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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I have a question for those in the marketing world.
Riddle me this.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
If you think attracting attention to yourself or your client's
advertisement is important because it is bottom line what you do,
but in doing so, it renders my technology completely useless.
For you know, what seems like an interminal amount of
(00:55):
period while we clear out all the different things that
you're cce advertisement requires to tell me about whatever baked
goods they're selling. Why do you think that would encourage
me to buy anything from them?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I mean, I'm just saying the same. I mean, is
being a nuisance a selling point? Now? Gosh, you know,
I was just born too few years late. I just.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I thought you wanted to be helpful to people, and
that was the way, say. I guess being a nuisance,
stopping everything to demand attention for yourself that that must work.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Now, I know what works.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
In politics, I should codify, But I mean, just in
general purpose advertising, I thought, you know, the whole idea
was to make your commercials enjoyable enough to sit through
the whole premise behind all the insurance companies and why
(02:03):
nobody writes good comedy for Saturday Night Live anymore, because
they're all writing absurdities for the various insurance companies to
make their some somehow their insurance seem different than one another.
Someday I want to see a cage match between Doug
and Flow by the way Apropos of Nothing, and maybe
(02:28):
you know a tag team the little nebish that hangs
out with Flow, I forget what his name is, the
unimportant non Flow in the Progressive commercial, and Limu the EMU,
and let them all go at it in a big
cage match.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Some folding chairs.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Bring Vince McMahon out from hydroponic you know, stasis wherever
he is right now.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
That would be fun for me. If can somebody, can you.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Get chat GPT to make that an animation, that'd be
fun to see. I mean, if we're gonna have AI,
if we're going to have artificial intelligence, let's use AI
for some good's. Let's have Dug and Flow in a
(03:23):
cage match World Wrestling Federation style with the little Guy
and EMU in their corners as tag team.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I think that works for me. What about you.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Just nuisance advertising, Well, we're gonna hang up everything else
you're gonna do, so you might as well just watch
our commercial. Damn straight. I ain't gonna buy anything from you.
I don't care how much I need insurance. I'll go
find mine somewhere else. Our first things on this Christmas
eve Day. Yeah, it's a pleasant thought on Christmas Eve.
You're a birth of our Savior, and I'm annoyed at commercials.
(04:04):
Wait to be a good example, Joe, what we said.
You can either be a good example or a terrible warning.
Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's request for permission to
continue deploying National Guards troops into Chicago. The Supreme Court
majority ruling states, at this preliminary stage, the government has
(04:28):
failed to identify a source of authority that would allow
the military to execute Illinois law. The administration was pointing
to a law that allowed the president to call into
action National Guards troops to suppress rebellion, repel invasion, or
(04:49):
if he is unable with regular forces, to execute the
laws of the United States. Trump administration will begin garnishing
the wages of student loan borrowers in default by starting
in January. With a thousand defaulted borrowers starting to get garnishments.
(05:12):
The notices will increase in scale on a month to
month basis, the Department of Education said via a statement.
President Trump says the US plans to keep the millions
of barrels of oil and the two tankers that were
seized as they tried to sneak out of Venezuela and
Ports earlier this month. Maybe we'll sell it, the President said.
(05:34):
Maybe we'll keep it, maybe we'll use it in the
strategic reserves.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
We're keeping it. We're keeping the ships.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Also, Denmark pushed back on the President's renewed interest that
they say he has in Greenland after he named Louisiana
Governor Jeff Landry as the administration's special envoy to the territory.
They he said the Danish Foreign Minister, that is Rasmussen
(06:01):
said in a Facebook post, President Trump's announcement about the
appointment of a special envoy to Greenland, and in particular
it's statements about the purpose thereby, is completely unacceptable. That's
why we're now convening the US Ambassador to the Department
of State for a discussion. And those are some of
(06:22):
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am doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
(08:27):
reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
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(08:51):
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I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
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personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
are not from US. Real Social Security employees will never
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call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
your personal information like your Social Security number or bank account,
or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
(09:46):
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and family.
Speaker 10 (09:59):
Hiverybody, I'm Jack. It's always a boy.
Speaker 11 (10:01):
Growing up on a farm in Tennessee, I've been fascinated
with animals. I'm not only in awe of their beauty
and kindness, but also their tireless work ethic. Just look
at the birds who gather supplies to build nests, or
Swiss foxes who work hard to provide for their young
or penguins who travel up to five hundred miles to
secure food for their families, or bush babies whose impressive
jump allows them to navigate the trees and the wild
(10:23):
in search of fruit. This remarkable work ethic is shared
by our best friends, the canines. We know dogs are
wonderful pets at home, but because of their acute senses,
they also perform life saving work every day.
Speaker 10 (10:35):
Dogs keep us safe at airports.
Speaker 11 (10:36):
They comfort returning veterans, some of whom suffer from PTSS.
They work with diabetics, alerting them when there's a change
in their blood chemistry. Working dogs have a variety of
highly trained roles that contribute to society and help those
in need. So please join me an American Humane and
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Speaker 12 (11:00):
Oh brah, that's buzzed.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
Speaker 13 (11:05):
And now a speech.
