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Fox News Predicts Disaster for Republicans in Midterms · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not going to start out the show by
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  Speaker 5: saying I told you so, but I did tell you, America.
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  Speaker 5: I told you so. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd
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  Speaker 5: Stearns Radio Show. No, it is an extravaganza. As we
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  Speaker 5: begin the march toward the midterm elections. About a month ago,
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  Speaker 5: I warned everybody about what was going to happen. No
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  Speaker 5: doubt that the polling data was going to skew heavily
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  Speaker 5: toward the Republicans, or rather the Democrats. Then that would
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  Speaker 5: be scaled back. And of course, that's where we are now.
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  Speaker 5: Most of the major polling has the Republicans within a
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  Speaker 5: three-point margin there. So that's going to give the pollsters cover.
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  Speaker 5: for the weeks and weeks of disinformation they were spreading
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  Speaker 5: in these fake polls. So I told you, don't pay
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  Speaker 5: any attention to the polling data that's out there. And
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  Speaker 5: there's nothing wrong with talking about it. There's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 5: with having conversations and alerting you, but do not let
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  Speaker 5: your decision on whether or not to vote be impacted
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  Speaker 5: by these fake polls. The other part of it is
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  Speaker 5: I warned you about the media coverage and to be very,
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  Speaker 5: very careful about any negative stories coming out, and there
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  Speaker 5: are a lot of negative stories. The very latest is
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  Speaker 5: involving Susie Wiles. You've got a number of the insiders
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  Speaker 5: in D.C. saying that Trump is ready to give her
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  Speaker 5: the heave-ho and bring somebody else in as White House
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  Speaker 5: chief of staff. Katie Zachariah, the new White House press secretary,
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  Speaker 5: is coming under all sorts of fire. from folks because
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  Speaker 5: of her really lack of professionalism behind the microphone. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: is she going to get better? Probably. But again, for me,
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  Speaker 5: whoever is making the suggestions to the president, We need
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  Speaker 5: to have a conversation with those folks because I'm not
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  Speaker 5: sure that President Trump's interests are being well served right
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  Speaker 5: now by many within his administration. And look, for me,
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  Speaker 5: it's very simple. And then you've got the one Kimberly Guilfoyle,
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  Speaker 5: who now the latest news is that she kept a
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  Speaker 5: burn book and she's got all the goods on everybody
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  Speaker 5: and she may be willing to spill the beans. And
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  Speaker 5: that may be the case. I mean, it all very
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  Speaker 5: well may be true. But do you find it coincidental
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  Speaker 5: that all of this is coming out just before the
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  Speaker 5: midterm election? No, of course not. So you really can't
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  Speaker 5: believe any of this stuff. And again, it may be true.
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  Speaker 5: Hear me out. All of this may be true. We
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  Speaker 5: know that there are a lot of grifters who weaseled
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  Speaker 5: their way into the administration. No doubt about that. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to wait until after the midterms to really
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  Speaker 5: do a deep dive on who these people are and
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  Speaker 5: why they have betrayed the president. Now, just think about
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  Speaker 5: this for a moment. And this is one thing that
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  Speaker 5: concerned me. My eyebrow was raised when we got word
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  Speaker 5: that Caroline Leavitt was leaving the White House. Now, for me,
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  Speaker 5: the reason why my eyebrow was raised is because she
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  Speaker 5: is a very important puzzle piece for this administration. Her job,
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  Speaker 5: which she did incredibly well, was to get out there
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  Speaker 5: and defend the president's agenda and to defend the president himself.
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  Speaker 5: And Caroline Leavitt delivered every single day. Every single day
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  Speaker 5: she went out there, she went to war with the media. Now,
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  Speaker 5: why would somebody like Caroline Leavitt leave the administration just
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  Speaker 5: before the midterms? And that was why my eyebrow was raised. Normally,
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  Speaker 5: if there's going to be some sort of a change
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  Speaker 5: like that, it would happen after the midterms, because there's
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  Speaker 5: a certain time when you don't want to have any
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  Speaker 5: people leaving, departing, no matter what. You need stability. You
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  Speaker 5: need familiar faces. And now, especially three weeks out from
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  Speaker 5: the election, is not the time for on-job training. So
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  Speaker 5: for me, that was a big warning. A big red flag.
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  Speaker 5: Wait a second. Why is Caroline Leavitt leaving? And she
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  Speaker 5: originally told us it was what? To spend time with
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  Speaker 5: her family. She just had a baby. And, of course,
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  Speaker 5: all of that made sense. Absolutely, you want to spend
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  Speaker 5: time with your family. But then they almost immediately announced
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  Speaker 5: that she was going to work at Fox News Channel
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  Speaker 5: as a contributor. So I'm sorry, which is it? You know,
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  Speaker 5: were you going to were you leaving the administration to
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  Speaker 5: get a job at Fox or were you leaving the
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  Speaker 5: administration to go be with your kid? And right now
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  Speaker 5: we know that it was the Fox job, which, again,
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  Speaker 5: would have been waiting for her. She would she would
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  Speaker 5: have been a great get. Either, you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: after the election. So, again, I just there's something. So
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  Speaker 5: there are some things going on within the administration, no
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  Speaker 5: doubt about that. And there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: that are grifters, and they know that the clock is ticking,
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  Speaker 5: and their days of grifting at the expense of the
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  Speaker 5: American people are about to be over. They will come
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  Speaker 5: to a conclusion. Now, let me just say, and by
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  Speaker 5: the way, hold on. I'll get to that in just
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  Speaker 5: a moment. But let me just say this. We have
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  Speaker 5: a job to do. And it doesn't matter how bad
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  Speaker 5: the news stories are. It doesn't matter how bad the
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  Speaker 5: polling data says things are. You've just got to be
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  Speaker 5: laser-focused on Election Day, and you've got to go and vote.
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  Speaker 5: That's your job, just to go and vote. Yesterday, after
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  Speaker 5: this show, I got into the Cadillac, and I drove
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  Speaker 5: to the polling place, and I proudly cast my vote.
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  Speaker 5: And I went down the line. If there was an
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  Speaker 5: R behind their names, they got my vote. I voted
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  Speaker 5: straight Republican ticket. Proud to say I did it. Because
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  Speaker 5: we've got too much at stake. And I know there,
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  Speaker 5: in many of these states, there are independents running and
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  Speaker 5: people are butthurt about the Republican candidates doing this or that.
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  Speaker 5: I get it. And no, you're not going to hear
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  Speaker 5: an argument from me. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 5: we've got to stop the communist insurgency into our country.
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  Speaker 5: And the only people at this point in political life
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  Speaker 5: in America, the only people that are capable of doing
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  Speaker 5: that have the resources and the candidates are the Republicans.
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  Speaker 5: If there's any other party that is viable, then you
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  Speaker 5: let me know, and we'll take a good long look
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  Speaker 5: at them. But I'm just telling you right now, this
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  Speaker 5: is what we've got to work with. So you can
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  Speaker 5: stay home and let the communists win, and then there's
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  Speaker 5: going to be a knock on your door, and they're
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  Speaker 5: going to come and haul you away. You say, that's
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  Speaker 5: just ludicrous. Enough with the hyperbole.
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  Speaker 6: Enough.
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  Speaker 5: Hyperbole. Oh, that's not hyperbole. That's exactly what the Democrats
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  Speaker 5: say they're going to do to us. They want to
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  Speaker 5: haul us away. They want to send us to gulags
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  Speaker 5: or reeducation camps. Now, I go all the way back
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  Speaker 5: to when Bernie Sanders was running against Hillary Clinton, and
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  Speaker 5: one of Bernie Sanders' paid campaign staffers said that if
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  Speaker 5: they won the election, they would round up all of
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  Speaker 5: the Trump supporters and send them off to re-education camps.
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  Speaker 5: James O'Keefe had the audio and the video recordings. It
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  Speaker 5: was not in dispute. And then yesterday, down in Florida—
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  Speaker 5: You had one of the candidates down there saying that
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  Speaker 5: she wanted to have her Republican opponent thrown into prison.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to be hearing, this is the voice of
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  Speaker 5: Angie Nixon. She is the Democrat nominee for Senate from Florida,
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  Speaker 5: talking about Republican Senator Ashley Moody. Take a listen to
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  Speaker 5: Cut 46.
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  Speaker 2: They are spreading like a lot of disinformation and lies
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  Speaker 2: on commercials about me, saying things like I want to
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  Speaker 2: abolish prisons and I want to defund the police. Why
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  Speaker 2: would I want to do that when I want her
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  Speaker 2: locked up and punished in jail for what she has done?
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  Speaker 2: And so, you know, we are going to continue to
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  Speaker 2: stump on this campaign trail all across the state from
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  Speaker 2: the panhandle to the keys. And we're looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: them calling me senator on November 3rd.
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  Speaker 7: You want your Republican opponent locked up?
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  Speaker 2: You know, she, yeah, basically, yes, because of what she did, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely would want that.
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  Speaker 4: To happen, yes.
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  Speaker 5: It's not hyperbole. That's what they want to do. You
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  Speaker 5: heard this woman. She said, I don't want to defund
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  Speaker 5: the police. Oh, yes, you do, ma'am. Yes, you do.
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  Speaker 5: She wants to dispatch the police to arrest her political enemy,
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  Speaker 5: Ashley Moody. Ashley Moody has not been accused of any crimes.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the only crime in the eyes of, I guess,
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  Speaker 5: the Democrats is Ashley Moody got elected. Ashley Moody supports
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  Speaker 5: the President of the United States, and apparently that makes
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  Speaker 5: that a crime. So, no, it's not hyperbole. I'm just
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  Speaker 5: telling you, these people are dangerous, and they hate us,
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  Speaker 5: and they want to shut down any... who disagrees with them.
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  Speaker 5: You've got a political viewpoint that differs from the Democrats.
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  Speaker 5: You've got a target on your backs. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 5: ultimately what's going on here. I'm just telling you. Then
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  Speaker 5: I got word that yesterday— I don't know if you guys
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  Speaker 5: heard about this— Jack Smith was keeping a spreadsheet on
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  Speaker 5: all of you folk out there who purchased Trump merchandise. No,
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  Speaker 5: I am not making this up. This is from the
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  Speaker 5: New York Post. Special counsel, former special counsel Jack Smith,
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  Speaker 5: obtained personal information on over 600,000 Republicans, including Republicans who
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  Speaker 5: purchased red MAGA hats. That's according to subpoenas returned and
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  Speaker 5: obtained by the Senate Republican Committee. That would be the
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  Speaker 5: Judiciary Committee. In a Wednesday memorandum, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman
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  Speaker 5: Chuck Grassley, I'm reading from the New York Post, by
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  Speaker 5: the way, Chuck Grassley, the Republican from Iowa, disclosed the
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  Speaker 5: details of data that Smith's office received, denouncing the former
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  Speaker 5: prosecutor of President Trump for abuse of authority. More than
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  Speaker 5: 148,000 rows of spreadsheets contained the findings, including donors, Trump donors,
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  Speaker 5: from 2005 to 2021. Dates of birth, home addresses, email addresses,
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  Speaker 5: Republican Party registration, information about credit cards, employment history were
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  Speaker 5: also in the materials. Grassley said this update shows that
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  Speaker 5: Jack Smith and the Biden Justice Department collected incredibly invasive
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  Speaker 5: donor data and voter data beyond what could conceivably be
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  Speaker 5: necessary for Smith or his team to fulfill the special
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  Speaker 5: counsel's mandate. So what was he doing, ladies and gentlemen?
