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Jelly Roll Calls President Trump “Fat Pig” on National TV · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right. Our love is American, right.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
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  Speaker 4: Great to have you with us today. A lot going on,
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  Speaker 4: and I know a lot of folks are still coming
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  Speaker 4: to terms with the loss of Dolly Parton. And may
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  Speaker 4: I just say, and we're going to get into more
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  Speaker 4: of this a little bit later on in the program,
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  Speaker 4: and we have a jam-packed show for you. But is
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  Speaker 4: it just me, or do you... Very rarely do I
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  Speaker 4: feel this I don't know, this sense of loss, you know,
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  Speaker 4: personal loss. I mean, I was a Dolly Parton fan.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't listen to her music all the time. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it just feels like, I don't know, there's just a
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  Speaker 4: weird vibe in the country. Here is a woman who was,
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  Speaker 4: I think, universally loved and respected and appreciated. And there
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  Speaker 4: aren't that many folks who are doing that nowadays, right?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think there are that many folks that are
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  Speaker 4: that universally loved. Well, yeah, Dylan, yes, of course me,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't want to boast about it. But Dolly,
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  Speaker 4: she had her own theme park. I don't have a
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  Speaker 4: theme park. We live in one. It's called Memphis. It's
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  Speaker 4: sort of like, I don't know, we're like, what is it,
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  Speaker 4: Grand Theft Auto. That's what we are. We live that
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  Speaker 4: every day. But that's not Tollywood. That's not what I'm
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  Speaker 4: talking about here.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe it's just me. We've got some
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  Speaker 4: great Dolly Parton music we're going to play and some
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  Speaker 4: great clips as well. But I'm going to start with
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  Speaker 4: another guy, and his name is Jelly Roll. And Jelly
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  Speaker 4: Roll was filling in for Little Jimmy Kimmel the other
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  Speaker 4: night on his late night program. I don't know where
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  Speaker 4: Little Jimmy is. But anyway, he's got all these guest hosts.
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  Speaker 4: He had, what, Rosie O'Donnell. Why did we let this
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  Speaker 4: woman back in the country, right? She said she was
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  Speaker 4: leaving America and she was going to live in Ireland.
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  Speaker 4: The Irish were like, oh, geez-a-loo. Really? And so now
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  Speaker 4: she's back. But Jelly Roll, who, by the way, claims
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  Speaker 4: to be a believer in Jesus Christ, and we had
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  Speaker 4: the videos of Jelly Roll rushing over and greeting President
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  Speaker 4: Trump at various events like he's fangirling. But Jelly Roll...
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  Speaker 4: did a gig on Kimmel last night, or night before last,
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  Speaker 4: and he attacked President Trump. I want you to take
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  Speaker 4: a listen to what he had to say.
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  Speaker 6: Let's talk about the main event of America this weekend.
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  Speaker 6: It was the big IndyCar race hosted by the president.
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  Speaker 6: The cars drove through the streets of D.C., and there's
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  Speaker 6: Donald Trump, who apparently has never held a flag before.
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  Speaker 7: What a s * * * job that was.
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  Speaker 4: How do you s * * * up waving a flag?
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  Speaker 6: But the president seemed to enjoy the IndyCar race, which
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  Speaker 6: was a real switch up for him because normally he
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  Speaker 6: only likes his own race. According to the Washington Post,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of doctors are worried about the president's weight.
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  Speaker 6: After his last physical, we found out Trump gained 14 pounds,
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  Speaker 6: which means he's now tipping the scales at almost 240.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 6: Think about this, y'all. In the last few years, I've
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  Speaker 6: lost 300 pounds. That means I've lost an entire Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 6: And let's be honest, based on his approval ratings, it
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  Speaker 6: seems like most of the country wants to do the
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  Speaker 6: same thing. Now listen, we should take it easy, y'all.
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  Speaker 6: We shouldn't be making fun of the president for his
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  Speaker 6: weight because we know that he would never do that
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  Speaker 6: to other people.
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  Speaker 1: I don't speak badly about somebody's physical disability.
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  Speaker 3: But he's got the.
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  Speaker 8: Biggest stomach I have ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: He's actually fatter than ever.
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  Speaker 8: The mayor is incompetent and the governor is.
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  Speaker 9: A big fat slob. Meet Hashman. Big fat slob.
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  Speaker 3: I told you, I have a friend of mine. He's
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  Speaker 3: fat as... You've never seen a guy like this? He said,
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  Speaker 3: Chris Christie's a fat pig. You cannot do that.
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  Speaker 8: Chris Christie is not a fat pig.
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  Speaker 3: He is not a fat pig. He's not a fat pig.
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  Speaker 3: Don't call him a fat pig.
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  Speaker 8: Sir, in the back.
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  Speaker 3: Don't call him a fat pig. Okay?
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  Speaker 9: I don't talk about people being fat.
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  Speaker 8: I refuse to talk about the fact that he's a
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  Speaker 8: fat slob.
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  Speaker 3: I don't mention it.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that ain't the pot calling the kettle fat.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: President, from one fat pig to another, take it from
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  Speaker 6: me that physical fitness is very important. And trust me,
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  Speaker 6: you'll be happy to see your penis again.
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  Speaker 8: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the look. The guy's a joke. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he weighed over, what, 550 pounds, and you're going to
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  Speaker 4: go out there and you're calling Donald Trump a pig?
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  Speaker 4: What's wrong with you? So anyway, Jelly Roll is fighting
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  Speaker 4: back now, and because MAGA World is really upset about
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  Speaker 4: all of this. I mean, he called the President of
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  Speaker 4: the United States a man that he supposedly, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: led us all to believe that he was a big
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  Speaker 4: Trump guy, and turns around and calls President Trump a
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  Speaker 4: fat pig. Who does that? I mean, this guy's a sleazeball.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Jelly Roll is a convicted felon who
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  Speaker 4: was pardoned by Tennessee Governor Bill Lee. And I really
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  Speaker 4: do wish Governor Bill Lee could rescind the pardon. But
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  Speaker 4: what is he doing? I mean, does is Jelly Roll
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  Speaker 4: really a country artist or is he he's a rapper?
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  Speaker 4: Is it I don't consider him to be in the
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  Speaker 4: same ranks of, say, like, I don't know, Trace Adkins
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  Speaker 4: or a Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 2: He's not like a traditional country guy. He does do
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  Speaker 2: a lot of rap and it's like a mix, I
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  Speaker 2: would say.
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  Speaker 4: So he's saying that he's defending himself, saying he's hosting
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  Speaker 4: a late-night show, and that's what you do, that you
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  Speaker 4: make fun of the President of the United States if
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  Speaker 4: you're doing a late-night show. Here's the thing. I'm just saying,
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  Speaker 4: if I had been asked to fill in for little
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  Speaker 4: Jimmy Kimmel, could you imagine? If I had been asked
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  Speaker 4: and I saw the jokes, no way I'm walking onto
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  Speaker 4: that stage at all. Doesn't matter how much money they're
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  Speaker 4: going to pay me. You know, there's something called loyalty. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: here's what he had to say last night. So he's
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  Speaker 4: back again. And he was like, I have to say,
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  Speaker 4: as a former felon drug dealer who has lost 300 pounds,
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  Speaker 4: has tattoos all over his face, and won three Grammys,
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  Speaker 4: this is the weirdest thing I've ever done to stun people. No,
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  Speaker 4: it's because not only did you lose 300 pounds, you
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  Speaker 4: somehow lost your soul. And I think that's why people
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  Speaker 4: are upset. He goes on to say, some people online
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  Speaker 4: were upset that I didn't treat the president with reverence
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  Speaker 4: and dignity, but I want to remind y'all that I
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  Speaker 4: go by the name Jelly Roll. I don't even treat
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  Speaker 4: myself with reverence and dignity. One day I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: look in the mirror, and I looked in the mirror
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  Speaker 4: and said, you, my friend, are a pastry. Frankly, I
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  Speaker 4: think most people were surprised I had any opinions at all.
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  Speaker 4: They see a guy that looks like me and assume
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  Speaker 4: the only opinion I have is whether I prefer my meth, crystal,
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  Speaker 4: or classic. Well, clearly, maybe he was doing both before
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  Speaker 4: the show. So anyway, ladies and gentlemen, this is all
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  Speaker 4: very odd. But again, you just have to be careful
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  Speaker 4: with these celebrities. People like the Jelly Rolls and was
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  Speaker 4: it Kanye West? What does he go by now? Yee? Yay.
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  Speaker 7: Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It changes by the day.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, for heaven's sakes. But again, they all claim to
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  Speaker 4: be out there and to be these passionate followers of Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: And the next thing you know, all the Christians in
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  Speaker 4: America are putting these guys up on pedestals and they're
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  Speaker 4: worshiping them and they're just... They're just waiting for some
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  Speaker 4: sort of a prophetic word to come out of the
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  Speaker 4: voice of these people, when in fact, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if they're Christians or not. And even if they are
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  Speaker 4: new Christians, it takes time for them to learn and
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  Speaker 4: to be discipled, and you're going to turn around and
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  Speaker 4: you're going to make them the next Billy Graham with tattoos.
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  Speaker 4: And you're surprised? You're surprised that Jelly Roll came out
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  Speaker 4: and said this? No, I am surprised because I thought
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  Speaker 4: the guy, I mean, every time Trump was at an event,
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  Speaker 4: Jelly Roll was thundering over, and he was wanting to
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  Speaker 4: meet the president, and the president probably had no idea
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  Speaker 4: who the guy was. He was like, who names their
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  Speaker 4: kid Jelly Roll? Maybe they should, I don't know, he
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  Speaker 4: should get a new name, Tub O'Lard. He could be Irish. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: there you go. It's the Irish rapper Tubbo Lard. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, Jelly Roll.
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  Speaker 4: And this just, he's basically, he just Bud Lighted himself.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's what Jelly Roll did. Kind of reminds
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  Speaker 4: me of, remember the Dixie Chicks? Well, now they're just
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  Speaker 4: known as the Chicks. And one of them may not
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  Speaker 4: be a chick, but they claim to be chicks. But
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  Speaker 4: they went down this road with George W. Bush and
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  Speaker 4: completely lost their fan base. And now they're basically a
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  Speaker 4: bunch of unattractive, overweight folk singers. Nobody wants to go watch. Dylan,
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  Speaker 4: did you see this one coming? Did you see Jelly
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  Speaker 4: Roll going woke?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. He was up on the CMA
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  Speaker 2: Awards a few months ago. He was sharing the gospel.
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  Speaker 2: He was this Christian guy, like you mentioned. And it
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  Speaker 2: exactly went like what you said. All the Christians propped
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  Speaker 2: him up. He was this big celebrity Christian guy now.
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  Speaker 2: I think the fame got to him. So in a way,
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  Speaker 2: I think I did see this coming. But Jimmy Kimmel
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  Speaker 2: shows got to be the lowest point that you can
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  Speaker 2: get to to host something.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: That friendship, I don't know where that even comes from. Like,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't make a sense.
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  Speaker 4: I don't get it. And again, I mean, he may
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  Speaker 4: be a Christian. Do you know of any Christians that
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  Speaker 4: talk like he talked on national TV?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, not really.
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  Speaker 7: I don't either.
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  Speaker 2: Not publicly.
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean, or at least not, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 4: a church business meeting. But yeah, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 4: come on. I mean, who talks? I mean, that's insane.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Look, we've got to take a break here. Your reaction
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  Speaker 4: to Jelly Roll, are you surprised that Jelly Roll has
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  Speaker 4: Say hello to Andrew in Gainesville, Georgia. Andrew, I understand
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  Speaker 4: you have a Dolly Parton story.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, sir, Todd. So absolutely wanted to reach out and
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  Speaker 13: share a very special story. And to the people of
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  Speaker 13: eastern Tennessee and the family of Dolly Parton, there's a
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  Speaker 13: lot of missing her today, but I'm thankful there's a
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  Speaker 13: lot of rejoicing. and definitely an example of a great
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  Speaker 13: American who truly had love in her heart and made
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  Speaker 13: an impact. I just wanted to give a little story.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's get to it. Yeah, go for it.
