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"Deranged Leftists is Still Accurate" (Saturday September 13, 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 2: Said, steal MEE have a day at least for work.
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Speaker 4: Then yep, same place on the horizon, all the just
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checking every morning.
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Speaker 5: The one that Joss smiled, he only eggs.
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Speaker 4: Joe, bless you for living as be of service to
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you on this Saturday morning. Across America.
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Speaker 6: They didn't murder Charlie Kirk because he was an extremist
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or a fascist, or a threat to democracy or inciting
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violence or any of the other reasons that they're now
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trying to put out on X and TikTok and everywhere else.
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Speaker 4: They murdered him because he was effective. Amen to that.
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That's the great Nick Frets. If you don't know Nick Credus,
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you should uh four three four or eight eight two
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four two one seven. The program that tells you the
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news chops the news up into easily digestible gummies, and
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then most importantly wants to find out how the news
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is impacting you where you are. You can use the
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phone number to text message as well hamp listening down
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on the Treasure Coast. That kid that killed Kirk was
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a pretty good shot for being so young. No seems odd. Actually,
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I taught to a brigadier general with the National Guard
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just the other day and he said it was a
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horrible shot, a shot missed by eight inches. I mean,
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it had its effect, but it wasn't what it was
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supposed to be. He's like, nobody aims there. This kid was,
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you know, somebody who obviously had fired a rifle before
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but didn't know what he was doing. And I guess
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as prescient as it was that Donald Trump turned his
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head just at the moment the kid in Butler, Pennsylvania,
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the teen on the hot tin roof pulled his trigger.
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Charlie did not. And as we gather both, you know,
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in the PostScript of the twenty fourth anniversary of September
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eleventh and the terrorist attack in Utah, which it was
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from where I sit, your results can vary. You can say, no,
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that's not the same, and that's fine because there are
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people who are saying that, and I get it, but
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I'm not one of them. And the terrorists are winning
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because I have a pile of information and all the
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stuff that I have regarding the shooting of Charlie Kirk
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includes a pile that entertains the very real possibility that
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it was these Nick Foint people one of them. And
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Nick isn't doing himself any favors when he takes to
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social media saying, please don't do this. Okay, Nick, what
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made you feel like you needed to say that so
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so much to get into this morning? And if it
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is the gropers and the Nick point his followers understand something,
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because there's a lot of people who are picked up
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on this story and are saying Donald Trump lied because
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they love that. That's the phrase they love to use
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about Donald Trump, is he's a liar when Donald Trump
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said deranged leftists did this, because whether it was a
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Bernie bro like the shooter at the congressional softball game,
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or an adherent to these unite the Right type people.
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And remember, and if you were listening back then, and
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one of the little bits of gravitas I have is
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I was there during the riots in Charlottesville because that's
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where our flagship station is. And I said this at
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the time while everyone was saying, but they're pro Trump.
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You can call these people unite the unicorns and it
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doesn't make it any more truthful than calling them unite
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the right and the same as so when President Trump
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says deranged leftists killed Charlie Kirk's not wrong, just how
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they poured down. What kind of ball cap does this
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deranged leftist where? That's the ones we need to be
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State Marco Rubio will visit Israel next week in a
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show of support for the country before the UN meets
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and what is expected to be a contentious debate on
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the creation of a Palestinian state. Erica Kirk, the widow
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of Charlie Kirk, spoke directly to the quote evil doers
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responsible for my husband's assassination, telling them that they have
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unleashed a movement that's more powerful in his death. In
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a seventeen minute video posted to his social media, The
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president of Utah Valley University said on Friday, the beauty
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violence that rocked the campus on the tenth. Astro Tumines
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said to Menez, I'm sorry. Made the remarks on a
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video post to Instagram. The suspect Tyler Robinson twenty two
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years old of Southern Utah's in custody turned in by
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family members investigators, according to Governor Conx. In the press
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conference yesterday, investigators interviewed a family member who stated that
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Robinson had become more political in recent years. A family
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member referenced a recent incident which Robinson came to dinner
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and the conversation with another family member, Robinson mentioned how
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angry he was that Charlie Kirk was coming to Utah
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Email says, but JT. These people oppose the Democrats. How
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can you call them leftists? There was a group once
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Tea Party taxed enough already. Well, they would hold get
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show up, and they were from the radical left. They
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were further left. They thought they thought Obama was hitler
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because he let them down. These were Marxists who were
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mad that Barack Obama had not gone far enough to
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the left for them. So when President Trump says that
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a deranged leftist assassinated Charlie Kirk, he's not wrong, even
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if it does turn out to be Nick Fuintis followers.