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  Speaker 5: Why in the world would anybody from the Justice Department
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  Speaker 5: collect the private information of Todd Starnes, whose only crime
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  Speaker 5: was to purchase a red MAGA hat online? What do
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  Speaker 5: you think is going on there? Well, I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: tell you what I think is going on. I think
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  Speaker 5: they were creating an enemies list. Now, years ago, there
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  Speaker 5: was a movie that depicted the invasion of America by
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  Speaker 5: the Soviets. And in this movie, one of the first things,
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  Speaker 5: it was called Red Dawn. Red Dawn was a movie,
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  Speaker 5: if any of you remember Red Dawn. And in this movie,
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  Speaker 5: one of the first things they did, the Soviets, when
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  Speaker 5: they invaded, they went to the local gun stores and
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  Speaker 5: they wanted to collect all the registrars or the registered
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  Speaker 5: gun owners in that community so they could go after
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  Speaker 5: and target those individuals. And it makes me wonder if,
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  Speaker 5: in fact, Kamala Harris had won in 2024, is it
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  Speaker 5: possible that they would have used these databases to to
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  Speaker 5: go after and stage pre-dawn guns-drawn raids on the homes
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  Speaker 5: of conservatives in America. According to the New York Post,
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  Speaker 5: information on red Make America Great Again hats was also shared,
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  Speaker 5: including the buyers' names and home addresses. Smith's office further
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  Speaker 5: collected 2024 Trump campaign products, including the red hats, T-shirts, mugs,
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  Speaker 5: and even doormats. This is outrageous. And honestly, if the
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  Speaker 5: Democrats were not corrupt, they should have condemned this as well.
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  Speaker 5: This is beyond the pale. But this is where we are,
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  Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen, all part of the ongoing Arctic Frost
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  Speaker 5: and Jack Smith oversight investigation. My question is, why isn't
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  Speaker 5: Jack Smith in prison right now? That's just unacceptable. Just unacceptable.
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  Speaker 5: But anyway, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Just
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  Speaker 5: another reason why we've got to get out there and
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  Speaker 5: vote on Election Day. And I want you to prove
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  Speaker 5: them all wrong. I want you to prove Fox News
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  Speaker 5: Channel wrong. What they did yesterday on the channel is
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  Speaker 5: appalling because Fox News is literally using their base to
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  Speaker 5: demoralize you. And I know a lot of you folks
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  Speaker 5: still watch Fox News Channel, but Fox News is now
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  Speaker 5: out there and they're saying there's no chance that Republicans
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  Speaker 5: are going to win. It's going to be a bloodbath.
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  Speaker 5: There are going to be massive losses. It is all over.
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  Speaker 5: That's what Fox News is saying. And I just don't
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  Speaker 5: believe it. I can't believe it, ladies and gentlemen. And
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  Speaker 5: you know why I can't believe it? Because it's unthinkable.
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  Speaker 5: The idea of communists gaining a foothold in Congress because you,
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  Speaker 5: the good, hardworking taxpayers of America, decided to stay home?
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  Speaker 5: I can't let my mind go there. All right, we're
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  Speaker 5: going to take a break. We're opening up the phone lines.
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  Speaker 5: Whether you agree or disagree with me, I want you
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  Speaker 5: to give us a call today. What's your take on
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  Speaker 5: the midterms? How do you feel it's going? What is
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  Speaker 5: your gut telling you? You guys are a smart bunch.
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  Speaker 5: You know what's going on.
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  Speaker 8: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: Again, I'll repeat the number. That's 901-260-5926. This is the
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  Speaker 5: Todd Stern Show.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
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  Speaker 5: I want to share this information from Jake Sherman over
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  Speaker 5: at Punchbowl News. He says the Republican panic is on
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  Speaker 5: clearest display at the various political organizations in Washington. charged
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  Speaker 5: with spending hundreds of millions of dollars on House races.
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  Speaker 5: GOP lawmakers from around the country, many in deep red seats,
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  Speaker 5: are approaching super PACs with polls showing them losing or
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  Speaker 5: on the brink of being down. Meanwhile, Democrat PACs are
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  Speaker 5: swimming in data showing opportunities in seats that were never
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  Speaker 5: on the radar. The map keeps expanding into deeper red territories.
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  Speaker 5: According to Mr. Sherman, Democrats have seen evidence of margin
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  Speaker 5: of error races in Indiana's 5th District. That's Congresswoman Victoria Sparks' district.
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  Speaker 5: President Trump won that by 17 points. New York's Open's
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  Speaker 5: 21st District, Trump won 21 points. Nevada's Open's 2nd District,
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  Speaker 5: Trump won by 14 points. And in Kentucky's 6th District,
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  Speaker 5: Trump won by 15 points. So here's a question for you,
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  Speaker 5: and we're just going to play. This is a theoretical
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  Speaker 5: question here, all right? Let's just say that all of
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  Speaker 5: this is right, and the Republicans are about to go
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  Speaker 5: down in a massive defeat. Let's just, for the sake
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  Speaker 5: of the argument here, and they're about to go down
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  Speaker 5: in a massive defeat. What would you say is the
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  Speaker 5: reason why? If the Republicans lose, and they lose big,
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  Speaker 5: what do you blame that on? Why would the Republicans
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  Speaker 5: lose the midterm elections? 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: I'm curious to hear your thoughts on that. Republicans, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 5: are funneling more money into South Carolina's 1st District, where
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  Speaker 5: the GOP candidate is trying to hold outgoing Congresswoman Nancy
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  Speaker 5: Mesa's seat. Also in play is a district in southern Minnesota.
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  Speaker 5: Trump won by 12 points. Democrats there allegedly gaining ground.
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  Speaker 5: But why is that? Why would you think the Republicans
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  Speaker 5: would lose? Again, our number, 901-260-5926. This is the Todd
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  Speaker 5: Stern Show.
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  Speaker 6: And let's break him.
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  Speaker 10: Brett, let's start 30,000 feet. We're closing in, obviously, on
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  Speaker 10: Election Day.
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  Speaker 6: Where do you see things right now?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I think that the Republicans have to be concerned
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  Speaker 11: that this might turn out to be a little bit like, first,
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  Speaker 11: like 1980, where the Republicans won a landslide and nobody
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  Speaker 11: expected it, and Ronald Reagan became president over 1994. where
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  Speaker 11: it looked like Bill Clinton was, he was campaigning much
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  Speaker 11: the way, he was president, of course, Democrat, he was
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  Speaker 11: campaigning much the way Trump has, just crossing the country.
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  Speaker 11: The Republicans that year had a program called the Contract
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  Speaker 11: of for America, and Clinton was calling it the contract
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  Speaker 11: on America, and I was covering the White House at
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  Speaker 11: the time. I'll never forget it. I thought, well, maybe
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  Speaker 11: he's making headway here with this. You know, he had
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  Speaker 11: the biggest megaphone, as presidents always do, and he got
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  Speaker 11: big crowds, and the Democrats and the president's party absolutely
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  Speaker 11: got slaughtered in that race and got control of the
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  Speaker 11: House for the first time in decades. The Republicans have
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  Speaker 11: to worry that something like that may happen to them.
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  Speaker 11: in this race, where not only do they lose the
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  Speaker 11: close ones, but they lose a lot that weren't even
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  Speaker 11: thought to be close. And you get a big washout.
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  Speaker 11: I'm not saying it's going to happen, but I think
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  Speaker 11: it could happen.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And you look at the polls, the races are pretty
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  Speaker 10: tight on the big Senate races, also some governor's races.
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  Speaker 10: But if you look at our poll, the new poll
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  Speaker 10: out tonight, which party would be better to handle? And
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  Speaker 10: you ask a list of questions, foreign policy, gas prices,
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  Speaker 10: inflation and prices. And you see Democrats with pretty significant
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  Speaker 10: leads in places where Republicans have been, especially when it
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  Speaker 10: comes to foreign policy, leading.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, Brett.
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  Speaker 11: I mean, you know, those are the three major issues
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  Speaker 11: right there. and the Republicans are way underwater by any
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  Speaker 11: number of points there that the polls reflect. And the
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  Speaker 11: polling is similar about the president himself. He's out there
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  Speaker 11: saying he wants everybody to act like he's on the ballot. Well,
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  Speaker 11: that's fine if you're simply trying to turn out Republicans,
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  Speaker 11: but the polling that we now have show that his
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  Speaker 11: support among Republicans has diminished since Election Day. And they're
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  Speaker 11: also showing that his approval rating is, what, 36 percent?
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  Speaker 11: That means he might get 36 percent of the vote out,
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  Speaker 11: but look, 64 percent disapproved. That is really bad at
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  Speaker 11: this stage when he's out there front and center. And
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  Speaker 11: it may raise the question in the minds of some
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  Speaker 11: people whether he should be out there front and center
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  Speaker 11: the way he is, given his standing. So I think
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  Speaker 11: it's a tough situation for the Republicans. They may be
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: able to overcome it, but it won't be easy.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: All right, there you have it. Brett Hume and Brett
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Baier going at it on Fox News Channel yesterday. And
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: they are just as bad as the legacy media is. Again,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: putting out this idea that Trump needs to pull himself
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: off the campaign trail. I think if Trump does that,
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: the Republicans could lose. When I see those crowds at
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: the Trump rallies, I see enthusiasm, I see excitement, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: I see... I see voters that are fired up and
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: ready to go and vote on Election Day. And I'm
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: curious about you. Do you buy into the narrative that
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Fox News is trying to sell? Well, let's go to
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: the phone lines, 901-260-5926. Ken in Texas, listening to us
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: on Patriot Talk 920. Hi, Ken, what's on your mind?
• 22:21
  Speaker 12: Well, I have one thing to say. Your question about
• 22:27
  Speaker 12: If the Republicans lose, why would it be? The only way,
• 22:31
  Speaker 12: if they lose, the reason would be lack of people
• 22:36
  Speaker 12: going out to vote. Because Republicans are Republicans are Republicans.
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: But they're very, very upset with what's going on right now.
• 22:46
  Speaker 12: There's not enough Republicans getting on TV and telling the
• 22:50
  Speaker 12: Democrats how full of BS they are. They're being politically correct,
• 22:55
  Speaker 12: trying to be nice people. They can't be nice people
• 22:58
  Speaker 12: this day and time. They get out and go out
• 23:00
  Speaker 12: there and really, really get after it. They're not doing that.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Ken, I'm curious about the Senate race there. You've got Tallarico,
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: you've got Ken Paxton, and if you believe all the
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: polling data out there, well, Tallarico's going to run away
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: with this thing. Are you guys sensing that? Is that
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: something that's being openly talked about?
• 23:27
  Speaker 12: The only ones that will talk about are the Republicans, Democrats.
• 23:30
  Speaker 12: As soon as you bring something up, they scream and holler.
• 23:34
  Speaker 12: They don't even want to talk intelligently.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: It's scary.
• 23:39
  Speaker 12: It's scary. Not only that, but we have that lady
• 23:42
  Speaker 12: that's running for governor, Gina Hanna-Hosa. She wants to bring
• 23:46
  Speaker 12: in a state income tax.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Ken, that's why you've got to get out and vote
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: on Election Day. And, Ken, by the way, Tuesday I'm
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: going to be in Houston, and we'd love to see
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: you at Collectors Firearms. We're going to be there from
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: 4 to 7. It's going to be a lot of fun.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: I'll be signing copies of my new book. We're going
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: to have a lot of great food, beverages, and a
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: chance for you to win firearms, courtesy of our friends
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: at Patriot Talk 920. So, Ken, we hope to see
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: you out there on Tuesday.
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: I have something to add to that. I have a
• 24:20
  Speaker 12: daughter that's an avid Democrat. We get into it. And
• 24:25
  Speaker 12: I invited her to collect his firearms on that day.
• 24:27
  Speaker 12: She doesn't know what's going on. I told her they're
• 24:29
  Speaker 12: going to have a happy hour. I had a chance
• 24:31
  Speaker 12: to win a gun, but I didn't tell her what
• 24:32
  Speaker 12: else was going on.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: Ken, you're devious. I love it. I love it. You
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: know what, Ken? We might be able to convert her.
• 24:42
  Speaker 13: I don't know.
• 24:43
  Speaker 14: I don't know.
• 24:43
  Speaker 12: I mean, she works at TSA. They're in hobby. Uh-oh.
• 24:49
  Speaker 15: Uh-oh.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: Well, maybe we need to give her a pass. I
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: don't want to get pulled aside for the extra special coverage.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
• 25:00
  Speaker 12: She's aggravated with anything to do with Republicans. We're to
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: the point where we can hardly talk anymore, but she
• 25:07
  Speaker 12: did agree to go down to collect his firearms with me.
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll be on my best behavior, Ken. How's that?
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: I'll be on my best behavior for you.
• 25:16
  Speaker 12: Okay. I'm a retired Navy senior chief. I'll have my
• 25:18
  Speaker 12: hat on.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Well, by the way, it was a big birthday for
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: the Navy yesterday, so happy birthday.
