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Activists Want Preschoolers to Learn "Black English" · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite, gun toting, bible clinging, deplorable America.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's.
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  Speaker 3: American.
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  Speaker 4: Uh starts, Well, you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, it's it's an interesting thing. A language. Hello, everybody,
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  Speaker 5: Welcome to the Tod Starns Radio Program. Great to have
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  Speaker 5: you with us today. So I came across the story
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  Speaker 5: yesterday that really struck me in just a weird sort
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  Speaker 5: of way last night doing research for the show. And
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  Speaker 5: we've got a lot, We've got a lot going on,
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  Speaker 5: including what's happening overseas with the President, Rano, NATO, and Iran,
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  Speaker 5: and I want to get to all of that, but
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  Speaker 5: I've got to start out with with what's happening here
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  Speaker 5: in America when it comes to our language, and that
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  Speaker 5: is the one thing that that binds us together as
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  Speaker 5: a people, this collective language that we all speak, known
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  Speaker 5: as as English. And there's been a lot of controversy
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  Speaker 5: among immigrant groups of late to push back on the
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  Speaker 5: idea that English is the official language of the United
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  Speaker 5: States of America. And there are a lot of reasons
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  Speaker 5: for that. I believe one of the one of the
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  Speaker 5: things is without a common language. You really do not
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  Speaker 5: have a united country. And we have seen this play
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  Speaker 5: out across well, really across the world, and now there
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  Speaker 5: is a movement afoot. For example, in many in many
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  Speaker 5: southern and Southwestern states, you've got people that just don't
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  Speaker 5: speak English. You'll go into some towns nobody speaks English.
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  Speaker 5: You literally have to have to learn Spanish if you
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  Speaker 5: want to understand what's happening in the restaurants or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: So there is not So that's a problem in and
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  Speaker 5: of itself. I barely know enough Spanish to get through
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  Speaker 5: the menu at the taco bell, barely barely. And then
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  Speaker 5: in some places there is a movement of foot to
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  Speaker 5: promote something called Black English. And that is our starting
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  Speaker 5: off point today. This is a At first I thought
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  Speaker 5: somebody's ink in my chain here. This can't be happening,
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  Speaker 5: But it's true. There is now an effort a foot
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  Speaker 5: to teach children what they're calling Black English. This is
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  Speaker 5: from the public broadcasting station in the San Francisco area, KQED,
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  Speaker 5: and they're saying that there needs to be an official
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  Speaker 5: African American dialect and language. And you know, we used
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  Speaker 5: to call this Ebonys, but now they're calling it the
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  Speaker 5: African American Vernacular English or Black English. So there's Standard English,
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  Speaker 5: which they referred to as white English, and then there's
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  Speaker 5: something called Black English. And these activist groups are working very,
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  Speaker 5: very hard to make sure that preschoolers in California are
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  Speaker 5: actually taught how to speak black and I want to
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  Speaker 5: give you an example here. So for one of the
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  Speaker 5: things is dropping the peas, so instead of a napkin,
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  Speaker 5: it's a nakin, Give me a napkin, or I'm finn
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  Speaker 5: do this. These are literally examples pulled from the website.
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  Speaker 5: Like Dylan, I'm fin to go to break that would
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  Speaker 5: be that's black English.
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  Speaker 6: I think I'm any standing.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Dylan, you'd be doing a great job over there.
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  Speaker 5: That's another thing is use of the word beat. These
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  Speaker 5: are I'm not making this up. This is actually this
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  Speaker 5: is what they want taught in our public schools. According
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  Speaker 5: to KQED, generations of black children see another children grew
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  Speaker 5: up learning that their home language wasn't acceptable in school
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  Speaker 5: or the workplace. Many internalize the belief that Black English
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  Speaker 5: is bad English, loaded with slang and grammatical errors. According
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  Speaker 5: to one expert, with that comes a lot of shame
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  Speaker 5: and embarrassment what you be talking about, because you're being
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  Speaker 5: constantly corrected when you're still in a moment, when you're
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  Speaker 5: just learning language. Years ago, Dylan, when I was this
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  Speaker 5: little fellow, I was working as an intern at some
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  Speaker 5: TV station. And we have one of these sweet elderly
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  Speaker 5: grandmother types who have been doing like a romper room
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  Speaker 5: like children show for like fifty years at the TV station,
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  Speaker 5: a beloved icon. This woman was what was her name,
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  Speaker 5: Miss Marsha is what they call Miss Marcia. And so anyway, uh,
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  Speaker 5: we were going out into some idlo We were going
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  Speaker 5: out into some rough part of town. It was the hood,
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  Speaker 5: and Miss Marsha and I were the were the only
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  Speaker 5: people of the Caucasian persuasion within a I don't know
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  Speaker 5: a two or three square mile area. And so anyway,
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  Speaker 5: they started talking, Oh it be miss Marsha, It be
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  Speaker 5: Miss Marsha. And Miss Marsha went over and corrected the
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  Speaker 5: grammar of these you know, of this of of the
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  Speaker 5: gang members, and I'm like, God, we're gonna Dinny. But
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  Speaker 5: but the problem is, it turns out Miss Marsha was
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  Speaker 5: wrong because Miss Marsha wasn't speak making black, she was
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  Speaker 5: speaking white. According to this movement in California. One of
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  Speaker 5: the co founders of the Black Californians United for Early
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  Speaker 5: Childcare Education says that she's part of a movement to
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  Speaker 5: get preschool teachers and caregivers to legitimize Black English as
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  Speaker 5: a way to build children's early literacy skills and honor
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  Speaker 5: their cultural identity. Now let me just stop here. You
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  Speaker 5: know what I'm gonna go on. I've got to go
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  Speaker 5: on because I've got a lot to say. But this
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  Speaker 5: really bothers me because they're trying to dismantle our language.
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  Speaker 5: That's what's going on here. The work is personal for
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  Speaker 5: miss Williams because she does not want her two year
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  Speaker 5: old son, Ashton, to experience what she went through as
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  Speaker 5: a child. Quote. I don't want my son to walk
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  Speaker 5: into any room and feel like his voice is not
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  Speaker 5: valued or his perspective can be heard because he's not
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  Speaker 5: saying it in one way or the other. Remember the airplane.
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  Speaker 5: We've got to pull the airplane episode where they're speaking jive.
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  Speaker 5: This will come in handy fry that Dylan over the
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  Speaker 5: last year and a half the adversary group. There's another
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  Speaker 5: advocacy group known as Black Ease, as in speaking Black
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  Speaker 5: Eyes blac k ECEE, and they've offered professional development training
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  Speaker 5: to spread the word about the importance of supporting Black
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  Speaker 5: English speakers the way they support dual language learners. So,
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  Speaker 5: for example, if you're learning Spanish, you also have to
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  Speaker 5: learn black ease or ebonics. I suppose is what we
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  Speaker 5: used to call it. We're still allowed to use that terminology.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. In California, most children under the age
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  Speaker 5: of five are dual language learners, and the state's master
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  Speaker 5: Plan for Early Learning and Care, released by Governor Nuskum,
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  Speaker 5: recognizes the opportunity to develop bilingualism during the early years,
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  Speaker 5: when the kid's brains are developing rapidly. It calls on
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  Speaker 5: educators to affirm the child's home language even as they're
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  Speaker 5: learning Standard English, which is also another word for White
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  Speaker 5: English in the classroom. The ten year Roadmap lays out
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  Speaker 5: specific recommendations such as training the workforce to support dual
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  Speaker 5: language learners to foster bilingualism. Now, I want to scroll
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  Speaker 5: down here, and that's a very lengthy story, but they're
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  Speaker 5: trying to get educators to legitimize the street language within
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  Speaker 5: the black community. And here's the reason why they don't
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  Speaker 5: want the kids talking like they're white. Now there is back.
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  Speaker 5: This is not the first time this has happened, by
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  Speaker 5: the way. Back in the nineteen nineties, the Oakland Unified
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  Speaker 5: School Districts Board of Education proposed using ebonics to help
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  Speaker 5: black students learn standard English, but the idea sparked controversy
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  Speaker 5: because critics accused the school board of trying to dumb
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  Speaker 5: down education. By contrast, early career educators those are preschool
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  Speaker 5: teachers were more likely to have positive beliefs about Black
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  Speaker 5: English because they may have started their careers during the
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  Speaker 5: Black Lives Matter movement. Keep it by Black Lives mattermant
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  Speaker 5: to literally destroy not only the foundations of the nation
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  Speaker 5: and introduce and embrace communism, but also to destroy and
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  Speaker 5: break down the American family. According to Miss Williams, when
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  Speaker 5: the perception of how children speak sits at the intersection
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  Speaker 5: of blackness, all right, where is that? It's like MLK
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  Speaker 5: and I don't know, Malcolm X and boulevard. Is that
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  Speaker 5: the intersection they're talking about?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: When they're at the intersection of blackness, that perception is
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  Speaker 5: nine times out of ten negative, Like you're from the hood,
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  Speaker 5: you're not speaking correctly, you're uneducated. There's a system behind
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  Speaker 5: the way that you speak as a black child, and
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  Speaker 5: we need to learn more about how to support that
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  Speaker 5: and help understand more standard English. Some characteristics of Black English.
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  Speaker 5: I know you folks probably thought I was making this up,
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  Speaker 5: but I am not yanking your chain here. Some characteristics
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  Speaker 5: of Black English, according to Kqeed, include double negation of
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  Speaker 5: verbs and the habitual b like we be playing with
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  Speaker 5: legos all the time. I'm reading from the thing here.
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  Speaker 5: This is not me just you know, waxing poetically. Linguists
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  Speaker 5: say this use of b is systematic and more nuanced
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  Speaker 5: than standard English. You can't make this. You cannot make
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  Speaker 5: this up. When children learn that their language is valid
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  Speaker 5: and beautiful, we can't even describe the pride they feel
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  Speaker 5: with that identity, said Gloria Swindler Booty, an early childhood
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  Speaker 5: education professor at the University of South Carolina. Miss Booty
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  Speaker 5: says it keeps children from thinking I have to speak
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  Speaker 5: this way at school and this way at home. In
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  Speaker 5: other words, they don't want the kids talking white and
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  Speaker 5: so there you go. It is a fascinating story. But oh,
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  Speaker 5: here we go. I've got to read this part so
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  Speaker 5: going back, Miss one of the people said that she
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  Speaker 5: want a scholarship to attend a summer camp, and she
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  Speaker 5: for the first time in her life, she was sourretted
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  Speaker 5: by mostly white children. And she said that she remembered
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  Speaker 5: picking up some of the ways her campmates talked and
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  Speaker 5: listening and listened to ace of base. Is that a
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  Speaker 5: thing that's old school right there? When she came home,
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  Speaker 5: she remembers her sister and cousin teasing her for talking white.
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  Speaker 5: In fourth grade, a teacher who was adamant about proper
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  Speaker 5: English punished the black students in her class by making
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  Speaker 5: them repeatedly enunciate words like what and why.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 5: It made me feel so insecure, But at the same time,
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  Speaker 5: that was the language that I needed to be considered
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  Speaker 5: in the gifted program in elementary school and be considered
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  Speaker 5: the student who always got to leave the pledge of allegiance.
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  Speaker 5: Learning to code switch and talk white in school helped
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  Speaker 5: her excel academically, and she went on to earn a
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  Speaker 5: doctorate in education. Dylan, let me ask you a question,
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  Speaker 5: if I may, so, here's the problem. Let's just say
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  Speaker 5: that this happens because it's California. It's probably gonna happen.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, everybody's picking up all this story now.
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  Speaker 5: Fox just posted a story about it. Leftist California group
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  Speaker 5: pushes to add Black English to schools. New York Post
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  Speaker 5: activists demand Black English be pushed on kids in California preschools.
