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Hatley Campaign Gains Steam, Blackburn Launches Another Attack Ad · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: And hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you're doing well wherever you might be this morning,
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  Speaker 3: getting off to a very busy start. We have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of big news stories happening here in the Mid-South
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  Speaker 3: and really around the country. I want you to write
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  Speaker 3: down our telephone number. You're going to need this to
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  Speaker 3: call in, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. So yesterday, early voting. We
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  Speaker 3: should be getting in those official numbers. But from all accounts,
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  Speaker 3: looked like a pretty strong turnout across the entire state.
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  Speaker 3: And right here in Shelby County, would certainly like to
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  Speaker 3: hear from you this morning. What was it like at
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  Speaker 3: the polling station you went to? I will tell you
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  Speaker 3: that I normally vote in Germantown. and it was a
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  Speaker 3: very busy polling precinct, as a matter of fact. It
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  Speaker 3: took about, I don't know, 25, 30 minutes to get
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  Speaker 3: in there to vote. Everybody in a good mood. There
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  Speaker 3: were a couple of first-time voters, and they do something
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  Speaker 3: up really nice, you know, for the first-time voters. They
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  Speaker 3: treat them really well. The rest of us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we got to, well... No, they treat us well, too.
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  Speaker 3: But it was in and out. I'm the guy that
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  Speaker 3: always asks for the paper ballot. I'm old school. I
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  Speaker 3: like to be able to fill in the circles myself
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  Speaker 3: and cast my vote and got the sticker. And I
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  Speaker 3: will say this. The crowds, there was... This was just
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  Speaker 3: an observation. So as you walk up to go vote,
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  Speaker 3: there are representatives from the various candidates there. And as
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  Speaker 3: a matter of fact, in some cases, there are actually
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  Speaker 3: candidates there. And you say hello, got to say hello
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  Speaker 3: to Mark White and his lovely bride. Of course, Mark
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  Speaker 3: running for reelection for the state house. And so anyway,
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  Speaker 3: there were a number of candidates or their, you know,
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  Speaker 3: or their representatives there. And they're trying to, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're handing you all the information. So, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: can maybe they can influence your vote, which is all
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  Speaker 3: perfectly normal. They do that, you know, every election cycle.
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  Speaker 3: But there was just one. This was really funny. There
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  Speaker 3: was just one candidate. And it really wasn't the candidate
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  Speaker 3: at all. It was the representative there.
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  Speaker 2: Of the candidate.
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  Speaker 3: And they said, we want you to vote for this person.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, well, I only vote for Republicans, bona
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  Speaker 3: fide Republicans. And the person really got upset with me
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  Speaker 3: and was, well, my candidate is a Republican.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Glad to hear that.
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  Speaker 3: But it's not on my list of bona fide Republicans,
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  Speaker 3: so I don't see the name here. Not a lot
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  Speaker 3: of joy in that camp. So anyway, all I had
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  Speaker 3: to say. Folks, at the end of the day, it's
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  Speaker 3: an election. Be nice, be polite, and don't get upset
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  Speaker 3: if somebody doesn't vote for your guy or your gal.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the way it is. All right.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, would love to hear from you today how
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  Speaker 3: things went. I do want to share a couple of items,
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  Speaker 3: and there may be folks, and maybe you haven't voted before.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of stuff on the ballot. So Be
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  Speaker 3: sure someone sent me a note yesterday and said, Todd,
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  Speaker 3: when I wanted to vote, there was only like the
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  Speaker 3: governor's race and the the ballot initiatives.
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  Speaker 2: And that was it. Was there more to the to
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  Speaker 2: the to the election? I said, yes.
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  Speaker 3: And I asked the person, did you flip over the ballot?
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  Speaker 3: Because there are two sides. So just remember that two sides.
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  Speaker 3: Take your time.
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  Speaker 2: Fill it out. Make sure you understand what you're voting for.
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  Speaker 3: And I really do appreciate the fact that the poll
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  Speaker 3: workers actually actually sent, you know, as people were standing
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  Speaker 3: in line, they were handing them copies of the ballot initiative.
