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Many Republicans Secretly Sabotaging Trump · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting coast to coast and border to border from Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: And hello, everybody. Happy Friday to you, America. This is
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  Speaker 3: the Todd Stearns Radio Show, broadcasting border to border, coast
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  Speaker 3: will need that today. That number, 901-260-5926. We'll share that
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  Speaker 3: in just a little while. There's a lot of political
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  Speaker 3: news happening. It has been a very busy political season
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  Speaker 3: here in the nation and across the nation, and a
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  Speaker 3: lot to get to. In addition to that, many people
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  Speaker 3: in the southern states are dealing with this massive, they're
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  Speaker 3: calling it a heat dome. It is supposed to be
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  Speaker 3: 101 degrees in Memphis today. You could You don't even
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  Speaker 3: need a smoker anymore. You can just put the pork
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  Speaker 3: outside and let it smoke in the sunlight. Unbelievable how
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  Speaker 3: hot it's been here in the southern states. I want
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  Speaker 3: to go right away to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line
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  Speaker 3: and say hello to our good friend, Senator Marsha Blackburn,
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  Speaker 3: who will be the next governor of the state of Tennessee. Senator,
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  Speaker 3: if you can figure out a way to deal with
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  Speaker 3: this heat dome, you may even get a lot of
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  Speaker 3: Democrats voting for you.
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  Speaker 5: I tell you, the heat is oppressive, and we know
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  Speaker 5: that it is going to continue through this weekend. But
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  Speaker 5: I understand that next week it is to lift, and
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  Speaker 5: it will feel a little bit more like fall. And
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  Speaker 5: I think people are kind of ready for that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I hope so. And on an unrelated, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if you think it's hot in Memphis, I don't even
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  Speaker 3: want to be anywhere around Oxford, Mississippi for that big
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  Speaker 3: LSU Ole Miss game. We need President Trump to broker
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  Speaker 3: the peace, Senator.
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  Speaker 5: I think you're right about that. I think there's more
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  Speaker 5: law enforcement presence that will be at that game than
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  Speaker 5: they've ever had at an SEC football game. Sounds like
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be.
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  Speaker 6: Quite a day.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be quite a weekend here in the country,
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  Speaker 3: and it's a lot of fun. Senator, I know you
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  Speaker 3: have been working around the clock. When you're not on
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  Speaker 3: the campaign trail, you're back in Washington and doing a
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  Speaker 3: lot of good for the American people. You know, when
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  Speaker 3: you look at what's happening nationwide right now, I think
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  Speaker 3: people are fired up. Are you sensing that people are
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  Speaker 3: understanding the significance and the importance of retaining Republican control
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  Speaker 3: of Congress?
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  Speaker 5: Indeed, what we see is that the Democrats are just crazy.
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  Speaker 5: All of this socialist, communist, you know, 1776, the battle
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  Speaker 5: cry was the British are coming. 2026, it's the communists
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  Speaker 5: are coming. And everyone is frustrated with the high cost
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  Speaker 5: of living right now. But Todd, the important thing to
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  Speaker 5: bear in mind, the Democrats would see $ 5 a gallon
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  Speaker 5: gas as the floor and the price increasing from there.
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  Speaker 5: And Republicans are saying, how do we get it back
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  Speaker 5: down to $ 1.
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  Speaker 6: 75 a gallon?
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  Speaker 5: And how do we reduce these costs? They had inflation.
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  Speaker 5: The Democrats had it at 9%. It is still way
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  Speaker 5: too high at 3%. But we're working to try to
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  Speaker 5: get it down so that you don't have that price inflation.
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  Speaker 5: Every time you go to fill up the car, go
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  Speaker 5: to buy groceries, go to buy supplies for the kids
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  Speaker 5: for school or new tennis shoes for them because they're
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  Speaker 5: on the track team or they need new shoes for
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  Speaker 5: basketball or football.
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  Speaker 3: Senator, do you think that, based on what you just said,
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  Speaker 3: do you think there's some sort of an intentional disinformation
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  Speaker 3: campaign underway nationwide to really demoralize Republican voters? Because you're right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, when you compare where we were under the
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  Speaker 3: previous administration, even to where we are now with some
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  Speaker 3: of the prices going back up, they're still far below
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  Speaker 3: what it was when Biden was in office.
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  Speaker 6: Of course.
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  Speaker 5: And President Trump has worked hard to get us on
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  Speaker 5: the right track.
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  Speaker 6: And we all know that.
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  Speaker 5: But you can't turn the economy around overnight and prices
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  Speaker 5: are still way too high. And there are things that
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  Speaker 5: can be done, making housing more affordable, simplifying permitting. And
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  Speaker 5: these are things, whether it's the local level, state level,
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  Speaker 5: federal level, Those are policies where government can say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: we've got a role in this, and regardless of whether
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  Speaker 5: it's local, federal, or state, what are we going to do?
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  Speaker 5: And when you look at the state, let's make certain
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  Speaker 5: that we in Tennessee pass our amendment to the Constitution
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  Speaker 5: to say we will never have a state property tax
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  Speaker 5: and make certain that we close that, go on and
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  Speaker 5: foreclose that idea. And then look at what counties and
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  Speaker 5: cities can do to get the property tax down on
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  Speaker 5: senior citizens. Nobody should ever be taxed out of their
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  Speaker 5: home or off their farm or forced to sell their
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  Speaker 5: business because they cannot pay the taxes.
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  Speaker 3: Senator, I want to switch gears here. One of the
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  Speaker 3: big conversations that's happening, not just in Tennessee, but around
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  Speaker 3: the nation, these data centers, of course, Memphis and the Mid-South.
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  Speaker 3: has really become the hub. Elon Musk building Colossus here.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was interesting. Elon is not, I figured
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  Speaker 3: he'd be staying at the Peabody while I was here.
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  Speaker 3: He's actually living in a trailer near the construction sites.
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  Speaker 3: He's doing a lot of good for the area, helping
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  Speaker 3: to renovate schools and gymnasiums. And yet the Democrats are
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  Speaker 3: coming after him, but also a lot of Republicans are
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  Speaker 3: concerned about these data centers. What do you make of
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  Speaker 3: all the controversies?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and there is going to be controversy around data
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  Speaker 5: centers because if you go back 100 years, Todd, and
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  Speaker 5: look at the controversy around factories, there were communities that
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  Speaker 5: wanted a factory. There were communities that did not. And
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  Speaker 5: there is a proper place for data centers. We know
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  Speaker 5: as long as people are using those cell phones, and
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  Speaker 5: are creating that data, it's got to be stored here
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  Speaker 5: in the United States. Now, the Chinese Communist Party wants
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  Speaker 5: to have all of that data stored over in Beijing
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  Speaker 5: because they want access to the data. They want to
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  Speaker 5: build a virtual you, and they want to control that
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  Speaker 5: by tracking everywhere you go on your cell phone. And
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  Speaker 5: if they're controlling the data in their data center, That
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  Speaker 5: means they've got access to it. But communities are going
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  Speaker 5: to decide whether or not they want a data center.
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  Speaker 5: We've got counties that are here in Tennessee that don't
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  Speaker 5: want them. We've got counties that are putting out the
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  Speaker 5: y'all come sign because they do want them. They have
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  Speaker 5: excess water and utilities and power that they can use.
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  Speaker 5: And they want those full-time jobs because The full-time employment
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  Speaker 5: at data centers is a lot of skilled labor, and
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  Speaker 5: they want to have those high-paying jobs that are going
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  Speaker 5: to open doors of opportunity for individuals that live in
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  Speaker 5: their community. So this is going to be a decision
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  Speaker 5: that local governments are going to make. Now, the state
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  Speaker 5: does have a role in this because... We can go
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  Speaker 5: in and pass a ratepayer protection plan. This is something
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  Speaker 5: President Trump has supported. And having a ratepayer protection plan
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  Speaker 5: so that individuals know their utility rates are not going
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  Speaker 5: to go up because there is a data center. And
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  Speaker 5: you mentioned what they're doing there in Memphis with the
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  Speaker 5: XAI program. And indeed, the expansion of that project and
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  Speaker 5: the way they're giving back to the community, they're building
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  Speaker 5: a gray water facility. They are going to be in
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  Speaker 5: a position to sell power back to the grid if
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  Speaker 5: there is a need from Memphis Light Gas and Water
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  Speaker 5: to have that power back on the grid. They're also
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  Speaker 5: working on battery storage of power for commercial batteries in
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  Speaker 5: case there is a need to expand that or go
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  Speaker 5: to that if you've got some kind of grid outage.
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  Speaker 6: So I think it's going to be.
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  Speaker 5: Up to communities to make these decisions and the state
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  Speaker 5: to put that framework in place. And then we'll see
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  Speaker 5: what communities want them and which do not.
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  Speaker 3: Senator, there's been a lot of concern, both nationally and statewide,
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  Speaker 3: about the rise of these DSA candidates. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: just a a clever way to call them communist when
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  Speaker 3: you actually look at their platforms, the rise of political
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  Speaker 3: Islam as well. You've pointed out that your opponent in
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  Speaker 3: the gubernatorial race in Tennessee is a socialist. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: wondering what you mean by that and how dangerous of
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  Speaker 3: a threat is the rise of socialism in a place
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  Speaker 3: like Tennessee?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, and you look at what they're campaigning on. My
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  Speaker 5: opponent says no ice. wants the government to set parameters
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  Speaker 5: around ICE going into businesses. They say no 287G programs,
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  Speaker 5: which are a way. We've got 120 of those in Tennessee,
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  Speaker 5: where local law enforcement is working with federal law enforcement.
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  Speaker 5: to make certain that illegal immigrants are being apprehended and
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  Speaker 5: moved in Memphis. You have seen about 900 ICE arrests
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  Speaker 5: and 500, and I think it's 546 of those that
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  Speaker 5: have resulted in deportations. And you also have my opponent
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  Speaker 5: who is saying, let's set aside state funds, taxpayer money,
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  Speaker 5: Every penny the state has is taxpayer money. Let's set
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  Speaker 5: that money aside so that they can hire, those that
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  Speaker 5: are illegally in the country can hire legal representation if
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  Speaker 5: they're facing deportation. And Todd, that is not what people
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  Speaker 5: in Tennessee want to see. My opponent didn't support the
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  Speaker 5: Memphis Safe Task Force, which we have marked one year
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  Speaker 5: of that.
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  Speaker 6: Task force in place.
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  Speaker 5: And indeed, we know They have made 13,000 arrests. You've
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  Speaker 5: got over 1,400 gang members that have been removed from
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  Speaker 5: the streets. They've been locked up. Some are being prosecuted.
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  Speaker 5: You know that they have found nearly 200 missing children.
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  Speaker 5: These are things that make, indeed, Memphis, Shelby County, and
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  Speaker 5: all of West Tennessee safer.
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  Speaker 6: And we want to see that.
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  Speaker 5: Safer communities. We like the fact that the crime rate
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  Speaker 5: in Memphis has been cut in half. But when you
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  Speaker 5: talk about DSA candidates and you talk about how Democrats
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  Speaker 5: are tilting left, some of the policies I just mentioned,
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  Speaker 5: no ICE, no 287G, funding for those that are illegally
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  Speaker 5: in the community to hire representation, no ICE in government buildings.
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  Speaker 5: Those are DSA policies along with some of the other
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  Speaker 5: things that they are pushing to do. And you're hearing
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  Speaker 5: this across the country. I think it is time for
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  Speaker 5: us to send that message. Tennessee is a conservative state.
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  Speaker 6: We're a great state.
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  Speaker 5: We're not a mess, like some people want to say
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  Speaker 5: we are. We are a great state with great opportunity
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  Speaker 5: for our citizens. And that's what Tennesseans want to see.
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  Speaker 5: They want us to be the state of opportunity where
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  Speaker 5: you can come, you can live your version of the
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  Speaker 5: American dream. They want to make certain we stay a
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  Speaker 5: conservative state and that we work to be the freest
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  Speaker 5: state in the United States.
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  Speaker 3: And Senator, before we let you go, the big news
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  Speaker 3: coming out of California is the possibility that Paramount could
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  Speaker 3: be packing up and moving to the Nashville area. We're
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  Speaker 3: hearing Spencer Pratt saying that realtors are already reaching out
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  Speaker 3: from places like Franklin and Leapers Fork. that could be
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  Speaker 3: pretty exciting to see the film industry coming to Middle Tennessee.