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They're deranged leftists. They want leftist beliefs, they want authoritarian leftism,
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just their style. And they opposed Nancy Pelosi and Bernie
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Sanders and that kind of thing. But I don't define
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Speaker 13: Morning, Joe?
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Speaker 4: How are you?
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Speaker 13: My name is Chris.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Chris, how are you, sir.
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Speaker 13: Better than I deserve that?
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Speaker 4: Amen to that, brother, So what's on your mind?
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Speaker 19: I'm gonna take it a little bit of issuy with you,
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Speaker 13: In the same place.
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 19: I don't believe this assassination, Charlie Kirk, but it's political
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at all. I believe there is really only two sides
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to any issue.
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Speaker 13: It's either evil or good.
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Speaker 19: And I say this was an assassination by the evil side.
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Speaker 13: It's the good side.
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Speaker 4: Chris. That's so. That is so well said because all
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deceiver do? What does he do? This is what he does?
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people ask me, and I'm sure they ask you as well,
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how do bad things happen on Earth? I said, because
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Earth isn't God's realm. It's Satan rules here and we're
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trying to survive it and make it through to our
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just rewards. And you're so brilliant for saying that and
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thank you for bringing that up that way.
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Speaker 19: I wanted to say that because for the first time,
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yesterday evening I had a fellow minister friend of mine.
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Speaker 13: Ask me if I went around armed, because he knows
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what I do.
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Speaker 19: I represent a children's ministry and I go around raising
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fund for him and speaking at churches and other venues,
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and probably thirty weekends out of the year, I'm on
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the road like I have this morning, and I had
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never ever thought about the bore in my life, you know,
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having to do that, and I probably still won't. My
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son even asked me last night that I'm coming with
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you because I know you don't care.
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Speaker 4: He's looking out for you.
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Speaker 13: I mean, I have.
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Speaker 19: Shotguns and rifles and handguns and those things at home,
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but I don't do it usually if I'm going to
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speak it at Christian venue, I don't think if it
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there's something that I need to do, and you know,
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but all of a sudden, it's like should I be
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You know, I would probably be the last one to
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shoot somebody unless I thought that person was going to
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go on to shoot somebody else that couldn't defend themselves.
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That's that's what evil has done to so confusion in
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our world, and he's done it to the let me,
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let me finished this. He's really raised his head against
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the young people in our in our work, and we
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see that all over. Whether it was the other week
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when they went to the Catholic school on Wednesday morning,
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up the kids and there, or whether it was a
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young person Charlie Kirk who's ministering to because Charlie, everything
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Charlie did was centered on his belief in Jesus prices.
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The statement, whether it was who he supported for president,
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or who he or or or who he claimed his
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work and say it was, it was all motivated by that.
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It all came down to that. Uh, that fact, and
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that's why he was taken out because the people couldn't
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answer him. Everybody they put up there, you know, prove
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them wrong, didn't.
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Speaker 13: Stand, so they had to take it out. That's that's
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how evil operates.
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Speaker 4: So so perfect. Yeah, and you're you're so right, and
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you know this is and bless you for working in
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children's ministry because you're because the children are who they
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go for, the children who are open minded and wide
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eyed and trusting, and and the exploitation of it is
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is insidious and I think, you know, one of the
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things that we have to remember about the United States,
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one of the reasons it has been such a mania
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amongst the Marxists and the Islamist Marxists. And understand, uh,
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the Islamists are Marxists just as much as the Soviets were,
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perhaps even more so, because they've added a religious fervor
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to it that Nikita kruz Chef never could replicate that
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that their hatred of us is our Judeo Christian ethic
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They don't come from Tim Kaine, the Virginia Senator that said,
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oh don't they come from and and that infuriates them
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because then they have no dominion over you, and that's
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what they want exactly.
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Speaker 13: It's such an attack on our young people that goes on.
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Speaker 19: I've noticed that the last few years the children we
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get in were taken the views to that and neglected
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and troubled young people.
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Speaker 13: And more and more they have the children we you know.
