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Trump Calls on Nation to Boycott WNBA · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
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  Speaker 4: The telephone number, 901-260-5926. Again, that number, 901-260-5926. We'll be
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  Speaker 4: getting to your calls just momentarily. So, look, President Trump
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  Speaker 4: is on the warpath. The president really upset over the
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  Speaker 4: WNBA and LeBron James. Now, LeBron James was, what, the
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  Speaker 4: other day, he was standing up for the national anthem,
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  Speaker 4: and along with all the other players, and... Instead of
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  Speaker 4: standing at attention or just standing there, he was practicing
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  Speaker 4: his golf swing. And this really riled a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people and just set everybody off. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 4: Jason Whitlock actually had a theory about what's going on,
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  Speaker 4: not only with LeBron James, but this lack of gratitude
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  Speaker 4: about America and our freedom from black athletes specifically. Cut 27.
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  Speaker 6: LeBron is doing some sort of stretching routine, some sort
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  Speaker 6: of golf swing routine, some sort of free throw or
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  Speaker 6: jump shot routine during the national anthem. What we're seeing
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  Speaker 6: from LeBron James, what we've seen and have seen from
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  Speaker 6: the WNBA, is a lack of gratitude. We live in
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  Speaker 6: the land that's the safest for, let's just keep it 100%,
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  Speaker 6: For black people of anywhere on the planet. The most
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  Speaker 6: opportunity rich place for black people on the planet.
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  Speaker 4: We have a lot.
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  Speaker 6: All Americans, regardless of color, have a lot to be
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  Speaker 6: grateful for. Whether we agree with everything this country has
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  Speaker 6: ever done in its 250 year history. Whether we agree
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  Speaker 6: with everything that the United States is doing this year,
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  Speaker 6: this month, this week. We have a lot to be
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  Speaker 6: grateful for. But when you live in a secular society,
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  Speaker 6: people aren't filled with gratitude. They're filled with complaint. And
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  Speaker 6: even someone like LeBron James, who was born to a
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  Speaker 6: single mother, who the mother was 16 years old, born
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  Speaker 6: in the ghetto, born into poverty, not knowing his father,
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  Speaker 6: was able to rise up to be a billionaire. with
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  Speaker 6: a wife, with three kids, live in mansions scattered all
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  Speaker 6: across America, all across the globe, and expressing 90 seconds,
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  Speaker 6: two minutes of gratitude for the blessing that came from above,
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  Speaker 6: you have that choice. Or you can stand and honor
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  Speaker 6: the blessing that comes along with living here in America.
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  Speaker 6: We don't have that kind of gratitude. And so this
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  Speaker 6: isn't about whether or not you love the United States
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  Speaker 6: of America. It's do you have the capacity to accept
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  Speaker 6: an opportunity before playing a sports event that pays you
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  Speaker 6: millions upon millions of dollars? Do you have the mindset
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  Speaker 6: to express some gratitude for like, man, I could be
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  Speaker 6: digging ditches. I could be doing all sorts of different things,
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  Speaker 6: but instead I'm an athlete that plays a game and
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  Speaker 6: I make millions of dollars. I'm celebrated and I get
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  Speaker 6: to live and I get to provide for my family
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  Speaker 6: in ways that I never imagined. Let me just take
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  Speaker 6: these two minutes during the playing of the national anthem
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  Speaker 6: and remind myself of how grateful I am for this
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  Speaker 6: opportunity to be alive and to be in a country
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  Speaker 6: that in some form, was based on biblical values.
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  Speaker 4: And yet instead of that– and it's a great perspective
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  Speaker 4: that Jason Wellock has here– but in spite of that,
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  Speaker 4: you have many of these black athletes who despise America.
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  Speaker 4: They live in a land where they can claim their
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  Speaker 4: American dream. If they so choose to do so, they
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  Speaker 4: could make a career of– playing sports or playing a
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  Speaker 4: musical instrument or being a business person, whatever it is
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  Speaker 4: their American dream might be, they are afforded the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to achieve those goals uniquely here in the United States
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  Speaker 4: of America. And especially the WNBA, which has a just
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  Speaker 4: an ugly, ugly track record. First of all, the entire
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  Speaker 4: league is on welfare, so they would not exist without
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  Speaker 4: handouts from the men, the NBA. And these women have
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  Speaker 4: a chip on their shoulder pads. So, you know, to make,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, as bad as it is for LeBron to
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  Speaker 4: be out there practicing a golf swing during the National Anthem,
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  Speaker 4: now you've got these women who won't even stay on
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  Speaker 4: the basketball court. You've got the WNBA Finals. and in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 4: and the women refused to stay on the court for
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  Speaker 4: the national anthem. They literally flee in fear of the
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  Speaker 4: Star Spangled Banner. And Vice President J.D. Vance, among those,
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  Speaker 4: really disgusted by what these ladies are doing, cut 28.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's disgraceful, Raymond. I think that you should
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  Speaker 7: not express some criticism of a public policy of a
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  Speaker 7: by disrespecting the country writ large. I mean, those women
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  Speaker 7: who play for the WNBA, think of the public safety,
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  Speaker 7: think of the incredible wealth and privilege, the amazing jobs
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  Speaker 7: that they have. They have a lot to be grateful
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  Speaker 7: to the United States for, and I think that if
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  Speaker 7: they had a bit more of a spirit of gratitude,
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  Speaker 7: they'd be happier people, and they wouldn't offend so many
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  Speaker 7: people as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's true. Just ungrateful, spoiled, spoiled. So President Trump
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  Speaker 4: says enough is enough. And now he's calling for a
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  Speaker 4: national boycott of the WNBA. Cut number 25.
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  Speaker 8: Stand up for the Olympics. Hey, by the way, what's
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  Speaker 8: going on with the women's NBA?
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  Speaker 4: What's that all about?
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  Speaker 8: You know, they'll destroy themselves before they get started because
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  Speaker 8: they just started to do good and You had a
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  Speaker 8: player here who was very good, who was very helpful
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  Speaker 8: to that.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's a big deal going on.
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  Speaker 8: They leave the court when the National Anthems play.
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  Speaker 9: What's that all about?
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  Speaker 8: You know, the NFL did that for a while, and
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  Speaker 8: they stopped because people stopped watching the games. So I
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  Speaker 8: think you should do the same thing with women's basketball
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  Speaker 8: unless they get there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I think the president's onto something, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't know if they're going to boycott based on the
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  Speaker 4: numbers of people showing up at the games. Looks like
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  Speaker 4: they've been boycotting for a long time. But I do wonder,
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  Speaker 4: if you are a sports fan, are you more inclined
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  Speaker 4: or less inclined to support the WNBA as a result
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  Speaker 4: of their hatred of America? And it just seems to
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  Speaker 4: me that the moment a sport goes woke, that's when
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  Speaker 4: there are problems. I remember when NASCAR took issue with
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  Speaker 4: a prayer that Phil Robertson was going to deliver in
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  Speaker 4: the name of Jesus. I remember the wokeness that has infested,
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  Speaker 4: for example, NASCAR, where the NASCAR Cup Series suffered an
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  Speaker 4: embarrassing crash. embarrassing drop in attendance. People are just not
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  Speaker 4: having fun at these sporting events anymore now that the
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  Speaker 4: organizations and many of the athletes are using their platform.
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  Speaker 4: And instead of celebrating sports and talking about sports, they're
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  Speaker 4: using their sports platforms to spew some sort of a
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  Speaker 4: political ideology. And I think we are on the verge
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  Speaker 4: of losing sports. Look at If you don't believe me,
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  Speaker 4: first of all, there are lots of empty seats in
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  Speaker 4: the stands at these NASCAR races. But take a look
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  Speaker 4: at Major League Baseball. How many empty seats there are
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  Speaker 4: in these stadiums around the country? Look at the National
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  Speaker 4: Football League, where you've got a lot of these teams
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  Speaker 4: are not able to fill up their stadiums.
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  Speaker 10: Anymore.
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  Speaker 4: Or just last night here in Memphis, we had college football,
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  Speaker 4: the Memphis Tigers taking on Eastern Carolina. It was nearly empty.
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  Speaker 4: What is going on here with sports? Are people, are
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  Speaker 4: you just tired of being lectured, are you tired of
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  Speaker 4: being slapped upside the head by these woke athletes? And
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  Speaker 4: you do wonder if it's all somehow connected. But the
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  Speaker 4: I'm just telling you, the lay of the land when
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  Speaker 4: it comes to sports in America, it's not a good
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  Speaker 4: place to be, right? It's just not a good place
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  Speaker 4: to be. All right, here's what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to take a quick break. When we come back,
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  Speaker 11: You know, Todd, I used to watch sports. I don't
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  Speaker 11: do it anymore because of their woke ways. I just
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  Speaker 11: don't do it. It's not worth it for me. I
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  Speaker 11: don't buy their apparel. I won't buy Nike. I won't
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  Speaker 11: buy any of that stuff. I watched the WNBA as
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  Speaker 11: well until they started pouncing on Caitlin Clark. So I
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  Speaker 11: kind of shied away from that too. The thing is,
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  Speaker 11: I got better things to do with my life, like
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  Speaker 11: spreading the word and the goodness of Jesus Christ, our
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  Speaker 11: Lord and Savior. That's what I do with my life now.
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  Speaker 11: I don't have time for their childless games.
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  Speaker 4: All right, that's Mark from the Villages. He's fired up today.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to the phone lines.
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  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 4: Let's say hello to Johnny in Memphis, Tennessee, listening to
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  Speaker 4: us on KWAM. Johnny, what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 12: First of all, Whitlock, he's still on the plantation. So
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  Speaker 12: he's taking plantation away. See, he is controlled. Well, who's
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  Speaker 12: doing that? Well, Johnny, who's doing that? Who's chewing tobacco
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  Speaker 12: during the national anthem? You know who is.
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  Speaker 4: No, I really don't know who. That's why I'm asking.
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  Speaker 13: Who is?
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  Speaker 4: Because that would be inappropriate. When the national anthem is played,
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  Speaker 4: out of respect, you stand at attention with hand over heart.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what color you are.
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  Speaker 12: Fat, out of shape, white baseball players.
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  Speaker 4: You can't do that. We're literally telling you who is
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  Speaker 4: disrespecting on the WNBA. And by the way, there are
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  Speaker 4: a lot of black and white players here. But again,
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  Speaker 4: you heard Jason Whitlock, and he was calling out the
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  Speaker 4: black athletes who are showing a lack of gratitude. That's
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  Speaker 4: coming from Jason Whitlock. What makes you say he's on
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  Speaker 4: the plantation?
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  Speaker 12: He has plantation mentality, but.
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  Speaker 4: What does that even mean? Johnny, are you upset because
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  Speaker 4: Jason Whitlock has a mind, has a brain, a functioning
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  Speaker 4: brain of his own, and he doesn't buy into the
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  Speaker 4: woke nonsense coming from the left and people like the
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  Speaker 4: professional race agitators like Al Sharpton and that Ben Crump guy?
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  Speaker 12: First of all, you misrepresent the word woke. And look,
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  Speaker 12: that may be the case, but what does his weight
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  Speaker 12: have to do with anything? I mean, I completely agreed
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  Speaker 12: with everything he said. Because his weight has a factor
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  Speaker 12: on his brain.
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  Speaker 14: It stops his feelings.
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  Speaker 4: Johnny, come on. You don't believe that.
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  Speaker 12: When he wakes up in the morning, all that counts
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  Speaker 12: him and all the baggage that is plowed in his brain.
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  Speaker 12: I believe there's not going to be patrols anymore. He
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  Speaker 12: wants to go into LeBron's family history. Well, I guarantee you.
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  Speaker 12: He has bad family history on him.
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  Speaker 15: That's a matter of fact.
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  Speaker 12: His mom raised him as a baby child. So he
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  Speaker 12: can't say nothing about that. You know, MAGA is so
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  Speaker 12: hypocritical when Caitlyn Jenner has a direct line to Trump.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, Trump. I'm sorry, Trump. But anyway, what's more disgraceful?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I would say it's all disgraceful, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: care what color your skin is. If you disrespect America,
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  Speaker 4: you spit on our troops, then I'm going to have
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  Speaker 4: a problem with you. And that's what Jason Whitlock was
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  Speaker 4: saying here. Johnny, got to run. We got a bad
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  Speaker 4: phone connection too, Johnny. We'll work on that next time
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  Speaker 4: you call in. Let's go to Tommy in Georgia, listening
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  Speaker 4: to us on WDUN. And Tommy, by the way, we're
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  Speaker 4: going to be in town. We're going to be broadcasting
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  Speaker 4: the show Tuesday from the WDUN studios, and then we're
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  Speaker 4: doing a big event that evening, 5 o'clock at Longstreet Cafe.
