"Tim Walz and his Purple Reign" (Tuesday December 23 2025, Hour 4)

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
On a need to know basis, because you need to
know the first thing today.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Your words said, steal me step.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
You have a day at least for work when the
sun comes up, drops a pet to school on the way.
Joe has a dreamer.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
All the treasure needs.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
No one that Joe's a smile.

Speaker 5 (00:25):
He only as.

Speaker 6 (00:30):
Joe.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Thank you for letting me service, to let me be
of service to you. Four three four eight eight two
four two one seven. That is the multitasking line where
after we tell you what went on last night, I
want you to use that number to tell us how
it's impacting you where you are. Text messages because I

(00:53):
know that's easier in the cacophony of events that most
people's mornings are. And you can also email JT in
the Morning radio at gmail dot com. A couple of
stories we haven't gotten into yet. Trump pulling money from
these offshore wind schemes, more wealth transfer to unaffordable boondoggles

(01:19):
that just virtue signal by way of oh, well we're
trying or doing something here, and how much of our
bankruptcy is driven by you know, somebody saying, wow, we
really should do something about this. My friend Chris Horner
the author of red hot Lies and power grab has

(01:39):
a wonderful way to depict it. We must do something,
is the statement from some government official. Then his underling says, well, Sarah,
this is something, then we must do that. And that's
how it usually works. Sometimes it's not an underling somebody,
it's somebody with a financial interest in the political figure.

(02:03):
We must do something about this. Well, this is something.
Oh hrumph, And so we wind up with these government
expenditures of best intentions, you know, just like the revitalization
stuff we talked about yesterday. San Antonio going through it.
San Antonio is one of the most beautiful cities. And

(02:25):
I can say this because they only get the first
hour of the program and some people do download the
other three. So sh don't tell them. I said this,
it's a beautiful city. What does it need more state
money going into its riverwalk for? How does something become

(02:46):
unvital because that's the implication is that, well, this is
an unvitalized area, so we need to spend taxpayer money
to revitalize it. Okay, before we do that, can we
figure out how it became unvitalized so that doesn't happen again? Well,
if it doesn't happen again, what are we going to

(03:08):
spend revitalization money for. We must build bypasses, as Douglas
Adams once wrote, We must build bypasses. We must build
baseball stadiums. We must build new courthouses, and we you know,
and when we build new courthouses. As an abstract, I

(03:30):
don't have a problem with building new courthouses. It's building
a new courthouse and then closing the old one. Build
more courthouses so that, you know, the exploding population in
this country can get justice and stop seeing these courtrooms
as places where we go to get screwed, because that's

(03:55):
a that's as big a problem in America today as anything.
As we we don't see our courtrooms as a place
of justice. So we'll get it all of that and
more for you this hour. But first we must lay
out our first things. This morning, President Trump announced plans
Monday for a new warship. It's a Trump Class destroyer

(04:19):
or battleship, Trump Class battleship, part of a broader initiative
he calls the Golden Fleet, which is designed to defend
the homeland borders. According to War Secretary Pete Hegseth and
Navy Secretary John Fhalen, the administration's shipbuilding and fleet expansion
is central to national security, and the Trump class battleships

(04:45):
will be bigger than the ones previous. He also said
during the announcement of the Trump Class battleship that it
would be smart for Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro to step
down as US naval forces continue to press a blockade
on the sneaky oil shipments. The ghost tankers trying to

(05:08):
get out of Venezuela and head to countries embargoed from
dealing with them. However, Russia, one of Venezuela's key allies,
expressed their full support for Maduro's government. A group of
ninety eight Minnesota mayors have sent a letter to Governor
Tim Waltz and the General Assembly saying that they've burned

(05:31):
through eighteen billion dollars in surplus and have led to
a three billion dollar deficit. Do the math. In a
letter to state lawmakers and Governor Waltz, the mayors of
the ninety eight cities expressed concern and frustration, saying the
state has slipped in national economic rankings and moreover, quote

(05:53):
fraud unchecked spending and inconsistent fiscal management in Saint Paul
have trickled down to our cities, reducing our capacity to
plan responsibly, maintain infrastructure, hire and retain employees, and sustain
core services without overburdening our local tax payers. More to

(06:15):
come on that in a moment. The Food and Drug
Administration Monday approved the first oral obesity medication, clearing, a
once daily pill from Novo Nordisk, the maker of the
WEGOV pill. Novo Nordisk says, just like the injectable Wegov

(06:38):
and Ozembic products, it has the same active ingredient. It's
the first oral GLP one receptor agonist approved in the
US for chronic weight management. And those are some of
our first things this morning. Now we can discuss at
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Oh brah, that's buzzed.

