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Muslim Terrorist to Face Public Execution in USA · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it is Friday. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd
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  Speaker 3: Starnes Radio Program. Great to have you with us today. Wow. Wow. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we have so much news and information to share with
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  Speaker 3: you today. We may need to add another hour to
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  Speaker 3: the program. I mean, that's how busy it is. around
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  Speaker 3: here today. Also, it is Open Line Friday, and this
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  Speaker 3: is my first Open Line Friday since I've been back.
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  Speaker 3: We just got back from the big 10-day book tour
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  Speaker 3: swing through the great state of California, so looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to hearing all of our regular folks calling in today,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe some even new folks. on this Open Line Friday.
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  Speaker 3: Here's how it works. You get to call in and
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  Speaker 3: talk about whatever is on your mind today. We do
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  Speaker 3: that every Friday, and looking forward to the conversation. All
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  Speaker 3: you have to do is write down our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: Let me repeat that again for you, 901-260-5926. An interesting thing. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: War Secretary Pete Hegseth announcing that Nadal Hassan was going
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  Speaker 3: to finally meet his maker and then would be dispatched
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  Speaker 3: to the Lake of Fire. Nadal Hassan is the Muslim man,
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  Speaker 3: the Muslim, who waged jihad on American soil at Fort Hood, Texas,
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  Speaker 3: back in 2009, 17 years ago. And let me just
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  Speaker 3: put a pin in that for just a moment and
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  Speaker 3: say this. We've got a big problem in this country
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  Speaker 3: when it comes time to administering the death penalty. We
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  Speaker 3: need to pick up the pace a little bit. 17 years.
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  Speaker 3: Krista Pike, by the way, 30 years on death row,
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  Speaker 3: and she's still alive. So 17 years, we've been feeding
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  Speaker 3: and taking care of the guy's medical issues. He's paralyzed.
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  Speaker 3: He's in a wheelchair. He slaughtered 13 brave men and
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  Speaker 3: women at Fort Hood. More than 30 others were wounded,
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  Speaker 3: many of them seriously. And so anyway, Hagseff comes out
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  Speaker 3: and says, all right, this guy, we're finally going to
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  Speaker 3: administer justice. He's going to be executed by a firing squad.
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  Speaker 3: And I was one of the people that was cheering
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  Speaker 3: about this. Hegseth also announced, and this is the part
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  Speaker 3: that's causing apparently some controversy among many religious people and
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  Speaker 3: also some conservatives. Hegseth said the execution would be live streamed.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people are upset about this. As a
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  Speaker 3: matter of fact, Eric Erickson, who calls himself a conservative
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  Speaker 3: talk radio host, compared this all to the pagan Roman
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  Speaker 3: Empire and suggested the Trump administration relished in the public
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  Speaker 3: spectacle of an execution. Erickson then went on to quote
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  Speaker 3: Proverbs and said, we should not gloat when our enemy falls. Well,
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  Speaker 3: let me just say, I don't believe it is gloating
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  Speaker 3: to administer a the penalty under the law. As a
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  Speaker 3: matter of fact, I would contend, ladies and gentlemen, the Bible,
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  Speaker 3: in many passages, advocates for public executions. The argument among
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  Speaker 3: some on the right is that the Muslims in other
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  Speaker 3: countries will use this as a motivation tool to get
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  Speaker 3: other people to rise up against the American people. that
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  Speaker 3: Nadal Hassan, the sight of a man in a wheelchair
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  Speaker 3: being executed by firing squad, would spur others to attack Americans.
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  Speaker 3: And that may be the case. But I contend, as
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  Speaker 3: the Bible says, that whoever sheds human blood should also
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  Speaker 3: shed their blood. And by the way, the Bible also
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  Speaker 3: clearly states that executions were to be public and communal.
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  Speaker 3: And why was that? Well, it was very simple, to
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  Speaker 3: purge evil from the community, and also to serve as
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  Speaker 3: a deterrent, because in many of these gatherings, you'd have
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  Speaker 3: the godless heathen children, you know, the urchins, and they're
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  Speaker 3: a mess, but they need to understand at a very
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  Speaker 3: young age that if you do something wrong, there is
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  Speaker 3: a price to pay. No, I'm not suggesting that children
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  Speaker 3: should see the exercise. No, I'm not saying that. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just saying that's the way it was in the old days.
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  Speaker 3: Because right now, I truly think that one of the
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  Speaker 3: big problems in this country is that the criminal thugs,
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  Speaker 3: they're not stupid. They're smart, and they know that if
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  Speaker 3: they're going out there committing crimes, there's a pretty good
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  Speaker 3: chance they're going to be able to get off, that
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  Speaker 3: they're not going to have to do hard time, that
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  Speaker 3: if you go out and kill somebody, chances are you're
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  Speaker 3: just going to spend the rest of your life in prison,
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  Speaker 3: but you're not going to get executed. So I would
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  Speaker 3: suggest that we need this in America, if nothing else,
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  Speaker 3: to shock our nation back to a sense of reality.
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  Speaker 3: Back to a sense of knowing what is right and
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  Speaker 3: what is wrong. So anyway, I'm curious to hear from
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  Speaker 3: you on this. There are those who say, yes, the
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  Speaker 3: guy should be executed. It should be done in private.
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  Speaker 3: Others say, no, he should just spend the rest of
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  Speaker 3: his life in prison. And then others who say, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, let's haul him out, or in this case,
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  Speaker 3: roll the guy out, put him in front of the
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  Speaker 3: firing squad, and be done with it. What was it?
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  Speaker 3: Tim Burchett, the congressman from Tennessee, talking about Krista Pike.
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  Speaker 3: And everybody was confused. They didn't know what to do.
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  Speaker 3: She was there in the hospital on life support at
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  Speaker 3: the time. My recommendation was just pull the plug. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's not all that difficult, but they didn't do that.
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  Speaker 3: And now she's allegedly up and walking and talking and
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  Speaker 3: wanting to know where she is. But Tim Burchett said
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  Speaker 3: they should have just propped her up in the bed
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  Speaker 3: and shot her. So, ladies and gentlemen, I'm curious to
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  Speaker 3: know from you, what do you think is the right
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  Speaker 3: move here? And do you believe that a public execution
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  Speaker 3: would possibly curtail and stop other people from doing something
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  Speaker 3: similar down the road? So our telephone number, again, 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. We'll be taking your calls on that. Also,
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  Speaker 3: last night, man, what a ferocious debate. in Michigan. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, Mike Rogers just did a tremendous job.
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  Speaker 3: I will say this, ladies and gentlemen, and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to do a deeper dive into the debate. We've got
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  Speaker 3: some great audio clips. Mike Rogers made me proud to
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  Speaker 3: be a Republican and American last night. That's how good
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  Speaker 3: of a job he did. By the way, what's happening
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  Speaker 3: in Texas right now, With Talafrico, James Talafrico is AWOL.
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  Speaker 3: He's MIA. Nobody knows where the guy is. It's been, what,
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  Speaker 3: 13 days now, and nobody knows where this guy is.
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  Speaker 3: He's off the campaign trail. Now, his campaign staff is
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  Speaker 3: suggesting he has the flu. Okay, what kind of a
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  Speaker 3: flu knocks somebody out for, what, 12, 13 days? And
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  Speaker 3: they also are saying, well, he's going to be back
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  Speaker 3: next week because they've got some big event with CNN. Well,
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  Speaker 3: how do they know that? I mean, if the guy's
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  Speaker 3: got the flu, he's had the flu for 13 days,
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  Speaker 3: how do they know that he's going to be up
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  Speaker 3: and at it by next week? Something doesn't make sense
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  Speaker 3: about all of this. There is reporting, and I'm just
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  Speaker 3: sharing this because it's out there. Spencer Pratt, who ran
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  Speaker 3: for mayor of New York City, says that sources are
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  Speaker 3: telling him that that Talofrico had some sort of a
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  Speaker 3: mental break and was being treated at some sort of
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  Speaker 3: a mental hospital. And I will just say I have
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  Speaker 3: heard that reporting from at least three other individuals I know,
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  Speaker 3: one of whom I talked to yesterday. Something is not
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  Speaker 3: right in Texas. All that to say, I think Ken
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  Speaker 3: Paxton's going to have a very easy, easy win here.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, who disappears? What kind of a candidate disappears
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  Speaker 3: just a couple of weeks before the election? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is all very odd. No, I don't think there's
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  Speaker 3: anything criminal there. No, I know. I know the allegations.
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  Speaker 3: But no, I'm not going to go there yet, Dylan.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to go there. I don't want my
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  Speaker 3: mind to go there.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: So I would much rather somebody be slap-crazy nuts. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's the better option here than the other reports.
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  Speaker 3: All right, 901-260-5926. We have a lot of people wanting
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  Speaker 3: to weigh in, and we're just going to jump right
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  Speaker 3: into it. Let's go to Grady in Gainesville, Georgia. WDUN. Grady,
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  Speaker 3: what do you think about Pete Hegseth wanting a public
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  Speaker 3: execution here?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I've always thought that, personally. I always thought that it
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  Speaker 7: would curtail a lot of crime, even if we went
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  Speaker 7: back to public hangings, is my opinion. Put the gallows
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  Speaker 7: on the city square and gather a crowd and I mean,
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  Speaker 7: why are we paying for people to wait on death
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  Speaker 7: row once all the appeals have been met? I'm all
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  Speaker 7: for everybody having their appeals and all the proper channels.
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  Speaker 7: But once it's been decided and the Senate thing is done,
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  Speaker 7: let's get on with it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you on that one, Grady. We have
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  Speaker 3: got to shake the public back to reality. And I
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  Speaker 3: think there are just far too many people, Grady, that
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  Speaker 3: don't believe there should be consequences of for their criminal behavior.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely. Absolutely, Doug.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Hey, Grady, thank you for that. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: it is interesting. People, going back and looking at historical records,
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  Speaker 3: people who witness an execution actually become less likely to
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  Speaker 3: commit crimes. And I believe that. Let's go to Mike
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  Speaker 3: in Clear Lake City, Texas. Patriot Talk 920. All right, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: what say you?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'll give you three bullet points, and you address
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  Speaker 8: what you like. Nadal Hassan should be executed through firing squad.
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  Speaker 8: It should be broadcast on national television. I agree with
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  Speaker 8: the previous caller. Crystal Pike should have been hung in
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  Speaker 8: front of the courthouse 30 years ago. And Talafrico has
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  Speaker 8: had a mental breakdown because he's had to answer for
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  Speaker 8: things that no one's ever questioned him about.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, I'm curious about that. I mean, you're a Texan,
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  Speaker 3: and here's a guy. This is a major national election.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, everybody's talking about this. And then the guy
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  Speaker 3: just disappears. Are people really scratching their head over this?
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  Speaker 8: No, because here in Texas, I mean, it's on my
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  Speaker 8: social media page, different clips of his so-called town hall
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  Speaker 8: meetings or campaign stops. And he's getting questioned about his
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  Speaker 8: positions and policies. No one's ever done that before. The
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  Speaker 8: fake news media won't ask the hard questions, but he's
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  Speaker 8: getting asked hard questions about his trans stance and so on,
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  Speaker 8: and he doesn't know how to answer because no one's
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  Speaker 8: ever put him on the spot. So he is. He's
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  Speaker 8: definitely having a breakdown.
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  Speaker 3: This is just a creepy thing, Mike, and it has
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  Speaker 3: nothing to do with the transgender stuff. He shares a
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  Speaker 3: bank account with his mother. And this is a grown man,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm just curious, why is that? Why is it
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  Speaker 3: that a grown man doesn't have his own bank account?
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  Speaker 3: Why isn't he living on his own? Why does he
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  Speaker 3: have to have some sort of a financial relationship with
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  Speaker 3: his mother?
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  Speaker 8: Well, the thing of it is he's never lived on
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  Speaker 8: his own. He's never been married, doesn't have any kids.
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  Speaker 8: He's never had a private sector job. or like the
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  Speaker 8: last private sector job he had was something like 14
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  Speaker 8: years ago before he was elected to the Texas House.