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  Speaker 4: Hope you come out and visit with us.
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  Speaker 16: How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing well, Tommy. How about yourself?
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  Speaker 16: Oh, if I was to complain to you tomorrow, I
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  Speaker 16: would brag it.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Well, what's on your mind, Tommy?
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, I'm just curious. Now, this ain't got nothing to
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  Speaker 16: do with basketball, okay? Why is it that public law
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  Speaker 16: 108-447-111 passed in 2004 being ignored? Tommy, I have no
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  Speaker 16: earthly idea what you're talking about. Well, that's what I'm
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  Speaker 16: talking about.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, well, you can call in and just spew out
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  Speaker 4: as many numbers as you want. What law are you
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  Speaker 4: talking about?
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  Speaker 16: I'm talking about the one that deals with the Constitution.
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  Speaker 4: They all deal with the Constitution, Tommy. That does not
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  Speaker 4: narrow it down.
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  Speaker 16: Every county that receives public funding from the federal government
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  Speaker 16: is required to go by the Constitution.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and so is there something specific that has you upset?
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  Speaker 16: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, why don't you tell us what that is?
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  Speaker 16: Well, I've been arrested three times for no crime because
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  Speaker 16: they wanted to take the film off I had on
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  Speaker 16: my body cam. They wanted to delete the footage off
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  Speaker 16: of it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Well, my recommendation would be for you to call
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  Speaker 4: an attorney, but if you've been arrested three times, you
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  Speaker 4: might want to have an attorney on speed dial there, Tommy.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm sorry I can't help you. Thanks for the call. Folks,
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  Speaker 4: I have no earthly idea what that phone call was about.
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  Speaker 4: So you've got to be a little bit more specific.
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  Speaker 4: When you call in. Okay. Hang tight. We're going to
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  Speaker 4: get to more of your calls on Open Line Friday.
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  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 4: That's 901-260-5926. But let me circle back around. Gainesville, Georgia,
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  Speaker 4: love for you guys to come out. We're going to
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  Speaker 4: be signing copies of my brand-new book, The Golden Age.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to do that at Longstreet Cafe from 5
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  Speaker 4: to 7 o'clock. So you're going to want to come over,
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  Speaker 4: grab a great meal, get yourself a couple of copies
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  Speaker 4: of the book. You're going to love it. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to say a few words. We're going to have a
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  Speaker 4: great time of fellowship. And even if you don't buy
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  Speaker 4: a book, I want you to come over and say
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  Speaker 4: hello anyway. Again, that's coming up on Tuesday in Gainesville, Georgia.
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  Speaker 4: All right, folks, don't go anywhere. We've got more of
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  Speaker 4: the Todd Stearns Radio Show coming up next.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back, everybody. By the way, not only did the
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  Speaker 4: players run off the field during the National Anthem or
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  Speaker 4: run off the court. There are also photographs of WNBA
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  Speaker 4: staff that remained seated with looks of disgust on their face.
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  Speaker 4: And people shot photographs of all of this. And they
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  Speaker 4: are very clearly protesting America. And so my question, ladies
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  Speaker 4: and gentlemen, what do you think we ought to do?
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  Speaker 4: Do we just ignore these people or do you just
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  Speaker 4: stay home? Because that's a lot of money going to
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  Speaker 4: these basketball games, going to these football games. where they're
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  Speaker 4: just hating on America. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. Here's
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  Speaker 4: Laura Trump, cut number 26.
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  Speaker 2: I hope they are going back in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that they are thinking about the level of
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  Speaker 2: disrespect that they are showing to every veteran out there,
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  Speaker 2: to every Gold Star family out there, to every person
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  Speaker 2: who has served our country. To walk out on the
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  Speaker 2: national anthem, it is so disgraceful. And I'm afraid the
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  Speaker 2: WNBA is forgetting how harmful it was to the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: when people started doing this sort of thing. Not that
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  Speaker 2: they have a lot of fans to lose. You're just
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  Speaker 2: starting to build momentum. You may want to keep them.
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  Speaker 2: But if they continue in this fashion and the audience
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  Speaker 2: pushes back and revolts against them, they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: hurting quite a bit more.
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  Speaker 10: Wow.
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  Speaker 17: All right.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Fox News attacking all of you folks
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  Speaker 4: in Memphis, Tennessee. They're making fun of the fact that
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  Speaker 4: hardly anybody showed up at the big college football game
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  Speaker 4: last night. What is it? The Memphis Tigers. You guys
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  Speaker 4: are 5-2, and they say 27,000 people showed up. However,
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  Speaker 4: that's just simply not accurate. Maybe 10,000 or 15,000 in
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  Speaker 4: a stadium that seats over 40,000 people. And now Fox
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  Speaker 4: News posting a big headline, college football stadiums since empty,
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  Speaker 4: nearly empty. as fans mocked for embarrassing turnout. So there
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  Speaker 4: you go. Geez, what if Fox News, what did you
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  Speaker 4: do to tick off Fox News Channel? Come on, Memphis. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's go to the phone lines here. Ella J. Georgia,
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  Speaker 4: it's our favorite guy from Ella J. Joe, Joe, what's
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  Speaker 18: John, I want you to know I certainly appreciate you
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  Speaker 18: for every time you've put me on this great program
• 21:49
  Speaker 18: of yours, and I'll always appreciate it. And I want
• 21:52
  Speaker 18: to invite you. We'd like to have a Todd Starnes
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  Speaker 18: Day at Pooh's Famous Barbecue sometime, you know, in the
• 22:00
  Speaker 18: next year, whenever you can come. And also, I've read
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  Speaker 18: your book.
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  Speaker 14: It's great.
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  Speaker 18: I recommend it for everyone. But, you know, I think
• 22:08
  Speaker 18: it's so important to show gratitude to everything. I mean,
• 22:12
  Speaker 18: I'm going to the Georgia Tech game. I love the
• 22:16
  Speaker 18: Yellow Jackets. going there Saturday. But anyway, I appreciate all
• 22:20
  Speaker 18: the times you've had me on your show. I appreciate
• 22:23
  Speaker 18: the great job that you are doing for the taxpayers.
• 22:26
  Speaker 18: And I think people ought to show appreciation. But think
• 22:30
  Speaker 18: of the people in their lives, in my case, like
• 22:33
  Speaker 18: you and others, who've helped me. And then tell them
• 22:36
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• 22:40
  Speaker 18: for somebody and they show no appreciation. Boy, I tell
• 22:44
  Speaker 18: you what, I appreciate being on your great show. Appreciate
• 22:47
  Speaker 18: the great job you're doing, and we'd love to have
• 22:50
  Speaker 18: a Todd Starnes Day at Pooh's Barbecue sometime in the future.
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  Speaker 18: You can think about it, but I appreciate you very much.
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  Speaker 18: You're a great asset to America. You're a great asset
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  Speaker 18: to the taxpayers, and thank God for Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 4: Wow. Joe, first of all, I am honored, and we're
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: going to make that happen. I would love to do
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  Speaker 4: something like that. And we just love you guys in LLJ.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, we'll make that happen. And Joe, we'll commiserate
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  Speaker 4: off air about the specifics, but I would love to
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  Speaker 4: meet the good people of LLJ, Georgia.
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  Speaker 18: Well, we're going to make it happen, Todd. And I
• 23:29
  Speaker 18: want you to know that anytime you appreciate You put
• 23:33
  Speaker 18: me on your program. I have great appreciation because I
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  Speaker 18: don't know of a better friend of the American taxpayer
• 23:39
  Speaker 18: in America than the great Todd Starr. Thank you very,
• 23:42
  Speaker 18: very much.
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  Speaker 4: Joe, you're a great American patriot, my friend, and you
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: always make our day when you call. You're very kind
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: to our staff, and I greatly appreciate that. And let's
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: be in touch, and we'll try to get up there.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Maybe in time for the Apple Festival. Has the Apple
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Festival already happened?
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  Speaker 18: It's already happened. It happened last week. But, you know,
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  Speaker 18: we'll make it. Any day is a great time. Starnes
• 24:04
  Speaker 18: Day at Pooh's Barbecue. So you let us know when
• 24:06
  Speaker 18: you can come, and we'll make it happen, okay?
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  Speaker 4: Joe, I sure do appreciate that. That's our good friend
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  Speaker 4: Joe from L & J, Georgia. You know, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Years ago, I was honored by Pooh's Barbecue. They have
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  Speaker 4: a pig hell of fame. And they've got this hill,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: this hillside, and it's dotted with these wooden cutouts of pigs.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: And Todd Starnes has his own pig on the Pig
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  Speaker 4: Hill of Fame. It's one of the great honors of
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: my life. Let's go to Traverse City, Michigan. Austin is
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: on the line. Now, Austin, yesterday we were talking about
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: favorite cartoons, and I know you want to weigh in
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  Speaker 4: on that.
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  Speaker 19: Yes, I do. So I'm a millennial, and as a
• 24:54
  Speaker 19: kid myself who grew up in the late 90s and
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  Speaker 19: early 2000s, the cartoons that we watched back in those
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  Speaker 19: days you know, still had a lot of meaning and
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  Speaker 19: real-life lessons as well. You know, unlike most of the
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  Speaker 19: ones that are on today, we had shows like Roly-Poly-Oly,
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  Speaker 19: Bear in the Big Blue House, PB & J Otter.
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  Speaker 19: I don't know if you're familiar with any of those shows,
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  Speaker 19: but probably my most all-time favorite one that I will
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  Speaker 19: always have an inner child in me for was The Wiggles.
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  Speaker 19: Have you ever heard of those?
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  Speaker 4: I think I've heard of The Wiggles, yes. That's a
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  Speaker 4: little bit after my time. You know, I'm more of
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  Speaker 4: a Looney Tunes, Bugs Bunny kind of a, you know,
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  Speaker 4: Tom and Jerry kind of a guy.
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  Speaker 19: Oh, well, let me tell you, the Wiggles were these
• 25:46
  Speaker 19: group of guys. There were four guys from Australia, and
• 25:49
  Speaker 19: they had these four animal friends that they like to
• 25:52
  Speaker 19: hang out with, and they did a really amazing job
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  Speaker 19: on educating kids about culture and diversity while providing good
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  Speaker 19: entertainment with songs and dancing. I mean, they were just great.
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  Speaker 4: I'm looking them up right now, and the way you
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: described it, Austin, a little odd for grown men to
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: be cavorting about with animals, but, you know, let's go there.
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  Speaker 4: The Wiggles, a famous Australian children's music and entertainment group,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: And they performed catchy songs with colorful skivvies and high-energy dancing.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: So there you go. And they have multiple colored wiggles.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: They had, what, a purple wiggle, a yellow wiggle, a
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: red wiggle, and a blue wiggle.
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  Speaker 19: Yes, that's correct. And their friends were Dorothy the Dinosaur,
• 26:41
  Speaker 19: Henry the Octopus, Wags the Dog, and Captain Feathersword the
• 26:45
  Speaker 19: Friendly Pirate.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Captain Feathersword.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my.
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  Speaker 20: Strange, huh?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, Helen.
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  Speaker 21: The funny thing is, is actually my first ever concert
• 26:57
  Speaker 21: as a child was the Wiggles. And they give you
• 27:01
  Speaker 21: the children little booster seats so you can like spring
• 27:04
  Speaker 21: up the Wiggles.
• 27:05
  Speaker 19: Believe it or not, one of my first my first
• 27:08
  Speaker 19: concert as a kid was seeing the Wiggles in Chicago
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  Speaker 19: as well. And they were just fabulous. Very, very entertaining.
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  Speaker 11: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: So do you age out of the Wiggles, or are
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: they still around? Do you know anything about them now?
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  Speaker 19: Yes, the Wiggles have changed over the years. Now, the
• 27:30
  Speaker 19: original ones were a lot better from when I was
• 27:32
  Speaker 19: growing up, but yes, most of the characters did, most
• 27:38
  Speaker 19: of the people characters did change except for one. All
• 27:42
  Speaker 19: of the animal characters are still the same, but a
• 27:44
  Speaker 19: couple years ago, there was a documentary on Amazon Prime
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  Speaker 19: that I was watching about the Wiggles, and it just
• 27:51
  Speaker 19: talked about history and how they got started and where
• 27:54
  Speaker 19: they ended up in the future. It was really amazing.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: I'm getting text messages. Literally, my phone is blowing up
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: by people wanting to share information about the Wiggles. One
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: of the real housewives of Germantown writing in saying, listening
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: to your show right now, the Wiggles started okay, but
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: then they went woke and started talking about diversity and
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: BS stuff like that, and that's how they went broke.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, they're definitely not the same now as they
• 28:25
  Speaker 19: were back in my day. You know, like I said,
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  Speaker 19: the original ones are better, but, yeah, the ones that
• 28:31
  Speaker 19: they have now are definitely a little bit different. But,
• 28:36
  Speaker 19: you know, maybe somebody else who's growing up with them
• 28:39
  Speaker 19: now or has a child who's watching them could maybe
• 28:42
  Speaker 19: say a little bit different. But, you know, I'm from
• 28:45
  Speaker 19: an older generation.
