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If Dems Win, They Will Try to Destroy Trump · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right. I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Program.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us wherever you might be listening,
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  Speaker 2: border to border, coast to coast. Across the Fruited Plain. So,
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  Speaker 2: Kimberly Guilfoyle updating her LinkedIn profile today. She is leaving
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  Speaker 2: as the ambassador to Greece. And the allegations surrounding Guilfoyle
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  Speaker 2: just are really, really shocking. We're going to get into that.
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  Speaker 2: But the president said, yet time for you to go.
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  Speaker 2: And this is not surprising at all. The reports coming
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  Speaker 2: out last week that Guilfoyle was basically running a pay-for-play operation,
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  Speaker 2: racking up tens of thousands of dollars of debt on
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  Speaker 2: her Amex card. And she was basically getting people to
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  Speaker 2: pay off her debts and trying to get them access
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  Speaker 2: into the Trump White House. Now, Guilfoyle had been engaged
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  Speaker 2: to Don Jr. And, of course, that all went belly up.
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  Speaker 2: And now we know why, because apparently she was even
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  Speaker 2: then more concerned about making money for herself than President Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And you know how that's going to go at Mar-a-Lago.
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  Speaker 2: So the wedding was called off, the engagement. They were engaged.
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  Speaker 2: I believe they were engaged. And she was sent off
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  Speaker 2: to Greece, where things only got worse. So the new
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  Speaker 2: White House press secretary, Katie Zachariah, made the announcement earlier today.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to that, which we do not
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  Speaker 2: have on the sheet, but we do have it. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: We have asked Ambassador Guilfoyle to resign. She has been
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  Speaker 3: a wonderful asset to the team, and we wish her well.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so there we go. That was the White
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  Speaker 2: House press secretary just moments ago. The president, was asked
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  Speaker 2: about this as he was leaving the White House. Let's
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  Speaker 2: take a listen. She was almost a.
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  Speaker 5: Member of your family.
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  Speaker 3: How surprised were you to learn about these allegations?
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  Speaker 6: No, she wasn't a member of my family. She, I guess,
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  Speaker 6: dated my son a long time ago, but she wasn't.
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  Speaker 5: No, she went to Greece.
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  Speaker 7: She was doing a good job, but we didn't like
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  Speaker 7: what we were reading.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he didn't like it. No, I don't blame him
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  Speaker 2: one bit. She had to go. No doubt about it. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: they were engaged. Thank you for the reminder. That's hard
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  Speaker 2: to keep up with everybody. You know, they're dating. They're
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  Speaker 2: not dating. They're engaged. They break up. It's hard to
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  Speaker 2: keep up with everybody these days. So anyway, all of
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  Speaker 2: that is gone, and now so is Kimberly Guilfoyle. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what she was– Dylan, she had $ 100, 000
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  Speaker 2: in debt on her Amex card.
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  Speaker 5: That's a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: What was she using it for? There's been talk. She
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  Speaker 2: didn't look like what she looks like now a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. That's a good point. It's hard to miss that.
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  Speaker 2: A little work done.
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  Speaker 5: But $ 100, 000 worth of work, is that, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of work.
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  Speaker 5: I've never done it. I don't know how much expensive
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  Speaker 5: that is.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of shiplap.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: To borrow a phrase. $ 100, 000. And you know it's not,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, she's also got her own vodka line.
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  Speaker 2: What's up with that? What is going on over there?
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  Speaker 2: So Guilfoyle is gone. And I think there is a
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  Speaker 2: lesson for all of us to learn here. And here
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  Speaker 2: it is in a nutshell. It's not about you. And
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk directly to all of the White
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  Speaker 2: House staffers and the administration officials at large. It's not
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  Speaker 2: about you, never was about you, never will be about you,
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  Speaker 2: unless you screw the president, and then it is going
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  Speaker 2: to be about you, and you're going to get the heave-ho.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's the problem for folks like Kimberly Guilfoyle,
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  Speaker 2: who thought she was bigger than the man. And the
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  Speaker 2: moment you start thinking that, your days are numbered. And again,
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  Speaker 2: it is not about you. It is about the president's agenda.
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  Speaker 2: Always has been and it always will be. It's about
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  Speaker 2: getting that agenda across the finish line. And if you
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  Speaker 2: are a member of the White House staff, and you
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  Speaker 2: can't comprehend that, then you've got to go. You owe
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  Speaker 2: it to the president, and you owe it to the
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  Speaker 2: American people to resign, step down, and get out of
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  Speaker 2: the way. Now, this is, trust me, she is not
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  Speaker 2: the only one. There are a lot of other people
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  Speaker 2: that are grifting off of our president, and this is
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  Speaker 2: becoming a problem, and it's going to become an even
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  Speaker 2: bigger problem in the final two years of the Trump presidency,
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  Speaker 2: because all of these people realize their days are done.
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  Speaker 2: And after this, if you are working, and hear me
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  Speaker 2: on this, any Republican working in the Trump White House,
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  Speaker 2: that's it for you. The establishment, they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: sweeping in, they're going to be cleaning house, and all
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  Speaker 2: of you folks are not going to be getting any
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  Speaker 2: jobs anytime soon. And that's why we're going to watch
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  Speaker 2: many of these people try to leverage their position in
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  Speaker 2: the White House to earn money. And, again, I would
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  Speaker 2: say this as a word of caution. If that is you,
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  Speaker 2: you should resign and go make your money. But you
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  Speaker 2: can't do it inside the White House, and it's an
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  Speaker 2: ugly situation, and it's very disappointing. I know President Trump's
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  Speaker 2: upset about this. And the president demands loyalty, and this
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  Speaker 2: was not an act of loyalty that Guilfoyle did. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, the new White House press secretary has– has
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  Speaker 2: started her job. And I get it. It's day one.
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  Speaker 2: But can we stop right there for a second? That
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  Speaker 2: is irrelevant to this conversation. We are in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of a war. The midterm election is just a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks away, and this is not the time for on-the-job training.
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  Speaker 2: We need a press secretary that can walk into that
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  Speaker 2: Oval Office and smack those sorry so-and-sos around. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure we got that person. I hope I am proven wrong,
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  Speaker 2: but it was not pretty today. And again, first day jitters,
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  Speaker 2: willing to let that go. We can't have second day jitters.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, here is the new White
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  Speaker 2: House press secretary.
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  Speaker 8: Cut 25, please.
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  Speaker 3: To build eight large-scale nuclear power plants, something we've needed
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  Speaker 3: as the United States and something President Trump promised on
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  Speaker 3: the campaign trail and something President Trump is delivering on,
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  Speaker 3: just like he delivers on every promise. In addition to that,
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  Speaker 3: there is $ 54 billion tied to the Alaska LNG pipeline
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  Speaker 3: and terminal to service the Pacific Rim. and sell fuel
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  Speaker 3: to our allies, as well as $ 22. 3 billion for a
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  Speaker 3: 6-gigawatt natural gas power facility in Texas.
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  Speaker 9: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: All right. So let's see how tomorrow goes. And if
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow was anything like today, my recommendation to the president
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  Speaker 2: would to behold as few press conferences as possible between
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  Speaker 2: now and the midterm elections. I'm just, oh my word.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, PMS Now, they're all over
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  Speaker 2: this story. This is interesting. Somebody from inside the White House,
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  Speaker 2: who probably did not get the job, had this to say.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen to Cut 23.
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  Speaker 10: Wow.
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  Speaker 11: I want to just read this to you. Quote from
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  Speaker 11: a White House official reacting to Zachariah's first press briefing
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  Speaker 11: that we got just now. They were granted anonymity to
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  Speaker 11: speak candidly to MSNOW. Quote, getting behind the podium is tough,
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  Speaker 11: but she got off on the wrong foot. She needs
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  Speaker 11: to get much better fast. Otherwise, she'll break Scaramucci's record.
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  Speaker 11: Our colleague Jake Traylor just reported this. That's a bit
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  Speaker 11: of a wow, Peter, because I'm going to say I
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  Speaker 11: watched it thinking Trump must be happy as a clam.
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  Speaker 11: But the fact that we're hearing this from inside the
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  Speaker 11: White House, people inside the White House, maybe they're they're
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  Speaker 11: they're feeling a stroke of courage, you know, sort of
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  Speaker 11: or they're looking through the lens of Trump's first administration
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  Speaker 11: saying we need to put forward a front to your
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  Speaker 11: original point. We're even seeming like we're here for the
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  Speaker 11: American people.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Yeah. So, look, here's the deal, folks. We've
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  Speaker 2: got to have a strong communicator and a ferocious defender
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  Speaker 2: of the president behind that podium every single day. Personally,
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  Speaker 2: I love Stephen Chung. I think he's perfect for the job.
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  Speaker 2: He's directing comms and doing a terrific job of it.
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  Speaker 2: But we've got to make sure we're firing on all cylinders.
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  Speaker 2: We can't make any mistakes. That's how serious of a
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  Speaker 2: situation this is as we move towards the midterms. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, she was also asked, Zachariah was also asked
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  Speaker 2: about her law degree, and she said she passed the
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  Speaker 2: bar in China. There was no follow-up answered there on
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  Speaker 2: what do you mean by that, but all of that
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  Speaker 2: happening as the president was heading out of the Oval
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  Speaker 2: Office today, so we'll keep you updated on that particular
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  Speaker 2: story as well. Look, the midterms are right around the corner, folks.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people are nervous Nellies about this. I
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  Speaker 2: am not all that nervous. I just get frustrated when
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  Speaker 2: Republican voters and Republican leaders are not doing what they're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be doing. This ought to be a pretty
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  Speaker 2: easy sell for the American people. You've got a choice
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  Speaker 2: between common sense and chaos. You've got a choice between
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  Speaker 2: freedom and oppression. I mean, that's really what is at
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  Speaker 2: stake here in the midterm elections. And I'm with Mike Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: the Speaker of the House. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: I have great respect for this guy. He has been
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  Speaker 2: out there every single day helping candidates, raising money, campaigning
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  Speaker 2: around the clock. And Mike Johnson was asked about all
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  Speaker 2: this polling data that is out there. And I'm with Johnson.
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  Speaker 2: He says all of the polling data is wrong. Take
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  Speaker 2: a listen.
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  Speaker 12: I'm going to give you a shot here to respond
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  Speaker 12: to some political analysts who say the House is gone,
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  Speaker 12: that the Dems are definitely going to be in the majority.
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  Speaker 12: You disagree. You say that you can defy those odds.
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  Speaker 4: You have the floor.
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  Speaker 13: How so?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 14: Thank you, Dana. Good to be with you. We're excited.
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  Speaker 14: I'm in Texas today. We'll do three events here and
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  Speaker 14: then I'll head. I think I've got eight states this week.
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  Speaker 14: I've been doing this for almost two years and I'm
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  Speaker 14: telling you the polling is wrong. Now, you have a
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  Speaker 14: lot of polling organizations right now acknowledging that they're under
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  Speaker 14: sampling Republicans because Republicans don't want to respond to polls anymore.
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  Speaker 15: So.
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  Speaker 14: CNN did a story, Dana, just this week and acknowledged
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  Speaker 14: that Republicans have been underestimated in October polls, 14 of
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  Speaker 14: the last 16 elections going back to 1994. Don't buy it.
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  Speaker 14: I'm telling you, I'm on the ground in the swing districts.
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  Speaker 14: I am seeing huge energy and crowds. It feels like
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  Speaker 14: 2024 to me. That's not registering in the polls and
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  Speaker 14: we're fired up.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so there you go. Fox News releasing their
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  Speaker 2: power rankings. They've got another batch of races. I want
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  Speaker 2: to share this before we go to break here. Now,
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  Speaker 2: according to Fox, Republicans face a worsening House outlook. Fox
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  Speaker 2: News has now shifted 20 more races toward Democrats who
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  Speaker 2: now have an advantage in at least 219 seats. This
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  Speaker 2: is all coming from Fox. According to Fox, the GOP
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  Speaker 2: showing signs of trouble even in rural districts. I hate
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  Speaker 2: that word. Why can't we just say country? Why can't
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  Speaker 2: we just say country? That's all. Anyway, I digress. It's
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  Speaker 2: a Tuesday. Even in rural districts, President Trump won comfortably
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  Speaker 2: in 2024. Democrats could emerge with as many as 237
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  Speaker 2: House seats on a good night. But the Senate remains
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  Speaker 2: a toss-up, Minnesota moving into more competitive territory as Republican
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  Speaker 2: Michelle Tafoya narrows the gap with Democrat Peggy Flanagan. So
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  Speaker 2: some of the races that are now toss-ups, two of
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  Speaker 2: them in Iowa, the first and the third now leaning Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: You've also got New York's third congressional district, likely Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: Nevada's second congressional goes from solid Republican to likely Republican.
