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Pope Leo is Playing Politics · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us. That's love.
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  Speaker 3: This American dud starts. All right, it's gone now, all right, good,
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  Speaker 3: it's gone. Yeah, it probably should have been gone a
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  Speaker 3: little earlier. But hello, everybody, Welcome to the Ton Sterns
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  Speaker 3: Radio program. Happy to have you with us today. May
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  Speaker 3: I just say, what a weird day this is going
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  Speaker 3: to be and has already been so last night there's
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  Speaker 3: we're sort of in the middle of a holy war
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  Speaker 3: if you will. No, not not with the Muslims. No,
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  Speaker 3: it's Trump versus the Vatican. And didn't did not have
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  Speaker 3: this on the bingo card, ladies and gentlemen. But that's
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  Speaker 3: the way it goes. Nevertheless, we're always prepared to bring
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  Speaker 3: you great analysis. Whether you agree or not, I think
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  Speaker 3: we can all agree it is great and I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to try to unravel what's just transpired here now. President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is under fire for sharing what many are calling
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  Speaker 3: a blasphemous meme on true social Have you seen the meme?
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  Speaker 3: If you have, you know what I'm talking about. But
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  Speaker 3: if you have, so this meme. This is what the
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  Speaker 3: other side is saying, and by the other side, just
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  Speaker 3: about every Catholic in America. They're saying that President Trump
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  Speaker 3: blast is committing blasphemy because he shared a meme that
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  Speaker 3: portrayed himself as Jesus Christ healing a sick person as
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  Speaker 3: military angels descend from the sky and people are gathered
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  Speaker 3: around the bedside of this ailing individual. And we don't
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  Speaker 3: know who the individuals are. There are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: fake memes based on the original meme. So if anybody
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  Speaker 3: calls in today and says it was Jeffrey Epstein, I
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  Speaker 3: were hanging up on you because it was not Epstein.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, there was no there were no words attached
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  Speaker 3: to this. There were It was just he put it
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  Speaker 3: out there. And of course, all of this within the
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  Speaker 3: context of this particular story after a weekend where the
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  Speaker 3: White House and the Vatican were trading barbs, and I'll
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  Speaker 3: get to that part of the story in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: And because there's this is not all happening in just spontaneously.
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  Speaker 3: This is a very well coordinated plot against the President,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll get to that in just a moment. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking at the meme, and people are people are
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  Speaker 3: very upset over over my initial take on what's going
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  Speaker 3: on here, because I'm not quite sure it actually means
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  Speaker 3: what people think it means. Now, let me just step
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  Speaker 3: back for a second. I'm not going to speak for
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  Speaker 3: the president. I reached out to the White House earlier
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  Speaker 3: today and I said, hey, can you provide us with
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  Speaker 3: some context? What sort of message was the President trying
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  Speaker 3: to convey here? And we got nothing, so they're not
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  Speaker 3: commenting on it. However, we understand that the meme has
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  Speaker 3: now been deleted from true social Dare I say it
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  Speaker 3: has been raptured from the president social media feed? Am
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  Speaker 3: I allowed to say that? I don't know. I'm stepping
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  Speaker 3: on so many minefields. It's my land minds today. It
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  Speaker 3: is not going to be a pleasant conversation. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: curious any of you have a problem with what the
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  Speaker 3: President posted? Do any of you have a problem prob
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  Speaker 3: and do you consider it to be blasphemy? And here's
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  Speaker 3: the reason why I asked that, because in this image,
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  Speaker 3: which originally was posted by a guy by the name
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  Speaker 3: of Nick Adams, he's a big Trump supporter, and this
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  Speaker 3: was back in February and the context of that post
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  Speaker 3: was that Donald Trump was healing the nation, and so
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  Speaker 3: within that context, Okay, I get it, it's kind of weird.
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  Speaker 3: But okay, I mean I get that. But even if
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  Speaker 3: it even if it was, and I do believe it
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  Speaker 3: was quite frankly tone death because I think even with
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  Speaker 3: the Trump administration, you've really got to think, for a second,
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  Speaker 3: how is this going to play? And I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they thought that through. I really don't. But again, the
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  Speaker 3: question is that image of the press. Is that blasphemy?
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think it is. I don't believe it
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  Speaker 3: reaches the you know, people are so oh it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: Jesus that he was portrayed as one of the disciples. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I have no idea. I mean, if
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  Speaker 3: somebody could, Dylan, could you do me a favor, could Dylan,
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  Speaker 3: could you just google the latest photo of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 3: and maybe we can do a picture by picture comparison.
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  Speaker 3: What's that, Dylan? You can't do that? Why can't you
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  Speaker 3: do that? Dylan? There are no pictures of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Dylan. Well, yeah, there's that one where he's
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  Speaker 3: you know, the blonde haired you know, white guy. No,
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  Speaker 3: that's I don't think that's I don't think that's accurate.
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  Speaker 3: Just just gonna step out on faith on that one.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, so we have to define blasphemy, all right,
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  Speaker 3: So this is this is the actual definition of blasphemy,
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  Speaker 3: the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or
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  Speaker 3: sacred things. Using that definition, I don't think the image
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  Speaker 3: actually rises to that level. Was it in poor taste?
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  Speaker 3: I guess again, I don't know the context. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: politically tone deaf. Oh, absolutely absolutely there. But from what
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  Speaker 3: I could tell, they weren't trying to mock This wasn't
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  Speaker 3: a mockery of Jesus. This wasn't a mockery of our Lord.
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  Speaker 3: This was Donald Trump healing the nation from the wounds
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  Speaker 3: inflicted by the denomic, demonic Democrats. That's what I think
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  Speaker 3: is going on here. But I may be off base.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I am, but I may be off
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  Speaker 3: base on that. So anyway, everybody is going all bonkers crazy,
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  Speaker 3: and all these little conservatives, you know, the young conservatives,
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  Speaker 3: getting off their private jets coming off the golf course
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  Speaker 3: at the Masters to hyperventilate about all of this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: Is it going to matter. I don't know. Is this
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  Speaker 3: going to impact independent Catholic voters. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 3: just don't know. But what I can tell you is
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  Speaker 3: that the Obama administration was in fact guilty of blasphemy
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  Speaker 3: and promoting blasphemy. And I posted something on x and
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  Speaker 3: people are saying very unkind things about your host. But
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  Speaker 3: I'm used to that, no worries. But let me just
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  Speaker 3: say this. I posted a bunch of photos. There was
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  Speaker 3: one talking about how Obama was the first black gay
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  Speaker 3: Jesus that was on the cover of Newsweek magazine, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, had a little rainbow colored halo. You want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about blasphemy, let's have that conversation. Wouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: sitting under a tree in a thunderstorm when I'm having
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  Speaker 3: it either. You want to talk about blasphemy, what about
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  Speaker 3: the image, the sculpture, the painting rather of Barack Obama
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  Speaker 3: being portrayed as crucified on a cross. Now that, ladies
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  Speaker 3: and gentlemen is blasphemous, Or for example, the Obama votives,
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  Speaker 3: the candles, or the Obama Nativity scene, or the Obama
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  Speaker 3: prayer shawls, that were provided to people attending the twenty
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  Speaker 3: twelve Democrat National Convention in of all places, Charlotte, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you want to hand that conversation, we
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  Speaker 3: can have that conversation. Or what about the what about
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  Speaker 3: the sculpture, the actual sculpture from the guy in the
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  Speaker 3: Wendy City, the artist in the Wendy City. It was
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  Speaker 3: a sculpture literally called Chicago Jesus. I mean, if we
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  Speaker 3: want to have that conversation, fine, let's have that conversation.
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  Speaker 3: But they actually thought Barack House ain't Obama was their
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  Speaker 3: lord and savior. They sang worship songs to me. I
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  Speaker 3: remember that Barack husein Obama still gives me creeps to
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  Speaker 3: this day. So anyway, if you want to hand that conversation, okay.
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  Speaker 3: But the problem is, I think it's really about political
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  Speaker 3: messaging and the White House has got to be smarter
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  Speaker 3: about this kind of stuff. They just do. The messaging's
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  Speaker 3: all over the place. And I know you can't control
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  Speaker 3: the president. I get that, but you got to try.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta try because people are going to interpret this
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  Speaker 3: and this is all everybody's talking about right now. They're
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  Speaker 3: not talking about the incredibly successful thing that happened in
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  Speaker 3: Islamabad when for twenty one hours the Vice president of
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  Speaker 3: the United States tore Iran a new one. They're not
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  Speaker 3: talking about that. And the reason why is because that's
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  Speaker 3: how the media is, that's how the Democrats are. And
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  Speaker 3: quite frankly, you also get a chance to see and
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  Speaker 3: be reminded once again of who the never trumpers are
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  Speaker 3: in the Republican Party. And many of them, you know,
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  Speaker 3: will kind of will sort of feign support for Obama,
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  Speaker 3: but when something like this happens, they run for the hills.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I just I'm just so appalled by what president has done. Jesus,
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  Speaker 3: Jesus loves you. Yeah, Jesus loves all of us. But
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  Speaker 3: there's no reason for you to take the Holy Bible,
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  Speaker 3: the hardback edition of the Bible and beat President Trump
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  Speaker 3: upside the head with it. I mean, come on. So
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  Speaker 3: at the same time, and I'm happy to support my
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  Speaker 3: president at the same time, the White House gotta gott
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  Speaker 3: to lend us a little helping hand here. Gotta step
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  Speaker 3: away from the intentional mindfields. Why do I keep saying
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  Speaker 3: that land minds? It's Monday, Bear with me. So anyway,
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  Speaker 3: this is where this is where we stand with all
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  Speaker 3: of that. And I don't know what to tell you
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  Speaker 3: other than the fact that the President deleted it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: early on this president said that he doesn't apologize for
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  Speaker 3: anything because he doesn't make mistakes. I think it may
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  Speaker 3: have made a mistake here, I do do I think
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  Speaker 3: it was blasphemy? Absolutely not, And if anyone with half
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  Speaker 3: of a brain would actually look up the definition, you
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  Speaker 3: would see that. But I can see why some Catholics
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  Speaker 3: might be offended. But quite frankly, I'm offended at the Catholics,
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  Speaker 3: and I want to explain why what's wrong with you people?
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  Speaker 3: And why is your church so left? And why are
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  Speaker 3: they so woke? That's what I want to know, because
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  Speaker 3: here's what's really going on here. This is nothing more
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  Speaker 3: than a concerted political attack against our president, and it's
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  Speaker 3: being perpetrated by the Vatican and by Pope Leo. Now
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  Speaker 3: I'm a Southern Baptist. I don't get into all the
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  Speaker 3: Catholic stuff. How you guys want to what you guys
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  Speaker 3: want to do in your church and the Vatican and
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  Speaker 3: all that, that's your business. That is your business. Proud
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  Speaker 3: to march alongside Catholic friends in the marches for life. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: but we've got a lot of differences in our theology
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  Speaker 3: and we're not going to talk about that today. This
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  Speaker 3: is not a church service here. But I want to
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  Speaker 3: go back to last week and set the context where
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  Speaker 3: you nobody's talking about this, but you need to understand
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  Speaker 3: the context of all of this. So last week, David Axelrod,
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  Speaker 3: remember you've seen him on CNN. Okay, well, nobody watches CNN,
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  Speaker 3: but anyway, he's on CNN. And David Axelrod was the
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  Speaker 3: former senior advisor to Barack Husaint Obama, also a long time,
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  Speaker 3: very powerful Democrat strategist. David Axelrod last week met privately
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  Speaker 3: with Pope Leo, and Pope Leo is now just days
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  Speaker 3: later attacking President Trump. I want to know what they
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  Speaker 3: talked about. I want to know what they talked about.