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  Speaker 10: So, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 13: So my family grew up very similar to Dolly, and
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  Speaker 13: my grandmother in particular would have been 100 years old
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  Speaker 13: two weeks ago. And the old saying was, a very
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  Speaker 13: similar background, was it didn't matter if it was a
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  Speaker 13: congressman or the governor, or the local farmer down the street,
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  Speaker 13: everybody would be polite to each other. They would go
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  Speaker 13: out of the way to help each other. And most importantly,
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  Speaker 13: they would take the time to say, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 13: And they were happy to see each other. And, um,
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  Speaker 13: thankful that Dolly very much had love in her heart
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  Speaker 13: and the love of Jesus in her heart. And I
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  Speaker 13: wanted to share with you, um, as my family has
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  Speaker 13: been blessed and growing, we're able to go to Dollywood
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  Speaker 13: about three or four times a year now. And, um,
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  Speaker 13: My little girl, she's seven years old, but it started
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  Speaker 13: when she was about two years old. She affectionately would
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  Speaker 13: call the Dream More Hotel a butterfly castle. Of course,
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  Speaker 13: butterflies were special to Dolly and was always a reminder
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  Speaker 13: of her deep roots in eastern Tennessee. But what's really
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  Speaker 13: special about, as my family has grown, that has become
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  Speaker 13: a place of core memories and memories. Dolly was so
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  Speaker 13: big on the smallest act of kindness can make the
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  Speaker 13: most impact for a lifelong memory. And I wanted to
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  Speaker 13: share something really special because her coat of many colors
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  Speaker 13: songs reflects this so much. She said, we were poor,
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  Speaker 13: but we had love. Just like my grandmother used to say.
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  Speaker 13: And she said, lived that with everything she did, especially
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  Speaker 13: when she came home to Eastern Tennessee. So I'm from
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  Speaker 13: North Georgia, but a lot of my neighbors and friends,
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  Speaker 13: we go out of our way to go to Dollywood.
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  Speaker 13: And as you were talking yesterday, that cinnamon bread, that's
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  Speaker 13: a real thing. It's delicious. But what really is special
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  Speaker 13: in the legacy that will continue, as her nephew said
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  Speaker 13: so confidently yesterday, as a feeling of rejoicing and thankful
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  Speaker 13: for the blessing of every day, is that love was real.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 13: And that goes all the way back to her childhood.
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  Speaker 13: And she, in particular, if you really want to know
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  Speaker 13: the impact of, because they called her the dreamer in chief,
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  Speaker 13: the chief dreamer with Dolly, but if you really want
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  Speaker 13: to know the impact of the glue that holds it together,
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  Speaker 13: speak to the people that, if you walk around the park,
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  Speaker 13: that's sweeping up the floor. Speak to the person that's
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  Speaker 13: painting the trim and keeping that place spotless. talk to
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  Speaker 13: the kind gentleman in the hotel that's flipping the omelets.
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  Speaker 13: And she knew every one of them. They all knew her.
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  Speaker 13: And it was family. And an example of that real quick.
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  Speaker 4: Very quick. Yeah, let's get to it.
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  Speaker 13: My daughter went last October with my mom and dad.
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  Speaker 13: And Dolly had already predetermined that if somebody was going
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  Speaker 13: to take the time to go to her house, so
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  Speaker 13: to speak, she was genuinely happy to see them. And
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  Speaker 13: long story short, There was no room in the hotel.
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  Speaker 13: It was completely booked. Out of the goodness of Dolly's heart,
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  Speaker 13: she personally made sure that my little girl got to
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  Speaker 13: stay in the butterfly castle, and it was Dolly's room herself.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Andrew, we appreciate you calling in with that story,
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  Speaker 4: and I know a lot of folks around the country
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  Speaker 4: have very similar stories. Thank you again for the call.
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  Speaker 4: And again, the thing is about Dolly Parton, I think,
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  Speaker 4: is that she was just a genuine human being. It
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  Speaker 4: was funny. You know who some of her biggest critics were?
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  Speaker 4: The Christians, so-called Christian community out there. And the reason
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  Speaker 4: why is she didn't fit into their preconceived box of
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  Speaker 4: how a Christian should behave or what a Christian should do.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that bothered her a little bit over
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  Speaker 4: the years. But again, Dolly Parton was a person of
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  Speaker 4: deep and abiding faith in God and grew up in
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  Speaker 4: a Christian home. I believe her grandfather was a minister.
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  Speaker 4: So just a fine, fine human being. And you know
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  Speaker 4: what bothers me? There was an interview she did with
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  Speaker 4: Barbara Walters, and we're going to play some of this
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  Speaker 4: in a little while. This crazy interview where Barbara Walters
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  Speaker 4: did her best to insult Dolly Parton and asking her
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  Speaker 4: about her hillbilly people. I mean, that That interview, and again,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to play this. We'll try to get it
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  Speaker 4: in this hour of the show. That interview really encapsulates
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  Speaker 4: what Hollywood and the media and the elites really think
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  Speaker 4: about those of us in flyover country. They despise us.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to Pat in Gainesville, Georgia. Hi, Pat. What's
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  Speaker 4: on your mind?
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  Speaker 10: Hey, I'm just calling to talk about how much I
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  Speaker 10: love Dolly Parton. And I've listened to her since I
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  Speaker 10: was a little girl and sang her songs and just
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  Speaker 10: grew up with her music. I'm a country girl, and
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  Speaker 10: I love country music. And I could hardly keep from
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  Speaker 10: crying yesterday and listening to everything about her on TV.
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  Speaker 10: It was just heartbreaking when I heard that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Pat, I'll tell you this. What I loved about Dolly,
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  Speaker 4: that voice. I mean, she was the real deal, played
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  Speaker 4: that guitar, and her voice. There was no auto-tune. It
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  Speaker 10: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back to the Todd Starnes Radio Show, everybody. One
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: of the Dolly Parton classics. Great movie. Great song. And
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I do wonder if Congressman Jim Jordan, as he's running
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: around Capitol Hill in his shirt sleeves, Congressman, are you
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: one of those guys singing that song? Is that any
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Dolly Parton on the playlist?
• 20:58
  Speaker 15: Yeah, well, it's funny because When I grew up, that's
• 21:02
  Speaker 15: the only kind of music my parents would let us
• 21:04
  Speaker 15: listen to. Well, back then we called it country and western.
• 21:07
  Speaker 15: It was the old joke. There were two kinds of music,
• 21:09
  Speaker 15: country and western, right? And that's all my dad would
• 21:13
  Speaker 15: let us listen to. We heard Dolly Parton, Charlie Pryde,
• 21:16
  Speaker 15: all those old Johnny Cash, all the old-timers. He was
• 21:20
  Speaker 15: quite the American entertainer and an amazing lady.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: You know, Congressman, I remember when I was a kid,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: my parents bought a van. And it had an 8-track
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: player in it. And it was all about Dolly Parton
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: and Kenny Rogers. And the Kenny Rogers, the gambler, 8-track
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: got stuck in there. And I think to this day
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I can sing every single song from memory.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: Of course, yeah.
• 21:45
  Speaker 15: You got nowhere to hold them, nowhere to fold them, right?
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 15: I remember that.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Congressman, good to have you with us. Of course, Congressman Jordan,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Congressman, a lot going
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: on with the midterms, and I want to get to
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: that in just a minute. You have been all over
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: the reports of ICE agents going in. What is the
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: latest news? Over 1,000 illegals arrested just in the suburbs
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: of Washington, D.C. That's pretty jaw-dropping.
• 22:17
  Speaker 15: Yeah, well, and even more so is how many of
• 22:20
  Speaker 15: them have also committed a crime. and we're out on
• 22:22
  Speaker 15: the street. This is something our committee's been digging into.
• 22:25
  Speaker 15: This prosecutor there in Fairfax County, Steve Discano, who had
• 22:28
  Speaker 15: the policy in place and said, we will take into
• 22:30
  Speaker 15: account a criminal's illegal immigration status when deciding how we're
• 22:36
  Speaker 15: going to charge him. In other words, unequal treatment. So
• 22:39
  Speaker 15: if an American does a crime, he gets charged one way.
• 22:42
  Speaker 15: But if you're an illegal migrant and you do the
• 22:43
  Speaker 15: same crime, you get a lesser charge or a better
• 22:45
  Speaker 15: plea deal because they don't want to jeopardize you getting
• 22:49
  Speaker 15: sent out of the country. That's how ridiculous this sanctuary
• 22:52
  Speaker 15: jurisdiction policy is. So we're looking into what Mr. Discano
• 22:56
  Speaker 15: has been doing in there in northern Virginia. We're looking
• 23:00
  Speaker 15: at Alvin Bragg and Krasner, Larry Krasner up in Philadelphia,
• 23:04
  Speaker 15: what they're doing there, Alvin Bragg up in New York
• 23:07
  Speaker 15: and others, because it's just so egregious what this sanctuary
• 23:12
  Speaker 15: jurisdiction policy around the country is.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: You know, and aside, you know, just set aside for
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: a minute the criminal illegals that are out there doing,
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, committing heinous crimes. You've also got the reports
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: of illegals that are voting, non-citizens voting. I think there
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: was a big story developing in New Jersey where they
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: registered thousands of non-citizens to vote.
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: 6,000, yes.
• 23:38
  Speaker 15: Yet six thousand of them were on the voter rolls uh...
• 23:41
  Speaker 15: someone actually ordered in federal elections which is against the
• 23:44
  Speaker 15: wall but we're looking at that and then parallel with
• 23:48
  Speaker 15: that is we're doing an investigation back blue we just
• 23:51
  Speaker 15: because uh.
• 23:52
  Speaker 16: uh.
• 23:52
  Speaker 15: we've because several people with that blue and uh.
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: uh.
• 23:57
  Speaker 15: over six people that we've talked to uh... everything one
• 24:00
  Speaker 15: of them taken the film and uh... some of them
• 24:03
  Speaker 15: that we had the one to pick up the part
• 24:05
  Speaker 15: of the ceo back blue took the fifth in front
• 24:08
  Speaker 15: of the committee. So you had the people who are
• 24:12
  Speaker 15: the key lawyers for ActBlue who resigned. We bring them in.
• 24:15
  Speaker 15: We get documents. We ask them questions. They all take
• 24:17
  Speaker 15: the fifth. And I think that's because they were accepting
• 24:20
  Speaker 15: foreign contributions to ActBlue, which is, as you know, the
• 24:23
  Speaker 15: big fundraising machine for the Democrat Party.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: And Congressman, I think this is one of the reasons
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: why the Republican voters are so frustrated right now with
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: the Senate not moving forward on the Save America Act.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: They know these kinds of things are going on. Do
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: you anticipate that ever crossing the finish line? What is
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: it going to take?
• 24:46
  Speaker 15: I do at some point because it's just so common sense.
• 24:48
  Speaker 15: And I think, you know, now, will we get it
• 24:51
  Speaker 15: done this session? I certainly hope so. We've passed it
• 24:53
  Speaker 15: multiple times in the House. I think it also underscores, frankly, Todd,
• 24:58
  Speaker 15: that it's time to get rid of the filibuster. We
• 25:01
  Speaker 15: all know that if Democrats win back the majority in
• 25:03
  Speaker 15: the Senate, they will end the filibuster. Heck, they tried
• 25:06
  Speaker 15: to do it, but for Senator Manchin and Sinema, independents,
• 25:11
  Speaker 15: a few years ago, they would have got rid of
• 25:12
  Speaker 15: the filibuster then. And so the president is right. This
• 25:16
  Speaker 15: is something that we have to get in place so
• 25:20
  Speaker 15: that we have confidence in our election process. It's just
• 25:24
  Speaker 15: that important. And we know that if the Democrats, like
• 25:28
  Speaker 15: I said, if they win, they're going to get rid
• 25:29
  Speaker 15: of the filibuster and do all kinds of things that
• 25:32
  Speaker 15: they've been talking about, like, you know, packing the court,
• 25:35
  Speaker 15: like adding, making the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico
• 25:39
  Speaker 15: state so they can win another couple of United States
• 25:42
  Speaker 15: senators from each of those jurisdictions, which, you know, what
• 25:45
  Speaker 15: then would be state. So all those things are coming.
• 25:47
  Speaker 15: That's why we need to get rid of the filibuster
• 25:51
  Speaker 15: and make sure we get this thing passed. But I
• 25:53
  Speaker 15: don't know if that's going to happen. Maybe we can
• 25:55
  Speaker 15: get elements of it in this process called reconciliation. And
• 25:59
  Speaker 15: if we can, we should certainly do it.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Do you think that there is some maybe, I don't know,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: intentionality on slowing down the president's agenda up on Capitol Hill,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: knowing that, I mean, honestly, you know, the president's about
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: to be a lame duck president, and I think you're
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: going to have a lot of folks within the party
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: trying to figure out, okay, who's going to run the party?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Will it be the Trump MAGA crowd? Will it be
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: the establishments? Will it be another coalition?