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  Speaker 2: And in Pennsylvania, the 7th and the 10th, those were toss-up,
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  Speaker 2: now leaning Democrat. Again, this is the Fox News reporting.
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  Speaker 2: Also in Texas, looks like the Texas 15 is now
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  Speaker 2: a toss-up, leaned Republican. And we'll keep you updated there. So,
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  Speaker 2: All that to say, a lot of moving parts. Ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, how do you feel about the midterms? Just
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  Speaker 2: gut honest. What's your take? What are you sensing? What
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  Speaker 2: are you feeling? I want to hear from all of
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  Speaker 2: you around the nation today on this one.
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  Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right,
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  Speaker 2: welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Atlanta. Jim on the line. Hi, Jim.
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  Speaker 2: What's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 13: Hey, Todd.
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  Speaker 16: Good to hear from you. I don't think the midterms
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  Speaker 16: are going to go well. It doesn't seem like people
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  Speaker 16: are encouraging to go out there and vote. A lot
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  Speaker 16: of people are mad about all the high prices and
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  Speaker 16: gas prices. Federal employees are... not going to vote or
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  Speaker 16: won't vote for the Republicans because they're going to get
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  Speaker 16: no pay raise this year. The insurance for federal employees
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  Speaker 16: is going up over 10% this year, so we'll be
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  Speaker 16: taking a 10% pay cut. Last year, they went up
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  Speaker 16: double digits, and our pay cut was a third of
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  Speaker 16: what they went up. So basically, we've taken about a 17%
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  Speaker 16: pay cut in the last two years due to rising
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  Speaker 16: insurance prices and The cost of living raise is not
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  Speaker 16: going up.
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  Speaker 2: And, Jim, are you a federal worker, Jim?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So you know that. I guess you guys are having
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  Speaker 2: those conversations, you know, around the lunch table.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 16: And a lot of people are very upset about it.
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  Speaker 17: I mean, we don't get.
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  Speaker 16: The raises, and then the interest goes up as much
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  Speaker 16: as it's been going up. And so we're taking pay
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  Speaker 16: cuts every year. People keep talking about federal employees, keep
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  Speaker 16: getting raises, making money. But actually, we took a pay
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  Speaker 16: cut the past two years.
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  Speaker 2: Jim, I'm wondering about yourself. Have you decided what you're
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  Speaker 2: going to do?
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  Speaker 16: I'm still going to vote. I'm going to early vote today.
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  Speaker 16: And I will be voting for the Republicans. But I'm
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  Speaker 16: not very happy with Donald Trump right now. I think
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  Speaker 16: he should end this thing in Iran right now. It's
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  Speaker 16: gone on way too long. I think the straight needs
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  Speaker 16: to be taken care of. And if our allies won't
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  Speaker 16: do it, we need to step in and fix things
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  Speaker 16: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jim, I'd be curious to hear from other folks
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  Speaker 2: in Georgia, because you're right, today is early voting for
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  Speaker 2: you guys. We start tomorrow in Tennessee. I'm curious to
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  Speaker 2: know what turnout looks like on the first day of
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  Speaker 2: early voting for If you guys are out there, maybe
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  Speaker 2: you've already cast your ballot, let us know. We'd like
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  Speaker 2: to hear from you. Jim, thank you for that call,
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  Speaker 2: and thanks for your honesty. I think that's important that
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  Speaker 2: people understand this. This is Michelle Tafoya, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: who is running for the Senate in Minnesota. Cut 15.
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  Speaker 18: You mentioned disgruntled Democrats. Are there disgruntled Republicans in light of,
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  Speaker 18: first of all, President Trump is not particularly popular in
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  Speaker 18: your state, according to the numbers, to the extent of
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  Speaker 18: the numbers. And secondly, ICE is not particularly popular in
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  Speaker 18: your state. Do you worry about disgruntled Republicans going over
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  Speaker 18: to her?
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  Speaker 3: No, I actually don't.
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  Speaker 4: I think that Republicans are going to stay home. That's
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  Speaker 4: what we're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: And so, no, I do not worry about that. All right,
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  Speaker 2: so there's your Republican Senate nominee saying all you people
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  Speaker 2: are going to stay home. She sounds so demoralized. Is
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  Speaker 2: this true, ladies and gentlemen? Is Michelle Tafoya correct? Are
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans going to stay home in November? 901-260-5926 is
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  Speaker 2: our telephone number.
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  Speaker 19: That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show. Wow, I felt like
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  Speaker 2: I was transported back to high school, Dylan. I love
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  Speaker 2: this bumper music. One of my favorite songs.
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  Speaker 5: I do it for you.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Welcome back, everybody. Good to have you with us.
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  Speaker 2: Real quick, let's go to the phones here. Howard, listening
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  Speaker 2: to us in beautiful Collierville, Tennessee, on KWAM, our flagship station. Howard,
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  Speaker 2: I understand you want to respond to the last caller
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  Speaker 2: we had.
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  Speaker 4: Well, hey there, Todd, and all the staff.
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  Speaker 8: Dittos.
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  Speaker 4: I'm down in Mississippi right now. But that last caller
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  Speaker 4: just kind of ruffled my feathers. I'm a Working man,
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  Speaker 4: I own two businesses. I pay taxes all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: The government has never produced anything for our nation except paperwork.
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  Speaker 4: Get out and get a real job that will grow
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  Speaker 4: in business and make some money. Don't sit there and
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  Speaker 4: suck on, as Rush would say, suck on the federal
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  Speaker 4: kit until you get money.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Howard, I believe that the appropriate terminology is teat.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, I completely agree with you there. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it is interesting. And I feel, look, the guy, he's
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  Speaker 2: a conservative and he's a Trump supporter. He works for
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  Speaker 2: Uncle Sam. But I'm with you. The government has been
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  Speaker 2: way too bloated, bureaucracy way too big. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that Doge went far enough. But the reality is,
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  Speaker 2: as tough as it is for those government workers, it's
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  Speaker 2: twice as bad for those of us who are out
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  Speaker 2: there in the private sector.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: You know, if you go to the Department of Motor
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Vehicles and sit for three hours waiting for somebody to
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: wait on you while people who are They're working for
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: the government, supposedly, but they're not really working. You can tell.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: When's the last time you went there and felt loved?
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I want to feel anything at the DMV,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: to be honest with you, Howard.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: But you understand what I'm saying?
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: They don't care about us. Well, it's me that pays
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: your salary. The government takes it from us, the working Americans,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: And they've created jobs that usually don't create anything.
• 21:10
  Speaker 13: For the rest of us.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: They just take our money. Anyway, I've aired my point,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: and I know how I stand. Get a job, people.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Howard, I like the way you think. You be safe
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: driving around Mississippi. I hope you make it back to
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Collierville safe and sound, my friend. Let's go to Sherry
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: in Georgia, listening to us on WDUN. Hi, Sherry. What's
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: going on today?
• 21:38
  Speaker 20: Well, you wanted to know if we were voting. Me
• 21:40
  Speaker 20: and my husband are on our way right now to
• 21:42
  Speaker 20: go vote. And we vote Republican no matter what, because
• 21:45
  Speaker 20: I know the outcome of the Democrats. But also, I
• 21:48
  Speaker 20: do have to add to what that guy said about
• 21:50
  Speaker 20: none of the jobs for the United States are really jobs.
• 21:56
  Speaker 20: There are people in the Army. I work for the
• 21:59
  Speaker 20: Army Corps of Engineers. I know they work hard. I mean,
• 22:03
  Speaker 20: it's just if you find something that isn't working, get
• 22:07
  Speaker 20: rid of it. A doge can go look at the
• 22:09
  Speaker 20: jobs and see if they're needed or not.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Sherry, and look, there are, and you're right, there
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: are some jobs, government jobs, that are necessary and are
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: very important. And, of course, the military being one of them,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: you know, we pay those salaries. I do wonder, at
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: the end of the day, about government bloat. And as
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: the previous caller said, and this is not our drinking
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: word game, but there are a lot of people on
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: the government teat right now.
• 22:38
  Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm sure of it. I'm dead, I'm sure of it,
• 22:42
  Speaker 20: but that's why I'm fed to get those to go
• 22:44
  Speaker 20: check the jobs out and see which ones are legit
• 22:47
  Speaker 20: and which ones aren't. I don't think everybody works for
• 22:50
  Speaker 20: the government is just sitting around doing nothing because I
• 22:52
  Speaker 20: know better than that.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: I've seen them.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Sherry, as someone who has a post office in my
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: town that has, on a good day, two people working,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: trust me, You know, they're streamlining a lot of areas,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: certainly our local post office. Sherry, hang in there. I'm
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: glad you and your husband are voting. Let us know
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: how the turnout looks. And those of you in Georgia
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: early voting and really anywhere else in the country, if
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: you're early voting, give us a call and let us
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: know how things are going. And Republicans, I'm just telling you,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: if you want to save the country, you're going to
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: go and vote. Now is not the time to do
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: a protest vote. I'm just telling you. Wow, I had
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: a handful of candy corn. I usually don't like the
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: candy corn. No, it's the peanuts, the circus peanuts.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like candy corn. I don't know what the
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: hate is about that. There's no reason anyone should.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Our advertising goddess, the lovely Miss Cheryl, she made a
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: tactical mistake and bought candy. the Halloween candy early because
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: when the children come to, you know, our studio, you know,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of the, there's another, you know, radio station
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: in the market and they give the kids a little
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: boxes of raisins. It's disgusting. You're, you come here, you're
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: getting like a full size, like recessed peanut butter cup.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: The King size.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: You're getting the good stuff here.
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Mainly because we don't want to get rolled or egged. No,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: not at all.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Egged, yeah. So she did buy it early and unfortunately, yeah,
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: it's all gone.
• 24:25
  Speaker 21: It's gone.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: She's making another run today, Todd. So she's asking what
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: we want. She's asking what we want. So maybe it's
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: just for us.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to get the raisins. That's what's going
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: to happen.
• 24:34
  Speaker 22: Oh, wow.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Or the dental floss. Somebody was giving out dental floss
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: in the neighborhood last year.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, why?
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but they got rolled. Yeah. I may
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: or may not have given them cash to the kids.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: You need to go buy some Charmin. Let's go to
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Anthony in Alabama. Anthony, what's going on?
• 24:53
  Speaker 13: Hey, thanks, Mr.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Storrs, for taking my call. And I just wanted to
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: respond to that gentleman who said that he was taking
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: a pay cut, that he was a federal employee. Did
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: I understand that to be correct?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: That's what he told us, yes, and that insurance prices
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: are going up.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: Okay, well, you know, I was a government employee for years.
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: I retired from the government. We never took pay cuts.
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: You don't get a pay cut from the federal government.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: They may decrease your cost of living increase, or you
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: may not get a cost of living, a COLA they
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: called it. But you don't take a pay cut at
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: the federal, federal police don't take that unless something's changed.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: And I kind of wonder, you know, I think there's
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: a lot of spinning about the polls and all going on.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: You can't, you don't even know who's calling half the
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: time and telling you the truth. The old saying where
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: I used to work is believe none of what you hear,
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: and now it's less than half of what you see.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: But there's a lot of spinning. I don't believe the polls.
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: Rush Limbaugh used to always say the polls are there
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: to manipulate the voter, and that's Rush Limbaugh used to
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: say that, and that always stuck in my head. So
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: I believe that I think the Republicans are going to
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: do pretty darn good and that all of this stuff
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: is spinning and gaslighting that's going on and maybe just
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: trying to discourage us. But, you know, take it for
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: what it's worth, but I don't believe that other guy
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: was even a government employee.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Well, look, I'm giving the guy the benefit. I hear
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: what you're saying. I'm giving the guy the benefit of
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: the doubt. I will say this, that actually you are correct,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: that government workers do not get pay cuts. As a
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: matter of fact, this year, January of this year, most federal,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: not all, but most federal employees... got a 1% pay
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: increase because of President Trump. Now, that's not to say
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: that benefits and all those things, you know, there might
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: be some increases there. But again, I think it's a
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: lot harder for the average working man, the average working
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: woman out in the private sector, Anthony.
