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Pizza Joint Turns Away National Guard Troops · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite gun, total bible, clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's that.
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  Speaker 3: This American.
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  Speaker 1: Jud starts.
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  Speaker 4: Dylan.
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  Speaker 5: I am just stunned, just stunned. We were getting ready
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  Speaker 5: for the show. We're knee deep in show prep. Of course,
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  Speaker 5: We've got the hearings for Todd Blanch underway, a lot
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  Speaker 5: of stuff happening up on Capitol Hill today. And all
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  Speaker 5: of a sudden, there's a banging at the at the
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  Speaker 5: front door of our palatial broadcast bunker here in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 5: And the UPS guy has this massive box that that
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  Speaker 5: was into it. We had no idea who it was from,
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  Speaker 5: and so we we had the We had Ian the
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  Speaker 5: Intern opened it up as we stood at a safe distance.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually left the building. He opened it in
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  Speaker 3: a secure room.
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  Speaker 5: We got to do.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: It's just like the President, you know, the the VP
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  Speaker 5: never flies on the same you know, playing as the President.
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  Speaker 5: It is it is so we so uh. Anyway, Ian
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  Speaker 5: opens the opens the massive box, and our good buddy
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  Speaker 5: Lee Greenwood sent me a customized guitar. It's like a
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  Speaker 5: handmade customized guitar. It has my it's emblazoned with my name,
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  Speaker 5: and it's got a beautiful American flag. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: It's really snazzy.
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  Speaker 5: It's pretty snazzy. So apparently it's not just Lee Greenwood,
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  Speaker 5: but Darryl Worley, Neil McCoy and Don McLain all pitched
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  Speaker 5: in and got me this custom made guitar. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: just so thankful. All that to say, anytime these guys
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  Speaker 5: want to come on the show, there, they're going to
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  Speaker 5: the top of the list.
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  Speaker 3: I think that also means you have to learn like
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  Speaker 3: a little tune, you know, for them just to something.
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  Speaker 3: I say, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: You see, I'm not musically inclined like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you come from a family of music I do.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you play and Ian Ian was actually playing
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  Speaker 5: some music down then that sounded really good.
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  Speaker 3: Almost stole it, Serenading's took it with him. It was serenading.
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  Speaker 5: We've got a track round. What are those apple things?
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  Speaker 5: I'm just saying, so anyway, thank you so much. We man,
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  Speaker 5: we really appreciate Uh Jeremy Westby and the great team there,
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  Speaker 5: uh Jen Clink, Scott Sexton, just a great group. Over
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  Speaker 5: there in the the pr world, and it was very kind.
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  Speaker 5: It was I very rarely am I surprised like that.
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  Speaker 5: I was surprised. So thank you all so very much,
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  Speaker 5: and we greatly appreciate it. Hey, welcome to the Todd
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  Speaker 5: Sterns Radio Show. What an honor to have you with us.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it was funny. I was doing an interview again,
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  Speaker 5: this has been a very busy day, and and Dylan,
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  Speaker 5: it started at the crack o dawn and I had
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  Speaker 5: to do an interview with one of the radio trade magazines, Barrett,
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  Speaker 5: the Barrett Radio website group, and just a very lovely
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  Speaker 5: lady reporter did the interview. She was great, and she
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  Speaker 5: asked me they were doing they're doing a profile piece
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  Speaker 5: on me and the radio show, and she actually asked
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  Speaker 5: she brought this up. I just had to laugh. She said,
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  Speaker 5: you know, she said, you mentioned right out of the
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  Speaker 5: gate that you're a collar driven radio show. I said, yes,
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  Speaker 5: I am. I said, we really consider our show to
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  Speaker 5: be a great big front porch. And she said, I
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  Speaker 5: don't understand what that means. She goes, I'm from New
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  Speaker 5: York City. We don't have front porches. I said, no,
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  Speaker 5: but you guys have stoops, right, So I said, just
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  Speaker 5: imagine the Italians getting together on the stoop there in
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  Speaker 5: Brooklyn and they're talking about gravy, which is like spaghetti sauce.
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  Speaker 5: But here in the South, we all get together on
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  Speaker 5: our rocking chairs on our front porch and we're talking
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  Speaker 5: about gravy, and we're talking about sausage gravy for the biscuits.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great analogy.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, she said, oh, I get it. Yeah, I said,
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  Speaker 5: I'm painting a word picture for it. And so anyway,
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  Speaker 5: she said, well, I don't know if you're aware, but
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  Speaker 5: we published a big story a few days ago talking
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  Speaker 5: about how many radio hosts do not take calls anymore.
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  Speaker 5: I said, oh, I'm aware. I'm aware. And I said, look,
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  Speaker 5: I said, I get it. That's how some people run
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  Speaker 5: their show. But on this program, I said, we love
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  Speaker 5: taking calls from our listeners. And I gave her a
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  Speaker 5: couple of examples about how, for you know, we've had
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  Speaker 5: some folks that have been through some health issues and
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  Speaker 5: they've called in and people have called in to affirm
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  Speaker 5: them and to say they're praying for that person. And
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  Speaker 5: I say, really, it's not that our listeners are an
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  Speaker 5: extension of the show. They are the show. We are
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  Speaker 5: the show. And she was like, I don't understand. So
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  Speaker 5: you don't do politics. Oh oh, oh, this is I said,
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  Speaker 5: we're kind of a quirky show. We're quirky and weird.
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  Speaker 5: She says, I've never heard a show host admit to
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  Speaker 5: something like that, and I said, yeah, we embrace it.
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  Speaker 5: I said, one minute, you know, we're talking politics. I
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  Speaker 5: gave the example. I said, one minute, I'm literally interviewing
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  Speaker 5: President Trump, and the next time down judging a tomato
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  Speaker 5: contest at the Egg Center. I said, that's my life,
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  Speaker 5: that's our world. That's what we do. I said, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think people want me screaming at them for
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  Speaker 5: three hours. I don't think people want me lecturing for
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  Speaker 5: three hours and you know, the finer points of the
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  Speaker 5: US Constitution. I mean I could if I needed to,
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  Speaker 5: but I just don't think people would, you know, ify
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  Speaker 5: that somewhat entertaining. Maybe if I did it in like
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  Speaker 5: a weird accent or something. Maybe, oh speaking, well, we'll
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  Speaker 5: get to that in just a moment. I am. We're
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  Speaker 5: getting around to what we're going to open the show with.
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  Speaker 5: But it was just it's been such a crazy day.
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  Speaker 5: So anyway, we did this great interview and I'm excited
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  Speaker 5: for it. She recorded it all, so I'm sure they'll
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  Speaker 5: get all the quotes and everything right. But she said,
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  Speaker 5: wait a second, you also take calls from people who
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  Speaker 5: disagree with you. I said absolutely. I said, we stole
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  Speaker 5: it from Lars larsom I gave Lars credit for that,
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  Speaker 5: so I hope she includes that. And then she goes, well,
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  Speaker 5: I said, you know, if you disagree, you go right
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  Speaker 5: to the top of the list and we take your call.
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  Speaker 5: And then she asks me, and this is where I
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  Speaker 5: hope she gets to me quoted correctly, otherwise they're going
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  Speaker 5: to be in trouble. So, Dylan, she said, has anybody
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  Speaker 5: ever changed your mind? And I said, well, of course not,
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  Speaker 5: because I'm always right. And then I laughed and said
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  Speaker 5: just kidding, which I really wasn't kidding, but I felt
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  Speaker 5: obligated to say that. I didn't want to come across as.
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  Speaker 3: You know right now. No, that's now. You have things,
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  Speaker 3: you have standards, you have things that you believe in.
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  Speaker 3: Those kind of things can't be changed exactly.
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  Speaker 5: But I did tell her we have changed some people
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  Speaker 5: that have called in this is true. We have converted
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  Speaker 5: some people. I didn't say converted. I'm not quite that
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  Speaker 5: was going to be another rabbit hole. Yeah, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: we're proselytizing on air. It is what it is. So anyway,
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  Speaker 5: she said it's going to be a I guess the
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  Speaker 5: next week's edition of the magazine. So it was a
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  Speaker 5: great interview. I had a great time change, but it's
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  Speaker 5: like forty five minutes, and it's like, you know, that
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  Speaker 5: is a lot of time in the morning when you're
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  Speaker 5: trying to do a show prep. We have a story
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  Speaker 5: here in Memphis, Tennessee that I wanted to bring your
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  Speaker 5: attention to because we need your help on this, and
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  Speaker 5: we have posted the information over on our website, Todd
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  Speaker 5: Sterns dot com, including the phone number to this establishment.
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  Speaker 5: And I want to share the story because it's disturbing.
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  Speaker 5: Many of you know that President Trump sent the National
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  Speaker 5: Guard to and or synth and not only the National Guard,
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  Speaker 5: but a lot of federal entities, law enforcement entities to
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  Speaker 5: Memphis because Memphis was the deadliest city in America, Memphis
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  Speaker 5: the most dangerous city in America, and the President, acting
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  Speaker 5: on a question that I asked, said that he was
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  Speaker 5: going to do that, and he delivered and it has
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  Speaker 5: worked tremendously. I've been reading some estimates crime down what
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  Speaker 5: forty percent or so, don't quote me on those numbers,
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  Speaker 5: but crime is down by massive, massive numbers. So anyway,
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  Speaker 5: we got a lot of troops on the ground here
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  Speaker 5: and they're just fine and decent young men. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: these are kids. These are kids eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old,
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  Speaker 5: and they're from all over the nation. I've met a
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  Speaker 5: lot of them. As a matter of fact, we were honored,
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  Speaker 5: we were honored to feed them. We fed about a
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  Speaker 5: thousand of the troops thanks to our good buddy Jim Losapio,
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  Speaker 5: who owns rum Boogie Cafe and a lot of other
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  Speaker 5: restaurants in town. He's a great patriot. And Rachel Bell's
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  Speaker 5: her family owns the Peabody Hotel. And we got together Boyle,
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  Speaker 5: who's a big real estate guy here. We got all
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  Speaker 5: these friends of ours together and we fed about a
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  Speaker 5: thousand troops, And it was such an honor to be
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  Speaker 5: able to meet these kids. And you know, they're they're
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  Speaker 5: they're giving up their you know, they're giving up their
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  Speaker 5: time to be here. So yesterday or several days ago,
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  Speaker 5: four members of the National Guard showed up at a
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  Speaker 5: popular Memphis restaurant called Tambouli's Pizza and Pasta, and they
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  Speaker 5: just wanted to get a slice or too, or we
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  Speaker 5: get some pasta. Apparently it's a popular place. I've never been.
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  Speaker 5: It's in midtown Memphis, which is sort of a liberal enclave,
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  Speaker 5: and the National Guard troops were told, we don't serve
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  Speaker 5: people like you. The National Guard troops, these young kids
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  Speaker 5: were told as they were standing there in their uniforms,
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  Speaker 5: they were being publicly shamed. We understand from eyewitness accounts
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  Speaker 5: that the people in the restaurant, and again it's in
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  Speaker 5: a liberal part of town, they actually cheered as they
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  Speaker 5: ordered the National Guard troops to leave the building. Now
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to someone sent me this information and we
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  Speaker 5: followed up with it. I actually called the restaurant last night.
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  Speaker 5: I was very polite and kind. I said, is this true?
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  Speaker 5: And the young lady who answered, the staff member, she
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  Speaker 5: was very kind and polite, and she said, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 5: it is true. The owner has given us orders we
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  Speaker 5: are not allowed to serve any member of law enforcement
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  Speaker 5: in uniform if they come into this restaurant. And I
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  Speaker 5: told the young lady. I said, well, ma'am, I said,
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  Speaker 5: I'm a citizen of Memphis and we're just so blessed
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  Speaker 5: to have the National Guard here. Crime is down, and
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  Speaker 5: I said, it's really disappointing. I was very polite about it.
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  Speaker 5: I said, it's very disappointing that you guys have this policy.
