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"Rearranging Texas' Deck Chairs" (Thursday August 21, 2025, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: Quick amaze your friends here in the first thing today
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Speaker 4: The way Joe has everything agenda.
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Speaker 5: All the Joses set needs.
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Speaker 6: No one that Joe's as.
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Speaker 8: Joe, Hey, can you hold these truths?
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Speaker 9: I want to be the ones over there in the
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And understand something real quick about the Texas redistricting. This
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is all because Congress voted more than one hundred years ago,
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although the one hundredth anniversary of its final passage is
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coming up very soon to cap the size of the
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US House of Representatives. So this is a self inflicted
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wound that Congress can fix fairly simply. They won't unless
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somebody like the Convention of States folks convene an Article
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five convention to force them to, because they've concentrated all
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their power into four hundred and thirty five seats, which
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is far inadequate for the growth in our population, and
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over the intervening one hundred years when our population is
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in between tripling and quadrupling. Yet we seem to decide
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that we just go through these redistricting jerry manders to
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try to cram seven hundred thousand people into a districting
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claim that it is somehow compact and contiguous. That's a
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phrase that pays in the districting world. Communities of like interest,
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et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Yes, Texas passed, it's redistricting,
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but it goes deeper than that. While that's nice, it's
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like saying, well, my hand doesn't hurt so much because
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I dropped.
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Speaker 8: A bowling ball on my foot.
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Speaker 9: It hasn't fixed the problem, and the problem is under representation.
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And this should be one should be one that Democrats
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and Republican support. But they like power too, and you
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know what you say about power. So our first things
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on this Thursday morning, Texas House by a vote of
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eighty eight to fifty two, past the redistricting maps. Now
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it's off to the Texas Senate proposal redrawing districts in
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and around Houston, Dallas, Austin, and then the Rio Grande
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Valley to reflect population shifts since the twenty twenty census
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and according to the legislators, provide fairer representation for rural voters.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, not so fast, my
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Speaker 9: President Trump has taken a shot at another member of
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Speaker 9: The allegations come from Bill Poulty, the head of the
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Speaker 8: He alleged through social media that Cook.
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Speaker 9: Had claimed two primary residents, one in ann Arbor, Michigan
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and one in Hotlanta, to better get to get better
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mortgage terms. Rates are generally lower for primary residents. Cook said,
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for her part, she won't leave her post. I have
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Speaker 3: Will never threaten you for information or money. If you
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Speaker 15: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Speaker 14: And now a speech.
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Speaker 16: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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art and brain.
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Speaker 14: Who's with me? Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed,
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and 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 4: Love that guy, me too.
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Speaker 17: Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
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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 ducks for holes, and
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improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
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Speaker 1: The first Thing Today on the Talk Media Network by
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Joe Thomas, the second most Famous Thomas and Charlotte Smith.
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two one seven No matter what you call me, just
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call me. Oh, there's a radio trope I can smell
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called a wolf man who open a window in here.
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Speaker 9: We'll tell you the news, will break down the news,
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But most importantly, I want to know how the news
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is impacting you where you are. So this is always
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a controversial topic because yes, in an abstract, what I'm about.
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Speaker 8: To suggest would increase.
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Speaker 9: The size if you simply look at this by numbers
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of the federal government. But the elected representative part of
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our federal government has been sclerotic since nineteen twenty nine.
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The unrepresentative bureaucratic part that does the work for are underrepresented,
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and even now without direct order from our elected representatives.
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Speaker 8: Quote unquote, has quadrupled all part of doze, all part
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of drain the swamp.
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Speaker 9: So yes, I want the size of our elected representatives
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to be higher. The population of elected representatives I want
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to be larger, and the size of the unelected bureaucrats
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I would be fine with zero. I mean, yeah, sure,
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you're gonna have some departments like Defense, all right, put
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actual congresspeak, make the Defense Committee actually run the Pentagon.
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If you have enough Congress people, then you can say okay,
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so you guys run the Pentagon. Don't take votes on
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what you're going to tell somebody else to do. Don't
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give them empty platitudes.
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Chesapeake Bay, including kill all the businesses along the way,
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as long.
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businesses involved with harvesting the blue crab. Thank you very much. So.