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: Right, but they have to realize that all of this
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: isn't because of Trump and the Republicans. If people would
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: just get out and just read and do a little homework,
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: research the stuff, the people they're voting for, do some
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: background stuff on those people. You know, we wouldn't have
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: these people going out there and, you know, saying, I'm
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: not voting for the Republicans. They ain't doing this, that,
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: and another thing. The people need to just get out
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: there and realize you've got two choices here. And, you know,
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: the Republicans, they stink. We all know they do. But,
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: you know, what's worse, the Democrats or the Democrats? The
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: Democrats will destroy this country. And we have a chance
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: over time, maybe, that we can change the Republican Party
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: if we can get right people in there and get
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: that expanded and these rhinos and get them out of there.
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: It's going to take a lot of work, but... You know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: I just think that some of the.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Well, look, let me jump in here, Anthony. Hold on.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: You've talked a lot here. Let me jump in here.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: As I announced this about three weeks ago on the program,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: do not listen to any of the polling data from
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: here to Election Day. Just in the back of your mind,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: imagine that all the Republicans are 20 points behind, and
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: you've got to get your butt out, and you've got
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: to go vote to make sure you get your guy,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: your gal across the finish line. And, Anthony, that's how
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: we've got to run the campaign. And I am disappointed
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: in the Republican Party. I think there is malaise coming
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: from RNC headquarters. I think there is a communication issue
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: coming out of the White House. But that cannot affect
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: this central truth that if we stay home and do
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: not vote, the communists are going to gain a foothold.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: And that's what, Anthony, that's what I'm trying to stop
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: from happening. I'll give you the final 30 seconds.
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: Let me see. What I was going to say was
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: that what you mentioned about vote like we're behind, Mark
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: Levin always says that. He goes, go out there and
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: vote like we're 10, 20 points behind.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Well, Todd Starnes says it. I don't care about Levin.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Todd Starnes says that.
• 29:08
  Speaker 17: Okay.
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: All right, Mr.
• 29:12
  Speaker 21: Starnes.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Anyway, you have a good day, and thanks for.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Taking my call. Anthony, all right. Thank you for the call. Oh,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: sweet mercy. Let's go to Houston. By the way, I'm
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: going to be in Houston, Texas, coming up next Tuesday.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot of fun. We'll tell
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: you more about that coming up. But right now, Steve
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: on the line, listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. Steve,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: what's going on?
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Hey, Todd.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: I'm Joey.
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: Your show.
• 29:41
  Speaker 19: You know, I'm 57 years old, and I never voted
• 29:45
  Speaker 19: until Trump came along. And the reason I did was because,
• 29:51
  Speaker 19: just like everybody else, you know, my whole life I've
• 29:54
  Speaker 19: seen Republicans and Democrats playing this good cop, bad cop,
• 29:59
  Speaker 19: and they always do the same thing. But everything that
• 30:04
  Speaker 19: I believe that was going to happen when Trump got elected,
• 30:08
  Speaker 19: you know, what happened to all the people, the corrupt people,
• 30:12
  Speaker 19: you know, being held accountable, the Clintons, you know, all
• 30:15
  Speaker 19: the stuff that the American people expected from Trump. And then,
• 30:23
  Speaker 19: you know, What's going on in Iran, to me, seems
• 30:26
  Speaker 19: like the same thing with weapons of mass destruction with Iraq,
• 30:30
  Speaker 19: with Bush. You know, I mean, it seems like the
• 30:34
  Speaker 19: same old Republican Party to me. And I'm afraid here
• 30:39
  Speaker 19: in Texas, you know, I'm a big Greg Abbott supporter. And,
• 30:43
  Speaker 19: you know, I think that I'm a little concerned that
• 30:47
  Speaker 19: people just aren't going to vote because it's the same
• 30:50
  Speaker 19: old thing that we're getting. I mean, we're not getting
• 30:53
  Speaker 19: any of the things that we expected. Gas prices, food prices,
• 30:58
  Speaker 19: I mean, you can say what you want about the economy,
• 31:02
  Speaker 19: but when people go to the grocery store, you know,
• 31:05
  Speaker 19: they feel that stuff.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Look, Steve, I don't disagree with you on a single
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: thing you just said, and everything you said is accurate.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: It shouldn't be that way, but that is the reality.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: The bigger question and the broader question is, do you
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: want James Tallarico as the next United States Senator from Texas?
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: Hell no.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Then you've got to vote. Yeah, you've got to get
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: out and vote.
• 31:29
  Speaker 19: I got a phone call yesterday, and they was asking
• 31:32
  Speaker 19: me how I was going to vote, who I was
• 31:34
  Speaker 19: going to vote, had I ever heard of this candidate. And,
• 31:38
  Speaker 19: you know, I'm voting Republican across the board, and that's
• 31:42
  Speaker 19: the reason, because I don't want to see the Democrats
• 31:45
  Speaker 19: get in there. But I sure don't have much faith
• 31:48
  Speaker 19: in the Republican Party right now.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Steve, I know you don't, but still, they're the only
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: game in town right now. It's either them or the communists,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: and I'm willing to go with those yahoos, the Republicans. Steve,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: I've got to run. Let me say this, though, Steve,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: and listen up here, all you folks in Houston. I'm
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: coming to Houston next week. Happy hour at Collectors Firearms.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Guns and booze. Dylan, wow.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: And me.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I'll have my Dr. Pepper there.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Interesting combo there, Todd.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm bringing my own six-pack of Dr. Pepper. No,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Patriot Talk 920. Steve, get this. Patriot Talk 920, they're
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: doing their Second Amendment Tuesday. It's a happy hour and mixer,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: and I'm the special guest of honor. I'm excited about this.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: We're going to be down there doing a meet and greet.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: We're doing an exclusive book signing, and I think you
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: guys are going to– I don't know what all is
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: going to happen, but it's from 4 to 7 o'clock.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: at Collectors Firearms. That's next Tuesday, October the 20th from
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: 4 to 7. Steve, hope to see you down there.
• 32:53
  Speaker 19: Hey, I'll be there. Thanks for letting me know.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: All right. Going to be a lot of fun.
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Steve. Let's go to Roberto in Memphis
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Roberto. What's going on?
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: Hey, Todd.
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: I just believe that the media is– we know they lie.
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: I believe they're trying to make a doom and gloom
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: picture for conservatives and Republicans to bolster the Marxists. It's
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: the same Orwellian trick of if you tell them a
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: lie enough, they'll believe it. You know, just like with Hillary,
• 33:26
  Speaker 8: it was such a close race with Hillary and she
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: was going to win. So I think that they're just
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: trying to discourage us from voting by making it seem like.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: It's no use.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: That's it. They want you to stay home. Yeah, that's
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: the whole point of the polling data, all the negative
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: media coverage. All of that is designed to demoralize you
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: and say, what's the point? I'm going to stay home.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: When you watch the coverage, it's like everything's doom and
• 33:50
  Speaker 8: gloom about conservatives, but it's all rosy for Democrats, the
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: picture of the election. So I just want to say
• 33:55
  Speaker 8: one more thing, and I'll let you go. The pain
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: we're feeling right now of stopping Iran from having a
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: nuclear weapon at the grocery store, at the gas pump,
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: whatever it may be, It's nothing compared to the pain
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: we would have felt if they had allowed Iran to
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: obtain nuclear weapons, especially if they got 10 of them.
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: Like you're saying, the 400 pounds of uranium may have
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: made 10 weapons. They would have done whatever they wanted
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: in the Strait of Hormuz. Then it would have cost
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: a dollar a barrel to get oil through there or more.
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: So I just I think that and also some of
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: this is still residual pain from the damage done in Biden.
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: You have to remember, when did the grocery prices go.
• 34:30
  Speaker 13: Up, Todd?
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Well, they went up during the Biden administration, no doubt
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: about that. But they went down, and now they're going
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: back up again. And that's the problem. And that's the
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: rub that people have.
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: That's the fuel. That's the result of the fuel. But again,
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: what would the pain have been if Iran had, say,
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: even two nuclear weapons?
• 34:48
  Speaker 23: What would that pain have been?
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Roberto, I get it. Trust me, I get it. And
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: I believe that we should have taken care of business
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: in 79, which we didn't, moot point now. But let
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: me just say this. It's the way it was handled.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: We should have gone in there, and we should have
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: been shock and awe and be done with it, and
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: that's not what happened. And let me say, I will
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: say this, Roberto, don't be surprised if there are changes
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: coming from the Pentagon as a result of all this,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: because I do know that Trump is really frustrated over
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: how the war has gone so far.
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: If it had taken 2,000 American lives to end this
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: in a month, I know that sounds horrible to people,
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: but war is ugly.
• 35:30
  Speaker 19: All right.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Roberto, I've got to run. We are super late for
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: a break, my friend. But thank you for calling in.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back, everybody. All right. If you are
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: on hold, don't go anywhere. We're going to get to
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: your calls right after the top of the hour news
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: break so we can spend a little bit more time
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: with you. So hang tight. I do want to circle
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: back to all of our Houston listeners. If you're listening
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: to us on Patriot Talk 920 on Tuesday– I'll be
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: coming to town. We're doing a live broadcast and a
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: book signing. That's 4 to 7 o'clock at Collectors Firearms.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: So there's going to be all sorts of great stuff,
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: great food, beverages, and lots of firearms. Dylan, I can't
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: imagine a much more exciting evening.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it can't get much better than that, actually.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: And by the way, they Photoshopped my picture. I look good.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I have one chin.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: Let's go.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that happened, but I'm pretty fly.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: So again, it's called Second Amendment Tuesday, Happy Hour and
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Mixer at Collectors Firearms. If you would like information, give
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: us a quick call and we'll pass along that to you. 901-260-5926.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. Free food, free drinks. Houston's best darn happy hour.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Heck yeah, buddy. That's going to be a lot of fun.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll see you in Houston. We're also going
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: to see you right after the top of the hour
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: news break.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Broadcasting coast-to-coast and border-to-border from Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 7: I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Extravaganza.
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  Speaker 2: Your voice of truth and hope and, well, common sense.
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  Speaker 2: In these very crazy, bizarre days. Good to have you
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  Speaker 2: with us today, everybody. Josh Jones is going to be
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  Speaker 2: along in just a little while. We're going to be
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  Speaker 2: talking Republican politics, midterm elections, and what the Republicans need
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  Speaker 2: to do to get out the vote. And I'm just
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  Speaker 2: going to, I just want to ask you flat out,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going right to our phones, our phone calls.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a number of people holding over the break.
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything the Republicans can do to change your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Some of you have just said, that's it, I'm done.
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  Speaker 2: But is there anything the Republicans could do that would
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  Speaker 2: change your mind and get you to vote in November?
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious to hear from you on that. 901-260-5926, our
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  Speaker 2: telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Chris Christie, Governor Krispy Kreme. doing
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  Speaker 2: his best to just take that knife and twist it
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  Speaker 2: again into the America First movement. Here is Krispy Kreme
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  Speaker 2: just the other day, cut 21.
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  Speaker 9: Let's remember something about Kansas. They haven't elected a Democrat
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  Speaker 9: to the Senate since the early 1930s, but they've elected
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  Speaker 9: Democratic governors.
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  Speaker 13: Currently now.
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  Speaker 9: Yep, they have one now, and they've had them before.
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  Speaker 9: But look, as a Republican, I sat here shaking my head,
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  Speaker 9: at the political malpractice that was committed on this air
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  Speaker 9: with you by Tom Emmer. Here is the Republican argument
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  Speaker 9: for the last three weeks. It's OK to sell or
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  Speaker 9: to buy oil from a thug KGB dictator in Russia
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  Speaker 9: that will use it to kill fascists.
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  Speaker 2: Free Ukrainians.
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  Speaker 9: The American people don't get the fact that the economy
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  Speaker 9: is great. And so when they have to pay all
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  Speaker 9: they have to pay at the grocery store and at
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  Speaker 9: the gas station, they.
