October 23, 2025 • 53 mins
- (:00) Guest: Energy Sec Glenn Davis on Data Centers / "First Things" (news)
- (:13) Guest: Troy Miller CEO of Nat'l Religious Broadcasters on Teslas w/o radios
- (:28) Guest: VA Attorney General Jason Miyares - abuse of power
- (:44) Guest: more with Miyares / Caller - Andy in FL / email on FCC Commish
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Your rage you.
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Glenn Davis back on with his energy secretary, Virginia Commonwealth
of Virginia governor's race coming down to the wire. Barack
Obama's coming in to make sure all these green subsidies
don't make people's lot wallets lighter. But I want to
ask you about the boogeyman in the room. This idea
that data centers are causing everybody's electric bills to go up.
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Every data center operator i've talked to says, we'll build
our own electric generating station if we can. We don't
want to be a burden on their communities. Why does
this become Is it just an easy hit to make
these guys the boogeyman. With seventy percent of the Internet
traffic on the planet going through Virginia. At least at
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some point.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
It really is.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
It's people are making enough to be the boogeyman in Virginia.
Speaker 9 (01:31):
They definitely aren't.
Speaker 8 (01:32):
Jaylark, which is our entity in Virginia's legislature that does
our studies data study and said that our data centers
are paying their fair share of development and energy today.
And as we talk to the data centers, you know,
Amazon and Google and Microsoft, they're all offering to be
participatory in the building of new energy supply. Some of
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them are even talking about working to build their own SMRs.
Speaker 9 (01:58):
So they're willing to pay their fair share.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
This whole thing and the benefit I mean, keep in
mind in some localities, data center property taxes are forty
percent of all that locality's property taxes. Wow, I mean,
imagine what their property bills would be without those data centers.
So in Virginia we deal it responsibly. The Governor Youngkin
has said that our data center growth will not be
built on the backs of rate payers, and it's not
being We get the benefit of both worlds in Virginia.
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We get the benefit of the economic development of the
day data centers, but also keep it off the ratepayers backs.
Speaker 9 (02:27):
They're paying their fair share.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Glenn. I appreciate catching up with you. Always working people
hit you up? What's the Department of Energies branch of
Virginia's government? What's your web address?
Speaker 8 (02:39):
If you just google Virginia Energy and you'll take you
right there?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Okay, all right, be careful though, you know, if some
girl named Virginia Energy shows up on your screen, hit X.
Ever since the Amazon outage this week, it's been weird. Glenn.
You have a great morning, sir. You have an awesome day,
and thanks for joining us.
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Thank you, have a good day.
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This one comes in on the idea of the White House.
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in I swing one swing. That's rich. I had a
happy Hour shirt with pineapples on it and a lady
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thought I was a swinger. I don't wear that shirt
to Happy Hour anymore. It's tough being a parrothead these days.
This one from Charles Wrights in on the East Wing renovations,
build back better, that's good. And this email from Jason,
who's following along carefully asked me about the FCC Commissioner's
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statements on FCC broadcast licenses. It's a deep subject, it's nuanced,
but I will get into it a second, because I
really think Brendan Carr maybe the worst thing President Trump
has done. That's the worst thing he's done in his administration.
I can but yeah, he's got a not a Brendan
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four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
Don't know if you saw this. You may not be
in the marketplace for new teslash, but the new teslas
come with no broadcast radio in their basic trim feature.
(13:58):
Joining me now to talk about what they're trying to
do to fix that is Troy Miller from the National
Religious Broadcasting Company. He is their CEO, Troy, good morning,
thank you for taking some time out. And no I
am not auditioning for a spot, So don't call Josh
at the Talk Media Network and narc me. Okay, they
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go morny, good to be with you. Not at all.
So this is a move and I try to and
bless him. I just warned people I'm going to lay
into Commissioner car a little bit later on for something
he said yesterday. But this isn't one of those instances.
This is this is car company's sloppy laziness. And you
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know they stopped putting AM radios in because of the
interference from the electric motors. All they had to do
was put a shield around the radio box and that
would have eliminated it, but they didn't want to do that.
What's the tesla is rationale for leaving FM tuners now
out of their cars?
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 21 (15:05):
So the AM radio, you know, removal was a big
scam because the park costs thirty five dollars and when
you put that against a twenty thousand dollars car, that's
just peanuts.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
That's nothing in there.
Speaker 21 (15:18):
So look, this is all about who's going to control
the information inside the car. You know, that's what this
is about, because there's billions of dollars of ad data.
If they can track you and sell that personalized information
on you as you're driving down the street and you've
got a coffee shop coming up in a block, and
they can pop that add up on your card, they
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can get a subscription for you in order to have
your Internet service in the car there. And so that's
the real battle. We've been saying this from the beginning
with AM radio. You know, AM radio has a lot
of things behind it, especially being the backbone of the
emergency broadcast system across this country. But the battle is
about both privacy and access to information and free access
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to information and free choice.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Well, and that's one of the things that I think
really is lost in this. And as the owner of
an AM radio station, one that actually has to find
a new home for our transmitter tower that and and
blessed to all the people who are helping in that pursuit.
We're almost there. But you know, it's it's not easy
because AM radio takes up a lot of territory to transmit.
(16:31):
Technology has changed a lot. We can do it on
a much smaller footprint than we used to, but it
goes lots of places that you know, FM stations don't
get to. And rural America is going to be cut
off from a lot of information if they if they
lose AM radio, if they lose their cars. And one
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of the things that makes AM radio and broadcast radio
in general popular is its portability. I can jump in
the car, find my favorite radio station, whether it's a
religious broadcaster, it's Christian music is one of the fastest
growing radio formats over the last decade. There or talk radio,
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whatever it may be, and go with me. I don't
need to download anything. I don't need to burn up
data or anything like that. And that's one of the
things I think we should be protecting.
Speaker 21 (17:25):
Oh absolutely, we should be protecting this.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
And again it's the listener's choice.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
It's Troy, are you there?
