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NJ school district sued for letting kids change names without parental consent · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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Speaker 4: Yes, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
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Speaker 4: Happy post-Labor Day to you. I hope you guys had
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Speaker 4: a great Labor Day weekend. Hopefully you didn't have to
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Speaker 4: do too terribly much work. I will say this. Wow,
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Speaker 4: it was sun up to sun down yesterday doing book interviews.
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Speaker 4: So again, not complaining about it, but I was laboring
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Speaker 4: on Labor Day. And the way the interviews were set up,
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Speaker 4: they were spread out just long enough from 6 a.m.
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Speaker 4: until 8.30 last night that you just didn't have time
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Speaker 4: to do much. But all that to say, it's good
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Speaker 4: to be back with you today. And we are great
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Speaker 4: to be live, broadcasting border to border, coast to coast,
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Speaker 4: across the Fruited Plain. Well, there is a lot going
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Speaker 4: on across the nation this week, ladies and gentlemen. It's
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Speaker 4: one of those very busy news cycles. This week we
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Speaker 4: have the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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Speaker 4: That's on September the 10th. Of course, September 11th, the
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Speaker 4: 25th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. And I want
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Speaker 4: to be very clear on this program. We understand that
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Speaker 4: what happened on that day is very simple. It was
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Speaker 4: the day that Muslims waged jihad on American soil in
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Speaker 4: the name of their religion, the religion of peace. It
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Speaker 4: was the day that Muslims flew jetliners into buildings in Washington, D.C.
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Speaker 4: and in New York City and into a field in
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Speaker 4: Pennsylvania while chanting Allahu Akbar. That's what happened on 9-11.
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Speaker 4: It was the day when Muslims in foreign countries danced
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Speaker 4: in the streets celebrating the slaughter of thousands of American
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Speaker 4: citizens on American soil. And ladies and gentlemen, I don't
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Speaker 4: know about you, but I can tell you this. Everything,
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Speaker 4: everything I learned about Islam, I learned on September 11, 2001.
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Speaker 4: So President Trump earlier today said, addressing that very issue,
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Speaker 4: tunnels to towers, making a really moving presentation on our
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Speaker 4: nation's capital. Let's listen to what President Trump had to say.
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Speaker 5: On 9-11, nearly 3,000 precious souls were stolen from us,
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Speaker 5: killed by evil terrorists at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon,
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Speaker 5: and on Flight 93. All of these years later, we
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Speaker 5: gather on another... Tuesday morning in September to reaffirm the
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Speaker 5: sacred vow we made a quarter of a century ago.
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Speaker 2: We will never forget.
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Speaker 6: We say it and we mean it.
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Speaker 5: We will never forget those we lost and we will
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Speaker 5: never forget the immortal heroes of September.
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Speaker 2: 11th, 2001.
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Speaker 4: It really is a striking memorial there in Washington, D.C. today,
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Speaker 4: 25 years after the attack's a 12-foot, 16,900-pound steel beam
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Speaker 4: that was recovered from the World Trade Center's South Tower.
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Speaker 4: It is on display, along with beautiful portraits of the
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Speaker 4: first responders who gave their lives on that day. You know,
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Speaker 4: I was there in New York City the day after
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Speaker 4: the 9-11 terrorist attacks and was literally at the pit,
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Speaker 4: I was reporting and making notations on everything I saw
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Speaker 4: during that time as a reporter. And it's interesting. I
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Speaker 4: was talking to somebody about this earlier today, that you
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Speaker 4: still remember the sounds of that day. You remember the smells.
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Speaker 4: You remember every single thing, every minute detail about those days.
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Speaker 4: And it really was a time that fundamentally transformed who
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Speaker 4: we were as a nation at the time. And even
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Speaker 4: to this day, I'm really not sure that America's young
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Speaker 4: people especially understand what happened on September 11, 2001. You know,
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Speaker 4: one of the things I want to encourage you to do,
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Speaker 4: and I know this may sound weird. I don't think
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Speaker 4: it's weird at all. But I think it's important to
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Speaker 4: show people what happened on that day. And if you
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Speaker 4: go to YouTube or any of the documentaries that have
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Speaker 4: been made, but especially YouTube, and watch the live, unfiltered,
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Speaker 4: as it happened coverage of that day, I think you
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Speaker 4: really do get an idea of what we went through
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Speaker 4: as a country. And I do that every single year
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Speaker 4: about this time. I step back and I will watch
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Speaker 4: that coverage. just so I don't forget the horrible atrocities
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Speaker 4: of that day. The idea that none of us knew
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Speaker 4: what was coming next. You know, I was supposed to
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Speaker 4: be in Waco, Texas on September 11th, 2001, covering a
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Speaker 4: Janet Reno speech at Baylor University. Had no idea the
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Speaker 4: following day I would be on my way to New
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Speaker 4: York City to cover these horrible, horrible attacks. So this week, again,
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Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen, We've got a lot on our plate.
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Speaker 4: Of course, in addition to all of that, we have politics.
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Speaker 4: And the midterm elections, the Republicans, for the first time
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Speaker 4: in history, holding a midterm rally in our nation's, or
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Speaker 4: in Dallas, rather, and President Trump will be speaking on
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Speaker 4: Thursday and Friday, along with a host of other Republican
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Speaker 4: lawmakers and movers and shakers within the administration. So we'll
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Speaker 4: be also taking you live to the convention, and we'll
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Speaker 4: be talking to a number of lawmakers, many of whom
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Speaker 4: have already started reaching out, including our good friend Congressman
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Speaker 4: Randy Fine from Florida. Meanwhile, while all that is happening,
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Speaker 4: we have another crazy story that I want to share
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Speaker 4: with you, and this comes out of the state of
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Speaker 4: New Jersey, where a school district is now facing a
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Speaker 4: federal lawsuit Folks, this is unbelievable. This is from the
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Speaker 4: reporting of Fox News. The school district there in New Jersey,
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Speaker 4: the district of the Chathams, which is a very wealthy,
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Speaker 4: you know that sounds wealthy, right? Normally it's the Memphis
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Speaker 4: school district or the Dallas school district. But in this case,
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Speaker 4: it's the school district of the Chathams. And the school
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Speaker 4: district of the Chathams is accused of defying a Supreme
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Speaker 4: Court order and hiding gender transitions from parents. The school
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Speaker 4: district was allowing boys and girls to change their identities,
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Speaker 4: to change their names on campus, and mom and dad
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Speaker 4: were not told, mom and dad were not given any
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Speaker 4: sort of a notification at all. And that is at
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Speaker 4: the crux of this lawsuit. Now, A couple of things
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Speaker 4: here as we start covering the big events of the
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Speaker 4: day on this program. Number one, this school district is
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Speaker 4: in defiance of Donald J. Trump's executive orders. As a
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Speaker 4: result of that, it just seems to me that at
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Speaker 4: the very least, this taxpayer-funded school district ought to be
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Speaker 4: stripped of every single taxpayer dollar, every single one of them.
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Speaker 4: That's what needs to happen. because that's what the executive
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Speaker 4: order says. And for whatever reason, the administration has not
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Speaker 4: been very forceful in the enforcement of these executive orders. Well,
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Speaker 4: I say that time is now. If you are not
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Speaker 4: going to follow the mandates of the White House and
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Speaker 4: of the Supreme Court, then you lose all federal funding.
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Speaker 4: It really is that simple to me. But imagine, if
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Speaker 4: you will, that you are a parent. They're in the
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Speaker 4: great state of New Jersey, and you've got a child
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Speaker 4: that goes to school in the district of Chathams. Imagine
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Speaker 4: you send little, I don't know, little Mark. You send
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Speaker 4: Mark to school in the morning, and little Mark, who's
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Speaker 4: in what, fifth grade, and Mark comes home, and all
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Speaker 4: of a sudden, Mark is wearing a dress and pantyhose
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Speaker 4: and says, Mom, Dad, call me Myrtle. I mean, you're like, wait, what?
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Speaker 4: We send you to school, your name is Mark, and
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Speaker 4: you come home wearing pantyhose saying, call me Myrtle? What's
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Speaker 4: up with that? Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's exactly what's
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Speaker 4: happening there in the state of New Jersey. I mean,
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Speaker 4: it really is incredibly offensive that moms and dads would
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Speaker 4: be left out of the equation here. Just unbelievable. One
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Speaker 4: of the big stories we're talking about, and trust me,
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Speaker 4: this is not the only school district in the in
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Speaker 4: the nation where this kind of thing is going on.
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Speaker 4: But again, it just illustrates a point I made in
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Speaker 4: my new book, The Golden Age, how Trump saved America's
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Speaker 4: education system. One of the things President Trump has done
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Speaker 4: is put it all out there on the table. Now,
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Speaker 4: the president's job is not enforcement. That's the role of
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Speaker 4: the department. of Education. So we need to find out
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Speaker 4: what's going on with Linda McMahon, and we need to
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Speaker 4: light a fire under her blessed assurance. Because at the
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Speaker 4: end of the day, we've got to start holding these
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Speaker 4: school districts accountable. President Trump put out the executive order,
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Speaker 4: implementing common sense, restoring common sense. into our nation's education system,
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Speaker 4: and now it's up to the Department of Education to
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Speaker 4: do the right thing here. But I don't know about you,
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Speaker 4: but I don't want to send Mark to school and
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Speaker 4: have him come back as Myrtle. Nobody wants that.
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Speaker 7: Nobody.
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Speaker 4: And it's ludicrous. People need to be held accountable, and
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Speaker 4: quite frankly— What the school district is accused of doing
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Speaker 4: is nothing more than child abuse. That's what this is,
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Speaker 4: just flat-out child abuse. But again, as I wrote in
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Speaker 4: The Golden Age, all of this radical ideology, all of it,
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Speaker 4: and we're going to get into what's happening in New Hampshire,
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Speaker 4: big primary battle going on today with the rise of
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Speaker 4: the communists, the rise of socialism in America, all of
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Speaker 4: that is coming out of our nation's taxpayer-funded classrooms. And
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Speaker 4: that's where all this radical gender ideology is coming from.
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Speaker 4: Just take an hour and scroll through TikTok, and you're
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Speaker 4: going to get a pretty good, clear understanding of what
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Speaker 4: really is happening in those taxpayer-funded classrooms. And you're going
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Speaker 4: to find out why your kid can't even tell you
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Speaker 4: what their preferred pronouns are anymore. You're going to find
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Speaker 4: out why your child is coming home and says, Mom, Dad,
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Speaker 4: I want to identify as an azalea bush. So I
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Speaker 4: would encourage you to read The Golden Age. It's going
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Speaker 4: to help you understand what's really going on in those
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Speaker 4: taxpayer-funded classrooms. But it is absolutely unacceptable, ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 4: just absolutely unacceptable. All right, got to take a break. 901-260-5926,
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Speaker 4: Happy to have you with us on this Tuesday edition
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Speaker 4: of the program. Zoran Mamdami. Can we talk about Comrade
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Speaker 4: Mamdami for just a moment? Comrade Zoran. This guy is
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Speaker 4: the Ugandan national, hasn't been an American citizen all that long,
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Speaker 4: but he's been an American long enough to tell us
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Speaker 4: how much he hates our country, how much he hates
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Speaker 4: our way of life. And this guy, 25 years after
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Speaker 4: the Muslims waged jihad in New York City and Washington
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Speaker 4: and in a field in Pennsylvania, 25 years later, Zohra
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Speaker 4: Mandami now controls City Hall. And he is going out
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Speaker 4: of his way to make sure that he is the
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Speaker 4: true victim of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. Take a listen.
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Speaker 8: There would be these moments where i would be reminded
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Speaker 8: by someone whose intent was to tell me that you
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Speaker 8: do not belong and one of those first moments was
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Speaker 8: on 9-11 when before i knew what had happened my
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Speaker 8: teacher had pulled me and a muslim classmate of mine
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Speaker 8: out out of the class and told us that something
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Speaker 8: has happened and you may be bullied and i want
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Speaker 8: you to tell me if that happens And frankly, I
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Speaker 8: was lucky because most Muslim students in the city were
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Speaker 8: not given that kind of care from their teachers. And
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Speaker 8: yet in that moment, I realized that I was not
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Speaker 8: simply another classmate in a middle school.
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Speaker 2: I was distinct.
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Speaker 8: And there was a marker of that distinction on me.
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Speaker 4: All right. First of all, that's a load of hooey
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Speaker 4: because at the time, Again, he said he was in
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Speaker 4: middle school. At the time, nobody knew who was responsible
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Speaker 4: for the terrorist attacks. We just knew somebody was flying
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Speaker 4: jetliners into buildings across the country. So this is ludicrous
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Speaker 4: to think that all of a sudden he becomes a
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Speaker 4: victim of the 9-11 terror attacks. But he also said
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Speaker 4: something about his aunt being a victim as well. Take
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Speaker 4: a listen.
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Speaker 2: I want to speak to the memory of my aunt.
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Speaker 9: Who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she
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Speaker 9: did not feel safe in her hijab.
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Speaker 4: Now, here's the interesting part of that story. She was
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Speaker 4: not even in New York City at the time of
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Speaker 4: the attacks. So this guy, it's a load of hooey
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Speaker 4: with this guy. But here's what you need to know
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Speaker 4: about Zoran Mamdami and why he is ignoring the wishes
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Speaker 4: of of the 9-11 families, and he is going to
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Speaker 4: make an address at the official memorial service. The families
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Speaker 4: don't want him there. They've sent letters, they've got petitions,
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Speaker 4: and they're saying, stay away, we don't want you here.
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Speaker 4: But Mamdami's going to show up, and you know why
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Speaker 4: he's going to show up? It's not to share sympathy,
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Speaker 4: it's not to mourn the loss. He is going there
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Speaker 4: to gloat. He is making a statement, and I say
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Speaker 4: that Based on what happened a few days ago, there
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Speaker 4: was a ceremony at City Hall, and Mamdami signed an
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Speaker 4: executive order recognizing 9-11 and commemorating that day on Friday.
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Speaker 4: And then he gave the symbolic pen that he used
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Speaker 4: to sign that executive order, he gave it to an
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Speaker 4: attorney who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist. linked to the
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Speaker 4: attack at the Pentagon. So this has nothing to do
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Speaker 4: with bridging anything. It has everything to do with thumbing
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Speaker 4: your nose at America and those who lost their lives
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Speaker 4: on that day. Let's go to the phone lines, 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 4: Say hello to Quinn in Texas. Quinn, what's on your mind?
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Speaker 10: Good morning, Todd. Thank you for taking my call. Well,
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Speaker 10: I was going to tell you this. Long America live.
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Speaker 10: Should never forget that day. I will have a visit
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Speaker 10: that time. My boy called me, turned the TV on, watched.
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Speaker 10: I see the airplane hit second tower. And I remember
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Speaker 10: my hand hold on a chair. I fell down. I
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Speaker 10: crumbled down to my knees. My body went through shock.
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Speaker 10: For a whole week, I can't end up an ink.
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Speaker 10: That's how bad I felt about that airplane hit that building.
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Speaker 10: And I can tell you, I don't know how to
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Speaker 10: say it, but every time I think about that, I cry.
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Speaker 10: And I told my employee, lock the door, go home.
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Speaker 10: And I say, if you don't hear from me next day,
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Speaker 10: you find the key up in the rooftop. Our business.
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Speaker 10: I'm going to war. I said, whatever government needs, I
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Speaker 10: will be there. That's exactly what I told my employees.
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Speaker 10: And it's just like most Muslims live here. They don't
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Speaker 10: know nothing about American culture. Get their ass going where
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Speaker 10: they belong. That's the fact. I just can't stand it.
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Speaker 10: They just come here to anti-America. America, give them a
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Speaker 10: good life. Give me a break. And here's another thing
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Speaker 10: I encourage all Republicans. Get your butt out of that couch.
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Speaker 10: Go vote this November.