Speaker 9 (11:07):
I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
heart and brain.
Speaker 10 (11:12):
Who's with me?
Speaker 14 (11:13):
Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
brain is saying when it's time to go home.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Somebody call me a ride.
Speaker 15 (11:19):
Love that guy, me too.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when.
Speaker 10 (11:24):
It's time to go home.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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Who did you know that more than half our household
energy costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't
just good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
(11:49):
That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
energy Star logo and read the energy guide label. And
there are day to day things you can do. Lower
your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
(12:12):
close fireplay stampers when they're not in use, and keep
air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
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Speaker 1 (13:11):
Quit making mornings great again. First Thing Today on the
Talk Media Network by Joe Thomas.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
On this Christmas Eve Day, I'm getting back to some
of your interactions with the program because you can do
it by text message, because I know what mornings are like.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Even Christmas Eve Day mornings. It winds up be ves.
Christmas Eve Morning.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Grabs even more so for many people it's like, oh man,
I gotta get.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
To five below. Stuff the stocking.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Just remember the stocking stuffers are different than the turkey stuffers.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Don't make that mistake. It's the voice of Spurts.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
But one of our favorite segments every month is to
take a look into what's going on in the world
of cancer treatment, cancer management UVA Health.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
And you know it's a story that still to this day.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Twenty years ago I met a fella came to the
Charlottesville area and there was a legend in the area.
Some would say I have been around long enough to
be considered in the same breath, but I don't think so.
For the amount of time Dick Mountjoy had spent around
the area, and when I first met him, he had
just fallen prey to esophageal cancer and had had his
(14:42):
tongue and.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Larynx taken out.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
And if you do what I do for a living,
I can't think of a more Rod Serling esque nightmare
than that. And I mean it was I couldn't sleep
for several nights after. I'm just thinking about it. But
to join us to talk about what happens after that
and you know, and how to manage it, doctor Fowler
(15:09):
from the Cancer Center at the University of Virginia, and
I appreciate it. It's how people can you know after a
tracheatomy or a liarons ectomy. Certainly it is an extreme
case of how to treat the cancers in the throat
and head and neck. Doctor Nicole Fower, Welcome Merry Christmas evening.
(15:31):
I know it's not a pleasant subject, but when a
lot of folks deal with around Christmas time.
Speaker 17 (15:37):
Well, thank you so much for having me on. I
really want to thank you for allowing me to have
this platform to speak about and as you said, it's
not a pleasant topic and hopefully not a lot of
your listeners have to think about it. But when we
come together with our families, one of the things that
we do is we catch up. We spend all of
(16:00):
this time talking, right, we spend all this time coming
together and sharing all the stories of what we've been
doing since the last time we were together. And imagine
that time being isolated, not being able to talk. And
that's really what happens if you have something that occurred
(16:24):
that made you lose your voice.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So what what is I mean? It sounds like technology
is coming to the aid. When I met mister Mountjoy,
he was using pen and paper to communicate and it
had its clunks. But you know with patients, I mean,
if you were if you wanted to talk to him,
you wanted to talk to him, so you are patient.
But so what what breakthroughs in technology are helping to
(16:50):
this end?
Speaker 17 (16:52):
So the first is the phone, Right, we now carry
a computer with us everywhere we go. So the smartphone
has made a large advance because you can use the
text to talk apps and people. Instead of having to
write everything out, you can very quickly text what you're
(17:13):
trying to say, and then the phone can talk for
you what you were going to communicate.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Interesting, I hadn't thought about you using that, you know,
so you can. Actually that's not even something you have
to teach a smartphone to do. That's not like going
in and finding a bespoke app. I think a lot
of phones do that automatically, don't they correct.
Speaker 17 (17:37):
And this isn't just our cancer patients. I mean, these
are patients who have had strokes that maybe have to
have a trake, or someone who had trauma a car
accident that ended up having to have a trake, or
an als patient, and so it's it's a much wider population.
(17:58):
But what happens is that patients don't necessarily want that
robotic voice, right. I mean now nowadays, I literally had
my phone the other day ask if it wanted to
give me directions in the sound of Santa, so you
know we can have it, right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They're getting a little too conversational. My wife had had
heard GPS say, Okay, after the next corner, you're going
to turn right. I mean, this is a little too
much like they're sitting in the car with you.
Speaker 17 (18:30):
It's a little crazy. I don't necessarily need Santa riding
in the car with me.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, but well get the point. I guess if you can,
you can't, right, you know, bunny.
Speaker 17 (18:41):
But for these patients, what if they wanted their own voice?
Speaker 14 (18:46):
Right?
Speaker 17 (18:46):
What if?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
So?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What's what?
Speaker 17 (18:48):
The latest technology, which I think is so powerful, is
if you have voice recordings of your own voice prior
to when whatever happened to you. So if it is cancer,
we want voice recordings from before you had your cancer,
so that they were normal voice recordings.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
You can actually.
