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First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Prefer to sleep in? Not a ’morning person’? But still want an honest & unique analysis of the news? Get it all right here from veteran broadcast entertainer Joe Thomas. LIVE weekdays, 5 am - 9 am ET from ”America’s Hometown” -- Charlottesville, VA! (& Staunton) E-mail us at: [email protected] or call the studio at 434-882-4217

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Episodes

  1. "6 Wolves & 5 Sheep on the Planning Commission" (FTTxJT Mon 110226 hr4)

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  2. "Democratic Democracy" (FTTxJT Mon 110226 hr3)

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  3. "Who Let the Dogs Vote?" (FTTxJT Mon 110226 hr2)

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  4. "Are we awake?" (FTTxJT Mon 110226 hr1)

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  5. "Those Who Came Before" (FTTxJT Sat 103126 hr3)

    (00:00:00) reax to: All Hallows Eve (00:13:01) Celebrate those who came before (00:28:02) Caller on 'zombie voters' (00:44:02) Epiphany: The more that you CAN vote, the less you'll WANT to Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  6. "All Hallows Eve" (FTTxJT Sat 103126 hr2)

    (00:00:00) Biscuit the Felony Dog (00:13:01) Caller: Masquerading Politicians (00:27:59) All Hallows Eve (00:44:02) If you promote it, is it still technically a "Flash Mob"? / Riots in Poland Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  7. "FAUX News?" (FTTxJT Sat 103126 hr1)

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  8. "Rights is Rights" (FTTxJT Fri 103026 hr4)

    (00:00:00) "Rights is Rights" (00:13:01) caller on Binance Hack and Obama Investigation into Omar (00:27:59) Guest: wrap up w/ Bob Good (00:44:05) Callers on voter ID and affordability Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  9. "JT's 'Ex' Men" (FTTxJT Fri 103026 hr3)

    (00:00:00) Guest: more w/ Ex DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli (00:12:59) Guest: Wrap up w/ EX AG Ken Cuccinelli from Election Transparency Initiative (00:28:01) Mac McDonald Sports Notebook (00:44:00) Guest: EX Rep Bob Good - Good for America Podcast Please like and share your favorites to help us...

  10. "Lies, Damn Lies and Polls" (FTTxJT Fri 103026 hr2)

    (00:00:00) Oxymorons (00:13:01) Daily Signal column on Vote Suppression by Polls (00:28:02) Binance hack / texts on Sabato Predictions (00:44:02) Guest: Ken Cuccinelli from the Election Transparency Initiative Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  11. "If anyone knows dodgy citizenship..." (FTTxJT Fri 103026 hr1)

    (00:00:00) City Elders (00:13:01) Awkward: Omar citizenship investigation started by Obama (00:27:59) R.I.P. - Patrick Stewart (00:44:51) Glitches: Crypto Hack & British Intelligence loses hard drives Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  12. "Demo-Crazy" (FTTxJT Thu 102926 hr4)

    (00:00:00) Guest: more with Josh from Founding Freedoms (00:13:01) Not a new Civil War / Caller on "Three (Alaskan) Amigos" (00:28:18) Demo-Crazy (00:44:02) TSO Tix Draw / Guest: More with Father Frank Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  13. "Founding Freedoms" (FTTxJT Thu 102926 hr3)

    (00:00:00) Cyclical? (00:13:01) Guest: New Bladder Cancer Treatment (00:28:02) Mac McDonald's sports notebook (00:43:59) Guest: Josh Hetzler from the Founding Freedoms Law Center Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  14. "Gratitude" (FTTxJT Thu 102926 hr2)

    (00:00:00) Caller; Girl in Need in CA (00:13:01) Text reax to girl in need call (00:27:59) text on positivity (00:44:02) Guest: Father Frank Pavone from Priests for Life Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  15. "What Will Become of Us?" (FTTxJT Thu 102926 hr1)

