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Are Republicans in Trouble? · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Well Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: It's America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's.
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  Speaker 3: American UD start well, day, Well, Hello, everybody, Welcome to
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  Speaker 3: the Todd Starnes Radio Program. What an honor to have
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  Speaker 3: you with us today, everybody. Wow. A lot going on,
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  Speaker 3: and we're waiting for the wine House Press briefing that
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  Speaker 3: kicks in in about an hour or so. We'll we'll
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  Speaker 3: try to dip into that. We're going to be monitoring
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  Speaker 3: that in the next in the next hour of the show,
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  Speaker 3: I want to start out by talking about something and
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  Speaker 3: we've got to get this this figured out, because there
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  Speaker 3: are some things happening within the country that are going
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  Speaker 3: to be somewhat problematic for the midterm elections. And I
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  Speaker 3: am still a very hopeful person that Republicans are going
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  Speaker 3: to be able to win. The Democrats are in complete
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  Speaker 3: disarray here, but there are some weird factors out there.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, there's some new polling. Trump is fifty
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  Speaker 3: eight points underwater with independence on taxes, for one, and
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  Speaker 3: that's a big, big deal. So independence may be bolting
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  Speaker 3: from the president and young young Americans, these gen zers
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  Speaker 3: who were just enthralled with President Trump in the presidential campaign.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, he showed up at the fraternity
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  Speaker 3: houses and the kids loved the president, and he grilled
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  Speaker 3: burgers with him, had all the maga stuff. And a
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  Speaker 3: lot of folks are now saying there may be a
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  Speaker 3: problem there that a lot of young people are turned
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  Speaker 3: off by the war in Iran and therefore they are
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  Speaker 3: turning against this president. Now. I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 3: I do know that a lot of conservatives are very upset.
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  Speaker 3: A young conservatives are upset about the war because they
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  Speaker 3: don't want to get drafted and they don't want to
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  Speaker 3: have to fight overseas. And that's a reasonable concern to have.
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  Speaker 3: There are other conservatives that are a little worried that
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  Speaker 3: the four week war, which is now what an eight
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  Speaker 3: week seven or eight week war, could go even further.
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  Speaker 3: And it could. It could end up that we are
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  Speaker 3: still involved in hostilities going into the summer months. And
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's a possibility. I don't know what you
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  Speaker 3: want me to tell you there, but that is in
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  Speaker 3: fact a possibility. But it's what happened last night, and
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  Speaker 3: I want to we're going to open up the phone
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  Speaker 3: lines on this because there's something going on. So yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: Turning Point USA held a big gathering in Athens, Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: which is home to the University of Georgia, and it
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  Speaker 3: was at an arena in the downtown area. And this
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  Speaker 3: arena seats upwards of about eighty five about eighty five
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  Speaker 3: hundred people, eight to eighty five hundred people. So I
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  Speaker 3: was curious, and again I completely forgot that Advance was
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  Speaker 3: actually speaking at this thing. But anyway, I started getting
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  Speaker 3: all of these notifications, Hey, are you watching what's happening
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  Speaker 3: at the University of Georgia, which is really Athens. Roy
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  Speaker 3: was off campus at the arena. Are you paying attention
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  Speaker 3: to what's going on there? And I'm like, no, what's
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  Speaker 3: going on? And so I did some searching, and all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden, I'm seeing all these photographs of pretty
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  Speaker 3: much an empty arena, and I'm like, this can't be right.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Vice president of the United States JDA events.
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  Speaker 3: He is like the poster child for the college kids.
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  Speaker 3: They're supposed to they're supposed to love this guy. So
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  Speaker 3: it turns out that and this is I mean, they're
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  Speaker 3: being very generous with the numbers, but only about fifteen
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  Speaker 3: hundred people actually showed up to see Vice President Vance
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  Speaker 3: at this Turning Point USA event. And it's been my understanding,
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  Speaker 3: my understanding that these TPUSA events have been wall to
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  Speaker 3: wall people until recently. So what's going on here? I
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  Speaker 3: mean it's really they say fifteen hundred, I would maybe
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  Speaker 3: a thousand people. Maybe a thousand people. Anyway, this is
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  Speaker 3: part of the Turning Point USA College Tour. Now a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people are saying, well, you know, Erica Kirk
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  Speaker 3: wasn't there and she was the main draw. Is that true?
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  Speaker 3: Is Erica Kirk a better draw than the Vice president
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  Speaker 3: of the United States? You say, Tom, why are we
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  Speaker 3: going down this panth No, just trust me on this
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  Speaker 3: because there's something, something odd, something is off. So anyway,
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  Speaker 3: the way the story goes is that at the very
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  Speaker 3: last minute, Erica Kirk canceled her appearance, citing security concerns
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  Speaker 3: and the Vice president. As a matter of fact, I
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  Speaker 3: think Fox News was talking about this earlier today a
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  Speaker 3: cut twenty five police. What's sort of light you want
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  Speaker 3: to shed on what she was experiencing and what's happening now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it was a really unfortunate experience for
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  Speaker 4: me too, just to have to watch that very difficult
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  Speaker 4: decision get made, which I think is the first time
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  Speaker 4: that we've ever had to make that decision in Turning
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  Speaker 4: Point history. But everything that happened with Charlie, obviously his assassination,
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  Speaker 4: were still, you know, grieving that, and you saw what
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  Speaker 4: happened with Savanna Hernandez, one of our TPOSA frontlines reporters
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  Speaker 4: in Minneapolis. And to see the security team, you know,
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  Speaker 4: tell us we cannot guarantee your safety, we recommend that
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  Speaker 4: you don't do this was a really chilling moment for
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  Speaker 4: all of us to kind of have to internalize and
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  Speaker 4: experience and realize that Erica Kirk is, you know, her
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  Speaker 4: children are one parent away from being orphans, and sometimes
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  Speaker 4: you just have to say, listen, right now, what's most
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  Speaker 4: important is your safety, is your security and your children
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  Speaker 4: and your family. Let your team handle this, Let us
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  Speaker 4: do what we can do. And so, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: obviously was horrified at the reason why, but I was
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  Speaker 4: honored to stand in and pinch Hint for Erica last night,
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  Speaker 4: and I was grateful for the Vice president to that
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  Speaker 4: we didn't have to ultimately cancel the entire event. He
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  Speaker 4: was willing to do it with me, and it was
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  Speaker 4: very gracious.
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  Speaker 3: Of all right, so and Vice President, very gracious, matter
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  Speaker 3: of fact, the Vice President to address the issue from
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  Speaker 3: the stage at the virtually empty arena last night. Let's
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  Speaker 3: hear from the Vice President.
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  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I love Erica, and I know
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  Speaker 5: that she did get some threats. And you know, about
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  Speaker 5: two hours ago, you know, Andrew, I was a little
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  Speaker 5: worried that we were going to have to cancel the
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  Speaker 5: event because Erica was not going to come, and she
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  Speaker 5: was very worried about it. And I talked to the
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  Speaker 5: Secret Service, and obviously these guys do a very good job,
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  Speaker 5: and I said, you know what, let's let Erica do
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  Speaker 5: what she needs to do for herself and her family.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure Andrew will fill in, and let's go and
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  Speaker 5: make this an amazing event with the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens, Georgia.
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  Speaker 6: So absolutely we're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: Is all right. So I don't get a paycheck from TPUSA,
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  Speaker 3: I don't get a paycheck from the White House. I
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  Speaker 3: speak my mind. And this whole thing is weird. I
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  Speaker 3: will tell you that the photographs that they posted TPUSA
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  Speaker 3: posted were quite frankly of propaganda photos because it was
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  Speaker 3: very clear that the photos were taken in such a
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  Speaker 3: way as to hide the fact that it was a
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  Speaker 3: mostly empty arena. Now, I want to say something about
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  Speaker 3: the security issue and if in fact there are people
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  Speaker 3: out there threatening Erica Kirk's life, they need to be
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  Speaker 3: hunted down, they need to be arrested, they need to
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  Speaker 3: be charged, and they need to go to jail for
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  Speaker 3: a very long time. So we have reached out to
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  Speaker 3: and I did this yesterday. I reached out to the
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  Speaker 3: University of Georgia campus Police, the Athens Police Department, and
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  Speaker 3: the Georgiareau, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Also, I reached
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  Speaker 3: out to Turning Point USA to find out about the
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  Speaker 3: nature of the threats and if in fact these threats
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  Speaker 3: had been reported to authorities, and if in fact authorities
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  Speaker 3: are investigating the threats. And I will tell you that
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  Speaker 3: we have not received an any feedback from anybody, including
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  Speaker 3: Turning Point USA. And that's an important part of the story.
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  Speaker 3: You know, part of journalism is something called trust but verify.
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  Speaker 3: So we were doing our due diligence to go out
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  Speaker 3: there and verify these reports that you know, they announced
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  Speaker 3: to the crowd that Erica Kirk canceled at the last
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  Speaker 3: minute because of what they considered to be very serious
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  Speaker 3: credible threats. Now here's my other question. If in fact
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  Speaker 3: there were very serious credible threats, why in the world
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  Speaker 3: did the Secret Service allow Jade Vance to take that stage?
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  Speaker 3: Why would they put the Vice president of the United
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  Speaker 3: States in a potentially dangerous situation? And I don't know
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  Speaker 3: the answer to that question. We hope to get the
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  Speaker 3: answer to that question. But more importantly than that, setting
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  Speaker 3: that aside for just a moment, and again, I believe
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  Speaker 3: that the way that Erica Kirk has been treated, and
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  Speaker 3: especially by you know podcast to stand, it's it's in
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  Speaker 3: vainly awful. I mean, the woman's husband was assassinated and
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  Speaker 3: the woman is grieving. Now there are people out there
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  Speaker 3: that are saying, okay, but she can't have it both ways,
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  Speaker 3: because they're saying, oh, leave her bee, she's grieving. But
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  Speaker 3: the next minute she's up on stage and I get
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  Speaker 3: the emails. Todd, You're being a hypocrite. She can't have
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  Speaker 3: it both ways, So why are you defending all of this? Well,
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  Speaker 3: because she's a grieving widow and people grieve in different ways.
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  Speaker 3: Some people are very quiet and private and others like
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  Speaker 3: to dress up and you know, thousand dollars outfits and
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  Speaker 3: go out onto a stage with pyrotechnics. That is not
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  Speaker 3: for me to judge. You know, people grieve in different ways,
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  Speaker 3: and they do. But that's not the issue. The issue
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  Speaker 3: is the Vice President of the United States was in Athens, Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: The state of Georgia went red for Trump in the
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  Speaker 3: last presidential election. It is a red state aside from
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  Speaker 3: whatever is going on with the senators there. So why
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  Speaker 3: in the world was there not a standing room only
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  Speaker 3: crowd to greet the Vice President of the United States JD.
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  Speaker 3: Vance in Athens, Georgia. That's insane to me. They were
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  Speaker 3: actually saying that there may have been just as many
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  Speaker 3: people protesting the event outside that actually inside. So I'm wondering,
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  Speaker 3: how do we read this. I mean, and there may
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  Speaker 3: be a lot of different factors here. Again, it was
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  Speaker 3: what Tuesday. You had all the new movies come out
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  Speaker 3: on Netflix on Tuesdays. Maybe people were staying home, maybe
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  Speaker 3: the kids they had exams, or maybe it was a
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  Speaker 3: lovely day and people wanted to go outside and have
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  Speaker 3: a picnic. Dinner. Maybe they could not afford the free tickets.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but for whatever reason, there were no shows,
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  Speaker 3: and there were a lot of them, and I'm curious
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  Speaker 3: to hear from our Georgia listeners. What's going on here
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  Speaker 3: is is this a glimpse into what we can expect
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  Speaker 3: in November? And that is my big concern here. What's
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  Speaker 3: going on?
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  Speaker 7: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: A couple of days ago on the NEWSMAC show, we
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  Speaker 3: had a couple of guys. They're young conservative guys. Once
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  Speaker 3: president of the College Republicans at NYU, the other is
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  Speaker 3: a head of the College Republicans at Clemson University, and
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  Speaker 3: both guys very ultra conservative, and they are enraged at
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  Speaker 3: this administration over this war and the support we are
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  Speaker 3: giving to Israel. And I'm wondering if that is having
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  Speaker 3: a greater effect or impact that even the White House
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  Speaker 3: understands right now, because there's no reason why in the
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  Speaker 3: state of Georgia that you should not have had standing
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  Speaker 3: romonly crowd. Somebody just tweeted maybe it was the meme,
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it was the Jesus meme. Yeah, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: that was it. I don't think that was it, Or
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  Speaker 3: maybe the polling data is right, and many of these
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  Speaker 3: young conservatives are just really turned off by the decisions
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  Speaker 3: the administration's making. We hear from a lot of these kids,
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  Speaker 3: and they're having a hard time making ends meet. Things
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  Speaker 3: are not going well for them economically, financially, they're having difficulties.