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  Speaker 6: Well, indeed, I think.
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  Speaker 5: What you're seeing is Tennessee is a state people are
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  Speaker 5: wanting to come to. No state income tax, right-to-work state,
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  Speaker 5: a great quality of life, and the best people on
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  Speaker 5: the face of the earth. And that is what is
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  Speaker 5: drawing them here. We have a great foundation here. when
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  Speaker 5: it comes to the film, entertainment, and music industry. Look
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  Speaker 5: at what you've got from one side of the state
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  Speaker 5: to the other with the film and TV work that's
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  Speaker 5: been done over in the west part of the state,
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  Speaker 5: the music that finds its home there around Beale Street.
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  Speaker 5: And then you come into Middle Tennessee with the entertainment
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  Speaker 5: industry that is here, the music industry that is here.
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  Speaker 5: You look at all the venues that are over in
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  Speaker 5: East Tennessee. People are excited about this. They know Paramount
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  Speaker 5: has focused on family-friendly entertainment.
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  Speaker 6: They are interested to know more.
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  Speaker 5: I have talked to so many small businesses that say,
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  Speaker 5: we want companies to come here on our terms, and
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  Speaker 5: we want the opportunity to to grow our businesses, homegrown
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  Speaker 5: Tennessee businesses, grow our businesses to be suppliers and vendors
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  Speaker 5: to some of these companies.
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  Speaker 3: And we just want them to leave their politics, their
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  Speaker 3: far-left politics, right back in California.
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  Speaker 5: Leave them at the state line. That's exactly right. Because
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  Speaker 5: we want them coming here on our terms. Tennessee is
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  Speaker 5: a great state. And as one of my neighbors says,
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  Speaker 5: don't you dare California, my Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. All right. Senator Marsha Blackburn, always great to
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  Speaker 3: have you on the show. I know you're going to
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  Speaker 3: have a busy weekend, but we both have to say
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  Speaker 3: go Vols, go Big Orange.
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  Speaker 6: Go Vols is right.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Thank you, Senator.
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  Speaker 6: You got it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Senator Marsha Blackburn, there you have it, ladies
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  Speaker 3: and gentlemen. I had a lot to say because there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot going on. We're going to take a quick
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  Speaker 3: break and reset. It is open line Friday. We're going
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  Speaker 3: right to your calls, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is the
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  Speaker 3: Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. It's the
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  Speaker 3: Todd Stearns Radio Show. I thought it was interesting on
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  Speaker 3: Fox last night, and we'll try to get that audio
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  Speaker 3: to you. The Laura Ingraham Show, and Laura has come
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  Speaker 3: to the same conclusion I came to about three weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: And what I said, if you listen to this program,
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  Speaker 3: you know exactly where I'm going with this. So Ingram
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  Speaker 3: said that she believes that there are many Republicans that
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  Speaker 3: do not want Trump's agenda to move forward anymore. And
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  Speaker 3: that there's going to be an effort to sabotage the
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  Speaker 3: president and his agenda. And I believe that with all
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  Speaker 3: of my heart, ladies and gentlemen. And that's one of
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  Speaker 3: the reasons why you are seeing John Thune do what
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  Speaker 3: he's doing in the Senate. You can't tell me 700
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  Speaker 3: pieces of legislation still hung up in the Senate?
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  Speaker 4: Really?
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  Speaker 3: You think that's normal? That is not normal, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, Laura Ingraham says that many Republicans secretly want
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  Speaker 3: Trump to lose Congress. And look, it may happen. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's only so much that we can do. But that's
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  Speaker 3: one of the reasons I think Trump was out there
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  Speaker 3: shaming Republicans for really turning their back on Ken Paxton. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: Laura says, how many Republicans secretly want Trump to lose?
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  Speaker 3: She says, I actually think there are a lot of
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  Speaker 3: Republicans on the Hill who will be happy not to
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  Speaker 3: have the burden of having to pass legislation. They're almost
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  Speaker 3: going to be relieved for a little while to be
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  Speaker 3: in the minority. And she said there's no other explanation
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  Speaker 3: for why they should not be on the offense about
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. economy. Republicans are expected to now lose their
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  Speaker 3: narrow House majority. They trail Democrats in a generic congressional
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  Speaker 3: ballot by eight points. That's because the Republicans aren't really
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  Speaker 3: trying to win. That's what that's all about. All right,
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  Speaker 3: it is open line Friday, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. We are
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  Speaker 3: going right through your calls coming up next. So a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things can be true at one time. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: gas prices are high. Yes, grocery prices are high. Inflation
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  Speaker 3: ticking up just a smidge. Nowhere near as bad as
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  Speaker 3: they were in the Biden administration. Those are all facts.
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  Speaker 3: But these are also facts that are not being shared
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  Speaker 3: with you in context. And again, we have the war. Honestly, folks,
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  Speaker 3: I think the war, when we look back on this,
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  Speaker 3: it will be an unforced error on the part of
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  Speaker 3: the Trump Pentagon. And that's what I think we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be looking at here, because that's a mess. Had
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  Speaker 3: it not been for the war, I think we would
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  Speaker 3: be looking at record low gas prices, and I think
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  Speaker 3: people would be feeling a lot better about things. But again,
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  Speaker 3: These are things that are not being shared with you
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  Speaker 3: in context in the media. And let me just say this.
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  Speaker 3: When you break down where Americans are actually getting their news,
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  Speaker 3: an overwhelming majority of Americans are not getting their news
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  Speaker 3: from Fox or Newsmax. An overwhelming majority. number of Americans
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  Speaker 3: are still getting their news from ABC, CBS, and NBC.
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  Speaker 3: That's a fact, and that's a big problem, which is, again,
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  Speaker 3: why I think a lot of people just feel, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Republicans feel, to moralize. Now, I want to
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  Speaker 3: go through some of these numbers. This just came out.
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  Speaker 3: A few, what is it? When was this? It was
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  Speaker 3: released a few days ago, September 15th. And these are
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  Speaker 3: rock-solid numbers from the Census Bureau. So it turns out
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  Speaker 3: the median household income in America has hit an all-time
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  Speaker 3: record high. The real median household income in America, $ 87, 460,
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  Speaker 3: that is up. well over 2.5% from 2024. And it
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  Speaker 3: is the highest ever recorded in its series since going
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  Speaker 3: back to 1967, the year of my birth. Wow, I've
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  Speaker 3: got a birthday coming up. I keep forgetting about that. Now,
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  Speaker 3: while the median household income is at a record high, Poverty,
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  Speaker 3: it's not at a record low, but the poverty rate
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  Speaker 3: continues to fall, continues to decline, 10.2%. That is incredibly low.
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  Speaker 3: So again, ladies and gentlemen, it's important for us to
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  Speaker 3: come armed with the facts and not emotion when we're
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  Speaker 3: coming to debate these issues. But I get it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if a majority of Republicans are watching and getting their
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  Speaker 3: news from ABC, CBS, NBC, they're not listening to talk radio, then, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I can understand why they're being misled here. Because not
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  Speaker 3: that many people, and hear me on this, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people have turned off Fox News, and not a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people are watching Newsmax. I mean, that's just
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  Speaker 3: the reality of it. But you know what people are doing?
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: They are coming back to talk radio. Because we just shared, look,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: on this program, we have no agenda other than we
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: want to make America great again. I want to advance
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: the president's agenda because this has been the agenda of
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: this radio program long before Donald Trump even came on
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: the scene as a candidate. I'm just telling you, this
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: is what I believe, and this is why I'm so
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: passionate about the Trump agenda. So just a little bit
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: of good news on this Friday is that the economy
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: is actually doing good. Yes, the gas prices, grocery, I
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: get that. And I can't argue. I can't argue that point.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: It frustrates me as well. I don't like having to
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: pay big dollars for regular unleaded gas. I like going
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: back to the old days when I could, you know,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: treat the Cadillac to a little bit of something, something.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Get that premium blend. Dylan, I When I was traveling
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: to Dallas, I was speaking at First Baptist Church in Dallas,
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: so I drove over. And, you know, in Arkansas, the
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: speed limit is, what, 70, 75? It's 75. 75 miles
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: an hour, which means you can drive 80, 85 miles
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: an hour. So I filled up the Cadillac with the
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: premium blend.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: I'm sure it appreciated that.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: It was like a jetliner. I looked down. I'm like, whoa, 95.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Whoops.
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: Oopsie.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: And you know in Arkansas, they'll pull over. If you've
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: got a Tennessee plate, they'll pull you over.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, they're ready for that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: You can have five people driving 95 miles an hour together.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: They're going to pull over the Tennessee guy. That's how
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: they roll over there across the river, I'm just saying. Hey,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: let's go to the phone lines. We're going to liberal Kansas.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: KSCB is the radio station. Darrell, what's on your mind?
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: Well, Todd, I want to thank you for taking my call.
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: I enjoy your show, and I appreciate you letting me
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: be a part of it. What concerns me, Todd, you
• 24:02
  Speaker 9: brought up religion the other day, so I had to
• 24:05
  Speaker 9: think about it yesterday, I think, and I thought about it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: What concerns me, Todd, is what I don't see in
• 24:12
  Speaker 9: the church. And what I don't see is Judean Christian values, morals, ethics, principles,
• 24:24
  Speaker 9: or beliefs.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Daryl, I think we've got your phone connections breaking up
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: a little bit there, Daryl. If you can, just go
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: back and say that one more time. What's your concern
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: about the Judeo-Christian values?
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: I don't see in the Democrat Party, I don't see
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: Judeo-Christian values, principles, beliefs, morals, ethics. I don't see any
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: of that in the Democrat Party.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: Why do you think that is, Darrell? Because that's not
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: the way it used to be. I mean, going back
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: to FDR, FDR made sure every soldier going into battle
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: had a copy of the Holy Bible with them. So
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: where do you think the Democrats went awry?
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: You know, I don't know where it went from JFK.
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: I mean, it's not the same Democrat party.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: No, it's not.
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: I don't know where it went wrong.
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: But I do know that an argument comes up, you know,
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: separation of church and state. Well, that's not even in
• 25:36
  Speaker 9: the Constitution.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: No, the whole point of that, Darrell, yeah, and we
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: talk about that a lot on this program, and you're right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: The whole point of that argument is off. The Constitution
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: says the state can't come in and establish its own
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: religion because That doesn't mean that religion doesn't have a
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: place in the way we are governed, because it does. And,
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: you know, as John Adams said, the Constitution is wholly
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: inadequate for anyone other than a moral and religious people.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: All right, Daryl, we're going to leave. Look, it's a
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: fair question you raise. And the reality, though, is that
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: the political parties are giving us black and white. I mean,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: your choice is now. You can either support a godless
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: heathen party or one or a political party that still
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: respects and reveres God. I mean, those are the choices
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: right now. Darrell, thank you for the call. Let's go
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: to Bill in Cordova, Tennessee, listening to us on KWAM. Hi, Bill.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: What's on your mind today?
• 26:46
  Speaker 12: Hey, Don.
• 26:47
  Speaker 9: You know me, right?
• 26:50
  Speaker 13: What did the time in on Donald Trump and the
• 26:52
  Speaker 13: agenda and the gas prices?
• 26:55
  Speaker 14: You know, Todd, I talk to a lot of people.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you. Hold on a second here, Bill.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Are you walking outside? Is that the wind we hear?
• 27:02
  Speaker 13: Oh, hold on.
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: I'm sorry.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: That's okay.
• 27:06
  Speaker 13: It's the car fan.
• 27:07
  Speaker 14: I'm in my car.
• 27:09
  Speaker 15: Oh.
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: My apologies on that to everybody. I talk to a
• 27:14
  Speaker 13: lot of people, and I'm cautiously optimistic about November. I
• 27:19
  Speaker 13: understand exactly what you're saying, and I don't disagree at all.
• 27:23
  Speaker 13: But I was at the gas pump the other day.