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: I do think the Democrats are trying to run out
• 26:29
  Speaker 15: the clock. But, you know, President Trump has a way
• 26:33
  Speaker 15: of making sure that the things he told the voters
• 26:35
  Speaker 15: he was going to do, that he gets done. That's
• 26:36
  Speaker 15: one of the reasons I appreciate it so much. You know,
• 26:39
  Speaker 15: I always say we make this job too complicated. It's
• 26:41
  Speaker 15: pretty basic. What did you tell the voters you were
• 26:43
  Speaker 15: going to do when you ran for it? If you
• 26:44
  Speaker 15: get elected, do what you said. He does, and he's
• 26:46
  Speaker 15: going to stay focused on that, which is good. But, yeah,
• 26:49
  Speaker 15: the Democrats are trying to stymie that. This is who
• 26:51
  Speaker 15: they are. But worse yet, and I think a key
• 26:54
  Speaker 15: element in this upcoming midterm election is, we also know
• 26:56
  Speaker 15: what the Democrats want to do. It's frightening. I mean,
• 26:59
  Speaker 15: you just look at what they're telling us what they
• 27:02
  Speaker 15: want to do in so many policy areas. I mean,
• 27:05
  Speaker 15: think about the once great party of FDR and JFK
• 27:10
  Speaker 15: is now anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, socialist, and having all kinds of
• 27:15
  Speaker 15: other crazy policy positions like men and women's sports, getting
• 27:18
  Speaker 15: rid of ICE, defunding the police, shutting down the government.
• 27:21
  Speaker 15: You could just keep going on and on. So, yeah,
• 27:24
  Speaker 15: this is It's why they want to try to stop
• 27:26
  Speaker 15: President Trump's agenda. They're not going to be successful in that,
• 27:28
  Speaker 15: I don't believe. And they want to implement their crazy
• 27:31
  Speaker 15: left-wing policies, which I think is a key thing we
• 27:33
  Speaker 15: have to tell the voters about here over the next
• 27:35
  Speaker 15: 70 days.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Where did all of this come from? Where did
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: this generation, at least the millennials and Gen Zers, seem
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: to be embracing socialism, which I really think is communism?
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: You've got political Islam out there. What's the attraction? Where
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: are they getting all of this from?
• 27:55
  Speaker 15: Well, I think it's our education system. I mean, we've
• 27:58
  Speaker 15: seen what was happening at so many of these universities
• 28:03
  Speaker 15: around the country. The anti-Israel bias, the anti-Semitic activity there,
• 28:07
  Speaker 15: all the crazy DEI and woke stuff that was being
• 28:09
  Speaker 15: taught there. President Trump and Secretary McMahon are trying to
• 28:13
  Speaker 15: make a change there. Thank goodness. And I think we're
• 28:16
  Speaker 15: having some success. But I think years and years of that,
• 28:19
  Speaker 15: not to mention what parents, I think, learned during COVID,
• 28:22
  Speaker 15: what some of their children were being taught in primary
• 28:26
  Speaker 15: and secondary education as well. Some of this is almost
• 28:30
  Speaker 15: like anti-American type of studies that were being done just wrong.
• 28:39
  Speaker 15: So I think all that's had an impact. But we
• 28:41
  Speaker 15: just got to come with the facts. And frankly, one
• 28:42
  Speaker 15: of the things I think we need to talk about
• 28:43
  Speaker 15: is just what a great country it really is. And
• 28:45
  Speaker 15: I know we have some concerns with the cost of things,
• 28:49
  Speaker 15: particularly for young families trying to buy that first home,
• 28:51
  Speaker 15: and I understand that. But this is the best country ever,
• 28:55
  Speaker 15: 250 years, amazing place where if you've got a goal,
• 28:58
  Speaker 15: you've got a dream, and you work hard, good things happen.
• 29:02
  Speaker 15: And that's not the case in so many other places
• 29:04
  Speaker 15: around the world. And I think we need to talk
• 29:06
  Speaker 15: about that as well, like I said, over the next
• 29:09
  Speaker 15: several weeks as we get into this campaign.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Do you think that you guys need to do a
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: better job of communicating that message to these Gen Z
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: voters who are working their tails off? I hear from
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: them on the show all the time, and they're saying
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: that they're having a hard time making ends meet. They're
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: hard workers. They've got jobs. They can't get that starter home.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Hearing from folks about the gas prices being high, You've
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: got the cattle ranchers now that are in a tizzy
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: over the president's decision to bring in the foreign.
• 29:40
  Speaker 16: Beef.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Do you think the messaging is a little off right now?
• 29:45
  Speaker 15: Well, I think we have to talk about the good
• 29:47
  Speaker 15: things we've done, things we told the voters we were
• 29:50
  Speaker 15: going to do. But we also have to recognize things
• 29:52
  Speaker 15: still cost too much, largely because of what the Biden
• 29:56
  Speaker 15: administration did with their unbelievable amount of spending and all
• 29:58
  Speaker 15: the all the policy positions they had. But I do
• 30:02
  Speaker 15: think we have to acknowledge, like, yeah, things cost too much,
• 30:04
  Speaker 15: and we're working on that. But never forget, we told
• 30:06
  Speaker 15: the voters we were going to secure the border.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: We did.
• 30:08
  Speaker 15: We told the voters we were going to cut taxes
• 30:10
  Speaker 15: so they'd have more money in their pocket. If we
• 30:11
  Speaker 15: hadn't done that, it'd be even more costly for families
• 30:15
  Speaker 15: and for young people and Americans today. So I think
• 30:19
  Speaker 15: we just have to give them the facts and the truth.
• 30:21
  Speaker 15: And frankly, also, as I said, point out just how ridiculous,
• 30:25
  Speaker 15: just how dangerous the policies of the left are. And
• 30:30
  Speaker 15: I think that's the campaign. And if we do that,
• 30:33
  Speaker 15: I think we're going to be able to keep the majority.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Art, you've got the big event coming up in Dallas,
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: this RNC midterm convention. Are you going to be there?
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: And what's going to happen?
• 30:44
  Speaker 15: Yeah, we're going to be there. I think I saw
• 30:47
  Speaker 15: some information today. The vice president is going to speak
• 30:51
  Speaker 15: on the first night. He'll be the key address. And then,
• 30:54
  Speaker 15: of course, the president on the second night. I think
• 30:56
  Speaker 15: the president's going to be maybe even talking to both days.
• 30:59
  Speaker 15: I think that's important. And I think you'll see it'll
• 31:02
  Speaker 15: be just what we described, highlighting what we've done that's
• 31:07
  Speaker 15: consistent with what we told the voters we're going to
• 31:09
  Speaker 15: do in the 2024 election, and then also pointing out
• 31:11
  Speaker 15: where the left, where the DSA, the Omdanis of the world,
• 31:18
  Speaker 15: where they want to take the country and how scary
• 31:20
  Speaker 15: that is.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm glad you guys are doing that, Congressman, because
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: this DSA stuff is scary. And if we're not careful,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: we could end up electing some very dangerous people to
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: the Congress.
• 31:32
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I was doing an event about a week ago,
• 31:34
  Speaker 15: a little over a week ago, for a candidate. And
• 31:38
  Speaker 15: the guy hosting the event said that it was really interesting.
• 31:42
  Speaker 15: There was this guy, and he stood up and kind
• 31:45
  Speaker 15: of kicked things off, but he said, we need to
• 31:47
  Speaker 15: understand it can happen here. And he was making the
• 31:49
  Speaker 15: point that what happened in places like Venezuela, where the
• 31:53
  Speaker 15: left gets control and all the crazy policies they then
• 31:56
  Speaker 15: put in place and what that means to the country,
• 31:58
  Speaker 15: what that means to families, what that means to private
• 32:01
  Speaker 15: property rights and everything else. We need to understand this
• 32:04
  Speaker 15: is where the left wants to take it. It's a
• 32:07
  Speaker 15: pretty powerful message, and I think well-received and understood that
• 32:10
  Speaker 15: this is how serious it really all is.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Well said. All right, Congressman, we're going to leave it there.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Always appreciate the great information. We always enjoy having you
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: on the show.
• 32:21
  Speaker 15: Thanks, Todd.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: Take care.
• 32:22
  Speaker 15: Thanks for all your good work.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: All right. Congressman Jim Jordan, everybody, chairman of the House
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: Freedom Caucus, laying out the plan, telling the American people
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: here on the show exactly what it's going to take
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: for Republicans to maintain control of the House and the Senate, which,
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: by the way, look, traditionally, whoever the president is, that
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: party always bears very poorly in the midterm elections. So
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: we're looking at bucking a trend here. And again, I
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: find it just impossible to believe that the American people
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: want to send communists to the Capitol. I just find
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: that very difficult to believe. All right, you heard from
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Congressman Jordan, ladies and gentlemen. What is it the Republicans
• 33:06
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• 33:09
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• 34:33
  Speaker 4: This is Barbara Walters interviewing Dolly Parton. The condescension here
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: is off the charts. Take a listen.
• 34:43
  Speaker 17: Dolly.
• 34:44
  Speaker 18: Where I come from, would I have called you a hillbilly?
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: If you had of, it would have been something very natural,
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: but I would have probably kicked your shins or something.
• 34:54
  Speaker 15: No, actually.
• 34:55
  Speaker 18: But when I think of hillbillies, am I thinking of
• 34:56
  Speaker 18: your kind of people?
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: I think you probably are. The people that grew up
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: where I was were the ones that you would consider
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: the little Abner people, Daisy Mae and that sort of thing.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: They took that kind of thing from people like us,
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: but We were very proud people, people with a lot
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: of class. It was country class, but it was a
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: great deal of class. And most of my people were
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: not that educated, but they are very, very intelligent, good
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: common sense, horse sense.
• 35:25
  Speaker 15: We called it.
• 35:25
  Speaker 9: Dolly, did you look like this when you were a kid?
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Not quite.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, you didn't have the blonde wig.
• 35:30
  Speaker 18: But when you went into school, when you were 11, 12, 13,
• 35:34
  Speaker 18: was it?
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: This about you well you mean uh the full um
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: figure yeah that's what i meant yeah i thought that's
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: what you meant well actually i've always been pretty well
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: blessed uh as a child i grew up fast uh
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: other members of my family you know have done the same.
• 35:54
  Speaker 18: My assistant asked me something and i'm going to blame
• 35:58
  Speaker 18: it on her because i wouldn't have had the nerve
• 35:59
  Speaker 18: otherwise Is.
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: It all you?
• 36:02
  Speaker 17: Well, I can't show you here on television. I'll take
• 36:06
  Speaker 17: your word for it.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: I get asked that question. I always answer that because
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: people are in awe of the whole thing.
• 36:12
  Speaker 17: A lot of people say I have. A lot of
• 36:14
  Speaker 17: people say I haven't.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: I always say that if I hadn't have had it
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: on my own, I'm just the kind of person that
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: would have had me some maid.
• 36:21
  Speaker 9: You don't have to look like this.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: You're very beautiful.
• 36:24
  Speaker 18: You don't have to wear the blonde wigs. You don't
• 36:26
  Speaker 18: have to wear the extreme clothes, right?
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: No, it's certainly a choice. I don't like to be
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: like everybody else. I've often made this statement that I
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: would never stoop so low as to be fashionable. That's
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: the easiest thing in the world to do. So I
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: just decided that I would do something that would at
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: least get the attention. Once they got past the shock
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: of the ridiculous way I looked and all that, then
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: they would see there was fashion. parts of me to
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: be appreciated. I'm very real where it counts, and that's inside,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: and as far as my outlook on life and the
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: way I care about people and the way I care
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: about myself and the things that I care about. But
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: I just chose to do this, and show business is
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: a money-making joke, and I've just always liked telling jokes.
• 37:10
  Speaker 18: But do you ever feel.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: So anyway, and it goes on. Look, I've got a
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: chapter in the book On this very issue, and it's
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: about the Beverly Hillbillies, and when CBS executives came in
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: and decided that even though shows like the Beverly Hillbillies
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: and Petticoat Junction and Green Acres were incredibly popular and
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: were huge moneymakers, they felt that it dumbed down the network,
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: that it wasn't highbrow enough, that it was beneath them
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: to broadcast these these stories that resonated with the American people,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: much like what Barbara Walters said when she talked about
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Dolly Parton and her hillbilly people. You know, they're so
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: dismissive of that. And that's a big problem in this
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: country because Dolly said something very poignant. She said that
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: while they may not be classically educated, they had a
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: lot of common sense. And that's ultimately what we're missing
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: in this country. We are missing... A healthy dose of
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: common sense. And Dolly Parton, ladies and gentlemen, at the
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: end of the day, was a big-hearted woman. Well, among
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: other things. All right, got to take a break here. 901-260-5926,
• 38:26
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• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: And hello everybody, welcome to the Todd Starr's radio show.