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  Speaker 5: This is going to happen. But my question is what
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  Speaker 5: about what about Southern English?
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  Speaker 6: That is an excellent question.
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  Speaker 5: Because we've got our own We've got our own language
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  Speaker 5: in the South.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's true.
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  Speaker 5: And not only that, even in Memphis, Memphis has its
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  Speaker 5: own Black English, which is different than the rest of
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  Speaker 5: the nation's Black English.
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  Speaker 6: There's several other layers to Memphis English other than Black English.
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  Speaker 8: So I.
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  Speaker 5: Don't know what to say about all of this, but
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  Speaker 5: I think they're opening up Pandora's box. And I remember
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  Speaker 5: as a young broadcaster, you know, they would teach you
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  Speaker 5: to they would teach you to speak with a Midwestern accent,
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  Speaker 5: and I never could get to handle on that, never
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  Speaker 5: could And the reason why my Tennessee twang sort of
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  Speaker 5: mellowed is Dad got transferred down to New Orleans and
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  Speaker 5: so that sort of mellowed out my Tennessee twang, which
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  Speaker 5: I just had naturally, and I could not. It's not
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  Speaker 5: that I wanted to get rid of it. But again
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  Speaker 5: I remember having a broadcaster, a very famous broadcaster, tell
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  Speaker 5: me that I would never be able to work west
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  Speaker 5: of the Mississippi River because of my accent. And she
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  Speaker 5: was very kind and polite, and she said, no one
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  Speaker 5: would take you seriously with a Southern accent. And then
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  Speaker 5: she said she recommended a linguistic specialist who could help
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  Speaker 5: me get rid of my Southern accent. And long story short,
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  Speaker 5: I did not do that and ended up getting a
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  Speaker 5: job at a much larger broadcast market in California. And
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  Speaker 5: they love my Southern accent. Them wrong, and I don't think. Look,
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  Speaker 5: I don't have a strong Southern accent, but there are
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  Speaker 5: some words that I say, For example, McDonald's. If you're
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  Speaker 5: up north, they'll laugh at you. They'll say it's McDonald's,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm like, no, it's MacDonald's. It's mc If it
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  Speaker 5: was a Mick, there'd be an mic. So it's mac.
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  Speaker 6: You are in the minority there, But then it's forgivable.
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  Speaker 6: You know it's McDonald's.
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  Speaker 9: But it's fine.
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  Speaker 5: You're from from Mississippi.
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  Speaker 6: What do you I have from Mississippi.
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  Speaker 5: You're from Mississippi. What do you know? So anyway, Uh,
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  Speaker 5: there we have a I know, ladies in jelmen, do
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  Speaker 5: you have a problem with us again? I truly believe
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  Speaker 5: we need to be learning a common language. And it's
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  Speaker 5: almost as if California is wanting to build their own
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, modern day Tower of Babel right where
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  Speaker 5: you're not going to be able to understand anybody. So
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  Speaker 5: all that to say, all you homies out there might
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  Speaker 5: want to get all up in some homeschooling. Nine oh
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  Speaker 5: All Right, welcome back to the Todd Starts radio show
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  Speaker 5: Let's go to Pasadena, Texas. That's where Dan is listening
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  Speaker 5: to us on Patriot Talk nine to twenty. Dan, what
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  Speaker 5: do you make of this black English story out of California.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I think this is an excellent example of the
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  Speaker 12: anti white racistgotry that emanates from certain sections of the
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  Speaker 12: liberal Democrat party. And I think in addition to Blacks,
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  Speaker 12: certain percentages or cohorts of blacks wanting this black English.
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  Speaker 12: I suspect there are also white far left radical white
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  Speaker 12: Democrats who also support this. And there's a couple of
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  Speaker 12: problems with this. One involved speaking and the other involves spelling. Okay,
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  Speaker 12: they don't like they don't want black kids to learn
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  Speaker 12: how to speak white, white English. What about speaking English
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  Speaker 12: in the same way that Filipinos in the Philippines speak
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  Speaker 12: English or Indians in India speak English. And I have,
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  Speaker 12: and I talk to people like that from time to
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  Speaker 12: time when I call some major corporation that offshores smuch work.
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  Speaker 12: And I also had a conversation with guy in Africa
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  Speaker 12: who spoke excellent English, and he happened to be an
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  Speaker 12: Egyptian who's living in Alexandria. So English is all over
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  Speaker 12: the world, and for the most part, whether you're in
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  Speaker 12: the Philippines or anywhere else, you're speaking a variety of
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  Speaker 12: English that sounds very very much like this hated white
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  Speaker 12: English that certain radical blacks don't like. And the second thing,
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  Speaker 12: spelling the word acts. When it comes to spelling words,
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  Speaker 12: if they say the word acts, how the world are
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  Speaker 12: they going to ever spell the word ask ask correctly?
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  Speaker 5: It's a good it's a great question that you act there. Damn.
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  Speaker 5: I yes, We've got to run to a break. And
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  Speaker 5: I've got a lot more to say about this, because folks,
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  Speaker 5: you may not be aware of this. Every pilot in
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  Speaker 5: the world must speak English. Can you imagine? Can you
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  Speaker 5: imagine if that stops being the rule of the day?
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  Speaker 5: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six
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  Speaker 5: will be right back. Your call is coming up. You
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  Speaker 5: may not be aware of this, but it turns out
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  Speaker 5: that English is not the official language of the United
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  Speaker 5: States of America. I mean, it's the de facto language,
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  Speaker 5: but that would require an Act of Congress. And for whatever, well,
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  Speaker 5: it's Congress, what are we what are we gonna do?
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  Speaker 5: But when it comes to when it comes to airlines, uh,
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  Speaker 5: the the International Civil Aviation Organized Organization the ICO. They
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  Speaker 5: mandate that every pilot and every air traffic controller involved
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  Speaker 5: in international operations have at least an operational level for
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  Speaker 5: proficiency in av Asian English, so they've got to be fluid. Dylan,
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  Speaker 5: do we have the uh? Do we have the the
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  Speaker 5: clip from airplane? And and here's the reason why.
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  Speaker 9: Mm hm.
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  Speaker 4: Can I get you something.
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  Speaker 7: More?
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  Speaker 9: Folks? Butter them into the barn? Take me up.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I don't understand.
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  Speaker 13: Cut he say, can't hang oh s jardis I speak jo.
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  Speaker 2: He said that he's in great pain and he wants
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  Speaker 2: to know if you can help me.
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  Speaker 9: All right? Would you tell him to just relax and
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  Speaker 9: I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine.
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  Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Just hang lose blood.
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  Speaker 11: She's gonna catch up and be better on the midside.
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  Speaker 2: What it is big mama, Ma mama to raise no
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  Speaker 2: dummis I dug rap got.
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  Speaker 9: Me some slack yet?
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  Speaker 14: Chump to want to help Chump.
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  Speaker 9: Seven up?
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  Speaker 2: Johs Doude, don't got no brains.
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  Speaker 5: You don't want that happened at forty thousand feet. I'm
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  Speaker 5: just saying, let's go to the let's go to the
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  Speaker 5: phone lines. Our good friend Murph from Germantown, Tennessee listening
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  Speaker 5: to us on k w A M Hi, Professor Murph,
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  Speaker 5: what's going.
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  Speaker 14: On, Professor Starr is always a pleasure. You know, you'res
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  Speaker 14: truly taught in Shelby County for twenty plus years. Okay,
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  Speaker 14: And every now and then i'd get some of this.
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  Speaker 14: I don't know what kind of language you'd call it
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  Speaker 14: from Miss Clark or Miss Jones or mister Wilson, and
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  Speaker 14: I would bark at them, where'd you learn to speak
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  Speaker 14: that talk like that? You must be from Greenwood, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 14: And the next thing I hear is miss happened? How
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  Speaker 14: did you know I was in Greenwood? Because of the
• 21:48
  Speaker 14: way you talk.
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  Speaker 10: This?
• 21:50
  Speaker 14: Because this is basically Mississippi chilling and like a like
• 21:53
  Speaker 14: of you know and all that. But that's uh, I mean,
• 21:57
  Speaker 14: that's the lay of the land in the Wallsee Journal
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  Speaker 14: did a number on this old gosh, probably a couple
• 22:02
  Speaker 14: of years ago, on the misuse of the verb to be,
• 22:08
  Speaker 14: and it was hilarious. But I got this calls all
• 22:12
  Speaker 14: the way back to when I was at Memphis State
• 22:15
  Speaker 14: and the famous starting forward for the Memphis State Tigers.
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: Ronnie Robinson was interviewed and all he could say was
• 22:24
  Speaker 14: lack of like of you know, like you know me
• 22:29
  Speaker 14: and play from Melrose and who could understand that? And
• 22:33
  Speaker 14: then I got to take this back to when I
• 22:36
  Speaker 14: was in the airline then the three. There was some
• 22:37
  Speaker 14: luggage sitting at the gate to put on the airplane,
• 22:41
  Speaker 14: and here comes this kid walks up. An Ozark Airlines
• 22:44
  Speaker 14: agent looked at that and his classic remark, who bags Dave? B?
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Who bagged B?
• 22:53
  Speaker 15: Who bags?
• 22:54
  Speaker 16: To day?
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: B had?
• 22:56
  Speaker 14: Kim Finley and I looked at each other and said,
• 22:59
  Speaker 14: what so anyhow, it's it's epidemic. It's epidemic, and it
• 23:05
  Speaker 14: murders the King's English and just it it leaves an
• 23:11
  Speaker 14: awful impression on Black America, and somebody somewhere maybe we'll
• 23:18
  Speaker 14: take a stand and declare this it's bad enough already,
• 23:23
  Speaker 14: but it's just gonna get worse because there's no moms
• 23:26
  Speaker 14: and dads at home to teach teach kids how to read.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's true. And then I think in the culture
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: at large, though, it just creates even more chaos. When
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: you know you and and you know we're Southern and
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: there are a lot of you know, we talk a
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: certain way among our fellow Southerners than we would say,
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: you know, if we're in the Midwest or up north,
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: because they would have a you know, a hard time
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: understanding us and some of our great southern you know sayings.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: For example, you know, in New Orleans, instead of saying
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: they're going to go to the grocery store of the supermarket,
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: they would tell people, I got to go down and
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: make some groceries. And you know those are you know,
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Southern sayings that you know, people in other parts of
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: the country just would be confused by. So I think
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: there does have to be a commonality when it comes
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: to language.
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  Speaker 12: Yep.
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  Speaker 14: And if English teachers don't enforce it and the parents
• 24:19
  Speaker 14: don't enforce it and reaffirm it, yeah, who knows what's
• 24:24
  Speaker 14: gonna happen.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: It's it's it's the Tower of Babbel anyway, Yeah, the
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Tower of Babbel all over again.
• 24:32
  Speaker 14: Exactly Do you understand a word? He said?
• 24:35
  Speaker 16: You take care all right?
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Thanks? Merph from Germantown nine oh one two six zero
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: five died two six Dylan. You know what give me
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: some sugar means give me some sugar?
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Is that a kiss. That's a kiss.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, A lot of people would go and get you
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: some like Dixie crystals. Yeah, No, I'm good on that,
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: which is sugar.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: By the way, that sugar.
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: But give me some sugar, or I'm gonna tan your hide.
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: You're gonna get a spanking, you're getting a span.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Thinking that's it, so you know it's yeah, these are
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: all but but again in other parts of the country,
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: that dog won't hunt, people say we'll get another dog. No,
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: that's not what we're saying. Or if I had my brothers,
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: there's another good Southern So all that to say, folks, really,
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: we're gonna we're gonna screw up our language. We're gonna
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: make We're gonna make it. We're gonna make America be
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: a place where nobody understands anybody. Okay, I got you, Dylan.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: You'd like to hear about as happy as a as
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: a pig and mud. Okay, that means you're very happy.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: I'm very very.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: That's it. Nine oh one two six zero five died
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: two six hour telephone over. That's nine oh one two
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: six zero five nine two six. So yesterday we told
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: you the story. We are getting some some breaking news
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: out of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and there is a guy who
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: is a rail conductor, Dyllan. Have you ever been to Chattanooga?