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: It's the greatest service of all.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Ken, thank you for serving our great country, and we
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: look forward to seeing you Tuesday. I think there's going
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: to be a big crowd there, Dylan. I mean, it's
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: going to be a lot of fun.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Sounds like it's going to be the place to be.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: It is the place to be. That and Gainesville, Georgia,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: October the 27th, which is the day before my birthday.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: I need to tell Bill Main that. Bill does the
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: morning show there at WD, and I want a candle
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: in my banana pudding.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: That's the least they could do.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: Let me tell you something. This cafe, it's just a
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: great cafe, the Longstreet Cafe. They're hosting our big book
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: signing event sponsored by our friends at WDUN. And we're
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: really looking forward to that coming up October 27th. So
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: put that down on your calendar, ladies and gentlemen. And
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: we're going to be broadcasting the show from their beautiful
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: new studios on the square in Gainesville. So that's going
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: to be a highfalutin affair. Let's go back to Texas.
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: Our good friend Quinn listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. Quinn, look,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: you have to be there Tuesday. We have to meet
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: in person.
• 26:33
  Speaker 16: I'm going to try.
• 26:34
  Speaker 17: Okay.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: We got to make that happen.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:37
  Speaker 16: Thank you for giving up the good work. First, I'm
• 26:41
  Speaker 16: going to say, I encourage all of you to pop again.
• 26:43
  Speaker 16: Get off the road for me, pop again. I am Ken.
• 26:48
  Speaker 16: I'm a senior senator born and raised here. I care
• 26:51
  Speaker 16: so much for this country. If I can go to vote,
• 26:55
  Speaker 16: all the American Republicans can too. Save this country because
• 27:00
  Speaker 16: we do not want to live with the Communist Party.
• 27:04
  Speaker 16: Let's go back to the deal that you said. Republicans
• 27:07
  Speaker 16: might lose everything, the House and the Senate. The only
• 27:11
  Speaker 16: way we lose, the Democrats are pretty good at stealing.
• 27:16
  Speaker 16: I've been well known for a long time. They still,
• 27:20
  Speaker 16: and they're alive. So anybody I could imagine to be
• 27:25
  Speaker 16: a Democrat must have no brain at all. Because I
• 27:29
  Speaker 16: just could imagine myself to be that Democrat party. So
• 27:34
  Speaker 16: that's all I have to say.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: And, Quinn, you came. So we have a lot of
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: new listeners, and they don't know your story, that you
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: came to this country. You fled the very thing that
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: the communists want to inflict on the rest of us
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: here in America.
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: Correct.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: Correct.
• 27:51
  Speaker 16: The whole want to live a communist party. If we
• 27:54
  Speaker 16: don't win this election, because Republicans sit at home. Go vote, please.
• 28:01
  Speaker 16: I beg you.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Quinn, well said.
• 28:05
  Speaker 16: I care enough for this country, and I'm in the
• 28:07
  Speaker 16: morning race here, and I am senescent, and I know
• 28:11
  Speaker 16: you can too.
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: Please.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Quinn, you're a great American patriot. God bless you, and
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: we do hope to see you Tuesday there at Collectors
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Firearms in Houston. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Oh, yesterday,
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: I almost forgot to tell the story, but Quinn said
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: something that sparked my memory. So I show up at
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: the polling place, and normally, I'm just going to tell you,
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: for the past, I don't know, three or four election cycles, literally,
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: I walk in, show my ID, go and ask for
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: my paper ballot. By the way, ask for a paper ballot.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: I fill in all the circles and leave. It's like
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: three minutes, four minutes max. But yesterday when I went
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: to go show up for early voting, that was about
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: a 35-minute wait in the line. And it was really
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: amazing because a lot of parents brought their children, their
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: young children along to watch them vote. I know there
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: are a couple of– and I don't know if you
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: guys do this in your towns, but if you're a
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: first-time voter, they kind of make a big deal of that. And,
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: you know, there's a lot of applause. They announce, you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: as you walk in and they say, are you a
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: first-time voter?
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: And an 18-year-old will say, yeah, I'm a first-time voter.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: And if you're 18, Dylan, you're kind of like– I
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: don't want to say embarrassed, but you're shy. You don't
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: want people knowing your business.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of adults around. It's intimidating.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: So there was like a kid in front of me,
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: and she was– I guess she was– this was her
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: first time voting because she said– they asked her, and
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: she said, yes, this is my first time voting. And
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: so the lady working the desk says, we got a
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: first-time voter! And everybody starts applauding. The poor kid was
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: so embarrassed.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: It's a big thing.
• 30:04
  Speaker 18: No, it is.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: It's a big deal.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: It is a big deal. So what I remember, though,
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: as I was right, it was my turn. It had
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: been like 35 minutes, and I'm waiting, and it was
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: my turn. And then I saw the door open. There
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: was a woman, and she was accompanied by clearly at
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: least one of them was her child. The child was
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: probably in his 70s. And she must have been in
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: her 80s or maybe early 90s. And she could barely walk.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: And so we all just stopped. And I told the
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: lady who was kind of guarding the line, I said,
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: please let these people go. Let them cut line here.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: And they were already going to do that. And it
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: took her maybe, I don't know, four or five minutes
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: to walk that space between the front door to the counter.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: And I'm watching this poor lady is bent over. She's shuffling.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: She can barely walk. And I thought to myself, you know,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: there are a lot of people in this country who
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: are not going to vote. And they say they don't
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: have the time. They don't care. They've got other things
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: they want to do. And I thought about that elderly
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: woman who made it a point to go and vote yesterday.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: And if that woman can do it, so can all
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: of you. So I don't know who this lady was,
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: but God bless her. She's a great American patriot. I
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: don't know who that 18-year-old kid was who came for
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: the very first time to vote. I don't even know.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: I don't know what she voted for, Democrat, Republican.
• 31:40
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter. She's an American patriot because she engaged
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: in her rights, her right to decide her future. And
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: we all have that right. And ladies and gentlemen, I
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: implore you, you just heard two callers from Texas, and
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: they said what needed to be said. If Republicans go
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: and vote on Election Day, we win. All of you
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Christians out there, you go and vote on Election Day?
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: We win.
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: It really is that simple. All right, got to take
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: a break. 901-260-5926 coming up. Our good buddy Steve Gill
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: is going to join us. And later in the show,
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Chad Connolly from Faith Wins. This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: All right, welcome back. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Let's go to Gainesville, Georgia. WDUN, our terrific affiliate in
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: those parts. Wayne is on the line. Hi, Wayne. What's
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: on your mind?
• 32:45
  Speaker 14: I just want to say people need to go vote.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Wayne, I completely agree with that. I know early voting
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: has been underway for a couple of days there in Georgia.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: Have you already gotten out there to vote?
• 33:02
  Speaker 14: I voted yesterday. I carried a great-grandson with me to vote.
• 33:09
  Speaker 14: I am 89 years old, and I know lots of people,
• 33:16
  Speaker 14: and a lot of people know me, and I love them,
• 33:19
  Speaker 14: and I want them to do good for their self
• 33:24
  Speaker 14: and their community and go vote.
• 33:26
  Speaker 12: Everybody, go vote.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Wayne, you're a great American patriot, and it's so good
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: to hear your voice again. It's been a long time.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: You know who I am, don't you? I do know
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: who you are. Absolutely, I know who you are.
• 33:40
  Speaker 14: And Ray's already voted, too.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: Well, good. I am so glad to hear that. And
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: we love you guys, and I still think you have
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: the best barbecue joint in Gainesville, Georgia.
• 33:52
  Speaker 14: But we don't have it anymore.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 33:54
  Speaker 14: I'm sad about that.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: I know. I didn't want to bring that part of
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: it up, but I do remember, and you kept me
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: well-fed over the years.
• 34:04
  Speaker 14: And I'm going to come see you at Longstreet.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
• 34:08
  Speaker 12: I need to get you a new book.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Well, we're going to have some copies there, and I
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: will be happy to sign one for you, and I
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: can't wait to give you a hug.
• 34:16
  Speaker 14: I cannot wait.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 34:20
  Speaker 14: I listen to you every day.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you, and I know our friends at WDUN
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: greatly appreciate that, too. They're good people, and they're just
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: a lot of good people that listen to this radio
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: show around the country. Wayne, God bless you. Let's go
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: to Jeff in Georgia. Hi, Jeff. What's on your mind?
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: How you doing, Todd?
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: I'm good.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: Thank you for asking.
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: Hey, I just wanted to call. I'm a Christian man, and.
• 34:50
  Speaker 7: I asked one guy at a yard sale, a Christian
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: that had taught for 20 years, and he asked him
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: what he thought of Trump. He didn't like him at all.
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: He said he was in there just trying it for himself.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: So then I went and talked to another Christian man
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: I know, and he didn't like him either, which really
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: shocked me. I didn't expect that. He said that he
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: asked me, would you want your kid, for him to
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: be a role model to your kid? He said that
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: to me.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: What did you say to him?
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: I said, yeah, I would. And then I talked to
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: a third preacher, and I told him about the other two,
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: because I was shocked. And he didn't say anything. I said,
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: they got TDS or something. And I said, you know
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: what TDS is? He said, no, he's never heard of it.
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: So I don't think he pays attention.
• 35:54
  Speaker 13: Wow.
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: So he doesn't even know that he has Trump derangement syndrome.
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: No.
• 36:01
  Speaker 10: Ah, man.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Stage four to it. Sounds like stage four. That's not good.
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: Well, I remember the moral majority with Reagan. I was
• 36:11
  Speaker 7: part of that. You know, the silent majority.
• 36:14
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 36:16
  Speaker 7: And I don't think– I don't know if we have
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: that anymore.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Well, Jeff, I don't know. One of the big challenges–
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: I think one of the reasons why Trump got elected
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: was because of so many independent voters making the swing over.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Because there are a lot of Christians out there who
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: just don't like Trump. They bought into the woke stuff
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: coming from the pulpits. And we've got to do something
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: about that. But, Jeff, I appreciate you calling in. The
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: computer is going to cut us off here. Christians, go
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: and vote. And, by the way, it's your lawmakers, your
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: local lawmakers on the ballot, not Donald J.
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: Trump.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Hang tight, everybody. Got to take a break.
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee. On the banks of the mighty Mississippi.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: It's America's conservative blowtorch.
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: That's us. That's right.
• 37:34
  Speaker 19: I love this American ride.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
• 37:39
  Speaker 19: Oh, yeah.
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: You know, Dylan, right before the show started, I popped
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: into the control room. I never know what you guys
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: are doing in there because you guys prefer to keep
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: it dark. So I can't see you. I don't know
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: what's going on. And I'm not saying there's anything nefarious
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: going on. I just can't see what you guys are
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: up to.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: It's better that way.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: I was concerned about that.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: Now, back when Dieter was here, we needed the lights
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: on at all times.
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: He moves around a lot, and he can knock over
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: something if he can't see it.
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: It's dark.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: He's like crazy like a fox.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: So anyway, I walk in there, and I notice Ian
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: is busy working away. And Ian, are we allowed to
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: share his preferred religious denomination? Are we allowed to talk
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: about that?
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Yes, he gives the approval.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: Okay, so he's a Presbyterian.
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: I don't know why I'm laughing.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Nothing wrong with that.
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: No, I'm not laughing. I don't know why I'm laughing.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. We love the Presbyterians. But he's one of
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: the good guys, right? Because there are some far-left Presbyterians.
• 38:45
  Speaker 20: Yes.
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: That are basically Satanists.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: He's not that.
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: No, he's not that. He's one of the good guys.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: They still believe in Jesus. So anyway, I walk in,
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: and Ian's got a big jug of the, what is
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: it called? What's the brand name?
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Simply.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: Simply. That's like the high dollar juice, right? You know,
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: when we were kids growing up, and I don't know
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: if nowadays this is a thing, but when we were
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: growing up, We weren't allowed to drink that grape. That
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: was like the premier orange juice, right? The Simply. We
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: got the stuff that was frozen in the like frozen
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: food section and it came like like the biscuits you
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: know where you get them in the um the the
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: cylinder yeah and you had to like defaul the juice
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: and that's what that's what mom used to serve that
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: was orange juice which really i think was basically orange
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: kool-aid yeah essentially so anyway Ian's got a big old,
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: and it's almost empty. It's like a jug of Simply,
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: and it's grape juice.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Simply grape.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: Simply. I had no idea they did Simply grape.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: I thought Simply only did orange.