• 39:07
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• 39:09
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• 39:13
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• 39:25
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• 39:28
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• 39:31
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• 39:34
  Speaker 4: to have a lot of fun. We have a very,
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: very busy hour coming ahead. Of course, we're also remembering
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: the great Dolly Parton. As a matter of fact, I
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: believe tomorrow on radio stations across the nation, Radio stations
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: are going to be simulcasting Dolly Parton's I Will Always
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: Love You as just a way of saying goodbye to
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: a great American patriot and, of course, the queen of
• 40:01
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• 40:04
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• 40:07
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• 40:27
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• 40:29
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• 40:33
  Speaker 4: next guest. I am a huge, huge fan of what
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: this family has been doing. They have produced some of
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: the most incredible, and this is better than Broadway. It's
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: not the equivalent of Broadway anymore. This is Better Than Broadway,
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: family-friendly productions produced by our friends at Sight and Sound.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: And we're just so honored to have Katie Miller, the
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: Vice President of Brand Development at Sight and Sound, joining
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: us today. Katie, great to have you with us.
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: It is an honor to be here. Thank you so much.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: So first of all, huge fan of what you guys
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: are doing. It's just absolutely incredible. And this is, I
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: think a lot of people are surprised to learn, this
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: is a family venture. And I want you to take
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: us back through and tell us how you guys got
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: started in the theater business.
• 41:22
  Speaker 9: Absolutely.
• 41:23
  Speaker 19: So we are celebrating our 50th anniversary this year. And
• 41:27
  Speaker 19: my grandparents, Glenn and Shirley Eshelman, grew up right here
• 41:30
  Speaker 19: in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. My grandfather was a fifth generation dairy
• 41:35
  Speaker 19: farmer and wanted to be a farmer for his whole
• 41:37
  Speaker 19: life and tragically lost his mother at 17 years old.
• 41:41
  Speaker 19: And shortly thereafter, his father came home and said, I
• 41:45
  Speaker 19: don't want to do this without your mom. You have
• 41:47
  Speaker 19: to find a new vocation. I just sold the family farm.
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: And so shortly.
• 41:51
  Speaker 19: Thereafter, my grandfather found himself as a young newlywed trying
• 41:55
  Speaker 19: to make ends meet. And he began relying on his creativity,
• 41:59
  Speaker 19: which really set the stage for them. They began taking
• 42:03
  Speaker 19: multimedia slideshows all throughout the nation, eventually raising enough money
• 42:07
  Speaker 19: to be able to purchase and build our first theater.
• 42:11
  Speaker 19: And we have grown from there over the last 50 years.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: Now, we base our show in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee,
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: so it's a little easier for us to get to
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: Branson than it is to get to Pennsylvania. But you guys,
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: you know, have you been surprised by the response that
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: you guys have had over the years? I mean, we're talking,
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, how many people have actually been to one
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: of the shows?
• 42:36
  Speaker 19: It's hard to keep count, but we have estimated that
• 42:39
  Speaker 19: over 40 million people have experienced a sight and sound production.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 42:43
  Speaker 19: Whether that is coming to one of our two locations
• 42:46
  Speaker 19: in Lancaster, Pennsylvania or Branson, Missouri, or through our streaming
• 42:49
  Speaker 19: platform or our feature films in movie theaters. And so, yes,
• 42:53
  Speaker 19: to answer your question, we are completely overwhelmed.
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: You know, I grew up here. I've never not been
• 42:59
  Speaker 9: a part of Sight & Sound.
• 43:00
  Speaker 19: I don't think when I was a four-year-old on our
• 43:03
  Speaker 19: first little stage right down the road from where we're
• 43:05
  Speaker 19: at right now, doing review-style shows that I even could
• 43:09
  Speaker 19: have imagined, or anyone else in my family for that matter,
• 43:12
  Speaker 19: how the Lord was going to grow this mission and
• 43:14
  Speaker 19: this ministry into what it is today.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: And I think it's important that that's an important word,
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: isn't it? Ministry. As much as it is a business,
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: this is really a ministry.
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it is wholeheartedly.
• 43:26
  Speaker 19: So our name, Sight and Sound, comes from the verse
• 43:30
  Speaker 19: in Matthew 13 where the disciples ask Jesus, why do
• 43:33
  Speaker 19: you speak to the people in parables? And he responds
• 43:36
  Speaker 19: to them and says, because in seeing they do not
• 43:39
  Speaker 19: see and in hearing they do not hear. So I
• 43:42
  Speaker 19: teach them with story. And for us, that is the
• 43:45
  Speaker 19: core of what we do and what we feel called
• 43:47
  Speaker 19: to do. It is to spread the gospel, to inspire
• 43:50
  Speaker 19: people with the power of the scriptures through the same
• 43:53
  Speaker 19: method that Jesus used, which is telling stories. That's where
• 43:56
  Speaker 19: our name Sight and Sound came from.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: I think it's interesting that you mentioned the story part
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: of it. I was watching an interview recently. an old
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: interview with Dolly Parton last night doing some show prep.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: And she made an interesting observation. I think it really
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: surprised the interviewer. She said as much as she enjoys,
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: you know, the performance aspect, you know, she loves the storytelling.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: And Dolly was a songwriter, and she loved telling those stories.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: And I have to imagine you guys must find some
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: kinmanship there.
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 44:28
  Speaker 19: You know, I think storytelling takes on so many different forms.
• 44:32
  Speaker 19: And for us, yes, what we do is live stage productions,
• 44:36
  Speaker 19: it's feature films, streaming, all of those things. But the
• 44:39
  Speaker 19: core of it is bringing truth, hope, and inspiration to
• 44:44
  Speaker 19: the world through the message and the method of telling stories.
• 44:47
  Speaker 19: And Dolly Parton absolutely did that along with so many
• 44:50
  Speaker 19: others throughout history, honestly.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: And that cinnamon bread at Dollywood, geez-a-loo, that's a religious
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: experience in and of itself, I have to imagine.
• 45:00
  Speaker 9: Absolutely.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: We are honored to have Katie Miller with us from
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: Sight and Sound. She's the Vice President of Brand Development.
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: I'm curious about the productions. I mean, I worked and
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: lived in New York City for 15 years when I
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: was at Fox News Channel, and I go to the
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: Broadway shows all the time. What you guys are doing
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: is so far beyond that. How did you get to
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: that point, and where do you find all of these
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: great performers?
• 45:27
  Speaker 9: They come from all over. We truly do.
• 45:30
  Speaker 19: I know I'm biased, but I truly do believe we
• 45:32
  Speaker 19: have the best team.
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: In the world. We have over 900 employees. They are like-minded.
• 45:38
  Speaker 19: They're here with us linking arms every day, bringing their
• 45:41
  Speaker 19: unique skill sets to bring these stories to life. And
• 45:44
  Speaker 19: so whether they are, you know, helping to actually write, direct, produce,
• 45:47
  Speaker 19: build the shows themselves, whether they are performing and in
• 45:51
  Speaker 19: front of the curtain or all of our backstage teams
• 45:53
  Speaker 19: behind the curtain or those welcoming our guests, We have
• 45:57
  Speaker 19: just the most amazingly talented people that are truly from
• 46:00
  Speaker 19: all over the country, and a lot of them from
• 46:04
  Speaker 19: the areas that we're in, but many, many from all
• 46:06
  Speaker 19: over the country. And it is just such an honor
• 46:09
  Speaker 19: to work alongside them every day.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: I'm curious about the audiences. Who would normally come to
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: a Sight & Sound theater show?
• 46:17
  Speaker 19: Well, one of my most favorite things right now is
• 46:20
  Speaker 19: just hearing, as we celebrate this year, this 50th year,
• 46:24
  Speaker 19: the multi-generational experiences that people are having. So we're getting
• 46:28
  Speaker 19: inundated as we celebrate with people going, I remember some
• 46:31
  Speaker 19: of those early shows. I came with my grandparents and
• 46:34
  Speaker 19: now I'm a grandparent bringing my grandchildren and my family.
• 46:37
  Speaker 19: And it is just so meaningful to watch, you know,
• 46:40
  Speaker 19: to walk into the lobby as a show is loading
• 46:43
  Speaker 19: in and watch people that.
• 46:44
  Speaker 9: Are of all ages.
• 46:46
  Speaker 19: I love to say we are here for children ages
• 46:48
  Speaker 19: two to 92. We all get to become kids together
• 46:51
  Speaker 19: and experience these stories And we welcome people from all
• 46:56
  Speaker 19: 50 states from usually over 75 to 100 countries every
• 47:00
  Speaker 19: year through our doors. And so it is a multi-generational
• 47:03
  Speaker 19: and multicultural experience because, you know, these stories are universal.
• 47:07
  Speaker 19: We can't take credit for them. They have been changing
• 47:09
  Speaker 19: lives for thousands of years. We just get the opportunity
• 47:12
  Speaker 19: to tell them.
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: You know, I think many theaters, when they hear those numbers,
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: you know, just the tens of millions of people that
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: have come to a sight and sound production, you know,
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: and it seems like... The folks who run Hollywood and
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: some of the other big companies, they just don't seem
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: to get it that there is an audience for this
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: sort of programming and these kinds of stories that you
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: guys tell.
• 47:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's true.
• 47:37
  Speaker 19: And I will say one of the things I think
• 47:39
  Speaker 19: we feel the most encouraged about is that faith and
• 47:42
  Speaker 19: the arts seems to be a way. that the Lord
• 47:46
  Speaker 19: is permeating not just our nation, but the world at large.
• 47:49
  Speaker 9: And to watch even in my.
• 47:51
  Speaker 19: Own observations over the last decade alone, the amount of
• 47:55
  Speaker 19: faith-based attractions that are growing, movies for sure. I think
• 47:59
  Speaker 19: we all can see there are more and more films
• 48:01
  Speaker 19: coming to the movie theaters that are stories of inspiration
• 48:04
  Speaker 19: and faith. And streaming platforms, it has grown exponentially in
• 48:09
  Speaker 19: the last decade. And we are just grateful to be
• 48:11
  Speaker 19: able to play our part in that. But there are
• 48:14
  Speaker 19: many doing awesome work.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: So let's talk about the Big 50th anniversary. Do you
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: guys have anything? Are you doing anything special to commemorate
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: the Big 50?
• 48:22
  Speaker 19: Well, we had our second feature film come to movie
• 48:26
  Speaker 19: theaters this past spring, A Great Awakening, which told the
• 48:29
  Speaker 19: story of Ben Franklin and George Whitefield.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: It was a story of liberty.
• 48:33
  Speaker 19: Yeah, which felt like so important to not just hit
• 48:37
  Speaker 19: in our 50th anniversary, the story of liberty and identity
• 48:40
  Speaker 19: in Christ. but to hit on the 250th anniversary of
• 48:43
  Speaker 19: our nation felt really important to us and.
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: Special to us.
• 48:47
  Speaker 19: We also have Joshua here on stage in Lancaster and
• 48:50
  Speaker 19: David on stage in Branson.
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: And we did have some fun.
• 48:53
  Speaker 19: We had a big, huge birthday party in both locations
• 48:57
  Speaker 19: for our employees and their families with fireworks and food.
• 49:00
  Speaker 19: And we just had the best time celebrating and actually
• 49:02
  Speaker 19: worshiping together and just thanking the Lord for his faithfulness
• 49:05
  Speaker 19: throughout our story. And so it has been such a
• 49:08
  Speaker 19: fun celebratory year. And so much on the horizon to
• 49:12
  Speaker 19: come as the years unfold too, hopefully.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: And I understand what you guys have a great website, site-sound.com.
• 49:18
  Speaker 4: And if people, want to get tickets, I have to
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: imagine shows are selling out. So you would recommend people
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: getting tickets there online.
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: Yes, absolutely.
• 49:27
  Speaker 19: As we start winding down this year, we are getting
• 49:30
  Speaker 19: very sold out for the fall. So go and get
• 49:32
  Speaker 19: your tickets early. Um, but we, Joshua and David, they're
• 49:35
  Speaker 19: both leaving the stages here in the locations that they're in.
• 49:38
  Speaker 19: So if you want to see them, this is the
• 49:39
  Speaker 19: moment to do it.
• 49:40
  Speaker 20: All right.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: Uh, Katie, I'm, I'm going to call an audible here.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: You know, one of the things they did in Broadway,
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: you know, to make sure they got good media coverage,
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: you know, the shows they would invite some of the, uh,
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: you know, the broadcasters, some of the, the show host
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: and the news anchors to maybe have a walk on
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: role in some of the shows. So if you guys
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: ever need, you know, if you need a radio host
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: for like David or something, you know, we can, Maybe
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: a newfangled translation.