Speaker 21 (17:37):
Because a recent Edison report on the share of the
year in the card so that fifty one percent of
all Tesla drivers listen to AMFM radio, and we know
that's mostly the FM radio because they took the AM
out as opposed only twelve percent that are doing podcasts
and ten percent that are on satellite radio. So even
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more seventy five percent of all ads.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Well, and it's on us. And every time radio faces
something like this, Troy, and I don't know if you
share my view on this. I like to call my
industry that I've loved for almost four decades the cockroaches
of media, because every time they try to drop a
nuclear bomb on us, we survive, whether it's satellite radio,
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even FM when it came along, but the Internet and
streaming and all of these things, because radio adapts and
adopts these these technologies, and yet we still keep going along.
And I think people want that. I don't want to
legislate away competition. I want radio broadcasters to be better
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than podcasters. And I still laugh every time a podcaster
you know, or their press agent emails me and says,
would you interview this very popular podcaster? And I always
look and say, if they're so popular, why do I
need to interview them? Maybe they should interview me. But
it's radio's power. So what's the right fixed, Troy, from
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where you sit at the National Religious Broadcasters to fix this?
Speaker 21 (19:12):
Well, Look, typically we don't like to legislate things of
the free market either, but the government does have a
a responsibility to make sure there's not a monopoly out there.
And look, the car companies, you know, have this kind
of control. And look cars are regulated all over the place,
and we know this is the same.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I think we need cell service there. This is why
we don't use cell service as well for a lot
of our broadcasts. And we just lost Troy in the Ethereum,
it's not another Amazon Web outage there, Troy? Are you
back with us? No, we've lost them. This could be
another Amazon Web outage there. But quick, you know sidebar
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on this. I mean, so what you've got is an
FCC that wants to get big and ham handed with this.
I think we may get Troy back here. Troy, is
that you ser Yeah? That's sorry, guys dropped out. Ye
all right, So so what I was asking you is
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the the gentle touch that I think we need with
this so that we're not forcing people to put technology
in their cars that isn't there? Is? What are what
are we working? Who should we be calling? Who should
the listeners be calling about this? Do we do? We
go and text Elon Musk and say put the FMS
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uh and the a MS back into your tesla's well.
Speaker 21 (20:47):
I think absolutely you should test a musk because you know,
Tesla's kind of set the whole pattern here for the
rest of the car industry. So if they would understand that,
look at this. But look where the AM radio and
every DASH bill is going through Congress. It has the
most bipartisan support. CO signers are worth three hundred co
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signers on this bill. It passed out a committee in
the House fifty to one. It passed out a committee
in the Senate unopposed, and we put some safeguards in it.
There's a sunset law on this bill to give radio
a chance to, as you said, to adapt and to innovate,
and also to work with the car manufacturers. But there's
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a lot of issues around this. There's going to be
privacy issues that are coming through so that the car owners,
car listeners know that their data is being collected, how.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
It's being collected, how it's being used.
Speaker 21 (21:45):
So those two things are the big things we're working
on well.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
And that's one of the biggest things is nobody's collecting
your data if you're listening to an AM or an
FM radio station. Right there, it's exactly right, Thank you
very much. Troy Miller, National Religious Broadcasts Association.
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Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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Uh oh, Brah's buzzed.
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Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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And now a speech.
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I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
art and brain.
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Who's with me?
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Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
brain is saying when it's time to go home, somebody
call me a ride.
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Love that guy me too.
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Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
it's time to go home.
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Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
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improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
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From the home of the First Amendment, first thing today.
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And damn proud of it, and we understand what it means. Here.
I say that knowing that I've got a Virginia's top
lawyer on the phone with us. He is the Attorney
General of the Commonwealth of Virginia and one of the
most important positions out there. I remember getting schooled because
I grew up in the top cop era, and you know,
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I remember the first time somebody took me through what
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the residents of their state. Jason Miaris on the campaign trail,
taking some time out to talk to us closers get coffee. Jason,
how are you doing, sir?
Speaker 9 (28:58):
Oh, thank you.
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I'm getting coffee right now, drinking out of my mug
as I travel.
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So great to be with you.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I wanted to ask. Certainly a lot has been made
about your debate with your opponent, who seems to think
he's running against Donald Trump last for Attorney General. But
in the light of the text messages that came out
that show his violent tendencies or his whims and his
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wistful thinking of violence against political opponents. I know because
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awesome investigative power of the Attorney General's office. I think
he said it a bunch of times there. I can't
wait to get Jason Mieris and Donald Trump in a courtroom.
This guy is disqualified not because he wishes violence, but
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he wishes to invoke suffering on his opponents, and he's
going to use the awesome power of the AG's office
to do it. From what I'm listening to, Jason.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well, it's clear he's running for the wrong office. He
wants to turn this into a political office, partisan office,
as a tool or a sword to.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
Go after his political opponents.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
And I've always viewed the Attorney General's office as a
shield to protect Virginians. And you are exactly right. The
investigative powers of this office are incredibly broad. You are
the top prosecutor in the state. For example, you have
the authority to make sure that every nonprofit, every charity
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in the state is complying with Virginia rules. You obviously
have broad criminal investigative authority as well. And so I think, listen,
he's asking Virginians to hire him to be the top
prosecutor in the state and he's never been a prosecutor
a day in his life. I think that's the first
thing he has no experience in this job. The largest
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division of the Attorney General's Office is the criminal division.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
The second is Joe.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I thought there was an exchange that he wrote and
that text message that should give everyone pause, and it
was when he was challenged about wishing violence on Todd
Gilbert and his children at the time, they were two
and five years old. By the way, he's met his wife,
he's met his children before. Jennifer Gilbert would bring those
kids to the General Assembly. But in the exchange where
(31:19):
he said, Jay, stop, you are hoping that Jennifer Gilbert's
children die in her arms, and his response was yes,
as I've told you before, it is only through pain
that people move on policy.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Now, think about that.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
This is an idea that you were wishing violence on
innocent children because you think through their pain you can
quote unquote make a better society. Whi Joe, you know
my family background in Cuba, the Mire's family fleeing Cuba. Well,
my mother has told me this that the Marxist in Havana,
the Socialists in Havana, they never thought of themselves as
the bad guys when they were arresting and beating people,
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when they were nationalizing businesses and take awayte people's homes
and farms. They all thought they were doing inflicting pain
on individuals for quote unquote the greater good. And what
that means is you have a worldview that individual dignity
doesn't matter nearly as much as your political agenda. That
is a very very dangerous worldview for anybody to have,
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whether they're even a local school board member, much less
an executive position with the broad investigative powers of the
Attorney General's office. And so I think it really I
feel like what he said there was disqualifying. Again, this
was a man that was angry that Todd Gilbert had
said kind words about a Democrat that had recently passed away,
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a long serving Democrat delegate state delegate. His attitude is, well,
I want to piss on the grave of my political opponents. Well,
does anybody want somebody, when you're supposed to be the
attorney general of all Virginians, Republican Democrats and independents, to
want to turn this office and unleash it against his
political opponents and fantasizes and hopes to see young children die.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
And so, how in the world could could j.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Jones ever prosecute an MS thirteen gang member knowing you
wanted to see two bullets in the head of somebody
he disagreed with over just politics.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
Now, how could he grieve.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
A mother that has actually lost her child to violence,
knowing as we all now know, that he's actually to
see young children die. It is such a disqualifying moment
for somebody to seek this office, to seek a job promotion.