    (00:00:00) More Arabs elected in Israel (00:13:01) If Dems win? (00:28:02) Fabians at Human Resources / Caller on future (00:43:59) Caller on what could happen in next couple of years Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  16. "Israeli Elections" (FTTxJT Wed 102826 hr4)

    (00:00:00) Caller: Venezuela's Oil (00:13:01) Email: Pharma bad for your liver, too (00:28:02) TSO Drawing / When Promotions Attack / Israeli Election (00:44:02) More about Israeli election Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  17. "A Hot Cuban" (FTTxJT Wed 102826 hr3)

    (00:00:00) TSO winners (00:13:01) Life, and other taboo subjects / caller on UN Argument (00:27:59) Mac McDonald's Sports Notebook (00:43:59) "Caring Beyond Cancer" (Liver Cancer) Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  18. "Taboo You" (FTTxJT Wed 102826 hr2)

    (00:00:00) email: Don't you try to draw more listeners? (00:13:01) Character Development (00:28:02) How to talk about 'taboo' subjects (00:44:02) Conversationalists beat Communists and Islamists Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  19. "Larry's (Crystal) Balls" (FTTxJT Wed 102826 hr1)

    (00:00:00) Ted-Ness for Beginners (00:13:01) Big (Crystal) Balls (00:28:02) Listeners own midterm predictions / When JT broke Larry (00:44:02) Chicago Diocese in Unholy Water Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  20. "Criminalized Dissent" (FTTxJT Tue 102726 hr4)

    (00:00:00) Why (and how) we roll (00:13:01) TSO Drawing / Caller on Okeefe Media (00:28:02) Text: Why release vote tally a little at a time? / more with Tom "Drops Bombs" (00:43:59) Chattanooga wants A.I. Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  21. "It'll be over soon" (FTTxJT Tue 102726 hr1)

    (00:00:00) It will be over soon (00:13:01) "(It'll be) One Week ..." (00:27:59) Sloganeering or Vote Supression? (00:44:03) Aspirational vs Desperational Campaigns Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  22. "Not a Flaw, a Feature" (FTTxJT Tue 102726 hr3)

    (00:00:00) Caller: Thanks for Gold tip (00:12:59) Caller: Not a glitch, a feature (00:28:01) Mac McDonald's Sports Notebook (00:44:03) Guest: Tom "Drops Bombs" Garrett Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  23. "The Next Two Years" (FTTxJT Tue 102726 hr2)

    (00:00:00) "The Next Two Years" (FTTxJT Tue 102726 hr2) (00:00:29) You there... (00:13:01) Gold & Silver Report / Prediction for the next two years (00:28:01) Guest: Rep. John McGuire (00:44:01) Dumber than a bag of hair? Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  24. "Where'd This Frenchman Get a Gun?" (FTTxJT Mon 102626 hr4)

    (00:00:00) Latest on French Drive-By Shooting (00:13:02) Guilt by Association (French Assailant Motive) (00:28:00) Munchausen-by-Government Syndrome (00:44:05) Guest: Chad Ennis (Honest Elections Project) on "The California 20k" Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  25. "But Joe...." (FTTxJT Mon 102626 hr3)

    (00:00:00) Speak up (00:12:59) Email: "But Joe ..." (00:28:00) Mac McDonald's Sports Notebook (00:44:01) There is more at stake... Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  26. "Vote Suppression?" (FTTxJT Mon 102626 hr2)

    (00:00:00) Reax to Brazilian vote (00:12:59) Email: Aren't talk radio shows to blame for low GOP turnout? / Gold & Silver Report (00:28:00) More Shining, Less Marx (00:44:01) Permanent Reapportionment Act of 1929 Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  27. "Waxing Brazilian" (FTTxJT Mon 102626 hr1)

    (00:00:00) Halloween tip: Dress as "Zombie Voters" (00:12:59) Waxing Brazilian (00:28:00) OnlyFans big in Texas? (00:44:04) Listener reax to "OnlyFans" list and Brazilian elections Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  28. "Walk With You" (FTTxJT Sat 102426 hr3)