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  Speaker 8: But the Texas House, it's not a 24-7 job, and
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  Speaker 8: it doesn't pay that much. But during those years, he
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  Speaker 8: shows no other income or no other employment. So somebody's
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  Speaker 8: been supporting him, funding him. I guess it's his mother,
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  Speaker 8: but the guy's not normal.
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  Speaker 3: No, there's a lot of very odd things, very unusual things.
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  Speaker 3: I think the only time he held a job was
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  Speaker 3: when he was a middle school teacher, and that was
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  Speaker 3: well over a decade ago. So it's all very odd.
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  Speaker 3: And if I were in Texas right now, I would
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  Speaker 3: be raising a lot of questions. And let me say this.
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are freaking out behind the scenes because they don't
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  Speaker 3: know what the heck is going on. But if this
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  Speaker 3: guy really did have a mental breakdown, That has to
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  Speaker 3: be made public because that disqualifies him from serving in
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  Speaker 3: the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Senate.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, thank you for that call. 901-260-5926. We're going to
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  Speaker 3: take a quick break. We've got Roberto in Memphis on
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  Speaker 3: deck and Pastor John as well. Your calls coming up.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Starnes Show. All right, welcome back, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. What do you
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  Speaker 3: think about the live streaming of Nadal Hassan's execution? One
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  Speaker 3: of the many topics we're talking about on this Open
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  Speaker 3: Line Friday edition of the show. I think the last
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  Speaker 3: time somebody was executed by firing squad in the military
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  Speaker 3: was back in the 1940s. Anyway, 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
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  Speaker 7: That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: 5-9-2-6. Now, there is a Tallarico problem in Tennessee. A
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  Speaker 3: Democrat running for Congress, Justin Pearson, saying that Jesus is
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  Speaker 3: a gay black woman. Cut number 22.
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  Speaker 9: Jesus is black. We could also say Jesus is gay.
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  Speaker 9: And any other identity being humiliated. One of my students,
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  Speaker 9: Jacqueline Grant, said Jesus is a black woman and she
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  Speaker 9: is right.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is a.
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  Speaker 9: Way of talking about God's solidarity with people who are
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  Speaker 9: hurt and despised. This is Reverend Dr. James Cone, the
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  Speaker 9: father of black liberation theology. And this is in his
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  Speaker 9: final book. Said I wasn't going to tell nobody. Jesus
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  Speaker 9: is a black woman and she is right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so, pal. Let's go to Roberto, Memphis, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 3: listening to us on KWAM Radio. Roberto, I know you
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  Speaker 3: want to weigh in on that. What say you?
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  Speaker 6: Well, Todd, first I'm going to go quick. An execution.
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  Speaker 6: Put it online, broadcast it. If you don't want to watch,
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  Speaker 6: don't watch it. Just like anything else that I might.
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  Speaker 10: Have checked out there, right?
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  Speaker 6: Just don't watch it. I don't know where Calrico is,
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  Speaker 6: but I do know that a detox And withdrawals, inpatient,
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  Speaker 6: can take up to two weeks, and it looks really
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  Speaker 6: bad when it's happening. Sure wouldn't want those pictures getting out.
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  Speaker 6: But the reason I called is because the media is
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  Speaker 6: covering up for Pearson. If you do a search online,
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  Speaker 6: did Justin Pearson say Jesus was a black gay woman,
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  Speaker 6: you're going to get a bunch of hits saying it's
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  Speaker 6: not true. Local TV stations denying it. You'll eventually get
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  Speaker 6: to your show, but it's a couple pages down. But
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  Speaker 6: he says he's quoting a student, so that's their excuse.
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  Speaker 6: But he says she's right. So that means he agrees
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  Speaker 6: with the statement. Now, how do you get out of that, Todd?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there's no doubt about it. The media
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  Speaker 3: is covering up for this guy, and they're doing it
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  Speaker 3: to all the Republican candidates that are running, and they're
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  Speaker 3: giving cover to all these Democrats. There are two sermons
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  Speaker 3: where Justin Pearson prayed to, quote, Mother God. That is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he can't blame that on anybody else. But again,
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  Speaker 3: if you're quoting this black theologian and you disagree, then
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  Speaker 3: you should say, okay, here's what the black theologian said.
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  Speaker 3: Quote the black theologian and then say, and this is
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  Speaker 3: why that guy is full of you-know-what.
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  Speaker 6: She's right.
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  Speaker 7: It means you agree.
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  Speaker 11: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: Some of the same stuff about Jesus was a black
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  Speaker 6: gay woman on the floor of the house, the Tennessee house.
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  Speaker 6: That's pretty easy to find. They can't hide that stuff. But,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you're right. It's not just him. It's all
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  Speaker 6: the rest of them. They're trying to make them less.
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  Speaker 6: Here's how it always goes, Todd. In the primaries, they
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  Speaker 6: go as far to the left as they can to
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  Speaker 6: win the primary. And then when the mainstream election comes,
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  Speaker 6: they go to the middle to try to fool people.
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  Speaker 6: These guys are Marxists is what they are, and they
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  Speaker 6: hate America. My favorite video of Justin Pearson is the
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  Speaker 6: one you can find where first he's running for Bowdoin
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  Speaker 6: class president.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: British College in Maine, University of Maine, where he went
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  Speaker 6: to probably, I'm just going to say it, probably on
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  Speaker 6: a DEI scholarship.
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  Speaker 3: Roberto, Roberto, the computer's going to cut us off. We've
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  Speaker 3: got that video, and we'll play some of it a
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  Speaker 3: little bit later on today. Got to run, everybody. Hang tight.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be right back. You know, I wonder how everybody's
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  Speaker 3: doing down in Pascagoula. That's WPMO territory, and our good
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  Speaker 3: buddy Noah down there, they got the hurricane coming up.
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  Speaker 3: And Dylan, this is what bothers me about the National
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  Speaker 3: Hurricane Center. They've gone full-blown woke over there, and apparently
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  Speaker 3: they've got somebody in charge of DEI because now they're
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  Speaker 3: naming these storms, and these are DEI names. I can't
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  Speaker 3: pronounce the name of that hurricane to save my life.
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  Speaker 4: Don't they give the names to these hurricanes, like, years
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  Speaker 4: in advance? Like, isn't there a system to this?
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  Speaker 3: There's got to be, but I don't under, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's not an American name, right? You need, like, Hurricane,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Gary. For sure. Not Isaias, whatever this is.
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  Speaker 3: If you need someone to help you pronounce it, it's Boomer. Right.
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  Speaker 4: Like, if I need you to help me pronounce the
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  Speaker 4: name of a hurricane, like, it's too late, right?
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  Speaker 3: I feel bad for all the professional weather guessers out there.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they're struggling. It's a tough one. You're like,
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  Speaker 3: what the.
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  Speaker 2: Crap is this?
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  Speaker 4: Phonetically, just spell it out.
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  Speaker 3: Too many vowels.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Give us some consonants. Give me the same vowels. Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: It's like hurricane E-I-E-I-O. That's what we're going to call it.
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  Speaker 4: That doesn't sound very scary. No, it doesn't.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Well, it's like the... It's like the winter storms. You know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: back when I was growing up, we did not name
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: the storms. It was like, oh, it's a snowstorm. Oh,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: it's a blizzard. Now it's blizzard Bruce.
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Winter storm Bruce.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: We like to have a little fun with it now.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: If we're going to be impacted, we might as well
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: give it a name.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Or my favorite, it's like winter storm Jaden. That's J-A-Y-D-E-N, right?
• 20:36
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: It doesn't exactly invoke fear and trembling.
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: No.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: And you kind of want that a little bit in
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: your storms, right?
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like Hurricane Garthulu or something.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Garthulu.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Hurricane Dark Lord.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Garth Brooks.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Oh. Tornado Darth Vader. I don't know.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: It wasn't so much the other side of the hurricane
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: that caused the damage. It was the whiplash from the hair.
• 21:01
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: No, it always gets you.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: It always gets you. It always gets you. You got
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: to watch out for that. So anyway, I hope all
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: you guys are doing well. There's a category three storm.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: This is what gets you. I mean, look, it's going
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: to be a bad storm. And may I just ask
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: a question? This is impolite, but I think it needs
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: to be asked, Dylan. It's one thing if you, let's
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: just say you live in, oh, we'll say Biloxi, Mississippi.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: So you live in Biloxi, Mississippi, and you're, what, 25,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: 30 miles away from the coast, from the beach, and
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: your house gets destroyed. I feel really, really bad for you.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: But if you've got a house that is literally built
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: on the beach and is currently floating somewhere near, I
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: don't know, Ship Island right now, I'm not sure I
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: feel bad.
• 21:52
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, why would you build your house on a
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: beach knowing that hurricanes normally happen?
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: That's a great point. I mean, I feel like most
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: people that have a house on the beach, it's not
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: their original house. It's like their vacation house.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Well, and then, like in California, they have these people,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: and they build their homes on the sides of mountains,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: and then the landslides and mudslides happen. I can't believe it,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: my home! Yeah, you built your home on the side
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: of a mountain. What did you think was going to happen?
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: They're always like the most expensive houses of all time.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: $ 52 million.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: And we have to pay for them.
• 22:28
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: That's the problem. So if you've got insurance or whatever,
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: your insurance company is going to be raising your rates
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: to accommodate the people who decided to build their million-dollar
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: homes on the sides of mountains or on the beach.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: What's wrong with, like, Building a huge mansion in Nebraska
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: or Iowa somewhere.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Or just, yeah, just drive to the beach, right? You know,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: build your home.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Like a normal person.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: I think the Bible says something about that.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Don't build your home on sand.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: That's right. The sinking sand. What is it? All other
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: ground is sinking sand. That's what the song says.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: It's been in the text for a long time. We
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: should have known.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I think that was the hymn book. But yes. All
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: other ground is sinking sand.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: There it is.
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, look, we do feel bad for people.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, you don't want anybody to lose their home. But, again,
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: it's like you're building your home right there. I just
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: don't get that. So we hope everybody's okay down there.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: My understanding is as soon as the Weather Channel people
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: show up, that's when everybody says, uh-oh, got to get
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: out of town. So they hit the ground running. So
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: everybody's coming up to, and apparently we're supposed to get
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: some like weather here.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: We'll, we'll get something.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: But you see, that's.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Okay because we're like hundreds of miles away from the coast.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: We didn't build our house on the beach.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: We're good. We got nice neighborhoods here.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Good Lord. Um, all right. So there's that. And again,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: can we please get away from the DEI hurricane names?
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: They need to be very easy to pronounce like hurricane John, um,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Speaking of that, let's go to Pastor John, listening to
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: us from Kentucky. Hey, Pastor John, what's on your mind today?
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: Oh, Todd, that got me laughing.
• 24:17
  Speaker 14: You know, Todd, I had a great idea. Why don't
• 24:21
  Speaker 14: they make it, you know, like, they want to execute
• 24:26
  Speaker 14: that terrorist, right?
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 24:28
  Speaker 14: How about doing this? While they're doing this, Why don't
• 24:32
  Speaker 14: they raise some funds? I know the families, they get
• 24:35
  Speaker 14: the life insurance for those who were killed, but how
• 24:38
  Speaker 14: about doing a fundraiser, doing the live broadcast of the execution,
• 24:42
  Speaker 14: and all the proceeds go to the victims and the
• 24:45
  Speaker 14: families of those that were murdered by this terrorist?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, let's flush this out a little bit.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Maybe we could make it, and again, just hear me
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: on this, because there are a lot of folks, I
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: know Eric Erickson, a lot of these, Lila Rose, They're
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: all very upset, and they're saying it's pretty much unchristian
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: to execute this guy publicly. What if we said, okay,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: let's make it a pay-per-view, so if you don't want
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: to watch it, you don't have to, but if you do,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: all of that money, as you just said, would go
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: to the families of those who lost loved ones.
• 25:22
  Speaker 14: Absolutely, and those that have been wounded are seriously disabled.