I meant, the end of the day, if Jay Jones
was to apply to the aligned prosecutor in not just
my office, any attorney general office in the country, in
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all fifty states, they would not pass. He would not
pass the background check. He would not pass the background check.
And that is what's at stake here. It is absolutely
incredulous to me that he still is asking Virginians to
hire him and give him a job promotion because he's
not a prosecutor. He's a politician and that's his worldview.
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And he wants to turn this to a partisan office,
and I want to turn this into basically prosecuting bad
guys and getting the amount of our communities and away
from hurting Virginians.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Well, it sounds more like a persecutor than a prosecutor there.
You know, he wants to make you change your mind
by his secret police showing up at your door, which
is exactly how these communist marksist countries get involved in there.
And Jason, so many times and you're a younger fellow
than I am, but I've heard so many times, Oh,
I don't want to make this about character. I want
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to make this about my accomplishments, or I want to
make this about my record. And it's always the people
with spurious character that say that it seems because at
the end of the day, I've learned over time that
character is what we really need to be watching for
because we can't we can't game plan out every decision
that an Attorney General is going to have to make
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in the execution of his office. So knowing the character
of the person is more important because we don't know
what's going to come in the next fl four years.
So knowing who that person is and trusting that, I
think has to be the defining factor. Am I wrong?
Speaker 9 (35:06):
No, no question.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I'll give you just one example the hard judgment calls
you have to make in this sitting in this office.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
First of all, I got a security clearance.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
When I got into this seat because of the number
of defense installations that we have in Virginia and getting
updated threat analysis from Homeland Security. I don't know if
Jay would get be able to get a security clearance
to be able to have a clear picture of what
we're facing. But I also have to authorize every investigation
to any elected official, state or local in the state
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of Virginia by the Virginia State Police. They have a
division called the Bureau Criminal Investigation BCI all of that
by and so when a complaint comes in, it has
to be it comes across my desk. I have never
you have never seen a single leek ever about an
investigation about a public official, because the state police has
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to investigate to see if there's credible. Obviously, you get
a lot of complaints that are from individuals that aren't
credible that kindly. You get complaints from people that are
clearly dealing with some mental health issues. If you remember
what happened in the Merrick Garland Justice Department, where leaks
would occur if there was even a rumor or thought
that maybe they would investigate somebody if it was a
(36:17):
Republican and it would be on the front page of
the news, and.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
People's lives would be destroyed.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
And I've always viewed that as just a monstrous way
of administering justice. Set aside the partisanship, nobody should ever
ever if there's something credible, they'll investigate, and then they'll
take it to a prosecutor who will then seek a
grand jury indictment. But no one should ever ever have
something litigated on some allegation just through the media. I
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think that is the opposite of how it should be done,
and so you could see I've had people that have
been pretty big critics of me that have authorized you know,
they had complaints. But if it's never leaked once, we
don't leak in our office. That's just a policy. That's
an instantaneous fireball offense if you worked for me in
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the Attorney General's office.
Speaker 9 (37:05):
So that's just one aspect about character matters.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
You have to be able to be the people's protector
and a minister justice without partisanship, without favor. I had
never asked a single crime victim ever that I bet
with whether they voted for me, whether the Republican or Democrat.
Speaker 9 (37:20):
It's just not my mindset.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Joe my mindset to be the attorney general for everyone
and to protect everyone.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Jason my mindset well, And I think that's you know,
one of the important things. I mean, leaking makes the
process the punishment. And we've seen this faster than you
can say, Leticia James, you know, you know, the headline
becomes the indictment, the exoneration goes on page thirty five,
and so it's character assassination. And again I think that's
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the kind of thing you hear in your opponent's mindset
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First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Thank you for letting me be of service to you.
I gotta ask Jason Barres is running for attorney general
and some of these races. Now, all of a sudden,
my wife said this to me. She said, Hey, I
noticed all these other shows are talking about Virginia and
New Jersey's races said yeah, now we've been here for well,
(44:47):
it is our flagship state. But the Chatterrelly race against
Mikey Cheryl and that situation is amazing as well. Jason,
I want to ask you about November. First, Barack Obama
is coming. Everyone who's as you know, the governor's race
is all but done. I don't think you bring Barack
Obama if that's really what your polls are saying to you.
(45:08):
Do you agree, Especially coming from that area, Hampton Roads,
I think there's more going on here. It's not just
that Spanburger's, you know, perilously close to losing this race,
especially based on her debate performance, but that Hampton Roads
area with guys like Tim Anderson trying to win seats.
I think that the location of this rally is also
(45:31):
about flipping the house. What are you hearing from the
folks you know down there in the Hampton Roads area.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Well, I mean, I think you're right. I think wins
has definitely closed the gap. I think it's a margin
air race in her race. I do think Abigail had
a disastrous performance in her debate the fact that she
simply can't say no, biological males shouldn't be in women's
locker rooms and in sports teams. This is a pretty
easy question to answer, But we know that she is.