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Speaker 4: Gwen, well said. And you're fired up, and I can
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Speaker 4: sense the emotion in your voice there. And you're absolutely right.
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Speaker 4: This has got to motivate all of us to get
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Speaker 4: out and vote today. in November. Quinn, God bless you.
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Speaker 4: You're a great American Patriot, and we certainly do love
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Speaker 4: our friends at Patriot Talk 920. All right, we've got
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Speaker 4: to take a quick break here, folks. 901-260-5926, our number.
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Speaker 4: This is the Todd Stern Show.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
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Speaker 4: Great to have you with us today. By the way,
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Speaker 4: let me just say this about Texas. It is a mess.
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Speaker 4: James Talofrico, he is the Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate.
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Speaker 4: He is leading in a number of polls, and Talofrico
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Speaker 4: came out over the weekend and said that Jesus Christ
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Speaker 4: is not the only way to get to heaven. As
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Speaker 4: a matter of fact, it was Talofrico who said that
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Speaker 4: all religions are equal. Well, that set off Senator Ted Cruz.
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Speaker 4: Take a listen.
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Speaker 6: The hard left is angry. I mean, they hate Donald Trump.
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Speaker 11: They're mobilized, and they're going to crawl over broken glass
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Speaker 11: to come in and vote. On the right right now,
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Speaker 11: you've got folks on the right that are disgruntled, that
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Speaker 11: are mad, that are mad about one thing, mad about
21:29
Speaker 11: another thing.
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Speaker 2: And it's a real simple math.
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Speaker 11: If one side shows up on election day and the
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Speaker 11: other side stays home, you lose that election. So our job,
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Speaker 11: we've got to make sure people show up. We've got
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Speaker 11: to make sure conservatives show up. And just common sense Texans. Because, look,
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Speaker 11: Tallarico is a very talented candidate. But he's an extreme candidate.
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Speaker 11: His substantive views... He would make a fantastic Senate candidate
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Speaker 11: in California. But in Texas, I mean, this is a
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Speaker 11: guy who says God is non-binary. This is a guy
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Speaker 11: who says there's six genders. Damned if I know what
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Speaker 11: all six of them are, but he says there's six.
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Speaker 2: Wants a state income tax. He wants a state income tax.
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Speaker 11: He wants to put a welcome mat on the southern
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Speaker 11: border to welcome illegal immigrants into this country. He ran
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Speaker 11: a vegan campaign because meat is destroying the world.
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Speaker 6: Again, this is Texas, dammit.
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Speaker 12: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 11: And you look at his substantive record, it's not where
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Speaker 11: the people of Texas are. I'll tell you, just a
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Speaker 11: week ago, video was on Earth. He was talking to
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Speaker 11: these left-wing activists from the Sierra Club, and he said
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Speaker 11: his objective is to dismantle capitalism.
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Speaker 13: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 11: This guy is a woke left-wing activist. Comrade Mondami knows
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Speaker 11: exactly who he is. Abdul Al-Sayed knows exactly who he is.
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Speaker 11: And that's not where the people of Texas are.
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Speaker 4: All right. There you have it. Senator Ted Cruz is
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Speaker 4: fired up. I want to bring into the conversation a
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Speaker 4: great politico, Steve Gill, publisher of TristarDaily.com. Steve, good to
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Speaker 4: have you with us. And I will say this. I
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Speaker 4: think Cruz is right. I don't see how... I don't
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Speaker 4: see how Texans are going to elect a vegan. I
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Speaker 4: don't see that happening.
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Speaker 14: It depends on if people stay home. And we've just
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Speaker 14: launched a new website or Facebook page, Pews to Polls,
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Speaker 14: because we've got to get Christians from the Pews to
23:19
Speaker 14: the polls in Texas and Tennessee and all across this country.
23:23
Speaker 14: What's more disturbing than Telerico's or Frico's comments, Pew Research
23:27
Speaker 14: did a poll a few years ago, Todd, and about 30%
23:31
Speaker 14: of self-identified Christian evangelicals thought there were other paths to
23:36
Speaker 14: heaven besides going through Jesus. We have problems in our churches.
23:40
Speaker 14: We have problems within our own faithful. And the biggest
23:43
Speaker 14: problem is we don't understand what Jesus said or the
23:46
Speaker 14: Bible says, and we stay at home during elections.
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Speaker 4: Well, that is not a new issue. That's been a
23:53
Speaker 4: longstanding issue. And we've got Christians are going to have
23:57
Speaker 4: to understand they have a responsibility here. And that message...
24:01
Speaker 4: has to come from the pulpit. And unfortunately, Steve, I
24:04
Speaker 4: don't know what it's like in Nashville, but a lot
24:07
Speaker 4: of pastors just do not want to engage the culture,
24:11
Speaker 4: like someone like, for example, Jack Hibbs, who was out
24:14
Speaker 4: there speaking truth to power.
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Speaker 14: 17 million Christian evangelicals. We're not just talking the broader
24:21
Speaker 14: Christian community. 17 million Christian evangelicals stay home every election cycle,
24:27
Speaker 14: including in the midterms when when turnout is so critical,
24:32
Speaker 14: our margin of victory in every congressional seat, Senate seat,
24:36
Speaker 14: State House, State Senate seat, and the White House comes
24:40
Speaker 14: down to our people staying at home. And you're exactly right.
24:43
Speaker 14: We've got too many pastors who are so afraid to say, pray, discern,
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Speaker 14: and vote, to go vote. Not saying, you know, vote
24:50
Speaker 14: for this particular candidate or not, although that happens in
24:52
Speaker 14: Black churches. They're afraid to say, go vote, look at
24:56
Speaker 14: the issues that matter to us as Christians, and go
24:59
Speaker 14: vote your faith. And when you've got pastors who are
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Speaker 14: silent in the pulpit, it's no wonder people stay home
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Speaker 14: on election day.
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Speaker 4: Steve, I'm curious about the race in Texas. There's been
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Speaker 4: a lot of frustration. The Senate campaign, they have not
25:16
Speaker 4: put a lot of money into this race. As a
25:17
Speaker 4: matter of fact, John Thune said, Trump's going to have
25:20
Speaker 4: to fork over cash. We understand Trump sending $ 10 million,
25:25
Speaker 4: which will hopefully help out Ken Paxton. But Paxton, he's
25:30
Speaker 4: an odd candidate. I mean, the guy's, you know, he's
25:32
Speaker 4: done an effective job as attorney general. He proves he
25:35
Speaker 4: can win races. But here's what Ken Paxton had to
25:39
Speaker 4: say about this race.
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Speaker 15: This is a midterm election, and we know that the
25:42
Speaker 15: party in power, for whatever reason, always does have a
25:45
Speaker 15: harder time.
25:46
Speaker 16: So here we are.
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Speaker 15: This happened eight years ago when Cruz won by a
25:49
Speaker 15: little over two points.
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Speaker 6: It just for some reason happens.
25:53
Speaker 15: And you have these Republicans or Democrats, depending on who's
25:57
Speaker 15: in power, sitting out because there's like an enthusiasm gap
26:00
Speaker 15: because Republicans are happy with the president. They're happy with
26:03
Speaker 15: what's going on in Texas. And so they tend not
26:05
Speaker 15: to be as motivated. So those are the voters. If
26:07
Speaker 15: we get those voters out, there are more Republicans in
26:10
Speaker 15: Texas and we will win the race if we can
26:13
Speaker 15: get our own voters out.
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Speaker 4: Steve, a couple of things there. First of all, do
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Speaker 4: you believe there is an enthusiasm gap? And if so,
26:20
Speaker 4: what is it going to take to get voters in
26:22
Speaker 4: Texas out to the polls?
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Speaker 14: There absolutely is an enthusiasm gap. We've seen it in
26:28
Speaker 14: some of the primaries around the country. We've certainly seen
26:30
Speaker 14: them in some in Tennessee where there has been more
26:33
Speaker 14: enthusiasm on the Democrat side of the aisle. Some of
26:36
Speaker 14: it's motivated by this DSA push, the Democrat socialist and
26:40
Speaker 14: the enthusiasm among young people who never actually experienced socialism
26:44
Speaker 14: and think free stuff sounds good until they realize somebody
26:47
Speaker 14: has to pay for it. The bottom line is it's
26:50
Speaker 14: not time to hit the panic button, as you mentioned earlier,
26:53
Speaker 14: but it is time to shift into high gear and
26:55
Speaker 14: put the pedal to the metal. And $ 10 million is
26:59
Speaker 14: a drop in the bucket in Texas. That's going to
27:01
Speaker 14: be a several hundred million dollar race. And we need
27:05
Speaker 14: not only the money, but also the motivation on the ground.
27:08
Speaker 14: And And Paxton's going to have to be a big
27:10
Speaker 14: part of that. We've got these rhinos, and sadly, it
27:13
Speaker 14: includes some of my favorites, like Senator Kennedy from Louisiana,
27:17
Speaker 14: who are just not enthused about helping somebody who's not
27:20
Speaker 14: a moderate, squishy Republican. And we need more conservative fighters.
27:25
Speaker 14: And that's, I think, what scares them about Paxton. It's
27:27
Speaker 14: what scares them about some of the other Republican nominees
27:31
Speaker 14: around the country. And we've lost other Senate seats in
27:34
Speaker 14: cycles past. because the John Thunes and the Kennedys and
27:37
Speaker 14: the Cornens and others have not poured the resources, time,
27:41
Speaker 14: and effort to elect Republicans in states we could have won,
27:45
Speaker 14: and we would have a bigger majority as it is
27:47
Speaker 14: right now.
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Speaker 4: And help me understand this, Steve, because if you're going
27:50
Speaker 4: to spend, if you're telling me John Thune, and he's
27:53
Speaker 4: poor-mouthing right now, they don't have any money, but you're
27:55
Speaker 4: telling me they had $ 100 million on hand to try
27:59
Speaker 4: and take out Ken Paxton, but now they got no money?
28:03
Speaker 4: I'm not buying that.
28:05
Speaker 14: That was to protect their buddy Cornyn, who they know
28:07
Speaker 14: will be a solid, dependable vote for the establishment, for
28:11
Speaker 14: the swamp in Washington. He's shown it over time. And
28:14
Speaker 14: now he's like, you know, I'm going to take my
28:15
Speaker 14: ball and go home. Some little toddler pitching a tantrum
28:19
Speaker 14: because he didn't win. So he wants Texans and America
28:22
Speaker 14: to suffer because he did not win. And I think
28:25
Speaker 14: that that has revealed more about him and his allies that,
28:28
Speaker 14: as you point out, spent a fortune to try to
28:31
Speaker 14: reelect him in Texas, but are failing to do what
28:34
Speaker 14: it takes to make sure that his replacement is a
28:36
Speaker 14: solid conservative Texan as well. I mean, Tallarico is a
28:39
Speaker 14: freak show, but there's a whole list of them coming
28:42
Speaker 14: down the line. When you look at Al-Said in Michigan,
28:45
Speaker 14: you look at the others that they're putting up, whether
28:47
Speaker 14: it's in California or across the country, it's the blue
28:51
Speaker 14: states that are purple to red, like North Carolina, like Georgia,
28:54
Speaker 14: where he's got the Ossoffs. We can win those states together.
28:58
Speaker 14: If our leadership, if our Republican leadership and our money
29:01
Speaker 14: donors will put the resources in to make sure we
29:04
Speaker 14: win the seats we can win and even maybe win
29:07
Speaker 14: a few that we would think are out of reach,
29:09
Speaker 14: like perhaps in New Hampshire, that would be another one
29:12
Speaker 14: where you don't get somebody as conservative as you or
29:14
Speaker 14: I would like. But in Sununu, you get somebody who's
29:17
Speaker 14: going to vote right the first step to put Republicans
29:20
Speaker 14: in control in the Senate.
29:21
Speaker 4: Well, and of course that primary is today, and the
29:24
Speaker 4: Democrats are really concerned. There's a big story in today's
29:29
Speaker 4: New York Times saying that Democrats fear they could lose
29:33
Speaker 4: New Hampshire. That would be the first time since 2010
29:37
Speaker 4: that New Hampshire would send a Republican candidate. to the U.S.
29:41
Speaker 17: Senate.
29:41
Speaker 4: But again, the Democrat establishment candidate going up against a
29:45
Speaker 4: DSA candidate. Real quick here, Steve, we don't have a
29:49
Speaker 4: lot of time, but I want to get you to
29:51
Speaker 4: weigh in on what's happening with this midterm rally thing.
29:56
Speaker 4: The latest reporting is they're having to give away tickets
29:59
Speaker 4: to A lot of candidates are not going to be there.
30:01
Speaker 4: Senator Marsha Blackburn is not expected to be in attendance.
30:04
Speaker 4: Congressman Tim Burchett, not expected to be there. What do
30:08
Speaker 4: you make of all of this?
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Speaker 14: Well, first of all, I think the ones that are
30:12
Speaker 14: missing tend to be the ones that are the conservatives
30:14
Speaker 14: we can count on. And I think that's what's concerning
30:17
Speaker 14: when you look at this so-called MAGA midterm convention. It's
30:21
Speaker 14: not MAGA. It's not our kind of MAGA. And again,
30:25
Speaker 14: I have less problems with the Susan Collins's of the
30:28
Speaker 14: world and the And the Sununu's in these blue states
30:32
Speaker 14: that give us a Republican red senator. I have a
30:34
Speaker 14: bigger problem in Georgia and North Carolina and potentially Texas
30:38
Speaker 14: and others, Iowa, where we're at risk in some of
30:40
Speaker 14: these seats. So, you know, this convention needs to rev
30:43
Speaker 14: people up, raise the money. And it is seeming like
30:46
Speaker 14: it's being a meh kind of thing because they haven't
30:49
Speaker 14: lined up the voices. that would really drive that conservative base,
30:53
Speaker 14: the MAGA base. President Trump's going to be there, but
30:56
Speaker 14: he's not on the ballot in November. And we've got
30:58
Speaker 14: to find other ways to motivate that MAGA base to
31:00
Speaker 14: turn out.
31:02
Speaker 4: Indeed we do. Steve, we're going to have to leave
31:05
Speaker 4: it there. Thank you.
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Speaker 18: Thanks, Todd.
31:09
Speaker 7: We'll talk soon.
31:11
Speaker 4: All right, ladies and gentlemen, there you have it. A
31:13
Speaker 4: lot happening politically this week. Got to take a break.
31:18
Speaker 4: Your calls, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starnes Show.
31:40
Speaker 4: And welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
31:44
Speaker 4: And some news over the weekend. Man, we were doing
31:48
Speaker 4: book interviews out the wazoo. It's an Old Testament term.
31:53
Speaker 4: You can look it up. And The Golden Age, How
31:56
Speaker 4: Trump Saved America, doing very well. We became an official
32:00
Speaker 4: Amazon number one bestseller. And that's only because of you
32:05
Speaker 4: guys doing that. And so we're really excited this week
32:09
Speaker 4: doing a couple of other high-profile shows. And we have
32:15
Speaker 4: an important announcement to share. And this is just kind
32:18
Speaker 4: of a cool thing. But the Reagan Presidential Library has
32:23
Speaker 4: invited me to sit down for an interview on the
32:27
Speaker 4: Golden Age. And this is going to be a lot
32:29
Speaker 4: of fun. If you haven't been to the Reagan Presidential Library,
32:33
Speaker 4: it's just a beautiful, beautiful facility there in the Simi Valley.
32:39
Speaker 4: And it's going to be a great honor. So I'm
32:41
Speaker 4: very excited. That's coming up in October, by the way.
32:44
Speaker 4: So we still have a A long slog here as
32:48
Speaker 4: we're doing book interviews and things of that nature. But
32:51
Speaker 4: the reviews have just really been tremendous. So I want
32:54
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32:56
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33:00
Speaker 4: at your favorite bookstore. You can also order a copy
33:04
Speaker 4: on Amazon, ToddStearns.com. Dylan, here's the problem that people have
33:09
Speaker 4: with President Trump. They don't appreciate his sense of humor.