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, have you one time?
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: Have you been on that rail incline?
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: I didn't get to do that, but I will. I
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: will do that next time.
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: So it's a it's a huge it is I mean,
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: it's very steep and it's basically a train car that
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: takes you all the way to the top of Locott
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Mountain and it's a lot of fun. The views are
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: incredible and I don't know, you get fifteen twenty people
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: in the train car and they have a train conductor.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: So on the fourth of July, there was a guy
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: and he's the train conductor, a part time fella, and
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: he was we don't know what led up to this,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: but clearly something happened because he knew that most of
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: the people on board that train did not did not
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: like America, and we're not from America. And so here's
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: what he had we and we only got we only
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: got this part of it. But the train conductor said
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: something and we It was filmed by a couple of
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: far left tourists and we know that because one of
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: the guys was wearing an abolish Ice T shirt. So
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of politics here that is not getting
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: covered in the national media. And we've got the full
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: story at Todd Sterns dot com and i'd encourage you
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: to go there and take up and check it out.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: We also have this video, but you're going to hear
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: the audio of what the train conductor said that got
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: him fired.
• 27:26
  Speaker 16: The very very few Americans in here.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: To the rest of you, welcome to the Gradys country
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: on the face of play, and if you disagree, you
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: can lead and thinking.
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: The company needs to know about this because he was
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: the only one on there representing the company.
• 27:47
  Speaker 17: Charles sent the video to Karda. Carter says they fired
• 27:50
  Speaker 17: the part time conductor who made the comments that same day.
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: I want to make sure that they say something to
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: the operator at a minimum so that it doesn't ruin
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: the trip for everyone else.
• 28:02
  Speaker 17: In a statement, Carter apologize to all the passengers who
• 28:05
  Speaker 17: experienced this, watch the video and quote felt its sting,
• 28:09
  Speaker 17: going on to say we have zero tolerance for language
• 28:11
  Speaker 17: that demeans or excludes anyone who rides with us. A
• 28:14
  Speaker 17: person claiming to be the conductor on that video commented
• 28:17
  Speaker 17: on Facebook saying there were maybe five Americans out of
• 28:20
  Speaker 17: forty people on that car. When we reached out to him,
• 28:23
  Speaker 17: he said he didn't feel like his comments were xenophobic
• 28:26
  Speaker 17: or racist, and if you don't believe making this country great,
• 28:29
  Speaker 17: why are you here.
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: I just want this inclined to be an enjoyable experience,
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: you know, for everyone writing and for everyone, like my
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: dad said, for everyone to feel welcome in our country.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Oh for crying out. So that's the guy wearing the
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: abolish Ice shirt by the way, So the train could
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: I'm just confused here. Maybe you're going to help me out.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: I want to read to you what the train conductor said,
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: because they're saying that this is racist and xenophobic. And
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: here's what the guy said to the very very few
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Americans in here, happy independency. So there were apparently not
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: many Americans, so he was, you know, again calling out
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: a specific group of people. And then he said to
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: the rest of you, welcome to the greatest country on
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: the face of the planet. And if you disagree, you
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: can leave. Dylan, I'm having a hard time understanding what's
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: offensive about what the guy said.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: Well, the fact that they're in Chattanooga is probably what
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: makes it offensive. I love Chattanooga, but it's so liberal. Yes,
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: it is very liberal. Lots of purple hair. So I'm
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: really not surprised at the reaction those people gave him.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: I am shocked. I had no idea Chattanooga was like,
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: oh yeah, oh yeah, they went woke.
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: They did. And it's such a beautiful place. You know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: lookout Mountain is gorgeous. But you know, people like that
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: just ruined it.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: So the guy, the guy's name is Nathan Shearer. He's
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: the guy wearing the anti Ice shirt, and he posted
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: this on his tic tac as President Trump calls it
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: the tic tac account with the hashtags racism and xenophobia.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Did you hear anything offensive about what the guy said?
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I did not.
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, maybe you're hearing something. Maybe I'm missing
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: something here. The Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority said the
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: conductor had been fired, and they also said the man
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: will never work for the railway again in the history
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: of the Earth. I know, I'm not kidding you. They
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: literally they said he's never going to be able to
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: work for them. The train company said, we want to
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: apologize directly to the passengers who experience this, and to
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: everyone who has seen the video and felt its sting,
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: really just a smidge over reacting, maybe a little bit
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: too much caffeine. Maybe. Then the guy goes on, we
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: have zero tolerance for language that demeans or excludes anyone
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: who rides with us. Oh, I'm catching I'm catching you
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: know what because of what I of my headlined on
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: the website. Train conductor fired for saying America's greatest nation
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: on Earth. That's what the guy said. Anyway, the statement
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: goes on, for one hundred and thirty one years, the
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Incline Railway has welcomed visitors from Chattanooga and from around
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: the world. Every passenger who boards our railway deserves to
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: feel respected and welcome, and we are committed to making
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: sure that is always the case. So Channel nine, which
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: is the ABC affiliate in Chattanooga, they figured out who
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: this guy is and they reached down to him. His
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: name is Jack Peterson, and he's the train conductor. And
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: the guy sent him a statement said, Hey, look, I'm
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: very patriotic and it was Independence Day and I truly
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: do believe we are the greatest country on Earth. My
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: statement about if you don't like the country and don't
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: believe we're the best, then you can leave. Well that's
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: a freedom of the USA that any other countries don't have.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: This is true. He then said, if you don't believe
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: in making this country better, then why are you here.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: This guy is great. We tried to hunt him down
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: to get him on the show, and hopefully we'll be
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: able to find him. But he's just a regular American dude.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: And I'm just going to posit this theory. I suspect
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: this guy was listening to a bunch of foreigners and
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: these leftist nut jobs bashing America, bashing President Trump, and
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: the guy finally said enough of this, and he had
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: a microphone and he used it. That's what That's what
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: I think really happened here. So anyway, I'm still struggling
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: to figure out what was racist or offensive about what
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: this guy said, But we understand what A go fundme
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: page has been set up for the train conductor, people
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: wanting to, you know, donate somebody to the poor guy
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: who's now out of a job simply for loving America. Now,
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: some of you are going to say, well, Todd, he
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: was employed by the train company and he's not allowed
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: to offer his own personal opinion. Oh really, Okay, what
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: about all those teachers attacking Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: What about all the teachers and the workers that were
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: applauding the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Some of those people
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: were fired, but then they sued and got rehired and
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: were given tens of thousands of dollars in settlements. So
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: you can't have it both ways. Here, I'm just saying
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: you can't have it both ways. But again, I again,
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: this guy said nothing, nothing that would lead anybody to say,
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: you've got to go because you're a racist. Nine oh
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: one two six zero five nine two six is our
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: telephone over. That's nine oh one two six zero five,
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: nine two six. This is the ton Stearn Show. All right,
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: President Trump holding a press conference in Turkey at the
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: NATO meeting, and we're going to be playing some of
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: this audio in the next hour. The right after the
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: time of the hour news break, We're going to play
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: some of this audio. A president is really fiery, also
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: had a lot of things to say about Iran, and
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: the President is finally getting to the point where I
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: think he realizes that you cannot trust the Iranians. They
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: are not people of their word, and it just seems
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: to me that the Iranians at this point need to
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: be wiped off the face of the earth. I mean,
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: it really is that simple. And how the President goes
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: about doing that we will see. But the President addressing
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: that and also a few other issues, including what he
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: believes is the greatest threat to the American people, the
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: greatest threat to the American people, and that is communism.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: So we're going to be taking your calls on that.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Do you believe that communism is now the greatest threat
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: to our nation? Our number, by the way, nine oh
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  Speaker 5: one two six zero five nine two six. That's nine
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  Speaker 5: oh one two six zero nine two six. Well, we're
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: getting very close, ladies and gentlemen. We are just what
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: under a month away, under thirty days from my new
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: book being in bookstores around the nation. It is called
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. And those of
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: you that are watching us right now, I've got I'm
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: holding a copy of this beautiful book, very reminiscent of
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: the Great Gatsby as far as the cover of the book.
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: And we have so many wonderful endorsements from people like
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: Speaker Mike Johnson, a Congressman Marlin Stutsman, our good friend,
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  Speaker 5: Pastor Jack Gibbs, and doctor Robert Jeffers out of the
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. And I wanted to read
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: a couple of things from the book, which is really
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: a celebration of what Donald Trump has done for our
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: nation and the responsibilities we bear as freedom loving patriots
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: going forward. And as a matter of fact, from the book,
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: these are the words of our President on inauguration Day
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: twenty twenty five. We will stand bravely, we will live proudly,
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: we will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our
• 36:32
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• 36:38
  Speaker 5: our Golden Age has just begun. So that is just
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  Speaker 5: a little blurb from the opening of the book. You're
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• 37:00
  Speaker 5: good fight moving forward. Because I agree with the President
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: that communism is a clear and present danger much like
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: it was in the nineteen sixties with the rise of
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: the conservative movement under William F. Buckley Junior and Ronald Reagan.
• 37:15
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• 37:34
  Speaker 5: coming from the President. This is the Todd Starnes Radio.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Show, live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: It's common sense, it's conservative commentary from Todd stars.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: This American.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Hello everybody, welcome to the Tod Seerns Radio Program.
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: Great to have you with us today. I want you
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: to write down our telephone number. You will need this
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: if you plan on calling it. Nine oh one two
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  Speaker 5: six zero five nine two six. That's nine oh one
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  Speaker 5: two six zero five to nine to six. All right.
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: President Trump ramping up a press conference overseas in Turkey
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: at the NATO summit, and the President made an interesting
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: observation about the number one threat to America. Take a
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: listen to Cup thirty three.
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: What's happening? And I see these low lives getting I
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: mean their low lives. I watch them.
• 38:49
  Speaker 10: I know good people, I know quality people. These are
• 38:52
  Speaker 10: essentially low lives. And when I see what they took,
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: and I think they're very dangerous in many ways. And
• 38:57
  Speaker 10: I've said it, and then I said, boy, that's pretty
• 38:59
  Speaker 10: big statement. Then I realized, you know, a couple of
• 39:01
  Speaker 10: people said, I think you're probably right. I think this country,
• 39:04
  Speaker 10: with this thing that's going around, is in more danger
• 39:09
  Speaker 10: than it was during World War One, World War two,
• 39:14
  Speaker 10: if you talk about September eleventh, if you talk about
• 39:17
  Speaker 10: Pearl Harbor, that was big danger. I think this is
• 39:21
  Speaker 10: I think the concept of US going communist, because one
• 39:24
  Speaker 10: thing that happens when you go communists you never come back,
• 39:26
  Speaker 10: never comes back. You die in squalor. You die, you
• 39:30
  Speaker 10: die a horrible death. You die in squalor, and it
• 39:33
  Speaker 10: gets very evil and very nasty. Yeah, please guys.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well there you go. The President is not wrong here.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: And I think, honestly though, I think there is an
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: additional danger to America, and that would be the rise
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: of Islam, because it certainly appears that the Islamist are
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: using communism as the vehicle, as the mechanism to gain
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: power in this country, especially when you look AT's what's
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: been happening out there with these these congressional races and
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: the state races and even local municipalities that are electing
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: Muslims who are members of the Democratic Socialist Party to office.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: And that is only going to get worse as we
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: continue to move on. Here again our telephone number nine
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  Speaker 5: o one two six zero five nine two six. Do
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: you believe that communism or Islam is the greater threat
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: facing our nation?