Speaker 4 (11:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.

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Oh how close were we? I mean it was bad enough.
I used to think that Tim Caine would have been
a nightmare as vice president, a heart beat away from
the Oval office. But the more we learn about what's
going on in Minnesota, can you imagine a government with

(14:05):
regardless of what you think the input of a vice
president might be. How you go And I understand, before
you get mad at me, kadi up there in Minneapolis.
Before you get mad, understand, I grew up in New
York City when we were officially bankrupt and being run

(14:29):
by outside commissions, because we had burned through all of
the money in the biggest city in America, and we
did it by such grift and graft. And even as

(14:49):
the money vanished, even as New York City went bankrupt
and gerald Ford said drop dead, which he didn't actually say,
but it makes or a good headline. Where I grew up,
they tried to blame it on things like building bus enclosures.

(15:09):
You know, there's a little plexiglass lean to's that you
wait for the bus underneath. That was the reason that
the Lindsay administration gave well al, we spend too much
money on the bus enclosures. You mean the bus enclosures
like almost every city in America has now. But when

(15:32):
I go through this, and how in the world a
state like minniap or a state like Minnesota goes from
an eighteen billion dollar surplus to a three billion dollar deficit.
And I just think about all the things that we

(15:55):
have to thank Donald Trump for. Perhaps the most important
of those things is sparing the US government, sparing the
American people. Writ Large of Administration run by Tim Wattz

(16:15):
So ninety eight mayors in Minnesota quote fraud unchecked space fraud.
Fraud leads the list. Why because we're seeing it every
time we turn around. There's more fraud. Hold it, you
remember the fraud we had last week. There's more fraud
coming out. Because what happens is as soon as the

(16:36):
first whistle blows in a government, it's rats from a
sinking ship. Either you blow your whistle now or you
go down with the ship. Better to blow the whistle
now and be seen as one of the people that
called out the Somali corruption. And currently there's a movement

(17:03):
to dox all these people who are talking about the
fraud in the Somali community. Why would they possibly be
talking about doxing these people putting their addresses and faces
on the internet for all to see. Why would that
be an issue? Hmm, I hear you, Joe, Joe, you

(17:26):
say hollering at the radio war weren't you just a
half an hour ago railing about legislative in transparency. Oh sure,
until somebody's life can be at risk for calling out fraud,
then I'm all for protecting the whistleblower. The Minnesota Witness

(17:50):
Protection Program better be in place. But I mean, think
about this. Think about how close it was to Tim
Waltz being the Vice President of the United States, a
man whose state has burned through eighteen billion dollars to

(18:15):
the And I've checked most of these mayors Democrats, fraud,
unchecked spending, inconsistent fiscal management. Now here's where I'm going
to turn on the ninety eight mayors because a lot
of your fiscal issues are in the next list. They

(18:38):
in their letter write down this fraud, the unchecked spending, etc.
Trickle down to our cities, reducing our capacity to plan responsibly.
Why'd you put that first? You know, I'm not predisposed
to take your side. If that's what maintain infrastructure, hire

(18:59):
and return employees, and sustain core services without overburdening local taxpayers. Now,
first off, if I was writing this list, I would
have since it's obviously not alphabetical, I would have put

(19:21):
sustained core services first, because as a conservative, I know
that's what your government's supposed to do, and it's debatable
as to what those core services are. I get that,
I understand that, but overburdening local taxpayers. The letter says,
all right, so your local taxpayers have been given a

(19:43):
pass on paying for oh, your police, your highway maintenance.
Have all these cities been riding high off of Minneapoli? Listen,
Saint Paul, this is more of this bait and switch.

(20:12):
That is other people's money. Hey, this is great. We
can pay our police with other people's money. That way,
we don't have to raise our local taxes. You could
eliminate from their list of things that they can't do
because Governor Waltz has burned through it's the twenty one

(20:33):
billion dollars, so plan responsibly. How about you leave that
to the businesses in your town maintain infrastructure and sustain
core services. Fine, how about we have a nice judicious
list of what those core services are. Hire and retain employees.

