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John Whitmer filling in today for Todd! · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Ply from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: common sense, conservative commentary from Todd Starns, Samaritan.
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  Speaker 2: Good day, and welcome to the Todd Starns Show. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not Todd Starns, but I do have the privilege
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  Speaker 2: of filling in for my friend Todd. My name is
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  Speaker 2: John Whitmer. I'm based in America's heartland, right here in
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  Speaker 2: the dead center of the country, Wichita, Kansas. My name
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  Speaker 2: is John Whitmer. I am the co host of Woodward
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  Speaker 2: and wit Mornings weekday mornings Monday through Friday here in Wichita,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm host of the On Whitmer Show on Sunday
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  Speaker 2: evenings here in Wichita.
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  Speaker 3: Check it out.
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  Speaker 2: You can find us online. You can also find me
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  Speaker 2: on x at John R. Whitmer. You can find me
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  Speaker 2: there follow me. Would love to love to connect with
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  Speaker 2: you on all the different social media platforms, but as
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  Speaker 2: a pleasure, I got a call last night that said
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  Speaker 2: Todd needed to needed to have somebody fill in, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm so grateful for the opportunity. We've had the chance
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  Speaker 2: to connect a couple of times over the years. I've
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  Speaker 2: had Todd on my show and I'm really honored. I'm
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  Speaker 2: privileged to have this opportunity to fill in for Todd.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit about me I.
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  Speaker 2: Served for I'd like to call myself a recovering politician.
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  Speaker 2: I served, I got the bug, got the bite, and
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  Speaker 2: got the cure.
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  Speaker 3: I served for.
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  Speaker 2: Four years in the Kansas Legislature here in Topeka, and
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  Speaker 2: after left leaving the legislature, got the radio buzz and
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  Speaker 2: have been now on the air for going on eight years,
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  Speaker 2: nine years actually, and enjoy that. I feel like this
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  Speaker 2: is a better calling, an opportunity to reach out to
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  Speaker 2: listeners and connect with folks. And frankly, I think in
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  Speaker 2: many ways people in radio, people in this medium have
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  Speaker 2: more influence on policy than any politician in Topeka or
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  Speaker 2: for that matter, Washington, DC. And I think in many
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  Speaker 2: ways the folks in DC are out of touch, and
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  Speaker 2: certainly the folks in state capitals.
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  Speaker 3: In many ways are out of touch.
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  Speaker 2: So I've spent a lot of time in politics. When
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  Speaker 2: I was eight years old, I'm a California native. Please
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  Speaker 2: don't hold that against me, because I'm still a conservative.
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  Speaker 2: But when I was eight years old, I started in
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  Speaker 2: politics when my mother took me door knocking and walking
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  Speaker 2: in parades for Ronald Reagan's first political campaign, running for governor.
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  Speaker 2: So I started young, Mama raised us right, and then
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  Speaker 2: we moved to Kansas, and I've been working and volunteering
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  Speaker 2: on political campaigns ever since. And so I've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of political experience behind me working on campaigns and
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  Speaker 2: really enjoy doing that and would love to hear from
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  Speaker 2: you if you if you want to call, our studio
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  Speaker 2: lines are open nine zero one two six zero five
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  Speaker 2: nine two six, so feel free to call in before
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  Speaker 2: we get to the news of the day. And trust me,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to cover the news of the day because
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of it. But I do want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about something that the colors to my show, and folks,
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot in the country lately have been
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  Speaker 2: talking about. And that is the discourse in America today.
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  Speaker 2: And sadly, there was a time in this country when
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  Speaker 2: Americans could disagree, passionately, disagree without convincing themselves that the
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  Speaker 2: other side was was evil incarnate. And sadly the bulk
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  Speaker 2: of that comes from the other side, I mean Democrats
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  Speaker 2: and Republicans fought like hell over taxes and wars and
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  Speaker 2: spending and abortion and civil rights, all of it, but
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  Speaker 2: all at the end of the day, most people could
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  Speaker 2: still understand one basic truth that your opponent was still
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  Speaker 2: an American. You know, back in the day, Tip O'Neil
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  Speaker 2: and Ronald Reagan could get together and at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day they could go have a beer.
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  Speaker 3: Not anymore. Now.
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  Speaker 2: We live in an era where half the country has
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  Speaker 2: been taught that if you support Donald Trump, you're not
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  Speaker 2: just a conservative, you're a fascist, a racist, a Nazi,
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  Speaker 2: a threat to democracy, an enemy of the state.
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  Speaker 3: And when you spend ten.
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  Speaker 2: Straight years screaming that message from every television studio, every
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  Speaker 2: late night comedy desk, and every university lecture hall, every
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  Speaker 2: bluech social media account, eventually unstable people start believing they're
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  Speaker 2: the good guys for taking action. And that's the part
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  Speaker 2: the media never wants to talk about. Butler Pennsylvania, West
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  Speaker 2: Palm Beach, and most recently Washington, d C. Three separate
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  Speaker 2: incidents tied to violence or threats surrounding a former president
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  Speaker 2: and you know, now an existing president, a current president,
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  Speaker 2: And every single time we get the same dishonest response
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  Speaker 2: from the political class.
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  Speaker 3: And the corporate media.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, we condemn violence, but as Hachen Jeffer says,
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  Speaker 2: We're still gonna wage war. But Trump means you know,
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  Speaker 2: he says mean things, and he's rude and and he's
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  Speaker 2: you know, dangerous, and Maga is dangerous and democracies at stake,
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  Speaker 2: and he's still an existential threat. You know, I'm sorry, folks.
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  Speaker 2: You don't get to spend years pouring gasoline on someone's
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  Speaker 2: emotions and then pretend you had nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: the fire. You don't get to compare the manned Hitler
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  Speaker 2: every day for a decade and then act shock when
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  Speaker 2: some mentally unstable lunatic decides he's carrying out.
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  Speaker 3: A righteous mission.
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  Speaker 2: Words matter, language matters, and the left Lee learned a
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  Speaker 2: long time ago that if you just repeat something long
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  Speaker 2: enough and loud enough, eventually people internalize it. Threat to democracy,
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  Speaker 2: threat to democracy, threat to democracy, fascist, Nazi dictator, existential threat.
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  Speaker 3: Over and over and over and over.
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  Speaker 2: And when they wonder why some disturbed individual decides violence
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  Speaker 2: is justified, well then they just say nothing to see here,
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  Speaker 2: just like they did back in twenty twenty. Well, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think happens when people are told their country
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  Speaker 2: is about to become a fourth Reich? What do you
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  Speaker 2: think happens when celebrities joke about assassinating a president, When
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  Speaker 2: comedians fantasize about violence on national television, When activists openly
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  Speaker 2: say America would be better off if certain people disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: Ten years ago, that kind of rhetoric would have been condemned.
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  Speaker 2: It would have ended careers. Now it gets applause. And
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  Speaker 2: let me say something else that nobody in the media
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  Speaker 2: wants to admit. They're even monetizing outrage, fear cells, hatred cells,
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  Speaker 2: division cells, and look at MSLGBTV, that's all they do
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  Speaker 2: over there. Cable networks ratings spike when Americans hate each other.
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  Speaker 2: Rachel Madcow, that's all she sells on that station. Social
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  Speaker 2: media engagement explodes when people are angry. Political fundraising goes
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  Speaker 2: through the roof when voters are terrified, So there's absolutely
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  Speaker 2: no incentive for people to calm things down. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: the profit for keeping America against each other's throats goes
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  Speaker 2: through the roof. Families are divided, friendships destroyed, communities poisoned,
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  Speaker 2: because that's exactly what they've done. And this really dangerous
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  Speaker 2: part is they don't even realize the monster that they've created. Eventually,
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  Speaker 2: somebody's decided normal politics aren't enough anymore, and that's how
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  Speaker 2: civilized societies start to unravel.
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  Speaker 3: History's full of it.
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  Speaker 2: No trust of anyone's politician, not even because of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: And don't get me wrong, Donald Trump says some stupid
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  Speaker 2: things occasionally, but that's okay. He's entitled, he's got free
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  Speaker 2: speech rights like everyone else is. But at some point
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  Speaker 2: we've got to learn to put aside the partisan rhetoric
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  Speaker 2: and at least find some common ground. Because if we
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  Speaker 2: keep convincing Americans that their neighbors or monsters, if we
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  Speaker 2: keep telling people the Republic can only surprise if the
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  Speaker 2: other side is destroyed, then eventually somebody is going to
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  Speaker 2: decide ballots aren't enough and bullets are the only solution.
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  Speaker 2: And when a country reaches that point, history tells us
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  Speaker 2: exactly what comes next. And trust me, nobody wants it
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  Speaker 2: to go like that. This is John Whitmer, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: filling in for Todd today. I can't wait to hear
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  Speaker 2: from you. The studio lines are open nine zero one
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  Speaker 2: the heartland, but I want to hear from everybody. Give
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  Speaker 2: us a call. I'll be right back. This is John
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  Speaker 2: Whitmer filling in for Todd Starns today. Welcome back to
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  Speaker 2: the Todd Starn's Show. Our studio lines are open nine
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  Speaker 2: zero one two six zero five nine two six. Would
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  Speaker 2: love to hear from you, and you can find me
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  Speaker 2: and reach out to me on x at John R.
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  Speaker 3: Whitmer reach Out. Would love to connect with you.
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  Speaker 2: So, if you weren't aware, by the way, like there
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  Speaker 2: are a bunch of elections coming up. The primaries are
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  Speaker 2: going on all across the country, and we've got to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we turn out Conservatives, patriots of all
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  Speaker 2: sorts and all types have to turn out MAGA voters.
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  Speaker 2: Even though Donald Trump isn't on the ballot, his policies,
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  Speaker 2: his agenda are on the ballot this fall, folks. It's
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  Speaker 2: very important and there are primaries and general elections coming up,
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  Speaker 2: and we have got to turn out because if we don't,
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  Speaker 2: the consequences are I mean, this is probably and I
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  Speaker 2: know you hear this every election cycle that this is
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  Speaker 2: a you know, the most important election. This is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a very important election, and particularly in Congress,
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  Speaker 2: because Lord knows what will happen. We know what's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen if the Democrats get control both chambers of Congress,
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  Speaker 2: because I mean, it'll be impeachment every day. That's all
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  Speaker 2: they're going to do is just impeach him and try
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  Speaker 2: and shut down his agenda. But I put that out
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  Speaker 2: there because you cannot afford to sit this one out.
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  Speaker 2: But there isn't a primary going on right now in
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  Speaker 2: California in the left coast. And as someone who was
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  Speaker 2: born and raised in California, we escaped, We made it
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  Speaker 2: out when I was when I was just a kid.
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  Speaker 2: But it is sad to see what they've done to California.
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  Speaker 2: It's a self inflicted wound. But it is interesting to.
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  Speaker 3: Watch the primaries in California and if you can see
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  Speaker 3: what they've done.
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  Speaker 2: They had a gubernatorial debate and this was a clip
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  Speaker 2: from Katie Porter, who somehow, Katie Porter is the leading
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  Speaker 2: Democrat in the race. I guess shouldn't be surprised to
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  Speaker 2: anybody because Democrats in California are all a bunch of crackpots.
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  Speaker 3: Look who's the.
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  Speaker 2: Governor of California right now, and who's the mayor of
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles right now? It's a clown show. But so
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  Speaker 2: here is Katie Porter saying the quiet part out loud
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  Speaker 2: when asked about illegal immigrant and by the way, they
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  Speaker 2: are illegal. I don't say undocumented, I call them what
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  Speaker 2: they are. But she was asked about illegal immigrants in California,
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  Speaker 2: and this was her answer during the debate.
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  Speaker 4: It's the job of the California governor to protect every
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  Speaker 4: single Californian. The sanctuary state policy is designed to make
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  Speaker 4: sure that our state resources, the taxpayer dollars, the public
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  Speaker 4: servants that we have are focusing on doing their jobs,
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  Speaker 4: which is not cooperating with the federal immigration authorities. These
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  Speaker 4: are Californians. They contribute to our economy, they pay taxes,
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  Speaker 4: and they're one of the only ways that our state
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  Speaker 4: has been growing in recent years.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, so let's make sure we understand that illegal aliens.
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  Speaker 3: She said the quiet part out there.
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  Speaker 2: So this is this is by the way, peak California
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  Speaker 2: Democrat brain rot for you, right on display. Illegal aliens
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  Speaker 2: are the only way California has been growing. So she's
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  Speaker 2: admitting that the reason California's population is declining is because
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  Speaker 2: regular Californians, particularly the smart ones, are leaving its rife
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  Speaker 2: with out migration. But she just said that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we need to use taxpayer dollars to bail out illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, only US citizens should be voting
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  Speaker 2: in US elections, and only US citizens, for that matter,
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  Speaker 2: should receive US benefits. Only US citizens should be counted
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  Speaker 2: in the US census.