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  Speaker 3: On Sunday, you had three cardinals in the Catholic Church
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  Speaker 3: appearing on sixty Minutes, and they all rebuked President Trump's
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  Speaker 3: immigration policies. Ladies and gentlemen. I don't believe in coincidences.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't, and certainly appears and going all the
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  Speaker 3: way back to twenty twenty five that Pope Leo has
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  Speaker 3: weaponized the Catholic Church to advance an agenda that is
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  Speaker 3: promoting open borders and illegal immigration. Is he as far
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  Speaker 3: left radical as the communist Pope you guys had, Pope Francis. No,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. I would Originally. I
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  Speaker 3: think we all said, Okay, this guy's going to be moderate,
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  Speaker 3: But I don't know. They've also chosen sides in the
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  Speaker 3: Iran War. No, they have not, Todd, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Why would you say something like that? Well, it's very simple.
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  Speaker 3: You're either for the United States or you're for Iran.
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  Speaker 3: There's no wiggle room. And if you're for Iran, then
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  Speaker 3: you are for all sorts of terrorism, state sponsored terrorism,
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  Speaker 3: you are for the enslavement of women. There are There's
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  Speaker 3: no wiggle room here. It's not yeah, but no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: This this is all about good versus evil, and they chose,
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  Speaker 3: the Catholic Church chose to side with evil. Iran Pope
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  Speaker 3: has been blasting this President's policy since twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 3: and he's using the pulpit to play politics. And I
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  Speaker 3: will say this, President Trump got to give the guy
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  Speaker 3: credit because he actually held his tongue for a very
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  Speaker 3: long time. But then he came out over the weekend
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  Speaker 3: and he said, you know what, enough of this nonsense,
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  Speaker 3: and he put out a statement. I'll read some of
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  Speaker 3: the statement a little bit later on, but he said basically,
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  Speaker 3: in essence, Pope Leo as soft on crime and he's
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  Speaker 3: a very liberal pontiff. So again, in my estimation, the
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  Speaker 3: attacks on President Trump coming from the Vatican are nothing
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  Speaker 3: more than a coordinated attack. And I guarantee you it
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  Speaker 3: was the Democrats and the Vatican working in cahoots, and
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  Speaker 3: between you and me, I find it to be distained, uncharitable,
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  Speaker 3: and quite frankly on Christian all Right, we got to
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  Speaker 3: the phone lines North Carolina. Dave, what say you?
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  Speaker 4: I say, first of all, a couple of quick comments,
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  Speaker 4: but first full disclosure. I voted for Trump again. However,
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  Speaker 4: I would have voted for the janitor at the Junior
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  Speaker 4: High because he wasn't Kamala. So it was election man.
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  Speaker 4: It certainly isn't because of Donald, and I don't worship
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  Speaker 4: at the altar of Trump. What he's done most recently
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  Speaker 4: is blasphemous. It's it's horrible. And you know, this guy
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  Speaker 4: is continuously elevating himself in statuties. He's putting his pedestal
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  Speaker 4: so high that he needs new ladders to get up there.
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  Speaker 4: So and the second worst thing about it is supporting
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  Speaker 4: it in any way. There are no there are no
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  Speaker 4: attacks against him from the Vatican. They're calling him out
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  Speaker 4: and he's not beyond reproach. He's not beyond you know,
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  Speaker 4: wrong is wrong. And the thing is Donald Trump is
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  Speaker 4: not a thirteen year old girl. Put the damn phone down.
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  Speaker 4: Don't want to hear your tweets. Don't care how you
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  Speaker 4: feel about something. We have children missing, we have all
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  Speaker 4: kinds of stuff going on. Fi's the problem, and stop
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  Speaker 4: giving us your opinion, Donald, because we don't care.
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  Speaker 3: All right. First of all, his name is his name
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  Speaker 3: is mister president. Let's show a little bit of respect
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  Speaker 3: your day, mister president.
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  Speaker 4: He's not acting respectful, Todd, It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: Look, that's so. How is it blast? How is it blasphemous?
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  Speaker 3: I want to know, how does that mean blasphemous for.
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  Speaker 4: Any man in any way to elevate himself to a
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  Speaker 4: position where he where he thinks he's even comparable to Jesus?
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  Speaker 3: How do you know he did that? Did he say that.
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  Speaker 4: He nom all.
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  Speaker 3: Because he didn't say anything. He shared a.
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  Speaker 4: You go ahead and justify it from your end. You
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  Speaker 4: know you think that he can do no wrong. But
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  Speaker 4: that's incorrect, Dave.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't justified one single thing. And if if you
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  Speaker 3: were not back, go back and listen to my opening
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  Speaker 3: comments and my remarks, and you'll hear exactly what I said. Dave,
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  Speaker 3: I got to run nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 3: five nine two six. Dave said, President Trump needs to
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  Speaker 3: shut up, stop stop posting things on social media. What
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  Speaker 3: say you, folks, We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It is the Tom Stearns Radio Show, and we are
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  Speaker 3: expecting President Trump to make some comments. We don't know
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  Speaker 3: what this is all about. We do know that the
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  Speaker 3: it could be we just don't know. It could be
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  Speaker 3: the situation in the Middle East. Maybe he's gonna say
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  Speaker 3: something about this image that you know that uh, that
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  Speaker 3: he posted on the true social So we'll keep you
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  Speaker 3: updated and we'll try to bring those remarks to you
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  Speaker 3: live when the when the President speaks to the nation.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to the phone lines here. Nine
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  Speaker 3: saylo to Johnny and Memphis, Tennessee listening to us on
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  Speaker 3: k w A M. Hi, Johnny, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: What would it take for you to denounce Trump? I mean,
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: what what what can he do to make you did
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: not staim and say that he's will what?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I I I did say the post was tone deaf?
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: What else you want me to say? I can't say?
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: You see, Johnny, I know what you want me to say,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: but I'm not gonna say. I'm not gonna I'm not
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: gonna walk into your trap because ultimately we don't know
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the con text of that painting. We just do not know.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: And I will say this, Johnny. Has Donald Trump done
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: anything that would lead you to believe that he was
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: mocking Jesus Christ?
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: What they No, that is not no. I'm talking about
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: leading up to that meme, Johnny. Has Donald Trump done
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: anything to disparage the Christian faith?
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Yes, he the Bible, Well, he hail the Bible, and
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: he proclaimed to be a Christian. But yet it's still
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: he wants to go and blasphemy Christian.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: How is he blaspheming Christians? Johnny? How is he blaspheming Christians?
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: God?
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: You know that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: No, I'm asking you a question. You're not answering my question, Johnny,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: and I'm giving you a chance. How is he blaspheming?
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: How has he blasphemed Jesus Christ?
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: With that picture.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: What in that picture is he doing that is offensive?
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: Depicted himself as Jesus?
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Sir? How do you know that? How do you know that?
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: It is easy?
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: Because I know Donald Trump and you know it is easy.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: And then and and then so and then you have
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: feelings to look up Jesus, google Jesus, and then you
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: say there's no picture of Jesus. So the white nationalists conservative,
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: they've been lying.
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: All this time.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Well, let me put it this way, Johnny. If you've
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: got to if you've got a if you've got a
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: polaroid of Jesus Christ, uh, I want to see it.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: I don't have to have one of the picture of
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: them is in the Bible. The pitch of them is
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: what page?
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: What page? You mean the pages, Johnny, Come on.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: No, no pices actually, and then when when you go
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: to your church and your church fans have a lot
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: of pictures of Jesus all so so so I mean
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: so there, so you're in line this whole time about Jesus,
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: you know, and that's what you're saying.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: So so, Johnny, you ain't that the actual So the
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: church fans h and many, at least in the Southern States,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: many churches have fans because of the ac or it
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: gets a little hot in there. You're telling me that
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: the portrait on the fan is the actual portrait of Christ.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: That's what y'all de pick it as.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, we don't have church fans. We have a pretty
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: good at ac unit.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: And and the church that you go to, they said,
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: this is Christ, you know, and you got him on
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: your window. You got him on them beautiful staying wonder
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: sid that's Christ. And then like I said, you're white
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: conservative friends, they got a picture of Christ. That's who
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: they worshiped. So and then and then you so out
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: this this whole saying we have been lash.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I have no earthly idea what you're talking about, Honestly,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: I really don't. I will tell you this that Joe Biden,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: a man who by the way, professed to be a Catholic,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: is a man who directed his FBI to target members
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: of his own religious group. The FBI went in and
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: tried to recruit Catholic priests to spy on their parishioners
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: in Catholic churches across this nation, starting in Richmond, Virginia.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: This is the same administration, by the way, the Biden
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: administration actually ordered the FBI to target pro life Catholics.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: They knocked down the doors of their homes and raided
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: homes and pulled people out to arrest them for being
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: pro life. The Biden administration they actually threw elderly grandmas
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: in prison for praying outside an abortion clinic. And you
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: know who never complained about that. I'm going to tell
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: you it was the Pope. It was the Pope Francis
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: and this one. They said absolutely nothing as members of
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: their own denomination were being persecuted by the Democrats in
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: the Biden administration. That's what bothers me and Johnny. I'm
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: looking here at Donald Trump's track record, and everything I
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: see shows me that he has a great respect for Christianity.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: Is this man a Christian? I don't know. That's between
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: him and God, but I can tell you that every
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: single breathing moment of his administration, he's been standing alongside
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: people of faith and people of the Christian faith. Johnny,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: good luck. I appreciate the call, Johnny, all right, let's
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: go down to the president.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: More than anything else. Yes, it's fantastic, I guess so.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It was such an honor to meet you, and I
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: think you voted for me. Do you think maybe you're
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: a great supporter. We appreciate it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I'll put this over here. And why don't we have
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: a dis confidence with the question. I don't want to
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: do it. Sure you don't have to space say too much.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: I think they're looking about foremost straight and various other things.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Do you have any questions?
• 25:53
  Speaker 11: Tells that picture of yourself is Jesus Christ?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Well, it wasn't a picture, it was me.
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: I've I did past it, and I thought it was
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: me as a doctor and had to do with Red
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Cross as a Red Cross worker there, which we support,
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: and only the fake news could come up with that one.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: So I.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Just heard about it and I said, how did they
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: come up with that? It's supposed to be me as
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: a doctor making people better, and I do make people better.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: I make people a lot better as an example the
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: eleven thousand.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I understand your husband's going through treatment, yes sir, Yes, sir,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: he's going to do some very serious cancer treatment. So yes,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: this goes a long.
• 26:35
  Speaker 12: Way, Yes sir, it sure does.
• 26:38
  Speaker 11: Another round of talks plans to agree on and if so,
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: will you send Vice President.
• 26:43
  Speaker 13: Jane Van Squire.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: Well, he's done a good job at Steve and Jared,
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: They've all done a very good job. And I can
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: tell you that we've been called by the other side.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: They'd like to make it deal very badly, very badly.
• 26:57
  Speaker 13: Was the thinking point over you said it was over?
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: It was over nuclear very similar. Yeah, very good. I
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: guess you're listening. It's over the.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Fact that they will never have a nuclear weapon, a wren.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: You're marking it down. Aren will not have a nuclear weapon,
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: And we agreed to a lot of things, but they
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: didn't agree to that, and I think they will agree
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: to it. I'm almost sure of it. In fact, I
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: am sure of it. If they don't agree, there's no deal,
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: there'll never be a deal. Aren will not have a
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: nuclear weapon. And we're going to get the dust back.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: We'll get it back. Either we'll get it back from
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: them or we'll take it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 14: Al blockade is concerned. What's the endgame? Is it the
• 27:35
  Speaker 14: force you're on back to the negotiating people. Is it
• 27:38
  Speaker 14: to open up the straits so that gas brush has
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: ultimately come down?