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  Speaker 3: Many of you have phoned in. You've talked about gas
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  Speaker 3: prices being high, grocery store prices being high. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: just telling you there's something off. There is something off,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe this was just a great, big anomaly. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's that turning point. USA is losing its luster. And
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  Speaker 3: a couple of well, about a week or so after
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  Speaker 3: Charlie's assassination, you know, I told a group of people
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  Speaker 3: they're going to have a hard time because they do
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  Speaker 3: not have Turning Point was built on one person, one person,
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  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk. So we're going to take your calls on this.
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  Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 3: What do you make of that? Why? Why did people
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  Speaker 3: not attend that gathering of the Vice President of the
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  Speaker 3: United States, by all accounts, a very popular person. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, They did another event a couple of weeks before.
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  Speaker 3: Was that about a week before at George Washington University,
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  Speaker 3: much smaller auditorium, but they they did not pack out
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  Speaker 3: a I think it was a twelve hundred or fourteen
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  Speaker 3: hundred seat auditorium. What's going on? Nine oh one two
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  Speaker 3: six zero five, nine two six, Your calls coming up, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back. This is the Tod Starns Radio Show.
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  Speaker 3: Great to have you with us today. Let's go to
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  Speaker 3: the phone lines nine oh one two six zero five
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  Speaker 3: nine two six. We will start our day in little
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  Speaker 3: Rock can saw. Walter is on the line. Walter, what's
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  Speaker 3: on your mind?
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  Speaker 7: Hi, Todd, I hope you can hear me. My voice
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  Speaker 7: is messed up today.
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  Speaker 3: It's just fine.
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  Speaker 7: I was gonna let you know that I was listening
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  Speaker 7: to you yesterday about some of these Catholics, and there's
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  Speaker 7: there's a there's some traditional Catholics called Seti Acenthes, and
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if you've ever researched Seti Akenthes, but
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  Speaker 7: they broke away from the church there in the sixties.
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  Speaker 7: But the better to continue started. That's why the church
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  Speaker 7: is in the shape as then now. With these fake
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  Speaker 7: popes and the nonsense that they spw after miles, the
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  Speaker 7: blasphemies into they don't they don't stick to the true faith.
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  Speaker 7: So if you look up like cMRI Catholic churches, they
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  Speaker 7: are true churches and They basically believe that there has
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  Speaker 7: not been a true pope since Pope Past the twelfth,
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  Speaker 7: since nineteen fifty eight, and they stick to the true
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  Speaker 7: Roman Catholic peace.
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  Speaker 3: So so, Walter, let me so, let me. I want
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  Speaker 3: to bring this back around here to Donald Trump. So,
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  Speaker 3: when when you see the outrage coming from Catholics, you know,
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  Speaker 3: at least Catholic leadership against the president, do you believe
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  Speaker 3: that's rank and file Catholics, Because it's my impression that
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  Speaker 3: rank and file Catholics are much more conservative than the
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  Speaker 3: folks running things at the Vatican. Uh.
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  Speaker 7: I you know, I still have some friends that are
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  Speaker 7: you know, uh, novasorto, that's what we call it now.
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  Speaker 7: They say Catholics, but uh and I have not heard
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  Speaker 7: them say anything bad about President Trump. I think it's
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  Speaker 7: a lie that the media is trying to try to
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  Speaker 7: spread in to get people to believe they are Catholics.
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  Speaker 7: I have not known any Catholics to say one bad
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  Speaker 7: word about our president.
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  Speaker 3: All right, good stuff, all right, Walter, thank you for
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  Speaker 3: that call. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
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  Speaker 3: two six. Let's go to Mike in Memphis, Tennessee listening
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  Speaker 3: to us on k w A m Mike, what say
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  Speaker 3: you greetings Todd.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I've watched the video of that conference, and certainly
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  Speaker 8: you had one guy in the audience, a young college
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  Speaker 8: student that was literally calling out the vice president, and
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  Speaker 8: he was not able to confront the guy because and
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  Speaker 8: I tell you my friends who have kids in college,
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  Speaker 8: which I have a number of them, and they're all
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  Speaker 8: about the issue that what they views tp USA is
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  Speaker 8: nothing more than a propaganda arm of Israel and this
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  Speaker 8: Zionist ideology for not the Jews, but the globals bankers
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  Speaker 8: and corporations who are using the Jewish identity and idolatry
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  Speaker 8: of Zionism to further their Greater Israel project. They've genocided Palestine,
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  Speaker 8: they're working on genociding Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Wouldn't it just be easier if you just start all
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  Speaker 3: of your conversations Todd, I really have a problem with
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  Speaker 3: the Jews, and then just go on because you do
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  Speaker 3: this every time you call in. It's kind of getting old.
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  Speaker 6: No, it's not about the Jews.
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  Speaker 3: No, because you make it about the Jews. Every every
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  Speaker 3: other word out of your mouth is Israel Zionist the Jews. No,
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  Speaker 3: they're not. You know what, Mike, we're gonna leave it there.
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  Speaker 3: We got to go for a break. But here's the
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  Speaker 3: here's the reality. Folks. If you're just gonna call it
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  Speaker 3: the show and say I blame the Jews, you're not
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  Speaker 3: You're not a serious person. All right. Nine oh one
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  Speaker 3: two six zero five nine two six. That's nine oh
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  Speaker 3: one two six zero five, nine two six. This is
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  Speaker 3: the Tod Stern Show. All right. We just got this
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  Speaker 3: item from the Anthons Clark County Sheriff's office. They said,
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  Speaker 3: good morning, we are not aware of any threats made
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  Speaker 3: toward Erica Kirk. So that is officially coming from the
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  Speaker 3: Anthens Clark County Police Department. You know, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: anybody actually bothered to pick at the phone and call
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  Speaker 3: the police department to find out. But again, people are
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  Speaker 3: now alleging that the reason they're saying the real reason
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  Speaker 3: that Erica Kirk chose not to go is because she
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  Speaker 3: was going to be showing up to an empty arena.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Now TPUSA says that's not true. They said there were
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: credible serious threats. Well, let's go to the phone lines here.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Rita is actually listening to us in Athens, Georgia on wgun.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: All right, Rita, help me figure all of this out.
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: Yes, I'm here, I was born and raised in Athens, Georgia.
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: Don't live there now because it's a highly liberal sanctuary
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: city that she don't want to go within five miles off.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Well, of course, lake and Riley lost her life there,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: the precious nursing student and she was killed by an
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: illegal alien there. What do you make of of the
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: empty arena there?
• 21:03
  Speaker 9: Well, I think it would be people just like me.
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: They are Christian conservatives that support President Trump of the time.
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: But you don't want to put yourself for your family
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: in a situation like being in a liberal sanctuary city
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: like that that you could be in danger.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: So you think that's the reason why is that people
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: were it's so dangerous in Anthons, Georgia that that people
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: just did not want to go.
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: Yes, that that would be a big part of it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: All right, well, Rita, I look, I appreciate your guidance,
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: and I don't know. Maybe that's the reason why. But again,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: you just wonder, why would it's the vice president of
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: the United States everybody. That's what I don't get. That's
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: that is a disturbing thing to see. Let's go to
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Travis in Houston, Texas. Patriot Talk nine to twenty are
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: great affiliate there. Hey Travis, what's on your mind?
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: Oh know, most all, I'm kind of a young man,
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: four years old, and you know, I'm.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Pretty involved in the YouTube, and I just think PPSA
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: is losing its connection with the people. I really do.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: I think I think our vice president, you know, he
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: was a two year politician before before he's the vice president,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: you know, paid for by Peter Field twenty million dollars
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: for his president's is a senate campaign. I just think
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: people are waking up to the DS.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: You know, Travis, let me let me say this. I
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: mean jd Vance. If you believe a large swath of
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: the party is going to be the standard bearer in
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight, I don't see that happening. Based on
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: what happened in Anthons, Georgia last night.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, well you know, like I heard you talking about
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Camp about her saying she had death threats. Well, you know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: she denied the death of Charlie Kirk, saying that he
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: was in fear of losing his life on his text threads.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Why don't she release her text threads, or did they
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: release any proof that there was any real death threats
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: or it just more hearsay.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Well, well, that's why we reached out to law enforcement,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: because if in fact there are If you're telling me
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: there's a serious credible threat, that means that you've got
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: law enforcement involved telling you, hey, this is a credible threat.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: We reached out to the Anthons Clark County Sheriff's Department
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: as well as the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and the
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: locals are saying, hey, this, we haven't heard anything about
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: a threat.
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I bet they haven't.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: You know, I don't know, you know, I just know
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: that Charlie was in fear of his life. He texted
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: multiple people telling them that he was in fear of
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: losing his life. He was leaving the pro Israel campaign.
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: You made a big deal about this other guy talking
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: about Israel. The people in this country are tired. It's
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: not just about you make it about Israel and Jude.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: It's not about the It's about our country having to
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: support them for everything they do and everything they want
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: to do, and we're not. We see, we're seeing through
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: their their mysticism and there they're special beliefs. You know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's a genocide going on. It's sad.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: What's the genocide? Who's killing who?
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: No?
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, Travis, hold on just a moment here.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: You're you're accusing me of making everything about Jews and Israel,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: which is not true. But when somebody calls into this
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: program and says it's all about Jews and Israel, I'm
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: going to push back on that. So you can't have
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: it both ways. So you're saying, well, okay, all you
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: do is talk about No, that's not true. So again,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: the United States gives what one hundred and seventy four
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: billion dollars to Israel? Is that your problem? Do you
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: want us to stop giving money to Israel? Is that
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: the problem here?
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Whenever we got vice president, whenever we got cctarious state
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: saying that we had to go to war because Israel
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: with down bomb them first. You know, we can't we
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: can't pull this this country in and tell them to
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: come to sense whenever we're the ones that support them
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: and are supposedly third defense.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: You just had a little you had a little hot
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: under the collar there, Travis.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: I have had a blood brother. I'm not used talking
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: to public. I don't talk like you twenty four hours
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: a day, you know, I.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Don't talk twenty four hours a day, usually three hours
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: a day.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: How do you get sitting classrooms like you and sit
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: on the radio.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: But you mean sitting classrooms? What are you talking about?
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: What do you mean sitting classrooms?
• 25:37
  Speaker 12: Yeah?
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: I'm pissed off. You're right, I'm pissed off.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: But why why are you why? Why are you pissed off? Why?
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: Because our country is going to ship? Man, I'm forty
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: years old.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Right, you can't be using that language on the radio.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: But all right, hold on, don't don't dump him up.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: But Travis, you can't curse on the radio. That's against
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: the law.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Sorry, so I'll apologize, all right. I started listening to
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: talk radio like y'all whenever I was twenty eight years old,
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: and I realized very very quickly that I need to
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: go to YouTube and go go find to investigate for myself.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: And I realized how much is the radio and the
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: false narrative is then held back by y'all.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
• 26:19
  Speaker 13: Y'all?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: This is my show. Nobody tells me what to put
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: on my show. So when you say so, what are
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: you What are you saying when you say, y'all, I'm
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: curious about it.
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: He's he act, you know, just the neo conservative groups
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: like Sean Handy acting like she's part of the populist
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: movement whenever he wasn't. You know, there's so many anti
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: trumpers that are now running the Trump campaign, just like JD. Vance.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: But I'm trying to understand. You're saying the country is
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: going to hell in a handbasket. I was sort of
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: cleaning up the language there, but what do you What
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: do you mean by that? Are you blaming Israel for that?
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: No, I'm blaming our president from not keeping his promises. Oh,
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: many people have deported. I mean none of the promises
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: have been kept. That's why people were pissed, or because
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Trump hasn't kept a damn one of his promises. Yeah,
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: he secured the border, but he'd expected a tree off
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: for the other twenty million people that sentered here in
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: the last four years.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Travis, I want you to take a breath, because I
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: agree with you on this that the president is not
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: delivering on the big promises to the level that we expected.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: And I will just tell you in Memphis Tennessee. You know,
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: we had the task force, they sent in the National Guard.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: There are a lot of rumblings that the Guard's gone
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: because crime is off the charts again here in this city.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: So I get, I understand what you're saying here. So
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: you're frustrating because this president is not delivering on the
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: promises he made to you.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: No, not to me, to people.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: No, but no, but no no no. But but you're
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: an American, You're an American citizen. So it's to you.