• 27:25
  Speaker 13: There was an African-American man next to me on the
• 27:28
  Speaker 13: next pump that had just bought his diesel truck. And
• 27:31
  Speaker 13: he was paying $ 6 a gallon. He said, I did
• 27:33
  Speaker 13: not expect this, but I understand it. He was obviously
• 27:40
  Speaker 13: a conservative man, educated, very intelligent man. And I'm hoping
• 27:46
  Speaker 13: this is a trend with people in general today. But
• 27:50
  Speaker 13: the key to it, Todd, is we've got to get
• 27:52
  Speaker 13: our butts out and vote. That's the key. If people
• 27:55
  Speaker 13: don't vote, it doesn't matter how much money you have
• 27:57
  Speaker 13: in a campaign. It's how many votes you get. And,
• 28:00
  Speaker 13: of course, who counts them, as Stalin said. But we
• 28:04
  Speaker 13: just have to get off our butts and vote.
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: That's the bottom line.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: Why do you think that is, Bill, that people are not,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: especially Republicans, why is it that Republicans are not getting
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: out and why are they not voting?
• 28:17
  Speaker 13: I think some of it is complacency. That, you know,
• 28:22
  Speaker 13: I don't have to vote because everybody else is going
• 28:24
  Speaker 13: to go vote. I'm okay to vote. I had a
• 28:26
  Speaker 13: friend that thought like this for years until Obama won.
• 28:28
  Speaker 13: And then he started voting after that because he realized
• 28:31
  Speaker 13: my vote does count. But I think the other part
• 28:35
  Speaker 13: of it is some people are just maybe a bit
• 28:38
  Speaker 13: apoplectic or something about what's happening in this country.
• 28:45
  Speaker 10: It's like.
• 28:47
  Speaker 13: My vote's not going to change anything. The Democrats are
• 28:49
  Speaker 13: going to win. May as well not get out.
• 28:53
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 28:54
  Speaker 13: But I know that if we don't get out and vote,
• 28:57
  Speaker 13: we're going to have no gas. I saw a meme
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: that said gas is going to be $ 10 a gallon
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: if the Democrats get elected. And that's not true because
• 29:05
  Speaker 13: they're going to kill the gas industry and go back
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: to the electric mandate that Biden had in place. And
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: by the way, that is fascism, by the way. You know,
• 29:15
  Speaker 13: Ronald Reagan said if, you know, fascism is complete private
• 29:19
  Speaker 13: ownership with full government control, and when the government starts
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: interfering with the business and selling the automakers, you can't
• 29:26
  Speaker 13: sell internal combustion engines anymore. You've got to sell electric vehicles,
• 29:31
  Speaker 13: and people have to buy them by 2030. That's pure
• 29:34
  Speaker 13: and adulterated fascism. And everybody calls Trump a fascist, but...
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: it's really, it's the pot calling the kettle black, that
• 29:43
  Speaker 13: they're picking on themselves, talking about themselves when they say
• 29:46
  Speaker 13: stuff like that, and they want to project it onto
• 29:49
  Speaker 13: the Republicans.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Bill, it's a great point you raise. We're going to
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: leave it there, my friend. It's good hearing from you.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Are you staying cool, Bill? This heat dome, it's really
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: playing with a lot of folks.
• 30:02
  Speaker 10: It is.
• 30:03
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm trying to stay cool. That's why the fan
• 30:06
  Speaker 13: card was running so high.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to let you crank it. I don't
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: want you to have a heat stroke on my account.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: crank that AC back up, Bill.
• 30:15
  Speaker 13: It'd be worth it, Todd. It would be totally worth it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: No, no, I don't think it would be. Bill, all right,
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: be safe. Have a good weekend. Stay cool. 901-260-5926 is
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Oh, we have some new
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: audio from James Talofrico out of Texas. Cut number 52, please.
• 30:37
  Speaker 16: I should mention, you know, my imagination is also just
• 30:41
  Speaker 16: limited by my own my own background and identity, right?
• 30:46
  Speaker 17: My own, my whiteness, my.
• 30:47
  Speaker 16: Masculinity, all those things limit my imagination about what's possible.
• 30:51
  Speaker 16: So I have to continually press against that to try
• 30:53
  Speaker 16: to expand the limits of, of what I'm dreaming of
• 30:56
  Speaker 16: for our, for our community. And that's where, you know, Dr. Robin,
• 31:01
  Speaker 16: your book helps me do that. And, and, and podcasts
• 31:05
  Speaker 16: like this helped me do that.
• 31:06
  Speaker 10: Okay.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: What does that, what does that mean? His whiteness and
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: his masculinity is, apparently limit his imagination. What does that
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: even mean? And quite frankly, I'm calling him out here.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: This guy says he's masculine? Are you kidding me? The guy,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: he likes to play around with transgender children. He says
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: God is non-binary, met his girlfriend at a gay bar.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: And those are– no, we could go on and on
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: and on. I'm just– I don't know. The guy just
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: doesn't like– Doesn't ooze masculinity, if you know what I mean.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Let's go to John in Dawsonville, Georgia, listening to us
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: on the great WDUN. John, what's going on?
• 31:55
  Speaker 12: Hey, Todd. How are you today?
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Good, good.
• 31:58
  Speaker 12: I just had a couple requests. The first, I wanted
• 32:03
  Speaker 12: to give my opinion on the Republican Party. I think
• 32:08
  Speaker 12: we're going to lose midterms. with the uh... the way
• 32:12
  Speaker 12: that did not get republicans are watching the dvd and uh...
• 32:17
  Speaker 12: i just i mean i'm pretty old mother you and
• 32:24
  Speaker 12: i'm just afraid that within ten or twenty years this
• 32:28
  Speaker 12: we're going to lose this country completely if you're going
• 32:32
  Speaker 12: to be islamic law or it's going to be socialist
• 32:36
  Speaker 12: i'm not sure which but it's not going to be
• 32:38
  Speaker 12: what it is now And my request is, when you
• 32:44
  Speaker 12: come to Gainesville, whenever that may be, I would like
• 32:49
  Speaker 12: for you to bring Dylan with you because I really
• 32:51
  Speaker 12: enjoy y'all's back and forth when I listen to you.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Dylan, are you up for a road trip? Sounds like
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: you've got a fan there in Dawsonville, Georgia.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, let's go. Let's do it. I heard there's
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: good food up there in Georgia.
• 33:12
  Speaker 12: Also, I had requested several weeks ago that y'all play
• 33:17
  Speaker 12: the Star Spangled Banner by a group called Madison Rising.
• 33:22
  Speaker 12: And I don't know if you've ever done it, but
• 33:25
  Speaker 12: I don't get to listen to you every day. I
• 33:27
  Speaker 12: would love to hear that, and I think your listeners
• 33:31
  Speaker 12: would like it.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: John, we'll look into that, and we appreciate the kind
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: words for Dylan. We try not to let him out
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: too terribly much, but We may try to bring him
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: down to Gainesville. So we'll see what we can do there. John,
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: God bless you. Have a great weekend there in Dawsonville.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: And going to have to take a quick break, ladies
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: and gentlemen. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. It is
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Open Line Friday on the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Tonight,
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: by the way, on Newsmax, Rob Fenerty. still revealing the
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: growing threat from DSA with less than, what, 50 days
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: to go now. Fenerty says it's time for the Republicans
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: to hit the panic button. He says Americans are angry.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: The progressive left wants total control of Congress. And Fenerty
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: tonight is going to be revealing more of President Trump's
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: secret plan to fight back, what you can do to help.
• 34:27
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• 34:31
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• 34:52
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Let's get right back to the phone lines. Let's go
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: to beautiful Dahlonega, Georgia. Anna listening to us on WTUN.
• 35:02
  Speaker 18: Hi, Anna.
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: What's on your mind?
• 35:05
  Speaker 19: Hey, Todd.
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: I wanted to ask you about Piker and El Sayed.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: They're featuring those two knuckleheads all the time. And my
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: concern is that, you know, you've got a lot of
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: kids out there that are listening to these two. And
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: I'm just really very concerned about if you know anything
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: about them. These two, what's to happen? Are they just
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: going to stick around and create trouble all the time
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: and insult our nation? What's their deal? Why are the
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: Democrats distancing themselves from these two?
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Well, because, first of all, not every Democrat agrees with him.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: But most of them do. And the ones who don't
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: are afraid to speak out. This is all part of
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: a very ugly plot. Coming up in the next hour, Anna,
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: we're going to play some audio that was just uncovered
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: from Zoran Mamdami. back before anybody knew him. And he
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: was sort of laying out the ultimate agenda for where
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: all of these Islamists are going to take the country.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: And you're going to want to stick around and listen
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: to that. But I will say this. I do have
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: hope in the electorate, though. CNN, and we'll play some
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: of this audio in the next hour, CNN says there's
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: a poll, 45% of Michigan voters would not consider a
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Muslim presidential candidate. And I know CNN is disgusted by that,
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: but the reality is there are still a lot of
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: people who understand what exactly an Islamist would do to
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: this country. So, Anna, we'll talk more about it on
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: the flip side of the break. But, yeah, you're right
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: to be concerned about this. All right, 901-260-5926. This is
• 36:54
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• 37:21
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
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  Speaker 20: That's us, that's right.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: And hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Great to have you with us today. Trust you're doing
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: well wherever you might be across the nation. I love
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: college football season. There's no doubt about it. But this weekend,
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: it's going to be absolutely insane. Great, great football games happening.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: And one of the big ones, not too far from here,
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: at Oxford, Mississippi, Ole Miss LSU. Dylan, don't tell anybody.
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: The LSU Tigers are apparently staying at the Peabody Hotel
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: in Memphis. So here's the thing.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: You just told everybody.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: They would rather, the Tigers and Lane Kiffin, would rather
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: put their lives on the line in downtown Memphis than
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: staying in Oxford. And it's probably safer.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: It is safer. You don't want to be in Oxford
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: right now if you're LSU.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: No, you don't. By the way, Lane Kiffin's daughter, have
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: you seen that story? She goes to Ole Miss. The
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: one who goes to Ole Miss, she's coming under attack.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: It's like her fellow Hotty Toddians are casting dispersions on her.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're taking it too far. That's too far. Just
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: keep it within Lane Kiffin and don't go outside of that.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: But it's Ole Miss fans. What are you going to do?
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: So it is what it is. But on this program,
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: we welcome all, whether you be an Ole Miss fan
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: or an LSU fan.
• 39:00
  Speaker 21: Indeed.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: So welcome, welcome all. 901-260-5926, our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: I received a lovely item in the mail, a package.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: And whenever we get packages here, you know, the heart
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: stops a little bit, just to make sure there's nothing
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: ticking inside. But when I saw where this was coming from,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: I knew that it was nothing but goodness, Dylan. This
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: is from Hendersonville, North Carolina, one of our great listeners, WHKP.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: And this lovely listener sent me a letter and also
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: a framed photo of me and her together at a
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: book signing we did when the biscuit book came out.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: That's sweet.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: She framed it and everything.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: I know, right? It's a lovely, lovely photograph. I want
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: to read this. Dear Mr. Todd Starnes, my favorite radio
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: show host, I ask everybody if they listen to Todd Starnes.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: I was scrolling through my phone one day and noticed
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: the pictures from your book signing. I did not remember
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: printing them. So I thought you would like to have
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: the picture. You probably don't remember me, but I remember you.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: I rushed from work and so afraid I was going
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: to miss seeing you. Your autograph book is a treasure
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: for me. I have purchased several for Christmas gifts. So
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: thank you very much. I have purchased many of your
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: other books. You know I'm your advertising manager. I love it.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: My day doesn't feel right if I don't hear your voice.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: And signed, Christine. Well, Christine, thank you so very much.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: This just made my day. You have very nice penmanship.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: My eyes, it's hard to read the written letters. We
• 41:03
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• 41:07
  Speaker 3: And Christine, we love yours. We're going to put this
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  Speaker 3: up on the bookshelf of honor here.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's so cool.