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Speaker 9: In nineteen twenty four, the population of the United States,
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including the territories that were not yet states that would
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eventually become states, was one hundred and fourteen million people. Today,
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the US population is three hundred and forty just under
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three hundred and forty million citizens. Folks like Joy Reed
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like to call them the ones that aren't citizens.
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Speaker 8: People we need to protect people.
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Speaker 9: Well, yeah, they are people, unquestionably people. So my New
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York City public school math says, ostensibly one third the size.
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At that time, the membership in the US House of
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Representatives was four hundred and thirty five members in nineteen
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twenty nine, they passed the permit and then.
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Speaker 20: A Portionment Act because they didn't want to have to
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build another bigger womb. Well that was the excuse they
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gave that they had just built those two expansions.
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Speaker 9: And if you go to the US Capitol, there are
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the statuarial rooms that you go into right out of
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the I mean, I should.
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Speaker 8: Be careful here.
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Speaker 9: You have to be invited by a member of the
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US House or send it to tour the Capitol.
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Speaker 8: You're not allowed to go in on your own.
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Speaker 9: We learned that on January sixth, twenty twenty one, didn't
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we boys and girls not allowed to go into the
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US Capitol that you pay for that's technically your office.
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But no, no, no, you're not allowed to go in
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there on your own. Yeah, we learned that in spades.
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Here can you imagine for a second put that into
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abstract for a second. You start a business. I have
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a business. It's Thomas Media. We rent office space at
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three hundred and four West Beverly in Stanton, Virginia. Flagship
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station of this program has been in that same address
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since it went on the air in nineteen forty two.
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The address on the application for its original transmitter nineteen
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forty two, three hundred and four West Beverly Street and Stanton, Virginia.
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Suppose I showed up at my office of my company
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and they wouldn't let me in because the people who
18:30
were running my company for me said I wasn't allowed to.
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What if John Deere actually showed up in Wisconsin and said,
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I'd like to see where the green paint is made,
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and they I know there is. I understand there's not.
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Actually I get I'm making a point. You, the owners
18:52
of the United States Corporation, cannot go into the office
18:56
building of your business.
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Speaker 8: You're specifically invited.
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Speaker 9: By the people who you have ostensibly hired to operate
19:06
your business. Oh no, no, you can't be in there
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unless you have an invitation from a senator or a congressman.
19:12
Well House of Representatives member. They're all congressmen and women.
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We learned that on January sixth, twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 8: Didn't we.
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Speaker 9: So in any event, So if you go into the
19:25
building once you've been specially invited, you see these statuarial halls.
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Virginia just replaced Robert E. Lee with Barbara Johns. Don't
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have a problem with Barbia John's in there. I have
19:35
a problem with taking Robert E.
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Speaker 8: Lee out.
19:39
Speaker 9: But those statuarial halls used to be the original meeting
19:44
rooms for Congress, Senate, and House. Country had outgrown the
19:49
size of the rooms. If you look at those statuarial halls,
19:52
you're like, yeah, this isn't necessarily a very big place.
19:55
The same feeling you might get if you go to
19:57
Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
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Speaker 8: This is a very big room.
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Speaker 9: So they built the big new halls in between nineteen
20:06
hundred and nineteen fifteen or so, they built those big
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new halls where you currently see the Senate and the
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House meet.
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Speaker 8: And then shed to the public.
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Speaker 9: News is very expensive, and they were already crammed into
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the US congressional halls by the representation which, by the way,
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let me read to you from this racist document called
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the US Constitution. Representatives. This is section two of the
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section to Article one, Section two, Clause three. Representatives and
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direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which
20:50
may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers,
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which shall be determined by aiding to the whole number
20:58
of free persons, including those bound to service by a
21:01
term of years, and excluding Indians, not tax three fifths
21:05
of other persons. The number of representatives shall not exceed
21:10
one for every thirty thousand, but each state shall have
21:14
at least one representative, one for every thirty thousand. That's
21:20
in the US Constitution now because of the three fifths part,
21:24
which was the compromise regarding freed slaves, because the racists
21:30
and there were actually racist. I'm not one of those
21:32
people who, oh no, there were there were races. Poor
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klnos nos. Why can't both be true? One for every
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thirty thousand people. Do you know how many people earn
21:52
the average congressional district, including the new ones in Texas
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seven hundred thousand.