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's talk to me. No, it's just to
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: the republic. It's just to the whole Republic, to all
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: the states, to the people. We have to it's not
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: about just you're making about me. We have to all.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, I am making about you because it is. You're
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: a taxpayer, you're a citizen, so it is about you
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: when the president and this, this is one of the
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: reasons why President Trump has been so successful is that
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: he makes it about every single person. We all feel
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: like he's talking to us. So, yes, it is a
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: personal thing. And and I think there are a lot
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: of people. I'm just telling you, based on the empty
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: seats I saw in that arena, there are a lot
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: of people who feel just like you feel, Yeah, there
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: is and you.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: Know, Charlie Kirk took questions and a free free speech,
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: and they want a cartoler free speech and say you
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: can't talk about this country of that country, and we
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: know what country that is. And yet have the people
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: that were coming up to GPUSA for questions, what the
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: questions were about Israel? And now it's that's what she
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: stared of. That's why she he's not going to be
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: there because there's questions to be answered for is she
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: don't want to answer them. It's about Charlie's death or
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: about that country.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'm just curious because everybody always talks about Israel.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: Nobody talks about all the other countries that are getting
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: aid from US. So I wonder why that is why
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: just the Israelis, why the Jews. Everybody gets upset about
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: the Jews. They don't get upset about the Egyptians, or
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: the Jordanians, or the Athiopians, or the Nigerians or yeah,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: they get a little upset about the Somalians, but not
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: as much as Israel. I'm wondering why that.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: Is, because we're not going to war for these other countries.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Really, Yeah, no, No, in all seriousness, Ukraine right now,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I mean we're pretty much in a de facto war
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: with Russia. I mean we're a proxy war with Russia.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: And one of the reasons why we don't have as
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: much AMO as we need is because we gave it
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: to Ukraine. So again, Travis, look, I think you've got
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: legit them in arguments here. But again I don't think
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: that Israel's the bad guy. I think that the issues
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: you are expressing here are real, are legitimate. I agree
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: with them. But that's not on Israel. That's on this
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: administration and they have got to They have got to
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: deliver on their campaign promises, and Travis, if they don't,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: it's going to be ugly in November.
• 30:23
  Speaker 6: But see, they've made this this boogeyman that doesn't exist.
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: We used the boogeyman in a way.
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: I've seen President of Awa say he was born of
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: Flatin America. He was going to you know, they talked
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: about flights. I haven't seen this stuff in the last ten.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Years, Travis. I'm going to tell you something. I'm going
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: to give you a history lesson. In nineteen seventy nine,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: the Iranians took over our embassy, they kidnapped American citizens.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: In nineteen eighty three, they blew up the Marine Corps barracks,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: killing over two hundred and forty American service members, and
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: we didn't do anything about that. We did nothing about that.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: We have been at war with Iran for a very
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: long time now. It may not be a declared war,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: but that's what it was, and I don't want to risk.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: And again, if President Trump's got access to information you
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: and I don't have access to. He says that information
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: showed they were close to being able to launch nuclear weapons,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: and he did something about it. And I'm glad he
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: did because if the Iranians had the nukes, they would
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: use him. I have no doubt about that. Travis. I'm
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: gonna have to let you go, my friend. We've talked
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: for a while, but and I look, there's no need
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: to get your blood pressure up over this. But I'm
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: telling you, ladies and gentlemen, what you just heard from Travis.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: I guarantee you there are millions and millions of Americans
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: who feel just like he feels. And the reason why
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: his blood pressure is I is he feels like he's
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: been betrayed. He feels like he's been screwed by the
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Gunmy it's sort of how we all feel when it
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: comes to I don't know, for example, the Senate Republicans.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Charles, Statesville, North Carolina. Charles, I mean Travis.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: He's got a point here, Todd.
• 32:13
  Speaker 10: Travis has a very good point, and what I wanted
• 32:17
  Speaker 10: to talk to you about kind of just dovetails right
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: into that. Uh, Todd. To people that I talked to
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: around here, Uh, you know, my circle of friends who
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: are all Trump supporters are just really really getting pissed
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: off and frustrated with the Trump administration, and they just
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: feel like that he's going off on this tangent in
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: the Middle East and losing the primary focus of why
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: we elected him. It was no need wars. It was
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: to secure the border. It was to bring down inflation,
• 32:54
  Speaker 10: bring down gas prices, deport the illegal aliens, they hold
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: people accountable, and clean up the swamp and so far.
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: And I hate to say this. You know, three years ago,
• 33:11
  Speaker 10: gas prices were about where they are now. Inflation was high.
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: Now people are seeing that inflation's going Inflation's going up again,
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: the gas prices are going up again. The these illegals,
• 33:28
  Speaker 10: the deportations, the talk of deportations. Todd, think about this
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: since Minneapolis, it's just almost non existent. I mean, instead
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: of declaring an Insurrection Act and deporting uh these and
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: clamping down harder in Minneapolis, they just kind of walked
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: away from it. Uh And then you've got these young
• 33:47
  Speaker 10: people like Travis, they're forty years old. They have you know,
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: they can't afford a house, they can't afford a down payment,
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: they can hardly afford groceries. They feel like they are
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: again and screwed because all these illegals are getting all
• 34:02
  Speaker 10: this money from the federal government. They're still here. I
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: mean everywhere I go. God, I hear Spanish being spoken
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: in restaurants, grocery stores. I mean, I'm just thinking, this
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: isn't the country that I know. And then you've got
• 34:16
  Speaker 10: a Congress up there that we elected these Republicans in
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: the House and the Senate, and they can't even pass
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: the stayback and they can't even podify these executive orders,
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: and so people godd what I'm here, and they're thinking,
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: what did I vote for? What has this all been about?
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: What did I sacrifice so much for, you know, to
• 34:36
  Speaker 10: try to save this country, and we just don't see
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: it happening. We see us going off this road in
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: the Middle East, and like Travis, I'm not going to
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: use the Herbach he did, but the country's going too
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: hell of hand basket. I think that's my obscerbation.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: How do we look? And I know Travis is fired
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: up and upset, and I get that, and I don't
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: want to minimize at all what he is feeling right now,
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: but I think we're in a dangerous spot because a
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: lot of folks are now projecting all of that anger
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: onto Israel when it needs to be directed at this
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: administration and the Republican Party. I mean, that's ultimately you know,
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: the Israelis are not responsible for deporting millions of illegals.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: That's that's on us. So again, Charles, to your point,
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: we're in a tough spot right now and the administration
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: has to get this all figured out. Trump is doing
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: his job. The problem is those that are around him
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: are not doing their job. And that's the problem.
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: I could agree with you more, and I just don't
• 35:46
  Speaker 10: know how he's going to light a fire under these
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: Republican leaders in the House and a Senate like John
• 35:52
  Speaker 10: thune to, you know, move this agenda along, because if
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: we lose the mid terms, tid it is going to
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: be gridlocked and a living hell for the next two years.
• 36:05
  Speaker 10: And god forbid, if they the Democrats, win the White
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: House in twenty twenty eight, you're going to see the
• 36:11
  Speaker 10: border open again, millions more people for and end. You're
• 36:15
  Speaker 10: going to see them weaponize them the justice system against conservatives,
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: just like they did and you know earlier. And I'm
• 36:24
  Speaker 10: not sure we're going to be able to recover from that.
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: So there's a small window of opportunity here to do something.
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: And I think what people are saying and the frustration
• 36:33
  Speaker 10: is is there's a small win to hear, damn it,
• 36:36
  Speaker 10: let's do something about it. Yeah, full steam ahead. Don't
• 36:39
  Speaker 10: listen to the rhinos, listen to your base and turn
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: over for your base.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Gotta go, my friend. It's a great call and a
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: great thought. And Travis, hang in there. You're being validated
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: right now. You're being validated, Travis, So hang in there,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: all right, got to run, Charles, thank you, We'll be
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: right back. Killing It's just we we gotta bring it.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: We got to bring it down just a notch. Sweet
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Mercy I think we need, you know what, we need
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: a trip to the Oscar Maer wienermobile. That will solve
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: our Can I get here? Ace? Can we just have
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: them pull up in the parking lot of the news Buckerrow.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Can we do that? Jesus all gotta get your Wiener on.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: You got to by the way, Sacramento, California. If you're
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: out there. The wienery is a great place to you know,
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: when I have my open heart surgery. The team over
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: at kfb K they actually made a delivery. The nurse
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: walked in and she said, I had a kid you
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: that she goes? All right, who's been to the Weienery?
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: That was a story for another day perhaps. All right,
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: hang tight, We've got Steve in Houston on hold your
• 37:58
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  Speaker 3: the nation. By the way, Helen's getting a shout out
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: from our YouTube chat audience. They say, tell Helen she's
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: doing a good job. And Dylan, a lot of people
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: are saying after yesterday's show they had to go get
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: hot dogs.
• 39:03
  Speaker 14: So that's a lot of sense.
• 39:04
  Speaker 13: Dylan.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: I have to ask you something of the utmost importance. Yes,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: are you eating broccoli right now? Is that the odor? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: The entire the entire palatial studio were overwhelmed by the
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: smell of broccoli.
• 39:23
  Speaker 14: Do you want me to be healthy or not?
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: That's the question, Jesus Loop. You know years ago when
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: I was at Fox News and I was the overnight anchor,
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: so nine pm until six am, that's when I started out,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: And there was a Fox News anchor who loved to
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: eat broccoli at five o'clock in the morning, and it
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: was so bad. The smell was so bad that Roger
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Ale's actually put out a notice, no more broccoli.
• 39:50
  Speaker 14: That's so if you did that to me, that would
• 39:52
  Speaker 14: be bad. Broccoli is like the only vegetable I like,
• 39:54
  Speaker 14: So please please let me eat my broccoli. You can
• 39:57
  Speaker 14: just stay in that room. I'll stay in this.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, any of our listeners, we could use
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: some fabrize. So if you're if you're driving by, just
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: drop off a box, all right. Yeah, Well we do
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: want you healthy. So there's that, all right. Our telephone
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: number nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: I am so excited to introduce a person who is
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: going to become a regular on this show. I can
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: already feel it. I know this is going to be
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: a great thing. She is a veteran political commentator and
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: she has a terrific, terrific show called Politically Basic. Talking
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: about our good friend Kyle Campbell. Kyle, good to have
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: you with us on the show today.
• 40:43
  Speaker 15: Hi Todd, I'm so glad to be on with you.
• 40:45
  Speaker 15: This is amazing.
• 40:46
  Speaker 16: I also hope I'm a regular in the future on
• 40:49
  Speaker 16: your show.
• 40:49
  Speaker 15: That would be tremendous.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: What's your position on broccoli, by the way, just want
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: to throw that out there.
• 40:56
  Speaker 16: Uh, oh, you know what, I'm a fan. Let's say
• 40:58
  Speaker 16: I'm a fan. I can't say that I ingest it
• 41:02
  Speaker 16: too frequently. I should probably up my broccoli intake a
• 41:04
  Speaker 16: little bit.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Kyle, I want you to before we jump into politics.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: And I have a lot of questions about Eric Swalwell
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: and California politics. I want you to just tell our
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: listeners a little bit about your background and your history.
• 41:20
  Speaker 15: You got it, happy to.
• 41:21
  Speaker 16: So I've actually been for over two decades now on
• 41:24
  Speaker 16: the backside of politics and campaigns, doing media messaging and
• 41:30
  Speaker 16: candidate training, training people to handle the media, how to
• 41:34
  Speaker 16: run for office and put themselves forward in a way
• 41:38
  Speaker 16: that's going to get them the most success. So a
• 41:40
  Speaker 16: couple of years ago, I thought, you know what, it's
• 41:42
  Speaker 16: time for me to get on the other side of
• 41:44
  Speaker 16: the camera. I'm politics obsessed, born and raised California girl.
• 41:49
  Speaker 16: I've always loved it and I'm just a curious cat
• 41:52
  Speaker 16: by nature. So I started a show called Politically Basic.
• 41:56
  Speaker 16: I get to interview people who have expertise in every
• 41:59
  Speaker 16: issue across the political spectrum. And you guys know, that's
• 42:03
  Speaker 16: a lot of people and a lot of issues. So
• 42:05
  Speaker 16: we interview I have learned so much, hopefully my audience
• 42:09
  Speaker 16: has learned a tremendous amount.