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  Speaker 9: Too, so.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Austin, thank you for that. No, at first, I
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: confused the Wiggles with the Teletubbies, and of course, that's
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: a whole different thing. And of course, the Teletubbies had
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: their own controversy because apparently one of the Teletubbies was gay.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: That's according to television evangelist Jerry Falwell, who wrote an
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: article saying that Tinky Winky was a gay role model, so.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: You got to worry about the ones in the.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, I've heard a lot of that crazy stuff, too.
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  Speaker 19: And the Teletubbies were from my era, too, but I
• 29:18
  Speaker 19: was not as big of a fan of them or
• 29:20
  Speaker 19: Barney as I was the Wiggles. The Wiggles were 100%
• 29:24
  Speaker 19: better back then.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, God, Barney. Was that that dinosaur?
• 29:28
  Speaker 19: Yeah, the purple dinosaur.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, geez.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Hi, kids.
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  Speaker 20: I love you.
• 29:32
  Speaker 21: You love me.
• 29:33
  Speaker 19: Yeah, that guy.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's it. That's it. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: got the song in my brain now. All right, Austin,
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: thanks for the... the millennial cartoon update. And, folks, yesterday
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: late in the show, we were just talking about favorite cartoons.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: As kids growing up, did you have a favorite cartoon?
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Let me just say, Gen X cartoons, we were built different.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's just really all there is to it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: And nowadays, I don't even know if they even allow,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the characters to be violent. But someone was
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: always getting blown up or shot in the Gen Z cartoons.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: But they always came back the next week, you know,
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: for whatever. Their injuries healed quickly. All right, got to
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  Speaker 4: take a break.
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  Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Our telephone number on this open line Friday, 901-260-5926. This
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  Speaker 22: All right.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Let's go to
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  Speaker 4: the phone line. Statesville, North Carolina. Robert is on the line. WSIC,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: our terrific affiliate there. Hi, Robert. What's going on?
• 30:50
  Speaker 23: Hey, Todd. Two quick things. One for fun. You were
• 30:54
  Speaker 23: talking about candy corn a few days ago, and I
• 30:56
  Speaker 23: have discovered that if you eat candy corn, and roasted
• 30:59
  Speaker 23: peanuts together, it tastes just like a payday candy bar.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Is that right?
• 31:06
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 31:07
  Speaker 23: Also, I remember Heckle and Jekyll. Do you remember them?
• 31:11
  Speaker 23: Cartoon characters?
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  Speaker 4: Were those blackbirds or crows?
• 31:16
  Speaker 23: I think they were either crows or... I'm not sure,
• 31:20
  Speaker 23: but they were black birds of some sort.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, you know, I vaguely remember them. I do
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: remember the Disney cartoon. Remember, it was Zippity-Doo-Dah, Zippity-A. What
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: was the name of that? Was it Uncle Remus or something?
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Briar Rabbit?
• 31:41
  Speaker 23: I am not remembering that one, but... My memory's starting
• 31:47
  Speaker 23: to fade. I'm getting old.
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: No, you're getting seasoned, Robert. Not old, seasoned.
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  Speaker 16: Okay.
• 31:54
  Speaker 23: Now, on the serious side, I think our education system
• 31:59
  Speaker 23: has put our country into the toilet, and the Democrats
• 32:04
  Speaker 23: have their hand on the flush handle. So if we
• 32:07
  Speaker 23: don't do something serious and quickly, we can watch our
• 32:11
  Speaker 23: country just swirl and go down the sewer line.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Robert, have you been paying attention to what's happening in
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Paris right now and across the nation of France?
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes.
• 32:22
  Speaker 23: I've been seeing it on the news.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Look, that is going to be us, and it's really
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: a matter of just when, not if. And I say
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: that because Paris and France in general are supposed to
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: be the most awoke, the most progressive nation across Western Europe.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: All the things, all the socialist things they want were
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: implemented by France, but it was never enough, Robert. And
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: they're going to tell you that those teens and those
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: young thugs are out there marching and burning down Paris
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: because they want better classrooms. That has nothing to do
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: with it. There's nothing more than an Islamic takeover. And
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: that is going to happen here. I have no doubt
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: about it. I think the Christians and even the Jews
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: are too afraid to do anything about it.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 33:16
  Speaker 23: All the signs are there if people would just pay
• 33:18
  Speaker 23: attention and believe it.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: It's a great point, Robert. And, again, it's a sobering message,
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: but it's one we need to pay attention to, and
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: people need to wake up. Because if we lose the
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: midterm elections because Republicans and especially Christians fail to go
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: and vote, we're going to be on a slippery slope.
• 33:41
  Speaker 23: Absolutely. Well, thank you for taking my call. All right.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Robert. I'll try out that candy corn hack right there.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: By the way, just curious, you know, Halloween is coming up.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Do you have a favorite candy? I know they have
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: now ranked. the top 10 Halloween candy sales so far
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: in 2026. And I am not surprised by number one,
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: but I am surprised by some of the others. We're
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: going to get to that list here in just a moment.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: But first, let's go to Doug in Georgia, WDUN. Hi, Doug.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: What's on your mind?
• 34:20
  Speaker 20: Hey, I'm doing great. I'm positive, Doug, from Georgia. I'm
• 34:24
  Speaker 20: looking forward to seeing you across the table with one
• 34:27
  Speaker 20: of your books. See what you sound like in public. Hey,
• 34:32
  Speaker 20: here's my take on what's happening in Europe. The people
• 34:35
  Speaker 20: of color are mostly in those riots over there. I
• 34:39
  Speaker 20: don't believe the American people of color, and that covers
• 34:43
  Speaker 20: all of them, are going to do anything like that.
• 34:45
  Speaker 20: The American black and the American Hispanics are not going
• 34:49
  Speaker 20: to do it. It's going to be the white liberal antifas,
• 34:54
  Speaker 20: and there are just not enough of them to cause
• 34:56
  Speaker 20: a problem. I mean, seriously, you look what's in France.
• 34:58
  Speaker 20: They're all northern Africans.
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  Speaker 24: Uh-uh.
• 35:01
  Speaker 14: The American.
• 35:03
  Speaker 20: African American is not going to put up with that,
• 35:06
  Speaker 20: nor is the Hispanic. So I don't think we're going
• 35:08
  Speaker 20: to go the way.
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: Nope.
• 35:09
  Speaker 20: I just don't think it's going to happen. We're better.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Doug, I like your positivity, but I would suggest that
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: when you look at the Somali Americans, when you look
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: at the African Muslims that are living in places like Dearborn, Michigan,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: I'm not too sure about that. I think you're going
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: to see that same level of violence, and we've certainly
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: seen it already in places like Minneapolis. But to the
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: other point you're making, black Americans are not embracing radical Islam.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: And I say that looking at the Michigan race, where
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Abdul El-Sayed is having a hard time connecting with black
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: voters who don't want to have anything to do with
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: an Islamist.
• 35:51
  Speaker 20: Yep, and the same with the Hispanics. The Latinos are
• 35:55
  Speaker 20: not going to go for it either because they're good Christians.
• 35:57
  Speaker 20: The Latinos are some of the best Christians in America. God, family,
• 36:01
  Speaker 20: and hard work. You can't beat it. So anyway, yeah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 20: I don't see it. And plus, those pockets, you know,
• 36:07
  Speaker 20: the Somalians, the handful of people. But nationwide, I don't
• 36:12
  Speaker 20: see it. I don't see New York going crazy. I
• 36:14
  Speaker 20: don't see L.A. going crazy. Not like they're tearing up
• 36:17
  Speaker 20: Paris and Milan. I just don't see it. And you
• 36:20
  Speaker 20: don't even count the good old boys up here in
• 36:23
  Speaker 20: Georgia or up in North Michigan where they're deer hunting.
• 36:27
  Speaker 20: You get those boys riled up and, man, we got
• 36:29
  Speaker 20: a fight on our hands. See, nobody's got guns over
• 36:32
  Speaker 20: in Europe. Those Frenchies, all they can do is throw
• 36:35
  Speaker 20: a stale croissant.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: The croissants. The croissants. It's always the croissants. All right, Doug. Hey, look,
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: you know what? I don't think they serve croissants at
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: Longstreet Cafe. That's a biscuit restaurant.
• 36:49
  Speaker 18: Yeah, and gravy.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, and gravy. All right, Doug, I do look forward
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: to seeing you Tuesday at Longstreet Cafe in Gainesville, Georgia.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: We're going to have a great time. It's going to
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: be a fun crowd, and it is kind of come
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: and go. So if you want to come and grab dinner,
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be eating dinner there, then come on
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: over and visit with us for just a moment. But
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: they do not have croissants. I'm just telling you. All right. Thanks, Doug. 901-260-5926,
• 37:15
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• 37:22
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• 37:27
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• 37:31
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• 37:37
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• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Hello, everybody. Welcome to hour two of the big show.
• 38:14
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• 38:17
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• 38:21
  Speaker 4: we're going to do a breakdown of the midterm elections. Also,
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Tom Tillis is out there, and he's basically spilling the beans.
• 38:31
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• 38:35
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• 38:39
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• 38:41
  Speaker 4: to get into more of this in just a little while.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: But there is an effort to... to sabotage the midterm elections.
• 38:51
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• 38:56
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• 39:00
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• 39:06
  Speaker 4: a lot of the establishment, the old school leaders, the
• 39:10
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• 39:15
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• 39:19
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• 39:24
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• 39:26
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• 39:29
  Speaker 4: they want their party back and they want to restore
• 39:33
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• 39:36
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• 39:40
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• 39:42
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• 39:45
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• 39:50
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• 39:55
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• 39:58
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• 40:13
  Speaker 4: or bisexual. This is part of the CDC's 2025 Youth
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Risk Survey. And it's really fascinating, and even the CDC
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: says the changes in youth sexual orientation identity are, quote, striking.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Declines are happening most starkly among younger teens and especially
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: teens among girls. So what is going on? Well, I
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: want to bring into the conversation from Focus on the Family,
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: Glenn Stanton. Glenn, good to have you with us today.
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: Your reaction to the CDC's report?
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: Todd, it's good to be with you. I wrote on
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: this because it is a fascinating finding. What we found out,
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: and most of your listeners know this, is remarkably LGBT
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: identity among young people just shot up like a rocket
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: starting about 2015 to about 2023. But just as fast
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: as it went up, it has started coming down among
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: younger people. And I think what's happening here is Clearly
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: something's up. The whole born this way, you know, we're
• 41:25
  Speaker 9: just following our natural inclination. Nature does not act like
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: this so suddenly, right? It speaks to the artificial nature
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: of these identities. And there's a good bit of data
• 41:38
  Speaker 9: documenting just how artificial and social contagion like this kind
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: of behavior or admitting this identity really is.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: You know, I was fascinated by the explosion of children
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: who identified as trans, which in and of itself actually
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: destroys the L's, the G's, and the B's, because transgenderism
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: basically says you can be and identify as whatever you
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: want to be, which flies in the face of the
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: born that way, born this way movement.
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 42:17
  Speaker 9: Because J.K. Rowling pointed that out so wonderfully. I mean,
• 42:21
  Speaker 9: God uses all kinds of interesting people. She's like, if
• 42:25
  Speaker 9: sex is not a thing and you could just shift
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: from one thing to the other, then lesbian and gay
• 42:30
  Speaker 9: mean nothing whatsoever. And that's the remarkable thing. And Todd,
• 42:35
  Speaker 9: I think that's why this stuff is crashing so badly
• 42:39
  Speaker 9: is because people are starting to realize this. Now, we've
• 42:44
  Speaker 9: got to be fair. One of the big points is
• 42:47
  Speaker 9: this crash is happening documented among just high school students
• 42:53
  Speaker 9: and particularly girls and specifically ninth grade girls. So we
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: have to ask the question, why is this happening among
• 43:02
  Speaker 9: this population? And it's not yet appear to be happening
• 43:06
  Speaker 9: among like college age or young 20 something adults.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Why do you believe that is? Can you speculate here?