• 25:25
  Speaker 14: But don't make the pay-per-view super expensive, so... You know,
• 25:29
  Speaker 14: sometimes people are a little, you know, like glowing, you know,
• 25:31
  Speaker 14: like on fixed incomes. But yeah, Todd, that is a
• 25:33
  Speaker 14: great idea. I'll bet you if it, I'm serious, I'm,
• 25:38
  Speaker 14: Secretary Warr, if you'd accept, might be able to come
• 25:41
  Speaker 14: up with that idea. Maybe Donald Trump, because he is
• 25:43
  Speaker 14: a businessman. Just a thought, just a thought, Todd.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. It's a great idea, Pastor John.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Thank you for calling in. And yeah, so ladies and gentlemen,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: what do you think about that? Maybe a pay-per-view. You
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: can pay, what, $ 25, $ 30, maybe $ 50, and you can
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: get a front row seat to this guy getting whacked. 901-260-5926,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. Dylan came running into the
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: studio breathless a few moments ago. Mike Ditka has died.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I didn't realize how old he was, Dylan. To me,
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: that's the shocking part about all of this.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, born in 1939.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: 86 years old.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Legendary player and coach for the Chicago Bears.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: So look, the 1985 Bears, that was probably, and for
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: me personally, that was one of the finest football seasons,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: NFL seasons in the history of the league. Really? I mean,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: it was the whole team and the Chicago Bears. You
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: got William Refrigerator Perry. They were doing the, what was it,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: the shuffle? Was that the dance? And everybody was calling
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: it Da Bears. And Ditka was Da Coach. Da Bears. Wow.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: That sounds fun.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Good time. No wokeness. No, there was absolutely no wokeness.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: No male cheerleaders out there.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: No, there were no.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Cheering on Mike.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: I'm Susie.
• 27:25
  Speaker 12: I'm Myrtle.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: I'm Jaden.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: Go Bears!
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was none of that. None of that. But anyway,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Ditka actually won a Super Bowl in three different roles.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: He was a player for the Dallas Cowboys, assistant coach
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: for the Cowboys, and then head coach of the Bears.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: So I think he's only– there may have been another
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: player who did that, but I don't think there are
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: many who have been able to accomplish that. But anyway,
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: the Bears, that year, 1985, Bears were 18-1, and they
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: just crushed the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: So anyway, yeah, William refrigerator period that the whole team
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: was just larger than life. And they had the music
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: videos that may have been the first time that a
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: team actually did like a music video. They were almost caricatures,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: but man, were they good football players?
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: I like the nicknames that that's just cool. You don't
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: hear the fridge, the bear, like that's just cool. People
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: don't have those kinds of names anymore.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: No.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: And he was a big guy too. I mean, a
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: big guy. There was no dieting going on.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Well, Mike Ditka was the first tight end to be
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: introduced into the Hall of Fame.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Is that right?
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I did not know that.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 28:47
  Speaker 13: Wow.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: They were truly one of the most unforgettable teams. Oh,
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: they had a rap music video. That's what it was.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: We've got to find that when we come back. We'll
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: play a little bit of the– what is it? Oh,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: my goodness. It was the Something Another Shuffle. I know
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: somebody will call in and remind us of what that was.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: But they just had, are you ready for this? They
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: scored 456 points during the regular season, only allowed 198.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: So it was really fascinating. Mike Singletary, Walter Payton, and
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: William Perry, who was the fridge. Walter Payton they called
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: a sweetness. So everybody had their own nicknames. And you
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: ready for this, Dylan? And again, it just goes to
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: show you a different time in America history. Over a
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: half a million people showed up to celebrate. the Super
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Bowl victory during a parade.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Huge. Crazy.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Huge. So anyway. All right. Well, certainly our thoughts and
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: prayers are with the family of Mike Ditka. Oh, and
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: then you've got Jim McMahon, who was the quarterback. And
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: he was like, he was like, the bad A quarterback,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: and he wore a bandana. So he was like, you
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: didn't want to mess with him.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: He was probably the first to sign up for that
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: rap video then. He had the bandana on. He was
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: ready for anything at that point.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: The Super Bowl shuffle. That's what they called it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll find it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: You got to find it. We got to play some
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: of that. That'll bring back a lot of memories. All right,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901- 877-260-5926. This Tallarico
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: thing is just weird. You folks in Texas, I mean,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: has there ever been a case of a candidate for
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: a major office just disappearing? And by the way, you know,
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: they say he's got the flu. It's been 13 days.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: It only takes five to seven days to get over
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: the flu. And that's if you got a really bad
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: case of the flu. And now he's saying, well, they're saying, well,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: he's got diabetes.
• 31:00
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: But still, it takes five to seven days to get
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: over the flu with diabetes. There's not that much of
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: a risk of developing other complications. But again, still, there
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: are a lot of people, you know, George H.W. Bush
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: had the flu and was on an international trip. Remember,
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: was it he threw up? Who did he throw up on?
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: The president of the United States, he threw up on
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: the Chinese premier. I forget who. Dylan, you're laughing. It
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: was all caught on camera.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: It's funny to me.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: I mean, look.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: That's a trooper right there, really sticking with the job.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: You know, H.W., though, he was a meat and potatoes guy.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: And when you're sitting down there and you're like, what
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: the heck is pad thai? Why is my entree still moving?
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: You know, I can understand why he tossed his cookies.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Never understood that.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: But all that to say, even though the guy was sick,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: he still showed up for work. So you're kind of wondering, okay,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: what is going on here? And if this guy is
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: going through rehab, was he doing drugs? Is there some
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: sort of a mental issue going on? I don't think
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: there's anything criminal, but there is something very odd happening
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: right now in Texas. Let's go to Steve Gainesville, Georgia. Steve,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: what's on your mind on this Open Line Friday?
• 32:20
  Speaker 15: Hi, Todd. Just wanted to ask your opinion on why
• 32:27
  Speaker 15: the Republicans and Trump don't use more facts and figures
• 32:31
  Speaker 15: when they're campaigning or doing these rallies. And Sean Hannity
• 32:37
  Speaker 15: does like a rolling PowerPoint on these. show that shows
• 32:42
  Speaker 15: you all the things he's accomplished, then you write a
• 32:44
  Speaker 15: book about it so you can take the top 20
• 32:47
  Speaker 15: things and put them on a whiteboard or a PowerPoint
• 32:50
  Speaker 15: or the big screen and just let it roll. You know,
• 32:54
  Speaker 15: Trump keeps saying, oh, the Democrats are going to be
• 32:56
  Speaker 15: bad and I'm going to be good and I'm doing
• 32:58
  Speaker 15: this and that, assuming that everybody knows the numbers behind them,
• 33:02
  Speaker 15: but they don't. And when you put the numbers up there,
• 33:05
  Speaker 15: it becomes glaring and easy to explain and, you know,
• 33:10
  Speaker 15: Biden had gas prices. He inherited from Trump less than 2% inflation,
• 33:16
  Speaker 15: under $ 3 gas in Georgia. Then he took the prices
• 33:20
  Speaker 15: and inflation up. Trump gets back in, knocks them all
• 33:22
  Speaker 15: back down before the war started. So he can show
• 33:26
  Speaker 15: that he's already done it and he can do it again.
• 33:28
  Speaker 15: And he will if he just uses the facts.
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting, Steve. Yeah, Steve, no, it's a
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: great point you raise. And the messaging here, and I
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: think I've said this until I'm blue in the face.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: on this program is the messaging has just been terrible,
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: just been awful. And again, I encourage everybody to read
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: my book, The Golden Age. It lays out exactly what
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: has been accomplished with all of the facts to back
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: it up. And you need to read this book and
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: take it with you. And when you go and vote
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: on Election Day, you need to vote because of all
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: the things that have happened, especially when you look at
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: all of these incredible tax provisions that were enacted, you've
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: got the border, which has pretty much been shut down.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, we are a secure nation now. You've got
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: the deportations happening, crime at historically low levels, thanks to
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: this president. So there have been some very big things
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: accomplished as a result of President Trump and the Republicans
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: in Congress. So Now, the question is, OK, well, how
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: much are these families going to be saving at the
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: end of the day? Well, they're still trying to figure
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: that out. But the reality is the new deductions have
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: been enacted and many people are already starting to find
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: out exactly how much money they've been able to save
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: as a result of what the Republicans have done. Also,
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: federal spending is starting to come down a little bit.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Not a lot, but you know what? It's trending in
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: the right direction. So to your point, Steve, we've got
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: to keep pounding those things home every single day to voters.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: We'll keep doing that on this program. And folks, I
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: would encourage you to get a copy of The Golden
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Age so you can read it for yourself. All right,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: we've got to take a break.
• 35:17
  Speaker 13: 901-260-5926.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Steve, thanks for the call. We'll be right back. All right,
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: let me just say that I am just incredibly proud
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: of our Republican candidates so far that are actually doing
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: the debates, that are going toe-to-toe with the Democrats. Susan
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Collins just destroyed her Democrat opponent in the Senate debate
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: up in Maine. Mike Rogers taking, I mean, he just
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: smacked around Abdul El-Sayed Jihadi over there in Michigan. We're
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: going to play some of that great audio coming up. Also,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: great job for the Republicans running for state office in Iowa.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: So hear me, ladies and gentlemen. Hear me. We're going
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: to win. We're going to win. We're going to hold
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: on to the Senate. We're going to hold on to
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: the House of Representatives. And there's a very good chance
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: that we could actually gain seats in the U.S.
• 36:25
  Speaker 7: Senate.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: It's going to require all of us getting out there
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: and voting. But, folks, I don't want you to be discouraged.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I don't want you to be depressed. I want you
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: to know that we can win this thing. And I
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: think a lot of folks in places like Michigan are
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: waking up to how far left the Democrat Party has gone.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: And people are saying, you know what, I'm not willing
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: to go there. I'm just not willing to go there. Also,
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: coming up, we're going to tell you about Zoran Mamdami,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: and he is pitching a hissy fit After ICE agents, well,
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: they shot a guy, an illegal, took him to the hospital,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: and then took him into custody. Oh, yeah, Zoran's really upset.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: All right, hang tight, everybody. We'll be right back.
• 37:20
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• 37:37
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  Speaker 3: Well, hello, everybody.
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• 37:40
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• 38:07
  Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. I want to share this with you from Dr.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Robert Jeffress, our good friend from the First Baptist Church
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: in Dallas, Texas. He says, I support the Pentagon's decision
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: to live stream the execution of mass murderer Nadal Hassan.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Capital punishment is commanded by God in Genesis 9, verse 6,
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: to remind people of the sanctity of human life. The
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: more people that can see that truth illustrated through a
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: public execution, the better. And I completely agree with Dr.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Jeffers on this. And folks, it's a horrible thing. Don't
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: get me wrong. Execution is a terrible thing. But you
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: know what's really worse than the execution is the original
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: act of murder, taking the lives of innocent people. This
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Nadal Hassan, a Muslim terrorist, slaughtering our brave men and
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: women at Fort Hood. By the way, one of them,
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: a pregnant woman. And as she was shot, she lay
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: there dying. She kept saying over and over again, my baby,
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: my baby, my baby. She lost her life, and they
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: were unable to save the child. That's the kind of
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: a monster that Nadal Hassan was and is. Krista Pike, too,
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: by the way, who's being portrayed as a victim of
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: the botched execution in Tennessee 30 years ago, bludgeoned a
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: woman to death. It was just a horrifying crime. And
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: she told the police that her, and I can't even
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: repeat the language she used, but she said the B
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: word would just not die. We're talking about evil personified.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: And I don't know why we're keeping these people alive.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: 17 years, Nidal Hassan has been in prison, paralyzed, but
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: in prison. Krista Pike, 30 years on death row. Why
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: are we allowing these people to live? I say that
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: the execution should be swift and that justice should be
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: delivered in a very public way. And I do not
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: object to, and if we want to do it environmentally friendly,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: buy a hemp rope and bring back the gallows. And maybe,
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: just maybe, that will shock these young people that are
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: being raised by with no moral values, maybe it'll shock
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: those young people into realizing there are consequences for evil
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: in this country. Maybe so. But I don't suppose I
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: should be that surprised that so many conservatives and some
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: of these woke Christians are out there saying that it's
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: a heinous thing to execute someone like Nadal Hassan. I
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: don't think it's heinous at all. I believe it to
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: be necessary. Absolutely necessary. So taking your calls on that today, 901-260-5926.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. Meanwhile, you've got Zoran Mamdami, who is enraged.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: So this really is a tale of two incidents. Yesterday,
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: there was a shooting.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: ICE agents.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: were trying to capture an illegal alien, and the illegal
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: alien turned and went after the ICE agents. So the
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: ICE agents opened fire and struck the guy. He was
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: taken to the hospital where he was treated, and then
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: he was taken away by ICE. And that set off
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Zoran Mamdami. Cut number 38, please.