• 50:05
  Speaker 19: The door is open, and we will find a costume
• 50:09
  Speaker 19: and give you a part.
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 50:11
  Speaker 9: So you let me know when.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: Now, I'm not a Baptist. I can't dance, but I
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: can do everything else.
• 50:17
  Speaker 9: That's all right.
• 50:18
  Speaker 19: I can't dance either, and I somehow grew up on
• 50:19
  Speaker 19: the stage, so it's okay.
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: Well, Katie, look, congratulations. We're just huge fans and have
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: been for years of what you guys are doing. And
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: we want to be able to promote all the great
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: things that are happening. Thank you for what you and
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: your family are doing for the country.
• 50:35
  Speaker 9: Thank you. And thank you so much. We appreciate you.
• 50:38
  Speaker 19: It is a mutual honor and gratefulness for what you're doing, too.
• 50:41
  Speaker 9: So thank you so much.
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: Katie Miller, everybody, with Sight & Sound. And, again, go
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: to that website, sight-sound.com, and check out all the great shows,
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: the great streaming platforms, lots of great stuff. Dylan, did
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: I overstep? I don't– you know, I– No, I think
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: you're right.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: I think you're fine.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: I think I look good in, like, a beard and
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: a robe.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: I think you could pull it off if you really tried.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Put your heart and soul into it.
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: Right, exactly. But, yeah, the dancing, we got no rhythm.
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: My denomination has no rhythm.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: No, we're the hands in pockets, two-step, side to side.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: We can't even raise our hands.
• 51:15
  Speaker 7: No, no.
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: I think there's something genetically, you know.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: It won't go up, like, above, you know, chest length.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: I was at Calvary Chapel, Chino Hills, you know, when
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: I was speaking out there, and they had just an
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: incredible worship band. And people, they were raising their hands,
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: and I wanted to, but I couldn't get it past
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: a certain level.
• 51:34
  Speaker 12: No.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: No, we can't. We weren't raised that way.
• 51:37
  Speaker 8: No.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: It just can't happen.
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: No, we weren't. But again, by the way, you need
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: to take Mrs. Producer to a Sight & Sound show.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: You know, we have to get in touch with Alan Pillow,
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: who's out in Branson. Maybe he can get us tickets.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we have to now.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: All right. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen, Sight & Sound.
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: And I'm just telling you, These shows are absolutely spectacular.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: All right, we've got to take a break here and
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: pay some bills. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. This
• 52:04
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• 52:26
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• 52:29
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• 52:33
  Speaker 4: you folks been to one of these sight and sound productions?
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  Speaker 4: Dylan, I'm still trying to get over this jelly roll thing.
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know why this bothers me, but the guy's
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: a grifter. You know, he is a gospel grifter. I
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: think he pretended to become a Christian. so that he
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: can get all these Christian fans, and then he turns around,
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: and he cusses like a sailor on national TV.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's either a grifter, which I do think
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: that he's a grifter. He's either that, or he just
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: surrounded himself with the worst people. I mean, you see
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: what fame does to other people. Like, you just go,
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: and you meet someone who's like, hey, just do this,
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: and we'll give you the world. You know, that secret
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: society that they all say that they have. I think
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: that could be part of it, but, you know... He
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: did get big off this whole transformation. He lost all
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: this weight. He shared the gospel, and all these people
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: started being fans of his all of a sudden. Now
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: he's like, I don't know what he is now. I
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: don't even know what this is.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: I think he got big off the jelly rolls.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 16: He did.
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  Speaker 4: That could be. Or the Little Debbies.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there you go. New information out of the great
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: state of Texas. This polling data, they went in, Texas
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: Southern University, they went in and looked at the 15th, 28th,
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: and 34th congressional districts. Now, these are districts that President
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: Trump won overwhelmingly in 2024. Now, according to their polling data,
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: James Tallarico has a solid lead over Ken Paxton in
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: those three congressional districts that President Trump carried by double digits.
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  Speaker 4: The pollster surveyed 700 likely voters. In the Texas 15,
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  Speaker 4: Trump won by 18 points. 50% of those respondents chose Tallarico, 42% Paxton.
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  Speaker 4: In the 28th, Trump won by 10. Tallarico, 51%. Paxton, 41%.
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  Speaker 4: The Texas 34, Trump won by 10.
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  Speaker 2: Tallarico, 53%.
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: Paxton, 42%. What is going on there in Texas? I
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: will say.
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: I was talking to somebody last night about this, and
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: they say one of the big challenges is Paxton has
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: not been out there doing as much campaigning as they
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: thought that he was going to, and he's not doing that.
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: So again, I appreciate Jim Jordan coming on the show.
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: If you heard that conversation, you know he turned it
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: right back around on the Democrats, but the reality is
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: the Republicans are in charge, and the fact of the
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: matter is Gas prices and grocery prices were going down
• 56:15
  Speaker 4: until the war started. The war in Iran is going
• 56:18
  Speaker 4: to go on for a very long time, ladies and gentlemen.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: There's just no other way to say that. We are
• 56:24
  Speaker 4: going to be in a quagmire in Iran. There's no
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: off-ramp at this point. So that means higher gas prices,
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: higher grocery prices, and as much as manufacturing jobs are
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: coming back to America... it is still very difficult for
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: young people to get out there and to buy that
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  Speaker 4: first starter home. So we'll get into more of that
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  Speaker 4: All right, President Trump is a little fired up. So
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: the president taking to True Social on Wednesday to share
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: a list of grievances on how Republicans are messing up
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: their midterm chances. And I'm cleaning this up as best
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: I can. So after I share this, I'll explain some analysis.
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: I'll give you some analysis here. Anyway, the president sharing
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: a July 14th post from an influencer, Matt Van Swall,
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: which included a long list of things the president has
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: touted as accomplishments, including negative net migration, fentanyl trafficking being
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  Speaker 4: down in a second term, and then this lengthy post.
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: Swall wrote, I don't think the GOP fully grasped how
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: badly they are messing up right now. I'm cleaning this
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  Speaker 4: up for you. Swall said people are are miffed at
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: Republicans because they're not seeing the major reforms they expected.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to read this. They are really not
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: seeing the reforms, and they're really mad about it. No
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: true accountability, no true mass deportations, no meaningful decrease in
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: the deficit, lots of very long vacations and no work,
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: no bills being passed that reduce the government involvement in
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: their lives. I'm very worried the GOP is sleepwalking toward
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: a midterm reckoning they don't see coming. People are ticked off. Again,
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: cleaning this up. People are ticked off that they voted
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  Speaker 4: Trump into office and then the GOP continues to slow
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: walk every reform people want. Where are all the doge
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  Speaker 4: cuts that were promised? Where is the SAVE Act? Why
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: haven't we defunded the Taliban yet? By the way, why
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: haven't we defunded the Taliban? Why are bills passing the
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  Speaker 4: House and then disappear in the Senate? Why are the
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: GOP still funding left-wing NGOs that target and hate MAGA Republicans?
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: Why are members of the GOP pushing for mass amnesty
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: instead of mass deportations? People are waking up and they
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: aren't happy about it. People believe they were voting for
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: the Trump agenda, and instead many feel like they're getting
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: the same old Washington. If Republicans in Congress don't start
• 59:48
  Speaker 4: producing tangible results, they're going to discover that frustration has consequences,
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: and by the time they realize how deep-seated that frustration is,
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: It may already be too late. The president also took
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: a dig at Republicans in an interview this month with
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: Punchbowl News. The president, while he is facing the worst
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: polling ever, he insisted the public is not angry with him,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: but they're angry with Republicans. He said, quote, they're angry
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: at Republicans, but they're not angry at me. Trump said
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 4: he hopes Republicans vote in the midterm elections, but he
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: understands they're very angry. The question is, will they vote
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: because a lot of them are very angry at Republicans?
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: The president has expressed frustrations with GOP lawmakers on a
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: number of issues. Most recently, he's lashed out at Senate
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: Republicans for not passing the Save America Act. So ladies
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: and gentlemen, is the president right to be upset here?
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: And is the president right to call out the Republicans
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: on all of these issues? I mean, we've been talking
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: about this for a very long time on the show,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: and it is a disturbing situation. It's disturbing because this
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: is what the Republicans were elected to do. And this
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: is why the Republicans are not able to campaign on
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: any specific issue, because they haven't done anything. And I
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: will tell you, this event coming up in Dallas, the
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: midterm convention, I suspect what's going to happen here is
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 4: they're going to try and pivot and make this election
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: about Donald Trump. But I'm just telling you, I don't
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: think that's going to work. Because the Republican voters know
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: Trump's not the problem here. The problem would be the
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 4: Republicans on Capitol Hill. The problem would be Cable News, which,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: by the way, these conservative cable news companies are killing
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: the conservative movement. Look, what just happened yesterday in South
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: Carolina with Congressman Ralph Norman going down in defeat, Senator
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: Darlene Graham winning the runoff election. And she did it
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 4: only because Donald Trump gave her the endorsement and also
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: because Fox News actively endorsed and campaigned for this woman. Now,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: I hate to break it to you, but Darlene Graham
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: is not a conservative. Darlene Graham is barely a moderate Republican,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: and you mark my words on this, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 4: don't be surprised if she votes alongside people like Lisa
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: Murkowski and Susan Collins. The people of South Carolina made
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: a grave mistake. By the way, I believe open primaries
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: there in South Carolina, which means a lot of Democrats,
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 4: and that's By the way, that's one of the reasons
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: why Lindsey Graham was able to stay in power as
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: long as he did. So Democrats are able to vote
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: in Republican Party business. And I got a big problem
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: with that. Got to lock down those primaries so we
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: can make sure we're actually electing conservatives. And I feel
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: really bad for Ralph Norman. He did as well as
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: he possibly could. But again, when the president of the
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: United States is out there campaigning for the liberal Republican
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: in the race, I mean, what are you going to do?
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: It's unfortunate, but that's where we're at. So anyway, I'm
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: curious to hear from you on the president's assessment. And again,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: this is not coming, I mean, we've talked about these issues,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: but I'm glad to see the president actually understanding what's
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: at stake here. Maybe, just maybe, what they ought to do,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, if we really wanted, and the Republicans don't
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: have the momentum, they don't have the big mow. So
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: maybe one of the ways they could do that is
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 4: to call everybody back to Washington, get everybody back from
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: these vacations, and say, all right, we've got to get
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: the rest of the president's agenda across the finish line.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: Work around the clock. Get the Save America Act back.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: Blow up the filibuster. If they do that, if the
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: Republicans would have the courage to do that, I think
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: the American people would respond in kind. But right now,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: right now, it's a little dicey. I'm just telling you,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: it is a little dicey what's going to happen in November.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: All right, we've got to take a break here. 901-260-5926,
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  Speaker 16: All right.
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• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: By the way, President Trump on with Glenn Beck today.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: And the president said he would sign legislation banning Sharia
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: law in the United States. Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 20: We have so many enemies, I feel, like inside our
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 20: own gates. We have the DSA. And we have Islam,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 20: the Red Green Alliance, something I put up on the
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  Speaker 20: chalkboard when I was at Fox. And I said, this
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 20: is going to happen. And everybody said that they'll never
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 20: work together. And that's exactly what's happening. Would you push
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 20: for or sign a no Sharia law act for America?
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 16: And.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 20: When it comes to the Marxists, what advice do you
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 20: have for the GOP to begin to relate to the
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 20: people who feel like there is an affordability crisis in America,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 20: especially for the youth? And the Marxists are playing on
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 20: that and exploiting all of that. What advice do you have?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say two things. Number one, on Sharia law,
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  Speaker 8: I would absolutely say that's not this country. There was
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 8: no Sharia law. And you do have pockets of it,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 8: as you know. I would say no. And you go
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 8: to London, you go to Paris. It's almost like a
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 8: second way of life. It's ridiculous. And I would absolutely
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 8: be on your side on that, on a lot of
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 8: other people's side too. Because, you know, you and I
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 8: have people that I think we're more based on common
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 8: sense than we are on ideology. It's all about good
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 8: politics is all about common sense anyway. But I would
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 8: absolutely prohibit the Sharia law thing, and it is happening
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 8: in this country a little bit, and when we see it,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 8: we take it out, and you have to take it out.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 8: You have one system. We have a great system. Sometimes
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 8: it's very frustrating, but it's the best there is that
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 8: I can see.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm certainly glad to hear that. I think
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: the issue would be Congress. Would Congress be willing to
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: push forward any sort of legislation that would ban Sharia law?
