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"Happy Birthday, E, Phllebmista!" (Wednesday September 17, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Now essentials.
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  Speaker 2: You have slurred the meaning out of the words We.
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  Speaker 1: The people making mornings great again. First thing today on
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  the Tunk Media Network by Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Thomas, Happy Constitution Day. Thank you for joining us and
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  letting me be of service to you to get your
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  day begun two hundred and thirty eight years ago a
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  bunch of guys, thirty nine people. Oh my gosh, only
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  thirty nine people. Couldn't we have had some democracy? How
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  is that democ receive only thirty nine people? Ratify something?
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  Bet you a bunch of them will own slaves too.
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  We the people. With apologies to William Shatner. I wonder
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  if I wonder if people on September seventeenth, you know,
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  I wonder how much you would have to pay to
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  get was he ninety four? Now ninety four years old?
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  I thought the Vulcans were the ones that lived long.
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  I wonder how much you would have to pay a
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  ninety four year old William Shatner to show up somewhere
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  like Tim Allen in the movie Galaxy Quest to just
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  read the preamble of the US Constitution, We the people,
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  in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice,
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  ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the
• 2:00
  general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves
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  and our posterity. Do ordain and establish this Constitution for
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  the United States of America. Controversial at its start, it
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  was held in a convention. It was the product of
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  a convention that had been called to try to fix
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  the articles of Confederation and the issues that the several
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  states were having with one another, fomented by foreign powers
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  whispering in people's ears. Gee, that doesn't sound familiar, doesn't
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  And in this out of this wrote this kind of
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  mousey and from what a lot of people say, kind
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  of really bookish Virginian who nobody in Virginia liked. He
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  was that government nerd. He was that law nerd that
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  always seemed to be the downer. I want to do this, Yeah,
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  you don't have legal authority to damn it, Madison. Why
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  do you keep telling me I don't have authority to
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  do it? The governor of the state didn't like him.
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  Most of his friends didn't even like him that much,
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  and certainly didn't support his idea of a centralized government.
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  Until George Mason, at the behest of James Monroe negotiated
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  a peace treaty with the Virginia delegations so that if
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  they promised to tack on this bill of rights thing
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  similar to what Virginia had in its constitution, they might
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  be seeing fit to go along with it. We might
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  give in and let you have your constitution. And that's
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  how it was one. That's how it happened. Two hundred
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  and thirty eight years ago. They finally signed on the
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  dotted line. But today we have other things afoot, and
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  William Shatner's point about slurring the meaning of the words
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  never has been more true. Our first things this morning,
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  so we may discuss. Prosecutors officially filed charges of aggravated
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  murder against Tyler Robinson in the shooting death of Turning
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  Point USA founder Charlie Kirk Tuesday. They announced they would
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  also seek the death penalty in the case. The Utah
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  County Sheriff's office added that the twenty two year old
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  is being kept in the jail's special housing unit quote
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  so we can keep a close eye on him. The
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  sheriff said he will remain on special watch status until
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  cleared by mental health officials, which may take several days.
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  This decision was based on testimony from family members who
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  had told the authorities that he had told his father
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  that he would rather kill himself than be arrested. Texas
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  Republican Governor Greg Abbott, who'll put that word? I mean?
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  Is that relevant? Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas
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  Education Agency have announced that more than one hundred educators
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  or under investigation right now and could face suspension of
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  their teaching certifications due to social media posts celebrating the
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  assassination of Kirk. FBI director Patel told the Senate Judiciary
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  Committee Tuesday that investigators are pursuing more than twenty individuals
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  connected to an online chat room with the suspected shooter.
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  Robert Redford died Tuesday at his Utah home at the
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  age of eighty nine. He is remembered, of course, for
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  roles like the Sting, All the President's Men, Barefoot in
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  the Park, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid, as well
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  as directing terms like ordinary People. But perhaps more notable
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  is his legacy of the Aspen Film Festival, which he
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  began decades ago to celebrate film, especially independent film, a
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  festival that goes on every year in Aspen, Colorado. He
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  died at his home in Utah at the age of
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  reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
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  The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
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  has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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  cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
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  or penguins who travel up to five hundred miles to
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  in search of fruit. This remarkable work ethic is shared
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  by our best friends, the canines. We know dogs are
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  Speaker 7: That's buzzed.