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: Well, it's interesting. Jean Twenge, who is the San Diego
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: State University psychologist who really broke this story out of
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: the CDC data, she just admits, I have no idea
• 43:29
  Speaker 9: why this is. And she's brilliant about the behaviors and
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: attitudes of young people. I think it goes to the
• 43:38
  Speaker 9: way that these social phenomenon happen. They tend to happen
• 43:43
  Speaker 9: in generational shifts. And she asked, will this start happening
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: with younger college age, 20 something kids? She's like, I
• 43:53
  Speaker 9: don't know. I think it absolutely will. Because again, what
• 43:58
  Speaker 9: shot up so quickly among all of these age groups
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: has to come back down. Todd, you know this so well,
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: there is a natural gravity to humanity. And to start
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: claiming that we identify with all these made up identities,
• 44:15
  Speaker 9: that cannot sustain itself. It's like trying to keep a
• 44:19
  Speaker 9: beach ball underwater. It remains, it needs social pressure to
• 44:24
  Speaker 9: continue that. The social pressure of the lie of LGBT
• 44:28
  Speaker 9: identity cannot contain itself. It cannot continue. And so it's
• 44:33
  Speaker 9: going to reveal itself to be the weakness that it
• 44:37
  Speaker 9: absolutely is.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: I'm wondering if we are going to see a continued
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: decline in these numbers once they start looking at the
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: next batch to come through.
• 44:49
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think we can nearly count on it. Because again...
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: The whole thing is so artificial. Your listeners need to know,
• 44:58
  Speaker 9: and I think many of them do know, there is
• 45:00
  Speaker 9: no such thing as an LGBT person. First of all,
• 45:05
  Speaker 9: nobody can be all the letters. And all these letters
• 45:09
  Speaker 9: are inflated, artificial, political, and ideological constructs. To be human
• 45:17
  Speaker 9: is to be male and female. That's as simple as
• 45:20
  Speaker 9: it is. And our bodies are wired in such a
• 45:22
  Speaker 9: way that we are connected to God's design. But what's
• 45:27
  Speaker 9: interesting about this is even, you know, secular evolutionary psychologists
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: and biologists recognize the importance of male and female and
• 45:36
  Speaker 9: the importance of heterosexual sexuality. Evolution doesn't work if we
• 45:43
  Speaker 9: don't honor heterosexuality. So it's not just Christians who hold this,
• 45:48
  Speaker 9: it's It's all kinds of people who understand and recognize nature.
• 45:54
  Speaker 9: And the whole LGBT construct and story is absolutely contrary
• 45:59
  Speaker 9: to what we know to be real in nature, biology,
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: and real life.
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: I do wonder, though, because I think even the Bible,
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: you know, speaks of men who are Is there something
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: wrong with that? I mean, how do you address that
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: in the study, as well as women who are attracted
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: to women?
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah, there has always been that kind of thing. But, Todd,
• 46:30
  Speaker 9: never has it been like a human identity with political implications.
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: That has always been people who do weird things. you know,
• 46:42
  Speaker 9: things that are outside of nature. But it's only been
• 46:45
  Speaker 9: in the last 30 years or so that this has
• 46:48
  Speaker 9: become a human identity where we would refer to a
• 46:52
  Speaker 9: gay or lesbian person. That's a new ideological and political
• 46:58
  Speaker 9: development to be able to equalize, if you will, these
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: very diverse sexualities.
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: I'm wondering what was going on in, for example, 2020
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: when we really started to see the spikes in the numbers.
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: Is this something that was happening in the school? You
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: mentioned a social contagion, which I think is a great
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: way to frame this. Is that where the kids were
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: getting all of this from, or is it from social media?
• 47:25
  Speaker 9: It was social media. It was in the schools. I mean,
• 47:28
  Speaker 9: 2021 was a crazy time. There was stuff going on
• 47:35
  Speaker 9: that no social scientist can explain why that was happening. Todd,
• 47:40
  Speaker 9: a friend of mine called it the social acid test.
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: We were on a like new age social acid test
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: with BLM, with COVID, with woke culture, all this kind
• 47:52
  Speaker 9: of stuff. And that's when young people, and it's so funny, Todd,
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: because there were school teachers who saw themselves as progressives.
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: And they're like, OK, I started the year with maybe
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: one kid who identified as trans. By the middle of
• 48:07
  Speaker 9: the year, I had six of them. You know, like
• 48:10
  Speaker 9: they knew something artificial and jacked up was happening here.
• 48:16
  Speaker 9: And I think, again, that's just all come crashing down
• 48:20
  Speaker 9: right now. Reality is having its day.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: Glenn Stanton is with Focus on the Family, director of
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: Global Family Formation. Glenn, these numbers are coming down, but
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: clearly kids have been, I have to imagine, traumatized by
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: going through all of this and this great confusion in
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: their minds. What are we doing to help these kids
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: as they maneuver through all of this?
• 48:48
  Speaker 9: Well, what we have to do is we have to
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: be frank and clear with children about what nature is.
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: To be human is to be male or female. And
• 48:58
  Speaker 9: our bodies tell us stories about what we are made for.
• 49:02
  Speaker 9: Our bodies are made male and female, one for another.
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: And to live chastely, to live responsibly in the midst
• 49:11
  Speaker 9: of that, our children need to hear us talk about that.
• 49:15
  Speaker 9: Like our kids are so hung up on like what's
• 49:18
  Speaker 9: nature and living organically and things like that. And we
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: need to tell a great story about how God and
• 49:25
  Speaker 9: nature have created us for one another, male and female.
• 49:31
  Speaker 9: I think another significant point here, and this is not
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: a good news angle, But I think maybe the LGB
• 49:39
  Speaker 9: identity is declining because some of the more radical kids
• 49:44
  Speaker 9: are not identifying with those old ideas. They're identifying with
• 49:48
  Speaker 9: the Q. And the Q is this kind of radical
• 49:51
  Speaker 9: upgrade of, you know, gender is just a spectrum. You
• 49:56
  Speaker 9: can be anything that you want to be. So there's
• 49:58
  Speaker 9: that possibility as well. So there is some good news
• 50:01
  Speaker 9: in here. And I think like kids are straightening out
• 50:04
  Speaker 9: on the lie of, But I think they're following a
• 50:07
  Speaker 9: worse lie of the queer identity, which infamously means nothing,
• 50:13
  Speaker 9: and nobody can define what that actually is. I see.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: Real quick, Glenn, before we let you go, I'm wondering
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: about repercussions here from the school. I mean, what do
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: we need to be doing as moms and dads, grandmas
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: and grandparents, and even taxpayers to make sure this kind
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: of thing doesn't happen again?
• 50:33
  Speaker 9: You absolutely need to be involved in the lives of
• 50:36
  Speaker 9: your children, in the educations of your children, and you
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: need to be dialed in to what is happening at
• 50:42
  Speaker 9: your children's school. Because the more parents are dialing into
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: this and drilling into this, they are finding phenomenal transgressions
• 50:51
  Speaker 9: that are happening against the innocence and purity and dignity
• 50:56
  Speaker 9: of their own children. So absolutely be involved. We write
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: about that all the time here at Focus on the
• 51:02
  Speaker 9: Family and specifically at our public policy publication, Daily Citizen.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: All right, Glenn, we're going to leave it there. Just
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: really appreciate your guidance here and observations on this amazing study.
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: Glenn Stanton, everybody, Focus on the Family. You can visit
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: the website focusonthefamily.com. Thanks a lot, Glenn.
• 51:24
  Speaker 9: Thank you, Todd.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: All right, 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. We're going to
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: take a quick break, then going directly to the phones.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: That's 901-260-5926. We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: This is the Tom Stearns Radio Show. As promised, let's
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: get to the phones. Mike in Gainesville, Georgia, WDUN. Hi, Mike.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: What's on your mind today?
• 51:55
  Speaker 13: Okay, I got something. I'm a Republican all the way.
• 51:59
  Speaker 13: I'm for Trump all the way. I'm getting tired of
• 52:03
  Speaker 13: these Republicans talking about things that we have done. Like,
• 52:07
  Speaker 13: for instance, let me give you an example. For instance,
• 52:10
  Speaker 13: the race running in Ohio. What's his name?
• 52:14
  Speaker 18: Omaha.
• 52:14
  Speaker 13: What's his name? He had run against that lady out there,
• 52:18
  Speaker 13: giving those background.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, you mean the governor's race, Ramaswamy?
• 52:22
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Right, right.
• 52:24
  Speaker 13: Okay, and these people have forgot when here in Georgia
• 52:27
  Speaker 13: about six years ago, about four years ago, six years ago,
• 52:31
  Speaker 13: when Herschel Walker, football player, remember him? He run against
• 52:35
  Speaker 13: Lordoff in Atlanta, Georgia. And they crucified him with an
• 52:40
  Speaker 13: ex-wife he had and his grown son doing the same
• 52:44
  Speaker 13: thing that he did. I just cut him all to pieces.
• 52:48
  Speaker 13: But they did it for six months or longer. And
• 52:51
  Speaker 13: I just I think the Republicans hear things like this,
• 52:54
  Speaker 13: and they don't go out on the news back and say,
• 52:57
  Speaker 13: shut your piehole. Don't say nothing about it. Just be
• 53:00
  Speaker 13: quiet about it instead of getting on TV and complaining
• 53:03
  Speaker 13: about what a Republican said. Because the Democrats love that
• 53:07
  Speaker 13: when they Talk about the Republicans talking against the Republicans.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, they do, Mike. And, for example, you
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: didn't hear, you know, Mary Trump, who's related to Donald Trump,
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: she's out there saying the most horrible things about Donald Trump,
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: and the mainstream media can't get enough of that. They
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: will platform her, and she will attack her family member.
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: That's okay. But Ramaswamy, if you're a Republican, Ramaswamy can't
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: do that to his political opponent.
• 53:38
  Speaker 13: Well, that's true, but why are they doing it against him?
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: Well, look, it's a fair question, but going back to
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: Herschel Walker, just to kind of refresh everybody's memory, Herschel's
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: son came out there and made allegations against his dad
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: that his dad threatened to kill him, and they had
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: to move six times, running away from the allegations of violence.
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: There was the ad featuring Herschel's former wife. The media
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: thinks that's okay. But God forbid Republicans expose the family
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: of a Democrat candidate. Then they go bonkers.
• 54:17
  Speaker 13: Well, why don't we do that to them?
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: Well, I think that's what he's trying to do.
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: Why don't they return the favor? How many times are
• 54:25
  Speaker 13: you going to get slapped in the face before you
• 54:27
  Speaker 13: try to fight back a little bit?
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, look, it's a great question, Mike, and I'm not
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: sure we want to know the answer to it. I'm
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: not sure the Republicans know how to fight, to be
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: honest with you, because every time they get ready to
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: land that knockout punch, they back up. And by the way,
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: that's the reason why John McCain and Mitt Romney never
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: went after Barack Hussein Obama. They had all the dirt.
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: Everybody knew who Barack Hussein Obama was, but John McCain
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: and Mitt Romney said they were going to take the
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: high road. Meanwhile, the Democrats turn around and call both
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: those guys Nazis. That's just the way it goes. Mike,
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: I got to run, my friend. Thank you for the call.
• 55:10
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• 55:55
  Speaker 4: Joe Messina coming up next here on the Todd Stearns
• 55:59
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• 56:26
  Speaker 4: a couple of calls in before we visit with our
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: good buddy Joe Messina. Let's go to Waterloo, Iowa. KXEL,
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: our great affiliate there.
• 56:35
  Speaker 16: Mr.
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: Independent. Hello, Mr. Independent. What's on your mind today?
• 56:39
  Speaker 14: Hello, Todd. Before I forget, I just want to let
• 56:44
  Speaker 14: you know that I first found you on WCBM in Baltimore.
• 56:48
  Speaker 14: And from there, I used to listen to you when
• 56:49
  Speaker 14: you did your little... Little scripts you did every day,
• 56:52
  Speaker 14: that's how I got to know you.
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow. Well, thank you. We still do those little commentaries.
• 56:58
  Speaker 14: Way back in my beloved Tom Mars. Remember him? He died.
• 57:01
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: I do remember that. Great, great guy.
• 57:04
  Speaker 11: I know.
• 57:05
  Speaker 14: I just missed him so much. Because of him and you,
• 57:07
  Speaker 14: I listened to it all. I love Tom Mars. Then
• 57:10
  Speaker 14: he died of cancer or something like that. Okay, Todd,
• 57:13
  Speaker 14: the reason I called is that we had a fiasco
• 57:17
  Speaker 14: here on Sunday. We had a gas giveaway. So what
• 57:22
  Speaker 14: we did was the ex-mayor, he put it out that
• 57:25
  Speaker 14: there'd be free gas for everybody who came. Do you
• 57:28
  Speaker 14: know how many cars we had, Todd?