• 40:31
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: The President also has pretty much had it with Iran,
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: and the President dropping this line on the Iranians cut
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: thirty one place quickly.
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: They hit a couple of ships, and so we hit
• 40:46
  Speaker 10: that much harder when they hit, We hit ten times harder.
• 40:48
  Speaker 9: You know, we hit much harder than they do. We
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: have a lot better equipment than they do. We may
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: even somebody else before. Do you think you hit them
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: to night? I said we might, yeah, we might. But
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: when they hit and we hit, that's what they use.
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: We use their language, we speak their language. No, I
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: don't think so. I think anything that happens is going
• 41:07
  Speaker 9: to be over very quickly.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: So the President, I mean, they hit I think eighty
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: one sites precision sites yesterday, and that just again illustrates
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: the power and the might of the US military, which
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: was on full display during the America to fifty celebrations.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: So the President talking about this, and this is brilliant
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: because a lot of folks have been wondering, and this
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: is a fair question, well how do we know the
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: Iranians aren't going into those sites where they are developing
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: the nuclear weapons? How do we know they're not going
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: back in there and trying to do something? And the
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: President explained that we have technology so powerful that well,
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: I want you to hear the president cut thirty two.
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: Please have that now, there's no way they have a
• 41:56
  Speaker 10: nuclear weapon. We have cameras, as an example, on the
• 41:59
  Speaker 10: site that does beautiful B twos.
• 42:01
  Speaker 9: At one o'clock in the morning ten months ago, blew up.
• 42:04
  Speaker 9: They blew it up. We have cameras as called space force.
• 42:09
  Speaker 9: There is space, but we have cameras that can read
• 42:12
  Speaker 9: the badge of the person going over to a site.
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: Mohammed something.
• 42:17
  Speaker 10: We say it's Mohammed something is there with shovels, Well,
• 42:21
  Speaker 10: shovels won't get you there. The biggest machinery in the
• 42:26
  Speaker 10: world probably won't get you there. If you want to
• 42:27
  Speaker 10: know the truth, it's way way below. But we were
• 42:31
  Speaker 10: watching that and if anybody goes there, they get blown up.
• 42:34
  Speaker 10: So nobody's going to touch that. Eventually, we'll take it.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: But what we do have is we have that I
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: love this again, it's amazing. So we have within our resources.
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: US Space Force has cameras that can actually read the name,
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: the name tag of somebody in Iran right now, that's
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: how powerful they are. So let's just say the guy's
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: name is I don't know, Mohammed Jones, and Mohammed Jones
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: is walking into one of the nuclear sites. They can
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: read that guy's name tag and then they can launch
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: a precision attack to turn Mohammed Jones into a pile
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: of I don't know, radioactive dust. That's the power of America,
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen. So the president also, let's see, here's
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: the President talking about Iran. The ceasefire effectively over. Let's
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: listen to the President that I've got a few things
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: to say about that cut twenty nine Please.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Fire over if the seafire. John is the emou Dad.
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: It's a very interesting question to me. I think it's over.
• 43:51
  Speaker 9: I don't want to deal with them any with this scum.
• 43:53
  Speaker 9: You know what scum is the gum.
• 43:55
  Speaker 13: There's sick people. They'll live by sick people and the
• 43:59
  Speaker 13: vicious island people. And if they had a nuclear weapon,
• 44:03
  Speaker 13: they'd use it. As far as I'm concerned, it's over.
• 44:05
  Speaker 13: I'll speak to our negotiators. They want to negotiat. They're
• 44:08
  Speaker 13: good people, Steve Woodcuff, Jared Kusher, but they have to
• 44:13
  Speaker 13: come back to me. So as I'm concerned, it's just
• 44:16
  Speaker 13: a waste of time dealing with them. They're liars. We
• 44:19
  Speaker 13: make a deal, and if I make a deal with him,
• 44:22
  Speaker 13: we have a deal, and he goes out, he talks,
• 44:24
  Speaker 13: We make a deal, everyone's agreed, no nuclear weapon.
• 44:27
  Speaker 9: We make a deal.
• 44:28
  Speaker 13: They go outside, talk to the press. They say, we
• 44:30
  Speaker 13: never even talked about it. There's something wrong with them.
• 44:33
  Speaker 13: They're cuckoo. So as I'm concerning, it's over.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, good, and it should be. And here's the reason
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: why we've got the midterm elections coming up. But the
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: American people, they're done with all this. They're done. We
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: know that Iran's not going to honor this Easpiers. Enough
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: is enough. It's time to put Iran out of business.
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: For Druid, it's just we got to get this wrapped
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: up and get out of there and get back to
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: our lives as normal.
• 45:03
  Speaker 12: Now.
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: Our good buddy, Jeff Stein, this is a radio station, KXL,
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: which is our affiliate in Waterloo, Iowa. They have a
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: fifty thousand AM signal, so they reach most of the
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: state of Iowa with their signal. It's huge. And he
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: conducted a survey on the most pressing issues facing voters
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: there in Iowa, and I thought it was fascinating that
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: the number one issue was actually not Iran. The number
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: one issue was passing the Save America Act. That was
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: the number one issue facing the good people in the Heartland.
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: And I do wonder, I do wonder if the Republicans
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: are underestimating the outrage that the American people have over
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: what's been not happening in the halls of Congress. Meanwhile,
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: you've got Mitch McConnell, who may or may not be alive.
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: We don't know. I don't know personally. Laura Luomer reporting
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: yesterday that he had been apparently brain dead. They had
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: to resuscitate him, the paramedics did at his home in Washington,
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: d C. And then Scott Jennings from CNN came out
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: yesterday and Scott Jennings said something on CNN that was
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: just very odd. And a lot of people are trying
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: to figure out what's going on here because now there
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: is some sort of an effort afoot to convince the
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: American people that Mitch McConnell is not only alive and well,
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: but he is of sound mind. And it just is
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: very reminiscent of what they did, what the Democrats did
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: during the later years of the Biden administration. And Scott Jennings, who,
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: by the way, is very close to Mitch McConnell. We're
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: talking about very close friends going back decades, their families.
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: It's really really remarkable. As a matter of fact, some
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: people could say that Scott Jennings owes his political career
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: to Mitch McConnell. But he comes he comes out last
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: night on See It N and again we're talking about
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: Mitch McConnell being eighty four years old. The Loumer reporting
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: is that he's brain dead, not coming back. And then
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: Jennings posted on X that he actually spoke to Mitch
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: McConnell for seventeen minutes. He says, I spoke to my
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior senator from Kentucky.
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: He wrote all this on X two. He's still recovering
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: in the hospital. We talked just shy of twenty minutes
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: about Iran and Ukraine and the unfolding situation in Maine,
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: my visit to the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library, and even
• 47:55
  Speaker 5: a little bit of Senate history. I told him that
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: we want to see him back at work as soon
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: as possible. I just want to say something here, so
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: and I'm not trying. This is not even it's apples
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: and oranges. I get it, but hear me on this.
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: So look, I was in the hospital with the heart
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: issue and people called to see how I was doing.
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: And those conversations were not long at all, even with
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: my very closest friends and family, because you're tired and
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: you're exhausted, and you really don't want to be around people,
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: right because you're sick. And I do remember, and this
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: was not that long ago, what six weeks ago? And
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: I'm telling you. I wasn't talking about politics. I didn't
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: want to know about the president's policies regarding Iran or Ukraine.
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: I was just lucky to be alive. So I don't
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: know the whole conversation that Scott Jennings alleges that he
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: had with Mitch McConnell. Something doesn't set right about it
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: with me. And that's all I'm gonna say, because again
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: I all I can tell you is that's a weird
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: thing that Scott Jennings related to the American people. And
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: then John Thune, the Majority leader, comes out and says, oh, yes,
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: we had a lengthy conversation with Mitch McConnell about substantive
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: about substantive issues that covered a variety of topics, including
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: national security. And then the Senate whip releases a statement saying, oh, yes,
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: I too had a call that So Mitch McConnell, as
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: far as we'd know, spent almost two hours on the
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: phone talking to people. Do you believe any Are you
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: buying any of this? And my question is why are
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: what are they covering up here? What is what is
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: what is going on? So I have a theory about this,
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: and hear me it's just it's all very odd. All
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: of this is very odd about about Mitch McConnell. There's something,
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: there's something they're not telling us, and it has to
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: do with power and control of the US Senate. And
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: for the Republicans, that's more important than anything else, having power.
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: Same with the Democrats. Right, they're just different letters, but
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: they all want power. They crave power and control. And
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: I don't believe what they're trying to sell us about
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: Mitch McConnell, because if the Mitch McConnell was really doing
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: as well as they said, if he was a sound
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: of mind as they say he is, why is he
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: not doing a five minute phone call with Fox and Friends?
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: Why isn't that happening? Or better yet? As the CNN
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: host set, and very rarely do I agree with the
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: CNN host, but the CNN host clearly did not believe
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: Scott Jennings because she said, well, let's get him on
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: the phone. Absolutely, let's get him on the phone. Or
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: it may be that you know, Mitch McConnell is doing great,
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: and look, we don't you know, we want everybody to
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: live a healthy life. I don't care if you're a
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: Republican or Democrat. We want you to be alive and
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: be well, but just don't lie to us. Nine oh
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: one two six zero five, nine two six are telephone
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: over your calls? Coming up next, that's nine oh one
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: two six zero five, nine two six. This is the
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: Tod Stern Show. All right, welcome back everybody. This is
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: the Tod Sterns Radio Show as we monitor President Trump
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: and delivering a pretty strong message to NATO and the folks.
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but when it comes to NATO,
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: they've got to pay their bills, and they should be
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: paying a whole lot more money than we should because
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: it's their backsides that we're protecting over there. I mean,
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: it really is that simple. So if Spain and these
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: other countries want to give us the what four fine,
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: we cut off trade because we don't have to put
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: our resources over there. In Europe, we don't have to
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: do it anymore. Nine oh one two six zero five,
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: nine two six. Let's go to David in Georgia. David,
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: what's on your mind?
• 52:37
  Speaker 7: Well, thank you for letting me own. I hate to
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: regrets to an earlier subject, but we've had black English
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: in the South for fifty years and as you remember
• 52:47
  Speaker 7: we called it Evonnis. Do you remember the Turmy Bonnicks?
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: I do remember EBONYX, Yes, one of them.
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: And you've got a wicked sense of humor. But there
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: was a gentleman named kneel Boards that was a radio host.
• 53:01
  Speaker 7: Do you remember mister Bards.
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: I've known Neil for many, many years. A great man, all.
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: Right, all right, yes, I loved him. He had an
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: engineer named Royal Marshall that was an African American. I
• 53:12
  Speaker 7: remember Royal, yes, And they sent him, they sent one
• 53:15
  Speaker 7: of the news stations in Atlanta, sent him into the hood.
• 53:18
  Speaker 7: There was a young gentleman named Doo that got shot
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: in the hood, and they spent this white lady to
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: the hood to try to find out what happened to Bo.
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: And it was rather hilarious. She couldn't understand what was
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: going on. And Royal translated BO got shot from mister Bortz,
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: and if you want to fall off your seat laughing,
• 53:39
  Speaker 7: it's his translation of Royal Marshall's translation of Doo got
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: shot was one of the funniest things I've ever heard.
• 53:50
  Speaker 14: I love this.
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: We're gonna hunt this down, and uh, if we're able
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: to find it, because that I remember that and it
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: was a hoot. And uh, if we're able to get that,
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: we will play that coming up in the next segment.
• 54:04
  Speaker 7: And well, I know you've got a short on time.