• 41:18
  Speaker 12: Wow.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: So I remember this like it was yesterday, and I
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: do remember her. We had so many folks coming out,
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: and it was just a wonderful day. We did the
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: show from the lobby of WHKP Radio. And Dylan, what
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: was really cool about all of this, Many, many years ago,
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan, before he was president, he was a big
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: movie star, TV star, and he was a spokesman for GE.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: And if I got this wrong, somebody will call me,
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: no doubt from Hendersonville, North Carolina. But I believe he
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: was the spokesman, and they had a big GE plant
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: there in Hendersonville, and he came to town to do
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: like a promotional visit. This was like in the 1950s,
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: I guess, 40s or 50s. And he actually did a
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: broadcast from WHKP, and they had a card table, like
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: the kind you would have in your home where you
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: pull it and you play cards. They had a card table,
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: which is where Reagan did his radio broadcast. And by golly,
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: that's where they asked me to do my broadcast. We
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: actually broadcast this show from Ronald Reagan's card table there
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: in the studios of WHKP.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: What an honor.
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: I was terrified the whole time. You know why I
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: was terrified? Because it's an old table, and I didn't
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: want it to, like, wobble or something. And, you know,
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Starnes is the guy who destroyed Ronald Reagan's card table.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that is big shoes to fill or big seats
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: to sit on. I don't know what the saying is.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: Big tables to broadcast from.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Shoes to fill.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, shoes to fill.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: Thank you. So thank you, Christine, and thank you. I'm
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: telling you. We have the best listeners in all of
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: talk radio. I mean, it really is that simple. So
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: God bless you, and thank you again for sending us
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: that kind item. All right, I want to play some
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: audio here before we jump into our phone calls. This
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: is Laura Ingram last night, and she has now come
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: to the revelation. She has now come to the understanding that,
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: All is not good in the Republican Party. Take a
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: listen to Cut 56.
• 43:28
  Speaker 22: One of the most incredible statistics is the Trump administration
• 43:34
  Speaker 22: in one year has grown personal incomes more. Then Biden
• 43:40
  Speaker 22: in four years.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, that is correct.
• 43:42
  Speaker 22: That was two thousand two hundred eighty five dollars, something
• 43:45
  Speaker 22: like that. And in four years of Biden. Why aren't
• 43:48
  Speaker 22: Republicans screaming.
• 43:49
  Speaker 20: This on the rooftop?
• 43:51
  Speaker 23: The chart here gets you in.
• 43:52
  Speaker 13: Well, thank you.
• 43:53
  Speaker 22: Well, Larry always comes with props.
• 43:54
  Speaker 20: I love that.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: So you got other good news.
• 43:57
  Speaker 22: Amazon's raising wages for some of its workers, giving all
• 44:00
  Speaker 22: of its U.S. employees a grocery discount.
• 44:02
  Speaker 23: You've got working folks trades on these data centers and
• 44:06
  Speaker 23: industry in general. Pipe fitters, electricians, welders, carpenters making close
• 44:13
  Speaker 23: to $ 200, 000 a year.
• 44:15
  Speaker 22: Best time ever for men without college degrees right now.
• 44:19
  Speaker 23: Absolutely right. And, you know, the tax cuts of last
• 44:22
  Speaker 23: year are so helpful. Not only the tax-free tips, but
• 44:25
  Speaker 23: tax-free overtime. They're all working overtime.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: It's fabulous.
• 44:28
  Speaker 23: So I call this the greatest story never told.
• 44:30
  Speaker 20: Well, it's never told.
• 44:31
  Speaker 14: Because the GOP is not telling you.
• 44:32
  Speaker 22: But how many Republicans secretly want Trump to lose? I
• 44:35
  Speaker 22: actually think there are a lot of Republicans on the
• 44:37
  Speaker 22: Hill who will be happy not to have the burden
• 44:40
  Speaker 22: of having to pass legislation, Larry. They're almost going to
• 44:44
  Speaker 22: be relieved for a little while at least to be
• 44:46
  Speaker 22: in the minority. I'm sorry to report that, but there's
• 44:48
  Speaker 22: no other explanation for why they shouldn't be on the
• 44:51
  Speaker 22: offense on the U.S.
• 44:52
  Speaker 13: Economy.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: There you go. I completely agree with Laura because she
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: completely agrees with me. Okay, let's go to the phone
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: lines here.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: 901-260-5926.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: Let's say hello to Andre, Memphis, Tennessee, listening to us
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: on our flagship station, KWAM. Andre, what's on your mind today?
• 45:14
  Speaker 14: Hey, Todd, I'm glad you played Laura before my call.
• 45:18
  Speaker 14: That's what I'm calling to complain about.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: All right, Andre, what's up?
• 45:23
  Speaker 14: It seems like Republicans are trying to let these people win.
• 45:26
  Speaker 14: I'll tell you why. This dude, Justin Pearson, if you
• 45:29
  Speaker 14: Google Justin Pearson said Jesus is gay, the first thing
• 45:32
  Speaker 14: you come up with is show this man said that
• 45:34
  Speaker 14: Jesus is black, Jesus is gay, Jesus is a black woman.
• 45:37
  Speaker 14: I sent that thing to Brent Taylor and all that.
• 45:39
  Speaker 14: I have not seen one commercial from Brent Taylor. I
• 45:42
  Speaker 14: passed it to the urban community. These people do not
• 45:44
  Speaker 14: know that this man is out to spread this kind
• 45:46
  Speaker 14: of rhetoric. They tell it on Tallarico in Texas, but
• 45:50
  Speaker 14: it's like they're trying to let him win, and they
• 45:52
  Speaker 14: don't watch it. I'm telling you, man, these people are
• 45:53
  Speaker 14: excited about voting for this dude, and most of the
• 45:56
  Speaker 14: people in the urban community, they don't know that he's
• 45:59
  Speaker 14: starting this kind of rhetoric. If you just Google Justin Pearson,
• 46:02
  Speaker 14: it shows and says, and Brent Taylor, he's not exploring it.
• 46:06
  Speaker 14: I don't understand why.
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: All right, Pastor, we're going to find out. Hey, Dylan.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: Google what the pastor just said. Pastor, it bothers me
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: because people like Justin Pearson are very dangerous individuals. And
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: I remember a couple of weeks ago, and just FYI,
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: national audience here, Justin Pearson, the Democrat nominee, he's basically
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: our version of Jasmine Crockett running against State Senator Brent Taylor,
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: who's the Republican. Andre, A couple of weeks ago, a
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: pastor in Memphis hosted an event with Justin Pearson and
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: got up and literally said, Jesus was a socialist, so
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: we ought to be socialists. And people were applauding.
• 46:48
  Speaker 14: I've got several pastors that are supporting this guy, and
• 46:52
  Speaker 14: this guy got a video saying, Jesus is black, Jesus
• 46:55
  Speaker 14: is gay, and Jesus is a black woman. If you
• 46:57
  Speaker 14: Google Justin Pearson saying, Jesus is gay, you ain't got
• 47:00
  Speaker 14: to search hard. It's going to be the first article
• 47:02
  Speaker 14: that comes up that's going to show him saying it.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, how do we fix this, Pat? How do we
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: fix this, and how do we get people to come
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: to their senses?
• 47:11
  Speaker 14: Oh, you got to put the word out there. What
• 47:12
  Speaker 14: I'm finding is people don't know. Every time I show
• 47:15
  Speaker 14: it to somebody in the urban community and I show
• 47:17
  Speaker 14: him saying it, all of a sudden their views of
• 47:19
  Speaker 14: Justin Pierce and change is automatic. Most black folks, when
• 47:23
  Speaker 14: you come out with that kind of blasphemy, I don't
• 47:25
  Speaker 14: care what kind of civil rights you hollering about. They
• 47:28
  Speaker 14: jump off the train then when you start calling Jesus gay.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Well, you know that James Tallarico guy, the guy running
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: for the Senate in Texas, one of the under-told stories,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: the black Christians, even Democrats, are like, yeah, we're not
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: buying into the God is non-binary stuff.
• 47:46
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 47:47
  Speaker 14: I don't know what Britt Taylor's doing, but I haven't
• 47:50
  Speaker 14: seen a commercial from him. I haven't seen a billboard
• 47:53
  Speaker 14: from him. I don't know.
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: I don't know.
• 47:54
  Speaker 14: He thinks because they did redistricting that he's just going
• 47:57
  Speaker 14: to win this race, but he needs to step it up.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Pastor, I know that his team listens to this show,
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: and they're hearing what you're saying, and we're going to
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: pass along your concerns as well. And Pastor, before you
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: hang up, I want to get your information. You know,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: I live in Memphis, and I want to make sure
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: you and I connect, because I like where you're coming
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: from on this.
• 48:21
  Speaker 14: Okay, well, what do you need from me?
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: All right, well, hang tight, Pastor. Let's put the pastor
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: on hold. I want to get his phone number and
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: email and all that stuff, and we'll try to get
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: in touch. But again, ladies and gentlemen, this pastor from Memphis,
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: he is sharing a concern that a lot of people have.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: People are not seeing a lot of ads nationwide for Republicans.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: They're not seeing the get-out-the-vote folks. It just seems as
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: though it's... I don't know, lackluster, sort of like the
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: dog days of summer. But I understand exactly where the
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: pastor is coming from there. All right, we've got to
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: take a break. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. This
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: is the Todd Stern Show.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back.
• 49:20
  Speaker 24: Everybody.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Program. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Jerry in Milwaukee. Hi, Jerry. What's going on?
• 49:35
  Speaker 10: Hey, Todd. Okay.
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: I have to agree.
• 49:38
  Speaker 10: That the Democratic Party isn't a Christian party, but that's
• 49:42
  Speaker 10: the good thing. We don't want our political parties with
• 49:45
  Speaker 10: a specific religion. We don't think that, you know, the
• 49:49
  Speaker 10: thing the government... The government shouldn't be involved in religion.
• 49:51
  Speaker 10: Special political parties shouldn't be involved in religion. Overall, Democrats
• 49:55
  Speaker 10: think that public policy should be based on human needs
• 49:58
  Speaker 10: and not religious doctrine or religious scripture, and that policy
• 50:02
  Speaker 10: should reflect those needs of human beings. So we don't
• 50:04
  Speaker 10: want it to take a position on religion, so... I
• 50:07
  Speaker 10: wish it was less religious, personally, the Democratic Party. But
• 50:10
  Speaker 10: I think it's a good thing that it really doesn't
• 50:12
  Speaker 10: take a stand on religion.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: But what if it embraces Islam? What do you do then?
• 50:17
  Speaker 10: I don't think it really embraces Islam. What they do
• 50:20
  Speaker 10: is they support the rights of Muslims. I don't support Islam.
• 50:23
  Speaker 10: I don't defend Islam. I think, overall, Islam is a
• 50:26
  Speaker 10: bad thing. But Muslims have the same rights as any
• 50:29
  Speaker 10: other American, and most Muslims are bad. Most Muslims are jihadists.
• 50:33
  Speaker 10: Most Muslims are, you know, good Americans in the U.S.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: How come they don't speak out against the Islamists when
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: they're blowing stuff up? That's what I never have understood.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, we always condemn, I don't care who
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: it is, but we always condemn people that are out
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: there committing acts of violence. And again, if it's a
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Christian doing it, I feel an obligation as a Christian
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: to speak up and say, hey, that's not who we are.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: But you never hear the Islamists, you never hear the
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: Muslims doing that.
• 51:00
  Speaker 10: I think there's, I mean, I don't want to be
• 51:03
  Speaker 10: going out to defend Muslims, because I defend the rights
• 51:07
  Speaker 10: of Muslims. You know, I've heard some of them, like,
• 51:10
  Speaker 10: make statements. Maybe they should make more statements.
• 51:12
  Speaker 14: That's fine.
• 51:14
  Speaker 10: Most of them, you know, aren't al-Qaeda. They're not Hamas.
• 51:18
  Speaker 10: I think in the U.S. they're more secular than Muslims,
• 51:21
  Speaker 10: even in Europe. And they're definitely more secular than Muslims in, say, well,
• 51:26
  Speaker 10: Iran is actually relatively secular. Afghanistan. So, I mean, so
• 51:31
  Speaker 10: it depends. I don't know if Muslims are the same.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: All right, Jerry, we're going to leave it there, my friend.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: Thank you for that call. Thank you for listening. Let's
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: go to Moorhead City, North Carolina. Lisa, Lisa, what's on
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: your mind?
• 51:45
  Speaker 21: Good afternoon, Todd. It's so lovely to hear your voice.