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid to ask, Mr. Independent. How many?
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: 700.
• 57:36
  Speaker 19: What?
• 57:36
  Speaker 14: 700 cars came.
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: I am stunned by that. Wow, that's impressive. What happened?
• 57:47
  Speaker 14: It leaked out that there was free gas versus what
• 57:49
  Speaker 14: was supposed to be kind of a secret, and it
• 57:51
  Speaker 14: leaked out. That's why I'm surprised that Jeff Stein didn't
• 57:54
  Speaker 14: mention it to you. And then it got out, and
• 57:57
  Speaker 14: there were so many people. One guy mentioned, he said,
• 58:00
  Speaker 14: I don't hardly have any money. He had to borrow
• 58:02
  Speaker 14: $ 10 to get to the gas station so he could
• 58:05
  Speaker 14: get gas. People are running low on food. Our food
• 58:08
  Speaker 14: banks have doubled now. The price of food is awful,
• 58:12
  Speaker 14: and they're bringing it all on the president. They're not
• 58:16
  Speaker 14: very happy. Waterloo's not happy.
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: Mr. Independent, I'm curious, how do you see this playing
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: out on Election Day? Is it going to be good
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: or bad for Republicans?
• 58:27
  Speaker 14: Well, you know, Todd, that Iowa's generally gone over to
• 58:31
  Speaker 14: the Republican side. You know that, right?
• 58:33
  Speaker 10: Oh, yes, yes.
• 58:34
  Speaker 14: I don't know if that's going to happen this time.
• 58:36
  Speaker 14: At least in Waterloo, they're not very happy.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: Interesting. Well, you are Mr. Independent here. How do you
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: feel about things?
• 58:46
  Speaker 14: Well, since I'm an independent, I want you to know, Todd,
• 58:49
  Speaker 14: I voted for Trump three times. But when he started
• 58:51
  Speaker 14: that war and did things like that sacrilege about Jesus
• 58:55
  Speaker 14: and the fighting tiger, he's just gone. He's not the
• 58:59
  Speaker 14: same president he was in his first term. I really
• 59:02
  Speaker 14: am convinced of it.
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: He has certainly been. been loose with the tongue lately.
• 59:12
  Speaker 14: Right, right. And by the way, Todd, if you want
• 59:14
  Speaker 14: to know, I voted for Nixon. I voted for Jimmy Carter.
• 59:19
  Speaker 14: I voted for Reagan. See, that's why I call myself Mr. Independent.
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 59:25
  Speaker 14: I'm whichever way is the best candidate. I don't care
• 59:28
  Speaker 14: who he is. He's got to be the best for me.
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: I know a lot of Southern Democrats voted for Jimmy
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: Carter because he was a Southerner. They became Republicans the
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: next election cycle.
• 59:40
  Speaker 14: Well, he was the peanut man.
• 59:41
  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: The peanut farmer. That's it, Mr.
• 59:44
  Speaker 8: Jimmy.
• 59:44
  Speaker 14: Everybody didn't think he'd win, but he did.
• 59:47
  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 59:48
  Speaker 14: But then he loused it up, and then Reagan, remember,
• 59:52
  Speaker 14: they released those hostages right after he became president.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: Morning in America. You know, it was Ronald Reagan who
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: first introduced the phrase, make America great again.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 14: Yeah, and not only that, Todd, that was a fantastic
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 14: ad campaign, wasn't it?
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: It was.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 16: Morning in America.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: Morning in America. Yeah, that was.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 14: That guy had a great voice at that average time.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 14: Whatever it was, that was a beautiful campaign.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: Well, Mr. Independent, I sure do appreciate you calling in.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: And you don't be a stranger. Give us a holler
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: back and keep us updated on the situation there in Iowa.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 14: Yeah, but, Todd, can I ask you something? What's that
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 14: equivalent to, 700 powers? Is that a half a mile long?
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 23: Wow.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: I'm not good at the math there, but it's a mighty,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: mighty long stretch, I'll tell you that much.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 25: See if somebody can find out. Just a long love it.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: We'll work on it. We'll work on it and try
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: to find out, Mr. Independent. All right, God bless. All right,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 4: there we go. Let's go to Joe Messina, standing by,
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  Speaker 4: host of the Joe Messina Show. Joe, Mr. Independent, he's
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  Speaker 4: all over it.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, I would have brought me a truck with a
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  Speaker 3: big tank in the back of it, and I would
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  Speaker 3: have filled it up with gasoline.
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  Speaker 8: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: free matter of fact here in california if i would
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  Speaker 3: just get a break of 50 cents to a dollar
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  Speaker 3: a gallon i'd bring me a truck and fill it.
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  Speaker 4: Up wow 700 oh you know what mr independent we
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  Speaker 4: just we just got the numbers we've got a crack
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  Speaker 4: research team here if it's just 700 cars just cars
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 4: not trucks but cars you're looking at roughly two and
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  Speaker 4: a half to a three mile long line wow in iowa.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like the lines of the 70s.
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  Speaker 7: Remember?
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  Speaker 4: I was a kid back in those days, Joe, and
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  Speaker 4: those were not good days.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I worked at a car lot, so I got
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  Speaker 3: to go around the line to get gas for the
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: used cars.
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  Speaker 4: Joe, how do you think things are going to play
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  Speaker 4: out in the midterms?
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  Speaker 16: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I've been looking at the numbers, and here's what bothers
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  Speaker 3: me the most. Here in California, where we have a
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  Speaker 3: chance to make a difference, we're looking at that there
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  Speaker 3: were over 23 million ballots that were mailed out. Now,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: think about this. What are we, 10 days away, 9
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  Speaker 3: days away, somewhere like that? We only have 2.6 million
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  Speaker 3: ballots that have been returned. Give that some thought. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you know the area that I live in. It's purple,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: we'll say. Purple leaning blue. And We have the same
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: problem here. We have 8% of the ballots have been returned.
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  Speaker 3: So you Republicans who want to keep power, want to
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  Speaker 3: take power back in some of your states, you've got
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  Speaker 3: to get off the couch and you've got to go vote.
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  Speaker 3: And my issue is like the issue with the fellow
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: that just called you. They're mad at Trump. They're mad
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  Speaker 3: at the way he talks or they're mad at what's
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: going on. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Do you really want.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody else running Congress, running the Senate, that'll take us
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  Speaker 3: right back and do nothing but get in Trump's way
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  Speaker 3: for the next two years. You got to think it through.
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  Speaker 3: Would you rather have two more years at Trump? And Todd,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you and I have talked about this before.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not so sure the Republicans are going to do anything.
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  Speaker 3: At least they'll hold the line. They might not do
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  Speaker 3: anything spectacular.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm just... Look, I... I've been very optimistic about this,
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  Speaker 4: and it's just a matter of getting out the vote.
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  Speaker 4: And if people don't go out and vote, then we're
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  Speaker 4: going to lose. I mean, that is pretty simple. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's just politics 101. You know, my concern is the
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  Speaker 4: establishment wing of the party. Will they stay home, and
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: will they, you know, sabotage the election? And I only
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: ask that because you've got folks like Tom Tillis out
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  Speaker 4: there saying that's pretty much what they're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: Right, yes, and you're right. You've got the establishment screaming
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  Speaker 3: anything they can do. Isn't that funny? They're Republicans, and
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  Speaker 3: they're doing anything they can do to stop.
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  Speaker 4: Trump from getting out of the way. Yeah, they want to.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: Let me play this, and I want you to respond
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  Speaker 4: to this. This is Tom Tellis. Cut number 22, please.
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  Speaker 3: As you look back, has Trump been good for the party?
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  Speaker 26: I thought he was good, and Trump won.
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  Speaker 5: But in Trump, too, I think he's lost sight of
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  Speaker 5: what he's done is created a coalition that, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 5: will not stay with Republicans once we go back to
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  Speaker 5: traditional Republican platform priorities. Limited government, free market, get out
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: of this market manipulation, these other things that we're doing
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: now that make no sense to me and make no
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  Speaker 5: sense to traditional conservative Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to survive Trump's personality, you don't think?
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  Speaker 6: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 5: I think a lot of the elements of the populism
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 5: that Trump create it to expand the base that made
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 5: him successful running for president. I don't think that stays
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  Speaker 5: with the party long term.
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  Speaker 4: Joe, your response to that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't want the party going back to the way
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: it was, what they call traditional values. Todd, how often
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: had they really, before Trump, how often did they really
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: lower government? How often did they really make government smaller?
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: How often did they really fight for the rights of
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: the average person? I don't see it. I even joked
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: about it Two years ago when I said, look, everybody's
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: all excited. It looks like the Republicans are going to
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  Speaker 3: take the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing's going to happen. Look at the people that are
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: getting in. It's the same old group. And those few
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: warriors that we actually do have there, they're poo-pooed. And
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: they're kind of ignored at times. So, you know, I
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: know every two years we have the ability to replace.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: We need to raise some real warriors that will go
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  Speaker 3: in there, take control of our party again, and make
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: things happen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, again, going back and looking at the
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  Speaker 4: pre-Trump Republican Party, I mean, people were disgusted, and a
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 4: lot of it had to do with George W. Bush
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 4: getting us involved in those wars. They're still looking for
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: the weapons of mass destruction. It was just an incredible mess,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 4: and really nothing got resolved. I mean, you could go
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: all the way back to George H.W. Bush, you know,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: read my lips, no new taxes. Of course, the big
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: problem there was H. Ross Perot. Remember Ross Perot? He
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: ran a very successful independent bid and siphoned off enough
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 4: votes to land us Bill Clinton. So it's been a
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: mess for a long time on that side of the aisle.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: The pocket checkbook guy. Remember that? Right there, my back pocket.
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  Speaker 3: I wrote my whole company out of my back pocket.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: That was great. That's a great line. But no, look
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  Speaker 3: at Todd. I understand people's frustration with Trump. I'm frustrated
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: with him. on the Iranian war. But the reality is,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: how many people said, how many presidents, how many Republicans
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  Speaker 3: have said, they can't get a nuclear weapon. We can't
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  Speaker 3: have them get a nuclear weapon. He steps up to
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: do that. And the same people were screaming, they shouldn't
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: have it. And I'm talking about Clinton and Obama and
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: others are now coming against him where he's gone wrong.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: And I'm not a war expert, but me, where he's
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: gone wrong, he should have gone in there, wiped the
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: place clean the way he needed to and not stopped
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: until he got what he wanted. And right now, I
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: think he's got a bit of a mess going on, frankly,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: and he needs to go in there and finish the job.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: And his advisors are telling him it doesn't look good
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: for the midterms. You can't do this. You can't. He
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: should have just done what he said he was going
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: to do and cleaned it up.
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  Speaker 4: A thousand percent right. No doubt about it. Joe Messina
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  Speaker 4: joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. Joe,
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  Speaker 4: I want to get your reaction to this little item.
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  Speaker 4: Here is President Trump weighing in on Karl Rove. Karl
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  Speaker 4: Rove says the Trump rallies may backfire. Let's take a
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: listen to the president's reaction, Cut30.
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  Speaker 10: I know he's not your favorite, but Karl Rove had
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 10: an article the other day in the Journal, and he
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  Speaker 10: said that there's a chance of backlash.
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  Speaker 26: Do you think the rallies is the best strategy so
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  Speaker 26: close to the midterms?
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  Speaker 4: Look, you have Karl Rove.
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  Speaker 13: He's a loser.
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  Speaker 10: He's been a loser all his life. Karl Rove doesn't
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  Speaker 10: know what he's talking about. Look, every single place I've
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  Speaker 10: gone to, every single place, whether people were losing that
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 10: were expected to win, When I'm leaving, look at Ohio,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 10: how much better he's doing.
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  Speaker 15: Look at everyone.
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  Speaker 10: Look at Iowa last night with Ashley. They just came
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  Speaker 10: out with numbers right now. Every place I'm going to,
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  Speaker 10: every place is full, loaded with people, lines outside trying
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  Speaker 10: to get in.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to Fort.
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  Speaker 22: Myers right now.
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  Speaker 10: They say there's a line of people that's five miles long.
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  Speaker 10: Every place I've gone to, I've helped. And every place
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  Speaker 10: wants me. The one problem is I'm one person. This
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 10: is a lot of work. Let me tell you, this
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 10: is a lot of work.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a lot of work. Joe, do you
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  Speaker 4: think the rallies are helping or hurting?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, come on.
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  Speaker 23: Wait.