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bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. I
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am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
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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
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cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
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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 12: I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Solid 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
25:17
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.
25:28
Speaker 3: If you receive a call like this, hang up.
25:32
Speaker 12: Never give the call of your personal information like your
25:35
social Security number or bank account, or send money in
25:38
any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers, or prepaid debit cards.
25:44
Report the call to our law enforcement on the Office
25:48
of the Inspector General at OYG dot SSA dot gov.
25:55
Speaker 14: Uh oh, Brad's buzzed.
25:56
Speaker 15: Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
26:00
Speaker 3: And now a speech.
26:02
Speaker 4: I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
26:06
art and brain.
26:07
Speaker 8: Who's with me?
26:08
Speaker 14: Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
26:11
brain is saying when it's time to go home, Somebody
26:14
call me a ride.
26:15
Speaker 7: Love that guy, me too.
26:16
Speaker 17: Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
26:19
it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.
26:23
Speaker 18: 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.
26:44
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 later. And
27:01
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
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always been their hero, find the care guides you need
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to help at AARP dot org slash caregiving. Hope you
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enjoyed your meal, And I just want to say he's
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lucky to have a blother like you.
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Speaker 1: Lucky.
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Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Tunk Media Network.
28:24
Speaker 9: So, as Jefferson warned us against things that seem different,
28:29
we have grown accustom to this stupid Marxists gas lighting
28:37
into the idea that it's well, we only have four
28:40
hundred and thirty five congress people, so we you know,
28:43
we have to have this blood sport over who's.
28:46
Speaker 8: Got the districts.
28:47
Speaker 9: And now we're going to go through the California crap,
28:51
and New York will weigh in and all the everybody's
28:54
going to have to get their redistrict here, everyone except Virginia,
28:57
whose redistricting laws require to human beings to draw the
29:02
district lines on one Democrat appointee, one Republican appointee, and
29:08
then they handed into a panel of Virginia Supreme Court
29:12
justices to look at and they go, all right, that's it,
29:17
that's it. And the Democrats couldn't even find a Virginia
29:20
Democrat to draw their lines. They had to get a
29:23
Berkeley professor to come in from California to help them.
29:27
At least the Republicans picked a Virginia to draw our
29:32
congressional maps, and they're still ridiculous because you're trying to
29:38
make a district work of seven hundred and twenty seven
29:41
thousand people, not the thirty thousand in the US House
29:46
of Representatives. And I'm not even talking about going back
29:49
to that level. I'm just saying that in nineteen twenty
29:52
four we had a third of our population. Then we
29:56
froze the size of the House of Representatives. So say,
30:00
let's just get back to that proportion. And here's Matt's
30:07
on the line. We'll get to Matt in a second here,
30:09
but here's here's the part that we'll keep and should
30:13
bring all the Republicans to the playground for my milkshake.
30:18
Eighty five percent of all the counties in the United
30:21
States of America are red. Ten percent of the remain
30:27
or the next ten percent are purple, meaning em maybe
30:32
they went blue, but it was like fifty two forty
30:36
eight competitive, it's ninety in excess of ninety percent of
30:42
the country would have Republicans there, wouldn't It would be
30:47
like the Republican percentages in the fifties and sixties when
30:53
you were lucky to have thirty percent of Congress members
30:56
of the Republican Party. People forget that the Republicans were
31:00
in the wilderness from nineteen forty one until nineteen ninety four,
31:06
never having sniffed leadership in the US House or Senate.
31:13
And yeah, that means more congress people. But will I'm first,
31:17
let's doze out the rest of the bureaucracy. And I'd
31:21
be fine replacing some of the bureaucrats with elected representatives
31:25
who we vote for.
31:26
Speaker 8: And guess what then you.
31:28
Speaker 9: Would also probably get some other political parties, and the
31:31
political parties wouldn't have the power over them because power
31:35
over twelve hundred people is a lot harder to wield
31:39
than power over two hundred people. You dilute the influence
31:45
of each one of these offices to the proportion that
31:48
it should have been. All of these things create the
31:51
corruption that a twenty five year old is going to
31:54
sit there and say, ooh, the.