• 51:48
  Speaker 21: I miss it.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: Well, look. I know, I know. We've had a conversation
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: with the owners of the station and Lockwood, great folks.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: They said they wanted somebody younger and hipper and cooler,
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: and that was not me.
• 52:05
  Speaker 21: Well, they also have a MAPS student center down at
• 52:10
  Speaker 21: their local community college, and we know what that acronym
• 52:13
  Speaker 21: stands for, so I'm not surprised. suggesting, but I'm just saying.
• 52:17
  Speaker 21: It's a possibility. But, so, anyways, it's lovely to hear
• 52:21
  Speaker 21: your voice.
• 52:22
  Speaker 18: Well, thank you.
• 52:22
  Speaker 21: I hear down here. The reason for my call was that,
• 52:26
  Speaker 21: you know, I miss you, Todd. And what the gentleman
• 52:31
  Speaker 21: was talking about before, kind of, you know, you were saying,
• 52:35
  Speaker 21: and this goes across the board, you know, we ask
• 52:38
  Speaker 21: questions like, why don't these people speak up? Why aren't
• 52:42
  Speaker 21: we hearing this? Well, sometimes people... how do I want
• 52:47
  Speaker 21: to say this? They want to keep those voices silent
• 52:50
  Speaker 21: to keep lots of animosity and, you know, stirring the pot,
• 52:56
  Speaker 21: so to speak. But I'm sure that, you know, now
• 53:01
  Speaker 21: that we're global, maybe things, we're all going to be
• 53:04
  Speaker 21: one big happy family, and you know how that goes.
• 53:06
  Speaker 20: And I don't know.
• 53:09
  Speaker 21: I don't know anymore. I just know that there's two sexes.
• 53:12
  Speaker 21: There's male and female, and then.
• 53:13
  Speaker 12: There's a Jesus.
• 53:15
  Speaker 21: So, That's what I'm saying today, and I miss you.
• 53:18
  Speaker 13: Amen.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: Well, Lisa, look, the good news is, you know, with
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: our app, you know, you can listen to us wherever
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: you are, you know, around the nation, which is a
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: great thing. And I do know that it's not going
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: to be terribly long. I think they're going to base
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: their decision on how many calls they get saying, we
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: want Todd Stearns back. So maybe give him a holler.
• 53:38
  Speaker 19: Come on.
• 53:38
  Speaker 21: Yes, I will. Thank you so much. I don't know
• 53:40
  Speaker 21: if they want to hear from me, though, but sure,
• 53:42
  Speaker 21: I will.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: Give them a call, and yeah, they're nice folks, but
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: I get it. But Lisa, thank you for that. That
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: means a lot, and thank you for listening to us today.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Linda in Texas on Patriot Talk 920.
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: She wants to weigh in on the Muslims. Hi, Linda.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: What's up?
• 54:00
  Speaker 21: Hi.
• 54:01
  Speaker 15: I have to really... stand up against what that man
• 54:05
  Speaker 15: just said. I live here in Texas and I was
• 54:09
  Speaker 15: at the grocery store recently and three, I'm assuming women,
• 54:13
  Speaker 15: walked in covered head to toe with black and the
• 54:17
  Speaker 15: little slit. And I see women at the grocery store
• 54:21
  Speaker 15: all the time in their garb. And that is not assimilation.
• 54:26
  Speaker 15: He is very naive, very naive.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, he's a liberal. We call him Jerry the Liberal.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it is naive because, and you're right, they
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: are not assimilating. They're wanting us to assimilate.
• 54:43
  Speaker 15: Yes, I'd say they are one of the number one
• 54:46
  Speaker 15: threats to this country and our way of life. And
• 54:49
  Speaker 15: they are also joining forces with the socialists.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: I've got about 15 seconds here. Are you surprised at
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: how quickly it's happening in Texas today?
• 54:57
  Speaker 15: It's frightening, and no one seems to listen.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: Nobody does, but we do, Linda, and we're sounding the
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: alarm bells. So let's hope the legislature wakes up there
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: in Texas. And let's hope that the governor's office wakes
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: up as well, because this is a clear— look, the rise
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: of political Islam is a clear and present danger to
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: our republic. Linda, God bless you. Thank you for listening
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: to us down in Texas. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Joe Messina, coming up next. Love Open Line Friday. Always,
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• 57:13
  Speaker 3: before we go to Joe Messina, let's go to Memphis, Tennessee.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: David is listening to us on KWAM. David, what's on
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: your mind today?
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, Todd. I just want to give you a couple
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: of observations I've noticed about some Muslim issues. I do
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: delivery work, and I had a delivery off this road
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: called Bartlett Road right there on Raleigh Grange, just inside
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: of Memphis, near Bartlett. And there's a big Muslim school, right?
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: A madrasa, yeah.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and they got armed security there, and they
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: had to let me in, but not only was it armed, like,
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: with a pistol, but they had AR-15s on their shoulder.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: And then, not only that, they've recently cleared the whole
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: property next to them. It was a large, large tract
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: of woods, and I don't know what's going up there.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe a mosque or something.
• 58:03
  Speaker 12: It's huge.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: They just cleared out the whole, like, it's quite a
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: few acres. And so there's that. I was going to
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: let you know about that. And the other thing I noticed,
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: but just around town in general. Now, the last couple
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: of days, I've seen some women in burqas with the
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: little slit, you know, the full burqa, but they all
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: had white baseball caps on top of their heads. Now,
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that means. It's just weird. I've
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: seen that several days in a row and at different spots.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: I wonder what that's all about. That is interesting. David,
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: you know, we went back and we charted going all
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: the way back to 1980, right? And what is striking
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: is that there were just a teeny tiny number of
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: Muslims that lived in the Memphis area. Now that number
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: is off the charts, and it's skyrocketing like a rocket
• 58:54
  Speaker 3: heading to the moon. So Muslims went from being 0.36%
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: of the population to more than 2% in 2020, and 0.36%
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: of the population, so more than 2% in 2020, and
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: the numbers have skyrocketed from there. So it's really a
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: shocking number. As a matter of fact, we don't have
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: the latest numbers, but the projected numbers, we're talking Gosh,
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: almost 30,000 Muslims now living in Shelby County and Memphis.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: It's a lot.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a lot. It is a lot, David.
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  Speaker 3: And so we shall see how all this plays out.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: The problem is you can't even bring those statistics up
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: without somebody calling you xenophobic. And I don't think it's
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: xenophobic at all, David. I think it's pointing out what
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: is going on here. This is not organic growth. This
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: is very intentional, and we need to know why. All right, David,
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: you stay cool out there. I want to go to
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 3: the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, say hello to our good
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  Speaker 3: buddy Joe Messina, host of the Joe Messina program. JoeMessina.com
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: is the website. Joe, it's interesting, the big story from
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: your parts is that Paramount could be packing up and
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: heading to the great state of Tennessee. What are you
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: hearing out there?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and Newsom doesn't care.
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  Speaker 4: He really does.
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  Speaker 20: He's not panicking.
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  Speaker 8: He's not asking for any kind of tax cuts, tax
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 8: breaks or anything along those lines. But, you know, Todd,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: it goes further than that because it's not just the
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 8: entertainment industry wanting to leave because they can't get tax breaks.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 8: They're paying more for gas. They're paying more for electricity.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 8: They're just, you know, and now they have to. I
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 8: don't know if you heard about this one, but now
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 8: we have to buy special tires when we if we're
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 8: replacing the tires on our cars and trucks.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: No.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: Why do you have to buy new tires?
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 8: So they passed a law that the tires have to be–
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 8: the short answer is they have to roll better.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 8: So they have to be made with a different mix
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 8: of rubber and this kind of stuff. So now when
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 8: you buy tires after the original manufacturer tires, there's only
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 8: certain kind of tires you can buy for your car.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 8: It's really– We have a homeless problem. But I guess
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 8: we want to make sure if they steal a car
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  Speaker 8: that they're able to roll it further down the road
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  Speaker 8: without any resistance so they have to buy more gas.
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  Speaker 8: That's insane.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, I want to correct myself. We
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: had a caller in from Memphis. Muslim population now represents
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: a little over 2.5% of the overall population here. And again, Joe,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: and it's not just Memphis. I mean, this is happening
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: in middle-sized cities all across America. where the previous administrations
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: have been dumping a lot of Muslim immigrants.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, they're passing a lot. I think they passed a
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 8: lot here. that we're going to recognize two Muslim holidays now. Now,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 8: they are just a tick over 1% of our population
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 8: in California, yet we don't recognize the Jewish holidays. Help
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 8: me figure that one out.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no. Well, speaking of that, we've got a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: story at ToddStearns.com. Some atheist is suing the city of
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  Speaker 3: Los Angeles because there's a beautiful cross in one of
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: the historic shopping districts there. and the wooden cross, and
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: an atheist says that the cross offends him, as does
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: the nativity that they put up during Christmastime. I was
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: trying to figure out, am I more shocked that an
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: atheist is suing, or the fact that the city of
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: Los Angeles let a nativity scene be erected? How about this?
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  Speaker 8: What's going to happen when he actually learns Spanish or
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 8: finds out what Los Angeles actually means?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: I know what you're saying.
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  Speaker 20: It's just amazing to me.
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  Speaker 8: You know, they sued the county of Los Angeles to
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  Speaker 8: remove the cross off the mission buildings that were on
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  Speaker 8: their logo. Do you remember that?
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: I do, yes.
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  Speaker 8: And now they look like there's a picture of a
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 8: warehouse on every police car and fire truck building in town.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: I really hope that cross is beautiful, by the way.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 8: I haven't been down there that often, but I have
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 8: been down there. to LA like that. And it's a
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 8: beautiful area. And frankly, and honestly, most of those people
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 8: down there are devout Catholics, religious, if you would, people,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 8: and they're fine with it. Why does this one freedom
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 8: from religion freak, why is it that that one person
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 8: has that much power?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't mean to be disrespectful to the
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: good people of Los Angeles. But I'm just wondering what,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: you know, if they lose the film and television industry, which,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: by the way, my understanding, it's worth tens of billions
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: of dollars. If they lose the film and television business, really,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: what else is there, Joe? And I'm not trying to
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: be flippant. I'm just, what else is there for people?
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  Speaker 3: Are we about to end up with a huge slum
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: down there?
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: Oh, you are.
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  Speaker 8: The whole state's going to become a slum if they
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 8: lose the entertainment industry. They've lost the oil industry, if
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 8: you think about it. And the regulations they put on
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 8: trucking and shipping and all of that, There's just a
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 8: lot going further north.
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  Speaker 3: Now than there was before.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 8: But you're right. Think about what the entertainment industry does
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 8: up and down the state. It's not just Hollywood. They've
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 8: got studios up and down the state. They're shooting up
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 8: and down the state. In my little area, when they shoot,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 8: I think they shoot a lot of shows here with
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 8: NCIS and that kind of stuff. The city claims it
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 8: brings over $ 3. 5 to $ 4 million a year just in
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 8: economic boosts here.
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  Speaker 3: We're a little place. Film LA has been charting a
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: lot of this, and they said pre-pandemic that there were
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: about 38,795 shoot days in 2018. I guess they're filming
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: movies or TV shows or whatever. That has now fallen 49%, Joe,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: and a lot of that industry is just going to
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: other states, and they're talking about, what was it, Spencer
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: Pratt was saying that He's been told that realtors are
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: looking at places around the Nashville area. So I think
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: Paramount's really serious about this.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 8: No, dead serious. I mean, look, we lost Sunkist. Some
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 8: of these things you don't even know about because they
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 8: don't make a big deal out of it. But Princess
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 8: Cruises took 600 people out of here and they went
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 8: to Florida. Sunkist actually had a plant and a building here. Again,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 8: that thing has been empty for a couple of years now.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 8: So we're losing big industry and not just industry. We're
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 8: losing big companies out of California between the tax taxes,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 8: the regulations. And it's getting almost impossible. But you're right
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 8: about the entertainment industry. Paramount and the rest of those
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 8: studios are going are going empty. The independent studios are
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 8: going empty. Here we have a place called Santa Clarita Studios.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 8: The guy has 20, I know the fellow who owns it,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 8: there's 29 studios there. And he was telling me that
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 8: he used to have 26 to 27 of them full
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 8: on a regular basis. He's having a hard time booking
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 8: three of them on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready for this? There's a connection here with
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: the Democrats who are destroying Los Angeles and the Democrats
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: who are destroying Memphis. Guess what our most popular site
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: is in Memphis, Tennessee, tourism site. Take a wild guess.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, how about the
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: Elvis site? The Elvis site is called Graceland, Joe. Graceland.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: It's hallowed ground.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 8: What do you want from me? I'm a Yankee.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: Get over it. It's hallowed ground, man. Yeah, Graceland. It's
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: the second most visited private residence, I think, in America.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: So anyway, you would think that the Democrats who rule
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: Memphis would want to make sure the area around Graceland
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: is a nice area so that tourists can go and
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: do whatever. Do you realize that for 13 years they
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: have been trying to reconstruct Elvis Presley Boulevard, the road
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: in front? It has been a construction war zone for
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: 13 years, and the road itself, we're talking about a
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: half a mile stretch of the road, 13 years, and
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: they still haven't finished constructing it.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 20: I listen.