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Speaker 19: It's just beyond recognition, you know, always has been some
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of the things, horrible things they've been through parents, drug
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addicts and pedophiles and sell them for you know, to
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other pedophiles.
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Speaker 13: You name it. But now the children have come.
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Speaker 19: In, they have they have no moral conference with you
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 12: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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art and brain.
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Speaker 4: Who's with me?
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Speaker 15: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed.
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Speaker 20: And my brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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Speaker 4: Somebody call me a ride.
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Speaker 21: The evildoers responsible for my husband's assassination, I have no
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idea what they have done.
28:22
Speaker 1: First thing today on the Talk media Network by Joe Thomas,
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the second most famous Thomas and Charlotte's.
28:29
Speaker 22: With something wrong with the world today.
28:32
Speaker 21: I don't know what it is.
28:35
Speaker 13: Something's wrong with.
28:37
Speaker 23: Us the same things in a different way.
28:44
Speaker 3: God knows today it.
28:45
Speaker 24: Is showing no surprise.
28:53
Speaker 4: Thank you for letting me be of service to you
28:55
on this Saturday morning where we give you the news,
28:59
we break down the US and and find out how
29:01
it's impacting you. I wanted to hang on to Chris,
29:04
who was talking about how you know what we're facing
29:08
is good and evil, not left and right. But I
29:12
wanted to follow up with him. He works and raises
29:15
money for youth ministry. Well, let me let me ask you.
29:19
And I'm curious about because one of the things about Charlie, Chris,
29:23
and I appreciate you hanging on the line with me
29:25
through the news break here, but one of the things
29:28
that struck me about Charlie was, as the clip I
29:32
played from Nick Fretis said, is his effectiveness was his
29:38
ability to within a few sentences undo two decades of
29:45
indoctrination at the hands of the Marxists and the schools,
29:49
and the Marxists and the higher education, the Marxists and
29:53
the media. And he would simply, as Socrates would say,
29:58
just ask why tell me to give define your position?
30:03
And and it would turn so many and so quickly.
30:06
And if you think about the trillions of dollars that
30:11
Satan and his minions have spent on this campaign to
30:15
see Charlie undo it, you know, really in a blink
30:18
of an eye, and and so easily. No wonder they
30:22
were furious with him. But I want to I'm curious
30:24
in your work with the children's ministry how you say
30:29
they come in no moral compass or anything. I'm seeing
30:32
statistically an enormous increase in young people seeking the church,
30:38
seeking answers because they were raised almost feral by parents
30:43
handwringing millennials. We're like, oh, I don't want to I
30:45
don't want to judge, and they're they're seeking it because
30:48
they know there's a what's the expression, there's a Jesus
30:51
size hole in their heart, you know, So how quickly,
30:57
when exposed to the truths of humanity do these kids
31:02
turn around? What is your because I'm sure it's hard work.
31:05
But when when the light goes on, you know, does
31:08
it go on so brightly it almost blinds you? Will
31:13
you kids say this?
31:15
Speaker 19: The children that we take in are so traumatized. It
31:19
takes a lot to gain the confidence. But one of
31:22
the biggest things they see right away they feel safe.
31:25
All of a sudden, they feel safe safe, and and
31:30
in doing that, then all of a sudden also open
31:33
to listen to what you have to say.
31:36
Speaker 13: Does every child.
31:37
Speaker 19: Come come in contact with us, uh, becoming born again believer? No,
31:41
but we plant the seed and try to turn the
31:43
tide of the world.
31:46
Speaker 4: That's all you can do. That's what That's what he
31:48
did when he arrived in Samaria and Uh and God
31:52
bless you Chris for that. I appreciate it, and thank
31:54
you for sticking around and giving giving me that testimony
31:56
as well, because that's you know, I like positive, I really,
32:01
I really like positive in the morning. So I appreciate
32:04
you sharing that with us.
32:06
Speaker 13: Thank you for what you do too, Joe.
32:08
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
32:09
Speaker 13: My mother, good day, and appreciate you well.
32:11
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you for being on the receiving end.
32:13
Of it four three, four eight eight two four two
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one seven. You can also email JT in the Morning
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Radio at gmail dot com if you'd prefer that way.