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  Speaker 5: And the young lady said, I appreciate you being courteous
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  Speaker 5: about it. And we hung up the phone, and then
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  Speaker 5: I went online and tore them a new one, and
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  Speaker 5: we had the story up at todd Stearns dot com
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  Speaker 5: and sure enough, the owner says, apply we have done this.
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  Speaker 5: He says, the National Guard is the military, and we
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  Speaker 5: don't believe the military belongs on our streets policing our neighbors.
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  Speaker 5: It isn't about the individuals. Soldiers are trained for combat,
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  Speaker 5: not community policing. The district attorney in Shelby County, who
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  Speaker 5: is George Soros kind of a guy, is actually defending
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  Speaker 5: the restaurant here. We've posted the telephone number for the
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  Speaker 5: restaurant and their email address, and I would encourage you
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  Speaker 5: to reach out to them and let them know what
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  Speaker 5: you think about their behavior. But it really angers me
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  Speaker 5: that these young soldiers. I can't even imagine how they
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  Speaker 5: must have felt being turned away. I immediately went back
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  Speaker 5: to the Vietnam era, and of course I was too
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  Speaker 5: young to remember any of that, but our troops were
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  Speaker 5: coming home from war and they were spit on, they
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  Speaker 5: were despised, they were treated so horribly. And here in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 5: It just angers me that that's the impression these kids
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  Speaker 5: are getting of our great city by these far left,
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  Speaker 5: far leftist nutjobs. I want to go to the phones,
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  Speaker 5: and we're going to take your calls on this. What
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  Speaker 5: do you think the correct course of action here is
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  Speaker 5: nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 5: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 5: We've reported all these kinds of stories all over the nation,
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  Speaker 5: but to have it happen in your hometown, it's just
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  Speaker 5: so weird and infuriating. I want to go to the
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  Speaker 5: phone lines. The Memphis Police Association just an incredibly fine group,
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  Speaker 5: and we support law enforcement on this program. Our good
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  Speaker 5: friend John Covington joins us. John, thank you first of
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  Speaker 5: all for phoning in your reaction to this news coming
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  Speaker 5: out of Memphis.
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  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I've learned I need to call
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  Speaker 6: in and say I disagree with you. I jumped to
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  Speaker 6: the top of the list. I'm gonna remember that. But
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  Speaker 6: I was shocked by this. Well, I was shocked. You know,
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  Speaker 6: you talked about it. It's happened in other places, but
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  Speaker 6: to happen here in Memphis, where we're seeing such a
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  Speaker 6: direct impact of this city being safer. I was really
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  Speaker 6: just beside myself that and then you know, I'll fall
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  Speaker 6: online when you did some follow up and confirmed it.
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  Speaker 6: I was really I couldn't believe it, Todd. I was
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  Speaker 6: so disappointed, I.
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  Speaker 5: Think even more so. And look, if that's the way
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  Speaker 5: the guy wants to run his business, Okay, I think
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  Speaker 5: it's a pretty lousy business model, but for the people
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  Speaker 5: in the dining room to cheer as I just it
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  Speaker 5: just there. I am so angry about this right now.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and the reality is, and you talked about it,
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  Speaker 6: our crime has dropped a huge amount. We haven't seen
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  Speaker 6: these kind of numbers since twenty eleven when we had
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  Speaker 6: two four and eighty officers. We're down to about nineteen hundred.
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  Speaker 6: But this task force has come in and helped us
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  Speaker 6: get back to that level of coverage. And what did
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  Speaker 6: you see just like we saw in twenty eleaven prime
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  Speaker 6: has dropped, and so this is benefiting those people in
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  Speaker 6: their cheering, you know, it's making their lives safer, their
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  Speaker 6: property safer, their loved ones safer. I just don't get it, Toddy.
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  Speaker 6: You know that being that and as you say, that's
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  Speaker 6: the right of a business owner, but hearing the people cheer,
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  Speaker 6: that really shook me.
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  Speaker 3: John.
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  Speaker 5: I'm curious because it's been my impression that by and
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  Speaker 5: large the National Guard troops have been overwhelmingly welcomed to
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  Speaker 5: our city. Has that been Have you heard those kinds
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  Speaker 5: of reports.
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  Speaker 6: I have, and I've heard it firsthand because here at
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  Speaker 6: the Association, we've opened our doors, so during the day,
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  Speaker 6: the Guard has been invited to come in. We've got bathrooms,
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  Speaker 6: we've got water, you know, we've got snacks, and we've
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  Speaker 6: got a little place that they can sit and eat
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  Speaker 6: lunch and watch TV. And so I get the opportunity
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  Speaker 6: to talk to a lot of it. And you said earlier,
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  Speaker 6: these it's really kids, I mean eighteen nineteen twenty, and
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  Speaker 6: they're so hard working, they're so earnest, and they tell
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  Speaker 6: me the reaction has been so supportive, you know, throughout
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  Speaker 6: the city that they know coming in they weren't quite sure,
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  Speaker 6: but they said it's been overwhelmingly positive, and so you know,
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  Speaker 6: that's what kind of took me back. I said, well,
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  Speaker 6: I thought Memphis really got it. Clearly, this one business
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  Speaker 6: didn't get the memo.
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  Speaker 5: No, they did not. And I wish I knew who
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  Speaker 5: those four soldiers were. I would have personally bought them
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  Speaker 5: dinner at a great Italian restaurant that as a conservative amen.
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  Speaker 5: So I just wish I knew who those folks were.
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  Speaker 5: But again, it's really unfortunate, and it's a reminder that
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  Speaker 5: there are people here and this business owner. My understanding
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  Speaker 5: is that they've had some crime issues in that neighborhood,
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  Speaker 5: and the irony is those very troops who were turned away.
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  Speaker 5: I guarantee you John would rush right over to save
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  Speaker 5: the staff and the owner of Tamboulai's, God forbid. You know,
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  Speaker 5: they were involved in an emergency, They.
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  Speaker 6: Would put their life on the line, They would run
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  Speaker 6: towards the danger, They would risk everything to protect those
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  Speaker 6: folks without a second thought, you know, And that's where
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  Speaker 6: the disconnect. And then you talked earlier, we have a
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  Speaker 6: da here in town who has made his position pretty
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  Speaker 6: clear on the task force of these young people. And
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  Speaker 6: then I see on Facebook he's saying how great this
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  Speaker 6: restaurant is, you know, which to me is pretty much endorsing.
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  Speaker 5: That's exactly it. That's exactly it.
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  Speaker 7: John.
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  Speaker 5: I am up against a hard break here, but we
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  Speaker 5: sure appreciate you the great work you do for the
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  Speaker 5: city of Memphis and of course the great Memphis Police Association.
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  Speaker 5: God bless you guys, and be safe out there. That's
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  Speaker 5: John Covington. Everybody on our Newsmaker line, our telephone number
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  Speaker 5: nine oh one two six zero five nine two six,
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  Speaker 5: go to our website. I want you to give him
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  Speaker 5: a call, and then you call us and let us.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to tell us what the restaurant is saying.
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  Speaker 5: Got to take a break. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 5: All right, let's go to the phones real quick. Here
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  Speaker 5: Deliah from Memphis, Delaiah, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 10: Hi?
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  Speaker 11: I just wanted to share a personal story where I
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  Speaker 11: was escorted from a restaurant by the police department, but
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  Speaker 11: not here in the United States, in Tianjin, China, about
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  Speaker 11: ten years ago, where we were held at the police
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  Speaker 11: station for about eight and a half hours, questioned the
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  Speaker 11: group of three Americans for about the first four hours together,
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  Speaker 11: and then they separated us and questioned us again for
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  Speaker 11: another three and a half hours. And the what they
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  Speaker 11: told me was the problem is we had said our
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  Speaker 11: blessing over our food out loud in a public cafeteria
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  Speaker 11: that they considered a religious ritual and was illegal in
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  Speaker 11: the in China. And when I think of the young.
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  Speaker 5: Men and women, Delia, may I do Can you do
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  Speaker 5: me a favor? We are up against a hard break.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to finish your story. Can you hold
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  Speaker 5: on through the break? Is that okay?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: All right?
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  Speaker 5: That's hainted Alia. Deliah. We'll get back to her comments
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  Speaker 5: as well as yours. Nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 5: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Tod Sterns Radio Show,
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  Speaker 5: and we're following a lot of news coming out of Washington.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to get to that in just a little while,
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  Speaker 5: but we have a story that's a little closer to home,
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  Speaker 5: and we could use all of your help as well.
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  Speaker 5: Reaching out to this restaurant called Tambouli's Pizza and Pasta,
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  Speaker 5: they refuse to serve four members of the National Guard.
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  Speaker 5: The owner confirms this and said that he does not
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  Speaker 5: support President Trump the president's mission to make Memphis safe. Therefore,
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  Speaker 5: anyone in uniform will not be served at their restaurant.
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  Speaker 5: And as these young kids wearing the uniform of our
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  Speaker 5: country were shoved out the door, the diners in this
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  Speaker 5: liberal part of Memphis actually cheat. And we have all this.
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  Speaker 5: We've got the story on Todd Sterns dot com. We've
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  Speaker 5: also included the email address as well as the phone
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  Speaker 5: number for the restaurant there on Todd Stearns dot com.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 5: What's the right course of action here? I mean, how
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  Speaker 5: do you respond? And this is the this is the
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  Speaker 5: first time I've been hearing of this happening at Memphis.
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  Speaker 5: It's been happening at other places, mostly in places like
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: San Francisco or Seattle or you know, a liberal enclaim,
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  Speaker 5: but here in Memphis is just a bit shocking. So
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: Deliah called in, She's calling from Memphis and recounted a
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: story where they were in China and came under fire.
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  Speaker 5: We're taken into custody for what praying over a meal
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  Speaker 5: and Deliah, I appreciate you hanging on over the break.
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  Speaker 5: I want you to finish telling that story.
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  Speaker 11: Okay.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: So it was a group of Americans and we were
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  Speaker 11: doing tourists tourism thing cultural cultural exchange activities and such,
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  Speaker 11: and we had gone into a cafeteria, we had had
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  Speaker 11: a meal, and when we completed our meal, there were
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  Speaker 11: a I don't remember the number because everything was so
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  Speaker 11: like shocking, so to speak, a group of police officers.
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  Speaker 11: They escorted us, some in uniforms, some not, to the
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  Speaker 11: local police station where we were, as I mentioned before,
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  Speaker 11: detained for a period of time. The main stream of
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  Speaker 11: questioning was about who prayed out loud over our food
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  Speaker 11: during the time. Wow, that We were in the cafeteria
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  Speaker 11: and we were detained, like I said, for eight and
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  Speaker 11: a half hours. Our passports were taken. The next day
• 21:51
  Speaker 11: they took us to the immigration office. We were there
• 21:53
  Speaker 11: for about four hours. They gave us new visas, canceling
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: our old visas and keeping a visa that was good
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  Speaker 11: until that following Saturday to sermon on a Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: So how does how does that tie into what happened
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  Speaker 5: at Timboli's Pizza and Pasta.
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  Speaker 11: I am just so disturbed that in the United States
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  Speaker 11: of America that the people, the men and women that
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  Speaker 11: volunteer to protect us at home and abroad, and the
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  Speaker 11: National Guard is for home protection. People seem to forget
• 22:29
  Speaker 11: that that's the purpose of the National Guard is to
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  Speaker 11: protect the homeland and the Coast Guard, that's what they do.
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  Speaker 11: That they are disrespected in such a way by American
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  Speaker 11: citizens that they would literally die for and that just
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  Speaker 11: upsets me to know. In in China that was a
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  Speaker 11: government thing. Those people don't even have a choice about
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  Speaker 11: what they do. Here, we have men and women that
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  Speaker 11: give their life or a period or a.
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  Speaker 13: Portion of it.
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  Speaker 11: To be disrespected like that is just unspeakable in my mind.