• 42:11
  Speaker 15: We're going on.
• 42:11
  Speaker 16: Two years and i'll film my one hundredth episode this summer,
• 42:16
  Speaker 16: I think, and just making the rounds doing a lot
• 42:19
  Speaker 16: of political commentary too, so there is no shortage of
• 42:23
  Speaker 16: anything to talk about these days. You guys know that well,
• 42:26
  Speaker 16: especially when it comes to California. So I'm having an
• 42:29
  Speaker 16: absolute blast at what I do.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: And of course we have a mutual friend, the great
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: doctor Paul Champell, who was president of West Coast Baptist
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: College and the pastor at Lancaster Baptist Church. And while
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: what an incredible work he is doing there in not
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: just southern California, but really the entire state.
• 42:45
  Speaker 16: I just love doctor Chappell. You know, I'd heard about
• 42:48
  Speaker 16: him for years and we had so many mutual friends.
• 42:50
  Speaker 16: I got to go spend a day with him several
• 42:53
  Speaker 16: months ago over there at Lancaster Baptist at West Coast
• 42:56
  Speaker 16: Baptist College. I interviewed him for Politically Basic in that
• 42:59
  Speaker 16: episode it's coming out here very shortly, within the next
• 43:02
  Speaker 16: couple of weeks.
• 43:03
  Speaker 15: But he is just a tremendous human being.
• 43:05
  Speaker 16: And if anyone wants to check out what he's doing,
• 43:08
  Speaker 16: I know they broadcast his sermons, his Sunday sermons. What
• 43:12
  Speaker 16: a teacher and preacher and just all around great guys.
• 43:14
  Speaker 16: So I love to hear his name mentioned and I
• 43:17
  Speaker 16: want to follow you and give that shout out to
• 43:19
  Speaker 16: him too.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: By the way, Instagram at politically Basic, TikTok at politically basic, Kyle.
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: I am like in the primortal ooze stage of TikTok,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: and I swore for so many years I would not
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: do TikTok. But the staff they're all gen z Ers
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: and like Todd, you gotta do it. You gotta jump
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: into the fray.
• 43:40
  Speaker 7: You know what.
• 43:41
  Speaker 15: It's a love hate relationship with TikTok.
• 43:43
  Speaker 16: I feel like I am in a weirdly toxic relationship
• 43:48
  Speaker 16: with TikTok. Sometimes it likes me, sometimes it hates my guts,
• 43:51
  Speaker 16: and I feel the same. So you know what, just
• 43:53
  Speaker 16: go with the go with the flow, right the wave.
• 43:55
  Speaker 16: We'll see what happens with it. But it's it's a
• 43:57
  Speaker 16: fun ride. I'll say that every frin.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: We have Joe Messina on the show. He is based
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: in Santa Clarita, California. He's another radio guy, and we
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: were talking the last last Friday. We were talking about
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: the California gubernatorial race. Steve Hilton's a regular. He's I
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: really love Steve, and you know, I think he's going
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: to do really well right now. He's doing well in
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: the polls, but a lot of people are sort of
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: concerned that the Trump endorsement may have come at the
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: wrong time, especially with what you guys have. What is
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: this jungle primary that you guys have out there?
• 44:31
  Speaker 16: Oh boy, there is so much going on in this
• 44:33
  Speaker 16: gubernatorial race. I actually think now on the other side
• 44:38
  Speaker 16: of Eric Swalwell's epic lit on fire meltdown, that the
• 44:42
  Speaker 16: Trump endorsement came at the right time. And I think
• 44:45
  Speaker 16: the reason is that we know that Steve Hilton had
• 44:49
  Speaker 16: Trump support, he had Charlie Kirk support, you know, long
• 44:53
  Speaker 16: before this, and the fact that it was sort of
• 44:56
  Speaker 16: cemented and put out there to the world and to
• 44:59
  Speaker 16: the state of colleg for in these voters before things
• 45:02
  Speaker 16: happened with Eric Swalla, I think is actually a good thing.
• 45:05
  Speaker 16: Those two major events, that big endorsement and also what
• 45:10
  Speaker 16: we're seeing happen with Eric Swalla. Wow, it's kind of
• 45:13
  Speaker 16: kind of delicious, but it's really horrific if we look
• 45:16
  Speaker 16: at it globally.
• 45:17
  Speaker 15: You know that he was getting away with this for
• 45:19
  Speaker 15: so long.
• 45:20
  Speaker 16: I think those two things have really helped Steve Hilton
• 45:24
  Speaker 16: in terms of his campaign and candidacy and the polls
• 45:27
  Speaker 16: are showing that we're just starting to see those first
• 45:30
  Speaker 16: polls come out after these two major events, and Steve
• 45:33
  Speaker 16: is just skyrocketing to the top and really leaving a
• 45:36
  Speaker 16: lot of the other candidates in this race behind.
• 45:39
  Speaker 15: So I'm happy to see it. I love Steve.
• 45:41
  Speaker 16: I think he's one of the only candidates who can
• 45:44
  Speaker 16: appeal to the independence and actually appeal to a lot
• 45:46
  Speaker 16: of these disillusioned and disappointed Democrat voters too.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: You know, I think years ago, I was, wow, it's
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: been like almost twenty seven years ago. I was working
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: in Sacramento and I was the bureau chief at the
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: state capitol KFBK and did work with K and X
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: and KCBS in San Francisco, and it was interesting watching
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: those are the Schwarzenegger years, which was you know, it
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: was pretty phenomenal. But you know, Schwarzenegger was able to
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: get a lot done. You know, he was a moderate Republican,
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: I would say, but you know, when I look at
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: someone like as Steve Hilton, I can see him governing
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: in that sort of a way, probably center right. But
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: I think Hilton, I mean, at least from my vantage point,
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: it looks like he's got a chance here, What say you.
• 46:33
  Speaker 15: Oh, absolutely, he does.
• 46:34
  Speaker 16: I mean we've had so many gubernatorial cycles Todd that
• 46:38
  Speaker 16: where the California voters know who has been tapped to
• 46:42
  Speaker 16: be governor. Right, We've had these sort of legacy families
• 46:46
  Speaker 16: and people put forward where everyone's like, you know what,
• 46:48
  Speaker 16: we can show up to vote or not. We were
• 46:50
  Speaker 16: pretty sure it's going to be this guy. And you know,
• 46:54
  Speaker 16: Kamala Harris is just sitting back holding the bottle of
• 46:56
  Speaker 16: buttery shard and absolutely kicking herself that she didn't into
• 47:00
  Speaker 16: this race because you could have taken it handily. And
• 47:03
  Speaker 16: so now it's anyone's game and it's a lot of
• 47:06
  Speaker 16: fun to see who the voters are are getting behind.
• 47:10
  Speaker 16: We're left really on the Democrat side with candidates no
• 47:14
  Speaker 16: one's excited about. I mean when Tom's Steer, Oh, this
• 47:19
  Speaker 16: guy's been in politics so long, he worked on the
• 47:23
  Speaker 16: Mondale campaign. You know, he's an absolute relic dinosaur. And
• 47:29
  Speaker 16: no one's excited about a billionaire coming in and telling
• 47:32
  Speaker 16: us to stop complaining about how expensive everything is. On
• 47:36
  Speaker 16: the right, you've got two candidates that people like pretty well.
• 47:38
  Speaker 16: But it's a different climate. And I think this is
• 47:41
  Speaker 16: why Steve is such a good choice and a good
• 47:44
  Speaker 16: candidate and can go all the way. Is that we
• 47:47
  Speaker 16: are not facing a scenario in which someone can just
• 47:50
  Speaker 16: come in and just kind of keep things going. We're
• 47:53
  Speaker 16: in crisis mode and we need somebody to come in
• 47:56
  Speaker 16: and get a lot of bad legislation, bad deal, a
• 48:00
  Speaker 16: lot of fraud and corruption absolutely cleaned out and turned around.
• 48:03
  Speaker 16: So I think Steve's one hundred percent the guy. I
• 48:06
  Speaker 16: think he'll make it across the jungle primary threshold. I
• 48:09
  Speaker 16: imagine at this point, if things don't change too much
• 48:12
  Speaker 16: in the next few weeks, it'll be Stier Hilton and boy,
• 48:15
  Speaker 16: what a what a matchup that's going to be.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be fans down. I know people were saying,
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: what about Katie Porter, But she's got her own domestic
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: allegation issues out there, so and she's just not a
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: very nice person. She's not an appealing candidate.
• 48:32
  Speaker 15: Well you said it.
• 48:33
  Speaker 16: I mean, Katie hot mashed potatoes Porter is not getting
• 48:37
  Speaker 16: anyone excited about seeing her up in Sacramento the charge.
• 48:43
  Speaker 16: So yeah, I don't see her numbers moving anywhere. I
• 48:47
  Speaker 16: really don't think she's a known quantity in a factor anymore,
• 48:50
  Speaker 16: except you know, she'll pull some votes from the top
• 48:53
  Speaker 16: polling Democrat and there is actually you're going to get
• 48:56
  Speaker 16: a kick out of this. If you haven't heard already, Tom,
• 48:58
  Speaker 16: there's a todd there's an actual effort afoot to motivate
• 49:02
  Speaker 16: voters in this state to write in Kamala Harris's name
• 49:06
  Speaker 16: as a write in candidate. So there's a lot of
• 49:09
  Speaker 16: fracturing going on on the left and people are just
• 49:11
  Speaker 16: eating it up. It's been been a total blast to watch.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: I love that. Grab a bottle of Josh and enjoy
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: the enjoy the race. Kyle Gamble joining us. She is
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: host of the show Politically Basic and you can you
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: can watch that and be sure to sign up and
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: follow her on Instagram and TikTok. You know, Kyle, I
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: want to get your take on this thing that happened
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: yesterday the vice president of the University of Georgia. Everybody's
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: talking about this, I mean, the guy over eight thousand
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: seat auditorium, barely a thousand people in attendance. What do
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: you What should we make of that? Is there anything
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: to read into this? Because we were told jd Vance
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: is going to be the guy after Trump, and I
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: don't know about that.
• 49:56
  Speaker 16: Yeah, and he's coming a little bit of a dip
• 49:58
  Speaker 16: almost in his popularity. We're seeing Trump dispatch him to
• 50:04
  Speaker 16: go handle some things here and there. He's been tapped
• 50:06
  Speaker 16: as sort of the the Middle East negotiators are similar
• 50:10
  Speaker 16: to how Biden tapped Harris to go be the borders are.
• 50:13
  Speaker 16: And what's interesting about that is he's really allowing him
• 50:17
  Speaker 16: to go out and either do well or fall flat.
• 50:20
  Speaker 16: Doesn't hurt Trump either way, but he's sort of cutting
• 50:23
  Speaker 16: his teeth almost in anticipation of what's gonna happen in
• 50:26
  Speaker 16: twenty twenty. We have a few years to go here,
• 50:29
  Speaker 16: so a lot can happen. But I think it's good
• 50:32
  Speaker 16: for him. I'm happy to see this. He needs to
• 50:34
  Speaker 16: make his own pathway here and a name for himself
• 50:38
  Speaker 16: instead of just being another you know Trump, you know
• 50:41
  Speaker 16: two point oh or three point oh.
• 50:43
  Speaker 15: So I think he'll do well.
• 50:45
  Speaker 16: Such a such a bright, accomplished guy, and I'm happy
• 50:48
  Speaker 16: to see him take some opportunities. But yeah, I just
• 50:50
  Speaker 16: think he's having a little a little dip there. As
• 50:53
  Speaker 16: you know, the Marco Rubios of the world have their
• 50:55
  Speaker 16: moment to shine.
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: Wow he and he really is shining. I want to
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: go right back to California and ramp it up here.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: I didn't realize our time was vastly dwindling away here.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: But when you look at at California and the electorate here,
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: what does it tell you that somebody like a Steve
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: Hilton is polling so well? Do you think? You know,
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: is this an anomaly or are people finally just that
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: up with the ruling class Democrats?
• 51:25
  Speaker 16: Oh it's the latter. Absolutely. People have had enough. You know,
• 51:29
  Speaker 16: we saw it with the shift in the vote for
• 51:31
  Speaker 16: Trump in twenty four. California has been really read for
• 51:36
  Speaker 16: a while. I will say, and I am kind of
• 51:39
  Speaker 16: throwing caution to the wind in this comment, but we
• 51:41
  Speaker 16: have a real election integrity issue here in this state.
