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GOP Demands Answers from Major League Baseball Over Anti-Christian Scandal · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's American.
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  Speaker 3: Ud Start well, well, hello, everybody, welcome to the Todd
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  Speaker 3: Sterns Radio Show. Great to have you with us today
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  Speaker 3: and thank you for joining us. We have a wild
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  Speaker 3: show in store for you today, ladies and gentlemen. A
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  Speaker 3: lot going on also, we are we're awaiting the President
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  Speaker 3: of the United States who is expected to release all
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  Speaker 3: of the details about the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get to that as well. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's interesting a lot of conservatives are up in arms
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  Speaker 3: over all of this. I know the New York Post,
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  Speaker 3: Fox News Channel among those that are leading the charge,
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  Speaker 3: saying this is absolutely a bad deal. Many people on
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  Speaker 3: the warhawk side of the Republican Party are saying it's imperative,
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  Speaker 3: imperative that Iran be destroyed and that regime change take place.
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  Speaker 3: So still a lot of debate and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: discussion over what exactly to do with Iran and how
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  Speaker 3: do we end this war now. Our telephone number nine
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  Speaker 3: Coming up in just a little while. Our good friend
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  Speaker 3: Liz Peek is going to drop by from Fox News.
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  Speaker 3: Also Congressman Andy Ogeles from Tennessee running for Congress in
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  Speaker 3: one of those newly created districts. Big election night. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to go over some of the findings in Georgia
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  Speaker 3: and Oklahoma among other places as well. Again our telephone
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  Speaker 3: number nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 3: That telephone number again, nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 3: five nine two six. And we're beginning to get some
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  Speaker 3: new details over this terror plot that unfolded over the
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  Speaker 3: past well twenty four hours now when we got word
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  Speaker 3: that the FBI and the Secret Service had thwarted what
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  Speaker 3: would have been probably a nine to eleven style attack
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  Speaker 3: on our nation's capital on the night of the UFC fight.
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  Speaker 3: And it was a pretty pretty devastating and shocking a
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  Speaker 3: series of events. Now we understand at least five people
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  Speaker 3: from the latest reporting, at least five people have been arrested.
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  Speaker 3: As many as twenty three people may have been involved
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  Speaker 3: in the operational planning. Now Here's where it gets a
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  Speaker 3: little squirrely, because we got word late yesterday that a
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  Speaker 3: number of lawmakers were among those being targeted for attack
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  Speaker 3: during this what would have been just a heinous attack
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  Speaker 3: on our nation's capital and the UFC Freedom two fifty event.
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  Speaker 3: One of those individuals named one of the people they
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  Speaker 3: wanted to target, is, in fact, our next guest on
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  Speaker 3: the Patriot Mobile News Maker Line. We're honored to have
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  Speaker 3: Senator Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee. Senator, good to have you
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  Speaker 3: with us today, and certainly a disturbing report about what
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  Speaker 3: could have been.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, indeed, it is disturbing, And you know, Todd, this
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  Speaker 4: is something that we think about every day, every time
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  Speaker 4: I get a personal harm threat. It's one thing to me,
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  Speaker 4: but we are just really so concerned for people that
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  Speaker 4: show up at events where we are attending events.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Senator, I noticed then you had shared photographs,
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  Speaker 3: so you were there that night with your grandson. Looked
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  Speaker 3: like everybody, a lot of lawmakers had their family members
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  Speaker 3: with them. And to know that that not just yourself,
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  Speaker 3: but even your grandchild could have been in harm's way. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: this is just unaccepted. It's unacceptable.
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  Speaker 4: It is completely unacceptable and suppote from what we've been
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  Speaker 4: able to know, to hear, and to learn so far
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  Speaker 4: from the FBI, is the target against me was because
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  Speaker 4: I support Israel and Todd you know, I stand with Israel.
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  Speaker 4: We as Christians are commanded to stand with Israel. And
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  Speaker 4: I find it so interesting that this group uh anti Israel,
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  Speaker 4: UH anti Semitic, UH, this group of individuals and uh
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  Speaker 4: supposedly that is what drove the targeting of me. But yes,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I just am so grateful and thankful and
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  Speaker 4: feel blessed beyond measure that the FBI did their job
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  Speaker 4: and made certain the drone attack did not happen. They
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  Speaker 4: protected the President, they protected all of us, and they
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  Speaker 4: have apprehended several of the individuals involved in this attack.
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  Speaker 4: They're twenty three that were involved. Our understanding is they
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  Speaker 4: are searching for some and they have apprehended some and
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  Speaker 4: some are being questions.
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  Speaker 3: Senator, I'm wondering again, you have been in public service
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  Speaker 3: for a very long time, and to get these sorts
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  Speaker 3: of threats and to know that people are out there
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  Speaker 3: wanting to harm you, and yet you get up every
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  Speaker 3: single day and you're still fighting the good fight. You're
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  Speaker 3: still fighting for the causes you believe in, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: just wondering, why do you do that? Why not just
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  Speaker 3: call it a day?
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  Speaker 4: And when God places a call on your life and
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  Speaker 4: you feel called to something, as I am so called
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  Speaker 4: to public service, and every day I say the Big
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  Speaker 4: five Faith, family, freedom, hope, and opportunity. How do we
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  Speaker 4: preserve those? What can I do today that is going
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  Speaker 4: to make the lives of Tennesseeans and indeed all Americans better?
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  Speaker 4: And that is that is such a driver for me,
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  Speaker 4: and I am just blessed to be able to every
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  Speaker 4: day work in service of my fellow man to make
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  Speaker 4: certain that we preserve freedom. You know, you don't have
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  Speaker 4: the China dream, the Russia dream, the Mexican dream, Canadian dream.
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  Speaker 4: You have the American dream. That is what people want,
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  Speaker 4: and I want all of our children to dream those
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  Speaker 4: big dreams. So to me, it's worth that risk and
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  Speaker 4: to get up and just got I've got a lot
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  Speaker 4: of good prayer warriors out there, and they pray that
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  Speaker 4: protection and.
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  Speaker 3: We keep working, no doubt about that. You mentioned faith,
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  Speaker 3: and of course another big story. I know you've been
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  Speaker 3: weighing in on this. Senator Josh Holly now demanding answers
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  Speaker 3: from the Major League Baseball Commissioner over these really ugly
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  Speaker 3: attacks on Christian ballplayers of the San Francisco Giants. Some
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  Speaker 3: of their players wrote Bible verses on the Pride hats
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  Speaker 3: they were told to wear for a Pride Night celebration.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting that State Senator Scott Wiener, who is going
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  Speaker 3: to replace Nancy Pelosi in Congress, accused the Christians of
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  Speaker 3: defacing defacing those ball camps with the Bible verses and
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  Speaker 3: called them homophobes. What do you say to.
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  Speaker 4: That, Well, what we need to rut and let me
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  Speaker 4: say this. Also, some of the fighters at the UFC
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  Speaker 4: fight on Sunday night were giving their testimony as they
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  Speaker 4: were winning their fights and quoting scripture and it was
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  Speaker 4: really quite amazing. But to turn around for MLB to
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  Speaker 4: condemn these players for expressing their faith when they were
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  Speaker 4: commanded by their team to wear these hats that do
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  Speaker 4: not align with their belief system. It was not an
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  Speaker 4: option that they were given, it was something they were
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  Speaker 4: told to do. So their pushback, which should be allowed,
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  Speaker 4: is that they wrote a Bible verse on the hat
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  Speaker 4: and covered themselves with that. Now, my husband, who is
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  Speaker 4: such a jokester and a huge baseball fan, and you
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  Speaker 4: know he's always got a bad day joke for you, Todd.
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  Speaker 4: But he says that, uh, Genesis one one is where
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  Speaker 4: baseball got it start because it was in the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: So, oh Jesus, that's a really bad dad joke, Senator.
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  Speaker 4: So that's what he says when he wants to say
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  Speaker 4: it has a biblical foundation in the beginning.
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  Speaker 3: In the beginning. Oh boy, oh boy, Senator. Before we
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  Speaker 3: let you go, I'm just wondering, was that your very
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  Speaker 3: first UFC fight that you went to, and what was
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  Speaker 3: that like for you? Have a good time.
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  Speaker 4: It was my first one. I've never been to a
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  Speaker 4: boxing match or fight of any kind, and so it
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  Speaker 4: was fascinating to watch. It was a little tougher, and
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  Speaker 4: I really worried about people getting kited, but as my
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  Speaker 4: grandson said, it's.
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  Speaker 3: A fight, so it is.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, Well you could just mark that off the bucket list.
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  Speaker 3: Senator ed, there you go. That's right.
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  Speaker 4: I said. I should be America's number one g mom
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  Speaker 4: to my grandsons.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely no doubt about that. No doubt about that, Senator.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna have to leave it there. We really appreciate you.
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  Speaker 3: We're glad you're okay, and we sure to appreciate you
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  Speaker 3: being in the fight.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate the prayers. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, there you go, folks. Senator Marshall Blackburn on
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  Speaker 3: our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line today. You know, I was
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  Speaker 3: talking to Congressman Randy Fine last night, the congressman out
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  Speaker 3: of Florida, and he had brought his son, and his
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  Speaker 3: son brought some of his friends. I think they're all
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  Speaker 3: high school or college age. And again, the idea that
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  Speaker 3: those lawmakers and their families good have been in harm's
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  Speaker 3: way with these terrorists. He's domestic terrorists. It's just unthinkable.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we've got to take a break here, folks,
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  Speaker 3: My question for you, ladies and gentlemen is what do
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  Speaker 3: some audio here. This is the Attorney General of Florida
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  Speaker 3: who is now launching an investigation into Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Cut number thirty plays group JT.
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  Speaker 8: Brubaker and Ryan Walker was seen with the Biblical verse
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  Speaker 8: Genesis nine twelve sixteen written on their rainbow Pride caps,
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  Speaker 8: which says the rainbow is a symbol of a covenant
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  Speaker 8: between God and all living creatures.
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  Speaker 9: It defaced the Pride rainbow with a Bible verse telling
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  Speaker 9: the lgbt community that they do not own the rainbow,
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  Speaker 9: that God owns the rainbow.
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  Speaker 8: Said Ziggler, kofound under of Outsports, calls the Pride Night
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  Speaker 8: display disgraceful.
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  Speaker 9: If I were a Giants fan, I would never attend.
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  Speaker 8: A game again, and a statement the Giants organization telling
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  Speaker 8: ABC seven Eye Witness News, the San Francisco Giants are
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  Speaker 8: proud to support Pride Night and the LGBTQ plus community.
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  Speaker 8: We also respect that individuals may make personal choices about
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  Speaker 8: participating in team activations. We understand that the choices by
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  Speaker 8: individual players has caused pain and anger to many in
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  Speaker 8: the LGBTQ plus community, and we're sorry for that. Those
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  Speaker 8: choices do not change our organization's commitment to inclusion, belonging,
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  Speaker 8: and creating a welcoming environment for all. For Ziggler, the
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  Speaker 8: statement falls short.
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  Speaker 9: For the Giants to take no responsibility and essentially stand
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  Speaker 9: by their players is gross.
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  Speaker 8: It was disheartening, I said Pride executive directors who san
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  Speaker 8: Ford had this to say.
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  Speaker 10: I work for San Francisco Pride, and I think if
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  Speaker 10: I espouse beliefs that weren't inclusive, if my board of
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  Speaker 10: directors would have a problem with that, And I think
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  Speaker 10: the same thing does with these Giants players they work
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  Speaker 10: for the San Francisco Giant.
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  Speaker 8: Land and Groupe told the Mercury News he meant no
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  Speaker 8: hate at all. It's what he stands for as a
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  Speaker 8: believer in God. Major League Baseball is now involved, issuing
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  Speaker 8: a warning to the players and a statement to outsports.
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  Speaker 8: A spokesperson says, the writing of the cap violates our
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  Speaker 8: rules and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the
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  Speaker 8: players about future violations. Pitcher Sam Hensches opted not to
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  Speaker 8: wear a Pride cap at all, wearing a regular cap instead.
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  Speaker 8: The LGBTQ community says more to come on this incident.