Speaker 17 (19:08):
Send it in and and now you can have your
own voice be what's reading the text messages?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Oh that's that's all.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I don't know if that would be weird or not,
but I know how it would be liberating for somebody
who couldn't speak on their own.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yes, yes, and it's not.
Speaker 17 (19:31):
I mean it may never be perfect. We all know
how you know, it can mistake the words.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I kind of hope that it's never perfect because because
if it's never perfect, who will know if there's been
a bloodless coup on this radio show. I mean, there's
decades worth of recordings of my voice. And the next
thing they know, I find out my daughter is running
the show and I'm tied up in a basement somewhere.
But you know, so the the but the point is
(20:00):
that as a liberating tool, this can be powerful. You
talk about I guess the human interface modes or uh,
you know, a smartphone. You have to be able to
type in obviously on it, but can you use other
technology to enter.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
The text? You want these technologies to speak.
Speaker 17 (20:23):
Yeah, So if you have a patient, for example, who
has als or you know, who is really on able
to communicate in any other way, you can do this
on a computer, you can do this. I have patients
who will write out not using their computer, you know,
(20:46):
not using their phone, but on a computer, app on,
you know, on any form of technology, and they'll provide
me with what they want for their whole visit. You know,
here's the questions that they have, here's everything kind of predetermined.
And then when they come in, they hit play and
(21:06):
it plays for me the dialogue. Now we're then able
to have a conversation that's much shorter off of what
they've already pre come up with, but it saves that
time of the initial Here's how I'm doing?
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Right?
Speaker 17 (21:23):
It's almost like when you go to your famili's and
everyone the very first question out of everyone's mouse, that's
how have you been? Right?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Right?
Speaker 17 (21:30):
He gets that initial Here's what's going on? You know,
when the doctor comes in, how are you doing?
Speaker 10 (21:35):
They've given me that initial.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
How I is there a place to go look at
some of this stuff? Or is it just mean we're
heading out to the consumer electronics show. I guess there'll
be tons of this kind of stuff there.
Speaker 12 (21:48):
You should see it there.
Speaker 17 (21:49):
So there are certain companies that are premiering this. Again,
it's a little bit of a niche market, but we'll.
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Row Considered by most Optimized curcumin is one of the
few bioavailable and highly absorbable curcumin products on the market. Hi,
I'm doctor Mitch. Since most chronic diseases have inflammation, our
optimized curcumin seems to be a perfect addition to any
(24:22):
nutritional program. It makes sense to me that preventing or
reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
has antioxidant properties, and research suggests that kurcumin can prevent
cancer or at least slow the spread of cancer, and
(24:45):
in many instances, make chemotherapy more effective. It protects our
healthy cells even from radiation. Total Wellness dot com where
we help you to look good, feel good, and enjoy
total wealth.
Speaker 9 (25:02):
I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
(25:26):
threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
your personal information like your Social Security number or bank account,
or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
(25:46):
enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
dot SSA dot gov.
Speaker 12 (25:55):
U Oh, brah's buzzed. Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with
the woots.
Speaker 13 (26:01):
And now a speech.
Speaker 19 (26:02):
I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
art and brain.
Speaker 10 (26:07):
Who's with me?
Speaker 13 (26:08):
Good thing?
Speaker 14 (26:09):
Is he knows when he's buzzed, and my brain is
saying when it's time to go home, Somebody call me
a ride.
Speaker 15 (26:15):
Love that guy, me too.
Speaker 20 (26:17):
Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
it's time to go home.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Buzz driving is drunk driving.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Did you know that more than half our household energy
costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
energy assessment. Your utility company can help, or you can
learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
(26:44):
That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
energy Star logo and read the energy guide label.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
And there are day to day things you can do.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Lower your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash
green a tip from the Federal Trade Commission, the nation's
consumer protection agency, for.
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On your to do list. Putting the radio on is
the first thing today.
Speaker 11 (28:34):
Step see.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
So you get ready for Christmas Eve? The ride of
the Reindeer?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Does that sound more like I don't know, is it
more of the volkyes or is it ghost riders in
the sky For you? As Christmas twenty twenty five bounds,
I hope you have time to find the things that
are good and great and understand the trials and travails
of we pale by those comparisons, and we should take
(29:37):
heart but also not take lightly those things that do
transpire in front of us. Kareem wrote incorrectly pointing out
and my apologies for this, that technically Ruby Ridge, you know,
and I always do this, so you know, late ninety
two is Ruby Ridge, that's still Bush. But Waco, and
(30:04):
to be fair, Waco was much more about child endangerment.
That was their premise when they went into Waco and
burned down the Branch Davidians, was to spare the children because.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
There were allegations.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I remember the story, you know, of the Branch Davidian
compound in nineteen ninety three. It was on the air
doing it, you know, trying to trying to fit stories
like that into a hot hits shock jock radio show.