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  Speaker 3: In line for two and a half hours, three hours,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: some people five hours to see the president, to get
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: into a stadium where you're not going to get up
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: close and personal with President Trump. And I think, you know,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: it's the energy, the electricity. But here's the deal. Look,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: it's Trump drawing this. We don't have any other candidates
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: that could do this kind of thing. And Trump needs us.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: I know some people are going to get mad at me,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: but stop talking about how they stole the election. Stop
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: talking about things that have happened in the past and
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: go forward like a bulldozer and say, look, is this
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: really what you want? Do you want to go back
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: to open borders? Do you want to do this? Do
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: you want to do that? These candidates in each state
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: are going to support me and help make sure that
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: we get gas prices down, that we keep the borders secure,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: that we put real people in jail, that we send
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: Representative Omar or Unrepresented Omar back to where she came from.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, truly, we.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to backfire. I actually think
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: they're going to help in the states he goes to.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, we don't even know if that's her
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: name now. I mean, we're talking about Ilhan Omar. We
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 16: AOC.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: What's her name?
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 16: Sandy?
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: They called her Sandy all the way through high school.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: How did she end up with?
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, AOC. Yeah, you're talking about AOC. Ilhan Omar, though.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: We don't know what her last name is.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: That's what I mean. We don't know any of the
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: real names. I'm just joking here, but you know what
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: I'm saying.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: They've all got this.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: Kind of shady thing going on in the background.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: Shacking up with the brother? That could be why we have... No,
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: that's the allegation, and I mean, I just hope to
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: the good Lord the kids are all right. We saw
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 4: what it did for the royal family over in the UK. Yeah,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: nobody wants to see this. The teeth.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 8: Joe. Yeah.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: You know where I live in the area I live in.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: We considered it very conservative. I got to tell you something, Todd.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: I'm running for office again and we're doing text messaging
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 3: and we're doing all that stuff. I am amazed at
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: our core Republicans in my little world that are now
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: gun shy. They're afraid. And guys like me make them nervous.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: And it's just hilarious. It's like, well, how do you
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: hold the ground? Without putting strong people, without fighting back,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: and I'm fearful that that's happening across the country.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: I hope you are wrong there, but I will say
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 4: I'm not surprised to hear what you just said.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: You know what? Take ownership, ladies and gentlemen. Take a stand.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: Be a man. Be a woman. Don't be both. first
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: here in california todd well that's fair enough joe we
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 4: got a skedaddle matt my friend we're late for a
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: break but uh good hearing from you and we look
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: forward to talking next.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: Week god bless todd stay healthy all.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: Right the great joe messina everybody uh gotta take a
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: break we'll be right back all right Let's go to
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: Ken in Winchester, Virginia, listening to us on WINC. Hi, Ken.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 4: What's on your mind?
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 25: Yeah, I'm taking a break from the politics. I want
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 25: to remind you that the original rappers, Heckler and Jekyll,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 25: they're two magpies.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 4: Magpies. Ken, we were really struggling with that, but they're magpies.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 25: Yeah, I knew you were, sir. I didn't use AI
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 25: to look it up either. I just looked at.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 4: My cartoon brain. Ken, you're a wise man, Ken.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 25: Well, sometimes I wonder. I need some help. I'm approaching
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 25: 80 years old. I'm a Vietnam veteran, PTSD, but I'm
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 25: hanging in there, and I don't listen to nothing but
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 25: talk radio, including Mr.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 14: Todd Stearns.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Ken, you're a great American patriot, and I want
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: to say on behalf of our great audience across the nation,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: God bless you, sir, and thank you for serving our
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 4: great nation.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 17: You're welcome.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 25: And I love it when you talk about food, and
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 25: when you straighten those... I hate to get positive, but
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 25: it's protected a federal species that you tackle every now
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 25: and then. I hope I don't get in trouble with
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 25: the NAACP for bringing up the... the magpies here, but
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 25: they were one of my favorites. Wayne was a roadrunner,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 25: and yeah, my brother, I forgot a minute here, my brother,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 25: he worked as a pearl diver in an Italian restaurant
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 25: in Miami when he was growing up, and they kind
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 25: of adopted him because my dad abused him. They helped
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 25: him with his homework. Anyways, he learned how to cook,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 25: and he was especially good at pizza. We'd put, Friday night,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 25: we'd put pizza in the oven to rise, you know,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 25: like the yeast in it and everything. And Saturday morning,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 25: we get up and eat fried pizza while we're watching
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 25: the road run.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: Well, Ken, that sounds like a good time. God bless you, sir,
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: and thank you for calling in. We sure do appreciate that. Wow,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: how about that? Ken from Virginia. Hey, I want to
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: give a huge shout-out to about 70,000 Future Farmers of America.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: They are gathered for their national convention this week in Indianapolis.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 4: 70,000 kids. These are the salt-of-the-earth kids. I got a
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: note from a couple of moms who sent us some
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: videos and said, we just want you to see... what
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 4: American kids are really like. And these kids are just fine, fine,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 4: salt of the earth young people and the future farmers
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 4: of our great nation. 70,000 strong. You be thinking about
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 4: them as they're at their big convention this week in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: All right, hang tight, everybody. Hour three of the big
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: show coming up next.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: That's us.
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  Speaker 26: That's right.
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  Speaker 24: Our love is American.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: Todd Starr.
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  Speaker 4: And hello, everybody. Welcome to our three of the big show.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 4: Great to have you with us today. Our telephone number
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 4: on this open line Friday, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Just a reminder,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen, of who James Talafrico really is. Take
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: a listen to Cut 15. something that you love that's
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: not family or friends?
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 15: I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 15: the trans children who showed up yesterday at the state
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 15: capitol to advocate for their humanity. They shouldn't have to,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 15: but it was an inspiration to watch.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 4: I just love the trans children. They're fabulous. Okay, that's just...
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 4: That's just weird, ladies. The guy gives me the creeps.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 4: You know, I was down in Houston, Texas, and I
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 4: was talking to some folks about Talofrico, and they all
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: say there's just a creepy factor there, and the vibe
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 4: is just way off. Well, I want to bring into
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 4: the conversation Luke Ball, a great political strategist, the chief
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: executive officer of Compass Strategies. First, Luke, great to have
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 4: you with us today.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 16: Thanks, Todd.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 26: If the people in Houston proper are thinking that Tallarico
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 26: is a little wild out there, then the rest of
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 26: Texas hopefully also recognizes that he is a pretty wild
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 26: kind of a guy.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 4: You know, again, you just really wonder what's going on there.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 4: The polling data now, you know, it's coming out. And
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: we've been telling people on the show, Luke, don't trust
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: any of the polls leading up to Election Day. Don't
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 4: trust any of the October surprises that are coming down
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 4: the pike. You just get out there and vote. But
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 4: the problem is the establishment in Texas. And will John
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 4: Cornyn and the Bush family and Karl Rove have an
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 4: impact on what happens on Election Day?
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 26: If they do, it's because they sat it out. They
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 26: want to create a vacuum and void so that if
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 26: Paxton loses, they can step in and say, see, you
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 26: guys couldn't win without us, which is a horrible team player.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 26: You don't want anyone like that anywhere near your team.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 26: They have just been on a vendetta against anyone who
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 26: has even gotten within a mile of being labeled a
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 26: MAGA candidate. And it's because they're sore losers. Look, if
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 26: your side loses in a primary, you regroup afterwards, you say,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 26: we're going to fight the Democrats, and you plow through.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 26: Because what's the alternative to a Republican candidate? Someone who's
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 26: out there saying, I love the trans kids, and wants
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 26: to trans the kids, and wants abortion up till birth,
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 26: and all of these horrible policies. So I understand there
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 26: possibly being bad blood between the Bushes and the Cornens
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 26: or whatever. But yes, swallow the medicine and get over that.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 26: You move on for the good of the country and
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 26: the good of the state. These people couldn't be bothered
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 26: to stand up for unborn children in the womb or
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 26: standing for what marriage actually is supposed to be or
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 26: protecting our children. They just want a political vendetta to
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 26: go on through November. So they come out of the
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 26: other side and said, I told you so.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 4: And again, this is part of the strategy, I think, Luke,
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 4: is that they want MAGA to lose so they can
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 4: step in and say, see, we told you so. I mean,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 4: that's in essence what Tom Tillis was saying in the
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 4: interview he did yesterday when he says that we're going
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 4: to go back. to traditional Republican platform priorities.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 26: Yeah, it's like somebody who has sat on the bench
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 26: the entire basketball game and has put in the fourth quarter,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 26: not giving it 110%, and in fact, just not even
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 26: catching the ball or bouncing the ball or passing it.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 26: Being a sore sport on the sidelines because you didn't
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 26: get your way. The game didn't go according to how
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 26: you wanted it to go. The coach didn't put you
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 26: in for enough. That is the epitome of a sore loser.
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 26: And for folks to have that mentality and be willing
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 26: to give up the country for the sake of their
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 26: own political persona, when, by the way, most of these
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 26: folks should not even be in politics. They should have
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 26: retired four decades ago. These people have been in D.C.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 26: for longer than the Lincoln Memorial has been standing, and
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 26: they just want to have some semblance of political relevancy. So,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 26: you know, spare me any of the clutching of the
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 26: pearls from these people saying that this isn't the right candidate,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 26: that this isn't the right person. Look at the policy
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 26: and go vote. My goodness, the alternative to what the
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 26: Republicans have is the Democrats' radical, progressive, Democrat, socialist agenda
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 26: that is going to fully manifest itself over the next
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 26: two years if they get anywhere near power.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about that. That's exactly what is going
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 4: to happen, which is why we cannot allow the communists
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 4: to get a foothold in Congress. And that seems, it's
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: overwhelming to me that we would have any Republicans who
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 4: would object to getting behind all of our candidates. I
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 4: can't tell you how many times, Luke, I've had to
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 4: hold my nose as a conservative and vote for moderate Republicans.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 4: And I do it because I'm loyal to the party.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 4: And quite frankly, a moderate Republican is still a whole
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 4: lot better than a communist who wants to send me
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 4: to a gulag.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 26: And this is crucial. I, an hour ago, just early
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 26: voted in the People's Republic of Loudoun County here in Virginia.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 26: And although there are a number of candidates who generally
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 26: historically lose to Democrats in this state, like the member
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 26: of Congress in this particular area, whatever it might be,
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 26: there were three ballot initiatives on this ballot today. It
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 26: was about felons voting, it was about abortion, and it
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 26: was about marriage. Crucial, crucial issues. I mean, literally the
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 26: pro-life debate on the ballot in the state of Virginia,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 26: the marriage debate and family debate on the ballot in
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 26: the state of Virginia. What could be more important than
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 26: these top issues, especially for evangelical voters, for Christians? And
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 26: the people who are like, oh, I'm so disillusioned with
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 26: the president or with the state of politics, or I
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 26: don't like this one thing, like maybe the Iran war,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 26: and so I'm going to stay home and protest and vote.
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 26: You are opting to allow the Democrats to control whether
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 26: or not we murder children in the womb or redefine
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 26: the family at the expense of your feelings getting heard
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 26: about one particular policy item that happened in the last
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 26: 16 months. So I don't want to hear a peep
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 26: out of those people in the future if they're like,
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 26: why on earth is our country going down the tubes?
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 26: It's because you sat on the couch and refused.
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 10: To go vote.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 4: Luke, what are some of the races we need to
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 4: be looking at on the Senate side first? I know
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 4: Republicans holding, what, a 53-47 majority. What are the chances
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 4: of the Republicans holding on to the majority?
