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Chicago Bulls Dismiss Player Due to Christian Beliefs · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 5: Tod starts Wenday.
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  Speaker 6: All right, well, hello, everybody, welcome, Welcome to the Tom
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  Speaker 6: And Franklin has some things to say about the situation
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  Speaker 6: in the NBA, and and that is that's going to
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  Speaker 6: be our starting point today. I'm not a big NBA fan, Dylan,
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  Speaker 6: Are you a big NBA guy?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 6: I'm college I'm college sports love it.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. No, I'm the same as you. I just but
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  Speaker 7: after that, not.
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  Speaker 6: Really, you know, we have the Memphis Grizzlies here and
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  Speaker 6: the teams. It's on hard times, very hard times, and
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  Speaker 6: you know it's I mean, I don't know, I just
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  Speaker 6: have not gotten into the whole NBA scene.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm right there with you.
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  Speaker 6: So I head did a little bit of homework on
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  Speaker 6: this guy, Jade and Ivy, and back in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 6: four Sports Spectrum which is a it's a magazine. They
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  Speaker 6: cover Christian athletes, they cover a lot of Christianity and sports.
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  Speaker 6: You know, good, it's a great magazine. And they they
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  Speaker 6: did a big feature story on him and we've got
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  Speaker 6: a photo up on our website. By the way, the
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  Speaker 6: moment that Jade and Ivy was baptized, he rededicated his
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  Speaker 6: life to Christ and he became a really passionate follower
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  Speaker 6: of Jesus. And here on this program, we never shy
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  Speaker 6: away from that. We never shy away from our faith.
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  Speaker 6: You know, when people tune in New to three, you're
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  Speaker 6: not expecting some sort of a Sunday sermon or if
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  Speaker 6: you go to an Episcopal church, a homily. But we
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  Speaker 6: but you know, whenever it's appropriate, we talk about faith.
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  Speaker 6: And if there's a story that has a faith component,
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  Speaker 6: we talk about it. So this story immediately caught my
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  Speaker 6: attention about Jade and Ivy and the NBA. So this
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  Speaker 6: guy passionate follower of Christ, and he uses his platforms
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  Speaker 6: to talk about his faith, and that got him in
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  Speaker 6: trouble with the NBA. So I understand he played for
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  Speaker 6: originally I believe, the Detroit Pistons, and then he was
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  Speaker 6: traded or joined the Chicago Bulls. Well, he's been dismissed
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  Speaker 6: from the team, and the the Chicago Bulls putting out
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  Speaker 6: a statement yesterday saying that you know what, I just
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  Speaker 6: figured out, Dylan, pardon me, pardon me, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 6: I just figured out I've been sending you emails from
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  Speaker 6: a bad email account of mine that always and that's
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  Speaker 6: why I'm so anyway, I just figured that out.
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  Speaker 7: While email sucks, it's okay.
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  Speaker 6: The more you know, I suppose there you go. So
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  Speaker 6: it's that Apple email, you know, the one that goes
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  Speaker 6: to the cloud thing. How I even have that? Which
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  Speaker 6: is so anyway, So we'll find the audio. We're gonna
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  Speaker 6: get you. We're gonna get you the audio. And Dylan,
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  Speaker 6: if you can find the audio of him going after
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  Speaker 6: Pride month, so the NBA forces people to celebrate Pride Month. Now, look,
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  Speaker 6: I just want to I want to step back for
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  Speaker 6: a moment and just talk as a as a business owner.
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  Speaker 6: I happen to own a business. We have employees, and
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  Speaker 6: if my employees want to celebrate something, they are free
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  Speaker 6: to do that. That is their right. But as a company,
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  Speaker 6: we don't celebrate those kinds of things. We just don't.
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  Speaker 6: That's not what we do. But I'm never going to
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  Speaker 6: force you know, for example, if let's see here, if
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  Speaker 6: well Ian so Ian, I don't know what, Let's just
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  Speaker 6: say that Ian is do we know what nationality? Ian is?
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  Speaker 2: Here?
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  Speaker 6: I've got to make sure I offend him the right way.
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  Speaker 6: Can we find out Dylan is he Scottish? Is he Irish?
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  Speaker 6: He's Albanian? Yes, Corners our friend, Oh you know who
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  Speaker 6: I'm He's Albanian? Okay, So let's just say that Ian
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  Speaker 6: hates the Irish and we force Ian to dress up
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  Speaker 6: like a leprechaun on Saint Patrick's Day and march in
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  Speaker 6: the Saint Patrick's Day parade town Beale Street. You know
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  Speaker 6: that would not be appropriate?
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  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 6: That would? We could say Ian, you're gonna do this?
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  Speaker 6: You Albedian and you're gonna talk like an irishman top
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  Speaker 6: of the day or morning whatever. So no, of course
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  Speaker 6: that would be so inappropriate for me to do as
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  Speaker 6: the owner of a company. It would be funny, but
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  Speaker 6: it would be inappropriate. So that being said, what gives
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  Speaker 6: the NBA the right to tell any of their players
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  Speaker 6: or coaches, or cheerleaders or anybody on their staff that
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  Speaker 6: they must bound down and worship the LGBT agenda. Why
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  Speaker 6: is it that these NBA players are being forced to
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  Speaker 6: go out there and pledge allegiance to the rainbow flag. Now,
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  Speaker 6: this guy he got dismissed not because of anything he
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  Speaker 6: did on the basketball court. And it just seems to
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  Speaker 6: me that's what you ought to be judging a professional
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  Speaker 6: basketball player by whether or not they can get the basket,
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  Speaker 6: get the ball in the basket, or they can prevent
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  Speaker 6: the other team from getting the ball in the basket.
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  Speaker 6: That seems to me to be the most important part
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  Speaker 6: of basketball where you put the ball. Oh wait a second,
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  Speaker 6: that came out wrong, But it's important in basketball where
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  Speaker 6: what you do on the court. So this guy, Jaden Ivy,
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  Speaker 6: who's a Christian, decided that he was going to talk
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  Speaker 6: about this and say you know what. I think it's
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  Speaker 6: really inappropriate that we have to do this. All right,
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  Speaker 6: let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: The world can proclaim LGBTQ, right, they have.
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  Speaker 8: They have.
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  Speaker 2: They proclaim Pride months and the NBA they proclaim it.
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  Speaker 2: They show it to the world, they say, come, come,
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  Speaker 2: come join us for for a Pride month, to celebrate unrighteousness.
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  Speaker 2: They proclaim it. They proclaim it on the billboards, they
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  Speaker 2: proclaim it in the streets, unrighteousness. So how is it
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  Speaker 2: that that one can't speak righteousness? How is it one
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  Speaker 2: that how? How how are they to say that, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you man, this man is crazy.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not the the J I used to be, But
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  Speaker 2: the old J is that a lot of Christ? You know,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what the basketball setting is, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: born again the Holy Spirit, and I've been saved by
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. No matter what how many d MPs I
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  Speaker 2: don't I don't get to play, or no matter how
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  Speaker 2: many points I score, those things are a temporary thing.
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  Speaker 6: So I wanted you to hear that last part because
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  Speaker 6: they're using that last part now, These sports writers are
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  Speaker 6: using that last part to suggest that this guy is
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  Speaker 6: dealing with he's emotionally troubled and he's mentally unstable, and
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  Speaker 6: they're coming after him with guns ablazing, and it is ugly.
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  Speaker 6: But you heard, you heard what he said. What he
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  Speaker 6: just said, that first part of it is why he
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  Speaker 6: was dismissed from the Chicago Bulls. And the Chicago Bulls
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  Speaker 6: is saying, you know what, honestly, we don't want any
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  Speaker 6: of you Christian people. We don't want you playing on
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  Speaker 6: our team, and we don't want you to be a
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  Speaker 6: part of our organization. And you know what, fined if
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  Speaker 6: they want to play that game. But let me just
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  Speaker 6: explain to you this is what actual persecution looks like
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  Speaker 6: in America. They are targeting this ballplay player because of
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  Speaker 6: his religious beliefs, which, by the way, is unconstitutional. And
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  Speaker 6: I have to imagine that Harmeat Dillon and the Justice
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  Speaker 6: Department are going to be taking a long, hard look
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  Speaker 6: at this case. So anyway, Billy Donovan, it's he the
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  Speaker 6: head coach of the ball he's the head coach of
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  Speaker 6: the Bulls. So he is out there and he was
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  Speaker 6: asked to explain all of this yesterday, and here's his explanation.
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  Speaker 9: I would just say this, you know, at least since
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  Speaker 9: I Vin with the Bulls.
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  Speaker 10: You know, it's you've got people, mean from all different backgrounds, right,
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  Speaker 10: you know, inside the organization. So I think the first
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  Speaker 10: thing is how well well And this goes for players,
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  Speaker 10: I think coaches, everything that building. It's always been a
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  Speaker 10: thing that the who's been from the top, like we're
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  Speaker 10: all going to work well together.
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  Speaker 9: You know, we're all going to basically take care of
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  Speaker 9: each other and then accept each other. And I think
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  Speaker 9: we're going to be aren't working.
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  Speaker 10: We're going to be accountable, and we're going to be respectful,
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  Speaker 10: and we're going to be professional.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 9: I think that's kind of what it's been.
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  Speaker 10: I know some of the things that we've put out there.
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  Speaker 10: You know, I think it's a situation for him where
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  Speaker 10: you know, it's on his own personal Instagram. I don't
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  Speaker 10: want to get into what he put out there, but
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  Speaker 10: certainly I hope for him, you know, he's okay. I
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  Speaker 10: don't know, you know, like I've had conversations with Jade
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  Speaker 10: and stuff, and he's aways about we have these needs
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  Speaker 10: trying to bring an important want to play.
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  Speaker 9: But I think organization made to certain standards.
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  Speaker 10: I think we want to have as an organization, they're
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  Speaker 10: trying to move up close each and every day.
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  Speaker 6: So there you have the coach and it's it's very
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  Speaker 6: clear that they are trying to destroy this guy now
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  Speaker 6: and there are there are some really terrible, horrible things
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  Speaker 6: that are that are being said about this guy and
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  Speaker 6: talking about, you know, all the problems he has had,
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  Speaker 6: you know, in his life. I guess he grew up
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  Speaker 6: in a really difficult home environment. And look, here's the deal.
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  Speaker 6: The reality is all of us are sinners saved by grace.
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  Speaker 6: And this young man, he's twenty four years old. This
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  Speaker 6: young man he accepted Christ and he turned from his
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  Speaker 6: wicked ways, as we all have. Anybody who is a
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  Speaker 6: follower of Christ, anybody who has had that experience, that
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  Speaker 6: life changing experience. You know, in the eyes of God,
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  Speaker 6: sin is sin. And now these players are going out
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  Speaker 6: there and they're dredging up all these things and just
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  Speaker 6: saying really awful things about this guy, when in fact,
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  Speaker 6: what we ought to be doing is celebrating this young man.
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  Speaker 6: Now here's the deal. A lot of Christians are saying
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  Speaker 6: he should have just kept quiet so he could have
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  Speaker 6: kept his job. And honestly, I believe that was that
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  Speaker 6: was the problem, and that is the problem with America
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  Speaker 6: is that far too many Christians are silent. Far too
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  Speaker 6: many Christians are afraid to confront this great evil in
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  Speaker 6: our society. By the way, Jada and Ivy came out,
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  Speaker 6: this is great. He came out with another statement and
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  Speaker 6: here's what he I just want to read this to you.
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  Speaker 6: He said, the NBA was everything to me. I didn't
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  Speaker 6: know God when I came to the NBA. I was
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  Speaker 6: a fornicator. I was a porn addict, and I used
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  Speaker 6: to get drunk. That's all I knew. After all those points,
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  Speaker 6: I felt good. I felt like everything was set out
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  Speaker 6: for me. And then he found Christ. But now you've
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  Speaker 6: got all these And by the way, what happens when
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  Speaker 6: you find Christ. You become a new creation when you
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  Speaker 6: when you died to yourself. And that was a phrase
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  Speaker 6: that I think Pete Hegseth got in trouble for a
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  Speaker 6: couple of days ago. When you die to yourself, you
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  Speaker 6: have to do that so that Christ lives through you.