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Maybe everything? I mean both of those things, certainly and more.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: We can't let a country blackmail or extort the world
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: because that's what they're doing. They're really blackmailing the world.
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: We're not going to let that happen. And you know
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: the amazing thing is, we don't can you believe this?
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: We don't use this right, we don't need this. We
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: have our own oil and gas much more than we need.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: We have more oil and gas than Saudi Arabia.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Think of this.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: We produce more Saudi Arabia and add Russia to it,
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: substantially more, and by next year we'll have double that amount.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: So we don't need it, but the world needs it.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: And many ships are heading to our country right now
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: as we speak, to load up with the best. Really,
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: I guess you could say somebody said the best and sweetest.
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: I don't know exactly what sweet is, but when it
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: relates to oil, it's a good thing. But they're coming
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: to our country right now. There are many boats coming
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: to our country now.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: It could very well be this is going to be
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: settled before that.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: We've been called this morning by the right people, the
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: appropriate people.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: And they want to work a deal. They would like
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: to work a deal.
• 28:51
  Speaker 14: Is it your anticipation as the president that other countries
• 28:54
  Speaker 14: will assist in this effort and ziplocking.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: You run in those.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, other countries are going to hold so much. We
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: don't need other countries, frankly, but they've offered the services.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: We'll let it.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: We'll let it be known probably tomorrow started. Yeah, start
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: at ten o'clockspoort.
• 29:14
  Speaker 15: To you and your policies and creating the views for
• 29:16
  Speaker 15: you're spending.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Really the story down down stairs.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: You owe pop Leo and apology apologize.
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: No, I don't, because pop Leo said things that are wrong.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: He was very much against what I'm doing with with
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: regard to Iran, and you cannot have a nuclear Iran.
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: Popolio would not be happy with the end result. You
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: have hundreds of millions of people dead and it's not
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: going to happen, So I can't. I think he's very
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: weak on crime and other things, so I'm not.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, he he went public. I'm just responding to
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: pop Leo.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: And you know his brother is a big Maga person
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: and he's a great guy, Lewis, And I said, I
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: like Lewis better than I like the Pope. Now, you
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: have to have law and order in our country, and.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: That's what we have. Now.
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: We have the lowest crime numbers we've had in a
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: long time, despite the fact that many criminals were allowed
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: into our country, but we've gotten a lot of them out.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: We've done a great job on crime.
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: So we have the lowest murder rate in one hundred
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: and twenty five years since nineteen hundred, the lowest murder rate.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: So we believe strongly in law and order.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: And he seemed to have a problem with that, So
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: there's nothing to apologize for.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: He's wrong.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: And the other thing is he didn't like what we're
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: doing with respect to Iran. But Iran is a wants
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: to be a nuclear nation so they can exterminate the world.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Not going to happen.
• 30:42
  Speaker 15: Line Blasi by Fonto is not reached by the end
• 30:45
  Speaker 15: of the ceasefire, is your threat from peopore are still scanned?
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't want to comment on that, but it
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: won't be pleasant for them.
• 30:51
  Speaker 13: Let me put it that one.
• 30:55
  Speaker 14: Has your time to able changed in any way in
• 30:57
  Speaker 14: terms of any of this conflict.
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: No, I going it's going on right now. There's no
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: fighting right now, we have a blockade. They're doing no business.
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: I didn't like seeing boats come out if they were
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: doing business with Iran, but if they weren't. No boats
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: came out, So now they're doing Iran is doing absolutely
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: no business, and we're going to keep it that way
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: very easily.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Don't forget.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: The Navy is gone, their air force is gone, their
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: anti aircraft is gone, their radar is gone, and their
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: leaders are gone.
• 31:27
  Speaker 16: It's a lot something from predominantly going to China, mister President,
• 31:34
  Speaker 16: as they reached.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Out and they're going to be no.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: But we have a very good relationship with John. He
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: would like to see this end it also. He certainly
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: wants it ended. Everyone. I want to see it ended too.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: But we can't give a nuclear weapon to a group
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: of people that have caused nothing but havoc for forty
• 31:52
  Speaker 6: seven years. Look, I'm the president that's done something about it.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: This should have been and many other presidents regret that
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: they didn't.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm doing.
• 32:02
  Speaker 17: Something abouts that were just being classified so that rich
• 32:07
  Speaker 17: Ornella not only submitted false information, but that he had
• 32:10
  Speaker 17: no direct knowledge of the alleged conversations from all her sage, you'll.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Indicated by those I do.
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: Are there a bunch of crooked people you're talking about
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: with respect to all of the things that they put
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: against me? Yet well, it's come out that in so
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: many different ways. Thank you very much for that question.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: I appreciate it. But in so many different ways. The
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: election was rigged. The twenty twenty election was rigged. We
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: found that out. What you just said is just a
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: piece of that. It's a big piece, but minor relatively
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: speaking compared to what they did. They cheated in the election,
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: they cheated on the vote, they cheated in every way possible.
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: And it's the only way we got an incompetent man
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: to be a president.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: And he was an incompetiment.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: Many of the things that we're talking about, even including this,
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: this would have been settled a long time ago, not now,
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: and it should have been settled by other president is.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: But the election was a rigged election. We can't let
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: that happen to our countries. Well, it's very serious charge
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: against them and the Democrats.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: They cheap.
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: They can't get elected with their policy, so their policy
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: is no good.
• 33:17
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: They want to have I mean open borders. They want
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: to have men playing in women's sports. Do you think
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: that men should play in women's sports?
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: I really don't have an opinion on that.
• 33:28
  Speaker 15: You don't, I'll bet you do I'm here about beach
• 33:32
  Speaker 15: tacks on tips.
• 33:38
  Speaker 18: Go ahead is if you're understanding that during this period
• 33:42
  Speaker 18: of time, while the US is instituted the stable blockage,
• 33:45
  Speaker 18: that oil companies will be able to send their oil
• 33:48
  Speaker 18: tankers through the street, get.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: More oil outs in this area. Yeah.
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: I think they're going to be doing very well there,
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: and I think they're doing very well here. You know,
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: a lot of tankers are coming up here. They're coming
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: in empty and out fault, and we have a great
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: capacity to take care of that business.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: We know you ever, the White House for four I
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: have not. My name is Sharon Simmons. Are the White
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: House good zippers? Do you know? Wait? Potentially?
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: Yes, very it's thank you you reminded me.
• 34:25
  Speaker 11: You previously said that you have no problem with countries
• 34:29
  Speaker 11: are setting you to Cuba, after previously promising to two
• 34:33
  Speaker 11: of them.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: What happened, Well, we're going to see with Cuba. Cuba
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: is another story.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: Cuba has been a terribly run country for a long time.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: It's got a bad system, it's been very oppressive, as
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: you know. And we have a lot of great Cuban Americans,
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: all of whom just about voted for me, and they
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: were treated very badly.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: In many cases, family members.
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: Have been killed, they've been beaten up and mugged, and like,
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: terrible things happened in Cuba. And Cuba is a failing nation,
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: and we're gonna do this, and we may stop by
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: Cuba after we're finished with this, but Cuba is a
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: nation that was it's been horribly run for many years
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: by Castro.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: All right, there we have it, the President conducting an
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: impromptu rest conference there on the portico of the White House.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: And all of this started when a Dordash grandma showed
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: up with a delivery order for the president from McDonald's.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: And this is all about promoting his no tax on
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: tips policy. And we don't know, we don't know what
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: the president ordered, but it looks like he's pretty hungry.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: He's got two sacks there of food, and don't I
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: got to tell you, I'm concerned the media is asking
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: far too many questions and the food's getting cold.
• 35:49
  Speaker 19: You're right, Yeah, he's got to put that in like
• 35:51
  Speaker 19: a oven or something.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: McDonald's.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: McDonald's doesn't do well. After it starts to cool down,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: all those yeah no, and the burgers start to start
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: to solidify. It's true, I don't know what's going on there. Also,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: the President was asked about the meme and he says
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: it was meant to depict him as a Red crossworker.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: So that's the President's explanation. He says he was not
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: trying to portray himself as Jesus. All right, nine oh
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: one two six zero five nine two six. We have
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: got to take a break again. The President taking questions
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: there at the White House, and if you were listening,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: you could also watch the president because we now had
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: that upgraded ability over on our YouTube channel and we'll
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: be doing some We'll be doing some chats here in
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: the break, so if you want to head over and
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: give me a chat talk to me, you can do
• 36:41
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• 36:44
  Speaker 3: YouTube channel. We'll be right back.
• 36:52
  Speaker 20: Hey, Todd, David weston State, A simple reminder to all
• 36:56
  Speaker 20: your nasators.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: And Mark sixteen.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: We learned Jesus will he not the.
• 37:00
  Speaker 15: Only man healing and Cassio demons, So this portrayal of
• 37:05
  Speaker 15: Trump doesn't have to mean that he's portrayed himself as
• 37:07
  Speaker 15: Jesus Christ.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, thank you. That was David from Washington
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: State leaving us a shout out over on the amp
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: and look, David is right. There is in the Bible
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: the disciples and other Christians were out there healing people,
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: and they were doing so through the power of the
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  Speaker 3: Holy Spirit. But again, I don't want to do too
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: much of a deep dive read into all of this.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, the question is
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: was this meant to offend Christians? And I just do
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: not believe that was the case. And there's nothing in
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: the president's background or history that would lead us to
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: think something like that. I know we got a lot
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: of you folks on a hold, and I want to
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: give you time, so hang titne to hang up. We're
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: going to give you time to weigh in. Coming up
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: after the top of the hour news break. Also, we
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: had the very latest on the blockade, Eric Swallwell, why
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: are the Democrats protecting this guy? We'll talk about that
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: coming up next. Well, the Tom Starns Show.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: common sense conservative commentary from Todd starts.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: This American. All right, welcome everybody. This is the Todd
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Starns Radio Show broadcasting Border to Border coast and coast
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: across the Fruit and playing great to have you with
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: us today. So look, I want to give you a
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: quick update on this blockade at the Strait of Hormuze.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: We now understand more than one hundred oil tankers are
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: heading to the United States as the blockade forces them
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: to reroute. So just a little bit of geopolitical history here.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: If you were wondering why Cuba was so vitally important
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: to what President Trump and the Secretary of State have
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: been up to. If a lot of folks thought it
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: had to do with Venezuela, but in actuality, it had
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: to do with all of the Gulf coast ports and
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: oil refineries because those ships have to move through that
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: area very close to Cuba, and that's why the United
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: States needed to make sure that Cuba was in friendly hands.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: So a lot of moving parts here. But if you
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: look right now at the Gulf of America, the number
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: of oil tankers that are in the Gulf of America
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: just really simply unbelievable. Our telephone number, by the way,
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: nine oh one two six zero five nine two six,
• 39:59
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  Speaker 3: zero five, nine to six. Well, very excited to welcome
• 40:07
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• 40:11
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• 40:14
  Speaker 3: get to him in just a moment. In the meantime,
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: let's go, let's try to work in a couple of
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: those phone calls. First, let's say hello to AP in Gainesville, Georgia. AP,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: what's on your mind?