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 26: I've been saying anytime folks have asked me about this,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 26: that any political strategist that says with any degree of
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 26: certainty what the outcome of the midterms is going to
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 26: be is about as reliable as an expired fortune cookie.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 26: We might as well go and get the groundhog that
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 26: predicts whether or not winter is going to come around
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 26: six weeks early and ask his opinion on it. It
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 26: seems the general consensus in the Beltway, and I take
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 26: this with a huge grain of salt, is that we
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 26: have an uphill battle the most on the House side.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 26: The Senate, everyone's split. Nobody knows what on earth is
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 26: going on over there, but the Senate race I'm watching
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 26: the most as with El-Saeed, because it's not just about
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 26: that one Senate race. If he wins, he will be
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 26: the highest profile radical Democrat socialist to be elected in
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 26: office across the country, even higher than Bernie Sanders, because
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 26: people think that he's kind of cycling out. He's getting
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 26: a lot older. He is that next generation of people
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 26: who are trying to charge into the fire. And you
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 26: see that because he's been going on a lot of
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 26: these conservative outlets and trying to rope in individuals who
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 26: would be persuaded just because he might have some really
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 26: quippy talking points. That's a very dangerous type of person
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 26: to platform with his policies and the way that he's trending.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 26: So that's the one I'm watching the very most because
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 26: I think it's not about that one Senate race. It's
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 26: about the Democrats seeing what they could do with Mamdani
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 26: and trying to replicate it on a greater stage. People
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 26: are getting a little tired of Mamdani anyway. His star
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 26: is starting to fade a little bit because he's not
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 26: able to actually accomplish a lot of these ridiculous policy
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 26: proposals that he accomplished. And the dangerous part of that
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 26: is that they're always going to out-left him. They're always
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 26: going to try to run to the left of whoever
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 26: the savior of the Democrat Party was last time, and
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 26: you're going to get people like El-Said.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: I'm fascinated by the races. I'm feeling optimistic, and I
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 4: have really no other reason to feel optimistic other than
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: that I can't imagine a world where the Democrats win
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: and we face a blue tsunami. Regardless, the numbers are huge,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 4: just huge. We're seeing almost record levels of endorsements here
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: in Tennessee where I live. Texas, Harris County, record turnout
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 4: there already in the early voting. I just don't think
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 4: anybody really knows who's voting. That's the big question. Who's
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 4: the big winner?
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 26: Yeah, that's exactly right. And the joke around town is
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 26: that it always comes down to turnout. Yeah, it always
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 26: comes down to turnout. Everyone says it. It's like, you know,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 26: politicians saying this is the most important election we're ever
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 26: going to have every two years. It always comes down
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 26: to turnout. But what's unique about it is who is
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 26: motivated to turn out and vote. The two things that
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 26: Donald Trump has defeated in the last decade and a
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 26: half has been historical precedent in polling. And those two
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 26: items are what all of the Democrats and pundits are
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 26: saying are going against Republicans this cycle. So do we
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 26: have an uphill battle? Historically, yes. But I also am
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 26: not part of this defeatist mentality coalition where we're just
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 26: throwing up our hands and saying we're ready for a
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 26: political bloodbath and come what may. I think those are
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 26: very useless team players. You fight to the end, you
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 26: make the argument and the message, and you just continually
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 26: remind people that the Democrat solution for America is not
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 26: to come in and fine-tune the politics of the United States.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 26: It is to completely overhaul it and replace it with
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 26: something horribly, horribly worse. So for whatever qualms you have
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 26: with the Republicans, and I have plenty of them, imagine
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 26: being under the Democrats and what they will pull together
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 26: and what they will dismantle and accomplish in against America,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 26: but for their agenda in the next two years if
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 26: you allow them to come into power.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 4: I do wonder, though, and Luke, this is looking really
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 4: beyond the midterms. I think we're already starting to see
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 4: the party buck President Trump on some things. I suspect
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 4: that's going to get even worse as we move on
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 4: and the president becomes a lame duck president, which he is.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 4: He can't run again, and these last two years are it.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 4: Do you think we're going to see that civil war
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: develop between the establishment Republicans and the populace that Trump
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 4: brought into the party?
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 26: I hope that it's not a civil war, but I
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 26: also believe that it's fine to offer critiques of the
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 26: party in order to make sure that we are on
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 26: our best footing and stay true to our principles. I
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 26: have issues with a few things that have happened over
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 26: the last year and a half, and we could have
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 26: a whole conversation about some of those things, possibly related
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 26: to the Iran war or the checks that have been
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 26: offered to come out, whatever. At this point, again, it
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 26: comes down to what the Democrats' vision for America is
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 26: and the Republicans' vision. But I don't accept the narrative
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 26: that the left has been trying to force on Republicans
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 26: over the last few months, that all of the party
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 26: is abandoning Republicans and it's all up for grabs. Look,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 26: this happens in the political cycle. There are redefinitions of
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 26: what a political party looks like. And especially as a
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 26: biblical conservative, I have to make sure that my headwinds
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 26: or my compass, rather, is scripture, revealed law, and natural law,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 26: and that the folks who might have come in and
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 26: built up this coalition of MAGA, who would identify themselves
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 26: as populist, don't detract from that base worldview that we
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 26: have to have, and is the entire reason I'm involved
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 26: in politics anyway. So, when you build a huge coalition
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 26: that largely consists of independents like he did in the
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 26: last election, there will be conversations about the direction of
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 26: the And we have to make sure that the Republican
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 26: Party does not so vastly depart from what it has
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 26: historically been that we don't recognize what it is in
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 26: a few years. So family conversations are a lot different
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 26: than civil war. I hope we don't have that because
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 26: infighting is just what leads to failure.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well said. All right, Luke, we're going to have
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 4: to leave it there, folks. Lukeball.org is the website. Lukeball.org.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 4: Be sure to check out his great website. Luke, always
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 4: appreciate your great analysis.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 26: Thanks, brother.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 16: Take care.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 4: All right. Luke Ball, everybody. Great political strategist, Compass Strategies,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 4: and Luke is one of the good guys in this business.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 4: All right. We're going to take a quick break. Go
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 4: right to the phone lines, 901-260-5926. And I'm curious, do
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 4: you believe the Trump rallies are helping or hurting the
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 4: midterm elections?
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 23: 901-260-5926.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: This is the Todd Stern Show. So one of the
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 4: big races people are now starting to pay attention to
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 4: is the governor's race in Texas. Marsha Blackburn going against
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 4: a very well-funded independent candidate by the name of David Hatley.
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 4: They're calling him right-wing. This guy is not right-wing. As
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: a matter of fact, I would say he's probably more
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 4: of a moderate Republican, in fact, but he is independent.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 4: And Jerry Green, who is the far-left Democrat socialist. By
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 4: the way, Jerry Green just hosted last night a drag show,
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 4: a drag queen show, to raise money for her campaign
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 4: in Nashville. But anyway, the three of them going at it,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 4: and David Hatley, the Independent, now polling as high as 19%,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 4: and he is believed to be pulling numbers away from
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 4: Marsha Blackburn. The Republican Party in Tennessee is just fractured
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 4: right now, and if they do not coalesce behind Blackburn,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 4: it could get dicey on Election Day. So just want
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 4: to pass along that intel. Got to get with it, everybody.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 4: We're going to mess around. Mess around and see what happens.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 4: Let's go to John in Kentucky, listening to us on
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 4: KWAM radio. Hi, John. What's on your mind today?
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 27: Hey, Todd.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: How you doing, buddy?
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 16: I'm good.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 4: Thank you for asking.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 27: I'm always asking you. Listen, first of all, I was
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 27: listening to your phone calls about how the Republican Party
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 27: is fractured. how the Republican Party is split. You know what?
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 27: It is our country to lose. To all those Christians,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 27: so-called conservative Christians, that choose to stay home and not
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 27: vote because they don't like President Trump or they don't
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 27: like the Democratic candidate, I mean the Republican candidate, we
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 27: lose this election. It rests totally on your shoulders. They're
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 27: the ones that will have blood on their hands. As
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 27: a matter of fact, Todd, I want to tell you
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 27: something really quick. I'm a Civil War reenactor. And I
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 27: was talking to a Civil War reenactor last weekend at
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 27: one of the locations. And he's from Ohio. And he
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 27: said he likes Vivek Ramaswamy, but he's not going to
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 27: vote for him. Do you know why?
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 4: I'm all ears.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 27: Because he's a Hindu.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 19: Really?
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 27: There are Christians out there that will not vote for
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 27: a good, solid Republican candidate because they don't have the
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 27: same faith as they don't. You want to talk about
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 27: religious bigotry? That's probably one of the biggest things, one
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 27: of the most biggest things I've ever heard. There are
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 27: people out there that will not vote for a candidate
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 27: because they don't hold the same faith. And we lose
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 27: our country because you choose not to have a candidate
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 27: in office that can save this country. They love this
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 27: country because this country gave them opportunities like my family
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 27: had opportunities. You know what? I'm trying to watch my mouth,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 27: but we lose this election and you start complaining like
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 27: your previous caller said. It's on you. It's totally on you. Todd,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 27: you've been warning Americans.
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 4: How about all those?
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 27: I know you're in a hurry. How about all those
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 27: people that fled, you know, Iran, communist countries, and they
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 27: want these democratic socialists.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 18: You know what?
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 27: You can vote socialism in, but you know the saying, Todd,
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 27: you're going to have to shoot your way out. I
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 27: don't want us as Europe. I want us as the
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 27: United States of America.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 22: You don't vote.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 27: This is the conservative Christians. You lose this country, we
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 27: lose this election. That's on you. I just wanted to
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 27: hang up and listen to your comments, Todd.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 22: Thank you.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 27: Love you, brother.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 4: John, look, very well said and very well stated. And
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 4: it is our country to lose. Look, the thing is,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 4: and what makes us different than every other country on
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 4: the face of the earth, is most of us own guns.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 4: And most of us own a lot of guns. And,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, the pastors right here, you know, God forbid
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 4: the socialists take over, but we're going to have to
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 4: shoot our way out of that. I mean, that's what
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 4: history has taught us. The good news is we actually
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 4: have guns. I mean, when you look at the poor
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 4: people of Venezuela, they didn't have any guns. When you
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 4: look at what happened over in Iran before the Ayatollah
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 4: took over, the other side didn't have anything to defend
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 4: themselves with. So at least we've got that going for us.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 4: But you're right, nobody wants to shoot in war on
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 4: American soil. Geezaloo. All right, 901-260-5926. Do you think the
• 1:33:11
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• 1:33:41
  Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 1:33:45
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• 1:34:05
  Speaker 4: just telling you. So there's an interesting story on X,
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 4: and I want to share this with you. A letter
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 4: was sent home to a parent from Pine Grove Elementary School.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 4: I believe this is in Washington State. If it's not,
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 4: my apologies. There's not a lot of intel here, but
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 4: a parent shared a letter that they received just a
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: few days ago. This is dated October 21st, 2026. Dear parent,
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 4: we are writing regarding the lunches your child brings to school.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 17: Uh-oh.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 4: You know, I remember when I was a kid, it
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 4: depended on what my mom, you know, the mood my
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 4: mom was in. She would normally make us, you know,
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 4: I don't know, I think I had like a bologna
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 4: sandwich on bunny bread. And then you get some potato
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 4: chips and you get some sort of, you know, fruit
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 4: or a snack. Usually, oh, This was, I'll never forget this.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 4: I always enjoyed Fridays. My mom did pack lunch on Fridays.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 4: And that was the King, was it the Ding Dongs?
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 4: Remember those? In the aluminum foil? That was the delicious
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 4: chocolate with the little cream filling inside. The Ding Dong.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 4: But they came wrapped in the foil, the aluminum foil.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 4: And everybody knew, everybody knew in that lunchroom what you
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 4: had for dessert. I mean, that was, those were the
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 4: good old days.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 10: Anyway.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 4: Back to Pine Grove Elementary School, this parent received a letter.
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  Speaker 4: We're writing regarding the lunches your child brings to school.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 4: While we appreciate the care you put into preparing fresh,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 4: hot meals, we have noticed that these lunches have become
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 4: a topic of conversation among classmates. Several students have reportedly
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 4: questioned why their meals do not look as appealing, and
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 4: some have even asked whether they can trade lunches. Unfortunately,
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 4: this has led to distractions during lunch period, including students
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 4: comparing plates and expressing disappointment with their own meals. To
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 4: help maintain an environment where every student feels included, we
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 4: ask you to consider sending simpler lunch options that are
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 4: more in line with what other students typically bring. Thank
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 4: you for your cooperation as we work to keep lunchtime calm, fair,
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  Speaker 4: and focused for everyone. Sincerely, Ms. Carter, third grade teacher.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 4: Wait a second.
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  Speaker 11: What?
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 4: Everyone has to be equal now. in everything, including having
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 4: to eat all the same things at elementary school lunch. Well,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 4: if that's the case, why not just force everybody to
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 4: eat whatever mystery meat the lunch ladies are slopping on
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 4: the plate? So why is this parent being punished for
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 4: sending their child to school? I don't know. I can't
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 4: even imagine. First of all, a hot meal?
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 16: What?
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 4: Man, I was good with bologna sandwich between two slices
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 4: of bunny bread. Had to be white bread, though. You
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 4: can't be doing this healthy wheat stuff. Bologna doesn't play
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 4: well on anything other than white bread with mayonnaise. I'm
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 4: just telling you, that's the way it is. And look,
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 4: some days you get Cheetos. It's all with the sides, right?