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  Speaker 6: And now they're saying, this guy is mentally unhinged and
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  Speaker 6: mentally unstable. So now, if you, according to the NBA,
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  Speaker 6: if you follow the teachings of Jesus, Christ. That makes
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  Speaker 6: you somehow a bad person. But again, what does any
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  Speaker 6: of this have to do with basketball? And the greater
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  Speaker 6: concern here is now we interstated, you go all the
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  Speaker 6: way back to barn Hussein Obama. Remember when the Supreme
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  Speaker 6: Court redefined what God defined that would be marriage? Do
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  Speaker 6: you remember that? And Barack Hussaint Obama stood out there
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  Speaker 6: and said, this is not going to impact any of
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  Speaker 6: you in America. This is all about. This is all
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  Speaker 6: about gay people being allowed to marry each other. That's it.
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  Speaker 6: They just want to be left alone, They want to
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  Speaker 6: live their lives. Well, now we know that is not true.
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  Speaker 6: Now we know that society at large is being forced
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  Speaker 6: to bow down and worship this agenda. As a matter
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  Speaker 6: of fact, Canada is working through legislation right now that
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  Speaker 6: would literally outlaw passages of the Holy Bible. Over in
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  Speaker 6: the United Kingdom, Christians are being arrested and thrown in
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  Speaker 6: jail for preaching from scripture about Islam and homosexuality. They're
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  Speaker 6: being thrown in jail. Is that what you want here,
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  Speaker 6: because ultimately that is what's going to happen here. Yesterday
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  Speaker 6: we had George Barna on our NEWSMAC show and Barnes said,
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  Speaker 6: an overwhelming majority of churches in America are not teaching
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  Speaker 6: from the scripture. They're not they're not discipling their church members.
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  Speaker 6: So you've got a bunch of ignorant church people running
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  Speaker 6: around and as a result in that, you've got chaos
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  Speaker 6: in the culture. But again, ladies and gentlemen, what does
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  Speaker 6: any of this have to do with play in professional basketball?
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  Speaker 6: What in all seriousness? So, now in the NBA, as
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  Speaker 6: a result of all of this, we now know. We
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  Speaker 6: now know that if you want to play in the NBA,
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  Speaker 6: you've got to pledge your allegiance to be an ally
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  Speaker 6: to the LGBT community. Do you believe that is fair?
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  Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen, all right, we've got to take a break.
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  Speaker 6: You do understand, at the end of the day, they're
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  Speaker 6: coming after the Christians. That's that's what this is really
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  Speaker 6: believe that people of faith should be more vocal? Should
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  Speaker 6: Welcome back to the Ton Sterns Radio show nine oh
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  Speaker 6: one two six zero five nine two six. That's nine
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  Speaker 6: oh one two six zero five nine two six. I
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  Speaker 6: want to play some audio for you. You're not going
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  Speaker 6: to be able to understand this guy unless you speak Spanish.
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  Speaker 6: But this guy lives in Queens, New York, and he
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  Speaker 6: wanted everybody to hear what it sounds like because the
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  Speaker 6: Muslims are now allowed to broadcast their prayers five times
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  Speaker 6: a day from sunrise, like in the wee hours of
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  Speaker 6: the morning to sunset. And then, ladies and gentlemen, I
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  Speaker 6: want you to think about this. All of the mosques
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  Speaker 6: that are being built all over America, this very well
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  Speaker 6: would be your neighborhood.
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  Speaker 11: Take a listen, Yanna, Okay, stop stops.
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  Speaker 6: Could you imagine, Dylan, You're just like hanging out and
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  Speaker 6: all of a sudden, that's what you hear outside of
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  Speaker 6: your home.
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  Speaker 7: As a music guy, I would just say it's a
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  Speaker 7: little pitchy, but it would not be a pleasant.
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  Speaker 6: That is insane. So that's happening all over New York City.
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  Speaker 6: That was in Queens. I was talking to somebody in
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  Speaker 6: my old neighborhood back in the frank and Christina my
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  Speaker 6: neighbors back in the old hood, and they're like, Todd,
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  Speaker 6: we can hear that, we can hear the call to prayer.
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  Speaker 6: It's crazy. Of course they were their old school Italians,
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  Speaker 6: so they said a few other things I'm not allowed
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  Speaker 6: to repeat on the radio. But ladies and gentlemen, you
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  Speaker 6: better get ready because that is coming to your neighborhood.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go to the phone lines. Ohio, German shepherd, hind
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  Speaker 6: German shepherd. What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 12: Hey, mister Todder's speaking my language.
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  Speaker 13: Man.
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  Speaker 12: You know, I go down to the DMV on my
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  Speaker 12: way out of town in Jacksonville to share the gospel
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  Speaker 12: with everybody waiting in line to go into the DMV,
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  Speaker 12: and you know, on average there's about ten, fifteen, twenty
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  Speaker 12: people standing there just waiting for the DMV to open.
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  Speaker 12: And you know, it's also notable that the when Jesus
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  Speaker 12: cleansed the temple, he did that the gentile courtyard, which
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  Speaker 12: is where the Jews were supposed to be evangelizing the
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  Speaker 12: non Jews, and they turned it into a bizarre So
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  Speaker 12: in the church today is the same issue where they're
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  Speaker 12: just secluded. It's turned most of them turned into rest homes.
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  Speaker 14: Instead of.
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  Speaker 12: Embassies to get the march in orders to.
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  Speaker 6: Share our Yeah, the purpose, that's it, German Shepherd, It's
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  Speaker 6: it's all about sharing the faith. That's what it's about.
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  Speaker 15: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: By the way, one of the big gay news publications,
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  Speaker 6: NBA's running a full page ad now they're looking for
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  Speaker 6: good ball handlers. We'll see how that goes. Good luck
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  Speaker 6: to you. We'll be right back. All right, Welcome back, everybody.
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  Speaker 6: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. You know what's interesting,
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  Speaker 6: There was a big story that developed over the weekend.
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  Speaker 6: President Trump, as he often does on social media, he'll
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  Speaker 6: post a message, but it wasn't his message that Jenner
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  Speaker 6: the conversation. It was a It was a letter that
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  Speaker 6: the President had received from Franklin Graham, and it was
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  Speaker 6: a private letter. And President Trump posted this letter on
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  Speaker 6: his social media page in advance of Palm Sunday. And
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  Speaker 6: for me, folks, those of us who have been able
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  Speaker 6: to be in the Oval Office, we've been able to
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  Speaker 6: talk with the President and have private conversations with the President.
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  Speaker 6: Those conversations are always meant to be private. And one
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  Speaker 6: of the things I greatly respected about Franklin Graham is
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  Speaker 6: that he never told anybody about this letter. It was
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  Speaker 6: a letter between him and the president, and I think
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  Speaker 6: that really says a lot about Franklin Graham, who he is,
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  Speaker 6: what his life is all about, which is sharing the
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  Speaker 6: gospel message. Well, Franklin joins us today on the Patriot
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  Speaker 6: Mobile newsmaker line, Franklin, good to have you with us.
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  Speaker 6: I know you're a busy man. Thanks for taking a
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  Speaker 6: few moments with us today.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thank you for having me. I could be with
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  Speaker 8: you so this.
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  Speaker 6: I had a chance to read the letter and it
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  Speaker 6: was just really moving. And I'm wondering if you want
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  Speaker 6: to take us back to that moment when you said,
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  Speaker 6: you know what, I need to sit down and write
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  Speaker 6: the president a message.
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  Speaker 8: Well, again, you know, I don't. I don't do release
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  Speaker 8: letters that I write to the president or and I
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  Speaker 8: don't talk about kind of conversations I have anything. But
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  Speaker 8: since he's released it, I think I'm free to do that.
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  Speaker 8: He made a statement back in this letter that I
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  Speaker 8: posted I gave him back in October. He made a
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  Speaker 8: statement to the media sometimes the week or so of
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  Speaker 8: before that say that he wasn't sure that he was
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  Speaker 8: going to go to heaven and H H. I'll want
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  Speaker 8: to make sure that he understands because I know I'll
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  Speaker 8: talk to him before about issues like this, and so
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  Speaker 8: I just thought I just put it in writing and
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  Speaker 8: just tell him that we don't get to have him
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  Speaker 8: by our own uh, it's by the blood of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 8: And so I just presented the gospel and the letter
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  Speaker 8: to him and and uh, and just told him that
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  Speaker 8: with you student, that if he's willing to, if anyone's
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  Speaker 8: going to be a pair of their sins and by
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  Speaker 8: faith believe in Jesus Christ and accept him as their
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  Speaker 8: Lord and Savior, that we'll be forgiven of our sins.
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  Speaker 8: So I just put that in the letter to him,
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  Speaker 8: and and never heard back. And you know, I didn't
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  Speaker 8: get a response saying thank you for the letter. I
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  Speaker 8: just said it to him, and I don't expect a response.
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  Speaker 8: He's busy, uh, Like I was just a surprise that
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  Speaker 8: he released that on Palm Sunday before Palm Sunday. So
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  Speaker 8: and I'm glad he did because I gets the gospel
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  Speaker 8: out there millions of people.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think it does. And it also as I
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  Speaker 6: was reading the letter, and I thought to myself, you know,
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  Speaker 6: when was the last time, you know, I actually shared
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  Speaker 6: the Gospel with someone. I mean there, you know, are
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  Speaker 6: there people? And I think a lot of people are wondering,
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  Speaker 6: you know, maybe I need to be out there sharing
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  Speaker 6: the gospel message with with with our friends, you know,
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  Speaker 6: with with with their acquaintances, their family members.
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  Speaker 8: Well, and you know it doesn't you don't have to
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  Speaker 8: have a long letter. And this is just a couple
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  Speaker 8: of paragraphs, but is the fact that Jesus Christ is
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  Speaker 8: God's son. He came to save us from our sins.
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: He shed his own blood on a cross, he was
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  Speaker 8: buried for our sins, and on the third day God
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  Speaker 8: raised your life. That's the gospel God. And then you
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  Speaker 8: can ask the question what to a person, have you
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  Speaker 8: ever accepted Christ? Have you ever confessed your sins and repented?
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  Speaker 8: And have you trusted Jesus R. Savid? He hadn't done that?
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  Speaker 8: Would you like to do that right now? That takes
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  Speaker 8: thirty seconds?
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  Speaker 7: Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: It's it really is It really is that simple, and
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  Speaker 6: it's it's it's a life changing decision that people can make.
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  Speaker 6: I wrote a book last year called Starspango Blessings, And
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: in this book, it's a devotional series and there's There's
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  Speaker 6: a story about Ronald Reagan who sat down in the
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  Speaker 6: Oval Office one day. His father in law did not
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  Speaker 6: know christ and he actually sat down and wrote this
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  Speaker 6: beautiful letter to his father in law in the Oval
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  Speaker 6: Office and the throes of the Cold War and all
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  Speaker 6: that stuff that was going on, and yet for that
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  Speaker 6: moment in time, the most important person was the soul
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  Speaker 6: of his father in law. And just, uh, again, that's
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  Speaker 6: the you know, there's something about that that's really stirring.
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  Speaker 8: Well, we all have family, oh and uh, we all
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  Speaker 8: have family that are not saying they won't be in heaven.
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  Speaker 8: And I think how important it is to make sure
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  Speaker 8: that our loved ones know and understand and have given
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  Speaker 8: an opportunity to accept Christ.
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  Speaker 6: Franklin, There's there's a lot of chaos in the world.
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  Speaker 6: There are Christians under attack all over the place. Of course,
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  Speaker 6: one of the big stories that came out yesterday from
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  Speaker 6: the NBA where the Chicago Bulls dismissed a player. His
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  Speaker 6: name is Jaden Ivy. This young man was baptized several
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  Speaker 6: years ago. He's an outspoken Christian, and he was critical
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  Speaker 6: of the NBA's decision to force players to celebrate these
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  Speaker 6: gay Pride events, and yesterday he was dismissed from the
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  Speaker 6: team and the team said that that those kinds of
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  Speaker 6: comments are detrimental conduct to the team. What what do
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  Speaker 6: you say about that?
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  Speaker 8: Well, first of all, I want to say how much
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  Speaker 8: I appreciate Jade boldness and his clarity and not being
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  Speaker 8: ashamed of the gospel. So I've had uh tips for
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  Speaker 8: him and just just admire him so very much for
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  Speaker 8: taking this stand. And uh if in the Chicago Bulls,
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  Speaker 8: they are a shame on them and all these major
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  Speaker 8: league Uh it's not just basketball, but uh we see
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  Speaker 8: this in football and and uh and other sports. And
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  Speaker 8: I would just hope that the players would rebel against
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  Speaker 8: it and just say we're not going to play. We're
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  Speaker 8: just going to go and strike and tell you all
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  Speaker 8: the move the lgb Q. You know, it's basketball is
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  Speaker 8: about basketball. It's not about uh simple sex between two
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  Speaker 8: men or two women. That's that's not what there should
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  Speaker 8: be about. It should be about basketball or football. And
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  Speaker 8: I just would have hoped that the players, because I
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: know many of the players, they don't believe this, they
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  Speaker 8: don't support that, but they're told that, they're told to.