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: Sharia law is just completely incompatible with Western civilization, and
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 4: it's completely incompatible with the United States Constitution. I was
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 4: doing an interview early this morning for the book, and Dylan,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: you can back me up here. I literally sun up
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: to sun down. When I'm not doing this radio show,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: we're doing book interviews.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: I can vouch for that.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of them.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: And we love it. It's been a lot of fun,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 4: but it's a lot of work, and there are long.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 4: And complicated conversations sometimes. And one of them was an
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: easier one today. When I told the host, he asked me,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: he goes, well, what's the biggest challenge facing America? And
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: I said, the biggest challenge facing America right now is
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: the rise of Islamic politics, political Islam, and also the
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: rise of communism. I mean, it really is that simple.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: Dwight D. Eisenhower, going back to the 1950s, Eisenhower knew
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: that communism was a dangerous thing facing America, and the
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: only way to fight communism was not through politics, but
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: it was through a spiritual solution, which is why Eisenhower
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: was really one of the most vocal presidents when it
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: came to talking about his faith in God. It was
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: Eisenhower who advanced the notion that that we are one
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: nation under God. And here we are so many years later,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 4: and we're facing the same problems we were dealing with
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: back in the 1950s. So again, I appreciate what the
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 4: president is doing here, but yeah, the biggest threat facing
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: our nation right now, political Islam and communism. Let's go
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  Speaker 4: to the phone lines, 901-260-5926. Tom in Houston, Texas, joining us. Hi, Tom.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: What's on your mind?
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 7: Hey, Todd. I'm here to help you, buddy. You quoted a.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 7: Poll from TSU, Texas Southern University.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 7: Here in Houston concerning Tallarico and Ken Paxton. And don't
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 7: get me wrong. I think Ken Paxton has a lot
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 7: of work to do. But TSU is one of the
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 7: most liberal uh, institutions. And, uh, I say that along with,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 7: you know, like, uh, prisons or institutions as well. But, uh,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 7: they are not to be, I don't trust any poll
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 7: results coming out of there more than I would, you know, uh,
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 7: the heat here in Texas, I tell you. But, um,
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 7: you need to do some research on TSU before you
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 7: start poking their polls.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Tom, I mean, look, you can make that argument
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: out of every poll. And Tom, hear me on this.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: And both parties do this. They say, you know, if
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: the poll looks great for Ken Paxton, oh, that's the
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 4: best poll in the world. The same poll could come
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: back later and say, actually, Tallarico's ahead. Well, that's the
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: worst poll in America. So you can either believe the
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: polls or not. But the reality is that's not the
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: only poll out there that shows Tallarico ahead. So You
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: can say it's some sort of a vast right-wing conspiracy
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: or left-wing conspiracy, but you're saying, though, that Ken Paxton
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: needs to do work. So what does he need to
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 4: do a better job of?
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 7: First off, he needs to campaign. And I don't care
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 7: if it's kissing babies or going and standing with farmers
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 7: in their fields or cattlemen around. I mean, if I
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 7: was him, I get a bunch of cattlemen, and I'd
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 7: go against what Trump just did with the foreign beef. Okay?
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 7: When you raise cattle, it's a three- to seven-year process
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 7: of building your herd, and they're going to allow the
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 7: cheap cuts of beef to come in. And what that
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 7: does is that takes away the, what am I trying
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 7: to say, the poor business of beef. Selling the high cuts,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 7: your sirloins, your beef, Now, brisket used to be a
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 7: throwaway beef. But, you know, get a bunch of ranchers
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 7: behind me and say Trump has messed up here, and
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 7: I'm trying to speak with him about how the cattle
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 7: business is hurting here in the state of Texas. We
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 7: love the state of Texas. We love the cattle. And
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 7: we need to make money, not give away products from foreigners,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 7: you know.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: So he's not doing any of that right now? Is
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 4: that what you're saying, Tom?
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 7: I'll tell you, I'm a pretty good consumer of the news,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 7: and I have not seen Ken Paxton in front of
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 7: a camera.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: Himself.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 7: You know, not a story about the campaign as far as,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 7: you know, polls or whatever. I haven't seen his team
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 7: put on an event in a good three or four weeks, okay?
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 7: And then they caught him vacationing in London with some woman,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 7: you know, And, of course, he just got divorced. I
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 7: don't know how his wife put up with him for
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 7: so long because he was, you know, not the best
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 7: husband in the world, but we're not electing a husband.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 7: I think he's a great fighter. You can see what
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  Speaker 7: he's done with the immigration issue against Biden, against Obama
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 7: for the state of Texas. He will fight for.
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  Speaker 4: Let me jump in here, Tom, and I want to
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  Speaker 4: bring in our national listening audience so they can understand
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 4: what you and I are talking about here. So instead
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: of celebrating America's birthday on American soil, on Texas soil,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: on the 4th of July, Ken Paxton was with his
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: new lover taking a tour of Europe. He was on
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: a European vacation on the nation's 250th birthday. And to
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: your point, Tom, it sounds like he's That decision has
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  Speaker 4: rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, and when you're going for an election, this
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 7: is strictly my opinion, but you don't want to do
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  Speaker 7: anything that's going to rub 20% or more of the
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 7: people the wrong way. You know?
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 13: You need to.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, I hear what you're saying, but is
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  Speaker 4: it possible, Tom, that some of the people they interviewed
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 4: for this poll could be saying exactly what you're saying,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: because it does sound like you're a little frustrated, and
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: you think Ken Paxton should be doing more to try
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: to get himself elected?
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 7: I agree with your last statement, but there's no way
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 7: in that place, I won't say it, that I would
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 7: vote for Tallarico.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, Tom, and I don't think that's it. I'm
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: willing to say this, that what could happen is you
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: could have Republicans just stay home and not vote. And again,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: I don't live in Texas. All I can tell you
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: is I was in Dallas last Sunday. I was at
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: First Baptist Church Dallas, talked to some very high-profile Republicans,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: and Tom, they're concerned about Ken Paxton. I'm just telling
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 4: you flat out, they're concerned about him being able to win.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm concerned about it, too, but I'm going to
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 7: vote for it.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 4: Good. I would encourage that. Let me ask you this.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 4: University of Texas, they've got a poll out with Texas
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 4: Political Project. They've got Governor Abbott ahead in his race
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 4: to win the governor's race. Is that a pretty good poll,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: University of Texas?
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Well, the University of Texas is a big liberal institution, too.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 7: You're talking about the law in Austin, correct? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 4: They've got University of Texas, Texas Politics Project Poll. They've
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: got Greg Abbott ahead, so he's winning his race right now.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: But that same polling data, the Attorney General, Ken Paxton,
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 4: is trailing James Tallarico, so there's some more polling data
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: out there. Look, All of these polls may be off kilter,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: but from what you just told me, Tom, I suspect
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: there are a lot of Republicans that feel the same
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 4: way you do about Ken Paxton and the lack of
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: effort that he's offering up here. All right, Tom, I
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 4: got to run. Folks, hour three of the big show
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: coming up. We're talking to the RNC. Hopefully we'll get
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: some new details on what the midterms are looking like. Also,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: Chris Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax. He'll be joining us
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 4: as well. Stick around, everybody. We'll be right back.
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• 1:16:59
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• 1:17:03
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  Speaker 4: every radio station in the entire state of Tennessee should
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  Speaker 4: is going to be offering a tribute to Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 4: And one of the things we're going to be doing
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 4: is playing the song, her original song, I Will Always
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 4: Love You. Not the Whitney Houston version, but the version
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 4: that Dolly Parton first recorded and wrote. And that's going
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 4: to happen at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, every radio station
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  Speaker 4: in the entire state of Tennessee. Those of you listening
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: to us on our flagship station, KWAM, you'll be hearing that.
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  Speaker 4: And we also are inviting all of you folks, if
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: you're out driving during that time, to turn on your
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: headlights out of respect for Dolly. So all of that
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 4: tomorrow on radio stations all around the nation, but specifically
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: right here in Tennessee. And by the way, Dylan, I
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: don't know if you saw, but last night in Nashville,
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: there was a traffic jam. They actually had to call
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 4: out the Tennessee Highway Patrol to run traffic in front
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 4: of Dolly's home, that beautiful mansion she.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 3: Has out there. Oh, wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of people loving Dolly, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: Showing up and they're putting flowers, kind of like what
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 4: they did. It reminded me of Graceland when Elvis died.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 4: And I mean, thousands of people turned out there on
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 4: what is now known as Elvis Presley Boulevard. So just
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 4: an amazing time. All right, 901-260-5926, our telephone number. Want
• 1:18:36
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• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: Communications Director for the Republican National Committee. Allie, good to
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 4: have you with us. And before we jump in, politics,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 4: one of the interesting things, somebody sent me a note.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 4: They were in D.C., and they were in their newsroom,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 4: and they said when word of Dolly Parton's death came down,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: the people who were shocked, it was not just the
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: old folks, it was the young people as well. I mean,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 4: she really did impact a lot of folks across the spectrum.
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  Speaker 16: You're exactly right. I think something that has been so
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 16: beautiful to see is in an age where it is political.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 16: People are on social media, her quotes getting shared across
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  Speaker 16: party lines about living with intention and gratitude and grace
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 16: and poise. This is something that all generations need to
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 16: be reminded of. Even before I got on this show
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 16: with you, I was talking to my mom and she
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 16: was revisiting some of her childhood memories set to Dolly
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 16: and talked about how last night she and my dad
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 16: were playing some of her greatest hits in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 16: So I think it's beautiful what your state is doing
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  Speaker 16: to honor her legacy. And I do hope all others
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  Speaker 16: follow suit.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it really is sort of a sense of loss.
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  Speaker 4: There are very few people left that generate universal affection,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 4: you know, no matter your politics. And I guess politics
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 4: sort of flavors everything these days for better or for worse.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 4: But I really appreciated the fact that she did keep
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 4: her politics to herself. I think she said once in
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 4: an interview, if you want to know where I stand
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  Speaker 4: on something, go listen to one of my songs because
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 4: I write about them in my songs. We need more
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 4: of that, I think, in the world of entertainment.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 16: Yeah, you're exactly right. People go to watch football games
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 16: or listen to music as a way to escape and
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 16: be entertained. And I think when we saw this... you know,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 16: interjection of politics into football. That was really a turning
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 16: point for Americans that looked at that sport as a
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 16: way to come together as a nation, cheer for one team.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 16: And then when it got political, you know, it turned
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 16: off so many football fans. And obviously, I work for
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 16: the RNC. Politics is something I am deeply passionate about
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 16: the Republican Party, I believe is the greatest party on earth.
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  Speaker 16: But there are some things that are sacred, such as,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 16: of course, honoring Dolly Parton's legacy and other ways we
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 16: as Americans celebrate our nation.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk politics. And one of the big issues on
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: the minds of voters, I know CNN just the other
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: day touting a poll that shows most Democrats still believe
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 4: that we should show some form of I.D. at the
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 4: ballot box. it seems to me this is more of
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 4: a 90-10 issue with voters. And yet the Democrats are
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 4: stopping the Save America Act. And certainly in the Senate,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 4: we've watched Republican leadership. And of course, they're blaming it
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: all on the Democrats. But the reality is the Save
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 4: America Act is not getting across the finish line. How
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 4: important is that issue? I mean, what are you hearing
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 4: from voters out there?
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  Speaker 9: It's crucial.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 16: And I'm glad you're bringing up the polling of everyday Americans.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 16: There was even a recent poll where self proclaimed socialists
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 16: agree that photo ID and proof of citizenship to vote
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 16: are common sense. We know it is the law that
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 16: only Americans should be voting in American elections. That is
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 16: why this week we saw a great win coming out
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 16: of the Supreme Court, allowing President Trump's executive order for
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 16: mail-in ballots to move forward, which would ensure that these
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 16: ballots are only going to American citizens. It's common sense.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 16: It's 90-10 exactly what you said. And it's an issue
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 16: that we are fully backing here at the RNC.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 4: Of course, we just had Congressman Jim Jordan, chairman of
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 4: House Judiciary, on the show in the last hour. And
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 4: he brought up the story out of New Jersey where
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 4: you've got thousands of non-citizens who were allowed to vote
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: in elections. And, Allie, you really do have to wonder,
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 4: if that's happening in New Jersey, you have to imagine
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 4: it's happening in a place like California or Illinois or
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 4: some of these other blue states.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 16: Yeah, and California's attorney general even admitted that they have
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 16: no system to tracking non-citizens on their voter rolls. Just
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 16: last month, President Trump gave a very important election integrity
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 16: address to the American people and cited states like California
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 16: and others where there are hundreds of thousands of non-citizens
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 16: in total on the voter rolls. And I'm glad you're
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 16: bringing up New Jersey because the RNC, in partnership with
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 16: the New Jersey GOP, actually exposed those non-citizens a month
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 16: before Mikey Sherrill made that announcement. And again, these are
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 16: just people that have asked to be removed from the
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 16: voter rolls, meaning it truly is the tip.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 9: Of the iceberg.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 4: You know, I want to play some audio here for us.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 4: This is coming out of Minnesota, where I'm sorry, from Michigan,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 4: where a state representative has described the situation there about
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 4: removing a dead voter from the township rolls. Let's take
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 4: a listen to State Representative Rachel Smith.