• 51:45
  Speaker 16: I think should we get voter ID passed, which is
• 51:47
  Speaker 16: on the ballot this fall, and really clean up our
• 51:51
  Speaker 16: voter roles, we will see more and more Republican and
• 51:55
  Speaker 16: right leaning candidates leading this state back into a place
• 51:59
  Speaker 16: of health and success and prosperity. We finally hit the wall, Codd,
• 52:03
  Speaker 16: you know, we've had enough here. Yeah, And there are
• 52:06
  Speaker 16: no good Democrats who are are strong and competent coming
• 52:10
  Speaker 16: forward for us to put any kind of support behind.
• 52:13
  Speaker 16: So I think the tide has definitely turned, and I'm
• 52:15
  Speaker 16: eager to see how everyone's going to turn out and
• 52:18
  Speaker 16: vote this fall.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: You see, I love California, and if I wasn't, if
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: I hadn't been hired by Fox News, I probably never
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: would have left Sacramento. It's a beautiful state and beautiful people,
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: and you just really it's heartbreaking to see people packing
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: up the U hauls and moving out. You know, I
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: want people to stay put. I want them to fight
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: for California because it really is a state worth saving.
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: And of course it was the birthplace of the modern
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: conservative movement down there in Orange County.
• 52:45
  Speaker 15: That's right, Amen to everything you just said that. You know,
• 52:48
  Speaker 15: we get such a bad.
• 52:49
  Speaker 16: Rap here because we're seeing the consequences of horrible leadership.
• 52:54
  Speaker 16: We are not our leaders and we are not our policies.
• 52:58
  Speaker 16: Great people live here. This state is a giant economy.
• 53:01
  Speaker 16: It feeds the world. We have Silicon Valley, we have Hollywood.
• 53:05
  Speaker 16: You know, thirty nine million people, so a lots at
• 53:09
  Speaker 16: stake here. And just please, if you know anyone in California,
• 53:13
  Speaker 16: if you're in California and you're eligible to vote, we
• 53:16
  Speaker 16: have got to have the biggest voter turnout we have
• 53:18
  Speaker 16: ever seen for this primary June second, and this election
• 53:21
  Speaker 16: come November.
• 53:22
  Speaker 15: So that's my prayer that.
• 53:24
  Speaker 16: Absolutely every person who can vote enjoys that you know,
• 53:28
  Speaker 16: privilege and goes and gets it done for our beautiful
• 53:31
  Speaker 16: state that we love so much.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: Welson, you know my favorite spot, and you may have
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: a favorite. You've got to tell me your favorite getaway
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: place in California. I used to go spend a lot
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: of time at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: back in the day.
• 53:45
  Speaker 16: I lived in Santa Monica for a couple of years
• 53:47
  Speaker 16: when I was doing my graduate degree program. I love
• 53:50
  Speaker 16: Santa Monica, I love Malibu. You know we're still heartbroken
• 53:53
  Speaker 16: over what happens in the Palisades. Yeah, but you know
• 53:55
  Speaker 16: we've got some of these areas like Passa Robles is
• 53:58
  Speaker 16: exploding in popularity, and so many gorgeous places. Carmel is
• 54:02
  Speaker 16: a favorite spot of mine. But you know, wonderful, wonderful,
• 54:06
  Speaker 16: giant state chalk full of absolutely stunning places to come visit.
• 54:11
  Speaker 15: So please don't come visit our state. We wish you
• 54:14
  Speaker 15: still lived here.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you that, Kyle, we got to leave it
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: here that my producer is throwing broccoli at me saying,
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: we got a ramp here, so I better do that. Kyle, great,
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: great commentary, and we look forward to getting you back
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: on very soon. And thanks for joining the show.
• 54:28
  Speaker 15: An absolute pleasure. I really look forward to the next time, Todd.
• 54:31
  Speaker 15: Thank you.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: All right, Kyle Campbell, everybody, I'm making her debut appearance
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: here on the Todd Stearns Radio Show. And she's got
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: her own program called Politically Basic and you can find
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: her on Instagram and TikTok. We'll be right back, all right,
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to everybody. This is the Todd Sterns Radio Show.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: I want to go ride to the phones. Poor Steve
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: and Houston, Texas has been holding since yesterday. Let's Steve
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: took us on Patriot Talk Night twenty Hey Steve's thanks
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: for holding on. What's on your mind?
• 55:02
  Speaker 15: Hey?
• 55:02
  Speaker 17: Chrod? I love your show?
• 55:04
  Speaker 11: How much time do we got? I got quite a
• 55:06
  Speaker 11: bit to say and I want to make it quick.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Well, let's let's get going. We'll try to get as
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: much as we can in.
• 55:12
  Speaker 17: Well.
• 55:12
  Speaker 11: First of all, you know, I've never voted in an
• 55:15
  Speaker 11: election in my life until this last one. I voted
• 55:18
  Speaker 11: for Trump.
• 55:19
  Speaker 17: I've always seen Democrats and Republicans as good cops, bad
• 55:23
  Speaker 17: cops that say one thing and do the same thing.
• 55:27
  Speaker 17: I was alive during the Iranian hostage situation, and I
• 55:31
  Speaker 17: remember I know everything that Iran has done, but I
• 55:35
  Speaker 17: also know that Israel has been trying to drag us
• 55:38
  Speaker 17: into war in the Middle East ever since. They've attacked
• 55:42
  Speaker 17: the USS liberty and tried to blame it on Egypt.
• 55:45
  Speaker 17: And I think the reason why all these Islamic attacks
• 55:50
  Speaker 17: from the Middle East, you know, we could say it's
• 55:52
  Speaker 17: been because of our support for Israel. But even without
• 55:56
  Speaker 17: going into that, I do feel like Trump. Trump campaigned
• 55:59
  Speaker 17: on end in wars, and you know, he's got us
• 56:03
  Speaker 17: into this war, which you know, to me has turned
• 56:06
  Speaker 17: a lot of people against him. But more than that,
• 56:10
  Speaker 17: the stuff he's posting on truth Social to me is
• 56:14
  Speaker 17: it's embarrassed.
• 56:15
  Speaker 11: You know, when he got on there and when he
• 56:19
  Speaker 11: criticized the pope, and and you know when he talked
• 56:23
  Speaker 11: about ending the whole civilization, I'm thinking, what is he
• 56:26
  Speaker 11: thinking that when he posted that?
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: All right, hey, Steve, hang tight, we got to take
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: a break. I want you to finish your thoughts so
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: don't hang up. We're gonna come right back to you. Uh, folks,
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: we gotta we gotta dip out for just a second.
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, This segment
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  Speaker 3: want to bring back into the conversation Steve from Houston,
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: who was saying making the argument that President Trump is
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: embarrassing himself with these memes and things he's putting out
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: on social media. Is that right, Steve, and finish your thought, yeah, I'm.
• 57:55
  Speaker 11: You know, this call wasn't really about about the war.
• 57:58
  Speaker 11: But you know when when Trump got on there and
• 58:01
  Speaker 11: said he was going to destroy a civilization, I'm say
• 58:04
  Speaker 11: I knew what he meant, but I'm wondering how people
• 58:07
  Speaker 11: were going to take that. And when he criticized the Pope,
• 58:11
  Speaker 11: and when he posted his picture of himself christ in
• 58:15
  Speaker 11: Jesus's role laying hands healing a guy, I'm thinking, what
• 58:20
  Speaker 11: is he's thinking? You know that that turned so many
• 58:24
  Speaker 11: Christians up and made at least made them question who
• 58:27
  Speaker 11: they're supporting and why would he do that? And then
• 58:31
  Speaker 11: get on so take it down and then say, how
• 58:34
  Speaker 11: can people say take it that way that he's portraying
• 58:38
  Speaker 11: himself as Jesus. I mean, I've gotten drunk and posted
• 58:44
  Speaker 11: stuff on postal media and woke up the next morning
• 58:47
  Speaker 11: and thought, man, did I post that and take it down?
• 58:50
  Speaker 11: And to me, it seems like that that would be
• 58:52
  Speaker 11: the only reason that I can come up with that
• 58:55
  Speaker 11: he would do that.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, President Trump does not drink, you know,
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: he doesn't party of the fermented beverage there. But I
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: will says I will say this, Steve, though, I mean,
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: it's it's part of the whole stick, you know, that's
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: part of who he is. And I don't think that
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: he thought for a minute that he was trying to,
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: you know, say he was Jesus Christ. And I don't
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: think he was trying to blaspheme the Lord. I just
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: think he saw something that someone you know, had posted,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: thought it was cool looking, and just hit retweet. That's
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: what I think happened here. But but you're saying all
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: of that, you think all of that is actually impacting
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: the president's polling numbers.
• 59:35
  Speaker 11: Absolutely. I know I've got friends that you know, and
• 59:39
  Speaker 11: we've all supported him. I still support him. I've always
• 59:43
  Speaker 11: loved that he talks to the American people and don't
• 59:46
  Speaker 11: read a teleprompters.
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he doesn't say you're right.
• 59:50
  Speaker 11: I think it's getting him in some hot water, man.
• 59:53
  Speaker 11: I mean, it's made me afraid for the MAGA movement.
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think people, I think a lot of
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: folks out there, and it's the look you cannot discount.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: I know a lot of people want to just shove
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: you know, Candice Owens and Tucker and Nick Quintes and
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: Megan Kelly and Alex Jones to the side but they
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: actually have a massive following in the millions when you
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: combine them all together, and they are having an impact.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, whether you agree with them or you disagree,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: they're having an impact. And the President and the White
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: House need to figure out how do we, you know,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: how do we do a work around here, because those
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: folks have they've never really been on board the Trump train.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: They're just taking advantage of it. You know, it's a
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: grift for them. Steve, I've got to run now, but
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: thank you for holding on and you've made some great points.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Lisa in North Carolina. All right, Lisa,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: what say you?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 18: Todd Love you mean it? I had to write this
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 18: rant down because I'm beyond flabergasted, and if I try
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 18: to wing it, I'll start stutter and in Casina if
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 18: I'm not if I'm not mistaken that XA chromosome individual
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 18: got elected on a few main issues, I'm most certain
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 18: that the majority of US Americans, even those lunatics on
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 18: the left, said America first, America first, no more wars
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 18: until we fix here first. So all those elected officials
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 18: in d C are supposed to be there to speak
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 18: on my behalf while I'm working at Speedway. Hold on
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 18: just a second. I had to write down because I'm
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 18: they're there to speak for us, and we said no,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 18: we don't go. So my suggestion is instead of marching
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 18: at the wall at the mall in DC, there's not
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 18: enough life saw first of all, to do it, get
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 18: your butts to every military installation in this country and
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 18: ticket and when somebody has to go to work to
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 18: speed wayer McDonald, somebody else take their place and their sign.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 18: The sign just says we said no. And that was
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 18: the majority of us, at least eighty percent. I would say,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 18: we said no more wars.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 10: Let's fix your first.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 18: Now last, but not least, and we want the child
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 18: etn rapers to walk the plank and absolutely know on
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 18: JVD that's it, Todd, I managed to get it out.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: Well, well you did, Lisa, No, no, no, I appreciate that. Look,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: the reason why I'm hopeful is that these are easy fixes.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: First of all, the American people have a short term memory.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: They're not going to remember Jesus meme next week. But
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: if Trump gets back to the basics, which was getting
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: the deportations, cracking down on the boys and the girls
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: locker rooms, because all of this is still happening. And
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: I think that's what's really aggravating people is the White
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: House is telling us all of this stuff is fixed,
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: but it's really not fixed. And we know it's not fixed.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 18: Well, but let's just pick one main issue if we can.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 18: We're if we can manage to pick one main issue.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 18: And I know that those boats and those planes and
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 18: those guns are mine and we said no. The majority
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 18: of Americans said no, and we need to let them
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 18: know that. And they've been pushing us for twenty plus years.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 18: They've been begging us. The Sewer's been begging us to
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 18: fight back, and everybody knows that. It's just we're exhausted.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 18: So but that would that's my that's my rant for today.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: Tell Lisa it's a lovely You did not stutter, you
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: did not cuss, and you didn't even sound like you
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: were reading anything. Lisa, Well done, Thank you, all right,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: thanks Lisa. Hang in there, Look, just hang in there,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: and that's look, this is why we're here. So you
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 3: can use the show as therapy. So if you want
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: to call and yell and holler at somebody, you can
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: call and yell and holler at Dylan or Helen. But
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: that's you know, it's it's a public service. Let's go
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: to North Carolina WS. I c are good for Patty,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: you know, Patty, I was about to send out a
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: search party for you.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 19: I was just gonna have a hospital side. I went through,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 19: like both my kidneys shut down. I even flatlined, a
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 19: flat lined Patty?