33:15
Speaker 7: Yeah, you're right about that.
33:17
Speaker 4: On the other side, it's hard to tell when he's joking.
33:21
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's two sides.
33:22
Speaker 4: So, for example, when he decided he was going to
33:25
Speaker 4: rename the Gulf of Mexico, I'm like, okay, yeah, that
33:28
Speaker 4: makes sense. Let's call it the Gulf of America. And,
33:31
Speaker 4: you know, everybody, there's not a single person in any
33:35
Speaker 4: of the Gulf Coast states that would object to that
33:37
Speaker 4: because they're all Trump supporters.
33:38
Speaker 7: Yes, exactly.
33:40
Speaker 4: So that makes a lot of sense. So when you
33:42
Speaker 4: got out of the Redneck Riviera– People, I mean, you
33:45
Speaker 4: go down there quite a bit. Do you see a
33:47
Speaker 4: lot of Gulf of America merch?
33:49
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, absolutely. That's probably the most thing that you see.
33:52
Speaker 7: Like that and Trump, like flags, signs all over the place.
33:55
Speaker 4: So, and then, of course, we're in the trade war
33:58
Speaker 4: with Canada, and he renamed Lake Ontario Lake America.
34:03
Speaker 18: Right.
34:05
Speaker 4: Well, there's a new one on the horizon. New Mexico.
34:08
Speaker 7: Oh, boy.
34:10
Speaker 4: President's got a... So here's the thing. I just think
34:13
Speaker 4: it's hilarious because it drives the left nuts. These people
34:18
Speaker 4: are slap crazy. And every time Trump does something like this,
34:22
Speaker 4: you know he's trolling them. But at the same time,
34:25
Speaker 4: he actually follows through with the name changes. So now
34:29
Speaker 4: Trump wants to rename New Mexico. He wants to call
34:33
Speaker 4: it New America.
34:34
Speaker 7: All right.
34:35
Speaker 4: That's what he wants to call it. The Land of Enchantment.
34:39
Speaker 7: I can see how that would be confusing because he
34:41
Speaker 7: is the president at the end of the day, but
34:43
Speaker 7: he's also very funny. So he'll say something and you're like, wait,
34:46
Speaker 7: was he serious about that? And then it follows through
34:49
Speaker 7: and all of a sudden now we have Lake America.
34:51
Speaker 7: So it may have been a joke this whole time,
34:53
Speaker 7: but now that it's official, we can't take it back.
34:55
Speaker 4: I'm checking Google Maps.
34:57
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, we need to know.
34:58
Speaker 4: That's when you know it'll be official.
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Speaker 7: It's official on Google Maps.
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Speaker 4: Or what is it? Map Quest. I didn't even know
35:04
Speaker 4: that was still a thing. MapQuest put out a statement
35:07
Speaker 4: saying they refuse to change the name of Lake Ontario.
35:09
Speaker 7: Yeah, nobody uses MapQuest, though. That's the problem.
35:12
Speaker 4: Sorry, Canadian so-and-sos.
35:16
Speaker 7: It's Google Maps or Apple Maps, and those two will
35:18
Speaker 7: say whatever he says, that's probably what it's going to be.
35:21
Speaker 4: Oh, that's it. I mean, seriously, that's it. So anyway, yeah,
35:25
Speaker 4: so it's going to be New America. Welcome to Tucson,
35:31
Speaker 4: New America. Might want to work on that one. I
35:36
Speaker 4: don't want to judge. I don't want to be critical
35:38
Speaker 4: of the president. However, I did put in a suggestion
35:41
Speaker 4: that if he's going to start renaming states, I recommended
35:45
Speaker 4: Alabama needs a redo. So I wanted to call that
35:48
Speaker 4: one New Merca.
35:50
Speaker 7: I like that.
35:50
Speaker 12: See?
35:51
Speaker 4: New apostrophe Merca. Birmingham, New Merca.
35:58
Speaker 2: Okay.
35:59
Speaker 4: Or just Merca.
36:00
Speaker 2: Merca.
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Speaker 7: Alabama would be– I feel like they would be fine
36:03
Speaker 7: with that, honestly.
36:04
Speaker 4: I think they would.
36:04
Speaker 7: They wouldn't have too many problems.
36:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, fewer syllables.
36:06
Speaker 7: Yeah. It's a lot easier to say.
36:09
Speaker 4: It's a lot easier. No, I'm not saying anything about
36:13
Speaker 4: the intellect of Alabamians. They're very smart people. As a
36:18
Speaker 4: matter of fact, by the way, did you know that
36:23
Speaker 4: Alabama has more rocket scientists per capita than any other
36:27
Speaker 4: place in the United States?
36:29
Speaker 7: I did know that, yeah. They do a lot. What's
36:33
Speaker 7: the city again? I can't remember.
36:34
Speaker 4: Huntsville. Huntsville.
36:35
Speaker 7: They have the rockets.
36:36
Speaker 4: Have you seen the new uniforms, the new outfits for
36:39
Speaker 4: Space Force?
36:39
Speaker 7: I have not. I'll have to look it up.
36:42
Speaker 4: So they look like something out of a movie, almost
36:46
Speaker 4: like Star Wars.
36:47
Speaker 7: Well, it's got to be like high tech. I mean,
36:49
Speaker 7: going to space.
36:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, not that high tech. Close. Oh, by the way,
36:55
Speaker 4: some breaking news here. No need for the breaking news
36:59
Speaker 4: alert there. We're trying to conserve money. Smithsonian head Lonnie
37:03
Speaker 4: Bunch is going to retire over allegations of far-left woke
37:09
Speaker 4: messaging at the museum. So good, good riddance. Don't let
37:13
Speaker 4: the door hit you with a good Lord split you.
37:16
Speaker 4: About time. Tired of paying for all of that nonsense.
37:20
Speaker 4: So anyway, yeah, the current dress, look up the, um,
37:24
Speaker 4: The Space Force outfits, the uniforms, that's what they call them,
37:28
Speaker 4: not outfits. But they were inspired, believe it or not,
37:32
Speaker 4: by Starship Troopers. That's what they were actually inspired by.
37:36
Speaker 4: So there you go. The more you know, ladies and gentlemen.
37:40
Speaker 4: All right, hour two coming up. Don't go anywhere, ladies
37:43
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37:45
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38:07
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38:24
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38:47
Speaker 4: the last hour of the show, we talked about this
38:50
Speaker 4: big midterm rally, the MAGA midterm rally in Dallas, Texas.
38:55
Speaker 4: A lot of people heading there, but also a lot
38:58
Speaker 4: of Republicans are not going. They've decided they're going to
39:01
Speaker 4: stay put. They're going to campaign. They've got other things
39:05
Speaker 4: going on. President Trump says that he wants this election
39:09
Speaker 4: to be a referendum on his presidency. So if that
39:13
Speaker 4: is the case, what grade do you give the president?
39:17
Speaker 4: How has the president done these first two years in office? Well,
39:21
Speaker 4: we're going to be taking your calls. I want to
39:23
Speaker 4: hear from you on this, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Well, we
39:32
Speaker 4: also know that this week is a rather somber moment,
39:36
Speaker 4: especially for many young people around the nation, the one-year
39:40
Speaker 4: anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. There will be
39:44
Speaker 4: all sorts of ceremonies and services around the nation that
39:48
Speaker 4: remembering Charlie, his life and his legacy, and also the
39:52
Speaker 4: path forward. And we're going to be covering this quite
39:55
Speaker 4: a bit on the program this week. And we're honored
39:58
Speaker 4: to have a very special guest with us. His name
40:00
Speaker 4: is Mason Guerra. He is the Club America field representative
40:05
Speaker 4: for Turning Point USA. Mason, good to have you with
40:08
Speaker 4: us today.
40:08
Speaker 13: Thank you so much for having me.
40:09
Speaker 4: And congratulations. I understand this is a new role and
40:13
Speaker 4: responsibility for you.
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Speaker 7: Yes, it is.
40:15
Speaker 19: It's a brand new territory here in Memphis, Tennessee. So
40:18
Speaker 19: it's all of West Tennessee is the brand new territory
40:20
Speaker 19: created named Bluffs.
40:22
Speaker 4: I'm curious about your involvement in Turning Point USA. What
40:27
Speaker 4: was it that compelled you to become a part of
40:30
Speaker 4: what they're doing at TPUSA?
40:33
Speaker 19: What compelled me the most is that I've always had
40:35
Speaker 19: a heart for our students and for our youth. And
40:38
Speaker 19: so anyone who knows Charlie knows that that was at
40:41
Speaker 19: the forefront of everything. was his faith and his heart
40:43
Speaker 19: for our country and for our youth. And so that's
40:45
Speaker 19: something that really drawed me in was the faith.
40:47
Speaker 4: Were you always a political, I mean, because you're a
40:49
Speaker 4: young guy, but were you always political? Take us through
40:53
Speaker 4: your political, your metamorphosis, I guess.
40:57
Speaker 19: Yeah, no, my political metamorphosis came very quickly and very suddenly,
41:01
Speaker 19: very recently. Initially, I was completely drawn into the faith aspect,
41:06
Speaker 19: but then I realized so much change is happening, especially
41:10
Speaker 19: in our high schools. And so much from the left
41:12
Speaker 19: is trying to push in and kind of integrate themselves
41:15
Speaker 19: into our schools. And I think that it's important that
41:17
Speaker 19: we push back.
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Speaker 4: You mentioned the high school because a lot of people think, well, TPUSA,
41:23
Speaker 4: it's a college organization. But there are high school chapters,
41:27
Speaker 4: and I know some in the Memphis area are incredibly active.
41:31
Speaker 4: What has that been like for you? And what are
41:34
Speaker 4: the students talking about? What are they telling you?
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Speaker 19: It's been awesome to see so many young people step up,
41:40
Speaker 19: so many of them. are just ready to become leaders.
41:43
Speaker 19: And they want to know what to do, how they
41:45
Speaker 19: can get involved. And so I'm blessed to be able
41:48
Speaker 19: to give them the tools to become great leaders and
41:50
Speaker 19: to use these tools to build themselves.
41:53
Speaker 13: Up in confidence.
41:54
Speaker 4: What's the process of doing that?
41:56
Speaker 19: So initially, after they start up a chapter, they tell
41:59
Speaker 19: me something that they want to get involved with. So
42:01
Speaker 19: some of them want to get more involved with debate.
42:03
Speaker 19: They want to be good at debating with other people
42:06
Speaker 19: and talking about their ideals. And so we're able to
42:09
Speaker 19: set up different games for them to do that draw
42:12
Speaker 19: in more students from the school and also give them
42:14
Speaker 19: practice in doing so.
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Speaker 4: You know, when you look at the national conversation and
42:21
Speaker 4: a lot of young people are being drawn towards socialism
42:25
Speaker 4: and communism, are you hearing that? Are you seeing any
42:28
Speaker 4: evidence of that in your interactions with students?
42:33
Speaker 13: Very much so.
42:34
Speaker 19: I would say when it comes to students, there's a
42:37
Speaker 19: lot of pushback when it comes to conservative Sorry. And
42:42
Speaker 19: it's it's easily noticeable in high schools nowadays just from
42:47
Speaker 19: the negativity that people receive when they come out being conservative.
42:51
Speaker 19: And so I would say it is more evident, but
42:53
Speaker 19: also we're seeing an upsurgence of people who love the
42:57
Speaker 19: conservative values as well.
42:58
Speaker 4: Are you getting any indication of where the kids are
43:01
Speaker 4: getting this, you know, the the propaganda from from the socialists?
43:06
Speaker 4: Is it coming from the classroom? Is it coming from
43:08
Speaker 4: mom and dad?
43:11
Speaker 19: I would partially say one half is more teachers being
43:15
Speaker 19: a little bit more on that side. But also I
43:17
Speaker 19: would say social media is a large factor as well.
43:21
Speaker 4: Really? So like the Instagram, TikTok? Yes, absolutely. Not Facebook, right?
43:26
Speaker 4: Apparently that's old school now. So who thought?
43:29
Speaker 13: Yes, no, absolutely.
43:30
Speaker 19: I think that more often than not, you'd see social
43:32
Speaker 19: media influencers who either don't want to get involved with
43:35
Speaker 19: such polarizing topics or they are strictly... to one side.
43:40
Speaker 19: And so then the students are also influenced.
43:43
Speaker 4: So you're not from Tennessee. I'm curious, you're from California.
43:48
Speaker 18: Yes, I am.
43:48
Speaker 4: What was that experience like moving from the far left
43:52
Speaker 4: coast to Tennessee?
43:55
Speaker 19: Honestly, it was a hard change. My family always grew
43:58
Speaker 19: up in church. My dad was a pastor, but my
44:01
Speaker 19: parents never felt comfortable enough to let us be in school.
44:04
Speaker 13: So we were homeschooled, me and my siblings.
44:06
Speaker 19: And so once my dad was able to move from
44:09
Speaker 19: California with a new job, he said, I want my
44:11
Speaker 19: students to be able or my sorry, I want my
44:14
Speaker 19: kids to be able to grow up in a place
44:17
Speaker 19: where they can feel free with their ideals and they
44:20
Speaker 19: can go to public school without being in such a
44:22
Speaker 19: negative environment.
44:23
Speaker 17: All right.
44:24
Speaker 4: We're going to continue this conversation. We're going to have
44:26
Speaker 4: to take a break here. But I'm really intrigued on
44:29
Speaker 4: the methods you guys are using to reach those next
44:33
Speaker 4: generation kids. kids, because that's really what it's going to
44:36
Speaker 4: be about. And again, the excitement here, this is now
44:40
Speaker 4: happening at the high school level. And to your point,
44:44
Speaker 4: you said this is where the battle is now.
44:47
Speaker 13: Yes, absolutely.
44:48
Speaker 2: It is.
44:49
Speaker 4: All right, Mason, I want you to hang tight. Folks,
44:51
Speaker 4: we're going to be taking a quick break here. Again,
44:54
Speaker 4: if you want to get more information about what TPUSA
44:57
Speaker 4: is doing, go to our website, toddsternish.com. We have all
45:00
Speaker 4: sorts of great links and great information for you there. Again,
45:04
Speaker 4: that's toddstarns.com. We also have some very disturbing stories about
45:08
Speaker 4: what the left is doing to commemorate the assassination of
45:12
Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk. We're going to get into more of that
45:14
Speaker 4: coming up in just a moment as well. Hang tight, everybody.
45:17
Speaker 4: This is The Todd Starns Show. All right, welcome back, everybody.
45:29
Speaker 4: This is The Todd Starns Radio Show. So happy to
45:32
Speaker 4: have you with us today. By the way, in the book,
45:36
Speaker 4: The Golden Age, we actually have a couple of chapters
45:39
Speaker 4: that deal with the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the aftermath.
45:44
Speaker 4: Of course, all of that actually happened live on the air. Dylan,
45:49
Speaker 4: you remember that. I mean, it was happening in real time.
45:52
Speaker 4: We were interviewing Senator James Lankford from Oklahoma when news
45:58
Speaker 4: came down the pike.
46:00
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was a crazy time. I mean, it's crazy
46:01
Speaker 7: to think that that was a year ago. It feels
46:04
Speaker 7: like it was not that long ago.
46:06
Speaker 4: Well, one of the things that we wanted to convey
46:08
Speaker 4: in the book is how do we approach that story?
46:11
Speaker 4: And one of the ways we did that, we literally
46:13
Speaker 4: just took the transcripts of the show itself and crafted
46:18
Speaker 4: that chapter in the book. And then in the aftermath
46:23
Speaker 4: is Jack Hibbs, great pastor out of California, joined us
46:28
Speaker 4: and talked about his last moments with Charlie. So really,
46:33
Speaker 4: I think a very powerful and moving part of the
46:36
Speaker 4: Golden Age, and I certainly hope that you guys check
46:40
Speaker 4: that book out and read those chapters. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
46:47
Speaker 4: We are honored to have Mason Guerra with us. He
46:51
Speaker 4: is the Club America field representative for Turning Point USA.