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  Speaker 21: Respectfully, Representative Smith, the fact that there are, in fact,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 21: some errors that happen in the system. Every system has errors,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 21: and it doesn't mean that there are not safeguards in place.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 21: There are safeguards, and you as a clerk, having done
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 21: many registrations previously, understand that there's a process that you
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 21: go through. And you can ask NASA. There's no process
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 21: that doesn't have some error inherent in the system.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 22: And you're very right. When I was a clerk, there
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 22: were lots of errors in the system. That's largely why
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 22: I am here. I took off a dead voter in
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 22: my township. And guess what? That dead voter was put
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 22: back on.
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  Speaker 15: Not by me.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 22: That was done by the Secretary of State's office. So
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 22: we need to do a lot of fixing here in
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  Speaker 22: our elections. When I was a clerk at Martin Township,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 22: there was a family member who at one point was
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 22: registered at my in-law's home. And that family member had
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 22: died nearly 20 years prior. They were put on the
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 22: rolls at 2020.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 22: They were mailed voter application ballots without the authorization to
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 22: do that. That's the local clerk's job. So I went
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 22: in there, removed her from the voting rolls because I
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 22: know firsthand this family member is dead and deceased. Just
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 22: this past election cycle, lo and behold, that person was
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 22: put back on the voter rolls and has a card
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 22: of the early voting location polling that I actually have
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 22: and can produce. And that's a problem.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say it's a problem. Allie, do you
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 4: see that that's a problem? Democrats refusing to remove dead
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 4: people from the ballot?
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 16: Well, that is why the RNC is a public records
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 16: request in 48 states right now, including Washington, D.C., to
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 16: Take a look at states' voter rolls because it is
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 16: federal law that states accurately maintain their voter rolls, removing
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 16: dead people, removing people that have moved to other places.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 16: It is pivotal, and especially with all of these blue
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 16: states wanting vote-by-mail for all. We cannot have ballots floating
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 16: around with, uh, dead people's names on them, ripe for fraud,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 16: right for ripe, rather for other people to, uh, vote
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 16: those ballots. The most important thing we do as a
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 16: nation is vote for who will run our country. And
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 16: we need a system that is worthy and secure of
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 16: that responsibility.
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 4: Maybe you can help me out here, Allie. I've been,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 4: I've been really frustrated trying to understand, uh, why this happens.
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 4: But again, we don't know what happens in the hereafter.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 4: We know what the good book says, but for whatever reason,
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 4: the dead people always vote Democrat. Have we been able
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 4: to figure out why that is? Why do only dead
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: people vote Democrat?
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 16: And when it came to our public records requests out
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 16: of New Jersey, the majority of the non-citizens that were
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 16: on the voter rolls where we got proof of their voting,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 16: they were all registered Democrat as well. So of course
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 16: these Democrats voted They don't want secure elections because the
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 16: dead people and the non-citizens are voting in their favor.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 16: We have even clips here at the RNC that we've
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 16: uncovered of Democrats admitting the quiet part out loud and
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 16: saying that if non-citizens cannot vote in our elections, that
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 16: they stand to have a harder time of keeping their power.
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 11: Why would that be?
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 22: Why would that be, Todd?
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 4: It is a great question, Allie. Before we let you go,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 4: This big Supreme Court case in the fall, the RNC's
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 4: proof of citizenship case, we understand that is expected to
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 4: be heard. How big of a deal is this, again,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 4: getting back to election integrity?
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 16: I mean, it's a blockbuster case. It's a two-part case.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 16: Number one, we're defending Arizona's proof of citizenship law to
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 16: make sure only Americans are voting in American elections. And also,
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 16: we are defending the right for non-citizens to be removed
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 16: from voter rolls no matter when they are discovered on
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 16: their rolls. A lot of places have these 90-day blackout
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 16: periods so that these non-citizens have to stay on these
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 16: voter rolls, which we know is terrible when it comes
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 16: to having them gain access to ballots. So we're excited
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 16: to see the Supreme Court take this up in October
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 16: and The RNC will never stop fighting for secure elections.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 16: All right.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 4: Well, Allie, we're going to leave it there. Again, a
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 4: lot happening, of course, gearing up for the big RNC midterm,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 4: and we'll be talking more about that later. But again,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 4: voter integrity and election integrity, that is something we've got
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 4: to pay attention to. Allie, thank you so much for
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: joining us today.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 16: Thank you for having me.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 4: All right. Allie Triolo, ladies and gentlemen, she is the
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 4: comms director for electionintegrity.org. at the Republican National Committee. I've
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 4: got to take a break here.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 4: That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show.
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  Speaker 17: That other thing, because Elvis was ready to record it.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 17: I told my friends and people that he was recording it,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 17: and they were in town to do the recording. They
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 17: had invited me down to the session. And Colonel Tom
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 17: Parker calls me the day before and says, now you
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 17: do know that Elvis is recording your song, and you
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 17: do know that Elvis don't record anything that he don't
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 17: publish or at least get half the publishing on.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 16: I said, really?
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: Which is to say he would have the rights.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 17: He would have the rights, at least half of the
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 17: rights to the publishing of the song. I said, I
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 17: can't do that. This song's already been a hit with me,
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  Speaker 17: and this is in my publishing company, and obviously this
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 17: is going to be one of my most important copyrights,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 17: and I can't give you half the publishing. Of course,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 17: that's stuff that I'm leaving for my family. And he said, well,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 17: then we can't record the song. And I was just heartbroken.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 17: I said, well, I'm really sorry. But I can't do that.
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  Speaker 17: So I didn't.
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  Speaker 21: That took guts.
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  Speaker 17: Well, it didn't to me.
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  Speaker 5: It seemed to be the thing to do.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 17: It hurt me because I was so disappointed I was
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 17: going to have to tell my friends Elvis didn't record it.
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  Speaker 17: But I just knew that that was not right and
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 17: that that was not. If it had been maybe if
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 17: I didn't have my own publishing company, had the song
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 17: not already been a hit, it might have been different.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 17: But I couldn't give somebody half of a song that
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 17: had already been number one and that was evident, had
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 17: already proved itself.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you had some redemption, Whitney Houston, then many years later.
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  Speaker 22: That's true.
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  Speaker 17: When Whitney recorded it, I was like, oh, good, because
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 17: now I own 100% of the publishing, 100% of the writing.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 17: And I did really well with that. But I didn't
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 17: blame Elvis, and I didn't blame Colonel Tom either. It
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 17: was a decision I had to make at the time,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 17: and I'm glad I did. Well, it was overwhelming. The
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 17: way she did it, David Foster, who arranged and produced it,
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 17: and Kevin Costner, who's the one that just wanted to
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 17: do the song.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 12: In the movie.
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  Speaker 17: But when I heard her sing it, because I'd always
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 17: loved her singing anyway. I mean, what a voice she had.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 17: I mean, at that time, nobody could out-sing her. But
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 17: when I heard it, my heart just stopped. I just
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 17: couldn't believe that my little song, my little simple song
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 17: that was written straight from my heart, you know, about
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 17: a subject... that we all know and relate to one
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 17: way or another, whether it's someone that's died or kids
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 17: going off to school. People relate to that song in
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 17: so many ways. But anyway, when I heard her sing it,
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 17: I could not believe it. I was driving at that
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 17: time from my office in Nashville to my house in Brentwood,
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 17: and I heard it when she started singing that acapella song.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 17: I thought, well, you know, I thought, what if I
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 17: should stay? And it took a minute to realize. And
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 17: then when it went into the music part where she's singing,
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 17: I honestly thought I was going to have a heart attack.
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 17: It was one of the most overwhelming things. The way
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 17: she did it was spectacular.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 20: And the Grammy goes.
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  Speaker 10: To Whitney Houston!
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 9: It's so nice.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 11: Thank you so much.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 11: Listen, I got a lot of folks to thank, so
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 11: I'm going to put this down for a second. Dolly,
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 11: of course, coming from you, this is truly an honor.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 11: You wrote a beautiful song. Thank you so much for
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 11: writing such beautiful songs for us.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 17: People say, well, that's Whitney's song. I said, that's fine.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 17: You can give her the credit. I just want the cash.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 17: So send that check on to me. But it was
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 17: her song. The way that she did that to make
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 17: that such a worldwide hit, mine would have never have
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 17: done that. But since then, people have done it as instrumentals,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 17: as duets, and all of that. So it's just one
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 17: of those simple little songs that says nothing and yet everything.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, really, it's a beautiful song. And going
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 4: back to that interview, she went on to talk about
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 4: how as much as she, if she had to give
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 4: up everything else, the only thing she would keep would
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 4: be her ability to write songs and these stories. And
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 4: that's really, that came from the East Tennessee mountain culture,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 4: that Appalachian culture, where storytelling, and that's how people lived
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 4: their lives back in those days, They told stories on
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: the front porch of their cabins. And for me, I think,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 4: you know, that's part of our culture. That's part of
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 4: our heritage as Southerners. And to see her story, I
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 4: think that's one of the reasons why she really resonated
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 4: with so many people, but especially those of us who
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 4: live in the Southern states and especially those of us
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 4: who live in Tennessee. And Dylan, say what you will,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 4: but there are a lot of great musicians. That came
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 4: from Tennessee.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: Amen to that.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: We'll throw in Timberlake. I'm feeling generous today. You know,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 4: he's from Memphis area. He gets half. Yeah, that's okay.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: He did bring sexy back, so, you know, we'll give
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 4: him that.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 4: Hang tight. Chris Ruddy from Newsmax joins us next. This
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 4: is the Todd Starr Show.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 4: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
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  Speaker 4: Good to have you with us. Hour three of the
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 4: big show. By the way, our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 4: All right. Well, no doubt about it. The midterm elections.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 4: How are you feeling, ladies and gentlemen? Are you feeling good?
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 4: Are you a little nervous? We've been hearing from just
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 4: about everybody on this particular issue. And a lot of
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 4: folks are just, they're just, I think they're concerned. That's all.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 4: I think they're concerned. And they want to hear from
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 4: these Republicans. Look, if you're Ken Paxton and you're running
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 4: for the U.S. Senate, and you know you've got a
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 4: lot of baggage, and the guy's got baggage, what are
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 4: you going to do? He's got baggage. So what do
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 4: you do? You don't go to Europe on the 4th
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 4: of July. You stay here in America and you campaign
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 4: on American soil. Preferably in Texas. So it's beyond me,
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 4: it's just beyond me what these folks are doing. The
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 4: sense of entitlement, I think, among some Republicans is really
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 4: setting people off and it's rubbing people the wrong way.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 4: And that's the reality of it. Meanwhile, you've got folks
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 4: out there taking full advantage of President Trump. And I
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 4: think the president is right here. This has absolutely nothing
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 4: to do with him. It has everything to do with
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 4: the do-nothing Congress. So we're going to be talking to
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 4: our friend Chris Ruddy over at Newsmax just momentarily as
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 4: he joins the program. Chris has a lot to celebrate
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 4: as Newsmax continues to go very, very well. By the way,
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 4: I want to go back to this polling data from CNN,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 4: cut number nine. Take a look here.
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  Speaker 23: Favorite photo ID to vote. 85% of white people favorite. 82%
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 23: of Latino. 76% of black Americans favorite. So the bottom
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 23: line is this. Voter ID is not controversial in this country.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 23: A photo ID to vote is.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 4: Not controversial in this country.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 23: It is not controversial by party and it is not
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 23: controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 23: Nicki Minaj that, in fact, you should have a photo
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 23: ID to be able to vote.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, this is common sense that we're dealing
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 4: with here. And by the way, the sex and gender revolutionaries,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 4: they are still controlling the school boards. I want you
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 4: to listen to this guy. He's from North Carolina, and
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 4: they're all very upset because they've got a transitioning teacher
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 4: in the local school, and the dad is really frustrated
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 4: over what's happening. Cut number 23.