• 42:07
  Speaker 13: And the pretext of ICE is, in their words, to
• 42:10
  Speaker 13: keep this country safe. How is it keeping anyone safe
• 42:15
  Speaker 13: to have, as you just heard from the police commissioner,
• 42:17
  Speaker 13: individuals wearing construction vests and masks with long guns? Residents
• 42:22
  Speaker 13: have no idea if these are law enforcement agents or
• 42:26
  Speaker 13: if they are simply attacking someone on the street. And
• 42:29
  Speaker 13: when it comes to ICE, it begs the question, what's
• 42:32
  Speaker 13: the difference?
• 42:33
  Speaker 11: There is no explanation for this.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: So Mamdami holding an emergency press conference, he is enraged
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: over all of this, even though the illegal was here illegally,
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: and he was trying to harm ICE agents. Now, just what,
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: last week there was an NYPD officer, and he was
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: attacked by two illegal aliens. These two illegals stabbed Detective
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Jose Mercedes seven times. Seven times this officer was stabbed.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Mamdami held no press conferences. There was no condemnation coming
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: from City Hall, nothing at all. And DHS Secretary Mark
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Wayne Mullen is just sick and tired of it. Cut
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: number 37. Our crimes.
• 43:26
  Speaker 17: When I said help us, my words that came back
• 43:28
  Speaker 17: to me were, well, right now we need to put
• 43:31
  Speaker 17: a pause on enforcement. No, we're not putting a pause
• 43:36
  Speaker 17: on enforcement.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, we're not.
• 43:40
  Speaker 11: In fact, I'm not sorry.
• 43:42
  Speaker 17: Our job is to enforce the nation's laws and go
• 43:44
  Speaker 17: after the worst of the worst, and our men and
• 43:46
  Speaker 17: women do a dang good job at it every single day,
• 43:48
  Speaker 17: and we will not stop doing our job. When the
• 43:53
  Speaker 17: mayor uses language like he used last night, yet he's
• 43:57
  Speaker 17: silent when his own officer gets stabbed. By the way,
• 44:01
  Speaker 17: those two individuals from the Dominican Republic, too, just to
• 44:05
  Speaker 17: make the connection. He's silent on that, but yet he
• 44:09
  Speaker 17: throws a, as I would say in Oklahoma, a ring-tail
• 44:12
  Speaker 17: fit about this criminal. It's hypocrisy. It's not actually truthful.
• 44:20
  Speaker 17: It's all about show and tell. It's political theater.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. By the way, today, you've got criminal
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: thugs that are now targeting... and stalking and assaulting DHS
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: agents on the streets of New York City. And keep
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: in mind, the only reason this illegal was shot is
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: that he was ramming ICE agents with a vehicle. I'm
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: telling you, this is getting out of control. And Mamdami
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: is saying that it is now time to abolish ICE.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Here's what the secretary had to say about that. Cut
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: number 36.
• 44:58
  Speaker 17: I'm sorry, he's from the Dominican Republic. He came to
• 45:01
  Speaker 17: this country illegally.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: A few years ago.
• 45:03
  Speaker 17: And ever since he's come in, he's committed crime and
• 45:07
  Speaker 17: crime after crime. Our records show they may only have
• 45:12
  Speaker 17: been in the country for three years. Of course, he
• 45:13
  Speaker 17: came under the Biden administration. And he has three years
• 45:18
  Speaker 17: of extensive criminal activity. You're going to call that a
• 45:21
  Speaker 17: New Yorker?
• 45:21
  Speaker 11: I think that's a far cry.
• 45:24
  Speaker 17: He said that ice is rotten to the core.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 45:32
  Speaker 17: Men and women at ICE each day are enforcing the
• 45:34
  Speaker 17: laws that he refuses to enforce. We arrest thousands weekly
• 45:43
  Speaker 17: that are criminals going after the worst of the worst,
• 45:45
  Speaker 17: and he turns a blind eye to it and won't
• 45:47
  Speaker 17: even stand up for his own NYPD officers that, by
• 45:50
  Speaker 17: the way, protect him every single day. He said he
• 45:56
  Speaker 17: wants to abolish ICE. Well, Mayor, if you abolish ICE,
• 46:01
  Speaker 17: who's going to take the criminals off the streets of
• 46:03
  Speaker 17: your own town? Who's going to take the murderers and
• 46:05
  Speaker 17: thieves and the gangbangers? Who's going to take them off
• 46:10
  Speaker 17: the streets because you're not allowing NYPD officers to do
• 46:12
  Speaker 17: it and they want to? And I'll say again, the
• 46:14
  Speaker 17: president has made it very clear, NYPD are the finest
• 46:17
  Speaker 17: out there.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: He loves them.
• 46:19
  Speaker 17: He loves our men and women in law enforcement. We
• 46:23
  Speaker 17: would love to work with New Yorkers. We would love
• 46:25
  Speaker 17: to work with the city. We'd love to work.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: With the state.
• 46:29
  Speaker 17: In fact, last night I was on the phone with
• 46:30
  Speaker 17: the governor, and the governor said that they would help
• 46:33
  Speaker 17: us with over 100 different criminals that are in the
• 46:38
  Speaker 17: state illegally if we would just give them notice. I said, well, governor,
• 46:45
  Speaker 17: send me a list of who you're willing to help
• 46:46
  Speaker 17: us with.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: So, again, let's go through what happened yesterday. And I
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: want to explain to you who the mayor is defending.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: So the mayor said, no, no, no, he may be
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: an illegal, but he's a New Yorker. Well, this is
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: who that New Yorker is. First of all, the guy
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: is from the Dominican Republic. He came here illegally three
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: years ago. He was convicted of robbery and grand larceny.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: He's tied to a gang linked to the shooting of
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: a Border Patrol officer. And then yesterday, this guy rams
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: two ICE vehicles and then drives his vehicle directly at
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: ICE agents, which is why they open fire. The guy's
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: lucky to be alive. Just last week, about two miles
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: away is where Officer Mercedes was stabbed seven times by
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: two criminal illegals. And by the way, New York had
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: released those criminals even though ICE had detainers on both
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: of them. So the argument could be made that New
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: York officials, maybe even Zoran Mamdami, are at least accessories
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: to the attack on this officer. It's just unbelievable. Unbelievable,
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, but that's what's going on in New
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: York City right now. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: By the way, Susan Collins, she's crushing it right now
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: in these debates up in Maine, and she has checked
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Troy Jackson on his failed record. I want you to
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: listen to Cut 34. I recently helped to secure.
• 48:36
  Speaker 12: The project.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: In Lincoln at the old mill that will help make
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: our electric grid more reliable. It's under Troy's leadership that
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: electric rates.
• 48:50
  Speaker 18: In Maine became the fourth highest in the nation.
• 48:55
  Speaker 8: The nation.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Well, it's true. Oh, and then. Then she talks about being, what,
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: a New England Patriots fan? And he tries to chime in,
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: and she looks right at him and says, you're a
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers fan. What's up with that? Don't be messing
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: with Granny. I'm telling you, Susan Collins came loaded for bear. Oh,
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: by the way, Ken Paxson. somebody's leaking all this audio
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: from Ken Paxton, and I'm not sure that it's having
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: the impact. that the liberal media thought it was going
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: to have. Because what Ken Paxton is talking about in
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: these private conversations that are being leaked out is what
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: we've been talking about on the radio for the past year.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: So here's Ken Paxton complaining that John Cornyn wants him
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: to lose. Take a listen to Cut 35. No, she's not,
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: but I don't know how much she really affects votes.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: Right, me neither.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: Maybe a little bit around the margins. Just like Cornyn,
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: I say how much he affects me. He's clearly not
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: helping me.
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: He wants me to lose.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: The rest of the WBush did that fundraiser. Raised over
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: a million dollars for all Texas candidates except Ken.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: And the AG has called and reached out to Cornyn.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: He's called him twice and then texted him numerous times
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: trying to get together.
• 50:22
  Speaker 11: Well, the fact that his staffer went to Puerto Rico.
• 50:25
  Speaker 13: It just tells you a whole lot.
• 50:27
  Speaker 11: I'll tell you a.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: Story that just happened three days ago.
• 50:29
  Speaker 16: A friend of mine was at a Cafe Pacifica restaurant
• 50:31
  Speaker 16: in Dallas. And he ended up at the table next
• 50:35
  Speaker 16: to Cornyn. And so he told the waiter, I want
• 50:38
  Speaker 16: to buy his dinner.
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: And the waiter makes it, so I'm already there.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: He said, okay.
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: But he said his wife's birthday didn't buy dessert. So
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: my friend bought dessert. Cornyn called him over, shakes hand.
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: He got kind of in his face all of a sudden, said,
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: And thanks for the service. My friend said, well, you know,
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: I just want to thank you for your service, for
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: all your years of service to Texas. He goes, I
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: realize it's hard to lose an election, but it shows
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: a lot of character that you're.
• 51:00
  Speaker 16: Supporting the ticket and you're supporting Ken Paxton.
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: And Cornyn's face went red.
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: He backed off and said, Paxton's going to lose. We
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: need to teach those Republicans a lesson.
• 51:11
  Speaker 16: It's going to be hard to learn, but they need
• 51:13
  Speaker 16: to know that their decisions have consequences, and we need
• 51:16
  Speaker 16: to make sure they understand it.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: Wow. That's what he's trying to do. That's crazy.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: It is crazy, but it's true. It's true. And look,
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with everybody knowing that John
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: Cornyn and establishment Republicans in Texas are actually trying to
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: sabotage Ken Paxton's chances of winning the Senate race, which,
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: by the way, are extremely high. Now that James Tallarico
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: is AWOL and may or may not be in rehab,
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: may or may not be in a mental institution, may
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: or may not have the flu. Nobody knows where this
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: guy is.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Nobody.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: He's just disappeared. All right, we've got to take a break. 901-260-5926,
• 51:58
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• 52:01
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• 52:12
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  Speaker 3: real people. All right, welcome back. Good to have you
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: with us. Have you heard this crazy story out of
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: California where apparently humans and robots are currently engaged in
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: cage fights? Dylan, I've never seen anything like this. Are
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: we sure? This is from the New York Post. So
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine they've been snookered here because at first
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: I thought this was AI just by how the robot
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: was moving around.
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like a professional boxing match with the robot
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: that looks... strikingly similar to Terminator, by the way.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: It's shocking. I mean, the resemblance is really there.
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the robot doesn't have boxing gloves. The guy
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: is just in like a baseball catcher's vest thing with
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: the hat on. That's not enough.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: Padding for me. So the guy is Frankie LaPenna. He
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: was going off against the six-foot-tall robot. Do they give
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: the robots names?
• 54:05
  Speaker 11: Probably.
• 54:05
  Speaker 6: Probably.
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: Like, what was it, the Transformers?
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: Optimus Prime?
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Bumblebee? Bumblebee. Yeah, this robot is scared to live
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: in daylight because the robot starts dancing around like Muhammad
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: Ali or something.
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: He's getting warmed up. He's just jumping in there.
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: So here's the problem with the influencer, the human. The
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: human is stupid because he's punching the robot, and I'm
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: pretty certain the robot can't feel any pain.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, 100%.
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: And then you see the robot, the robot's first kick
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: to the human is like, oh yeah, that really hurt.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, nearly, I mean, knock the guy out of the, well,
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: the squared circle.
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: He knocked him five feet away on his butt.
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And he's got a big butt by the way.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you, uh, he's not a small guy. No,
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: he's not a small fella.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: And by the way, the robot, he just lifted his
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: leg and kicked him. Like he can't that much power.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a fat-bottomed guy here. Yeah, he's big-boned.
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: I want to know who programmed that robot not to
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: just full-out kill the guy. Like, how do you know
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: when to stop if you're the robot?
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: It just seems to me you've got a couple of
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: options if you're the human in this fight here. You
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: can either, like, take out one of the legs so
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: it can't, like, at that point it has to hop around.
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: Or you, like, throw water on it and pray it get, like,
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: short circuits. Or you just unplug it.