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  Speaker 3: So people, if they didn't understand what they were voting for,
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  Speaker 3: they could read up on it and understand. Also, I've
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  Speaker 3: got to read this. This is from a group. So
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  Speaker 3: our good friends, the Real Housewives of Germantown sent this over.
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  Speaker 3: This is a Facebook group, Memphis Raise Your Expectations. And
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  Speaker 3: a woman writing in says, I voted early today. When
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  Speaker 3: I went to the table, I was not asked if
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  Speaker 3: I wanted a Democrat or Republican ballot. When I entered
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  Speaker 3: the form into the machine, the ballot came up, and
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 2: A little confused.
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  Speaker 3: Marsha Blackburn's name was the first name listed on my ballot.
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  Speaker 3: So I stuck my head out and asked the poll
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  Speaker 3: worker if there was a Democrat or a Republican ballot.
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  Speaker 3: He said yes. That was incorrect. A female worker came over.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, why is she pointing out? Why do
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  Speaker 3: we need to know if it was a female worker?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: So she goes on to say she was incredibly confused.
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  Speaker 3: She's enraged that Marsha Blackburn was at the top of
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  Speaker 3: the ballot. She says, I am a reasonably intelligent woman
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  Speaker 3: and good reader. The ballot threw me for a loop.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like all camps. It seems like just another
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  Speaker 3: way to confuse the voters. Who thought that was a
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  Speaker 3: good idea? Well, I don't want to question the reasonable
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  Speaker 3: intelligence of this dear lady here, but in the general election,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's on the same ballot, and they list the candidates alphabetically.
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  Speaker 3: So Blackburn starts with the letter B, so therefore she
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  Speaker 3: is at the top of the ballot. If there had been,
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  Speaker 3: let's say if Ed Apple had been running for governor, well,
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  Speaker 3: guess what? A would have been for Apple, and Apple
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  Speaker 3: would have been at the top of the list. So
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  Speaker 3: there's no vast right-wing conspiracy going on here, folks.
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  Speaker 2: Just want to throw that out.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so anyway, curious to hear how things went
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  Speaker 3: for you at your voting location.
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  Speaker 2: Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901. 260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, have you seen the video? We have this over
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  Speaker 3: on the KOM Facebook page. Senator Marsha Blackburn sharing a
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  Speaker 3: video that shows her dancing. It's an AI video. And man,
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  Speaker 3: did they put on some pounds for Brent Taylor. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: didn't do him any favors. He was full figured in
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  Speaker 3: that video. It featured Blackburn. They were dancing, I think,
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  Speaker 3: to a Kendrick Lamar song. And you had Blackburn, Bill
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  Speaker 3: Hagerty dancing. Tim Burchett, Glenn Jacobs, and then Senator Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: And so people are, let's just say it's not going
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  Speaker 3: over as well as they thought it might.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to explain why in just a moment.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, Marsha Blackburn was asked about this out on
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  Speaker 3: the campaign trail yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: There is a county commissioner that made the video and
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  Speaker 4: put it up, and I think Congressman Burchett reposted it.
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  Speaker 4: We reposted it, and it's a funsy. Everybody get out
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  Speaker 4: and vote.
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  Speaker 5: No, Marsha, it's a.
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  Speaker 2: No for me. This is die-buckle witchcraft. diabolical witchcraft. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Marsha's got some moves there.
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  Speaker 3: Even if it's AI Marsha, she's got some, you know, look,
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  Speaker 3: it could have been worse, could have been twerking. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to leave it there. But as Marsha said, it's just,
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  Speaker 3: just a little funsy, just a little funsy. So everybody
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  Speaker 3: is getting all bent out of shape over this and
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  Speaker 3: people are The guy thinks it's witchcraft. So anyway, your
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  Speaker 3: take on Marsha. Here's why I think it's going. It's
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  Speaker 3: not going over as well as maybe the campaign thought
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  Speaker 3: it was. The campaign has not been known for funsy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just going to tell you it is. It is
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  Speaker 3: off brand. This campaign has been ugly. It has been
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  Speaker 3: in the trenches warfare. And there's really not been a
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  Speaker 3: lot of fun coming out of the Blackburn campaign. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that's good or bad. It's just the
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  Speaker 3: reality of it. So when you post a video like that,
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  Speaker 3: Just out of nowhere, it's off-brand, and it just throws
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  Speaker 3: people for a loop. But anyway, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: I doubt this is— I don't know. Maybe it will impact
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  Speaker 3: people's votes. I sincerely doubt that. I will say this.