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  Speaker 8: I don't doubt it. Remember, I grew up around the
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 8: big dig, right? That $ 4 million project that turned into
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 8: $ 4 billion in Boston because of all the, not just
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 8: the unions, but the politicians who had to keep their
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 8: finger on the pulse of the cash.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: I'll put it that way.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 8: But no, I'm not surprised.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 18: Are you?
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 8: I'm still waiting to see. I want to see one
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 8: piece of high-speed rail track. Going down the highway in
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 8: the back of a truck. I'll be excited if I
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 8: see that.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the big railroad, what is it, that high-speed rail
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: system that they spent, what, billions of dollars on, and
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: nothing's happened.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 8: That was supposed to be a, you know, Todd, it
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 8: was supposed to be a public-private you know, project, right?
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 8: And put it in perspective, it probably looked like it
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 8: went from Miami to Georgia. That's how long this whole
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 8: thing was supposed to be. Now they've cut it down
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 8: to the point where it's almost like going from Tampa
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 8: to Miami, right? And you have to take a different
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 8: regular train, and then you have to take a bus
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 8: in one area to actually get to where they originally
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 8: sold you from point A to point B. And they
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 8: still think it's a great idea.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 3: Unbelievable. It's, well... It's tragic that things are happening like this,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: and I do feel bad for Beverly Hills. I mean,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: a lot of these people, and correct me if I'm wrong,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: most of them earn their riches in the film industry,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: and those folks are going away.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and we'll lose. We've already lost tax revenue.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 8: You know, your listeners probably don't know a lot about
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 8: California's education laws, but they passed a law years ago.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 8: It was called Prop 98, where we were supposed to
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 8: we were locked in to a percentage to every to
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 8: every school district of the tax revenues. The governor two
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 8: years in a row now has deferred payment on that
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 8: because the state doesn't have the money. So I'm suggesting
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 8: next time around when we negotiate with the teachers, we
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 8: give them deferred checks.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 4: What do you think?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go. Joe Messina on the Patriot Mobile
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: Newsmaker line. Joe, real quick, big, big gubernatorial race here.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: Steve Hilton here. How is that going? And you think
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: Hilton's going to be able to pull it off?
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 8: I think he's doing a lot better than the papers
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 8: are reporting. You know how polls are. We've seen how
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 8: much they lie. But I think he's doing really well. But,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 8: you know, Todd, they're not going to let him win.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 8: They're going to do something. They're not going to let
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 8: him win. And pretty much if he doesn't get an
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 8: AG as well, he's going to be in the same
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 8: position Trump's in. There's grumbling going on. They're going to
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 8: try to impeach him from day one. They're going to
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 8: slow him down and get in his way from day one.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 24: Wow.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: All right. Joe, good hearing from you, my friend. JoeMessina.com.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: You're going to want to check out his website, Get Times.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: The show airs. You're going to love it. Joe, good
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: hearing from you, my friend.
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  Speaker 24: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: God bless, Todd.
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  Speaker 8: Be safe.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: There you have it. Joe Messina on the Patriot Mobile
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: Newsmaker line. Yeah, all these Hollywood types going to be
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: heading to the southern states now. Paramount getting very serious
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: about leaving the state. And honestly, the Democrats here, they
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: don't care. They just do not care. All right, got
• 1:10:39
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• 1:10:43
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• 1:10:45
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• 1:10:57
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• 1:11:02
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• 1:11:16
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  Speaker 6: Rick thinks we're interviewing him, but we have a surprise planned.
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  Speaker 16: We didn't think college was possible. But we got to
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  Speaker 24: Do the right thing. And then when you have a chance,
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  Speaker 20: We're actually here to say thank you. And we're not
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  Speaker 17: There's a hat for every foster kid that you help
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  Speaker 8: Rick helped more than 800 foster youth attend college.
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  Speaker 17: I am so.
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• 1:12:40
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• 1:12:56
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  Speaker 3: is the website. That's saf.org. And we're really honored to
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 3: have the executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation with us,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: Adam Kraut. Adam, hope you're doing well today.
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  Speaker 17: I am, Todd.
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  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 3: Adam, it's hot. I hate to complain. I know I
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: shouldn't complain. Nobody cares about anybody else's weather. But we've
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: been dealing with 100-degree temperatures for, I think, a month
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: now in Memphis.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 17: That sounds absolutely miserable. It's been pretty warm here, and
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 17: I just got back from D.C. where it was pretty
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 17: hot this week as well. Not quite 100, but warm.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: But that's even worse because not only is it hot,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: you're dealing with all these politicians. So the hot air
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: on top of the heat, my condolences to you there.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: You win the bad weather award today. Well, thank you. Adam,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: let's talk about a big conference you guys have coming up,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 3: a gun rights policy conference. which is, you know, all
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: sorts of things happening there. A good friend of this program,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 3: Dana Lesch, we understand she's going to be a part
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: of that policy event.
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  Speaker 17: Yes, she will be speaking on Saturday, the 26th, I believe.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 17: I think the 27th is Sunday. So, She'll be speaking.
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  Speaker 17: We're also very happy to have some officials from the administration.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 17: Rob Sicotta will be there, the director of ATF. ATF's
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 17: chief counsel, Robert Leiter, will be there. Barry Arrington from
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 17: the DOJ Civil Rights Division, the Second Amendment section, will
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 17: be there as well. In addition to just a number
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 17: of awesome speakers that do this kind of work day
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 17: in and day out, whether it's in the courts or
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 17: in the state assemblies and the federal ones.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 3: Tell us a little bit more about the conference, when,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: give us the dates, where it will be.
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  Speaker 10: Sure.
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  Speaker 17: So the conference will be this, not this coming week,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 17: in the following. So September 25th through the 27th in Dallas,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 17: Texas at the Dallas, the Westin Airport Hotel there. You
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 17: can head on over to saf.org slash grpc. to get
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 17: more information as far as the lineup, the agenda, register
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 17: for the event, all of that good stuff. But it's
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 17: going to be an exciting weekend. And then that Friday,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 17: we also have a couple other side events, one of
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 17: which includes the Alternative Mass Media Conference, which I think
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 17: is sold out. But that's more geared towards the people
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 17: who are interested in, you know, podcasting, YouTubing, blog writing
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 17: and how to have effective change there. We also have
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 17: a legal scholars conference geared towards lawyers. They'll get CLE
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 17: credits for that. And then there's also a meeting of
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 17: the state groups on Friday before we get to the
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 17: main event Saturday and then Sunday.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 3: Again, we've got Adam Kraut joining us, Executive Director of
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: the Second Amendment Foundation, and they do some really incredible
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: work standing up and defending your right to bear arms.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 3: And I want you to go and check them out
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 3: and get involved. This is a great conference for you
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: to go to. I know there are just a lot
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: of people vying for attention. Adam, what sets you guys apart,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: I think, is just you guys are bulldogging a lot
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: of these very important issues, legislation, and you're getting into
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: the weeds on a lot of this stuff. A lot
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: of other guys smoke and mirrors, but not the Second
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: Amendment Foundation.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 17: Well, we appreciate that. We've been involved in over 280
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 17: lawsuits since our inception, whether it's filing them, funding them,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 17: or writing briefs supporting other peoples to get Second Amendment
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 17: rights restored to where they are. We currently have two
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 17: cases that are going to be heard before the Supreme
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 17: Court this December, challenging bans on semi-automatic firearms, as the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 17: anti-gunners like to say, assault weapons. But we have two
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 17: cases that the court agreed to hear, so we're very
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 17: excited about finally getting that law stricken down across the
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 17: country and restoring rights for millions of Americans. The United
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 17: States government, we have ceded some time for them to
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 17: come in and argue in favor of striking down these bans.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 17: And we have a whole lot of other things working
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 17: on the burners to keep the heat up and keep
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 17: restoring Second Amendment rights everywhere.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: What would you say is right now, and a lot
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: of times when you've got Republicans in control of Congress
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 3: and at the White House, people think, okay, my rights
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: are good. They're protected. We're just going to sit back now.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: But you really can't do that, can you?
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 17: No. And unfortunately, that's the one thing that's very frustrating
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 17: about gun owners is sometimes the apathy. When Democrats take
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 17: control in anti-gun legislations rolling forward, everybody goes on the
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 17: defensive and makes those phone calls that they need to
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 17: do and votes the way they need to. And helps
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 17: fund groups like the Second Amendment Foundation in order to
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 17: fight against these unconstitutional restrictions. But as you said, you know,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 17: when Republicans, you know, everybody kind of just takes a
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 17: step back and goes, okay, well, we're safe. The reality is,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 17: is that we need to keep pushing forward, particularly while
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 17: there's time to make hay. And when Republicans, you know,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 17: at the federal level control the House, you know, the
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 17: Senate's a different story, but also the presidency, you see
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 17: some good things coming out of there. I mean, there's
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 17: no question that under this administration in the last two years,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 17: that the work being done in the DOJ as far
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 17: as rolling back regulations, attacking various municipalities and cities for
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 17: unconstitutional restrictions directly from the federal government instead of a
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 17: group like SAF suing them, it's unquestionably the best we've
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 17: ever seen on Second Amendment rights.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 4: Is it perfect?
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 21: No.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 17: But you can't hold a candle to anything else. So,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 17: you know, being involved, I think, ultimately at the end
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 17: of the day and continuing to push forward and getting
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 17: out to vote all important things.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: And also, I think just the networking, which is why
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: I believe that the conference, the policy conference you guys
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: support is the GRPC, ladies and gentlemen, the Gun Rights
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: Policy Conference is coming up September 25th through the 27th
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: in Dallas, Texas. SAF.org is the website. You'll go there
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: and you can find all the information. They've got the
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 3: featured speakers. Excited to see Cam Edwards, who is going
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: to be one of the speakers, and Brandon Herrera, a
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: great guy, and of course our good friend Dana Lesch.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: So you certainly have an all-star lineup there. And I
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: have to imagine, though, the networking and just meeting fellow
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: gun owners and Second Amendment enthusiasts and defenders has got
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: to be a lot of fun.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 17: Not only is it fun, it's probably one of the
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 17: most beneficial parts of attending as well. You have an
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 17: opportunity to meet these people, talk to them, exchange ideas
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 17: and information. A lot of things that come out of
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 17: GRPC end up getting implemented somewhere else along the way.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 17: The various state groups share their strategies and tactics about
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 17: how they've either gotten things done or how.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 4: They've stopped things.