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  Speaker 11: And it's infuriating because I love this nation so very
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  Speaker 11: much and I do believe that people have the right
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: to do those things. They shouldn't be arrested for it.
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  Speaker 11: But it still disturbs me greatly and I will not
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  Speaker 11: support a business that would do that.
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  Speaker 3: I can't.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's I think again. The shock for me is
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  Speaker 5: this is happening in a southern state, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: I think by and large, the National Guard in Memphis,
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: they have been very well received. I know a lot
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  Speaker 5: of a lot of other restaurants and our good buddy
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Jim Losapio, who owns a number of restaurants, including the
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: famous world famous Rum Boogie Cafe, they have gone above
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: and beyond to take care of these young kids. So
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: I mean again, I just don't want our city, you know,
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: sullied by these folks that own this pizza joint.
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  Speaker 11: Right exactly. I think it's very sad. Yeah, it hurts
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  Speaker 11: my heart. It does anger me. But more than that,
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  Speaker 11: it hurts my heart that people that are are here
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: for us taking care of us or being disrespected that way.
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  Speaker 5: I think that is I think that's a great way
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  Speaker 5: to sum it all up. Deliah. I think you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 5: We certainly appreciate you calling in and listening to the
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  Speaker 5: program today. Again our number nine oh one two six
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  Speaker 10: I want to.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Play some audio here. This is just this really sort
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: of encapsulates who the Democrats are and who the Democrats
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: have become. They are a radicalized party right now. I mean,
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: it is absolutely insane what the Democrats are up to.
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  Speaker 5: And we're watching all of this play out right now
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  Speaker 5: on Capitol Hill as we've got the Attorney General, the
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: acting Attorney General, Todd Blanche going through hearings, and I
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  Speaker 5: want you to listen. This is you're going to be
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: listening to the voice of Senator Whitehouse, who is a Democrat.
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  Speaker 5: Cut twenty six plays.
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  Speaker 14: How long do you intend to put up with that
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  Speaker 14: cash Patel character? Are you good with his airplane Johns?
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  Speaker 14: Are you confident he's not drinking on the job. Are
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  Speaker 14: you sure none of his travel is a pretext for
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  Speaker 14: vacation activities like snorkeling, Olympics and visiting girlfriends. Are you
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  Speaker 14: sure he knows what he's doing? Do you vouch for him?
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  Speaker 14: Are you willing to look at whether he lied to
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  Speaker 14: this committee.
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  Speaker 15: That's an extraordinarily obnoxious question, Senator, and I have full
• 25:50
  Speaker 15: faith in Direct Patel and the work that he's doing
• 25:53
  Speaker 15: every day.
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  Speaker 14: Great and get to.
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  Speaker 5: Indeed, yeah, good for you, Good for you, Todd Blanche.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what you have to do with these people.
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  Speaker 5: These are very these are very unkind to individuals that
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  Speaker 5: we're talking about here. These Democrats are radical, they're progressive,
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  Speaker 5: and they love smearing people like FBI Director Cash Pattel.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: And by the way, that is his name, Senator, FBI
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  Speaker 5: Director Cash Pattel. Unbelievable. Here is the Attorney General Acting
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  Speaker 5: Attorney General testifying a cut twenty seven.
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  Speaker 15: Please, when a family can send their kids to school,
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  Speaker 15: walk their neighborhood after dark, and build a life without fear,
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  Speaker 15: every promise of the American dream is within reach, when
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  Speaker 15: they cannot none of it is. That's my job, securing
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  Speaker 15: safety for every American. I'm pleased to testify again today
• 26:53
  Speaker 15: to tell everybody here that we are doing just that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 15: We are keeping America safe since President Trump took office.
• 27:01
  Speaker 15: It's been said a few times this morning already, but
• 27:04
  Speaker 15: it bears repeating. Murders are down roughly twenty percent nationwide,
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  Speaker 15: we have the lowest murder rate since nineteen hundred. Violent
• 27:15
  Speaker 15: crime arrests are up nearly one hundred and fourteen percent.
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  Speaker 15: We've taken almost five thousand child predators and human traffickers
• 27:24
  Speaker 15: off the streets, and the Department of Justice has filed
• 27:28
  Speaker 15: nearly one hundred thousand indictments and informations since January twentieth,
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  Speaker 15: twenty twenty five. Additionally, in just the last four weeks,
• 27:40
  Speaker 15: just the last month, we've paid ninety six million dollars
• 27:44
  Speaker 15: in claims through the Public Safety Officers Benefits Program to
• 27:49
  Speaker 15: eligible surviving families of fallen public safety officers, even while
• 27:54
  Speaker 15: fewer law enforcement officers were killed in the line of
• 27:57
  Speaker 15: duty than the prior years. And obviously these are not
• 28:03
  Speaker 15: just numbers. Each one is a family that still has
• 28:07
  Speaker 15: its son or daughter and an officer who came home
• 28:10
  Speaker 15: for dinner. If you look at Washington and Memphis as
• 28:14
  Speaker 15: examples where we have worked with federal, state, and local
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  Speaker 15: partners pulling thousands of criminals off the streets in those
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  Speaker 15: two cities, homicides in DC are down about sixty percent,
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  Speaker 15: and overall crime in Memphis declined by more than forty percent.
• 28:31
  Speaker 15: We've seized thousands of illegal guns, brought more than one
• 28:35
  Speaker 15: hundred and fifty missing children home in those two cities,
• 28:39
  Speaker 15: and cleaned up parks and spaces family once avoided, so
• 28:43
  Speaker 15: you can take your kids and loved ones there once again.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, there you go. I mean, this is incredible what
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  Speaker 5: the administration has done cleaning up our cities again. You
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: just heard him say moments ago on Capitol Hill. I'm
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: in Memphis, Tennesee down more than forty percent thanks to
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  Speaker 5: the efforts of these young men and women like those
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  Speaker 5: that were thrown out of Tambouli's Pizza and Pasta. Let's
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  Speaker 5: go to the phone lines nine oh one two six
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  Speaker 5: zero five nine two six Dave and Campbella, June, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: I bet there are a whole lot of marines wandering
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  Speaker 5: around over at Campbella, June. Dave, thank you for calling in.
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  Speaker 13: Today's military is not what it used to be. Here's
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: the thing about the current situation is these National Guard troops,
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  Speaker 13: these normally people in a local area, you know, they
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  Speaker 13: do they because they're they're working, they're in school whatever,
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  Speaker 13: they're doing it part time and a lot of it
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  Speaker 13: is they going to the visits or for the extra
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  Speaker 13: money and they can do it right there in the
• 29:50
  Speaker 13: community that they're acting in. The thing is this is
• 29:55
  Speaker 13: you know, I don't know what they were doing, and
• 29:57
  Speaker 13: they're in their uniform and they get doubt.
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  Speaker 16: But here's the thing.
• 30:01
  Speaker 13: The next civil unrest, the next natural disaster, and the
• 30:05
  Speaker 13: government says, the governor says, I'm going to deploy the
• 30:07
  Speaker 13: National Guard. It'll be those fritzy people, the liberals sitting
• 30:12
  Speaker 13: in that restaurant and the guy that owns a restaurant.
• 30:15
  Speaker 13: My restaurant's been wrecked. Somebody needs to guard it till
• 30:18
  Speaker 13: the insurance people. You know, there's people injured inside. Somebody
• 30:21
  Speaker 13: needs the rescue. And after the fire department players and
• 30:24
  Speaker 13: goes to the next thing, to the next thing, it'll
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: be the National Guard that has to protect it. They
• 30:29
  Speaker 13: will assist in medical evacuations and when when neighborhoods are
• 30:34
  Speaker 13: being looted and everything else, it'll be you know, Memphis,
• 30:37
  Speaker 13: BB's going to be busy, so it'll be the National
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: Guard that will be sending routes to guard certain neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 13: These people will say, well, where's the National Guard. They're
• 30:47
  Speaker 13: not going to think the National Guard that they just
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: kicked out of a restaurant, you know, it's everybody wants them. Now,
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: here's the thing across the board. In today's military, never
• 30:57
  Speaker 13: more than one percent of the population serves. Okay, out
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: of that number, it has to be very selected because
• 31:07
  Speaker 13: our fat, lazy nation has produced children that cannot physically
• 31:12
  Speaker 13: qualify for military service. A lot of them cannot pack
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: pass background and drug tests. So when you get down
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: to the people that are serving, it's fewer and fewer.
• 31:24
  Speaker 13: You're getting more and more selected, and then when you
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: get down to them, you've still got some problems. But
• 31:29
  Speaker 13: the thing is if they're out there in uniform for
• 31:32
  Speaker 13: whatever reason, that means that they're normally in a duty stats.
• 31:36
  Speaker 13: So why somebody's kicking them out of a public restaurant?
• 31:39
  Speaker 13: Are they you know, are they not gonna alarmed and
• 31:42
  Speaker 13: sit down and meet an MRU when they're gardening your
• 31:44
  Speaker 13: property after the next tornado outbreak or whatever. So just
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: food to think about.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: It's look, Dave, it's a it's a great point. I
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: was reading. There are some stats out there that about
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: seventy one percent of Americans ages seventeen to twenty four
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: were ineligible for military service. That's according to the CDC
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: based on the eligibility data they have there, so many
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: of them would need some sort of a waiver to
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: be able to get that seventy one percent day.
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  Speaker 13: Well, Torod, let me ask you this, and it goes
• 32:19
  Speaker 13: back to the fact that those guys were they must
• 32:22
  Speaker 13: have been in some sort of duty status. They're out
• 32:24
  Speaker 13: there in the middle of the day in uniform, so
• 32:28
  Speaker 13: you know, and when I was a young truvissure as hell,
• 32:30
  Speaker 13: couldn't afford to go somewhere that was high end and
• 32:34
  Speaker 13: grab anything for lunch. But here's the deal. So these
• 32:37
  Speaker 13: guys are in a duty status since the Obama administration.
• 32:43
  Speaker 13: Can I remember doctor kids were giving green cards. We
• 32:46
  Speaker 13: have illegal aliens on active duty in the armed forces today.
• 32:52
  Speaker 13: We also since Biden, we have people who joined we
• 32:57
  Speaker 13: are going through sexual transition what ever, or they join
• 33:02
  Speaker 13: and six months in Susy Jones is pregnant, or Bobby
• 33:06
  Speaker 13: Smith breaks his leg or what, they're no longer in
• 33:10
  Speaker 13: an active state. They're they're on active duty, but they're
• 33:13
  Speaker 13: they're not uh full duty status. So when it gets
• 33:17
  Speaker 13: down to the people that are doing the job, there's
• 33:19
  Speaker 13: always fewer and fewer of them. Than what you see
• 33:22
  Speaker 13: on paper.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Well again this was and again it's uh. You know,
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: the fact of the matter is, and I want to
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: I don't want to get too far off the reservation here.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: The reality is these young men, these young women were
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: embarrassed and they were shamed by these far leftist and Memphis,
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: Tennessee and that is just unacceptable. And I just I
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: salute these young men and women for for wearing the uniform. Dave,
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: thank you for the call, and we'll definitely look The
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: eligibility issue for the military is a huge, huge thing
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: that we need to talk about. I've got to take
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• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Oh where is that Dylan. I've got to play some
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  Speaker 5: audio here. I can't believe this is actually a real woman,
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  Speaker 5: a real member of Congress, and her name is Hailey
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: Stevens and she's from Michigan. She's one of these lefties.
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  Speaker 5: But you gotta hear the accent. Cut number eight.
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  Speaker 17: it with a little bit of joy, a little bit
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  Speaker 17: of enthusiasm, a little bit of energy, and a little
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  Speaker 17: bit of sicket to him, because that's the Michigan way.
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  Speaker 5: Dylan love enthusiasm in Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: I love, and that's strong.
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  Speaker 10: I love.
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  Speaker 18: I love my enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 5: It hurts to talk like that.