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  Speaker 8: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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  Speaker 9: And now a speech.
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  Speaker 10: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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  heart and brain.
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  Speaker 11: Who's with me?
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  Speaker 8: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and.
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  Speaker 2: My brain is saying when it's time to go home.
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  Somebody call me a ride.
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  Speaker 12: Love that guy, me too, know your buzzed warning signs,
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  call for a ride when it's time to go home.
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  Speaker 2: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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  Speaker 13: Did you know that more than half our household energy
• 11:31
  costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
• 11:35
  good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
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  One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
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  energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
• 11:46
  learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
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  That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
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  leaks around windows and doors, check ducts for holes, and
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  improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
• 12:00
  when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
• 12:02
  energy Star logo and read the energy guide label, and
• 12:06
  there are day to day things you can do. Lower
• 12:09
  your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
• 12:12
  close fireplay stampers when they're not in use, and keep
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  air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
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  reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
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  Speaker 1: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for letting us be of service to you
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  this morning, on this Constitution Day. And I was watching
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  a video. It was just one of the ones that
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  I've seen of rallies and vigils. This one was held
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  in Ontario, Canada, and Canadian citizens singing the US national
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  anthem and waving flags all individual for uh the assassination
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  of Charlie Kirk. And I thought it was interesting and
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  it struck me. And I've never amused this before, but
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  it struck me that Canada and the United States are
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  two prime examples of authoritarianism versus liberty and the economics
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  of both. And this isn't meant to slag for our
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  friends in Fairbanks. I'm not trying to put you out
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  there on an island, you know, with Canada in between.
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  You and getting home. I'm not doing that. But if
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  you look at where Canada has elevated itself to economically,
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  certainly amongst some of the more prosperous countries of the world,
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  but not nearly as prosperous as the messy, disorganized, chaotic
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  United States, whose liberty allowed us to create economies of
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  scale far grander that of the tightly organized British home
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  rule economy of Canada. And Canada is the crown jewel
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  of the World Economic Forum. This is I mean, their
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  own prime Minister was the World Economic forums handpicked head
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  of the both Bank of Canada and then for a
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  while the Bank of England, which is one of the
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  biggest national banks out there. And it just as I
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  was watching these Canadians sing the American national anthem and
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  wave American flags, I thought, gosh, because resource for resource,
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  I mean, the climate is different to a series of
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  degrees for its more northern position, but under the ground,
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  there is an argument that Canada might have more natural
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  resources under its ground than the United States does, just
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  due to the Canadian style economics. It's just never been
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  realized to the wild, amazing powers that this five thousand
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  year leaf allowed. Once Constitution Day came about two hundred
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  and thirty eight years ago. So we sit here and
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  there's so much to get into. The obviously the investigations
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  into and now the leakings and what's happened is for
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  those who are wondering what has happened, is there is
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  by the Utah sheriffs and the investigative leaks out of
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  the FBI and ambiguity about this murderer that is allowing
• 16:53
  the left to say he's mega, he's a Trumpster? Is
• 16:58
  that these? I mean, I'm no police officer, and I
• 17:03
  don't want attain to any jury pools. But I don't
• 17:06
  know bisexual living with transgender. I know enough about Charlie
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  Kirk's positions. I've listened to enough Charlie Kirk radio programs.
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  I know where he stands on some of those things
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  biblically faster than you can say Leviticus. So I don't
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  know that would be where I'd be looking, just saying,
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  but on this Constitution Day, how did we get here?
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  How did we get into this perverted place where the
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  Yangs are out there celebrating their e flamista and you
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  can watch Hakeem Jeffries holding his hands on the box,
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  saying no, these are only for the chiefs. And if
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  you don't know the Star Trek episode, I apologize a
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  parallel planet where the Chinese Communists, by the way, in
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  nineteen sixty seven, a little surprising choice. They chose the
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  Chinese Communists as the ones who had dominated the planet,
• 18:14
  and that the Yangs were living in the hills running
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  little terror strikes against the calms. But late sixties science
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  fiction notwithstanding, how did we get here? How did we
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  pervert those words till we thought we the people? Was
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  e flamista? Because we have we are exactly minus the
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  bear skin clothes for most of us, he says, on
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  a tad's day, knowing that several of you might not
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  mind a little bear skin rap rather than the suit
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  and tie. How did we pervert provide for the common defense,
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  promote the general welfare. I can see where we've perverted
• 19:02
  that line. We now think it's provide welfare secure the
• 19:09
  blessings of liberty secure. These words have meaning, not provide
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  liberty secure. It again, this is all built off of
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  the John Locke Enlightenment idea that God gives you your
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  liberty and that the government is only job is to
• 19:32
  secure the blessings of that liberty. And that phrase means
• 19:38
  we are going to protect the stuff you have created
• 19:41
  for yourself, your property, your home, your family. These are
• 19:47
  the blessings of liberty, your company, the company you keep.