31:55
Speaker 8: System is broken. We haven't used the system in one
31:58
hundred years anyway.
32:01
Speaker 9: Can you tell I get hyped about this because I know,
32:04
I know it's as Jefferson said, we have grown accustomed
32:08
to this system that we're in. Now, this gas lit
32:13
fighting with each other over is this congressman that congressman
32:17
I'm prepared to sacrifice. My representative area is probably going
32:22
to be a Democrat because it would be in the
32:24
Charlottesville area of Virginia. But there'd be at least two
32:29
other Republicans in the southern part of the fifth Congressional district,
32:34
just based on the voting records of those states. Anyway, Matt,
32:37
I'm sorry, I just wanted to stick the landing on
32:40
my floor routine here.
32:41
Speaker 8: What's on your mind, sir?
32:44
Speaker 15: That's perfectly all right, Joe. I enjoy listening to you
32:47
when you were passionate about something.
32:49
Speaker 9: People tell me I need my blood pressure medication now,
32:52
which I don't take any of.
32:53
Speaker 3: But that's all right.
32:56
Speaker 15: But I mean, and you and I have had this
32:58
discussion for I don't necessarily disagree with you on a
33:04
lot of it, but I don't like the idea of
33:09
getting more of these people into DC. I mean, okay,
33:15
here's here's a question for you. What is the primary
33:18
duty of members of the House Representatives and the Senate.
33:26
Speaker 9: Well, the US House is supposed to levy taxes to
33:30
support the necessary and determined legislated functions of the government,
33:35
and the Senate's job is supposed to go back to
33:38
the States.
33:38
Speaker 8: To pardon the phrase, get their cut.
33:44
Speaker 15: Joe, it sounds like you've been reading Civics tests again again.
33:49
Speaker 8: Sorry, I'll go back to Playboy magazine.
33:53
Speaker 15: The primary job of any of these people is re election.
33:59
Speaker 1: All right.
33:59
Speaker 8: Yeah, in reality, that's all they give it.
34:01
Speaker 15: Cr as soon as as soon as they hit the
34:05
ground from one election, they're planning the next one. They're
34:12
working the ground rules, they're shaking the flesh, they're figuring
34:17
out the deals. If they get legislation done, that's just
34:23
a happenstance.
34:25
Speaker 9: Or it's been or it's been you know the legislator,
34:28
or that it's been done specifically to lay a plank
34:30
for the reelection.
34:32
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
34:35
Speaker 15: But this is this is to me, the big problem
34:40
with the system. It doesn't matter how many of them
34:45
you have, because this becomes their whole reason for being.
34:53
And it doesn't matter Democrats are Republicans. I mean, there's
34:57
the old. There's the old, so that when Democrats get elected,
35:00
they take power, and Republicans get elected, they take office.
35:05
But with this whole system, I think we have too
35:11
much power in the hands of the legislators.
35:16
Speaker 9: Well, my argument here in that point is it in
35:22
the immediate sense dilutes that power by a factor of three,
35:27
because each one of these seats will hold that much
35:30
less authority. Now, I'm hopeful that President Trump continues to
35:36
pry from their corpse like hands the power of these bureaucracies.
35:42
Supreme Court rulings like Loper v. Bright should include into this.
35:50
This bureaucratic state that has gained such regulatory control over
35:55
the United States has to be broken up. And I
35:58
think it becomes more likely with more proportional representation. That's
36:03
that's my view on it, because you'll have more dissenting voices.
36:09
Speaker 15: I don't I don't necessarily think you'll end up with
36:14
more dissenting voices if you have more people there. Because
36:21
it's human nature. You go into a new place, you
36:26
want to fit in, You try and figure out who
36:29
the cool kids club is, and you go along to
36:36
get along.
36:39
Speaker 8: None of that is arguable. That is all one h
36:42
human nature.
36:44
Speaker 9: And this is why Madison restricted how much power these
36:48
people were going to have, because he understood human nature.
36:52
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, I I still harken back to the
36:59
day when I was working in Vermont, and the Vermont
37:04
still had a citizen legislature at that point, and the
37:09
budget was running late. They had to have a vote
37:13
on it, and Charlie Palmer, representative from Pownell, got up
37:18
in the well of the House and he said, we
37:21
have to have this budget plant budget plan passed by
37:27
March twenty fourth, because I have four hundred acres of
37:32
corn to plant and I will be doing it.
