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186,000 Dead Americans Getting Food Stamps · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: B from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: common sense conservative commentary from Todd Stars Samaritan.
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  Speaker 2: All right, hello everybody, welcome to the Todd Sterns Radio program.
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  Speaker 2: Very happy to have you with us today. We have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great stories to share with you, and
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  Speaker 2: I suspect we're going to be generating a lot of
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  Speaker 2: conversation as well. By the way, you folks in Georgia,
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  Speaker 2: some exciting news for all of you find folks. Apparently
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  Speaker 2: your governor now calling a special session to read district
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  Speaker 2: in the state of Georgia. Curious to hear your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on what the governor there, Brian Kent, is going to
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  Speaker 2: do you folks in Mississippi. Yet that it is not
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  Speaker 2: going to happen now Tate reeves backing away from plans
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  Speaker 2: to recall the state legislature so they can get all
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  Speaker 2: of that going as well. So we'll keep you updated
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  Speaker 2: on all of that information. Will be checking in in
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  Speaker 2: just a little while with one of our great political strategists, Symbol. Also,
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  Speaker 2: Indiana congress Woman Aaron Hochin is going to be joining
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  Speaker 2: us to talk about gas prices, and Congressman Marlin Stutsman
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  Speaker 2: is going to drop by in just a little while
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  Speaker 2: and he's going to talk about this crazy story that
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  Speaker 2: happened yesterday up on Capitol Hill. I'll give you a
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  Speaker 2: preview of that in just a matter of moments. But
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  Speaker 2: I want to start today with the outrage. And believe
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  Speaker 2: it or not, there is a lot of outrage among
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  Speaker 2: people who are getting food stamps the EBT cards, and
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  Speaker 2: it is we're talking about billions and billions of your
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  Speaker 2: tax dollars that are going to feed people, that are
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  Speaker 2: going to housing them and taking care of their health care.
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  Speaker 2: And the reality is most of these people, most of
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  Speaker 2: these people are capable of doing this on their own.
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  Speaker 2: There's really no reason why these folks need food stamps
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  Speaker 2: other than the fact that they're just lazy. Now, there
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  Speaker 2: are some folks out there who do need, who do
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  Speaker 2: need those that help from the government, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: begrudge those folks at all, whether they be elderly or
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  Speaker 2: disabled or for whatever reason they cannot work. Well, that's
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  Speaker 2: the whole point of having this handout from the government,
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  Speaker 2: which is the taxpayers of America. But when you've got
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  Speaker 2: young people in their twenties and thirties that are pulling
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  Speaker 2: down food stamps. It's just a big problem, a big problem,
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  Speaker 2: and we've got to do something about it. And fortunately
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly what the administration is doing. As a matter
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  Speaker 2: of fact, JD. Van announced yesterday that one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eighty six thousand dead people are actually getting food stamps.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's going to explain what that really means. But again,
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  Speaker 2: it's talking about the level of fraud within the food
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  Speaker 2: stamps cut forty one.
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  Speaker 3: Place in eighty six thousand dead American it's your knowledge
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  Speaker 3: are receiving food stamps.
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  Speaker 4: Are you confident that you can get that number down
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  Speaker 4: to zero?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I want to be clear, I don't actually think
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and eighty six thousand dead Americans are receiving
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  Speaker 5: food stamps, because that would be impossible. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: that we have one hundred and eighty six thousand ghosts
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  Speaker 5: walking into the grocery store and achieving benefits. I think
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  Speaker 5: that we have people who are claiming that they are
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  Speaker 5: getting food stamp benefits. They're using the identity of a
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  Speaker 5: dead person, so it's very much a living person. It's
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  Speaker 5: a living fraudster who's stealing the identity of a dead American.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to be very clear about that. But look,
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  Speaker 5: we know this is happening. We think that it's costing
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  Speaker 5: the American people hundreds of billions of dollars.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, another hidden cost of fraud is.
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  Speaker 5: That it drives up the cost of goods forever everybody.
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  Speaker 5: Because if you've got hundreds of billions of dollars chasing
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  Speaker 5: food that is going to dead Americans, living fraudsters, that's.
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  Speaker 4: Going to raise costs for everybody.
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  Speaker 5: So it actually is one of these things that has multiple,
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  Speaker 5: multiple victims, including the fact that it's driving up the
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  Speaker 5: cost of good for other Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it is driving up the cost for just
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  Speaker 2: about all of us. Now, a while back on this program,
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  Speaker 2: I actually recommended to the administration they just need to
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  Speaker 2: pull the plug on everybody and make everybody reapply so
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  Speaker 2: that we could finally figure out who's supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: getting it and who is not. And the good news,
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  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, I tell you that people listen to
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  Speaker 2: this show in Washington, DC, that's exactly what the Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration has announced they're going to do. Take a listen
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  Speaker 2: to Cut thirty five.