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  Speaker 3: Those are three facts.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, if that upsets her or anyone else for that matter,
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  Speaker 2: And if you disagree, the phone number is nine zero
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  Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six. I will
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  Speaker 2: be happy to debate you knock yourself out, feel free
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  Speaker 2: to call. Dylan will put you at the top of
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  Speaker 2: the list. And is it just me or does Katie
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  Speaker 2: Porter feel like the antithesis of everything American stands for?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she's the ultimate.
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  Speaker 3: Karen but.
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  Speaker 2: Carolyn, you know, California barely survived her in Congress and
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  Speaker 2: now they're likely to I mean, she's the Democrat front
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  Speaker 2: runner for a governor. Did they not learn their lesson
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  Speaker 2: with Gavin Newsom? I mean, I'm sorry, You've got make
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  Speaker 2: America great again, and when it comes to Katie Porter,
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  Speaker 2: it's make asylums great again. I mean, this woman is
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  Speaker 2: absolutely crazy and we the people have had enough of
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  Speaker 2: liberal nonsense, and yet this is the woman who wants
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  Speaker 2: to run you know, one of the largest states economically,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, California's economy is bigger than most countries in
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  Speaker 2: the world. This woman is crazy, and yet Katie Porter
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  Speaker 2: claims that keeping illegal aliens undocumented farm workers as a
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  Speaker 2: core part it's a core duty of the governor California. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: how about not driving your state into bankruptcy anymore than
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  Speaker 2: it already is. But you know, American citizens from every
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  Speaker 2: other state need to pay out of state tuition to
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  Speaker 2: attend California schools, but illegal immigrants, no.
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  Speaker 3: They don't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is why California is federal
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  Speaker 2: bailouts for everything. These people are crazy, and yet she's
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  Speaker 2: a front runner only because Eric Swalwell is. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I was forced to resign for we know what he's
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  Speaker 2: accused of, by the way, on not making any assertions
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  Speaker 2: of what he may or may not have committed. But
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  Speaker 2: this is the state of the liberal and folks, don't
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  Speaker 2: get me wrong, she is not an outlier. The policy
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  Speaker 2: that she just articulated is mainstream Democrat party think. That
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  Speaker 2: is the policy that most Democrats agree with. They believe
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  Speaker 2: that illegals should get benefits, that they should get housing
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  Speaker 2: and healthcare and jobs and free vones and you name it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a long list all kinds of entitlements that you
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  Speaker 2: should pay for. And it's not just Katie Porter in California,
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  Speaker 2: it's hah seeing Jeffreys.
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  Speaker 3: In Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, these folks come here illegally and are
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  Speaker 2: given welfare, including food, medical, housing assistance. Meanwhile, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're getting your taxes go up, and now they want
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  Speaker 2: to give you give them the right to vote because
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  Speaker 2: apparently that's what California needs in order to grow. They
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  Speaker 2: can't change their economic policies, but they can, you know,
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  Speaker 2: certainly drive illegals into the state in order to sponge
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  Speaker 2: off of taxpayers.
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  Speaker 3: But that's okay because it's California, and I mean, that's
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  Speaker 3: where I was born and raised.
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  Speaker 2: But oh lordy, it's not the same state that you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's not Ronald Reagan's California anymore, unfortunately, and it's sad
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  Speaker 2: that it isn't. But that's that is the state of
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  Speaker 2: today's Democrat Party. And she would not push to deport
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  Speaker 2: illegal farm workers because they're an essential need, essential for
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  Speaker 2: the state of California. Studio lines are open nine zero
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  Speaker 2: one two six, zero five nine two six. This is
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  Speaker 2: John Whitmer filling in for Todd today. You find me
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  Speaker 2: on x at John R. Whitmer me a call. Would
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  Speaker 2: love to hear from you.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to know what you think. I'll be back
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  Speaker 3: after this. Carrie.
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  Speaker 5: Good to see you.
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  Speaker 3: And you were in that room.
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  Speaker 5: If you could just describe what was going through your
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  Speaker 5: mind when those gunshots gunshots rang out.
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  Speaker 6: Well before the sound the boom boom boom of the gunfire,
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  Speaker 6: we were making note at our table. We were just
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  Speaker 6: you know, talking and enjoying each other's company. We talked
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  Speaker 6: about it did come up how kind of lacks the
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  Speaker 6: security was getting into the hotel where they didn't really
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  Speaker 6: inspect your ticket or ask for any ID. And then
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  Speaker 6: we were noting how many dignitaries there were. We had
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  Speaker 6: the President of the United States and the beautiful First Lady,
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  Speaker 6: of course, we had the vice president as well, and
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  Speaker 6: many many cabinet heads and members of Congress, and you
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  Speaker 6: know the line of succession really for the United States government.
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  Speaker 6: And I said to the gentleman sitting I said, we
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  Speaker 6: are either in the most secure spot in the entire
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  Speaker 6: world or the biggest target in the entire world, and
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  Speaker 6: we kind of chuckled at that, but assuming that there
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  Speaker 6: was some really good security.
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  Speaker 3: Now, when the.
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  Speaker 6: Boom boom boom happened, I didn't recognize it as gunfire.
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  Speaker 6: I thought maybe some dishes were clanking as they were
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  Speaker 6: getting ready to bring food out to the tables. And
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  Speaker 6: Chris Ruddy, who was sitting next to me, said, get down,
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  Speaker 6: I think that's gunfire, and so we ducked down, and
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  Speaker 6: I popped my head back up and looked around and
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  Speaker 6: saw immediately and I think this is what Todd Blanche
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  Speaker 6: was talking about. Dozens upon dozens upon dozens of Secret
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  Speaker 6: Service agents who were in the room in various locations
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  Speaker 6: popped up, all of them armed, and they immediately went
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  Speaker 6: to get the President, to get members of Congress, to
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  Speaker 6: get members of the cabinet and secure them and get
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  Speaker 6: them out. So I was impressed with the actions, the
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  Speaker 6: quick actions inside the room. I was not impressed with
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  Speaker 6: how the hotel handled, you know, checking tickets and allowing
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  Speaker 6: people in straight off the street. I think something needs
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  Speaker 6: to be done. We need to look closer at security.
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  Speaker 6: Because I am speaking I'm sure on behalf of hundreds
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  Speaker 6: of millions of Americans. I'm tired of the threats that
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  Speaker 6: are being launched against our president and I'm tired of
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  Speaker 6: these attempts on his life. We need to protect this
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  Speaker 6: man at all costs.
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  Speaker 5: Carrie, I'm just beyond disgusted. And I know Obama was
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  Speaker 5: out there and said, well, you know, we don't know
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  Speaker 5: why this happened. We know exactly why this happened. And
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  Speaker 5: I'm sick and tired of this rhetoric from the Democrats, Hollywood,
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  Speaker 5: the mainstream media. We've got to put a stop to this.
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  Speaker 5: Somebody's going to get killed. Somebody already has been killed.
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  Speaker 6: Charlie Kirk Well, think I think of the firefighter that
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  Speaker 6: was killed in Butler and that assassination attempt against President
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  Speaker 6: Trump is it is very serious. And the people in
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  Speaker 6: the media and the mainstream media, I think, really bear
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  Speaker 6: the brunt of the responsibility here. They've been reckless, they've
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  Speaker 6: been dangerous, and the things that they've been saying, and
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  Speaker 6: they're trying to normalize assassination. I mean, we just heard
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  Speaker 6: two or three days ago Jimmy Kimmel doing what he
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: was calling a comedy skit where he's normalizing and trying
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: to get people to laugh at the thought of the
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: president being assassinated. This is sick, twisted stuff. Can you
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: imagine saying something like that. Can you imagine even ten
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: fifteen years ago hearing that the entire country would have
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: been outraged at it? And now the media has been
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: so nasty toward President Trump for the past ten or
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: eleven years. They're just trying to put in the hearts
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: and minds of Americans that he's a bad guy, when
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: actually he's the most patriotic, loving American we have on
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: the planet right now, and he's working very hard to
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: make sure that our country has saved our rights and
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: our liberties are saved as well. And I am disgusted
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: by the fake media loop.
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  Speaker 5: First to you that Jimmy Kimmel lined was that a
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  Speaker 5: was a just plane out of line.
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  Speaker 7: Look, he can talk about free speech all he wants,
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: but I don't think that ABC is hosting a show
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: for free speech where he can say whatever he wants.
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: And he tried to backtrack, and he tried to say
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: that it was due to the president's age. Well, when
• 23:16
  Speaker 7: I heard it, I didn't take it that way. When
• 23:19
  Speaker 7: you have had two credible assassination attempts on President Trump's
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: life when you had another assassination attempt this past weekend
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: at the Correspondence dinner, and he's joking on his show
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: about Milania the First Lady becoming an expectant widow. It's disgusting.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: And so I think that there are two sides of
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: the argument here. Sure there is free speech, but there's
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: also a responsibility on a national platform like ABC to
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: lower the temperature when things are too hot. And things
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: are too hot right now. We just Charlie Kirk was
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: assassinated mere months ago. Over the past year or two,
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: there have been multiple on the President's life. It is
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: time to tone down the temperature. And I just don't
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: think assassination jokes. He's saying it was age related. I
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: didn't take it that way, but I just don't think
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: assassination jokes are very fum me right now.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Rich shakiep Jeffries not holding back either. Here's what
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: he had to say about White House Press Secretary Caroline Lovett.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Let's listen, it's so called White House Press secretary who's
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: a disgrace. He's a stone cold liar. Had the nerve
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: to stand up there and read talking points being critical
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: of statements all taken out of context that Democrats have
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: made and it's so called White House Press secretary wants
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: to lecture America and lecture us about civility. Get lost,
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: clean up your own house.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: All right, jeez, Loute Rich. I don't know what's going
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: on with the mannerisms there. I think somebody needs to
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: give the guy a cup and send him off to
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: the bathroom. What do you make of what Hakkim Jeffries
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: had to say there?
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: You know, Jefferies is flailing here because he's on the
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: losing end of this. Right, he's taken shots at the
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: pregnant Caroline Levitt, right, who took off and had to
• 25:08
  Speaker 9: come back from her returnity leave to cover all of
• 25:10
  Speaker 9: this craziness with the assassination attempt, the third assassination attempt.
• 25:14
  Speaker 9: Democrats have made their bed and now it's time for
• 25:16
  Speaker 9: them to lie in it and listen. I am a
• 25:18
  Speaker 9: free speech absolutist. I don't care if they say things
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: I don't like. That's on them.
• 25:22
  Speaker 10: To me.
• 25:23
  Speaker 9: This always comes down to the marketplace of public opinion,
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: the free ideas. People want to watch Jimmy Kimmel and
• 25:29
  Speaker 9: buy those products from those sponsors. That's on them and
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: ultimately that dictates what's going on. And to me, it's
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: a bigger symptom of what's happening culturally where we have
• 25:38
  Speaker 9: you know, a good amount of Americans that think that
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: this is funny. There were you know, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling.
• 25:44
  Speaker 9: There were people all over all of the social media
• 25:46
  Speaker 9: feeds saying, Oh, I can't believe this guy missed. I
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: don't want to hear about it unless they actually get
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: it in right there. These are vicious things, but it's
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: a tell on where we are as a society.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: And maybe guys, it's as simple as just addressing all
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: the Democrats out there and saying, please stop trying to
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: kill our president, thank you for your attention to this
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: match against Maybe it's that simple. Look, I want to
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: switch gears here.
• 26:12
  Speaker 11: Big exchange he needed.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Exchange between congress Woman Rosa Delio of New York. She's
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: about one hundred and thirty years old, has purple hair,
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: and Lee's Eldon, the EPA administrator, over whether she was
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: familiar with the presidents governing the EPA's mission. Let's see
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: what happened here.
• 26:30
  Speaker 12: We as an agency don't have the authority to get
• 26:33
  Speaker 12: creative if Section two or two of the Clean Air Act.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: No, no, but you don't have excuse me.
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: You do not have the right to say climate change
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: does not exist.
• 26:42
  Speaker 12: Let me tell you what the two biggest four cases
• 26:45
  Speaker 12: are the last few years.
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: That's what I'm watching.
• 26:46
  Speaker 12: Mischkinvers EPA, Well, West Virginia versyp No.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: You're here because you need money from us, So hold
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: for the second and wait for the questions and answer
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: the question.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: You care about science.