(46:01):
You look at her voting record. You know she voted
one hundred percent with Joe Biden while she was in Congress.
But she's trying to portray herself as a moderate and
ask herself this question. If j Jones was to apply
for a job in Abigail's cabinet with these text messages,
would she hire them be her chief of staff or
(46:21):
secretary of public Safety? Well, she would to hire him
to be in her cabinet. Then why are you're asking
Virginians to hire him to be the top prosecutor. That's
a good question, and that would be one thing a
legacy media outlet should ask her. Would you hire j
Jones this more serving your cabinet? Well, she just and
then why are you pushing to be the top prosecutor?
Speaker 4 (46:40):
She just told Katie Kirk the other day that she's
she's so upset that she has to answer these questions.
You know what, Jim Gilmore, I'm sure had agenda things
that he wanted to get to. On September eleventh, two
thousand and one, and he had to put them aside.
Or twenty twelve when we had the deracho and Virginia
lost power for a month. You know, Governor mcdony had
(47:00):
to put his agenda aside, uh and and actually deal
with what's going on. It's about called being an executive,
well it is.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
And she's asking Virginians to promote somebody a politician. He's
never been a prosecutor, the top prosecutor. He's fantasized about
and hope for the murder of small children.
Speaker 9 (47:18):
Less hey, got it. Thank you having.
Speaker 4 (47:20):
Gail for Jason Mires with us. So I got to
let you go, but busy schedule campaign. Look forward to
seeing you on October thirty first, will be live on location.
I don't know if it's a Halloween costume thing, but
have a good morning, Jason. We'll see you on the
thirty first. I don't know if it's a Halloween breakfast
or not, but we'll see you then. Have a good day.
Speaker 9 (47:41):
Thank you, God, bless you, thank you, Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (47:44):
I got this email. You know, let me see you.
We've got the phones ringing here as well. The call
in lines at four three, four, eight eight two Andy
is online and then I want to get into this
email asking me about Brendan Carr, uh, the FCC commissioner,
and he's a hot mess, you know. And I think
even worse than Pam Bondy. If somebody asked me who
(48:04):
Donald Trump made a mistake in picking for his cabinet,
I think Brendan carr is worse than Pam BONDI be
she and she has well, I don't know. The red
flag thing really sticks out in my mind. Andy, good morning, sure,
thank you for hanging on the line. What's on your mind? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (48:19):
Or all of the blows?
Speaker 4 (48:21):
Yeah? Can I choose that? Is that like one of
those surveys online.
Speaker 27 (48:27):
I left Virginia when mccallo's pardoned all those people. I
was like, just a good time to get out of here.
And you helped me point some not fingers, but to
appropriately expose some corruption which they did nothing about, which
doesn't surprise me. But you know, down here in Florida,
(48:51):
we've got the same thing going on that the Dominion
Resources crowd is doing with these solar farms really windows,
and they're like, that's the worst thing that you can
do to produce energy, you know, having a decentralized grid
makes sense. This is a small new thing, is a
(49:15):
you know, that's a great path to take. But the
fact that rollouts five to ten years away, you know,
probably makes it.
Speaker 4 (49:27):
Oh I know, I know, you have to start somewhere. See,
if we had done this ten years ago, we'd be
already here. And that's the thing that's like, oh, well,
it's going to be a long time. I said, well,
it's going to be less time. It's going to be
longer if we wait till a year or two from now.
Speaker 27 (49:41):
Well, and the other thing that happens, I mean, you've
got harassed because you told the truth. My friend, the
Marada asset Management people, oh Jack still right now. They're
just fantastic people, and they were harassed by the the
SEC because they refuse to make it a policy they
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would choose whether or not they were going to tax
the estates. You know, they're saying, you know, these are
my customers, and you know they're not yours. And so
you know, they've stood up and they've they lost.
Speaker 21 (50:23):
A lot of.
Speaker 27 (50:25):
Time and assets because of that. There's one of the
things that I really wanted to bring to the four
and that is.
Speaker 9 (50:37):
To harvest.
Speaker 27 (50:39):
Appreciated assets and to invest those into things that you
actually believe in. You know, whether it's that your your
Virginia what is it that the not free market people there, but.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
The Thing Tank Virginia, Virginia Institute for Economic uh A,
Virginia Institute for Public Policy. Yeah, that's my group there.
Or you got have the James Madison Institute in Florida
does great work there, Commonwealth Foundation in Pennsylvania. There's great ones.
If you go to the State Policy Network you can
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see a great list of these groups that work on
public policy and trying to get the right stuff in there. Andy,
I appreciate it. That's a good point about it.
Speaker 27 (51:25):
The other thing that can do you.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
Got one minute and no time after that because we've
got to go, got it.
Speaker 27 (51:33):
The thing that you can do is like roll this
up into like this NIL program. You can strut sending
these people not off to camp, but to like the
Mesa's Institute for you know, their summer programs.
Speaker 4 (51:48):
Interesting.
Speaker 27 (51:50):
I mean, seriously, it's but it's simple, but most people
don't even know how to harvest.
Speaker 9 (51:57):
Uh.
Speaker 27 (51:57):
You appreciated assets. And I think I've given probably one
hundred thousand dollars to meisus and almost that to the
Corrective Health Institute Doctor City, and they've tried to take
him out because you know he's.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Going to know it's a great way to do it.
And believe me, the progressives know how to harvest well.
They're going after the potential investment benefits. Andy, you have
a great morning, sir.
Speaker 27 (52:27):
You too, Thanks for want to do It's another reason
to set my alarm for four fifty two.
Speaker 4 (52:32):
I appreciate it. Takers there early to bed, early to rise.
They're FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr horribly wrong. Licenses are private property.
They're not given by the government until tomorrow. I'm Joe Thomas,
so long and thanks for all the fish.
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Glenn Davis back on with his energy secretary, Virginia Commonwealth
of Virginia governor's race coming down to the wire. Barack
Obama's coming in to make sure all these green subsidies
don't make people's lot wallets lighter. But I want to
ask you about the boogeyman in the room. This idea
that data centers are causing everybody's electric bills to go up.