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  Speaker 18: My cheeks are puckering up.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. So yeah, she's by the way, she's facing Uh
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: what is that Achmed abdual somebody? The guy who is
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  Speaker 5: he's a radical. Abdual l Sied is the guy. He's
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  Speaker 5: the guy that wants to defund the police. So your
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  Speaker 5: option is Obdual l Sied or the uh the Hailey
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  Speaker 5: Stevensdale Gil.
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  Speaker 3: She has no shot.
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  Speaker 18: I went to see something to Abdul Elsy ed you're
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  Speaker 18: a Muslim. But I'm going to campaign energetically with enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 7: You know.
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  Speaker 5: That's when they say about our radio show BB Enthusians
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  Speaker 5: of Gal Hayley Stevens Hanging tight everybody, Hour two of
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 5: All Right, hello everybody, welcome hour two of the time
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• 38:23
  Speaker 5: want to circle back because we're getting some reaction to
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: the conversation we've been having about this Memphis pizza joint
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: that ordered National Guard troops to leave they refuse to
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: serve them. And also the the the diners in the restaurant,
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: which isn't a liberal part of Memphis, actually cheered as
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: these young kids in uniform were ordered to leave. Now
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: the owner, the owners, the only owner, is hiding behind
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: his a keyboard. His name is Miles.
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  Speaker 18: Miles.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, that's my Michigan accent. I'm still working through the
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Michigan accent from Congress Gal Hailey Stevens. So anyway, his
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: daddy Roy is defending his son Miles. And here's what
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: Daddy Tambouli says. His name is Roy, Roy says, I
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: support my son Miles at Tambouli's, who explained his opinion here. Quote.
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: I have friends of the National Guard. I have respect
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: for them. Pardon me, well, something in my throat there.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: They do really important work in national defense and disaster response,
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: and that's what they're trained for. Continuing turning them away. Oh,
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: they're not in a defense capacity. They are not trained
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: to kill, not to de escalate. That's why they should
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: not be here. Turning them away is a protest against that,
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: not against them as people. Pardon me, I just must
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: have been something. I hate him. At the end of
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: the day, I'm sorry. Here's what the dad said about
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: these National Guard troops. Roy At the end of the day,
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry those boys didn't get their pizza, but I'm
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: sure they will be. Okay, what a bow dead gumm it?
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: Can you give me a throat loss ande? Maybe a
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: Ricola Dylan. I also understand that without social media hatred,
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: the tech giants would not be billionaires. Internet addiction is
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: the new plantation. Wow, he says. Internet addiction is the
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: new plantation that many are struggling to escape from. So
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: the owner, the owner's daddy of Tambouli's now says that
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: all of you peoples who are on the interwebs your slaves,
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: That's what he says. There you go. So we've got
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: all the information on our website. I'd encourage you to
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: go and check now tom Stearns dot com. We've included
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: the phone number of the restaurant and the email of
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: the restaurant if you would like to perhaps way in
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: and give them well a piece of your mind. Let's
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: go real quick to the phones and say hello to
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: Cheryl in Georgia listening to us on WDU in. I'm Cheryl.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: What's on your mind?
• 41:21
  Speaker 11: Hey Todd?
• 41:21
  Speaker 19: Do you ask what should be done? That's easy. Just
• 41:25
  Speaker 19: post the story everywhere and tell those who support the
• 41:30
  Speaker 19: National Guard not to be a patron of this restaurant.
• 41:34
  Speaker 19: Get him where it hurts in the pocket book.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: He'll be surprised.
• 41:38
  Speaker 19: He's got his right to talk and people have a
• 41:41
  Speaker 19: right to not go to his restaurant.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Cheryl, I think that's a terrific idea. And look, I
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: haven't called for a boycott. I'm just putting it all
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: out there. And look if this guy, if this guy's
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: business business model is to not serve men and women
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: in uniform or their families or law and horseman officers
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: in uniform. All right, that's that's his right to do.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: But again, it's just a pretty lousy business model to me, Cheryl.
• 42:08
  Speaker 19: Well, it is, and so he's going to learn it
• 42:11
  Speaker 19: the hard way. But you know what, let's let's support
• 42:14
  Speaker 19: his business model. Let's use our choice.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: Hey, we're doing him a favor. We just want to
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: make sure the National Guards don't go there, guys don't
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: go there, or any other service person like you said,
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: that's it. Anybody in uniform, you need to stay away
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: from the place because you know they're going to get
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: triggered or something.
• 42:33
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 42:34
  Speaker 19: In this comment from his dad is so.
• 42:37
  Speaker 16: Oh yeah, ridiculous.
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's just silly.
• 42:40
  Speaker 10: It's they know.
• 42:41
  Speaker 19: Hey, if they weren't concerned, his dad wouldn't have to comment.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: That's it, daddy. Yeah, Daddy Tomboli is really is really
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: upset that you guys are coming after his sun Miles.
• 42:52
  Speaker 19: Yes, all right, you make your dad or you know,
• 42:56
  Speaker 19: you sleep in the.
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: Base rather, that's it.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Cheryl.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: I think, well, you're absolutely right, and uh, and again
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: there's no need to be mean or nasty about it.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: But ladies and gentlemen, you deserve to know and look,
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: if there are businesses anywhere else in America that are
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: doing that to ice agents. I know we've seen those reports.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: You let us know and we will name and shame.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: That's what we are happy to do on this program.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: All right, Cheryl, thank you for the call. Nine oh
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: one two six zero five nine two six. That's nine
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: oh one two six zero five nine two six, Dylan,
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: We've got big problems, yes, sir. Well, this all this
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: week we've been telling you about this diarrhea lettuce that's
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: been going around, and that is I know you've got
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: the iceberg lettuce, you've got the arugla, you got the
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: kal and that's all well and good, but I'm not
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: sure you want a big, old, heaping plate of diarrhea lettuce. Well,
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: we we do have some breaking news to share it
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: with you. Breaking news, Dylan.
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: Breaking news now on the Todd Stern Show.
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: Unfortunately, this coming from Nashville, Tennessee, where this is spreading
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: all over America. We can now confirm there are reports
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: of explosive diarrhea. Let us in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 44:18
  Speaker 18: For the love of all that is good.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: Get some sharmon. Uh yeah, this is this is not good, Tylan.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: That's too close.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: This is it. It's coming down I forty. Yeah, you
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: don't want to be down wind from that. Well that's
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: an ill wind blowing out of Nashville. And it's not Arkansas. No, no,
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: we love Arkansas. So, according to according to TV station
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: w s m V, Nashville has few has ten confirmed cases.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: They are saying fewer than ten. Con I don't care
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: if it's one. This will spread. So apparently they're saying
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: that people are just like they're they're urging people not
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: to eat lettuce. So that seems so, you know, I
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: hate it for all of you folks on a diet.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry. I can't get up with the fact
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: that you said this will spread. It's just you know,
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: ill timed.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: I guess it is. Well, it's still spread. It splatters,
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: it's explosive.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So as a lunchtime it's terrible.
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, everybody thought it was Taco Bell at first
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: of it. It's not Taco Bell. It's they think it
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: really is in the packaged with the package lettuce and
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: produced and you can't wash off whatever is on there,
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: which my understanding and correct me. If I'm wrio. Is
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: this a result of people what pooping in the fields?
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know, that's weird. I mean it is like
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: a fecal you know, hair site or whatever it is, right,
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, so maybe that's it.
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: Our good buddy, chef Andrew Gruel, he has been on
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: the show many times before, former judge on the Food Network,
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: and he is the owner of some great restaurants that
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: I've eaten at in southern California. Just a great guy,
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: he said. Well, first of all, the Washington Posters reporting
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: that the federal and state health officials are investigating whether
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: Taco Bell played a role in this big outbreak. You know,
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: they're trying to blame the Gorditas and the Chiloupahs. But
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: I think that just gives you regular diary, not the
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: explosive diarrhea.
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: It's easily confused, right, I mean, Taco Bell will do
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: that to you, but it's not the cause of this.
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: That's true. They call it Taco hell what they call it?
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we certainly do.
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: You know what always troubled me. I do a lot
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: of flying. I'm a member of the million million plus
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: mile club. I think one point five million miles. I've
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: flown with Delta. The one thing that always troubled me, Dylan,
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: was watching people boarding the flight with bags of Taco Bell. Yeah,
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: that's a troubling thing, especially on a two to three
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: hour flight.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Or longer. Yeah.
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it just seems to me that's the one restaurant
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: that ought to be banned from every airport in America.
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: Don't let them through the TSA checkpoint.
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: Really, anything protein heavy like in an airport, you really
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: shouldn't be serving up.
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: Confiscate the bean burritos please.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: I'm sick of all the passengers.
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: So anyway, Chef Andrew is saying he doesn't think it's
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: a specific restaurant, but this is actually a supply chain issue,
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: and if Taco Bell is one outlet, there are many others.
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: And he says he thinks it's the lettuce, it's the
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: diarrhea lettuce. He says, why isn't anyone asking why there
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: is human poop in the soil of farms? He said,
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: this can only come from human feces that's been festering
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: in soil. He said, the outbreaks originate from human fecal
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: contamination of water or the agricultural environment. The parasite matures
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: in the environment and can contaminate fresh produce that's eating raw,
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: stay away from the salads. That's you know, it's that's tough.
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: That's tough, but it is a fair question here. Who's
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: pooping in those farm fields? That's what I want to know.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: There are videos coming out of California, and I don't
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: want to completely well, I'm sorry, we've already grossed everybody out,
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: but there are videos coming out of California of how
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: shall I say this, non Americans that are squatting and
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: pooping on the sidewalks and in the grass. And these
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: people are coming over here with many of them on
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: the H one B visa program, and they are bringing
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: their culture and I guess back in their home lands
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: that's what they do. They don't have working plumbing, so
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: they just drop trial and they poopedy doup. This is
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: what we've led into the country.
• 49:12
  Speaker 10: Dylan, Okay, there no, no, I can't.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: I can't get that image out of my head.
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: And I'm not saying that, you know, Tandory chickens responsible here,
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: but you know, Curry, you'll do that to you. So
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: who's pooping in our farms? And they need to stop
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: that's all I'm saying here. I mean, when you look
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: at a lot of these these communities across America that
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: have been inundated with illegals and people from foreign countries,
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: they're coming over here in such massive numbers, they're not
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: acclimating and so therefore they are just they are taking
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: whatever they came from and they are trying to create
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: that here. And that's why if we're not careful, you're
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: going to see. And by the way, this is a
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: warning to New York City where it is now a
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: majority immigrant like New Immigrant City. Those are the people
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: that are the largest demographic in New York City. That
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: will be probably the first city where you will see
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: this third world. This this third world come to you know,
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: come to life. And we're starting to see that now.
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: They're like I think fourteen blocks of New York City
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: where homeless encampments have been sent up. That's that's what's
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: happening out there. Nine oh one two six zero five
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: nine two six is our telephone number. That's nine oh
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: one two six zero five nine two six. Let's go
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: to to Dan in Texas listening to us on Patriot Talk. Dan,
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: what's on your mind?
• 50:53
  Speaker 16: Hell? God, I really appreciate what you're doing, and I
• 50:56
  Speaker 16: think you can this restaurant situation with the National Guard
• 51:01
  Speaker 16: guys getting turned to rate, I think that can be
• 51:03
  Speaker 16: taken a step further because there's a case three four
• 51:08
  Speaker 16: years ago roughly that attracted a lot of national attentionion
• 51:11
  Speaker 16: it happened in Colorado involving a baker and a wedding cake,
• 51:16
  Speaker 16: and I think you probably would remember quite a bit
• 51:19
  Speaker 16: about that, and my memory, I'm not certain about this.
• 51:22
  Speaker 16: You might have a better memory than me, but it
• 51:25
  Speaker 16: seems to me like that baker. You know, there's a
• 51:27
  Speaker 16: lawsuit filed, and I think the baker ended up having
• 51:31
  Speaker 16: to pay a large amount of money as a result
• 51:35
  Speaker 16: of him wanting to adhere to his religious beliefs, so
• 51:42
  Speaker 16: he had a stronger case.