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: Well, I'll listened to the president, not all of those
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: tankers that are coming here to load up. I was
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: just wondering why we're having to face at Kyle prices,
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: especially on diesel.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Well, that that is a great question. AP. I'm curious,
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: do you what are you paying for diesel now if
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: compared to say, maybe a couple of months back.
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: Well, I drove five hundred miles last year and it
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: cost me seventy dollars. I drove the same distance this
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: year and it was one hundred and sixty dollars.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: One hundred and sixty dollars wow, to.
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: Fill to fill up my truck.
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: And it's just a pickup truck. So it was over
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: right at six dollars a gallon.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I will say this, we got a note yesterday
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: from our good buddy Joe Messina over in southern California,
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: and the price tagle let me see if I can't
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: call this up. Uh, he's paying upwards of eight dollars
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: eight dollars a gallon right now for for gasoline. Look,
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: av they're going to blame it on what's happening in
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: the Middle East, but those prices have been high, and
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: by the way, high diesel prices. That's why your prices
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: are not coming down at the grocery store quickly. Uh.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: That's the reason why. So the President says it's going
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: to happen quickly. We're just going to wait and see.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: AP.
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I wished to happen yesterday.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: No, well, I understand. No, I understand you and me both,
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: and I will say that that is going to be
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: a concern, especially as we head into the summer months,
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: a lot of people going on vacation. You're looking at
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: airlines raising their ticket prices, and that you know, again,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: you don't want to see that happening as we get
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: closer to the midterm elections.
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: No, sure, No, Well, appreciate you taking my call.
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: All right, AP, happy to do it, all right? Nine
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six. Let's
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: go to the Patriot Mobile news maker line. Say hello
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: to the President of External and Government Relations or Focus
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: on the Family, Timothy Gagelin. He's also the author of
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: an incredible new book called What Really Matters, Restoring a
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Legacy of Faith, Freedom and Family. Timothy, good to have
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: you with us today.
• 42:41
  Speaker 13: It's great to be with you, Todd.
• 42:43
  Speaker 16: I'm a great fan of yours of many years, and
• 42:46
  Speaker 16: it's really a delight and a blessing and an honor
• 42:49
  Speaker 16: to be with you.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: And just for the record, Timothy, you haven't posted any
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: any religious memes lately, have you?
• 42:55
  Speaker 16: I have posted no religious memes lately, I promise good.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Just want to clear that up. You know, it is
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: interesting when you look at what's happening in this country,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: and we've we've been hearing these stories about churches that
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: are filling up young people that are going back to
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: the faith. There's they're seeming to embrace the faith. Is
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: that accurate or are these just anomalies in the country.
• 43:20
  Speaker 13: I think it's absolutely accurate.
• 43:22
  Speaker 16: I'm an inveterate optimist, but even if I weren't, the
• 43:25
  Speaker 16: empirical data says it's the case.
• 43:28
  Speaker 21: Uh.
• 43:28
  Speaker 13: And it's and Frankly Todd.
• 43:30
  Speaker 16: It's why I wrote what really matters, because if we
• 43:33
  Speaker 16: are really going to restore faith, family freedom, we've got
• 43:37
  Speaker 16: to see, uh, you know, the planting of seeds like
• 43:41
  Speaker 16: this Germanate, and we are seeing them. In fact, just
• 43:45
  Speaker 16: by coincidence, I was on a debate, you know, on
• 43:49
  Speaker 16: Good Friday morning, uh, and my interlocu tour said, dollars
• 43:53
  Speaker 16: to donuts.
• 43:54
  Speaker 13: What do you think is going to happen this Easter?
• 43:56
  Speaker 16: I said, if you're in the bluest part of America
• 43:58
  Speaker 16: or the reddest, I think you're going to see churches
• 44:02
  Speaker 16: filled to overflowing. Young people are going back to church,
• 44:06
  Speaker 16: especially young men ages eighteen to twenty five. They want
• 44:09
  Speaker 16: to be married, they want to have children, they want
• 44:12
  Speaker 16: to have a faith tradition. And I think absolutely we
• 44:15
  Speaker 16: are seeing a moment of national revival.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Where do you think that desire is coming from? Because
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: clearly the previous generation, their moms and dad's probably not
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: as religious.
• 44:27
  Speaker 16: I'll tell you with some precision where I think it's
• 44:30
  Speaker 16: coming from. It's a combination of COVID. You know, we
• 44:33
  Speaker 16: are made for friendship and relationship, and this generation particularly
• 44:39
  Speaker 16: felt that an enormous sense of lockdown. They missed graduations,
• 44:44
  Speaker 16: they missed dating, they missed being elementally with people they
• 44:48
  Speaker 16: like being with, and I think it seared their soul.
• 44:52
  Speaker 16: I think that's part of it. And I think, particularly
• 44:54
  Speaker 16: taught among young men, they have lived through not just
• 44:58
  Speaker 16: a digitally distracted age, but a really era of brokenness.
• 45:03
  Speaker 16: And I think they are seeking, on this hand, fellowship, friendship, relationship,
• 45:08
  Speaker 16: but I think they're also seeking the spiritual sense. And
• 45:12
  Speaker 16: I think that if we're going to be going to
• 45:15
  Speaker 16: really address and break what we all call the loneliness crisis,
• 45:19
  Speaker 16: it is this combination of religion, faith and returning to
• 45:23
  Speaker 16: regular a community of fellowship.
• 45:25
  Speaker 13: And I think it's all to.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: The good decades ago. And I can't I can't even
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: remember who was speaking, but in the context of this speech,
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: it was a pastor and he said, what's going to happen?
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: And this was back like in the nineteen nineties. He said,
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: what's going to happen is you're going to see these
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: continued attacks on young men in America, but especially the
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: friendships that young men have and usually you guys have
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: a best friend. And they said, you watch what society
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: is going to try to do They're going to try
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: to sexualize that sort of relationship, and that is exactly
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: what they did. It's just really appalling the level of
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: attacks being directed at young men, especially in this country.
• 46:09
  Speaker 16: It really is, and it's why in What Really Matters,
• 46:12
  Speaker 16: I devote an entire chapter to what I call Restoring
• 46:16
  Speaker 16: the American Male. And I'd like to if I may
• 46:19
  Speaker 16: not overwhelm anybody with data, but I think this is
• 46:23
  Speaker 16: worth saying, and if people forget everything we've said, I
• 46:26
  Speaker 16: think this is really worth internalizing. In America today, todd
• 46:32
  Speaker 16: men account for three out of every four suicides or
• 46:37
  Speaker 16: drug overdoses. And you're ready for this, Approximately fifteen percent
• 46:42
  Speaker 16: of all American men say that they have no friends.
• 46:47
  Speaker 16: I was speaking at the weekend at one of the
• 46:50
  Speaker 16: Ivy League schools, and after my remarks, I kind of
• 46:55
  Speaker 16: opened it up for questions and answers, and I asked
• 46:58
  Speaker 16: specifically the men in the in the auditorium whether this
• 47:04
  Speaker 16: figure comported to the reality of their era, and they said, unfortunately,
• 47:09
  Speaker 16: it did. They said they knew many young men who
• 47:12
  Speaker 16: not only had no really close friends, they really didn't
• 47:15
  Speaker 16: have friends per se. And I asked, what do you
• 47:17
  Speaker 16: attribute that to and much of what they said is
• 47:20
  Speaker 16: what we're discussing today, this kind of breakage in what
• 47:25
  Speaker 16: most people would say is a continuous idea of community, family, fellowship,
• 47:31
  Speaker 16: neighborhood kind of you know, the area that is most
• 47:35
  Speaker 16: familiar to us. And in this era that we're in,
• 47:39
  Speaker 16: this is a particularly reality among the attack on masculinity
• 47:44
  Speaker 16: and femininity.
• 47:45
  Speaker 13: It has ramification. It's the kind of thing we're talking about.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: So so you write this book and you say what
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: really matters? What does it matter to things like faith, freedom,
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: and family?
• 47:57
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm glad you asked.
• 47:59
  Speaker 16: I was speaking a couple of years ago in behalf
• 48:02
  Speaker 16: of Focus on the family, and after I spoke, an
• 48:06
  Speaker 16: undergraduate came up to me and she said to me,
• 48:09
  Speaker 16: mister Gagline, I agree with most of what you have said,
• 48:13
  Speaker 16: But she said, why is the political class not talking
• 48:16
  Speaker 16: about what really matters? And I've not forgotten that, and
• 48:19
  Speaker 16: I think that she was right on board. And I
• 48:22
  Speaker 16: think that the political class understands now that government can
• 48:28
  Speaker 16: make things a whole lot worse. They can't tuck a
• 48:31
  Speaker 16: child into bed at night, they cannot save a marriage,
• 48:34
  Speaker 16: there's no doubt about that. But the political class needs
• 48:37
  Speaker 16: to learn that they can incentivize the breakdown of the
• 48:41
  Speaker 16: natural nuclear family, they can incentivize the kind of things
• 48:45
  Speaker 16: that have brought us to this moment in twenty first
• 48:48
  Speaker 16: century America.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: Again, I think this is one of those for such
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: a time as this book, especially at this juncture in
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: American history. I think the president and his administration and
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: have done a terrific job but putting out a lot
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: of the dumpster fires and helping sort of point the
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: ship in the right direction. But my concern is for
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: the future. I mean, you know, you've got a lot
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: of issues that are still undecided and things that have
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: not been dealt with. What would you say is the
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: most important thing that we need to be focused on
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: right now as a country.
• 49:23
  Speaker 16: The single most important thing that we need to be
• 49:25
  Speaker 16: focused on as a country is cultural renewal. Our friend
• 49:31
  Speaker 16: Breitbart famously said that politics is downstream from culture, but
• 49:37
  Speaker 16: todd as you and I know, downstream from all of it,
• 49:42
  Speaker 16: you know, maybe politics, but upstream at the top is
• 49:45
  Speaker 16: the things of the spirit. Culture is downstream you know,
• 49:49
  Speaker 16: from things of the spirit, and politics after that, we
• 49:53
  Speaker 16: have got to be focused on the things of culture,
• 49:56
  Speaker 16: the things that really matter.
• 49:58
  Speaker 13: We've got to be focused on.
• 50:00
  Speaker 16: Rebuilding and telling a new generation about the goodness of marriage,
• 50:05
  Speaker 16: the goodness of babies, the goodness of children, uh, the
• 50:09
  Speaker 16: goodness of of being part of a faith uh and
• 50:12
  Speaker 16: religious community. I'm a I'm a very serious Christian and UH.
• 50:17
  Speaker 16: And I think most people understand and know that when
• 50:21
  Speaker 16: when life seems to be top of the mountain, it's
• 50:24
  Speaker 16: wonderful to be a part of a community like that.
• 50:27
  Speaker 16: But inevitably, uh, in the in the course of life,
• 50:30
  Speaker 16: there are moments where you're not on the top of
• 50:32
  Speaker 16: the mountain.
• 50:33
  Speaker 13: You're in the valley.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: UH.
• 50:35
  Speaker 16: And we know from from the idea of of the
• 50:38
  Speaker 16: Judaic Christian tradition and in the American experience, UH, that
• 50:43
  Speaker 16: that that this kind of community is the thing that
• 50:47
  Speaker 16: that demographers tell us over time is the greatest guarantee
• 50:51
  Speaker 16: not only of physical health, but of mental and emotional health.
• 50:55
  Speaker 16: In other words, the natural law has a practical application.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: Timothy, We're gonna have to We're gonna leave it there.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: There's so much more to this topic that needs to
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: be discussed a real quick though. Where can people go
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: if they want to get a copy of your book?
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: What really Matters.