• 26:58
  Speaker 12: Now you're threatening the defunded.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Know you don't fund because you don't know what loperbra is.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Because you don't know what the major policy is.
• 27:05
  Speaker 12: Your message to our folks that the EPA is that
• 27:08
  Speaker 12: you wanted to fund us.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: So the bs oh my language language, luke standard operating
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: procedure for the left. If you're losing the argument, just
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: start screaming you're exactly right. First of all, thank you
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: for putting out her hair. Just completely ridiculous. Who would
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: want that look representing them in Congress? But Lee's helden.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: It is a masterclass in how you fight the left.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: We do not fight the left by joking about our
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: president dying or assassination attempts, et cetera. We fight the
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: left with common sense and facts. And this again was
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: a masterclass in how you address the lunacy coming out
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: of the left by here's what the law is, we
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: are following it, and you don't know what you're talking about.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Rich I want to give you thirty seconds your response.
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: I'm just going to start off by telling you there's
• 27:59
  Speaker 9: a very sophisticated, very technical term in Spanish for a
• 28:02
  Speaker 9: woman like this, and the word is loka. This woman
• 28:05
  Speaker 9: is a loka with her blue hair. She's absolutely off
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: her rocker. The things that she comes up with. I mean,
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: I think she did herself, her party, her district of
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: huge disservice. Lez Elden's definitely not the guy to do
• 28:17
  Speaker 9: that with right, he knows what he's talking about. And
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: his ending point where he said it sounds like the
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: message you're bringing is you're trying to defund the EPA
• 28:24
  Speaker 9: bad luck for the Democrats.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Todd Starns Show. This is John
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Whitmerer filling in for Todd. Our studio lines are open
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  Speaker 2: nine zero one two six zero five nine two six
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  Speaker 2: and with us now is one of my dear friends.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: He is our second district Congressman, right here in the
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: heart of America. Congressman Derek Schmidt, Congressman, thank you for
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: joining us. A pleasure to have you on the show,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: my friend.
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: Hey John, great to be with you today, and hello
• 29:00
  Speaker 13: to everybody who's out there listening.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Congressman.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: To say he was a not necessarily a warmer reception
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: last week when you welcomed the Secretary of War Pete
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Hegsath to your committee is not an understatement. But I
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: wanted to reach out and get you on the show
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: today to kind of get your thoughts on it. Boy,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: some of your colleagues across the aisle didn't give the
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Secretary of War a very warm reception.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Did they.
• 29:35
  Speaker 13: Well, no, that's right. I mean, there used to be
• 29:37
  Speaker 13: a time when we talked about politics stopping at the
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: water's edge, but that's long behind us, at least for
• 29:41
  Speaker 13: the modern Democrat Party. I mean, my gosh, they want
• 29:43
  Speaker 13: to make everything political, including the security of this country.
• 29:46
  Speaker 13: So it wasn't one of their better performances. And you know,
• 29:50
  Speaker 13: I thought it was really unfortunate in terms of our
• 29:52
  Speaker 13: troops who are serving abroad. They could have used a
• 29:54
  Speaker 13: more encouraging environment.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was a little surprised at that too.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, it really was a hostile reception, and they
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: were just it seemed like for many of them, they
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: were just trying to get that gotcha fifteen seconds of
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: fame rather than actually try to ask substantive questions.
• 30:14
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I think there's a lot of truth in that.
• 30:16
  Speaker 13: And one of the things I've noticed since I've been
• 30:18
  Speaker 13: in Congress wasn't this way in state government when I
• 30:20
  Speaker 13: serve there. It's the presence of those little cameras in
• 30:24
  Speaker 13: those rooms do turn a few folks into performers. It's
• 30:27
  Speaker 13: almost like they want to be influencers rather than members
• 30:29
  Speaker 13: of Congress, and I think that's unfortunate. You know, I
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: use my time to, among other things, asked about some
• 30:34
  Speaker 13: healthcare needs for our returning guards and then when they
• 30:37
  Speaker 13: come back from deployment. It didn't make great television, but
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: it can make a great difference, and I appreciated the
• 30:42
  Speaker 13: Secretary addressing and when I asked him about it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Well, speaking of using your time effectively during you know,
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: your time in Congress, you guys have accomplished quite a
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: bit recently. You y'all just finally passed a farm bill,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: which is something that has been waiting quite a long
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: time time since Congress has actually passed a.
• 31:02
  Speaker 13: Farm bill three years overdue, but we said we were
• 31:05
  Speaker 13: going to get it done, and we've gotten it out
• 31:07
  Speaker 13: of the House. Of course, a big part of the
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: traditional farm bill we got done in the reconciliation bill
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: last summer, but a lot of pieces were still left
• 31:14
  Speaker 13: on the table. We got them out of the House.
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: I'm hopeful the Senate can follow suit. I mean, look,
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: there's a lot of uncertainty and agriculture. There has been
• 31:21
  Speaker 13: from time immemorial, and there's even more right now in
• 31:23
  Speaker 13: terms of, you know, some of the international dynamics. But
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: there are things we can do to provide certainty. And
• 31:30
  Speaker 13: having a farm bill that lasts for the next five years,
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: not just sort of every year to year and folks
• 31:35
  Speaker 13: can't make long term plans. That's a big step. So
• 31:38
  Speaker 13: I'm pretty excited about it. Obviously, big for us out
• 31:41
  Speaker 13: here in farm country in the Midwest and Kansas for
• 31:43
  Speaker 13: me in particular, And if the Senate can follow up
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: on their park, this will be a huge accomplishment that's
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: long overdue.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: The House recently passed a bill to fund ice and
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Customs and Border Protection through recons process, effectively ending the
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: seventy five day partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: You know, that's another thing that's been so frustrating for
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: so many of us. You know, we've got the conflict
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: in the golf, We've got threats. You get folks that
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: are traveling, and here your colleagues across the aisle are
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: nitpicking and ninny picking over mean tweets from the White House,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: and they're shutting down Homeland Security.
• 32:28
  Speaker 13: It's irresponsible, John, And remember the bigger picture here. And
• 32:31
  Speaker 13: I know you know this and our folks know this,
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: but we ought to talk about it every day. I mean,
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: we said, give us a chance to govern. We are
• 32:38
  Speaker 13: going to fix Washington. And that means the big issues,
• 32:41
  Speaker 13: but it also means some of the more mundane but
• 32:43
  Speaker 13: important issues. We have passed and the President as signed
• 32:46
  Speaker 13: into law twelve out of twelve annual appropriation bills for
• 32:50
  Speaker 13: the first time and I don't know how long it
• 32:52
  Speaker 13: might be since Bill Clinton was president. That doesn't sound
• 32:54
  Speaker 13: like a big deal if you're out at the coffee shops,
• 32:56
  Speaker 13: but it is a huge deal in terms of trying
• 32:59
  Speaker 13: to get Congress back working the way it is supposed
• 33:02
  Speaker 13: to work. And the last brick in the wall was
• 33:04
  Speaker 13: the Homeland Security Bill. We had it passed out of
• 33:07
  Speaker 13: the House, and I think it was February. We had
• 33:09
  Speaker 13: an agreement with Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the
• 33:11
  Speaker 13: Senate to pass it on a bipartisan basis, and then
• 33:15
  Speaker 13: they walked backwards on us. They were nigged. They got
• 33:17
  Speaker 13: all dug in on the politics of ICE and CBP
• 33:21
  Speaker 13: and immigration enforcement, and after literally more than a month
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: of negotiation on how do we get the y s,
• 33:27
  Speaker 13: they finally just told us you're not going to get
• 33:29
  Speaker 13: the s. We're not going to vote for this. Well,
• 33:31
  Speaker 13: if you just told us that in the first place,
• 33:32
  Speaker 13: we'd done it ourselves. So that's where we are. We
• 33:34
  Speaker 13: are going to get ICE and CVP properly funded so
• 33:37
  Speaker 13: that we can carry out the enforcement agenda that the
• 33:41
  Speaker 13: President ran on and the American people approved, and we're
• 33:45
  Speaker 13: going to do it without any Democrat votes, not because
• 33:47
  Speaker 13: we wanted to do it ourselves, but because they haven't
• 33:49
  Speaker 13: left us any choice. But we're making the system work,
• 33:53
  Speaker 13: and that is a huge step forward.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: You know, I have to ask there's been quite a
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: bit of you know, I know It's maybe an unfortunate
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: question to ask, but there's been quite a bit of
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Ethics Committee stuff with colleagues on both sides of the
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: aisle right now in Congress, you now got the Ethics
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Committee investigating Chuck Edwards. You had you know, two other
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: of your colleagues that are forced to resign. Is that
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: becoming a distraction for members of Congress right now?
• 34:23
  Speaker 13: I don't know that it's a distraction, But you know
• 34:26
  Speaker 13: what if folks misbehave and have used the public trust
• 34:29
  Speaker 13: and they need to not continue to serve in that
• 34:31
  Speaker 13: public role. And we have unfortunately had several members from
• 34:34
  Speaker 13: both parties who have done that and have left this
• 34:37
  Speaker 13: Congress early as a result. There are others who have
• 34:40
  Speaker 13: been accused of things. I think they're entitled to their
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: due process. You have to let the Ethics Committee do
• 34:45
  Speaker 13: their fact finding. I know this will be shocking to you,
• 34:48
  Speaker 13: but you know sometimes in politics people accuse you of
• 34:50
  Speaker 13: things that aren't true, and so we do have to
• 34:52
  Speaker 13: give them time for the process to work out. But
• 34:54
  Speaker 13: at the end of the day, when the facts are
• 34:56
  Speaker 13: established and the misconduct is there, if the Republican or Democrats,
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: the right thing to do is the right thing to do,
• 35:03
  Speaker 13: and so far we've been willing as groups to do that.
• 35:06
  Speaker 13: I think that's it's unfortunate, but it's the right thing.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Well, I think we're fortunate. I mean, you know, as
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm here in the fourth district, you're up
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: in the second district. But I think we're fortunate here
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: in Kansas to have you're a former attorney general from
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: our state, and I think that's a blessing for folks
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: in the second district to have someone who's a former
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: attorney general as in that background, because that gives you
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: a unique insight in situations like that. So, Congressman, we
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: appreciate you joining us here. And I know is a
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: quick I had to text you to see if you
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: were available, but I do appreciate you joining us. If
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: folks want to connect with you, they can find you
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: on x at Rep. Derek Schmidt and at Schmid dot
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: house dot gov.
• 35:47
  Speaker 13: Correct, absolutely right. We have a robust social media president's
• 35:52
  Speaker 13: presence and we always welcome folks engaged in the conversation.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Congressman, thank you again at last minute connection. I know
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: you've got to run to a lunch, but I appreciate
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: it's nice to be able to have those relationships with
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: the members of Congress that I can call them and
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: during a commercial break and ask them to come on.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: So I appreciate that, my friend, appreciate you joining us.
• 36:11
  Speaker 13: Thank you appreciate it very much. Good talk to everybody.
• 36:13
  Speaker 14: Take care.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: That was a Congressman, Derek Schmid from our second district
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: here in Kansas, our former attorney general and just an
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: all around great guy. And you know, it is nice
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: when you can have those kinds of relationships with members
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: of Congress as opposed to, Oh, I don't know members
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: of Congress who you don't marry their brothers.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: So did I say that?