37:37
Speaker 8: Oh God, bless those things.
37:39
Speaker 15: This is the problem that we run into now in
37:44
that the concept of these congressmen were congresspeople is that
37:52
they would take time out from their real lives.
37:58
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38:02
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40:08
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Speaker 16: Oh yes, yes, your favorite half breakfast pastry, half all
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Oh my, those bejeweled sprinkles have satisfied some unknown hunger
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within you.
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40:40
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41:03
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42:25
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42:28
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42:36
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42:41
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Speaker 8: I can probably hit the green from here?
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Speaker 1: Probably?
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Speaker 6: I'm pretty sober.
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43:35
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43:39
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44:12
Speaker 1: For you from Joe Thomas. It's first thing today.
44:16
Speaker 8: Is this a sovereignation.
44:20
Speaker 6: Or just a Poe state?
44:25
Speaker 3: You bet?
44:25
Speaker 4: Look out people, Lauren gets Jule.
44:30
Speaker 9: The best Eric Clapton songs ever. Nobody plays it because
44:33
it was about COVID and you know, we have to band.
44:37
I still feel for my friends in classic rock radio
44:40
who are told by their corporate overlords don't play anymore
44:43
Eric Clapton. He wrote a song about COVID and how
44:46
bad the lockdowns were. No more Van Morrison either, good
44:50
luck running a classic Hits the classic rock station without
44:53
any Eric Clapton songs or you know, bless their heart.
45:00
And for every Taylor Swift out there, give me an
45:03
Eric Clapton. And for the first time in probably thirty years,
45:07
real slow hand guitar people forgot that Eric Clapton was
45:13
a guitar player. Anyway, Matt was on the line. We
45:16
were talking about, you know, these the idea of citizen
45:19
legislators when we when we were running up on our
45:23
break there, Matt, so finish your point on that.
45:26
Speaker 15: What we have done has been to turn these positions
45:31
into jobs where you have these people down there for
45:38
thirty forty years, I mean, how long did you have
45:43
somebody like a Charlie Wrangell? How long?
45:47
Speaker 8: How long have we had your favorite Chuck Schumer?
45:51
Speaker 15: Schumer? Yeah?
45:53
Speaker 8: Or Bernie Sanders?
45:54
Speaker 9: You know, as you said, as you very rightly point
45:56
out Bernie Sanders fascination with the common and is designed
46:01
to keep him from ever having to become one.
46:04
Speaker 24: Yeah.
46:06
Speaker 15: Yeah, And this is we need to get away from
46:10
this concept of being in Congress is a job.
46:15
Speaker 9: Well, I think the idea of professional government. Yeah, professional
46:22
government is is the problem. And I always hear the
46:25
phrase you've heard this, I'm sure how how if we
46:29
don't do better for these people, will we attract the
46:32
best and brightest into public service?
46:36
Speaker 8: Have you heard that phrase before? Oh?
46:39
Speaker 15: Too many times.
46:41
Speaker 8: I don't want the best and brightest in the government.
46:44
I want the best and brightest on Main Street, not
46:46
K Street.
46:48
Speaker 15: Yeah. Well, and but also we have clogged the arteries
46:56
of the country with so many not just elected officials,
47:01
but as you have pointed out, bureaucrats where the Congress
47:06
will say, oh, we want the EPA to do X. Well,
47:11
how I've let them figure it out. Yeah, they're the experts.
47:17
And this is this is where you get this tyranny
47:20
of experts who all, well, no, you have to listen
47:25
to me because I know better, m h. And what
47:30
we end up with is this tyranny of people who
47:36
know so much about so little that they're irrelevant.
47:43
Speaker 8: Well, unfortunately they are.
47:44
Speaker 9: Relevance is given to them by you know, this interpretation
47:48
of code and their ability to you know, take away
47:51
our licenses to do things. And and at the I
47:54
think the first thing that really needs to go is
47:57
the curtailment of the licensed church, whether or not it's
48:02
you know, certainly there are things you need expertise for,
48:05
but if I'm an engineering firm, it's it should be
48:09
of my own self survival interest to make sure I
48:13
hire the best well trained engineers. It shouldn't have to
48:16
come with a license from the government.