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  29. "The French Connection" (FTTxJT Sat 102426 hr2)

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  30. "Lying to Congress" (FTTxJT Sat 102426 hr1)

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  31. "Kash and Karry" (FTTxJT Fri 102326 hr4)

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  32. "When the 'Machine' Breaks Down" (FTTxJT Fri 102326 hr3)

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  33. "Louise and the Grifting Racketeers" (FTTxJT Fri 102326 hr2)

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  34. "What if the Internet was Gone?" (FTTxJT Fri 102326 hr1)

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  35. "What's With the Clinton Resurrection?" (FTTxJT Thu 102226 hr4)

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  36. "It's Not New" (FTTxJT Thu 102226 hr3)

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  37. "Is it News?" (FTTxJT Thu 102226 hr2)

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  38. "Crisis Communication" (FTTxJT Thu 102226 hr1)

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  39. "International Entanglements" (FTTxJT Wed 102126 hr4)

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  40. "Schumer Screws the Jews" (FTTxJT Wed 102126 hr3)

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  41. "National Intelligence (and other oxymorons)" (FTTxJT Wed 102126 hr2)

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  42. "Process Stories" (FTTxJT Wed 102126 hr1)

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  43. "A Big, Empty, Tent?" (FTTxJT Tue 102026 hr4)

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  44. "Politicians" (FTTxJT Tue 102026 hr3)

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  45. "Suppressor" (FTTxJT Tue 102026 hr2)

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  46. "Chasing 'Significance' in CA" (FTTxJT Tue 102026 hr1)

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  47. "Criminalized Dissent" (FTTxJT Mon 101926 hr4)

    (00:00:00) Radio Daze (00:13:02) Virginia try's to Criminalize Dissent (00:28:00) Mischaracterization (00:44:01) Guest: Family Foundation's Victoria Cobb Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  48. "Paris is the Future" (FTTxJT Mon 101926 hr3)

    (00:00:00) listener text: Demo-crazy (00:13:02) Caller on the economy (00:28:00) Mac McDonald's sports notebook (00:44:01) France, the darling of Davos Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  49. "We're Doing the French Mistake!" (FTTxJT Mon 101926 hr2)

    (00:00:00) "Doing the French Mistake" (00:13:02) "Comes the Revolution!" (00:28:00) Gold & Silver report / When, not if, the riots start here (00:44:01) "It's the economy, stupid" / Caller on communism Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

  50. "Can You Hear the People Sing?" (FTTxJT Mon 101926 hr1)

    (00:00:00) French Toast (00:13:02) "Singing the Songs of Angry Men ..." (00:28:00) If it isn't you ... (00:44:01) America's 'system' should be sufficient / Caller: Trump's "Mandela Effect" Please like and share your favorites to help us reach more people!

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About this show

Prefer to sleep in? Not a ’morning person’? But still want an honest & unique analysis of the news? Get it all right here from veteran broadcast entertainer Joe Thomas. LIVE weekdays, 5 am - 9 am ET from ”America’s Hometown” -- Charlottesville, VA! (& Staunton) E-mail us at: [email protected] or call the studio at 434-882-4217

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Thomas Media, LLC

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How many episodes does First Thing Today with Joe Thomas have?

First Thing Today with Joe Thomas has 1,000 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on November 2, 2026.

What is First Thing Today with Joe Thomas about?

Prefer to sleep in? Not a ’morning person’? But still want an honest & unique analysis of the news? Get it all right here from veteran broadcast entertainer Joe Thomas. LIVE weekdays, 5 am - 9 am ET from ”America’s Hometown” -- Charlottesville, VA! (& Staunton) E-mail us at:...

How often does First Thing Today with Joe Thomas release new episodes?

First Thing Today with Joe Thomas publishes daily, based on its 1,000 episodes since November 2025.

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First Thing Today with Joe Thomas is created and hosted by Thomas Media, LLC.
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