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: Are you are you okay? Have the doctors got you?
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: You sound great?
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 19: I'm talking to you. I'm telling you. The man upstairs
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 19: still want to I guess I'm still still wanted to something.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: The President Trump lay hands on you, Budy Chance. No, Yeah,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: I'm just curious, you know what, brother? Too soon? Too soon?
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 19: People, let me tell you something. You know what? You
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 19: know I grew up, okay, and I'm going to tell
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 19: you something. The Pope and all that. Why isn't the
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 19: pope warry about where four hundred thousand children are missing?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: Why are a great question about that?
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 19: Why didn't the pope worry about all the child abuse
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 19: that this priest died on kids? Why is the pope
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 19: worried about that?
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: It's a great question, Patty, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 19: Like Hill, everything Donald Trump does he gets criticized for
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 19: the guy. The guy burns wrong, he gets criticized. The
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 19: guy cannot do nothing right, and the pope but shut
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 19: his mouth. I don't I like the guy. But listen,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 19: you have a lot of you know what, You've got
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 19: a lot of baggage. You know what, You've got a
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 19: lot of a lot of people that abuse kids in
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 19: your church. You got you gotta you got kids that
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 19: are missing. How come you're not concerned about what I
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 19: Ran did to what I Ran did to us?
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 7: What?
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: What?
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 15: What?
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 19: What the way they did your military, what they did
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 19: to I mean.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 6: What about that?
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 19: What about all that? What about October seventh?
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: Patty, Here's the deal, Here's here's the deal. The reality
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: is that Pope Leo the Woke decided to jump into
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: the political arena. And when you do that, well, you
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: know what, You've got to be willing to put on
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: your big boy pants or whatever the pope wears, and
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: you've you've got to be able to You've got to
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: be able to take some heat. I mean, it's not
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: like you know, oh, I'm the pope. You can't criticize
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: I can criticize you, you can't criticize me. That's not
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: the way politics works, not here in America.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 7: No.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 19: I mean, it's just that he's worried about Iran. I mean,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 19: I ran, I mean I ran. It's the biggest care
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 19: of sponsor going since.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 19: I mean I've went around and I've seen what they've done, and.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 20: I mean, he is a thing.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 19: It's always Donald Trump could do nothing right, nothing, nobody,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 19: you know, even the Pope has TVs. I'm telling you
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 19: he does. And I'm not saying you know what, Pope.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 19: You know, Donald Trump is going to be Donald Trump.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 19: That's why I voted for him, because he doesn't he
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 19: don't care. He comes out with things and that's how
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 19: he is. He's start a phony, he's start phoning, and
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 19: that's why I like him.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 9: A lot of people.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 19: Oh you know, all these people like these Catholics. Let
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 19: me tell you something about the Catholic. The Catholics are
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 19: two fast. I grew up as a Catholic. I did
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 19: my time. You're two based, all of you out there
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 19: Catholics that are listener right now, you have to have
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 19: two face sobs.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: Okay, how do you feel about the Baptist.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 19: They're all they're all two based. Everybody that oh yeah,
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 19: you know what, especially Catholics. I mean I went to
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 19: Catholic school.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: Blame me.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 19: I mean, they throw you in a room with it,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 19: and some guy opens up a door and you got
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 19: to tell him how many sins your community, how many
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 19: senses you commit?
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: You put me on the spot, Patty. Come on, I'm
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: a Baptist. We have a higher tolerance level percent So
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: you know what.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 19: They are the you know what Catholics is Catholics of
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 19: two faith people.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: Now, well, let me. I got to defend the Catholics here, Patty,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: because you know, I'm gonna get all the hate mail,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: and they're gonna be nice to you because you just
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: got to the hospital. So I'm going to be getting
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 3: all the heat.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 12: You know.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: The only thing I learned from about the Catholics I
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: learned watching the Blues Brothers. Those none scared me. Every
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: time I see a nun, I just kind of get
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: a little triggered.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 19: Well you know what I'm telling you. I mean, you know,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 19: did a first one. You know, even when we all
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 19: grow up as a Catholic, I tell people, yeah, I
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 19: did twelve years. I did my time.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: By the way, Patty, Patty, I want to share something,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: you know, we've got. You know, you can actually watch
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: us on YouTube as well now, and a lot of
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: people are leaving messages for you. One is saying, praise
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: the Lord for miss Patty. Another says, let's not get
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: her fired up though, so that when he gets calmed down, Patty,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: don't get your blood pressure.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 19: You know here I am. I mean, but god, I
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 19: still have a purpose for me, Todd. He does actually
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 19: flat Actually, Todd, I flat line no emergency.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: Wrong, wow, Patty, Paddy, You've got to take care of yourself.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 19: I know I was so dehydrated. I had no oxygen.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: Are you eating?
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 19: I had nothing?
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: Are you eating broccoli? Are you eating enough of broccoli?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 19: Would you stop with broccoli?
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, that's all I can. That's all I got.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: And I want to send your boat Jangles. I mean
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: if that, I don't that's not exactly healthy. It's taste going.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 19: But I don't know. They just told me. You know,
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 19: I have to drink a lot of water. And I mean,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 19: because I'm not a big water.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: Person, I got to cut back on the doctor pepper.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: I can't be doing that.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 19: Yeah, well you know I'm a twelve pack. So anyway,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 19: I just want to say something. All these people, all
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 19: these people that are putting Trumps down and all these
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 19: they're all too fases. Yeah, and I'm going to I
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 19: don't care what people are, right, people like me or
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 19: they don't like We like your pa feeling. You're all
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 19: too faste. All right, we got you, and I love
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 19: and I'll.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 18: Let you go.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: All right, We love you too, Patty. I want you
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: to call this back on open line Friday. You got
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: some you got to make up some calls, you got
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: all right, all right, take care of yourself, great, Miss Patty.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: You know, Dylan, we're gonna have to go to Statesville.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 14: We are I miss Miss Patty.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: She's good people. By the way, we do have some
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: We got to get this mail out. We've got so
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: much going on in the next hour of the program,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: but we've got the Ton Sterns Radio Show mail bag.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: This is from Wit. Wit is from Saint Clair, Missouri.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: Says Todd, I don't appreciate your comments about Pope Leo.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: He's not woke. He's responsible for the spiritual state of
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: one point four billion people around the globe. His concerns
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: are quite different than the President of the United States.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: I could tell you that you're anti Catholic bigot by
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: the way you praise your attack on the Pope and
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: my faith. I've always watched your show and enjoy your commentary,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: but no more. Well, wit so are you feeling that way?
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: But I don't appreciate your pope attacking my president or
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: the sovereignty of these great United States. You know, here's
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: the deal. If the Vatican can have walls, why can't
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: we That's what I want to know, all right, Benjamin
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: from Benjamin doesn't tell us where he's from. Benjamin, Dear Todd,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: you realize how stupid you sound, you fanco jew lover. Wow,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: that was a little harsh, Dylan, she it'd have warned
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: me there, like right to the Adam's apple.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 3: This letter from Linda. Oh she's got three four names,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: Linda Yvonne Coyle. I won't share her last name. She's
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: from Detroit. Dear Todd, Oh no, she didn't put a
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: Dear Todd, yo news Max butt White. The Pope did
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 3: not start a war with your precious child a blanker.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: He said, we should strive for a piece, not war. Now,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: if that's starting a war with your child blanker, no
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: wonder Rump said, smart people don't like me. Linda, I
• 1:12:20
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• 1:16:04
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  Speaker 14: A small refund.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh that's nice.
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• 1:16:33
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  Speaker 3: Look, don't even get me started. I had to pay
• 1:16:38
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• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: fifty or sixty thousand dollars in additional taxes. And I'm like,
• 1:16:45
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• 1:16:53
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  Speaker 3: And uh. She wrote a book called Deduct Everything, and
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: she takes you through and how you can literally deduct everything.
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• 1:17:21
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  Speaker 7: I'm not.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: I've already look I during the Obama years, I got audited,
• 1:17:42
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• 1:17:45
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• 1:17:48
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• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: a lot of audio, Dylan, you do all this great work,
• 1:18:42
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  Speaker 14: It's okay, it's just in case. You know, you have
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  Speaker 3: We get started, and you know, eventually I just, you know,
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• 1:19:00
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• 1:19:04
  Speaker 3: Conservative Babes segment with Mary Walter and Kate smyth Hill,
• 1:19:09
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• 1:19:12
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• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: what do you make of MTG's predictions here?
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  Speaker 20: Well, first of all, thank you for reading the intro
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 20: exactly the way I wrote it.
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  Speaker 15: That was great.
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  Speaker 20: You know, I just think we don't know. It's too
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  Speaker 20: far out from the midterms. It's like once we end
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 20: an election, we try to predict the outcome of the
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 20: next one. It's a great pastime. We've been doing it
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  Speaker 20: for I guess forever. I don't think we know yet
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 20: what's going to happen in the midterms. I do think
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 20: that there are some things that happen along the way
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 20: that make us question and makes me question the midterms
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 20: as well. But I've been saying it all along. If
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  Speaker 20: people think that life has become affordable, if people aren't
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 20: complaining about the prece of gas or of meat and
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 20: vegetables when they go grocery shopping, I think Republicans have
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  Speaker 20: a chance at at least holding what they have, maybe
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 20: even increasing a little bit. I'm not going to go
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  Speaker 20: that far, but Americans, as I always say, have the
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 20: attention span a golden retriever puppies, and as long as
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 20: they're happy woo, then you know they'll vote for Trump. Well,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 20: at least Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: Ok I got it. Okay, I gotta tell you. We
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 3: got to tell these Republicans what they can expect if
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 3: they stay home and don't vote on election day. We've
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: got it's going to be an impeachment po Loosa.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think it's going to be absolutely brutal. If again,
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 12: like Mary said, I could not agree more. People need
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 12: to be happy. But we also you know, I hate
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 12: to say it as someone who can't vote, maybe I'm
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 12: a little bit of a hypocrite, but people wanted movement
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 12: on the Epstein files, people didn't really want what's going.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 13: On in Iran.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 12: People definitely didn't want a picture that seemed to be
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 12: depicting Trump as Jesus. And a lot of people still
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 12: listen to, you know, the Tucker Colson, like Alex Jones types.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 13: I know, like it's mostly younger people.
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  Speaker 12: But there's a lot of missteps right now that I
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 12: think are going to make people stay home. But we've
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 12: still got plenty of time, Like Mary said, we have
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 12: so much time between now and the actual midterms to
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  Speaker 12: see that turn around.
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  Speaker 13: That's what I'm praying for, because yeah.
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  Speaker 12: I'm kind of terrified of what happens if Democrats win
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 12: back the Senate and the House. Like that is just
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 12: that is two years of just total brutality that no
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 12: one deserves, No one needs that kind of negativity.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 3: Here, ladies, I want to switch gears here. Mary in
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  Speaker 3: Oregon in middle school, facing backlash for promoting a one
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 3: day summit where students can engage with college recruiters. There's
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 3: just one problem. No white kids allowed. What do you
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 3: make of that?
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  Speaker 20: I just don't know why the parents didn't tell the
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 20: white kids to just identify as black and let someone
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 20: in the administration tell them they can't do that, because
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 20: that would just unleash just a cornucopia of ridiculousness out
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 20: of the school. So that's the first thing. And the
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 20: second thing is have they not learned? When are they
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 20: going to learn? This is ridiculous?
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 3: You know Again, ladies, I love your idea, Mary, which
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 3: is a lot cheaper than mind, which is send your
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: kid to the tanning salon and put it on extra crispy.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: But again, kay, that's the idea, the idea that well
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 3: it might work though, but the idea that kids are
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 3: being judged by the color of their skin and the
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 3: state of Oregon, what does that say about this country?
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 12: Well, listen, outside of the cities like Oregon is you know,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 12: absolutely beautiful. But just to every single parent out there
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 12: whose child is going to be affected by this policy,
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 12: guess what you need to sue, Like, you need to
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 12: sue the blood out of the decision, make as veins
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 12: who set this thing in motion. This thing is disgustingly racist,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 12: but it's so racist, so fundamentally racist. And yeah, I
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 12: think I think all the parents of white kids need
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 12: to sue.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 13: It's that simple to me. That's what I would do.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 12: Not that I would put my child in public school.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 12: We're going to be home schooling, but yeah, I would sue.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 12: That's what i'd like to see. That's what I'd like
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 12: to see happened next.
