  an election you can see how it's painted red with
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  little pockets of blue in the blue cities. But you
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  make a good point. I think accessibility geographically is important
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  for constituents to be located close to the representative of
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  vice versa. And that's what does not happen with these
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  crazy redistricted maps that are drawing its crazy configurations. Ideally
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  we would just have all of the districts drawn by
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  just simple geographics and they make sense, and you know
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  you wouldn't stretched out and you know, creatively configured. But
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  you make another point, a very good point, that the
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  representation is diluted if you will, per citizen anyway where
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  you have so far, you know, more citizens per representative,
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  and should that be changed. I think you make a
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  great argument that perhaps it should be looked at.
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  Speaker 9: Bob good On with us, host of the Good for
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  America podcast, and I want to talk about shut down mania.
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  It's already coming. Despite you know, only being about halfway
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  through our blessed recess in Washington, it doesn't seem like
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  there's a recess, and that's mostly thanks to the President
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  and his fire hose of news that comes out of
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  the Oval Office. Talk about that fear. You've warned about
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  this even before you left Congress.
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  Speaker 31: Bob, Yes, I appreciate you bringing up because it's not
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  being talked about enough. But as you know, the current
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  funding and government expires September thirty. They're supposed to do
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  twelve individual appropriation bill's houses past two Senate has passed
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  zero so they're not even pretending they're going to do that.
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  When they come back after Labor Day, they'll have three
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  weeks and not even full five day weeks like most
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  Americans will work through four day weeks. And if on
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  what they called the first day in, they don't come
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  into the evening, the last day out, they leave in
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  the morning. So it's really a very very limited schedule
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  they't have.
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  Speaker 3: So they're going to get it right.
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  Speaker 31: Republicans who took the annual August recess and should not
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  have done it, should have stayed in Washington to do
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  their work. I'm blame Speaker Johnson for that. He said
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  he wouldn't do it last year, he said he wouldn't
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  do it this year, and yet he sent members home
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  without having done their work.
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  Speaker 3: And of course Bob Good on with us.
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  Speaker 9: He is the host of the Good for America podcast
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  First Thing Today here on the Tonk Media Network and
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  talking about the possible shutdowns in September.
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