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  Speaker 3: All right, and again, ladies and gentlemen, what does being
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  Speaker 3: a pan sanctual, what is being gender queer or too
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  Speaker 3: spirit have to with a baseball game? That's what nobody
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  Speaker 3: seems to want to talk about that. But in all seriousness,
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  Speaker 3: why do we have to talk about people's sex and
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  Speaker 3: what they do in the privacy of their bedrooms at
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  Speaker 3: the ballpark? When did that become a thing? And Dylan,
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  Speaker 3: I know you're a big baseball guy. I mean it's
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  Speaker 3: back when you were in high school. Were you guys
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  Speaker 3: sitting around the dugout talking about, you know, whether or
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  Speaker 3: not you liked to guys or goals or you identified
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  Speaker 3: as a shrub.
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  Speaker 11: I can't say that I have had that conversation in
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  Speaker 11: the dugout.
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  Speaker 3: Now, it just seems to me, Dylan, that if you're
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  Speaker 3: a baseball fan, you could care less about which way
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  Speaker 3: a guy swings his bat, whether he's idle know a
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  Speaker 3: pitcher or a catcher, or can go all nine innings.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think any of that really matters.
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  Speaker 11: I think that could go for all the sports, like
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  Speaker 11: any sports that you watch, like not just baseball, but
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  Speaker 11: especially baseball, but baseball is America's sport, Like can we
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  Speaker 11: please leave it alone?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly? It makes no sense at all. And this is
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  Speaker 3: America's pastime for crying out loud. I mean, I get
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  Speaker 3: it if it's like water polo, but I mean we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about baseball here for crying out loud, not that
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  Speaker 3: there's a anything wrong with water polo. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to get any more hate mail.
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  Speaker 11: I'm gonna get the water polo community really wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I got enough or the Pilates crowd. It is what
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  Speaker 3: it is, Janzer size anybody, uh So again, folks, I
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  Speaker 3: hate it for these ballplayers. The problem is the Major
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  Speaker 3: League Baseball. Here's the thing. They're just scared. The folks
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  Speaker 3: in the front office are terrified of these gay activists.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason why is because they know they're being watched.
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  Speaker 3: And Major League Baseball, justlike every other major sport, including
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  Speaker 3: the WNBA, every single one of them, have to bow
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  Speaker 3: out and pledge your allegiance to this rainbow flag. All right,
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  Speaker 3: we've got to take a break here. Nine oh one
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  Speaker 3: two six zero five nine two six. Our telephone number,
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  Speaker 3: that's nine oh one two six zero five six. This
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  Speaker 3: is the Ton Sterns Show. By the way, you got
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  Speaker 3: to give a big shout out to George W. Bush
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  Speaker 3: The Texas Rangers are the only team in Major League
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  Speaker 3: Baseball that does not host a Pride Night. This week,
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  Speaker 3: they are hosting a faith and family night instead, and
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  Speaker 3: that's the way it should be. Ladies and gentlemen. Real quick,
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  Speaker 3: let's go to the phones. Beth in North Carolina. Hi, Beth,
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  Speaker 3: you are on the air. What's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 12: Hi God? What's on my mind is I had a
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  Speaker 12: conversation with my sister last night about the rainbow. The
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  Speaker 12: rainbow is God's promise to us that He's not going
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  Speaker 12: to flood the earth again. You know, that's God's promise.
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  Speaker 12: When it's appears in the sky, we're all like, oh
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  Speaker 12: my God, it's amazing. But now it's been changed, and
• 20:58
  Speaker 12: I'm on the baseball play side that they put the
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  Speaker 12: Bible versus on their their baseball caps and chowse to
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  Speaker 12: maybe not wear that. I mean, I'm not going to
• 21:08
  Speaker 12: do that. We don't force things on the Pride people.
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  Speaker 12: They forced things on us. But the rainbow is God's promise.
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  Speaker 3: Well it is, But I want to read to you
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  Speaker 3: what what Scott Wiener said, the state senator who's going
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: to be replacing Nancy Pelosi in Congress, and this is
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: a guy who runs around. I mean, look, he's they're
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: also we've got a photograph of the guy up on
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Todd Stearns dot com. You can see it for yourself.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: He wears a lot of leather. I'll just leave it
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: at that. You know, I'm always concerned about chafy when
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: people because it's hot as in the summer anyway. But anyway,
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: he goes on to say, he says that in his estimation,
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: the Christian players are the ones who have hijacked the
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Bible passage. It's been hijacked by homophobes to take back
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: the rainbow from the LGBTQ people. The problem is the
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: rainbow was never meant for the oh g b t
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  Speaker 3: Q people. This was this was God's covenant to us
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: that he was not going to destroy the earth again
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: with a flood.
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  Speaker 12: Absolutely, that's right. We need to take the rainbow back
• 22:14
  Speaker 12: as Christians in this beautiful state of the United States
• 22:18
  Speaker 12: of America.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And may I just say, also, may we please take
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: back the word gay two? Because I love singing the song.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: What is it to give it? Don we now are
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: a gay apparel? You can't even sing that Christmas?
• 22:32
  Speaker 12: We have to gay means happy, gay means happy. We
• 22:36
  Speaker 12: can say the word. You cannot be bullied anymore. No
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: the alphabet people LBG. We need to take back what's
• 22:49
  Speaker 12: what's traditional, what this country is based on. And the
• 22:54
  Speaker 12: rainbow is God's promised, and so is the word gay
• 22:59
  Speaker 12: is yeah, you know Christmas song?
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  Speaker 3: All right, h Bath, thank you. If we're going to
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: go ahead and reclaim stuff as we'll throw on the
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Christmas Carol too. All right, Bath, thank you. Nine oh
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: one two six zero five nine two six is our
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: telephone over. I'm getting in trouble again, Dylan. I'm getting
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: in trouble again today. I can just feel it. All right.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: I want to go right away to the Patriot Mobile
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: news maker line. There is a fascinating case. It's sort
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: of a sports themed show. I guess to welcome Bat
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Parker may from basketball camp. But we are honored to
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: have with us the third most tenured NBA referee until
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: he got canned and his attorney. We're excited to have
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Kenny Maller with us, as well as First Liberty Senior
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: counsel Cliff Martin. Guys, good to have you with us today.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Hope you're doing well.
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  Speaker 13: Hello, Hello Ton it's good to be here. Thank you.
• 23:51
  Speaker 13: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, Kenny, I just want to start with you
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: and give us your story. I mean, here, you are
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: the third most tenured NBA referee. Then how long comes
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty two? You got the China virus? And tell
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: our listeners what happened to you?
• 24:08
  Speaker 13: Well, first of all, Todd, it starts way back in
• 24:11
  Speaker 13: twenty twenty one. It's been some time and so a
• 24:14
  Speaker 13: lot of people have forgotten, but I think everybody's familiar
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: at least with the NBA and the bubble. So this
• 24:20
  Speaker 13: all started way back in the fall of twenty when
• 24:22
  Speaker 13: the bubble took place in Orlando, Florida, and you know
• 24:25
  Speaker 13: it was you know, the NBA, Disney, ESPN, the military
• 24:29
  Speaker 13: all were involved in that bubble. And during that twenty
• 24:32
  Speaker 13: twenty one season, all of the referees, we were all
• 24:34
  Speaker 13: asked to wear masks during the season. We were tested
• 24:38
  Speaker 13: during the playoffs, Todd in twenty twenty one, the summer
• 24:41
  Speaker 13: of twenty twenty one, I tested as much as four
• 24:44
  Speaker 13: times a day. So you know, we understood that there
• 24:48
  Speaker 13: was you know, there was this COVID outbreak whatever, and
• 24:51
  Speaker 13: that we had to do our parts, so there was
• 24:52
  Speaker 13: never a problem. Then in the summer of twenty one
• 24:55
  Speaker 13: comes along and the NBA decides to change the last
• 24:59
  Speaker 13: year of our content track and mandates that if we
• 25:02
  Speaker 13: do not take the vaccine that we will lose our jobs.
• 25:06
  Speaker 14: So I had the.
• 25:07
  Speaker 13: Decision to make, and that was either I continued to
• 25:10
  Speaker 13: work for an employer that was questioning my God given faith,
• 25:14
  Speaker 13: and so it was easy for my wife and I
• 25:17
  Speaker 13: at that time. We chose our faith over you know,
• 25:20
  Speaker 13: over my job, and so they did not. They offered
• 25:24
  Speaker 13: us a religious exemption and gave us a year to
• 25:26
  Speaker 13: change our mind. We were without pay, we were without
• 25:29
  Speaker 13: a job, and after that year, I would never change
• 25:32
  Speaker 13: my mind. And even after the commissioner in the summer
• 25:37
  Speaker 13: of twenty twenty two came out with a press release
• 25:39
  Speaker 13: saying that there was no more mandates for for anyone,
• 25:43
  Speaker 13: you know, any of the players or referees, and the
• 25:45
  Speaker 13: contract in October said no more mandates. The commissioner still
• 25:48
  Speaker 13: fired us in October of twenty two. So it started
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: way back in twenty again. We followed all protocols, were
• 25:56
  Speaker 13: willing to do that. The contract was changed in twenty one,
• 25:58
  Speaker 13: we were suspended we're finally terminated in October twenty two.
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  Speaker 3: And again, you are a man of devout faith. I mean,
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: you've been to what a Catholic for what more than
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: what sixty years? Is that right?
• 26:11
  Speaker 13: I was born a Catholic, I was baptized, I've received
• 26:14
  Speaker 13: my confirmation, my communion, I've been part of the Catholic
• 26:17
  Speaker 13: Church for you know, my entire life. I'm a I'm
• 26:21
  Speaker 13: a Christian who believes in our lords is Christ, and
• 26:23
  Speaker 13: I'm not afraid to admit it, and I'm not afraid
• 26:25
  Speaker 13: to talk about it. And that's what I think. You know,
• 26:28
  Speaker 13: there's a lot of people who are denouncing faith, but
• 26:30
  Speaker 13: it seems to be Catholic and Christian faith, and I
• 26:34
  Speaker 13: really don't know why. And so again the tod the
• 26:39
  Speaker 13: NBA players were never mandated to take the vaccine. So
• 26:43
  Speaker 13: when they opened up the arenas and the people came
• 26:45
  Speaker 13: back into the arenas, they were never never mandated to
• 26:48
  Speaker 13: take it. The players were never mandated to take it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 13: It's just the three referees out on the floor who
• 26:53
  Speaker 13: blew a whistle for a living. If they didn't take
• 26:56
  Speaker 13: the vaccine, they were they all they lost their jobs
• 26:59
  Speaker 13: and a few us did we walked. We walked away
• 27:02
  Speaker 13: because we it was it was very important for me.
• 27:04
  Speaker 13: It was very My faith is very important to me. Again,
• 27:07
  Speaker 13: I didn't really have to feel the need all these
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: years I've been with them almost forty years, to be
• 27:12
  Speaker 13: able to preface my faith. I didn't think I they
• 27:14
  Speaker 13: didn't even know what religion I was. I went to
• 27:16
  Speaker 13: church every every week on the road. I didn't have to.
• 27:19
  Speaker 13: Now all of a sudden, it was a it was
• 27:21
  Speaker 13: a big concern with them and I I've never really
• 27:23
  Speaker 13: understood that, but again, it was, it was. It was
• 27:27
  Speaker 13: an easy decision for me at that time. I'm proud
• 27:29
  Speaker 13: of what I did and I stand behind it. No
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: one's going to change my right to have my my
• 27:35
  Speaker 13: faith in our Lord.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: I want to bring in your your attorney here, Kenny
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Cliff Martin from First Liberty Institute. Uh, Cliff, I understand
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: you guys are now joining the team representing him in
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: this religious accommodation case. Tell us, does he have a
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: case here? And what concerns you about what the NBA did?
• 27:59
  Speaker 15: That's right, then you tried. The NBA clearly failed to
• 28:05
  Speaker 15: accommodate Kenny's religious practice. He notified them of you know,
• 28:11
  Speaker 15: his religious beliefs, and instead of respecting that and accommodating
• 28:16
  Speaker 15: his religious beliefs, instead they terminated him. And there's no
• 28:22
  Speaker 15: reason other than his religious belief that was a bedrock
• 28:27
  Speaker 15: of their decision. And that's what made us want to
• 28:29
  Speaker 15: get involved in support.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Kenny, I'm wondering if there's if you've been looking at
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: any settled court cases, any rulings from the Supreme Court
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: that would that would cover something like this.