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: That's just dirty fighting.
• 55:27
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: Or get an iron. Just knock it right upside the head.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: All right, 901-260-5926, our telephone number. This is the Todd
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. It's the Todd
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: Stearns Radio Show. I want to go right away to
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, say hello to our good
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: buddy Joe Messina, host of the Joe Messina Show. JoeMessina.com
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: is the website. So, Joe, I was in your state
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: just last week, and I have a lot of questions
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: for you, Joe.
• 56:16
  Speaker 11: And you made it out alive. There is a God.
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So a couple of things. First of all, I
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: decided to drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco, which
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: was fine. I went up I-5. And so I had
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: to stop and get gas. First of all, gas prices
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: are insane. I mean, you guys are getting close to
• 56:37
  Speaker 3: $ 10 a gallon for diesel.
• 56:40
  Speaker 11: Oh, last night, $ 8. I think it was like $ 860
• 56:44
  Speaker 11: a gallon for diesel in my town. And frankly, it
• 56:48
  Speaker 11: was $ 660 something for regular gas.
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: I heard it was $ 666. That's what I heard.
• 56:56
  Speaker 11: That would be a proper number around here.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: Devil gas. Devil gas. So anyway, I pull off to
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: get gas. I wasn't paying any attention and the little
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: bell starts going off and There's really not a lot between–
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: that is what's interesting. There's not a lot between Los
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: Angeles and San Francisco. I mean, it's pretty open there.
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: And so I pull in, and at first I thought, oh,
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: it had like a– oh, what's the taco place? Not Moe's,
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: but one of those little taco places.
• 57:28
  Speaker 11: Bell or Bell Taco.
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: It was one of those. So anyway, it was like
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: a chain franchise, and it was in the gas station
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: in one of those setups, like Arby's or whatever. So
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: I thought, okay, I'll just pop in, grab a taco,
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: and get some– I was filling up the rental card.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: So as soon as I walk in, Joe, I realized
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: something was not right. And as soon as I had
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: pulled off, I saw all the signs that said the
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: state prison hospital this away. So I pull in, and
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: honest to goodness, Joe, I thought there were either escapees
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: from the state prison or recently released prisoners in that
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: gas station. I'm like, man, this reminds me of like
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: some sort of a horror, the start of a horror movie.
• 58:19
  Speaker 11: And you were out in the middle of no man's land.
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: And that's the thing.
• 58:22
  Speaker 11: That's it.
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: That was the only thing there at the exit was
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: this like, and it was filthy. I remember stepping into
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: the restroom and there were all flies. So I just
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: turned right around and came back out. Said, you know what?
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: I don't need a taco from here. And got in
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: the car and got the heck out of there.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: I don't.
• 58:40
  Speaker 11: Listen, I've been up that stretch. I know what you're
• 58:42
  Speaker 11: talking about. And you're right. It's like going through parts
• 58:45
  Speaker 11: of Texas up here. You go for 20, 25, 30
• 58:49
  Speaker 11: minutes and not even see a light of any kind. Yes,
• 58:54
  Speaker 11: pretty much so. But at least you didn't have an
• 58:56
  Speaker 11: electric car because you really would have been in trouble.
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: You know, I was wondering about that because you're right there.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: There are not a lot of places to pull off.
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: And I thought, oh my goodness, could you imagine, getting
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: stuck at the gas station outside the state prison hospital?
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know about that. So look, I end up
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: in the burbs of San Francisco. First of all, I
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: stayed in downtown San Francisco at the Palace Hotel, which
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: is a beautiful hotel, a great service, great meals, but man,
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: I was just shocked at that San Francisco is really
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: a ghost town.
• 59:34
  Speaker 11: Oh, why would you go there? I mean, you've seen
• 59:36
  Speaker 11: the pictures and people think, you know, people think as
• 59:39
  Speaker 11: a conservative Republican, we just make it up. We take
• 59:41
  Speaker 11: certain shots in certain areas. But if you walk around
• 59:45
  Speaker 11: in San Francisco, you'll see what's happening. You'll see what's
• 59:47
  Speaker 11: going down. And it's not pretty. And again, I think
• 59:52
  Speaker 11: I don't know if you saw the pictures recently where
• 59:54
  Speaker 11: people were putting signs up in their cars and said, look,
• 59:57
  Speaker 11: there's no money and there's no valuables. Please don't break
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 11: my window. Because they were breaking windows to get to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 11: these cars and see what was in the glove box.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: It was really shocking to me. And I didn't even
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: get around and walk around. I just kind of walked
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: outside the hotel. I'm like, where are all the people? Because,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: you know, it's really in a nice, what used to
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: be a nice area of downtown San Francisco. So then,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: My event was in the Burbs, San Leandro, over across
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: the East Bay there in Oakland, and right outside of Oakland.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: So I go to the Target. Joe, I was just, again,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: so surprised. I needed to get a pair of dress socks.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: Everything's under a glass case, lock and key. And the
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: store clerk told me if it wasn't, everything would be stolen.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 11: Oh, listen, in my little area. We have the same
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 11: issues with the stores that are closer to the 5 freeway.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 11: You're familiar with my area, and some of the bigger
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 11: stores do the same thing because they grab the stuff
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 11: and run. They get the car and go, and they're
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 11: not allowed to chase them out.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: Is that like a regular thing, though, Joe? I mean, again,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: there was a time when it was $ 900 that you
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: could steal up to $ 900 without being charged.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 11: It is kind of still like that. But remember we, we,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 11: what was it? Prop 36 or something like that. We
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 11: passed a proposition that refunded the courts, refunded the police
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 11: so they could arrest those people now. But Governor Newsom won't, won't,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 11: he won't fund it. And because he won't fund it,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 11: we don't have the resources to, to, uh, make it happen.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 11: So no, they are still walking out with it. And
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 11: the police are not responding to these things. Our police
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 11: department in my little town, we're down to about 60% capacity.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 11: We've lost 40% of the deputies because they're not being
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 11: paid well. They're working double shifts and the county won't
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 11: give them any more money. Our county, LA County is
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 11: broke for all intents and purposes.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: Is that right? I had, I knew it was bad.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: I didn't know it was that bad.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 11: Oh, financially, they are strapped.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: They are broke.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 11: And they're deferring payments on things. They're cutting down departments.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 11: And they're getting ready to go. I don't know if
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 11: the country's aware of this, but we have five supervisors
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 11: right now for over 10 million people. We're going to
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 11: nine supervisors and one executive director so that the areas
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 11: become a little smaller. And they say a little bit
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 11: more manageable. I say right now, basically, we have five
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 11: Democrats involved. And the county is in disarray big time.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: So I figured, you know what, I'm going to be
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: bold since I was in the San Francisco area and
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: went over to Berkeley, my friend. And I decided to
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: do a walking tour of Berkeley. I cannot imagine a
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: more filthy city than Berkeley. But what really struck me,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: and there was a bookstore I wanted to go visit.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: I love going to visit independent bookstores. And it was
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: not that nice. It was Moe's Books. It was not
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: all that great. But what I thought was funny, and
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: I thought you'd get a kick out of this, Joe,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: there is an anarchist bookstore like a couple of doors down,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: and they've gone out of business. I mean, how bad
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 3: is the economy in California where even the anarchists can't
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: have a bookstore?
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 11: Well, I mean, it's kind of hard when they're stealing
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 11: all your books for you to keep the place open
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 11: and pay your rent.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: It's a great point.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 11: You know that I'm rerunning for office here in California
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 11: for school board.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: So you have to tell people this. You are president
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: of the school board in Santa Clarita, California.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 16: Yes, the school.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 11: Right-wing Christian conservative is actually the president of the school board,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 11: one of the largest school districts in the state of California.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 11: But what I was going to tell you, which is interesting,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 11: is we have forums.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: We have debates.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 11: We have 22,000 kids in my district. Our budget's a
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 11: little over $ 300 million a year. And this is the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 11: first year, though, I've had to do debates with the DSA.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 11: We actually have socialists showing up at these debates and
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 11: running for office.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: Get out of here. So how has that been going?
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 11: Well, it's Boston Joe comes out in that thing. When
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 11: we were at the debate the other day, you would
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 11: have been proud of me. This guy from the DSA
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 11: is talking about single payer health care and everybody deserves this.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 11: And then I said, whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down here.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 11: How's that working out for Cubans? How's that working out
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 11: for Canadians? Why is it that people are fighting to
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 11: get here to be taken care of health-wise? What do
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 11: you mean we have the worst health care system? You
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 11: go to Canada, you die of cancer. You come here,
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 11: you'll get cured. And he was just stuttering through all
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 11: these answers. I couldn't let him finish his answer.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: That was very rude. I love this.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: Seriously.
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: Joe Messina joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: battling the communist in California. Joe, just curious, the election,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: how is Steve Hilton doing? I guess the big breaking
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: news story, the scandal, is that Javier Becerra, who's been
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: campaigning as the son of immigrants, well, it turns out
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: his dad was actually born in America.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 11: Are we shocked? I mean, seriously, are we shocked that
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 11: any of this stuff actually happens? But the problem you
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 11: have here is that you've got the mainstream media is
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 11: not pumping this stuff. So the average person really doesn't
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 11: know it. When you bring it up to them, they're like, really?
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 11: I haven't seen that. Where's that been? Well, you're not
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 11: going to see it because the major news outlets here
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 11: won't put it out there. Think of all the things
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 11: that Newsom has done and the things that he and
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 11: his wife are getting away with that the mainstream media
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 11: out here is not putting out there. So when it
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 11: comes to what, you know, and Becerra walked away from a,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 11: I don't know if you heard the second debate that
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 11: they were supposed to have.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: He didn't show up.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: He was a no-show. Yeah. Do we know why?
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 11: Because he's a coward. He couldn't answer any of the
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 11: questions before. See, I would have put a seat up.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 11: I would have put a chair up there. And if
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 11: I was Hilton, I would answer the question. I would
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 11: look over and say, Becerra, what do you think?
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, figures.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: Do you think, though, that voters are, I mean, does
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: Hilton really have a chance here? I may as well
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: just cut to the chase. Does he have a fighting chance?