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  Speaker 8: And because the money involved they compromise and I could
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  Speaker 8: just uh encourage players, and then they're coaches too that
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  Speaker 8: don't go along with this. And and just rallied behind Jayden.
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  Speaker 8: He just said, you know this is He's right, and
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  Speaker 8: we're up. I'm going We're not gonna do this anymore.
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  Speaker 6: I got to tell you, I I was so admired
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  Speaker 6: his courage for standing up, because you're right, he could
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  Speaker 6: have you know, he could have just you know, just
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  Speaker 6: quietly gone on, but he didn't do that. He took
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  Speaker 6: a stand. And and sometimes you know, when you take
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  Speaker 6: a stand, and you know, you never know how things
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: are going to work out. And I know he may
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: have lost his spot there at the Chicago Bulls, but
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  Speaker 6: I have to imagine that God has something much bigger
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  Speaker 6: in store for this guy.
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  Speaker 8: No question, God U God's not gonna let this guy
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  Speaker 8: just slide off into the and through the weeds here.
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  Speaker 8: He's got a bigger, a bigger plan for him. So
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  Speaker 8: but anyway, I just thank God for Jaden and the courage,
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  Speaker 8: and I hope others will following.
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  Speaker 6: Before we let you go, I saw your tweet about
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  Speaker 6: Chick fil A, and I know you're a McDonald's guy.
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  Speaker 6: So when Franklin Graham is tweeting about somebody other a
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  Speaker 6: fast food restaurant other than McDonald's. I pay attention and
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  Speaker 6: I just love this story, this Chick fil A franchise,
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  Speaker 6: and now we understand several hundred other Chick fil A
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  Speaker 6: outposts are inviting families to put aside the cell phones
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  Speaker 6: and share a meal together and if you do that,
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  Speaker 6: you get a free ice cream. What a great idea.
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  Speaker 8: It's good. It's an incredible idea, and first of all,
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  Speaker 8: from marketing for Chick fil A, it didn't cost them
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  Speaker 8: anything and their whole country's talking about it. And so
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  Speaker 8: that one franchise up in Maryland, I believe it's where
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  Speaker 8: they're out of the other Chick fil A needs to do.
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  Speaker 8: Corporate needs to do something special for them, because this
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  Speaker 8: is an incredible idea, and I believe it's going to
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  Speaker 8: catch on, and not just Chick fil A, but I
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  Speaker 8: think there'll be other restaurants so there's nothing similar. It's
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  Speaker 8: a great, great idea, and it's so needed when you
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  Speaker 8: think about when we sit down the table, somebody want
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  Speaker 8: or to or usually on a cell phone, and then
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  Speaker 8: the shoot includes the watch too, because now you can
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  Speaker 8: get messages on your watch and you sit there and
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  Speaker 8: play with your watch while you're eating. So this is
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  Speaker 8: a great idea Chick fil A. You know, God bless him.
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  Speaker 8: I think this is wonderful. And try to encourage people
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  Speaker 8: to take your family this weekend a Chick fil A
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  Speaker 8: and put your cell phones down. And if they're not participating,
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  Speaker 8: this as the management of that Chick fil A. If
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  Speaker 8: they would participate, it's.
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  Speaker 6: A great idea. Before we let you go, Franklin, there
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: are a lot of people that are just struggling at
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: these times, you know, this time of year Eastern looking
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  Speaker 6: for answers, and I think it's important to take a
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  Speaker 6: minute and just explain that the answers to all of
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  Speaker 6: our problems is not in Washington, it's not in Hollywood,
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  Speaker 6: but it really is about a relationship with Jesus and.
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  Speaker 8: It is thought. And of course, when Jesus faced a
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  Speaker 8: pilot before he was sinnence and inclusified, pilot asked what
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  Speaker 8: is truth? Well, Jesus said, I am the way the
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  Speaker 8: truth in the life. No man comes to the Father
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  Speaker 8: but by me. There's not multiple ways to God. There's
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  Speaker 8: only one path, and that's through Christ. And the reason
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  Speaker 8: that is is because he is the only one in
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  Speaker 8: history to take sin and die for your sin and
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  Speaker 8: pay the penalty of your sin. When he hung on
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  Speaker 8: the cross, God poured on his son this sin's past, sins, present,
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  Speaker 8: sinds future. That's us. Jesus Christ shed his blood. In
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: the Bible says, there's no forgiveness of sin or remission
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  Speaker 8: of sin without the shedding of blood. And here is
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  Speaker 8: God shedding the blood of his son for you and
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  Speaker 8: me and the whole world. And all we have to
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  Speaker 8: do is just believe it. We don't buy it, so
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  Speaker 8: you don't get mine, you don't do good works to
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  Speaker 8: receive it is just by simply faith believing. And so
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: the Bible says, by grace I we saved your faith.
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  Speaker 8: And so I would just erect I encourage a person
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  Speaker 8: who's vestment. If you've never invited Christ into your art,
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  Speaker 8: do right now to say, God, I'm a sinner and
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  Speaker 8: I will turn to my sins, and I want to
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  Speaker 8: trust your son Jesus Christ is my savior. I want
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: to invite him to come into my heart to take
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  Speaker 8: control of my life. But this minute forward forever, and
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  Speaker 8: if you pray that and you mean that, God will
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  Speaker 8: hear your prayer. He'll answer your prayer, and you'll be forgiven.
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  Speaker 8: And not only forgiven, but he will guarantee that you
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  Speaker 8: have a spot in heaven for eternity with him. So
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  Speaker 8: I would encourage people to do that and again and
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  Speaker 8: just be sure, just like the presidence of just be sure,
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  Speaker 8: make sure that your heart is right, God will bless
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  Speaker 8: you and give you eternal life.
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  Speaker 6: Amen to that, Franklin, We're going to have to leave
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  Speaker 6: it there. Just wish you your family a very very
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  Speaker 6: hampy Easter.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, Dodd, and same to you, all.
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  Speaker 6: Right, Franklin, Graham, everybody, we'll be right back, all right.
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  Speaker 6: Good to have you with us. Dylan. I'm contemplating this
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  Speaker 6: next story we're about to talk about, but we were
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: gonna have to talk about it. Ladies and gentlemen, if
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: you're eating, if you're eating a ballooney sandwich or maybe
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: a delicious tuna fish sandwich, you might want to just
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: come for a moment because we do have some breaking
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: news to share with you.
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  Speaker 5: Breaking news now on the Todd starn Show.
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  Speaker 6: Well, here is the headline, the latest from Washington. The
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: husband of Christy Nolme has apparently come out of the
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: closet as a gay man who likes to cross dress
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: under the name Busty Bimbo. According to The New York Post,
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  Speaker 6: Christinome is devastated by the salacious allegations. Her husband, Byron
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  Speaker 6: lives a double life, actually a double d life to
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: be exact, where he cross dresses and chats online with
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: fetish models. According to missnomes representatives, she is devastated. The
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  Speaker 6: family was blindsided by this and they ask for privacy
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: and prayers at the same time. According to The Daily Mail,
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: Byron Byron Nome chatted up women from the so called
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: Bimbofication fetish scene, in which adult performers augment their boobies
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: with massive amounts of saline to achieve a Barbie Doll
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: like appearance. Dylan, anytime, please tell me to stop.
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: I may have wanted to you that a couple minutes ago.
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  Speaker 6: Citing hundreds hundreds of messages purportedly sent by three women
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  Speaker 6: from the scene, Nomes's husband enthusiastically praised their heavily augmented
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: appearances and proclaimed he coveted huge, huge, ridiculous boobs. One
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: photo claims that mister Nomes shared with the women features
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: him wearing pink hotpants and a flesh colored skin tight suit.
• 34:32
  Speaker 6: He appears to have put balloons in his shirt to
• 34:34
  Speaker 6: mimic comically oversized lop sided breast, complete with fake protruding
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: can't say that word on the radio. The outlet spoke
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  Speaker 6: to national security experts who surmised her husband's alleged proclivities
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: could have left the former DHS secretary, who was fired
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: last month, vulnerable to pitch a blackmount. Well, all right,
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: well you think so, now, ladies and gentlemen. I've been
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: getting some messages during the commercial break, and one person said,
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: everybody knew about this, and watched everybody knew about this.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: So if that's true, if everybody knew about this, and
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: by the way, they had to have known. If you're
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: telling me that when the FBI went in and they
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: do background checks on everybody, you're telling me the FBI
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: missed that. I don't believe. I'm serious. This is insane. So,
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: I mean, the Christinolman had been and it had been long,
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: long rumored that she was in a relationship with Corey Lewandowski.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: They traveled everywhere together and it was just a little weird.
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: She was asked about the relationship during hearings, and she
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: refused to answer the question, and that is, by the way,
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: what led her led to her oulster. But don it
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: was a promotion. She was promoted. No, it wasn't a promotion.
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: She's now Arco Rubio Secretary. But regardless, this certainly could
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: have put Homely Insecurity in a very very tight spot
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  Speaker 6: had this information come out when she was the DHS secretary.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I just ask your question here, and I
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  Speaker 6: just I don't mean anything by it, but can we
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: just not have normal people like working at our government,
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: just like regular folks? Just bolling? Is that possible? I'm
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: trying to understand the gay part of this though that
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: doesn't make any sense. So anyway, well we'll keep reading.
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Maybe I don't want to know, Maybe that's it. Maybe
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: it's just best that we not know. But again, this
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: does create it does create a black male type situation.
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: And that's why I'm just shocked, shocked that well no,
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: they're saying alleged, but Christy Nome. According to the New
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: York Post and the reporting of the post, missus Gnome
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: is devastated and the family was blindsided. So it's not
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: like honey is that you and the photos. I think
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: that conversation has already been had, so we'll keep you
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: updated on any developments there. But that's just it's a
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: terrible thing. It's an awful thing. But who in their
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: right mind? I want to know who was responsible for
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: doing the background checks? I mean, that's that's what we
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: need to get. And by the way, what else did
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: they miss? I mean, if they miss a grown man
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: wearing boobies and hot pink tight pants, what else did
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: they miss? Ladies and gentlemen? All right, gotta take a
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: break here, go throw up regroup. Nine oh one two
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  Speaker 6: six zero five nine tuesdas Jesus. You know it's only Tuesday.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: It's only Tuesday, people. And by the way, could they
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: not have could they waited until after East to drump
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  Speaker 6: this story?
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  Speaker 5: Really?
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: Come on? All right, I gotta take a break. We'll
• 38:04
  Speaker 6: be right back to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: common sense conservative commentary from Todd starts.
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  Speaker 5: Samaritan.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I forgot, ladies and gentlemen. Happy trans visibility Day
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: to you those of you that are celebrating. I can't
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: see you. Where are you. Oh, in all seriousness, ladies
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: and gentlemen, and we do take the trans issue very seriously.
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: And I'm telling you that, at least in my neighborhood,
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: we are a very progressive neighborhood and people, I think
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: across the entire all of Germantown, Tennessee, I think is
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: celebrating Transvisibility Day. I know you seem shocked by that.
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: I'm a little shocked because I also live in Germantown.
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  Speaker 6: So you haven't seen that. I mean, it's it's I
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: mean everywhere, like this morning, as I was driving in,
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: I saw maybe seventy five trans ams. I have never
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: seen so many trans ams in my life.
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: Popular car.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so happy transam Visibility.
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: Day, Happy, happy good day.
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: I don't think that's what I trans am. I'm sorry
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: what Helen's telling us that that's not exactly what Transvisibility
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: Day is all about.
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: That's what we celebrate.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: I thought it was right exactly. That's God bless Burt Reynolds.
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: I thought I saw him driving around today. Maybe I
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: was mistaken. Anyway, Yeah, it is what transvisibility Day. And
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: I'm not quite sure what we're supposed to do. I mean,
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: what does that actually, what does that actually mean? I
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: will say this from New Hampshire. Our friends over at
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: libs of TikTok, they got a scoop. There's I think
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: she's a woman. She's a teacher at Timberlane High School
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: and her name is doctor Jennifer Pellerin. I think she
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: may have been Jim at birth. I don't know. I
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: can't tell. And you know that that that's inappropriate for
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: me to say that. So I don't know. Pronouns unclear?