46:55
Speaker 4: California guy, and they sent you to Memphis, Tennessee, and
46:59
Speaker 4: they did not give you a Kevlar vest. Mason, what's
47:01
Speaker 4: up with that? You know, I guess it just wasn't
47:04
Speaker 4: in the budget. All right, next time, when it comes
47:06
Speaker 4: time to negotiate your contract, give me a call, and
47:09
Speaker 4: we'll work through all of that. So have you seen
47:11
Speaker 4: the Peabody Ducks yet? I have.
47:14
Speaker 19: That was one of the very first things I saw
47:16
Speaker 19: when coming to Memphis.
47:17
Speaker 4: A little weird, right?
47:18
Speaker 13: A little strange, yeah.
47:20
Speaker 4: But we're quirky. You know, it kind of fits the
47:22
Speaker 4: whole vibe of Memphis, I think.
47:24
Speaker 19: It definitely does. What shocked me the most was how
47:26
Speaker 19: many people actually go to watch.
47:29
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean, it's hundreds of people. I mean, of course,
47:32
Speaker 4: there's not much else to do, so you don't want
47:34
Speaker 4: to go watch the Ducks. Mason, I'm curious, as you're
47:40
Speaker 4: talking to people, you're meeting people, there have been so
47:42
Speaker 4: many stories about Turning Point USA field reps and student
47:46
Speaker 4: clubs coming under attack on campus. It happened at the
47:50
Speaker 4: University of Memphis a couple of years ago. Have you
47:53
Speaker 4: encountered any of that? Have you heard any of those
47:55
Speaker 4: kinds of stories?
47:57
Speaker 13: No, not yet.
47:58
Speaker 19: The most that we've heard when it comes to pushback
48:01
Speaker 19: was actually we've had issues from principals more than anything
48:05
Speaker 19: else that are essentially discouraging our teachers from sponsoring student classrooms.
48:10
Speaker 4: Is that right?
48:11
Speaker 13: That is correct.
48:13
Speaker 4: And that's happening here in the Mid-South?
48:15
Speaker 13: It is.
48:16
Speaker 4: Any workarounds that you guys have when something like that happens?
48:20
Speaker 19: When something like that happens, we can always bring it
48:22
Speaker 19: to the school board, but also most of these things
48:25
Speaker 19: are not on the books, so there's not much to
48:28
Speaker 19: bring up. What we can do is we can find
48:31
Speaker 19: different organizations, different companies that are friendly to Turning Point
48:35
Speaker 19: that will open up room for our students to meet.
48:38
Speaker 19: Think of churches or coffee shops.
48:40
Speaker 4: Well, I think that's, well, good on those churches and
48:43
Speaker 4: good on the coffee shops, but If there is a
48:46
Speaker 4: school that is not being friendly to Turning Point USA,
48:51
Speaker 4: I'm your first call. So we can light a fire
48:54
Speaker 4: under folks. So you let me know if you guys
48:56
Speaker 4: have problems in that area.
48:58
Speaker 13: I absolutely will.
48:59
Speaker 4: I want to get your reaction to the vitriol. And
49:03
Speaker 4: it's really shocking. Georgetown University, which is a Jesuit Catholic school,
49:09
Speaker 4: they're actually having a Charlie Kirk lookalike contest. I mean,
49:12
Speaker 4: some of the ugliness out there. And we saw this
49:16
Speaker 4: in the aftermath of the assassination. What do you make
49:19
Speaker 4: of it?
49:20
Speaker 2: That?
49:22
Speaker 13: It's unbelievable.
49:24
Speaker 19: The disrespect that people are willing to show to just
49:28
Speaker 19: another person. And we all know people who know Charlie
49:31
Speaker 19: know how great of a man he was. Just to
49:34
Speaker 19: think that this is a way that people are allowed
49:36
Speaker 19: to act on campuses as well for others to see,
49:39
Speaker 19: I can't believe that it's allowed.
49:41
Speaker 4: I wonder, and you go back to the faith component
49:44
Speaker 4: of all of this, and you talked about how you
49:47
Speaker 4: came up on the faith side. It seems to me,
49:50
Speaker 4: and I write about this in The Golden Age, that
49:51
Speaker 4: we are really not dealing with a political problem so
49:54
Speaker 4: much as we are a spiritual problem in America. How
49:57
Speaker 4: do you see it?
49:58
Speaker 13: I absolutely agree.
50:00
Speaker 19: I think that it is a spirit that has come
50:02
Speaker 19: upon people to just lose a part of their heart
50:05
Speaker 19: that allows them to feel for other people, that it's
50:08
Speaker 19: selfishness and it is honestly evil.
50:11
Speaker 4: When you got involved in TPUSA, were you surprised about
50:16
Speaker 4: the faith component? I mean, because a lot of these groups,
50:19
Speaker 4: it's all about the politics, but with TPUSA, it's a
50:23
Speaker 4: little bit different.
50:25
Speaker 13: Yes, absolutely.
50:26
Speaker 19: I think that's exactly what drew me in is that
50:29
Speaker 19: so much in the political sphere, I think adverses people
50:32
Speaker 19: who are in the faith aspect because it's politics. Maybe
50:38
Speaker 19: they don't care as much about the faith, but with
50:40
Speaker 19: Turning Point, it is so evident that faith is at
50:42
Speaker 19: the center of everything we do.
50:44
Speaker 4: What's your goal working with these kids? What do you
50:48
Speaker 4: hope to accomplish?
50:51
Speaker 19: I want to raise the next generation to be confident
50:54
Speaker 19: in what they believe in and to be leaders who
50:56
Speaker 19: are bold to stand up and speak out when they
50:59
Speaker 19: see something.
51:00
Speaker 4: Now, I understand that you're going to be heading from
51:02
Speaker 4: Memphis to Phoenix. Tell us what's going on there. Yes.
51:06
Speaker 19: So in Phoenix, we are having a day to honor Charlie.
51:10
Speaker 19: And it's just a time for everybody to come together
51:14
Speaker 19: in a moment of sadness for Turning Point and for
51:17
Speaker 19: our country in general and to just grieve with one another,
51:20
Speaker 19: but also to remember everything that he did.
51:24
Speaker 4: It's a terrible thing that's happened. But at the same time,
51:27
Speaker 4: when you look across the nation, I remember I was
51:30
Speaker 4: speaking at a couple of the Charlie Kirk memorials just
51:34
Speaker 4: here in the Memphis area. And to look out and
51:36
Speaker 4: to see just hundreds of students and realizing it's not
51:39
Speaker 4: just one Charlie Kirk anymore. I mean, you've got thousands
51:42
Speaker 4: and thousands all over the country.
51:45
Speaker 13: Yes, absolutely.
51:47
Speaker 19: Every time I see it, it just warms my heart
51:49
Speaker 19: to know that nothing that's happened has been in vain.
51:52
Speaker 19: but it has only become a catalyst to create more
51:55
Speaker 19: people who will be like Charlie and who will stand
51:57
Speaker 19: up for this country and for the youth and for
52:00
Speaker 19: their faith.
52:01
Speaker 4: Well, Mason, we wish you nothing but the best. And again,
52:04
Speaker 4: anything we can do here, let us know. We're super
52:08
Speaker 4: proud of the work of Turning Point USA. And I'm
52:10
Speaker 4: just going to tell you, you've got some great kids
52:13
Speaker 4: to work with here in the Mid-South.
52:15
Speaker 13: Yes, absolutely. Thank you so much.
52:17
Speaker 4: All right, Mason Guerra, ladies and gentlemen, who is a
52:20
Speaker 4: Club America field representative. with Turning Point USA. Folks, I
52:26
Speaker 4: have to tell you, when you see the excitement, when
52:31
Speaker 4: you see the enthusiasm of these young people, there's something
52:35
Speaker 4: going on in this country. And the rise of Generation Z,
52:41
Speaker 4: and this is the generation I think that's going to
52:43
Speaker 4: help defeat the communists in this country, so exciting to
52:48
Speaker 4: see young people going back to the church. getting involved
52:52
Speaker 4: and looking for something much deeper and much more meaningful
52:56
Speaker 4: in their spiritual lives. I was talking to somebody about
53:01
Speaker 4: this at church on Sunday afternoon, that it's not all about,
53:06
Speaker 4: and don't get me wrong, I mean, having a great
53:08
Speaker 4: worship band is wonderful, but that cannot be the focus
53:12
Speaker 4: of what we do on Sundays. Young people are looking
53:17
Speaker 4: not for a self-help sermon, but they're wanting to do
53:19
Speaker 4: a deep dive into Scripture and understand what the Bible
53:22
Speaker 4: says about things. And this is something, when you look
53:25
Speaker 4: back on American history, this is something that is very
53:31
Speaker 4: entrenched in the American way of life, going all the
53:34
Speaker 4: way back to our founding fathers. Were they Billy Graham evangelists? No,
53:38
Speaker 4: of course not. But they did have an understanding of
53:41
Speaker 4: the importance of Scripture in and importance of the role
53:45
Speaker 4: of Christianity in the public marketplace. And ultimately, that's what
53:50
Speaker 4: Turning Point USA is about, restoring that sort of presence
53:56
Speaker 4: in the public square. So we're going to be taking
53:59
Speaker 4: your calls on this, 901-260-5926. That's our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
54:00
Speaker 4: And I do hope that you get your kids, your
54:11
Speaker 4: grandkids involved in a Turning Point USA chapter, whether it
54:14
Speaker 4: be at the high school level or whether it's at
54:17
Speaker 4: the college, the collegiate level. You know, I've got to
54:21
Speaker 4: tell you, folks, one of the big things we're excited about,
54:24
Speaker 4: our good friend Dr. Michael Youssef, he has a brand
54:28
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54:31
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54:36
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54:41
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54:44
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54:46
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54:51
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54:54
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54:56
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55:00
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55:04
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55:07
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55:11
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55:13
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55:20
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55:23
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55:30
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55:34
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55:41
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55:43
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55:45
Speaker 4: we're going to be taking a quick break here, folks.
55:47
Speaker 4: More on politics, big primary battle today in the state
55:51
Speaker 4: of New Hampshire. We'll tell you all about that. Also,
55:55
Speaker 4: more on this crazy story out of New Jersey where
55:59
Speaker 4: a school district refused to tell parents if their kids...
56:02
Speaker 4: We're actually going by a new gender identity. Moms for
56:08
Speaker 4: Liberty involved in that case. We'll tell you all about
56:10
Speaker 4: that coming up as well. All right, hang tight, everybody.
56:14
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56:17
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56:24
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56:42
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56:45
Speaker 4: Mary Walter coming up in the next segment. Dylan, I
56:49
Speaker 4: am fascinated by what we just learned about Mason Guerra,
56:53
Speaker 4: who was the... He's here to talk about TPUSA, but
56:57
Speaker 4: his parents worked at Disney back in the day.
57:01
Speaker 7: Yeah, we didn't even mention that. We needed to talk
57:03
Speaker 7: about that.
57:03
Speaker 2: How did I.
57:04
Speaker 7: Because we've been talking about the Peter Pan thing.
57:06
Speaker 8: This.
57:07
Speaker 7: Like the past week. Oh, that's right.
57:08
Speaker 4: We've got to get Mason back. Is Mason still here?
57:10
Speaker 7: He's still here.
57:11
Speaker 4: All right, Mason, get him back in the studio. We
57:14
Speaker 4: won't put him on camera. But we've got to get
57:17
Speaker 4: the lowdown here because I completely forgot about the Peter
57:20
Speaker 4: Pan story. So let me get this straight here. So
57:24
Speaker 4: your parents were like Disney people. They did the characters.
57:29
Speaker 13: Yes, they did.
57:30
Speaker 19: So the big one that I tell people is that
57:32
Speaker 19: my mom was Snow White, my dad was Prince Charming,
57:34
Speaker 19: and they got to do the parade floats together.
57:37
Speaker 4: This is not– this can't be– this is– I mean,
57:39
Speaker 4: what are the chances that Snow White and Prince Charming
57:43
Speaker 4: would meet up at Disney and then they get married
57:47
Speaker 4: and they live happily ever after? I know.
57:50
Speaker 13: It's an incredible fairy tale story.
57:51
Speaker 2: Wow.
57:52
Speaker 4: Dylan, I've never heard of such a thing.
57:54
Speaker 7: Well, I was wondering how the actors deal with Disney
57:59
Speaker 7: adults because it's like the harassment. You can't break character
58:02
Speaker 7: and be like, hey, get away from me.
58:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, how do you do that? How did they used
58:06
Speaker 4: to deal with that?
58:07
Speaker 19: So typically they have other cast members who are not
58:11
Speaker 19: in character that are around them as a type of
58:13
Speaker 19: security that just keep distance. To, you know, keep the
58:16
Speaker 19: magic alive, but also keep the cast members safe.
58:20
Speaker 4: Oh, the midgets. No, dwarfs. Sorry, the little people.
58:23
Speaker 7: Yeah, all seven.
58:23
Speaker 4: The dwarfs. Yeah, so they're really like, you know, security. Yeah.
58:28
Speaker 19: No, but really they just have to stay in character
58:30
Speaker 19: and guide along the person as much as they can
58:34
Speaker 19: until it's time. And then they find a good exit,
58:36
Speaker 19: you know, like, oh, I must be off. With their
58:39
Speaker 19: fairytale voice and everything going on.
58:41
Speaker 2: Hold on.
58:42
Speaker 4: I got Tinkerbell calling me over here. Got to go.
58:44
Speaker 4: Got to go, ma'am.
58:45
Speaker 17: Sorry.
58:46
Speaker 13: Exactly.
58:46
Speaker 4: I mean, it was a big story on social media,
58:49
Speaker 4: I guess, where Peter Pan was coming under attack. I mean,
58:52
Speaker 4: he was basically being stalked, the poor guy.
58:55
Speaker 13: Yeah, I've seen that.
58:57
Speaker 19: It was very unfortunate. And the girl's been doing it
58:58
Speaker 19: for years, apparently. And so that is a strong man
59:02
Speaker 19: right there.
59:03
Speaker 4: Can I just say that I've been to Disneyland twice,
59:09
Speaker 4: and by there, I've spoken at the convention center at
59:12
Speaker 4: the Grand California, and so my hosts always want to
59:18
Speaker 4: meet you. They give me the tickets to go to
59:20
Speaker 4: the park and all that kind of stuff, and I
59:22
Speaker 4: went once, and I realized there were more grown adults
59:27
Speaker 4: than children at the park.
59:30
Speaker 19: Yes, it's very big. I think people like to call
59:32
Speaker 19: them Disney adults these days.
59:34
Speaker 4: They've got a name.
59:35
Speaker 19: They do, and they're just the kids who never grew
59:37
Speaker 19: out of the magic, and now they are 35 years
59:40
Speaker 19: old being able to blow all of their money on Disneyland.
59:43
Speaker 7: Yeah, how do they have so much money? These people
59:45
Speaker 7: are there 24-7, 365. That's a lot of money to
59:47
Speaker 7: spend in one park.
59:52
Speaker 19: You know what it is, is that it's because they
59:54
Speaker 19: aren't interested in having as many kids anymore. And so
59:58
Speaker 19: when they don't have any children, what else is there
1:00:00
Speaker 19: to spend their money on?
1:00:01
Speaker 4: Oh, that's deep.
1:00:02
Speaker 9: Wow.
1:00:03
Speaker 7: That's sad.
1:00:04
Speaker 4: And it is sad too. All right. My goodness.
1:00:07
Speaker 2: All right.