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: I see, I'm gonna get calls. My wife's going to
• 36:40
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• 36:42
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• 36:45
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• 36:54
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  Speaker 2: you know, millennials are as Rush used to call them
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: young skulls full of mush. Forty four percent of millennials
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: think misgendering someone should be get this a crime. I'm sorry,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: misgendering someone. The breaking news. By the way, I'm gonna
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: break some news right here, News Max, Fox, They've all
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: got it.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: There are only two genders.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: But are forty four percent of morons think that misgendering
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: someone should be a crime. The poll, conducted for Newsweek,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: found forty four percent of twenty five to thirty four
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: year olds believes someone should be get this prosecuted for
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: using the wrong pronouns. You know, as far as I'm concerned,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: if you got your pronouns in your ex profile or
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: your email profile, that's a darn giveaway that you know,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: I generally discount you right there, but so forty four
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: percent think that someone should be prosecuted for using the
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: wrong pronoun. The survey also found that those aged thirty
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: three to forty four were thirty eight percent in favor
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: of misgendering being a criminal offense. The granted fifty three
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: percent of respondents in another poll said they didn't care
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: what millennials think about anything. I'm in that group. But still,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: if the next generations are so concerned about this kind
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: of woke nonsense, what does it say about us? After all,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: we can't blame them. They didn't, you know, raise themselves
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: and keeping. These are the same people that cry when
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: they're paid twenty dollars an hour and yet still want
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: to destroy the system. But they seem to think misgendering
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: should be a crime. And you know, I say, my
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: dog's smarterest than most millennials, but at least he knows
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: where he's allowed to go plotty, and apparently they don't.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Pretty soon, literally no one will talk to anyone anymore
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: for fear being prosecuted. Everyone will be alone, unhappy, and miserable,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: all because a bunch of adult sized children need make
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: believe affirmation every waking moment of their life. Meanwhile, in
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: other countries, people need water and have real issues. Meanwhile,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: we have, you know, combat going on in the Middle East.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: But what the hell happened to these children? They're so
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: scared of the truth that they are only two genders.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: You're not misgendering when you speak the truth. The truth
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: is a man who dresses and acts like a woman
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: is still a man. I don't care that he chooses
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: to live as a woman. Trust me, if you want
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: to choose to act like a woman, knock yourself out,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: you'd call yourself a kumquat as far as I'm concerned.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: But the truth is he is still a he period,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: or rather not a period in this case. Poles like
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: these reflect a lack of life experience, a generation of entitlement,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: and a failure of parents to teach their children that
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: sticks and stones may break bones, but words can never
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: hurt them. Misgendering someone is not equal to drunk driving
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: or child abuse or stealing a rape, or on and
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: on and on. If these younger generations are so fragile
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: that using the wrong pronoun is a crime, what happens
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: when they're faced with well, I don't know real bodily
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: harm crime. I wonder what the future holds for all
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: of us when the generation in charge, which becomes the
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: generation that everyone got a participation trophy. This is what
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: happens when an entire generation is deprived of a solid
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Civics education. They likely don't know much about the Bill Wrights,
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: why we declared our independence, or for that matter, can
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: spell independence, or the painstaking process our founders went through
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: to draft the Constitution. This is also what happens when
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: the education establishment focuses more on feelings than outcomes. It's
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: quite pathetic, really, and when a large contingent of a
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: whole generation would be willing to give up their liberty
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: to avoid offending someone, it reminds me of the famous
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: quote from Brent Ben Franklin, who said, those who give
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: up essential liberty for a little security deserve neither. Fortunately,
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: liberals don't even know their own genders, so hopefully they
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: will put themselves in jail. You're listening the Todd Starns Show.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: This is John Whitmer right here in the Heartland in Wichita, Kansas,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: filling in for Todd Today. Studio lines are open nine
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• 44:12
  Speaker 2: back here in a few minutes with our own Kansas Senator,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: doctor Roger Marshall.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Again.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Our studio lines are open nine zero one two six
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: zero five nine two six. Will be back after this.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Todd Starnes Show.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: This is John Whitmer right here in America's heartland, Wichita, Kansas,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: filling in for Todd's today. You can find me on
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: x at John R. Whitmer reach Out. Would love to
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: connect with you with us now. Is one of our
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: United States Senators, doctor Roger Marshall.
• 44:53
  Speaker 13: Doc.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to have you on the show with
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: us today.
• 44:58
  Speaker 15: John.
• 44:58
  Speaker 14: Great to be with you as well. We've got a
• 45:00
  Speaker 14: little rain back in Kansas finally, so it's a great day.
• 45:03
  Speaker 14: The week's looking better, the crop story ends. But it's
• 45:06
  Speaker 14: great to talk to you too.
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: And Zac, I appreciate that you're joining us. I understand
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I pulled you away from a fishing hole.
• 45:16
  Speaker 14: Well, I wish I wish I was. I'm doing some
• 45:18
  Speaker 14: tours and and you were the only when President Trump
• 45:21
  Speaker 14: called me just a little bit to discuss a couple
• 45:23
  Speaker 14: of things as well. So I'm still trying to get
• 45:25
  Speaker 14: a little work done out here.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Well, now you know I can ask, are you going
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: to tell us exactly what you and the President talked about?
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Or are you keeping that to yourself. You can't just
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: drop a bombshell like that and not not give us
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: a hint.
• 45:38
  Speaker 14: Well, I'm trying to decide what I should shouldn't. Just
• 45:42
  Speaker 14: the President is fully engaged, keeping his eyes. You see
• 45:47
  Speaker 14: the President Trump, You're going to cover ten or twelve topics.
• 45:50
  Speaker 14: He's certainly very confident on the situation. And I ran
• 45:53
  Speaker 14: right now thinks that we're uh, you know, getting real
• 45:56
  Speaker 14: close to a victory year. So maybe all us leave
• 45:59
  Speaker 14: it at that.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: Wow, I'm glad to hear that, and they're breaking news.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: I do appreciate that. That's very nice to that you
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: shared that with us.
• 46:07
  Speaker 11: Doc.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: I noticed one thing that I wasn't aware of. This
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: is a National Small Business Week. I know, small businesses
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: are our backbone. Last time I heard it. You know,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: the number kind of fluctuates, but like, for example, here
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: in Kansas, it's almost sixty two sixty three percent of
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: businesses in the state are small businesses. The bulk of
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: people employed in most states are employed by small business
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: and it's so important that you know, folks recognize that
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: and that we deliver tax relief for small businesses because
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: that directly flows down to you know, the folks.
• 46:43
  Speaker 14: To Joe Lunch Paal, Yeah, exactly, John. It is National
• 46:47
  Speaker 14: Small Business Week, and I think an important thing to
• 46:50
  Speaker 14: point out is two thirds of the new jobs created
• 46:54
  Speaker 14: this year will be with small businesses. Two thirds of
• 46:57
  Speaker 14: the new jobs created will be from small business And
• 47:00
  Speaker 14: I think another really interesting fact is we're seeing how
• 47:03
  Speaker 14: AI is impacting these large, large corporations massive layoffs, and
• 47:08
  Speaker 14: typically you just don't see that mass layoffs in small businesses.
• 47:12
  Speaker 14: You know, one business might be impacted, one not so much. Internally,
• 47:16
  Speaker 14: AI need to be embracing AI and using it, but
• 47:19
  Speaker 14: I think that those small business jobs much less likely
• 47:22
  Speaker 14: to lose your job as well. And then it is
• 47:26
  Speaker 14: it's been almost a year now since the president time
• 47:28
  Speaker 14: the working family tax cuts built, and in that was
• 47:31
  Speaker 14: so much, so many great tax breaks for small businesses,
• 47:34
  Speaker 14: interest deductibility, bonus, appreciation, writing off R and D as
• 47:40
  Speaker 14: well some great things for childcare, expansion for small businesses
• 47:45
  Speaker 14: as well. And now I'm seeing that all come to fruition.
• 47:47
  Speaker 14: I'm seeing it come to fruition and businesses starting to
• 47:50
  Speaker 14: grow all over state. Everywhere I go, the small business
• 47:53
  Speaker 14: I talk to, they tell me they're growing, they're adding jobs.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: You know, Doc, a lot of people right now worried
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: about the cost of gas, and that's a reasonable concern.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: I think that's going to come down once the conflict
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: and the golf settles down. But you know one thing
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: people don't realize is there's one cost at the pump
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: that is universal, and that is the swipe fees. And
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: I saw you tweeted out recently. By the way, if
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: folks want to follow you on x and I'm sorry
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: I still call it Twitter, I'm hard habit to break.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: They can find you on x ACT. Roger Marshall, MD.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: But I saw your tweeting. I didn't realize how big
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: this was. But Americans spend over fifty eight million dollars
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: on swipe fees at the pump alone.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Is that right? Yeah?
• 48:43
  Speaker 14: And I think to bring you know, to bring it home,
• 48:45
  Speaker 14: it's ten cents a gallon now, So it's at least
• 48:49
  Speaker 14: ten cents a gallon every time you fill your car
• 48:51
  Speaker 14: up that you're paying a tax to the to the
• 48:54
  Speaker 14: Wall Street banks, to credit card companies as well. So
• 48:57
  Speaker 14: this is one simple thing that we could do, is
• 49:00
  Speaker 14: we have legislation that would break up this monopoly. Essentially
• 49:03
  Speaker 14: two credit card companies, a handful of banks controlling eighty
• 49:06
  Speaker 14: five percent the industry. Because of that, we're spending seven
• 49:09
  Speaker 14: times more each time we use a credit card than
• 49:12
  Speaker 14: our friends over in Europe do. So this would be
• 49:14
  Speaker 14: one simple thing and then maybe we can find a
• 49:16
  Speaker 14: way to get it across the finish line. But a
• 49:18
  Speaker 14: diamond gallon and those dimes start adding up when you
• 49:21
  Speaker 14: when you fill your car up twenty gallons, twenty five gallons.
• 49:24
  Speaker 14: So that's a big savings to Americans.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: And this is that credit card bill that I know
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: you've been working on for quite some time, correct, Yeah, So.
• 49:33
  Speaker 14: It's called the Credit Card Competition Act, and I'm very
• 49:37
  Speaker 14: confident if we can get a boat on the Senate
• 49:39
  Speaker 14: floor that it'll pass. And again, what it does is
• 49:42
  Speaker 14: it forces competition, that forces the bank when they issue
• 49:45
  Speaker 14: a credit card to use someone in addition to MasterCard
• 49:49
  Speaker 14: or Visa and then and then they're a realtor, the
• 49:53
  Speaker 14: the company can decide which one that they want to
• 49:56
  Speaker 14: use as well. And the other thing I thought of
• 49:58
  Speaker 14: John too. Is as I'm passing by these gas pumpings
• 50:01
  Speaker 14: with my car up yesterday, my truck up yesterday, is
• 50:05
  Speaker 14: is epanol is another thing that saves ten cents twenty
• 50:08
  Speaker 14: cents a gallon, especially the high blind. We have a
• 50:11
  Speaker 14: company convenience store in Kansas called Jumpstart, and you have
• 50:14
  Speaker 14: high blind ethanol and you save about seventy five cents
• 50:18
  Speaker 14: a gallon. So there's opportunities out there. And meanwhile, producers
• 50:22
  Speaker 14: all across the country and hearing Kansas are well out
• 50:25
  Speaker 14: there producing more oil than ever. And like you said,
• 50:27
  Speaker 14: when we get this war wrapped up and I ran,
• 50:29
  Speaker 14: I really expect that cost to come down pretty quickly.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: We had our friend, Congressman Derek Schmid on last Hour.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: We talked a little bit about the farm bill. You
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: have a piece that's kind of similar. I would say
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: it's almost a companion piece, this fertilizer package, and that
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: I know you're trying to push. First off, what do
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: you think the chances are of the Senate taking up
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: the farm bill or are you guys working on your
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: own version.
• 50:58
  Speaker 14: Yeah. I think most importantly is that we've already passed
• 51:01
  Speaker 14: the most important parts of a farm bill the Working
• 51:03
  Speaker 14: Family Tax Cuts bill and supplemented cropp insurance and something
• 51:07
  Speaker 14: called Title one funding as well. So as far as
• 51:09
  Speaker 14: the farmer's concerned, we took care of the most important part.
• 51:12
  Speaker 14: There are some small pieces we need to get across
• 51:15
  Speaker 14: the finish line. It would be rule funding for like
• 51:18
  Speaker 14: high seat internet and economic developments and conservation stuff as well.
• 51:24
  Speaker 14: But the challenge is, my friends across the aisle don't
• 51:27
  Speaker 14: want to vote for anything. It's a sad day in
• 51:30
  Speaker 14: America when and when Chuck Schumer stops us from doing
• 51:33
  Speaker 14: a farm bill as well. So right now they're saying no,
• 51:36
  Speaker 14: they won't let us do anything, and I have a
• 51:39
  Speaker 14: feeling they're just going to stay that way until the
• 51:40
  Speaker 14: election is in November, really.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: So they're not willing to pass it. It's really just
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: comes down to TDS, right, it's Trump arrangement syndrome. They
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: hate him, they don't want to give him a win
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: on anything. And that's really what this comes down to,
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: isn't it.
• 51:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 51:56
  Speaker 14: Absolutely, So remember the Senate, it's going to take sixty votes,
• 52:00
  Speaker 14: so we'll need seven or eight Democrats and they'll be
• 52:04
  Speaker 14: three or five Republicans to vote against it as well.
• 52:07
  Speaker 14: For some reason, so we probably need ten or twelve Democrats.