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  Speaker 3: The Blackburn campaign throwing down another attack ad on David Hatley—
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  Speaker 3: And here's the reason why it was interesting.
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  Speaker 2: This story came out yesterday afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: And then by the evening in my inbox, I had
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  Speaker 3: another attack ad going after David Hatley, who clearly 30
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  Speaker 3: plus years ago had big time, had big time legal
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  Speaker 3: and criminal problems. No doubt about that. The question is,
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  Speaker 3: and by the way, Jerry Green, too, when she was
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  Speaker 3: sitting down with the interview with us, She went after Hatley,
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  Speaker 3: and she said everything that Hatley did 30-plus years ago
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  Speaker 3: is fair game. So the headline today is that David
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  Speaker 3: Hatley has given his own campaign another $ 5 million. He
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  Speaker 3: is the best-financed candidate in the statewide race. $ 5 million,
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  Speaker 3: that was listed in his third-quarter campaign finance report. The
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  Speaker 3: candidates had to file that this week. So far, he
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  Speaker 3: spent $ 12 million in his bid to be the next
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  Speaker 3: governor of Tennessee. And right now, his balance, as of yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: a $ 6.
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  Speaker 1: 8 million.
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  Speaker 3: And those are really the three candidates you've got to consider.
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  Speaker 3: Let me just say this also about Hatley. There are
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  Speaker 3: some reports internally, this guy's internal polling, that he's roughly
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  Speaker 3: getting around 20% of the vote. Now, if that number holds,
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  Speaker 3: it's not enough for him to win the race, and
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  Speaker 3: it may not be enough for Senator Blackburn to win
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  Speaker 3: the race. That's because Hatley, by all indications, is pulling
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  Speaker 3: support away from Marsha Blackburn. Look, there were a lot
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  Speaker 3: of disenfranchised Republicans after that nasty primary fight. And John Rose,
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  Speaker 3: you don't see John Rose out on the campaign trail
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  Speaker 3: stumping for Marsha Blackburn, do you? And you certainly don't
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  Speaker 3: see Monty Fritz. And so the question is, where do
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  Speaker 3: those voters go?
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  Speaker 2: Are they going to?
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  Speaker 3: And I would say that out of the three, John
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  Speaker 3: Rose supporters more likely going to support Blackburn. Monty Fritz supporters,
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  Speaker 3: I think, go to Hatley. So anyway, I'm just curious,
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  Speaker 3: who are you voting for and who do you like?
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  Speaker 3: Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Coming up, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to be talking to one of the top pollsters in America.
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  Speaker 2: Matt Towery.
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  Speaker 3: He's one of the guys that has gotten all of
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  Speaker 3: the races right. And we need to hear what he
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  Speaker 3: has to say about the midterms and all the polling
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  Speaker 3: data out there. Right now, though, we've got to listen
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  Speaker 3: to Commander Chuck. He's keeping track of your morning commute.
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  Speaker 3: Let's check in with him.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you were lucky enough to be at Ronnie
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  Speaker 3: Grisanti's the other day, you saw something that was, well,
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  Speaker 3: quite frankly, almost unbelievable. A huge birthday party for Martha McInespie,
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  Speaker 3: who turned 110 years old. And it was quite it
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  Speaker 3: was quite the celebration. She had the manicotti, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, yesterday, big, big birthday for Miss Martha, who
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  Speaker 3: is a local celebrity, really. It's a fascinating story. She
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  Speaker 3: still lives by herself at 110 years old, plays bridge
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  Speaker 3: every Monday, and she goes to regular lunches at Grisanti's.