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  Speaker 2: Just don't get it.
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  Speaker 9: And by the way, it's OK to live stream a
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  Speaker 9: murder by the United States government executing on the death penalty.
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  Speaker 9: Those are our three closing arguments. to try to maintain
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  Speaker 9: our majorities in the House and Senate.
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  Speaker 2: This is malpractice.
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  Speaker 9: And the fact Tom is smarter than that, he knows
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  Speaker 9: better than that. But what you heard throughout it is
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  Speaker 9: this absolute requirement that you must. Stand by everything Donald
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  Speaker 9: Trump says and does if you want to remain in
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  Speaker 9: leadership in the House or the Senate. And it is
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  Speaker 9: it is malpractice to good Republicans all across this country
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  Speaker 9: who care about the issues we care about. And then
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  Speaker 9: we have guys like Tom who know better on the air,
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  Speaker 9: on his knee in front of Donald Trump as he
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  Speaker 9: is saying things like he said in the lead in
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  Speaker 9: here that he can say the stupidest things in the
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  Speaker 9: world and people will believe him.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 2: And you see, that's what Trump is also fighting. You've
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  Speaker 2: got Senator John Cornyn writing in his new book, 30
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  Speaker 2: Republican senators privately hate Donald Trump's guts. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: those people will be, you will know who those people
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  Speaker 2: are after the midterms because they will publicly go after
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  Speaker 2: President Trump. You mark my words on that.
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  Speaker 17: All right.
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  Speaker 11: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Want to go to the phones. Let's say hello to
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  Speaker 2: Ron in Georgia, listening to us on WDUN. Ron, I
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  Speaker 2: understand you've been working on a new acronym.
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  Speaker 21: Yes, I have several acronyms, but let me first say
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  Speaker 21: this is an exciting day. To be with God is
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  Speaker 21: the answer. But what I have is some acronyms that
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  Speaker 21: address the strategy of what Socialists are doing, they think
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  Speaker 21: of things, fake news to say, and this puts it
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  Speaker 21: right in place. It's actually a new, old acronym, and
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  Speaker 21: that is the SS, Socialist Strategy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I like that. Socialist, so who would we
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  Speaker 2: call the SS? Would that be the Socialist.
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  Speaker 13: Yes.
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  Speaker 21: Anytime they come on saying their rhetoric of what's going,
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  Speaker 21: you know, their attitude, the fake news. The other day
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  Speaker 21: they were saying Trump is a liar. What is he
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  Speaker 21: lying about? You know, they don't go into that. They
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  Speaker 21: just label Trump.
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  Speaker 2: So give me an example, Ron. I like this idea,
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  Speaker 2: but I want to see in very practical terms how
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  Speaker 2: it would work out. So let's say I'm going off
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  Speaker 2: on Talofrico, and I'm like, you're not going to believe.
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  Speaker 2: So instead of saying you're not going to believe what
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  Speaker 2: that socialist Talofrico said, I would say you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to believe what that SS Talofrico, is that the correct usage?
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  Speaker 21: There you go.
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  Speaker 6: That's it.
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  Speaker 21: That's it.
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  Speaker 13: Voila.
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  Speaker 21: We have ice. You know, to get rid of, you know,
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  Speaker 21: they want to get rid of ICE. This is a strategy.
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  Speaker 21: This is a strategy to explain where they're at. They
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  Speaker 21: sit around a table and try to decide how they
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  Speaker 21: can make something that is really great look bad.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. I like that. All right.
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  Speaker 21: So the SS.
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  Speaker 2: Ron, thank you for the acronym. We will deploy this
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  Speaker 2: occasionally during the show.
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  Speaker 13: Sort of.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we want to sprinkle it. It's sort of
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  Speaker 2: like a little cayenne pepper, right? You just want that
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  Speaker 2: little dab of spice. Let's go to Houston, Texas. Jess
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  Speaker 2: is on the line. Patriot Talk 920, our great affiliate. Jess,
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  Speaker 2: what is your question?
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  Speaker 13: Good afternoon.
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  Speaker 24: I used the word Ackerman. I wasn't going to use
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  Speaker 24: it until that caller just came in, but I found
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  Speaker 24: out more information about Tallarico, what he was doing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you know, Jess, before you tell us, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this has been a source of great controversy and intrigue.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people trying to figure out where Tallarico was.
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  Speaker 2: Those what, past what, 12 days, 13 days? He was MIA.
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  Speaker 24: Well, I found out where he was at. He was
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  Speaker 24: in a hospital in Ohio having a procedure done called
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  Speaker 24: an adedictomy.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sorry. So this is a, and this is,
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  Speaker 2: that's the clinical term, right? The adedictomy. Yes, that's.
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  Speaker 17: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Do we know if it was successful? Did it take?
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  Speaker 24: No, it did not take. It did not.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's unfortunate.
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  Speaker 24: His blood type would not allow it.
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  Speaker 2: You're trying to get a rise out of me today, Jess,
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  Speaker 2: aren't you?
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  Speaker 22: Yeah.
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  Speaker 24: God bless you, man.
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  Speaker 13: Keep up the good work.
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  Speaker 2: Jess, before I let you go, I'm excited. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming to town next Tuesday, and we're going to
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  Speaker 2: be at Collector's Firearms. They say it's the best darn
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  Speaker 2: gun shop in the world. I mean, that's literally on
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  Speaker 2: the front of the building. Have you been over there?
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  Speaker 24: It's fantastic. It really is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jess, I want you to do me a favor.
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  Speaker 2: If you're around on Tuesday, swing on by. I'd love
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  Speaker 2: to be able to shake your hand and say hello.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be there from 4 to 7 o'clock,
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  Speaker 2: and they're going to have all sorts of great free
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  Speaker 2: stuff for us.
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  Speaker 13: I will be there.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Jess from Houston. Dylan, I think I'm the
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  Speaker 2: addict to me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I got that, but I was way too late.
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  Speaker 9: It's okay.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You figured it out.
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  Speaker 5: I figured it out, and then I couldn't stop laughing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so he went over there, and before the procedure, hello,
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  Speaker 2: I'm James Talafrico. And then after the surgery, it should
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  Speaker 2: have been, hello, I'm James Talafrico. Didn't take.
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  Speaker 5: No, it didn't work.
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  Speaker 2: No, it didn't work.
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  Speaker 5: The procedure didn't work.
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  Speaker 2: That's unfortunate. That's sad. There's really nothing— I mean, look, there
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  Speaker 2: are a lot of medical procedures, and, I mean, people
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  Speaker 2: go through life, and it's tragic, really. I mean, we
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  Speaker 2: don't mock at all. It's just a terrible tragedy when
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  Speaker 2: somebody is born without a part, and sometimes it happens.
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  Speaker 5: It's true. I have no further comment.
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  Speaker 2: No, but, you know, so we— and thank God for these
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  Speaker 2: medical advances— where somebody who is suffering from that can,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it's only one place. It's this little
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  Speaker 2: treatment center in the middle of Ohio, and they have
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  Speaker 2: a team of surgeons standing by to handle the adedictomies.
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  Speaker 5: Best in the world, I've heard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You don't go there for a boob job, but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there are other procedures.
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  Speaker 5: They're specialists. They know what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: They do have another clinic in Mexico, south of the border.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So to say. We're in trouble.
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  Speaker 5: We might get kicked off the air.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get, look, I'm going to get a
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  Speaker 2: message from the lady in charge of the prayer request
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  Speaker 2: in my Sunday school class.
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  Speaker 5: Several lists.
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  Speaker 2: We got to add stars. He's talking dirty again. You
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  Speaker 2: know what I, you know what I ought to do
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  Speaker 2: to retaliate? Just add, we need to pray for my
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  Speaker 2: friend James. He had an adedictomy.
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  Speaker 5: You know, someone's going to be in there.
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  Speaker 2: That's terrible.
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  Speaker 5: I hope it goes okay.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, wow. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Oh, something
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  Speaker 2: happened yesterday, Dylan. So many crazy stories. Trump was in Youngstown, Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: which we have a huge listenership in Youngstown, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: wondering if any of our listeners actually went to the
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  Speaker 2: Trump rally. But there was like this ginormous person. And
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  Speaker 2: it was, I mean, it was a large human being.
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  Speaker 2: We think it was a woman. We're not sure. But
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  Speaker 2: this large Marge started like screaming and bellowing from her
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  Speaker 2: position in the stadium. And so then everybody's trying to
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  Speaker 2: get her to shut up. The police are rushing down.
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  Speaker 2: Local citizens who are in the arena, they tried to
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  Speaker 2: stop her because I think she was thundering down the stairs,
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  Speaker 2: and she was very gelatinous. Have you seen... Have you
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  Speaker 2: been to a church supper, Dylan, and they've always got
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  Speaker 2: the congealed salads, the jello salads?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And they sort of jiggle like that?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it's hard to get a handle on that, right?
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  Speaker 2: If the jello is jiggling, it's hard to get a
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  Speaker 2: good grip.
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  Speaker 5: There's not a place to, yeah, there's not a strong
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  Speaker 5: place to grip.
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  Speaker 2: No, because the guys were like, they were like trying
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  Speaker 2: to grab her belly and their hands were just getting
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  Speaker 2: sucked in to the fat.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds like an evil monster.
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  Speaker 2: It was not good.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, all of this is going down, and she's
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  Speaker 2: fighting back. And so some guy punched her in the
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  Speaker 2: face as the cops were coming in and trying to
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  Speaker 2: get her the heck out of there. Trump is giving
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  Speaker 2: a play-by-play of all of this, and here is the
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  Speaker 2: president describing the situation, cut 14.
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  Speaker 19: Columbus should not be in Columbus, Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Paid protest.
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  Speaker 6: USA!
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  Speaker 8: USA!
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  Speaker 6: USA!
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  Speaker 2: Trump is intrigued. He's a paid protester.
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  Speaker 5: They're all paid.
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  Speaker 2: He's a paid protester.
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  Speaker 5: They get paid by.
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  Speaker 4: The lefties in order to destroy our country.
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  Speaker 19: They're scum.
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  Speaker 5: But he's going back home to mom.
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  Speaker 2: And then he sees him.
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  Speaker 1: He's going back home to mom.
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  Speaker 13: Look at him.
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  Speaker 2: Look at him.
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  Speaker 6: Terrible.
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  Speaker 21: Don't we love law enforcement?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's got to go on a diet.
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  Speaker 13: He's a fat guy.
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  Speaker 2: He's a fat guy.
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  Speaker 9: Wow.
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  Speaker 13: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Got to go on a diet fast.
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  Speaker 7: We all do.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're paid protesters.
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  Speaker 7: That's a very low class protest.
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  Speaker 1: What he doesn't know is that his mother and father
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  Speaker 1: voted for me.
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  Speaker 14: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Trump ever figured out that that may
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  Speaker 2: not be a guy. In fairness, the pronouns are a
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  Speaker 2: bit askew. We're not sure. But anyway, they got the
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  Speaker 2: protester out, and they asked if she had any last words,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, blank Trump, and then off they took her. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: there you go. Real quick, before we go to the phone,
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  Speaker 2: before we go to the break, let's go to Andre,
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  Speaker 2: listening to us, Memphis, Tennessee, KWAM, our flagship station. Andre,
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  Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 13: Todd, I'm ticked off. I'm ticked off.
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  Speaker 2: Talk to me, Andre. Talk to me.
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  Speaker 13: We've had another thing of what I call MCS, not
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  Speaker 13: Memphis City Schools, but Memphis Clown Show.
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  Speaker 9: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 13: At Mount Vernon this past week, Justin Pilster's mother, Went
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  Speaker 13: there and they had a guest call in a rally,
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  Speaker 13: and she was using all kinds of profanity, using profanity
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  Speaker 13: to the point that the preacher started using profanity. And
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  Speaker 13: when the preacher started using profanity, they had to shut
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  Speaker 13: the meeting down. They said, we're going to set this,
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  Speaker 13: and they used it. I'm not going to repeat it.
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  Speaker 13: I'm pissed off because I'm so sick of people talking about.
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  Speaker 17: This black church stuff.