• 52:10
  Speaker 14: And so far, I mean, the Democrats won't fund DHS,
• 52:14
  Speaker 14: they won't fund ice and border patrol officers, they're not
• 52:18
  Speaker 14: going to from a fund of farm bill. So far,
• 52:21
  Speaker 14: we're all just trading water up there. The Democrats are
• 52:23
  Speaker 14: doing everything they can to make sure Donald Trump gets
• 52:26
  Speaker 14: no victories. And that's why we had to do the
• 52:28
  Speaker 14: big bill through reconciliation with only fifty votes, and may
• 52:32
  Speaker 14: have to do another reconciliation bill as well.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: You know, it's really unfortunate.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: I started out my time filling in for Todd today
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: talking about finding ways to come together and ratcheting down
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: to rhetoric.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: And yeah, it.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Really is unfortunate the way it's just open war. You know,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: you saw haheen Jeffries with his comments, you know, from
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: when he talked about open war with Republicans. It really
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: is sad that it's coming to. I mean, like I
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: point to the credit card bill, that credit card bill
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: that you have, like it or not, it's a bipartisan
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: You've got a co sponsor who's a Democrat on that.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: We've gotten a point where you guys, you know, I
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: served in the legislature. I sponsored bills with Democrats. We've
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: gotten to a point nowadays you can't do that hardly.
• 53:15
  Speaker 14: Anymore, right, And just like our credit card bill the
• 53:20
  Speaker 14: farm bill, if we could get those to the floor,
• 53:23
  Speaker 14: they'll pass. But my friends across I're gonna do everything
• 53:26
  Speaker 14: they can to gum it up right now. And I
• 53:28
  Speaker 14: got to tell you, I really enjoyed being back in
• 53:30
  Speaker 14: Kansas and away from some of the the hurdles at
• 53:33
  Speaker 14: each other that are being thrown as well as it's
• 53:36
  Speaker 14: great to go across the stay. We stopped at I
• 53:39
  Speaker 14: think eight small businesses on Monday, and about seven of
• 53:43
  Speaker 14: them the last Friday as well, and we'll get back
• 53:45
  Speaker 14: on the road this evening again as well. So it's
• 53:47
  Speaker 14: great to be back home. Turn the temperature down, turn
• 53:51
  Speaker 14: off the turn off my television, turn off my emails
• 53:54
  Speaker 14: for a second, and just catch my breath. So hopefully
• 53:57
  Speaker 14: when we get back to DC next week, they're Democrats
• 53:59
  Speaker 14: will maybe it'll be ready to do stuff, but who knows.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: Well, Yeah, Ice, I saw you.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: You've already hit all four corners of the state, all
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: fifty counties, and you're recently at the big pancake, the
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: thing recently over there in Grant County. But uh, you know, Doc,
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you taking the time today to update us.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: And if folks want to connect with you, like I said,
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: you're on x at Roger Marshall m D. And you know,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: if folks want to connect with you online, I know
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: you're one of the senators who's up for reelection.
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: What's the best way for them to reach out to you?
• 54:29
  Speaker 14: Well, I think they really just go to our website
• 54:31
  Speaker 14: Marshall dot sen at dot gov and and make an
• 54:34
  Speaker 14: email us Derek Yanner the only official side of things
• 54:37
  Speaker 14: as well, and certainly just do an old fashioned Google
• 54:41
  Speaker 14: search for singer Roger Marshall and you'll find a.
• 54:43
  Speaker 13: Good place to do it.
• 54:44
  Speaker 14: But our website at Roger Marshall at Stid Marshall dot
• 54:48
  Speaker 14: sin at dot gov is a great place to do it.
• 54:50
  Speaker 7: John.
• 54:50
  Speaker 14: It's great busy with you and appreciate you leading the
• 54:53
  Speaker 14: charge as well and giving us a voice.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: Senator. We appreciate you.
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you again for joining us and let you get
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: back to whatever the fishing hole or whatever. I know
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: it's a little rainy here today, but that was Senator
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: doctor Roger Marshall, and again we appreciate you joining us
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: and appreciate you.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Taking the time.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: This is John Whitmer here in Wichita, Kansas, filling in
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: for Todd Starns. Studio lines are up a nine zero
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six and coming up.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: My buddy Curtis Hawk from NewsBusters will join us. You're
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: listening to the Todd Starns Show. We'll be back after this.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Todd Starns Show.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: This is John Whitmer, host of The John Whitmer Show
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: and co host of Woodward and Wit here in Wichita,
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: filling in for Todd today.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: It's a real pleasure, by the way, to be filling in.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: Our studio lines are open nine zero one two six
• 56:09
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• 56:13
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• 56:15
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• 56:17
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• 56:22
  Speaker 3: Would love to connect with you.
• 56:23
  Speaker 14: So.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Back on April twenty eighth, federal authorities swept through over
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: twenty locations in Minneapolis as part of a fraud investigation
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: into charities, and I use the word charities loosely very
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: loosely including the infamous quality leering center that were largely
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: owned by Somalis who stand accused of ripping off the
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: state of Minnesota.
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: So then the question is how much.
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: Time did the broadcast evening news shows devote to this
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: big win for the city and the taxpayers in Minnesota.
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Well you think, I mean, that's a major story. You've got,
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: you know, FBI, You've got you know, federal authorities going
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: into twenty locations. That's a major bust. Well, I'm sure
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: they devoted a lot of time to it. Eh, maybe
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: not with us now. To tell us exactly how much
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: time the networks gave to this major news story is
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: my buddy Curtis Houk from NewsBusters. Curtis, thank you for
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: joining us. Pleasure to have you on the show, my friend.
• 57:34
  Speaker 10: Yeah, good to be with you as well. I'm a
• 57:36
  Speaker 10: guest of Todds on Newsmax and I'm a frequent guess
• 57:39
  Speaker 10: at you.
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  Speaker 16: So this all worked out so all right?
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: You know, and I asked this question. You know what
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: they say, never ask a question without knowing the answer.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: How much time did ABC, CBS, NBC, the Evening News
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: devote to this huge news story.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: Let me guess I'm thinking less than five minutes, you'd be.
• 58:03
  Speaker 10: Correct, And in fact, let's go down the line. ABC News,
• 58:07
  Speaker 10: the Disney property zeros, Yeah, Berry Wise zero, although I
• 58:14
  Speaker 10: should say they have been all over the fraud in California,
• 58:18
  Speaker 10: the Office Fraud. Seventeen plus minutes on that, so that's great,
• 58:22
  Speaker 10: But on this one, the Leering Center and others being
• 58:26
  Speaker 10: rated not so much. NBC News two minutes, one hundred
• 58:31
  Speaker 10: and twenty five seconds. Wow, two minutes and five seconds
• 58:35
  Speaker 10: a single story on April twenty eighths NBC Nightly News.
• 58:41
  Speaker 10: And I think this is one of those things where
• 58:44
  Speaker 10: I always have to reiterate when we do these network
• 58:46
  Speaker 10: news studies. Oh, people don't watch these shows anymore. Well, yes,
• 58:50
  Speaker 10: they don't watch them as much as they used to.
• 58:52
  Speaker 10: But when you add up a normal week, it's at
• 58:55
  Speaker 10: least twenty to thirty million people watch these DUS casts
• 59:00
  Speaker 10: the evening shows a week. And if we've learned anything recently,
• 59:04
  Speaker 10: it's that elections can be very very close. Yeah, but
• 59:08
  Speaker 10: I guaranteing with information capture.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: I guarantee that they spent you know, an unbalanced amount
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: of time on the flip side, covering negatively all of
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: the you know, the ice coverage in Minneapolis. I'm sure
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: that was you know, on the flip side, the biased
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: coverage was fair and balanced when it came to that's
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: that news story in Minneapolis.
• 59:31
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that would be ours ours lorls of coverage in
• 59:35
  Speaker 10: just ten days, two hours in ten days in January.
• 59:39
  Speaker 10: It sounds like the title of a book. Then I
• 59:42
  Speaker 10: would not read no, and we found ninety three percent
• 59:46
  Speaker 10: negative coverage. So you have so you do the ratios
• 59:48
  Speaker 10: to learn everything the second so that comes out to
• 59:51
  Speaker 10: fifty eight times more coverage in just ten days on
• 59:57
  Speaker 10: you know, Minnesota channeling its new down immigrants behave acting
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 10: like Somalia out there, uh than they have on the
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 10: alert leering centers uh being raided by the Fed.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I mean that's just unbelievable. But then again, it's
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: not really unbelievable, is it. I mean, this is a
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: pattern with the with the mainstreaming. It's why people don't
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: trust the press, isn't it.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: Curtis right, And.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 10: I mean you look at the coverage now. I mean
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 10: they're very excited about this tuntavirus. You know, the poop
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 10: the latest poop boat uh. In the middle of the Ocean.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 10: They're very excited. They're they're excited about the met Gala.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 10: You know, CBS, their friends on the Morning Show. We're
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 10: very excited to bout the black trans quadriplegic cerebral palsy
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 10: wheelchair bound person thing. Uh, you know, they're into uh,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 10: you know, Donald Trump. The Republicans, they might as well
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 10: just not feel candidates because you know, I mean, it's
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 10: all just shut you know, and they might as well
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 10: just quit now because you know, Donald Trump's just start
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 10: figuring out what he's going to wear to prison or
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 10: you know, what his next impeachment legal team is going
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 10: to look like, you know, because that's what they're interested
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 10: in instead. You know, And I'm not saying you should
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 10: turn over you know, these newscasts, John with commercials are
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 10: only about twenty minutes long. I'm not saying you should
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 10: turn over fifteen of them to the leering Center. But
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 10: right when you're.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: At zero, you can go up right because you could
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: give them below, you could give them a little time. Well,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: and it's not like the this is we're talking about
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: the main quote unquote mainstream media. The cable news networks
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: are just as bad. On Tuesday's edition, of the Arena,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: CNN host Casey Hunt bragged that her producers were already
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: working on a video package where they were going to
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: call for President Trump to go to prison over the ballroom.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, now, granted it is d N CNN, but
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: where did they come up with that nonsense?
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: Us?
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 10: It's very goofy, that's extremely goofy. And yet you know,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 10: as we talked today, Ted Turner has passed away, and
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 10: you know, I guess that was what uh, I guess
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 10: that's what we were supposed to be thinking of, uh
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 10: when Ted Turner envisioned twenty four hour news. So yeah,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 10: I mean that's uh, that's a very interesting uh get
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 10: we just do the news though, Oh well, I don't know,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 10: I don't know, I don't really you're not really doing
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 10: the news. You're doing political propaganda and all sorts of
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 10: uh political gas lighting and uh throwing of struggle sessions
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 10: on the Abbey Phillips CNN Thunderdome with Midas kid Adam Mockler,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 10: who's gone after me this week because you know, previously
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 10: I said he's the kid who didn't get shoved into
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 10: a locker enough growing.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: Up, right, Yes, I remember, But you know, the I
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: think one of the best scenes, and of course you
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: can't air it is the is the tie when when, uh,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: when our our our friend on CNN, Scott Jennings used
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: a particular in uh word that you can't use over
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: the air to tell him to keep his hand out
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: of his face.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that was priceless.
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  Speaker 10: I mean again, you know, propping up a guy like
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 10: Mockler is what they consider news. They're not necessarily interested
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 10: in in fraud. They're just saying, oh, Trump is Trump's
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 10: Justice Department and FBI are targeting a blue state, a
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 10: blue city with a lot of brown people. They're doing
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 10: that today with Senator Luis Lucas and Virginia who's really
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 10: just an utterly joy read with a pot addiction. And uh,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 10: you know, I've done previous studies about how CNN and
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 10: MS now they still have yet to do a news
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 10: story on Sheridan Gorman, uh, the royal Chicago student uh
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 10: killed by an elect to legal immigrant on a Chicago pier.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 10: They don't they haven't done any news stories on that.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's so much easier for them, in their
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 10: minds to just sit around with us in their circle
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 10: jerk and put up starky tirons about how Donald Trump
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 10: in his ballroom and Cash fortel Bey in a drunk
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 10: uh to talk about that and how difficult life is.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 10: And also, I should say, the new one going around
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 10: this week Giant's Spirit Airlines. You know it's now on
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 10: Trump's fault me around war Why Spirit Airlines went down
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 10: not because of anything Joe Biden's just apartment did to
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 10: block a merger with Jeff Blue or anything like that,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 10: or just that their books have been a mess for
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 10: a long time. Uh, it's sensationalism instead of just hard news.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 10: And you don't even have to cast judgment on these
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 10: federal raids of the Leering Center and its affiliates. You
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 10: just have to simply report that this is the thing
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 10: that happened. And you can't even do that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't even know anybody who watches ms LGBTV
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: anymore anyway.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: I mean that that network.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: More people in which again speaks volumes, but I mean
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: I I occasionally will put it on, if for no
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: other reason than to be amused. The only thing worth
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: watching on CNN is Scott Jennings, and I don't know
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: how he can put up with it.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: I mean that guy. I mean he's a he deserves
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: a medal for bothering to put up with that network.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 10: I mean he and his buddies Shermichael Singleton and Brad
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 10: Todd and David Urban, the four of them, they are
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 10: put on a They have herculean effort every time they
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 10: enter into the lions.