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  These are the blessings of liberty that the government swears
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  to protect. How did we pervert this? It's my position
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  has been for many years. You don't have to go
• 20:02
  much further than Section eight of the first section, Article one.
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  Section eight the Commerce what's commonly known as the Commerce Clause.
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  There's no title in special font in the Constitution. It's
• 20:28
  just Section eight. Congress shall have the power to lay
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  and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises to pay the
• 20:36
  debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare
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  of the United States. But all duties, imposts, and excises
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  shall be uniform throughout the United States. To borrow money
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  on the credit of the United States. To regulate commerce
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  with foreign nations and among the several states and with
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  the Indian tribes. That's the that's the phrase that pays
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  right there. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among
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  the several states. Post the Civil War, some authoritarians looking
• 21:16
  for a loophole said well, and nowadays with the electronic world,
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  it's Johnny bar the door. But they said, you know
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  things that go through other states, things that might be
• 21:27
  sold in other states, we have the ability to regulate,
• 21:34
  and thus begins this authoritarian capture to regulate commerce among
• 21:47
  the several states. That's it's simple, not even a full sentence,
• 21:53
  and the perversion of that through legal quote geniuses bring
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  us here.
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  Speaker 3: Hell Hi.
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  Artificial intelligence is everywhere, and now it's helping veterinarians deliver
• 23:11
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• 23:16
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• 23:40
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• 23:48
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• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Considered by most optimized curcumin is one of the few
• 24:07
  bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. I
• 24:12
  am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation. Our
• 24:18
  optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
• 24:22
  nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
• 24:26
  reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
• 24:31
  The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
• 24:36
  has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
• 24:41
  cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
• 24:45
  in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
• 24:50
  healthy cells even from radiation. Totalwellness dot com where we
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  help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy total wellness.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: I'm Andrews. Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
• 25:05
  warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
• 25:10
  Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
• 25:13
  will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
• 25:16
  personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
• 25:21
  are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
• 25:25
  threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
• 25:29
  call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
• 25:33
  your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
• 25:37
  or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
• 25:42
  or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
• 25:46
  enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
• 25:51
  dot SSA dot gov.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: And now a speech.
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
• 26:06
  art and brain.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Who's with me?
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
• 26:11
  brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody
• 26:13
  call me a ride.
• 26:15
  Speaker 7: Love that guy, me too.
• 26:16
  Speaker 12: Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
• 26:19
  it's time to go home.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Buzz driving is drunk driving.
• 26:23
  Speaker 13: Did you know that more than half our household energy
• 26:25
  costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
• 26:29
  good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
• 26:34
  One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
• 26:36
  energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
• 26:40
  learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
• 26:43
  That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
• 26:47
  leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
• 26:50
  improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
• 26:54
  when you shop for a new appliance, look for the
• 26:57
  energy Star logo and read the Energy Guide label. And
• 27:00
  there are day to day things you can do. Lower
• 27:03
  your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
• 27:06
  close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
• 27:09
  air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
• 27:13
  reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
• 27:18
  a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer
• 27:21
  protection agency.