I vaguely remember somebody doing a bit about a raid
(30:38):
on Joe's house. I mean, you know, until it went sideways,
you know, that's you know, it was fun in games
because we were like, why are they what's a what's
a Davidian? What's oh? And you know you're getting the
phone calls about Seventh Day Adventists and this side and
that side, and I was just trying to be a
(30:59):
shock jocket the time. And I think at some point
we had you know, I didn't come in, and it
was because the FBI had surrounded my house because I
had something, you know, my behavior was weird enough, and
they decided that I was endangering my kids. And then
of course when the shooting started in the burning.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I mean, we.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Shelved all that because you know, taste. But the point
remains that, you know, in the in the case of
let's hear two allegations of child abuse coming into the
same FBI headed up by the same Attorney general, and
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one is ignored and one isn't. I mean capital I isn't.
And then you see the pictures of the president, the
boss of the Attorney general in the hot tub with
the guy who's out. Allegations were being made in nineteen
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ninety six about this, and this is a bigger issue.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Than oh you tagged Bill Clinton in it. Well, we
tagged Donald.
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Trump and it it's if you're a politician you find
out one of your big campaign fundraisers was running a
Ponzi scheme?
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What do you do?
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Do you help them stay out of trouble. That's certainly,
you know, a Christian belief, as you help your brother out,
or do you at least be honest about it, because
what is help.
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At the end of the day, what is really help
is help allowing somebody to ignore the problem, or is
help making somebody face up to it and fix their
errant way? Good morning, you're on the air with Joe Thomas.
Speaker 23 (33:05):
First thing this morning, Good morning triggered a little something
at eight forty this morning. I'm not sure what it was.
I'm not so anyway, early Merry Christmas to you guys.
I'm glad that Joel's feeling a little better.
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Well, we all, I think we all need that sometimes.
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So the the other thing that I find interesting is
the LaVoi Finicum case, which was very very much like
Ruby Riggs and the Branch Davidian things.
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And this is just you know, overreached.
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By our federal government. Well it need to help out
his you know, his friend who hit you know, been
just not the renters' rightsn't been there for years. And
when the federal government sisted, oh no, the line's going
to go over here. And and Finnicum's wife is still alive,
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and I remember going to the first red pill the
dude too well, actually Joel Joel our neighbor there south
and was there, but Lord Monkton was there and he
was actually appointed out the uh the error in the
uh information that had been used to create this this
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false narrative about the global warming if you will.
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rights as if they needed other premises. But I guess
they decided they had worn out. Uh you know what
did what did they use in the pink houses?
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the city could make more tax money in Connecticut, so
they could they took her house from her so they
could sell it, sell the property to a developer. Uh,
and these kind of things. I mean, it's just amazing
to think of the things that we've allowed. And sometimes
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it's just simply out of the idea of well, it's
going to happen to the other guy, not me, and
and when it does happen to you, it's the classic
you know, there there was no one left to stand
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when I I went to the London for the only time,
and I remember doing a little diggings because I had
some could they call middle Vengers, I think, But it
turns out the Horde Chapel, my last name is spelled
h Or before Chapel, is actually part of Dalton Abbey's
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really like said, they were going to church and I
had reached out, probably.
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Gonna get some residuals out of this.
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I mean that sounds like some investable property there, and
it's a Doubton Abbey is a going thing that's bigger
than Game of Thrones these days.
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Well, eighteen twenty seven was the last time he for
from my line, you know, actually lived in England. Uh,
most of us left and there were only two of
us that came to America and one of them ended
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was with Washington when they came up. Oh yeah, through
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And you know, I have a incredible collection of the
archives too. There's there's also an amazing painter that I've
become aware of.
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I don't represent him or anything, but I was told
that there's a great maritime paint that has a lot
of the stuff in the Navil Academy. Thing that's was
his interest was tweaked when some other friend of mine
used to run a gowery here mostly maritime. Thanks and
became aware that. You know, he came for a quick
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art tour at my house and he was kind of
moved by things. I said, you know, seventeen eighty one
is like the two fiftieth of that is kind of
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It's going to be a busy year. Definitely will a
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That's why we kind of got a heads up on
it this year when we went out to Conquered for
the two hundred and fiftieth of the shot heard around
the world goes here in Virginia. It's going to mean
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You have a great morning, sir, Christmas, you.
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Do too, thank you.
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The First Amendment. First thing today.
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On this Christmas even day, I was just sent an
interesting piece.
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Obviously caught up in the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
One of our local weeklies has got a cover article
about this organization called Project Censored, and it triggered me
because it's the graphics or hysterical.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
But you go to their.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
Website, and their website is intense and obviously very expensive,
and a lot of people spend a lot of time
on it, and obviously these are very well funded people.
And last I tried from a couple of different technologies,
and curiously enough wasn't stopped from going there.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
Doc.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
I just it struck me that if you're project censored,
then what good is your business model if you're not
being censored? Right, my research man John Suttz saw it.
So one of the clickthroughs on this group's web page
is how to identify.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
False information? And there's a checklist.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
So, because I'm that guy, I've checked the checklist as
the check authority is an editor or editorial board listed?