1:00:07
Speaker 4: Do you have to skedaddle? Oh, he's good. All right. Oh,
1:00:11
Speaker 4: we're good. He's Ubering. I didn't even know we had
1:00:14
Speaker 4: that in Memphis. Is that safe, Dylan?
1:00:16
Speaker 7: I don't know. I would say no, but I would
1:00:19
Speaker 7: say yes in this situation because he's Ubering.
1:00:21
Speaker 4: No, but in all seriousness, the other part of it
1:00:23
Speaker 4: is they're all riding around on the motorized scooters. And
1:00:26
Speaker 4: I'm like, how do you possibly enjoy this part? I mean,
1:00:29
Speaker 4: because it's a huge area. I just don't get that.
1:00:34
Speaker 9: Yeah.
1:00:34
Speaker 4: I have many questions. Your parents should write a book,
1:00:36
Speaker 4: like a tell-all book.
1:00:38
Speaker 13: Oh, they absolutely should. Maybe we can convince them.
1:00:40
Speaker 19: Mm-hmm.
1:00:41
Speaker 4: The dwarfs.
1:00:43
Speaker 7: It's got to be the best role to be Snow White, right?
1:00:45
Speaker 7: Because you have seven security guards.
1:00:48
Speaker 18: Mm-hmm.
1:00:48
Speaker 13: That's very true.
1:00:49
Speaker 7: Wow.
1:00:50
Speaker 4: All right. Well, Mason, again, thank you for that. And
1:00:53
Speaker 4: we're going to get you back on. I am fascinated.
1:00:55
Speaker 4: What a great story.
1:00:56
Speaker 13: Yeah, I'll have to come on again and talk about it.
1:00:57
Speaker 13: Thank you so much.
1:00:58
Speaker 4: All right. Golly.
1:00:59
Speaker 2: Wow.
1:01:00
Speaker 4: There you go. Mason Guerra. So you never know, Dylan.
1:01:04
Speaker 7: I'm just thinking about how the dwarves would actually secure you.
1:01:08
Speaker 7: Just like go around kick shins, you know. Seven kickboxing dwarves.
1:01:17
Speaker 7: They'd have to be trained in like martial arts or something.
1:01:21
Speaker 4: Is that what it is?
1:01:22
Speaker 18: Okay.
1:01:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess.
1:01:22
Speaker 7: I would hope so.
1:01:23
Speaker 4: But they don't have much of a reach, right? If
1:01:25
Speaker 4: they're going to do a kick. It doesn't matter. They
1:01:27
Speaker 4: have numbers. They have little stumpy legs.
1:01:29
Speaker 7: It's an army.
1:01:30
Speaker 2: It's an army.
1:01:33
Speaker 7: Snow White's just fine.
1:01:35
Speaker 4: Oh, my word. We're in such big trouble today. Big trouble.
1:01:38
Speaker 3: 901-260-5926.
1:01:39
Speaker 4: Our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Can we talk about Arion Carter?
1:01:49
Speaker 4: It was a weird college football weekend. I'm just going
1:01:54
Speaker 4: to tell you, it was just weird. From that whole,
1:01:57
Speaker 4: was it Western Michigan-Michigan game?
1:02:00
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah. Very controversial there.
1:02:03
Speaker 4: Just created a new second. They did.
1:02:05
Speaker 7: They created a new rule. A lot of people are
1:02:08
Speaker 7: asking questions here.
1:02:10
Speaker 10: Yes.
1:02:10
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, Jason Whitlock, among others, take
1:02:13
Speaker 4: a listen to Cut 12. Absolutely criminal what we just watched.
1:02:18
Speaker 2: That's the biggest crime in the history of sports.
1:02:22
Speaker 4: No way Michigan should be.
1:02:24
Speaker 2: Allowed to keep this victory. The Big Ten, someone in
1:02:28
Speaker 2: the NCAA, Donald Trump, somebody.
1:02:32
Speaker 11: Needs to strip Michigan of this victory that they.
1:02:35
Speaker 2: Just stole from Western Michigan.
1:02:37
Speaker 17: No way in hell you put a second back on
1:02:40
Speaker 17: the clock.
1:02:41
Speaker 2: Clear as day, time has run out. That is absolutely ridiculous.
1:02:45
Speaker 2: I'm a Michigan fan. But that is criminal what we
1:02:49
Speaker 2: just watched.
1:02:50
Speaker 6: Criminal.
1:02:52
Speaker 4: I think he's really upset about it.
1:02:54
Speaker 7: And he's a Michigan fan.
1:02:55
Speaker 4: And he's a Michigan fan. So CBS actually, you know,
1:02:58
Speaker 4: their analyst early on were saying, what is going on here? Well,
1:03:03
Speaker 4: CBS ended up deleting this clip. Take a listen to
1:03:07
Speaker 4: Cut 11.
1:03:07
Speaker 3: Western Michigan got robbed. I mean, BMAC just said it.
1:03:11
Speaker 3: Somebody's going to have to sit down with me, and
1:03:14
Speaker 3: maybe you've got to lay it out and explain it
1:03:15
Speaker 3: to me like I'm five years old, fellas. Someone's got
1:03:18
Speaker 3: to sit and look me dead in my face and
1:03:20
Speaker 3: explain to me how you're putting one second back on
1:03:23
Speaker 3: that clock before any player in the back of that
1:03:26
Speaker 3: end zone touched the ball.
1:03:28
Speaker 7: Inbounds, out-of-bounds.
1:03:30
Speaker 3: It was at triple zeros based on what the broadcast
1:03:33
Speaker 3: showed us.
1:03:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was crazy. Then you've got this situation with
1:03:39
Speaker 4: the Tennessee linebacker, Arian Carter, and he got suspended. This
1:03:44
Speaker 4: is ridiculous. The whole thing, this whole story is just nuts. Anyway,
1:03:50
Speaker 4: he got suspended. He was not allowed to suit up
1:03:55
Speaker 4: for the game. This was against Furman. And the reason
1:03:58
Speaker 4: why is that he had, I guess, returned from a trip,
1:04:03
Speaker 4: and the trip was paid for, the flight was paid for,
1:04:06
Speaker 4: and it was a silly, silly thing. He accepted $ 427
1:04:09
Speaker 4: from an agent to cover a flight to a workout.
1:04:19
Speaker 4: So the NCAA stepped in, gave him a one-game suspension.
1:04:23
Speaker 4: So now it turns out his girlfriend is in the
1:04:26
Speaker 4: middle of a battle with cancer. And this is really fascinating, Dylan.
1:04:33
Speaker 4: He's donating money, $ 427, for each tackle that he makes
1:04:40
Speaker 4: this season to charities in the national area to help
1:04:44
Speaker 4: women struggling to pay their bills as they battle with cancer.
1:04:47
Speaker 4: So What a great guy. And it's just silliness on
1:04:51
Speaker 4: the part of the NCAA.
1:04:54
Speaker 7: Yeah, what a way to turn a weird situation into
1:04:57
Speaker 7: a positive, though. That's good on him.
1:04:59
Speaker 2: It was.
1:04:59
Speaker 4: It really was. So good on him. And well done,
1:05:03
Speaker 4: Memphis Tigers. What, 2-0 now? And they debuted the big
1:05:07
Speaker 4: new stadium. It looked beautiful on TV.
1:05:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, it looked like an NFL stadium, honestly. It was nice.
1:05:13
Speaker 4: Never seen anything like that. But, yeah, just a great,
1:05:17
Speaker 4: great job. All right, we've got to take a quick
1:05:20
Speaker 4: break here, folks. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Oh,
1:05:22
Speaker 4: before we forget, the best football story, Southern Miss– Their
1:05:34
Speaker 4: head coach, Blake Anderson, the guy walks out with a
1:05:39
Speaker 4: Christ is King t-shirt for the game. And people were
1:05:45
Speaker 4: going bonkers over this in a very positive way. They
1:05:48
Speaker 4: were going bonkers. Uh, he was asked about this. The
1:05:51
Speaker 4: coach had no idea that he had gone viral. Let's
1:05:54
Speaker 4: take a listen to cut to please.
1:05:56
Speaker 5: I did.
1:05:57
Speaker 2: I mean, somebody said something about this morning.
1:05:58
Speaker 16: I'm at a bunch of people comment and I'm pleased
1:06:01
Speaker 16: that it, that, uh, that it was noticed. I mean,
1:06:03
Speaker 16: the whole point of wearing it was to, for Christ
1:06:05
Speaker 16: to be glorified and to be noticed. Um, man, I'm
1:06:08
Speaker 16: super grateful.
1:06:10
Speaker 4: For my bosses, uh, that.
1:06:13
Speaker 16: Allowed me to, you know, to be really just use
1:06:17
Speaker 16: my platform to share my faith. Not, not probably an
1:06:20
Speaker 16: easy decision for an AD and a president. Uh, but, um,
1:06:23
Speaker 16: you know, that's, those are my views. Those are not,
1:06:26
Speaker 16: I'm not, that's just me trying to use my platform.
1:06:29
Speaker 16: I'm so Thankful and saved by grace and an opportunity.
1:06:32
Speaker 16: I'm in the position I'm in because of God and
1:06:36
Speaker 16: just being blessed. So, you know, you never know what
1:06:40
Speaker 16: kind of response you're going to get. It's been 99%
1:06:42
Speaker 16: positive and a few negative, which is what I expected. But, yeah,
1:06:48
Speaker 16: I wasn't completely aware of just where it would go.
1:06:51
Speaker 16: But in my opinion, if one person makes one person think,
1:06:56
Speaker 16: then it was worth it.
1:06:58
Speaker 4: Wow. Amen to that coach. And that's the kind of
1:07:01
Speaker 4: a guy you want coaching your son. Blake Anderson, Southern Miss.
1:07:07
Speaker 4: Hang tight. We'll be right back. I have to really
1:07:17
Speaker 4: give a shout out here to the Texas Board of Education.
1:07:22
Speaker 4: This story from Fox News. Landon Mayan is the writer.
1:07:28
Speaker 4: And the Board of Education gave final approval to changes
1:07:32
Speaker 4: to the state's high school social studies curriculum. And this
1:07:37
Speaker 4: involves Christianity and Islam and the teaching of both subjects
1:07:41
Speaker 4: in school. So Texas has been doing a remarkable job.
1:07:46
Speaker 4: And again, this is why. It is so vitally important
1:07:49
Speaker 4: for you to get out and vote on Election Day
1:07:52
Speaker 4: because there are so many other very important races that
1:07:56
Speaker 4: will be decided. And, for example, in Texas, you've got
1:07:59
Speaker 4: the Board of Education there, and they are tasked with
1:08:03
Speaker 4: deciding what your kids are going to learn. So if
1:08:06
Speaker 4: you stay home on Election Day, well, guess what? Liberals
1:08:09
Speaker 4: are going to get elected. So on the Board of Education,
1:08:14
Speaker 4: the amended social studies curriculum will cover U.S. history, government,
1:08:18
Speaker 4: and world geography. And there will be Bible stories infused
1:08:24
Speaker 4: in the curriculum. Now, the board also approved language asserting that, quote,
1:08:29
Speaker 4: radical Islam motivated the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. rather
1:08:36
Speaker 4: than a more narrow focus on the terrorist groups involved
1:08:40
Speaker 4: in the attack. And look, this is something that is
1:08:43
Speaker 4: so vitally important and brilliant, and God bless Texas for
1:08:47
Speaker 4: doing this, because people need to understand, and especially young
1:08:52
Speaker 4: people need to understand, what motivated, what was the motivation
1:08:56
Speaker 4: for those men to fly jetliners into buildings. And the
1:09:01
Speaker 4: answer is very simple. It was their religious belief. The
1:09:06
Speaker 4: material also requires students to study early Islam through Prophet
1:09:11
Speaker 4: Muhammad's brutal military campaigns against Jewish and Christian tribes, the
1:09:17
Speaker 4: normalization of slavery, and the taking of female captives as
1:09:22
Speaker 4: harem slaves. Now, of course, you might imagine the Democrats
1:09:27
Speaker 4: are fired up about this. Can't do that.
1:09:29
Speaker 2: How dare you?
1:09:31
Speaker 4: That's Islamophobia. Okay, there's no such thing as Islamophobia. Unless
1:09:40
Speaker 4: you have a fear of being blown to smithereens. I mean,
1:09:44
Speaker 4: I guess that could be Islamophobia, but there's really no
1:09:47
Speaker 4: such thing as that. Muslim groups are speaking out about it.
1:09:55
Speaker 4: I feel attacked as if my religion doesn't belong. That's
1:09:59
Speaker 4: Hadiba Koresh, a 15-year-old Muslim student. I should not have
1:10:04
Speaker 4: to defend my religion in the middle of history class
1:10:06
Speaker 4: because because of one sentence someone on this board wrote. Well, look,
1:10:11
Speaker 4: the reality of it is students have been presented for
1:10:14
Speaker 4: the past 20 years, students have been presented a whitewashed
1:10:19
Speaker 4: version of Islam in their classrooms. We actually got a
1:10:23
Speaker 4: hold of textbooks. This was years ago. We got a
1:10:27
Speaker 4: hold of textbooks that portrayed Islam as a peaceful, docile religion.
1:10:36
Speaker 4: And in the textbook, it said Islam never had to
1:10:39
Speaker 4: invade a country. According to the book, Islam was welcomed
1:10:45
Speaker 4: into countries. They were welcomed with open arms. Well, no,
1:10:51
Speaker 4: they had no arms because the Islamists chopped them off.
1:10:55
Speaker 4: So anyway, all of you children in Texas are going
1:10:59
Speaker 4: to be learning about this. And I'm excited. I am
1:11:03
Speaker 4: very excited. to see what's going to happen in the
1:11:06
Speaker 4: great state of Texas. State Board of Education Chair Aaron
1:11:10
Speaker 4: Kinsey pushing back on criticism, saying opponents had sensationalized all
1:11:16
Speaker 4: the topics and made them seem more divisive than they
1:11:19
Speaker 4: actually are. He added board members worked through democratically how
1:11:24
Speaker 4: to make those choices on behalf of their constituents. Republican
1:11:31
Speaker 4: school board member Julie Pickering boasted about the material's final approval. Quote,
1:11:36
Speaker 4: this social studies law that got us here, I've been
1:11:39
Speaker 4: working on for over 10 years. This is such a
1:11:42
Speaker 4: huge accomplishment. And this vote kind of bookends 12 years
1:11:47
Speaker 4: of life's work. God bless Julie Pickering. But again, it's
1:11:52
Speaker 4: important because you've got to elect these people to office.
1:11:56
Speaker 4: And that's what concerns me about the midterms, ladies and gentlemen.
1:11:59
Speaker 4: You cannot stay home. You cannot stay home. You have
1:12:04
Speaker 4: got to get out and vote. I don't care how
1:12:06
Speaker 4: much you loathe the Republicans. You've got to get out
1:12:10
Speaker 4: and vote. Because anything is better than a communist. I'm
1:12:15
Speaker 4: just telling you. Anything is better than a communist. 901-260-5926
1:12:19
Speaker 4: is our telephone number. That's 901- 260-5926. I've got to
1:12:28
Speaker 4: go back to this race, the primary today in New Hampshire.
1:12:32
Speaker 4: You've got John E. Sununu. They've got a lot of
1:12:34
Speaker 4: Sununus up. They're all very popular, by the way. So
1:12:39
Speaker 4: Sununu is running on the Republican side of the aisle.
1:12:42
Speaker 4: Democrats are in a panic right now. As a matter
1:12:44
Speaker 4: of fact, New York Times publishing a story, and the
1:12:49
Speaker 4: basic headline was, we're losing. As a matter of fact,
1:12:51
Speaker 4: Chris Pappas, who's one of the Democrats running, he would
1:12:55
Speaker 4: be the more established liberal Democrat, actually put out a
1:12:59
Speaker 4: campaign mailer saying, quote, we're losing. He's got an opponent,
1:13:04
Speaker 4: and she is a DSA gal. Her name is Karishma Manzoor.