• 28:41
  Speaker 15: Well, certainly the chief case for Title seven. You know,
• 28:46
  Speaker 15: religious discrimination claims and failure to accommodate claims is our
• 28:50
  Speaker 15: very own gro versus. The Joy decision that first Liberty
• 28:55
  Speaker 15: was privileged to represent Harold Groff when he sought in
• 28:59
  Speaker 15: a commodation not to work on Sundays for the Postal Service,
• 29:04
  Speaker 15: and you know, he was discriminated against and non accommodated,
• 29:08
  Speaker 15: and the Supreme Court that don't know, employers, you must
• 29:11
  Speaker 15: be able to prove an undue hardship to deny a
• 29:15
  Speaker 15: religious accommodation, and undue hardship means a substantial increased cost
• 29:21
  Speaker 15: to the business. So an employer that you know does
• 29:25
  Speaker 15: not want to grant a religious accommodation to employees and
• 29:28
  Speaker 15: must be able to show some sort of substantial increased costs. Here,
• 29:33
  Speaker 15: the fact that the court is full players that are
• 29:35
  Speaker 15: not necessarily vaccinated, you know, really does kill any argument
• 29:40
  Speaker 15: that the NBA would have that there was some sort
• 29:43
  Speaker 15: of substantial increased costs and having undaccinated referees on the floor,
• 29:47
  Speaker 15: like that argument just isn't going to hold water in
• 29:50
  Speaker 15: light of the reality on the court of you know,
• 29:53
  Speaker 15: a number of undoctinated players.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Well, that's it's a great point, Kenny. I'm just it's
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: it's got to be heartbreaking. I mean, you've spent so
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: many years in the league then to be fired, do
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: you what what have you been doing since then?
• 30:08
  Speaker 13: Well, Todd, for the first couple of years, if you remember,
• 30:12
  Speaker 13: back then, I mean I went out and looked for jobs. Well,
• 30:16
  Speaker 13: several several employers, I mean, but either I was underqualified,
• 30:20
  Speaker 13: I was overqualified. I A lot of them said, well, Kenny,
• 30:24
  Speaker 13: you're gonna you know you're going to be you know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: you're going to be asked back to referee. There's no
• 30:28
  Speaker 13: question you're going to go back. So they wouldn't hire
• 30:30
  Speaker 13: me because they thought I was I was going to
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: go back. No one ever thought this has been going on, Todd, Well,
• 30:35
  Speaker 13: we're you know, we're in our We're going to be
• 30:36
  Speaker 13: in our sixth year in another month. It's been five
• 30:39
  Speaker 13: years that I've I've been without a job, without a livelihood.
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: I've always you know, I you know, I still think
• 30:47
  Speaker 13: I could referee today. I know I could. I still
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: work very hard to stay in shape. I loved my job.
• 30:52
  Speaker 13: I worked very hard at it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: Watching the NBA playoffs was I think that the greatest
• 30:56
  Speaker 13: athletes in the world. I think it was fun to watch,
• 30:58
  Speaker 13: but it was also frustrating to watch because I would
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: have liked to have been there, been out working and
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: just the way it ended, Todd, it didn't have to
• 31:06
  Speaker 13: end that way. I mean, why the union pushed for
• 31:10
  Speaker 13: why the NBA changed the contract, Why they never made
• 31:14
  Speaker 13: players do it, why they never made fans do it,
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: Why they just came at referees and Major League Baseball
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: umpires never had to be back, they were never mandated.
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: National League Football referees were never mandated. NBA referees were.
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: People don't understand they've they've never really taken the time.
• 31:30
  Speaker 13: I think people care. I've had thousands of people that
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: reached out to me and and and support of me.
• 31:35
  Speaker 13: I think it's and I think Todd, as it goes on,
• 31:37
  Speaker 13: I think it's becoming even greater and greater. I applaud
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: what the players did with uh, you know, with Major
• 31:43
  Speaker 13: League Baseball the other day. I think it's I mean,
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: people with religious faith, you have a constitutional right to
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: be able to express whatever faith you want. It doesn't
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: matter whether you're You could be a Mormon, you could
• 31:54
  Speaker 13: be a Muslim, you could be a prodest Protestant, you
• 31:57
  Speaker 13: could be Jewish, you could be that doesn't matter. This
• 31:59
  Speaker 13: isn't about the vaccine, Todd. This is about allowing us
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: to have our God given right to be able to
• 32:05
  Speaker 13: you know, to be able to take part in whatever
• 32:07
  Speaker 13: faith we want. And that's what I'm fighting for. And
• 32:10
  Speaker 13: with the help of First Liberty in Scott Street, where
• 32:13
  Speaker 13: we're gonna we're gonna continue to move forward.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I love this, Cliff, you got to you got a good,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: well spoken client here. Well done, Kenny. Uh yeah, this
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: is this is unacceptable. And I'm Glenn you're brought major
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: League Baseball and and Cliff, I don't want to get
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: too far off the reservation here, but I mean the
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: irony is that you know, this is going on right
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: now in the culture where we're having this this argument.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: You know, should players be forced to wear pride flags?
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: And should they be forced to support something that they
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: may not necessarily agree with? And it's my question is
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: what does any of this have to do with sports?
• 32:53
  Speaker 15: Well, that's right. I mean the sports leagues across the
• 32:58
  Speaker 15: nation we have seen, you know, in the various modes
• 33:03
  Speaker 15: of expression. And what they have to remember is that
• 33:07
  Speaker 15: their employees are employees with right to religious accommodation. They
• 33:12
  Speaker 15: cannot be forced to engage in messaging that offends their
• 33:18
  Speaker 15: faith unless, as we refer to before, it has some
• 33:21
  Speaker 15: sort of substantial increased costs, and you know, and it doesn't.
• 33:26
  Speaker 15: So we need to be very careful not to disadvantage
• 33:32
  Speaker 15: employees of faith, whatever faith that is. And they're definitely
• 33:38
  Speaker 15: walking a fine line and you know, maybe crossing it.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, guys, we're gonna have to leave it there.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: We're going to be following this case. First Liberty Dot
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: RG Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to read more
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: about Kenny's case and what he has been through. First
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Liberty Institute. Great, great folks, guys, best of luck to
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: you and thank you for coming on the show today.
• 34:00
  Speaker 13: All right, thank you, thank you, Todd. Thank you, Tod.
• 34:02
  Speaker 13: Big fan of a big fan of the people you
• 34:04
  Speaker 13: work for.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Thank you very well, thank you, thank you. All Right,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: there you have it, everybody. What a crazy story out
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: of the NBA. But again you heard Kenny. He's sixty
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: years he's been a devout, practicing Catholic and he said
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: at the time, I've got to read this quote to you.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: He said, neither the NBA, nor any human being, nor
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: any person in the world is going to change how
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: I feel about our Lord Jesus Christ and how I
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: feel about my faith and religion. A lot of Catholics
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: said it would be a violation of their religious beliefs
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: to get that clot shot, as they called it. So
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: there you go. Nine oh one two six zero five
• 34:42
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• 34:48
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• 35:03
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• 35:09
  Speaker 3: You know he's been on coaching and you know, smacking
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: around kids on the ball on the court. And all
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: that kind of good stuff.
• 35:14
  Speaker 11: You know, Yeah, I've heard he's a tough guy. He
• 35:16
  Speaker 11: came back. He was bowling us around in here.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: I know it. We were having to do stadiums. I'm like,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: what is he talking about? We're up and down the stairs. Yeah,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: holy cow, indeed, welcome back. And so anyway, we've got
• 35:31
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• 35:33
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• 35:37
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• 35:40
  Speaker 3: in on the big elections in Oklahoma. And also this
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: Iran deal. You know, this scene, really, I think it
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: just bothers one of the things I'm bothered by. And
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: I just want to speak frankly about the America First Movement,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: the MAGA movement. If you even so much as question something,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, they label you as a far
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: left extremist. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. And
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: that's got to stop. You can still be an America
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: First conservative and disagree with the White House about an
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: issue or a topic or whatever. But the whole point
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: of this Iran war. And I went back and I looked,
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: I listened to the President. I read his true social
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: post back many many months ago, when this thing was
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: only just to last five weeks, and the President was
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: very clear that this was about stopping Iran's nuclear program.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: That was it. There was nothing else, not about getting
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: the oil, not about regime change. It was about stopping
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: and destroying Iron's capability to make nuclear weapons. That's all
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: it is. So the question is is that still all
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: it is? Or has this morphed into something else? And
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: then you've got on the other side of that, you've
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: got the never try who are like who are always
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: going to attack President Trump no matter what. But there
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: are a lot of folks that are caught in the middle,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: and I would consider myself to be one of those individuals.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I do believe that Iran's nuclear capabilities have to be
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: completely eliminated. But we were told that had already happened.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: So has it happened or or were they mistaken? I mean,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: you can't have it. You can't have it both ways.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: And the reason a lot of people are concerned is
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: because most of the folks making these kinds of decisions
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: do not live paycheck to paycheck. They don't go grocery
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: shopping on a budget to try to figure out Okay,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: do I need do I need a coupon for this?
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: You know what, they don't have to worry about those
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: kinds of decisions whether or not they can either fill
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: up a court, get a quarter of a tank of
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: gas this week, or a half a tank of gas.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: They don't have to deal with those those real issues.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: A lot of people do out there, I think an
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: overwhelming majority of the American people do. And so they
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: get a little nervous when they see these gas prices
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: and they are going up, and when they see the
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: grocery prices and they are going up. And by the way,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: layoffs are happening all over the country. So again, ladies
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: and gentlemen, this is just there are questions, and they
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: are fair questions that need to be addressed. All right,
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: gotta take a break here, hang toid. Everybody will be right.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: Back Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: It's common sense, conservative commentary from Todd Stars.
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  Speaker 3: This American. All right, Hello, Everyboddy, Welcome to the Todd
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• 39:13
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  Speaker 3: have with US Congressman Andy Ogles, who is from Middle
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Tennessee but happens to be I guess you were spending
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: some time in Memphis, Congressman. Are you still in the
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Mid South?
• 40:50
  Speaker 14: I am. I'm actually in Memphis as we speak. So
• 40:53
  Speaker 14: I'm with a Memphis Task Force with the Guard and
• 40:57
  Speaker 14: the men and women who are helping keep Memphis safe.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: So again, you're in Memphis, but you are not in studio, Congressman.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: You have to explain yourself. Why are you not in person?
• 41:08
  Speaker 14: A Congressman, Well, you know, you know, so I was
• 41:12
  Speaker 14: here previously with the President with attashed Force and really
• 41:16
  Speaker 14: celebrating the results of you know, when you when you
• 41:19
  Speaker 14: focus on quite frankly, putting the way criminals and keeping
• 41:23
  Speaker 14: the community safe, you know, when you're in that event
• 41:25
  Speaker 14: with the President, you know, I went out into the
• 41:27
  Speaker 14: community and talk and talked to some of the families
• 41:29
  Speaker 14: that were most greatly affected by, you know, a safer community,
• 41:33
  Speaker 14: and one of the ladies, I'll never forget it. She said, Look,
• 41:34
  Speaker 14: I've never you know, voted for President Trump. I can't
• 41:37
  Speaker 14: ever say I actually liked it. But I love President
• 41:40
  Speaker 14: Trump because my nine year old son can go outside
• 41:42
  Speaker 14: and play. I mean, this has had a drastic effect
• 41:45
  Speaker 14: on this community in a positive way. You can now
• 41:47
  Speaker 14: be out on Bill Street and do it safely. And
• 41:51
  Speaker 14: you know, and though you saw about a fifteen percent
• 41:53
  Speaker 14: crime from twenty three to twenty four or twenty four
• 41:57
  Speaker 14: to twenty five area, what's the guard got here? You
• 42:00
  Speaker 14: had the Memphis Safe Task Force take you know, take hold.
• 42:04
  Speaker 14: You've seen over a fifty percent violent crime, petty theft,
• 42:09
  Speaker 14: et cetera across the city. Have been meeting with community leaders,
• 42:13
  Speaker 14: business leaders, and literally this whole Mississippi Corridor about this.
• 42:17
  Speaker 14: You know, President Trump talked about this golden age of America,
• 42:21
  Speaker 14: and what I would say is that there's a golden
• 42:23
  Speaker 14: age for Memphis ahead. The future is bright, and I'm
• 42:26
  Speaker 14: committed to making sure that Memphis is safe, stay safe,
• 42:29
  Speaker 14: and that prosperities in the future.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad to hear that. And by the way,
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: the lady that said that she was on our program,
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: and then she went on to become a very prominent
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: voice in just the Whitehaven community speaking out and letting
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: people know that the black community in Memphis by and large,
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: is very happy with a National Guard. They're very happy
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: with the Memphis Safe Task Force, and people do enjoy
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: being able to go to the grocery store and not
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: have to work about getting car chacked.