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  Speaker 3: She says the manicotti is the best in the world,
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  Speaker 3: and that is that. So what a wonderful story. And
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  Speaker 3: you can read all about it over at the Daily
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  Speaker 3: Memphian if you subscribe. But a large group of ladies,
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  Speaker 3: and it turns out all of their dads used to
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  Speaker 3: bowl together at Southern Bowling Lanes. Anybody remember Southern Bowling Lanes?
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  Speaker 3: I think that was over, yikes, was that North Cleveland Street?
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  Speaker 3: And that's where her husband worked. So anyway, she had
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  Speaker 3: a wonderful time. And again, she's looking forward to her
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  Speaker 3: birthday celebration next year. And you never know. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it might be 115 years old. So anyway, I'm just curious.
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  Speaker 3: What about your family? Who is the oldest person in
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  Speaker 3: your family? And what's the secret to long life, a
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  Speaker 3: long and happy life? You know, I was reading the,
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  Speaker 3: I read the interview with the lady many years ago
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  Speaker 3: who said she believed, I think she was over 100,
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  Speaker 3: and she believed the secret to longevity, drinking three Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Peppers a day. And the reporter said, but are you sure?
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  Speaker 2: Three Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Peppers a day? And the lady said, absolutely. The reporter said, well,
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  Speaker 3: didn't your doctors tell you that's not good for you?
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  Speaker 3: She said, absolutely, but they're all dead and I'm still alive. So,
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  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, that's why yours truly, I am fueled
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  Speaker 3: by three Dr. Peppers a day. Not the huge ones,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like the two liters, but like the little cans.
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  Speaker 3: We have a full, the fridge here at the Mighty
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  Speaker 3: Down 90 stocked with those things. All right, 901-260-5926. If
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  Speaker 3: you want to wish Miss Martha a happy 110th birthday,
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  Speaker 3: or if you want to share maybe the secret to
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  Speaker 3: a long life with your family, give us a holler
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  Speaker 3: this morning and let us know. Coming up, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: we are going to be speaking to Matt Towery. You
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  Speaker 3: see him all the time with Sean Hannity. Matt spending
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  Speaker 3: a few moments with us here on here on the
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  Speaker 3: program coming up, talking about the midterm election. How are
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  Speaker 3: you guys feeling about the midterms? I know Fox News.
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  Speaker 3: If you watched Fox last night, you're like running towards
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  Speaker 3: the cliff right now. And I don't think you need
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  Speaker 3: to be doing that. Because I'm still feeling pretty darn
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  Speaker 3: bullish about the Republicans' chances. But everybody's got to work together. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: there is a lot of infighting. And it's not just
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  Speaker 3: locally and all that stuff is a great big mess.
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  Speaker 3: It's also a great big distraction. Because we need people
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  Speaker 3: that are willing to set aside their personal grievances. and
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  Speaker 3: focus on the big picture here. And the big picture
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  Speaker 3: is stopping the rise of Islam. The big picture is
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  Speaker 3: stopping the rise of the communists. That's ultimately what this
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  Speaker 3: midterm election is all about here. And if we lose
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  Speaker 3: sight of that, then we're going to have, well, we're
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  Speaker 3: just going to have big problems in this country. And
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the country wants that. Certainly the country
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  Speaker 3: does not need that.
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  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: I want to play some audio here. This is from
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  Speaker 3: a fired up Trump supporter last night in Montana, cut 49.
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  Speaker 4: So when people say that people aren't going to be
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  Speaker 4: motivated to vote, what do you say about that? Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: We're all motivated.
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  Speaker 2: It's... Righteousness versus demonic.
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  Speaker 5: That's how I look at it. So Republican versus Democrat.
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  Speaker 5: You're righteous and you believe in God and you believe
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  Speaker 5: in our country or you believe in girls in our
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  Speaker 5: men and women's sports and utilization of our children and
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  Speaker 5: It's amazing the difference. Start night and day.
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  Speaker 3: And you can tell.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the line is all the way just all
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  Speaker 5: the way down the interstate.
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  Speaker 2: It's huge.
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  Speaker 5: And so you're going to you think people are going
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  Speaker 5: to turn out this midterm election?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: We are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do, too.