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 17: And then, of course, I think I failed to mention
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 17: Friday night and Saturday night. there are receptions. So even
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 17: in between the event itself, during the breaks, there's a time.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 17: But at night, there's a great time to network with everybody.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 3: So again, ladies and gentlemen, head over right now to saf.org.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: If you're anywhere within driving or flying distance, honestly, of Dallas,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 3: you're going to want to be there and be a
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 3: part of this great, great organization, the Second Amendment Foundation. Adam, again,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 3: we appreciate the great work you guys are doing. Thanks
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: for keeping us updated on some of the big court
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: battles that you guys are facing. And again, this is
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 3: not just at the federal level. You are involved at
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 3: the state level as well, which is really where I
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: think a lot of these battles are eventually going to
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 3: end up.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 17: I mean, currently, that's where a lot of the fights are.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 17: It's not against the federal government. It is against the states.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 17: But We'll keep trucking along here and keep suing who
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 17: needs to be sued in order to restore Second Amendment
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 17: rights wherever we can.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, Adam, thank you again. Have a great weekend.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 3: Stay cool and have a great conference next week in Dallas.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 12: Thanks.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 4: You too.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 3: All right. Adam Kraut, everybody, the executive director of the
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 3: Second Amendment Foundation. By the way, when you're over at
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: the website, you have a chance to enter to win
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 3: some great, great prizes as well. Well, I'm going to say,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: I'll just say this. Go to saf.org, and you'll be
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 3: able to enter some great competitions. One of them is
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 3: sponsored by Ammo Vault. That's your clue, Ammo Vault. That's saf.org.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 3: All right, we're going to take a BREAK, and when
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: we come back, we're going right to the phone lines.
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  Speaker 9: 901-260-5926.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: It's Open Line Friday on the Todd Stern Show. All right,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: welcome back to the Todd Sterns Radio Show. Let's go
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 3: right to the phones. Gainesville, Georgia. Foy is listening to
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: us on WDUN. Hello, Foy. How are you? It's been
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: a while.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 14: I know.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 10: I'm fine, Todd.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 19: You sound great today. Um, I'm loving it. Uh, 62 years,
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 19: I've been married to the same man. Uh, we, we
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 19: reminisce and we listen to you. As I said, every day, uh,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 19: we lived in Memphis from 67 to, uh, through 70.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 19: I taught school at colonial junior high. Um, um, we
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 19: sailed down on Lake Aca butler. We had a small
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 19: sailboat and we sailed down there with some friends up
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 19: there in Memphis. And we, um, We were transferred back
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 19: to Atlanta, Georgia about two weeks or so before Adrian
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 19: Rogers became the pastor of our Bellevue Baptist Church. I
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 19: bet you know some of that. Wow.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: I'm reminiscing with you, Foy, as you mention these things.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 19: I thought you could. That's why I thought you might
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 19: appreciate this on Open Line Friday. I know that there
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 19: are a lot of interesting things on there, and you've
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 19: got your You've got your program just full of good
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 19: things today, and I'm going to be praying for that
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 19: group out in Dallas with the Second Amendment rights business. Anyway,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 19: Memphis was a great place to live in those years
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 19: that I just told you, and we loved it. And
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 19: one day I said to Ken, I said, we were
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 19: only 25 years old at the time, and I said,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 19: would you drive me over Elvis Presley Boulevard? I want
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 19: to go see the Graceland Mansion. And so he did.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 19: The gate was wide open. It already had those, I
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 19: don't know what it has just now, but it already
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 19: had the big old wrought iron type thing on the
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 19: gate of the guitars and that kind of thing. So
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 19: we drove, we had a little 1964 and a half Mustang.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 19: We'd only gotten married in 1964. We'd have a new
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 19: little car. I said, let's drive up to the porch.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 19: So we drove right through that open gate, right up
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 19: to the front porch of Graceland. I got out, sat
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 19: down on the, like a little wrought iron, I think
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 19: it was white, pretty little wrought iron bench, and sat there.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 19: So I have that claim to fame. And I was
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 19: hoping I wouldn't get arrested, but anyway. I don't think
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 19: a soul saw me, you know. It wasn't busy like
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 19: it is nowadays. And so then I got back in
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 19: the car and we came back out. But anyway, that's
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 19: my claim to fame. And then I've got a couple
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 19: more quick little things to tell you. I know you've
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 19: got so much on your mind there today. I was
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 19: distressed in the last year or so to hear how
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 19: crime-ridden Memphis had become and so forth. And I'm thankful
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 19: that it's doing better. You reported that it's cleaned up
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 19: a lot. It's doing a lot better. Not as many.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, crime is down 49%. Now, that's before the Ole
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 3: Miss-LSU game tomorrow night, so we may have some hostilities
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 3: down on Beale, but right now it's good. It's good.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 19: That is wonderful. I'll watch some of that LSU. Is
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 19: it LSU-Memphis, you said?
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: No, no, LSU and Ole Miss. Yeah, they're playing down
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: in Oxford, but the team's staying here in Memphis.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 19: Oh, my, what a game that will be. We lived
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 19: in New Orleans. before we moved to Memphis. We lived
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 19: in New Orleans for three years, so I know something
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 19: about LSU. But anyway, quickly, before I take too much
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 19: of your time, you had reported it was a crime-ridden city,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 19: and it's getting better now. But I did hear Marsha
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 19: Blackburn earlier today, and I don't have a dog in
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 19: that fight, and I don't get to vote in Tennessee,
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 19: but I do pray that you all will get the
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 19: best man or woman that God wants you to have.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 19: And then the other thing, you said that you have
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 19: 30,000 Muslims that have moved into the Memphis area. My goodness,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 19: what a lost bunch of people. And when I was
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 19: a kid, Southern Baptist had a drive that we called
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 19: each one reach one each one win one okay 30
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 19: 000 of them win one at the time just win
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 19: one at the time and that will be that that
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 19: much good that will go on and uh i just
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 19: uh pray that uh more people will come to jesus
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 19: because jesus is the answer.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 3: Well, amen to that, Ms. Foy. Spoken like a true...
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: I bet you were a member of the WMU back
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 3: in the day.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 19: Don't I?
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 10: I really do.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 19: I was a member of it.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 19: Yes, Women's Missionary Union. When I was a kid at
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 19: age nine, I went to the GA's camp one summer,
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 19: and that was called Girls' Auxiliary. That was the girls'
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 19: part of WMU. And when I got to be older,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 19: of course, I joined WMU. Anyway, we do love Jesus,
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 19: and I just love to hear you every day, Todd.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 19: In my heart, we love you, too.
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: Well, Ms. Boyd, that just means a whole lot. And
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: we're going to be coming to Gainesville this fall. We're
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: working together with the great folks here at WDUN, and
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 3: I'd love to see you guys there. It's been far
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: too long, and Gainesville, one of my favorite places on
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: the planet.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 16: Terrific.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 19: Well, we love to have you here. I haven't gotten
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 19: to see you right here in our town. I'm going
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 19: to look forward to hearing when you're going to be
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 19: in town, and I will make an extra effort to
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 19: be there. I'm 86 years old. I don't drive anymore,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 19: but my husband still drives.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 10: So we'll get there.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 3: Well, we had a fellow from Dawsonville say we had
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 3: to bring Dylan along. So if we do, we'll send
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 3: Dylan to pick you up. He'll be your personal Uber driver, Foy.
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 19: That'd be terrific. I heard that guy ask for Dylan
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 19: to come. That'd be terrific. Thank you, Todd.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: You're welcome. Foy, you tell your husband I said hello,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 3: and it is great hearing from you.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 19: Good to talk with you and to hear your voice
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 19: every day. God bless.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 3: All right, God bless. Bye-bye. Dylan, this is why I
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: love this game.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 4: One of my favorite people that ever calls in.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 3: She is one of the nicest ladies. Yes. But you
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 3: know what? I can guarantee you, I bet she was
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: a tough school teacher.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 3: You towed the line in that class.
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 4: Don't mess around.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 3: No, I didn't. Drove right up to the front door
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 3: of Graceland. I love it. All right. Well, we are
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 3: working in all seriousness. We're working on getting out. We've
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 3: got a couple of big events. I know I'm going
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: to be in Portland, Oregon later on and then in
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: Washington State outside of Seattle. So we're going to try
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 3: to plan some events out there later this year. Back
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: to California next Saturday. for an entire week. And we're
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: going to be in Southern California and Northern California. We're
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 3: going to be taping the C-SPAN book event there as
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 3: well at West Coast Baptist College. So lots of stuff happening,
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 3: but we're going to get to games. Well, I can
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 3: promise you that. All right, got to scoot out of here.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: Hang tight. Caleb Park coming up. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody. It's
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: the Todd Stearns Radio Show. I want to go to
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  Speaker 3: the phones real quick before we go to our good buddy,
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  Speaker 3: Caleb Park. Let's say hello to Beth in Clarksville, Georgia,
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  Speaker 3: listening to us on WDUN. Now, Beth, I understand that
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  Speaker 3: you've got a connection to our friend, Miss Sweet Foy.
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  Speaker 18: Yes, Todd. Miss Sweet Boy is my mother's BFF, her
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 18: best friend forever. My mother's 95. They taught school together
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  Speaker 18: in Hall County, Georgia for many years. And I just
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  Speaker 18: had the good fortune to be listening to your show
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  Speaker 18: several times when she's called in. And I just want
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 18: to remark on how sweet and patient you've been with her.
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  Speaker 18: She's the most wonderful person I know.
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  Speaker 15: So positive.
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  Speaker 18: She's gone to my home church as long as I
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  Speaker 18: can remember, and she's just a ray of sunshine. When
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 18: Miss Foy walks by, smiling, she makes everybody happy. And
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  Speaker 18: I think she made you happy today, too, didn't she, Todd?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you cannot hang up the phone and not
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: have a smile on your face when you're talking to
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  Speaker 3: Miss Foy. I mean, that's just the way that goes.
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  Speaker 15: That's right.
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  Speaker 18: Well, just a brief little call just to thank you
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  Speaker 18: for being so supportive so kind to her and to
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  Speaker 18: let you know how sweet she is. She's had some
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 18: health issues lately, so please put her on your prayer list.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know what? Not only will I do that,
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  Speaker 3: but I suspect a lot of people in our audience
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  Speaker 3: will do that as well. And again, what a sweet lady.
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  Speaker 3: And we are working on an event in Gainesville, and
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: we're just going to have to make that happen. You know, Beth,
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  Speaker 3: one of the things I promised when I started this
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  Speaker 3: radio program was is not to interrupt. You know, a
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 3: lot of the guys on TV, they always interrupt people,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 3: and people can't finish a thought. So we try not
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  Speaker 3: to interfere, interrupt too terribly much. And the other part
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: of it is, you know, again, this radio program is
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 3: sort of like a big front porch, and we love
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 3: when folks drop by, they give us a call, and
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  Speaker 3: we just have a good conversation about what's going on.
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  Speaker 18: Well, I would love to sit on a French porch
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  Speaker 18: and drink some sweet tea with you and.
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  Speaker 9: This boy, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a radio show right there.
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  Speaker 19: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 18: Well, thank you so much, Todd. Have a great weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Beth, you do as well. What a great call. And
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 3: let's go to the great Commonwealth of Kentucky, Pastor John.
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  Speaker 3: Pastor John, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 11: I will make this real short. I want to mention
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 11: two names, Tech Sergeant Ashley Pruitt and Staff Sergeant Benjamin Pennington.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 11: A vice president, J.D. Vance, called the war in Iran
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  Speaker 11: not a war. And I just wanted to get this
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  Speaker 11: out to whatever politician is listening to this, and I
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 11: know people give you their ear. That vice president, a
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  Speaker 11: combat veteran, United States Marine in Iraq, called it a non-war.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 11: And that vice president owes the families of those that
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 11: have been injured or killed a sincere apology because in
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 11: Iran it is a war. My wife's a combat Marine.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 11: I'm a combat medic. In all honesty, that really, really
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  Speaker 11: got in my craw, Todd. It really, really bothers me,
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  Speaker 11: and I got emotional. But I wanted to call you
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  Speaker 11: and vent my spleen. I love your show. Please, Todd,
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  Speaker 11: if somebody is listening to this, especially our congressional representatives,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 11: I called mine already, that man owes those families an apology, Todd.
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  Speaker 11: That's all I wanted to say.
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: And just, again, to qualify what we're talking about here,
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  Speaker 3: the vice president and J.D. Vance in an interview said,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: said that what's happening in Iran is not a war.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 3: And he says, quote, I would not call it a war.
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  Speaker 3: And he was asked about that during a White House
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 3: press briefing, and he said right now there is no
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: active shooting. So that's what set you off, Pastor John.