(01:04):
Every data center operator i've talked to says, we'll build
our own electric generating station if we can. We don't
want to be a burden on their communities. Why does
this become Is it just an easy hit to make
these guys the boogeyman. With seventy percent of the Internet
traffic on the planet going through Virginia. At least at
(01:24):
some point.
Speaker 7 (01:27):
It really is.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
It's people are making enough to be the boogeyman in Virginia.
Speaker 9 (01:31):
They definitely aren't.
Speaker 8 (01:32):
Jaylark, which is our entity in Virginia's legislature that does
our studies data study and said that our data centers
are paying their fair share of development and energy today.
And as we talk to the data centers, you know,
Amazon and Google and Microsoft, they're all offering to be
participatory in the building of new energy supply. Some of
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them are even talking about working to build their own SMRs.
Speaker 9 (01:58):
So they're willing to pay their fair share.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
This whole thing and the benefit I mean, keep in
mind in some localities, data center property taxes are forty
percent of all that locality's property taxes. Wow, I mean,
imagine what their property bills would be without those data centers.
So in Virginia we deal it responsibly. The Governor Youngkin
has said that our data center growth will not be
built on the backs of rate payers, and it's not
being We get the benefit of both worlds in Virginia.
(02:22):
We get the benefit of the economic development of the
day data centers, but also keep it off the ratepayers backs.
Speaker 9 (02:27):
They're paying their fair share.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
Glenn. I appreciate catching up with you. Always working people
hit you up? What's the Department of Energies branch of
Virginia's government? What's your web address?
Speaker 8 (02:39):
If you just google Virginia Energy and you'll take you
right there?
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Okay, all right, be careful though, you know, if some
girl named Virginia Energy shows up on your screen, hit X.
Ever since the Amazon outage this week, it's been weird. Glenn.
You have a great morning, sir. You have an awesome day,
and thanks for joining us.
Speaker 10 (02:58):
Thank you, have a good day.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
This one comes in on the idea of the White House.
A couple of emails and texts before we get our
first things going this morning. Sealy from Four Corners Rights
in I swing one swing. That's rich. I had a
happy Hour shirt with pineapples on it and a lady
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thought I was a swinger. I don't wear that shirt
to Happy Hour anymore. It's tough being a parrothead these days.
This one from Charles Wrights in on the East Wing renovations,
build back better, that's good. And this email from Jason,
who's following along carefully asked me about the FCC Commissioner's
(03:46):
statements on FCC broadcast licenses. It's a deep subject, it's nuanced,
but I will get into it a second, because I
really think Brendan Carr maybe the worst thing President Trump
has done. That's the worst thing he's done in his administration.
I can but yeah, he's got a not a Brendan
(04:06):
Carr acolyte here on the broadcast radio. But our first
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four three four eight eight two four two one seven.
Don't know if you saw this. You may not be
in the marketplace for new teslash, but the new teslas
come with no broadcast radio in their basic trim feature.
(13:58):
Joining me now to talk about what they're trying to
do to fix that is Troy Miller from the National
Religious Broadcasting Company. He is their CEO, Troy, good morning,
thank you for taking some time out. And no I
am not auditioning for a spot, So don't call Josh
at the Talk Media Network and narc me. Okay, they
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go morny, good to be with you. Not at all.
So this is a move and I try to and
bless him. I just warned people I'm going to lay
into Commissioner car a little bit later on for something
he said yesterday. But this isn't one of those instances.
This is this is car company's sloppy laziness. And you
(14:45):
know they stopped putting AM radios in because of the
interference from the electric motors. All they had to do
was put a shield around the radio box and that
would have eliminated it, but they didn't want to do that.
What's the tesla is rationale for leaving FM tuners now
out of their cars?
Speaker 9 (15:05):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 21 (15:05):
So the AM radio, you know, removal was a big
scam because the park costs thirty five dollars and when
you put that against a twenty thousand dollars car, that's
just peanuts.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
That's nothing in there.
Speaker 21 (15:18):
So look, this is all about who's going to control
the information inside the car. You know, that's what this
is about, because there's billions of dollars of ad data.
If they can track you and sell that personalized information
on you as you're driving down the street and you've
got a coffee shop coming up in a block, and
they can pop that add up on your card, they
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can get a subscription for you in order to have
your Internet service in the car there. And so that's
the real battle. We've been saying this from the beginning
with AM radio. You know, AM radio has a lot
of things behind it, especially being the backbone of the
emergency broadcast system across this country. But the battle is
about both privacy and access to information and free access
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to information and free choice.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Well, and that's one of the things that I think
really is lost in this. And as the owner of
an AM radio station, one that actually has to find
a new home for our transmitter tower that and and
blessed to all the people who are helping in that pursuit.
We're almost there. But you know, it's it's not easy
because AM radio takes up a lot of territory to transmit.
(16:31):
Technology has changed a lot. We can do it on
a much smaller footprint than we used to, but it
goes lots of places that you know, FM stations don't
get to. And rural America is going to be cut
off from a lot of information if they if they
lose AM radio, if they lose their cars. And one
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of the things that makes AM radio and broadcast radio
in general popular is its portability. I can jump in
the car, find my favorite radio station, whether it's a
religious broadcaster, it's Christian music is one of the fastest
growing radio formats over the last decade. There or talk radio,
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whatever it may be, and go with me. I don't
need to download anything. I don't need to burn up
data or anything like that. And that's one of the
things I think we should be protecting.
Speaker 21 (17:25):
Oh absolutely, we should be protecting this.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
And again it's the listener's choice.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
It's Troy, are you there?
Speaker 21 (17:37):
Because a recent Edison report on the share of the
year in the card so that fifty one percent of
all Tesla drivers listen to AMFM radio, and we know
that's mostly the FM radio because they took the AM
out as opposed only twelve percent that are doing podcasts
and ten percent that are on satellite radio. So even
(17:59):
more seventy five percent of all ads.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Well, and it's on us. And every time radio faces
something like this, Troy, and I don't know if you
share my view on this. I like to call my
industry that I've loved for almost four decades the cockroaches
of media, because every time they try to drop a
nuclear bomb on us, we survive, whether it's satellite radio,
(18:24):
even FM when it came along, but the Internet and
streaming and all of these things, because radio adapts and
adopts these these technologies, and yet we still keep going along.