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  Speaker 13: I'm a pastor that happens to be black. That is
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  Speaker 13: no black church. That is no white church. There is
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  Speaker 13: no black man or white man in the Bible. And
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  Speaker 13: this comes straight from demonic ideology. And it's so sad
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  Speaker 13: that I grew up in the 60s where they did
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  Speaker 13: have black and white on the water fountain. We did
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  Speaker 13: have to go to the back of the restaurant. Those
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  Speaker 13: days are gone. Now we were fighting for the right
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  Speaker 13: to be judged by the content of our character, not
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  Speaker 13: the color of our skin. Now the content of our
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  Speaker 13: character doesn't matter, and all they talk about is the
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  Speaker 13: color of our skin. I am so sick of that
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  Speaker 13: thing called the black church.
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  Speaker 2: How do we fix that? How do we fix that,
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  Speaker 2: Pastor Andre?
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  Speaker 13: Expose it. Expose it. When I explain to my congregation,
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  Speaker 13: I'm not a black man. I'm Andre. You're not going
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  Speaker 13: to classify me with any kind of culture that you said,
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  Speaker 13: I'm going to teach my child that they got to
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  Speaker 13: strike against them because they born with a certain skin color.
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  Speaker 13: You have Hispanic, Indians, and even Asians that have the
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  Speaker 13: same kind of skin color as people that proclaim to
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  Speaker 13: be black. Do they teach their children that? I am
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  Speaker 13: not going to sign on to it and I'm going
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  Speaker 13: to expose it every chance I get. There's no black
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  Speaker 13: history month in the church. There's no black history month.
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  Speaker 8: What does that have to do with Jesus?
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  Speaker 2: It's a great question, Pastor.
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  Speaker 13: Well, one thing about it, I believe it with my heart,
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  Speaker 13: because that's what God showed me in the Word. If
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  Speaker 13: you proclaim to be a Christian, and you can't validate
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  Speaker 13: what you're saying or what you're giving out the Word
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  Speaker 13: of God, you're worshiping a God, but it's not the God.
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  Speaker 13: Now I feel better.
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  Speaker 2: Well, amen to that, Pastor. I'm glad you do feel better.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what? Your message needs to be heard,
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  Speaker 2: and it's an important message. And we have got to
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  Speaker 2: keep preaching that from our pulpits. Otherwise, nothing's going to
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  Speaker 2: change in Memphis or the rest of the country, for
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  Speaker 2: that matter.
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  Speaker 13: Amen, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Pastor Andre, good to hear you, sir, and
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  Speaker 2: thank you for calling in. Always wise words from the pastor.
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  Speaker 2: Got to take a break.
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  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Starnes Show. Dylan, I just got
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  Speaker 2: a text from Matt Velasquez. He's the owner of Patriot
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: Talk 920 in Houston. I said, dude, what kind of
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  Speaker 2: prizes are we talking about here? You ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: The big prize. There are going to be lots of prizes.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, for those of you just joining us,
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  Speaker 2: on Tuesday, I'm going to be speaking at Collectors Firearms
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  Speaker 2: in Houston, Texas. And the big prize here, the giveaway,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be doing a book signing. Cannot wait
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  Speaker 2: to meet all of our Houston listeners. We need to
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  Speaker 2: have a massive turnout for this. But are you ready
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  Speaker 2: for the big prize, Dylan?
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  Speaker 5: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: A Walther 9mm handgun.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 5: That's pretty snazzy. That's nice.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: That is very snazzy.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: So not only that, so booze and guns and food.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe there's brisket. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: It's in Texas.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: It's in Texas. There has to be. Or a taco.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: I'll take a taco.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You'll settle for whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Tex-Mex. Hey, I'm a cheap date. I'm good.
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  Speaker 5: You're bringing the Dr. Pepper I heard.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Hey, look, I got to have a, yeah, I got,
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure you want me after, you know, after
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: a chug of, you know, Tennessee sipping whiskey, I could
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: be dancing on the tabletops. I'm just saying.
• 55:05
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: Show a little ankle and God knows what's going to happen.
• 55:09
  Speaker 20: Wow.
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: They may give you the prize just because.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: That escalated quickly. All that to say, you've got to love,
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: this is a great-looking gun shop. They call themselves the
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: best darn gun shop in the world. So there you go.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: So that's Tuesday, 4 to 7, Collectors Firearms in Houston, Texas.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: You better grab a friend and come on down and
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: say howdy. All right, we've got to take a break.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: We will be right back. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. Josh Jones.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: Coming up next.
• 55:51
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Good to have you with us.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Though it is
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: a little busy this coming weekend, I'll be back in
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: Southern California, Anaheim. I'm the Master of Ceremonies for the
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Pacific Justice Institute Gala Association. And they raise a lot
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: of money at this gala, and it all goes to
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: defending people under attack for their religious beliefs. So we
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: appreciate the great work that Pacific Justice Institute does. Always
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: an honor to lend a helping hand. And, of course,
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Tuesday we'll be in Houston for our big event there
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: at Collectors Firearms. And we're also getting ready to make
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: an announcement about Gainesville, Georgia. So you folks listening to
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: us on WDUN, you better get ready because we're coming
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: to town. Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Say hello to our good buddy. He's the chief political
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: strategist for the Todd Stern Show, Josh Jones. Josh, hope
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: you're doing well.
• 56:49
  Speaker 8: I'm good, Todd.
• 56:49
  Speaker 13: How are you?
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: Good, good, good. So you're not one of these guys
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: freaking out right now. I mean, all the consultants are
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: freaking out.
• 56:57
  Speaker 23: You're not wrong, especially if you're on Twitter right now.
• 56:59
  Speaker 23: I mean, everybody, look, people that do this for a living,
• 57:03
  Speaker 23: they're in the business. Once you get within 20 days
• 57:06
  Speaker 23: of Election Day, everybody starts freaking out. So you're just
• 57:08
  Speaker 23: going to keep your head down, do your job, and
• 57:10
  Speaker 23: then let the chips.
• 57:11
  Speaker 8: Fall where they may.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: You know, the last time you were on, you were
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: sounding the alarm bells. Are you still sounding the alarm bells?
• 57:21
  Speaker 23: I mean, look, yeah. You should always run like you're
• 57:24
  Speaker 23: 10 points down. And in some cases, these people are
• 57:26
  Speaker 23: 10 points down. Some of these Republicans have been across
• 57:28
  Speaker 23: the country. So, look, you have to run like you're
• 57:32
  Speaker 23: 10 points behind, even if you're projected that you're ahead
• 57:35
  Speaker 23: or if you think you're in a safe red seat. So, look,
• 57:40
  Speaker 23: you're in the final stretch. You've got to sprint to
• 57:42
  Speaker 23: the finish line. We've got roughly 20 days. And then
• 57:45
  Speaker 23: after that, then you can take a break.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: All right, I'm calling you out, Josh Jones. You're a
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: negative Nancy. Josh, a negative Nancy. I feel good about this.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: You know what we ought to do? We ought to
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: place a wager. So if the Republicans get vaporized, then
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: maybe you should have like a Chick-fil-A on the line
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 58:06
  Speaker 23: Look, I mean, I think I'm on your side. I'm
• 58:09
  Speaker 23: pretty optimistic. I think some of this polling that we've
• 58:12
  Speaker 23: been seeing is discounting a lot of Republican voters and
• 58:16
  Speaker 23: not taking into account a couple of different factors. So
• 58:19
  Speaker 23: I think Republicans are going to do a lot better
• 58:21
  Speaker 23: on election night than a lot of people are doing
• 58:22
  Speaker 23: credit for.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know how they did this, but CNN went back.
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: Since 1994, they did the research on this early generic
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: congressional ballot that comes out in October of the election.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: Do you realize that 14 out of 16 times the
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: polls underestimated Republican turnout?
• 58:40
  Speaker 23: I did not see that stat come out, but I'm
• 58:44
  Speaker 23: not surprised.
• 58:45
  Speaker 17: By it, frankly.
• 58:46
  Speaker 2: No, it's– and again, I think a lot of this–
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: and we had a caller earlier today who said that
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: they think that it's really just about demoralizing Republican voters.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: and trying to convince him that it's all hopeless. And
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: I just can't tolerate that. I've got to speak out.
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: I've got to say something about it.
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: You're right, yeah.
• 59:05
  Speaker 23: I mean, Republican voters, if they're discouraged and they don't
• 59:08
  Speaker 23: show up to vote, then yeah. Democrats are for sure
• 59:10
  Speaker 23: going to win. So there's definitely a motive, you know,
• 59:12
  Speaker 23: for folks in the mainstream media, obviously on the Democratic
• 59:15
  Speaker 23: side of the aisle, to try and, you know, make
• 59:18
  Speaker 23: Republicans think, oh, there's no chance you're going to win, so.
• 59:20
  Speaker 21: You might as well stay home.
• 59:21
  Speaker 23: That's not the case. A lot of these races are toss-ups.
• 59:24
  Speaker 23: So if Republicans show up to vote, we'll win. It's
• 59:27
  Speaker 23: just a matter of getting those voters to the poll.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: Josh, here is Speaker Mike Johnson talking about the polling data.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Cut 26, please.
• 59:35
  Speaker 12: I'm going to give you a shot here to respond
• 59:37
  Speaker 12: to some political analysts who say the House is gone,
• 59:41
  Speaker 12: that the Dems are definitely going to be in the majority.
• 59:44
  Speaker 12: You disagree. You say that you can defy those odds.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: You have the floor.
• 59:50
  Speaker 13: House up.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 59:52
  Speaker 14: Thank you, Dana. Good to be with you. We're excited.
• 59:54
  Speaker 14: I'm in Texas today. We'll do three events here and
• 59:57
  Speaker 14: then I'll head. I think I've got eight states this week.
• 59:59
  Speaker 14: I've been doing this for almost two years and I'm
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 14: telling you the polling is wrong. Now, you have a
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 14: lot of polling organizations right now acknowledging that they're under
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 14: sampling Republicans because Republicans don't want to respond to polls anymore.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 6: So.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 14: CNN did a story, Dana, just this week and acknowledged
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 14: that Republicans have been underestimated in October polls, 14 of
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 14: the last 16 elections going back to 1994. Don't buy it.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 14: I'm telling you, I'm on the ground in the swing districts.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 14: I am seeing huge energy in crowds. It feels like
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 14: 2024 to me. That's not registering in the polls and
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 14: we're fired up.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: What do you say to that, Josh?
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 23: Look, he's not wrong, you know, crediting to that, you know,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 23: CNN did. Um, they often, uh, pollsters underestimate Republicans every time.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 23: I mean, the biggest example of that go back to 2016,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 23: literally all.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 8: Of them thought Trump was going.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 23: To lose and then they went to the landslide. Um,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 23: so I think Mike Johnson could be right here. Look,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 23: he's on the road.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: He's on the ground.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 23: He's obviously more, uh, informed than I could be. Uh,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 23: so I'm optimistic, cautiously optimistic. The biggest thing is if
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 23: you're a Republican, you have to get out and vote.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 23: You have to make your friends go vote, put a
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 23: yard sign in your yard, make some phone calls, send texts.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 23: You have to do everything you can to get this
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 23: across the finish line.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: This is coming from Politico. Politico says Republican operatives say
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: the entire midterm battlefield is inside three points. Democrats believe
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: the polls are too rosy for them. One House Democrat
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: says it's starting to feel overhyped. So there is that.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: And then there is this, Josh, and I want you
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: to hear this audio. The vice president just landed in Tyler, Texas.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: He's out there campaigning today. I can't wait to hear
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: you respond to this.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 5: Now, before we get started, I love you too, sir.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: In a totally platonic way, to be clear.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 5: I'm the vice president, not James Tallarico.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 13: Oh, God.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: Josh, what the heck? I'm just wondering, because you work
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: with a lot of candidates. If your candidate just goes
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: AWOL for 12 days right before the election, what's going
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: through your mind? What do you do as a political consultant?