• 27:24
  Speaker 17: For those fortunate enough to help the person who has
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  Speaker 1: The first thing today on the Talk Media Network by
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  Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: Ted ste morning, thank you for letting us be of
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  service to you. Redouble Constitution Day in America or we celebrate,
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  and you know, it's interesting if you look at other countries,
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  and obviously July fourth, Independence Day the day we technically
• 28:41
  became legally became a separate country. We became a nation
• 28:47
  on Independence Day by our legal filing with the British
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  government saying we don't recognize your authority anymore. And here
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  are the reasons. Yeah, the declaration of Independence is technically
• 29:03
  a legal filing, it's a lawsuit. Oh that first free
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  in the morning coffee is good. See what they did there,
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  snuck that one right by. That's free speech for you
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  right there. Actually they share a little bit with me,
• 29:17
  so it's not technically free, but it's my free speech
• 29:20
  to do it. But on this Constitution Day, we were
• 29:27
  talking about the perversion of the commerce clause of the
• 29:32
  US Constitution and Section eight ironically, because that's a phrase
• 29:40
  that's often used to label people who are needing help
• 29:45
  under Section eight of state codes under health codes for
• 29:50
  mental health care. But the commerce clause is not the
• 29:57
  only part of Section eight that gets misunderstood in there
• 30:04
  is the misunderstanding that somehow what you see in your
• 30:08
  home and on your streets is the US Postal Service
• 30:11
  is constitutional. The US Constitution on the Postal Service says,
• 30:19
  and I quote, to establish post offices and post roads.
• 30:26
  That's it, not even a full sentence. So the trucks
• 30:32
  driving up to your house, and the men in the
• 30:36
  gray and navy shorts with the black socks on, and
• 30:41
  the ladies with the carts behind them, none of it constitutional. Well,
• 30:47
  none of it required by the Constitution. This is important
• 30:54
  because in thirteen days time the US government might have
• 30:59
  a partial shut down again, and you'll hear people, oh,
• 31:03
  but you got a duty. So the existence of a
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  post office in your town, and that was an important thing.
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  You were a town. You weren't really a town until
• 31:15
  you had a post office assigned to you. It was
• 31:19
  a big deal to have a poste. That meant you
• 31:22
  were a place. And that also meant that you had
• 31:26
  a road that was going to be guaranteed to be
• 31:29
  kept open by the federal government of the United States
• 31:34
  to you and those you can still identify them, do
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  you know quick trivia question on this Constitution Day at
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  four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
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  Do you know how to identify a post road? They
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  still exist, and they're they're noted. I'm just messing with you.
• 31:53
  I don't want to, you know, but those are the
• 31:56
  ones with the white shield around the number, look like
• 32:01
  a police badge. Those are post roads, and those are
• 32:09
  what is guaranteed. So if you live near a post
• 32:12
  road and you say, well, I think our state Department
• 32:15
  of transportations, well now you see, it's not just the
• 32:19
  state Department of Transportation's job. It's a federally guaranteed road.
• 32:23
  So if you do something that's going to close that
• 32:25
  federally guaranteed road, you need to find a way around it.
• 32:30
  You can't just close it for a parade or whatever
• 32:33
  without special permission. It's guaranteed under the US Constitution to
• 32:37
  be kept open. Because under the Articles of Confederation, one
• 32:41
  of the problems they had is that states were closing
• 32:44
  off their internal roads to rival states to the north
• 32:49
  or south of them. If there was a dispute between
• 32:54
  Virginia and North Carolina, Virginia could close its highways and
• 33:00
  often just levy a heavy toll, and any commerce that
• 33:06
  came out of North Carolina now we're back to the
• 33:09
  commerce clause. Why does it say to regulate commerce among
• 33:17
  the several states? Because the several states were being a
• 33:22
  little bit let's just say, problematic between one another. Because
• 33:29
  there were there were manufacturing jobs in Virginia making furniture,
• 33:33
  and there were manufacturing jobs in North Carolina making furniture.
• 33:37
  Good hardwood forests didn't know borders. So we have hardwood
• 33:41
  on both sides. Stop it here, you snickering already, constant
• 33:46
  stop it. I know it's free speech, but stop it.