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  Speaker 3: And I saw that. I know I was getting reports from,
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  Speaker 3: I think, Collierville, where there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: wearing face diapers that were showing up to vote.
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  Speaker 2: Not in my neighborhood.
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  Speaker 3: There were so everybody looked like they were Republican. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to say what look, but if you're
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  Speaker 3: wearing a face diaper, chances are you're probably not a Republican.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying here. So anyway, Stephen Miller last
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  Speaker 3: night saying, hey, look, you've got to pay attention here.
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  Speaker 3: The polls are getting it wrong. And we're going to
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  Speaker 3: play some of that coming up right after the break here.
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  Speaker 3: But again, Stephen Miller says if you want to keep
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  Speaker 3: the freaks out of office, these crazy communists, you've got
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  Speaker 3: to show up and you've got to vote. You've got
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  Speaker 3: to fight for your children and you've got to fight
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  Speaker 3: to save the country. I think that's a pretty good
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  Speaker 3: reason to get out here. and vote hey by the
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  Speaker 3: way don't forget tomorrow ladies and gentlemen huge huge day
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  Speaker 3: Go to their website, and you'll find all the information there.
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  Speaker 3: All right, coming up, your calls. Also, Matt Towery, our
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  Speaker 3: great conversation with him. Don't go anywhere. This is Todd
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  Speaker 3: Stearns in the principal Toyota Memphis studios.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, the morning chat is going strong over on our
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  Speaker 3: Facebook live stream.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Principal Toyota Memphis studio. I want
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  Speaker 3: to say good morning to Dean, who has now, I guess,
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  Speaker 3: given himself an on-field, battlefield promotion to official greeter at
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  Speaker 3: the Mighty 990. Dean, you're doing a great job of that.
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  Speaker 3: Kristen Hicks writing in, imagine being born in 1916. talking
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  Speaker 3: about Miss Martha celebrating her 110th birthday, and she's getting
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  Speaker 3: around pretty good for 110. She says, my dad just
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  Speaker 3: had a hip replacement last month. He's 89, super sharp,
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  Speaker 3: has lots of hobbies, using his hands, woodworking, gunsmithing, metalworking,
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  Speaker 3: model trains. His family lives into their mid-90s. They have
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  Speaker 3: super genes. So maybe that's it is just staying active.
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  Speaker 3: You know, a lot of people say, Stearns, when are
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  Speaker 3: you going to retire? And I'm like, what does that
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  Speaker 3: even mean? What does that word mean, retire?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, just wondering what is the secret to a
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  Speaker 3: long life as we celebrate a lady who is believed
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: to be the oldest person in Memphis, Miss Martha, celebrating
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: her 110th birthday this week.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: So I was out at Shelby Farms, finally back out
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: there getting is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. So I
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: was out at Shelby Farms, finally back out there, getting
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: in some exercise, doing the loop around the Baptist Promenade.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: And I think I was about midway through when I'm like,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: sweet mercy, it's 90-something degrees out here. But anyway, I'm
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: listening to some podcasts. and I heard Sean Hannity interviewing
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: our good friend Matt Towery. And the more I listened,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: the more fired up I got. I knew we had
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: to have Matt on the show. Here's a little bit
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: of that conversation. Matt, you were getting every second I
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: was getting just more and more pumped up listening to
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: you and Hannity and the conversation you guys were having.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: It's good to have you on the show today.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I have to tell Sean that we're
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a new exercise routine. I had no idea that would work.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: That's it. You guys burn more calories than Pilates.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Glad to hear it.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Matt, you've got a great new book out called The
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Honoring of Ignorance, The Seven Mirages Destroying America, and we're
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: going to talk about that in just a second. But
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: one of the things I've been so upset about this
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: election cycle are these polls that have been coming out,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: and I'm just not buying what the pollsters are trying
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: to sell us. I mean, you've been doing this a long,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: long time. What say you?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, fortunately, we've had a record of being
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: one of the most accurate pollsters in 2016, 20, and 24.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: And in the 22 midterms, we were accurate, but we
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: weren't at the top. And there was a reason why,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: because we listened to the national pollsters who polled the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: generic ballot. And even the New York Times and the
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: others were saying, oh, the Republicans are going to sweep.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: And so we adjusted our models based on that. And,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: of course, the Republicans did sweep some critical races. We're
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: lost by the Republicans. It wasn't a bad year for Republicans,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: but it wasn't the banner year people thought. Now, I'm
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: not listening to these national pollsters this time. I do
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: my own waiting. And, by the way, this is my
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: last year of polling. Todd, you're getting me in the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: last year before I retire and just write books and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: continue to give punditry. But I'm not going to miss
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: this race. Let me tell you what they're doing. They're
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: doing what they do every single year. They underweight Republicans.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: They undersample Republicans. They make assumptions in their weighting that
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: is incorrect. They thought this was going to be a
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: year where young people were upset and they were going