And I think people want that. I don't want to
legislate away competition. I want radio broadcasters to be better
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than podcasters. And I still laugh every time a podcaster
you know, or their press agent emails me and says,
would you interview this very popular podcaster? And I always
look and say, if they're so popular, why do I
need to interview them? Maybe they should interview me. But
it's radio's power. So what's the right fixed, Troy, from
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where you sit at the National Religious Broadcasters to fix this?
Speaker 21 (19:12):
Well, Look, typically we don't like to legislate things of
the free market either, but the government does have a
a responsibility to make sure there's not a monopoly out there.
And look, the car companies, you know, have this kind
of control. And look cars are regulated all over the place,
and we know this is the same.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I think we need cell service there. This is why
we don't use cell service as well for a lot
of our broadcasts. And we just lost Troy in the Ethereum,
it's not another Amazon Web outage there, Troy? Are you
back with us? No, we've lost them. This could be
another Amazon Web outage there. But quick, you know sidebar
(20:00):
on this. I mean, so what you've got is an
FCC that wants to get big and ham handed with this.
I think we may get Troy back here. Troy, is
that you ser Yeah? That's sorry, guys dropped out. Ye
all right, So so what I was asking you is
(20:21):
the the gentle touch that I think we need with
this so that we're not forcing people to put technology
in their cars that isn't there? Is? What are what
are we working? Who should we be calling? Who should
the listeners be calling about this? Do we do? We
go and text Elon Musk and say put the FMS
(20:43):
uh and the a MS back into your tesla's well.
Speaker 21 (20:47):
I think absolutely you should test a musk because you know,
Tesla's kind of set the whole pattern here for the
rest of the car industry. So if they would understand that,
look at this. But look where the AM radio and
every DASH bill is going through Congress. It has the
most bipartisan support. CO signers are worth three hundred co
(21:10):
signers on this bill. It passed out a committee in
the House fifty to one. It passed out a committee
in the Senate unopposed, and we put some safeguards in it.
There's a sunset law on this bill to give radio
a chance to, as you said, to adapt and to innovate,
and also to work with the car manufacturers. But there's
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a lot of issues around this. There's going to be
privacy issues that are coming through so that the car owners,
car listeners know that their data is being collected, how.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
It's being collected, how it's being used.
Speaker 21 (21:45):
So those two things are the big things we're working
on well.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
And that's one of the biggest things is nobody's collecting
your data if you're listening to an AM or an
FM radio station. Right there, it's exactly right, Thank you
very much. Troy Miller, National Religious Broadcasts Association.
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Uh oh, Brah's buzzed.
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Oh yeah yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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From the home of the First Amendment, first thing today.
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And damn proud of it, and we understand what it means. Here.
I say that knowing that I've got a Virginia's top
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how are you doing, sir?
Speaker 9 (28:58):
Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I'm getting coffee right now, drinking out of my mug
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Speaker 9 (29:02):
So great to be with you.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
I wanted to ask. Certainly a lot has been made
about your debate with your opponent, who seems to think
he's running against Donald Trump last for Attorney General. But
in the light of the text messages that came out
that show his violent tendencies or his whims and his
(29:25):
wistful thinking of violence against political opponents. I know because
I've read reports done by the Competitive Enterprise Institute the
awesome investigative power of the Attorney General's office. I think
he said it a bunch of times there. I can't
wait to get Jason Mieris and Donald Trump in a courtroom.
This guy is disqualified not because he wishes violence, but
(29:48):
he wishes to invoke suffering on his opponents, and he's
going to use the awesome power of the AG's office
to do it. From what I'm listening to, Jason.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well, it's clear he's running for the wrong office. He
wants to turn this into a political office, partisan office,
as a tool or a sword to.
Speaker 9 (30:10):
Go after his political opponents.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
And I've always viewed the Attorney General's office as a
shield to protect Virginians. And you are exactly right. The
investigative powers of this office are incredibly broad. You are
the top prosecutor in the state. For example, you have
the authority to make sure that every nonprofit, every charity
(30:33):
in the state is complying with Virginia rules. You obviously
have broad criminal investigative authority as well. And so I think, listen,
he's asking Virginians to hire him to be the top
prosecutor in the state and he's never been a prosecutor
a day in his life. I think that's the first
thing he has no experience in this job. The largest
(30:54):
division of the Attorney General's Office is the criminal division.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
The second is Joe.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I thought there was an exchange that he wrote and
that text message that should give everyone pause, and it
was when he was challenged about wishing violence on Todd
Gilbert and his children at the time, they were two
and five years old. By the way, he's met his wife,
he's met his children before. Jennifer Gilbert would bring those
kids to the General Assembly. But in the exchange where
(31:19):
he said, Jay, stop, you are hoping that Jennifer Gilbert's
children die in her arms, and his response was yes,
as I've told you before, it is only through pain
that people move on policy.
Speaker 9 (31:33):
Now, think about that.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
This is an idea that you were wishing violence on
innocent children because you think through their pain you can
quote unquote make a better society. Whi Joe, you know
my family background in Cuba, the Mire's family fleeing Cuba. Well,
my mother has told me this that the Marxist in Havana,
the Socialists in Havana, they never thought of themselves as
the bad guys when they were arresting and beating people,
(31:57):
when they were nationalizing businesses and take awayte people's homes
and farms. They all thought they were doing inflicting pain
on individuals for quote unquote the greater good. And what
that means is you have a worldview that individual dignity
doesn't matter nearly as much as your political agenda. That
is a very very dangerous worldview for anybody to have,
(32:20):
whether they're even a local school board member, much less
an executive position with the broad investigative powers of the
Attorney General's office. And so I think it really I
feel like what he said there was disqualifying. Again, this
was a man that was angry that Todd Gilbert had
said kind words about a Democrat that had recently passed away,
(32:43):
a long serving Democrat delegate state delegate. His attitude is, well,
I want to piss on the grave of my political opponents. Well,
does anybody want somebody, when you're supposed to be the
attorney general of all Virginians, Republican Democrats and independents, to
want to turn this office and unleash it against his
political opponents and fantasizes and hopes to see young children die.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
And so, how in the world could could j.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Jones ever prosecute an MS thirteen gang member knowing you
wanted to see two bullets in the head of somebody
he disagreed with over just politics.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
Now, how could he grieve.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
A mother that has actually lost her child to violence,
knowing as we all now know, that he's actually to
see young children die. It is such a disqualifying moment
for somebody to seek this office, to seek a job promotion.