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: How about that. We'll just leave it there anyway. Doctor Pellerine,
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: a teacher at Timberlane High School in New Hampshire, sent
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: a message to the staff asking them to show support
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: for TRANS Day of Visibility. She's in coouraging teachers to
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: put up trans posters in their classroom. You know, this
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: is why I could not be a school teacher, Dylan,
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: because there would be like Burt Reynolds and Sally oh
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: what was her name? Sally oh jeesel Is. Somebody will
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: call in on the smoking of the bandit movies. I
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: can't remember her name anyway, somebody will call in and
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: remind us. But I would have those I would have
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: those posters plastered all over the room, great teacher, we'd
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: watch Smoking in the Bandit all right, kids. One of
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: the best lines in that movie is when Sheriff oh
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: jees a loop. Jackie Gleasam played the sheriff. He played
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: a great Southern sheriff, even though he was not Southern,
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: and he told his son who was the deputy, and
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: his son was retarded, not in the literal sense, but
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: he was just, you know, a moron, and he said, Junior,
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: you'll always be my little tick turn. Best line in
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: the movie.
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: You should bring that back. Don't call any of us.
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: That, Congress Ben, you're a lion tick turn, Sir. I
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: almost said that a few times last night on Newsmax.
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: They're getting all my nerves. So anyway, if anybody remembers
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: who was it was anyway, it's Sally No, not Struthers.
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: That that was all the family. Anyway, somebody will call
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: in and remind us that. So Professor doctor pellerin telling
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: all the high school teachers that they need to be
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: wearing ally stickers and they need to be displaying some
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: sort of a poster in their classroom, and then she
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: provides them all by the way, I thought we had
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: stopped all of this, right, ladies and gentlemen, let me
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: say something here. The Trump administration is on dangerous ground
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: here because they're not following through with the President's directives. Now,
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: First of all, the Department of Education has not been dismantled,
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: it has not been defunded, and they are not putting
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: a stump to this. Remember, the President issued an executive order.
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: He gave the order. It is up to Linda McMahon
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: to enforce the order. How many stories have we shared
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: with you just in the past couple of weeks of
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: transgenderism creeping back onto these school campuses. Now, at some point,
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: ladies and gentlemen, at some point, the Department of Education
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: is going to have to do something here. Otherwise people
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: are going to wake up to this. And I think
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: they look, we pay attention to all of this because
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: I don't want my president to get impeached. And that's
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: what's going to happen. If these Republicans and the administration
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: screw around and do not follow through on the President's agenda,
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: that's what's going to happen. So it's very simple, and
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: there should be no more second chances. None. You're advancing
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: this transgender nonsense. You're letting boys into girls locker rooms,
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: you're letting boys compete against girls. You lose your funding
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: and that's it for the entire year, no more funding
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: for you. But that's just me, that's no. I know
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: I'm not getting upset. I'm in a good mood today.
• 44:21
  Speaker 6: I'm just telling you this kind of stuff aggravates me
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: because they're still getting federal tax dollars. All right, let's
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: go to newburn North Carolina. Natalie is on the line.
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: Natalie helped me out here. My brain is it's just
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: not where it should be at today.
• 44:37
  Speaker 16: Yes, it is. You're doing great.
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: It's Burt RELs. It's Burt Reynolds.
• 44:42
  Speaker 16: Who is he Sally Field?
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: Sally Fields? Yes, thank you for that, you know, Natalie,
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: I kept thinking Sally Struthers and I'm like, no, that's
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: that's Archie Bunker.
• 44:54
  Speaker 16: Yes, yes, but no, we listened to you almost every
• 44:59
  Speaker 16: day here New Burnham. When we're in Ohio that's our
• 45:03
  Speaker 16: main home. We listened to you up there also, and
• 45:05
  Speaker 16: you're doing a phenomenal job.
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you for that. You know what I want
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: to do, Natalie, I've got a new book coming out
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: in May or maybe June. And I want to get
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: you a copy of that. Is that okay? I want
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: to be able to send it to you. Is that
• 45:19
  Speaker 6: all right?
• 45:20
  Speaker 16: Sure, that'd be great.
• 45:22
  Speaker 6: Wonder well, thank you for helping us out here on
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: the show, Ladies. So Natalie was my lifeline today, Sally Fields,
• 45:29
  Speaker 6: I knew it was. Yeah, there you go, by the way.
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: The new book is called Don't Go Anywhere, Natalie. We're
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: going to get all your info. The new book is
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: called The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. And the
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: endorsements are just flowing in on this thing. People are
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: really loving the book, and we've got some advanced readers
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: out there. We're getting a lot of positive feedback. It'll
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: be in bookstores in May. You will need to pre
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: order it today though, and you can do that by
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: going to Barnes and Noble Books a million wherever you
• 45:58
  Speaker 6: get your books. And we want you to make sure
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: you get yourself a copy of this. It's gonna be
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: a big book for me. And I think there's an
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: important message in the book that I want you to
• 46:09
  Speaker 6: read again, The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. All right,
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: let's go back to the boy that was Dylan. You know,
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: we had the best listeners. They I knew they would know.
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: They know more things than me. I've never heard of
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: these these people that you're there trying to figure out.
• 46:27
  Speaker 6: That was the golden age. Yeah, I'm saying, jen X,
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: we just had the best freaking movies. Yeah, we had
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: the best music.
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: We have too many movies now, and most of them
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: are not good.
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: Most of them are remakes. Yeah, I'm like, don't be touching,
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: you know, don't be touch on my eighties movies.
• 46:42
  Speaker 7: Please, You're gonna make it woke, and you are.
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: But I kind of like, you know, I was born
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: in sixty seven, so I kind of my gap is
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: like seventies to eighties, and honestly, there was some those
• 46:54
  Speaker 6: are some incredible years.
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah. I love the eighties movies and Godfather can't go
• 46:59
  Speaker 7: wrong with that ever.
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: Best movie ever? Yeah, best movie ever. All right, let's
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: go to Jerry in Iowa. Jerry, what is on your
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: mind today?
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Brothers Todd and Dylan. I'm just still amazed that. So
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: you let's let's just be honest. You're you're one of
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: the A list talents. You're real good at your job,
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: but you're still and you're a normal Christian and that
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: you invite listeners like me and Claire out in the
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: cheap seats to uh participate and all all of us
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: get to call in. You do a lot of caller time,
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: and it just still makes me feel connected. And I
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: know that a lot of people feel that like we're
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: not cut out just because we're not, you know, we
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: have other jobs and everything. So I really appreciate that
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: it feels like America. So the reason why I called
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: is you had a listener survey question earlier and I
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: think it was should or should would or will one
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: of those Christians become more politically active? And since I
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: heard Franklin, I'm going to say, share the gospel and
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: become politically more active both of those. And my experience
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: is that most Christians will not share their faith no
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: matter directly. You know, they'll I call it mo the
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: lawn for Jesus. People are supposed to drive by and
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: see a great lawn and go, oh, yeah, there must
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: be a gun. And most Christian conservatives will not speak
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: out on self government. For example, here in Iowa, in
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: the Cedar Valley, in Jeff's neighborhood, it's like an hour
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: from me, there's a cluster of cities where Islamic growth,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: and I researched this Islamic growth from twenty to twenty
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: ten was linear, but from twenty ten to twenty six
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: it's becoming exponential. And I went and attended a care
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Muslim brotherhood thing at the area college where they had
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: pighted them in and they're scooping up vacation Bible school
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: kids to go to their new Islamic center. Like you know,
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: a lot of secular kids won't even go to I mean,
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: they'll never go to church, but they'll go to BBS. Well,
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: the Muslims are trying to get them now. So no,
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: I don't think Christians they're not speaking up on that.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: They and they don't. You cannot get people to share
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: the gospel or or point out the Islamic invasion because
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: it's like it's not their gift, it's not their calling,
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: Like Peter, like, do you know Jesus. Oh No, I've
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: never knew the guy myself, never seen him. Don't know
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: what you're talking about.
• 49:24
  Speaker 6: Well, look, here's the here's the here's the challenge I
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: have in all of this, and we are going to
• 49:30
  Speaker 6: have to stand up and fight eventually, that's where it's
• 49:34
  Speaker 6: all going to come to, and that's where all of
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: this is heading towards. Michael Yusef was on the show
• 49:40
  Speaker 6: and he said there's a difference between Muslims and Islamists.
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: There are many others who say there is no difference
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: between Muslims and Islamist. So the question is, and I
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: think I think most people in Congress and most people
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: and elected office would agree with doctor Usef that there
• 49:59
  Speaker 6: are muscle that are okay, that are not going to
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: blow you up, and then there are the Islamis who
• 50:03
  Speaker 6: want to blow all of us up. The question is
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: how do we how do we tell the difference? And
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: number two, what do we do about it? Because Jerry,
• 50:13
  Speaker 6: I see a situation where Christians do nothing, they allow
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: the Islamis to come in, take over, take control. They
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: are going to crack down on They'll be forcing the
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: women to wear the hitd jobs. And I think the
• 50:26
  Speaker 6: Christian women of America would willing, would willingly do that
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: fearing the alternative. So I'm just wondering, you know, are
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: we going to stand up? And if so, what exactly
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: does that look like? Because I think ten five, ten
• 50:41
  Speaker 6: years from now, we're going to be looking at a
• 50:43
  Speaker 6: very different version of America.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: Well, my understanding is it's only three percent of the
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: population that can cause a revolution or whether it's Marxist,
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Islamic or Christian revival. Most people sit it out. They
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: don't want to. They just want to wait around and
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: see who wins. They might have a feeling about it.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: But Muslims and Islamist I think they're all complicit. I
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: think they smile on the inside when an Infidel gets
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: what they deserve. Now themselves might not blow something up
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: or chop somebody's head off, but they're kind of, you know,
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: like Islam's going to take over the world. So I
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: really don't see a difference between the two. There was
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: an attempted to be heading in Des Moines, by the way,
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Steve Days did a whole hour long show where he
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: interviewed her. She survived. Cops happened to be in the area,
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: but the whole family was for it. She didn't want
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: to wear her key job, she wanted to keep going
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: to school after eighth grade, and they just all agreed that,
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: you know, buff young twenty five year old is going
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: to do the deed. But they were all complicit in it.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: So will Christians ever speak share the gospel, which is
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: God and country in that order. I mean, you know,
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: I don't know. You just they didn't want to sit
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: around and pray and wait for somebody else to.
• 51:49
  Speaker 6: Do the I don't think they're going to do it.
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: I don't think they're going to do it. J I
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: really don't. We The churches in America are basically entertainment complexes.
• 51:58
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's what they've become. They've got juice bars,
• 52:00
  Speaker 6: have got coffee shops, they're roasting their own beans. They've
• 52:04
  Speaker 6: got athletic centers, they've got the American Idol cover bands,
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: and they got a field good sermon. And that's I
• 52:11
  Speaker 6: think ultimately that is going to lead to the complete
• 52:14
  Speaker 6: and utter destruction of America if we don't turn that around. Jerry,
• 52:18
  Speaker 6: I've got to run. But thank you for that. And
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: I want to give you an example of what I'm
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: talking about here. So yesterday they announced they announced the
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: FBI did that the attack on the synagogue, that massive
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Remember where the guy drove
• 52:34
  Speaker 6: the truck into the synagogue. It turns out that the suspect,
• 52:39
  Speaker 6: i'man Mohammed Ghazzali was motivated and inspired by Hesbalah militant ideology.
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: He wanted to kill as many Jews as possible. That's
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: what the FBI is saying. Dozens of law enforcement officers
• 52:54
  Speaker 6: were hurt in the incident, but nobody inside the synagogue
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: was injured. Three days before the attack, Gazzali started looking
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: at web pages for local synagogues. He tried to buy
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: a gun. They were people refused to sell the guy
• 53:09
  Speaker 6: a gun. He went to a gun store about an
• 53:11
  Speaker 6: ar Ar style rifle I'm reading from the ABC reporting here,
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: along with ten rifle magazines and three hundred rounds of AMMO.