32:24
And like I said, morning morning must be I'm no linguist,
32:28
but morning must be from some ancient Greek word meaning
32:32
last minute, because I know how mornings are and Saturdays
32:35
are no different. One of the reasons we launched a
32:38
Saturday version of the program is that you know your days,
32:43
your weeks. You're not nine to five anymore. The world
32:47
isn't like that, and so why pretend that Saturday morning
32:52
is so so different than our Tuesday morning. You've got
32:56
to get up, got to get going. Maybe the school
32:58
isn't in session, maybe school is. You're part of the
33:01
homeschool movement, or you're part of these micro schools. The
33:07
school could be whenever it is. A lot of folks
33:10
talk about, you know, fifty two week a year school
33:16
kids are going to have to face a fifty two
33:18
week a year schedule when they get out of school,
33:22
and a lot of folks follow up on that text
33:26
message here Jerry says, why does it have to be
33:30
a religious crusade? Joe, didn't you start this program by
33:34
saying the jihads are winning. And the thing is, and
33:42
this is what infuriates folks, the ideologues, the all are
33:50
nothings is that the United States. And one of the
33:53
neat things about being flagged from Jefferson Country here is
33:57
sure I feel his shadow over what we discuss every morning,
34:02
Thomas Jefferson. That is not George, but here Aaron Jefferson Country.
34:08
It's important for me to continue the legacy of pointing
34:13
out that all men are created equal, and that the
34:17
deceiver wants you to say, well, he didn't live up
34:20
to that. We are failed and broken people who struggle
34:26
to live up to the simplest ideas of love one
34:30
another as you would be loved yourself and as you
34:33
love your savor. That's the thing is. I don't care
34:36
what way you find. And there are people who say
34:43
it does matter. Okay, that's fine, but we don't in
34:48
this country shun you because your path to faith is
34:53
different than mine. Good morning, you're on the air, first
34:57
thing this Saturday morning with JT. Who's this? Oh, I'm sorry,
35:03
who's this?
35:05
Speaker 22: Hey Joe?
35:06
Speaker 4: It's Clark, Hey Clark, Happy Saturday. How are you doing, sir?
35:10
Speaker 13: I'm putting right along.
35:11
Speaker 23: So far, so great call by Chris.
35:14
Speaker 4: He just what he nailed that? Yeah he did, didn't he?
35:18
Speaker 25: So you know, I got to thinking about violence and
35:21
the lies the other day and started looking and I'm
35:24
gonna butcher this name.
35:26
Speaker 23: Alexander Soulsenskinsensensen, Soulsanitskin, Alexander Soulsanitz.
35:31
Speaker 4: And I read the text you sent me from a
35:34
late late in Friday's program. But share it. It's great,
35:37
it's a great point.
35:38
Speaker 25: Well, you know, when violence bursts onto the peaceful human condition,
35:45
its face is flushed with self assurance.
35:48
Speaker 22: It displays on.
35:49
Speaker 25: Its banner and proclaims iron violence, make way, step aside,
35:52
I will crush you. But violence ages swiftly a few
35:57
years past, and it is no longer sure of itself
36:01
to prop itself up to appear decent.
36:04
Speaker 23: It will without fail call forth.
36:06
Speaker 25: Its ally lies, for violence has nothing to cover itself
36:11
with butt lies and lies can only persist through violence.
36:18
And it is not every day, and not on every
36:21
shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand. And here's
36:25
the part that's really got me triggered this morning. It
36:29
demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily
36:34
participation and deceit, and this suffices as our fealty.
36:40
Speaker 23: Now you think about the end there, and then think
36:44
about the whole trands and pronouns things, Joe.
36:48
Speaker 4: That's just one dan current of it.
36:50
Speaker 23: And how adamant is the left that you use someone's
36:56
proper pronouns when we will cancel you, you will get
36:58
fired from your job.
37:00
Speaker 22: We will come after you with our full force. It's
37:04
all about.
37:06
Speaker 4: Acceptance of the lie. So they have the fealty. I agree,
37:13
you know, and and you know, funny enough, the irony
37:16
is that they're screaming that these folks who are being
37:19
fired because they went out and danced on TikTok because
37:23
Charlie Kirk had been assassinated. They're like, oh, that's not fair.
37:28
I thought you were all for free speech, so apparently
37:30
we have to be for free speech, and they don't.
37:34
It's the one way street apparently. There and but, and
37:39
let's not forget about soulsan Nitzen. He was offered asylum
37:42
and American safety and he didn't want it. He wanted
37:46
to go back to Russia to save Russia. He was
37:50
a patriotic Russian who wanted to save his country from
37:55
the Marxists that had taken it over, and I and
37:57
I give him such great gravitd for that? Can you believe?