I meant, the end of the day, if Jay Jones
was to apply to the aligned prosecutor in not just
my office, any attorney general office in the country, in
(33:41):
all fifty states, they would not pass. He would not
pass the background check. He would not pass the background check.
And that is what's at stake here. It is absolutely
incredulous to me that he still is asking Virginians to
hire him and give him a job promotion because he's
not a prosecutor. He's a politician and that's his worldview.
(34:01):
And he wants to turn this to a partisan office,
and I want to turn this into basically prosecuting bad
guys and getting the amount of our communities and away
from hurting Virginians.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Well, it sounds more like a persecutor than a prosecutor there.
You know, he wants to make you change your mind
by his secret police showing up at your door, which
is exactly how these communist marksist countries get involved in there.
And Jason, so many times and you're a younger fellow
than I am, but I've heard so many times, Oh,
I don't want to make this about character. I want
(34:31):
to make this about my accomplishments, or I want to
make this about my record. And it's always the people
with spurious character that say that it seems because at
the end of the day, I've learned over time that
character is what we really need to be watching for
because we can't we can't game plan out every decision
that an Attorney General is going to have to make
(34:52):
in the execution of his office. So knowing the character
of the person is more important because we don't know
what's going to come in the next fl four years.
So knowing who that person is and trusting that, I
think has to be the defining factor. Am I wrong?
Speaker 9 (35:06):
No, no question.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
I'll give you just one example the hard judgment calls
you have to make in this sitting in this office.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
First of all, I got a security clearance.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
When I got into this seat because of the number
of defense installations that we have in Virginia and getting
updated threat analysis from Homeland Security. I don't know if
Jay would get be able to get a security clearance
to be able to have a clear picture of what
we're facing. But I also have to authorize every investigation
to any elected official, state or local in the state
(35:36):
of Virginia by the Virginia State Police. They have a
division called the Bureau Criminal Investigation BCI all of that
by and so when a complaint comes in, it has
to be it comes across my desk. I have never
you have never seen a single leek ever about an
investigation about a public official, because the state police has
(35:57):
to investigate to see if there's credible. Obviously, you get
a lot of complaints that are from individuals that aren't
credible that kindly. You get complaints from people that are
clearly dealing with some mental health issues. If you remember
what happened in the Merrick Garland Justice Department, where leaks
would occur if there was even a rumor or thought
that maybe they would investigate somebody if it was a
(36:17):
Republican and it would be on the front page of
the news, and.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
People's lives would be destroyed.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
And I've always viewed that as just a monstrous way
of administering justice. Set aside the partisanship, nobody should ever
ever if there's something credible, they'll investigate, and then they'll
take it to a prosecutor who will then seek a
grand jury indictment. But no one should ever ever have
something litigated on some allegation just through the media. I
(36:43):
think that is the opposite of how it should be done,
and so you could see I've had people that have
been pretty big critics of me that have authorized you know,
they had complaints. But if it's never leaked once, we
don't leak in our office. That's just a policy. That's
an instantaneous fireball offense if you worked for me in
(37:03):
the Attorney General's office.
Speaker 9 (37:05):
So that's just one aspect about character matters.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
You have to be able to be the people's protector
and a minister justice without partisanship, without favor. I had
never asked a single crime victim ever that I bet
with whether they voted for me, whether the Republican or Democrat.
Speaker 9 (37:20):
It's just not my mindset.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Joe my mindset to be the attorney general for everyone
and to protect everyone.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
Jason my mindset well, And I think that's you know,
one of the important things. I mean, leaking makes the
process the punishment. And we've seen this faster than you
can say, Leticia James, you know, you know, the headline
becomes the indictment, the exoneration goes on page thirty five,
and so it's character assassination. And again I think that's
(37:50):
the kind of thing you hear in your opponent's mindset
regarding his political opponents. The election culmination Day I Guess
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Speaker 23 (42:48):
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It's been twenty three minutes.
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Cramp?
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Oh?
Speaker 4 (43:13):
I have a cramp. I can probably hit the green
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Speaker 9 (43:19):
Probably?
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Ready to go?
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I'm pretty sober. Yeah, I'm probably okay. Probably okay.
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Speaker 2 (44:12):
First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
Thank you for letting me be of service to you.
I gotta ask Jason Barres is running for attorney general
and some of these races. Now, all of a sudden,
my wife said this to me. She said, Hey, I
noticed all these other shows are talking about Virginia and
New Jersey's races said yeah, now we've been here for well,
(44:47):
it is our flagship state. But the Chatterrelly race against
Mikey Cheryl and that situation is amazing as well. Jason,
I want to ask you about November. First, Barack Obama
is coming. Everyone who's as you know, the governor's race
is all but done. I don't think you bring Barack
Obama if that's really what your polls are saying to you.
(45:08):
Do you agree, Especially coming from that area, Hampton Roads,
I think there's more going on here. It's not just
that Spanburger's, you know, perilously close to losing this race,
especially based on her debate performance, but that Hampton Roads
area with guys like Tim Anderson trying to win seats.
I think that the location of this rally is also
(45:31):
about flipping the house. What are you hearing from the
folks you know down there in the Hampton Roads area.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Well, I mean, I think you're right. I think wins
has definitely closed the gap. I think it's a margin
air race in her race. I do think Abigail had
a disastrous performance in her debate the fact that she
simply can't say no, biological males shouldn't be in women's
locker rooms and in sports teams. This is a pretty
easy question to answer, But we know that she is.
(46:01):
You look at her voting record. You know she voted
one hundred percent with Joe Biden while she was in Congress.