• 43:02
  Speaker 14: Well, what's interesting is that is I talked to I'm
• 43:04
  Speaker 14: literally out of the community with the soldiers, the guardsmen
• 43:08
  Speaker 14: who were on the ground in the community, and I said,
• 43:11
  Speaker 14: you know, when when they're when they're going out to
• 43:13
  Speaker 14: you know, conduct an operation or maybe a surge in
• 43:15
  Speaker 14: a particular community, that kids are actually coming out and
• 43:19
  Speaker 14: up to them and wanting to take selfies like they're
• 43:22
  Speaker 14: they're proud of the fact that these soldiers, these men
• 43:26
  Speaker 14: and women, you know, and keep in mind that these
• 43:28
  Speaker 14: these folks have careers back home that they're they're guardsmen,
• 43:32
  Speaker 14: guards women, and they're they're here in this community. They
• 43:34
  Speaker 14: they love the mission. And but literally, you know, they
• 43:37
  Speaker 14: were showing these flives of all these different selfies where
• 43:39
  Speaker 14: kids are coming up to them and wanting to get
• 43:41
  Speaker 14: their picture taken. Because it's a new day, and I'm excited,
• 43:46
  Speaker 14: of course with the new fifth Congressional district. You know, selfishly,
• 43:49
  Speaker 14: my current district is very small right here in Middle Tennessee,
• 43:52
  Speaker 14: and now I have this giant horseshoe that comes all
• 43:55
  Speaker 14: the way over here to Shelby County, and so I'll
• 43:57
  Speaker 14: be serving here, and you know, I just look forward
• 44:00
  Speaker 14: getting to the community and of course supporting these men
• 44:03
  Speaker 14: and women that are keeping helping keep meant to safe.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: So conresson, I want to ask you about this race.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: I know you've got some you'll have somebody that's going
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: to be challenging you in the Republican primary, but the
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: fact is you're the incumbent the there's a guy on
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: the Democrat side. And a few weeks ago, I was
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: just reading we went to the guy's website and we're
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: reading through, you know, all of his bona fides, and
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I didn't tell anybody, you know, it was the Republican Democrits.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: I said, guess who this guy is. He sounds like
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: a Republican, But this guy's no Republican.
• 44:37
  Speaker 14: Well, you know, it's a crowded primary on the Democratic side.
• 44:40
  Speaker 14: So you know, we had a forum in the upper
• 44:43
  Speaker 14: part of the district and you know, they were five Democrats.
• 44:47
  Speaker 14: It was it was a non partisan forum. We received
• 44:50
  Speaker 14: alphabetically and so a few Republics in five Democrats. And
• 44:54
  Speaker 14: but you know there's a clear difference. Now this district
• 44:58
  Speaker 14: is drawn you know on a bad day plus sixteen
• 45:02
  Speaker 14: on a good cycle twenty twenty one, and so it's
• 45:04
  Speaker 14: really nearly impossible for a Democrat to win. With that
• 45:09
  Speaker 14: being said, so my challenge is in my primary, we're leading,
• 45:12
  Speaker 14: but you never take anything for granted. I mean, you know,
• 45:15
  Speaker 14: I've always won my races by double digits. You know,
• 45:18
  Speaker 14: our kids play sports, one of which is cross countries.
• 45:20
  Speaker 14: So we're always talking about running through the tape, running
• 45:23
  Speaker 14: through the finish line, and as you get near the
• 45:24
  Speaker 14: finish line, you turn on your jets. And so part
• 45:27
  Speaker 14: of my job is obviously to serve into DC and
• 45:30
  Speaker 14: serve my current district, but also it's to get to
• 45:32
  Speaker 14: know my new constituents once we win this race.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Were you were you? I'm just again, was it? Has
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: that been a lot of work getting to know, I
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: mean you've got I mean that's a long way between
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: Middle Tennessee and over in West Tennessee.
• 45:47
  Speaker 14: Well, you know, as state would have it. When I
• 45:50
  Speaker 14: was county mayor in Murray County, we started so economic
• 45:54
  Speaker 14: development is huge obviously for any county, especially for those
• 45:58
  Speaker 14: who have a lot of residential gal So from you know,
• 46:01
  Speaker 14: not to get too nerdy, but for every dollar of
• 46:03
  Speaker 14: residential tax revenue, it normally costs you about a dollar
• 46:06
  Speaker 14: thirty two a dollar thirty five because you're having to
• 46:09
  Speaker 14: front load the water, you having front load the buses
• 46:12
  Speaker 14: and the schools and all that infrastructure, Whereas where you
• 46:15
  Speaker 14: really are able to pay your bills is on that
• 46:18
  Speaker 14: business growth. And so we built this coalition. I built
• 46:21
  Speaker 14: this coalition of different of the counties in Middle Tennessee
• 46:24
  Speaker 14: because I knew I wasn't going to get every business.
• 46:26
  Speaker 14: I knew I wasn't going to get you know, every
• 46:29
  Speaker 14: manufacturing company that was coming into Middle Tennessee. So if
• 46:32
  Speaker 14: I could support my fellow mayor and help them be prosperous,
• 46:36
  Speaker 14: it was good for Murray County too. And what happened
• 46:38
  Speaker 14: was is that grew across the state, especially into West Tennessee.
• 46:42
  Speaker 14: So when you were looking at Blue Oval Heywood County,
• 46:45
  Speaker 14: they lacked any healthcare infrastructure. So I worked with the
• 46:49
  Speaker 14: county mayor out there and we were able to get
• 46:52
  Speaker 14: kind of an emergency services operation in Haywood County. So
• 46:56
  Speaker 14: I actually have to familiar in West Tennessee.
• 46:58
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 46:58
  Speaker 14: When I was doing that, I was doing it to
• 47:00
  Speaker 14: help my fellow mayor and to help his constituents or
• 47:02
  Speaker 14: her constituents. I never dreamed I would be serving far
• 47:07
  Speaker 14: West Tennessee and have Bill Street again. If you told
• 47:11
  Speaker 14: me when I was when I first ran that someday
• 47:13
  Speaker 14: in the near future, Bill Street would be in your district,
• 47:15
  Speaker 14: I would have last.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: Well, well, look, since it is, you got to go
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: down to Runaboogie Cafe. Jim Lesapio, who's a great supporter
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: of our work. I own the radio station of Memphis,
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: the news talk station, and they're big supporters. He owns
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: rum Boogie and a lot of other places there on
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Bill Street. Good conservative guy, and he'll take good care
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: of you.
• 47:37
  Speaker 14: Well. I do believe we'll be there at some point
• 47:41
  Speaker 14: on this trip, and so if I do it, I'll
• 47:42
  Speaker 14: take a selfie. I'll send it to you.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Oh please, do. And by the way, I am just curious.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: You know, barbecue is like a huge thing here in Memphis.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: Have you been able to sample and do you have
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: a favorite?
• 47:55
  Speaker 13: Well? Not yet.
• 47:57
  Speaker 14: And that being said, so we're literally, you know, at
• 48:00
  Speaker 14: one of our stops, and we're feeding the guardsmen and
• 48:03
  Speaker 14: men and women that are here. And so I'm watching
• 48:06
  Speaker 14: them eat barbecue at the moment while I talk to you.
• 48:09
  Speaker 7: Is that right?
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: Well that is so nice. So you're literally you are
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: feeding the you're feeding the National Guard troops.
• 48:15
  Speaker 14: Yes, sir, yes, So we've been doing it at various stops,
• 48:18
  Speaker 14: just so I got a full briefing. Part of it
• 48:21
  Speaker 14: was not necessarily plussified, but sensitive. And now we're out
• 48:25
  Speaker 14: in the community going to those various locations. So again
• 48:29
  Speaker 14: to see the operation and to see the impact. I mean,
• 48:32
  Speaker 14: at the end of the day, people's lives are different
• 48:37
  Speaker 14: today than just a year ago because of the presidence
• 48:41
  Speaker 14: of these men and women and the commitment of our president.
• 48:43
  Speaker 14: So the President give the directive. But there are you know, thousands,
• 48:48
  Speaker 14: you know, fifteen hundred or so troops here, men and
• 48:52
  Speaker 14: women here, guardsmen here that are working with all the
• 48:55
  Speaker 14: various law enforcement agencies. The local PD, the Sheriff's department
• 48:59
  Speaker 14: to to take this city back and again. I had
• 49:03
  Speaker 14: a dinner last night with a lot of business leaders
• 49:05
  Speaker 14: here in this community, and they're excited. I mean you
• 49:08
  Speaker 14: could feel the excitement in the room because it's now safe.
• 49:12
  Speaker 14: One of the gentlemen has some properties in the communities.
• 49:14
  Speaker 14: He said, you know, we don't have to have the
• 49:16
  Speaker 14: level of security that we did before because it's safe again.
• 49:19
  Speaker 14: And going back to that comment I made about the
• 49:22
  Speaker 14: young woman and her nine year old son, you know,
• 49:24
  Speaker 14: when when it's infecting your family and the fact that
• 49:26
  Speaker 14: your kids can now go outside and play, I couldn't.
• 49:29
  Speaker 14: I can't imagine a day that my son couldn't go
• 49:32
  Speaker 14: outside and play. But in this community and parts of
• 49:34
  Speaker 14: this city, it wouldn't safe for you to go outside,
• 49:37
  Speaker 14: and no one should live in that type of fear.
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Well sin all right, well, congressman, enjoy, enjoy Memphis. I'm
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: gonna give you. I'm just gonna I'm gonna give this
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: as a gimme, so no charge here. Barbecue, don't don't
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: claim a favorite, just say there's so. You know, if
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: you if you want a good chopped pork sandwich, you
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: go to tops. If you want ribs, go to Central.
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: They've got good sides too, because you're gonna in trouble,
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: so you can't. You can't have a.
• 50:02
  Speaker 14: Favorite Roger, that I understand, all right.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Congressman Andy Ogle's boots on the ground with the National
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Guard in Memphis, Tennessee, feeding our troops. Also meeting a
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: lot of folks in his brand new redistricted congressional district.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: And we'll be getting the Congressman back on very soon,
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: all right. Our telephone number nine oh one two six
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• 50:27
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• 50:30
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  Speaker 3: North Carolina. Charles listening to us on WSIC. Hi, Charles,
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: what's on your mind?
• 51:51
  Speaker 9: All right?
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: John God, just been listening to your show today and
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: I wanted to weigh in on this thing in Iran.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: Like you, I think we need to wait and see
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: with this deal and foods. But you were you were saying,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: so what should we do?
• 52:07
  Speaker 12: Uh?
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: And Todd's I'm of the thinking that we just need
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: to declare victory and get the hell out of there.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: A thousand percent accurate. I'm with you because I see
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: this going south. I just I don't see us heading
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: down a good path, right here and I'm with you, Charles.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Let's just declare victory.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: Declare victory, income of nothing, get by continue continuing to
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: stay over there and fight is going to end up
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: in the disaster and it's going to ruin Trump's presidency,
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: just like it did LB Jays and Vietnam and George W.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: Bush's in Iraq. But you know, Tom, it's gotten where
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: I can't even watch Fox News anymore. I mean every
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: time I turn it on, I Steve, Brian kill Need,
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Sean Hannity, even Jessey. They're just beating the drums just
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: you know, just stay in this war. You know, they're
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: interviewing the Lindsey Grahams, that Tom Cottons, the Jack Keanes,
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: all these people, and none of them have a son
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: or daughter that's in the military that's going to go fight.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: But as far as regime change goes, Todd, I'll just
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: say this, it's a historian, somebody knows military history. Never
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: before has there been regime changed accomplish by strategic bombing
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: or you know, going in there and dropping a bunch
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: of bombs on people. That is only going to happen
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: if there's a million ground troops that are sitting there
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: or a nuclear bomb cerebraal going off in Iran, and
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to do that. And I
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: don't think the American people want to see a massive
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: ground invasion to try to remove the leadership of Iran.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: That she's not going to happen.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: I don't think the American people have an appetite for it.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: And I say that because even not only the Democrats
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: are always going to be upset, and they're always going
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: to opposet Trump. The problem Trump has now is that
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: you've got a large swath of the base and they're
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: just done. They do not want their sons and daughters
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: going to war. They don't understand why they're over there,
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: and quite frankly, the administration doesn't. The administration is not
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: on board with us. Everybody there is not on board,
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: which is why, quite frankly, people are leaking information.