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 3: I like to hear that. All right, ladies, my weirdest
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 3: story of the day comes from Oklahoma. The House of
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 3: Representatives are approving a bill to legalize human composting. I
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: want you to listen to state Representative Jim Shaw explained
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: how the process would work. He was on my radio
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 3: show a few days ago.
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  Speaker 22: So the way that I understand it is that there
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 22: are facilities natural organic production facilities that would be here,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 22: and you would put the body into a stainless steel
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 22: cylinder along with wood chips and straw, and then what
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 22: you would otherwise know to be a tip cool. Composting
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 22: process takes place over the span of about four to
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 22: six weeks.
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  Speaker 3: So the way, all right, ladies, at least fourteen states
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 3: are already doing this. And Mary, I'm not sure how
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 3: I feel about Grandma Stearn's being used as fertilizer. What
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: say you?
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 20: Well, I learned something today while reading this article. I
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 20: learned that the People's Socialist Republic of New Jersey, of
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 20: which I am an inmate, allows this, of course they do.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 20: And actually, when you think about it, you know, if
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 20: you have composting thing in the back, you know, it's
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 20: that like you said, it's like a cylinder, and you
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 20: put all your stuff in there and you go out
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 20: there like once a week and you just give Grandma
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 20: a turn, you know, to mix it all up. And
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 20: it apparently doesn't take that long for the process to happen.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 13: So look, I don't know, is it that terrible?
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 20: I mean, what do you think happens when you're in
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 20: the grave.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 13: Right to dust?
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 15: You came, you know, to dust you shell return.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 20: It doesn't offend me that much if that's how you.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 13: Want to go, God bless you.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 20: But I don't know if I necessarily want to know
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 20: that that's been sprinkled on my food, right, Like that's
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 20: the creepy part.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: Well, okay, I'm going to give you the last word
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: here again. I guess if you don't want to spend
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 3: money on a casket, you can just put cousin Marge
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: in the woodshirt. Right.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 12: Gosh, we're not doing I can't even remember the name
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 12: of the movie where they did that.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 13: But we're not doing that. It's not a woodchipper. Listen.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 13: I want it on record.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 12: I will be buried in a casket at the Hill
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 12: Family Cemetery. But I've been a hippie my whole life,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 12: and I kind of agree with Mary here. This is
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 12: not This is not the worst idea I've ever heard.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 12: I prefer the idea. I actually had a family friend
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 12: who was buried in a kind of similar fashion and
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 12: then turned into a tree, like they planted a tree
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 12: on top of him, with the idea that like his
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 12: body would like feed the tree.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 13: So maybe that's just a European thing.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 12: I don't want a lot of European stuff here in America,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 12: don't get me wrong. That's you know, I fled most
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 12: of that stuff. But I can think of worse things,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 12: and I like the idea of being able to go
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 12: and sit under that tree maybe one day in the
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 12: very very distant future and think that Actually, no, I'm
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 12: actually thinking about it deeply right now on national television.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 12: I don't like that idea at all. It's very creepy.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 12: Take back everything I said. If you want to do it,
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 12: no shame it. Just the more I think about it,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 12: it really freaked me out, so no, not for me.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, ladies, I'm old school. I don't want
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: anybody planting the crop of ruta bagos on top of me.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 3: So all right, taste my bill, Mary Walter. We have
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: way too much fun, Dylan. I'm surprised we haven't been
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: like pulled off the air because of that segment.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 14: I'm surprised that they kind of like were for it.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no exactly.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 14: At first they were like what, and then they're like, well,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 14: it's actually kind of a good idea.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: That's a great idea. I guarantee you they shop at
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 3: the Whole Foods. Absolutely unbelievable. All Right, nine oh one
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  Speaker 3: two six zero five nine two six. Would you eat?
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 3: Would you eat any food that is grown from Grandma?
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 3: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back to the
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: Todd Sterns Radio Show. A really stunning report came out
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 3: yesterday from the Justice Department, nine hundred pages of evidence
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 3: that the Biden administration weaponized the Department of Justice to
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: go after pro life conservatives, and it's some pretty shocking,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: shocking information that came out. We were able to talk
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 3: to Jeremy Dye from First Liberty Institute. They've been all
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 3: over this story and they have been covering this. Here's
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 3: how bad it was, folks. Our understanding is that they
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 3: were literally spying on pro life families that were going
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 3: to events and conventions and things of that nature. Here's
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: that conversation with the mister Dice. I'm curious what did
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: they find in that Justice Department report.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: Well, it's hard to know even where to begin, since
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: the report really totals about nine hundred pages worth of
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: material and evidence and an analysis. But the long and
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: short of it is this that under the Biden Department
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 2: of Justice, the Department of Justice weaponized the law specifically
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: against the pro life community such that, you know, there
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: was a wide disparity upon between you know, how they
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: utilize something called the FASE Act, the Free Access to
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: Clinic Entrances Act, for example. Now we know that FASE
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: Act recently because of been used against people like Don
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: Lemon and others who've tried to invade churches and protest
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 2: things there. But not one time under the Biden administration
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: did they utilize that to defend churches that were being
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 2: targeted for harassment and other things. Yet the Biden administration
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: did weaponize it against pro lifers who were peacefully protesting
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: outside of abortion clinics, and I think they recommended I
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: don't know, seventy eight months worth of sentences for some
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: of these defendants there in those cases. But at the
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: same time, they only went after maybe six different vandals
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: who went across Face Act violations for pro life centers
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 2: across the country, of which we saw hundreds of them
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: across the country after the Dobbs decision. So it's very
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: clear that the Department of Justice was inequitably applying the law.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: They were deciding to side with their political friends and
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: punish their political enemies and denying people in the process.
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  Speaker 2: The equal axis of equal access to.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: Justice and Jeremy we're talking about at least in one
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: of these cases I believe, wasn't one of the people arrested,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: an elderly grandmother who was sent to jail.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no kidding. And then when the attorneys for that grandmother,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 2: as well as some other defendants that they were representing,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: asked the Department of Justice for information that could be
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: exculpatory for the prosecution of those claims for the defense
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: of their client for instance, the Department Justice said no, Now,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: they received information from Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: It's clear from the evidence that they were coordinating with
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: these outside, non government organizations that were intent upon promoting
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: an abortion. They received a dossier, for instance, that was
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: over one hundred and thirty pages in length that had
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: personally identifiable information about people going to a pro life conference,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: including pictures of their spouse, their kids, their minor children,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: and had their driver's license details within that dossier. No
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: one stopped to ask how they even got that information,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: but the Department of Justice instead decided to utilize that
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: to weaponize against those pro life people. But at the
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: same time, when they were trying to defend themselves against
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: the prosecution by the Department of Justice, the Department Justice said, no,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: you're not allowed to have that information. That's just kind
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: of crazy things. But it would be crazy if it
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  Speaker 2: weren't so damnable. It's a terrible thing for the Department
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: of Justice to levy such weapons against innocent people.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So we're talking nine hundred pages in this document.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 3: Was so clearly they've done a thorough job here. A
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 3: lot of times these reports come out and nothing happens.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 3: What do you hope to see happen here? Was there
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 3: any criminal behavior involved, just more of a civil issue.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I understand that some of the people that were
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: named in that report as having colluded with these pro
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 2: abortion protesters and weaponized the law against innocent individuals. They
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: have departed the Department of Justice now. I think some
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 2: have resigned, others have been terminated. My hope would be
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 2: that the Attorney General utilizes this information to do more things.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: Number One, I think the Department of Justice ought to
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: hold these individuals accountable, not just simply for losing their job,
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: but for breaching any kind of ethical responsibilities that they
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: may have, whether that's within the Department itself, under the
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: Office of Inspector General, or perhaps if they're admitted lawyers,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: for instance, the state bars that approved them should know
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: about their behavior. More than that, I think the Department
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: of Justice needs to maintain this working group because I
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: know there must be more areas. For instance, at the
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: end of the report, it says that they only prosecuted
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, they prosecuted zero instances of the Face Act
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: on behalf of churches during the Department of Justice's time
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: under Biden. And yet we know that there are many
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 2: opportunities for that very sort of thing. So I think
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: we have the equal parts of praise of the current
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: Department of Justice for doing the right thing of the
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: Face Act and protecting churches like we've seen in Minnesota
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: and elsewhere, but also they deserve a lot of condemnation
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: under the prior administration for going after people of faith
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: who are just simply trying to do their level best
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 2: without having to law weaponize against them and being denied
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: access to justice.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 3: All right, then again was Jeremy dece with First Liberty Institute. Well,
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: coming up, it is our weekly visit with our good
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• 1:33:05
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  Speaker 3: for the younger listeners that are just now starting out,
• 1:34:43
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• 1:34:46
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• 1:34:49
  Speaker 3: you should share some of the life lessons that you've learned.
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  Speaker 3: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. Well,
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  Speaker 3: Chris loftus is here a financial services rep for Strategic
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  Speaker 3: and Chris, I think that's a, you know, a pretty
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  Speaker 3: cool idea because you know, a lot of a lot
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 3: of the older folks have been there, done that, and
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 3: they've learned what to do and what not to do.
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  Speaker 21: That's right, Todd. And the funny thing is, I actually
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 21: got a call earlier today which kind of struck a
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 21: chord with me this morning from a gentleman who works
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 21: for an airline company. He's a pilot, and he informed
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 21: me that a five thousand of their pilots, over half
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 21: of them are new generation, like under the age of
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 21: thirty two. And these are guys and gals who are young.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 21: They're buying their first homes and they're raising families. But
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 21: the problem is they're not looking at the big picture.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 21: They're not getting into these consistent, healthy habits. In fact,
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 21: the majority of them are getting that first big paycheck
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 21: and they're going like WHOA, let's go all right, let's
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 21: buy the house, let's buy the car. Let's buy the toys.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 21: And they're not looking beyond the big scope of their life,
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 21: and they're encountering this little thing called lifestyle drift. And
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 21: I think that's a big thing that we really need
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 21: to be addressing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, sometimes when you think about it, you know,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 3: when you're starting out, it just seems so overwhelming, right
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 3: that you know, you don't know how in the world
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 3: am I going to be able to save up enough
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 3: money to you know, put things away in savings and
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 3: put down the down payment for the house. I mean,
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 3: there are a lot of there are just a lot
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 3: of things that that could be overwhelming for young people.
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  Speaker 21: Well, you know, it's crazy. The reality is by your
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  Speaker 21: mid thirties, you're statistically more likely to have a car
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 21: payment and a mortgage than a fully funded emergency fund. Wow,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 21: which is just horrific. I mean, only about less than
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 21: half of Americans of any age actually have a fully
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 21: fund emergency cushion. But when it comes down to young professionals,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 21: and again for your older listeners out there, your grandkids
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 21: or maybe even your kids, only one in three young
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 21: professionals are truly on track when it comes to saving
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 21: and specifically saving for retirement. And those are some really
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 21: key issues, not necessarily because oh they they're not thinking
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 21: about it, but it's not being prioritized. Right. We live
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 21: in a gratify age of gratification. Or we see things
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 21: on social media, whether it's the avocado toast that our
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 21: buddies are the influencers we watch or getting or we
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 21: see our neighver get the fancy car. There's certain parties
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 21: we need to be looking at and setting up the
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 21: foundation for now, not later. Can this is going to
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 21: be harder the further down the road we get?