48:19
Speaker 15: Yeah, Or even why does your barber or hairdresser.
48:27
Speaker 8: Need a license? Right right?
48:30
Speaker 9: Because because then the government can shut them down when
48:33
there's a virus that they're scared of, or they want
48:37
you to be scared of.
48:38
Speaker 8: Good stuff.
48:39
Speaker 9: Matt, my friend, you have a great morning, all right,
48:42
You take care of Joe, And I'm going to pick
48:45
up on a story that may not seem like it's
48:47
connected to this, and we were talking about the under districting.
48:50
So Texas, of course voting to redraw their congressional districts
48:54
to shocker of shockers, better represent the rural communities of Texas.
49:01
What a crazy idea. But all of this is a
49:04
self inflicted wound done nearly one hundred years ago when
49:08
they passed the Permanent Reapportionment Act, rather than just saying, hey,
49:11
you know, the census says we have you know, one
49:14
hundred thousand more people. That's you know, how many more
49:18
congressional districts. And as I said, in nineteen twenty four,
49:25
our population of what would become the fifty US states
49:29
was one hundred and fourteen million people. Today it's three
49:32
hundred and thirty nine million people.
49:35
Speaker 8: Do the math.
49:37
Speaker 9: Now, the Constitution says one for ever one congressperson for
49:42
every thirty thousand. That had already been kind of blown
49:46
out of the water, even by nineteen twenty four when
49:50
they started working on this Permanent Reapportionment Act. And by
49:54
the way, the Permanent Reapportionment Act.
49:56
Speaker 8: For all of you race.
49:58
Speaker 9: Baters out there who want to tell me that the
50:00
Bill of Rights is a racist document, go into the
50:03
history of the Permanent Reapportionment Act. That MOE is a
50:08
racist document written and passed by the Dixiecrats who are afraid.
50:14
Now all these freed slaves wouldn't be three fifths of
50:17
a person, but we're going to be a full person.
50:19
Speaker 8: Oh my god.
50:23
Speaker 9: You want to fight institutional racism, join Joe Thomas in
50:28
the morning and get rid of the Permanent Reapportionment Act,
50:32
which might as well have been taken out from underneath
50:35
somebody's white sheet. You want to take racist documents out
50:42
of the government, start with that one. And it was
50:47
done specifically to keep black communities from having lots of
50:52
say in Congress, and the dark brilliance of things like
50:57
the Voting Rights Act and the minority majority districts were
51:02
designed to keep the black population from having any influence.
51:05
By saying, well, out of the eleven districts in your
51:08
in your state, only one needs to be a majority minority,
51:12
and the other ones can all be lily white, says
51:15
the Caucasian in the room. You want to fight racism
51:20
inherent in the US government, start with the Permanent Reapportionment Act.
51:26
Speaker 8: I dare you. You have my support.
51:28
Speaker 9: I don't care what political party you're in right now
51:32
call me four three four eight eight two four two
51:35
one seven. But the experts like Lisa Cook, Lisa Cook
51:40
on the board of the Federal Reserve committing alleged to
51:44
have committed mortgage fraud. Hold, it wasn't somebody it don
51:50
Donald Something was being investigated for mortgage fraud. And we
51:56
were told then a guy like Donald Trump committing mortgage fraud. All,
52:00
Oh my god, high crimes and misdemeanors. Let's impeach somebody
52:03
who doesn't even have an office at this point, Latsia
52:06
James and all of that. Where's the interest when another
52:10
person like Adam Schiff goes out and plays fast and
52:15
loose with the truth on federal forms. Remember, if you
52:19
misremember where you were on January sixth, twenty twenty one,
52:23
that could be twenty years in prison for lying to
52:26
a federal officer. If you tell the Irs you have
52:30
insurance through the Obamacare in exchange and you don't, you
52:33
could go to jail for five years. Lisa Cook says, well,
52:38
I'm not going to be bullied just because I keep
52:40
claiming that every place I live is my permanent first residence.
52:45
Oh but if Lisa Cook had been appointed by Donald Trump.
52:48
You know what this story would have been.
52:51
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52:54
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