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  Speaker 2: Then, yeah, you know it's it's entertaining. At least it's
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: the only thing worth watching over there at d N CNN, Buddy,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: Curtis Houck. If folks want to connect with you, they
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• 1:05:59
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  Speaker 10: Times or certain other news apps.
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  Speaker 2: Brother, I appreciate you as always, Thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Always a pleasure to connect with you, my friend.
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  Speaker 10: Always a pleasure, my friend. Take care talks dude, Thank.
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  Speaker 3: You, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: we're going to talk to our attorney he's a constitutional scholar,
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  Speaker 2: by the way. He's going to join us to talk
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about the Scotis decision on redistricting, and
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: he was involved, heavily involved in the Ticketmaster lawsuit, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, So we'll talk to him about redistricting and
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: a few other things. But speaking of redistricting, it was
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: a very interesting I love stories that are how do
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: I want to phrase this? You know the stuff that
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: you go, wait a minute, you just can't make this
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: stuff up kind of stories, and this is one of these.
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  Speaker 2: The Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, Julianna Stratton, flanked by JB. Pritzker,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: held a press conference JB which by the way, stands
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  Speaker 2: for JAVA.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: The JB. Pritzker standing next to her were.
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  Speaker 2: Flanked by a bunch of you know, left wing talking heads.
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  Speaker 2: And she held a press conference in response to the
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  Speaker 2: Skotis decision. And she went on this left wing, unhinged
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: tirade where she declared that the Supreme Court was going
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  Speaker 2: to because of redistricting, the Supreme Court in the United
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  Speaker 2: States was going to block black people from voting.
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  Speaker 17: I come with the lens of my father who marched
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  Speaker 17: from Selma to Montgomery in nineteen sixty five to protest
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 17: voting rights discrimination, and so many others who marched and
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 17: protested and raised their voices. And here we are sixty
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  Speaker 17: years later, sixty one years later, and look at what's happening.
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  Speaker 17: So yes, this is an effort to dilute the black
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  Speaker 17: voting power. This is an effort to try to roll
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  Speaker 17: back rights and We're not going to just sit on
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  Speaker 17: the sidelines and watch this happen. We're going to keep fighting,
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  Speaker 17: just like we saw those like my dad sixty years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the nonsense, the logical steps that you have
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: to jump through in order to get to that conclusion.
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  Speaker 2: No Americans are losing their rights here. Just Democrats are
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: just losing their ability to cheat. And that's frankly why
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: they're so mad. This whole redistricting battle is fascinating for
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  Speaker 2: those of us who've been involved in politics, particularly as
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  Speaker 2: long as I have, because it wasn't that long ago,
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  Speaker 2: I mean just a matter of a week or two
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  Speaker 2: that you had Barack Obama extolling the virtues of Virginia,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: how great it is, how wonderful Virginia. Thank good for Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: We love Virginia. Well done in Virginia. And you know,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong, nothing to see here, even though Virginia just,
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  Speaker 2: you know, completely gerrymandered their state. It's forty five, forty
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  Speaker 2: four percent Republican, but nah, we're gonna get rid of
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  Speaker 2: all but one Republican member of Congress. Democrats didn't have
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: a single problem with that. But the Supreme Court changes
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: the Louisiana map which was racially jerrymandered, and now all
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: of a sudden, oh, we hate, we hate redistricting. The
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: hypocrisy here, I mean, it's so glaring, it's laughable, and
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: I mean it really it really is is you have
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: to laugh at this thing, and they don't even see it.
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  Speaker 3: It's historically.
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  Speaker 2: We have fought Americans fought for equality and to be
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  Speaker 2: on the same playing field, a level playing field with
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  Speaker 2: everyone else. And frankly, that's exactly what the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 2: decision has done. It's all equal. There shouldn't be any
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You shouldn't be making decisions based on race,
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  Speaker 2: or gender or ethnicity. It's the same thing with college admissions.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing with hiring. Should be merit based
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  Speaker 2: with regards to hiring. With regards to voting districts, it
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  Speaker 2: should be based on population period. Done enough, But jerrymandering
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  Speaker 2: racial districting is a political process and that should be.
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  Speaker 2: It should be one man, one vote, one person, one vote,
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  Speaker 2: and that's it. And for them to be upset, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's an equal platform.
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  Speaker 3: That's the way it should be.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not ridiculous or over the top at all
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  Speaker 2: for them to be changing this so that we're all
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  Speaker 2: treated equally. And yet, for some reason, whenever they the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have a decision they don't like, what's the first
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  Speaker 2: thing they do up play the race card, play the
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: ism card, racism, fascism, transgenderism, homophobia. I mean, that's what
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  Speaker 2: they do. That's the default position. We lose, we get
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: an outcome we don't like, we are put in a
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  Speaker 2: situation that we don't like. Now we have to play
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  Speaker 2: some kind of ism, minority, whatever it is, racial or
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  Speaker 2: some identity politics because they can't win on the merits
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  Speaker 2: of their argument, so they have to then default to
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  Speaker 2: whatever situation it is. And the last time I checked,
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  Speaker 2: every American citizen has the right to vote, and never
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  Speaker 2: have I gone to a voting poll that was denied
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  Speaker 2: a vote based on your color. And trying to equate
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  Speaker 2: illegal gerrymandering to a civil rights issue is beyond disrespectful
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: to those who fought for true equality and freedom. It
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: should be based on are you a citizen, great, you
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  Speaker 2: get to vote, period, end of discussion, And that should
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: be the end of discussion. Democrats lie when they lose,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what it comes down to because they can't
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: win on the merits of their argument. So I'm sorry, folks,
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  Speaker 2: but your race card has been declined. Do you have
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: any sort of other form of argument? This is John Whitmer,
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  Speaker 2: Woodward and Wit, filling in for Todd. Coming up, we're
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  Speaker 3: So again.
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  Speaker 2: One of my uh little you know, crazy little things
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  Speaker 2: that I love to do is report when I find
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: these absolute just ludicrous stories and off sadly, all too
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  Speaker 2: often they come out of the left coast.
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  Speaker 3: And uh, here's another one. This is uh oh sad.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's sad.
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  Speaker 2: This is from San Francisco State University. They recently taxpayer dollars,
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  Speaker 2: of course, but you know again it's California. So Sam
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  Speaker 2: Francisco State University recently hosted a genital piercing workshop because apparently,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, you need to be trained.
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  Speaker 3: I guess, don't ask where.
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  Speaker 2: They also gave away sex toys to students.
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  Speaker 3: This is real. Your tax dollars, well, our.
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  Speaker 2: My tax dollars didn't go to them, but if you
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  Speaker 2: live in California, I guess they did because apparently they,
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  Speaker 2: you know, have money to waste.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the big sign here May fifth, from three to
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  Speaker 2: five pm at the University Club. I would I would
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  Speaker 2: make sure they had lots of clorox for the tables, floors, walls,
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  Speaker 2: every Actually, I just wouldn't go back in the University
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  Speaker 2: Club after this. The the Caesar Chavez student Center. You
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  Speaker 2: might want to rename that, by the way, at the
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  Speaker 2: University Club at the San Francisco State University, I'm so
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  Speaker 2: sorry I missed it. They had a general piercing workshop
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  Speaker 2: from three to five. Dad Burnett, I'm sorry I missed it.
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  Speaker 2: It was on my calendar and I gotta get with
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  Speaker 2: my secretary. I'm so sorry that I missed it.
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  Speaker 3: Dylan, you missed it too, I'm sure you. I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: you have loads of regret that we missed that.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody else who I'm sure is sorry he missed it
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  Speaker 2: is Kansas's Attorney General, the forty fifth Attorney General of Kansas,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: who's fighting for liberty and against government overreach and probably
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: not a fan of this type of nonsense, is our
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  Speaker 2: very own Chris Kobok, and he joins us now. General,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining us. Is a pleasure to have
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  Speaker 2: you on the show, my friend.
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  Speaker 16: Great to be with you, Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: General. We talked a little bit briefly.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: I was talking with some previous guests and played a
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: clip from the Lieutenant Governor of Illinois who says that
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court of the United States is trying to
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: basically prevent black people from voting with their recent ruling,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: and you're a Supreme court rather a constitutional scholar, look
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: redistricting the way I see it redistricting that the ruling
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  Speaker 2: that they did basically just returns normalcy to this process.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: One man, one person, one vote. The Virginia case was
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: very clear what they were doing.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 2: There was a racial gerrymander. They just reset it and said, no,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: it needs to be done based on population. She is
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: she is in a tear about the fact that the
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court is now trying to marginalize black people. Leed
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  Speaker 2: some lend some some normalcy here, some sanity back to
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  Speaker 2: this conversation.
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  Speaker 16: Well, what you've got are non lawyer progressive politicians, either
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  Speaker 16: ignorant or just willfully lying to the public about what
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  Speaker 16: the Supreme Court did. What the Supreme Court did is
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  Speaker 16: stand up for the Fourteenth Amendment notion principle that all
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  Speaker 16: people should be treated equally and should not be treated
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  Speaker 16: according to their race, and so no one is being
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 16: denied the right to vote at all. What this has
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 16: to do is with is how districts are drawn. And
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 16: for years there have been states, both red and blue
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 16: states that have felt that they are forced to take
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 16: race into account when drawing election districts, and so they
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 16: gerrymanner districts according to race. And what was often happening
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 16: in many states, particularly in the South, where the Voting
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  Speaker 16: Rights Act was having its greatest target or impact, and
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 16: the Act also treated some states differently than others by
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  Speaker 16: the way, the Act was essentially being an interpreted to
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  Speaker 16: coerce states into creating black districts. For lack of a
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  Speaker 16: better simpler way to put it, and these states were
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 16: drawing districts with you know that would follow a highway
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  Speaker 16: and go and be you know, be ridiculously shaped to
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  Speaker 16: fry sure neighborhoods where the majority of the individuals in
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 16: those neighborhoods, uh, we're African Americans. And so you you
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 16: had the opposite of the fourteenth Amendment being followed, and
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  Speaker 16: that is that there was express consideration of race in
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 16: drawing districts. Is that you can't do that. You can't
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 16: and you can't use the Voting Rights Act as an
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  Speaker 16: excuse to act in a racially driven, racially biased way.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 16: When you draw the districts, you should just draw them
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  Speaker 16: like you normally draw them. Try to put communities together
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  Speaker 16: so that a whole city is all in one district,
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  Speaker 16: try to have compact districts instead of crazy gerrymanders that
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 16: sprawl all over the state in odd shape. And so
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  Speaker 16: that's what the Supreme Court said. And the notion coming
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  Speaker 16: from some progressive that this was a horrible attempt to
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  Speaker 16: disenfranchise people of a particular race is absolutely false.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is it really is that simple. And
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  Speaker 2: I think you're now starting to see these states that
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  Speaker 2: are just basically undoing what democrats have been doing for decades.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: I mean, all you're doing is trying to reset the
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  Speaker 2: playing field to normalcy.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, And so let's imagine a and this is the
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  Speaker 16: case in several Southern states. Let's imagine the state has misinterpreted,
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  Speaker 16: or has been pushed by various court decisions over the
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  Speaker 16: years to believe that it has to take race into
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 16: account and it has to create districts that are majority
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 16: minority and in other words, the majority of the district
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 16: is people who are non white. That kind of racial
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 16: treatment of Americans offends the four Keith themmon offends the
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 16: notion of equal protection under the law, that we are
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 16: all treated the same, no matter how our color, and
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 16: that equal treatment extends to voting districts. We shouldn't be
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 16: drawn into one district or excluded from another district because
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  Speaker 16: of our color. And so the decision frees the states
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  Speaker 16: to do what they should have been doing all along
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  Speaker 16: and ignoring race. Some of those who are complaining on
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 16: the political left want to use race to shape districts,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 16: and they are upset that they will no longer be
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  Speaker 16: able to, you know, racially gerrymander their states to create
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  Speaker 16: districts that have certain racial characteristics.