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  Speaker 24: I have three small children at Middle Creek Elementary, and
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 24: I'm with Middle Creek Parental Rights. For years, people questioned
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 24: certain institutional orthodoxies, or people who questioned them, were intimidated
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 24: into believing that disagreement itself is a defect of character.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 24: We got all kinds of newspeak vocab for policing dissent,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 24: not to answer the argument, but to morally classify the
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 24: person making it. Misgendering, dead naming, cisnormativity, heteronormative bigotry, transphobic misogyny.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 24: It worked pretty well around 2016, and it worked really
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 24: well in 2020. But its shelf life is expired. Ordinary
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 24: Americans are remembering something basic that we can and should
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 24: just say things. Things like, I don't subscribe to gender theory.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 24: I'm a Christian and a faithful believer in Jesus Christ.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 24: In fact, I claim religious exemption from it for myself
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 24: and for my family. I reject critical theory, postmodern progressivism,
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 24: especially in elementary education.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I get where this guy's coming from here. And
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 4: it's really frustrating that moms and dads are still having
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 4: to deal with this. I really do hope the administration
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 4: does abolish the Department of Education, return control of those
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 4: schools back to the local communities where they're going to
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 4: be able to eradicate this sex and gender ideology. 901-260-5926
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 4: is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Well, for those of
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 4: you who have read my new book called The Golden Age,
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 4: and if you've read the preface, you know who our
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 4: next guest is. As a matter of fact, these are
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 4: like the first words of the book. My first visit
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 4: to Mar-a-Lago was at the invitation of Chris Ruddy, the
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 4: chief executive officer of Newsmax. Our dinner party was seated
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 4: on the alfresco patio with a breathtaking view of the
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 4: manicured lawn and brilliant blue waters of the swimming pool,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 4: I was keenly aware that up until that moment in
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 4: my life, my idea of fine dining was Uncle Herschel's
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 4: favorite breakfast at Cracker Barrel. In the South, we have
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 4: a saying for a situation like that, I was honored
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 4: to be living high on the hog. And with that,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 4: we bring in the CEO of Newsmax, Chris Roddy. Chris,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 4: great to have you on the show today.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 3: It looks great. It looks like a major network you
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 3: have there.
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 4: Well, we have a great team. We have a fun
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 4: team here, and I sure do appreciate that. And I
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 4: appreciate all the things that you have done for me,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 4: and we're so excited about the new book. We're getting
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 4: rave reviews all over the country.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: Even President Trump said he's read the book, right?
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 4: He has, and he gave us the thumbs up, and
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 4: we had Speaker Mike Johnson as well. And again, I
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 4: just can't say enough great things about you, and thank
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 4: you for bringing me into the Newsmax fold.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you. You've been a force before Newsmax was around,
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 3: and in media, you're continuing to be that, and the radio,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 3: and television. So we appreciate it, Todd, and keep up
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 3: your good work.
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 4: Well, again, there's a lot to talk about, Chris. We've
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 4: got the midterms, and you guys did the big debate
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 4: a few nights ago there in South Carolina. Did you
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 4: ever imagine that Newsmax would be a major player like
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 4: it is when you've started the magazines and the newsletters
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 4: and now just the incredible success that Newsmax has seen?
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't really imagine a lot of things. I
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 3: just keep doing what I'm doing and keep building and growing.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 3: And I do think that people, it's not Chris Ruddy
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 3: doing this, right? It's the millions of people that are
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 3: watching us tuning in Newsmax, they're downloading our app on
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 3: their phones, they're going to cable, they're going to streaming
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 3: to watch your show. And they're the ones that we
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 3: owe gratitude to and have to point to our success.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 3: And they're coming to us because there's not a lot
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 3: of alternatives and the media is so bad out there
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 3: and we're seeing they're going to get really bad leading
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 3: up to this election.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 4: But still, I mean, it takes a person with vision
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 4: and you've been that visionary and a lot of folks
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 4: may not know this, but Newsmax is really now international,
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 4: and that must be so exciting to see the Newsmax
• 1:41:46
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• 1:41:50
  Speaker 3: Well, we're in 100 countries now with Newsmax, which is amazing.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: They're carrying our American channel, the cable channel, or our streaming.
• 1:41:59
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• 1:42:01
  Speaker 3: like us so much they start putting us in local language.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 3: We just launched Newsmax Poland in the Polish language. We're
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 3: working with partners there that do that. We're hoping to
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: expand to a lot more other countries. Again, I think
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 3: it's this demand, right? It's not just in this country.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 3: We actually have a lot more media diversity than many
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 3: other countries, including Europe. So there's a real demand for
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 3: what we're offering, which is sensible news. We always say
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 3: we're independent with a conservative perspective. And I think that's
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 3: why President Trump likes us so much. So many people
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 3: have There's 15 million plus people that have downloaded our app,
• 1:42:40
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• 1:42:43
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• 1:42:46
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• 1:42:49
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• 1:42:53
  Speaker 3: and we're really excited about the future.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 4: We've done book signings in Southern California, Chino Hills, and
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 4: was just in Dallas this past Sunday, and the numbers
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 4: of people... that came up and said, you know, they
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 4: loved watching my show on Newsmax, too. You know, they
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 4: love what's happening at Newsmax. And to a person, they said,
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 4: thank you for what you guys are doing. And I
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 4: think it's that going back to that idea of real
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 4: news for real people. And I think that's really resonating
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 4: with folks out there, don't you?
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we don't give a, you know, there's
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 3: a lot of differences between us and Fox. If people say, well,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 3: what's the difference? Watch us. Look at our websites today.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: Look at the Newsmax site compared to the Fox News
• 1:43:37
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• 1:43:40
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• 1:43:44
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• 1:43:47
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• 1:43:49
  Speaker 3: in sync with their values. But we let people decide that, right?
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 3: We're not telling them to believe that. You go on
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 3: a lot of networks, everybody's telling you what to believe. Yeah.
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 3: My view is let people, we have Democrats come on,
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 3: we have people pro-Trump, against Trump. We're not afraid because
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 3: we know that when the people can really make up
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 3: their own minds, that that's better for everyone.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 4: I completely agree with that assessment. And, you know, we
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 4: love those opportunities to debate. You know, Donna Brazile, for example,
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 4: has come on the radio show and we've had pretty
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 4: ferocious debates, but we also talk about the finer points of,
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 4: of making a great gumbo. She's a great chef on
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 4: the side. And I think that's one of the things
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 4: that's sort of missing in politics. You get so laser-focused
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 4: on the politics, you forget the humanity of the person
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 4: as well. And I wonder if our country is really
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 4: in a bad fix because of that.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 3: The polarization is huge. You know, they'll blame a lot
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 3: of it on President Trump. But then when you look back,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 3: you see what they did to him over the four
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 3: years he was out of office. They were not very nice, right?
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 3: Multiple prosecutions, many lawsuits, negative press day in and day out.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 3: I think one of the reasons he won is that
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 3: people felt like they were so over the top. So,
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 3: you know, people I think are seeing now that the
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 3: president really lived up to his promises. I mean, the
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 3: guy has had an amazing track record. The border was
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 3: secured even before he really took office almost because they
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 3: knew he was coming. They stopped coming across the border.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 3: The Trump accounts, the Trump prescription drugs, I mean, the
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 3: lowest prices in 40 years. Who would have thought of that, right?
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 3: He's done all that stuff.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 4: And that was really the foundation for writing The Golden Age.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 4: I was just getting frustrated with people saying, well, the
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 4: president hasn't accomplished all that much. So we just went
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 4: back and looked at the promises he made and whether
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 4: or not he delivered on those promises. And by and large,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 4: he has. And again, ushering in The Golden Age, for me, Chris,
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 4: and I know that you're a man of faith as well,
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 4: as am I, And I really believe that the golden
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 4: age is really not so much about affordability or lower
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 4: gas prices as it is about restoring those traditional American values.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 4: And I'm wondering, based on where we are now, do
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 4: you think the president has done that? Has he ushered
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 4: in this golden age?
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's early, right? He's a year and
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 3: a half into his presidency. And the amazing things he's done,
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 3: I don't think any other president in a year and
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 3: a half.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: People forget, like, people are angry with him. It's only
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  Speaker 3: a year and a half. He whipped inflation. Biden left
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  Speaker 3: him with a mess. He passed the big, beautiful bill
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  Speaker 3: with massive tax cuts and rebates and all of that,
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  Speaker 3: no taxes on tips. He's done the Trump accounts. He's
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  Speaker 3: done prescription drugs. He's done a whole bunch of things. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the Iran war is a bit of an outlier, right?
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  Speaker 3: But I think he's showing leadership there. And then the
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  Speaker 3: long run, that will pay off. But it always, sometimes
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  Speaker 3: these things are harder than they first appear. But he's
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  Speaker 3: showing real leadership that other presidents had ignored this issue.
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  Speaker 3: The Iranian government, the regime there, is terrible. They are
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  Speaker 3: a threat to America and Israel and the whole Western world.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the president has shown decisive leadership. I
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  Speaker 3: think where I would criticize the Trump administration is the
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  Speaker 3: lack of communication. You know, the things we talk about today, Todd,
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  Speaker 3: they're just not talking about at the White House. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's sort of strange. The president's a great communicator, but
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  Speaker 3: it's just him. Who else is talking about these things?
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes to get Trump administration people to talk about it,
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  Speaker 3: you have to sometimes pull teeth. They don't even want
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  Speaker 3: to go on air. It's very strange.
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  Speaker 4: You look at the Democrats, and they are leading in
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  Speaker 4: a lot of the polling data. I was talking to
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  Speaker 4: some high-profile conservatives in Texas. They are really concerned about
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 4: whether or not Kim Paxton is going to be able
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  Speaker 4: to win in November, which is sort of shocking to me.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 4: But I just sense from the callers on our show,
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 4: there does seem to be a disconnect here, especially on
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  Speaker 4: the issues of things like affordability. You know, the gas prices,
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  Speaker 4: grocery prices, and these Gen Z kids that have the
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 4: good jobs, but they're just not able to get them.
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  Speaker 4: first starter home. Are you sensing that as well?
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say they have good jobs. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: think the affordability crisis is real. Um, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think sometimes we have to, we can learn some things
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  Speaker 3: from Mandami. I don't like him. I think he's an
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 3: anti-Semite and he's definitely socialistic. Um, A communist might be
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 3: a little strong, but he's definitely a socialist. But, you know,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 3: they're answering. They see that people don't have money. They
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  Speaker 3: don't have money for food, for rent, especially the younger people.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have jobs. And he's like, I'll give you this.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 3: I'll give you free groceries, free rent, free housing, free this.
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  Speaker 3: And it sounds great, right? Everything's for free. But somebody
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 3: has to pay for it. Ultimately, that system, that socialism
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 3: system collapses. The Republicans and the Trump administration, we should
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 3: be offering... answering those concerns about how people are going
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 3: to get jobs, how they're going to increase. The president
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 3: has a lot of good plans on that, but sometimes
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  Speaker 3: I think the Republicans just don't seem to answer those issues,
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  Speaker 3: as well as the Democrats in terms of responding. And
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 3: I think that there are ways, like we see a
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  Speaker 3: lot of companies in America, big companies, really are semi-monopolies,
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 3: and they, you know, I could give you an example,
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  Speaker 3: the cell phone bill that you have, You know, Americans
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 3: pay five to ten times more Europeans pay on their
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 3: cell phones.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 3: Our government gives three companies led by AT & T
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 3: all the spectrum for cell phones. So there's no real competition.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 3: The three of them just decide on a price and
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 3: everybody has to pay it. Too bad. You have no alternatives.
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  Speaker 3: In Europe, they warehouse the spectrum. Any company can go
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 3: and access it. It's not given to someone to control.
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  Speaker 3: So their system in that case is better and it
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 3: keeps prices lower. And you see this in a lot
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 3: of other industries. You can go through many of them
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 3: where the government is essentially given a handful of companies
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 3: control and it's not good. So I think this is
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 3: an issue led to tremendous income disparity and this is
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 3: causing a lot of the economic and upheaval and social
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 3: issues and then now politically. And I think the Republicans
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 3: have much better answers.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: More free enterprise, more competition, more investment, more helping the
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  Speaker 3: little guy rise up, more helping. I remember when I
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 3: was young, all the Republicans were always known as the
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: party of small business. Now they're sort of known as
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 3: the party of big business and the Washington swamp. That's
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 3: not good. And I think it's causing a lot of
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 3: angst in the base, and that's why they're not as
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 3: excited this election.
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