• 51:12
  Speaker 16: I'm very happy to say it's widely available, Todd, wherever
• 51:16
  Speaker 16: people love to buy books, everything from Amazon to Target
• 51:21
  Speaker 16: to their other favorite places. And I hope everybody truly
• 51:24
  Speaker 16: will will pick up a copy of What Really Matters
• 51:28
  Speaker 16: as a tool in the toolbox toward the kind of
• 51:30
  Speaker 16: cultural revival we all want.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: Well said, all right, Timothy Gagelin, everybody, Vice president of
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: External and Government Relations for our friends over at Focus
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: on the Family. Family, Timothy, great to see you and
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: be sure to appreciate you coming on the show.
• 51:44
  Speaker 13: Today, Todd, thank you so much. Be of good cheer.
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: All right. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: two six is our telephone number. That's nine oh one
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  Speaker 3: two six zero five nine two six. This is the
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Todd starn Show. All right, let's get right to the
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: phone lines here. Nine oh one two six zero five
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: nine two six. Tom in Atlanta, Tom, what's on your mind?
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: Unfortunately I ran.
• 52:21
  Speaker 9: So I much rather be thinking of planning tomatoes right now. Anyway,
• 52:28
  Speaker 9: I was. I listened to a lot of talk radio shows,
• 52:30
  Speaker 9: and yours is right there at the top of my favorites,
• 52:34
  Speaker 9: of course. But this guy was on this show last night,
• 52:38
  Speaker 9: and it's a mainstream radio network show, you know, conservative mainstream,
• 52:44
  Speaker 9: and he's an Iranian American or American Iran whatever.
• 52:48
  Speaker 8: He's here.
• 52:48
  Speaker 9: He's been here a while, but he still has people
• 52:50
  Speaker 9: that he's in touch with back there. And he was
• 52:53
  Speaker 9: telling me, or he not telling. He was telling the
• 52:56
  Speaker 9: audience and his host of the show that when these
• 53:00
  Speaker 9: people who got mowed down in earlier in the year
• 53:04
  Speaker 9: of thirty thousand or however many there were, that their
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: family to identify them had to go unzip the bags,
• 53:12
  Speaker 9: the body bags, one by one and see if that
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: was their relative, and you know, until they found them,
• 53:17
  Speaker 9: hopefully not sooner rather than later. But then they were
• 53:21
  Speaker 9: charged a fee for the number of bullet holes that
• 53:24
  Speaker 9: were in that body so that the Iranians could rearm
• 53:28
  Speaker 9: their you know, re up their now. If that's actually so,
• 53:33
  Speaker 9: I don't know what to say other than please, mister President,
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: finish the job. This is beyond any adjective I can
• 53:44
  Speaker 9: come up with to describe that behavior.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, it's it's an ugly thing, Tom, and I
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: don't think that we will ever know the full extent
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: of what happened over there, but I can tell you
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: this that they have to finish the job. And I
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: think that President Trump understands that as well. And I
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: think the President is going to finish the job. You
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: know what I find fascinating here, Tom, is that the
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: lengths that Donald Trump is going to to prevent us
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: from having to wipe the civilization off the face of
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: the earth, so much so sending jd Vance over there
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: for twenty one hours of peace talks, which of course
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: amounted to nothing because the Iranians refused to compromise. They
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: refuse to do anything. So right now, I think that
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: President Trump has the upper hand here. I think that
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: Iran is going to pay a very stiff economic price
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: here in the very near future. The question is how
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: long does it go on?
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: Me?
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: I just want to see things done, right, It's been
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: what fifty something days we've been there. Let's get it
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: over with and let's move on to the next big issue.
• 54:59
  Speaker 8: Yep, you gotta thank you Todd.
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: All right, Tom, thank you for that call. Yeah. It's
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: called pay for bullets insane. And this is the reporting
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: that the families of the protesters who were killed had
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: to pay for the bullets that were used to kill
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: their loved ones. I mean, this is this is disgusting. Now,
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: these are multiple reports, now the Tom Sterns Show. We
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: haven't been able to confirm any of this, but I'm
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: just going to read this to you. This is the
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: reporting of others, not me, But according to multiple sources,
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: families are being told they have to pay for each
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: bullet used to kill their relatives. The amounts range from
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: whatever the amount I think it roughly translated to four
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: hundred and eighty dollars to seventeen hundred dollars. That's an
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: American that's American money. Unbelieve evable. But this is this
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: is who the This is who the Iranians are. These
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: are evil people, evil people, ladies and gentlemen. And Tom
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: is right. We need to finish the job over there,
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: all right. I gotta take a break here. Nine oh
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: one two six zero five nine two six hour telephone number.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: Oh sweet mercy. We haven't even gotten to swallowell yet.
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: And also, we have some new polling data that shows
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: an overwhelming number of Americans actually support what the president
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: is doing in Iran. Right now, what does that say
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: about the MAGA podcasting crowd? And well, we'll tell you
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: coming up. All right, Welcome back everybody. This is the
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: Tod Sterns Radio. So Isaac Hayes today. Always a good
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: Monday when you got some Isaac Hayes plan. The CBS
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: News poll finds Americans overwhelmingly support the president's goals in Iran.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: So this was released on Face the Nation. What's important
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: for the US to do regarding Iran eighty seven percent.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: Open the straight of Hormuz oil access eighty one percent.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: Make sure Iran's people are safe and free, Stop Iran
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  Speaker 3: from attacking other countries at seventy six percent. Permanently stop
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: Iran from getting a nuclear program seventy six percent as well.
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: So again, when you look at it's sort of like
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: the transgender issue for the Democrats, it's a it's a
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: really a ninety five to five issue, and yet the
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: Democrats just they've lost their minds. I think the same
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: thing applies to the conservative podcast to stannies out there
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: in podcast to stand. So all these maga pro podcasters,
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: they are completely out of touch with their audience. Now,
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: one thing that most Americans do believe is that the
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: White House needs to do a better job of explaining
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: our goals sixty two percent say the military. The White
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: House has not done that, and that's a fair criticism,
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: to be perfectly honest with you, Trump's overall job approval
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: rating stands at fifty percent. Let's go to the phone
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  Speaker 3: lines nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 3: Say hello to black conservative in Memphis, Tennessee. Black Conservative,
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: it's been a while. Hope you're doing good.
• 58:46
  Speaker 8: I am the most aeroadipe mind, brilliant thinker and politico philosopher.
• 58:50
  Speaker 8: I'm doing great. How about you?
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: See I'm doing pretty dandy now that I'm talking to you,
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: I feel aerodype myself.
• 58:57
  Speaker 8: You know, I've been spending my time trying to keep
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: them America great, like these fair liberal politicians who try
• 59:04
  Speaker 8: to undermine everything that this president is doing to keep
• 59:07
  Speaker 8: this country safe.
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: I think there's something to that, Black Conservative. I think
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: a lot of other people are doing it as well.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: What do you what do you what do you see here?
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: You know we're moving towards the midterms. What do you
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: think the big issue is heading into the elections.
• 59:25
  Speaker 8: Well, there's no issue other than the fact that you
• 59:27
  Speaker 8: said in Minigo, there's no issue. Uh uh. The basis
• 59:31
  Speaker 8: intact Trump fought were intact this idea that we're falling
• 59:35
  Speaker 8: apart and and we're upset that we voted for the president,
• 59:39
  Speaker 8: and and oh that nonsense that they're crazy, you know,
• 59:43
  Speaker 8: the crazy people on the host on the view talk
• 59:45
  Speaker 8: about you know them Dodo birds, you know. But uh,
• 59:49
  Speaker 8: you just read the numbers there. Uh, they approve of
• 59:54
  Speaker 8: what the president. American people approve of what the President
• 59:57
  Speaker 8: is doing. Case close.
• 59:59
  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 8: If there is no controversy over that. You know, the
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 8: fake news media, they're never going to be true for
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: about anything. You know, they was from day one when
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 8: the Operation Prairiy took place. They jumped ship on day one,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 8: I think it was announced that you know, it had started.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 8: So but you reading the numbers there with the POE
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 8: for to face the nationcy and in Poe there are
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 8: numbers there American people, Oh what it's President.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: Well they are and I haven't doubted it. Look, it's
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: there are forces at work trying to divide this this
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: coalition that Trump put together. And I think a lot
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: of it has to do with they're not getting the
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: amount of maybe access, maybe they're not getting the money
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: that they thought was going to come. Maybe they're not
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: even getting the invitations down tomorrow Alago. I don't know,
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: but I think they're The clinical term is but hurt
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: black conservative.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: Absolutely, they're not getting asked. That's because they're gonna blow
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 8: you know, they're not. They can't let them know everything
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 8: because you have all these leaks and leaks coming out
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 8: about this and that, so you know, they can't you know,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: they have caught on now. You just can't, you know,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 8: let the news media know anything ahead of time because
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 8: they can't be trusted. The media cannot be trusted, as
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 8: President said last week, you can't trust these people. But uh,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 8: but yeah, and I want to say one more thing.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 8: The President does not owe the pope an apology for nothing.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 8: You know, I get tired of this. You know, you
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 8: got to have an apology for this. You got to
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 8: apologize for Tiger Woods. You got to apologize for Circle
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 8: Surgery Old because he brought club.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: He destroyed a perfectly good driver, but as his driver.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 8: You know, if you got a million bucks in the bank,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 8: a couple of drivers, Brooke ain't gonna ain't gonna hurt
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 8: you that bad. You know, that's this crazy stuff. Everybody
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 8: got to apologize to three three million people because they
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 8: did something you know, out of character. No, Sergio doesn't
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 8: owe me apology, need to do Tiger Woods, and need
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 8: to do the president owe the Pope in apology. I
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: tell you who the Pope owe apology to, since he
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 8: wanted to come out of his cave ever blue moon,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 8: I tell you who he owe an apology to the
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 8: two hundred little children who was sexually assaulted and molested
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 8: by those bishoes and priests and in their paraties. Maybe
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 8: need to come out and apologize for that, those two
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 8: hundred thousand little kids and cases, and that for their
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 8: uh uh systematic cover up of that. Mister Pope wants
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 8: you to do that. If not, go back in your cage.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: And that's what we call ladies and gentlemen, an inconvenient truth.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 8: By the way, look, I had an aerodite man. I'm
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 8: a man much learning, you know, I should have told
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 8: the president is about the Pope.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: But this here and there I'm watching. I was going mad.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: In the break there was a big banner on one
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: of the news channels that said Trump attacks Pope. No,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: the truck. The President did not attack the Pope. He
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: was responding to the Pope's attacks.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 8: Absolutely, and the Pope was you know, here's here's the deal.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 8: Over there. They they hung a guy who was a wrestler,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 8: just hung the guy in public, you know, hung the guy.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 8: The poke didn't speak about that. The protests, forty thousand
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 8: them inflict the punishment on them who wanted the Pope
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 8: at the end. You know, I have a respect for
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 8: the Pope, but he needs to stay in his lane
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 8: sometime kind of kind of me oh out there in
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 8: left field sometime. I don't know, Man, it has been
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 8: locked up too long or something. But anyway, beyond that, uh.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: Black Conservative, let me ask you a question. Did you
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: get down to Did you get down to Augusta National?