• 54:06
  Speaker 7: All The other thing I've got to say is anybody
• 54:09
  Speaker 7: that cares to look and read about things like black English,
• 54:15
  Speaker 7: one of the words they left to use is a word.
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: It's the bastardized version of the word ask ask. It's
• 54:22
  Speaker 7: shortened to acts. I want to ask you a question.
• 54:27
  Speaker 7: That word is actually a word that was bastardized by
• 54:30
  Speaker 7: the poor English immigrants that came from the coal mines
• 54:35
  Speaker 7: of England. So when they start talking about black English,
• 54:39
  Speaker 7: I would challenge anybody to start looking at the root.
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: And a lot of the words that are considered black
• 54:45
  Speaker 7: English are actually taken from poor white English immigrants from
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: years ago. It's not that much as you and it
• 54:54
  Speaker 7: can be awfully funny if you're willing to take the
• 54:56
  Speaker 7: time to look it up.
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: All right, Well, look, David, I appreciate the call, and
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: thanks for the little history lesson there as well. And
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: coming up, we actually found that audio. We're gonna play it.
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: We've got Liz Peak coming up, but we will play
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: that Neil Bortz segment coming up a little bit later
• 55:12
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• 56:00
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Sterns Show.
• 56:28
  Speaker 9: To Cab County.
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: There was a shooting at an apartment complex. All we
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: know is that the name of the guy that got
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: shot was Boo and one of our intrepid news ferrets
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: from News Talk seven to fifty WSB went out to
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: that apartment complex with the tape recorder and started asking
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: people what happened?
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: What did you see?
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: They came across. Our reporter came across this delightful young
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: lady who had seen the whole thing, and all she
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: needed was a microphone. Here, ladies and gentlemen, is her
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: explanation of what happened.
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: That faithful night.
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: She was taking real bad pictures. They got shot. They
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: got shot. I said, oh ho, she said, boo, guy shot.
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: Boo got shot. I said, oh my god, oh my god.
• 57:13
  Speaker 18: We just saw My sister had called somebody up him.
• 57:16
  Speaker 18: She called my cousin panking this day or does she
• 57:18
  Speaker 18: called huh? And Pink told her that she was on
• 57:20
  Speaker 18: the phone police, and she chie she had left out,
• 57:23
  Speaker 18: and she went down her car.
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: She bad out.
• 57:25
  Speaker 18: And when she left out, then when I heard gun
• 57:27
  Speaker 18: shot again. And when I heard the gun shot, and
• 57:30
  Speaker 18: I seen someone had running the bill no bed that way,
• 57:33
  Speaker 18: he ran that beer and I seen that call. Yet
• 57:35
  Speaker 18: name flew out, and then I seen a long gun,
• 57:38
  Speaker 18: a big old.
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: Mun in it.
• 57:39
  Speaker 18: Cry.
• 57:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, there's the explanation of what happened that night. Now,
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: I fully understand that there may be some of you
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: out there who really still don't have a clear understanding
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: of what went down in that apartment complex. By the way,
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: let me tell you that Boo left Boo's Okay, I mean,
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: we wouldn't sit here making fun of Boo. I Boo
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: were taking a dirt nap. No booze fine, But we
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: call upon the unbelievable talents of our associate producer, Royal Marshall.
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: We call him Royalty. He's going to give you the
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: Royal treatment with his translation of what that lady said.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: You see, Royal is bilingual. He speaks street, he speaks broadcast.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: So for you, now Royal's translation of Boo got shot.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: It appears the young lady was trembling from nervousness.
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: Pages they got shot, They got shot.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Someone has been wounded. Who I inquired as to who
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: the victim was. She said, Boo, Boo has suffered a gunshot.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Boo has become the victim of another violent crime.
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: I said, Oh my god, oh my god, oh me,
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: oh my we just said my still say of him.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: My sibling telephoned another relative.
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: Chica, my cousin this day on dusk.
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: In fact, it was my cousin Pumpkin, who lives in
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: this very same community.
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: Chica, and Pika told her that she was on the phone.
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: Polly Punkin was already on the phone with the local
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: authorities and Cheechee.
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: She had left out.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Chi Chi had already departed, and she went down her car.
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: She bad out.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: She found her vehicle and put it in reverse.
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: And when she left out that when I heard gunshot again.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: As she was departing, a shot rang out, piercing the
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: cold night air.
• 59:21
  Speaker 18: When I heard a gunshot, and I seen somebody had running.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: The bear no fit that way.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Apparently the perpetrator was seeking cover behind the local building.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: He ran that it was that building over there.
• 59:33
  Speaker 4: And I seen that flew out.
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: I saw the car depart with the rapid acceleration, and
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: then I see a long gun. I saw a firearm
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: of substantial caliber, a big old one. I mean substantial caliber.
• 59:50
  Speaker 19: Me.
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: Oh my, there you go. Welcome back to the Todd
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: Sturges radio show. That Ladies and Gentlemen is Neil Barns
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: and back in the day. You just can't you can't
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: make that up, Dylan. We may need to make that
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 5: a regular segment here because we are. I am somewhat
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 5: fluent in ebonics, being from the South, and so perhaps
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: we could offer that same sort of that hospitality services
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: as if you will.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: We've had plenty of training, so I'm sure you'd be
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: the perfect candidate.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: Well, we we do what we can. I'm a well
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: traveled man, yes, so me oh my, all right. That
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 5: was the great Neil Boards from WSB and Atlanta. Royal
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 5: Marshall was his longtime producer and Neil's enjoying retirement years
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: right now, So there you go, all right, nine oh
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  Speaker 5: one two six zero five nine two six David, thank
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  Speaker 5: you from Gainesville, Georgia for reminding us about that that
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  Speaker 5: hilarious a bit on the radio. Well, I want to
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  Speaker 5: Hello to our good friend. She is the Fox News
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  Speaker 5: contributor and columnist for Fox News dot com and the
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  Speaker 5: help Lizpeak dot com is her website. Liz hope you're
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  Speaker 5: doing well today.
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  Speaker 20: I am, thank you, thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 5: So there was an interesting report that came out from
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  Speaker 5: City Hall in New York City, Zronmandami. It is a
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  Speaker 5: three hundred and seventy five page report about how pretty
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  Speaker 5: much everything in America is racist. Is called the New
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  Speaker 5: York City Preliminary Racial Equity Study. It really does help
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  Speaker 5: you understand exactly what this guy is doing at city Hall.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean, look, this is a country where Black
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  Speaker 20: Americans are represented in Congress in the way that they
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  Speaker 20: are represented in the general population. We've elected a black
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  Speaker 20: man president twice, not once, but twice. And if you
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  Speaker 20: actually look at the racial lineup of who does well
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  Speaker 20: in America, white people are not dominant in terms of
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  Speaker 20: economic gains, really people from India and Asia and other places.
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  Speaker 20: So it's you know, God, it's just it's such an old,
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  Speaker 20: tired story and it doesn't really work. I think most
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  Speaker 20: people really don't believe it. The problem is when you
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  Speaker 20: tell people of any group that you are underserved and
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  Speaker 20: you've been taken advantage of, and so forth and so on,
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  Speaker 20: so enough times they begin to believe it. And really,
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  Speaker 20: my biggest grievance with the Democratic Party and certainly those
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  Speaker 20: on the far left, is that they just have such
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  Speaker 20: a depressing message for young Americans. Don't even bother to
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  Speaker 20: work and try and get it ahead, because the deck
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  Speaker 20: is acted against you. That's Bernie Sanders line, right, or
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  Speaker 20: you know, it's the olive garchs stealing your money and
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  Speaker 20: they didn't. They have no way to get rich unless
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  Speaker 20: they take from you. It's all a big zero sum
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  Speaker 20: game and they just try and find one group after
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  Speaker 20: another to pit against each other. Yeah, and this racial thing,
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  Speaker 20: you know, again, it's been around a long time, and
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  Speaker 20: you know there are a number of scholars have just
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  Speaker 20: refuted most of the findings. I'm sure there will be
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  Speaker 20: scholars looking at this ridiculous report and saying, no, this
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  Speaker 20: actually is not how this happens. But it's sad to
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  Speaker 20: me that the resources of the New York City government
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  Speaker 20: have gone to this as opposed to actually trying to
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  Speaker 20: solve some of the city's problems because you know, I
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  Speaker 20: guess what the city has probed. The city is not
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  Speaker 20: very clean, traffic is impossible, which actually impacts today the
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  Speaker 20: delivery of emergency services being a city not mad. So
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  Speaker 20: you know, Mamdani is just all spoken mirrors and kind
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  Speaker 20: of pretense. He isn't really going to anything for New
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  Speaker 20: York City to make it better. I think we can
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  Speaker 20: all probably agree it'll make it worse.
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  Speaker 5: Not to mention buildings that might be fallen down.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, well, that's not his fault.
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  Speaker 20: No, no, honestly, honestly, you know, but I mean really
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  Speaker 20: we Yeah, New York City needs good governance and creating
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  Speaker 20: a budget for example. That it is just blooney.
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  Speaker 14: I mean, they didn't.
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  Speaker 20: I love seeing all these bots. I'm assuming their boss
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  Speaker 20: online saying what a great mayor resolved our budget deficit.
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  Speaker 20: No he didn't. He stole from the future.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 20: And he's making outrageous assumptions about how they're going to
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  Speaker 20: become more efficient. Todd, do you think that the Mamdani
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  Speaker 20: run government is going to be a New York City
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  Speaker 20: is going to be more efficient than it used to be?
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  Speaker 20: I really doubted ye. Anyway, it's sad. It's all playing
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  Speaker 20: to ignorance and division and all the things that sets
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  Speaker 20: our young people. And it's sad to me, honestly, we.
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  Speaker 5: Liz, You've got to calumn up on listbeef dot com.
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  Speaker 5: July fourth exposed Democrats big problem with America silent majority.
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  Speaker 5: I have to tell you, I came away from the
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  Speaker 5: fourth of July weekend celebrations so encouraged. And the reason
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  Speaker 5: why is when you look and see how people were
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  Speaker 5: people were celebrating and even in the big cities. You know,
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  Speaker 5: people were wearing red, white and blue. They were, you know,
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  Speaker 5: saying great things about America. I mean, thousands of people
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  Speaker 5: there at the Great American State Fair. It's just it's
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  Speaker 5: not the same America that you see portrayed on the
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  Speaker 5: news channels or on social media.
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  Speaker 20: No, they don't want it to be a great America.
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  Speaker 20: They want people again to be angry and unhappy with
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  Speaker 20: the way our country's going because that gives them control,
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  Speaker 20: because then they can come in and say, look the
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  Speaker 20: values that the systems and the economy, the capitalism that
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  Speaker 20: we've embraced for two hundred and fifty years, and it's
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  Speaker 20: not working anymore. So give us power and to dominate
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  Speaker 20: your lives, to take a bigger share of the government, which,
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  Speaker 20: by the way, has been going on for years now.
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  Speaker 20: In fact, that government has taken an ever larger share
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  Speaker 20: of GDP. And guess what that does, Todd It makes
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  Speaker 20: the economy less efficient, less responsive to innovation and so forth.