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: For what he did.
• 51:45
  Speaker 16: And I think this pizza place turning away the National
• 51:50
  Speaker 16: Guard guides, so you might want to delve into that
• 51:54
  Speaker 16: a little bit, and you know, examine that.
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: I'm not arguing. I'm not arguing that the guy did
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: not have a right to deny service. And you're talking
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: about our good friends at Masterpiece cake Shop, Jack Phillips,
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: and I broke his the original story many many years
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: ago when I was at Fox News, and that went
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: all the way to the Supreme Court, and actually, Dan
• 52:20
  Speaker 5: the Baker won at the Supreme Court after this incredibly
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: long nightmare where he was coming under attack, and the
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: Baker simply and here's this is the difference. The Baker
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: said he would provide any kind of service for the
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: gay couple, but he would not participate in their same
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: sex ceremony. That was where he drew the line. Now,
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: my contention is that the folks at Tim Bully's they've
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: got a right to deny service to anybody. I just
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: think it's a pretty lousy business practice. And you know,
• 52:53
  Speaker 5: I suspect they're going to find out that a lot
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: of other people agree with me on that right thing.
• 52:59
  Speaker 16: I can tell you back with the Baker case, I
• 53:02
  Speaker 16: was parting, and I'm glad you remembered the solution to
• 53:06
  Speaker 16: the you know, the Supreme Court and all that. But
• 53:09
  Speaker 16: there was a lot of commentary from people all over
• 53:12
  Speaker 16: the country to articles, news articles, whoever on the internet,
• 53:16
  Speaker 16: and I can remember every liberal Democrat that made any
• 53:20
  Speaker 16: sort of comment said that the Baker uh was violating
• 53:25
  Speaker 16: the rights of the two customers. And who had no
• 53:31
  Speaker 16: uh justification for not doing that they wanted. So the
• 53:35
  Speaker 16: liberals at large were totally against his ability to make
• 53:40
  Speaker 16: his own choice. Yeah about serving customers. So that and
• 53:44
  Speaker 16: this is I mean, this is something everybody says all
• 53:46
  Speaker 16: the time. Uh uh. The liberals they've got, you know,
• 53:52
  Speaker 16: their standards are double standards. Without their double standards, they
• 53:55
  Speaker 16: wouldn't have any standards.
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: It's true.
• 53:58
  Speaker 16: So that's exactly how they operate. They don't care about
• 54:02
  Speaker 16: anything other than just power for themselves in maintaining their
• 54:07
  Speaker 16: own authority as much as they can over anybody, you know, Conservatives, Republicans.
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Dan, Dan, I gotta I gotta cut you out
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: there because we are super late for a break here.
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: But it's it's a great point. It's a great point
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: you make. All right, we'll be a right packed everybody.
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back. Let's go to the phone lines here,
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: k y K N and beautiful Salem, Oregon. Nick is
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: on the line. High Hi, Nick, what's what's going on?
• 54:41
  Speaker 12: Well, you've got my brain going this morning with all
• 54:43
  Speaker 12: this chit chat, all this potty talk going on. And uh,
• 54:47
  Speaker 12: I thought to myself, number one, you were talking poop
• 54:52
  Speaker 12: and I remember it as a child my parents wouldn't
• 54:54
  Speaker 12: let me say that word, and it's taught me the
• 54:57
  Speaker 12: word defecate. And then later on your diale, you're talking
• 55:00
  Speaker 12: about cakes and I remember as a kid thinking defecate
• 55:04
  Speaker 12: just reminded.
• 55:04
  Speaker 16: Me of cake.
• 55:05
  Speaker 12: So put those two together. That's about number one. Number two,
• 55:08
  Speaker 12: you really do need to get your mind out of
• 55:10
  Speaker 12: those who were okay Todd. And thirdly, you know talking
• 55:16
  Speaker 12: about people pooping in the park, and that just brings
• 55:20
  Speaker 12: a whole new meeting to the term squatter.
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: So there you go, Nick, Thank you, you you worked
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: very hard on that.
• 55:29
  Speaker 12: My friend, well, I catch my mind goes there, So
• 55:34
  Speaker 12: I love it.
• 55:35
  Speaker 5: Nick, that's it. Thanks for the good laugh there ooping
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: and wow, all right, gotta take a break here and
• 55:43
  Speaker 5: again I would just you gotta be careful, ladies and gentlemen.
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: You gotta be careful. Explosive diarrhea is spreading across the nation.
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: We'll be right back.
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: What we eat.
• 56:25
  Speaker 20: Thinks of Connor you're doing.
• 56:27
  Speaker 9: It's coming out of me like wama, look at me.
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: Wow, that was that was in the movie Bridesmaids. And
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: if you're just wondering what people across the nation are
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: dealing with right now, in the in the the throes
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: of the well epidemic that is sweeping across the fruited
• 56:51
  Speaker 5: plain known as explosive diarrhea. That's sort of what it sounds.
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: So anyway, our our thoughts and prayers are with everybody
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: dealing with this, with this situation. You know, I used
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: to hate these kinds of stories back when I was
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: a reporter, Dylan, because I always had a problem spelling
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: it diarrhea, spelling it explosive diarrhea. By the way, now
• 57:27
  Speaker 5: the reporting is that measles. They're now they're urging the
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: children of America to get their measles shots, and this
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: is really causing some problems with with moms across the
• 57:42
  Speaker 5: country who do not want their kids to get the
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: measles vaccination. Did you get the shot as a kid, telling.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: I believe I did. Yeah, I think I did. How
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: to get it for college, at least I know that.
• 57:54
  Speaker 5: I remember so I did not, So we the way
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: we did it back in the eighties. I don't know
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: if anybody else were members, So it was seventies eighties.
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: What happened was one kid and like the family would
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: get the measles and they would invite all the other
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: kids and and the moms would basically have what was
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: back in the day known as a measles party, and
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: so all the kids would get the measles, and you
• 58:18
  Speaker 5: get the measles and everybody, you know, you get over
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: a lot of times they had to just close school
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: for a couple of days, but you you know, put
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: on some hot dogs, the cartoons, and the kids didn't know.
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: That's kind of how we treated COVID. Honestly, you got COVID,
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: you all hang out together.
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: That's it. That's it. So anyway, a lot of parents
• 58:40
  Speaker 5: not sure if they're going to let their kids get
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: the vaccinations. I will just tell you I don't get
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: the flu shot, and I've been just fine. So the
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: only the only no I tell my doctor the only
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: time I've gotten the flu is when I got the
• 58:55
  Speaker 5: flu shot, and he doesn't believe me.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: No, me too, the exact same, really, yes, every single time.
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's something to that. There's something to that they're
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: not telling us. It's gonna be all right. Nine oh
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: one two six zero five nine two six are a
• 59:10
  Speaker 5: telephone number. That's nine oh one two six zero five
• 59:13
  Speaker 5: nine two six. I want to play some audio here
• 59:16
  Speaker 5: from Nancy Pelosi. Nancy is really upset about all of
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: these young socialist candidates cent are out there, the young commies,
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  Speaker 5: and she's right to be upset. You know, Nancy Pelosi
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  Speaker 5: is somewhat of a pragmatic, sort of a Hillary Clinton Democrat.
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  Speaker 5: So at the end of the day, it's all about
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  Speaker 5: politics and power for them. I don't think policy matters
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  Speaker 5: all that much to Nancy Pelosi, but she she is
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  Speaker 5: a smart enough cookie to understand that the current path
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: that these young socialists are taking the party on is
• 59:49
  Speaker 5: not going to be good for them. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 21: There's a powerful young generation of politicians whose style is different.
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  Speaker 21: It's sort of movement grassroots politics, US social media influence.
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  Speaker 21: You know, AOC is the is the most prominent example.
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  Speaker 21: There was a there was a perception, maybe a media
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  Speaker 21: perception initially that you were maybe resistant to that because
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  Speaker 21: it would fracture the Democratic Party or it wasn't it
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  Speaker 21: would somehow not keep the party together. Have you is
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  Speaker 21: that perception true and has your view evolved on how
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  Speaker 21: to bring in this new style of politics?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let us again define our terms. I was not
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  Speaker 2: for candidates coming in and running against our incumbents because
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: we needed to win the House. In other words, weighing
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: the equities. It's a it's that was a team when
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: we were setting out to win again weighing the equities.
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  Speaker 2: We had to win because we were the referendum on
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: that executive in the White House. We had to win.
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  Speaker 2: So No, I wasn't happy about people saying, let's spend
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  Speaker 2: a whole lot of money challenging Democrats. You want to
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: do that, do that, but don't think that that's something
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  Speaker 2: that is good for this year. Do it a year
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  Speaker 2: when we have the luxury of having the majority, but
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  Speaker 2: not when we're trying to But you can't gain. You
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  Speaker 2: can't gain by losing, can't lose your members. The idea
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  Speaker 2: is that there will be those who would be out
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  Speaker 2: there to just take down the incumbents when this is
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  Speaker 2: our year to honor the Constitution of the United States.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not for that.
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  Speaker 2: You run any time you want and do whatever you
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  Speaker 2: want to do, but don't expect that to be welcome
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  Speaker 2: when we've got a stay completely focused on saving the constitution.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, she's very nervous, very nervous about the direction of
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  Speaker 5: the party. And she ought to me because nobody's voting
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  Speaker 5: for that. Nobody is voting for these communists in the heartland.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, Amy Cony Barrett was up on Capitol
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  Speaker 5: Hill yesterday. All if you were following this story, we
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  Speaker 5: had a lot going on during yesterday's show. Did not
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  Speaker 5: get to this, but this could This could explain why
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  Speaker 5: Amy Cony Barrett has been siding with the liberals, and
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  Speaker 5: it's a troubling story I want to play. She was
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  Speaker 5: testifying before Congress yesterday asking for more security for the
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  Speaker 5: Supreme Court justices, primarily because the Democrats are now targeting
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 5: these Supreme Court justices and sending lots of goon squads.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, people are be getting death threats, all sorts
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  Speaker 5: of things cut fifteen.
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  Speaker 22: So I thought I would just share a little bit
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  Speaker 22: about how the threats have affected me and my family personally.
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  Speaker 22: They have required me to my children to think about
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  Speaker 22: and see things that children should not have to see
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  Speaker 22: or think about. One example is when threats to my
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 22: life were particularly intense a few years ago, around the
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 22: time of the dobs leak, my security details sent me
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 22: home with a bulletproof vest and I carried it into
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 22: my house, put an into my bedroom, dropped it down
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 22: on a table, turned around, and my twelve year old
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 22: son was standing in the doorway of my bedroom and
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 22: he wanted to know what it was and why I
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 22: had it. And I didn't know how to respond, because
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 22: maybe I lack imagination, but I didn't expect that performing
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  Speaker 22: this service was going to put me in the position
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  Speaker 22: of explaining to my children what a bulletproofest was and
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 22: why I had to wear one. It's also been reported
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 22: in the news that roughly six weeks ago, I was
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 22: the victim of a swatting incident. At that point, my
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 22: teenage son, one of my teenage sons, opened the door
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 22: to go out with friends and saw in our street
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  Speaker 22: it was full of police cars who had responded to
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  Speaker 22: a false report of gunshots and raised voices in my home.
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  Speaker 22: I was very, very grateful that I had Supreme Court
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  Speaker 22: Police outside my home because they were able to stop
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  Speaker 22: and meet with and explain to the County police that
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 22: it had been a false alarm, and so the police
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  Speaker 22: did not actually attempt to enter our home. Many of us,
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  Speaker 22: me included, have received threatening, anonymous deliveries designed to intimidate
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  Speaker 22: and harass us. They are often sent in the name
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 22: of Judge Sallas's son, who I think, as you mentioned
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  Speaker 22: in the beginning, mister Chairman was is deceased because he
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 22: was killed by a disgruntled lawyer who showed up at
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 22: Judge Sallas's home intending to kill her. But her son,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 22: twenty years old at the time, opened the door and
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 22: took the bullet instead. Her husband standing behind was seriously injured.