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 4: You got the Cheetos or the Doritos. And, man, you
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 4: got a great lunch right there. Throw in the ding-dong.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 4: Is it king-dong or ding-dong? Somebody's going to have to
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 4: correct me on this.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 21: It's ding-dong.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Helen.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 21: Ding-dong.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 4: I love the ding-dongs. But again, I mean, you know,
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 4: that's the whole point. You want lunchroom envy, right? You
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 4: want to be that kid who's got the best lunch
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 4: in the lunchroom. And I do remember, I mean, back
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 4: in the day, you would trade, but honestly, there was
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 4: very little trading going on. Unless you had like a
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 4: chocolate milk, you know, everybody wanted the, you got the
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 4: chocolate milk, the white milk or the strawberry milk. Nobody
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 4: drinks strawberry milk. That was disgusting. But the chocolate milk
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 4: and the ding dong, okay, you could get something for that.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, that is, but again, that's part of the
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 4: whole grade school thing, right? You're learning about trading. I mean,
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 4: this is about making an investment. You can learn a
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: lot of stuff in the the lunchroom. So anyway, I'm
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 4: wondering how you feel about this, ladies and gentlemen. Did
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 4: the teacher overstep here, or does the teacher have a
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 4: point that in third grade, everybody needs to basically have
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 4: a chill lunch? I mean, what are we talking about here?
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 4: Did the kid have, like, I don't know, cucumber sandwiches
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 4: with the crust off? No, that couldn't be it. That
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 4: was a hot meal. So, I mean, what are we
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 4: talking about, spaghetti and meatballs?
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 11: 901-260-5926.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 4: That's 901-260-5926. So basically, the teacher is telling the mom
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 4: to don't put a lot of effort into what you're
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 4: sending the kids for lunch.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 11: Hmm.
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  Speaker 27: All right.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 4: I just don't get that. All right, let's go to
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  Speaker 4: the phone lines here. 901-260-5926. Tom in Salem, Oregon, KYKN,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 4: wants to weigh in on the Democratic Socialist hi tom
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 4: what say you.
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  Speaker 17: Hey god bless you and uh who was that.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 4: Luke luke ball yeah luke's a great guy.
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 17: Amazing uh yeah i'm i'm kind of nervous on this
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 17: whole election deal because i've talked to four probably five
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 17: or six people and they are i call it blissfully
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 17: ignorant that they uh I have no idea what the
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 17: hell is going on as far as the Democrats, Socialists
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 17: of America.
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  Speaker 24: I haven't heard of them.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 17: I picked up there's a gal running in Salem that
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 17: stuck flyers in one of my rentals. And, yeah, she
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 17: is full-blown DSA and is, like, free everything. And even
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 17: a farmer that probably has a couple thousand acres says, no,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 17: he doesn't do politics.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 23: Yeah, right.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 17: So I'm also wondering on Trump, if he's doing positive
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 17: or negative, I think they need to talk to, uh,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 17: anybody that wants the old Democrat party back, they better
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 17: vote Republican and totally wipe out the DSA, whatever they are,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 17: Democrat socialist, because, uh, it's going to be nasty if
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 17: some of these keep more of them because hell, they got, uh,
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 17: New York city.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 4: They've got, uh, Seattle.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 17: A bunch of them. And I've got two kids, uh,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 17: you know, and there's daughter-in-law that are teachers. One's a
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 17: principal and that she hasn't heard. And I started to
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 17: talk about it the first of the summer to him. And, uh,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 17: and she, oh, And at that time, I could only
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 17: name two or three, and then afterwards, I kind of
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 17: like asked Google, and they said over 30 have been
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 17: elected or in office or whatnot. But I'm nervous about it.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 4: Well, Tom, it's, look, when I was in Houston, I
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 4: didn't share this, you know, earlier this week, I was
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 4: in Houston, we were doing a book event, and a
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 4: guy pulled me aside and was asking, you know, we
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 4: were talking about the same issues you were talking about.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 4: He relayed a story to me about a good buddy
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 4: of his who goes to a very conservative Baptist church
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 4: in Texas, and the guy's going to vote for Tallarico. And,
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 4: you know, the guy was relaying the conversation, and he says, Todd,
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 4: I've known this guy forever, but, you know, he's convinced
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 4: that Tallarico is kinder, gentler version of the senator that
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 4: he wants. And so the guy's going to, you know,
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 4: and he had previously voted for John Cornyn. So there
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 4: are going to be those people out there. And I
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 4: don't know, Tom. Look, I'm prepared. The day after the
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 4: election is going to be a wild day on this program.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 4: And the reason why I say that is because one
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 4: way or the other, I am loaded for bear. And
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 4: I am, you know, God forbid the Republicans blow this thing.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 4: But if they do, I'm going to explain exactly what
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 4: went wrong. You know, we've been trying to give them
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 4: encouragement along the way and try to guide them. to
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 4: what I believe to be a winning formula. And if they,
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 4: if they don't want to go down that path, well,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 4: that's on the Republicans.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 17: So I think, yeah, we need to call calling all
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 17: seniors and, and people that want their grandkids to grow
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 17: up in a free country that get out there and vote,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 17: swap the vote. You better do it like you, uh,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 17: stronger than you did before when you voted for Trump. Cause, uh, some,
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 17: you know, like this mocha galley has talked to. She
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 17: doesn't like to talk about still doesn't believe it. Doesn't
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 17: like the way Trump talks because he's so gruff through whatnot. Uh,
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 17: We're going to turn out. I think you need a
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 17: couple more hours so you can cover the whole West
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 17: Coast a little more in the afternoon.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 4: There you go, Tom. All right, my friend. Thank you
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 4: for calling in today. 901-260-5926. Let's say hello to Charles
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 4: in Gainesville, Georgia. Hi, Charles. What's on your mind?
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 25: One statement.
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 24: I was a staunch Democrat 60 years ago during the
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 24: McDonald days, studying the history of the Democratic Party and
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 24: looking at this. People say I'm a Christian and vote Democrat,
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 24: which pushes abortion and the murder.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 14: Of innocent children.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 24: You better look in the mirror again. because you can't
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 24: be a Christian and vote for that garbage.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you. I don't see how in the
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 4: world you can say that you're a Christian if you
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 4: are a Democrat. I mean, their party platform stands in
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 4: opposition to Holy Scripture, so that's what gets me, Charles.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 11: I agree.
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  Speaker 24: It's socialist, Democrat.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 24: They're the new American Communist Party. That's all you can
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 24: say about it.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 4: All right. Well, yeah, you're right about that, Charles. And Charles,
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 4: I want to make sure you get an invite. We're
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 4: going to be at Longstreet Cafe on Tuesday from 5
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 4: to 7, signing copies of the new book. We'd love
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 4: for you to drop by and say hello.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 25: I'll be there.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we'll see you there. We'll save a seat
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 4: for you, Charles. 901-260-5926. Let's go to the great metropolis
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 4: of Mumford, Tennessee. Kurt is on the line listening to
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 4: us on KWAM. And, Kurt, I understand you're going to
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 4: take us to school here. Is it the Ding Dongs
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 4: and the King Dogs?
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 21: I don't know.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 17: It's key.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 22: Actually, I'm about nine months older than you. I was
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 22: born in January of 67. I think you were born
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 22: in October, right?
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 4: That is correct, yes.
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  Speaker 22: I didn't get many of those as a kid because
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 22: I had a brother that was about five and a
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 22: half years older than me. So he could eat a
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 22: whole box in one sitting, pretty much. But they were
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 22: called King Dons.
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 4: King Dons?
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 22: King Dons, yeah.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 22: The ones with the foil on them, yeah.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 22: The King Dons or King Dongs, and it went to
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 22: Ding Dongs.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 23: Gotcha.
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 4: So this was neat.
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 22: Yeah, my mommy used to buy those, and I rarely
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 22: got one of them. I had to fight him for them.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 4: Boy, those are— and when you got one of those in
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 4: your lunch pail, you knew it was going to be
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 4: a good day at lunchtime.
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 22: Yeah, that's only in elementary school is the only time
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 22: I ever carried my lunch.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 23: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 22: In middle school, for 75 cents, you could get a
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 22: homemade cinnamon roll about as big as a hubcap for
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 22: a quarter. I'm saying everything was.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 7: Good, too.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 4: Those were the good old days.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 22: You had to hold your lunch, and then you'd get
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 22: a hamburger with, you know, a cheeseburger with mayonnaise and
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 22: onion on it for 50 cents and a cup of
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 22: water or milk or whatever you wanted. And that was
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 22: what I did for lunch every day.
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 4: So, Kurt, my dad got transferred down to New Orleans
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 4: when I was starting junior high school, which was– Like,
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 4: moving from Memphis to New Orleans at that time was
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 4: like a whole different, like, country. And I do remember, though,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 4: the lunches always skewed for the Catholics, because down in
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 4: New Orleans, you know, everybody was Catholic. There weren't that
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 4: many Southern Baptists. So on Friday, for example, we always
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 4: had fish. Always fish on Friday.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 17: Okay.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 4: But then they would make jambalaya. They had an amazing lunchroom.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 4: Homemade jambalaya and these homemade lunch rolls, which were insanely good.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 21: Mm-hmm.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 4: They do lunch good in Louisiana.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 22: I want to touch on one other thing. I was
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 22: listening to your previous caller about the DSA and all that.
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 22: And these Democrats have got on board with these communists.
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 22: And then the Muslims, too, are all just, as the
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 22: Russians would call them, they're all just useful idiots. You know,
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 22: they're trying to get these people across the finish line,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 22: and for what? Just to turn around and bite them
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 22: in the rear end, you know? That's all it's.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 13: Going to do.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 4: And, Kurt, you're a smart guy. You've read history. You know,
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, at the end of the day, if you
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 4: let communists into the Congress, it's only a matter of time.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, that is a slippery slope, and we all
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 4: know how all of that ends.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 22: Well, I don't understand how these guys could walk back.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 22: They think we're that stupid. If you get on there,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 22: El Sayed or whatever his name is, and get on
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 22: there with Hassan Piker, who worships Mao, who killed I
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 22: don't know how many people, millions of people, and get
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 22: on there and side with him and turn around and
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 22: try to walk it back come election time. I mean,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 22: do they think we're that stupid, or are they just
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 22: all watching CNN?
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 4: Well, look, I mean, and by the way, it's not just,
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 4: you know, El-Sayed. You've got Justin Pearson, who's running for
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 4: Congress in Tennessee, in Memphis, and he was literally sitting
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 4: on a couch with us on Piker.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 22: He's another useful idiot.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 4: Well said. Kurt, I've got to run for a break,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 4: my friend. Thank you for the intel, the King Don.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 4: I always thought it was King Dongs. So it's King Don,
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 4: kind of like King Don the Trump. And there were
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 4: Ding Dongs. But they're both very good. All right, got
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 4: to take a break. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. Well,
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 4: apparently I opened up a can of worms. It turns
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 4: out that there was also another chocolatey treat. known as
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 4: the Ring Ding. So there was a Ding Dong was
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 4: competing against Ring Ding, and there was some sort of
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 4: a company conflict there, which is why they had to
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 4: drop back and rename them. Instead of calling them Ring Dings,
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 4: they had to call them the King Dons. There you go. Apparently,
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 4: I think they're all the same kind of snack, just
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 4: different names. So there you go. All right, 901-260-5926, our
• 1:50:07
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  Speaker 4: and we have video and footage, photos of the illegal
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  Speaker 4: alien who decapitated... The Marine statue there in Washington, D.C.,
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  Speaker 4: the Iwo Jima Memorial. So you're going to want to
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  Speaker 4: go and check that out over at toddsterns.com. Just really
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  Speaker 4: reprehensible what's happening there in Washington, D.C., right outside of Quantico,
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  Speaker 4: by the way. So be sure to check out that
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  Speaker 4: story as well. Also, President Trump calling out LeBron James.
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  Speaker 4: That story at toddstarns.com. And our in-depth interview with a
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  Speaker 4: woman running for Congress in California. She is known as
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  Speaker 4: the priestess of fraud, and she is sounding the alarm
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  Speaker 4: over $ 745 million in missing money for California homelessness. So
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  Speaker 4: that money was supposed to go to get the homeless housing,
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  Speaker 4: and now nobody can find it. Nearly $ 1 billion missing.
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  Speaker 4: is missing in California. Just absolutely insane. And again, you'll
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  Speaker 4: be able to find all of those stories over at ToddStearns.com.
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  Speaker 4: It has been a great week, a busy week. Monday
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  Speaker 4: and Tuesday, I'll be broadcasting from Gainesville, Georgia, the studios
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  Speaker 4: of WDUN. And then Tuesday night, our big book celebration
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  Speaker 4: there in Gainesville. Folks, get out there and have a
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  Speaker 4: great Friday. And whatever you do, be sure to go
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  Speaker 4: to church this weekend.