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: You know, I did not, I said, but I washed Orca.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 8: I washed it yesterday, but I didn't get chanced to
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 8: get down there.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, here's what I want to know. I got
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: a bunch of guys I know that are pastors. I
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: want to know how they always get the invites to
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: the Masters. I want to know what's going on there.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 8: I better find out too. Somebody in this hoop is
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 8: not snatus, you know. But I mean I didn't go
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 8: down to the math. I don't know I made have
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 8: flipped my call in the side of something.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 10: So that's.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: All right, all right, Black Conservative has been far too long,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: my friends.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 8: Well I'm going to keep your locked in that all right.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 8: I'm looking at the app. I'm going to lock the
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: app and uh, I do apologize, but couldn't it running
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 8: for a while. But hey, uh.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: We got your we got your back. I love it,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: all right, Black Conservative ladies and gentlemen, the man who
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: has the most errdite mind of anyone in our great
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: listing audience. So there you go, Dylan. Did you catch
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: any of the Masters over the weekend?
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 19: I saw that one hold in one shot and that
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 19: is the extent of my master hand.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: And the Eagles, I'd tell you what. They were fired up. Yeah,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: they were fired up.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 19: Yeah. There's some controversy surrounding the Masters this year.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: You know, I wasn't going to bring that up, but
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: is it Scotty Scheffler played the did he not like
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: play the course like for weeks?
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 19: I don't know, so they The controversy that I saw
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 19: was the guy that won, Rory McElroy. Yeah, it was
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 19: the fact that he had been playing that course for
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 19: like two months straight before the Masters.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: Are they allowed to I'm just playing ignorance. Here are
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: the golfers actually allowed to do that?
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 19: As far as I know, only he was allowed to
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 19: do it because he won last year, so he had this.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 19: I don't know how it works. Someone else can probably
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 19: call in and explain this. But he had access to
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 19: that course and not I don't know how many other
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 19: people did well. People are mad about it because they're like, well,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 19: of course he won because he's been there for the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 19: past two months.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're they're saying that he had an unfair advantage,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: is what they're saying.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 19: Yeah. He he was on an interview too, and he
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 19: was speaking about how that's that's literally been his life,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 19: is Augusta Course, And I'm like, well, yeah, it makes
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 19: a lot of sense.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, outkicked Sports is all upset about this,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: and they say, oh, yeah, he had an unfair advantage
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: heading under the Masters, I said Scheffler, I was talking
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: about I met, So anyway, I don't know, it's I
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: mean still, I don't know. You're gonna have a good game,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 3: you know, and there's no guarantee that you're gonna have
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: a good game, no matter how many times you played
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: there for that's that's true. I mean the wind blows
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: a little bird, you know, flies into your shot.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 19: You can't practice for that.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, somebody coughs, yeah, he.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 19: Has their phone out.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So I'm reading one of these I reading Fox
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: Knew and they had this, uh this, they had this
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: op ed about why you know, and again it's the
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: freaking masters. Can we just why does everything have to
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: be so political? Right? It's the Masters?
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: So anyway, this op ed was like, oh, I was
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: wandering around and there were nobody was on their phones.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: The fathers were with their sons explaining the game. People
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: were laughing and cavorting and drinking adult libations and laughter aplenty,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: you know, all this kind of like stuff. It was overkill.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: But I'm sitting here going and the whole point it
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: was no one and no one was on their cell phones,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: No one was no one had their heads you know,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: looking into the snow, you know, their heads down looking.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah you know why, because it's against the roles. Yeah,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: nobody could have a phone.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 19: You'll be carted away if you have that phone.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: It wasn't as if the entire Augusta, Georgia area had
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: like this epiphany of like, oh, we've got to put
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: away our phone so we can hug each other again. No,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: you marods, you can't have a phone there.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 19: I love it. They have a lot of rules. They
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 19: have a lot of and they're very fancy too, they're
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 19: very decor.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't be wearing T shirts. I don't play,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: so you got to have a collared shirt. You're allowed
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 3: to wear shorts though, right, or pants.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 19: So I don't know a pants. It's like this is
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 19: getting a little too far.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: All right, we gotta take a break here, folks. I've
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: got to tell you, wow, income tax time, I had
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  Speaker 3: about the advent of the humanoid robots, Dylan. This story
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: out of CNN has me greatly disturbed. How filming your
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: chores could train the android butlers of the future.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 19: I kind of like this, but keep going well.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 3: According to according to see it. In with the evolution
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: of artificial intelligence, humanoid robots have become the latest frontier
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: in the race to dominate advanced technology, and they're rolling
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: out all of these new programs now. There is a
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: huge appetite for first person footage that can be used
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: to train robots, known as egocentric data or human data.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: Over the past several months, startups have stepped in to
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: supply that demand by collecting and annotating videos from thousands
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: of contract workers around the world from manufacturing factory warehouses, retail,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: nursing homes, and hospitals. So if you're reading between the
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: lines here, one day, instead of going to see a nurse,
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: you could have like this little robot humanoid person strolling
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: up to you and poking you with a needle.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 19: Okay, fine, I don't like it anymore. It's taking job
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 19: or bend over. What if the person recording the video
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 19: messes up.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: Right exactly what happens?
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 16: Then?
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, what happens? You saw? What is it? THEA?
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 3: Is that the way? Who's the way?
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 10: Mo? Cars?
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: What are they called? The self driving cars? You hear
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: about what happened in Nashvill over the weekend.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 19: Well, I'm not surprised I didn't hear about it, but
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 19: sure it crafts.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: No, multiple, multiple cars just stopped in the middle of
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: like interstates or roadways.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 19: Yeah, no, that's pretty terrifying. I would never let that
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 19: happen to me if I can help it.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they call them what weight are those? Are the
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: self driving cars? Autonomous cars? So they're robot they're basically
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: being driven by robots and they just stopped in the middle.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: So what happens? God forbid?
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: You know?
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: The robot says, I'll all mister Stearns bend over cough,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: and all of a sudden like the robot cramps out
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: and you've got like a probe sticking up your wazoo.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 10: What do you do?
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 19: Then that might be the worst constructed scenario ever heard.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: But I mean you've got to think.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 19: That someone has to think about it.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: I guess what about pet care? Could you imagine a
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: robot like, you know, manhandling your poor cat or I
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: don't know, squirrel, whatever you got? That's terrible.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean you raised a lot of good points here.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: So they're apparently submitting ten hours of video. So for example, Dylan,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: we could like film what you do and we could
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: turn it over and to AI and they would have
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: somebody that they would train a robot to do what
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: you do.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 19: Yeah, now I'm thinking about intentionally messing up.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: There's a there's an organization called micro one based in
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: Palo Alto, California, which is where all the dystopian films start,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: by the way, I don't know if you've ever noticed this,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: and it has about four thousand robotics generalists in different
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: households across seventy one countries, and they say that there
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: are hundreds of thousand or tens of thousands of these
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: videos out there. The growing demand for data in robotics
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: mirrors the early trajectory of chant, GPT and other AI
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: chat bots trained on hundreds of billions of words harvested
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: from the Internet, and what they do is they look
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: for text patterns to generate the likeliest responses to user prompts.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: They're saying, this is like a multi billion dollar deal. Here, oh,
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: it's got a section here, here we go. It says
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: still ninety percent of the customers are based in the US,
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: and their assumption that American consumers have the spending power
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: to adopt humanoid robots early, some are willing to pay
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: more for data from US households, even though the hourly
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: wage can be as much as triple that of a
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: worker in Vietnam or India. Why would I want? What
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: are we going to pay the robots now? I don't
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: think so.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 19: What scares me is the fact that what other data
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 19: are they getting from our phones from daily usage? Like
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 19: you know that that that one company that I think
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 19: it was a car company, but they were using the
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 19: the security tests that you have. There's annoying security tests.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 19: Oh yeah, when you have to like identify the stop
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 19: signs in this photo they were using that as data
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 19: for AI the whole time.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: They say the Indian kitchen is very different from the
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: US kitchen curry. I'm just guessing a lot more, probably
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  Speaker 3: Catholic Church that has really declared war on the president.
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  Speaker 15: We are speaking in a church here in Washington, DC
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  Speaker 15: that serves a largely immigrant population. The pastor asked us
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  Speaker 15: not to share or publicize this parish name or location.
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  Speaker 21: What's he worried about.
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  Speaker 2: He's worried for his people.
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  Speaker 22: They live under fear. And thus our mass count within
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  Speaker 22: the Spanish masses in our archdioces went down thirty percent
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  Speaker 22: from the year before.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty percent.
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  Speaker 22: That's a lot, and it's all fear.
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  Speaker 12: Before he became Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Robert McElroy served
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  Speaker 12: as the Bishop of San Diego, one of the busiest
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  Speaker 12: stretches of the southern border for illegal crossings.
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  Speaker 22: I feel it got to a point where it was getting.
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  Speaker 12: Out of control under Biden.
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  Speaker 15: Underbiden, yes, you believe in strong borders, So what's wrong
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  Speaker 15: then with the current policy.
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  Speaker 22: This is a roundup of people throughout the country. People
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  Speaker 22: who have been living good, strong lives, been here a
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  Speaker 22: long time, raised their children here, men and their children
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  Speaker 22: born here, and our citizens.
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  Speaker 2: That's what our objection is.
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  Speaker 15: But this was discussed during the campaign, was widely discussed,
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  Speaker 15: and yet President Trump won the Catholic vote over Kamala
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  Speaker 15: Harris handily fifty five to forty three percent. He promised
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  Speaker 15: to secure the porter, he talked about deportation, and a
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  Speaker 15: majority of Catholics voted for the policy.
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  Speaker 22: I would like to know what Catholics feel about this
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  Speaker 22: indiscriminate mass deportation. I think that it's very clear the
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  Speaker 22: American people are saying, we really didn't vote for this.
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  Speaker 3: Well they would well, certainly the polling data would disagree
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  Speaker 3: with the Cardinals there. But again, this idea that President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is attacking the Catholic Church is simply not true.
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  Speaker 3: The President is simply responding to the attacks that originated
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  Speaker 3: from Popolio and from the Vatican. And now all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden, you know, they're trying to play the victim card,
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  Speaker 3: and we're just not going to let them get away
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  Speaker 3: with it. If the Catholics, if the Catholic leadership wants
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  Speaker 3: to jump into the fray here and get involved in politics.
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  Speaker 3: Well follows. You got to put on your big boy
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  Speaker 3: to welcome our next guest, author of a great new
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  Speaker 3: book called The Rainbow Chaser, The Man Who Gambled for
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  Speaker 3: success and broke even. Former Louisiana Congressman Bob Livingston joins
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  Speaker 3: us on our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line today. Congressman, good
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  Speaker 3: to have you with us.
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  Speaker 10: Thanks so much, Todd, It's great to be with you.
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  Speaker 10: And as a Catholic who disagrees with the cardinals, I'm
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  Speaker 10: equally how doubly pleased to be here with you tonight.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it is interesting, though, because you know the
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  Speaker 3: way the media is, and you know how they are
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats. I mean, in the last administration, you had
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: Joe Biden literally weaponizing FBI agents to infiltrate Catholic parishes,
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  Speaker 3: a targeting pro life Catholics, knocking down the front doors
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  Speaker 3: of their homes. I don't remember any condemnation of that
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  Speaker 3: behavior coming out of the Vatican.
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  Speaker 10: Well, the immigration issue is just cutting out of hand.
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  Speaker 10: We've got too many people here that they are criminals
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  Speaker 10: and pedophiles and murderers and all the like, and I
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  Speaker 10: cannot understand the position of the Catholic Church. So they're wrong.
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  Speaker 10: The American people are right, and we just need to
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  Speaker 10: turn that around, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, Congressman, I want to switch over to your book,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 3: The Rainbow Chaser. I mean, you have had quite a
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  Speaker 3: colorful career in our nation's capital. What was the deciding
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: factor in writing the book?