1:13:11
Speaker 4: She actually says that funding the military is a waste
1:13:15
Speaker 4: of our money. So she wants to completely defund the U.S. military.
1:13:20
Speaker 4: That gives you an idea of why the Democrats are panicking,
1:13:24
Speaker 4: because they know that Sununu is popular, and their messaging
1:13:29
Speaker 4: is all over the place. By the way, the last
1:13:31
Speaker 4: time a Republican won in the Senate in New Hampshire
1:13:35
Speaker 4: back in 2010. Now, here's a nugget. Dylan, you'll appreciate
1:13:40
Speaker 4: this old news nugget. You're not a big political guy,
1:13:44
Speaker 4: but you'll appreciate this story. Chris Pappas, the Democrat, his
1:13:48
Speaker 4: grandfather is credited with With inventing the chicken tender.
1:13:54
Speaker 7: Oh, I do appreciate that fact.
1:13:56
Speaker 14: Wow.
1:13:56
Speaker 7: Thank you.
1:13:57
Speaker 4: Manchester, New Hampshire, once known as the chicken tender capital
1:14:01
Speaker 4: of the world.
1:14:02
Speaker 7: I think we may have to visit the chicken tender
1:14:04
Speaker 7: capital now. I didn't know that that was actually a thing.
1:14:07
Speaker 4: Well, who knew? I mean, it's, but again, I mean, if,
1:14:10
Speaker 4: I mean, Pappas may end up going after the chicken
1:14:13
Speaker 4: tender vote. And then it can be problematic for the Republicans.
1:14:18
Speaker 4: I'm just.
1:14:19
Speaker 7: Is it like a raisin canes there? Like what's. Is
1:14:21
Speaker 7: there like chicken tenders just galore?
1:14:24
Speaker 4: Apparently, they were, this is like 50 years ago or
1:14:28
Speaker 4: however long ago, and they were preparing chicken at the diner,
1:14:31
Speaker 4: the family diner, and they had this extra, which was
1:14:34
Speaker 4: the tenderloin of the chicken. And they said, what are
1:14:36
Speaker 4: we going to do with this? Somebody said, well, you
1:14:39
Speaker 4: got to batter it up and deep fry it and
1:14:41
Speaker 4: let's see what it tastes like.
1:14:42
Speaker 14: Wow.
1:14:43
Speaker 4: Which makes a lot more sense than the person who
1:14:45
Speaker 4: ate the very first egg. Hey. Go over there, Dylan,
1:14:50
Speaker 4: and I want you to scramble up that thing that
1:14:53
Speaker 4: just came out of that chicken's behind. Yeah, I'm probably
1:14:57
Speaker 4: not going to do that. I still don't like eggs.
1:15:00
Speaker 4: We'll be right back, everybody.
1:15:15
Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee. On the banks of the mighty Mississippi.
1:15:19
Speaker 1: It's America's conservative blowtorch.
1:15:23
Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
1:15:26
Speaker 1: I love this American ride.
1:15:30
Speaker 2: Todd Starnes.
1:15:32
Speaker 18: Oh yeah.
1:15:35
Speaker 4: And hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes radio program.
1:15:38
Speaker 4: So happy to have you with us today. Wow, this
1:15:42
Speaker 4: story is breaking. The Southeastern Conference could decide as early
1:15:49
Speaker 4: as Thursday whether or not to expel the LSU Tigers.
1:15:54
Speaker 4: This is a fascinating sports story, which is going to
1:15:58
Speaker 4: have massive implications across college football, but especially in the
1:16:04
Speaker 4: Southeastern Conference. The SEC filing a complaint against LSU today
1:16:10
Speaker 4: Because the school planned to add former NFL players to
1:16:14
Speaker 4: its roster. This is all about Lane Kiffin. By the way, Dylan,
1:16:18
Speaker 4: did you hear somebody secretly recorded Lane Kiffin's locker room talk?
1:16:27
Speaker 4: Guy's got a potty mouth.
1:16:29
Speaker 7: I am not surprised one bit.
1:16:31
Speaker 4: But can I just say something? This is not like, boys,
1:16:35
Speaker 4: I want you to get in here, you bunch of
1:16:37
Speaker 4: sorry so-and-sos, and your mamas are... dishwashers, you know, it's
1:16:42
Speaker 4: not like one of those kinds of things where you,
1:16:45
Speaker 4: he used to, I mean, you know, he used a
1:16:47
Speaker 4: lot of salty language, but it was like, guys, I'm really,
1:16:51
Speaker 4: I'm really missed at you. You know, I'm just, you know,
1:16:55
Speaker 4: I am not a happy camper. He has a high
1:16:57
Speaker 4: pitched voice.
1:16:58
Speaker 7: It's not very low. He's also, he gives more of
1:17:01
Speaker 7: like a frat guy that turned into a coach on accident.
1:17:05
Speaker 17: Yeah. Yeah.
1:17:07
Speaker 4: I mean, I expect, you know, well, it's at Ogeron.
1:17:10
Speaker 4: Remember him?
1:17:10
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, at Ogeron.
1:17:12
Speaker 4: Hey, Tom, really good to have you with me. Thank you.
1:17:15
Speaker 4: Appreciate it.
1:17:16
Speaker 2: Go Tigers. Go Tigers.
1:17:18
Speaker 4: Go Tigers.
1:17:19
Speaker 9: Pretty good.
1:17:19
Speaker 4: It's like, what did he just say?
1:17:21
Speaker 7: I forget you grew up in Louisiana. That's a pretty
1:17:22
Speaker 7: good accent.
1:17:23
Speaker 4: You need subtitles.
1:17:25
Speaker 7: You do. You really do.
1:17:26
Speaker 4: Even the subtitle guy is, what did he just say?
1:17:29
Speaker 7: And especially if he's been yelling a lot, like, and
1:17:31
Speaker 7: he lost his voice, you're not going to make out anything.
1:17:34
Speaker 4: No, not at all.
1:17:35
Speaker 7: I miss that guy. Good coach.
1:17:37
Speaker 4: He's a great coach. Yeah, I like the guy. So anyway,
1:17:41
Speaker 4: the SEC is really upset about all of this. And
1:17:46
Speaker 4: They're trying to decide. They're going to meet Thursday, the
1:17:48
Speaker 4: presidents and the chancellors of all the Southeastern Conference schools.
1:17:51
Speaker 4: And they're going to meet Thursday to decide whether to
1:17:53
Speaker 4: terminate LSU as an SEC member.
1:17:56
Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
1:17:57
Speaker 4: So they've broken some laws here. Not criminal, but, you know,
1:18:02
Speaker 4: I wonder how much of this is about LSU and
1:18:05
Speaker 4: how much of it is about Lane Kiffin. You know,
1:18:08
Speaker 4: he causes drama wherever he goes.
1:18:11
Speaker 7: He really does. And I'm not even surprised because... I
1:18:15
Speaker 7: feel like they're just trying to use the system against
1:18:18
Speaker 7: itself because, you know, who's stopping anyone from recruiting? We
1:18:22
Speaker 7: saw this in the college basketball scene, too, with them
1:18:26
Speaker 7: getting the former pro players from overseas trying to go
1:18:30
Speaker 7: play on these college teams. Like, what's stopping it from
1:18:33
Speaker 7: happening in college football, too?
1:18:35
Speaker 4: It's a great point. Anyway, we'll keep you updated on
1:18:38
Speaker 4: all of that. I'm fascinated by this. Also, Sunday at church,
1:18:43
Speaker 4: we were all out at the commissary. We had a
1:18:46
Speaker 4: group of us, and we normally go to lunch after church.
1:18:50
Speaker 4: And this is the first time I've been back. Here's
1:18:53
Speaker 4: how bad it is, Dylan. I must have had 25
1:18:56
Speaker 4: people coming to me at church saying, oh, it's so
1:18:58
Speaker 4: good to see you back. They're introducing themselves again. I'm like, okay,
1:19:02
Speaker 4: all right, I get it. I get it.
1:19:05
Speaker 7: You've been a busy guy.
1:19:06
Speaker 4: Backsliding Baptist, I get it. No, but I have been,
1:19:10
Speaker 4: and I've been doing a lot of events, so it's
1:19:12
Speaker 4: nice to be back at my home church. So we
1:19:15
Speaker 4: go to this place called the Commissary, which is a
1:19:18
Speaker 4: very popular barbecue joint in Germantown, which is where I live,
1:19:23
Speaker 4: and great restaurant, great people, great family-owned place. We're having
1:19:28
Speaker 4: a conversation about tomatoes. And this is where I have
1:19:33
Speaker 4: a question for our vast culinary audience. You guys, you
1:19:37
Speaker 4: have refined palates. You have refined taste, as the Todd
1:19:42
Speaker 4: Stern Show audience. Now, many of you know of my
1:19:46
Speaker 4: love affair with the tomato, specifically the Mississippi red tomato.
1:19:52
Speaker 4: I'm good with a Ripley tomato, but Mississippi red is
1:19:56
Speaker 4: my jam. And every summer, I... I only do this
1:20:00
Speaker 4: in the summertime, Dylan. I eat a fresh tomato sandwich.
1:20:07
Speaker 4: So you need your bunny bread. You need the bunny
1:20:10
Speaker 4: white bread. It has to be white bread. And you
1:20:14
Speaker 4: need some mayonnaise. I am a blue plate mayonnaise guy,
1:20:18
Speaker 4: but Dukes will do. It's a little too tangy for me.
1:20:23
Speaker 4: You slather the white bread with the mayonnaise. Then you
1:20:28
Speaker 4: put the tomato. Some of you peel your tomatoes. It
1:20:31
Speaker 4: doesn't bother me. I go peeled or unpeeled. You put
1:20:38
Speaker 4: the slab of tomato there. You nestle it into the mayonnaise.
1:20:43
Speaker 4: You liberally salt and pepper your tomato. And then you
1:20:47
Speaker 4: consume the tomato.
1:20:49
Speaker 7: That's it?
1:20:50
Speaker 4: That's it.
1:20:51
Speaker 7: You just eat tomato and bread and mayonnaise?
1:20:54
Speaker 4: Tomato sandwich, yeah.
1:20:56
Speaker 12: Or.
1:20:57
Speaker 4: And this is for you folks in Georgia. If you've
1:21:01
Speaker 4: got access to a true Vidalia onion, you put a
1:21:07
Speaker 4: slab of onion on that. That's good eating.
1:21:12
Speaker 7: That's like half a salad. And then bunny bread.
1:21:15
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:21:15
Speaker 7: That has to be bunny bread?
1:21:17
Speaker 4: It has to be bunny bread. Soft twist or just
1:21:19
Speaker 4: the normal? It's got to be soft, just the normal
1:21:20
Speaker 4: bunny bread. You don't need the pepperaged part. You don't
1:21:23
Speaker 4: want a lot of it. You just want enough to
1:21:25
Speaker 4: hold that tomato in place.
1:21:27
Speaker 7: Make it a sandwich. It just has to qualify as
1:21:29
Speaker 7: a sandwich.
1:21:30
Speaker 4: Exactly. So we're having this conversation. And so I've been
1:21:37
Speaker 4: told I can talk about this because all of our
1:21:39
Speaker 4: stuff is off the record at church. But they said
1:21:42
Speaker 4: I could actually talk about this, what we're about to
1:21:45
Speaker 4: talk about, so long as I did not name names.
1:21:48
Speaker 4: So one of the guys in our group said, yeah,
1:21:52
Speaker 4: that's great, tomato sandwich. But have you had a peanut
1:21:56
Speaker 4: butter tomato sandwich?
1:21:58
Speaker 5: No.
1:21:59
Speaker 4: He did not.
1:22:00
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
1:22:01
Speaker 4: So I'm like, that is the most disgusting thing I've
1:22:04
Speaker 4: ever heard of in my life. But you slather the
1:22:07
Speaker 4: bread with peanut butter, and then you put a tomato
1:22:11
Speaker 4: on it, and you salt and pepper, and the guy
1:22:13
Speaker 4: eats it. I'm like, that's disgusting. I mean, I don't
1:22:17
Speaker 4: mean to be critical of somebody's culinary habits, but is
1:22:21
Speaker 4: that like a thing in the South that I missed
1:22:23
Speaker 4: growing up?
1:22:26
Speaker 7: I may have missed it too. I've never heard of
1:22:28
Speaker 7: this at all.
1:22:29
Speaker 4: But have any of you ever heard of anybody eating
1:22:33
Speaker 4: a peanut butter and tomato sandwich? And he did it
1:22:37
Speaker 4: open face, which is a whole other thing, I suppose.
1:22:42
Speaker 4: And I should have asked if it was like creamy
1:22:45
Speaker 4: or do you get the crunchy, extra crunchy?
1:22:49
Speaker 16: Right.
1:22:50
Speaker 7: I mean, at that point, you got to get specific.
1:22:52
Speaker 9: I'm sorry.
1:22:52
Speaker 7: Because these are going to change the flavor.
1:22:55
Speaker 4: Who in their right mind would eat peanut butter and tomato?
1:22:58
Speaker 7: It's a combination. The jelly is great. Tomato doesn't make
1:23:02
Speaker 7: any sense to me.
1:23:05
Speaker 4: Give me some strawberry jam and I'm good to go.
1:23:09
Speaker 7: Any jam other than a tomato.
1:23:11
Speaker 4: Let's go to Elizabeth in Georgia, WDUN. Hi, Elizabeth. How
1:23:16
Speaker 4: are you today?
1:23:16
Speaker 20: I'm fine, baby.
1:23:18
Speaker 21: How are you doing?
1:23:19
Speaker 4: You know, I'm good. I'm good. You know, I'm really
1:23:21
Speaker 4: perplexed here by this. One of my friends, fellow Baptist,
1:23:25
Speaker 4: a good church-going Christian man, but he eats something called
1:23:28
Speaker 4: a peanut butter and tomato sandwich.
1:23:31
Speaker 6: No, no, no.
1:23:32
Speaker 21: He's from the North.
1:23:33
Speaker 11: Sorry.
1:23:36
Speaker 4: He's from the North.
1:23:38
Speaker 21: No, what I have to tell you is you're not
1:23:40
Speaker 21: having a tomato sandwich. You're having a tomato sandwich.
1:23:44
Speaker 10: That's right.
1:23:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, maters. Tomato. Yeah, maters.
1:23:47
Speaker 21: You've got to smash the bread when you put it together.
1:23:50
Speaker 4: So are you a bread smasher?
1:23:53
Speaker 17: Yes.
1:23:53
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:23:54
Speaker 4: Now, I've heard that. I am not one to smash
1:23:57
Speaker 4: my bread. I like it a little loosey-goosey there, but
1:24:01
Speaker 4: I've seen people smash.
1:24:03
Speaker 21: You've got to smash the tomato sandwich.
1:24:06
Speaker 18: Hmm.
1:24:07
Speaker 4: Okay, that's good to know. Elizabeth, I take it you
1:24:10
Speaker 4: know your way around a tomato sandwich.
1:24:13
Speaker 20: No, it's a mater.
1:24:14
Speaker 12: A mater.
1:24:14
Speaker 4: Mater sandwich. Mater sandwich.
1:24:17
Speaker 21: Now you're from the South.
1:24:19
Speaker 4: What is that beeping noise, Elizabeth?
1:24:22
Speaker 21: That's my husband just opened the car door so he
1:24:24
Speaker 21: could hear you.
1:24:26
Speaker 4: Well, tell him I said hello. No, I didn't know
1:24:29
Speaker 4: if somebody was pulling you over.
1:24:32
Speaker 20: No, no, no.
1:24:32
Speaker 21: I like the cup. We're good cop people.
1:24:35
Speaker 4: Oh, my word. That's great.
1:24:37
Speaker 17: All right.
1:24:37
Speaker 4: Well, Elizabeth, thank you for that. And, yes, tomato or mater,
1:24:42
Speaker 4: you're in the ballpark there. So there you go. Mater.