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 11: I don't think so. You know, the issue is not
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 11: that Steve is a bad candidate or terrible, but the
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 11: Democrats have done a fantastic job at belittling Republicans so much,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 11: making them look so mean and so terrible that people
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 11: are actually afraid to vote for Republicans. I mean, seriously,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 11: when I talk to some old-time Democrats out here, They
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 11: spew what they hear in the news. They spew what
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 11: they hear from the Democrat Party. And these are people
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 11: that I talk to on a regular basis that I like.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 11: They're just misinformed because of what they're listening to and
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 11: what they're watching.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: Well, I hate that. And, you know, I think Hilton
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: would do a fine job. You know, I can't, you know, again,
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: I just, we've got to get people conditioned to voting
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: for Republicans. And that's going to, I think that's going
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: to take a lot of time. Before I let you go,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: I've got to tell you, though, I did try a
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: great burger joint. I was looking for the best burger
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: in San Francisco, and it recommended the Smokehouse in Berkeley.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: So I drive out there. It's kind of like right
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: at the edge of downtown, and it's one of these
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: old-school joints where you have to stand outside, and they've
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: got little picnic tables outside. So you can order your
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: burger and then just eat it there. And what I
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: thought was the first thing I did, Joe, you would
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: be so proud. I said, so let me get this straight.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: These are beef hamburgers, right? I don't want to be
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: like chowing down into like, you know, cauliflower or something.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: And they said, no, no, no, these are real burgers. Joe,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: it was, I got a burger. I got the crinkle
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: fries that were crispy on the outside and fluffy on
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: the inside. And I got a root beer, all for
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: under $ 10.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 11: Oh, come on.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: I'm not kidding you. And it was a great burger.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: They're like, honest to goodness, flame broiled. And they've been
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: doing this since like 1950-something. I was stunned.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: Just a hamburger is $ 6.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: 69 just for a burger.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 11: After the debate the other night, my wife and I stopped.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 11: She was starving, and I was hungry, too. So we
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 11: stopped at Carl's Jr. We both had hamburgers, one fried,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 11: no drinks, $ 22.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 5: 50.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: At Carl's Jr.? At Carl's Jr.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 11: Here in California. Oh, geez. We've got to remember, fast
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 11: food now, they're getting $ 20 plus an hour.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, you've got to pay for those. Yeah, you've got
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: to pay those salaries.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 11: And don't forget healthcare and all that other fun stuff.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: Joe Messina, everybody, joemessina.com. Go check out his great website. Joe,
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: good hearing from you, my friend.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 11: God bless Todd.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: Have a great weekend.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: There you go. You know, it was a great burger.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: I love doing that kind of thing. It's just trying
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 3: to find like the coolest place in town to have
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: a meal and And it came up Smokehouse, and they
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: did a good job. And everybody looks sort of normal.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: You know, in Berkeley, everybody kind of looks freakish. So
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: I'm just– it's true. It's the most liberal city in America,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: and that's just the way it is. But, Dylan, I'll
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: tell you, people were staring at me. I think they
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: either knew who I was or they could smell that
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: I was a Republican.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: That's never a good sign.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: No, I was getting a little antsy, but I thought, yeah, okay,
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: it'll be all right.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: You should have ordered at least half something vegan.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: They did have a veggie. You know, the veggie burger
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: is more expensive than the regular hamburger.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not surprised at all at that.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: So it is what it is. They also had hot dogs,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: but I just wanted a burger.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: Good people. Smokehouse. EatSmokehouse.com if you want to check them out. Oh,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: we got to take a break. We'll be right back.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: All right, this coming Sunday, and I believe noon and
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 3: three o'clock, you'll be able to watch my book special,
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: one-hour book special on the Golden Age, How Trump Saved America.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: We filmed this at West Coast Baptist College during the
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: Spiritual Leadership Conference, had a studio audience, and did a
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: one-hour Q & A session about my brand new book,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: and it's going to be broadcast Sunday on C-SPAN, their
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: book channel. That's C-SPAN 2, so you'll be able to
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: check your listings and everything for that. It's going to
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: be a lot of fun. I will tell you that
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: last Sunday, I was a guest on one of the
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: shows on C-SPAN, the one where the host interviews you,
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: and then they take questions from the viewers, sort of
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: like a radio call-in show on the TV. And so anyway,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: I must have battled, I don't know, it felt like
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: 100 leftists. And I was good with that. Look, I
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: can do that all day. It was just like way
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: early in the morning. And so you've got to be
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: in a certain mindset to deal with that many liberals
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: in the morning. Otherwise, you're going to be in a
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: bad mood. I didn't want to be in a bad mood.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: So all that to say, I've been getting since then,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: We have been deluged with all of this left-wing hate mail.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: And some of this stuff is just insanely disgusting. But anyway,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: you know, it's not going to deter us. I'm just
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 3: explaining to you what it's like when we go on
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: these liberal channels. And C-SPAN, they'll tell you, oh, we're C-SPAN.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: We're impartial. No, they're leftist. All of them are.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: So....
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: I just wish they would buy books. That's all I'm
• 1:12:15
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• 1:12:18
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• 1:12:24
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• 1:12:27
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• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: appreciate all of the help. You know, I got a
• 1:12:34
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• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: had just finished reading the book, and they said they
• 1:12:39
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• 1:12:43
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• 1:12:45
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• 1:12:47
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• 1:12:51
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• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: successes of the Trump second term in office, and we
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: also sort of cast a vision. I mean, that's a
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: little vision casting. as we look towards the future. So
• 1:13:04
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• 1:13:08
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• 1:13:13
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• 1:13:18
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• 1:13:21
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• 1:13:25
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• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: Congressman Ron Estes. Congressman Marlon Stutzman from Indiana writing, a
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  Speaker 3: celebration of the restoration of our nation, but it's also
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  Speaker 3: a challenge for the next generation to embrace the mission.
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  Speaker 3: And it really is. So, folks, get yourself a copy.
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  Speaker 3: And if you've got a church library... Get a copy
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  Speaker 3: from the church library. If you have a special conservative
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: someone in your life, it makes a wonderful, a beautiful, really,
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  Speaker 3: Christmas gift, and I'd encourage you to do that. The
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  Speaker 3: cover is just absolutely stunning on the book. All right,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: hang tight. Ray Comfort, great author, coming up, and Caleb
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: Park on the Todd Stern Show.
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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right. I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: hour three of the big show today. And we have
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: a jam-packed hour. Kayla Park is going to be along.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: in just a little while to talk about the good
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: news of the day. Also, we're going to be taking
• 1:15:05
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• 1:15:08
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  Speaker 3: your mind. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. By the way,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: President Trump holding rallies in Syracuse, New York. And also tomorrow,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: the president will be in Tennessee. He'll be speaking in Clarksville, Tennessee,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: very close to Fort Campbell. So expecting very large turnouts
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: at both of those rallies as we march toward the midterms. Well,
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: we're going to take a little bit of a turn
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: and bring on an incredibly well-known guest. He is a
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: bestselling author. He is the founder of Living Waters and
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: is the host of a long-running TV program, Way of
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: the Master. We're talking about Ray Comfort, who is a
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: great evangelist and has an incredible book out, Compelled My Story. Ray,
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  Speaker 3: good to have you with us today, and thank you
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: for joining us.
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  Speaker 12: Thank you, Todd.
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  Speaker 11: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, congratulations on the book. Was this
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  Speaker 3: a tough one to write for you? Because this is
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  Speaker 3: a pretty deeply personal book you've written.
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  Speaker 12: No, it wasn't tough. It was a great joy. It
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  Speaker 12: begins when I began. When I was born, I had
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 12: a gospel tract in my hand and gave it to
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 12: the doctor that delivered me. That was like a joke. Yeah,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 12: it's right from my birth, how I was born twice
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 12: in New Zealand. I've got a slight New Zealand accent,
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 12: you'll notice. But I loved writing it because I look
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 12: back at what's happened in my life and I think
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 12: how incredible God is to take a nobody and use them.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 12: And that's God's way. New Zealand has got a lot
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 12: of sheep. I don't know if you know that. Four
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 12: million people, something like 40 million sheep. They're not sure
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 12: of the exact amount because the guy that counts them
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 12: keeps falling to sleep.
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  Speaker 2: And it seems to be.
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  Speaker 12: God's way to take shepherd boys to go past the
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 12: sons of Jesse and use those without talent. And that's
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 12: what this book is about, how God has used Our
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 12: ministry is a wonderful way to reach many people because
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 12: God passes over those with talent and uses those without talent,
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  Speaker 12: which I've got.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm incredibly glad, Ray, that you clarified the accent.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking maybe northern Alabama, but New Zealand.
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  Speaker 4: You're kidding.
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  Speaker 12: I didn't say y'all.
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  Speaker 3: All right, before we get into the book itself, we've
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: got to talk about the cover, the cover art. All right,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: what decade is this Ray Comfort photo that I'm looking
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: at right here?
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  Speaker 12: Boy, I like you saying that. It was actually, the
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  Speaker 12: publishers had a picture of me opening a preaching on
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  Speaker 12: the front and one of our guys who's brilliant said, no,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 12: don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: That's boring.
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  Speaker 12: Take a picture of Ray when he was young, like 29.
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  Speaker 12: And that picture of me is my old body before
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  Speaker 12: I matured like I am today. I'm a bit embarrassed
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 12: about it, but it's kind of fresh and different. And
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 12: you take a second look when you see that. So
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  Speaker 12: what happened?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's the mustache. It's the mustache, Ray. I think that's,
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  Speaker 3: It just sort of draws people to the book cover.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I'm thrilled with the publishers. They squeezed me like
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 12: an orange. They just kept coming back at me and saying,
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  Speaker 12: tell us your first memory. And it's funny, I don't
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 12: remember being in the womb. I don't even remember the
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  Speaker 12: first three years of my life. When I learned to speak,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 12: I learned to talk or walk. But The first memory
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 12: probably is when I was about four years old. I
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 12: was in kindergarten, and they made me sit in the
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  Speaker 12: front of a class photo with my legs crossed because
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 12: I was the shortest, and that's followed me right through life.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the book is going to be out on October
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: the 28th, and folks, if you followed Ray and his ministry,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: you're going to want to get this book. and if
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: you haven't, you're going to want to get this book.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 3: You know, Ray, I was just out a couple of
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  Speaker 3: weeks ago in California, Los Angeles, northern Los Angeles County,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: and I was at a conference, and there's a Baptist
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: church there. They have about 9,000 members, and every Saturday,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: hundreds of church members are go out into the community,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 3: and they go sharing the gospel. And I thought to myself,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there are a lot of programs and a
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: lot of books on programs, but at the end of
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: the day, it really is about reaching people one-on-one with
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: the gospel message.
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  Speaker 12: So good to hear you say that. I love the
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  Speaker 12: fact that the disciples didn't stay in the upper room.
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  Speaker 12: They didn't carpet it out, put on air conditioning and
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 12: pipe music. They'll notice out the front saying tonight, seven o'clock,
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 12: all welcome. They knew that sinners don't go to church.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 12: The Bible says men love darkness rather than light. Neither
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 12: will they come to the light lest their deeds be exposed.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 12: So the whole principle is the same with fishing. Fish
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 12: don't jump in your boat normally unless you live in
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 12: Alabama where there's some weird stuff going on sometimes. But
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 12: fish normally have to be sought. You have to go
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 12: where the fish are. And it's the same principle when
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 12: you look at the book of Acts. The disciples came
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 12: bursting out of the upper room because God had granted
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 12: everlasting life to humanity. Most people don't realize that. They
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 12: think Christianity is some sort of religion.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 7: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 12: God has granted eternal life as a free gift. And
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 12: the Bible says Jesus Christ has, past tense, has abolished
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 12: death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.
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  Speaker 12: So we have the most wonderful news this world could
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 12: ever hope to hear. That death has lost its sting
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 12: for those who repent and trust in the Savior. Todd,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 12: most people don't know who Jesus was. They think he
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 12: was just a great teacher and we celebrate his birth
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 12: at Christmas, etc. But the Bible says he was God
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 12: manifest in the flesh. He was the source of life.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 12: Come to this earth to release man from the power
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 12: of the grave, to release man from death. That's why
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 12: Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 12: I'm coming that you might have a life. The Bible says,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 12: Christ who is our life. I'm the resurrection and the life.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 12: In the epistle of John, John speaks of handling the
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 12: source of life itself. So when someone becomes a Christian,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 12: the life of God comes into them and as light
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 12: banishes darkness, so life banishes death. When the life of
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 12: God dwells within the Christian, through the power of the
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 12: Holy Spirit, death has no sting. And there's no greater
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 12: news this world could ever hope to hear. And so
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 12: the book's called Compelled because for the last 50-something years,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 12: I've been compelled to share that message. I cannot but
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 12: speak that which I've seen and heard, as the disciples
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 12: said in the book of Acts.
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious because you write about how a Christian can
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: stay faithful in what is no doubt an increasingly hostile culture.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: How do we do that? What's the first step?
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 12: Well, the first step is to make sure you're motivist, right,
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 12: for coming to Christ. There is a false gospel that says...
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 12: God has a wonderful plan for your life. He'll fix
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 12: your marriage, fix your drug problem, fix your alcohol problem.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 12: That's a very common message preached by the church. That's
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 12: not why Jesus came, to help us and make life happier.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 12: It's the same reason you're given a parachute and a plane.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 12: If you're given a parachute and told it's going to
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 12: improve your flight, if the flight gets bumpy, you're going
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 12: to be disillusioned and take the parachute off. But if
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 12: you're given a parachute and told you're going to have
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 12: to jump any minute 10,000 feet, It doesn't matter how
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 12: bumpy that flight gets. You're going to cling to that
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 12: parachute because your life depends on it. So if you
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 12: come to Jesus for a happier lifestyle, you're going to
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 12: be disillusioned. Jesus said, you'll be hated for my name's sake.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 12: We enter the kingdom of God through much tribulation. The
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 12: flight's going to get bumpy. You're going to get disillusioned.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 12: But if you came to Jesus to be saved from
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 12: the wrath that's to come, because you have to face
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 12: a holy God on the day of judgment that considers
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 12: lust to be adultery, hatred to be murder, You're going
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 12: to cling to him because you have to pass through
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 12: death and face a holy God. He is our life.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 12: And so it doesn't matter how bumpy the flight gets,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 12: it makes me cling tight to the parachute. And that's
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 12: what a genuine Christian is. It doesn't matter if there's
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 12: a lion's den, you don't shake your fist at God,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 12: you get on your knees. It doesn't matter if there's
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 12: a red sea, you don't shake your fist at God,
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 12: you get on your knees. You wait for the deliverance
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 12: of God to come. So it comes back to our motive.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 12: Do we see ourselves as sinners? need of a Savior,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 12: or are we looking to God to be a kind
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 12: of a divine butler who's supposed to come running when
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 12: we click our fingers? That's not what the Bible teaches.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's a great way to describe it. We've got
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 3: Ray Comfort with us, has an incredible new book out
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: called Compelled, My Story. It'll be in bookstores around the
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: nation October the 28th. You know, Ray, when you look
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 3: at where we are in the culture right now, there's
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of debate, a lot of talk about
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 3: young people surging back to the Church. Many of them
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 3: are going back to Catholic Church, or they're going to
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: an Orthodox Church, looking for answers, depth, perhaps structure. What
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 3: should our response to those young people be on the
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 3: evangelical side of the aisle?