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 23: Number one, panic. Because you're in the final stretch. James
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 23: Salarico or any other candidate that has similar situations like this,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 23: they go AWOL, it's not for no reason. It's not
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 23: for a simple cold or the flu or whatever.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 8: It may be.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 23: That's a nice cover story, but it's not the truth.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 23: I mean, this is the final stretch of the campaign.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 23: You are not going to come off the campaign trail
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 23: unless it's something absolutely serious, and you just physically can't
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 23: be on the campaign trail. A cold doesn't do that
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 23: to you.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: No, I remember when I had open-heart surgery and I
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: wanted to be able to broadcast, Dylan said I couldn't
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: because of all the noise from the machines keeping me alive. But,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: you know, I wanted to get back in the fight.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: So that's what really shocks me. Okay, great, you got
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: the flu. You can still, you know, put out messages
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: on social media. You can still be engaged.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: You're right.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 23: Yeah, I mean, it's total hypocrisy coming from James Tallarico
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 23: and the Democrats here. To your point, let's say it
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 23: was the truth. I don't buy it, but it's the truth.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 23: If you have a cold or a flu, great. Well,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 23: you can still make videos, post on social media, respond
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 23: to media requests. But if you go dark for 12
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 23: days and you just show up out of nowhere and
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 23: people expect them to believe, oh, I was just going
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 23: under the weather a month out from the election.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 13: I'm not buying it.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, Josh, you sound chipper. I'm glad you're
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: in a good mood. Stay positive. I think we're going
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: to pull this off.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 23: I'm optimistic, and I'm right there with you. I hope
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 23: that we do it. But again, everybody has to get
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 23: out and vote.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: All right. Our platonic friend, Josh Jones. Josh, we love
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: having you on the show. You do a great job
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: for us.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 25: Thanks, Todd.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 13: I appreciate it.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: All right. There you go. Josh Jones in Virginia. Big
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: battleground state, too. That would have been interesting, Dylan, but
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: the problem is, When you're in ICU, they really don't
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: want you broadcasting a national radio show. I didn't know
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: that was like a thing.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and the ironic part is you did ask for
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: us to bring the equipment.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. But the problem was you would hear this
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: in the background. It's like, you sound like Darth Vader.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: It's like, Luke, Dr. Vader to the ER, please.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 13: Dr.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: Vader.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we don't want that on the air.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: No, you don't want that. And the beeping and, you know.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 5: There's lots of beeping.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: Then, you know, you know how it is. We get
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: a libtard calls in and my blood pressure goes up
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: and then the machines start beeping and, you know, cold blow,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: cold blow.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 5: It's not good all around.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: No, it's not good. So we thought, you know, I
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: don't want to expose our listeners to that.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 5: So kind.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: We do what we can.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 24: All right.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: Real quick, we've got to go to Gary in Daytona Beach, Florida. Gary,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: it's getting too early in the week for me to
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: start misspelling names like that.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 25: I'm not worried about it a bit. So far, great show.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 25: Thanks for taking the call. Just wanted to emphasize that
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 25: we're talking about the elections. Part of the reason why,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 25: and I've the last 15 years pushed it in Florida
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 25: here and in the county, is that I've heard so
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 25: many people talk about they look at ballots and they're
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 25: not concerned with 80% of the ballot, you know, when
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 25: you go in to vote.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 13: We're only concerned about some.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 25: Senate races in Congress, the rest of it we forget about.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 25: Do not forget about judges. Do not forget about council people.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 25: Do not forget about district attorneys, sheriffs, and part of
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 25: the secret sauce in Florida is besides Governor DeSantis letting
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 25: the sheriffs know they will follow ICE, they will follow
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 25: federal law. District attorneys, if they misbehave, legally misbehave, not
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 25: just regular bad behavior on their part. When they legally
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 25: misbehave or don't follow his directives, he puts the hammer
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 25: right to them. So all the people out there voting,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 25: it's really important to look at everything that you covet,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 25: you better take care of.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: Gary, it's a great point, and you're right. Every single
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: vote matters. Every single race matters. I'll say this. Today,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: they just released our local Republican ballot, so it lists
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: all the Republican candidates. And you can take it in
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: with you so you know who to vote for. And Gary,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: I just vote straight Republican ticket. And I know people
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: are like, well, what about the person? You know what?
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: If there's an R behind their name, there's about a 99%
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: chance they're not going to be a communist who wants
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: to throw me in a gulag. So that's why I'm
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: voting Republican. And shame on you if you're not. But yeah,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: you're absolutely right. We've got to do that. And I
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: know in the Memphis area, one of the suburban school districts,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: they have Republicans actually fighting and campaigning against a Republican nominee,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: a conservative Republican nominee for the school board. And instead,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: they're backing an independent candidate. Folks, that's nonsense. If you're
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: a Republican, if you're a Republican leader, if you belong
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: to a Republican club... You back the Republican nominee. Unbelievable
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: what people are doing. Gary, got to run. Thank you
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: for that. Got to take a break. 901-260-5926. This is
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: the Todd Stern Show.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: No, I'm going to weigh in on this. And I
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: know a lot of our team members were asking about
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: this big story that's causing problems. So one of my
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: favorite comedians, Shane Gillis, catching a little bit of heat.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: He was on Saturday Night Live. What is this? This
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: past Saturday night. This is very recently. And his opening monologue,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: he made a joke that has now offended a bunch
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: of women and men who are confused about their pronouns.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: And we're going to play the audio here. This is
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: just really a portion of his opening monologue, which I
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: thought was pretty darn funny. Let's take a listen.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 7: I try to go to a public gym. Going to
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 7: the public gym is a fat guy, especially in New York.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 7: It's a nightmare, dude. Everyone's just the hottest gay guys
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 7: you've ever seen. They're jacked, and they look at me like, yeah, right.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 25: I know, dude.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 7: Also, I haven't been to the gym in so long,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 7: I didn't know women just dress like * * * * now.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: Look, I'm sorry.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 7: There's no other way to describe i said have you
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 7: seen it i've seen the shorts have you seen the
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 7: shorts those neon they're like the only they're like artificial
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 7: bait colored the wrinkles the wrinkles go like around the
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 7: cheeks and all combine at the butthole and don't look
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 7: you're not allowed to look For real, don't look because
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 7: they are filming. I'm in the background of like 10
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 7: TikToks right now. All the equipment. I haven't been in
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 7: the gym in so long. The equipment's changed. It's all
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 7: like kettlebells and rubber bands and ropes. I'm not doing
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 7: kettlebells fat publicly. I'd rather die.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 20: All right.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: Well, there you go. So you said a word we're
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: not allowed to say on the radio. But we can
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: use the term, and we'll try to explain what he
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: said by saying, when you are, let's say you own
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: a garden and you need to till the land, you
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: use an instrument called a hoe.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 5: It's biblical.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: And it's also something you can purchase as an Ace Hardware.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Great tool.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: Ace is the place for the helpful hardware man.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: So from the biblical context of the word hoe, it's
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: an interesting point, because when you do go to the gym,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: the ladies are scantily clad. And that's why there was
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of nervous laughter in the audience, because everybody
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: knew that there was a nugget of truth in what
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: he was saying, which is what made it funny. The
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: funnier part about this, Dylan, is That he talked about
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: how they were wearing the colors of, like, bait, like
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: the fake bait.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: Nobody knew. You could tell there were not many people
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: that were into fishing in the audience.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: No. Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: That's a funny joke to me. I don't go to
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: the gym, but it's a funny joke.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing. If you had a bunch of men
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: that decided, you know, because, and he's got a great point,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: the reason why the women dress like that, well, maybe
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: we should ask the ladies. Ladies, why do you? Why
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: do you... Is somebody whispering?
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 5: No, I'm saying we should ask the ladies.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 8: Sorry.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: So we should ask the ladies, why do you.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: Why do you dress like gardening utensils at the gym?
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: And it's a fair question because if the men showed
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: up wearing thongs and nothing else, all you know what
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: would break loose.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: And then people would be vomiting. There would be projectile vomiting.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: as well as, oh, you know what, breaking loose. And
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: why would the men do that? Aside from being just weird,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: but they want to show off their money makers. And
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: so I'm just wondering, are the ladies actually doing that?
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: Is that what that's really all about? Because to his point,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: I guess he got in trouble. Did you see that
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: in the TikTok videos where he was at the gym?
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was a joke or what,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: but he was staring at a young, scantily clad lady.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 5: I've seen the videos. He's getting a lot of blowback
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 5: for this one. And that's not even close to the
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 5: worst thing that he's ever said. But for some reason
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: on SNL, you'll get in trouble because a lot of
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 5: people watch SNL.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. All of these guys are just– like
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: these men. Well, we defend the women. How dare you?
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: A real man wouldn't say that. I mean, this is crazy.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: They're losing their 11 minds. And then what is it?
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: The gals over at The View took it to an extreme,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: saying that his joke leads to gang rapes. Cut 31.
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  Speaker 15: Well, I typically defend comedy at all costs because I
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 15: believe there has to be an area where comedians are
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 15: able to walk right up to that line because some
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 15: of the best stuff is when people are being super
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 15: risky and risque. But Dan Levy brought up such a
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 15: good point. First of all, he is a god. I
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 15: love him so much. But he's bringing up a great
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 15: point of when the language like horror is passed along
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 15: and I might have not noticed it before in the
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 15: past because it was under the guise of a joke.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 15: And as we're talking about this Cornell 7, I'm not
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 15: saying a joke makes an assault, but it makes it
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 15: much easier to look at another human as an object.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 15: And so I think that it kind of just made
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 15: me realize that I need to be more mindful in
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 15: even in comedy, because by the way, what we wear
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 15: to the gym, like the idea of the term whore
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 15: is the part that's the most offensive part because it's
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 15: almost inviting.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: So anyway, that's no, I don't know why they can
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: say it on the TV, but we can't say it
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: on radio, but we can talk about the gardening instrument
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: known as the hoe. I don't know. But anyway, people
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: are all upset about this. I have some more to say,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: and we'll save that for the next hour. It was
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: a joke, people. And if you didn't like the joke,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: turn off the TV. I mean, it really is that simple.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: Got to take a break.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
• 1:14:05
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• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 7: Well, hello everybody.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Program. Great to have
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: you with us today. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. Again, that number, 901-260-5926. Well,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: there is a big concern as we move toward the
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: midterm elections, and it has to do with election integrity.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: Of course, we know the Senate did not move forward.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: They did not advance President Trump's Save America Act. Therefore,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: we do not have, in many states, secure elections. Well,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: our next guest is very concerned about what's happening in
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: New Jersey. I want to bring in the former mayor
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, who is now calling on
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: the Justice Department to monitor the state's elections. Mario Kranjak
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: joins us. Mario, an honor to have you with us today.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you for being here.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 10: Thank you for having me, Todd, and I'm glad that
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 10: you're taking time to address this very serious issue and
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 10: None of the media in New Jersey will do it,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 10: so we have to have people in Memphis do it
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 10: for us. I appreciate it.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: Well, of course, and of course we broadcast nationally, so
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: we're on about 150 stations around the country, so I'm
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: sure a lot of folks are very interested in what's
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: happening here. So let's set the stage. You've sent a
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: letter to the Justice Department. That is not something that
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: you take lightly, so what concerns you?
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 10: Well, it's Speaking from experience, we have seen firsthand in
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 10: our local elections the number of irregular voter registrations, and
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 10: we would always clean up those voting rolls when I
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 10: ran for mayor, and I ran for two terms and
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 10: won two terms. But now we also have revelations that
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 10: the motor voter laws that we had in place back
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 10: in 2023... where they registered people to vote. At that time,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 10: they registered non-citizens as well in 2023. They found out
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 10: about it in 2024. This was the prior Governor Murphy's administration.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 10: And we as the public only found out about it
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 10: in July of 2026. And every day there's new revelations
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 10: about more unlawful voter registrations by non-citizens coming out. The
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 10: Sherrill administration, who's our current governor, is pretending to be
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 10: addressing the problem, but she's not. She absolutely is not
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 10: addressing it properly. And so there's no confidence in the
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 10: system and we need federal monitorship to make things better
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 10: and right.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: Well, we know that there was a report, what, a
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: few months back, that hundreds of non-citizens had been voting
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 2: in New Jersey elections. And I think a lot of
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: us at the time felt like that number was probably
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: a lot higher, possibly thousands of illegals and non-citizens. What
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 2: say you? I agree.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 10: There's many more than they're telling us about right now.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 10: And a lot of our smaller municipal elections are won
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 10: by a handful of votes one way or the other.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 10: And when you compound that throughout the state, you have
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 10: a lot of people in office who should not be
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 10: in office making decisions for the public and basically spending
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 10: our taxpayer dollars willy-nilly. And really what it comes down
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 10: to is the sanctuary laws in New Jersey and other
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 10: states such as in cities as well, where basically it's
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 10: all about money, control, and power, where they're taking money
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 10: away from taxpaying citizens and handing it over to non-citizens
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 10: whose vote they buy.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: I know. I think there have been one report, maybe
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: 35,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls, regardless, even if there's
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: just one. It's just simply unacceptable, and we have got
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: to make sure that elections are safe and secure in
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: this country. Mario, I'm curious, what is it that you
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: want the Justice Department to do on Election Day?