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: We're talking with the Kansas Attorney General, Chris Kobok General.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: One of the other issues that has been coming up
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: a lot lately is this issue of aliens voting illegally.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 2: You know, some states they're not in federal elections, but
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 2: some states are even pushing to allow illegal aliens to
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: vote in state elections, local elections. We've even had this
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: issue happen here in Kansas.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, absolutely, So. This is something the President has talked
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  Speaker 16: about and I've been talking about long before President Trump
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  Speaker 16: was even on the political scene in the United States,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 16: and that is that aliens often registered to vote, and
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 16: they often vote. And when I was Secretary of State
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 16: of Kansas for eight years prior to becoming Kansas's attorney general,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 16: you know, I saw this happening and we were taking
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 16: steps to, you know, alleviate the problem. And as attorney general,
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  Speaker 16: in the last six months or so, we've brought three
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 16: criminal prosecutions against non citizens aliens in the United States
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 16: who have been voting in Kansas elections. And the three
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  Speaker 16: are just the first three. There's going to be a
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 16: long line of cases. And the other popular misconception is
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 16: that these are illegal aliens are voting. Now that there
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 16: may be some, but the vast majority of aliens who
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 16: are voting in the United States are legally here.
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  Speaker 11: But it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 16: Whether you're illegally or legally. You can't vote unless you're
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 16: a US citizen because every time an alien votes, it
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 16: cancels out the vote of a US citizen. So we
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 16: are prosecuting these cases in Kansas, and there will be
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 16: more to come. And Kansas is not unique. This is
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  Speaker 16: a problem in every single one of the fifty states,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 16: and it is a much bigger problem in those states
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 16: such as California. Happy to pick on California, such as
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 16: states that basically don't police their elections seriously, at least
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 16: on a state wide level and seem to look the
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 16: other way when non citizens vote. Now, there are some exceptions.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 16: There are some counties in California that are trying to
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 16: do the right thing and keep their elections secure. But
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 16: the clowns in Sacramento are.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 13: Not doing that.
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  Speaker 2: General, I know, I've got to let you run. But
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: last month, a federal jury found that Live Nation and
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: its subsidiary Ticketmaster, operate an illegal monopoly that harms consumers.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: This isn't a Kansas issue. This is a nationwide issue.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: The major victy for thirty three states and the District
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 2: of Columbia. The verdict could lead to significant financial penalties
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: and I mean structural changes. This could have nationwide implications.
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  Speaker 16: Correct, Hey, it could have an implicate. It could have
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 16: implications for every single person listening to the show. To
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 16: put it simply, look, if you are as old as
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 16: I am and you went to concerts in the eighties
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 16: and nineties, you remember paying twenty bucks to go see
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 16: a very you know, a nationwide act of some musical
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 16: artists you know today to get that equivalent ticket, you're
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 16: talking three hundred dollars. You know, when my kids ask dad,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 16: can we go see this show? My first question isn't
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 16: how are you getting there, who you're going to be with?
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 16: Who is this artist? My first question is how much
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 16: is you got?
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 3: How much?
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: I remember when Garth Brooks came to Wichita, you know,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: out of the coliseum. Remember that those prices were reasonable.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: Nowadays a country concert comes to wichitaal it's exorbitant fees.
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 16: It is, and the reason it's not inflation. The reason
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 16: is that there has been monopolistic behavior excluding competition by
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 16: Live Nation and Ticketmaster. And it's vertical integration, so that
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 16: the owner or the entity, well it might be the
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 16: owner of the stadium or the arena, but oftentimes Live
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 16: Nation is simply the one that is managing and handling
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 16: the concert at the arena. They work hand in glove
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 16: with Ticketmaster, who is selling the seats, and they give
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 16: an exclusive arrangements as well. Every seat is going to
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 16: be sold by Ticketmaster, and then Ticketmaster tells the consumer
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 16: this is the price. It's a very high price, but
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 16: you're gonna pay it and you're gonna like it, or
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 16: you're not coming to the show. There's no competition in
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 16: many of these venues, where there might be another you know,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 16: maybe a seat geek or some other company out there offering, no,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 16: we're going to sell you seats for half that price
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 16: or two thirds of that price. So when you don't
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 16: have competition, then the entities selling the seat can just
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 16: make you pay whatever they want to pay they want
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 16: you to pay, and that's why we have seen this
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 16: monopolistic type behavior that has made it so hard for
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 16: ordinary Americans to go see and act that they want
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 16: to see in a concert venue. So I'm very pleased
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 16: that Kansas is one of the thirty three states and
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 16: we've played a significant role in driving this lawsuit forward.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 16: This is something that we state attorneys general, Republican and Democrat,
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 16: are doing to benefits to concertgoers all across America. None
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 16: of us should have to pay hundreds and hundreds of
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 16: dollars to sit in one of the quote unquote cheap
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 16: seats at some stadium when we want to see our
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 16: favorite artist play live.
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  Speaker 2: Well, General, we know that you're a mega conservative. You're
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 2: leading the fight on liberty issues like this. We appreciate you.
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: If folks want to connect with.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 3: You, they can find you.
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 2: Act Chris Kobok seven K, So it's Chris with a K,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: Kobok with a K sev seven on yep ko b
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  Speaker 2: A C ch and it's Chris Kobok dot com online.
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  Speaker 3: Yep yep general.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you as always and thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 16: My pleasure, John anytime, Thank you, my friend.
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  Speaker 3: We uh take a quick break.
• 1:28:17
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  Speaker 3: We'll be back after this. Welcome back to the Todd
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 3: Starns Show.
• 1:28:38
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• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: and co host of Woodward and Witt filling in for
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: Todd Today. Studio lines are open nine zero one two
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  Speaker 3: Nine to six. I got another one for you.
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  Speaker 2: I do love these, uh you know, hard to believe
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: it's actually real, and yet sad to believe it is real.
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  Speaker 3: Story.
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  Speaker 2: This is a maybe puddlo that's.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: A p U d l O.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 2: And maybe this person just it's a maybe at any rate.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: He she is an LGBTQ activist and drag queen who
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 2: is running to become the first transgender California state senator.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: So I think he is a biological male by the way,
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: who is dressing as a female. So it's a he
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: who wants to be a she, which, by the way,
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: for the record, knock yourself out. You want to pretend
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: to be a woman, You're an adult male.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: I don't care. That's fine, but.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: He is vowing to Well, here's his his his platform.
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  Speaker 18: Ice needs to get the out of California. My name
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 18: is Maybe. I'm running for a state Senate in the
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 18: heart of Los Angeles in East LA, and I will
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 18: fight for human rights in the state legislature.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: I've been working with.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 18: People experiencing homelessness for over a decade, volunteering at shelters,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 18: being the Homelessness lie is on for the Neighborhood Council,
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 18: and now being the operations manager for the Neighborhood Homeless Coalition.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 18: I'm fighting to make California affordable, safe, and inclusive for
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 18: all tuition free college, healthcare for all housing, for all renters' rights.
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  Speaker 18: We can have all of these things.
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  Speaker 3: We deserve all.
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  Speaker 18: Of these things. We're going up against some powerful special
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 18: interest groups in this race.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there's only so much of this nonsense that
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: you can actually listen to. Look how exactly I love
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: the platform here. So let's go through maybe, and you know,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: maybe you should buy a clue. But here's Maybe's platform.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: Let's just go through this here, universal healthcare, housing for all,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: tuition free college, racial justice, environmental justice.
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  Speaker 3: YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA. You get the platform here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, what Maybe isn't got on his agenda here,
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: By the way, I just misgendered him, so oop, I
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: did it again. What Maybe doesn't have on his platform
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 2: is how he's gonna pay for any of it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, come on here.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: Buddy, universal health care, housing for also, everybody gets a house,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: everybody gets to go to college, everybody gets environmental justice,
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: whatever that is.
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  Speaker 3: Who pays for it? Apparently everybody? But maybe?
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: I mean this is but this is the nonsense. And
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 2: how much you want to bet that this guy? Oh
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: I did it again?
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 3: Wins.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the nonsense of what you have
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: to deal with if you.
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  Speaker 3: Are resident of California.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, housing for all, healthcare for all, tuition for all.
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  Speaker 2: I guess maybe in California. I'm not you know, I
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: don't live in California. Maybe money grows on trees in California.
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  Speaker 2: God knows that better. Because with this kind of an agenda,
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: they're gonna need it. And by the way, maybe is
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: a lovely looking woman.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'll use that word very loosely.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, he also vows to abolish ice and
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: make California inclusive, which I guess inclusive I guess doesn't
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 2: include ice. So for what that's worth, coming up Chris
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: Loftus and Adam Martin from Strategic Financial Partners. He's gonna
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: give us some retirement advice. You're listening to the Todd
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 2: Starns Show. This is John Whitmer filling in for Todd.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Todd Starns Show.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: This is John Whitmer, host of the John Whitmer Show
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: here in Wichita, Kansas, filling in for Todd. Our studio
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  Speaker 2: nine two six With us now is Chris Loftus and
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: Adam Martin from Strategic Financial Partners. Gentlemen, thank you for
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: joining us. Pleasure to have you with us this afternoon.
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  Speaker 19: Good afternoon, John, and greeting's from Memphis. I can't say
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  Speaker 19: I know anybody from Wichita, Kansas, so this is a
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  Speaker 19: new area for me. So how's the weather of there?
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  Speaker 19: It's pretty terrible over here.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, defined, terrible, ranny, cold, wet.
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  Speaker 19: Adam and I were talking earlier. He said, you know
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 19: they call it may because it may be hot, may
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 19: be cold, and that's it definitely feels that way today.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 3: So that's that is Kansas.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: I also do the morning show here in Wichita, and
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: we literally were able to talk. There's a little bit
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: of Kansas right on the Colorado border, a little town
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: called Goodland, and they actually had.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 3: Snow this morning.
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  Speaker 11: I saw that.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: That's why we had seventeen inches of snow in Denver
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: that we reported this morning. A little bit of snow
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: in Goodland. And the thing that we always talk about
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: in Kansas is the fact that when you talk about
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: weather in Kansas, it's wait, thirty minutes. Yeah, And so
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: we today we had it's like fifty five in rainy.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow it'll be sixty and by you know, the weekend,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: it's going to be like eighty five.
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  Speaker 3: So that's Kansas for you.
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  Speaker 15: Imagine these kids getting ready for summer break and then
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 15: they're seventeen inches of snow on the ground.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, you know, it's okay, it's and you know what,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 2: it's all Donald Trump's fault.
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  Speaker 19: It's has the left and sure there's some government involvement
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 19: in there somewhere.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how that works, right. Well, it's all it's
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 3: all because of climate change.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if only we'd listened to al Gore, none
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: of this would have happened.
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  Speaker 11: I was just about to mention al Gore.
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  Speaker 3: It's all al Gore's fault, at George Bush's fault. It's
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 3: all because of that is, if we've only listened. So uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I have I have a four to one k and
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: uh and and you know, and whatever my wife stores
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 2: away and shoves under the mattress.
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  Speaker 3: But I I do not have an S E. P.
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  Speaker 3: I RA And we do.
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  Speaker 2: Have a small business. And so these are kind of
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: designed from what I understand, I.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: Did a little bit of work. I'm looking into these.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: Their tailor made kind of for entrepreneurs, for you know, consultants,
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 2: for freelancers. That is, this kind of what they're designed
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 2: for is is you know, entrepreneurs and small businesses kind
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 2: of I mean this is a small Business Week.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, that's that's exactly what they're designed for.
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 15: I mean, you think about when you're an entrepreneur, you're
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 15: just getting started, and you know what you're what you
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 15: do for a living and.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 11: How that works.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 15: So if you sell widgets, you're really good at selling widgets.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 15: That's what you focus in on. But you don't get
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 15: to step into a situation like when you work for
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 15: a corporation and they offer a four to one K,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 15: So how do we set aside money for retirement?
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 11: And that's what these we call them step O rays.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 15: It's an acronym for SIMPLI thought employee pension individual retirement account,
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 15: which is a mouthful.
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  Speaker 11: But they they are specifically catered for.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 15: Those small businesses, the entrepreneurs or the you know, independent contractors.
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  Speaker 3: Which is nice when you have a situation like that.