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  Speaker 10: Did? I'm a prosecutor. I was a prosecutor before I
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 10: went to Congress, six years putting the crooks in jail.
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  Speaker 10: I believe in solid criminal prosecution against people who violate
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  Speaker 10: the law, whether it's violent or civil or anything else.
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  Speaker 10: The fact is I believed in what I did. I
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  Speaker 10: never did it for political or personal reasons. And I
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  Speaker 10: never realized that there are people, and particularly in recent years,
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  Speaker 10: who have misused the legal process to go after innocent
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  Speaker 10: victims for their own person political reasons. And I think
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  Speaker 10: it's it's not just a fear that I have, but
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 10: it's happened against many friends of mine, and they're listed
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  Speaker 10: in the books. And then when they finally came at me,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 10: I got so angry that I decided to write a
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  Speaker 10: book about it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and by the way, folks, the book will be
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: in stores on the fourteenth, so that's tomorrow, so you
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 3: don't want to make sure you get a copy of
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  Speaker 3: The Rainbow Chaser, the man who gambled for success and
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: broke even you know, you mentioned some of those, some
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  Speaker 3: of those folks, I mean it is I love the
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 3: phrase you use here. They've weaponized law here, and they've
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: certainly been doing this against the president during his first
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 3: term in office and now his second term in office,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: and even while he was out of office. But it's
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: not just the president. A lot of conservatives have become
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  Speaker 3: victims of these activist judges.
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  Speaker 10: The president was probably one of the most significant victims
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  Speaker 10: of the process. Lawfare has been the use of the
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  Speaker 10: authority of the state against innocent individuals since the beginning
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  Speaker 10: of time, but it's only become refined in the last
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  Speaker 10: twenty or thirty years, and the Biden administration went out
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 10: of their way to employ it with devastating consequences. Yes,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 10: they went after the president, and he had the resources
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 10: to fight him and to beat it. But too many
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 10: people find themselves their lives disrupted, their entire careers ruined,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 10: they're bankrupted. Often sentenced in prisons and lawfare is a dangerous,
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  Speaker 10: dangerous symptom of tyranny that has to be brought to bear,
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  Speaker 10: has to be turned around, or else this country, this
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 10: free society of ours, cannot survive.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Congressman, there's a phrase you use. You talked
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  Speaker 3: about the tyranny of the deep state. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: people think, oh, that's just a made up term, that's
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  Speaker 3: a make believe thing, but you say it's a real theme.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: They ruined people's lives. I mean the skuy Jack Smith,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 10: who worked for the Justice Department over the last four years,
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 10: went after President Trump, but he also went after people
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 10: like Governor Bob McDonald of Virginia, who after four years
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 10: it's a one term state. After four years, he's one
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  Speaker 10: of the most popular governors in the history of the
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 10: country of the state of Virginia. And two weeks after
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 10: he was he left office, all of a sudden, he
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  Speaker 10: gets charged by Jack Smith and dragged through the courts.
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  Speaker 10: His marriage was disrupted. He got to end up getting
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  Speaker 10: a divorce. He went he had to spend millions and
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 10: millions of dollars in legal fees. He was tried, he
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 10: was sentenced, he was looked at the possibility of going
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 10: to jail, went all the way to the Supreme Court,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 10: and at that point the Supreme Court threw the whole
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 10: case out, saying there was never a violation of law
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 10: in the first place, and they admonished Jack Smith. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: that's the kind of thing that's happened to people right
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 10: and left. Senator Ted Stevens was convicted two weeks before
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  Speaker 10: his election. He lost his election after a wonderful career
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 10: in the United States Senate from Alaska. Uh. He founded
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 10: Alaska As virtually as one of them, and he uh
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 10: uh who ended up getting convicted two weeks Then about
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 10: two months after the election, the case was thrown out.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 10: Excuse me, after the election and after he'd lost his election,
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 10: the judge throughout the case and said that he was
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 10: no longer uh, that the prosecutors, I'm sorry, the prosecutors.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: Had had.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 10: Violated their legal authority, and the case was dismissed completely.
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 10: But he couldn't get his job back. You can go
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 10: back to the Senate.
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  Speaker 16: Uh.
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  Speaker 10: And a couple of years later he tried died in
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 10: the plan.
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  Speaker 3: Grish, what's what is the solution here? A long time,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 3: it seems like this is not some sort of an
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 3: easy fix, or maybe it may be, But how do
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: we fix it?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I think the most important thing is that prosecutors
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 10: and certainly US attorneys and the Attorney General of the
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 10: United States and district attorneys around the country need to
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 10: understand that they have tremendous authority and if they if
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 10: they abuse the authority, then they do risk the possibility
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 10: of charity they I think that what we have to
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 10: do is make prosecutores liable criminally or or civilly if
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 10: in fact they pursue a person for personal or political
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 10: reasons without evidence and without probable cause. I am absolutely
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 10: for legitimate criminal prosecution. It's the only way a free
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 10: society can exist is if we have If we have
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 10: a legitimate law enforcement. But if they abuse that authority,
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 10: they ruin lives, they ruin they devastate families, and the
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 10: abuse of the authority is just intolerable. It's got to
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 10: be reversed. And the only way to do it is
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 10: to get the leaders who are responsible for these officers
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 10: to impress upon their prosecutors. Do it legitimately, do it fairly,
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 10: but don't abuse your authority.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, Congressmen, we're gonna have to leave it
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  Speaker 3: their congratulations on the great new book. It's called The
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 3: Rainbow Chaser, The Man who Gambled for Success and Broke Even.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: It'll be available in bookstores all across the nation tomorrow.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 3: And the Congressman, as somebody who spent time in Saint
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 3: John the Baptist Parish, I noticed you're a big green
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 3: wave guy. So go green Wave. Two lane, go Greenway.
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  Speaker 10: They've had pretty good years in the last few years,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 10: and they had it open and keep it up, but
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 10: not quite sect standards, but we're getting there.
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  Speaker 3: Good stuff, all right, Congressman. Good good to have you
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 3: on the radio show. I know we're getting you on
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 3: my NEWSMAC show as well. Congratulations to you, Thank you.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 3: All right, there you go, folks. Former Louisiana Congressman Bob Livingston.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: The book called The Rainbow Chaser, The Man Who Gambled
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: for Success and Broke Even. All right, we've got to
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: take a break here. Nine oh one two six zero five,
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  Speaker 3: nine two six. That's nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 3: five to nine two six. This is the Todd startin show.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 3: It's been a rather fascinating thing to watch, but Eric
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: Swalwell has been taken out by his own party. This
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: is pretty remarkable to watch what transpired over the weekend,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: and Swalwell has now announce he's suspending his campaign for governor.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: There are calls from Republicans to pull out of Congress
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: and to have this man expelled from Congress. The allegations
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 3: are just unhinged but ugly stuff. And of course now
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: you have the Democrats who are saying, you know that
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 3: they're trying to say they're taking the moral high ground here.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 3: But let me be clear, there is absolutely nothing moral
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: about these godless, immoral Democrats period. So now we understand
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: the House Ethics Committee is open an investigation into Swalwell.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 3: The Ethics Panel set in a statement that the investigation
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: into Swalwell relates to allegations he may have engaged in
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: sexual misconduct, including towards an employee working under his supervision.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: What is it that? What is it? Messina? Joe Messina
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: on Friday on the show said that the nickname they
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: got a nickname for this guy back in California, that
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: his name is swallow. Anyways, Walwell suspended a run for
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 3: governor's Sunday. Did not respond to any request for comment.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: This is from Politico. He says the allegations are all false.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: The accusations first reported in the San Francisco Chronicle as
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 3: well as CNN. Nancy Pelosi says that the accusations must
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 3: be investigated. Four women describe sexual misconduct by Congressman Swallow,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: including a former staffer who says that he raped her.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: This is from CNN, telling the News of the news organization.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: I was pushing him off me, saying no, he did
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: not stop. This happened in his office. She says the
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 3: congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated and left
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: her bruised and bleeding. Three other women who spoke with
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 3: CNN also alleged various kinds of sexual misconduct by the
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 3: Democratic congressman, including Swallow sending them unsolicited explicit messages or
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 3: nude photos. Now let me just say something here. First
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: of all, innocent until proven guilty, right, But that's not
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 3: how the Democrats played. It's guilty unless otherwise told by
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 3: the Democrats. They set all the rules here. So therefore,
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 3: since the Democrats set the rules, that they've got to
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: play by these rules, and that means this guy is guilty.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 3: As charged. It's unbelievable and it's somewhat laughable had not
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: These are very serious charges, ladies and gentlemen, incredibly serious charges.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: And if this is true, this guy needs to go
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 3: away to jail for a very long time. If everything
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 3: is as it has been alleged. But the challenge here
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: is that everybody knew it, and everybody's known it for
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 3: a very long time. This is nothing new. As a
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 3: matter of fact, here is this is former Speaker of
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: the House, Kevin McCarthy. Take a list of a cut eight.
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  Speaker 20: If you got the briefing I got from the FBI,
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 20: you wouldn't have Swawell on any committee. And you're going
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 20: to tell me other Democrats couldn't feel that slot. He
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 20: cannot get a security clearance in the private sector, so
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 20: would you like to give him a government clearance? You
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 20: asked me questions about Santos, you asked the questions about Swalwell.
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 20: Not only was he getting a clearance, he was inside
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 20: an Intel committee. He had more information than the majority
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 20: of all the members. Did you ever raise that issue, No,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 20: which you should have. You're going to tell me there's
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 20: two hundred other Democrats that couldn't feel that slot, but
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 20: they kept him on it. The only way that they
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 20: even knew it came forward is when they put to
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 20: nominate him to the Intel Committee, and then the FBI
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 20: came and told the leadership. Then he's got a problem,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 20: and they kept him on that jeopardized all of us.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 3: All right, So he's got a point there, because this
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: guy would have been open to blackmail. Congressman Swallow, no
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 3: doubt about him. Here's what needs to happen, and I'm
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 3: curious to hear your thoughts on this. There's actually a
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: sex assault slush fund in Congress. That's right. They're using
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 3: your tax dollars and they paid out some seventeen million
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 3: dollars in settlements. I don't know about you. I want
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 3: to see. I want to see who was doling out
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 3: the money, who were they protecting. We need to know,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. I don't care if they're Republican, Democrat, Independent,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 3: don't care, don't care, but we deserve to know if
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  Speaker 12: Back, all right.
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  Speaker 3: These numbers are just staggering. And when you hear these
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: numbers that I'm about to share with you, the entire
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: Make America Healthy Again movement that all of the efforts
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: to get Americans in shape, it's going to make sense
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 3: to you. So, there are a lot of different surveys
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: out there, but they all seem to point in the
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 3: same direction. According to this data, roughly seventy three percent
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 3: to more than seventy five percent of all American adults
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 3: are considered overweight or obese, and obesity rates alone are
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 3: hovering around forty to forty two percent. So, by the way,
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 3: and these are multiple surveys, a gallop pull, by the way,
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 3: and this was self reported. Data found that forty three
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 3: percent of Americans described themselves as overweight. And it's also
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: just as bad among children and teenagers, obesity affecting about
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 3: nearly thirty percent of adolescents and twenty two percent of children.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 3: Women have a slightly higher problem with their weight than
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 3: men do. And this is a look overall. This is
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 3: a big issue, and that's one of the reasons why
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 3: we've been so excited to introduce all of you to
• 1:35:26
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• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: Ashley Lucas, who is the founder and the advisory consultant
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 3: of PhD Weight Loss Doctor Lucas. What an honor to
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 3: have you with us today.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 21: Hi Todd, it's great to see you. Thanks for having me.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 3: So you know again, you know again? These numbers, I
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 3: think I don't delve into these specific kinds of numbers
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 3: every single day, and quite frankly, it seems a little
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 3: staggering to me. Are you surprised by those numbers?