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: He also searched for phrases including the largest gathering of
• 53:24
  Speaker 6: Israelis in Michigan and Israelis near me. So we know
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: that this was an act of Islamic terrorism. Do you
• 53:33
  Speaker 6: know to date, ladies and gentlemen, three thousand mosques in America,
• 53:39
  Speaker 6: not a single one condemned that attack. Something to think about,
• 53:44
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  Speaker 7: what was on the shirt. And he didn't want to
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  Speaker 6: I mean, is that the kind of country? Is that
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  Speaker 6: the kind of It's ridiculous. It's just ridiculous and then
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  Speaker 6: some of the some of the coverage from the sports reporters,
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  Speaker 6: and we're going to play some of this a little
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  Speaker 6: bit later on. It's just outrageous. They're they're trying to
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  Speaker 6: We are still in a holding pattern here trying to
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: figure out what's going to happen in the Senate. John
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: Thune is now playing hardball, folks. He knows that there's
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: pretty much no way that he is going to lose
• 57:27
  Speaker 6: control or lose power in the Senate. So that's one
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: of the reasons why John Thune is standing up to
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: the president, you know the and again you're watching as
• 57:38
  Speaker 6: the Senate leadership, they're blaming the parliamentarian who, by the way,
• 57:42
  Speaker 6: could have been fired. And if you remember early on
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: when just right after the Republicans took control, there was
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: an effort to fire the parliamentarian, but again citing tradition,
• 57:54
  Speaker 6: John Thune said, we're not going to do that. This
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: parliamentarian is pro Biden. So you kind of get an
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: idea of flavor of what's going on in the Senate.
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: The bigger question, though, is how will this impact the
• 58:07
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• 58:10
  Speaker 6: in our chief Republican political strategist, Josh Jones. Josh, good
• 58:15
  Speaker 6: to see you today.
• 58:16
  Speaker 9: Good see you, Todd.
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  Speaker 6: Hope you well doing well? All right? What say you
• 58:21
  Speaker 6: about the latest here? Senate in recess two week vacation
• 58:25
  Speaker 6: and nothing's getting done.
• 58:28
  Speaker 9: To your point, nothing's getting done.
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  Speaker 17: I mean we are in the midterm year. We're in
• 58:34
  Speaker 17: April basically as of tomorrow, and the Senate's gone for
• 58:37
  Speaker 17: two weeks and not pushing forward any major piece of
• 58:41
  Speaker 17: legislation for the president's agenda. I mean, we have the
• 58:43
  Speaker 17: same America Act, we have DHS, among a number of
• 58:47
  Speaker 17: other things, and the Senate chose to take two weeks off.
• 58:50
  Speaker 17: That's how to say there's not things going on in
• 58:52
  Speaker 17: their districts and states that they need to go attend to.
• 58:55
  Speaker 17: But wearing crunch time, this is the midterms, you have
• 58:58
  Speaker 17: to push through the major pieces of legation in order
• 59:01
  Speaker 17: in order to energize GOP voters and have them come
• 59:04
  Speaker 17: out to the polls in November.
• 59:05
  Speaker 9: So it's very disappointing, you know.
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  Speaker 6: I think the the other component of this is that
• 59:09
  Speaker 6: that fun is not putting the Senate in recess, and
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: to me, that could have been the out. You know,
• 59:14
  Speaker 6: you're you're in recess. The President's going to do what
• 59:16
  Speaker 6: the president's going to do, and typically a president would
• 59:19
  Speaker 6: make those recess appointments. But President Trump is not even
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: allowed to do that. How How do you how is
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: that playing out there among Republican voters.
• 59:29
  Speaker 17: Look, I don't think it's too seem to tell. Essentially,
• 59:34
  Speaker 17: I've talk a lot of Republican voters. For the most part,
• 59:37
  Speaker 17: most people focus on paying their bills or you know,
• 59:39
  Speaker 17: make sure their kids get a good education, and they're
• 59:41
  Speaker 17: not necessarily paid paying attention to the inside politics happening
• 59:45
  Speaker 17: in DC right now. But by the time the Bimba
• 59:48
  Speaker 17: rolls around, they will be or at least they'll be
• 59:49
  Speaker 17: more tuned in because there'll be ad campaigns, they'll be politicians,
• 59:53
  Speaker 17: et cetera talking about it. So I don't think necessarily
• 59:57
  Speaker 17: that the leadership and with some particular members and center
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 17: are seeing a blowback. Quite Yeah, probably that's why they're
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 17: feeling important or feel like it's a non issue. But
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 17: I think eventually, once people start tuning in for the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 17: actual elections in November, they will start to see that blowback. Say,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 17: wait a second, We've done this whole year assiicially, and
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 17: what have you done for us?
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: And that's the big question. And I'm afraid that when
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: we actually step back and we look, President Trump issued
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 6: so many executive orders, but those orders were not codified
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: many of the many of the things that the American
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: voters wanted to have happened, for example, dismantling the Department
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: of Education, We're moving the FBI out of Washington.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 18: D C.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: Moving some of the other government agencies out of DC.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 6: That really has not happened. And you wonder if the
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: American people, if let's just you know, I don't think
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: you're going to have Republicans just vote Democrat. But I
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: do think you could have a situation where Republicans just
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 6: stay home and they don't go out and vote on
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 6: election day.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it's a real possibility.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 17: I mean, as someone who's in the space day and
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 17: day out, you know that's a real concern is Look,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 17: these people are typically going to switch over to the
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 17: Democratic sound of the aisle because I mean, they're crazy,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 17: they've gone totally to the left. But at the same time,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 17: they don't have that motivation that come out to the
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 17: polls you're going to lose because unfortunately, for better or
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 17: for worse, Democrats do have.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 9: That motivation right now because they.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 17: See this as their opportunity to rebuke Trump. For better
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 17: or worse, where's Republicans? You're an average Gepvotor's saying, Okay,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 17: well I like the President, but he's not on the
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 17: ballot right now, and the Congress isn't doing anything, so
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 17: why should I show up?
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 9: And that's a real.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 6: Problem, Josh. I'm curious about the war we are now watching.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 6: Clearly there was an uptick in bombing on Iran last night.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 6: We know that thousands of service members, hundreds of Marines
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: are nearby on those ships waiting for what could be
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 6: a possible ground invasion, and a lot of this could
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 6: be President Trump just flexing his muscle. We may not
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: see boots on the ground, but when you put that many,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 6: and we're talking thousands of troops in that in that theater.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 6: You do wonder if, in fact we could see boots
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 6: on the ground, and if that happens, Josh, this is
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 6: not going to be resolved by the time the midterms
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 6: roll around. And I'm wondering how that How do you
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 6: think that's going to play with the base of the
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: Republican Party.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 17: Within the Republican Party, I mean, let's be honest, there
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 17: is a divide when it comes to intervention. You have
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 17: your more traditional conservatives who are more advice called it
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 17: the Bush camp, who are grow intervention or at least
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 17: to a degree, and you have your kind of your
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 17: America first more isolations to me, to the party who say,
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 17: wait a second, what are we doing in the Middle East?
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 9: Again, this isn't what we voted for.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 17: So I mean, that is a divide that the president
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 17: and the party is going to have to come together on.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 17: To your point, maybe this is President Trump flexing his
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 17: muscle and it's part of a negotiating tactic.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 9: Obviously hidden.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 17: The Secretary of Defense secretary are much more read in
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 17: and briefed and informed than any of us are, So
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 17: I trust out they're making the best cause that they
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 17: can based on the information that they've been given. But
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 17: I mean, this is a real potential liability.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 9: Who knows. I mean, this thing could be over next.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 17: Week or to your point, if we put boots on
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 17: the ground that's going through the midterms. So really, based
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 17: on what we know currently, it's kind of hard to tell.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 17: But I think a lot of people at the end
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 17: of the day do put their faith in.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 9: The president to put America first, part.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 17: Of that being our national security, and he has a
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 17: lot more information than we do necessarily on this.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 6: And that's really where I stand on all of that
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 6: is I trust the president. He knows he has more
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 6: intel than I've got, and so I'm willing to give
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: him the benefit of the doubt. That being said, there
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 6: are going to be consequences no matter what. And if
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 6: you've got people and I'm looking at the average price
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 6: of a gallon of gas now at four dollars across
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 6: the country, I think at six dollars a gallon, if
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 6: not higher in Los Angeles and over in California, there's
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 6: going to be a price to pay politically for that.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 6: No matter how well things may be going over there
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 6: in Iran, agreed.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 17: I mean, gas prices, for example, are one of those
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 17: things that most people see every day. I mean they're
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 17: on their way to work or on their way to
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 17: get their kids from school. It's a price that's interface
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 17: every single day. So and that's why the president back
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 17: in twenty twenty four campaign so hard on it, and
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 17: Republicans up and down the ballot look is one of
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 17: those direct reflections.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 9: Of how the economy is doing.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 17: Because gas prices obviously part of the energy market, and
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 17: not only does that effect you know, filling up your tank,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 17: but affects your energy build, your utility build, or if
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 17: you're flying, it affects how expensive airfare is. So as
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 17: a huge trickle down effect to even your grocery prices
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 17: because you have to pay for the fuel for the
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 17: distributors to transport it from the farms to the grocery stores.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 17: So I mean, it affects all parts of our economy,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 17: gas prices.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 9: Being the most prominent one.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 17: So I hope there's a quick resolution of what's happening
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 17: in the Middle East so we can bring those prices
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 17: back down, because it's a temporary thing that's not reflective
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 17: at the actual market.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 9: It's just because of the string of the heart news,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 9: which is.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 17: So very boud issue for the President and the administration
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 17: to address. So hopefully there's a quick resolution there.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 6: All right, Josh Jones, always good seeing you, my friend,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 6: and appreciate you taking a few minutes out of your
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 6: busy day. Hope you and your family have a great
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 6: Easter weekend as well. Todd, Thanks, All right, there you
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 6: have it, folks. Now, look, I will I will see
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 6: this about the war. And again I don't do I
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 6: know for certain that we are going to have boots
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 6: on the ground. No, I don't, But all I know
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 6: is those boots are ready to go. They are there,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 6: and we're talking about thousands of troops and some of
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 6: you may live near military bases and maybe your your
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 6: local base has gotten the orders to head on over
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 6: to the Middle East and to ship out, and that
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 6: very well may happen. But if in fact we do
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 6: have boots on the ground, and that is being taught
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 6: talked about within the halls of Congress and at sixteen
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 6: hundred Pennsylvania Avenue, if in fact that really does happen,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: that is going to be a factor in the midterm elections,
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 6: and especially if we start seeing an unfortunately high body
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 6: count of American service members. So just things to pay
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 6: attention to. What's done is done. It can't be undone.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 6: And I don't see the President just announcing suddenly today
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 6: we've won the war and we're out. You know, it's
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 6: far from over. And we had a congressman on the
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 6: show yesterday. We're going to play this in the next
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 6: hour of this program. Last night on Newsmax, we had
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 6: Congressman Growthman from Wisconsin, and he made an interesting observation.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 6: He says, one of the big problems you've got these
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 6: senators like John Kennedy. He called out John Kennedy specifically,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 6: and they're out there saying, oh, we've won the war,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 6: when in fact, the war is not over. And he
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 6: said that the Senate is sending mixed messages. I'm telling
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 6: you there is a lot of anger and hatred right
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 6: now between the House and the Senate. But I think
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 6: Growthman's got a point here that you've got these senators
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 6: out there saying, oh, we're winning this thing, when in
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 6: fact it's far from over. And we know that because
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 6: of what happened last night. All Right, we've got to
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 6: take a break. Nine oh one two six zero five,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 6: dine two six. If the President says we've got to
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 6: send in troops, boots on the ground, We've got to
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 6: invade Iran, will you support the president? Yes?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: Or no?