38:02
Speaker 26: With all the recent violent protests, looting, and destruction, some
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a time when America's neighborhoods need the protection of police
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the most, some elected officials would rather create more chaos
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38:22
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Speaker 27: We the people are guaranteed five freedoms in the First Amendment.
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42:35
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Speaker 1: Amaze your friends here in the first Thing today by
44:15
Joe Thomas.
44:20
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, hey, hey, easy, we still have those at all.
44:45
Amen to that. We're talking about Alexander Soulzanitsen with the
44:50
doctor Clark and his patriotism for Russia.
44:54
Speaker 25: Be willing to sacrifice to make change.
44:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it, and understand. And this got into a
45:01
little bit of the nihilism that seemed to creep in
45:04
on September eleventh, you know, in the wake of Charlie
45:07
Kirk's assassination and obviously the twenty fourth anniversary of September
45:13
eleventh is peace comes from knowing that each of the
45:18
last moments of your life you've rung every ounce out of,
45:23
and that all the moments of your life before that
45:26
you have thoroughly wrung every ounce out of, and that
45:31
there have been no wasted minutes. And I think that
45:34
that's where courage comes from. That's where the peace to
45:39
do the right thing that, as you said, to go
45:42
back and face overwhelming odds, is understanding that the odds
45:48
ain't really so overwhelming when you're at peace with you
45:52
know what you have done with the moments leading up
45:55
to that moment. Clark, Is that a fair thing to say?
45:59
Speaker 23: Yes? I mean, you know, the resolve to fight the fight,
46:05
whether you think you can win it or not. That's
46:08
that's you know, to fight the fight that you know
46:12
you can win. How much courage does that require, Joe.
46:16
Speaker 4: Not nearly as much as fight the fight that everyone
46:19
says you're going to lose and understand when and I
46:22
know there's a leftist out there with the keyboard the
46:24
keyboard warriors, they're talking about fighting again. They're supporting violence.
46:28
We're talking of combat of ideas. The things that Charlie
46:33
Kirk was doing was sitting there saying, go ahead, tell
46:37
me what you believe, and I'll tell you why I
46:39
think you're wrong, and then we can debate that, you know, fairly.
46:44
And he always was, you know, to me everything the
46:48
leftists always, ever since twenty seventeen, have been throwing in
46:52
my face out of Charlottesville. You people need to be
46:55
more open minded. Well, here was the king of open
46:57
minded and willing to allow for And maybe that's why
47:03
this story of the Gropers and the Nick Fuentes is
47:07
in the world. Is he would allow for the fact
47:09
that some twenty two year old has been, you know,
47:11
for fifteen years getting indoctrinated with this stuff. So he's
47:17
not going to judge them unfairly for their beliefs.
47:22
Speaker 23: Well, Joe, if the battle is good versus evil, then
47:28
we've got to be willing to fight regardless of whether
47:31
we think we're going to win that particular battle or not.
47:34
Speaker 4: Amen to that, brother, And because you know, and that's
47:39
where the piece comes from, is that you know, good
47:42
awaits us no matter what the outcome, and is one
47:47
of the things that you will pick up segueing here,
47:50
to our guest hotline. Thanks. Doctor Clark, lead guitar player
47:55
for the Trans Siberian Orchestra, is on with us there.
47:58
Tickets just went unsaled this week for the twenty twenty
48:02
five Ghosts of Christmas Eve tour. I have as a
48:05
special arrangement with the band tickets for anyone who's listening
48:09
to this program in any of the cities where the
48:13
confluence of this program and the band's tour, whether it's Portland, Oregon,
48:17
or Belmont, New York RCN. You guys obviously, yeah, and
48:22
your results can vary. You might want to go up
48:25
to the show we have tickets for in Manchester, New Hampshire.
48:29
There's a list of shows that we have tickets for
48:33
online at Joe Thomas in the Morning dot com. Please
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enter yourself to win there. We'll start doing drawings a
48:38
little bit later on. But Joel cash Man, it's so
48:41
good to hear from you. We need a TSO show
48:44
because you really get that Prince of Peace and right
48:48
off the stage through the pirate technics and into your
48:51
heart and kick off this season. How's your summer been, buddy, Yeah.