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  Speaker 22: So I think the message on these deliveries being sent
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 22: in his name is clear. As Justice Kagan said, fertile
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 22: judges across the country throughout the judiciary, including the Supreme Court,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 22: continue to do their jobs without fear or favor, but
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  Speaker 22: the threat level is really high.
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  Speaker 5: I think that is reprehensible what the conservatives on the
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  Speaker 5: Supreme Court have to go through. It's unacceptable what the
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: conservative justices on the Supreme Court have to go through.
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  Speaker 5: But I want to ask you a question.
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  Speaker 3: About all of this.
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  Speaker 5: Before she is a Supreme Court Justice, Amy Cony Barrett
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  Speaker 5: is a mom, and she is a devoted mom and
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 5: a loving mom. And I do wonder if she is
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: making decisions some decisions, for example, on birthright, citizenship, some
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  Speaker 5: of the hot button issues. Is she making the decisions
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 5: on those issues? Based on the law or based on
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: fear of what could happen to her family. Now, I
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 5: don't think that's unfair. I do not think that is
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: an unfair question to ask, because if you are a mom,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 5: moms more so than dads, Moms are incredibly protective of
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 5: their children, their offspring. They birth these children and to
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 5: see them placed in harm's way. Do you think it's
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 5: possible that a Supreme Court justice could in fact rule
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 5: on a case to protect your children, to protect your family.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: And I think that's a possibility you have to consider,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 5: because quite frankly, nothing else makes any sense at all
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 5: that makes sense I can. I mean, I don't agree
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: with I don't agree with it, but at least I
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 5: understand why she did what she did and the idea
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: that you've got to give your twelve year old kid
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 5: a bullet proof est. This is the kind of America
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: these Democrats have created. And by the way, when you
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: look back in the history books to the early days
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: of the Soviet Union, this is exactly what was happening.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 5: Keep in mind that if the Democrats had been successful,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 5: they would have assassinated Brett Kavanaugh. They would have gotten
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 5: a gore such they would have gotten Amy Cony Barrett,
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  Speaker 5: they would have gotten Donald J.
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  Speaker 7: Trump.
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  Speaker 5: So we are a very blessed and fortunate nation because
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 5: it could have been a case of what could have been,
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  Speaker 5: and that's only going to get worse. I don't see
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: that getting better at all. All right, we've got to
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  Speaker 5: administration was softening its approach to illegals. Tommy Laren really
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  Speaker 5: really upset over this over at Fox and she says
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  Speaker 5: that the only reason we elected Republicans is to secure
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  Speaker 5: anybody who stepp foot in the country illegally. And now
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  Speaker 5: we're watching a bit of waffling from Homeland Security, which
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  Speaker 5: is why the President stepped in. I'll get to that
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  Speaker 5: in just a moment, but again, it's the deportations are
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  Speaker 5: not happening at the levels we expected, and many are
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  Speaker 5: wondering if the administration is caving because of all the
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  Speaker 5: of illegals that have been killed by ICE agents and
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  Speaker 5: the reason why, by the way, is because they were
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  Speaker 5: using vehicles as weapons to try to run over ICE agents.
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  Speaker 5: That happened in Maine let to riots in Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 5: So in a response to all of that, the Department
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  Speaker 5: unless the people are very very very very bad illegal aliens. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 5: stops until further notice. Now the President came out and said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: we got to fix that. We've got to get these
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  Speaker 5: lot of very bad people. So we'll see how all
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  Speaker 5: Tommy Larin has a point here that things are very
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  Speaker 5: To start well day, and hello everybody, welcome to our
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  Speaker 5: A lot going on this hour of the program, and
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  Speaker 5: of course we are monitoring the big story of the day, diarrhea.
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  Speaker 5: Let us I want to go right away speaking of
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  Speaker 5: diarrhea to our great guest Harry Hurley from WPG Radio
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  Speaker 16: Todd.
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  Speaker 20: It's great to be with you. Great to be with Jeff.
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  Speaker 20: I do want to let to Todd's listeners know that's
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 20: the second time in recent memory that Todd has associated
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  Speaker 20: me with diarrhea. I don't know what to make of this.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you know, Harry, even from here we can see
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  Speaker 8: that you are flushing with pride.
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  Speaker 7: So thank you.
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  Speaker 5: There you go, guys. Good to have you with us.
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  Speaker 5: The rule of the day is stay away from salads.
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  Speaker 5: I will tell you that a lot of people are
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 5: eating double stuff oreos and they are not getting explosive diarrhea.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Dylan, I think we've We'll just cut back
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  Speaker 5: on the sound effects. So all that is, they eat
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 5: more oreos and you'll be just fine. You'll survive the epidemic.
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  Speaker 5: So there you go, Fellas. Good to have you with
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  Speaker 5: us today. A lot going on up on Capitol Hill.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 5: I did want to get your take on a story
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  Speaker 5: that sort of has really generated a lot of attention
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 5: here in Memphis, Tennessee. Libs of TikTok just shared this
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  Speaker 5: on her social media platform. There is a very popular
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  Speaker 5: pizza place here called Tambouli's and they refused to serve
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  Speaker 5: four young National Guard troops yesterday who showed up hoping
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 5: to get a slice of pizza. The owner posted a
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  Speaker 5: message on social media saying that he does not allow
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  Speaker 5: the National Guard to eat his food. And we have
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  Speaker 5: the information on the restaurant over on our social media page, folks,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: you can see it there at Todd Stearns dot com.
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  Speaker 5: Harry Hurley, your reaction to.
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  Speaker 20: This, My reaction is terrible.
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  Speaker 3: Todd.
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  Speaker 20: It's America. Why would anyone not want to serve a client,
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  Speaker 20: Why would anyone not be grateful to our military, to
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  Speaker 20: our paramilitary that Tambouli's and I've heard of this story, Todd.
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  Speaker 20: That they think that this is just fine is absolutely disgraceful.
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  Speaker 20: It speaks to them and a lot of good people.
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  Speaker 20: I'm not big on boycotts and things like that. I
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  Speaker 20: don't like that kind of stuff in the free market. However,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 20: if people that are like minded, that love our country,
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  Speaker 20: love and appreciate our military, if they just forget to
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  Speaker 20: dine at Tambouli's, Tambouli's will not only not be serving
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  Speaker 20: the National Guard, they won't be serving a considerable number
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  Speaker 20: of other potential clients. I think they've earned that.
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  Speaker 8: Jeff Kantz your reaction, Yeah, I would absolutely agree with Harry.
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  Speaker 8: I'm always very leery of saying you should boycott this
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 8: place or don't support that place. However, everybody has to
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 8: make a decision at some point, and if you're going
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 8: out for pizza or you're going to order it pizza,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 8: and you have a choice between a place like that
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 8: particular rest that showed such contempt for four young American heroes.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 8: Then I've got a figure. It's been a while since
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 8: I've been to Memphis, but I got to figure there
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 8: are a whole slew of pizza places that you can
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 8: go and spend your hard earned money, and maybe there's
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 8: there's a lesson there for the owners and the operators
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 8: of that place.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 5: Well, no doubt about that. And again, a good friend
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 5: of radio station KWAM, the station I own, our good buddy,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 5: Jim Losapio, owns a number of restaurants and bars, a
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 5: number on Beal Street, including the world famous Rum Boogie,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 5: And they've been doing a great job of taking care
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 5: feeding our brave men and women in uniform. And I
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 5: have no doubt other restaurants are going to are going
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 5: to step up to the plate on that. You know,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 5: another big story we've been following here, guys, President Trump
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 5: coming out and pushing back over Homeland Security Secretary Mark
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 5: Wayne Mullen pulling the plug on these ice traffic stops.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 5: The President says, no, we need to get the resumed.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 5: And I'm really concerned here, Harry, that there are some
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 5: of the administration that are more concerned about getting bad
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 5: press than they are following through on the President's agenda.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 20: Yes, and I can't wait to hear jest response because
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 20: he is a lawman. I am not, but my twin
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 20: brother is a career lawman. Is Jeff and Todd both know.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 20: Here's my thoughts about this. This is right in keeping
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 20: with the abolish ice or this Tamboulai's with we're not
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 20: going to serve the National Guard. Whenever this became in
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 20: vogue to be able to besmirch law enforcement, we used
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 20: to always take the side of law enforcement and believe
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 20: that by doctrine, they set out to do good. On
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 20: rare occasion, just like in any other vocation, someone is
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 20: a bad apple or does something wrong and that will
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 20: come out in the midst of good order. But this
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 20: immediately these democrats that come out raging and immediately taking
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 20: the side of potential purpose in favor of law enforcement,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 20: and then immediately saying they need to be investigated, you
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 20: need to abolish ice. To do the pause, actually I
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 20: think encourages them to do more of this behavior. They
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 20: should have said, not only are we not going to stop, well,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 20: look we'll look into this. If occasionally there's a problem,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 20: we'll look into it. But it's the exception. Never the rule,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 20: and we're certainly not going to stop something that helps
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 20: save lives.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Jeff, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on that.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 8: You know, I sit here as somebody who has performed
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 8: throughout the years any number of traffic stops, car stops.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 8: I was really taken aback, quite frankly, when the Secretary
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 8: announced he was going to put a pause on this.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 8: I don't mind anybody coming in after the fact and
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 8: after an incident report saying Okay, was this handled properly?
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 8: Is it according to protocol? If there's a violation of that,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 8: then then you absolutely rested. But you know, to Harry's
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 8: point about how the entire profession is besmirched and attacked
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 8: as a result of this, one of the big arguments
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 8: out there. And I know both of you, gentlemen, have
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 8: heard it, have seen it, have read it. People are
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 8: trying to have people believe that the ICE agents who
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 8: are out there working somehow are untrained. And I just
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 8: want to absolutely make clear I did a good amount
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 8: of research just to double down on this.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 7: I thought, my gosh, did I miss something.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 8: They're still trained at Fletzy Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 8: in Glenco, Georgia, in an effort to get more agents
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 8: on the street as a result of President Trump's call.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 7: To secure this nation.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 8: They took the curriculum and they added a couple of
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 8: hours each and every day so they could get guys
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 8: on the street, maybe a week faster.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 7: No no training taken away, but in fact.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 8: The pace was picked up just a little bit and
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 8: instead of doing five days a week, it was seven
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 8: days a week.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 7: So, I mean, it's been very intense.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 8: They are absolutely wonderful law enforcement officers. They're doing an
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 8: absolutely thankless job. But all of that being said, I
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 8: think we've got to stand with them. I think we
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 8: have to support them in every way possible.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: You know, Harry, I was reading a piece that Tommy
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 5: larn from over at Fox News posted on one of
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 5: the social media pages. She's really frustrated with the Republicans,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 5: saying that they have not accomplished their two biggest issues,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 5: number one voter integrity and number two securing the border
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 5: and getting rid of all of these illegals. I actually
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 5: agree with her, but but we still have to vote
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 5: Republican to protect President Trump. For me, the midterms is
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: all about protecting Trump, not necessarily putting more Republicans on
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 5: Capitol Hill because they did a great job, no.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 20: Question about Todd. I agree with both you and Tommy.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 20: The point is, if we lose the midterm, then the
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 20: Trump presidency becomes his cordless phone and his pen. They'll
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 20: immediately articles of impeachment will be prefiled, no legislation will
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 20: get passed. My frustration, more than anything that you mentioned
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 20: about Tommy's points of view on this, which I do
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 20: agree with, by the way, is that we're letting democrats.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 20: And I'm being very generous by saying we are, but we,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 20: as Republicans, we are letting democrats run out the clock.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 20: That's a very stupid thing for us to do.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 5: Jeff, Dad's your thoughts.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 8: You know, I'd love to tell you that our team
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 8: doesn't do stupid stuff, but boy, we've got a habit
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 8: of turning one car parades into absolute disasters. You can
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 8: stand up and criticize any Republican anywhere, at any time.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 7: I don't have a problem with that. But the reality is,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 7: if in fact.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 8: You want President Trump to be successful in any way,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 8: got to stand with Republicans in these midterms. It's just
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 8: that simple, because if in fact, the president loses the House,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 8: because it's going to be the president that loses big time.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 7: Here.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 8: It's two years of nothing but obstruction, more impeachment, nonsense.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 7: Circus after circus after circus.