Any ads or are the ads disguised? Any code of
ethics present for the organization or group, Any conflict of
interests stated, Any disclosure statements available, notice available meaning somebody
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else may have published them, biographical information present, Any credentials,
expertise and or affiliations listed. So what were Thomas Payn's
because I believe he was he wasn't a journalists He
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wrote common sense? And what was his qualifications?
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (46:57):
And anyways, branding or a logo present on the site
or the source, if a website or a blog, what's
the domain name? For example dot gov, dot org, dot
info dot com. If a website, blog or other source
for example, YouTube, is there an about us section?
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Who created or authored the material?
Speaker 3 (47:22):
And none of these, None of these I lampooned a
little bit because it's this idea of this is conspiratorial,
and maybe it should be, you know, more widely reversed
that you should even for something that you agree with,
like kareem asking, you know, because I jumped. I was
going through the other day and we were looking to say, look,
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you know, and I knew about the branch Davidians and
I knew they were on Clinton's watch, and so when
we saw the story, and then I said, oh my gosh,
Ruby Ridge too because I saw ninety two. And it's
just because I connect Clinton to nineteen ninety two. But
that was the year he got to like that. He
wasn't in office yet, but you gotta chat. Is if
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information including photos and memes are posted, shared, or retweeted,
is there any attempt for the Center to fact check,
track down sources, and validate claims? Is an explanation of
their fact checking method and or trust indicators provided by
the fact checker.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
And then in the.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
Message section, and he specialized technical language, used double speak,
use of metaphors. Can you determine perspective? For example, I
know believe, I believe this first person opinion? Does the
language appeal to the mind of emotions? Like, how do
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you judge that I can read something completely scientific and
have an emotional reaction to it. We just did a
segment about digital technology helping people who have had tracheotomies,
and I had an emotional reaction to it. You know why,
because I know somebody who used to do what I
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do and had his voice cut out. I've watched too
much Rod Serling, too much Twilight Zone. Oh man, It's
just it's a fascinating, fun little romp into understanding the.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Media state is here.
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The State of the Free Press twenty twenty six, the
fiftieth anniversary edition. So you're going to tell me this
Project Censored has been doing this. Oh hey, John, if
you're listening, John Subman, the cover that they're using for
the Ceville Weekly is is nicked right from Project Censored website,
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so they didn't even create the art graphic for it.
Fiftieth So you've been doing this since nineteen seventy six,
and understand what's changed since nineteen seventy six, Things like
Freedom of Information Act laws that didn't exist or were
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only just starting to be fleshed out in nineteen seventy six.
Jimmy Carter was elected president in nineteen seventy six. And
you're saying that you know people were being censored then,
We had like four sources of information then and three
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of the more TV networks for if you count PBS.
But that's the government. So I presume Project Censored is
against public broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
I presume it's just a.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
Funny outtake heading into a Christmas and I hope you
and yours are together and take heart into the original
point of this program, which is connect connect with someone.
They're coming anyway. I mean, we share these stories with
you not because Laura Lumer needs more notoriety, but because
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somebody who's going to be at your house for Christmas
is going to throw it at you. If they know
you listen to programs like this one, they're gonna throw
this Project Censored stuff at you. They might they might
even give you a copy of it for Christmas. Say, well,
you listen to conservative talk radio. We know the Trump
administration sends them all their talking points first thing in
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the morning.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yeah, yeah, that's what happened.
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So I hope you have some time with family and friends,
and you get together with everyone and that the people
are who you want to be around. But even the
people who you've loved for years, you can reach out
to and touch base with and be together with and
perhaps find all those eighty percent of things that you
agree on and just remember you know when getting when
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arriving at their most important destination in their campaign, Jesus's
minions ran off to find the elected official and he said,
I want to hang out with the woman everyone has shunned.
That's the message. We'll celebrate the kid's birthday tomorrow morning.
Until then, I'm Joe Thomas, Talk Media Network. So long
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Quit making mornings great again. First Thing Today on the
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On this Christmas Eve Day, I'm getting back to some
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Even Christmas Eve Day mornings. It winds up be ves.
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But one of our favorite segments every month is to
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And you know it's a story that still to this day.
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Twenty years ago I met a fella came to the
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Some would say I have been around long enough to
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to join us to talk about what happens after that
and you know, and how to manage it, doctor Fowler
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from the Cancer Center at the University of Virginia, and
I appreciate it. It's how people can you know after a
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case of how to treat the cancers in the throat
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I know it's not a pleasant subject, but when a
lot of folks deal with around Christmas time.
Speaker 17 (15:37):
Well, thank you so much for having me on. I
really want to thank you for allowing me to have
this platform to speak about and as you said, it's
not a pleasant topic and hopefully not a lot of
your listeners have to think about it. But when we
come together with our families, one of the things that
we do is we catch up. We spend all of
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this time talking, right, we spend all this time coming
together and sharing all the stories of what we've been
doing since the last time we were together. And imagine
that time being isolated, not being able to talk. And
that's really what happens if you have something that occurred
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that made you lose your voice.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
So what what is I mean? It sounds like technology
is coming to the aid. When I met mister Mountjoy,
he was using pen and paper to communicate and it
had its clunks. But you know with patients, I mean,
if you were if you wanted to talk to him,
you wanted to talk to him, so you are patient.