• 33:51
  Virginia and North Carolina known for their hardwood, and that
• 33:57
  stop it now, you got me doing it. And so
• 34:02
  there was a furniture industry between the two, and Virginia
• 34:05
  would tariff any transportation of furniture from North Carolina through
• 34:13
  Virginia so that Virginia's furniture would be less expensive to
• 34:20
  the states in the north. This is one of the
• 34:25
  abuses and usurpations that were going on under the Articles
• 34:28
  of Confederation. Phrase chosen intentionally on this Constitution day. So
• 34:33
  they pervert this now to allow them to stick their
• 34:37
  fingers in your pie, because at some point what you
• 34:42
  do is going to impact and this is one of
• 34:44
  the interpretive dances that they did that what you do
• 34:49
  impact somebody in another state, and you have to follow
• 34:55
  this whirling dervish. So once they astounded the sixteenth Amendment
• 35:02
  to collect income taxes in the early twentieth century, now
• 35:13
  it becomes easy to say that what you do as
• 35:16
  a state in your economy impacts other states, because if
• 35:21
  you bring in let's say, we just had Eli Lilly
• 35:24
  announced they were bringing a big pharmaceutical manufacturing facility here
• 35:30
  not far from our studios here in Virginia. Yes, big
• 35:35
  pharma loves Virginia, and we can talk about that as
• 35:40
  well if you want, because I have thoughts, I have notes.
• 35:48
  But if that harms another state, the US government can
• 35:52
  come in and queer the deal were chosen pedantically or
• 36:00
  its original meaning in order to protect Eli Lilly jobs
• 36:06
  in say Indianapolis. And I don't know, but if they
• 36:12
  were moving this factory from New York State to Virginia,
• 36:18
  the federal government could technically trip the whole thing up
• 36:21
  under the commerce clause because it's impacting and it's harming
• 36:25
  the economy of New York. And this becomes the essential
• 36:33
  perversion that has allowed all of this subsequent perversion of
• 36:41
  what the US Constitution was designed to do. It's not
• 36:47
  just as simple as saying well. It says welfare in
• 36:49
  the preamble. Yeah it does, and in seventeen eighty nine
• 36:57
  that meant to fare well, to protect your ability to
• 37:02
  fare well, promote the general welfare. Is not provide welfare
• 37:08
  to the general public. It is to promote your ability
• 37:12
  to farewell and to collect those blessings of liberty. And
• 37:20
  there's a challenge in a Montana court I want to
• 37:25
  get into next over the president's regulation of the energy business.
• 37:32
  A bunch of kids. Oh, those plucky kids. They didn't
• 37:36
  want to do a spring musical in their high school.
• 37:38
  So they're suing the president over his climate regulations, or
• 37:43
  actually his lack of climate regulations, because they use the
• 37:47
  phrase he's standing in the way of unleashing the clean
• 37:54
  energy economy. You mean by funding it? Is that what
• 37:59
  you mean?
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  Speaker 11: You were strolling along in Goodwill when just past that
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  Speaker 8: Freedom of speech, freedom of.
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  Speaker 1: Religion, freedom of the press, freedom to peaceably assemble, freedom
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  Speaker 2: Probably?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  bring the table. Don't do.
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  Speaker 2: With the spear. Yeah yeah, yeah. Don't go skyclad though
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  Bob listening to Freedom nine seventy in Oregon writes, he
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  quotes a great piece about Charlie Kirk and I think
• 45:13
  Spencer Cox brought it up with Utah governor over the weekend,
• 45:20
  recalling one of these proved me wrong events. And the
• 45:25
  student that came up to the microphone said why are
• 45:28
  you here? And Kirk's responds, and I've heard him say
• 45:34
  this in various forms many times. When people stop talking,
• 45:38
  really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens.
• 45:43
  When civilization stops talking, civil war ensues. When you stop
• 45:47
  having a human connection with somebody you disagree with, it
• 45:51
  becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against
• 45:54
  that person or group. Why would they want somebody out
• 46:03
  there promoting that any of the Bob, As I said
• 46:07
  on September eleventh, the day after his assassination, I find
• 46:15
  it interesting that all the folks who were celebrating the
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  end of somebody who was actually asking people you disagree
• 46:23
  with me, tell me why, tell me what you believe
• 46:26
  in and let's discuss it. These were the same people
• 46:30
  who in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen insisted that people
• 46:34
  like me, especially if you lived in Charlotte'sviell, go look
• 46:37
  up the CBS This Morning video archive of me throwing
• 46:41
  down on national television with Ibram x Kendy. It wasn't
• 46:47
  a matter of listening. It was about listening to them.
• 46:56
  It wasn't about being open minded, It was about being
• 46:59
  vake minded so that they could move their furniture into
• 47:03
  your brain. And I found that to be so dishearted.