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 8: You'll have Roe Kahana with imaginary events taking place, all
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 8: to attack President Trump and handicap him.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 7: And frankly, I don't think as a country we can
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 7: afford that.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 20: Guys, it's so true, so true. I just want to
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 20: add real quick, Tom and Jeff that Jeff is correct,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 20: he is absolutely right. And just imagine two years of
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 20: Democrat congressional hearings that the legacy media will absolutely celebrate, morning,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 20: noon and night, Mark, Wayne Mullen under oath, Tom Holman
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 20: under oath. They'll be calling everybody in accusing them of
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 20: being criminals. It will be unbearable. And look, we're going
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 20: to be going against the tide of history to keep
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 20: the House. But we've got to do everything that we can.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 20: And you know, the good work that was done on
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 20: the redistricting gives us a real shot. Let's not blow it.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 5: Harry Hurley and Jeff Katz joining us on our Patriot
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 5: Mobile Newsmaker line today. Guys, I gotta tell you before
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: we go. If you want some good pizza here in Memphis,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 5: you gotta go. It's a place called Koletta's Italian restaurant.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 5: Back in the nineteen fifties, they are credited with inventing
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 5: one of the most delicious pizzas known to mankind. And
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 5: it's called barbecue pizza. So you actually use barbecue sauce
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 5: and you top the pizza with slow roasted pork. And
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 5: it was actually a favorite of Velvis. Presley used to
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 5: go to Koletta's all the time. But that is that's
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 5: the jam. So we got to get the National Guard
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 5: troops over to Koletta's so they can try some of
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 5: that great barbecue pizza.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 7: That sounds like a great idea. You know.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 8: The other thing is that if Harry can jump in
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 8: his car stop and pick me up on the way,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 8: my gosh, we might very well be able to do
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 8: a little recon.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 7: You know. We don't want anybody getting subpar barbecue pizza.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, Harry, I think this is a brilliant idea.
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 5: We'll put you guys up at the Peabody. We'll let
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 5: you guys take turns walking the ducks as honorary duck Masters,
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 5: and then we'll go catch Memphis wrastling.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 20: I'm in it sounds wonderful. I have heard of barbecue
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 20: pizza and that was very panalyzing.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 7: Todd.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty darn good. I'll tell you that much.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 5: Got We do need to get you guys down to Memphis.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 5: We're gonna work on that. That'll be our big project
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 5: for the remainder of the year. A lot of fun,
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 5: all right. And Harry, you got to bring some of
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 5: that delicious saltwater taffya.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 7: I don't.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 5: I can only eat saltwater tamfia if it comes from
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 5: Atlantic City, New Jersey. Got you covered, Todd, I love it,
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 5: all right, Jeff Kats, Harry Hurley, good to see you fellas.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you. Gentlemen.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 5: All right, great men, right there, great broadcasters. Let me
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 5: tell you something. Both of those men are such giving individuals.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 5: They have raised thousands and thousands of dollars for charities
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 5: in their respective communities and just really do a remarkable
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 5: job of it. All Right, we've got to take a
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 5: quick break here at nine oh one two six zero
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 5: five nine two six. That's nine oh one two six
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 5: zero five nine two six. This is the Todd Sterns Show.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back, Dylan. I am still excited about
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 5: this gift we received earlier today. Everybody's talking about it.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 5: I just heard our good buddy Adam Martin, who's going
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 5: to be up in just a matter of moments to
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 5: talk finance for us. He's a guitar player from what
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 5: I understand. Wow, So this is pretty cool. So if
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 5: you missed it early on, we got we received this
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 5: huge delivery from our good buddy Lee Greenwood. And it
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 5: turns out that Lee and Darryl Worley and Neil McCoy
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 5: and Don McClain all joined together and got me a
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: custom made guitar. And it's really nice, DLin.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: It is very nice. It has your name on it,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: and I feel like you only owe it to us
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 3: to learn a song in the coming weeks.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, I asked. I asked Ian the intern
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 5: because his dad's a pastor, which typically means the preacher's
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 5: kid knows how to play the guitar. Ian, are you
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 5: a big a musician? Are you a big music guy?
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 23: I love music. I listen to music all the time.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 23: I know like two or three chords, but that's enough
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 23: to play the first song on the Todd Stearns Guitar.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 5: This is well So this is a matter of history
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 5: on the Todd Stearns radio show. So let's I mean,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 5: let's let's let's hear a little bit of it.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 16: M h.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 5: I think this is a first live music on the show, Dylan,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 5: it's gotta be very not well well done. Ian the end, Karen,
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 5: So that was Randi's you know Don McClain, by the way,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 5: is is famous for the the epic ballad American Pie
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 5: back in the days. I mean, these are like huge musicians.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: That's that's a great song. I almost wanted to start
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: singing country roads. That almost sounded like the chord progression
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 3: of country Roads.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 5: I love that.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 3: Ian.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 5: How long have you played the guitar? A couple years?
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 23: But I only know a couple of worship songs like
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 23: this is a bide. I learned it to play it
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 23: a youth group. So the pastor kids stereotype definitely.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 5: The pizza here. Yeah, you got to play the guitar. Yeah,
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 5: so you're cheap labor too, So oh yeah, that's that's
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 5: that's part of it. So very nice. All right. Uh
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 5: so we're going to try to get Adam Martin. We're
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 5: going to try to get him to play something as well.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 5: Everybody's got to use the guitar. If you're coming into
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 5: the studio, you got to play the guitar. So and Ian,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 5: you're also responsible for all of our video upgrades, and
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: we've received so many compliments from people about the upgrades
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 5: we've been making on digital. How's that going?
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 23: It's going really good.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 14: Now.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 23: You make so much content that the hardest part is
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 23: just keeping up with all of it and making good videos.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 5: That's it. That is the That is the tough part
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 5: of it. But you know, we have so many topics.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 5: Whether it's uh, I don't know whatever is happening down
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 5: at that pizza joined or the explosive diarrhea. There's just
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 5: a lot going on. I know, I don't know where
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 5: that is. We've got to figure that out. It's kind
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 5: of like the lady bugs. How did they get in here?
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 5: How did they get into the building? All right, well, Ian,
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 5: well done, thank you, and just we have we have
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 5: one of those Apple trackers in the guitar, so we'll
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 5: know if it goes out of the building. That's unfortunately,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 5: I know it is. But anyway, great job. There ian
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 5: the Intern and again thank you to Lee Greenwood and
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 5: Darryl Worley, Neil McCoy and Don McClain for this custom
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 5: made guitar. And by the way, this was part of
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 5: their America two fifty celebrations. So it's got a beautiful
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 5: American flag that's been etched into it and my name
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 5: there as well, so and they spelled it correctly. I
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 5: love that. All right, folks, if you have questions about
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 5: retirement and investments, now is your chance to get in
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 5: on the action. Adam Martin from Strategic Financial Partners is
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 5: going to be here next that telephone number nine oh
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 5: one two six zero five nine two six. That's nine
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 5: oh one two six zero five nine two six. This
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 5: is the Tom Sterns Show. All right, Welcome back everybody.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 5: This is that no I want you to keep playing.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 22: There.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 5: That's Adam Martin, who is a guitarist. And Adam, you
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 5: saw the Lee Greenwood guitar and the next thing I know,
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 5: you're playing a concert here.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 24: I just gotta know what his email addresses, Well, can
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 24: get me one of these exactly.
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 5: So you're you're a guitarist, I do, I do love
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 5: to play.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 24: It's a it's a big therapy for me.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 5: Wow, that's f fan.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I think just about everybody in
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 5: Memphis plays the guitar.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 24: Yeah they should, that's my honest opinion. You know, this
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 24: is a the city's got a lot of history, especially some.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 5: Oh you got to play while we talk here, I
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 5: know you're dying to do that.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 24: Some well renowned artists have come out of here, you know,
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 24: notably Elvis Presley's one another, the Muddy Waters group. So
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 24: blues is a big inspiration to me.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 5: So I mean, well, you got to give us a
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 5: little bit of blues. Do you know any blues there?
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 5: Let's see here.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 24: And then like I'll do some you know, just I
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 24: love the.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 5: Oh that's great.
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 10: M Oh my gosh, cow, that was amazing.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: You have so much talent here.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 5: It is a lot of talent, and uh, it's just
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 5: a pretty remarkable when when you see the level of
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 5: talent we have. And what's so funny is everybody has
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 5: a day job, so you hit the you do your
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 5: day job, then you hit the clubs. And we have
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 5: so much live music here in in the Memphis area.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 5: And that's one of the things I love about this
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 5: about Memphis, walking around Beal Street and you're gonna hear
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 5: somebody playing something. Amen.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 24: One of my favorite places to go is the place
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 24: right next to the Rum Boogie Cafe on Bill. It's
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 24: used to be mister Hanni's you Joint. But you know,
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 24: you can find some guys like you said, that are
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 24: or working day jobs, and at night they just transformed
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 24: into some amazing talents that you didn't even like. You'd
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 24: never know it passed him on.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 5: The street, Dylan, My dad, your great uncle was a
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 5: big studio musician guy. But dad was an electrician, so
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 5: he worked at the elevator company and in the daytime
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 5: and then at night, you know, he was working the
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 5: club scene and playing you know a lot of I
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 5: think he played for what gosh. Early on he played
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 5: with some of Elvis's cousins, so they were over it
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 5: to Graceland quite a bit, you know, in the in
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 5: the early days.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 24: Yeah, my dad's got some history with Graceland. He played drums.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 24: He didn't play strings at all, but he grew up
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 24: he actually played with Elvis's stepbrothers and he's got stories
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 24: where Elvis came and picked him up and would take
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 24: him to Graceland and they would learn how to ride
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 24: motorcycles over there, so it's crazy.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 5: One day Dad was playing they were over there and
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 5: Dad was playing his version of that's all right, Mama,
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 5: and he felt somebody come up behind him and it
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 5: was Elvis saying, and Jimmy, that's pretty good. So my
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 5: dad's name was Jimmy is a me? That's not too bad?
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, definitely, yeah, good stuff. All right, Adam marton
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 5: Strategic Financial Partners, We got to talk about your day job,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 5: because so that's why you're here, but we may have
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 5: to get you back, and maybe we need to have
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 5: live intro music Dylan.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'd love that. Yeah, that sounds like a plan.
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 3: Let's do a shit. I was.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 5: I was doing an interview with one of the radio
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 5: industry trades earlier this morning. They're like, what makes your
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 5: national show so different, you know being in Memphis, and
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 5: I so, well, we try to have a lot of
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 5: Memphis flavoring culture. So this this ties right in. I imagine.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 5: All right, today we're talking about approaching retirement, and you know,
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 5: a good many of our listeners may be reproaching approaching
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 5: that age. What should we be doing with retirement savings.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 24: You know, as you get closer to retirement, there's a
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 24: lot of things that as advisors, we want you to
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 24: be thinking about because the next stage of your life
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 24: is totally different. You're so used and accustomed to clocking in,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 24: clocking out, you're in that daily routine. Well you don't
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 24: have that anymore. So, you know, aside from the financial planning,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 24: what do you plan to do to occupy your time
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 24: whenever you're retiring. So that's a big question to ask.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 5: I just you know, I'm not I'm one of those
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 5: work guys. I love working. I can't ever imagine myself
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 5: hitting that spot where I'm like, Okay, I'm just gonna
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 5: stop working and you know, retire for the next twenty years.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 5: But a lot of people want to do that. They
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 5: can't wait for that to happen, That's.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 24: Right, I mean. And with those people that want to
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 24: continue to work, I completely understand. I've got several clients
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 24: that are in that particular stage of life. And the
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 24: questions that we always ask as advisor, if that's the
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 24: route you want to go, is are you working because
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 24: you have to? Are you working because you want to?