(20:57):
How many employees do you need? I think if we
take some of this out of your purview, you don't
need so many employees anymore. And I'll bet your local taxpayer,
since you bring them up, would be pleased to think
of how efficiently you were running your cities. But because

(21:17):
Saint Paul has been burning through their half of the
cash subsidizing you, now you're mad. Now, all of a sudden,
you've had Jesus come to visit. And I'm not saying
you're wrong, and I'll take every opportunity to remind people

(21:37):
how close we were to having Tim Waalts as vice president.
But I think these mayors have another problem, which is
how they're planning to run their cities based on all
of the state funding. Are they a Dylan Rule state?

(21:58):
I should check and see if there're a dil rural state.

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Uh.

Speaker 12 (25:55):
Oh, Brad's buzzed.

Speaker 4 (25:57):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.

Speaker 14 (26:01):
And now a speech.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
art and brain. Who's with me?

Speaker 16 (26:08):
Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
brain is saying when it's time to go home.

Speaker 18 (26:13):
Somebody call me a ride.

Speaker 12 (26:15):
Love that guy, me too.

Speaker 9 (26:17):
Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
it's time to go home. Buzz driving is drunk driving.

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costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
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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 Guy label. And
there are day to day things you can do. Lower
your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,

(27:06):
close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
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Are first thing today on the talk media, Hey by
Joe Jonas.

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I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.
You know, I don't like the way you do that sometimes,
just the implication, you know, show didn't even exist while
Ron was around, well, I mean partially did. Uh four
three four eight eight two four two one seven is
our phone number? Emails come into JT in the morning
radio from gmail dot com, and what of the couple

(28:51):
of emails are received on capital gains taxes? And yesterday,
just about this time, twenty four hours ago, or a
whole lot of sleep ago. You know, I confess to
you yesterday that I wasn't feeling great. I felt like
I was having some sort of allergy reaction to heat

(29:11):
and cleaning chemicals that had knocked me out. And I
hit the rack yesterday at eleven am, and aside from
a short burst of oh my god, it's five thirty,
at five thirty pm, I slept straight through till two
thirty this morning, and I feel so much better for it.

(29:34):
But that moment at five thirty when you wake up
and my wife will do but you go, oh my god,
it's five thirty. Why aren't you on the air. I
think it's because it's PM. But it's that time of
year where five thirty am and five thirty pm look
an awful lot the same outside of your window. But anyway,
twenty four hours ago, we were talking with Virginia Congressman

(29:56):
about this American Dream Act.

Speaker 24 (29:58):
So how do we incentivize like that to sell their
homes to these first time buyers. So it used to
be twenty percent of home ownership in America is under
age thirty two, and now it's closer to one percent,
Holy cas And so it basically creates a five year
more time on capital gains. So yeah, and then there's

(30:19):
there's devils in the details. But it says you can't
sell your property to Black Rock or a corporation, can't
sell it to China or a foreign nation. You have
to sell it to an American citizen.

Speaker 4 (30:31):
So the point I made earlier in the program playing
that clip was, isn't this a wonderful, perhaps accidental rebuke
of capital gains taxes. Joe Anne writes into four three
four eighty eight two four two one seven on the

(30:51):
text message line, So the rich just keep getting richer, Joe,
is that what you mean?

Speaker 25 (30:57):
No?

Speaker 4 (30:58):
But if you see this is the thing, Joe. I
don't know where you are in your life, but I
just purchased a house four years ago, and if I
need to do something with it, maybe I need to
sell it because I've got medical bills or something happens
and I need to sell my house. I'm only going

(31:19):
to realize some of it because of capital gains. As
if somehow me owning a house that has gone up
in value is bad. The same is true with a business.
If I own a business, This program and First Thing
Today by Joe Thomas becomes wildly popular. I'm more than

(31:41):
the one hundred stations or so that we're on already,
and we're on four or five, six hundred stations. I
know my boss, Josh is just his he his eyes
glazed over at the thought. And every advertiser in America
wants to be on this program. And I want to
retire and sell the program to someone and I'm going

(32:06):
to have to pay capital gains on the program because
I was successful. It's a success tax. You know, they
always talk about trying to come up with easily digestible
ways of labeling something. Capital gains tax is a success tax.

(32:28):
You were successful, and now we're going to punish you
for it, and we wonder why we've had less success.
I mean, you just think about it a second. If
would have Ben Franklin once say, if you want more,
if you want less of something, tax it or better.