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  Speaker 20: If you doubt that, think about how AI has not
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  Speaker 20: even shown up, for example, in public education because oh
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  Speaker 20: my god, you might disturb the teachers' unions. It's a
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  Speaker 20: very very bad message. But the great news is most
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  Speaker 20: people just don't believe it, and like you, I mean,
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  Speaker 20: what did I do on the fourth until I went
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  Speaker 20: and listened to the reading of the Declaration of Independence,
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  Speaker 20: which our little village where I am right now did
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  Speaker 20: for the first time, and I thought, well, gosh, there's
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  Speaker 20: anyone going to show up at eight o'clock in the
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  Speaker 20: morning to do. This place was packed and we sang
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  Speaker 20: patriotic songs and people really talked about it afterwards, talked
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  Speaker 20: about the Declaration of Independence that went on all across
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  Speaker 20: the country, and it made Democrats crazy because they can't
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  Speaker 20: compete with that todd and compete with the goodness that
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  Speaker 20: is our country and the brilliance of the founding fathers
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  Speaker 20: in setting up this democracy, so they want to tear
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  Speaker 20: it down. I mean, good luck with that. I don't
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  Speaker 20: think that. I talk about the silent majority a lot
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  Speaker 20: because I believe in it. I think there are a
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  Speaker 20: lot of people who get up in the morning and
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  Speaker 20: they go to work and they do what they have
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  Speaker 20: to do, and then but then if they are confronted
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  Speaker 20: with the real threat to the American way, they will respond.
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  Speaker 20: They did it well by electing Donald Trump in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 20: and if this socialist surge continues, they'll do it again.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. No, you're absolutely right about that, and Liz, at
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  Speaker 5: the same time, we do have to be concerned about
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  Speaker 5: the rise of the so called democratic socialists. And I
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  Speaker 5: think that is just simply a direct result of what
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  Speaker 5: is being taught to students in high schools and universities
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  Speaker 5: and colleges. And we have got to get a handle
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  Speaker 5: on that because those numbers are only going to grow.
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  Speaker 20: I agree with you, and it is one hundred percent
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  Speaker 20: because of the educational establishment is extreme. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 20: written about it. You probably have too. If you look
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  Speaker 20: at the humanities departments, economics and political science and so
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  Speaker 20: forth of the major colleges in our country, there are
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  Speaker 20: literally no Republicans. I mean, and it's not something I'm
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  Speaker 20: making up. There are a million studies out there showing
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  Speaker 20: that that is true. And at Harvard, for example, where
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  Speaker 20: I don't know, eighty five percent of the entire faculty,
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  Speaker 20: not just humanities, identify as liberal or very liberal. When
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  Speaker 20: they're asked if they would like to have a better
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  Speaker 20: breadth of opinion, they say no. I mean, that's how
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  Speaker 20: dead the academic and intellectual rigor is in our country.
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  Speaker 20: They believe in this indoctrination, they want to be in
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  Speaker 20: a position to doctrinate these young people. And you're completely right.
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  Speaker 20: We have got to start fighting back. And that to me,
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  Speaker 20: it means, you know, very publicly shaming the trustees and
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  Speaker 20: the boards of these colleges that let this happen. It
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  Speaker 20: means I support a group and I'm actually on the
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  Speaker 20: advisory committee of group called Tire that stands up for
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  Speaker 20: free speech and rates various colleges and universities in a
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  Speaker 20: very rigorous way for their freedom of speech and found
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  Speaker 20: three years in a row that Harvard was at the
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  Speaker 20: end of the list of one hundred and twenty five colleges.
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  Speaker 20: I mean, they shouldn't get away with it, but people
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  Speaker 20: have to. Donors have to stop donating, and the alums
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  Speaker 20: have to stop supporting these schools that don't sign the
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  Speaker 20: Chicago Letter, you know that famous letter University of Chicago
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  Speaker 20: put out saying we welcome a breadth of opinion, and
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  Speaker 20: any school that doesn't do that and doesn't explicitly make
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  Speaker 20: it happen, nobody should support.
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  Speaker 5: And to that point, just some breaking news coming out
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  Speaker 5: of Memphis, Tennessee, where the school district there, you know,
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  Speaker 5: to the point you were making, over seventy percent of
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  Speaker 5: the kids are not at grade level in reading or math.
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  Speaker 5: And the breaking news coming out just moments ago the
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  Speaker 5: state that just completed a forensic audit of the Memphis
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  Speaker 5: school system. They found fifty three million dollars in potential
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 5: fraud and abuse. It's just unacceptable, just unacceptable.
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  Speaker 20: And I mean, to have a combination of radical ideology
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  Speaker 20: infesting our schools and bad outcomes, it's as you say,
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  Speaker 20: it's unconscionable. And you could throw a little dollar of
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  Speaker 20: fraud in the in the mix as well. What are
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  Speaker 20: voters supporting? I mean, how can they possibly let this
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  Speaker 20: go on? But you know, well, here's the thing. To me,
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  Speaker 20: it's the most offensive hypocrisy of all the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 20: They won't raise it, even though everyone acknowledges that the
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  Speaker 20: way you can level the playing field from minorities is
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  Speaker 20: through education. They don't lift a finger. They will not
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 20: criticize the teachers unions and the public education system we
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 20: have because they get tens of millions of dollars every
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 20: year from the teachers unions and that is the end
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  Speaker 20: of the story. So honestly, it is probably the number
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  Speaker 20: one problemar college our country has.
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  Speaker 5: At this point, Liz, we're gonna have to leave it there.
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  Speaker 5: Great column you wrote, lizpeak dot com. Go and check
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  Speaker 5: it out. Ladies and gentlemen, Liz always good hearing from you.
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  Speaker 20: Thank you so much for having me on.
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  Speaker 5: Todd Take care, all right, great lady, right there, Liz Peak.
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  Speaker 5: All right, we're going to take a break going to
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  Speaker 5: Sterns Show. All right, let's go to Clayton, Georgia. Claude
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  Speaker 5: hanging out with us on WTUN. Hi Claude, what's on
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  Speaker 5: your mind?
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  Speaker 11: Oh?
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  Speaker 12: I just wanted Michael comment about later boards. I used
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  Speaker 12: to listen to them all the time when I was
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  Speaker 12: driving around at.
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  Speaker 15: Number one time, him and some guy been runing back
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  Speaker 15: and Forlis and they finally told him, sir, you are
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  Speaker 15: a border surrounded boss.
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  Speaker 12: Spanked or muscle.
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  Speaker 5: Say that one more time.
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  Speaker 12: Okay, he said, sir, you are a board surrounded boss,
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  Speaker 12: finked or muscle.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, that's that's brilliant, Claude. The problem is you gotta
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  Speaker 5: be able to maintain control of your vehicle. And that's
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 5: one of the complaints we get from this show. People say,
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  Speaker 5: you know, just stern engineally made me wreck my car.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I pulled shot of the road.
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  Speaker 5: I love it. I love it. Claude, thanks for that.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for that great Neil Boards memory.
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  Speaker 7: All right you too.
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  Speaker 5: Now Wow, Now, Dylan, that's what we call a that's
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 5: what we call a great insult right there. Yeah, it
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 5: sounds like, oh, we have an update on the the
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  Speaker 5: the the gay cruise, by the way, gay law exciting
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  Speaker 5: and indpen sexuals. Oh, they're all coming aboard. We're expecting
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  Speaker 5: ancors away boys. So here we go here with the
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  Speaker 5: up date. Turkey now doubleing down, saying the gay cruise
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  Speaker 5: will not be allowed to make a port of injury.
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  Speaker 5: If you will not gonna happen, hold on, hold on,
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  Speaker 5: sing it out, America. I love this part of the
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  Speaker 5: song Villain.
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  Speaker 12: Romo. This is something.
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  Speaker 5: Even new gender queer people out there, all right, So anyway,
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  Speaker 5: the latest is Turkey says, yet we're not letting you
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  Speaker 5: in because you violate family values and morality, and they're
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 5: not going to allow the gay cruise ship to UH
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  Speaker 5: to enter the harbor or even doc as a result,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 5: of whatever is going on, Dylan. We were we were
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 5: getting some reports unconfirmed of course, that the Turks found
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  Speaker 5: out that there was there was some sword fighting going
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: on on the poop deck if you know what I mean.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: Can't can't have any of that going on in Istan Bull.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 5: I'm just telling you, all right, hanging tied, everybody, I
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  Speaker 5: gotta take you a quick break. Hour three coming up
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  Speaker 5: we proudly broadcast this radio program. Our good friend Kevin Potter. Kevin,
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  Speaker 5: good to have you with us today. I hope things
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  Speaker 5: are going well there at Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 16: And great Todd. We've again we're in the we're getting
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  Speaker 16: in our full stride of summer right now here, you
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 16: know where it gets down to eighty and at night
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 16: and gets up to about one hundred every day. That's
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  Speaker 16: what we do.
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  Speaker 5: So I've been to Bartlesville and I had a chance
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  Speaker 5: to speak at the university there, the Wesleyan University, and
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: I was just really astounded by the architecture and the
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  Speaker 5: energy history I mean Bartlesville, and I want you to
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  Speaker 5: give our listeners a little taste of why Bartlesville is
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: important to the nation and some of the special things
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 5: you guys have around town.
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  Speaker 16: Well, first of all, it's a pretty shiny town. You know,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 16: it's just a shiny place to live and do work
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 16: and the people. But it all started with Phillips Petroleum
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 16: Company over one hundred years ago. Frank Phillips. They discovered
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 16: oil here and he built a company here. And we
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 16: actually have tall buildings as you saw in our little
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 16: town of thirty eight thousand. We've got tall skyscrapers here
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 16: in this town. And we continue to have energy companies here.
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  Speaker 16: And of course we have a Christian university here that
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 16: became known because of doctor Piper and all that who.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: You met a lot.
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  Speaker 16: So it's a great little town. It's what it is.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it really is also home to the only skyscraper
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 5: that was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, which is right
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 5: there in Bartlesville.
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  Speaker 16: That's correct, the Price Tower. It was supposed to be
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 16: built in New York City, and it's the tree that
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 16: escaped the forest and it came to the to the plains,
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 16: and the Price Pipeline Company had him build that right
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 16: here in Bartlesville and it became their office and today
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 16: it'll be a hotel.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. Well, I have to tell you we love hearing
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 5: from your listeners. You guys have a great radio station,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 5: and I know that. What was it a couple of
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 5: years ago, you guys had some really really bad tornadoes,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 5: severe storms that came through and I thought that was interesting.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 5: I was listening to you guys doing wall to wall
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 5: coverage even in the middle of the night there, which
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 5: again is an important reason why we need locally owned,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 5: locally run radio stations in America.