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  Speaker 3: No, Well, you're absolutely right. And again, if you've got
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  Speaker 3: that and maybe you have learned some great advice on
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 3: how to save and how to get a fully funded
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  Speaker 3: emergency fund, give us a called nine oh one two
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  Speaker 3: six zero five nine two six. I am curious, so
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  Speaker 3: why is that happening? And how does it happen when
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 3: incomes are supposedly at their songres growth point, you know,
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  Speaker 3: when you're in your thirties, and yeah, people are still
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 3: living with mom and dad.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, well, that's a great that's a great question. Well,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 21: so the first there's some couple of key insights here
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 21: to note. So regarding Gen Z and millennials, lifestyle and
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 21: lifestyle drifts specifically impacts them the hardest. Even though when
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 21: income jumps, it's great and we get excited, but the
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 21: savings disciplines often are not there. Right, It's these bad
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 21: habits that were getting consistently into where instead of saying, okay, hey,
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 21: this goes here, this goes here, allocating or prioritizing where
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 21: our money's going, we're sitting down. We're going like, okay, great,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 21: I have enough money for this, or even worse, todd
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 21: This is something I see a lot. I actually work
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 21: with the lot of young professionals who see this. They
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 21: get that they sign their first contract for their first
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 21: professional career and say say you're an engineer, and you say, okay, man,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 21: I'm getting ninety five thousand dollars a year. Man, that's awesome.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 21: Let's pump the brakes. It's not. Actually, you're not actually
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 21: getting ninety five thousand years because taxes for one thing,
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 21: all right, So let's go ahead and cut off about
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 21: a third of that when it's all sudden done on
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 21: top of the benefits that you're getting. All right, so
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 21: it's more like seventy seventy five.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 21: Well, then let's say you went out and you got
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 21: a car, so you got a car payment, and then
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 21: you have rent that you have to pay. Your cost
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 21: of living has already been cast and a half because
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 21: of all these different expenses, and people aren't not realizing
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 21: that because they think they have all this money to
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 21: spend and.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 3: That you know, when you're in that thirty to fifty window,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 3: I think that's when folks really get into trouble, and
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 3: in some cases they don't even realize they are.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 21: No, that's absolutely right. And so in that thirty to
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 21: fifty window, that's another specific key insight. That's when you
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 21: reach your peak income earning years. Right, many are kind
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 21: of set into this fixed balance sheet tight. I mean,
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 21: they have high assets, but they have really low liquidity
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 21: and flexibility because instead of building wealth, they're funding a
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 21: lifestyle Todd. That's what it comes down to, is funding
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 21: the lifestyle that they think they should be living.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: Is this true? Only about a third of young professionals
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 3: are actually on track for.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 21: That is true. It's unfortunate and I'll tell you what
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 21: that comes back to. It comes back to not reading
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 21: the fine print on your benefits package too many people.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 21: Todd was having a conversation earlier this week about this
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 21: exact thing. I had a congress actually with multiple people.
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  Speaker 21: They look at their benefits packet and they say they
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 21: see open enrollment for their four one K plan, and
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 21: they immediately think, Ah, you know what, I don't really
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 21: want to do that. I don't want to keep as
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 21: much on my paycheck as possible. I will keep it
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 21: because I can do better things with that. Newsflash, Todd,
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 21: they just gave up over half of what their salary
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 21: was originally supposed to be. What they don't realize is
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 21: a lot of business owners could be paying their employees
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 21: more than double of what their salary is, but they
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 21: offer it to them in the form of benefits. You
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 21: give up your four one K, you're giving up free
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 21: money because there's a match involved in there, there's growth
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 21: involved in there. And it's ridiculous because you have a
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 21: lot of people who are missing the boat on a
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 21: head start on the retirement and then they spend the
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 21: like from their forty five to age sixty. They're playing catchup.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 3: You You mentioned that high income sometimes doesn't necessarily mean
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 3: financial stability. What do you mean by that?
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 21: So you have a lot like it goes back to
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 21: the funding of the lifestyle versus building wealth. You have
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 21: a lot of people who they've got the car, their
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 21: kids are in private school. You've got people who are
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 21: trying to take that one or two really nice trips
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 21: every year with their spouse. Well, if you don't have
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 21: the financial foundation for that, you're just throwing money into
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 21: that and then recouping trying to recoup it afterwards so
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 21: you can do it all over again. It goes back
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 21: to those healthy financial habits we were talking about. That
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 21: also goes back to saying, Okay, hey, what are my porities?
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 21: What are my goals? Are my goals just to take
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 21: a big trip every year, or my goals to make
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 21: sure my kids have the best clothes or whatever. Those
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 21: are fine, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you're
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 21: not prioritizing, hey, where am I going to be in
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 21: thirty years, twenty years, fifteen years. Again. I know a
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 21: lot of young professionals here are like, oh, I'm trying
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 21: to just get through this week, which is fine, right,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 21: But you have to have a bit of longevity and
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 21: when you're thinking about where you want to be and
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 21: what you want to pomplished, because if you don't, you're
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 21: going to get sucked into this lifestyle drift of saying, oh,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 21: I'm just going to buy this because you know, paycheck
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 21: comes in on Monday, so I'll just I'll have it.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 21: Then that's not the right that's not financial planning, and
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 21: that's not being financially responsible. And you have a lot
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 21: of people who have dug themselves into holes because of
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 21: that reason.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: So let's say somebody is listening right now and they realize,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 3: holy cow, I am in that situation. I'm getting some
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: good income, but it's hard to pay the bills. What
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 3: do they need to do? What is their next step?
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 21: First and foremost, they need to take inventory? All right? So, hey,
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 21: if you're in that position, you obviously have income coming in,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 21: which is great. That tells me you've taken the first
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 21: step and you're a hard worker. Once you're able to
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 21: do that, figure out where it's going right and be
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 21: honest with yourself. We have so many people who are
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 21: biased against themselves and they aren't able to be willing
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 21: about willing to be honest with themselves about where their
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 21: financiers are going or you know, what they're funding. There's
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 21: a lot of things todd that you really don't need
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 21: to be spending money on because like again, I'll bring
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 21: back the Alvacada toast. But it's it's those daily, daily,
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 21: little expenses that creep on up on you that by
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 21: the end of the month you're like, man, I paid
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 21: fifteen hundred dollars for what, you.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 3: Know, I would be curious to know, and especially from
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 3: people maybe who were you know, maybe in their thirties
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 3: back in the nineteen eighties, nineteen nineties, when you know,
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 3: when again people were not eating out every single day.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 3: You know that was you know, that's pretty much where
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 3: everybody's getting their meals and getting their nucition from is
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 3: going to a restaurant or you know, grub bubb or whatever.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 3: And I wonder back in the day, you know how
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 3: many times people would go out for dinner. A lot
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 3: of times you know that would be just mom and dad,
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: so you'd have a babysitter, you know, keep the kids
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 3: at home. But as far as all of the expenditures,
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 3: you know, people going on these exotic vacations when they're
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 3: in their twenties and thirties. That did not used to happen.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 21: Now, whatever happened, I'm curious because I mean this was
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 21: I mean, I'd do this often. But whatever happened to
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 21: bring your lunch in a pale you know? Didn't that
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 21: used to be the deal where it's like, hey, bring
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 21: au sack lines to work and whatnot. That's what the
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 21: breaker used to be for, right, Dylan brod broncoly did
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  Speaker 21: he really? Yeah, it's like you can catch a whiff
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  Speaker 21: of it.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good thing. Adam's not here after all.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, Adam, I think Adam made some bad shrimp or
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  Speaker 21: something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh boy, that's brutal. I felt that for that.
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  Speaker 21: But you're absolutely right, Todd. It goes into seeing what
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  Speaker 21: your neighbor's doing and being tempted to emulate that because
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  Speaker 21: you think, oh, that looks cool and that's what successful
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  Speaker 21: people do. But that's coming out of cost, and it's
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  Speaker 21: coming out a cost that is going to be to
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  Speaker 21: your detriment in the long term because you're looking at
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  Speaker 21: it from a position of oh, well I want this now,
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  Speaker 21: I want gratification, now, I want to be noticed. Now,
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  Speaker 21: whether it's your car, your house, or your family unification
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  Speaker 21: all if it doesn't matter, Todd.
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  Speaker 3: I remember when we would go so my dad got
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  Speaker 3: transferred to New Orleans when I was a kid, and
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  Speaker 3: we would always come back to Memphis right up I
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  Speaker 3: fifty five, and my mom would always like she would
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  Speaker 3: make sausage and biscuits for breakfast, she'd have sandwiches. We'd
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  Speaker 3: pull off at the end. How many people still pull
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  Speaker 3: off at the rest stops right on this Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they have the picnic tables there, and that's what you do.
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  Speaker 3: And then if like on a rare occasion, we did
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  Speaker 3: not have cracker barrel back then, but we did have
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  Speaker 3: something called stuckies stuckies, and the stuckies was kind of
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  Speaker 3: like the roadside burghers and ice cream and you got
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  Speaker 3: the conloger roll. But but that was a very rare thing,
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  Speaker 3: you know. So it was all about, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: saving money. And if we were on vacation down at
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  Speaker 3: the you know, the the Gulf of America, well it
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  Speaker 3: would be you know, you'd pack the sandwiches and you know,
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  Speaker 3: lunch meat and all that kind of good stuff. But again,
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  Speaker 3: I think I think the nation as a whole. We
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  Speaker 3: are living well above our.
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  Speaker 21: Meats very much so, very much so, and that comes
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  Speaker 21: from a position of oh well again the gratification. We
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  Speaker 21: do not believe in delayed graphication. We don't practice it
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  Speaker 21: even though we should. And Todd, I'd love to hear
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  Speaker 21: from your listeners, and maybe even if they don't have
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  Speaker 21: a success story, if they have a cautionary tale of like,
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  Speaker 21: you know what, I want a twenty five something year
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  Speaker 21: old or somebody out there to know, hey, I didn't
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  Speaker 21: do this and I wish I had. I'd love to
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  Speaker 21: hear from them because those are the stories that actually
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  Speaker 21: have the most impact on young listeners because they sit
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 21: there and think, oh, well, this would never happen to me. Oh,
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  Speaker 21: I never get injured, can never work again. Oh I
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 21: don't need an emergency fund, Todd, we see it every day,
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  Speaker 21: every single day. You don't think it will happen to you. Statistically,
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  Speaker 21: it will, and it's going to happen sooner rather than later.
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  Speaker 21: So take control of it right now.
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  Speaker 3: Our telephone number is nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 3: five nine two six. That's nine oh one two six
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  Speaker 3: zero five nine two six. Chris. People, they go to
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  Speaker 3: your website Strategic Financial Partners dot com. Tell us about
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  Speaker 3: some of the information that you guys have available there.
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  Speaker 21: Well, first and foremost, they're going to see a lot
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  Speaker 21: of articles that are are firm which is staff full
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 21: of experts in various different areas of the financial industry,
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  Speaker 21: and we post those. We post those on our website
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  Speaker 21: probably about once a quarter, and those have a wealth
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  Speaker 21: of knowledge in terms of how to get in contact
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  Speaker 21: with us, but also come some guidelines of hey, are
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 21: you going through this specific scenario, whether you're a pre
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  Speaker 21: retireing you try to figure out what to do with
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 21: your four one K or post retiree, whether you're kind
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 21: of in that middle section of the thirty five to
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 21: fifty five prime earning years and you're just like, hey,
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 21: what's next? How do I share up my foundation? Or
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 21: if you're in that twenty to thirty year range, hey,
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 21: you're going to try to figure how to get started.
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 21: You're trying to figure out, Hey, what do I need
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  Speaker 21: to do just to build right? How do I survive
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  Speaker 21: and get to that point where I can grow consistently.
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  Speaker 21: We have all those experts at our office. We've got
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  Speaker 21: about one hundred and fifty advisors all across the country.
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  Speaker 21: We've got offices all across the southeast, but we work
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  Speaker 21: We have a nationwide presence that we are able to
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  Speaker 21: help anybody in any season of life. Now, the main
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  Speaker 21: thing here is todd and this is why. To remind
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  Speaker 21: your listeners, it starts with you. We can lead a
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  Speaker 21: horse to water all we want, but we can't force
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  Speaker 21: it to drink. You have to have the ability and
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  Speaker 21: capacity to motivate yourself and say, hey, you know what,
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  Speaker 21: I don't like where I'm at. I want to see
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  Speaker 21: a change, and I don't want to be living paycheck
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  Speaker 21: to paycheck or wondering if I want to be able
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 21: to keep the lights on or not even keep the
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 21: lights on. But I want to be able to retire
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  Speaker 21: at age sixty five. Right, So that those are the
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 21: conversations we want to be in the room for. But
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 21: we need people who are motivated and want to make
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 21: the necessary changes and steps to accomplish that.
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  Speaker 3: All right, We've got to leave it there. Hope adding
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  Speaker 3: best to feeling better, me too, man, goodness, jeez, lou
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  Speaker 3: So hopefully.
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  Speaker 21: You know what I'm not eating any shrimp anytime soon.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 3: So that's what she did. He's gonna get triggered driving
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  Speaker 3: by red last.
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  Speaker 21: He really like man, Adam, I love you. I hope
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 21: you're listening. But you're a navy man and you get
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 21: sick in seafood or whatever it is. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not good.
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  Speaker 21: That's that's not great. That's not good.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Chris loftus. Everybody from Strategic Financial Partners that
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  Speaker 3: website address Strategic Financial Partners dot com. That Strategic Financial
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  Speaker 3: any questions at all, you'll be able to reach out
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  Speaker 3: to to Chris or Adam again. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: Chris is number nine oh one six five seven three
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  Speaker 21: Good to see you.
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