• 54:19
  Speaker 7: Yeap, correct.
• 54:19
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 54:20
  Speaker 9: No.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: The American people that voted for Trump, like myself and you,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: wanted him to focus on domestic issues, secure the border,
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: deport millions of illegal aliens, and help clean up this
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: culture rot in our country. And that's not even being
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: discussed hardly anymore.
• 54:40
  Speaker 16: Todd.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: It is funny today on Fox, I did hear one statistic.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: In two hundred and forty cities across America, the average
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: price of a starter home is a million dollars. Now.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: In nineteen eighty nine, when I bought my first starter home,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: it was sixty two thousand dollars. So the American people
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: can't afford housing. They see groceries going up, they see
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: everything going up. And unless you're invested in the stock market,
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: which most people are not, you're feeling this economic pain,
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: and a lot of it is being caused by this
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: continued war in Iran. I don't want to see the
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: arrangements with a nuclear bomb, but I certainly do not
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: want to see us go there and fight for regime change.
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: I think that was the ultimate goal of a lot
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: of these neo cons like Lindsay Graham. I mean, they're
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: for every war on every continent, anytime, anywhere. But that's
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: not why we should be over there.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: Well, my question is in Charles, thank you for the call.
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: As always, Look, the question I have is this, did
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: we destroy their nuclear program?
• 55:46
  Speaker 16: Yes?
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: Or no? If we did, great, let's get out of there.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: We're done. If not, drop more bombs, destroy it and
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: get out of there. It's really not that hard or
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: difficult to do. Again, this is what the administration was
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: telling us that. I mean, we've how many times has
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: the administration come out and said that we have defeated Iran?
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: So we've either defeated Iran or we've not. So you
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: can't have it both ways. And the ceasefire after ceasefire,
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: people are just tired of it. And I will say
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: this about Fox, and this is not a slam on
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: Fox or Newsmax or anybody else, but a lot of
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: these people they don't live the same life that the
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: average American lives. Many of them are making hundreds of
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: thousands of dollars, many of them are incredibly wealthy. Many
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: of them are millionaires. They don't live and breathe America
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: like you and I do. And I say that because
• 56:42
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  Speaker 3: Lizpeak dot com. You better bookmark that website, folks and
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  Speaker 3: read it every day. Liz, Hope you're doing well.
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  Speaker 17: I'm just doing fine, thank you. I'm trying to make
• 58:37
  Speaker 17: sense of what President Trump has told the country about
• 58:41
  Speaker 17: the Memorandum of Understanding. But I've got to tell you,
• 58:44
  Speaker 17: I'm not sure I've ever seen such an absolute tsunami
• 58:49
  Speaker 17: of negativity as we are seeing about this deal. I mean,
• 58:53
  Speaker 17: I guess Todd at some point, if everybody hates it,
• 58:56
  Speaker 17: maybe it's a good deal.
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  Speaker 3: I yeah, I guess it's It's very strange. And again,
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: it's across the board and especially conservative media world Newsmax,
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Fox News, New York Post. Everybody is up in arms
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: over this.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 17: So, I mean, I've just obviously been thinking about this
• 59:17
  Speaker 17: a lot. Everybody has. And I think you've got several
• 59:22
  Speaker 17: different camps, right. The pro Israel camp is not happy because, uh,
• 59:28
  Speaker 17: you know, basically Trump is trying to restrain Israel's engagement
• 59:34
  Speaker 17: in Lebanon.
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 59:36
  Speaker 17: And yet I think it's pretty clear that if the
• 59:39
  Speaker 17: IF has attacks Israel, they're going to respond, I mean,
• 59:43
  Speaker 17: I just don't think that's really much of a deal breaker.
• 59:46
  Speaker 17: I don't think it's even really a consideration. Uh, And
• 59:50
  Speaker 17: so I kind of discard that notion. I think the
• 59:55
  Speaker 17: pro uh this anti israel Hawks, I I'm sorry, anti
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 17: ira Iran fox are happy that we are allowing Iran
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 17: to get back in the game, to begin to ship
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 17: oil again, et cetera. I think you have to take
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 17: a step back and say, Mike Pence is just on
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 17: Fox News actually right now as we're talking, saying there's
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 17: no verification or requirement that Iran dismantled their nuclear infrastructure.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 17: Has he forgotten that we have dismantled Iran nuclear infrastructure.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 17: That's what happened a year ago when we bomped the Smithereens.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 17: There is processing facilities, enrichment facilities. They've been destroyed. So
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 17: can they rebuild them, yes, but there is going to
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 17: be oversight on that presumably. And look, I think that
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 17: President Trump has set back this nuclear promise of Iran
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 17: and this quest for a bomb. I'm guessing five to
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 17: ten years. And you know that's not nothing. I mean,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 17: I think we can be comfortable. And by the way,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 17: remember that the Iranians themselves told Wikoff and Kushner that
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 17: they had the material for eleven bombs, and even going
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 17: back to twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, the expectation was it
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  Speaker 17: would take no more than a week or two to
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  Speaker 17: actually from sixty percent enriched the uranium go to actually
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  Speaker 17: having a nuclear weapon, so it was imminent. Now it
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  Speaker 17: is not. I think that is a considerable accomplishment. And
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  Speaker 17: I also, I mean, maybe you don't want to keep
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  Speaker 17: talking about this. I think it is kind of the
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  Speaker 17: news of the day, so one more common i'd make.
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  Speaker 17: You know, people are blasting him for talking about how
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  Speaker 17: the Iranians are reasonable and they're pragmatic. Well, if you've
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 17: had all of your senior administration wiped out, assassinated by
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 17: Israel and the United States not one layer, but two,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 17: my guess is you've got a little bit of religion
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 17: about how you might want to get along with President
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 17: Trump and Israel even to stay alive. I mean, I
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 17: think these guys in Iran, if there is a more
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 17: pragmatic tone in negotiations, and forget what they're telling their
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  Speaker 17: own people, because that is propaganda. We know that they're
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 17: going to lie, and you know There's probably some of
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 17: that on both sides. But the reality is the Iranian
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 17: leadership has got to be scared to death because we
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 17: know where they are, we know how to get to them.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 17: And I think if Trump is in terms of opening
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 17: the door of these people, I think he's sort of
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 17: replaying what he did in Venezuela. Remember we took out
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 17: Nicola Maduro in Venezuela, but who did end up doing
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 17: a deal with his number two in command, Delfi Rodriguez,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 17: and she was rumordered or it was reported that she
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 17: was been tougher and nastier and more horrible than Maduro.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 17: But the reality is, and maybe you've talked to people
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  Speaker 17: involved there, we have oil people going down there now
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  Speaker 17: and diplomats and actually we are functioning pretty well with
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 17: the Venezuelan government under Delsa Rogrigos. So isn't it possible
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 17: he sees a path forward in our relationship with Iran,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 17: the rebuilding of Iran, the rebuilding of our relationships within
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 17: the Middle East with Iran through that kind of arrangement.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 17: I don't know, but you know, I don't think Trump
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  Speaker 17: is an idiot, and I'm optimistic that this is better
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 17: than people are saying. Because of course, there's also the
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 17: Obama crowd that wants you to think that his deal
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  Speaker 17: was just as good.
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  Speaker 13: It wasn't.
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  Speaker 17: I've spent two days researching everything about what went wrong
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 17: with Obama's deal, and there was a lot. I mean, basically,
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  Speaker 17: it just it didn't work at all, and the Uranians
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 17: were cheating even before the deal was fired.
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  Speaker 3: Liz, anyway, let me jump in here because because again
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  Speaker 3: for me, I just I feel like the administration is
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  Speaker 3: not on the same page. Here's that's just the impression
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: I'm getting. And especially since Rubio and hag Sath it
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: seems have suddenly been sidelined. I haven't really seen them
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  Speaker 3: involved much. And yet the Vice President has really been
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: out and he's been the guy, the guy talking about this.
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  Speaker 3: And we know, at least from previous reporting that the
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  Speaker 3: VP and Kushner were among those who wanted to get
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  Speaker 3: out of there as quickly as possible.
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  Speaker 17: Well understandably. I mean, look, I think everyone has been
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 17: banging on Trump and on the Republicans. The Republicans, you know,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 17: legislators running for office for a November election, have been saying, hey,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 17: you know, we can't really we're going to lose control
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  Speaker 17: of Congress unless the price of oil comes down. That's
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 17: a pretty simple equation, and I think it's probably true.
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  Speaker 17: It's amazing, isn't it how impactful the price of gasoline is,
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  Speaker 17: But it is.
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  Speaker 9: So.
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  Speaker 17: I think Vance and Rubio, I think all of them
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  Speaker 17: wanted it to happen. The question is under what circumstances?
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  Speaker 17: And look Van Rubio and is the hawk on Iran.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 17: Ratcliffe is a hawk on Iran. And I think it's
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  Speaker 17: fair to say that Vance may have been more someone
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 17: who is pushing this deal to close faster, because I
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 17: think he was more engaged with the politics of it.
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  Speaker 3: Just it's a crazy story, and I hope everything works
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: out for the President here because it's right now a
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: big mess. And even there's an interesting piece in the
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: New York Times. Even far they're calling it far right.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: Israeli TV has now turned against President Trump. But I
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: know that the President was angry, and I get it.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: He's trying to work out a deal here. But Israel's
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: philosophy is you shoot missiles.
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  Speaker 14: We're shooting, yeah, And I think that will continue.
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  Speaker 17: The far writer in Israel is unhappy because they don't
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 17: want any restraints on their activities, and they've been Look,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 17: you and I support iSER, at least I support Isuel,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 17: been pretty aggressive. They've taken advantage of effectively a green
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 17: light in the region and even a green light from
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 17: the Gulf Arab countries which they've never really had before,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 17: to go after all these proxies and bullie for them,
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 17: because these are these are bad guys, They're thugs and
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 17: they're killers. So, as I said earlier, I don't have
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  Speaker 17: any qualms at all about the fact that Israel is
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  Speaker 17: going to be free to respond to any kind of
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 17: attacks that they come under from his ball. What's Trump's
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  Speaker 17: going to do to Israel? I mean, I really just
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  Speaker 17: don't see that as a big issue right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Liz, wrong.
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  Speaker 17: Look, you know it's this is all very much in
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 17: fux and I mean, you know, we'll see. As I say,
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  Speaker 17: I don't think that the president is an idiot. I
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  Speaker 17: think he hasn't something here. Iran is a far far
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  Speaker 17: weaker country than it was six months ago, and you know,
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  Speaker 17: we have to be able to take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 17: And my guess is in some ways we will.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what we shall see. I think the president the
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  Speaker 3: last reporting we got is the President's going to stick
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: around in Europe and may may want to be there
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: for this thing to be signed. So that could be
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: and you can read into that what you want to.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: But it looks like the president's going to be getting
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: a deal.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah yeah, and.
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  Speaker 17: Putting his own stamp on it, which yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 17: I don't know. It's it's a pretty fascinating thing that's happened.
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  Speaker 17: And again I think everyone has to kind of just
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 17: remember Iran is not in good shape. Their economy is
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 17: in tatters. Two thirds of their administration and a lot
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 17: of the leaders of the IERGC and the military and
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 17: their government had been assassinated. That doesn't really put you
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 17: on a very strong spring. So all this talk about
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 17: how you know, some people come out and said, oh
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 17: it ran stronger than they were. Oh, please give me
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 17: a break. No they're not.
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  Speaker 3: Liz, we gotta leave it there. Good stuff and breaking news, folks,
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  Speaker 3: so be sure to check out lizpeak dot com and
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  Speaker 3: all of her great work and columns. Liz always good
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: hearing from you.
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  Speaker 17: Hey, thanks for much having me on tod tag.
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  Speaker 3: All right, you've got it, there you go. By the way,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: here's the president. Just a few moments ago talking about
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  Speaker 3: what he told Benjamin and Yahoo cut thirty three plays.
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  Speaker 16: Amazing Prime Minister, who we have a little dispute over Lebanon,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 16: and I see you can do a little softer touch Bybe.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 16: You don't have to knock down a building every time
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 16: somebody walks into it. That's from his Bulah. But it's
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 16: been an amazing partnership. But he will say with a
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 16: big partner, and he's the very small partner.
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  Speaker 3: And that's true.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 16: So he came to the country and he beg Barack
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  Speaker 16: Hussein Obama, the president, not to do the jc POA.