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  Speaker 16: Well, Todd, our staff they know, and we we also
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 16: own a group of stations up in Kansas Coffeeville, Kansas.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 16: But between the two we have over forty employees here
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 16: in these two places, and whenever we have any kind
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 16: of severe weather, it's all hands on deck. We have
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 16: people full time go wall to wall, We have spotters out,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 16: they call in, they do all this. Yes, it was
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 16: two years ago. There was a major tornado that came
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 16: through small town south of here, Barnsdall, Oklahoma, and literally
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 16: destroyed the town. But we were there we were part
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 16: of it, reporting the whole nine yards. Just this past Saturday, Todd,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 16: on the fourth of July, the Nation's birthday, we had
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 16: ninety two out mile an hour, great wins that came
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 16: through here and just rave havoc on stuff. But again,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 16: our staff god all had to leave different communities that
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 16: we were broadcasting from and come in and start doing
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 16: the full weather thing again and again. This is something
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 16: that cell tellers go down, Internet goes down, all these
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 16: things go down, But the one brain that continues on
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 16: is AM radio.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 5: Yes it does. And you're right, you know, when I
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 5: bought the AM station I own in Memphis, we really
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 5: modeled a lot of our breaking weather coverage based on
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 5: what you guys and your team there did in Bartlesville
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 5: and do in Bartlesville. Again, we get a lot of
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 5: the same kind of bad weather here here in the
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 5: Mid South. And that's one of the reasons why Kevin
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 5: I think that radio is so vitally important, and especially
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 5: AM radio, the information the emergency alert system, which was
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 5: pretty much created because of AM radio. We can we
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 5: can't have all that stuff just disappear out of our cars.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 16: And Todd, you know you're also on one of our stations,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 16: the station up in Kansas, the KGGF up there. It
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 16: covers four states. That was one does. And again you
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 16: look at all these stations and the car companies want
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 16: to remove. First of all, they say AM radio because
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 16: it's hard to keep interference out. Well, it cost it.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 16: It costs them at least a dollar and a half
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 16: to do that to fix that in the cars. And
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 16: that's just the beginning. If they start with AM, I
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 16: am telling you FM is not far behind.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 9: It's not.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 16: And what they want this becomes a profit center to
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 16: the companies, to the car companies and streaming companies and
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 16: all that they want to stream your station. That's what
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 16: their story is is, well, you can still get your
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 16: state and just put the app in there, but that
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 16: costs something and you've got to have internet wherever you go,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 16: and so it doesn't always work. And we believe in
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 16: free over the air radio to people. Our business model,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 16: as you well know, is to make it free to
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 16: the public and will go sell the advertising to make
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 16: it work.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 5: That's what we do and that's what needs to continue
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 5: to happen here. And this is going to be a
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 5: really important moment in American history and that's why we've
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: got to lean on every single member of Congress. I
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 5: know the Tennessee Association of Broadcast I'm on the board
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 5: of directors there. We're sending a delegation up from WSM
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 5: radio and among other radio stations, just to remind these
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 5: lawmakers of how important AM radio is.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 16: But this is what's crazy, Todd. Right now, the bill
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 16: is whatever the name of it is, you read it there.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 16: I mean, we've worked on this for over two years
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 16: and the House has three hundred and sixty co sponsors.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 16: Three hundred and sixty co sponsors. That means Republicans, Democrats,
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 16: it doesn't matter. Sixty three in the Senate is a
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 16: co sponsor. So all we needed to do is to
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 16: have a vote on the floor. We can't get it
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 16: to go on a vote. We can't get it to
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 16: tag along on a bill. We can't. We're just saying
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 16: put it out there to vote and let the chips
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 16: fall where they may. And the President has already said
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 16: he wants to sign it. This is what's crazy about
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 16: the whole thing and the only way this is going
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 16: to happen. And by the way, Todd, I'm on the
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 16: Oklumb Association of broadcast. I said, let me tell you
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 16: how this is gonna happen. We need to be on
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 16: national talk shows, the conservative talkers. And I said, I
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 16: will call Todd Starns today. I did that, and you said,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 16: come on, and we're on the Jimmy Fallon is going
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 16: to do it. All we need is these people, because
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 16: let me tell you something, you know as well as
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 16: I do. Rush saved AM radio years ago and it
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 16: became big. That's where a lot of these conservative talk
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 16: radio is a lot on AM stations. Have you ever
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 16: thought they want to kill conservative talk radio? Sure they do,
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 16: of course they do, but this is what they want.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 16: Let me tell you something. All we've got to do
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 16: is keep the camel's nose out of the tent, because
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 16: if the camel's nose gets in the tent, you know
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 16: what happens.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 5: The camel gets in and we can't have that. We can't, No,
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 5: we can't. And as a matter of fact, folks, we're
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 5: gonna make very simple for you. We want you to
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 5: get out your smartphones right now, and we want you
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 5: to text AM to three nine one seventy nine. That's
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 5: text AM to three nine one seven nine and urge
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 5: our members of Congress to pass legislation to keep AM
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 5: radio in cars again, that's text AM to three nine
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 5: one seven nine. And you know, Kevin, We're on over
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 5: one hundred radio stations around the country, and most of
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 5: those are AM radio stations that are locally owned and operated.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 5: So this is a huge passion of me, primarily because
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 5: I too am a local local radio station owner just
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 5: like you guys, and we've got to stand together.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 16: Let me tell you here's all the things, the things
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 16: that are on AM radio. Think about this, conservative talk, sports, agriculture, religion.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 16: Have you ever heard of a and a an atheist
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 16: radio station. I've never heard of one.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 5: I think it's called MPR. But but I digress this. Okay,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 5: you kind of walked into that one, Potter, You got
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 5: me there.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 16: But anyway, I'm just saying, look at what they're trying
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 16: to get rid of. And let me tell you. I'll
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 16: tell you what. You go to Western Kansas. There is
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 16: no internet in Western Kansas. They're not going to get
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 16: any streaming services. And that's that's the reality to it.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 16: So what we need is your listeners, my listeners, any
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 16: listener on all these places. They just got to call
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 16: their legislators people, and says, wait a minute, what's the deal.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 16: We don't want this out of there because you know
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 16: what happened. And by the way, Rivion and Tesla has
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 16: ordered to remove the radios from it.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well we're gonna have We're gonna have to leave
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 5: it there. Kevin, you know how this goes. I got
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 5: to pay some bills now with some advertising that you
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 5: just mentioned. But we do want people to text AM
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 5: to three nine one seven nine. This is our friends
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 5: of the National Association of Broadcasters have made this super
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: simple for all of us to be able to reach
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 5: out to our members of Congress. And then I want
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 5: you to give your local member of Congress a call personally.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 5: But again text AM to three nine one seven nine. Kevin.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 5: We're gonna get you back on soon and I'm glad
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 5: things are going well there in Bartlesville.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 16: You need to come back to Bartlesville, Todd.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 5: We'd love to have you, all right, you know what,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 5: I that's all you needed to say. I am there,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 5: so we'll we'll plan we'll definitely plan something, all right,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 5: Thank you? All right, good good man. Right there, ladies
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 5: and gentlemen. Kevin Potter, the president of Bartlesville Radio, our
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 5: great affiliate there and in Coffeeville, Kansas as well. We
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 5: love all of our listeners out there in the heartland,
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen. We've got to do what we can.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 5: We've got to save AM radio. So again next AM
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 5: to three nine one seven nine. That's AM to three
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 5: nine one seven nine. Got to take a break. We'll
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 5: be right back. All right. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 5: This is the Tom Sterns Radio Show. Let's go to
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 5: the phone lines, Memphis, Tennessee. David listening to us on
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 5: k w AM, David, What's on your mind?
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 15: Good afternoons. So back when the hurricane hit East Tennessee
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 15: a couple of years ago, I got loans of the
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 15: Saints Tema. People don't realize State of Tennessee is thek
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 15: care of its own during all that Hurricane UH situational
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 15: but A and radio played a very important part in
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 15: that East Tennessee disaster. There were two or three stations
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 15: over there that linked up the simocast twenty four to
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 15: seven and they were telling where eight stations were, where
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 15: to get help, how to get help, and if I
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 15: drove up and down from Johnson City, Tono sol Post
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 15: three AM stations is what I listened to to find
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 15: out road closures and all that other stuff that I
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 15: was doing my job. Stay so a radio, you can't
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 15: go away. It's very important. I mean I've used it
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 15: more disasters than not that I've been involved in.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 5: David, I am so glad to hear you say that,
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 5: because you're right, and this is this is why AM
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: radio is so vitally important. Not only that the entire
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 5: emergency alert system, the grid, the entire national grid, is
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 5: literally built on AM radio stations. And so if if
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 5: we were to lose that access to vehicles, then people
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 5: would be denied access to what could be life saving
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 5: information in the event again of a severe storm or
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 5: god forbid, there's some sort of an attack on the nation,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 5: and then those AM radio stations become a literal life
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 5: link to people in their homes.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 15: Well, well, something else people may maybe not be are
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 15: not thinking about, is AM radio is. But they use
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 15: up and down the highway for the highway information systems.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 15: You know, turn to not whatever ninety or whatever dial,
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 15: you're AM dial. You're looking when they're doing construction, those
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 15: info stations are transmitting on AM radio the one around
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 15: the Mississ International Airport, the one up and down forty
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 15: outside of Jackson. If always tuned to an AM station
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 15: on the.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 14: Far end of the dial.
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 15: So yeah, and AM and AM at night goes when
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 15: AM when it gets dark, AM goes gets so much
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 15: more distance out of it than FM and all that
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 15: other stuff. Yeah, you got a little lightning static. That's
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 15: no style job like that part. But AM disc is there.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 5: So and by the way, David, and this is for
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 5: all of our KWAM listeners. We took we took a
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 5: huge lightning hit transformer blue. But the AM signals should
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 5: be up on up later this afternoon. So we just
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 5: got word from intern G in Arkansas that the the
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 5: AM signal will be back up and running this afternoon.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 5: But to your point, you know, when I tried to
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 5: we're a ten thousand wat AM station, and I actually
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 5: petitioned the FCC to go to to go to a
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 5: much larger signal, and they said we couldn't do it
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 5: because at night time we would interfere with the Canadian
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 5: Clear Channel station. And I said, who cares about Canada?
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 15: But that's what I said. When I was a kid,
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 15: I used to listen to Saint Louis. Oh yeah, my father,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 15: father Don Mallory, right, got me through a lot of problems.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 15: So but AM, I would say, AM go away.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 5: I really would, Well, who is who is your congressman?
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 5: Who's your congressman?
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 9: David?
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 15: Who is it?
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 12: Now?
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 15: It's I know I've met him several times. I just
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 15: can't think of it.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 5: There's well, if you're in are you do you live
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 5: in in in the Memphis area?
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 5: It would either be cussed off. For Cohen, it's cussed off. Okay, good,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 5: he's a Republican. So I would reach out to reach
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 5: out to your congressman, reach out to his district office,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 5: and then called the DC office and just say, hey,
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 5: we need we need you congressman to make sure that
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 5: you vote to save AM radio.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 15: But like I said, on all these disasters I've been on,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 15: and you probably recognize the voice, but all of these
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 15: disasters I've been on, AMS space played a major portion
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 15: in those towns.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 5: Well, David, we appreciate, we appreciate you, and we appreciate
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 5: the great work that you do. And uh and thank
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 5: you for calling in. It's again this is why AM
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 5: radio is so vitally important. Ladies and gentlemen. By the way,
• 1:32:44
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  Speaker 5: You survived the fourth of July and I did it.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 19: With all ten fingers and ten toes.
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 5: So wow. So many reports by the way of people
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 5: like blowing themselves up.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 19: Oh I'm sure. I mean literally looking around my neighborhood.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 19: We spent some money on some fireworks, but it wasn't necessary.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 19: Everybody had plenty and it was a good time.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 5: Have you seen the there's like video there's videos of
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 5: like they're shooting off the fireworks in the front yard,
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 5: all you know what breaks and they end up like
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 5: blowing up their car.
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 19: I did find myself going down a rabbit hole of
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 19: watching ring doorbell cameras. Yeah, and people lighting off fireworks
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 19: and then you see them being launched towards the house.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 4: It was great.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 5: All I can think of what a great homewners insurance
• 1:35:15
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• 1:35:17
  Speaker 19: Those claims adjusters are in full effect.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 5: Right, I can only imagine the stories they are getting. Oh,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 5: for sure, let's talk financial independence. I think again, this
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 5: is uh, it's a great topic, especially seeing how we're
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 5: coming out of the fourth of July. What exactly when
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 5: you mean financial independence? What does that mean?
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 19: So it's you know, it's often a misconception that financial
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 19: independence means I've got to be a millionaire to be
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 19: financially independent, and that's just not the case. Financial independence
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 19: simply means that you have built a lifestyle with some
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 19: proactive financial planning that gives you flexibility to live your
• 1:35:52
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• 1:35:54
  Speaker 19: if you want to retire early, you've built up a
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 19: portfolio that gives you the independence to retire early. If
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 19: you want to spend time vacationing and not as much
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 19: time working, independence simply means that you get to live
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 19: the lifestyle you want to because you did some good
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 19: financial planning proactively.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 5: Because many people, when they think financial independence, all right,
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 5: how do I become a millionaire? Correct?
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 9: I mean?