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 12: I think we should share the biblical gospel. Most people
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 12: think that you have to do good things to enter heaven.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 12: You ask anyone. What do you have to do to
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 12: go to heaven? Be a good person. And I say
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 12: to people, I can change your mind in about 10
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 12: seconds about that. And they say, what are you talking about?
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 12: I said, do you respect Jesus? They say, yeah. Well,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 12: he said, there's none good but God. So who's lying?
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 12: You're Jesus. Are you a good person or is Jesus right?
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 12: You know, Jesus called his disciples evil. If you being
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 12: evil know how to give good gifts to your children,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 12: how much more will God give the Holy Spirit to
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 12: those that ask him? So They need to hear the
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 12: biblical gospel. So let me give a brief biblical gospel message,
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 12: and then that'll explain what I'm trying to say. None
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 12: of us are good, and the way to know if
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 12: you're good is just look at the Ten Commandments for
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 12: a moment. The Ten Commandments are like a mirror. They
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 12: reflect what we are in truth. So if you think
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 12: you're a good person, here's a question. Jesus said, if
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 12: you look with lust, you commit adultery in the heart.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 12: Have you ever done that?
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: Who hasn't?
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 12: If you're light and stolen, you're just little things. Have
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 12: you ever used God's name in vain? They say, yeah,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 12: I've used God's name in vain. It's a bit of
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 12: a bad habit. That's taking God's holy name and using
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 12: it as a cuss word to express disgust when he
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 12: gave us life. So I say, here's a summation of
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 12: your court case on Judgment Day. You've told me you're
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 12: a lying thief, a blasphemer, and an adulterer at heart,
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 12: and you have to face God on that day. Will
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 12: you be innocent or guilty? They say, guilty. Heaven or hell?
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 3: They say, hell.
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  Speaker 12: I say, what did God do for guilty sinners like
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 12: you and me so we wouldn't have to go to hell?
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 12: I say, I don't know. I say, yes, you do.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 12: Jesus died on the cross for our sins. And they say, oh, yeah,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 12: that's right. So this will change everything if you can
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 12: get a grip of it. If you're in court and
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 12: you've got speeding fines and you plead guilty, a judge
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 12: will let you go if someone pays those fines. He'll say...
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 12: You can leave, you're free to go, someone's paid you fine,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 12: and it's legal for them to do that even though
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 12: you're guilty. Well, God can legally take death off us
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 12: because Jesus paid the fine in full on that cross.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 12: And then he rose from the dead and defeated death,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 12: and if we'll simply repent of our sins, confess and
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 12: forsake them, and trust in Jesus, like we trust a parachute,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 12: God promises he'll grant us everlasting life as a free gift,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 12: not because we're good, but because he's good and kind
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 12: and rich in mercy. That's called amazing grace. God saves
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 12: us by our grace. So that means you don't need
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 12: to get religious. You don't need to do religious works.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 12: Eternal life is a free gift of God. You do
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 12: good works out of gratitude to God for his mercy,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 12: rather than trying to bribe him to grant you everlasting
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 12: life because you know you're a sinner. And the difference
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 12: is life and death. And when we explain the gospel
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 12: to lost people, most of them say, I've never heard
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 12: that before. Embrace Jesus, trust in him, they're born again,
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 12: and the Holy Spirit leads them into all truth so
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 12: that they don't go into error, which so many people
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 12: seem to be going into nowadays.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 3: All right, Ray, we're going to have to leave it there,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: but congratulations on a great new book. Ken Ham, our
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 3: good buddy over at Answers in Genesis, The Ark Encounter,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 3: writing that Ray is a bundle of joy whose passion
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 3: is to see people reconciled to God through Christ. Get
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: yourself a pre-ordered copy right now of Compelled My Story,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: and I have no doubt that you are going to
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: be blessed, encouraged, and challenged as well. Ray, it's great
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 3: to see you on the show. Congratulations.
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 12: Thank you, Todd. I appreciate you allowing me to speak.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, hang tight, everybody. We're going to have
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 3: to take a quick break. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901. 260-5926.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. Good to have you with us. So
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of frustration in MAGA World and Fox
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 3: News Channel. Brian Stolter over at CNN, he's a little
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 3: Dwarf King fella. And Stulter says that Fox News has
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: decided to stop routinely broadcasting Trump's rallies. And they're saying
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 3: this is a big shift for the network because they've
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 3: pretty much covered Trump wall to wall. The implication is
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: that Fox agrees, reading from the Stelter piece, Fox agrees
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: with the GOP candidates and strategists who are privately fretting
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 3: about Trump hurting their chances in the midterms. So they're
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: turning off the rallies. As a matter of fact, the
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: last five Trump rallies, including San Antonio, Fox News has
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 3: largely bypassed. the events. So the question now is, what
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 3: happens next? Because Trump cannot stop. Trump is addicted to
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 3: Fox News, and he should not be. I mean, the
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: way Fox has treated Trump, Trump, honest to goodness, should
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: tell all of his administration officials, you guys need to
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 3: go to another channel because Fox News is not it. Fox,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 3: we're cutting you off. A Fox host who spoke to
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: Brian Stelter said the decision was being driven by senior management. Quote,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 3: this is coming from the top down. The prevailing belief
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: inside Fox News is that Trump no longer rates anymore.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: And I'm wondering, is this true, ladies and gentlemen? Have
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: you grown tired of the Trump rallies? Are you tired
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: of the president? Do you believe these candidates are doing
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 3: the right thing by pulling the Trump photos and verbiage
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  Speaker 3: and endorsements off their websites? You know, some people are
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: doing that. Some Republicans are doing that. It's unbelievable. So anyway,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: the president, or at least White House sources, are telling
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: Newsmax the rallies are valuable news events and should not
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: be viewed as a cash-in opportunity for networks. The president
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 3: writing this on True Social, it's sad to see that
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 3: Fox & Friends is not covering our packed house. an
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 3: incredibly enthusiastic rally that took place in Ohio or the
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: ones in Alabama, Texas, or Oklahoma over the past two days.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 3: President writing this on Truth Social. These election rallies were
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 3: representative of what is really happening with our great Republican Party.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: And that's the concern, is that everybody is just so depressed.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 3: And then Trump comes out and they've got these massive
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 3: rallies that are happening. I mean, massive rallies, such enthusiasm.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: Nobody's covering it. Nobody's covering it, which is why we're
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: doing it on the radio. So I'm just curious, ladies
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: and gentlemen, what's the right play here? Should these candidates
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: be embracing Trump? And do you see the midterms as
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 3: actually being a referendum on the job President Trump has
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 3: done more so than the lack of movement that the
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 3: Republicans have done in Congress? So anyway, I know that
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 3: President Trump is now praising Newsmax during his Oklahoma rally.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 3: He praised several of the Newsmax primetime hosts. And the
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 3: president says there are lots of great shows on Newsmax.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 3: But what a mess. What a mess it is right now.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: And what a missed opportunity. And honestly, shame on Fox
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: News Channel because Trump has done so much to help
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 3: grow their audience. No doubt about it. But if that's
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 3: the way that Fox is going to play, they're going
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 3: to have a hard time keeping their audience. If Fox
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: News is saying, you know what, we're over Trump now,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 3: we're moving ahead, we're not going to be covering all
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 3: this stuff, it is a missed opportunity. And quite frankly,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 3: I believe it's a betrayal of their audience. It's really
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 3: disappointing to see Fox News going down this path. All right, 901-260-5926,
• 1:32:11
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• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: on this open line Friday. Also, Caleb Park coming up next,
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: the host of The Good Report with Caleb Park. He's
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 3: a great podcaster and journalist. So we'll get his take
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: on the Nadal-Hassan execution. A lot of folks say, you
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 3: know what, we need to– And not only does it
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: need to be live streamed, it needs to be broadcast
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 3: on all the major networks. So I don't have a
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: problem with that, actually. Hang tight. We'll be right back. Oh,
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: you know what we forgot to do, Dylan? I cannot
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 3: believe we let this slip. We were talking about the
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 3: great Mike Ditka, who just passed away today, and we
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 3: were talking about the Super Bowl shuffle, the great song.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 3: This was like back in 1985. We've got to bring
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 3: Caleb Park in before we play this. We've got to
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 3: bring Caleb Park in. Caleb, host of The Good Report
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: with Caleb Park. Caleb, I know you're from Ohio. Do
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 3: you have any allegiance to the Chicago Bears, Da Bears?
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: I'm a Detroit Lions fan.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: I live in Northwest Ohio. Actually, I've never been to
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: Chicago outside the airport, so unfortunately... I'm not a fan
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: of DeBeers, but I did see them play the Lions.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: And if my memory serves me correctly, they won. Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there you go.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, then you're really going to have no
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 3: interest in hearing what we're about to play. But Dylan,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 3: this is from 1985, the year they won the Super Bowl.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: They did the Super Bowl shuffle. First of all, before
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: we play this, what was your initial reaction of what
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 3: you saw?
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 4: My first thoughts were, are these the actual players? And
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 4: I thought they were maybe like stand-ins that had the jerseys.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 4: So this is them.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 3: They're very talented.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they are very good. They can rap. I didn't
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 4: know that this could be a thing.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 3: Let's take a listen. This is a Super Bowl shuffle
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 3: from 1985.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 3: Everything was electronic.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 4: We're not here to start no trouble. We're just here
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 4: to give.
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  Speaker 18: Well, they call me sweetness and I like to dance.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 18: Running the ball is like Mickey Moman's. We had to
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 18: go since training camp to give Chicago a Super Bowl champ.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 18: And we're not doing this because we're greedy. The Bears
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 18: are doing it to feed the needy. We didn't come
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 18: here to look for trouble. We're just competing through the
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 18: Super Bowl shop.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 16: Okay.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 4: I guess we better stop. It goes on for five
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 4: more minutes.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 11: Is something was his swirl was smooth or something?
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure what that means.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 3: It's, Caleb, have you ever rapped before?
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: No, but I was a fan of Eminem growing up.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: But I will say, you can tell that's from the
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 2: 80s because it just has this cool vibe to it.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 2: The 80s were definitely a good time.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 3: So, look, those were my teenage years, guys. And we
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 3: loved that kind of music. I mean, it was the
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 3: whole electronic music. Now, looking back, you're like, eh, I'm
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 3: not sure some of that was a good idea. But yeah,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 3: that was the day. You know, our clothing styles were
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 3: very suspect back then. So you could have gone a
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 3: couple of ways. There's a great movie called The Breakfast Club.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys have seen this movie.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: I have seen that.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: Movie, yes. So I think that really depicted the stereotypical
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 3: groups that you would have in a school where And
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 3: I was not the parachute pants crowd. I was more
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 3: like khaki pants, eyes odd shirt kind of a crowd.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: Typical Baptist. What's that?
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 4: Typical Baptist.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 3: Well, they call them preps. We were preppies back in
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 3: the day.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: You were already a journalist as a kid, weren't you, Todd?
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: Well, actually, I was. I was editor of a high
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 3: school newspaper.