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  Speaker 16: He said it could be the end of Israel, and
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 16: it would have been if I didn't come along, and
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 16: Obama didn't listen to him. Phoebe actually went to Congress
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 16: and pleaded with them, and he got nowhere, and they
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 16: had this horrible deal that was horrible for Israel, horrible
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 16: for Israel, and that's where it stood. And then I
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 16: came along and I terminated that deal. It had very
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 16: little time left. You know, it was a short term deal.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 16: You know, with countries you need hundreds of years, you
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 16: don't need eight years and nine years. This isn't like
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 16: you're signing a Lisa on a candy store at the corner.
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  Speaker 16: You need hundreds of years.
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  Speaker 3: This was a short term lease. It expired long ago.
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  Speaker 3: Had I let it.
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  Speaker 16: Run it expired, you wouldn't have been around, a lot
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 16: of people wouldn't have been around. But Israel would have
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 16: been terminated. I think the home Middle East would have
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 16: been terminated.
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  Speaker 3: You saw that. So there you go, Oh, that's the president.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: Take Hey, he's frustrated with Israel right now. Again, if
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: you're Israel, and here's the thing, let's just let's take
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: the United States for a moment. Let's just say you
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: live in Brownsville, Texas, and we got our great affiliate
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  Speaker 3: you've got Mexicans and they're firing rockets across the border
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 3: and they're knocking out buildings in in Brownsel You think
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: the United States is just gonna sit back and take that. No,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: of course not. They're going to fire back. So again,
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: this is this is Israel's fight here. So if Israel
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: wants to keep doing that, that's on them. But that
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: but the United States part of the equation. Our only
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: job was to go in there and destroy Aron's nuclear program.
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  Speaker 18: Hey, job's cutting the lawn. And I had to come
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  Speaker 18: in and respond to your a gay community and how
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  Speaker 18: they're taking the rainbow symbol. You know, like your callers
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  Speaker 18: that's got Covenant Jush, you know, he gave us those colors.
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  Speaker 18: And I think this was a chance for the gay
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  Speaker 18: community to say, let's feel this because you know, they
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  Speaker 18: know that this these colors are in kids toys and
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  Speaker 18: everything you can can think of. You know, they've got
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  Speaker 18: the rainbow and everything. Now, so this is their way
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  Speaker 18: to kind of gain traction on getting control of it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a great point you're bringing. I mean it's like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, remember fruity pebbles. Right now people are oh,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: that's a gay cereal or fruit loops or what's the
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: one with the leprechaun and the rainbow's coming out of
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  Speaker 3: the wazoo? What is that worth? Is it the rabbits,
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  Speaker 3: Lucky charms? Lucky charms? Is it tricks? Is that the
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  Speaker 3: one that they are rabbit? Jesus? As I'm talking here,
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  Speaker 3: apparently the entire cereal community has gone gay.
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  Speaker 18: Well, I said, if they want to steal a symbol,
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  Speaker 18: you know, instead of going after you know, God coveing
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  Speaker 18: it to us, why don't you get a box of
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  Speaker 18: fruit loops. You know it's got all the colors of
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  Speaker 18: the rainbow, or maybe some lucky charms. They got all
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 18: the colors of the rainbow.
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  Speaker 3: They're magically delicious in more ways than one.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, instead of hijacking you know, the rainbow. And like
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 18: I said, I think it was a way for them
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  Speaker 18: to infistrate the kids and everything else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it could. You know, you may be onto something.
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  Speaker 3: Not only that, it bothers me that our beloved Christmas
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: carols we're no longer allowed to don our gay apparel
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  Speaker 3: without people snickering.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, they're just they're just kind of do they're doing
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  Speaker 18: unjust God and just you know, and what he stanned for.
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  Speaker 18: And it's bad. You know, it's unfortunate that this is
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 18: all going down.
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  Speaker 3: It really is Dyland. You still don your gay apparel
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  Speaker 3: for Christmas?
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  Speaker 11: I'll still say it if I'm caroling, if you will,
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  Speaker 11: I'm not gonna avoid it just because they're changing it.
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  Speaker 14: You don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even sing the door on Dawn. We now
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  Speaker 3: are my peril. We're Christmas Carol.
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  Speaker 11: You're letting them win, Todd, You're letting them take the
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  Speaker 11: word back.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. Paul Janklins said, how do the skills
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 3: people feel about them stealing their rainbow?
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  Speaker 18: Give me something else, don't steal? Hey, what do you
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  Speaker 18: think of our vice president? Last night was on gut Bill.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't watch gutt Felt, but
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  Speaker 3: I I did see some clips and I thought he
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  Speaker 3: did a terrific job and uh, sharing the gospel message
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  Speaker 3: there promoting the new book. So yeah, I thought he
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  Speaker 3: did a good job.
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  Speaker 18: Even he even made a statement that you know on
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  Speaker 18: the magging squawking Pies or whatever you call him there.
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  Speaker 18: They even took him off when he's on a you know,
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  Speaker 18: when he was on commercials, they looked at him, Joe
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  Speaker 18: at Bay. I think it just said, hey, you know
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  Speaker 18: you're not a bad guy.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my, even Whoopee was getting kicked off. She was like,
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  Speaker 3: stop interrupting the guys.
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  Speaker 18: Uh huh. Well that's how they that's how they game.
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  Speaker 18: They gang up on this and you can't just slow down,
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  Speaker 3: But no, they just they don't want to have a conversation. No, no,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: all right, Mark, all right, get back to mowing the
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: grants there, man, get some lemonade in you or something
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: I am and popsicle? Oh well that too, can't go
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: wrong there, all right, Mark, good to hear from you,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: my friend. So what is that? Well, hold on, you
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  Speaker 3: can't even Oh it's a Wizard of Oz. They stole
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  Speaker 3: Wizard of Oz from us.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 11: I didn't know about this.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the rainbow thing?
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 11: Oh yeah, anything rainbow?
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Is it frozen? Well pretty much all a Broadway,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: But that may have been that may be that that
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: may have been theirs beguah, what about Parker's not wearing
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: gay apparel today, I think, so, all right, good stuff.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: Nothing there's anything wrong with that. I'm just saying, all right.
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  Speaker 3: I guess in the fast food industry world. Hello, everybody,
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• 1:18:51
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• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: do you make of that?
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, so there's an interesting dynamic. It's kind of happened here, Todd.
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  Speaker 19: kind of along the lines. For this thing to work,
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  Speaker 3: Wow, it's you can't poor Elon. He just can't win,
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  Speaker 3: can he?
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  Speaker 14: Yeah?
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  Speaker 19: You know, man, you can revive the whole space program,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 19: you can create Starlink, you can jumpstart the electronic car
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 19: business for the world. And this is the thanks that
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 19: you get from the far left these days.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a it's a great point. I'm curious about
• 1:20:02
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• 1:20:04
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  Speaker 3: How do you think this plays out?
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, so I think I put this in kind of
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  Speaker 19: the category of a venture capital investments. And the key
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 19: to venture capital investing is to diversify. And many investors
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 19: don't realize that, but experience venture capitalists. They'll have ten
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  Speaker 19: or twenty different investments within a particular fund. It's mostly
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  Speaker 19: a bet on the founder, his vision for the future,
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 19: and his track record or hers in this case, all
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 19: of those things are very powerful. But all venture capitalists known,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 19: no matter how exciting that is, there's still a risk
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  Speaker 19: that it just doesn't work out for some unforeseen thing.
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  Speaker 19: When you're dealing with new products and services in many
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 19: cases that are still yet to be developed and yet
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  Speaker 19: brought to the marketplace. So it clearly goes into that
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  Speaker 19: category or as opposed to something that maybe you'd bet
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  Speaker 19: the farm on or.
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  Speaker 3: Something you know when you are, you know, wanting to invest.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 3: And again there's you know, certainly your experienced investors, but
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 3: then there are a lot of folks who may not invest.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: They see something, you know, they're big fans of Elon,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 3: they love space, maybe they watch Star Trek or whatever,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: and they want to jump into this. What what sort
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 3: of cautions would you would you share with folks?
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, a couple of different ones. First of all, no
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 19: matter how excited you are, realize this venture is completely
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 19: dependent on Elon Musk and hopefully nothing will happen to Elon,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 19: nothing will go bad there. But if something does happen,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 19: there's literally no one else in the world who could
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 19: pull off something like this in the manner that he can,
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 19: So you know, there's a degree of exposure there. Second,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 19: we're talking about or he's talking about developing markets that
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 19: don't even exist now, and there's a great story and
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 19: reason for those markets to develop, but that's still in
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 19: the future, it's still depending on what will market be,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 19: how big will it be, how much will anyone company control,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 19: how much competition will there be, So there's all these
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  Speaker 19: question marks. So it's just one of the reasons why,
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  Speaker 19: you know, from my perspective, it's not a beth of Farm,
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  Speaker 19: it's a venture capital type thing. If you'd say I
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  Speaker 19: want to have ten percent of my portfolio in venture
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 19: capital or five percent, then this might be one of
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 19: let's say, ten different investments or five different investments that
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 19: you would put in that portion of your portfolio to
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  Speaker 19: protect yourself from all these unforseeable risks.
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  Speaker 3: Still, you know, it's it's really fascinating because there was
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  Speaker 3: a time in America and not so recent history. I'm
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: thinking back to the eighties, you know, where things like
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: this you were celebrating folks like Elon Musk. They were
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 3: on the covers of all the magazines. People wanted to
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: be like Elon. And now it's almost as if you
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 3: know you're you're becoming a success that makes you, as
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 3: you point out, some sort of like a Darth Vader
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 3: type character.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, this play into what's happened with the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 19: and the far left. You know, I like to tell people,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 19: I grew up in a democratic family. My parents were teachers,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 19: dad was a football coach, all their friends were Democrats.
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  Speaker 19: But the difference at that point in time is they
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 19: believed and admired successful, hardworking people, including in business. They
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 19: thought America was the best company in the country, in
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  Speaker 19: the world, and capitalism was by far the best form
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 19: of economy in the world. Now what's happened is this
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 19: faction of the far left within the Democratic Party that's
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  Speaker 19: pretty much taken it over. They want to turn us
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  Speaker 19: into a socialist country. And part of the way that
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 19: you do that, and this goes all the way back
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  Speaker 19: to Carl Matt Marx in the eighteen fifties eighteen sixties,
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  Speaker 19: is you demonize business people and you say things like
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  Speaker 19: AOC has said recently, like nobody can earn a billion dollars.
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  Speaker 19: the whole thing that this country was based on in
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 19: the first place, and try and turn us into a
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  Speaker 3: you sent me a bit of breaking news a little
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  Speaker 3: while ago about the about the number one fast food
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 3: restaurant chain in America which has been for the longest time,
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 3: Chick fil A. Yeah, and it is no longer Chick
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 3: fil A has been plucked from the top spot. They
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 3: have been dethroned or defeathered.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 11: If you will, it's good wordplay. It's depressing, but it's
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 11: good wordplay.
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 3: I am what caught me. I'm like you see, I
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 3: guess because you when you read these articles. I hate
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: when people do this. They don't put the they don't
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 3: put the important stuff right at the top. They make
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: you scroll through seven hundred ads and then your you're
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 3: there are so many videos playing, your lamptop locks up
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: and you can't actually get to the meat of the story.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: So I originally thought, in and out, yeah, that that
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 3: would be a good I thought, I thought, Raisin Canes,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 3: Oh that's a good one. Yeah, immediately, yeah, that's a
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: good one. Tell Parker to come into the studio and
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 3: put him on a microphone here, because because I know
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 3: he's a big fast food guy.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 11: This is a really important conversation.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: This is probably our most important conversation of the day,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 3: I think. But again I thought, if then maybe waa Burger.
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 3: May I just tell you I like water Burger. But
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: the problem was, one day I went through the drive
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 3: through and I'm a Mayo guy, I'm not a mustard guy.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 3: I don't like mustard on anything about a hot talk
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 3: and then put mustard on my hamburger. Yeah, and I
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 3: can't eat it waburger anymore.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 11: No, you can't.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: I'm traumatized, understandably. All right, Parker, what about your Do
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 3: you have a favorite like go to fast food joint?