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: to turn out and start a revolution, moving towards socialism. Well,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: what we're seeing, and it's just not me, but Robert
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Cahaley at Trafalgar, you know Robert and the folks at Rasmussen,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: they've all polled it. We've been sharing our polling. And
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: every single poll shows that senior voters, 65 and older,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: are the ones who are turning out, who are most
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: excited about turning out. And by the way, we now
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: have evidence to back that up. We've seen early voting
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: in Ohio, Michigan, and now in Georgia. Seniors are voting
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: off the chain. And believe it or not, they have
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: now moved much more to the Republican Party than they
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: had after the pandemic. You and I, I think, discussed
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: this before, that after the pandemic... Some seniors got a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: little upset. They felt like Trump didn't handle it right.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: They felt like they were very vulnerable during that time period. Well,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: guess what? They are back with the GOP big time
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: because they don't want socialism and they don't like what
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: they're seeing. So these pollsters are off. Races are going
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to get very, very tight. And we're going to be
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: there to tell everybody what the truth is, whether Democrat
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: or Republican. I don't know, but I know they're tightening.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know either, Matt. And again, my encouragement
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: to people is to get out and vote. I mean,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: you ultimately control that. You know, you get to decide
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: whether you are going to engage in the political process
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: or not. You know, my frustration has been, it just
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: seems like the media and the polling agencies have been somewhat,
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know if they're colluding, complicit in really misleading
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: the American people. And it seems to me, There seems
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: to be some election interference going on.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, the funny thing about in the book,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: The Honoring of Ignorance, and people, you want to, you
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: have a member of your family or someone who just
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: will not listen to you and thinks that you're crazy
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: for being a Republican or liking Donald Trump, and shove
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: it in their face and tell them to read it
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and then debate them afterwards. I went through every part
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of this talk. I documented it by numbers. I gave
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the details all apart. in the policy of Trump and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the like, and some of his statements, the way they're
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: misconstrued or omitted by the media. And I put it
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: all together and wrapped it up in a bow. And
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if you get this book, you will
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: beat anybody in your family on any debate. I'm not
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: sure that we could be able to come back. And
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: part of the reason is this. So you get the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: best pollsters in the country based on basic just error rate.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: And those have been Insider Advantage, Rasmussen, Trafalgar, let's see, Qantas,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Atlas Intel, which really is a Brazilian company. They don't
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: do as much as people think. Emerson College. There are
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a handful of others. This is right on every time.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: What happens is they set up these groups like it
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: used to be 538, which was owned by Disney and ABC,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: and now it's Nate Silver and the Silver Bulletin and
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: some of his other friends, and they rate pollsters. What
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: they do is they go through and find excuses to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: take the people who are the most accurate and give
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: them bad grades. They make it look like they can't
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: run an insider advantage on a network or on any
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: decent newspaper. Well, in fact, we've been the most accurate
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: every single time.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: You sure have.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: That's a game they play, Todd. It's designed to do that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Let me give you an example. So when Nate Silver,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I don't have his, he changed his ratings. He changes
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: them all the time. But he ranked the top pollsters
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in the country. Most of the polls he ran top.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Most of the races they were polling in the 2024 election.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: He takes little bitties to place at Olinburg in Pennsylvania.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sure a very fine school. But they don't poll
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: that much. They just poll Pennsylvania. He's way up there.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: And they missed the one race that they polled in
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: their own state. They had Harris winning. So he takes
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: little pictures you've never heard of and ranks them ahead
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: of Trafalgar and Insider Advantage and McLaughlin and rescues and
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: so we look like them so we can't run their
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: ads they're not transparent enough but that's nonsense we put
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: all our stuff up or uh we're not a member
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: of some position the pollster we don't do that because
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the people who run those things are ultra liberal and
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the car pulls apart why would part of that so
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: they use excuses and then they try to peddle it
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to the news organizations So what you're seeing right now
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: is them pushing polls from the usual suspects who have traditionally,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: basically in the last 10 or 15 years, particularly in
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: the Trump era, had thrown. So that's why you have
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: a good reason to question these polls. Now, I'm not
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: telling you the Republicans are winning every state. Our polls
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: right now show the Democrats winning a lot of states,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: but by one or two points. But with this new
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: wave which is occurring, which I'll talk about, the silver wave,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: We're going to have to re-weight our polls, and things