(32:52):
Yet Reagan's point in Washington, the rule is if something moves,
tax it. If it stops moving, subsidize it. But that's
what we're facing in this country is is this idea
that being successful is not fair and this is the

(33:14):
fruit of the great society. And you can have a
big company. This isn't just a rebuke of Walmart or
some places like that. You can be successful and have
everyone involved in your enterprise be successful as well. Walmart

(33:36):
is actually a pretty good example of that. My wife
has worked for Walmart several times during bouts of unemployment
in my world, and each time she's gotten in there,
somebody has come up, Hey, we're trying to unionize this place.
We're trying to unionize this place, and let's draw. Let's

(34:02):
draw upon what happened in Starbucks versus what happened in Walmart.
Starbucks must be a pretty crappy company, says a guy
who's sponsored by another small independent coffee maker, who, by
the way, just drove a Starbucks shop out of business

(34:24):
down the street from him. Because every time I turn around,
there's another Starbucks unionizing. Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania, just over the weekend
voted to unionize the Starbucks. If you're counting on getting
a union to end us a while, then that's going

(34:47):
to teach them a lesson about success. The lesson would
have been, perhaps treat your employees better so they didn't
all want to run to a union to feel like
that's the only way they can get a redress of
their grievances and or hire some of the people who
run Walmart. Because every time I turn around again the
other direction, somebody is trying to unionize a Walmart store

(35:11):
and their employees say, nah, we're good here, we're good.
So how is that? How is Walmart able to avoid
the union spasm that can consumes because they understand that
success is good but success is something that should be
shared by everyone in your company, not because the government

(35:34):
mandates it or subsidizes it or gives you a tax
break for it. And that's what the capital gains tax is.
It's a success tax. If your company is successful, then
it needs to make that much more money in order
to share that with it. Hopefully it's employees, but certainly

(35:55):
it's shareholders. This tax comes into four to three four
eight eight two four two one seven. I had to
cash in a four to oh one K to pay
a move bonus three thousand dollars and ten thousand on
higher bonus. Now I have to pay taxes on that

(36:16):
twelve percent. So you had to cash in a four
oh one K to pay a move bonus, you had
to pay the move bonus. I don't I don't understand
the the the the point. But if you had to
pay to move, I certainly have seen people having to

(36:36):
pay to move their families to a new job. And
if you had to cash out a four oh one K, yeah,
I can see how they're going to come after you
for your capital gains. Again, it's your it's not even
success in this case. But just to make the point,
it's a success tax. It's a tax on doing the
right thing, which is silly to me. We should be

(36:59):
incentivizing doing the right thing, which is being diligent and
creating good companies and avoiding the union spasms and things
like that. Good morning, you're on the air with Joe.
First thing this morning. Who's this.

Speaker 24 (37:12):
Joe?

Speaker 4 (37:12):
It's Joel.

Speaker 7 (37:13):
I'm sorry, I'm double dipping, but I wanted to add
my two cents worth to the capital games. I think
there should be exceptions. Because I was terminated in September.
I've been without a job. I didn't hurt anybody. I
didn't do any medical error. It was just we had
conversations like we do on the radio. A lot of
travelers come here, and I guess we had patient relations

(37:37):
and they complained. But I had took a bonus, a
three thousand dollars move and then ten thousand dollars to
you know, as far as like for a two year
contract which had ended about a month early. But my
point is I had to take out a four one K.
I had to take that thirteen thousand dollars out. It

(37:57):
was converted.

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First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Chunk Media Network.

Speaker 4 (44:31):
Thank you for letting me be of service to you
so much to get into so many, so few waiting
moments of our program today. But don't forget. You can
go up and podcast all of this stuff yesterday. Show
is up there now. Didn't get up there as fast
as I would have wanted to, but I was. I
was crashed out, it was, But I feel better. What
was the old John Aston line from Night Court? I'm

(44:54):
feeling much better now. But Joel was on the line
with us talking about you know this success tax, the
capital gains tax.

Speaker 7 (45:03):
What I don't understand is right, Okay, I was already
taxed when I got it from the employer, and I think,
like twelve percent are over and then I'm taking it
out of my now it's and Ira. I'm sixty three
and I heard, well if you're fifty nine. But I
don't know all that stuff, and that's why I guess
all the CPAs make big money and I don't. But

(45:25):
I've been told I may even have pay ten percent
or twelve percent, which is almost twenty two hundred dollars,
and so far I don't have an income to me
this morning is.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
Before I talk to you.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
I've been on unemployment with Florida, which is another issue,
but I'm trying my best to get a job. I
just don't feel like a normal human being anymore.