48:54
Speaker 20: I'm doing great, buddy, Thanks so much for taking the
48:56
time out as always to help us.
48:58
Speaker 22: Out and help get the word out.
49:00
Speaker 20: Yeah, a little early to say Merry Christmas, but not
49:03
too early to say tickets are on sale, So we
49:07
have to do what we have to do with that
49:08
give everybody the opportunity to get get some good seats.
49:11
Speaker 13: I guess right.
49:12
Speaker 4: Well, And also you know, and I think it's important
49:15
to remind folks that a dollar from every ticket sold
49:18
and every city goes to a local charity somebody who's
49:21
doing good works in those towns. So if you don't
49:24
get tickets for free for me, then you can go
49:28
get one for yourself and know that it's helping a
49:30
local charity as well.
49:33
Speaker 22: Yeah that's right.
49:34
Speaker 20: I mean, you knew Paul O'Neil very well. And all
49:36
goes back to our late great founder creator. Paul O'Neil
49:40
is just such an eccentric, mad scientist to come up
49:43
with this idea of.
49:44
Speaker 22: Trance Siberian Orchestra and have it work out.
49:47
Speaker 20: Only for Paul would this end up becoming this holiday
49:50
tradition for so many and so successful. But he was
49:54
just one of the most generous people you'd ever know,
49:57
and he set it up basically that a dollar from
49:59
every ticket it's a little goes to local charity. So yeah,
50:01
we always work with our local partners and make sure
50:03
it's going to some of the place that's most indeed
50:06
and best spent.
50:07
Speaker 22: So thanks for mentioning that, Joe.
50:09
Speaker 4: Appreciated, buddy, No, not at all. Thank you for continuing
50:12
to do this show. It's been a it's been a
50:14
different kind of off season quote unquote for tso European
50:18
tour and and things like that going on, and you know,
50:22
we followed it through social media and all as the
50:25
band starts to get back together for rehearsals and getting
50:29
ready to you get out and get everyone's Christmas season started.
50:35
How has your summer, your off season been?
50:39
Speaker 22: Oh great?
50:40
Speaker 20: I mean I've got a really busy year guitar wise.
50:43
I always stay really active musically, just you know, obviously
50:47
out of desperation to make a living as a guitar
50:50
player I often joke, but also just out of my
50:54
will and want to improve as a musician on a
50:57
daily basis.
50:58
Speaker 22: So yeah, man, you know, it's start it out great.
51:00
Speaker 20: Having I played with Share at the SNL fifty homecoming concert.
51:04
Speaker 22: Share somebody I've been playing with for a number of years.
51:07
Speaker 20: And counciled of rock and Roll Fantasy Camp, recorded my
51:11
own album. I'm recording a couple albums right now that
51:15
are sort of all star classic rocker type projects. One
51:19
called Revolution Saints Sets with Dean Castronovo from Journey and
51:22
Jeff Pilson from Foreigner.
51:24
Speaker 22: So, you know, still stay busy and working NonStop. And
51:29
you know, if I wanted, I could tell you the
51:32
entire year and it get old in a hurry here.
51:34
Speaker 20: But yeah, just kind of constantly busy, and obviously they
51:38
know the big the big finish to every year is
51:40
getting together everybody at tso it's it's just got its
51:44
own special energy. It's like it's not like anything else
51:48
that I'm a part of really in any way, shape
51:51
or form. It's just so unique and continues to be.
51:54
Speaker 13: Really.
51:55
Speaker 20: One of the best moves I've ever made was joining
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transl Iberian Orchestra back twenty ten, and here I am
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all these years later and just so many great experiences,
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met so many wonderful people, not just the musicians but
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the fans, and we're glad.
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Speaker 22: You know, our signing line is back this year. That's
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kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 4: I oh, that's nice.
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Speaker 20: You know if you've ever seen that, but yeah, they
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after every evening show you have an opportunity to come
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through and meet the band, shake our hands, have a
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sign whenever you want, take.
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Speaker 22: Pictures, etc. And things of that nature. So you know
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we're excited to have that come back now.
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Speaker 4: Hang on to that a second, Joe. That is actually
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a lot of fun because everybody is all the singers,
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all the guitar players of the drummer Jeff Plate and
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Chris Caffrey and all the folks that set up lineup
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for you there, Belmont. For our friends listening on Long
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