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: Me too. Are you a pulp-free guy?
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Why would I want to drink something that has little
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: things in it?
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: It's like orange sewage.
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: It's terrible.
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: What's the pulp doing in here?
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Don't put that out, man.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: One time, I accidentally bought the pulp. And I guess
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: it was extra pulpy. So I had to strain it.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: And by the time I finished straining the pulp, I
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: had maybe a glass of juice.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Ew.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I would just throw it away at that point.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: You're like, what's the point?
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: Worthless.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: So anyway, no, it's just hard to digest the pulp.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: I'm like, it's weird. It's stuck in your teeth.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: And then it's in your throat. You're like, come on.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: I'm drinking juice here.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: So anyway, Ian said that's his communion. That's what they
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: use for communion.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, he stole the entire jug of grape juice.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: My word.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: He's taking communion in the office.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: I am so impressed. First of all, I didn't know
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Presbyterians had to do the communion every day. And I'm
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: just impressed they're using the high-dollar grape juice.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that can't be— that' s got to run the numbers a lot.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: I'm wondering what denominations actually booze it up for communion.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: I know the Catholics and the Episcopalians, I think, use
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: real wine.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: And then the Baptists, we— well, maybe to the Methodists, the
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: ones that still believe in God, do they still use
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: the— do they do grape juice or wine?
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: Cranberry juice is what I'm hearing.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: Cranberry juice?
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't—that can't be biblically accurate.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: Cranberry juice?
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Cranberry juice. Do they even have cranberry— no. Hawaiian bread. Oh,
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: that was the other one. Cranberry juice and Hawaiian bread.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: So they're not even in the same country anymore.
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: Does Helen go to a cult? What is that?
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: That sounds cult.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: The bread's not supposed to taste good.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: No, it's supposed to be stale and unleavened.
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the last supper you're supposed to suffer. And that's
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: why you have the tart. But back in the day
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: when we were, so we used to get like grape juice,
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: which was early in the Baptist church. I mean, we're cheap.
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: I hate to say that about my people, but we're
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: a cheap people. We do a great Wednesday night church supper,
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: but communion, it's like watered down Kool-Aid, purple Kool-Aid, and
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: you're going to get the unleavened, like unleavened cracker.
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: Did you guys do the packaged, the grape juice and
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: the cracker two for one deal?
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: So we just switched over to that apparently.
• 42:24
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: And so it's all like, there's, there's one cup on
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: top of the other.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think you save money doing that, but it
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: is very stale. I don't know how updated those things are.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: Like they don't have a expiration date. Honestly, I don't
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: think that they do expire. I think you can just,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: you know, use them for years.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: Were you ever nervous in church waiting for the big
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: tray to be passed?
• 42:45
  Speaker 12: Oh yeah.
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: Very intimidating.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: And you didn't want to be on that. You know,
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: you didn't want to be next to the old couple that,
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: And the guy has the shakes. And, you know, the
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: crepe juice is, like, bouncing up and down.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: It sounds like a very personal experience that you've had.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: No, I just.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to be the guy that didn't have one. Like,
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: the tray was to me, and I didn't have one,
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: so I had to ask for more. Like, hey, excuse me.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: This one's empty.
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: That's awkward. I'm fascinated by this. So anyway, Ian is
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: pretty juiced up, I'm just going to tell you, for communion.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: It is almost gone. He brought it in, and it
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: was halfway full, so it's like he's.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: They chug it for it.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: They don't portion control that thing out.
• 43:30
  Speaker 9: Clearly.
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: Does everybody get their own jug of grape juice? That's
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: what I want to know. But anyway, so yeah, so
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: we switched over, and now it's just, first of all,
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: you don't want to be the guy late for the crunch.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: No.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: There's always somebody you can hear them.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: My pet peeve is when people try to open them
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: up while he's reading the passage before you get to it.
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: Or you eat before the pastor does.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a sin in itself. But the people that
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: are opening it, you can hear it. It's like, and
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: he's trying to say the passage like, please just wait.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Everyone's going to get their turn.
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: Or what's worse is when you like, Just throw it back, right?
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: Throw it back, and then it's like, you choke it
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: on your communion wafer. It's not even a wafer. It's
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: like a cracker bit.
• 44:19
  Speaker 15: No, it's, yeah.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: Catholics, I think I like the way the Catholics do it.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they got the real bread. They got wine. They're
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: simulating that thing.
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: Tell you what, maybe some olives, some green olives on
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: the side. I'm all over that.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Let's feast. Let's do the real thing.
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: Let's do it. Come on, Baptists. My people, I'm serious.
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: We call ours the Lord's Supper, but it's not even
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: a snack. It's like the Lord's Amuse-Bouche, right? You get
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: just a little sample. I think we've crossed the line.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there is.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: I thought I heard a rumble of thunder. All that
• 44:56
  Speaker 5: to say, I'm very proud of Ian taking this all
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: very seriously. His faith is very important. So good for you, Ian.
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: All right, welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Great
• 45:07
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• 45:09
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• 45:56
  Speaker 5: Charles in Gainesville, Georgia, wants to weigh in on communion
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: and voting. Can't wait to hear this combo. Hey, Charles.
• 46:04
  Speaker 21: Hey, how you doing? Hey, yeah, you're talking about communion.
• 46:08
  Speaker 21: When I was a kid, The first time I ever
• 46:13
  Speaker 21: served as an acolyte in the Methodist Church when it
• 46:16
  Speaker 21: was back when they believed with God, I was 11
• 46:22
  Speaker 21: years old and was serving communion on Easter Sunday. And
• 46:27
  Speaker 21: I passed out and threw bread all over the choir
• 46:29
  Speaker 21: there at the Germantown Methodist Church.
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: No, you did not. Did you really?
• 46:34
  Speaker 19: I did.
• 46:36
  Speaker 21: Took out a couple of Easter lilies on the way down.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: That's terrible.
• 46:43
  Speaker 21: Yeah, that was a funny thing. But I wanted to
• 46:49
  Speaker 21: tell you about what our pastor said this past Sunday.
• 46:56
  Speaker 21: We used to be Methodists, and the Methodists lost their minds.
• 47:01
  Speaker 21: We ended up moving and becoming members of Free Chapel
• 47:06
  Speaker 21: in Gainesville.
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: Jensen Franklin.
• 47:09
  Speaker 21: Jensen Franklin, yeah. He got on a tangent about voting,
• 47:16
  Speaker 21: and he was talking about, you know, you want to
• 47:20
  Speaker 21: vote for being free, or you want to vote to
• 47:24
  Speaker 21: be not free and a communist? It's voting for either
• 47:32
  Speaker 21: sanity or craziness. And he says, you need, as Christians,
• 47:38
  Speaker 21: you need to get out and vote. And he says,
• 47:40
  Speaker 21: if you're You know, go vote for this DSA, this
• 47:44
  Speaker 21: communist stuff.
• 47:45
  Speaker 13: You're just stupid.
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: I love that. And we've got, you know, Charles, we've
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: got to hear, we have to have more of that
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: coming from the pulpits of America. We really do.
• 47:58
  Speaker 13: Absolutely.
• 47:59
  Speaker 21: He's not afraid to tell the congregation, this is what
• 48:05
  Speaker 21: you need to do.
• 48:06
  Speaker 13: This is your godly duty to do.
• 48:09
  Speaker 21: So he's good.
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: Charles, I hope you drop by on October 27th and
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: say hello. We're going to be at the Longstreet Cafe
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: there in Gainesville from, I think, what is it, 5
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: o'clock to 7 or something. We're going to have a
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: lot of fun out there.
• 48:24
  Speaker 21: I'll try my best.
• 48:26
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: Charles from Gainesville, thank you for that great communion story.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: By the way, I forgot to share this with you. Dylan,
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: we had a congressional candidate on. He's a Democrat. His
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: name is Chaz Mulder. and he's running for Congress, and
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: he has been a longtime member of the First United
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: Methodist Church in whatever town. He's at Columbia, Tennessee. Anyway,
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: before I feel really bad about this, we didn't air
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: this part of the conversation, but I was just doing
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: some small talk, and I knew he was a longtime Methodist,
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: and so I said, so are you a part of
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: the Global Methodist, which is the new kind of like
• 49:04
  Speaker 5: the splinter group that actually believes in Jesus? I said,
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: or are you part of those pagan folks? And he's
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: part of the pagan folks.
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: Uh-oh.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: I'm like, well, my bad. But it's true.
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: They've got a lot going on.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: It's unfortunate. So anyway, let's go to Hendersonville, North Carolina. Tom, WHKP,
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: a fine radio station in North Carolina. Tom, what's on
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: your mind?
• 49:34
  Speaker 15: Well, Todd, first of all, I'm a first-time caller, but
• 49:36
  Speaker 15: do you have a bell to ring?
• 49:38
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: Well, hold on. We'll find something to ring. Oh, we've
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: got the studio audience. They're excited for you.
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 49:48
  Speaker 15: You know, all the big talk is about the fact
• 49:51
  Speaker 15: that the Republicans, the conservatives, that is, need to get
• 49:54
  Speaker 15: out and vote. We really need to because we don't
• 49:57
  Speaker 15: want a socialist regime coming in. And I believe we've
• 50:02
  Speaker 15: got the power to do it if we get out
• 50:03
  Speaker 15: and vote. Now, what I have found, and I think
• 50:07
  Speaker 15: a lot of people have, is that people say, well,
• 50:10
  Speaker 15: I don't really know who to vote for. I don't
• 50:12
  Speaker 15: really know them. And so a lot of times they
• 50:15
  Speaker 15: go to the ballot box and it's a crapshoot, you know,
• 50:18
  Speaker 15: they just, whatever they feel good about. But there is
• 50:22
  Speaker 15: an organization, you may be well aware of them, they're
• 50:26
  Speaker 15: actually a part of the American Family Association Association.
• 50:29
  Speaker 17: Called iVoter.
• 50:31
  Speaker 15: Have you heard of that?
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, they're good friends of this radio program, and AFA
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: does a great job out there.
• 50:39
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
• 50:40
  Speaker 15: Well, the iVoter, you know, it's just like if you've
• 50:44
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• 50:48
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• 50:52
  Speaker 15: you could ask them, say, well, why wouldn't you vote
• 50:55
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• 50:58
  Speaker 15: the iVoter organization, they do all the legwork. I mean,
• 51:02
  Speaker 15: there's many hours go into that that has to do
• 51:05
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• 51:10
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• 51:14
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• 51:19
  Speaker 15: on Christian principle. And so you go to iVoter.org, and
• 51:25
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• 51:29
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• 51:38
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• 51:43
  Speaker 15: Do you want to vote Christian or don't you? If
• 51:45
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• 51:48
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• 51:52
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• 52:01
  Speaker 5: Love it. Love it. Tom, it's a great resource that
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: you've just shared with everybody, and we'll post a link
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: to that over on the website as well. Tom, man,
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: you did a great job as a first-time caller. Well done, sir.
• 52:17
  Speaker 15: Well done. I'm not afraid of speaking on the radio, Todd.
• 52:21
  Speaker 15: I don't work for WTZQ. We have another radio station
• 52:25
  Speaker 15: in Hendersonville. I work for them, but I won't mention
• 52:27
  Speaker 15: it here since we're on WHKP.
• 52:30
  Speaker 13: I've got a lot.
• 52:32
  Speaker 15: All but maybe two new people in there I know
• 52:34
  Speaker 15: very well anyway.
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: Well, I know they're all listening, and they greatly appreciate
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: what you just said there. So we love our friends
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: at WHKP. Tom, God bless you. Give us a holler
• 52:46
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• 52:50
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• 52:52
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  Speaker 24: look at different scriptures to try to come to a conclusion.
• 57:32
  Speaker 25: And I just want to add that the Bible is
• 57:34
  Speaker 25: not silent on abortion.
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: There is the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not kill.
• 57:37
  Speaker 9: And as Catholics, we take great.
• 57:41
  Speaker 6: Insult.
• 57:42
  Speaker 9: I guess sometimes when it's just about it that way.