But she's trying to portray herself as a moderate and
ask herself this question. If j Jones was to apply
for a job in Abigail's cabinet with these text messages,
would she hire them be her chief of staff or
(46:21):
secretary of public Safety? Well, she would to hire him
to be in her cabinet. Then why are you're asking
Virginians to hire him to be the top prosecutor. That's
a good question, and that would be one thing a
legacy media outlet should ask her. Would you hire j
Jones this more serving your cabinet? Well, she just and
then why are you pushing to be the top prosecutor?
Speaker 4 (46:40):
She just told Katie Kirk the other day that she's
she's so upset that she has to answer these questions.
You know what, Jim Gilmore, I'm sure had agenda things
that he wanted to get to. On September eleventh, two
thousand and one, and he had to put them aside.
Or twenty twelve when we had the deracho and Virginia
lost power for a month. You know, Governor mcdony had
(47:00):
to put his agenda aside, uh and and actually deal
with what's going on. It's about called being an executive,
well it is.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
And she's asking Virginians to promote somebody a politician. He's
never been a prosecutor, the top prosecutor. He's fantasized about
and hope for the murder of small children.
Speaker 9 (47:18):
Less hey, got it. Thank you having.
Speaker 4 (47:20):
Gail for Jason Mires with us. So I got to
let you go, but busy schedule campaign. Look forward to
seeing you on October thirty first, will be live on location.
I don't know if it's a Halloween costume thing, but
have a good morning, Jason. We'll see you on the
thirty first. I don't know if it's a Halloween breakfast
or not, but we'll see you then. Have a good day.
Speaker 9 (47:41):
Thank you, God, bless you, thank you, Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (47:44):
I got this email. You know, let me see you.
We've got the phones ringing here as well. The call
in lines at four three, four, eight eight two Andy
is online and then I want to get into this
email asking me about Brendan Carr, uh, the FCC commissioner,
and he's a hot mess, you know. And I think
even worse than Pam Bondy. If somebody asked me who
(48:04):
Donald Trump made a mistake in picking for his cabinet,
I think Brendan carr is worse than Pam BONDI be
she and she has well, I don't know. The red
flag thing really sticks out in my mind. Andy, good morning, sure,
thank you for hanging on the line. What's on your mind? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (48:19):
Or all of the blows?
Speaker 4 (48:21):
Yeah? Can I choose that? Is that like one of
those surveys online.
Speaker 27 (48:27):
I left Virginia when mccallo's pardoned all those people. I
was like, just a good time to get out of here.
And you helped me point some not fingers, but to
appropriately expose some corruption which they did nothing about, which
doesn't surprise me. But you know, down here in Florida,
(48:51):
we've got the same thing going on that the Dominion
Resources crowd is doing with these solar farms really windows,
and they're like, that's the worst thing that you can
do to produce energy, you know, having a decentralized grid
makes sense. This is a small new thing, is a
(49:15):
you know, that's a great path to take. But the
fact that rollouts five to ten years away, you know,
probably makes it.
Speaker 4 (49:27):
Oh I know, I know, you have to start somewhere. See,
if we had done this ten years ago, we'd be
already here. And that's the thing that's like, oh, well,
it's going to be a long time. I said, well,
it's going to be less time. It's going to be
longer if we wait till a year or two from now.
Speaker 27 (49:41):
Well, and the other thing that happens, I mean, you've
got harassed because you told the truth. My friend, the
Marada asset Management people, oh Jack still right now. They're
just fantastic people, and they were harassed by the the
SEC because they refuse to make it a policy they
(50:06):
would choose whether or not they were going to tax
the estates. You know, they're saying, you know, these are
my customers, and you know they're not yours. And so
you know, they've stood up and they've they lost.
Speaker 21 (50:23):
A lot of.
Speaker 27 (50:25):
Time and assets because of that. There's one of the
things that I really wanted to bring to the four
and that is.
Speaker 9 (50:37):
To harvest.
Speaker 27 (50:39):
Appreciated assets and to invest those into things that you
actually believe in. You know, whether it's that your your
Virginia what is it that the not free market people there, but.
Speaker 4 (50:55):
The Thing Tank Virginia, Virginia Institute for Economic uh A,
Virginia Institute for Public Policy. Yeah, that's my group there.
Or you got have the James Madison Institute in Florida
does great work there, Commonwealth Foundation in Pennsylvania. There's great ones.
If you go to the State Policy Network you can
(51:16):
see a great list of these groups that work on
public policy and trying to get the right stuff in there. Andy,
I appreciate it. That's a good point about it.
Speaker 27 (51:25):
The other thing that can do you.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
Got one minute and no time after that because we've
got to go, got it.
Speaker 27 (51:33):
The thing that you can do is like roll this
up into like this NIL program. You can strut sending
these people not off to camp, but to like the
Mesa's Institute for you know, their summer programs.
Speaker 4 (51:48):
Interesting.
Speaker 27 (51:50):
I mean, seriously, it's but it's simple, but most people
don't even know how to harvest.
Speaker 9 (51:57):
Uh.
Speaker 27 (51:57):
You appreciated assets. And I think I've given probably one
hundred thousand dollars to meisus and almost that to the
Corrective Health Institute Doctor City, and they've tried to take
him out because you know he's.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
Going to know it's a great way to do it.
And believe me, the progressives know how to harvest well.
They're going after the potential investment benefits. Andy, you have
a great morning, sir.
Speaker 27 (52:27):
You too, Thanks for want to do It's another reason
to set my alarm for four fifty two.
Speaker 4 (52:32):
I appreciate it. Takers there early to bed, early to rise.
They're FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr horribly wrong. Licenses are private property.
They're not given by the government until tomorrow. I'm Joe Thomas,
so long and thanks for all the fish.
Speaker 18 (52:49):
No seriously, he said that crime across the country is
at an all time high. It feels like even a
family road trip is taking a risk. We don't want
the feeling of being unprotected and vulnerable. We found GETCCL
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we needed to apply for a legal concealed carry permit
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(53:11):
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questions and applied for our permit right from home. Thanks
to reciprocty laws between states, when you're issued a new
Hampshire Concealed Carry permit, you can legally carry in any
state that recognizes your New Hampshire permit. It only takes
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(53:35):
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