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's the big issue of the day. Will
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 6: you support the president? Nine oh one two six zero five,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 6: dine two six. This is the Ton Stern Show. All right,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 6: welcome back everybody. This is the Tod Sterns Radio Show.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 6: Happy to have you with us. So, Houston, Texas, you
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 6: guys have a big problem down there. I'm wondering about this,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 6: this Houston rodeo. Now, apparently this is a pretty big deal.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 6: I'm trying to think of what comparison and Memphis we
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 6: would have to it. But you guys, my understanding is
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 6: this is like an annual tradition and a lot of people.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 6: It's a livestock show and a rodeo. Do you actually
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: get to ride on the steers or you know, how
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 6: does that all play out? If so, Dylan, I am
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: sending you over to We're going to put you on assignment. Yes,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 6: well wait a weeute, wait, we can put the intern
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 6: in the intern.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 7: We can put in on the back of a bull.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 6: Would he ride a bull and I don't know.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 7: How long you would last on that, but I would
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 7: be curious.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 6: We'll need to check the insurance policy on that. Yeah,
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 6: But anyway, this is it's the Houston Livestock and Show
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 6: in rodeo and it's sort of like they have exhibitors,
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 6: so I guess it's sort of it sort of has
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 6: the feel of like a county fair on steroids. They
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 6: also have an international wine competition, which seems slightly out
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 6: of place at a rodeo, but what do I know,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 6: Maybe they're high now. So anyway, all you know what
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 6: has been breaking loose at the rodeo. It's like, so
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 6: you've got these these big, huge crowds and they're overwhelmingly
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 6: black young people. They're kids, teenagers, and they're fighting, they're
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 6: causing mayhem. It's insane, and they've been having to shut
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 6: the thing down. So people have been really frustrated, at
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 6: least in the news coverage that the young people are
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 6: just they're acting like animals, probably worse thing because the
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 6: animals do not behave like that. So anyway, this one
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 6: black guy called into a radio station in Houston and
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 6: the guy is just going off and it's he's raising
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 6: excellent points and I want you to take a listen
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 6: to what the guy had to say.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my name is Jonathan, I mean Houston, Texas, and
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: I am a Black Americas Conservative and I am sick
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: and tired of I'll be glad when this rodeo get
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: the hell out of town. I'm kicking tired of these
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 4: particularly females showing they all over the place at a friendly,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: friendly event. This is out of control, and I'll be
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 4: glad when somebody standing there and speak speak on it.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: And also the black this music that we are letting
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: our children listen to that's coming across the radio. Is
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: there any thing that we can do about that? This
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: rap music is out of control and it is a
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: matra and it is spreading these demons all over the community.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: Thank you for taking my call. Bye.
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  Speaker 19: I love this guy, this guy Jonathan and Houston. Hey man,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 19: thank you for saying that. If my mind could talk,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 19: it'll be Jonathan's voice saying that. And every every black
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 19: man that live in these community that's adult, that's a
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 19: mature adult. Every black man living the community agree with
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 19: the same thing he just said.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 8: God dangn that was funny.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, So that lord what he said there, though, it's true,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 6: we have the same situation here in Memphis where we
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 6: have these We've got these mobs of young black kids
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 6: and they're they're causing mayhem. And you've got the black
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: men in the community. We're talking you know, we're talking
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 6: about business men, we're talking about you know, dad's husbands,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 6: and they're out there saying this is this has got
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 6: to stop. And the problem is that a lot of
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 6: these young kids running around they've got no dad in
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 6: the in the in the picture, or maybe mom just
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 6: doesn't care, and so therefore they're just running around, running
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 6: around like crazy. And I wanted you to hear this
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 6: because the black community is just as upset and as
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 6: outraged over the lawlessness as everybody else is. Now. Over
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 6: the over the weekends, you had these big no Kings
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 6: protests and nobody knew what they were out there. Nobody
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 6: knew what they were protesting, not a single one. Nobody
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 6: knew what they were protesting. Reporters would go out and
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 6: they nobody had a clue. They couldn't tell you. They
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 6: just showed up. Well, in Memphis, we had violence breakout,
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 6: so the police, you know, here in Tennessee. It's illegal
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: to block a roadway. You're not allowed to do that.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 6: And so when these people got a permit, they got
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 6: a permit to protest, but the protest was supposed to
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 6: be in a park. Well, these yahoo's decided they're going
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 6: to go and march in the streets. Police said, can't
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 6: do that. Forty five minutes. Forty five minutes, ladies in Chellowen.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 6: Forty five minutes. The police were begging the protesters to
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 6: get out of the streets. They refused to do so.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 6: Forty five minutes. It was back and forth. Finally the
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 6: police moved in and that's when all you know what
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 6: broke loose. They had to haul out the pepper spray.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 6: People were arrested. And now that the protesters are claiming
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 6: that they've been victims of police brutality and so and
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 6: by the way, it's all captured on film. You can
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 6: see it for yourself, very clear. These people were breaking
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 6: the law. And the mayor has come out as well
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 6: as the police chief. They're both Democrats, and they have
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 6: now placed the officers involved in this on administrative leave.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 6: And these officers are now under investigation. And we're just
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 6: trying to figure out why what's going on here? The
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 6: police officers did their jobs and what sort of a
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 6: message is this sending the law enforcement When the mayor
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 6: and your police chief are going to throw the officers
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 6: under the bus. What does that tell you, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, good grief for crying out loud. Let's go
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 6: to Tom in Houston. Tom, what's on your mind?
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 14: Hell Todd? I heard something and I know it needs
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 14: to have national attention, and I hope you are aware.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 14: But if not, your crack staff five hundred people underneath,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 14: you can get on it right away. But in Pittsburgh
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 14: they are going to close the schools down for four
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 14: days because the NFL Draft is coming to town. Have
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 14: you heard about this?
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 6: You know, I think I had heard something about that
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 6: in the mix.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 14: This is crazy. And you're talking right now about these
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 14: wild eyed children and getting crazy. You know, it don't
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 14: matter if it's midnight or twelve thirty noon lunchtime. They're
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 14: just getting stupid, crazy and all over the place. And
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 14: why because they're being instructed to do so by the
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 14: examples of quote unquote adults. You know this has got
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 14: to stop. We need to you know, I say, put
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 14: them all in Catholic school with a bunch of nuns.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 14: They have to wear the uniforms and then you know,
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  Speaker 14: maybe two Fridays each year they get a free day
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  Speaker 14: where they get to wear a blue jas.
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  Speaker 6: And pass out those yardsticks. Tom start rapping some knuckles.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I say. Hey, Tom, it's a great call.
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  Speaker 6: I gotta leave it there. Hang tie everybody. Our three
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  Speaker 6: coming up.
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  Speaker 1: By from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: America's conservative blowtorch.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's.
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  Speaker 6: Amarican to start all right, Hello, everybody, welcome to the
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 6: Ton Stearns Radio Show, and honor to have you with us.
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  Speaker 6: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six
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  Speaker 6: is our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 6: zero five, nine to six. So this is really getting
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 6: out of hand, this NBA situation, and we've had a
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 6: lot of new developments just in the past hour or so.
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  Speaker 6: Here's here's what I don't understand, Dylan. So, if if
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  Speaker 6: you're a basketball star and you beat your wife, you're
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 6: gonna get like a thirty game suspension. Right, You're gonna
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 6: beat the living crap out of your wife or your ex. Yeah,
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 6: you know, you get arrested, you get charged with you know,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 6: just pick a crime. You're okay, you're a good But
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 6: if you don't support Pride month, you're out of there.
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  Speaker 7: Crazy.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, that's insane.
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  Speaker 7: It's it's surprising how many times we've actually seen that
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 7: example play out, not only in the NBA, but also
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 7: in the NFL. Like so many of the star players,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 7: they do something horrendous to their spouse. Okay, wasn't really
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 7: that bad, Like, yes, it.
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  Speaker 6: Is, But if you like pledge allegiance to the flag
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 6: and sing the national anthem, oh my god, what's wrong
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 6: with you? So now there's a sports broadcaster in Chicago,
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 6: sports talk show host, and man, have you noticed what's
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 6: up with all these sports talk guys? They're all leftists?
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: What's going on there?
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  Speaker 8: I know?
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  Speaker 6: Is that a rule at ESPN? Now you've got to
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 6: be a far leftist my word? Anyway, I want you
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 6: to listen to this guy. He's talking about Jaden Ivy.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 6: Jaden Ivy was removed. He was dismissed from the team
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 6: because he had a problem with the fact that the
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 6: NBA is promoting and celebrating and forcing people to celebrate
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 6: gay pride events. And now he's being called homophobic, He's
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 6: being called all sorts of names. Many of these sportscasters
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 6: are suggesting that the guy is mentally ill. Take a
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 6: listen to cut seven.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, first, you hope that Jaden Ivy gets the professional
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 15: help and counseling that he would seem to need. And
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 15: Billy Donovan even diferenced it's a very delicate balance you
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 15: have to strike when talking about this from the bull's perspective,
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  Speaker 15: But that honestly is the biggest thing here. You've got
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 15: a twenty seven year old young man who clearly has
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 15: some issues that he needs to confront and address and
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 15: are unresolved in his life. Then, from my perspective, I
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  Speaker 15: don't think this is really about denying freedom of speech
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 15: and denying freedom.
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  Speaker 5: Of religious expression.
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  Speaker 15: This is about upholding a certain standard of respect and
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  Speaker 15: professionalism and acceptance within the framework of a team and
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 15: the structure of an organization. This is a professional standard
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  Speaker 15: that he did not meet and a line that he crossed.
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  Speaker 7: Locker rooms. Locker rooms are.
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  Speaker 5: Places of inclusion.
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  Speaker 15: There are places where you have different beliefs that you
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 15: have to tolerate. You have to be people that welcome
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  Speaker 15: all walks of life and all different races, creeds, ethnic backgrounds.
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  Speaker 7: That's the beauty of sports.
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  Speaker 15: And players can I expect to criticize their employer and
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  Speaker 15: then have no repercussion. That's what's going on here. Whether
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 15: it's the NBA Odyssey, a radio station, wherever you work,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 15: a fortune five hundred company, you can't say what he
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  Speaker 15: said about your employer and expect to.
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  Speaker 6: Be no repercussion.
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  Speaker 15: Now, they waived him rather than suspended him, and that
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  Speaker 15: may have to do with his value to them.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's part of it.
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  Speaker 15: And he was here for four he played in four games.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 15: He wasn't here for four years. The criteria and the
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 15: threshold might be different. If a player means more to
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 15: an organization, that's also just the way it goes. He
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 15: didn't mean as much to the Bulls because he hadn't
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 15: been here long enough to prove what his value was,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 15: or to prove anything. Frankly, so it's a reasonable expectation,
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  Speaker 15: I believe. Professionally it's a privilege to play in the NBA.
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  Speaker 7: It's not a right.
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  Speaker 15: But with that privilege comes conditions that he did not meet.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 15: You cannot go scorched earth on the league and expect
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  Speaker 15: to have nothing happen. It's a sad story, but he
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 15: definitely wrote his own ending.
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  Speaker 6: All right, there you go, So just so you're aware,
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  Speaker 6: this is what Christians are dealing with. And this is
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  Speaker 6: a younger guy. He's in his twenties and just trying
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 6: to live out of his faith and he's you know,
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 6: he's gonna end up losing all of this stuff. It's
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  Speaker 6: it's a mess. Nine oh one two six zero five
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  Speaker 6: nine two six is our number. That's nine oh one
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  Speaker 6: two six zero five nine two six. So there's a
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  Speaker 6: turning point USA. You know, they have this whole faith
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 6: division turning point faith, and they have a lot of
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 6: a lot of preachers that are involved in this. I
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 6: am not involved in it, and none of the pastors
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 6: that I consider dear friends are involved with it either.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 6: But but what But as a result of TPUSA faith
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  Speaker 6: and all of that stuff, a lot of young people
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 6: have just sort of popping up onto the scene. Now
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  Speaker 6: as what Christian influencers Dylan, I guess is that a
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  Speaker 6: good way to describe.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, they're young people that are mostly using social media
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  Speaker 7: to get the message of the gospel out.
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  Speaker 6: So and one of these guys, his name is Bryce Crawford.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 6: Are you familiar with this guy?
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 7: Yes, I've videos.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 6: So he's a young guy. He's very young, and he
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  Speaker 6: wanted to do a sit down with Kenneth Copeland, who's
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 6: like one of these prosperity gospel people. And Kenneth Copeland
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 6: has a very long history. I don't follow him, you know,
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 6: it is you know, if that's what you do, and
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 6: you want to give money to, you know, a program
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 6: or a ministry or a televangelist like that, that's up
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 6: to you. So anyway, Kenneth Copeland is worth a bazillion
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 6: dollars and he's got a massive ranch and it used
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 6: to be a Marine Corps air station, thirty three acres,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 6: and he's got a lot of he's just got a
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 6: lot of money. I mean a lot of money. And
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 6: he asked people to send him money and he was
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 6: he serves on President Trump's advisory board. He's got the jet,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 6: the private jets, you know that kind of that. It's
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 6: that crowd. A side note, just a side note, when Franklin,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 6: when Billy Graham passed away, the grand family asked me
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 6: to attend the funeral, and I was honored to do so,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 6: and it was at It was at the Billy Graham
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 6: President It's Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina. So, Dylan,
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  Speaker 6: I'm flying down there on Delta, and they had these
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 6: little jitneys, you know, these little tiny minibuses, and they
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 6: picked people up. And I'm not going to tell you
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 6: who all was in this jitney, but a lot of
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 6: the people that you would consider to be Christian influencer
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 6: type people were on this. And then there was me.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 6: I was the regular Joe and so, oh, they're taking us.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 6: So we were leaving the funeral. I got there. I
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 6: got there early, and I took a cab to get
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 6: to the library. But on the way back they were
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 6: going to drop us off of the airport. But first
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 6: they did a stop at the private jets airport and
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 6: there must have been I guess there were thirty five
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 6: forty people, No, it was forty. There were forty people
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 6: on the bus. All of them got out and went
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 6: to their private jets. There was one person left on
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 6: the jetney. It was yours, truly, and the driver says,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 6: where's your jet and I said it's Delta, wow, And.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 7: He took me.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 6: He just started laughing and shook his head and had
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 6: to take me to the airport for the regular people.