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 7: I think the easy answer is, but recently I'm not
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 7: a really big Chipotle kick.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, Chipotle, it's great. Okay, Chipotle is really good. We've
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: got they just opened one up right around the corner
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 3: from my place. I'm not a I like the in
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: the bowl they do, the solid bowls and everything. Those
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 3: are great.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 11: They like to charge you more if you want to
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 11: get an actual, you know, portion of food, though.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 7: That is the problem I run into. The prices are high,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 7: but I always say like, I'm going to get full
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 7: every time I eat there.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 3: So I so again, I thought all of these are great,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 3: and I was thinking, okay, maybe wild Card Popeyes. Yeah,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 3: but that's not really would have been a stretch, but
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 3: you know, would be well, look, if you're doing top
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 3: restaurant fast food restaurants where you will end up in
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 3: a fight, I would think, you know, waffle House. Popeye
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 3: is definitely you.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 11: Know, you can throw McDonald's in the conversation with McDonald's.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, exactly.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 7: McDonald's, waffle House, and Popeyes are battling it out for
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 7: the gold there.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: Big time, big time. So here's here's the number one. This,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 3: This is who dethroned them, and I am shocked. Were
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: you shocked when you heard shock? I was shocked by this.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 3: Jersey Mike's.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 7: If you could have given me a list of all
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 7: the fast food restaurants that could have dethrowned chicks flay,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 7: I don't think Jersey Mike's is in the top twenty.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 3: No, that right.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 11: I wouldn't even put Jersey Mike's in the top sandwich spot.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 11: I would put Lenny's above that all day.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 7: I'd put Jimmy John's above it.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 11: H Jimmy John's there too.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 3: Oh forget No, no, no, Lenny's.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 11: Lenny's and Jimmy John's over Jersey Mike's.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: I've never been to it. What do you call it?
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: Jimmy John's. Jimmy John to Jimmy John's got to go.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: But I have been to Lenny's, and I'm just gonna
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: say this, outside of being physically in Philadelphia. They have
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: the best Philly cheese steak and all of them are agreed.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just telling I used to I tried to
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: get extra meat. This is back when I was doing
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff and now I'm on, like on
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: a heart diet, but I used to get extra meat.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: You don't need it, right, you just order it the
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: way it comes. Yeah, and it's delicious.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 11: They actually have scores for these restaurants, and I don't
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 11: know how Jersey Mikes beats Chick fil A in terms
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 11: of whatever this like organizational score is in terms of food.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 11: It seems like it's just like locations and I guess sales,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 11: but how do you outsail Chick fil A? I mean
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 11: maybe on Sundays.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 3: Maybe that's it.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 11: Maybe that's it.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 7: I think Chick fil A does enough on another six
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 7: days to make up for it.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 11: That's what I think.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: So I was reading something guys where Chick fil A.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: First of all, the prices are insane, yes, just insane.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 3: And I know that they still smile and say my pleasure,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: but man it, I don't feel like it. You know,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: I don't feel like returning the hospitality because I'm paying
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: you know, thirty bucks for a cheat and sandwich and
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: waffle fries. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I just ladies
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: and gentlemen. How do you feel about this? The number
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: one fast food joint in America is now Jersey Mikes,
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: which actually had a great story. It was started going
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 3: back in nineteen fifty six by a guy named Mike
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: who was from Jerseys out all seriously, actually his name
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: was Peter.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 11: Wait a second, oh whoa well, Jimmy John's Jimmy John's
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 11: is a story about a guy named Jimmy John that
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 11: started Jimmy John's.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 7: Is it a guy named Jimmy John or Jimmy and
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 7: a John.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 11: I think it's definitely Jimmy Okay, I don't know where
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 11: John comes in.
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  Speaker 3: So so Peter, Peter can Crow, who was the founder
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: of Jersey Mike's, actually started apart. He started it all
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  Speaker 3: when he got a part time job at Mike's Submarines.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's how it all you know that,
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  Speaker 3: that's how it all started. So it was originally called
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 3: Mike's Giant Submarine Shop. That's a little wordy, but Mike. Yeah,
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: But anyway, No, I'm curious, do we have Jersey Mike's
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  Speaker 3: in Memphis, gentlemen, I have more breaking news. Guess what is.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: They're building something right around the corner from our palatial studio. Sonic.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, they're putting in a sonic a us from
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 3: the bank, you know, the big field, but the baking field.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 3: They're putting in a sonic.
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  Speaker 11: A good spot.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 7: Actually, this is a great spot.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 3: But I have other breaking news. So if you're driving
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 3: down Pomplar, like you're going towards downtown and you notice
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 3: that they're tearing stuff down across from the Taco Bell
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: that's where the new in and out's going.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I did see that.
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  Speaker 11: We're gably the most exciting news like from Memphis. This
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  Speaker 11: is likeary.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just concerned though, are they going to be able
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 3: to you know, they've been planning the palm trees and
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering if palm trees are actually gonna survive here
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 3: in Memphis.
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  Speaker 11: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 7: They might not last through the summer.
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  Speaker 3: You know what they should have done. And I'm just
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 3: saying this. All you folks in South Carolina know this.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 3: The palmetto, you know, the palmetto is on the you know,
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 3: the South Carolina tree and it's on the flag. Do
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 3: you know why it is on the flag?
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  Speaker 7: I do not.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know, Dylan, do you know.
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  Speaker 11: Why I got my palmetto trivia?
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  Speaker 3: Well, for one thing, Caleb Park who is coming back
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 3: to us by the way, after a stent at Fox
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 3: or at Newsmax. He's coming back to us, and Uh,
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  Speaker 3: I told Caleb that the palmetto tree was actually it
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 3: was actually a grits tree. That's how grits grew. They
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: grew in clusters. Oh, he did for for many, many
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  Speaker 3: many years, and I forgot to tell him that what
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 3: it was really all about. So I just I go
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 3: around he was telling. Somebody goes, oh, yeah, that's a
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 3: palmetto tree. That's how great. That's how grits grow, to
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 3: find out. So but anyway, the palmetto, uh, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: really a worthless kind of a tree, except it's very fibrous.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: But they realized it was good for something back in
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 3: the Revolutionary War days because the fibers were so fibrous
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 3: that when the when the cannons were fired, the cannon
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 3: balls they didn't like blast through the paletter, they just
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: kind of got caught up in all the fibers. So
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 3: you know, they built a lot of the forts and
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 3: things of that nature with these palmetto trees, and that's
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 3: how they're able to stop the British Wow. And so
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 3: that's that's how they put I know, I'm getting the gist.
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 3: That's the gist of the story. But but anyway, it's
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 3: a very fibrous armor. And that's that's the story that kevlar.
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  Speaker 11: I just need a palmetto tree.
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: And to the point in Memphis, maybe they ought to
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 3: put the palmetto trees around it in an altar smart so.
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  Speaker 11: It can just like, you know, make it look like
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 11: a you know, palm tree if you really.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 3: Tried stop the drive bys. Right, So there you go out.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: People think I'm crazier, but it's true. The grits tree.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 3: I really I should probably take take Caleb Park out
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 3: for a supper on that one.
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  Speaker 11: Take them to therapy. You need.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 3: It's a it's a good point. But anyway, yeah, so
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 3: there you go. Nineteen thirty nine is when they made
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 3: the palmetto tree, also called the cabbage palmetto the official
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: state flying there, but the palmetto tree symbolized the defeat
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: of the British fleet at Fort Moultrie at the Battle
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 3: of Sullivan's Island, and the fort prevailed because there was
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 3: bill from palmetto logs that would not shatter when the
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 3: cannibals were I know you can also you can also
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: add some cheese and they think a delicious breakfast meal.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back, everybody, All right, Welcome back, everybody.
• 1:34:36
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• 1:34:49
  Speaker 3: financial advisor from Strategic Financial Martners. This is sort of
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 3: becoming an investment hour here on the show with Todd
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 3: sheets from on Wealth and Progress. Adam, hope you you're
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: doing a while.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 5: I'm doing great. Todd did a great, great job explaining
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 5: the IPO for SpaceX that was spot on.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 3: Trillionaire. I know then you believe that a trillionaire.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's we knew it would happen at some point,
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 5: and I think we all had our money on Elon Musk.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 5: That guy, everything he touches turns to gold.
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  Speaker 3: Just unbelievable. And yet we live in a society where
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 3: Now that is frowned upon.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 5: You know, that's that should it should be encouraging. It
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 5: should say, hey, look this this guy was able to
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 5: go and do that, and you have all of the
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 5: capabilities to go out and make your trillion.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 3: Now go do it exactly. I mean, that's it. By
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: the way, we were talking about. The big news is
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 3: that Chick fil A has been dethroned as the number
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 3: one fast food restaurant in America.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 5: This is news to me who dethroned him?
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 3: Well, this is the this is what's got all of
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 3: us going here, Dylan, do you want to break the news
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: to Adam.
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  Speaker 11: Uh, Jersey Mike's believe it or not, overtook them in
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 11: the in the ranking score.
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  Speaker 5: I do like Jersey Mikes. I'm a mic I would say, yes, Wow,
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  Speaker 5: I'm more of a fresh guy. I like fresh vegetables, lettuce,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 5: the deli meats that. Yeah, I think I would prefer
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 5: Jersey Mike seven Chick fil A.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 3: You see, I'm a I'm a Lenny's guy.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 3: Lenny's is a Memphis based chain.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 5: By the way, that's news to me as well. I didn't.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 11: I don't know that either.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: So you like that hot pepperilli stump. Oh my gosh,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 3: that's that stuff. It is you can put on a
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 3: flip flop and it would takes good. I mean, it's great,
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 3: But I'm I'm the Philly Cheese Sky outside of Philadelphia.
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 3: They had the best Philly cheese steak in America, no
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 3: hands down. So if you're going to however, I will
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 3: say this, if you're at Memphis International and you're going
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 3: on a flight, do not order Lenny's before you board.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 3: So this is a coming back from a flight and
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 3: you want to suffer, stop by the Lenny's.
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  Speaker 5: I have to know. Why not bring it on board
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 5: with you?
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 3: It'll well, you want, you want to do it out
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: of courtesy to your fellow passengers, got you, and the laboratory, gotcha.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, all right, if you've got an investment question,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 3: you shouldn't have asked. You shouldn't have asked nine oh
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 3: one two six zero five to nine two six. If
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 3: you got a question for Adam, that's nine oh one
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 3: two six zero five to nine two six. It is
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  Speaker 3: summertime and a lot of people spend a lot of money,
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 3: that's right. The summer vacations. You get to Disney and
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: you just buy everything you see. So first of all,
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 3: let's talk about the summer and the tendencies. Why does
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 3: summer become this expensive time of year for families.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 5: What's typically the time of year that families have the
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 5: opportunity to go on vacation and what we see. You know,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 5: obviously we've got more sunshine, we're getting outside more more
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 5: that vitamin D exposure and the euphoria's kicking in where
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people deviate away from their financial plan
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  Speaker 5: and they what we start talking about is fixed costs
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 5: versus variable costs and having a plan. Why it's important
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 5: because if we have a fixed budget and a fixed
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 5: cost and you stick to it, you're not going back
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  Speaker 5: out of the summer months saying, oh man, I've got
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 5: to recoup for all the money I just spent. But
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 5: if we go to Disney World and we're like, you
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 5: know what, you get this, you get that, and we're
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 5: gonna go on this ride and we're gonna go eat
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 5: this restaurant, those those ticket charges start to add up
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 5: and you find yourself with a big bill.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 3: So again, it's a budget killer, right, it really is.
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 3: Have you guys been able to determine the biggest budget killers.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 3: Maybe people don't even realize or overspending. Yeah, I would.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 5: Say it's the can we have just as much fun
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 5: on a two thousand dollars vacation as we could with
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 5: a five thousand dollars vacation. A lot of people tend
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 5: to overdo it on their vacations. You know, the wives
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 5: get really happy and the husbands get happy, and then
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 5: they ultimately have different things that they want to do
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 5: on these vacations. You know, the dad may go out
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 5: and play three rounds of golf that cost them one
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 5: hundred dollars a pop, and the wife may want to
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 5: go buy new outfits for the kids and go out
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 5: to eat every single night. So they don't really have
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 5: a collective plan before they sit down and say this
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 5: is what we have to spend and this is where
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 5: we're gonna stay. I mean, it's no fun to have
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 5: the budget. It's funner to go out there and just
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 5: you know, live blissfully and spend the money on the thing.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 5: And you always hear the statement, yolo, you only live once, right,
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, but then they're going back on vacation next
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 5: year too.
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  Speaker 3: I do hear though that like going to Disney it's insane.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Just the amount of money.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean everything's inflated. I mean everything there.