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: are going to change big time.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Matt Towery is joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: has a new book out called The Honoring of Ignorance. Matt,
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: one of the things you address in the book, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: this concerns me because I've long suspected this might be
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: the case. I think we are– the country is heading towards–
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: really a very difficult moment. And you write about this,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: and you say that this liberal ideology could eventually lead
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: to some sort of a separation.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Tell us about that.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: What's so interesting is, of course, we all know the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Civil War was bloody and something no one likes to
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: think about, not a proud moment in history. It was
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: probably led by the South. And I think in the future,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: we're going to see the North wanting to break away.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Because think about this, Todd, as we get further down
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the road and more people move to states like Florida
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and Texas, Tennessee and South Carolina, you're going to see
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the map in that direction. You're going to see more
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: districts in that direction. And as a result, you're going
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to see maybe 10 years of imbalance in this country.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: And as a result, the state will lose New York, California.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Let me jump in here. Guys, we have got a
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: very bad phone connection that is getting worse with Matt.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: We're going to try to reconnect with him. So let's
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: put Matt on hold. But again, Matt in the book
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: is positing the theory that we could see a division
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: of the country along state lines and where we might
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: work together for the common defense. But the politics is
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: becoming so isolated that you could have red states and
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: blue states partner together. So we're going to take– we've
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: got Matt back. All right, Matt, I think we've got
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: you back. Let's circle back and share what you were
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: saying about the divisions of the states here.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Well, to be concise– It was the South that really
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: led towards the Civil War back in the 1860s. We
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: understand that sad period of time. And I'm from the South,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and I regret that. but it is what it is.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Now it's the northern states that have the incentive to
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: try to pull away because they are losing their population.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: They're going to lose their electoral votes. They're going to
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: lose their congressional districts. And ultimately, they're going to see
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court continue to move towards conservative appointees. And
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: they don't like the way things are running, so they're
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: going to want to end the filibuster. They're going to
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: want to stack the court. And if they can't do that,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: they're going to want to pull away from the country.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: And we polled New York, for example. The majority there
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: want to be no part of the United States. They
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: just want to be a part of the blue state.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: So what I think is going to happen if we
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: don't get control of this country is that you're going
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to see blue states form contacts, as we call them,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: or contracts, in which they honor one another's laws. And
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: then that would lead to the red states having to
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: do the same thing. And the country would ironically go
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: back to being what it was supposed to be originally,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: which is a smaller federal government designed for our defense,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: for our protection, for interstate commerce, and for a common currency.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: And there are probably a lot of people who would
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: like that. I'm not trying to be anti-American. But I
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: predicted a lot of things over the years, as you know, Todd.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I predicted that financial crisis. I predicted Donald Trump would win.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: in 2016, I see this as a long-term trend, not
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: right now, but something in the future that we may
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: have to deal with.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Do you see the blue states continuing the slide towards socialism?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely. They have no reason not to. They are
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: controlled by groups that have tremendous influence, and they also
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: have allowed non-Americans, immigrants, to basically participate in their electoral process.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And they claim they don't. But in reality, what happens
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: is they become residents, they become citizens, they give them
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: driver's licenses. You can't ferret through who can vote and
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: who can't. And so sooner or later, these blue states
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: are going to go. They're not going to reverse. But
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: we're also seeing Florida, for example, great example of this.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: If the Constitution had not been... It was amended, but
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: then there was a federal law that actually limited the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: number of the members of Congress we can have. You
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: realize that under the original Congress right now, it would
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: have 10,000 members of the House of Representatives. And a
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: state like Florida would have upwards of 7,000 representatives in
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the House of Representatives because it's grown so much. Well, obviously,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: that's not where we are right now. But in the end,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: states like Florida, South Carolina, Texas.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: And others.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: are going to have a tremendous influence over this country
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: that they've never had before. And that's going to sit
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: well with these blue states because they're not going to
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: change their ways.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering, and I know you wrote about this, I'm
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: wondering how the founding fathers, if they could see what
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: the country has become today, how do you think they
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: would look at where we are?