• 47:11
  And people say, oh, but Joe, aren't you part of
• 47:12
  the pharrenhor and all this. No, I'm not. Because as
• 47:16
  soon as I would sit down with these people, as
• 47:19
  quickly as I realized that the protesters, the David Duke
• 47:24
  acolytes that were putting together the quote free speech rally,
• 47:30
  which it wasn't in my hometown of Charlottesville, as soon
• 47:34
  as I sat down with them, I knew they were
• 47:36
  fakers and usurpers, and they weren't who they said they were.
• 47:40
  And the same is true about these free speech open
• 47:43
  mind societies. They want you to have an open mind
• 47:48
  to what they say. And if you read the Constitution
• 47:54
  to them, they'll tell you that, oh, that was written.
• 47:56
  We were thirteen states, we had a couple of million
• 47:59
  people living here. You know, we're beyond that. We're in
• 48:02
  a post constitution world. Oh sure, the framework for it,
• 48:07
  I mean they like to think about it like we're
• 48:10
  some sort of The Constitution is a framework, and we've
• 48:13
  got all this kudzu growing up this trellis. And if
• 48:21
  you point out that the kudzuo and the vines and
• 48:24
  everything else, are going to destroy the trellis. They're like, well,
• 48:27
  then the trollos must deserve it. It must not have
• 48:31
  been very good. We can come up with a better one.
• 48:34
  Good stuff, Bob, Thank you for that text. I told
• 48:37
  you about this Montana challenge to the Constitution. According to
• 48:41
  the attorneys, of course, who were billing somebody. Somebody is
• 48:45
  paying these attorneys. In the Leitheiser v. Trump suit, a
• 48:52
  group of young people have managed to get this case
• 48:59
  in front of a federal courtroom in Missoula, Montana. Julia Olsen,
• 49:06
  lead attorney, taking large amounts of money I'm sure from
• 49:09
  somebody paying for the suit for the twenty plaintiffs, frame
• 49:14
  this dispute as a constitutional test. It's about climate change
• 49:20
  and about subsidies for green energy and allowing for fossil
• 49:25
  fuels to still be used in the United States. Olsen says,
• 49:31
  does the United States Constitution guard against executive abuses of
• 49:35
  power by executive order that deprive children and youth of
• 49:41
  their fundamental rights to life and their liberties? Listen how
• 49:46
  this cunning linguist uses these words. So she's talking about
• 49:57
  the daisy chain that they always use, that if there's pollution,
• 50:00
  then that's restricting your life, which means we can fight
• 50:04
  pollution of the constitutional banner of life, liberty and the
• 50:08
  pursuit of happiness, which is the declaration. But let's not
• 50:12
  cause her to charge these kids more billable hours. Trump
• 50:17
  administration lawyer Michael Sawyer says, this is at its core
• 50:21
  an anti democratic lawsuit. We just had an election. One
• 50:25
  of the major issues in that election was a dueling
• 50:29
  perspective on energy policy, and they're now stepping in and
• 50:33
  asking the court to overrule the results of that election.
• 50:42
  But this is, in its essence, one of those, as
• 50:45
  I said at the onset of the program, perversions of
• 50:49
  the commerce clause that the Marxists the authoritarians are using
• 50:55
  because we just think that the government has the right
• 50:59
  to tell anyone what they can and can't do. That's
• 51:01
  not true. Number One. Pedantically, the word regulate in seventeen
• 51:09
  eighty nine was used most frequently to keep regular, so
• 51:14
  that one state couldn't impose irregular duties, tariffs, fees, taxes,
• 51:20
  you name it on another. To keep regular, not to
• 51:27
  throttle back, not to tamp down, not to impede in
• 51:32
  any way, shape or form. Big difference we have, again,
• 51:37
  like everything else, we get sloppy, we get lazy, and
• 51:42
  words like regulate stop meaning what they are supposed to
• 51:48
  mean and start to become used colloquially to mean what
• 51:55
  they have come to mean. So the word has been
• 51:59
  defined by the What does regulate mean? Well, it means
• 52:05
  to regulate. I mean. I don't know how old you are,
• 52:08
  but when I went to high school defining a word,
• 52:12
  one of the very simple rules my English classes all
• 52:16
  had was that you could not use the word in
• 52:19
  the definition of the word. And we've forgotten that. Oh,
• 52:24
  I want to do a definition thing for those when.
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