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 5: You're you're paying twelve dollars for a coke. You know,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 5: it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, So how can people how do they go out
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 3: there and enjoy summertime without feeling so stressed out about
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 3: oh my gosh, bank account, credit cards.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean there's a certain level of planning that
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 5: went into planning a vacation. You know, make financial planning
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 5: a part of that plan as well. You know where
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 5: you're gonna go. You know what the condo is gonna cost,
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 5: or the hotel room's gonna cost, what the airfare is
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 5: gonna cost. You know, have that layer of discipline like
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 5: you do when you're shopping for the best airfare or
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 5: the best hotel. Like also shop with like, hey, we're
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 5: gonna go out and eat, but we don't have to
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 5: go to that five star restaurant. We can still have
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 5: an enjoyable dinner with our family. It's something that's more affordable.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 3: One of the things that bothers me about about Vaca
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 3: as a pet peeve has nothing to do with finances,
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 3: but when people would come to New York City and
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: the you know where they would go. They would eat
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 3: at the Olive Garden and Times Square, and I'm like,
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 3: what is wrong with you people? We've got like an
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 3: entire area called Little Italy where you actually have real
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 3: Italian food, and you're coming to New York City on
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: vacation and you're going to Olive Garden. Yeah, what's wrong
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 3: with you people? That maybe if it's the Busch, well
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 3: I get but even still they would be surprised to
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 3: find out that it was cheaper to get, you know,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: some Italian food outside of Times Square. So maybe when
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 3: they're going on a vacation they sort of scout out
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 3: and say, Okay, where can I get a good affordable meal.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 5: Well, you bring up a valid point too, in the
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 5: way of, you know, talking about Disney World. Everything is
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 5: inflated because they know they have You're on a resort,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 5: and they know that you're not going to be able
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 5: to go and find anything cheaper. You're going to pay
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 5: whatever's being demanded. But going on a trip like to
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 5: New York, what my wife and I like to do
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 5: is that we like to get out from all the
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 5: destiny nation tourist these spots and go explore, and a
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 5: lot of times we found a local dive where you
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 5: get good conversation, you get good authentic food, and it's
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 5: very affordable, you know. So I would say, venture out,
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 5: try to explore more.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 3: That's it. Anybody going to New York, call me and
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 3: I will tell you exactly where you need to go
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 3: and eat all your meals. I will take care of you.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 3: By the way, Pastrami Queen on the East Side, Lestonton Avenue,
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 3: you gotta go there for the Pastrami on Rye. You
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 3: gotta do that. Dylan, I'm speaking. This is speaking of
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 3: just like wasting and squandering money on vacation, went up
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 3: to New York. This was back when Hamilton the musical
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 3: thing came out.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 5: It's a great show, and.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 3: I the tickets were very expensive, Oh yeah, like very expensive,
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 3: like one thousand dollars a ticket. And so we had
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 3: family coming up, and so I wanted to take care
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 3: of everybody, and so we want to go see Hamilton.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 3: I left it intermission. You know why, guys, I couldn't
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 3: understand anything what they were rapping, no kidding, no, and
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 3: I and I'm pretty certain the founding fathers did not
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 3: look like fat. It was about a duel, you know,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 3: was that it figure it out? Can we get subtitles?
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: Can we just get just And I was trying to
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: and I was also distracted because there are a lot
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: of older people there trying to like move to the beat,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 3: and that was just really off putting. So anyway, but
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 3: again back to the fact that you've got to be
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 3: careful about how you spend your money. And I think
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: there is a difference between intentional spending as opposed to
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 3: daddy you know, I want you know, that's emotional spending.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 5: That's exactly right. And it's one of those scenarios where
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 5: if you catch yourself about to swipe the card and
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 5: you go should I it's probably you shouldn't, you know.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 5: It's it's saying, if you know aluminal thought in the
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 5: back of your mind that this is gonna hurt me later,
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 5: you probably shouldn't do it, you know. And I always
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 5: lean into the gut feeling of is this gonna get
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 5: me off track? And I'd say another thing is I'm
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 5: all about paying yourself first, kind of revisit your goals
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 5: before you go on that vacation and say, if I
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 5: spend an extra five hundred dollars. Is that going to
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 5: prevent me from reaching one of the goals that I
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 5: strived as part of my New Year's resolution, Or you
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 5: know something that I said this year I'm gonna do.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 5: Just remind yourself of the things that you said you
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 5: were gonna do with your money in that year, and
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 5: then try to have that discipline when you're on vacation
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 5: or you're stuck between an intentional spending or emotional spending.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 5: So the intentionals, we know, we're gonna spend the money
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 5: on the airfare, we're going to spend the money on
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 5: the hotel room, and we've set a budget for five
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 5: hundred dollars for the food. Now, when you go and
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 5: see that there's a Louis Vaton person on sale, it's
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 5: not five hundred dollars, it's only three hundred and fifty dollars.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 5: You're still spending three hundred and fifty dollars. It's not
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 5: like you're getting you know, it's not money you intended
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 5: to spend. It's an impulse buy.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 9: You know.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 3: Speaking of that, I was I was staying at the
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 3: Beverly Wilshire and one of the things I'd do like
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 3: to said, let's say a nice place is when I'm
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 3: out on Vaca. I don't do a lot of splurging
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 3: and stuff, but I do have to say nice places.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 3: And it's right at the base of Rodeo Drive. So
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 3: I thought, I want to go do a little shopping.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 3: You know they have the stores there. You know the
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 3: markup on Rodeo Drive.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 7: I bet it's asking.
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 3: Oh man, it's just insane. So I thought, you know,
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: I am needing a little cologne. So I somebody asked
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 3: one of the family members needed something from what was
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 3: the adults Gabana Place. So I go in there and
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 3: I look out of it. I'm just I'm at a place.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 3: Oh you know, I look like a Republicans. I go
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 3: in there and they got all the fashion models and
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 3: everybody's it's high falute. So I said, I need to
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 3: get a kid that went to key chain. So I
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 3: got a little key chain and then I need to said,
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 3: we know, I need some Colonne here, and they were
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  Speaker 3: just they were just snobby. You know, it's you can
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  Speaker 3: tell when people, you know are looking down on you.
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  Speaker 3: And so anyway, they they said, well here's the cologne.
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  Speaker 3: That cologne was like forty bucks at like Macy's or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: It's like two hundred and fifty bucks.
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  Speaker 5: It's got you get like ten sprays out.
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  Speaker 3: Of it, exactly like what's going on. So again, when
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  Speaker 3: you're going on vacation, just protect your money. I guess
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  Speaker 3: it's really the bottom line here.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, and me as the advisor, if I if
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  Speaker 5: you were one of my clients, what I always tell people,
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  Speaker 5: give us a call. You know, that's what we're here for.
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  Speaker 5: We're not here to just pick the stocks for you
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  Speaker 5: or tell you you need some insurance and all that.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 5: We're here as life coaches more than anything. So it's
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  Speaker 5: as simple as pick up the phone call and say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: how much did you factor in a surplus cash flow
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  Speaker 5: for me this year? And you may be surprising and say, well,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we've already funded the rowth IRA, We've got
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  Speaker 5: some contributions going to the four to one K. The
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  Speaker 5: insurance is in good place by my records and your
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  Speaker 5: cash flow. You can spend ten grand this year on
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 5: things you want to do if you want to do
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  Speaker 5: it all in one If you want to do it
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  Speaker 5: all in one fell swoop, then you don't have any
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  Speaker 5: more if you want to stretch that out. But that's
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  Speaker 5: what we do planning for it seems.
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  Speaker 3: To me, and I'm wondering why people always up because
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  Speaker 3: everybody does this. They just overspend on vacations and they
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  Speaker 3: know they shouldn't do it, but they do.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's the euphoria. It's we're not a part,
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  Speaker 5: it's not a part of our daily grind and daily routine.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 5: We're in a new place, we're on vacation, and we
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  Speaker 5: just live in the moment. It's one of those things.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, Oh, ask for forgiveness instead of permission.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, make a budget, Yeah, make a bunch of for
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  Speaker 3: me to stick to it.
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  Speaker 5: That's it, you know. It's one of those things that
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  Speaker 5: the only time the plan goes wrong is when you
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  Speaker 5: deviate from it.
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  Speaker 3: I love it all right. Adam Martin nine oh one
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  Speaker 3: two six zero two four three eight is Adam's number.
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  Speaker 3: Financial Partners dot com you know, I was just thinking
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 3: about this, Dylan, your great grandmother, my grandmother. She was
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 3: a thrifty lady. And they did I mean she I
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 3: don't know how she did it, but they they lived
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 3: a great life. And uh but and they were very
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 3: well off.
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  Speaker 13: But she was cheap.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 3: And we would go to the movies. She would take
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 3: all the green kids to the movies. And I don't
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 3: know how she did. She had a big old purse,
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 3: but she put a six pack of Coca cola. And
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 3: because she knew again going back to vacations, they're going
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 3: to get you on that stuff like the popcorn and
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 3: the drink and everything else. And whatever you do, don't
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 3: don't eat the Snickers bar in the hotel room in
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 3: the little you know, that little refrigerator.
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  Speaker 5: Talking about hotel rooms just blew my mind. We actually
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 5: just we went on a vacation and we stayed at
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  Speaker 5: this hotel in Seattle. I didn't know this, but the
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 5: refrigerator was fully stocked. If you pull a bottle of
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  Speaker 5: water out of there, and automatically if you put it back,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 5: even if you put it back. So I just pulled
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  Speaker 5: it out to look at it and set it back.
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  Speaker 5: When we went to check out there saying, oh, we
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 5: see that you took a bottle of water out of
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 5: the fridge, so apparently there's some sensors in there that
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 5: really Oh, it was mind blowing.
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  Speaker 3: Man, that's insane. They don't do that down at the
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 3: Best Western. And then again, you don't want to drink
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 3: the water at the Best One.
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  Speaker 5: That's probably true too.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Adam is good to see you, my friend too,
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  Speaker 3: Folks against Strategica at Financial Partners dot com. Adam Martin,
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  Speaker 3: is the Tennessee guy. He's got that big power frow.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 3: He really hates white people and he's running for Congress.
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 3: He says that all of you Tennessee Republican lawmakers out there,
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 3: people like Marshall Blackburn and John Rose and Andy Ogles
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  Speaker 3: and Tim Burchett, all of those guys are clan members.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen to cut thirty four.
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  Speaker 20: What I'm gathering about this legislature is whoever runs it
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  Speaker 20: is like, we don't like these people, we're expelling them.
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  Speaker 20: We don't want these people, so we don't let him speak.
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  Speaker 20: We don't like these people, we kick them off comittees.
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  Speaker 20: Is this how the legislature generally rolls out there?
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  Speaker 19: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 21: Absolutely, like it's terrified to live a heck out of
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  Speaker 21: anybody who has a reasonable mind.
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  Speaker 22: Like, this is not a democracy, This is not a
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  Speaker 22: constitutional democratic republic. This is a mobocracy. These people are
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 22: the mob. These are clan members without white hoods. They
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 22: wear suits. Now they are operating from a with a
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  Speaker 22: level of evil intention that is designed to destroy descent.
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  Speaker 22: Which in a democracy where people love to talk about
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 22: free speech and all those things, you should be fighting
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  Speaker 22: on our side because this is not the way that
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  Speaker 22: it's supposed to be. But the Tennessee House of Representatives
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 22: of Tennessee General Assembly, Tennessee state government.
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  Speaker 21: This is how it operates. It is about control, is
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 21: about abusing your power, is about silencing descent, and it
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 21: is about having the veneer right of democracy. With the titles,
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 21: but at the end of the day, Kouklus Cameron Sexton,
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 21: he is deciding what can and can not happen and
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 21: is operating and ruling these white Republicans in particular with
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 21: an iron fist, to the point that even they don't
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 21: get to say. I mean, they push through legislation.
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  Speaker 5: You know who.
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  Speaker 3: He reminds me of Dylan. I just figured this out.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 3: So he's like, the wanna be right. So he wants
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 3: to be like a thug. He wants to be a gangsta.
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 3: That's that's who this guy wants to be. So he
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 3: grew the big power frow but he grew up upper
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 3: middle class and he went to one of the wealthiest
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 3: colleges in America, Voting College. He's like, I don't know,
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 3: he's one of these guys who will go out there
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 3: and we're like a sleeve, a tattoo sleeve because he's
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 3: afraid the needle might hurt.
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  Speaker 11: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid to hey, prink me. That's who he is.
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  Speaker 3: Wanna be justin all right, we gotta scow it out
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