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 10: Well, they should certainly help go through the voting rolls themselves.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 10: prior to the Election Day. And with our technology in place,
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 10: they should be able to figure out who's a properly
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 10: registered voter and who's not. But on Election Day, they
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 10: should really poll watch and see who's showing up for
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 10: the polls. I sat and poll watched as well. And
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 10: I would encourage every American to do that. Go down
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 10: to your local voting station and volunteer to poll watch.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 10: And you can see the shenanigans that go on from
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 10: the Democratic Party in terms of who's coming in and
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 10: how many times they're coming through.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, Mario, I think it's a brilliant thing
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: you did here. And again, I think every state in
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: the nation ought to follow your lead here and send
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: a letter to the Justice Department saying, And quite frankly,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: I'd like to, I don't know how you feel about this,
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 2: I'd like to see ICE agents parked outside those voting
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 2: ballot boxes.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 10: Well, that's fine. They're free to go wherever they wish,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 10: and we thank them for their good service to the country.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 21: All right.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: Well, Mario, thank you for joining us today. We appreciate you,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: and thank you for sending this letter to the Justice Department.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 10: Thank you. Have a good afternoon.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 24: All right.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: Well, there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Crazy stuff. But
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 2: that's really where we are right now in America. And, again,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: you have to blame the U.S.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 8: Senate.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: They have done deadly squat when it comes to protecting
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: ballots and securing our elections. Unbelievable. All right. This segment
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  Speaker 2: for real people. Dylan, are you a big amusement park guy?
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 5: I like Dollywood, and I have occasionally been to Universal Studios.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: Have you been on this ride at Six Flags over Georgia?
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: called it what is it um the ride to hell
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: or something no it's called goliath yes i have actually
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: you've ridden goliath yeah at six flags yeah it's it's
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: like what 70 miles an hour is that how fast
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: the the roller coaster goes i.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 5: Heard that it's one of the one of the tallest
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 5: and fastest roller coasters.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: To be on 200 feet tall and the top speed
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: is 70 miles an hour Were you fearful of your life?
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 2: I'm just curious about this, this accident in Atlanta at
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: Six Flags.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, crazy stuff. I actually am fearful of my life,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: but I'm also scared of heights. So that may be
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 5: just another problem.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 2: So when you get into the roller coaster, what sort of,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: do they have like seatbelts? How do they latch you
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: guys in there?
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 5: With that kind of ride, I assume it's one of
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 5: those like mechanical, like, you know, things that go over
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 5: your shoulders. So everything is sort of supposed to be
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 5: harnessed in like that.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: Well, apparently it didn't happen.
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: But you've been on that ride.
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I have.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 5: Not anymore, by the way.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 2: Is it terrifying? It's pretty scary. It looks scary.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 5: Well, when you're going that fast, you just kind of
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 5: have to hope that the machine works. Like at that point,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 5: there's nothing that you could have done.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: Or death comes quickly. Yeah, seriously. I mean, geez.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: So now we're getting some more details about what happened
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: at Six Flags over Georgia. A 42-year-old guy thrown from
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: the roller coaster. The most disturbing part is... You know
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: the little pictures, the photographs that they just snap pictures
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: of you?
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: It took pictures of him flying out of the roller coaster.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: It's awful. It's actually so bad.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 19: It's terrible.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah. That probably is one of the worst ways to go.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 5: That's terrifying.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: The man's name, we have an identity now. His name
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 2: is Hassan Jihad.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm. Well, condolences to his family.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: They were there. His son was next to him.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: That's awful.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: This is terrible. So the wife and the daughter were
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: somewhere else in the park. The dad, Mr. Jihad, was
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: on the roller coaster with his son. They call it Goliath.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: Police say that he struck several other patrons before falling
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: beneath the roller coaster. And one eyewitness said the man, quote,
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: the man started levitating in the air sideways. I guess
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: that's how fast, you know, that thing goes.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm wondering if it was like, if it's
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 5: at the full speed, you know, that's a quick death,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 5: I think.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: Another eyewitness telling CBS News in Atlanta, quote, I literally
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: see this man coming straight up out of his seat
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: and it looked like he went forward in the car.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 2: A woman waiting in line also witnessed someone fly out
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: of the coaster. Initially, she wasn't sure whether the object
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: she saw was a person or something else. It was
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: a person. According to People magazine, a witness said Mr.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: Jihad's son was seated beside him when he was ejected.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: As I mentioned, his wife and daughter reportedly elsewhere in
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: the park and initially did not know what had happened.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 15: Mr.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: Jihad worked as an IT manager at Wesley International Academy,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: a school connected with the Atlanta Public Schools, and he
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: previously worked as a technology teacher. They said he was
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: a cherished member of the school community whose impact would
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: be deeply missed. So now they're shutting down all of
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: these roller coasters as a precaution. Nobody knows how all
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: this happened. Major Crimes is now working in this Cobb
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: County Police Department, and they're saying that they don't know
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: if there was a problem with the restraint, if it malfunctioned,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: whether the passenger's position changed during the ride, and whether
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: staff followed operating procedures. But nobody's been charged. In 2006...
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: A man suffered a fatal heart attack while riding the
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: same Goliath coaster. The circumstances were very different, though, from
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: Monday's ejection. And earlier this month, Six Flags Magic Mountain
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: said they were retiring their giant roller coaster, the X2,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: because of traumatic brain injuries.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 5: Just as if you didn't need another reason to not
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 5: go to Six Flags, this is one.
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  Speaker 2: Good golly.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 5: Six Flags is not fun anymore. It used to be fun.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 5: I used to go as a kid all the time.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 5: We went every single summer.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: Well, normally, like, the mobs of thuglings will get you,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 2: but if, you know, if that doesn't work, well, you
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: might get thrown out of a roller coaster.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 5: Exactly. And I'm not trying to do that. I'm going
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 5: to Dollywood. I trust their rides there.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 8: Dollywood.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 6: I do.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: I trust all of them.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: So anyway, this reminds me of something that happened a
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago with me, yours truly. So many
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: of you know that I have had, gosh, what, 20-plus
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: years ago, 21 years ago, I had open-heart surgery, and
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 2: I had a mechanical aortic valve installed, and the thing
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: ticks like a clock. If it gets really quiet, you
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: can actually hear it clicking. And it's a little disconcerting.
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: But anyway, that's just setting up the story here. So
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 2: I was giving a speech for, well, it was the
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: Pacific Justice Institute Gala. And it was at the Disneyland Resort,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: the Grand Californian, a beautiful hotel, Bavarian in design. And
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: as a way of saying thank you, they said, we thought, Mr. Stearns,
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: you would love maybe here are some free tickets to
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: go to Disneyland. And at that point, I thought that
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: was weird because only kids go to Disneyland. But then
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: when I got there, I realized kids don't go to Disneyland.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: Only adults go to Disneyland. So it was like Halloween night.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 2: Everybody was dressed up in the costumes and the whatnot,
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: and it was cold. I remember that it was very cold.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: So Dalton Glasscock, the CEO of my company, was there
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: and said, oh, you're going to go on a ride.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: Let's go on one of the rides. And I said,
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: I can't do that because I have this heart condition,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: and they have a rule, right? They say you have
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: to be a certain height, and then you can't be
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: pregnant or have a heart problem. And we ended up
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: at this ride, which was basically a hewed-out log, and
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: there was water, and they shoot you straight up into
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: the air, and then down this raging whitewater rafter, whitewater river.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: And it's, I mean, it's aggressive. It's like a log
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: flume or something. So it was dark, and it was cold,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: and it was rainy and windy. And I get on this,
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: and there's a sign there. And it said, if you've got,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: you know, if you're pregnant or you've got a heart problem,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 2: you cannot ride this ride. So Dalton says, don't pay
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: any attention to that. You're healthy. Bad start, by the way.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 2: We get on board. And I'll never forget this. There's
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: this noise as we're going up, you know, right up.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're almost on a straight incline. And Dalton said,
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: what is that noise? And I said, that is my
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 2: hard valve. And it was so loud, you could hear
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 2: it clicking over the click of the actual ride.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 10: No way.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 2: So we hit the top, and on the way down,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: I was pale as a ghost. And there's a photograph.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: They took one of the photos.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: They took one of the photos. And I felt like, geez-a-loo,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: I'm having a fatal heart attack on the log ride
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: at Disneyland. That's going to be a horrible obit.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it would be. That would be terrible to go.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, my. What a way to go, right?
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: On the log ride.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: You got Donald Duncan Goofy giving me mouth-to-mouth, for God's sakes.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: Or the Chippendales people.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 5: Oh, you don't want that to happen.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: No, those two rodents. They're weird. What are they again?
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: They're chipmunks.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 25: Squirrels.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: I keep thinking they're squirrels.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 5: It's in the family.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 5: So you don't want to die on a log ride.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: No. So all that to say, if you got a
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: heart condition, you need to stay away from those rides.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 5: And you know, they're getting faster. They're not getting slower.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 5: The more rides that come out and they make them,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 5: they're like, this is the new tallest, fastest ride.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: I just don't understand why people, you know, it's again,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: why would you go skydiving? Right. There's a reason why
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: God made airplanes. So you didn't have to jump out
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 2: of them.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 13: Exactly.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 18: Exactly.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 5: There's a reason why they don't put parachutes in airplanes too.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: Did you see the video of the, speaking of the zoo,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: the guy jumps into the tiger enclosure?
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 5: What an idiot.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: I just don't get that.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 5: People are feeling bad for the tiger too. You know what?
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: You see, I do too. And I felt bad about
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: thinking that way. But what does the tiger know? He's
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 2: a tiger.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 5: He sees lunch.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: That's exactly. And you know they haven't been feeding him
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: red meat.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 18: No. Right?
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: So this was like a new experience. It would be
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 2: like a kid getting his first hamburger at McDonald's.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it. That's it. The video is terrible, by
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 5: the way. Don't watch the video. But yeah.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: My question is, God forbid you end up in that situation.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, is there a way to even remotely fight
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: back against the tiger? What do you do?
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 5: There has to be. There's like three rules for bears.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 5: Are there any rules for the tiger? Or you're just cooked.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 5: You're done.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: I think you're done.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I haven't heard any rules for the cat family.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 5: It's all just the bears.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: So I was concerned because in a lot of these cases, oh,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: remember the, was it the bison or whatever? Was it
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: the moose that attacked the grandpa over in the- It
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 2: was the bison. The bison. Did they put that bison down?
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 25: I don't know.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: You see, something tells me they did, but my whole
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: thing is, are they going to euthanize the tiger? Because
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: the tiger was just doing what a tiger does.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 5: Apparently they're not. So they're going to keep them alive.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 5: Because he was just doing what he did. And like
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 5: you said, he's in his place. He's in his habitat.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 5: You're not supposed to go there for a reason.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: This is why I don't go into the ocean. Because
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: the sharks live there. That's their home.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 5: They're not caged in either. They're free roaming.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: That's right. And when the shark is hungry and you're
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: in the shark's home, he's going.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 13: To eat you.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's the way that works.
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 5: We like the indoors here. That's right.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: And God forbid, you know, a tiger comes in here,
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: it's going to get shot.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: Because we're defending our home.
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 5: They don't have the Second Amendment in the tiger family.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: No, they don't. They have the second paw.
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: Or claw in this case.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, that was brutal. So anyway, I'm just curious
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: if the guy was just slapped crazy, if he went
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: mental or what. I don't know. But that was just insane.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: And I'm glad they're not killing the tiger because the
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: tiger did nothing wrong here. The tiger did everything the
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: tiger is supposed to do. It's a red-blooded American tiger.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 2: And when they want a hamburger, they're getting a hamburger.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: So there you go. All right, I've got to take
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: a quick break here, folks. 901-260-5926. Did the tiger do
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: the right thing? The tiger was just hungry and wanted
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: a snack. Let's go to break.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:33:30
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  Speaker 2: affiliate there, Richard, wants to weigh in on the tiger story.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 21: Right.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: Richard, are you pro-human or pro-tiger in this particular incident?