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: Wow. I want to bring into the conversation our good
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: friend Chad Connolly, the president and founder of Faith Wins.
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: Faithwins.org is the website. Chad, what do you make of that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll tell you, when somebody says, I'm a Christian,
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: but I hate Christianity, I guess it leads to this
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: kind of nonsense. Well, the Bible's silent on abortion. Yeah,
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: let's just go back to that Exodus 20 thing on
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: thou shalt not murder. I'm actually doing CNN tomorrow, Todd,
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: on this capital punishment idea. And these people who wonder,
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: is there some contrarian view for people that murder little
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: babies versus somebody who puts to death a heinous murderer,
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: a vile murderer? They're crazy. I'm so thankful the lady
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: at CNN actually pushed back, Todd. I'm a little surprised,
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: aren't you?
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, well, that wasn't the only one, Chad. And by
• 58:34
  Speaker 5: the way, don't forget from the Old Testament book of
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: Psalms where God forms the children in the womb.
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: Fearfully and wonderfully made, knit together in your mother's womb. Yeah,
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: the Bible's not silent on abortion. And let's face it,
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: our lives are given to us as gifts from God.
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: We are image bearers of the king. To think that
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: life doesn't matter and is to be discarded like these
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: leftists believe is absolutely absurd.
• 59:00
  Speaker 5: I want to play another clip. This is a little
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: bit longer. Her name is Sarah Gardner and she's a
• 59:05
  Speaker 5: Texas voter. This again is from CNN. And here she
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: is confronting Taliban. on his belief that God is non-binary.
• 59:13
  Speaker 5: Cut 45, please.
• 59:15
  Speaker 25: I'm here talking to you Christian to Christian today about
• 59:18
  Speaker 25: a faith in the Bible. And I believe where we
• 59:20
  Speaker 25: differ is really our interpretations of the Bible. For a
• 59:24
  Speaker 25: lot of Christian voters, you've said some concerning things in
• 59:27
  Speaker 25: the past, kind of related to faith and social issues.
• 59:31
  Speaker 25: Things such as God is non-binary, questions about how many
• 59:34
  Speaker 25: genders there really are, and your justifications using the Bible
• 59:38
  Speaker 25: for abortion. And so I think that's led a lot
• 59:40
  Speaker 25: of Christian voters to question the authenticity of your faith.
• 59:43
  Speaker 25: And I wanted to ask you a very direct question.
• 59:46
  Speaker 25: Do you believe that the Bible is the absolute source
• 59:49
  Speaker 25: of truth? and God's final authoritative word, even when our
• 59:54
  Speaker 25: culture says otherwise.
• 59:55
  Speaker 24: Yes. And I think it's important to remember that even
• 59:59
  Speaker 24: the early church, the disciples who actually knew Jesus of Nazareth,
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 24: the early church we often talk about as a singular body,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 24: when in reality it was more like early churches, because
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 24: there was a lot of disagreement. There was a lot
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 24: of debate. And that's something that we should be comfortable with.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 24: we as Christians, you and I are both members of
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 24: the body of Christ. You are my sister in Christ.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 24: And it's okay if you and I have disagreements about
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 24: our interpretations of Scripture or certainly about political and policy topics.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 24: That should be encouraged, not discouraged. And we can do
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 24: that as we're called to do in Scripture, do it
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 24: with love.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 5: Chad, I have to tell you again, I am just
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 5: thoroughly shocked that CNN would platform people pushing back on
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: what Talofrico is saying here.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 4: I think that's my greatest revelation out of this, Todd.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: is this is CNN. You know, how much have we
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: mocked them for not having the authentic people who would
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: understand even some of this? Look, Tallarico ought to stay
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: out of the thing. I'm a Christian. Here's what I've
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: been telling pastors. I've talked about this in virtually every state.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: Been in 21 states now. We've done right at 90
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 4: pastor meetings since mid-July. I'll end up landing around 120, 115,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: something like that. But everybody's talking about Tallarico. And here's
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: what I'm telling pastors. Isn't this wonderful? He's in our
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: world saying, I'm a Christian. But then he says all
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: these things that are decidedly anti-biblical, anti-Christian. And brother, I'm
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: like you. The great thing here is CNN has somebody
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: who actually pushes back and proves that Tallarico should have
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: never dove into this water, brother.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 5: I'm wondering, Chad, as we move into the final three
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 5: weeks here of the race, what are you sensing out there?
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: What are you hearing?
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: You know, a couple of things. Early on when I,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: you know, we do pastor meetings year round, but they
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: get more intense and more frequent, of course, as you
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: approach the midterms when people are paying attention. Early on,
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: very few ads on our side at all. We let
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: the left define us. We let the left define themselves.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: The progressives seem like, you know, just all... sit around
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: the campfire and sing Kumbaya and we all love each other.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: Nobody was telling them they're for trans rights and for
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: stealing your kids from the family and for socialism, communism,
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: and Islamists who behead people on beaches. They weren't talking
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: about that. What I've noticed in the last four or
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 4: five weeks is conservative candidates, Republican candidates are starting to
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: run aggressive ads and they're talking about things like there
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: shouldn't be boys and girls sports and girls bathrooms. We
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 4: should not trans kids that early. If they want to
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: get old and make a too bad decision, that's different.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: We shouldn't take kids away from parents. We shouldn't be
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 4: supporting socialism, communism, Marxism, Islamism, and Sharia law. I think
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: that's the biggest takeaway, Todd, is it was late, but
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: our side's defining the issues better. And let's face it,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: President Trump, who is maybe the only person I've ever
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: seen to own a midterm like this, is out there
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: outworking everybody. The guy's 80. He's a machine.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look, no doubt about it. I mean, in Alaska,
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 5: then Phoenix, or then in Arizona, and then in Montana,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 5: it's just remarkable the stamina this guy has out there
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: on the campaign trail. You really think that's going to
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 5: move the needle?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 4: You know, I just did a Reuters, and this was
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: one of the questions. If anybody can do it, Trump can, right?
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 4: He does draw out an unusual voter. Let's face it,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: The people that have voted for Trump that weren't on
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: the pollsters list or the mailing list, it's unique. They're
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: not three out of fours or one out of fours.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: They're zero out of sixes or whatever. They just don't
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: vote much. So that is the good thing. The tough
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: thing for us is he's having to go to states
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: that we didn't really want to be in play. And
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 4: that's the thing we got to keep an eye on.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: I do think that the House is in real jeopardy.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: I do feel better about the U.S.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 12: Senate.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: And the reason I feel better is the left is crazy.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: Honest to goodness. Normal people, and they start paying attention
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: to this, know that boys shouldn't be competing against girls
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: and going to girls' bathrooms. Normal people. Normal people know
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: that socialism is a bad idea. You've probably seen the
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: latest polls. Independents hate socialism. They don't like that. And
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: when Democrats embrace that stuff, that helps us. So there
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: are things like that that give me a lot of hope.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 4: And the more granular I get in a local area,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: the better I feel.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 21: All right.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: Chad Conley joining us. President of Faith Wins. Chad, let's
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 5: talk about your strategy. Three weeks. What are you going
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: to be doing? Where are you going to be going?
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 4: So in the last two, last three weeks, we're going
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: to hit New Hampshire, Maine, which I believe Maine is
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: going to be a win for Republicans. I actually think
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: New Hampshire could be a flip for the Senate. Of course,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: there are key congressionals in both places. We're going to
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: Florida to reinforce there. We're going to Georgia. Georgia's in
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: trouble in the Senate, I think. We're going to Ohio.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: That's tighter than it should be, but we're going to
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: be in multiple cities in Ohio. We're actually going to Indianapolis.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: There's a key congressional seat in Indiana that is in play.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 4: We're going to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and just
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 4: finished Colorado, Arizona, Nevada. So in the last three weeks,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: I think we'll have hit 12 states. And our whole
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: thing is Christians go vote like you've never done before.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: You cannot sit this out.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 5: Well said. All right, Chad, we're going to leave it there,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: my friend. Be safe out there. Faithwins.org is the website. Faithwins.org.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 15: Thanks, Chad.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: See you, brother.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: All right. I want you to listen to this black guy.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 5: Just voted in Georgia. He videoed this from the front
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 5: seat of his car after he had voted in In Georgia,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: cut 53.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 20: We're 20 days away from midterm elections, but early voting
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 20: started in Georgia today, and I just casted my vote,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 20: as you can see from my vote stickers, and I
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 20: voted red, which is saying straight down the ballot. I
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 20: know these Democrats, they're going to lie to you. They
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 20: said that MAGA made it hard for black folks to vote. Well,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 20: let me give you my experience voting in the Jim
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 20: Crow 2.0 South. I walked up to the voter and said,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 20: I'm currently out here right now. An official told me,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 20: make sure I had my ID ready. I walked up
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 20: to the official with my ID. She asked for my ID.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 20: I gave her my ID. She sat it down. She
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 20: verified it. I signed a few documents to make sure
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 20: everything was correct. She made me a little green card
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 20: that I was supposed to use to go and vote.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 20: After she gave me the green card, I walked up
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 20: to the voting booth. I took the green card, inserted,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 20: and I began to vote for everybody that was MAGA
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 20: straight down the ballot. It wasn't no ICE officers out here.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 20: It wasn't no white supremacists out here. It wasn't nobody
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 20: out here threatening my life. It wasn't nothing difficult about it.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 20: It took about 10 minutes to walk in there, stand
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 20: in line, get all my documents, get my license verified,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 20: and go cast my vote. All this nonsense that these
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 20: Democrats out here try to tell y'all, it's a bold-faced lie.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 9: It's a lie.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 20: I'm so glad I just voted red straight down the
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 20: ballot because y'all not going to trick me.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 6: I promise y'all.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 20: Y'all try to victimize me. and say everything's so hard
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 20: for me because of the color of my skin, but
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 20: I just voted. I just voted for MAGA, and it.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: Was so easy.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 20: I don't want to hear y'all talk about no more.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: I can't wait.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 20: I cannot wait for MAGA to win these midterms so
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 20: they can continue to support Donald Trump as he executes
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 20: his plan to make America great again.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 5: Well, there you go. I like this guy, and I
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: think there are a lot more people who feel like
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 5: him out there. Let's go to the phones. 901-260-5926. Charles,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 5: North Carolina, WSIC, our great affiliate there. Hi, Charles. What's happening?
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 17: Well, Todd, I just voted about 30 minutes ago, and
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 17: I'm optimistic. This was the first day of early voting
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 17: here in North Carolina. The lines were fairly long, and
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 17: To my surprise and my delight, I saw a lot
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 17: of people in line that had conservative voting guides in
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 17: this area here. And, Todd, I'm cautiously optimistic. I mean,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 17: this is going to be close, but it's going to
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 17: all be about turning out the base and getting the
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 17: base out. And I was listening to you talk to
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 17: Chad there just a few minutes ago. I tell you, Todd,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 17: I wish He would take his show here to North
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 17: Carolina because this Senate seat that we have up for
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 17: grabs to replace Ronald Tom Tillis between Michael Wiley and
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 17: Roy Cooper. Todd, this really should not even be contested.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 17: You know, President Trump won here in 2016, 2020, 2024.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 17: But I got to tell you, Michael Wiley is running
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 17: one of the absolute worst campaigns that I've ever seen
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 17: in my life. He has not tried to tie Roy
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 17: Cooper to Joe Biden, when he was governor, all this
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 17: spending that caused this unaffordability. He hasn't said anything about
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 17: men and women's sports. He hasn't said anything about childhood
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 17: sex utilization for these trans kids. And he hasn't reminded
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 17: the voters here in North Carolina how Roy Cooper just
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 17: robbed people, especially Gen Zers, of their formative years during
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 17: COVID by shutting down schools, businesses, churches, gyms, everything. It's
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 17: almost like they don't want to touch it. And I
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 17: don't know who these political consultants are. But they're a disaster.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 17: But this is one Senate seat that we could be
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 17: winning here. And I just have no idea why Wally's
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 17: not doing something. But I don't think it's too late
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 17: since today is the start of early voting. But he's
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 17: going to have to go after Roy Cooper hard because
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 17: I think I think people are looking for a reason
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 17: to get out and vote. But they just want to
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 17: make sure that their vote's not going to be wasted.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that disappoints me about Whatley, and I'm with you.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 5: I don't think they've run a strong campaign at all.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 5: The lack of interviews they've been doing is troubling for me.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 5: That's always a red flag. but again, it's really going
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: to be up to the voters, and the Republican voters, Charles,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: they can say, you know what, yeah, he ran a
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 5: lousy campaign, but we've still got to get him elected,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 5: and we're going to go and pull the lever for,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 5: you know, for Watley.