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: You know, it was my wife and I we, like
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: I said, we own a small business and you know,
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: our retirement is basically, well, when we get to that point,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: we'll sell our small business. But beyond that we don't
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: really have. Prior to me, you know, coming full time
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: here at the station, I didn't have a four to
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: one K because our retirement was our business. And so
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: this actually sounds like from a cash point, a cash
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: flow standpoint, it gives an opportunity a business owner of
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: an ability to do this. But from that cash flow perspective.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: How flexible is one of these you know s step
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: I ras Adam, I mean, how does that play into
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: it if you're a small business owner.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 15: Well, that's that's one of the best benefits about the SET,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 15: I ray is that they don't have mandatory contribution requirements
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 15: or limits. So it is a business owner, you want
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 15: to obviously be profitable and put money back into your business,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 15: but if there's any you know, good years where you
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 15: have some excess surplus and you want to set us
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 15: aside some money for retirement, you can choose to do
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 15: it as a lump sum right before the tax falling deadline,
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 15: or at a whatever you deem as your physical year
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 15: at the when you do evaluations of your profits and
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 15: losses and say, hey, I can afford to do twenty
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 15: percent of my income into this.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 11: You know, that's the flexibility that a SET has.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 15: It doesn't require you to do a monthly contribution or
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 15: any kind of limit. That they are designed so that
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 15: you can put money into your business, but then have
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 15: the flexibility to save a good contribution amount for your retirement.
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  Speaker 19: And John something that Adam and I actually encounter a
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 19: lot with business owners, and I think This would actually
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 19: speak to any of the business owners listening to this
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 19: show today, is that too often we see their primary
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 19: financial plan for retirement is oh, I'm just going to
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 19: sell the business and call today, and they rely very
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 19: heavily on that. I guess that backstop and that guarantee
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 19: that they're going to be able to sell that and
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 19: get what they put in out of it, and that's
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 19: going to be able to fund their lifestyle, their legacy planning,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 19: everything that goes into what we would call your golden years. Right,
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 19: And ultimately, when we talk about a step, this is
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 19: supposed to be another tool in the toolbox that doesn't
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 19: necessarily negate that thought process, but it gives you some
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 19: more let's call it some insurance. Right, You're not heavily
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 19: relying on that plan as much because that's not we
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  Speaker 19: you know, I would ask you how much do you
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 19: think your business is worth? Well, you'd probably say quite
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 19: a bit. You put a lot of time, effort, blood,
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 19: sweat and tears and money into it. But from the
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 19: outside looking in, they might not see.
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  Speaker 13: It like that.
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  Speaker 2: No, Well, and we both know it's only worth what
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: someone's willing to pay for it, exactly. So ultimately, I
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  Speaker 2: mean that's what my wife and I our business is.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: We do online retail resale, so we know full well that.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 2: I mean what we do is we take people's things
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: and sell them for them online. So literally, I'm really
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 2: good at telling people what their items are. We're talking
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 2: with Chris Loftus and Adam Martin from Strategic Financial Partners. Chris,
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 2: what are the tax implications on something like this? Because
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 2: you know, one of the perks of a ROTH or
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: a four to one K or something, or you know,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: some of it you can put in tax deferred. What
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: are the you know, what are the tax implications and
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 2: what are the common mistakes or surprises that people don't
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: realize until later about a step.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 19: Well, that's a great question. Ultimately, you have to look
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 19: at it from my bird's eye view, right. Soo many
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 19: times we see people go into it and they try
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 19: to do something that's advantageous for them today, but going
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 19: forward over the next three to five to ten years,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 19: whether it's for them, their employees, or their business, it
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 19: might not be the most advantageous tax wise. Adam, you
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 19: see people do this all the time where they're not
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 19: looking at the big picture.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 11: Is that correct?
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 15: Well, I mean when you specifically talking about the tax
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 15: implications on this.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 11: This operates just like a traditional ira.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 15: So the money you're going to be putting into the
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 15: set ira is going to be on a pre tax basis.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 3: It's a pretax.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 15: As a business owner, you want to have those opportunities
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 15: to deduct your taxable income. Right, So if you own
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 15: a company that you requires you to buy a bunch
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 15: of equipment, a construction company, you know your CPA is
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 15: telling you to go out there and buy that tractor
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 15: because we can write all fifty thousand dollars. Well, if
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 15: and when you're looking at it right up to the
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 15: tax filing deadline and you're like, well, I'd like to
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 15: at least do another twenty percent of deduction, so I'm
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 15: not just getting raked over the coals to Uncle Sam.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 15: That's what we would step in and say, why don't
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 15: we make the twenty percent contribution to your set ira
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 15: because we can reduce your taxable income by that amount.
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  Speaker 19: What do we say, Adam, We try to fire Uncle
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 19: Sam every chance we get.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 11: Yeah, he's a business partner, to fire them every chance
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 11: we can.
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  Speaker 3: Amen. Amen.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: If if someone listening already has employees, how does this
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: impact them and how should one you know owner think
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: about that before setting one of these up.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 15: Well, that's that's what Chris was alluding to, that, you know,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 15: the step is a really good when you get started.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 15: It's the simplest, cheapest way to get a retirement plan started,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 15: and we're not paying any kind of third party admin
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 15: costs for a four to.
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 11: One K plan.
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  Speaker 15: But as the business evolves and we bring in employees,
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 15: one of the you know, non discriminatory law states that
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 15: if you're going to do ten percent, then you have
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 15: to offer ten percent to your employee as well. So
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 15: that could be very costly if you start to bring
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 15: in employees and we may need to pivot to another
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 15: plan so that you're not on the hook to have
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 15: to do ten percent. Maybe you want to do five
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 15: or you want to do three, so you know, as
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 15: the business evolves, we really that's why we need to
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 15: be having annual reviews, sitting down looking at your situation,
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 15: because the last thing we want is for it to
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 15: be an aha moment where you're like, well, I'm gonna
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 15: do twenty percent, and you go ahead and do it,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 15: but then IRS says, well, you've got two employees and
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 15: you've got to do twenty percent for them as well.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 11: It could break the bank.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 19: And that's not to say that's not to say that
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 19: you don't want to take care of your employees. I mean,
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 19: there's some phenomenal people out there doing some great work
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 19: for small businesses and medium sized businesses all over the country,
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 19: and they need to be taken care of just as well.
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 19: Their retirement is just as important as your retirement. But
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 19: at the same time, they're alliant on what provisions you're
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 19: going to give them. Something we want to encourage people
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 19: to think about specifically business owners, is, Hey, when you're
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 19: looking at the long term picture of our long term
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 19: plan of your business, what does it look like when
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 19: it comes to how your employees are going to be
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 19: taken care of when you're not there or ultimately when
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 19: you decide to sell your business. So there's just a
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 19: bunch of other factors there that need to be considered.
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  Speaker 3: Right well, and better an AHA moment than an.
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  Speaker 2: H oh oh boy exactly, definitely, Uh Chris Loftus Adam
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  Speaker 2: Martin with Strategic Financial Partners. If folks are interested they
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  Speaker 2: want inform on a SEP or any other retirement planning,
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: what's the best way for folks to connect with you.
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  Speaker 15: This is Adam Martin and my number is nine zero
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  Speaker 15: one two six zero two four three eight, or you
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 15: can email me at Adam Martin at Strategic Financial Partners
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 15: dot com.
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 19: And this is Chris LOFTUS and you can reach me
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  Speaker 19: at my cell at nine zero one six five seven
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 19: three three two four or at my email which is
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 19: C LOFTUS l O F T I S at Strategic
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 19: Financial Partners dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Gentlemen, we appreciate you joining us and uh fascinating information.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I appreciate you joining us today. Thanks for
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• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: a new proposed congressional map which would get rid of
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: the last remaining Democrat seat. That you're going to start
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: seeing more and more of these as more and more
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: state legislatures start redistricting, and these are going to be interesting.
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously Virginia did it.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, there will be much wailing and gnashing of
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  Speaker 2: teeth now that more and more of these states start
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 2: doing doing this.
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  Speaker 3: And look, I mean it's.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I had a caller to my show that
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  Speaker 2: it was irate when when Virginia did it and the
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  Speaker 2: one difference, and I pointed it out, Look, the California
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  Speaker 2: did it, and a lot of Republicans were mad about California.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: A lot of Democrats were mad about Texas. And look,
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 2: let's be honest with this whole process. Republicans can't get
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 2: mad at California and celebrate Texas. It's the process, and
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: we can't be hypocritical about it. Jerrymandering is a political process,
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  Speaker 2: and it's by its very nature, and there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 2: with it. It's completely legal. If you don't like it,
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 2: change the laws, you don't like it, change the process.
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  Speaker 2: But we're just playing by.
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 3: The rules, folks.
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  Speaker 2: When I say we, I mean Republicans in general. Democrats
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  Speaker 2: have been doing this nonsense for years. Republicans in these
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  Speaker 2: states are just finally catching up. We're just finally playing
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 2: by the same rules Democrats have been playing with for decades.
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  Speaker 2: But we also can't complain when they're playing fairly. That
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  Speaker 2: is the one difference with the case in Virginia. Virginia
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  Speaker 2: had a very strict system whereby they had a redistricting commission.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 2: The commission drew maps. The maps then went to the legislature,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: and the legislature had to vote to approve or reject
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  Speaker 2: the map and kick it back to the commission. What
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  Speaker 2: they did with you know, Spamberger, their new governor, who
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  Speaker 2: by the way, ran as a moderate, said she wouldn't redistrict,
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 2: and then the minute she got into office redistricted. She's
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  Speaker 2: a liar, big shock Democrat, a liar. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: that never happens at any rate. What they did in
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 2: Virginia was they broke their own rules. They didn't play
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 2: by the rules because they didn't like Donald Trump. Again,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 2: this is all a variation, an offshoot of Trump derangement syndrome.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 3: They're obsessed. They're like people who have got a disease.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 3: It is a disease.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 2: It's Orange Man bad. And they can't give him a win.
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  Speaker 2: Roger Marshall was the Senator. Roger Marshall was right when.
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 3: He said they.
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  Speaker 2: Just can't give him a win on anything. Donald Trump
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 2: could cure cancer and they wouldn't like it. They'd be unhappy.
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  Speaker 3: He could come out tomorrow and.
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  Speaker 2: Support LGBTQ rights, climate change, and everything else, and they
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  Speaker 2: would all of a sudden become Conservatives. If Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: changed his party affiliation to Democrat, they would all register
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  Speaker 2: as Republicans. This is the way it works. They hate
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: him so much. They're obsessed with Trump that if he
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 2: says the sky is blue, they're going to say the
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: sky is purple.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just that's the way it is.
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  Speaker 2: And when it came to redistricting, you know, California did
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 2: it because Texas did it. Okay, that's fair, that's that's
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 2: the rules. Virginia broke the rules. But now that the
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  Speaker 2: Supreme Court has said, hey, you can't make it. You
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: can't jerrymander.
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  Speaker 3: Based on.
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  Speaker 2: Race, which is why it shouldn't the way it shouldn't
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: have been at all from the very beginning. Now that
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 2: they're resetting the rules, now that they're saying, hey, you
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: got to do it one person, one vote, the way
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 2: it should have been all all along, well that's Katie
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 2: bar the door. Now every state that can should do it,
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 2: including by the way, Kansas. Now we won't because we
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: have a Democrat governor, and as long as we have
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 2: a Democrat governor.
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  Speaker 3: We don't.
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  Speaker 2: We need super majorities in Kansas, and we don't have
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  Speaker 2: the votes because we got a few Rhinos and a
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: few weak Republicans that are not willing to do it.
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  Speaker 3: So it'll be a while. We need we need a
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  Speaker 3: Republican governor.
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  Speaker 2: In Kansas to do it, but other states that can
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 2: knock yourselves out, go for it. And all of this
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 2: comes down to defending the majorities in Congress, because mark
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 2: my words, if Democrats get control of both chambers of
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 2: the US Congress, if they get the House and the Senate,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 2: it'll be impeachment all day long and twice on Sunday.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: And that's that will be all they do. If they
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 2: get the House, they're gonna impeach him. If they get
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 2: the House and the Senate, it will be the end
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 2: of the filibuster. It will be impeachment and he'll be
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 2: out if they can do it now. Frankly, I don't
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: know if you know they're gonna like JD Vance anymore.
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 2: But I don't think they've thought two steps. They don't
• 1:49:50
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• 1:50:04
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  Speaker 2: in pieces, and if they were, they'd be missing a
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 2: few pieces.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 3: But they could play thumb Wars, which is essentially what
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 3: they're doing.
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  Speaker 3: That's what matters.
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  Speaker 2: We're the grassroots, we're the army, We're the folks that
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  Speaker 2: make a difference. They need us, these candidates need us.
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  Speaker 2: And vet them, you know, don't just take my word
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  Speaker 2: for it or your state party chairs. Forward to your
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  Speaker 2: counting party chair. Do the work, vet your candidates, and
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  Speaker 2: then get out there and help get them elected because
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  Speaker 2: they need us as much.
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  Speaker 3: As we need them.
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  Speaker 17: Folks.
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  Speaker 2: Again, my name's John Whitmer. Please like and follow me
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