1:24:47
Speaker 4: Paul Shanklin says, does this make you a vegetarian? Talking
1:24:51
Speaker 4: about mater sandwiches. Also, it sounds like the whitest sandwich ever.
1:24:57
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you added bacon in it, that would be better.
1:25:02
Speaker 4: I think. Well, bacon's always good, so you got the BLT,
1:25:06
Speaker 4: but you've got to have fresh tomatoes.
1:25:08
Speaker 7: I still don't understand BLTs because I don't consider bacon
1:25:11
Speaker 7: to be a main meat. It's like a side meat.
1:25:14
Speaker 4: What, bacon?
1:25:15
Speaker 7: Yeah, like if you put bacon, lettuce, tomato on a sandwich,
1:25:19
Speaker 7: I still feel like you're missing a main meat. Like
1:25:22
Speaker 7: I would want a chicken or something else on it.
1:25:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess. Yeah. I can go with a BLT,
1:25:30
Speaker 4: but I tell you, in the summertime, nothing better. Now,
1:25:33
Speaker 4: there is a caveat. If you've got fresh homemade biscuits,
1:25:37
Speaker 4: a biscuit tomato sandwich is really good.
1:25:40
Speaker 7: I don't know.
1:25:41
Speaker 4: It's a summer thing.
1:25:42
Speaker 7: I can't get behind this.
1:25:44
Speaker 4: No, what I can't get behind is this peanut butter
1:25:47
Speaker 4: and tomato sandwich. Someone sent me a photograph of it,
1:25:50
Speaker 4: and I'm.
1:25:51
Speaker 17: Like, really?
1:25:52
Speaker 4: Really? Does it even go down? I think my throat
1:25:55
Speaker 4: would be like, no, this doesn't work.
1:25:58
Speaker 7: Yeah, I need someone to explain why it actually tastes good.
1:26:02
Speaker 7: And if it doesn't taste good, why do you eat it? Like,
1:26:05
Speaker 7: what's the point? It's kind of like, I would say,
1:26:09
Speaker 7: I don't know, Brussels sprouts.
1:26:11
Speaker 9: Yeah.
1:26:12
Speaker 4: What's the point? What's the point? Or cabbage.
1:26:15
Speaker 12: Yeah.
1:26:16
Speaker 4: Oh, what is the point? All right, we've got to
1:26:19
Speaker 4: take a break here. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
1:26:26
Speaker 4: We have some more political news coming up, and Mary
1:26:31
Speaker 4: Walter is going to drop by. We may ask her
1:26:33
Speaker 4: about tomato sandwiches. We'll be right back.
1:26:46
Speaker 22: I'm not asking politely for the mayor not to come
1:26:50
Speaker 22: to 9-11, to that ceremony. I am asking, I am
1:26:54
Speaker 22: demanding that he not show his face at that sacred ground.
1:27:00
Speaker 22: He does not belong there. When you associate yourself with
1:27:05
Speaker 22: the likes of Hassan Paika, and you have as your
1:27:08
Speaker 22: chief counselor right here in this building, Rasim Qasim, who
1:27:16
Speaker 22: was handed a sacred pen yesterday, very cryptic, through our
1:27:21
Speaker 22: police commissioner so that it could go into his hands.
1:27:25
Speaker 22: That was a message to each and every one of us.
1:27:29
Speaker 6: Cryptic as it is, but read through the lines.
1:27:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's New York City's Councilwoman Vicki Palladino. She's been
1:27:39
Speaker 4: on this show many times in the past, and she is...
1:27:44
Speaker 4: One of many people, they're having a big press conference
1:27:47
Speaker 4: up in New York City at this hour, and they're
1:27:51
Speaker 4: telling the mayor, stay away. You are not welcome here.
1:27:56
Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, I think we've got, here's
1:27:58
Speaker 4: a guy who just got up to speak. Let's hear
1:28:01
Speaker 4: what he had to say. Okay, we'll get to that
1:28:07
Speaker 4: in just a moment. But again, ladies and gentlemen, there
1:28:13
Speaker 4: is great anger that Zohran Mamdami, a man who pals
1:28:18
Speaker 4: around with, you know, the phrase they're using is radical,
1:28:21
Speaker 4: they're radical Islamist. But I have yet to hear of
1:28:26
Speaker 4: any organizations, and going all the way back to the
1:28:30
Speaker 4: aftermath of 9-11, a lot of those imams sure were quiet,
1:28:35
Speaker 4: weren't they? Didn't have a lot of folks, did not
1:28:38
Speaker 4: have a lot of folks condemning the attacks coming out
1:28:41
Speaker 4: of the mosques. Take a listen.
1:28:44
Speaker 17: On that fateful day at 9-11, I looked out my
1:28:46
Speaker 17: window on 34th Street and 7th Avenue saw the Twin
1:28:49
Speaker 17: Towers go down. I'm a veteran, United States veteran, and
1:28:54
Speaker 17: I don't have a whole lot to say about Zoran Mandani.
1:28:58
Speaker 17: He should not be here. I wrote him a letter
1:29:00
Speaker 17: on August the 3rd. It's up on our website explaining
1:29:03
Speaker 17: why he's such a divisive figure. He said that something
1:29:06
Speaker 17: happened on 9-11. I'll tell you what happened. Radical Muslims
1:29:10
Speaker 17: came in here to bomb the United States of America.
1:29:13
Speaker 17: I don't say Muslims, because that's wrong. I'm talking about
1:29:16
Speaker 17: radical Muslims. He can't bring himself to say that. He
1:29:19
Speaker 17: is more concerned about Islamophobia than he is the death
1:29:22
Speaker 17: of 3,000 people, innocent people on that day.
1:29:26
Speaker 2: This man is a disgrace to veterans.
1:29:28
Speaker 17: And believe me, as a Catholic, we contacted the NYPD,
1:29:32
Speaker 17: the FDNY, and Port Authority a year later. 85 to
1:29:35
Speaker 17: 90 percent of the first responders who were murdered, they
1:29:39
Speaker 17: were Catholic.
1:29:39
Speaker 2: So we have a special interest in that, too.
1:29:41
Speaker 17: And we stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters against
1:29:45
Speaker 17: the likes of Hassan Piker, who says nothing but good
1:29:48
Speaker 17: things about the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
1:29:51
Speaker 2: It's a disgrace. Mandami, do us all a favor and
1:29:54
Speaker 2: just stay home.
1:29:56
Speaker 4: I mean, it's pretty clear to me. And again, my
1:30:00
Speaker 4: question is, why would you go? I mean, if you've
1:30:04
Speaker 4: got thousands of family members saying, stay away, stay away,
1:30:08
Speaker 4: and you're going to show up in spite of that,
1:30:11
Speaker 4: that is thumbing your nose at these people. Cut number seven, please.
1:30:16
Speaker 2: I'm proud to be the mayor of this city. I
1:30:19
Speaker 2: love this city.
1:30:19
Speaker 9: I love this country. And what I want this week
1:30:22
Speaker 9: to be a focus on is on the families whose
1:30:25
Speaker 9: loved ones were stolen from them 25 years ago in
1:30:28
Speaker 9: the horrific act of terror of September 11th. And a
1:30:31
Speaker 9: focus also on the first responders who gave everything they
1:30:34
Speaker 9: could to this city and to the people who came
1:30:36
Speaker 9: together to try and help their fellow New Yorkers. And
1:30:39
Speaker 9: so in the days to come, my focus will be
1:30:41
Speaker 9: on attending events that memorializes that incredible courage. And I
1:30:44
Speaker 9: will be there on Friday at the memorial just as
1:30:47
Speaker 9: I was last year.
1:30:47
Speaker 11: Did you see Giuliani's comments and did you have any
1:30:50
Speaker 11: thoughts on them?
1:30:51
Speaker 6: I don't have much more to add.
1:30:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm telling you, this guy, he doesn't need to
1:30:58
Speaker 4: be anywhere near that. Nowhere near the memorial at all.
1:31:05
Speaker 4: What a shame what's happening. What a shame. 901-260-5926. Our
1:31:11
Speaker 4: telephone number, should the mayor stay away? Cut 21, please.
1:31:16
Speaker 4: I lost my father, Joseph Oswald Pick, in the South Tower.
1:31:22
Speaker 10: My message to Mayor Mondani is, dude, we don't want
1:31:24
Speaker 10: you to come.
1:31:25
Speaker 12: My beautiful wife, and to have this man not attend
1:31:29
Speaker 12: our service. The main purpose is just that. We don't
1:31:33
Speaker 12: believe in what he believes in. and we really want
1:31:37
Speaker 12: us to be left alone. The purpose of this whole thing,
1:31:40
Speaker 12: this 25th anniversary, is for our victims and our survivors
1:31:44
Speaker 12: to blend in and pray that day for all the families,
1:31:48
Speaker 12: not have a circus around us. So my thoughts, my
1:31:52
Speaker 12: prayers are with all the family members. I thank everyone.
1:31:56
Speaker 12: This is my beautiful wife, Grace Galante, and I just
1:31:59
Speaker 12: want to say thank you for having us here.
1:32:01
Speaker 23: First moment i think he should really respect us as
1:32:04
Speaker 23: a we're his constituents we're i'm a native new yorker
1:32:07
Speaker 23: born and bred my whole life and i think if
1:32:09
Speaker 23: someone says just give us some 7 to 11 just
1:32:13
Speaker 23: let us have our peace at our memorial to really
1:32:17
Speaker 23: understand why we're here we're honoring our loved ones and
1:32:20
Speaker 23: he didn't go to the 20 he didn't go to
1:32:22
Speaker 23: the 25th anniversary of flight of um 93, the bombing.
1:32:28
Speaker 6: And he was free.
1:32:29
Speaker 23: So I don't know why he's so animate about going
1:32:31
Speaker 23: to this one when we just asked that he just
1:32:33
Speaker 23: respect us from 7 to 11 and let us have
1:32:37
Speaker 23: our morning.
1:32:38
Speaker 24: My husband Tom was killed 9-11.
1:32:42
Speaker 6: He worked for Eurobrokers. He was 35 years old.
1:32:47
Speaker 24: I want to make clear that our petition is not about.
1:32:53
Speaker 24: Mayor Mamdani's religion or where he came from. It is
1:32:57
Speaker 24: strictly about the policies that he has today.
1:33:01
Speaker 6: Yes, he was a.
1:33:01
Speaker 24: Nine-year-old boy when 9-11 happened, but it is today that
1:33:04
Speaker 24: he stands with people like Hassan Piker.
1:33:07
Speaker 6: It is today that he hires people like Ramzi Qasem.
1:33:14
Speaker 24: It is today that he stands with an imam that
1:33:16
Speaker 24: was a co-conspirator of the 93 bombing.
1:33:19
Speaker 6: That is what we object to.
1:33:21
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:33:22
Speaker 4: What do you think, ladies and gentlemen? Should the mayor
1:33:25
Speaker 4: stay away?
1:33:25
Speaker 16: 901-260-5926.
1:33:26
Speaker 4: That's 901-260-5926. Got to take a break. We'll be right back, everybody.
1:33:51
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1:33:56
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1:34:01
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1:34:11
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1:34:15
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1:34:20
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1:34:26
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1:35:04
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1:35:11
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1:35:50
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1:35:53
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1:35:58
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1:36:06
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Speaker 4: Say hello to Mary Walter, host of Mary Walter Radio.
1:36:20
Speaker 4: A little harsh, the criticism today, Mary.
1:36:26
Speaker 20: Well, you know, you don't know which one was for me.
1:36:29
Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
1:36:31
Speaker 20: I'm kidding. You know, the guy who said toilet paper,
1:36:36
Speaker 20: you know, and it's only one ply. Joke's on him
1:36:39
Speaker 20: because during the next pandemic, you won't have to run
1:36:41
Speaker 20: out for toilet paper then, see?
1:36:43
Speaker 4: Well, there you go. That's an easy fix, an easy fix. Mary,
1:36:48
Speaker 4: how you been doing?
1:36:49
Speaker 20: Crazy.
1:36:51
Speaker 24: How are you?
1:36:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, doing well. You know, they've got me on the
1:36:54
Speaker 4: book tour, which is a lot of work. It's a
1:36:57
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1:37:01
Speaker 20: Yeah, that's why you can't get the five miles in
1:37:04
Speaker 20: every day, right?
1:37:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, that's it. Yeah, let's go with that.
1:37:10
Speaker 20: No, but during it, you were kind enough to come
1:37:13
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1:37:16
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1:37:18
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1:37:21
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1:37:22
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1:37:24
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1:37:27
Speaker 17: Yeah.
1:37:28
Speaker 20: People don't realize what goes into it. I mean, it's
1:37:30
Speaker 20: tough being a star.
1:37:31
Speaker 4: Well, you know, oh, the struggles. No, look, it's been great.
1:37:36
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1:37:39
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1:37:43
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1:37:46
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1:37:50
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1:37:54
Speaker 4: on the podcast.
1:37:56
Speaker 20: Well, listen, it's hard to get high-caliber guests. Last week
1:37:59
Speaker 20: it was my husband. Um, but it was because of, because, well,
1:38:04
Speaker 20: we had an event happen and it tied into like
1:38:07
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1:38:09
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1:38:12
Speaker 20: If you're planning on catching it, no podcast tonight, because
1:38:16
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1:38:20
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1:38:23
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1:38:28
Speaker 4: Mary, we've been following the development. out of New York
1:38:30
Speaker 4: City where all of these 9-11 families are holding a
1:38:35
Speaker 4: press conference today, and they're telling Mandami, do not come here.
1:38:40
Speaker 4: Please stay away. And, I mean, I get it, he's
1:38:43
Speaker 4: the mayor of New York City, but at the same time,
1:38:45
Speaker 4: you've got hundreds of people saying, stay away. Maybe the
1:38:50
Speaker 4: diplomatic thing to do here is to stay away. I'm
1:38:53
Speaker 4: curious to hear your thoughts on that.
1:38:55
Speaker 20: Yeah, he should stay away, especially after he handed the
1:38:57
Speaker 20: pen to the head of Tish, whatever her name is.
1:39:03
Speaker 20: She's the head of police, and she had to hand
1:39:06
Speaker 20: it to the guy who represented one of the terrorists,
1:39:11
Speaker 20: And that she, it was like a hostage video with
1:39:14
Speaker 20: her doing that. She looked so uncomfortable. Why am I here?
1:39:18
Speaker 20: She was rethinking all of her life choices at that moment.
1:39:20
Speaker 20: And is the pension worth it? And supposedly the last
1:39:26
Speaker 20: thing I saw, over 10,000 people signed the petition to
1:39:29
Speaker 20: tell him.
1:39:29
Speaker 15: To stay away.
1:39:29
Speaker 20: And I'm like, yeah, too bad those 10,000 people didn't
1:39:33
Speaker 20: bother casting a ballot in the mayoral election. There you go.
1:39:36
Speaker 20: Because if they had, maybe they wouldn't be in this position. So,
1:39:41
Speaker 20: you know what, I think he wants to go just
1:39:44
Speaker 20: to stick it to them. I just honestly think he
1:39:47
Speaker 20: is so anti-American. He is an Islamist, not Muslim. He
1:39:51
Speaker 20: is an Islamist, and he is loving every minute of this.
1:39:56
Speaker 20: I think he just laughs at the people who voted
1:39:58
Speaker 20: for him every single day. I just really do.
1:40:03
Speaker 14: He is just.
1:40:03
Speaker 20: Ushering in Islamism.
1:40:05
Speaker 4: You see, I'm with you, Mary, and I hate to
1:40:07
Speaker 4: feel that way, but I think he's privately going to gloat.
1:40:11
Speaker 4: You know, I mean, 25 years later, and who would
1:40:15
Speaker 4: have thought this is where New York City would have been?
1:40:19
Speaker 20: Well, exactly, because we have a generation that wasn't taught history.