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was pretty cool. I will say this. It
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 3: was always hot. And this is why my, you know,
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 3: the whole look was, you know, guys, first of all,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 3: Nike had just come out. And so you had a
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 3: very limited number of Nike. So you had the black swoosh,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: you had the red swoosh, and you had the blue.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 3: And that was it. And the white tennis shoes. So
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 3: they were white leather shoes. And so you had that.
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 3: Then you've got the eyes on shirt, the khaki pants,
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 3: and you had to have a sweater tied around your neck,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 3: which my mom would not allow us to do because
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 3: it was like, you know, 95 degrees. And she was like,
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 3: why would you wear a sweater when it's 95 degrees?
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 3: And you're like, but mom, it's cool.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 2: It's cool to not be cool, mom.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 3: Well, more or less. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So anyway, that
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 3: was back in the day.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 2: And Todd, you know those fashions are coming back for
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: Gen Z, and the music is big, too, with Stranger Things.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: You know, 80s are in right now.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 7: It is.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: So you're cool again.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 3: Is and and trust me caleb you'll reach a point
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 3: at which is coming soon when the music you grew
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 3: up listening to will be on the oldie station.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: Oh it's all it's already there i've i've been i
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: was listening to the radio on one of my uh
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: assignments like in south carolina or something on the campaign
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: trail and They were like an oldie. And I was like,
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 2: this is not an oldie. This is my it was
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: from the 90s. And I was like, I grew up.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: It was like Backstreet Boys or, you know, Britney Spears
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: or something.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 4: I was like, what? This is.
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: But, yeah. Oh, and they're Todd.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 4: Wait, wait.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 3: Speaking of Britney Spears, I just saw a report. Dylan,
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: can you verify this information? Britney Spears is at Dollywood.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, wow.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 4: I'll have to look this up.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just break into our conversation if you can verify that. Caleb,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 3: we've got to talk about, first of all, this hurricane,
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 3: because you're in Florida, but you're over on the Atlantic
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: coast side. What's going on with the DEI name that
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: nobody can pronounce?
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 2: I was going to say, don't make me pronounce the name. E-C-I-I-S-I-S.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 3: We're calling it Hurricane E-I-E-I-O, sis.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: Okay. You're closer than I think a lot of people.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't know why. Yeah. The name is a,
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 2: is a problem. And I think you're right. We need
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: to get rid of the DEI names, but I mean,
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 2: it's shocking. I thought, you know, everybody was like, Oh,
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: we made it through hurricane season. And then you got
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: this surprise hurricane. So it'll be hitting the coast and
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 2: just praying that everybody's prepared. And I think it'll be
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: closer to you than me.
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 12: So.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: Todd, you better board up or be ready. I guess
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 2: you'll be getting the outskirts, not really the brunt of it.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 3: You know, somebody in Memphis will remember this because this
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 3: was a big deal. But many, many years ago, there
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 3: was a tropical storm that hit New Orleans, and no
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 3: one really thought that much of it. But that tropical
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: storm actually landed at the mouth of the Mississippi River
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: and went right up the river and caused all sorts
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 3: of damage in Memphis many, many years ago. and cause
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 3: tornadoes and all sorts of really bad damage across the city. So, yeah,
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 3: it's kind of weird like that, but they say we're
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 3: going to get maybe a half a foot of rain
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 3: out of it. So we'll see how it goes.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. You always got to be prepared
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: because you never know what Mother Nature is going to do.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 3: Caleb, can you hang tight here? We've got some breaking
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 3: news happening.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: Breaking news now on the Todd Starnes Show.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to the Todd Starnes Show newsroom.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 3: Correspondent Dylan Dandridge standing by with the latest. Dylan, what
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 3: can you tell us?
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Todd. Britney Spears was spotted in Dollywood about two
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 4: days ago for her son's birthday. Quote, I didn't know
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 4: this place existed before.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 3: Was she wearing clothes?
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 4: She was wearing a skirt, and she said that the
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 4: skirt is too big for me. I don't know what
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 4: that means. But it's extremely hot. Dollywood is absolutely adorable.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 4: So she gives the approval.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: Was she swinging knives?
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 4: I think she was fully clothed. No knives.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 3: Get her some of that cinnamon bread.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, watch out for that.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: Maybe Dollywood is her healing arc. This is her come
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 2: to Jesus moment.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 4: It might be. This may be her first time in
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 4: the Pigeon Forge area. Well, probably not the last time.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 4: This is great news for Britney Spears. Thank you for
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 4: going to.
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 3: Dollywood for us. Thank you. Thank you, Dylan, for that
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 3: breaking news report. I want to switch gears here, Caleb.
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: It's interesting the divide here on what to do with
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 3: Nadal Hassan because you've got a lot of conservatives and
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 3: even some evangelicals that are saying, well, we should not
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 3: be live streaming the execution of Nadal Hassan. What say you?
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: To be honest, Todd, I think there's very convincing arguments
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 2: on both sides. The one thing that really, I think,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: sets this apart for me personally is that this is
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: a military, you know, this was a civilian that they
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 2: were going to live stream. I think that would be
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: a whole other case. But the fact that it's, you know,
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: military and that Trump as our commander in chief and
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, that they want to send
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: a message with it, I think we have to trust
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: that ultimately they're making the right decision here. I know the,
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: the challenges is this going to become propaganda for ISIS,
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: you know, for terrorists abroad, because ultimately they want to die.
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: They want to be martyred for the Islamic, you know, faith.
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: But I do think, uh, I lean more towards, this
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 2: is a better good for all of us, but I,
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know about live streaming it all over the
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: place because, God forbid, a kid walks in or sees that.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: But that could also be a teachable moment.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 3: Well, absolutely. And again, from a biblical standpoint, I love
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 3: what Dr. Robert Jeffers said. There are biblical mandates for
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 3: having public and communal, these executions being public and communal
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 3: as a deterrent and also teaching people hey, there is
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 3: a price to pay if you commit this sort of crime.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 3: You know, Caleb, I want to go to West Palm Beach, Florida.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 3: Walt is on the line listening to us. Walt, you're
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 3: on the air with Caleb Park. What say you?
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah, the public execution is so great. We're all being
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 10: very good company with Iran, Somalia, Afghanistan. Only the non-woke
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 10: countries do public executions. It's terrific. Don't you think?
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 3: Well, Walt, here's the deal. If you go and you
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 3: kill 13 people, if you put a gun to the
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 3: head of a pregnant woman and kill that woman and
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 3: her child, and you severely injure 30 other people, you
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 3: deserve to be executed, Walt. Thank you for the call.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 3: Caleb, I think that was one of the prankers that
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 3: made it through. But again, we're talking about a very
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 3: bad person here who, quite frankly, does not need to
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 3: be living.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Todd.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 2: And I think one of the challenges here is the
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: time it takes between the execution and when they actually
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: do it. Like you guys learned in Tennessee, when you
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: let the criminal age and get in poor health, I
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: don't think they should do that. I think it's Once
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 2: you've proven that the crime exists and that they're guilty
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 2: of it, I think that's what– there needs to be
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 2: a quicker– they need to do it right away. I
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 2: think that's a huge problem that we have right now
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: in this country if we're going to carry out an execution.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 3: Caleb, before we let you go, let's talk about your–
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 3: you've got some news on Facebook. What's going on?
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we just hit 100,000 followers on Facebook. I never
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 2: would have imagined getting such a big audience here and
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: huge part thanks to you and just being able to
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 2: work with you all these years and get to be
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 2: in your orbit. So thanks for having me on the show.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 2: And I know a lot of your listeners are following
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 2: me there. And so that's been a lot of fun.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: It's been a year of doing independent journalism on Facebook
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 2: and So, yeah, it's been really good and started my
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: podcast recently, and I'm hoping to have you on very soon.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: I think you'll be our next guest, Todd.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, that'll be fun. I don't know if you heard
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 3: our studio audience. They were cheering, quite frankly, very loudly
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 3: for you there. So, well done.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 4: Woo-hoo!
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 3: All right. Caleb Park. And, Caleb, where can people go
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 3: if they want to follow you on socials? They want
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 3: to check out your website, calebpark.com. That's Park with an E.
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: Park with an E, and that's my handle on everything
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: is Caleb Park. Caleb with a C, Park with an E.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, I love that.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 3: Caleb Park, my friend. Good to hear from you.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Todd.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: God bless. Have a good weekend.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 3: All right. There you go. Let's go to Jack in Gainesville, Georgia. Hi, Jack.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 6: Hey. I just want to talk about the upcoming campaign.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you what, Jack, we're going to put
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 3: you on a hold because that is a very garbled
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 3: line we've got there. So hang tight. Folks, got to
• 1:47:11
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• 1:47:19
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• 1:47:36
  Speaker 3: talk radio wherever you are in America. All right, let's
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  Speaker 3: go back to the phones. I think we've got Jack
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  Speaker 3: all fixed up on a new line. Jack, what's going on?
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  Speaker 10: Hi, nothing.
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  Speaker 15: Just driving down the road.
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  Speaker 7: I hope I got a better spot.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, you're good to go. You're good to go.
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  Speaker 14: Okay, well, I was wanting.
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  Speaker 7: To know, well, actually, I had a comment about the
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  Speaker 7: execution that's coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, let's get to it.
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  Speaker 4: What's up?
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  Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of buddies that do tailgating.
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  Speaker 7: At the Georgia Bulldog game.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think they'd let us come do that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, at Fort Hood.
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  Speaker 14: They'll set up some crevasses and barbecue and.
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  Speaker 1: Make some money for the victims.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Jack, I don't know that. You know what? We'll
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  Speaker 3: put a call in to see if that's... a possibility.
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  Speaker 3: So you're saying maybe do some tailgating before the execution?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: We don't have a game.
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  Speaker 4: Today, so why not?
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Well, I don't know. We're setting... It's kind of
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 3: like new ground here, so... uncharted territory, so I guess
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  Speaker 3: anything's possible. Jack will run at the flagpole, see what
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  Speaker 3: the Pentagon has to say about it. Thank you for
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  Speaker 3: that call. Tailgating an execution.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think those two go together.
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  Speaker 3: But if it's for charity.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're raising money. I just don't think I could
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  Speaker 4: eat a barbecue sandwich while that's happening.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do like the pay-per-view, though.
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  Speaker 4: That is a good idea.
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  Speaker 3: With the money going to the families.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's actually a brilliant idea. Oh, I came
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 3: up with an idea. Well, Pastor John inspired us from Kentucky,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll have to give him credit. Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Not a bad idea.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, what a weird story. So that's all happening. And
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 3: you know, it's going to, even if they decide not to,
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  Speaker 3: even if they decide, well, we're probably not going to
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 3: do this after all, somebody's going to post the video.
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 3: And it'll be on the socials. You know how that goes. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: All right, folks, we have, man, what a busy week.
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  Speaker 3: Good to be back and really appreciate you guys being
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 3: patient as I've been out on the road. It has
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 3: been a, it's been very busy and we're selling a
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  Speaker 3: lot of copies of the golden age. And I'm very
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  Speaker 3: excited about that. Excited for you to, to read the
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 3: message of this terrific book. Don't forget Sunday. We're going
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 3: to be on C-SPAN.com. C-SPAN 2, actually, so head over
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  Speaker 3: to C-SPAN 2. All the details, they're going to be
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 3: broadcasting this show several times on Sunday. It's a great
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 3: one-hour conversation. Our good friend, Dr. Paul Chappell, actually interviews
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 3: me on stage for the book. Had an audience, about 100,
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 3: 150 folks. They asked questions, just had a wonderful time.
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  Speaker 3: And I think you're really going to enjoy the conversation.
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  Speaker 3: It was sort of free-flowing. I didn't know where it
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  Speaker 3: was going to go. So all of my answers are
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 3: pretty much thought right on the spot there, which was
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  Speaker 3: a lot of fun as well. And there was a
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  Speaker 3: lot of laughter, too. It's going to be a fun
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  Speaker 3: one-hour show. And you folks in Texas, get ready. We're
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 3: getting ready to come to Houston for an event at
• 1:50:55
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• 1:50:58
  Speaker 3: the Pacific Justice Institute Gala. That's coming up in about
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 3: two weeks, so we'll be in Anaheim. That's over the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: Have a great Friday. Whatever you do, folks, be sure
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