First Thing Today with Joe Thomas
Oct 22, 2026 · 54 min · 38 segments
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She paid good money for that.
No wonder Joe's always.

But while you bask in the amplitude and frequency modulation goodness of your favorite radio station, you are the most important part of the locality of it.

So we need to hear how the news of the day is impacting you, where you are at 434- 882-4217 for our end.

Blair wanted to talk about the civil slave trade and we'll get into that coming up because it's still going on and what has happened is local governments remember remember when all the local governments were in this mad panic to take down any references to the Civil War lest you notice that we're about to have reconflagration of the Civil War over the same issue too And if you've never heard me point this out, the schism in the United States right now is not north-south, it's left-right, and it's over the newest iteration of brown-skinned people being brought into this country to act as a permanent servant class.

And President Obama calling them out for it is just that stiff wind those embers needed to reconflagrate.

So I think Blair's point about the way all of a sudden after that zeal to hide the last civil war has gone away, now they're ready to start to fight the new one, the same old one.

But our first things on a grand scale For you this morning, Russia and Ukraine, Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg, the other one, to meet with Vladimir Putin, who dismissed the peace work that had been done between Ukraine and Europe as lacking substance, but does want to continue talking with the US and China about ending the war in Ukraine.
got
She paid good money for that.
No wonder Joe's always.

But while you bask in the amplitude and frequency modulation goodness of your favorite radio station, you are the most important part of the locality of it.

So we need to hear how the news of the day is impacting you, where you are at 434- 882-4217 for our end.

Blair wanted to talk about the civil slave trade and we'll get into that coming up because it's still going on and what has happened is local governments remember remember when all the local governments were in this mad panic to take down any references to the Civil War lest you notice that we're about to have reconflagration of the Civil War over the same issue too And if you've never heard me point this out, the schism in the United States right now is not north-south, it's left-right, and it's over the newest iteration of brown-skinned people being brought into this country to act as a permanent servant class.

And President Obama calling them out for it is just that stiff wind those embers needed to reconflagrate.

So I think Blair's point about the way all of a sudden after that zeal to hide the last civil war has gone away, now they're ready to start to fight the new one, the same old one.

But our first things on a grand scale For you this morning, Russia and Ukraine, Steve Witkoff in St. Petersburg, the other one, to meet with Vladimir Putin, who dismissed the peace work that had been done between Ukraine and Europe as lacking substance, but does want to continue talking with the US and China about ending the war in Ukraine.
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