But so what what breakthroughs in technology are helping to
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this end?
Speaker 17 (16:52):
So the first is the phone, Right, we now carry
a computer with us everywhere we go. So the smartphone
has made a large advance because you can use the
text to talk apps and people. Instead of having to
write everything out, you can very quickly text what you're
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trying to say, and then the phone can talk for
you what you were going to communicate.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Interesting, I hadn't thought about you using that, you know,
so you can. Actually that's not even something you have
to teach a smartphone to do. That's not like going
in and finding a bespoke app. I think a lot
of phones do that automatically, don't they correct.
Speaker 17 (17:37):
And this isn't just our cancer patients. I mean, these
are patients who have had strokes that maybe have to
have a trake, or someone who had trauma a car
accident that ended up having to have a trake, or
an als patient, and so it's it's a much wider population.
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But what happens is that patients don't necessarily want that
robotic voice, right. I mean now nowadays, I literally had
my phone the other day ask if it wanted to
give me directions in the sound of Santa, so you
know we can have it, right, I mean.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
They're getting a little too conversational. My wife had had
heard GPS say, Okay, after the next corner, you're going
to turn right. I mean, this is a little too
much like they're sitting in the car with you.
Speaker 17 (18:30):
It's a little crazy. I don't necessarily need Santa riding
in the car with me.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, but well get the point. I guess if you can,
you can't, right, you know, bunny.
Speaker 17 (18:41):
But for these patients, what if they wanted their own voice?
Speaker 14 (18:46):
Right?
Speaker 17 (18:46):
What if?
Speaker 5 (18:47):
So?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
What's what?
Speaker 17 (18:48):
The latest technology, which I think is so powerful, is
if you have voice recordings of your own voice prior
to when whatever happened to you. So if it is cancer,
we want voice recordings from before you had your cancer,
so that they were normal voice recordings.
Speaker 10 (19:07):
You can actually.
Speaker 17 (19:08):
Send it in and and now you can have your
own voice be what's reading the text messages?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Oh that's that's all.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I don't know if that would be weird or not,
but I know how it would be liberating for somebody
who couldn't speak on their own.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yes, yes, and it's not.
Speaker 17 (19:31):
I mean it may never be perfect. We all know
how you know, it can mistake the words.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I kind of hope that it's never perfect because because
if it's never perfect, who will know if there's been
a bloodless coup on this radio show. I mean, there's
decades worth of recordings of my voice. And the next
thing they know, I find out my daughter is running
the show and I'm tied up in a basement somewhere.
But you know, so the the but the point is
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that as a liberating tool, this can be powerful. You
talk about I guess the human interface modes or uh,
you know, a smartphone. You have to be able to
type in obviously on it, but can you use other
technology to enter.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
The text? You want these technologies to speak.
Speaker 17 (20:23):
Yeah, So if you have a patient, for example, who
has als or you know, who is really on able
to communicate in any other way, you can do this
on a computer, you can do this. I have patients
who will write out not using their computer, you know,
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not using their phone, but on a computer, app on,
you know, on any form of technology, and they'll provide
me with what they want for their whole visit. You know,
here's the questions that they have, here's everything kind of predetermined.
And then when they come in, they hit play and
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it plays for me the dialogue. Now we're then able
to have a conversation that's much shorter off of what
they've already pre come up with, but it saves that
time of the initial Here's how I'm doing?
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Right?
Speaker 17 (21:23):
It's almost like when you go to your famili's and
everyone the very first question out of everyone's mouse, that's
how have you been? Right?
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Right?
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He gets that initial Here's what's going on? You know,
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They've given me that initial.
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How I is there a place to go look at
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You should see it there.
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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?
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Is he knows when he's buzzed, and my brain is
saying when it's time to go home, Somebody call me
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Love that guy, me too.
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Know your buzzed warning signs, call for a ride when
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So you get ready for Christmas Eve? The ride of
the Reindeer?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Does that sound more like I don't know, is it
more of the volkyes or is it ghost riders in
the sky For you? As Christmas twenty twenty five bounds,
I hope you have time to find the things that
are good and great and understand the trials and travails
of we pale by those comparisons, and we should take
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heart but also not take lightly those things that do
transpire in front of us. Kareem wrote incorrectly pointing out
and my apologies for this, that technically Ruby Ridge, you know,
and I always do this, so you know, late ninety
two is Ruby Ridge, that's still Bush. But Waco, and
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to be fair, Waco was much more about child endangerment.
That was their premise when they went into Waco and
burned down the Branch Davidians, was to spare the children because.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
There were allegations.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
I remember the story, you know, of the Branch Davidian
compound in nineteen ninety three. It was on the air
doing it, you know, trying to trying to fit stories
like that into a hot hits shock jock radio show.