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you. So I wrote The Honoring
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: of Ignorance, ironically, 40 years ago. I started on it
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: when I was a student at Cambridge University. And I
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: got a literary agent, and the agent was a well-known
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: one in New York. And they pitched it everywhere, and
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: publishers said, we love it, but he's too young to
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: say these things. Now, 40 years later, I may be
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: too old to say these things. But that said, the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: founders would be shocked, because as you know, originally, we
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: weren't supposed to vote for president. Our legislatures were choosing
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: the electors. The electors then... would choose a president and
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the runner-up would be the vice president. There were no tickets.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: There were no parties. There was no filibuster. There was
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: no taxation system whatsoever. We had no federal tax. So
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: much of what we have right now in the federal
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: government did not exist and was not envisioned by the founders.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I think they would be shocked and they would be appalled,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, because we've allowed the media
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: to influence the mob and the mob to rule. And
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: that's a big issue Right now, as we see a
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: media that's planted in one direction, they use omission and
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: they use misinterpretation and selective reporting to influence the public
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: that then they get pollsters to validate. And then they
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: use these fact checkers to say their facts are correct
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and anyone who is a conservative or has another view
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: is incorrect. And that is what I call the mirage machine.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I talk about it in the book. I show how
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: it works. And that's what's influencing politics in America right now.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: It's a fascinating book, folks. You've got to get a
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: copy of it, The Honoring of Ignorance by Matt Towery.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: And I think it's also a sobering look at what's
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: been happening in America and where all of this is going. Matt, congratulations.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Are you looking forward to getting out of the polling business?
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, retire.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I can't wait. Well, you know. I blame all this
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: on one person, Sean Hannity, because every time I try
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: to retire, Sean, and you know, Todd, we've known each
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: other for 40 years, and we talk a lot on
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the phone. You're not going to retire. You're not retiring. Well,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I said, well, Hannity, you don't run my life. Well,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: sure as heck, it gets me to do it again. So, no,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I told Sean, this is it. It's over. Forget it.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: He could send me a Ferrari and buy me a
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: new house, and I wouldn't do it. So I'm through pulling.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: But I'll still be there to interpret and give people
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: my opinions and to talk to great people like you.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: And tell your folks to go to Amazon.com. It's the
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: honoring of ignorance. Get it, folks. You can fight anybody
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: who doesn't believe us with this book. I wrote it
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: for you. All right.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Been a busy, busy morning here at The Body 990.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: Our good friends over at Calvary Baptist Church, Kirby Parkway,
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: inviting everybody to their free fall festival. That's happening Saturday afternoon,
• 35:31
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• 35:33
  Speaker 3: of great stuff, food, activities for the kids, even going
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: to have a bounce house. Don't tell the Blackburn campaign.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: They'll be putting together another AI video. So all of
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: that Calvary Baptist Church happening Saturday, their fall festival, that's
• 35:47
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• 35:52
  Speaker 3: over at AARP Mississippi, there is going to be a
• 35:57
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• 36:02
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• 36:19
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• 36:22
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• 36:25
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