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 17: Yeah, correct.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 6: Correct.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 17: And, Todd, I'm just sensing that people recognize voters, Republicans, Independents,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 17: and hopefully a good number of Democrats, that, you know,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 17: while while things aren't perfect right now, and I know
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 17: there's a lot of consternation with this war in Iran
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 17: and everything, but the alternative is socialism, is Muslims, jihadists,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 17: and communism. And to take us back to just two
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 17: to four short years ago to where we were, I
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 17: just don't think people want to go back to there.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 17: But that's what this is coming down to. I mean,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 17: if It's about, you know, common sense versus crazy. It's
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 17: about capitalism versus communism. And I think enough people are
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 17: waking up right now and they're saying, wait a second,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 17: I don't want to end up poor. I don't want
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 17: to see my 401k become a 201k. And I certainly
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 17: don't want to go back to what we had four
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 17: years ago and see the border open again with millions
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 17: more illegal aliens coming into the country that are dropping
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 17: up the prices of everything, and driving down the wages
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 17: of ordinary Americans.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 5: Well, let me give you a glimmer of hope here
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 5: from Memphis and Shelby County, Tennessee, where back in 2022,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: we had around 6,200 people cast early votes, day one
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 5: of early voting, 6,200 people. Yesterday, first day of early voting, Charles,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: in Memphis, Shelby County, over 11,000 people going to cast ballots.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 5: I think this is going to be a big election.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 17: I do, too. And, Todd, I agree with you 100%
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 17: too about these suppression polls. And when I was out
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 17: there today standing in line, it just kind of confirmed that,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 17: that there's a big undercurrent of support here for the
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 17: America First agenda. And I just, I know I've been
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 17: doing my part. I've made a couple of Facebook videos
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 17: and put it out there and had several thousand views
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 17: on just people getting out to vote and why. They
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 17: should vote red for their future, not just theirs, but
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 17: their children, their grandchildren. And just to keep this a
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 17: constitutional republic, because the Democrats are looking to undo everything
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 17: that our founding fathers did.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. Absolutely. Charles, I've got to run. I'm super late
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 5: for a break. Glad to hear the report. Folks, if
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 5: you're out voting, give us a call. Let us know
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 5: what things are looking like in your areas. But those
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: are huge numbers coming out of Memphis where twice as
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 5: many voters than 2022. The last time we had a
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 5: big race, gubernatorial race on the ballot.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: Got to take a break here.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 13: 901-260-5926.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 5: We'll be right back. All right. Welcome back, everybody. Let's
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 5: go right to the phone, sir. I think we can
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 5: squeeze Tom in here. Houston, Texas, Patriot Talk 920. Tom,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 5: what's going on?
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 13: Oh, my goodness, Todd. I'm going to say the most
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 13: important part first. Here in Harris County, Texas, Houston, we
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 13: have a problem, and we need help. All the people
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 13: in Houston, retired, whatever you are, let's go be poll
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 13: watchers because there are certain precincts, especially on the north
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 13: side of Harris County, then it's probably not going to
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 13: be open if we can't get full washers. And then
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 13: that means longer lines, and that means less boats. Number two,
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  Speaker 13: when does Ken Paxton get his equal time on CNN?
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  Speaker 5: Tom, that's a great question, and we're looking into that,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 5: and it's a fair question. You're right. Equal time here,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 5: equal access. And if they're going to do it for Tallarico,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 5: they've got to do it for Paxton. By the way,
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  Speaker 5: that's an FCC regulation right there.
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  Speaker 22: Exactly.
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  Speaker 16: Rules.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Tom, we're going to leave it there, my friend. I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to squeeze your call in. Hope to see you
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  Speaker 5: Tuesday at Collectors Firearms. It's going to be a great time.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 5: If nothing else, just want to shake your hand. and
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 5: all of our great listeners in Houston. This is going
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: to be our first big event together, and we're really
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 5: looking forward to it. Again, that's Tuesday at Collectors Firearms,
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  Speaker 5: 4 to 7 o'clock. All right, hang tight, everybody. Hour
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  Speaker 5: 3 coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 26: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 19: I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starks.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it is hour three of the big show. Great
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  Speaker 5: to have you with us today. Wow, we have a
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 5: lot of news happening around the country. And, of course,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 5: we are following lots of big races as well. I
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  Speaker 5: want to go right away to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 5: line and say hello to our good buddy Steve Gill,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 5: publisher of TriStar Daily in Nashville. And Steve, one of
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 5: the big question marks is really the governor's race in Tennessee.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 5: Marsha Blackburn, believed to be the frontrunner. But she is
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 5: facing some pretty ferocious opposition from the Democrat Jerry Green
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 5: and an upstart first-timer, an independent candidate by the name
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 5: of Hatley, David Hatley. First of all, good to have
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 5: you with us. And where do you see all this going?
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  Speaker 8: You know, I hate to say that it's still early,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 8: but with, you know, 20-something days, three weeks to go,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 8: there's still a lot of things that can happen. I
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 8: was just driving and was pulling over to get some gasoline.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 8: And it dropped below $ 4 in my area.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 6: Today for the first time in a long time.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 8: If those numbers continue to come down, that's going to
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 8: be a breath of fresh air and maybe put a
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 8: little wind in the sails for Republicans, not just here
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 8: in Tennessee, but across the country.
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  Speaker 6: That $ 4 mark is a big mental mark.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, the difference in 398 and 402 is not
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 8: a big difference.
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  Speaker 6: But below $ 4 is.
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  Speaker 8: The kind of thing Republicans need, not only in Tennessee,
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 8: but across the country.
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was interesting. There was a reporter from
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 5: the Fox affiliate in Nashville, and he interviewed a guy
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 5: who was, I guess, standing in line to do early voting,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 5: and he told Fox that he supports President Trump, he
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 5: supports the Republican Party, but he has concerns about Marsha
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 5: Blackburn and her decision not to debate. Now, the other
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: top three contenders in the race are getting together for
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 5: a debate, sponsored by the Tennessee Press Association, and yet
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: Marsha Blackburn is adamant she will not debate anyone.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 8: Well, and that's going to take place October 27th, the
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 8: Tennessee Press Association doing the debate that'll include Lauren Pinkston, independent,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 8: Jerry Green, Democrat, and David Hatley, another independent, who's actually
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 8: putting about eight or ten million dollars. A lot of
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 8: people are saying, well, an independent can't win. Well, we've
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 8: never seen an independent spend, you know, eight or ten
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 8: million dollars in the last 45 days.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 6: Race before.
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  Speaker 8: And when you look, Todd, around the country, Republicans who
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 8: are participating in debates are actually kicking butt against the Democrats.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 6: We're seeing it in New Jersey.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 8: We're seeing Saritha, an attorney general candidate in New York,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 8: who just absolutely destroyed her Democrat opponent in a debate.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 8: Everywhere Republicans are showing up against these whack job loony lefties,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 8: they're destroying them. And it kind of is inexplicable to
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 8: me as why Marsha Blackburn, with 30 years of public
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 8: service under her belt, doesn't believe she can deal with
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 8: a socialist, as she calls her, you know, Jerry Green,
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 8: or I guess with a capitalist like David Hatley. She
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 8: ought to be able to stand up and deal with
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 8: the issues easily with as long as she's been in
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 8: public policy. Jerry Green's been an assistant DA. She would
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 8: probably be an effective debater. But she comes from the
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 8: far left, and Marsha ought to be able to destroy
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 8: her the same way that We're seeing play out in
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 8: other states. And David Hatley is not a professional politician.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 8: He's not been involved in debates before, so she should
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 8: be able to wipe the floor in a debate if
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 8: she would show up.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I am wondering about the impact that Hatley
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: is having. Are you hearing anything about his internal polling,
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 5: and is it possible that he could steal enough votes
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 5: away from Blackburn to give Jerry Green the governorship?
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 6: It's possible.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 8: Again, that's where the math starts to math kind of interestingly.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 8: From what I understand, his internal polls is showing him,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 8: as of a week ago, at about 20 or 21 points. Marsha,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 8: at her high water mark, was about 43 points, and
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 8: she is continuing to move down as his... travels and
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 8: attack ads are continuing to have some effect. Jerry Green
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 8: seems to have stalled somewhere in the mid to low 30s.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 8: So unless Jerry Green can move her numbers up at
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 8: the same time, Marsha's are coming down and Hatley's are
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 8: coming up. You know, it could be a very close
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 8: race in the 30s. At this point, it is still
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 8: Marsha Blackburn's race to lose. She has the name ID.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 8: She has the resources. She has a Republican base that
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 8: seems to be lockstep behind.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: For the most part.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 8: I'm going to vote for a Republican no matter what
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 8: But it is interesting to me, Todd, that we always celebrate,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 8: and we're doing it all over the country right now,
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 8: when Democrats will break with their party and put policy
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 8: and principle ahead of party. We celebrate them. We're seeing
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 8: it with Al Saeed in Michigan and Rogers. But when
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 8: Tennessee Republicans say, I'm going to put my policies and
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 8: my principles ahead of party, they're being threatened, intimidated, and bullied.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 6: So it ought to cut both ways.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 8: If we're going to celebrate Democrats crossing party lines when
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 8: it helps us, We ought not to be.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 6: So mean to Republicans who put their principles ahead as well.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 5: I will say this. I think Tennessee, being a very
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 5: red state, I think it's also a great example of
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 5: what's happening nationwide within the Republican Party where especially grassroots
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 5: conservatives are being maligned. They're being shoved aside. They're being attacked.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 5: It just seems to me if the folks in charge
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 5: of the Republican Party in Tennessee were that aggressive against
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 5: the Democrats— then we would not be even having these
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 5: conversations right now.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 8: Well, and as you know, Todd, in Shelby County, where
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 8: you are, in Sumner County, in Williamson County, in Wilson County,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 8: in counties across the state of Tennessee, there are stark
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 8: divides in the Republican Party between the more conservative and
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 8: more moderate Republican establishment Republicans. It is a divide in
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 8: virtually every county across the state. And bullying, threatening, trying
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 8: to intimidate, that's not the way you're going to bring
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 8: unity and bring people together.
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 5: Laura Pinkston held a big press conference earlier today. She
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 5: is the fourth of the top four contenders. What is
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 5: she alleging?
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 8: Well, she laid out a whistleblower who has previously spoken
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 8: out but is now willing to speak directly to the
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 8: media to lay out as someone in the Marsha Blackburn
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 8: camp who is pointing out that Ward Baker, her consultant,
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 8: has threatened, has bullied, has intimidated people to try and
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 8: force them to toe the line, and as the whistleblower
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 8: is alleging, to break the law in order to try and.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 6: Win races, both the primary and the general election.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 8: She points out that at a time that you had
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 8: the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, and some were
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 8: trying to work with Democrats across the aisle to find
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 8: some middle ground on reducing shootings and violence in schools.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 8: When the hurricane hit East Tennessee, and there were some
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 8: in the Republican Party working with Democrats both in and
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 8: out of state to try and get the resources to
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 8: help there. Ward Baker, according to the whistleblower, was attacking
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 8: and demeaning anybody in Marsh's camp who dared to talk
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 8: to Democrats. This whistleblower is reportedly now willing to talk
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 8: to reporters.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 6: We'll see if they talk to her. We'll see if
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 6: they give voice to her allegations.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 5: And earlier today, Steve, I got an email sent to
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 5: me alleging, and there are copies of affidavits stating that
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 5: Hatley had threatened to kill a woman. This was back
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 5: in the 1990s. And a second concerning an incident that
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 5: occurred in 2006 about another threat of physical violence. Again,
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: it is getting dirty, and you can just imagine where
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 5: I received this information from. But it does, I mean,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 5: they're taking off the gloves.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 6: Well, if Marshall Blackburn's campaign has an insurmountable lead, cannot
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 6: get defeated, why are they running attack ads so aggressively?