I vaguely remember somebody doing a bit about a raid
(30:38):
on Joe's house. I mean, you know, until it went sideways,
you know, that's you know, it was fun in games
because we were like, why are they what's a what's
a Davidian? What's oh? And you know you're getting the
phone calls about Seventh Day Adventists and this side and
that side, and I was just trying to be a
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shock jocket the time. And I think at some point
we had you know, I didn't come in, and it
was because the FBI had surrounded my house because I
had something, you know, my behavior was weird enough, and
they decided that I was endangering my kids. And then
of course when the shooting started in the burning.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
I mean, we.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Shelved all that because you know, taste. But the point
remains that, you know, in the in the case of
let's hear two allegations of child abuse coming into the
same FBI headed up by the same Attorney general, and
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one is ignored and one isn't. I mean capital I isn't.
And then you see the pictures of the president, the
boss of the Attorney general in the hot tub with
the guy who's out. Allegations were being made in nineteen
(32:03):
ninety six about this, and this is a bigger issue.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Than oh you tagged Bill Clinton in it. Well, we
tagged Donald.
Speaker 3 (32:12):
Trump and it it's if you're a politician you find
out one of your big campaign fundraisers was running a
Ponzi scheme?
Speaker 2 (32:28):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Do you help them stay out of trouble. That's certainly,
you know, a Christian belief, as you help your brother out,
or do you at least be honest about it, because
what is help.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
At the end of the day, what is really help
is help allowing somebody to ignore the problem, or is
help making somebody face up to it and fix their
errant way? Good morning, you're on the air with Joe Thomas.
Speaker 23 (33:05):
First thing this morning, Good morning triggered a little something
at eight forty this morning. I'm not sure what it was.
I'm not so anyway, early Merry Christmas to you guys.
I'm glad that Joel's feeling a little better.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Well, we all, I think we all need that sometimes.
Speaker 23 (33:28):
So the the other thing that I find interesting is
the LaVoi Finicum case, which was very very much like
Ruby Riggs and the Branch Davidian things.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
And this is just you know, overreached.
Speaker 23 (33:48):
By our federal government. Well it need to help out
his you know, his friend who hit you know, been
just not the renters' rightsn't been there for years. And
when the federal government sisted, oh no, the line's going
to go over here. And and Finnicum's wife is still alive,
(34:13):
and I remember going to the first red pill the
dude too well, actually Joel Joel our neighbor there south
and was there, but Lord Monkton was there and he
was actually appointed out the uh the error in the
uh information that had been used to create this this
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false narrative about the global warming if you will.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Well, yeah, that was always Lord Monkton was one of
the great truth tellers in that that what they were
using that were also using it to steal your property
rights as if they needed other premises. But I guess
they decided they had worn out. Uh you know what
did what did they use in the pink houses?
Speaker 14 (35:05):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (35:05):
They they Oh, it was for higher tax collections so
the city could make more tax money in Connecticut, so
they could they took her house from her so they
could sell it, sell the property to a developer. Uh,
and these kind of things. I mean, it's just amazing
to think of the things that we've allowed. And sometimes
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it's just simply out of the idea of well, it's
going to happen to the other guy, not me, and
and when it does happen to you, it's the classic
you know, there there was no one left to stand
up for me.
Speaker 23 (35:39):
Well, the Chimney tax is one of my favorites. That
when I I went to the London for the only time,
and I remember doing a little diggings because I had
some could they call middle Vengers, I think, But it
turns out the Horde Chapel, my last name is spelled
h Or before Chapel, is actually part of Dalton Abbey's
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really like said, they were going to church and I
had reached out, probably.
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Gonna get some residuals out of this.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
I mean that sounds like some investable property there, and
it's a Doubton Abbey is a going thing that's bigger
than Game of Thrones these days.
Speaker 23 (36:21):
Well, eighteen twenty seven was the last time he for
from my line, you know, actually lived in England. Uh,
most of us left and there were only two of
us that came to America and one of them ended
up marrying a triplet, and Triplet was the dude too,
was with Washington when they came up. Oh yeah, through
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South Carolina and Virginia, right, and all that's coming up soon.
And you know, I have a incredible collection of the
archives too. There's there's also an amazing painter that I've
become aware of.
Speaker 7 (36:57):
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I don't represent him or anything, but I was told
that there's a great maritime paint that has a lot
of the stuff in the Navil Academy. Thing that's was
his interest was tweaked when some other friend of mine
used to run a gowery here mostly maritime. Thanks and
became aware that. You know, he came for a quick
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art tour at my house and he was kind of
moved by things. I said, you know, seventeen eighty one
is like the two fiftieth of that is kind of
might you know the things that I've been selecting, both
the information so you know, and most archive.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
It's going to be a busy year. Definitely will a
busy year.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
That's why we kind of got a heads up on
it this year when we went out to Conquered for
the two hundred and fiftieth of the shot heard around
the world goes here in Virginia. It's going to mean
a lot. Hopefully we can share it with all the
folks alone the network. Anyway, Andy, I've got to run.
You have a great morning, sir, Christmas, you.
Speaker 23 (37:58):
Do too, thank you.