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 5: What are let's say somebody's five years out from retirement,
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 5: what do they need to be focused on and what
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 5: are the big financial decisions they need to be considering.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 24: The biggest one is social security. I mean, we want
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 24: to be proactive in that five year out from retirement.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 24: It's a really good time frame to be thinking about
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 24: that because obviously you get eligibility at sixty two, and
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 24: then that grows on an eight percent compound or you
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 24: know every year you'd wait to defer, it grows eight
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 24: percent up to age seventy. So we look at it
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 24: and say, you know, when is the appropriate time to
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 24: take soul security or do you want to take it
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 24: immediately just to go ahead and collect it. So that's
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 24: the biggest one that we always look at. And then
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 24: one of the biggest mistakes that I see a lot
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 24: of people make is it's being negligent if you will,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 24: and just thinking like, hey, I don't need to go
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 24: in and check how much risk I'm taking in my portfolio.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 24: It's done good for the last twenty years. I have
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 24: no reason to believe it won't continue to do good.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 24: You're up, You're probably right, but you don't have twenty
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 24: years to take the same amount of risk that you
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 24: used to.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 5: And that's that leads to the next question, when again,
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 5: somebody's approaching retirement, is it more about growing what they've
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 5: got or protecting what they've got.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 24: It's a combination of both.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 5: Really.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 24: Yeah, absolutely, Inflation's not going to go away even though
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 24: you're retired. So what we get challenged with as advisors
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 24: is we need a perfect combination of content to grow
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 24: the assets that you have, but adding a layer of
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 24: downside protections so if there's huge market swings or corrections,
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 24: we're not taking as much of a loss. So that
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 24: game of balance is what we're tasked to really figure out.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 24: And you know, if inflation, we just got the consumer
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 24: price index numbers out and it actually went down, which
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 24: is good. But you know, if we factor into three
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 24: and a half four percent inflation or your assets growing
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 24: at least to that same amount or more, because that's
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 24: going to erode the purchasing power.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 5: Adam Martin is joining us with Strategic Financial Partners. Maybe
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 5: you have a question about getting ready, you know you're
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 5: starting to look at retirement. Maybe you have a question,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 5: give us a call. Nine oh one two six zero
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 5: five nine two six. That's nine oh one two six
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 5: zero five nine two six. Adam, what would you say
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 5: are some of the biggest mistakes people make as they
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 5: get close to retirement.
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 24: Uh, the biggest, like I mentioned earlier, is just the
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 24: being negligent and not really being proactive and planning for
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 24: what you're wanting to do in retirement. But another big
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 24: mistake is cashing out more than you need to. You know,
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 24: there there is a specific calculation that we do that
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 24: we we sit in front of a client, we say,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 24: you know, you really can't take this much off the
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 24: portfolio every single year or you run a big risk
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 24: of running out of money. So when people retire, they think, Okay,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 24: don't have to do the nine to five anymore, and
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 24: I'm going to live the life I want to and
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 24: they we see them over spending at an early onset
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 24: of retirement.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 5: Wow, that's and that could be dangerous later on.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 24: It could definitely be dangerous later on.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 5: Is there a I don't know, a specific number that
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 5: we all ought to be looking at.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 24: Yeah, I would say a measure your lifestyle expenses. So
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 24: that's to answer your question about like an asset level
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 24: amount of number. No, the real number is what do
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 24: I need for basic living expenses? And then is there
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 24: a supplemental income need. That number is the four percent
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 24: prudent withdrawal rate. We feel confident that if we're not
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 24: taking more than four percent of our assets each year
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 24: in retirement, then we have a good probability of the
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 24: money lasting the rest of our life. If we start
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 24: getting six, seven, eight percent withdraws, then we start to
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 24: erode how much assets we have, and then we're not
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 24: able to confidently say you're going to have enough money
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 24: to live the rest of your.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 5: Life when you think about it, and I mean I'm
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 5: just throwing out a number here, but you think, oh,
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 5: a million dollars, that's great, Well, yeah, that is great.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 5: But if you're living like you need a one hundred
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 5: thousand or one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 5: to live comfortably here, that's how much you're spending. That's
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 5: not going to do it. I mean, especially if you
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 5: live longer than the money you've got.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 24: You know, what's the newest fad in the social media
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 24: life is talking about how like, oh, when i'm when
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 24: I these boomers, when I was your age, I was
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 24: able to buy a house for sixty thousand, Well, what's
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 24: the price of that house.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 5: That is right.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 24: So that's exactly what's going to happen with some people
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 24: that are retiring.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 5: And in fairness, all those those gen zers who are
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 5: complaining about the boomers and the price of well, the boomers,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 5: you're dealing with the same issue on the retirement side.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 5: Now exactly. Let's go to the phones. Murph in Germantown,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 5: Tennessee listening to us on Kwan Murph, I understand you've
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 5: got a question about music and retirement.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 4: Well, I would comment more than anything, Doctor Doug Starn.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 4: My uncle Bob Appling played drums in the Bartwood High
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 4: School band, graduated in forty eight, went to Memphis State
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 4: to play in the band, and every now and then
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 4: he would do a night gig sometimes, you know, some
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 4: people would call him. So around nineteen fifty two or
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 4: fifty three, he gets a call from a buddy of
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 4: his to play drums at Ashlar Hall, okay, and his
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 4: buddy says, listen, we need a drummer. Aline coccuse you
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 4: of Wednesday night. There's some kid playing there and his
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 4: name is Elvis Presley, and he needs a drummer. And
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 4: my uncle Bob just lived.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 5: Off of that for years is that right?
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 4: I that was pretty yes, sir. And when Elvis was,
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 4: you know, still driving a truck. Second commentary, While you
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 4: guys are discussing retirement, I have a question for you.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 4: I can't find the word retirement anywhere in the Bible,
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 4: so I'm not sure retirement is what we're supposed to do.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 24: I can go down and write a hole with that,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 24: that's for sure.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 4: You read about all these people that quote end quote
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 4: retire and the next thing you know, they're sitting on
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 4: their couch for days and days and days bingle to
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 4: have a heart attack. Or there's a huge article on
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 4: Saturday Sunday's Wall Street Journal about loneliness and just because
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 4: you leave the workforce, you gotta stay busy, pick up
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 4: a little side gig, volunteer at church. You just can't
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 4: sit around and do zeros.
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 5: I was murph. I was thinking about that. Yesterday a
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 5: Senator Tommy Tupperville came out and he was giving us
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 5: some more intel on what happened to Senator Lindsay Graham.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 5: And he said, Lindsay Graham never took a day off,
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 5: and he said, quote, he worked himself to death. But
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 5: you know, when you look at somebody like Lindsay, I
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 5: can relate a lot to his work ethic because some
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 5: people just love working. And you know, I'm going to
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 5: be one of those guys. I just I can't imagine,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 5: you know, spending you know, years on the beach just
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 5: drinking a you know, a cran apple, you know soda
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 5: or something. So and let me be.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 24: The first to say that this isn't you know, like, hey,
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 24: you've got a set of retirement day. By all means,
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 24: if you're capable and you want to work, you should work.
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 24: You should do what you love and do something to
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 24: keep you busy. We just are here to offer you
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 24: some guidance on well how do I not have to
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 24: work as hard?
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 5: Professor Murph. Good hearing from you, my friend, and thank
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 5: you for listening. Great questions, and thanks for that walk
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 5: down memory lane. There you were smiling as I was
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 5: telling them that.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 24: I just love n Infians for that very reason. Everyone's
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 24: got a story somewhere or another that goes back to
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 24: Elvis bb King, all the big legends.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 5: It's amazing. You know this radio station. We were the
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 5: very first place that Elvis played as a teenager. And yeah,
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 5: at the the old KWAM jamboree which was held downtown
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 5: in the old Godwin Building, which is long since I
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 5: think been torn down. But BB King and as a
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 5: matter of fact, BB King said that when he would
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 5: work in the fields, he would listen to our radio station,
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 5: and when he got old enough, came here and you know,
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 5: he worked at KWAM for a little while, as did
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 5: Johnny Cash.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 24: So you know what, I just got a history lesson
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 24: and it makes me love the station even more.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 5: It's it's a great heritage Howland Wolf. I mean, it's
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 5: a legendary station and really did a lot for R
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 5: and B and for country Western back you know, back
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 5: in the day. Oh yeah, all right, final question before
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 5: we have to go to break. A lot of people
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 5: have the four oh one case. And sometimes you leave
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 5: a job and you know your furl and K it's
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 5: still there. So what do people what options do they
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 5: have to with all of those accounts.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 24: So, if you're going to continue to work, but maybe
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 24: not necessarily for the same company, in the new job
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 24: that you have has a four to one K plan,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 24: a lot of these employers and their employer plans offer
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 24: a rollover opportunity to move that into their K plan.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 24: So That's definitely one of the options. One of the
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 24: most commons that I see all the time is just
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 24: opening up an individual retirement account and then doing that
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 24: that allows you to open up the architecture for investment
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 24: options a little bit more than what's in a K plan.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 5: It makes it makes a lot of sense. Again, Adam
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 5: Martin's Strategic Financial Partners UH is with us today, Adam.
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 5: If people want to reach out to you, how can
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 5: they get in touch with you?
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 24: You know, just send me an email Adam Martin at
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 24: Strategicfinancialpartners dot com.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 5: All right, very good, UH, and we will look forward
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 5: to seeing you back here next week. Should we get
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 5: him to play the god you know what you should
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 5: get get that guitar and we're gonna have He's got
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 5: to take us out with a little bit of music there,
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 5: Adam Martin, Strategic and Financial Partners playing our Lee Greenwood
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 5: guitar there. Yeah. I gotta tell you, folks, we could
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 5: have kept the radio show back in New York City,
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 5: no doubt about it. I think there was a big
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 5: push by a lot of folks to UH to keep
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 5: the show in New York City. And when I said no,
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 5: I'm going home to Memphis. People thought I was nuts,
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 5: But I gotta tell you, Dylan, I am so glad
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 5: I made that decision because you can't what just happened
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 5: in here that would not happen in New York City.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 3: No, No, I think he made the right choice for sure.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 5: It's I mean, you know, and look nothing against New
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 5: York City at all. It's it was a great town,
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 5: and I enjoyed the first five or six years of
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 5: the show. We're actually done in New York City, but
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 5: there's something about getting out of the city, getting back
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 5: to your roots that that really moves the needle for me.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, you are literally in your own community, like
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 3: we're here, like we're the people are here, like the food,
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 3: the music's here, everything.
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 5: I think now we're just going to have to officially
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 5: make We're gonna have to ask people when they come in,
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 5: do you play the guitar? And if the answer is yes,
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 5: they got to play.
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It's like on the inquiries, it's like to get
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 3: a guest in. This is what you have to do.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 5: That's it. He played a little Sweet Home Alabama.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 3: That was very nice.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 5: That was very nice, very nice, got a little bit
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 5: of a couple of blues licks in as well. Yeah,
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 5: so that's I love that. And by the way, Adam
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 5: Martin is he's a great guitarist, but he's an even
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 5: better financial advisor, so be sure to hit him up
• 1:50:03
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• 1:50:05
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• 1:50:08
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• 1:50:11
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  Speaker 5: bookstores on August the eleventh. We're going to be doing
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  Speaker 5: a lot of things leading up to that, including a
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  Speaker 5: big book launch party, so we'll be telling you about
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  Speaker 5: that in the coming days. All Right, that music means
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  Speaker 5: we've got to scoot out of here. Wow, been a
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  Speaker 5: great day, folks. Get out there, have a good one.
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  Speaker 5: We'll see you right back here noon o'clock. All the
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  Speaker 5: radio be good America, and watch out for that.
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  Speaker 3: Let us