1:40:22
Speaker 20: You know, I don't even know if they teach about
1:40:25
Speaker 20: Pearl Harbor, but I mean, our generation was taught about
1:40:28
Speaker 20: Pearl Harbor, and Lord knows we weren't alive during it.
1:40:32
Speaker 20: But we have not taught these kids. And it's our fault.
1:40:36
Speaker 20: Parents did not pay attention to what their kids were
1:40:38
Speaker 20: learning in school. They didn't ask them, how was your
1:40:40
Speaker 20: day today?
1:40:40
Speaker 7: What did you learn?
1:40:41
Speaker 20: That just didn't happen. And now we're paying the price
1:40:44
Speaker 20: for it.
1:40:45
Speaker 4: Mary, I want to bring in, we have a caller, Kim,
1:40:49
Speaker 4: from Georgia, listening to us on WDUN. Kim, you're on
1:40:53
Speaker 4: the air with me and Mary. Walter, what's on your mind?
1:40:58
Speaker 18: Hey, thanks, Todd. Just wanted to say that those victims
1:41:02
Speaker 18: of 9-11 were hijacked. Their planes were hijacked that day.
1:41:06
Speaker 18: This mayor, Mamdani of New York, is trying to hijack
1:41:10
Speaker 18: also their memory. We can't let that happen. I would
1:41:14
Speaker 18: really love if you could get a message to President Trump.
1:41:17
Speaker 18: Any members of Congress, please, please reconsider. If they want
1:41:20
Speaker 18: to rename something, rename Labor Day 9-11 Patriot Day. so
1:41:27
Speaker 18: that we do not lose, no one can take that
1:41:29
Speaker 18: memory and recognition from America. I think the whole definition
1:41:35
Speaker 18: or whatever our Constitution says about being a traitor, I
1:41:39
Speaker 18: think a movement needs to start with Mamdani being labeled
1:41:43
Speaker 18: or being called a traitor and do some time for
1:41:45
Speaker 18: being a traitor.
1:41:46
Speaker 4: All right, Kim, thank you for that call. I think
1:41:51
Speaker 4: this is something that all of us feel. Even if
1:41:53
Speaker 4: we don't live in New York City or even have
1:41:55
Speaker 4: a connection to New York City, this was an attack
1:41:58
Speaker 4: on all of us on 9-11.
1:41:59
Speaker 20: Yeah, except like I said, the younger generation, the under-30 crowd,
1:42:04
Speaker 20: I think socialism's great. You know, they're the ones who
1:42:07
Speaker 20: are wearing burqas in solidarity with the Muslims who are being,
1:42:10
Speaker 20: you know, victimized. I'm like, you are so stupid because
1:42:13
Speaker 20: you also, you know, want to empower women at the
1:42:14
Speaker 20: same time. And I, you know, can't do anything but
1:42:17
Speaker 20: laugh at them. So, I think we've lost it. I
1:42:20
Speaker 20: think the under-30 crowd would disagree wholeheartedly with you. I
1:42:23
Speaker 20: think the under-30 crowd, you know, feels like America in
1:42:26
Speaker 20: some way, shape, or form got what they deserved. As
1:42:30
Speaker 20: Al-Said said, right? America got what it deserved 9-11. But
1:42:35
Speaker 20: September 11th is officially designated Patriot Day. It is, even
1:42:39
Speaker 20: on my little calendar, says Patriot Day. We don't get
1:42:42
Speaker 20: the day off, and the only people who would get
1:42:44
Speaker 20: it off are government workers anyway. But it is designated
1:42:47
Speaker 20: as Patriot Day.
1:42:48
Speaker 4: You know, Dylan, I'm curious. I mean, you grew up
1:42:52
Speaker 4: during that era. Did you guys study what happened on
1:42:57
Speaker 4: 9-11 in your school?
1:42:59
Speaker 7: I'm trying to remember. I know that we did a
1:43:02
Speaker 7: few each year that 9-11 came back around. We would
1:43:05
Speaker 7: watch videos and we would watch a few documentaries and stuff.
1:43:09
Speaker 7: So definitely while I was in high school, we remembered
1:43:12
Speaker 7: it as we should. But I don't know. Education wise,
1:43:15
Speaker 7: I don't think they really talked about it too much, but.
1:43:18
Speaker 7: videos we were.
1:43:18
Speaker 4: Shown mary the caveat here is dylan went to school
1:43:21
Speaker 4: of mississippi so yeah they would probably learn about that
1:43:25
Speaker 4: but i think in some of these other schools and
1:43:27
Speaker 4: maybe more liberal states yeah i don't think they're if
1:43:29
Speaker 4: they are learning about it they're learning that america was
1:43:32
Speaker 4: to blame.
1:43:32
Speaker 20: Right and someone just texted me and said the latest
1:43:36
Speaker 20: numbers over a hundred and one thousand people have signed
1:43:38
Speaker 20: that petition.
1:43:39
Speaker 4: Wow wow that person's in new york so Look, I mean,
1:43:45
Speaker 4: they're trying to send a message, and it is what
1:43:49
Speaker 4: it is. But, again, elections have consequences. And, Mary, if
1:43:52
Speaker 4: people stay home and vote in the midterms, you're going
1:43:55
Speaker 4: to be electing a lot of people like Zohra Mamdami
1:43:57
Speaker 4: to Congress.
1:43:59
Speaker 20: A hundred percent. But, you know, I just, I know
1:44:03
Speaker 20: people who voted for Trump who were just like, I'm
1:44:06
Speaker 20: sitting it out. I can't vote for a Republican. Trump
1:44:10
Speaker 20: broke his promises. He broke his campaign promises. He said
1:44:14
Speaker 20: no new wars.
1:44:15
Speaker 18: I'm like, dude.
1:44:17
Speaker 20: And you try to explain to them, but they're like
1:44:19
Speaker 20: people who vote on, they're one-issue voters. So it's like
1:44:22
Speaker 20: someone who votes about abortion. That's the only thing they
1:44:24
Speaker 20: care about. That's how they can decide to cast their ballots.
1:44:27
Speaker 20: Nothing else matters. And I think a lot of people
1:44:30
Speaker 20: are kind of like that for different things. Because politics
1:44:34
Speaker 20: is hard. It's hard to keep up on everything. You
1:44:37
Speaker 20: can't be a voter for every issue. But I don't know.
1:44:43
Speaker 20: I think there are a lot of people. What is
1:44:44
Speaker 20: his latest approval rating? Like in the 30s?
1:44:48
Speaker 4: It is.
1:44:50
Speaker 20: Labor Day weekend, we broke records for the price of gas.
1:44:53
Speaker 20: Not in a good way.
1:44:55
Speaker 4: No, and I get it, and it troubles me that
1:44:58
Speaker 4: people are going to vote based on that and not
1:45:00
Speaker 4: the fact that we've got to stop an infestation of
1:45:03
Speaker 4: communism in our country. That's what we've got to be
1:45:05
Speaker 4: worried about. And, yeah, am I frustrated with the war? Absolutely.
1:45:10
Speaker 4: High gas prices, you better believe it. But we have
1:45:13
Speaker 4: more pressing matters, and we have got to make sure
1:45:16
Speaker 4: that people get out and vote.
1:45:19
Speaker 20: Listen, I agree. And, again, no offense to Dylan here.
1:45:23
Speaker 20: But the under 30 crowd is very open. I think
1:45:26
Speaker 20: it's almost 60% of them are open to socialism. Like, hey, yeah,
1:45:28
Speaker 20: let's give it a try.
1:45:31
Speaker 4: Mary Walter.
1:45:32
Speaker 20: How do you counter that ideology? Anyway, sorry.
1:45:34
Speaker 4: No, no, no. No, it's Mary Walter joining us on
1:45:38
Speaker 4: our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Be sure to follow her podcast,
1:45:42
Speaker 4: Mary Walter Radio. Now, tonight she's not doing a show,
1:45:46
Speaker 4: but usually every Tuesday evening. you can watch her big podcast.
1:45:52
Speaker 4: It's a lot of fun.
1:45:54
Speaker 20: Thank you.
1:45:55
Speaker 4: James Carville is back in the news again. Oh, who
1:46:01
Speaker 4: is he married to, the Republican? Oh, Mary Matlin.
1:46:04
Speaker 20: Mary Matlin, yeah.
1:46:06
Speaker 4: One of those Marys.
1:46:08
Speaker 20: One of the two of us.
1:46:14
Speaker 4: Anyway, he's very upset. And here's what James Carville had
1:46:18
Speaker 4: to say.
1:46:18
Speaker 2: I'm very upset.
1:46:19
Speaker 4: The only answer I came up with is that Donald
1:46:22
Speaker 4: Trump wants Republicans to lose.
1:46:25
Speaker 2: He hates them.
1:46:27
Speaker 4: He wants to torture them. That's James Carville. He says,
1:46:35
Speaker 4: Trump wants the Republicans to lose. I was interpreting for you.
1:46:38
Speaker 4: That's that Louisiana slang he's got.
1:46:43
Speaker 20: Wait, so first of all, are you going to play it,
1:46:45
Speaker 20: or was that just you acting?
1:46:46
Speaker 4: No, that was just me.
1:46:47
Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
1:46:49
Speaker 20: Why does Trump want Republicans to lose?
1:46:51
Speaker 4: I don't know. It seems to me he would want
1:46:54
Speaker 4: them to win so he doesn't get impeached, but that's
1:46:58
Speaker 4: just me.
1:46:59
Speaker 20: I don't think Trump cares about getting impeached again. He's like, whatever,
1:47:04
Speaker 20: nothing's going to happen. He knows nothing's going to happen,
1:47:06
Speaker 20: and he knows it's just a stall tactic. May I
1:47:08
Speaker 20: just say, though, and maybe this is off of... taking
1:47:10
Speaker 20: you in a different direction from which you wanted to go.
1:47:13
Speaker 20: But that's the beauty when you're a guest. Did you
1:47:15
Speaker 20: notice that John Boone's not speaking at the Republican convention?
1:47:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you make of that?
1:47:21
Speaker 20: John, do you think that everybody doesn't know what's going on?
1:47:24
Speaker 20: You and I know what's going on. Your listeners know
1:47:27
Speaker 20: what's going on. John Boone is the saboteur in the party.
1:47:32
Speaker 20: One of many, but he's the leader.
1:47:36
Speaker 4: Well, he is, and he knows. Here's my take on this, Mary.
1:47:40
Speaker 4: He knows that he's going to be there long after
1:47:42
Speaker 4: Trump is gone. So Trump's gone in two years. Thune's
1:47:45
Speaker 4: still going to be there. And he knows it, and
1:47:48
Speaker 4: there's really nothing Trump can do about it, which is
1:47:50
Speaker 4: why the guy's putting the kibosh on the Trump agenda
1:47:54
Speaker 4: there in the Senate.
1:47:55
Speaker 20: Yep, yep. And it's all about him. It's not about
1:47:58
Speaker 20: his constituents.
1:48:00
Speaker 4: It's about him.
1:48:01
Speaker 20: He's not representing his constituents. If they don't represent their constituents,
1:48:04
Speaker 20: I think they ought to be impeached.
1:48:05
Speaker 9: I really do.
1:48:06
Speaker 20: Or taken out. You know, out of Congress. I don't
1:48:09
Speaker 20: know how we do that, but it needs to happen.
1:48:12
Speaker 4: Mary, have fun tonight, and good luck. Do you want
1:48:16
Speaker 4: to say what show you're going to be hosting? Are
1:48:17
Speaker 4: you allowed to?
1:48:18
Speaker 20: I don't think you want me to. I don't think
1:48:20
Speaker 20: I can say it, but I don't think you want
1:48:21
Speaker 20: me to. It's not on your station.
1:48:23
Speaker 4: Well, it's okay. I mean, it's you. We're friends.
1:48:27
Speaker 20: No, I know, but it's on a competing station in
1:48:28
Speaker 20: your area.
1:48:29
Speaker 4: Oh, wait, what? Are you kidding me?
1:48:32
Speaker 2: What?
1:48:33
Speaker 3: What?
1:48:34
Speaker 20: I don't want to say it.
1:48:34
Speaker 4: All right, don't say it.
1:48:37
Speaker 14: That's you because we're friends.
1:48:39
Speaker 9: Oh, Lord.
1:48:40
Speaker 4: All right, Mary, good luck tonight. We look forward to
1:48:43
Speaker 4: getting you back on every Tuesday right here on the
1:48:46
Speaker 4: Todd Stern Show. Thanks, Mary.
1:48:47
Speaker 20: Thank you, my friend.
1:48:49
Speaker 14: Have a good one.
1:48:49
Speaker 4: All right. There you go, Mary Walter. Oh, we forgot
1:48:53
Speaker 4: to ask Mary about the peanut butter and tomato sandwiches.
1:48:56
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that she probably wouldn't know.
1:48:59
Speaker 9: I don't know.
1:48:59
Speaker 7: I just have a gut feeling.
1:49:01
Speaker 4: It'll save you. We'll hit her up again next week.
1:49:05
Speaker 4: All right, we've got to take a break here, everybody. 901-260-5926.
1:49:07
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1:49:28
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1:49:31
Speaker 4: with us. Now, look, coming up this week, we're going
1:49:35
Speaker 4: to be taking you live to the big rally in Dallas.
1:49:39
Speaker 4: We're going to have a lot of great guests, a
1:49:41
Speaker 4: lot of lawmakers coming on. So we're going to provide
1:49:44
Speaker 4: you extended coverage of what all is happening down there.
1:49:47
Speaker 4: Of course, President Trump's speeches will be in the evening time,
1:49:51
Speaker 4: and we'll be covering those the day after. Meanwhile, there
1:49:55
Speaker 4: is a bakery, and we have this story up at ToddStearns.com.
1:49:59
Speaker 4: A Texas bakery suffers a raging case of Trump derangement syndrome.
1:50:05
Speaker 4: It's called the Hive Bakery. They're located in Flower Mound,
1:50:10
Speaker 4: which is right outside of Dallas. And they're selling anti-Trump cookies.
1:50:16
Speaker 4: And what's shocking about this is that thousands of people
1:50:21
Speaker 4: are buying these cookies. And they all agree with Hive.
1:50:24
Speaker 4: I mean, you've got a lot of Democrats in the
1:50:26
Speaker 4: Dallas area. What can I tell you? Anyway, the bakery
1:50:31
Speaker 4: posting a profane message on their social media page, quote,
1:50:35
Speaker 4: we read that Orange Face will be in Dallas this
1:50:38
Speaker 4: week for the midterm convention, so we're making special cookies.
1:50:42
Speaker 4: Blank this guy and his entire administration for ruining our country.
1:50:48
Speaker 4: Our food is poison. Gas is up. Groceries are up.
1:50:52
Speaker 4: Women have no reproductive rights. Immigrants are in concentration camps.
1:50:57
Speaker 4: Wild horses are being slaughtered. Wait, what? Trump's killing horses now?
1:51:03
Speaker 4: I must have missed that one. The LGBTQ plus community
1:51:06
Speaker 4: is under attack. Billionaires are getting richer. The bakery goes
1:51:12
Speaker 4: on to say we're still baffled that there are people
1:51:15
Speaker 4: in America who still support this fascist regime. So we'll
1:51:18
Speaker 4: do what we do best, speak out. So there you go.
1:51:23
Speaker 4: The Hive Bakery. People have lost their ever-loving minds about this.
1:51:29
Speaker 4: For the record, Trump is not killing wild horses, and
1:51:32
Speaker 4: there are no illegals in concentration camps. I don't know
1:51:36
Speaker 4: who needs to hear that. Anyway, go read our story
1:51:39
Speaker 4: at ToddStearns.com. We also have photos of the profane Trump cookies.
1:51:45
Speaker 4: So you'll see all of that again at ToddStearns.com. Ladies
1:51:49
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1:51:51
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1:51:53
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1:51:56
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