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You should wait thirty minutes.
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The First Amendment. First thing today.
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On this Christmas even day, I was just sent an
interesting piece.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Obviously caught up in the holiday season.
Speaker 3 (44:47):
One of our local weeklies has got a cover article
about this organization called Project Censored, and it triggered me
because it's the graphics or hysterical.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
But you go to their.
Speaker 3 (45:03):
Website, and their website is intense and obviously very expensive,
and a lot of people spend a lot of time
on it, and obviously these are very well funded people.
And last I tried from a couple of different technologies,
and curiously enough wasn't stopped from going there.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
Doc.
Speaker 3 (45:29):
I just it struck me that if you're project censored,
then what good is your business model if you're not
being censored? Right, my research man John Suttz saw it.
So one of the clickthroughs on this group's web page
is how to identify.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
False information? And there's a checklist.
Speaker 3 (46:00):
So, because I'm that guy, I've checked the checklist as
the check authority is an editor or editorial board listed?
Any ads or are the ads disguised? Any code of
ethics present for the organization or group, Any conflict of
interests stated, Any disclosure statements available, notice available meaning somebody
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else may have published them, biographical information present, Any credentials,
expertise and or affiliations listed. So what were Thomas Payn's
because I believe he was he wasn't a journalists He
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wrote common sense? And what was his qualifications?
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (46:57):
And anyways, branding or a logo present on the site
or the source, if a website or a blog, what's
the domain name? For example dot gov, dot org, dot
info dot com. If a website, blog or other source
for example, YouTube, is there an about us section?
Speaker 2 (47:19):
Who created or authored the material?
Speaker 3 (47:22):
And none of these, None of these I lampooned a
little bit because it's this idea of this is conspiratorial,
and maybe it should be, you know, more widely reversed
that you should even for something that you agree with,
like kareem asking, you know, because I jumped. I was
going through the other day and we were looking to say, look,
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you know, and I knew about the branch Davidians and
I knew they were on Clinton's watch, and so when
we saw the story, and then I said, oh my gosh,
Ruby Ridge too because I saw ninety two. And it's
just because I connect Clinton to nineteen ninety two. But
that was the year he got to like that. He
wasn't in office yet, but you gotta chat. Is if
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information including photos and memes are posted, shared, or retweeted,
is there any attempt for the Center to fact check,
track down sources, and validate claims? Is an explanation of
their fact checking method and or trust indicators provided by
the fact checker.
Speaker 2 (48:29):
And then in the.
Speaker 3 (48:30):
Message section, and he specialized technical language, used double speak,
use of metaphors. Can you determine perspective? For example, I
know believe, I believe this first person opinion? Does the
language appeal to the mind of emotions? Like, how do
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you judge that I can read something completely scientific and
have an emotional reaction to it. We just did a
segment about digital technology helping people who have had tracheotomies,
and I had an emotional reaction to it. You know why,
because I know somebody who used to do what I
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do and had his voice cut out. I've watched too
much Rod Serling, too much Twilight Zone. Oh man, It's
just it's a fascinating, fun little romp into understanding the.
Speaker 2 (49:32):
Media state is here.
Speaker 3 (49:37):
The State of the Free Press twenty twenty six, the
fiftieth anniversary edition. So you're going to tell me this
Project Censored has been doing this. Oh hey, John, if
you're listening, John Subman, the cover that they're using for
the Ceville Weekly is is nicked right from Project Censored website,
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so they didn't even create the art graphic for it.
Fiftieth So you've been doing this since nineteen seventy six,
and understand what's changed since nineteen seventy six, Things like
Freedom of Information Act laws that didn't exist or were
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only just starting to be fleshed out in nineteen seventy six.
Jimmy Carter was elected president in nineteen seventy six. And
you're saying that you know people were being censored then,
We had like four sources of information then and three
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of the more TV networks for if you count PBS.
But that's the government. So I presume Project Censored is
against public broadcasting.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
I presume it's just a.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
Funny outtake heading into a Christmas and I hope you
and yours are together and take heart into the original
point of this program, which is connect connect with someone.
They're coming anyway. I mean, we share these stories with
you not because Laura Lumer needs more notoriety, but because
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somebody who's going to be at your house for Christmas
is going to throw it at you. If they know
you listen to programs like this one, they're gonna throw
this Project Censored stuff at you. They might they might
even give you a copy of it for Christmas. Say, well,
you listen to conservative talk radio. We know the Trump
administration sends them all their talking points first thing in
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the morning.
Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yeah, yeah, that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (52:02):
So I hope you have some time with family and friends,
and you get together with everyone and that the people
are who you want to be around. But even the
people who you've loved for years, you can reach out
to and touch base with and be together with and
perhaps find all those eighty percent of things that you
agree on and just remember you know when getting when
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arriving at their most important destination in their campaign, Jesus's
minions ran off to find the elected official and he said,
I want to hang out with the woman everyone has shunned.
That's the message. We'll celebrate the kid's birthday tomorrow morning.
Until then, I'm Joe Thomas, Talk Media Network. So long
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