Speaker 4 (45:46):
I hear you, my friend, but this is this is
what I mean about me. I don't feel like it's Christmas.
It is. And understand that the suffering that went you know,
the kid that was born on Christmas Day went through
a lot worse than you and I have ever gone through,
and and he did so for us. So hang in there,
my friend, all right, You know, you got to understand that.

(46:11):
I know, it's it's what the world does. It's what
the world does. He gotta hang in there because they're
you know, the the deceiver is in your house and
he's trying to turn you against you know, all the
things that are good in this world. Don't let him,
all right, hang in there, but I mean, you know,
but this is this speaks to what I mean. I mean,
this is real world stuff regarding the taxation culture. Was

(46:36):
was Joel successful? No, he just happened to have a
bonus and a jug that, as you said, you were
taxed on when you first got it, and then when
you had to cash it out you had to pay
taxes on it again. Whatever happened to, you know, double taxation.
I think we fought a battle over that a couple
hundred years ago. Hang in there, my friend, it is no,

(46:57):
don't be sorry, it is Christmas. Hang in there. You will,
you will, you know, come out of this better than
you've ever been before. Uh And and I truly believe
that for all of us, if we stay true and
stay faithful. All right, thank you. You know that's when

(47:17):
people act, you know, and you know I know that.
I get text messages from a loyal listener who tells
me when I need to take my blood pressure medication.
But I get angry. I do get angry when I
see normal people like you suffering under this stuff when

(47:42):
you know, the subsidization nation drives you out of work,
or the politically correct snowflake culture pushes somebody out of work.
Because now businesses have to take into effect the impact

(48:03):
of their employees on the snowflake class. It's offensive to
me that we've allowed it to happen. And so if
I do get angry or I sound like I've gotten
angry over something, it's because these things aren't oh JP

(48:26):
Morgan Chase, Oh it's JP Diamond or any of these people.
It's people like you and me that can ill afford this.
This is what they call regressive taxation. So you want
more of something, tax it less, you want more success,

(48:46):
tax it less. Mister President, get rid of this wall.
Mister President, tear down these capital gains taxes. All right,
Maybe not quite the same impact as mister garbageev tear
down this wall, but the effect is similar. Tell me

(49:07):
it isn't. Tell me the Marxism that's driven by this
this world that says that we all have to contribute
for other people, and we should, we should help out
our brothers. But to take it and then distribute it

(49:29):
to those we You know that the government sees fed
and then if we have the temerity to ask about it,
money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Oh silly. So
I want to pivot back to the idea of free

(49:49):
speech and this FCC commissioner that's making it out and
I know what he's doing. He's not saying he's going
to go after radio, but he's trying to make the
case they he should have the same authority he imagines
that he has over radio broadcasts, over podcasts and cable

(50:12):
channels and things like that. And because they don't use
spectrum per se. He's struggling with this because the premises
of the Federal Communications Commission is it's broadcasted over the air,
and if it's not, then they don't have the ability
to regulate it. Here's Mike Huckabee speaking yesterday in Israel.

(50:34):
Listen to what he says about young people and the
information they get and add this to what I just
said about Brendan Carr and see if you don't hear
some frightening or well Yon stuff.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
You know, there's a difference between domin ignorant. Dom is
that a person cannot process information they just don't have
the capacity. Ignorance is that the data isn't there. What
we're dealing with is not an operating system problem, it's
a data problem. We have not downloaded the proper data,
the correct and we've assumed that they're going to grow
up intellectually curious and intellectually honest.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
So, Mike, here's a quick question. And Sarah may have
grown up that way, and that's great and good for
the people of Arkansas. But if you're a parent of
a child, assuming they're going to grow up that way,
you're already behind two or three balls, not just not
just one eight ball, because you are the ones. You,

(51:38):
the parent, are the ones who have to teach that
intellectual curiosity that you insistence that just because I said
so is not a sufficient answer to why you have
to keep you we as parents, you as parents, have
to teach that to your kids. So when the FCC

(52:05):
says we need to you know, you know, be aware
of the responsibility our licenses give you. Excuse me, your
license to the FCC is just a deed to this
piece of spectrum that I'm allowed to broadcast over. It
gives you no regulation any more than the typical licensure

(52:28):
gives everyone The regulation over us and that's what we
need to get back, is this idea that we need
a license, a license versus a permit. It's a different thing,
and maybe we need to rename these FCC licenses. Anyway,
it's time for us to roll until tomorrow unless the
FCC comes after me. I'm Joe, so long and thanks

(52:50):
for all. Hi.

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