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 6: And keep in mind the stuff they're spewing out there
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 6: are allegations, charges, convictions. That's not what happened.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 8: So again, when you look at what they're spewing out there,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 8: I can make allegations against anybody today. And right now
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 8: in the current political theme, they'll push it out there.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 8: They'll put money behind it, even if there's No charges
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 8: that were actually made or certainly no conviction that was
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 8: actually obtained. So, yeah, allegations are all they're playing with,
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 8: which again tells you the Blackburn team must be pretty panicked.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 5: I'm wondering, what do you think about this Hatley guy?
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm impressed. I mean, he has a great story.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 8: I mean, he had a broken family, graduated from high school,
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 8: had the opportunity when, you may recall, when credit card
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 8: companies would send you a free $ 5, 000 credit card And
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 8: he went out at 18 and bought several tanning beds
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 8: and started his first business.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 6: He's been a serial entrepreneur.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 8: At one point, I think it was 2008, his business
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 8: with hot tubs and golf carts was solely dependent upon
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 8: Costco when we hit the recession in 2008. Being dependent
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 8: on one single client broke his business down. He came back,
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 8: bought his business back, and has now created a business
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 8: worth over $ 200 million with a thousand employees in Upper
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 8: East Tennessee.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 6: He has resilience.
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 8: He is a street smart guy, and he's made mistakes,
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 8: as he'll be the first to tell you. But he's
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 8: an actual business person, and neither Lauren Pinkston, Marsha Blackburn,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 8: nor Jerry Green have ever really signed the front side
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 8: of a check. And there are a lot of people
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 8: who think that having a businessman, like Donald Trump, having
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 8: a businessman who's been convicted of felonies like Donald Trump,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 8: who's been married a few times like Donald Trump, might
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 8: be the perfect guy for Tennessee.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 5: Interesting. It's all very fascinating, Steve. And I can't remember
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 5: a race, at least in Tennessee, that has been this
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 5: volatile and, quite frankly, this exciting in a long time.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 6: Well, and when we go.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 8: Back to the primary, remember that Marsha Blackburn, again, was
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 8: supposed to have a 50-point insurmountable lead She ended up
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 8: winning in that primary with 43% of the vote. Even
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 8: the polls that she and her team have touted that
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 8: are six weeks old, she was at 45%, and she
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 8: certainly has not increased her numbers since that time. So
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 8: her numbers put this race within reach either for a Democrat,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 8: particularly if David Hatley pulls off votes, or possibly for
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 8: independent David Hatley if he can get over that 40% threshold.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 6: I don't know that I see a path there for him.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 8: But we've seen stranger things this political season than we
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 8: can imagine. I mean, we've got states that are in
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 8: play for Republican Senate seats that should be beyond our reach.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 8: Places like Minnesota, places like New Jersey.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 6: So it's going to be a weird three weeks ahead.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 5: No doubt about that. Well said. And before we let
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 5: you go, I do have to get you to weigh
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 5: in on the video that has now gone viral. and
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 5: Marsha Blackburn was asked about this. It's Marsha Blackburn, an
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 5: AI-generated video of the senator and several other lawmakers, I
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 5: think Hagerty, Brent Taylor, and Kaine, who is the mayor, oh,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 5: and Burchett, dancing. And here's what Marsha, she was actually
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 5: asked about this out on the campaign trail because it
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 5: has gone viral, and I'm not sure that they were
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 5: expecting the reaction they got. Cut 51, please.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 21: There is a county commissioner that made the video and
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 21: put it up, and I think Congressman Burchett reposted it.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 16: We reposted it, and it's a funsy.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 20: Everybody get out and vote.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 22: No, Marsha, it's a no for me.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 23: This is die-buckle witchcraft.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 5: No, it's not diabolical witchcraft. It's funsy, Steve Gill, funsy.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 8: I'm just glad she didn't put either you or I
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 8: in the video. We would have broken the hip trying
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 8: to do those moves that she depicted Haggerty and Burchett
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 8: and Kane and Brent Taylor doing.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 6: I think this has backlashed on her.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 8: Her campaign put this out there. She's trying to point
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 8: the finger at others at this point, which is unfortunately
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 8: what we see from politicians who make a mistake But
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 8: the bottom line is this is more disastrous than her
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 8: crushing fortune cookies ad that got mocked mercilessly. And it's
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 8: going viral, but that may not be a good thing.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 8: You know, President Trump did one where he's wrestling a tiger.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 8: If you're going to do one, that's a little bit
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 8: better than doing a fake rap tune with you and
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 8: other Republican leaders.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 6: It seems demeaning to them and their offices.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 5: I've got just a minute, but I want to play this.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 5: This is from Mississippi, where Obama... Kamala Harris, they've got
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 5: Pete Buttigieg. They're all down in Mississippi campaigning here. They
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 5: think they're going to be able to pick up a
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 5: possible Senate seat. This is Scott Collum, who is the Democrat,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 5: and he is challenging Cindy Hyde-Smith, And the reason why
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 5: is because of what Cindy Hyde-Smith said. Let's take a
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 5: listen to Cut 33.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 9: The price of beef continuing to go up.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: You know, you have so many proteins to choose from.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 9: Pick another protein? I'd rather pick another senator instead.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 5: Pick another protein?
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: She done lost her damn mind.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 6: I'd rather pick another senator.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 9: Pick another protein? What the.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 6: Pick another cylinder instead.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: What do you think about that? What do you think
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: about that ad?
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 6: That's a pretty good ad. And I like it.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 8: The bottom line is most people are already picking chicken
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 8: and pork and other proteins right now because of the
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 8: high beef prices.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 6: And keep in mind, we're at about the lowest level
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 6: of cattle herd that.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 8: We've been in a long time, mainly because of the
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 8: Biden policies, mainly because of drought that reduced the size
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 8: of cattle herds. The problem is these days, if you
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 8: speak truth as a politician, somebody's going to twist your
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 8: words out of context and make hay out of it.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 8: No pun intended. And we will see if that's effective.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 8: It's still Mississippi. It's still red. I think Darlene Graham
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 8: over in South Carolina has a closer race than expected.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 8: But ultimately, I think the red states will move back
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 8: into the red column. And my prediction is that Republicans
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 8: narrowly still keep the Senate. I think the House is problematic.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm thinking we keep both, Steve. I am all
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 5: hope here. So we'll see how things go. A couple
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 5: of likes today. Steve, I appreciate you joining us today.
• 1:30:32
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  Speaker 5: I want to play some audio. This is from New
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  Speaker 5: York City. You have a gathering of musical libtards singing
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  Speaker 5: cut number 50. There is no NYPD.
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  Speaker 19: Oh, Lord. The second verse.
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  Speaker 27: I mean, just look how incredibly diverse this group of
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 27: singers is. Every single one of them is a privileged
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  Speaker 27: white liberal. Who are they, you might ask? They are
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 27: Sing in Solidarity. Well, who is Sing in Solidarity? They
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 27: are the official choir of the New York City chapter
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 27: of the Democratic Socialists of America. This right here is
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 27: the DSA, a bunch of privileged white liberals that are
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  Speaker 27: so privileged they can sing about abolishing the New York
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  Speaker 27: City Police Department. I mean, imagine living in an area
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  Speaker 27: that is so safe that you think that we don't
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 27: need the police department anymore.
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  Speaker 9: This is real privilege.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, DSA stands for Don't Sing Again. Wow, terrible. Just terrible. Anyway,
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  Speaker 5: they're singing about abolishing the NYPD and what New York
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 5: City would look like if that actually happens. Yeah, DSA.
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  Speaker 5: Don't sing again. No, please don't. All right, 901-260-5926. We're
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  Speaker 5: going to the phones coming up after the break. We'll
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 5: be right back. All right, we've been following this story
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 5: out of Washington State involving these high school athletes and
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 5: these young girls, and they refused to participate in a race.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 5: It looks like it was a cross-country race because a
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 5: young man was among those who was running, and the
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 5: girl said, no, we're not going to compete against this
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 5: boy who literally stood shoulders above the rest of the girls.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 5: And this all happening in Washington State, in the Camas
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  Speaker 5: School District, the superintendent, John Anzioli, said that the girls
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  Speaker 5: will not be punished. But all of this came to
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 5: a head when about a dozen runners from the high
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 5: school girls cross-country team literally walked off the starting line
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 5: when the gun went off in their race against Battle Ground,
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  Speaker 5: which is a a fellow school there in Washington State.
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  Speaker 5: And they were, among those protesting, this male teammate competing
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  Speaker 5: against the females. And I know the girls are getting
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 5: a lot of kudos in the media, as well they should,
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  Speaker 5: but the fact of the matter is, I just hate
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  Speaker 5: that these young girls had to go through this. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: for me, it's just really unacceptable. So anyway, there was
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  Speaker 5: a lady.
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  Speaker 5: On social media. And she decided to weigh in on
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 5: all this. And I think she has the most common
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  Speaker 5: sense approach to the problem here. Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 26: Why are y'all letting these kids do all this with
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  Speaker 26: this transgender stuff? Why are y'all allowing them to do it?
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  Speaker 26: And I'm not talking about everybody. I'm talking about one
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  Speaker 26: particular story. There's a young man in Washington. His name
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  Speaker 26: is Logan or something. You can look him up. He
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  Speaker 26: was on the male cross-country team. He'd lose him. Halfway
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  Speaker 26: through the season, he decided he's female. So now he
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 26: on the female cross-country team.
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  Speaker 15: Now he winning.
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  Speaker 26: People protesting and girls not running with him. And he
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  Speaker 26: whooping their ass.
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  Speaker 6: He's 6'2, 6'3.
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  Speaker 26: These girls 4'11, 5'0. These girls probably want scholarships and
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 26: things like that. They need these stats. And here his
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  Speaker 26: ass come to still look like a male. And he
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  Speaker 26: got his hair pulled up in a ponytail. And everybody's
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  Speaker 26: just okay.
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  Speaker 6: He's a boy.
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  Speaker 26: He just transitioned three weeks ago. He just said he
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 26: was a girl three weeks ago. So nothing's changed but
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 26: his long hair. And it might have been long then.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 26: I don't know. That's just like me saying, you know what?
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 26: I'm mopping these floors and I'm sweeping. I feel in
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  Speaker 26: my heart I'm a CEO and I feel like I
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 26: got three master's degrees in my heart.
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 6: I feel it.
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  Speaker 26: I only got a high school diploma, but in my heart.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 26: So I'm putting me a power suit on and I'm
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 26: going to go up to the boardroom and I'm going
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 26: to sit with y'all.
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  Speaker 7: Hell no.
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  Speaker 26: They're going to kick my ass back down with these
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 26: mops and these brooms and this jumpsuit.
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  Speaker 3: Like, come on, y'all.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 26: And the parents just a lot.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's true. So, again, I admire the girls and
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 5: praise their initiative here, but ultimately, where are the grown-ups?
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 5: Where are the people with some common sense? 901-260-5926 is
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 5: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Now, we're going to play
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 5: some audio from Kansas. This is Adam Hamilton, the Democrat
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 5: Methodist megachurch pastor. who is running for Senate against Roger Marshall.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 5: And Adam Hamilton is really upset because the suburbs around
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  Speaker 5: Kansas City are too white. And he said that's a problem,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 5: that these neighborhoods are just simply too white. Cut number 37.
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  Speaker 18: I was a part of the Overland Park Dreaming Team,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 18: the group that was looking at Overland Park 20 and
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  Speaker 18: 30 years from now. And part of what we recognized
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 18: in the suburbs in Johnson County is that they're not
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 18: nearly as diverse as our greater metropolitan area. And if
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  Speaker 18: that's going to continue to be the case, there are
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 18: large numbers of Gen Zs, our children or grandchildren, who
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  Speaker 18: are going to say, I don't want to live in
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  Speaker 18: Johnson County. Because I want to live around people who
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  Speaker 18: are like me. I want to live around people who
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  Speaker 18: are different from me. I want to live around people
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  Speaker 18: who can encourage and strengthen and challenge me in places.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 18: So my own kids, when they graduated from high school,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 18: they didn't want to live in Johnson County. One of
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 18: them wanted to live in Chicago. The other one wanted
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 18: to live in New York City. And even when they
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  Speaker 18: moved back here, it was like, I don't want to
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  Speaker 18: live in Johnson County Beige. We've all heard this term before,
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 18: Johnson County Beige. the sameness of everything. We want diversity.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 18: So even the city of Evelyn Park is recognizing, you know,
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  Speaker 18: we've got to do something to be attractive to diverse
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  Speaker 18: groups of people or else we don't have a future
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 18: as a city because people want to live in a
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 18: place where everything's the same.