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 17: Well, the human made a terrific mistake. He brought it
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 17: on himself. So you feel sorry for the human, but
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 17: you can't blame the tiger. But in answer to your
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 17: question about has anybody attacked a tiger before, we do
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 17: have a written record. Can I read it to you?
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 17: Just take a couple of seconds.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: A couple of seconds.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 17: And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep,
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 17: and there come a lion and a bear, and took
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 17: a lamb out of the flock. And I went after him,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 17: and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 17: And when he arose against me, I caught him by
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 17: his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 17: slew both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 17: Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 17: defiled the armies of the living God. So David flew
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 17: a lion and a bear, and then we have a
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 17: written record of that.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a good point. I didn't really think about
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: it like that. So you grab the fur and you
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 2: fight for your life. I guess that's the lesson here.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 17: I guess it is.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 13: Yes, sir. All right.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: Well, Richard, thank you for some context there. Dylan, I
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: asked ChatGPT, can a human defeat a tiger?
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 8: Yep.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 2: The answer is yes, but it would be extremely difficult,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: especially if you're unarmed.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 5: Is that like without an arm or is that because
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 5: he took your arm?
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 8: Sorry.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 5: That joke was just bad joke. He's unarmed. He can't
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 5: beat the tiger.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: He's legless.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 5: I have always wondered if you could beat a tiger
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 5: and I'm glad that I know now.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 2: Armless legless. His name is Matt.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 5: Um, Because you can't beat a polar bear. There's like
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 5: all the rules for the bear.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 2: A polar bear?
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 8: You know?
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're drinking a Coca-Cola. So you can, I mean,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: that would be distracting. So if the polar bear is
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: drinking the Coke.
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 5: You're probably okay.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: Make a run for it. You know what? As long
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: as you can outrun the penguins, I guess you're okay.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know. According to ChatGPT, a full-grown tiger can
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: weigh up to 600 pounds, move faster than a human,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: and kill with a single powerful bite to the neck.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: So here's what they tell you to do. Number one,
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 2: do not run. Oh, I'm running. I'm dead. I'm dead
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: at number one. Number two, face the tiger.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 25: Wow.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: Avoid turning your back. Keep it in view without aggressively
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: staring it down. Number three, back away slowly. Give the
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: animal room to retreat. Number four, make yourself look larger.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: This is where Krispy Kreme comes in handy. Yeah, you
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: might do okay. I mean, if you're a tiger thinking, uh-oh, elephant. No,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 2: I'm not insulting. No, don't read me the wrong way.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that, you know.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 5: It's an advantage.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Chris Christie's a well-rounded man. Big boned. Number five,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: put something between you and the tiger. Well, yeah, another
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: human who is somewhat slower than you. Now, here we go.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 2: If the tiger actually attacks, I'm fascinated by this. At
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: that point, fight back rather than play dead. Use a backpack,
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: heavy branch, a chair. This is why you need, like,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know, power tools.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 5: At all times, you just need to carry it in
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 5: your pocket.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: Just a lug wrench, put it in the back pocket.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 5: Just in case.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: Might be uncomfortable, but it might save your life. You
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: got to protect your head, throat, and neck. And if
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: you're knocked down, curl inward to protect vital areas while
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: trying to defend yourself. Gentlemen, you know what we're talking
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: about here. If there's an opportunity, strike at vulnerable areas
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: such as the eyes or nose. You see, that's what
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: I was wondering. It seems to me, at that point,
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: you're punching the tiger in the eyeball.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 2: Or just slug it right in the nose.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 5: Did you beat a blind tiger? That's the question here.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 5: Once you got the eyes, is it? Is it still
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 5: fighting you or is it fighting itself?
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Do the senses, all of a sudden,
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: does that have the enhanced sense of smell?
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 5: Daredevil, yeah. Well, I think it has that anyway.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: Could a very strong man defeat a tiger barehanded? It
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 2: says realistically, no. Golly. It's hopeless. Even an exceptionally strong
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: trained fighter. By the way, we had a A candidate
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 2: come in today for a pre-taped interview. I thought it
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 2: was the comms guy, and it turns out to be
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 2: her bodyguard, who is literally eight feet tall and has
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 2: muscles the size of, like, he could bench press all
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: of us.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 5: He could beat the Tiger, probably.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: I would bet for him. So there you go.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 5: This guy, by the way, that got killed by the Tiger,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 5: he was very small. He had no chance.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 8: Tiny.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 2: That's why you got to poke the eyes.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: You've got to cause some damage.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 5: I think the lesson here is just don't jump into
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 5: a tiger cage.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 2: That too. Or just don't go to the zoo anymore.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:39:58
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• 1:40:58
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• 1:42:36
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• 1:42:40
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• 1:42:47
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• 1:43:16
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• 1:43:20
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• 1:43:23
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• 1:43:26
  Speaker 22: the free market is taking effect again in Venezuela, people
• 1:43:29
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• 1:43:32
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• 1:43:35
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• 1:43:37
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• 1:43:41
  Speaker 22: like that that we've seen, but we certainly don't want
• 1:43:44
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• 1:43:47
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• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: and engage the political process, and when I say we,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 2: I mean especially Christians, then we're going to be responsible
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  Speaker 2: for that happening. And that's really why I wanted the
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  Speaker 2: book to come out before the midterm elections, so that
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  Speaker 2: people could really start having these conversations in their homes,
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  Speaker 2: in their communities, and in their churches.
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  Speaker 22: Yes, and I think that there are some issues with
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  Speaker 22: gas prices and things like that are talked about. But
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  Speaker 22: I think some of the other side issues of what
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  Speaker 22: their vision for America is are much more difficult to
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  Speaker 22: bear today. And so I hope that the book gets
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  Speaker 22: wide circulation, that folks begin to be more educated on
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  Speaker 22: the issues. One of the things you talk about as
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  Speaker 22: a positive issue is what's happening with Generation Z. And
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  Speaker 22: I'd like you to define that generation and talk about
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  Speaker 22: how they're much more conventional maybe than some others close
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  Speaker 22: to their age.
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  Speaker 2: Well, pastor, I'm a Gen Xer. So the coolest and
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 2: sturdiest of the generations.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Back when we were growing up, we didn't have seatbelts.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they just threw us in the back of
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: the station wagon and held on for dear life. And
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: we had the playgrounds. We had rusty merry-go-rounds, you know,
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  Speaker 2: where you, you know, we didn't have tetanus shots. We
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: didn't need them because we're Gen Xers. Uh, we, uh,
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  Speaker 2: Remember the slides? I don't know if you remember the
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 2: aluminum slides that were like 350 degrees in the summertime.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 2: Those were the good old days. But Gen Z is,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's an interesting generation. And they're really being
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 2: put upon. A lot of conservatives, you know, they just
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  Speaker 2: don't appreciate what Gen Z brings to the table. And
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  Speaker 2: I just love these kids. You know, they love America.
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  Speaker 2: I think they've seen what's happened through the millennials and
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 2: many of their Older brothers and sisters don't have jobs.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 2: They're saddled with debt, and they don't want that. They
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: want something else. But I also think this generation is
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 2: looking for something much deeper in life. They're looking for meaning.
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  Speaker 2: And we have seen the surveys where young people are
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: flooding back to the churches. I know here at the
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 2: conference we were talking about a survey where many young
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: people are purchasing Bibles. They're looking for substance. They're not
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: looking for five-point sermon messages and an American Idol cover band, right?
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  Speaker 15: Right.
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  Speaker 2: They really want depth in their lives. And so there
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: was a survey done where this generation may very well
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: become the most conservative generation since the World War II generation.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: And that tells me there's hope for the country, that
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 2: there are young people that are willing to stand up
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 2: and say, we love America and we want to defend freedom.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there are a lot of pastors.
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  Speaker 22: And of course, I've pastored this church as we've celebrated
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 22: this week, 40 years, the same church. And I know
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 22: lots of pastors across the country. And there are some
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 22: pastors on the maybe more left-leaning or woke side of
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 22: things who have just kind of advocated either A, being
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 22: completely out of this conversation, or B, some of them
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 22: have taken a stance even against Donald Trump. And I
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 22: often ask them, have you stopped to consider the option?
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 22: And they may not like something about his personality, but
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 22: when you see so-called clergy that are literally preaching for
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 22: transgenderism or for the mutilation of children in surgeries and
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 22: so forth. I honestly see this as a spiritual warfare,
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 22: and I'm not saying that Donald Trump is our champion
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 22: in that warfare. I'm just saying that sometimes you have good, better,
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 22: and best, and I certainly want to find someone that's
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 22: at least aligned with some biblical principles and be grateful
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 22: for that. And I I think that Gen Z is
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 22: sorting some of that out, not because they're so political,
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 22: but I think through Charlie Kirk's passing and martyrdom. And
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 22: through the own curiosity that's in their heart, their values
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 22: are changing. And I think their view, I think historically,
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 22: when the books are written, the view of Donald Trump
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 22: will be more favorable over time by these types of people.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right about that. And I interviewed a
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 2: young man in the book. He's a history teacher at
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: a Christian school in Nashville, and he actually graduated from
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: West Coast Baptist College. And it was a fascinating conversation.
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 2: He said one of the biggest problems facing America is
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: a civics illiteracy issue where kids are just not learning
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 2: about American history, about how our government works. and and
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 2: we've really got to get back to the basics you
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 2: know i i write in the book about how dangerous
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: our education system is and it's not just public schools
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: i think a lot of private schools and some christian
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: schools are just as dangerous Because they're intentionally dumbing down
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 2: our country. And the reason they're doing that, it's very easy, again,
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 2: going back to socialism, it's easy to control a stupid population.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 2: And that's really where we're heading right now. And that's
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 2: what really concerns me. All right, welcome back, everybody. It's
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 2: the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Well, the squad members are
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: up in arms over the Ilhan Omar raid. By the way,
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 2: Judge Jeanine Pirro now confirming that there is a lot
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 2: more to this story than just an immigration issue. but
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: people are really upset about this. Look, here's my take
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 2: on it. First of all, nobody's above the law, right?
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what the Democrats always tell us. Nobody
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 2: is above the law. And the other part of this,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: and I know President Trump says he's had absolutely nothing
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 2: to do with that, and I do believe him, but
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 2: let me just say this as we wrap up our
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: broadcast day together. Do you really think that, do you
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 2: really think that Donald J. Trump was going to just
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 2: turn a blind eye when Joe Biden sent FBI agents
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 2: down to Mar-a-Lago to raid his teenage son's bedroom? Do
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 2: you really think that Donald J. Trump was just going
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: to turn a blind eye when the FBI agents rummaged
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 2: through Melania Trump's lady things? You really think that Trump
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: was just going to Let that one pass. Oh, I
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 2: don't think so. Ladies and gentlemen, you never tug on
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 2: Superman's cape and you never poke the bear. And that's
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 2: what happened. I believe part of that is what happened here.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: So anyway, we'll see how all this plays out. Ilhan
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 2: Omar might want to go ahead and start packing her
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 2: bags to Somalia. And I don't know, maybe she'll have
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: a career in politics there in Somalia. You just never know.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 2: Just a couple of reminders. Tuesday, those of you in
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 2: the Houston area, we're going to be very excited about
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 2: our event, 4 o'clock to 7 o'clock. It's going to
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. Patriot Talk 920, go to
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 2: their website. They've got all of the details for our
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 2: big Second Amendment event, a chance for you to win
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 2: a firearm as well. That's going to be a lot
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 2: of fun. And again, all of that happening today. On
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: Tuesday in Houston, they call it Second Amendment Tuesdays, and
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 2: this is at Collectors Firearms. 4 o'clock to 7 o'clock,
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 2: Collectors Firearms in Houston. And there's going to be a
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 2: lot of free drinks, food, prizes. And, of course, the
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 2: big prize, you might be able to win a brand-new gun,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 2: which is pretty cool.
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 24: All right.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 2: We're going to be back at it tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:51:40
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