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  Speaker 7: Something about that doesn't feel It just doesn't rub.
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  Speaker 6: The It was so weird it did. It was just
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 6: a little off putting because I'm thinking, these people are
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 6: all preachers. What are they doing with private jets. I'm like,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 6: what the heck? But I'm not judging. I'm just like
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 6: I had to stand in a TSA line and get manhandled.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I got the extra security screening at that one.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 6: You know who is behind me in the line though,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 6: Bill Gather so they fly normal to I like that
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 6: they pulled him aside for the special screening too. He
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 6: had the high notes on amazing grace. Anyway, where were we?
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Bryce Crawford. So anyway, I think there was
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 6: like this whole thing where he wanted to sit down
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 6: and do an interview with Kenneth Copeland about like his
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 6: the prosperity gospel, right, That's what Kenneth Copeland's don for.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 6: And I think the whole point of it was to
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: sort of, I don't want to say mock but really
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 6: sort of call out, you know, the whole prosperity gospel.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 6: And someone sent this to me during the interview. Well,
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  Speaker 6: So I thought this was a joke. It's a real thing,
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  Speaker 6: And I don't know. I drink gatorade, so I don't
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  Speaker 6: know if that makes me a heathen and I don't
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 6: know if any.
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  Speaker 7: I don't.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 6: I don't. Well, yeah, I hope somebody prayed over my gatorade,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 6: but I and I appreciate that, and I'm not mocking
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 6: I'm really not mocking him. But the question is this
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 6: guy is all upset because Kenneth Copeland is out there
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 6: raking in millions of dollars in the name of the Lord,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 6: and at the same time, this guy, Bryce Crawford is
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 6: going down to interview Kenneth Copeland, and I'm I'm assuming
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 6: to have a healthy debate about all of this, which
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 6: I don't know when that's gonna be released, but well,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 6: you know, I'm interested. I'm gonna watch it. But but
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 6: the whole interview with Kenneth Copeland to call out prosperity
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 6: teaching is being sponsored by a faith based energy drink.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 6: I I just I don't get it. I don't. I
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  Speaker 6: just don't get it. And it's just, you know, when
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 6: you step back and I've been in this world, you know,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 6: I cover this world on a regular basis, and I
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 6: get to see a lot of people for who they
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 6: really are. And and I don't begrudge anybody for wanting
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 6: to make a book. I don't. But if you're going
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 6: to go out there and you're going to criticize, criticize
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 6: somebody for making money off of Jesus and you're turning
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 6: around and you're making money off of Jesus, yeah, I'm
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 6: gonna call you out on that because that just doesn't
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 6: make it. That's weird to me, weird to me. So anyway, Oh,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 6: and he's got his own merch. I mean that's like
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 6: Bryce Crawford. He's got like his own like merch.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's a fool on influencer. It is weird. It
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 7: is weird. I don't. I don't get it. It is
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 7: very ironic though, that he is selling something and he
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 7: is sponsoring himself on a podcast about prosperity Gospel.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 6: Somebody sent me and I thought it was a joke.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 6: I'm like, there's no way this guy he's mocking. At first,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 6: I thought, oh wow, what a clever way to mock,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 6: you know, the prosperity gospel thing. You know, I don't
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 6: buy into the prosperity gospel thing. I don't. That's but
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 6: if that's your thing, that's your thing. But I just
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 6: thought it was. But it's not. And I wonder if
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 6: Kenneth Copeland, you know, in the interview called him out
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 6: on it, you know, I mean, it's crazy.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 7: I'm sure he was. Like I wish I had that idea.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 6: I was thinking about doing a juice bar like a Christian.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 6: I wanted to like franchise for all the churches. I
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 6: got had an idea like every church in America, you know,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 6: because they had all the churches have like the coffee houses,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 6: and they have clever names, and so I wanted to
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 6: come up with one that was a little bit healthier
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 6: and it was going to be like freshly squeezed like
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 6: you know, orange juice and all this other kind of stuff,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 6: and you could franchise it so your church, you know,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 6: we we'd package everything. It's kind of like Chick fil
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 6: A for church, except this would be open on Sunday.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 6: And I had already come up with a name and everything.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 6: King of the Juice.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's it. Marketing genius.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 6: I couldn't get investors. I could hit it. I'm shocked
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 6: anybody missed the old days when I don't know. You
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 6: go to church, you hear the gospel presented, you open
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 6: up the Bible, you study the Bible, you present the
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 6: gospel message. People get saved. You go to church training
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 6: on Sunday night, and you you learn how to apply
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 6: your faith to your life. Anybody remember those days? Are
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 6: any churches actually doing that in America anymore? Or is
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 6: it all just I don't know influencers. Here's the problem
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 6: with all these influencers. I don't think they're all that influential.
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  Speaker 6: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six
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  Speaker 6: I want to play something for you. This woman is
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  Speaker 21: Welcome to Florida's first congressional district, Jimmy Patronis. I'm going
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  Speaker 21: to give you a little tour today so that you
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  Speaker 21: Our home has a unique culture, a rich military history,
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  Speaker 13: You have to spare some time.
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  Speaker 21: There's so many reasons to visit our district, but what
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  Speaker 21: ones who step up to represent their hometown. Jimmy, your
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  Speaker 21: We're better than some numbers on a spreadsheet, and we
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  Speaker 21: That's why I'm running for congress District one.
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  Speaker 13: I want to represent you because I'm.
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  Speaker 21: One of you, and it's gonna take all of us, y'all,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 21: So dush yourself off and find something orange. Jimmy, bless
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 21: your heart. We hope you enjoyed your visit, but we'll
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 21: take it from here. I'm gave Alimont and I approved
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 21: this message.
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  Speaker 6: So someone sent this to me last night. And when
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 6: I'm listening to this and i'm watching it, it's really
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 6: a very well done campaign hat and she's running for
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 6: the first congressional district there in Florida against Jimmy Patrona's
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 6: And it took me a second because I thought she
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 6: was a Republican. My eyebrow raised when she started talking
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 6: about the vibrant art scene because that's not something typically
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 6: that that Republicans talked about. But I'm sitting here going,
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 6: holy cramp. This is a really good campaign ant and
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 6: she may very well. Look, this is a heavily Republican district.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 6: She's already run for office once before and lost, so
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 6: it I mean, there would have to be something somewhat
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 6: catastrophic happened in the midterm elections for her to win.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 6: But I'm telling you that is a way if the
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 6: Democrats are trying to get their messaging out there. Uh,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 6: that's one way to do it right there. All right,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 6: gotta take a break. Nine oh one two six zero
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 6: five nine two six. I have a question. What is
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 6: it going to take for Republicans to win the midterms?
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 6: What do they need to be doing here? We'll be
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 6: right back.
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  Speaker 8: God, I'll tell you what the Republicans need to do
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 8: if they're gonna win midterms.
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  Speaker 5: They need to get up off their asses and get
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 5: out and vote. That's as blund as I can be.
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  Speaker 6: two six to zero five nine two six Maria in Hendersonville,
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  Speaker 6: North Carolina. What a wonderful town. Hi Maria, what's on
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 6: your mind?
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  Speaker 22: Hi? Todd? I was wanting to appeal to America to
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 22: not fall for the Democrats who are presenting presenting themselves
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 22: as moderates and center lane. They're wanting to jump on
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 22: the Christian vandwagon. It is only a bait and switch tactic,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 22: just like that governor spam Burger in Virginia used. She
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 22: got in with that, and then the very next day
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 22: she went right back to her progressive policies. It's it's
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 22: a deception, America. Please don't fall for it. It's bait
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 22: and switch. Like a fisherman, he puts that bait on
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 22: the hook, gets you on the hook, reels you in,
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 22: and then we'll gut you and either throw your carcass
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 22: in the trash or put you in the frying pan. America,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 22: don't fall for these Democrats and this moderate bait and
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 22: switch tactic.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 18: Please.
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  Speaker 6: Wow. I could not have said it any better, Maria,
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 6: And you're right. What happened in Virginia is a great
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 6: example of the bait and sweat. You had Abigail Spamberger,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 6: and she campaigned as some sort of a moderate centerish
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 6: yellow dog Democrat, and she turned out to be a lie.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 6: She's turned out to be lying about the whole thing,
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 6: and she's a radical leftist. And well, you got what
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 6: you voted for, Virginia. That's right, all right, Maria, thank
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 6: you for that. Good it's a good point. She raises,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 6: By the way, have you seen, Dylan, did you see
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 6: the the new Trump presidential library renderings?
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 7: Yes, Wow, looks wonderful.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 6: That's spectacular, spectacular, So whoopee. Goldberg is all upset, and
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 6: she says that the new presidential library proposed by President
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 6: Trump looks like a male appendage. I will say this.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 6: It is huge. It is a huge skyscraper and it
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 6: is absolutely breathtaking. And we've got the video over on
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 6: our social media pages. I'd encourage you to go and
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 6: check it out. Let us know what you think. I'm
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 6: telling you it is one of the most beauty, jaw
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 6: dropping presidential libraries in history, hands down, hands down. So
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 6: this is going to be built in downtown Miami. There
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 6: was there's about two and a half acres or so.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 6: That was donated to the President, and they're going to
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 6: build this massive skyscraper and it's emblazoned with Trump's name,
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 6: a massive American flag. The Golden Escalator is going to
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 6: be in this thing. Remember when Trump came down the
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 6: Golden Escalator at at the Trump Tower there in New
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 6: York City to announce he was running. That's going to
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 6: be there, including an Air Force one. One of the
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 6: Air Force ones is going to be located. They've got
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 6: a full size replica of the Oval Office and the
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 6: Rose Garden and that ballroom that he's building where the
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 6: East Wing once stood, and they're doing replicas of those
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 6: at what they're you know, at the at the Tower,
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 6: and this thing could very well be one of the
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 6: It reminded me of Freedom Tower in New York City
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 6: and has this huge spire on the top that's red,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 6: white and blue. I've never seen anything so patriotic and
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 6: absolutely so beautiful. So Eric Trump announced this yesterday, says
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 6: Miami deserves this building. It will be a masterpiece the
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 6: likes of which have never been seen in Florida or
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 6: really anywhere. And I will say this one of the
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 6: other things that they've got. This really set off the
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 6: libs a giant golden statue of President Trump with his
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 6: fist raised and that stands on the stage of the
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 6: of an auditorium. The tower's front entrance shows the bottom
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 6: half of the statue. It's going to be so enraging
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 6: from the to the libtards. The Freedom Tower will be
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 6: dwarf by the Library Tower, which would go up on
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 6: a parking lot that Governor DeSantis managed to get for
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 6: the president. And it just it is just absolutely beautiful.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 6: There's also a giant, I mean giant American flag hanging
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 6: down from the center of the tower. I can't get
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 6: over the golden image of the president. That's brilliant. So anyway,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 6: a lot of people are really upset about this and
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 6: they're like, oh, how could the president do something like this?