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  Speaker 5: All right. So basically he's giving, he's giving the thumbs
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  Speaker 5: up for this notion that we need to, if you
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  Speaker 5: live in a predominantly white community or a predominantly, I
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 5: would have to presume a predominantly black community, then we've
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 5: got to diversify those communities. And I just, folks, I'm
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 5: telling you, I think it has, I think that has
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 5: really hurt our nation. So this is, it's not to
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 5: be a controversial question, but here we go. Do you
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  Speaker 5: believe that communities are better off if they are predominantly
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 5: one color? For example, Hispanic communities. Do you believe that
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 5: Hispanic communities would be better off being Hispanic communities or
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 5: black communities? You know, I remember when I was going
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 5: from elementary school into middle school, junior high school, and
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 5: there were efforts. My dad got transferred down to Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 5: and the schools down there were being desegregated. which meant that,
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 5: for example, in my situation, we actually had to move
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 5: as a result of this. For me, instead of being
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 5: able to walk to our neighborhood junior high school, I
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 5: was going to be bused clear across town to a
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 5: predominantly black school, and then black students from that school
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 5: would be sent to the predominantly white school out in
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 5: the burbs of East Baton Rouge Parish. And parents were
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 5: just up in arms. But it wasn't just white parents.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 5: It was all the parents. Because the black communities were saying, well,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 5: wait a second. We want our own schools. These are
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  Speaker 5: the teachers we go to church with. These are coaches
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 5: that coach our little league teams. And we want our
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 5: kids raised and educated, rather. We want our kids educated
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 5: by folks we know. And I think the same thing
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 5: could apply if it's an overly Asian American neighborhood or
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 5: Hispanic neighborhood or white neighborhood. So why are they trying
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 5: to force something that is of itself unnatural, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: this was a big thing in the Southern Baptist Convention,
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 5: my denomination, and they held a big meeting and everybody
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 5: was all upset because we weren't diverse enough. What is
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 5: that supposed to mean? As a matter of fact, there
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 5: are more blacks in the Southern Baptist Convention than some
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 5: of the larger all-black denominations. But what I found fascinating
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 5: about that is nobody was complaining that, for example, the
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 5: AME denomination, African Methodist Episcopalian, a predominantly black denomination, nobody
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 5: complained that it was mostly black. Nobody complained that the
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 5: American Baptist was mostly black. Nobody complained that the Church
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 5: of God in Christ and Prophecy was majority black. It
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 5: was only the white denominations that they were going after.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 5: Really unbelievable. So I'm just wondering, ladies and gentlemen, do
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 5: you buy into this notion that the man who wants
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 5: to be the next Democrat senator from Kansas believes that
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 5: that we need more diversity in our neighborhoods and our communities.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 5: How do you feel about that? 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 5: That's 901-260-5926. It's a crazy thing what they're trying to do.
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 5: And it's social engineering. And I think it's backfiring. I
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 5: truly do. I absolutely do. So I want to play
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 5: some other audio here. This is coming from, it was
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 5: just right in front of me, and I'll get to
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 5: this in just a moment here. Scrolling down, scrolling down.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 5: All right, I will find it and get to it.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 5: I don't know why in the world I can't, it's
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 5: staring me right in the face. But anyway, there is
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 5: another situation developing in North Carolina. And at this particular school,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 5: you've got a minister who was removed from a school
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 5: board meeting because he was reading graphic excerpts from a
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 5: book that was found in the school library. And again,
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 5: they're giving this poor pastor the what for. You know,
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 5: my issue is, why are these kinds of books in
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 5: the library to begin with? I mean, it's a fair
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 5: question to ask. So anyway, we'll get to that story
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 5: in just a moment. I do want to go to Ocala, Florida, though.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 5: Cheryl is listening to us on WOCA. Cheryl, what's on
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 5: your mind?
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  Speaker 7: I just wanted to ask if you noticed. that he
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 7: said before they moved back, they moved to Chicago and
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 7: New York.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 14: And then they moved back.
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 5: Who moved back?
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 16: His kids.
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 21: Remember the man that was just talking?
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 7: He said his son.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, yes. New York and.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 7: Chicago before they moved back.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 16: So they came back home.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look, again, it's all forced. And Cheryl, I just
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 5: feel like when you're forcing integration, you know, Obama was
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 5: all about this. He wanted to build the lower-income housing
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 5: in well-to-do suburbs, and he felt like that was going
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 5: to make the community stronger when, in fact, it led
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 5: to lots of problems.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, and we lived through busing.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 24: That was not.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 7: Fun or necessary, probably.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a good point. All right, Cheryl, thank you
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 5: for the call. Oh, here I finally found what I
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 5: was looking for. This is an education theorist. And he
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 5: argued that grouping kids by ability creates unfair racially segregated classrooms.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 5: This is why they're doing away with a lot of
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 5: these honors classes. Take a listen to Cut 48.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 25: An honors English class was eliminated.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 23: A program to support academically gifted students is ending.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 28: Many schools are ending gifted and talented classes and have
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 28: stopped separating kids by ability.
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 9: The reason? To address, quote, historical inequity.
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 25: All students will receive accelerated instruction in one classroom.
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 9: This is so misguided. Mike Petrilli researches education.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 23: You hear these equity people say, oh, we're against equity.
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 23: gifted education. We're against advanced education. At the same time,
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 23: they're upset that our universities aren't very diverse.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 9: Well, guess what?
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 23: They're a big part of the problem. They are standing
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 23: in the way of kids of color and low-income kids
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 23: from getting exactly what they need in elementary and middle
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 23: and high school so they could compete.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 28: Different level classes weren't always controversial. When I went to school,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 28: testing and tracks were pretty standard.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 9: Because guess what?
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 23: If you're Super hard to teach reading to everybody if
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 23: there's some kids who don't know their letters and other
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 23: kids are already reading Harry Potter.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 28: But then this education theorist wrote a book that criticized tracking.
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 10: Tracking students in school created these racially segregated classrooms within schools.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 23: Jeannie Oakes argued that the kids who get challenged tend
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 23: to be white and Asian and middle class and the
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 23: others don't. This led to a big anti-tracking movement, a
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 23: big effort to get rid of the tracks, to get
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 23: rid of the ability grouping. to just say that kids
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 23: should be mixed up all together all the time.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 28: And supposedly teachers using differentiated instruction can address different skill levels.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 23: Differentiating instruction, as if that just means that magically you
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 23: can look out at 30 kids and figure out how
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 23: to teach them all at the same time.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 28: If you separate them, disproportionate numbers of white and Asian
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 28: kids get that fast track education.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 23: But it is not mostly about race. It really is
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 23: mostly about class, about structure family structure about culture parenting
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 23: about parent yeah about parenting unfortunately a lot of kids
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 23: growing up in poverty or near poverty show up at
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 23: school and they're way far behind.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 28: Yet many of the asian kids came from severe poverty
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 28: yeah and do.
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 23: Well they do well regardless of how poor they tend
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 23: to be culture matters family matters these things matter a lot.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 25: Don't have an admissions policy based on a single.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 28: Test This activist helped persuade New York City to remove
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 28: its gifted tests.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 9: She argued that tests exclude kids because they're poor.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 28: Instead of using tests, teachers and others would recommend which
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 28: kids are fast-tracked.
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 23: Too many places say that the teachers make recommendations on
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 23: who should be in the fast track, or the parents
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 23: have to make recommendations. And there's a lot of evidence
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 23: that those mechanisms are biased. Tests are much less biased.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 28: Studies do show testing leads to increases in minorities in
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 28: gifted programs. But at what age should this start?
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 23: For kindergartners, we should not have a gifted and talented
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 23: program that is separating them on the basis of that assessment.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 28: My mayor wants to get rid of gifted classes before
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 28: third grade.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 9: That seems reasonable, third grade.
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 4: It actually is reasonable.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 23: But here's the thing. You need to make sure that
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 23: you have something for kids, including kindergartners, who show.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 9: Up highly advanced.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 28: Getting rid of gifted classes hurts kids like these.
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 9: We're doing a trust bridge because triangles are the strongest shape.
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 5: The students designed, built, coded this satellite called TJ Reverb
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 5: by hand.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 14: I thought, why not use my creativity to make something
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 14: that can help the world?
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 9: Why not let smart kids excel?
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 23: It doesn't help any of us if kids are coming
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 23: to school and sitting bored in class because we're not
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 23: teaching them anything new.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 28: I wanted to interview anti-tracking activists to ask, why is equity.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 9: So much more important than letting smart.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 28: Kids like those excel. Not one would agree to an interview.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 28: Ideologues don't want to debate the other side.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 9: Somebody's got to tell these ideologues, I'm sorry, but this
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 9: is none of your business. You have this wrong.
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 23: We are trying to see each child individually and understand
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 23: what they need in order to learn something new today.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 23: And that means paying attention to where they're at, where
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 23: they're heading, and make sure they get the challenge they need.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 5: All right. So again, ladies and gentlemen, they are trying
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 5: to social engineer your children. and just like they're trying
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 5: to socially engineer our neighborhoods and our communities, and at
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 5: some point, and also our churches, and at some point
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 5: we have to step back and push back and say, no,
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 5: this is not working, and it is actually causing more
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 5: harm than good. All right, we've got to take a
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 5: break here.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 6: 901-260-5926.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, tomorrow, Open
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  Speaker 5: Line Friday, and looking forward to your calls and conversations
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 5: on tomorrow's show. Then off to Anaheim Friday immediately after
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 5: the show, and we've got a big event for the
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  Speaker 5: good people over at Pacific Justice Institute. That's their annual
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 5: gala in Anaheim, California. So, busy weekend, and then, of course, Tuesday,
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  Speaker 5: we are off to Houston for for our big event
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  Speaker 5: there at Collectors Firearms. It's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 5: of fun. Can't wait to meet. I love getting out
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  Speaker 5: and meeting you guys. By the way, Joe from Gainesville, Georgia,
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  Speaker 5: listening to us on WDUN, wrote an email to me. Todd,
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  Speaker 5: he says, I think the problem goes well beyond Fox News.
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  Speaker 5: I put commentators like Eric Erickson in the same category.
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  Speaker 5: They've made a living carrying the Republican brand, but the
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  Speaker 5: economic priorities they defend often seem closer to large global
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  Speaker 5: commercial interests than than to the Americans who depend on
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  Speaker 5: domestic production for their livelihoods. They seem to treat the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Chamber of Commerce as sacrosanct, putting international trade and commerce
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  Speaker 5: ahead of Americans' living conditions. That's a good point. They
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  Speaker 5: emphasize cheap goods, global trade, business efficiency. My concern is
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  Speaker 5: what is happening to American skills, productive capacity, opportunities to
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  Speaker 5: earn enough to afford life. Cheap imports do little for
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  Speaker 5: someone whose livelihood has disappeared. Joe goes on to say,
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  Speaker 5: when we question that arrangement, they too often dismiss us
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  Speaker 5: as people who don't understand economics. We understand the tradeoff.
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  Speaker 5: We disagree about whose interest should come first and what
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  Speaker 5: we should be trying to restore. I mean, Joe, it's
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  Speaker 5: a fine email that you've crafted here and a great
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  Speaker 5: point to be made, which again is why I am
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  Speaker 5: an America First talk radio host. really always have been.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there's a new word for it, America first,
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  Speaker 5: but I've always been one to put the interest of
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  Speaker 5: Americans first, and I think a lot of that has
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  Speaker 5: to do with the fact that I came up and
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  Speaker 5: grew up as the son of a blue-collar worker. And
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  Speaker 5: I saw from day one how big business and the
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  Speaker 5: unions really hosed the American working man. So anyway, Joe,
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  Speaker 5: don't you worry about us. We're going to keep towing
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  Speaker 5: the line here, my friend. We've got to scoot out.
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  Speaker 5: It's been a great day. Again, tomorrow, Open Line Friday, ToddStearns.com.
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• 1:51:52
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