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 11: I'm not surprised because I've been in the field of
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 11: weight management for I don't know, the last twenty plus years.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 11: I do think it's obviously a huge issue. We can't
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 11: be strong as a community, as a nation if we
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 11: aren't strong in our health. It's my biggest purpose and
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 11: passion is to help empower people to be able to
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 11: step up to better their lives.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 21: And to become self sufficient.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 11: I hate when we're dependent on big food, big farm,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 11: at anything outside of ourselves. So that's my ultimate goal
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 11: is to help people to be able to understand they
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 11: can create the change if they want to, they can
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 11: do it pretty darn simply.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 21: And I don't know if you've experienced that.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 11: I don't think has to be as hard as we
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 11: believe that it is, and to be self sufficient, to
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 11: be self empowered, to be able to create change and
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 11: keep that positive change there.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 3: You know, I thought it was interesting just going back
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 3: in history and there was there was an amazing quote
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 3: from President John F. Kennedy, who was a fierce proponent
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 3: of being physically fit and getting out there, being active.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: And the kind of language you used to describe America's
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 3: children would get you canceled in today's culture. But sometimes,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 3: you know, you have to have those tough conversations. And
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 3: I know a lot of people are trying so many
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: different things. You know that they're trying to take off
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: a few pounds and nothing seems to work. And then
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 3: you guys come along and you've created a really unique
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 3: formula that's actually been very very successful.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 11: Yeah, we've helped over twelve eight hundred people yahwide collectively together,
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 11: we've let go of almost five hundred thousand pounds any age.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 11: You know, I think a lot of people come in saying, Oh,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 11: I'm just too old, I can't do this anymore. I
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 11: was just reading a story of a lady who came
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 11: into us. Her name is Ann and she's eighty years old,
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 11: and she dropped fifty pounds, dropping about two and a
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 11: half pounds per week naturally. By the way, no medications,
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 11: so it is totally possible and we just take the
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 11: guesswork out of it. We create a customized meal plan
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 11: for every single client. We guide them in exactly what, when,
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 11: how much to eat. They're not hungry, they feel good,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 11: they sleep better, their focus is better.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 21: I mean, it is an amazing process.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 11: When you're able to give your body the food that
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 11: it really needs at the right time, when you don't
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 11: starve yourself anymore, you can take the body out of
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 11: what I call survival mode and allow it to feel
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 11: safe enough again to be able to release the fat
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 11: much more effortlessly.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 21: That's the ultimate goal.
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 3: Myphdweightloss dot Com is the website, folks, and I want
• 1:38:37
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• 1:38:40
  Speaker 3: When you go to the website, what are they going
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 3: to find? Their doctor?
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 11: Lucas well, they'll find a lot of really great stories,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 11: real people who are just like you, who were skeptical,
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 11: who have tried everything before and can finally see success.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 11: Have over two thousand five star reviews, sharing stories, pictures, videos,
• 1:39:06
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• 1:39:09
  Speaker 11: We are real people, no AI, When you give us
• 1:39:12
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• 1:39:15
  Speaker 11: we'll get you booked with one of our nutritionists. Our
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 11: nutritionists are amazing. They've been with me four years. They
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 11: know exactly what's going on, and we're going to get
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 11: to know you and your story because our program is customized.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 11: Like I said, we create a customized meal plan for you.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 11: But first we have to understand where you've.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 21: Been, what you've done, what your goals are.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 11: And then the length of your program is customized to
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 11: your needs. So it's not just ninety days or six weeks.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 11: It's going to be built around you and your needs.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 11: So that's why the first step is to schedule one
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 11: of those consultations. And because you are hearing this on
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 11: the show today, that consultation will be waved. You just
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 11: need to mention Todd Starns and we'll do that for you.
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 3: Well, it's it looks it's been a great thing for
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 3: me and I'm sort of in the early primortal ooze
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 3: phase of of you know, jumping into this and I'll
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: tell you, you know, working with a nutritionist, it's almost like
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 3: having a weekly coach, you know who you know, you
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 3: just sort of you know, plan your week ahead and
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 3: you know it's really you know, I personally have seen
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 3: the difference, and the food is pretty spectacular. I'm a
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 3: big fan of the cream of chicken, by the way,
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 3: and yeah it's great stuff. Yeah. So so anyway, and
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: again I think a lot of people are somewhat skeptical
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 3: because you know, they've been through all the diet programs before.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 3: This is really not about about dieting per se.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 11: No, you are creating a new lifestyle and that's why
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 11: we need to do it one step at a time
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 11: and why we are so high touched. Your coach, Heather
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 11: is amazing. All of our coaches are amazing, Ebony, Laurie,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 11: I mean, Jenny. We help clients all over the country,
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 11: every state.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 21: And so what you were mentioning, Todd is we like
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 21: to provide the food.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 11: There's no additional cost to the food is just there
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 11: for you as a tool, will ship it to your doorstep,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 11: it arrives there, and we have the paired with your
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 11: customized meal plan. So again you're going to know exactly
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 11: what to eat. We're going to provide a lot of
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 11: that too if you want. You can always use your
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 11: own foods if you want. But we find that the
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 11: process is more easy, more reliable when we're able to
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 11: manage a bit more for you at the beginning. And
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 11: then just like for you, Todd, your dinner meal is
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 11: on your own. It's your responsibility. It's about becoming empowered
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 11: to know what you're doing for your body. So we
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 11: need to start with one meal at a time so
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 11: it's not overwhelming, so you'll understand dinner. And then as
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 11: we let go of dinner, we're going to after you
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 11: understand dinner, we're going to let go of lunch and
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 11: breakfast and snacks. So by the time we get you
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 11: where you need to be, we let go of that
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 11: belly fat, because that's what we focus on, is the
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 11: belly fat. You're totally self sustainable. You understand what to eat,
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 11: when to eat, You understand your thoughts and your behaviors
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 11: because eighty percent of any change comes from the mind.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 11: That's why you have a weekly coach, a counselor guiding
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 11: you through it. I don't know, Todd, were you surprised
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 11: at your hunger levels?
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 21: Were you hungry? Did you have cravings? Tell me a
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 21: little bit about it.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 3: No, not really, it was you know what I found
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: fascinating was, you know, I'm pretty much from sun up
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: to sundown. You know, I am behind a microphone or
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 3: in front of a TV camera. So it's hard to
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: get into that, you know, that routine. But one of
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: the things that I was really impressed with. I know
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 3: this is going to sound silly, but I do like butter.
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 3: And and Heather of the Great Nutritionus was like, yes,
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 3: you need to have butter in your diet. You know,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 3: maybe not a whole stick, but but you know, And
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 3: so it's I haven't lost any of the flavor any
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 3: of the foods, you know, I've I've cut back on
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 3: some things, but but I think it's been a really
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 3: great journey so far.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 21: Yeah, I love to hear that.
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 11: I think most people believe that when they're losing weight,
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 11: they're going to be hungry. It's miserable, and most of
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 11: the time you are. But through this program, by eating
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 11: the right foods, by healing your metabolism, you're going to
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 11: be amazed that you don't have hunger, you don't have cravings,
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 11: you're really liberated from food. Again, no food noise, but
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 11: naturally you can drop weight quickly. You can drop weight sustainably,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 11: enjoy the foods. Have rich foods, red.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 21: Meat if you like it. You don't have to be
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 21: vegan or vegetarian.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 11: It's really a beautiful thing when we can feed the
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 11: food our body, the right food at the right time,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 11: and allow it to work the way that it's opposed
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 11: to naturally.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 3: All right, So you mentioned that anybody listening, if they
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 3: call into that they get a free consultation. What does
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 3: that look like and what numbers should they call?
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 11: So the consultation is going to be about thirty minutes.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 11: You will meet with one of our nutritionists. We're going
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 11: to talk about your goals, your health history, where you've been,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 11: what you've done before. We really want to understand where
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 11: your body is at the moment. One thing we haven't
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 11: talked about is the belly fat. The belly fat is
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 11: a different type of fat than the fat throughout the
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 11: breast the body. It is this active tumor like organ.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 11: Once it gets in there, it wraps around the liver,
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 11: It gets in the organs, it gets its own blood vessels,
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 11: it makes its own brows, its own blood vessels, and
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 11: once it does, it starts to secrete hormones, and these
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 11: hormones create inflammation in the body. They drive continued hunger
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 11: and cravings. It's like this thing and all it wants
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 11: to do is get fatter and fatter as fast as possible.
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 11: So we need to understand where your body is right now,
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 11: how much of this deep belly fat, this visceral belly
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 11: fat that you are carrying to understand the length of
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 11: your program.
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 21: We want to.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 11: Explain what's happened in your body. We want to know
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 11: if you've had weight gain and loss, kind of your
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 11: history around dieting so that we can create a customized
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 11: meal plan for you.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 21: And after that consultation will be ready to go.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 11: We will pick out foods with you, we will ship
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 11: them to your doorstep, and you will get scheduled with
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 11: your nutritionist for your first weekly one on one coaching session.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 11: That is really the best bet so that you can
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 11: learn what your program would look like. The phone number
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 11: is eight sixty four sixty four four nineteen hundred. That's
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 11: eight sixty four sixty four four nineteen hundred, and you
• 1:45:13
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• 1:45:16
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• 1:45:18
  Speaker 3: I love that all right, doctor Lucas, We're going to
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 3: have to leave it there, but I know we'll have
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 3: you back soon. And thank you. It's really enjoying being
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 3: a part of PhD weight Loss. It's a great program.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 3: And we want to give Heather a shout out as well.
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 21: That's right, we do, thank you, Todd.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 3: All right, doctor Ashley Lucas. Everybody the founder of PhD
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 3: weight Loss. Myphdweight loss dot Com is the website and
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 3: the phone number is there. All the information is there.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 3: I just want you to understand this. This is on average,
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 3: ninety four percent of the folks who went through PhD
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 3: weight loss experienced a reduction in insulin use and seventeen
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 3: percent on average experienced a reduction in diabetes markers. It's working,
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 3: and it's working for thousands and thousands of people around
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 3: the nation, and it can work for you too. And
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, what did you say, what five hundred thousand
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 3: pounds lost? That's the planet says thank you for that.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a chunk of that's a chunk of
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 3: tonnage right there. So anyway, let me give you the
• 1:46:22
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• 1:46:29
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• 1:46:31
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  Speaker 3: it's really disappointing once again that we are having to
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  Speaker 3: with X now. A lot of people are really frustrated
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  Speaker 3: because of what's been happening on X since Elon took over. Initially,
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  Speaker 3: it was such a breath of fresh air, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Elon was really doing a great job. And I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure who's in charge now. But even on X, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the people I follow do not even show
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  Speaker 3: up in my feed anymore. I have to physically go
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  Speaker 3: and search them out on X and something's not right
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  Speaker 3: about that. It's interesting. You can ban people on Facebook,
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  Speaker 3: see you. They can they can't engage with you, but
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, those folks disappear. And again for X,
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  Speaker 3: it's bothersome because we're paying a lot of money to
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  Speaker 3: be on that platform. And we're not getting a lot
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  Speaker 3: of return for that investment. It goes back to something
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  Speaker 3: Russia and Bass said many years ago. He said, do
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  Speaker 3: not base your business plan on somebody else's platform. And
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  Speaker 3: that is great advice, and we have not done that,
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