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 6: People are hurting, And you know what, every president has
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 6: a library. And I just want to remind you of
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 6: that god awful dystopian death star that bronc Usaint Obama
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 6: is building in Chicago. I mean that thing. It looks
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 6: like some sort of dystopian nightmare. And then you have
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 6: this beautiful gold tower in downtown Miami that is all
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 6: about America and nobody can figure out what Obama's doing.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 6: I mean it's hideous, Dylan. Have you seen the Obama Library?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah? Does it even have windows? I don't. It doesn't
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 7: look like it does.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 6: You know what, I would be afraid to go in
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 6: because I mean I'll be able to get out. That
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 6: would be my concern there.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 6: Well, one of the things I love about Trump's library
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 6: is it's transparent. So with all the windows, you can
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 6: see right through it.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 7: It's almost the complete opposite actually of the exactly exactly.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 6: So I you know, all these architects, they're gonna be
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 6: pooh pooing it. You know, there are already. The New
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 6: York Times did this big hit piece on President Trump's
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 6: East Wing expansion of the ballroom. The roof is pitched
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 6: too high, by the way. One of the complaints they
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 6: had where there were fake windows you can't even see,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 6: how how uncouth. Well it turned out that was the bathroom.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 6: That's why you can. You don't want to you don't
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 6: want to be peeping in and watching people, you know,
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 6: using the bathroom. These people. So anyway, well done to you,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 6: mister president. They're gonna have to raise a lot of money,
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 6: and I think they're gonna be able to They're not
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 6: gonna have any problem with it. I would go. I
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 6: want to be there. And I'm telling you that is
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 6: going to be a destination vacation for American citizens.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 8: You know what.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 6: We made to do a road trip down there once
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 6: they get that thing built. And I've been to some
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 6: presidential libraries. Look, i thought Ronald Reagan's was spectacular. I've
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 6: heard that Richard Nixon's is just really incredible out in California.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 6: Went to George W's at Southern Methodist and was, okay it,
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 6: it's all right. That's where I got my hat. By
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 6: the way, my cowboy hat. It was nice.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 7: Nice. This is where you learned how to rodeo?
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 6: Huh, well, I think the stor clerk was trying to
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 6: rodeo me. She was selling me everything in that store.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 6: She was like, miss Texas, So.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 7: You can't just get the hat, you also have to
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 7: get the boots and.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 6: Oh the hold one yards. Yeah, a partner who cowboys start.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 6: That was a lot of fun. That was a great
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 6: trip actually, But I'm just telling you right now, I mean,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 6: when you think about presidential libraries, would you rather go
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 6: to the Death Star in Chicago or down to Miami
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 6: I'm thinking, I'm thinking Miami, my friends. All right, nine
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 6: oh one two six zero five, nine two six our
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 6: telephone number, that's nine oh one two six zero five
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 6: to nine to six. So we had a congress Woman,
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 6: Diana Harshbarger. She's from East Tennessee. She hopped on our
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 6: NEWSMAC show last night. She's really fired up over the
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 6: Senate and I want you to hear what she had
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 6: to say. All right, joining me now, congress Woman and
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 6: Diana Harshbarger, or Republican from Tennessee. Congress Woman, good to
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 6: see you.
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  Speaker 17: You know.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 6: One of the things that really bothered me, and maybe
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 6: you can help me understand why I was bothered people
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 6: standing in long lines, and yet we saw members of
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 6: the US Senate being escorted around those lines. They had
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 6: I guess exclusive access that the rest of us don't have.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 5: That really sort of set me off.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 18: Congresswoman, well, it was set me up too. I've never
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 18: done that, Todd. You know, I drive back and forth
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 18: from me Tennessee to d C. But you know, it's
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 18: funny you mentioned that because there is a bill in
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 18: the Senate and they want me to carry it in
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 18: the House that says you.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 13: Can't jump line.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 18: If you're a congress person, you got to wait in
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 18: line just like everybody else.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 13: So I guess we're going to fix that problem right now.
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  Speaker 6: I know there have been some of your colleagues in Tennessee,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 6: Congressman John Rose, also a Congressman Tim Burchett, that are
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 6: calling for John Thune to be replaced as Senate leader.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 5: Curious what you think about that.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 13: Well, you got to lead to be a leader.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 18: And right now, what they sent over in the dead
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 18: to night was putting zero dollars toward Department of Home
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 18: Life Security, zero dollars for us. They must have thought
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 18: we weren't going to read the bill. And I'm glad
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 18: that Speaker Johnson got a righteous anger and said, you're
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 18: not going to stuff this crap build down our throat.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 18: We're going to work to send back full funding, as
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  Speaker 18: we've done three different times. Send it back to the Senate.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 18: Now the ball's in their court. They're going to have
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 18: to do something.
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  Speaker 13: Good, and I don't get it.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 18: You know that they were on the floor at two am,
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 18: five people doing unanimous consent. But from some of the
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 18: clips I've seen, after they did that, they headed to
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 18: the airport so they must have thought they had pulled
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 18: on over on us.
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  Speaker 6: Todd, it's a fair observation to make. Meanwhile, the Save Act,
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 6: you know what's interesting, or Save America Act, what's interesting
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 6: about Tennessee?
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 5: For example?
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 6: We have to show some form of identification when we
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 6: go to vote, and Tennessee has one of the least
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 6: problems among stage with voter fraud. How important is it
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 6: that that we get this across the finish line.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 18: Well, if you ask the average American, they think it's
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 18: crazy that we.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 13: Don't have to show an ID to vote.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 18: If you have to show an ID to get on
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 18: a plane, if you have to show an ID to
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 18: do in anything, why wouldn't you have to show one
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 18: to vote? And this is how the Democrats have cheated
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 18: time after time.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 13: You don't have to show a voter idea or proof
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 13: of citizenship.
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 18: And there's a lot more in the Save Act and
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 18: in the Save America Act. They just put those two requirements,
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 18: which are very common sense requirements. But we need to
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 18: do that, and we wanted to attach at least the
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 18: voter ID to what we sent over to the Senate.
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 18: But they send us such a sorry bill back that
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 18: we're going to do that when we send something else
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 18: over and we're trying to see if we can get
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 18: that through a second reconciliation. If they're parliamentarium that's tripped
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 18: out like she did most everything last time, I fire
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 18: her before on fire through, and didn't I fire him.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 6: I want to switch real quick here to the conflict
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 6: in Iran. The President now threatening to quote obliterate Iran's
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 6: power plans to ron is saying the US plan is unrealistic.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 6: What do you say and what do you hearing from
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 6: your constituents about the war?
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 18: Well, the ones that have contacted me are saying, you
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 18: better stay until the job's done, finish it up, and
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 18: do whatever you've got to do. And you know, there's
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 18: a mixed mixed concerns about whether we go ahead and
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 18: do that. Some people want boots on the ground, some don't.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 18: But look, these people have tormented us for over fifty
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 18: years and nobody's lifted a finger to do anything about it.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 18: Now they're attacking their neighboring states and they want us
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 18: to go. They're going to pull together. And so all
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 18: I can tell you is people that I talk to
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 18: want them to scour the earth with them. Do it,
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 18: get it done once and for all before you come
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 18: back home.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 6: All right, Welcome back everybody. This is the Todd Sterns
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 6: Radio Show. So a lot of Republican lawmakers now calling
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 6: for some John Thune to stump aside. We're keeping an
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 6: eye on this, folks going it's not going to happen.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 6: It's just not going to happen.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 5: Anyway.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 6: We had a chance to talk to Congressman a Buddy
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 6: Carter from Georgia now running for the Senate. Let's take
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 6: a listen, I mean now to discuss Congressman Buddy Carter
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 6: from Georgia. Congressman, good to have you with us. Clearly
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 6: the House and the Senate are not on the same
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 6: page here. What's your take on what we've seen happen
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 6: over the past several days.
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 13: Well, first of all, in the.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 23: Early morning hours Friday, the Senate tried to jam us
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 23: and they sent over a bill that was unacceptable and
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 23: then left town. Well, we did our job for the
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 23: fourth time. We passed funding for Department of Homeland Security,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 23: and we passed it through a continuing resolution to get
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 23: us through the next short period of time. And we've
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 23: got to get this done now. This is something that's
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 23: very important for the safety of Americans. Keep in mind
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 23: that the number one responsibility of the federal government is
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 23: protect our homeland, protect our citizens. We can only do
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 23: that with a strong defense and with a strong Department
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 23: of Homeland Security.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 13: When TSA is.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 23: Not getting paid, when ICE is not getting paid, you know,
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 23: these our people who are under tremendous strain. TSA is
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 23: already under under a lot of stress, and to add
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 23: more stress to it when you're not getting paid for
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 23: the work you're doing, that's unfair. It's not only unfair,
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 23: but it's dangerous. When you have that much stress, you're
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 23: susceptible to making more mistakes that normally you wouldn't make.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 23: And again, this is the Senate Democrats who are holding
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 23: up funding for a vital service that we need now,
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 23: perhaps more than ever with.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 13: The conflict in Iran.
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 23: We need to make sure that we are guarding against
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 23: terrorist attacks. Yet John Assoff and the Senate Democrats are
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 23: putting illegal immigrants in terras above the safety of the
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 23: American people.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 6: So we've got several Republicans over on the House side
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 6: saying it's time for new leadership in the Senate. Would
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 6: you be one of those people. Do you believe it's
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 6: time for Thune to step aside?
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 23: Well, that's really not for me to say. They got
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 23: to work out their own problems over there, and I
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 23: hope to be over there next year, and I plan
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 23: to be over there next year as a Senator from
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 23: the state of Georgia, and then I'll have the opportunity
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 23: to address that. But right now, I know that we've
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  Speaker 23: got to get on the same page, and we've got
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  Speaker 23: to get Department of Homeland Security. We've got to get
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  Speaker 23: them appropriated and funded so that they can continue to
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  Speaker 23: do their job and protect Americans and protect the safety
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  Speaker 23: of Americans. We were fighting against the wrong people here.
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  Speaker 23: We need to be fighting against the Democrats, the Democrats
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  Speaker 23: like John Ausoff and those who have voted against funding DHS.
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  Speaker 6: All right, but I got to interrupt here, mister Congressman.
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  Speaker 6: But you're dodging me, and I don't want you to dodge.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you've been on the program many times before.
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  Speaker 6: You're a straight shooter. The problem here is not just
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  Speaker 6: the Democrats, it's also the guy in charge the leadership,
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  Speaker 6: and that guy is John Thune. So why not come
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  Speaker 6: out and say whether or not the guy deserves to
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  Speaker 6: be in leadership.
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  Speaker 23: Well, again, I can only control what I can control
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  Speaker 23: in the House, and I control my vote, and we
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  Speaker 23: have voted four times to fund Department Homeland Security. But
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  Speaker 23: the Senate they need to do away with the filibuster.
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  Speaker 23: I will tell you that they need to do away
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  Speaker 23: with the filibuster. They need to get the entire Department
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  Speaker 23: of Homeland Security funded. It all needs to be funded,
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  Speaker 23: not just part of it. I agree with the President.
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  Speaker 23: It's any bill that funds only part of it, a
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  Speaker 23: part of a public safety component is not a good bill.
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  Speaker 23: And this is something that has to get done. And
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  Speaker 23: we need to have all of Department Homeland Security funded
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  Speaker 23: so that we can protect our citizens.
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  Speaker 6: Well, let's talk about the same of America Act. Your
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  Speaker 6: party again holding that up in the Senate. Eighty percent
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  Speaker 6: of Americans and that includes a lot of Democrats, think
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  Speaker 6: that voters should have to show an ID to vote.
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  Speaker 6: But again, I get it, Democrats, you know they refuse
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  Speaker 6: to do anything about this, as well as the majority
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  Speaker 6: leader in the Senate.
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  Speaker 5: How do we get past that big hurdle.
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  Speaker 23: Well, again, this is where the filibuster is a problem,
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  Speaker 23: and they need to at least do a Tolkien fill
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  Speaker 23: of the buster so that we can make the Democrats
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  Speaker 23: at least earn what they're doing now, and that is
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  Speaker 23: blocking something that eighty percent of Americans want. And this
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  Speaker 23: is typical of John Alsoft and the Democrats who are
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  Speaker 23: blocking something that eighty percent of American citizens want, and
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  Speaker 23: that is to have a photo ID when you vote.
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  Speaker 13: You have to have a photo ID for.
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  Speaker 23: Almost anything anymore. And get on an airplane to go
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  Speaker 23: to a rally for John Ossoft, you have to have
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  Speaker 23: a photo ID. Toshovel snow in New York City, you
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  Speaker 23: got to have an ID. All of these things. It's
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  Speaker 23: just ludicrous to think that they could put illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 23: and terrorists in.
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  Speaker 13: Front of the safety of the American citizens.
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  Speaker 23: The right to vote is one of the most precious
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  Speaker 23: rights that we have in the country. We have veterans
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  Speaker 23: who have sacrificed and served in order to defend that right.
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  Speaker 23: And for this Senate not to pass that, for the
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  Speaker 23: Senate Democrats to block it, this is something they're going
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  Speaker 23: to be held accountable for come November.
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  Speaker 13: We can make sure that.
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  Speaker 6: All right, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, hey
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