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 19: And I've seen some people that earn seventy thousand dollars
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 19: a year who are completely financial independent. And I also
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 19: know people that have three hundred thousand dollars a year.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 19: They're living paycheck to paycheck.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 5: You know what I find fascinating is you've got a
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 5: lot of young people. Now they call them the influencers
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 5: on social media. These kids are bringing in tons of money.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 5: What they don't realize is once they start looking ugly,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 5: you know, like the rest of us getting old and wrinkly.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 5: You know, I think those endorsement packages may go away.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 5: So they're making they're making what of the young people
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 5: call it bank? Am I allowed to say that to Parker?
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 5: Is that correct? We'll allow it, park Thank you Parker.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 5: So they're making bank. But I don't want to be
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 5: a simp. But they're making bank? So what do they do? Parker?
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  Speaker 5: Did I get that right?
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  Speaker 9: Too?
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  Speaker 16: Sure?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I don't think that's not very convincing. But again,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 5: what I mean, a young person, they want to be
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 5: financially independent, and they're coming into a lot of money
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 5: at a younger age. What should they be doing?
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  Speaker 19: I really think that they should just be looking at
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 19: their lifestyle and looking at the needs versus the once.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 19: When you're making a lot of money, especially at an
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 19: early age, you want to keep up with those other
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 19: influencers to try to drive more viewers and more followers
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 19: towards you. So we spend money on things that don't
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 19: really give us that independence. You know, we see a
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 19: lot of those types of moneys being spent on depreciating
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 19: assets like high end vehicles or luxury watches or clothing
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 19: or designing designer wear. And it's it's as simple as
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 19: all right, you get this money, what do I need
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 19: to do with it? First and foremost? And that's where
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 19: we start the planning process.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 5: So that's where it begins.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 19: That's is exactly where it begins. Is that we can't
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 19: do anything with negative cash flow, can do something with
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 19: positive cash flow, and especially if you're running a significant surplus,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 19: like a lot of these influencers are, we can really
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 19: start to look at that and say, let's take ten
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 19: percent of this and allocate it towards our cash, build
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 19: cash reserves.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 5: How important is paying off debt to all of this?
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 5: And I asked that question because there's one extreme, and
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 5: that extreme has a lot of radio shows on many
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 5: radio stations around the country saying you should be completely
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 5: debt pre you no credit cards. Done to that, and
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 5: others are saying, no, a little bit of debt is
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 5: actually okay. Where do you fall in all of that?
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 19: I fall in the A little bit of debt is okay.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 19: There is a fundamental difference between good debt and bad debt.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 19: A mortgage is good debt. You know, it's gonna show
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 19: a creditor that you have a long track record of
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 19: being able to pay your bills on time, which builds
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 19: your credit score. Okay, it's also an appreciating asset. You know,
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 19: you buy a house, like let's use the Boomers for instance.
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 19: They bought a house for sixty grand back in the
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 19: seventies and that house is probably worth two or three
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 19: hundred thousand now. Bad credit card you know when you
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 19: when you become slave to the lender, that's when you
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 19: start to see high interest rates. You know, if you're
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 19: paying twenty percent on a credit card and your investment
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 19: assets are only yielding eight percent, you're you're climbing an
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 19: uphill battle. So we want you to get debt good
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 19: debt like a mortgage that helps you build your credit.
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 19: It's appreciating asset that you can use later in life.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 19: But we don't want to see those credit card debts
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 19: where twenty percent interest is higher than what you're yielding
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 19: on your other investment.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 5: Adam Martin is joining us here in the in the studio,
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 5: and if you have a question about financial independence, nine
• 1:39:38
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• 1:39:41
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• 1:39:47
  Speaker 5: you're you're putting together a plan, is it good to
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 5: have that plan written down? Again? For me personally, I
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 5: like to see something in front of me.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 19: So what I always tell people, I use this phrase
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 19: a lot what gets measured gets done. Okay, if we're
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 19: just living vicariously, not putting anything down on paper or
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 19: trying to track our goals or measurables, we're just throwing
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 19: stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. And that
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 19: can cause a lot of uncertainty, which is inevitably going
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 19: to cause a lot of stress. And that's where we
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 19: see a lot of people stray away from what they
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 19: ultimately try to achieve with their financial goals and with
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 19: a plan. What you get with that is that we
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 19: put everything down on paper and you can go back
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 19: to it throughout the year and measure am my own
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 19: track for what I said I was going to accomplish
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 19: this year.
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 5: I don't want to interrupt, but we do have some
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 5: breaking news to share with everybody. Breaking news, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:40:44
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  Speaker 5: This is coming from Pasca, Google in Mississippi. Are a
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  Speaker 5: us this item of the USA. Team USA has apparently
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 5: come back from a huge deficit to defeat Belgium five
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  Speaker 5: to four. They apparently received four surprise mail in goals
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  Speaker 5: around three o'clock in the morning in California. So well done,
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 5: congratulations Team USA. Pipe that fake news broadcast, Parker. This
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 5: is this is exciting news. That was breaking news to me.
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  Speaker 5: I never thought I never thought I would. We're gonna
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 5: have to, you know what, We'll second source that. We
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 5: don't doubt Noah at all, but you know we need
• 1:41:32
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• 1:41:36
  Speaker 5: We've gotten sorry about that, Adam. We've got Adam Barton,
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  Speaker 5: a financial advisor with a Strategicfinancialpartners dot com. That Strategic
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• 1:41:49
  Speaker 5: get your get your financial independence in order get you
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 5: on the path to financial independence. I'm curious though, about
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 5: some of the biggest mistakes that people that you see
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 5: people make when they're trying to do that.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 19: Well, A lot of the biggest mistake I see is
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 19: that they assume that this high income that they're earning,
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 19: they associate everything of financial independence to the income that
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 19: they're bringing in. And what I see a lot of
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 19: people do is they assume that income's going to be
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 19: there forever, and they don't factor in what if a
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 19: company makes a decision for me, what if the company
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 19: is losing profits and they've got to make job cuts
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 19: and you're on the chopping block. You just got into
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 19: a situation that you didn't foresee coming and the income's
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 19: not there anymore. How does that make you feel? Can
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 19: you continue to live your life the way that you
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 19: have been and if you haven't planned, I'd say that
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 19: answers primarily know because you're panicking. You're sitting there going well,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 19: I don't know if I can go and find another
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 19: job that pays me the same amount of money. But
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 19: if you had a plan in place, you'd have what
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 19: we call financial independence, where you can go, this is
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 19: what my emergency fund's for, and you have the peace
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 19: of mind.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 5: It's interesting when I was when I had first moved
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 5: back to Memphis and I looking for a place, you know,
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 5: I wanted to I've been living for you know, fifteen
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 5: years in a New York City apartment, you know, which
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 5: is you know, not six hundred square feet. And so
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 5: you come here and you find these, you know, and
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 5: and so the first real estate agent I had was
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 5: really great, sent me to some of the most beautiful
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 5: homes in the city. I don't need seven bathrooms, I
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 5: don't and don't need five bedrooms, you know. And so
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 5: the challenge eventually was, Okay, do I really want to
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 5: buy this huge, huge house when it's just me living
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 5: in the house, or do I want to find something
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 5: that's smaller, that's really nice, that is well within you know,
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 5: what I can afford and what I'll be comfortable in.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 5: And I think for a lot of folks in this country,
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 5: the country by and large is just living well beyond
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 5: its means. And just because let's say, for example, you're
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 5: making a million dollars a year, you don't necessarily need
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 5: to live in a mansion. I mean, look at William
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 5: Buffett still living in the same house that he's lived
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 5: in for you know what, forty fifty years.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 19: I love going to those warm buffet references, and that's
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 19: exactly right. And it's we live in a society now
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 19: where we are constantly comparing ourselves. Maybe it's from social
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 19: media and influencers and whatnot, but we're constantly comparing ourselves
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 19: to other people's situations. And I tell a lot of
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 19: my clients, let's focus on your situation. I know you've
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 19: got friends that are doing this and they're investing in this,
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 19: but let's think about what is the right sulve for you.
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 19: And if you just stop for a second and think
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 19: about your life and no one else is, and what
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 19: can I do to create this financial independence according to
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 19: the life I want to live, we can really start
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 19: putting some goals down and measurables in place that give
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 19: you peace of mind. You know, I tell a lot
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 19: of people there's you can't quantify through a dollar amount,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 19: how much RESTful nights of sleep. Is I mean? And
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 19: think about divorces and suicides. A lot of them are
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 19: financially driven. They feel like they're too far in a
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 19: hole and they can't get out of it, and they
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 19: panic and they take it into their own hands. So
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 19: I think literally, focus on yourself, create a goal that
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 19: is specific to your needs, and live within your needs.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 19: Don't go past it.
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: If you have a question that you would like to
• 1:45:10
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  Speaker 5: All right, Adam, good to see you, ma'am.
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  Speaker 19: Good send you too.
• 1:45:38
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  Speaker 5: the gist of it. Teachers who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination
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  Speaker 5: are now cashing in with taxpayer funded settlements. So you
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of these school teachers around the nation,
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  Speaker 5: pay more than two point seven million dollars to educators
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  Speaker 5: who were disciplined over those social media posts that includes
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  Speaker 5: are you folks in Tennessee listen? A one point nine
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  Speaker 5: million dollars settlement approved last week former University of Tennessee
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  Speaker 5: professor Tamar Sharant It's a Sharinian set to receive one
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  Speaker 5: point nine million dollars to settle a lawsuit accusing the
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  Speaker 5: school of violating her constitutional rights after officials sought to
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  Speaker 5: discipline her over social media posts that criticized Charlie after
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  Speaker 5: he was assassinated. Knox News reports that the board of
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  Speaker 5: Trustees of the UT system approved the settlement. She called
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  Speaker 5: Charlie Kirk a disgusting psychopath. Well, this woman's a piece
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  Speaker 5: of freaking garbage. Are we allowed to say that? She
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  Speaker 5: was put on an administrative leave following the social media
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  Speaker 5: post where she said, in part, the world is better
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  Speaker 5: off without him in it. His kids are better off
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  Speaker 5: living in a world without a disgusting psychopath like him
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 5: and his wife. Well, she's a sick f word for
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  Speaker 5: marrying him, so I don't care about her feelings. She
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 5: was fired on February the eleventh. She will not be reinstated.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 5: She's going to get her one point nine million dollar check.
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  Speaker 5: And that's that. Another faculty member in Ball State at
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  Speaker 5: Ball State University in Indiana got two hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 5: five thousand dollars after she was let go for a
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 5: private Facebook post about Charlie Kirk. One professor at Austin
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  Speaker 5: p State University in Tennessee. So you Tennessee taxpayers are
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 5: getting it right in the wazoo got a half a
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 5: million dollar settlement and was reinstated. His name is Darren Michael,
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 5: after he was fired for sharing a post about Charlie.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 5: The post included a headline quoting remarks about gun related deaths.
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  Speaker 5: These people are evil and look people are going to say, okay,
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 5: free speech, Well, okay, that cuts both ways. So you
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  Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen have a right to helm these people
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 5: for the rest of their lives, especially if they're earning
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 5: a paycheck on the taxpayer die. These are very evil
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 5: people we're talking about here. I mean, to these kinds
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 5: of things, it's satanic, unbelievable. Joshua Brekeye, a climate scientist
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 5: at Clemson University a made up position, was reinstated after
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 5: he was let go. He said quote On'll never advocate
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 5: for violence in any form, but it sounds to me
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 5: like karma is sometimes swift and ironic. So the courts
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 5: are saying that all of this is protected speech, and
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 5: these animals, these evil animals, these evil, satanic animals, have
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 5: a constitutional right to say what they said about Charlie Kirk. Well,
• 1:51:38
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• 1:51:41
  Speaker 5: and Jullimen and all of these individuals are now public figures,
• 1:51:46
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