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  Speaker 11: It sure did, Todd. And I got a really close
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 11: friend of mine, and I'm his chaplain, and he's overseas
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 11: right now. He's deployed. And that just really, really got
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  Speaker 11: in my craw, Todd. And like I said, I know
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  Speaker 11: politicians have your ear. And if I didn't like, you
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  Speaker 11: know what, if I wasn't such a staunch Christian Republican conservative,
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 11: I'd vote against that man, but I can't because he
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 11: does a lot of good. But that was one of
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 11: the dumbest statements the vice president ever said.
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  Speaker 3: I love you, Todd. All right, Pastor John, good to
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  Speaker 3: hear from you. Consider your spleen vented. So there you go. Dylan,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: can you get me a wet wipe, please?
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  Speaker 20: Just, you know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We love that.
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  Speaker 4: No problem.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he wanted to vent his spleen, and we're happy
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  Speaker 3: to oblige. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 4: I learn new phrases every day, I think. But that's
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  Speaker 4: a good one. I'm going to use that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure what that even looks like. Maybe Caleb
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 3: Park can help us out. Caleb is a man of
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 3: the world. Know anything about venting spleens, Caleb Park?
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  Speaker 20: Hey, Todd, I do not. That is one of the
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 20: few areas I am not an expert on.
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  Speaker 3: CalebPark.com. CalebPark.com, ladies and gentlemen. CalebPark.com. Caleb, look, thank you
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 3: for holding on. We had a sweet, sweet lady. She
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 3: and her husband have been married more than 60 years.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 3: And her name is Miss Foy. And she's a big
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 3: fan of the show. And we love it when she calls.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 3: And then a friend of Miss Foy's called. So we're
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 3: just having a good old time here on the front porch.
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  Speaker 20: I was going to say, I got my sweet tea
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 20: right here. And yeah, I'm sitting with you guys. I
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 20: enjoyed those calls. That's what I love about your audience, Todd.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 20: You have some of the best listeners and best viewers online.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 3: Someone once asked me, who's been your favorite interview? And
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 3: whenever I answer the question, it's always somebody who owns
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 3: a pharmacy or a bake shop. It's just regular folks.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 3: One of my favorite stories, the Germantown Pharmacy, they hold
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 3: a big open house every year, Caleb. And you've been
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 3: there a time or two. You know what I'm talking about.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 3: And they have all these knickknacks. And now they've become
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 3: like the official Mahjong supplier for the Mid-South. So anyway,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: when you go in to get your drugs, they've got
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 3: a big freezer there, and you can get locally made products.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 3: And so I love to tell people I'm going there
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 3: to get my drugs and my chicken spaghetti. And you
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 3: just kind of sit around and hang out and shoot
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 3: the breeze. Well, one day, Caleb, they had an open house.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 3: and I had to go pick up my drugs, and
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: then I was signing books. They asked me to stick
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 3: around and sign some copies of the Biscuit book, our
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 3: daily biscuit, Devotions with a Drawl. So I'm sitting there,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: and they got me something to drink. I didn't realize
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 3: until about five glasses in that I was drinking Prosecco,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 3: so I got a buzz right there at the pharmacy.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow, Todd.
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  Speaker 20: That is wild. That's a good story. I love that,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 20: and they are great people. I've gone in there a
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 20: time or two, and Everybody's really nice, and I would
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 20: have loved to have seen that. That sounds like a
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 20: wild story.
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  Speaker 3: Caleb, we got to talk about C.S. Lewis, and I
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 3: do not get this story. I didn't realize that they
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 3: were doing a remake. Is this Netflix doing a remake
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: of Chronicles of Narnia? Is that about right?
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, so it's based on his book, Narnia, the Magician's Nephew,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 20: and it's about the origin story of Narnia. And so,
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 20: you know, we met Aslan the lion in The Lion,
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 20: the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Those films were wildly successful.
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 20: And he was voiced by Liam Neeson. I think he
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 20: did an excellent job. And now Greta Gerwig, you know,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 20: she directed the Barbie movie. I don't know if you
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 20: saw that. I unfortunately or fortunately did not see it
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 20: or haven't seen it yet. But she chose she said
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 20: she was trying to pick out like who to choose
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 20: and they had to be over 70 carry this weight because,
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 20: you know, Aslan is a huge character in this film.
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 20: And she went with Meryl Streep. And I think that's
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 20: the thing that's setting a lot of people off is
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 20: the film describes Aslan as a he, but he's going
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 20: to be voiced by a she. So I don't know
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 20: if Greta is confused about gender over there or. And
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 20: obviously Aslan is based on Jesus.
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  Speaker 13: And C.S.
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  Speaker 20: Lewis talked about that. He's a very famous Christian author.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 20: And so it kind of seems like this is Hollywood's
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  Speaker 20: way of taking... They've taken a lot of great Christian
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 20: adaptations and ruined them. It feels like a slap in
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  Speaker 20: the face. I could be wrong, but she also... is
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 20: giving him a red line on his face with multicolored
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 20: eyes based off of, inspired by David Bowie. And she
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 20: said that it's going to be, she wants the film
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 20: to feel like a rock opera. So don't be surprised
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 20: if they turn it into some kind of musical. I
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 20: don't know, Todd. I hope I'm wrong. I hope it's
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 20: really good, but yeah, this is going to be on Netflix.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 20: So it's definitely going to get viewers, but I don't know.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 3: Well, all right, let me jump in here. First of all,
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 3: a lot of the critics are saying this is nothing
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 3: more than an attack on Christ. And the argument is that,
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 3: first of all, C.S. Lewis did not write the character
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: Aslan as an allegory for Christ, but more of a supposal,
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 3: what the Son of God would look like if he
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 3: were in Narnia. So changing the character really... does change
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 3: the meaning of what C.S. Lewis wrote. And when you
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 3: see the actual image, it's not just the face paint.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: They've got the mane of the lion is rainbow colored.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 3: So it's hard not to read where all of that
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 3: is going.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 20: Yeah, Todd, it's like they bedazzled Aslan. It's just a
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 20: little weird that she went from the Barbie to a C.S.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 20: Lewis adaptation and I can't help but wonder how she's
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 20: going to feminize this. You know, she talked about a
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 20: Barbie film being a feminist, you know, movement. And I,
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 20: I think people are right to be upset and skeptical
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 20: about this. Like you said, it's, it's not just that
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 20: we've seen some of the images and yeah, it's, it's
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 20: disappointing at the very least would be wrong though. I
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 20: I'm open to, You know, maybe she'll surprise us.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 16: Doubt it, though.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's unlikely. That's unlikely. You know, does it bother
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 3: you that the Hollywood types go in and they do
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 3: these kinds of things knowing that they're going to anger
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: so many Christians out there?
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 20: Yeah, it does, Todd, because I think, you know, we
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 20: live in a majority Christian nation, and you know that
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 20: this is a huge fan base from the series, like
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 20: the chosen, you know, Christian faith-based films have done so
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 20: well over the years and they've infused Hollywood. And it
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 20: does seem like a slap in the face. And often it's,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 20: it feels like it's their personal vendetta because they had
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 20: some Catholic school teacher, you know, when they were growing
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 20: up or they are ex-evangelicals and they're just trying to
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 20: get back at, you know, It seems like they have
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 20: a chip on their shoulder and they're trying to fit
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 20: in in Hollywood. And, you know, it hasn't hasn't done
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 20: well for the box office, for sure. This time it's
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 20: on Netflix. So, you know, you already have millions of
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 20: viewers automatically. But, yeah, it definitely it's upsetting.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 3: Caleb Park joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 3: CalebPark.com is the website address. All right, what's going on here?
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 3: There was a press conference in Florida, and there was
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 3: a missing child. And in the middle of the press conference,
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 3: they found the child. What happened?
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 20: Yeah, so on Saturday night, this child went missing. He's
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 20: 16 years old. His name was Benjamin, and he had
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 20: mild autism and schizophrenia. And so his mom was very concerned,
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 20: you know, if he could have been hearing voices. He
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 20: was out, and this is in St. Johns County, Florida.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 20: And so on Monday morning, she was next to the
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 20: sheriff while they were doing a press conference. And somebody,
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 20: you know, volunteers had shown up to help look for
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 20: the son. And during the middle of the live press conference,
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 20: somebody shouted out, they found him. And so she said,
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 20: you know, we see on camera, she says, they found him.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 20: Praise the Lord. Oh, my soul. And it's kind of
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 20: funny because she is her name's Olga. You can kind
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 20: of tell she's not a very expressive mother, expressive person.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 20: And so a lot of people on the internet are like,
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 20: is the mom even happy that they found her son?
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 20: But I personally think she was probably nervous in front
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 20: of the cameras, exhausted because her son had been missing
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 20: for nearly 48 hours. And she's not this professional actress.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 20: She's a mom. They found her son. She said, praise
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 20: the Lord. So I don't really think that I think
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 20: some people are part of that true crime community, always
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 20: looking for something when there's a press conference. This was
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 20: definitely one of those cool stories where she got to
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 20: hear it live and we got to see her reaction.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 3: Speaking of that, those real crime things, I just saw
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 3: this story yesterday and I'm just stunned. Netflix is doing
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 3: a a movie of, and reenacting the whole murder of
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 3: JonBenet Ramsey. And they've, they've got Melissa McCarthy playing JonBenet
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 3: Ramsey's mother.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 20: You know, Todd, I haven't seen that, but I'm really
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 20: interested now because obviously Melissa McCarthy has been wildly successful
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 20: as a, you know, comedy. She's a comedian. This is,
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 20: this is going to be a comedy. I, from what
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 20: I know about that story, there's not much funny that
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 20: happens there. So, uh, it'll be interesting. And if she
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 20: doesn't do a good job, I think it'll be, remember when, um, Oh,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 20: the Michelle Obama, first lady impression.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. That was not good.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 20: I think it could into a situation.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 3: Oh dear. Uh, Caleb, I think we're going to have
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 3: to leave it there. My friend, uh, We have lost
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 3: whatever connection we had with you. So my extreme apologies there.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 3: Caleb Park, everybody, on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. So
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 3: what a crazy story. Going to take a break. We'll
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 3: be right back. All right, the University of Vermont is
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 3: in the news. They're declaring war on all of you
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 3: healthy eaters out there. And if you're over at the
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 3: Longstreet Cafe in Gainesville, Georgia, and we're not talking about
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 3: folks who go back for second helpings, no. We're talking
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 3: about folks who eat the, what is it, the, what
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 3: is that stuff called? Salads and vegetables and You eat healthy, right?
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 3: You drink the liquefied lawn clippings. Anyway, researchers at the
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 3: University of Vermont have developed what they're calling a weight-inclusive curriculum.
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 3: And it teaches high school students to oppose what they
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 3: call the diet culture. So they're declaring war on Weight
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 3: Watchers and Jenny Craig. Researchers say weight inclusivity is an
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 3: approach that accepts that girth is not a primary indicator
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 3: of health and that people of all shapes can be healthy.
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 3: They also call out anti-fat bias. And I had to
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 3: look that up, Dylan, but remember how I complained about
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 3: being on the plane and the other passengers complaining? fat,
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 3: you know, the fat just like the blubber, it envelops
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 3: my side of the seat.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 4: Yes, I remember.
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's apparently anti-fat bias.
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 4: Wow, that's unfortunate.
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 3: It's disgusting, too. Anyway, it turns out that other universities
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 3: are actually advancing this idea, promoting morbid obesity, and they
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 3: say body diversity is just something that occurs naturally. I
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 3: don't know about that, Dylan. I think Morbid obesity happens
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 3: when you eat an entire bucket of KFC Extra Crispy
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 3: and you wash it down with a pint of gravy.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that is how you get there. That's one way
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 4: to do it.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 3: Nothing natural about it.
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 4: What's the point of going this far? Like the equal sides.
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 4: You go too far, too skinny, and then too far,
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 4: too fat. Can we just be healthy?
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 3: In 1960, only 13% of the population was considered obese. Today,
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 3: more than 72% of Americans are bona fide big boned
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 3: lard butts. So all that to say, Vermont Public Schools,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 3: you might want to consider reinforcing the chairs in the
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 3: Kappa Gymnatorium. All right, that's going to do it for us,
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. It has been a great week. We're
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 3: right back at it Monday. Get out there. Have a
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 3: great Friday. Grab some iced tea. Stay cool. Crank up
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 3: the A.C. And whatever you do, be sure to go
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 3: to church this weekend, everybody.