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  Speaker 6: Now says that everyone who's on SNAP is going to
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  Speaker 6: have to reapply. Now, this happened, of course, when the
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  Speaker 6: government shut down and there was you know this, the
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  Speaker 6: Snap benefits were in in not getting out to the
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  Speaker 6: people for.
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  Speaker 4: Forty two million Americas for forty two million.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we fought amer side, the country people is probably
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  Speaker 6: the better people. And so Broock Rollins we had around
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  Speaker 6: and we had a great conversation with her where she said, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 6: this whole Snap benefits conversation around the shutdown has sort
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  Speaker 6: of pulled the curtain back and people are seeing how
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  Speaker 6: many people are on SNAP that aren't actually citizens and
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  Speaker 6: they're going to have to reapply.
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  Speaker 2: So we need a little bit of research here to
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  Speaker 2: let you know exactly how many non citizens we call
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  Speaker 2: those folks illegals are getting SNAP benefits and we're talking
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  Speaker 2: and by the way, that covers not just the food,
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  Speaker 2: but healthcare, the whole nine yards housing You ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: the kind hearted, the generous, good Samaritans of America, you
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  Speaker 2: right now are footing the bill for about one point
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  Speaker 2: five million illegals that we know of. I think that
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  Speaker 2: number is a whole heck of a lot higher, but
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  Speaker 2: that's the actual confirmed number. And those folks, you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get about fifteen billion dollars and Snap benefits, and California
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  Speaker 2: is one of the most egregious of those. So I'm curious,
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  Speaker 2: how do you how do you like this idea that
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  Speaker 2: the administration is going to proceed with, which is they're
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  Speaker 2: going to make everybody reapply. That's the only way that
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  Speaker 2: just in other words, just zero out, just zero out
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  Speaker 2: the EBT program, the Snap benefits program, and make everybody
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  Speaker 2: do it all over again. Is that going to completely
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  Speaker 2: eliminate all of the fraud? Probably not, but it's going
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  Speaker 2: to get a lot of it, a lot of it.
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  Speaker 2: So meanwhile, I want you to listen to this woman.
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  Speaker 2: They're also going to require at least eighty hours of
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  Speaker 2: monthly work. Good lord, we do that in two days
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  Speaker 2: here on this show. But eighty hours, that's all. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta work eighty hours a month to qualify. And even
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  Speaker 2: then they're saying, no, that's that is not right. Cut forty,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's fair think he do that?
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  Speaker 4: And you were saying, you think it's gonna hurt a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, definitely, definitely's gonna hurt a lot of people.
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  Speaker 7: Because you never know you know what, especially now that
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  Speaker 7: we end the holidays and everybody wants to have a
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  Speaker 7: good thing and everything in it.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't give it to them, it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be really hard.
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  Speaker 2: And of course you're also now cutting out all of
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  Speaker 2: the the junk food and all of that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm look, I'm glad to see that. But this
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  Speaker 2: mom says, Hey, wait a second, what's the whole point
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  Speaker 2: of this If we're not allowed to buy like cheetoes
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  Speaker 2: and Dorito's and strawberry drinks? What's going on there? And
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  Speaker 2: take a listen, it's not even.
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  Speaker 4: Cool, like what I do that?
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  Speaker 7: What's the point of foot stamps?
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  Speaker 4: If it's just for real fool?
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  Speaker 8: Believe she and other Snap recipients should be able to
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  Speaker 8: go into the grocery store and buy whatever they like.
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  Speaker 8: Doda candy, prepackaged suites, prepared desserts, and juice with less
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  Speaker 8: than half of natural fruit or vegetable juice in it
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  Speaker 8: will not be allowed to be purchased on snapcards.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what truck is doing. I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's trying to make you a healthy man, have
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  Speaker 2: you noticed? And I just just an observation. But a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these folks who say, well, you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: starving to dab and they don't want to work, are
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  Speaker 2: all morbidly obese. Anybody else notice that? Is that just
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  Speaker 2: a coincidence? So anyway, I'm just curious, what do you
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  Speaker 2: think about the administration saying, you know what, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: crack down on all of the fraud, the waste, and
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  Speaker 2: the abuse. Here's the Vice president again from yesterday, cut
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven.
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  Speaker 5: So we're looking into this stuff, but I can't commit
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  Speaker 5: to it because, unlike the last administration, we tend to
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  Speaker 5: only prosecute people when they've actually violated the law, not
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  Speaker 5: just because they have their wrong police affiliation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, go ahead, Dead Americas food stamps.
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  Speaker 3: I'll take it. I'll do this again, Dead Americans on
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  Speaker 3: food stamps. You mentioned the other day one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: eighty six thousand dead Americans your knowledge are receiving food stamps.
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  Speaker 3: Are you confident that you can get that number down
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  Speaker 3: to zero?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I want to be clear, I don't actually think
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and eighty six thousand dead Americans are receiving
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  Speaker 5: food stamps, because that would be impossible. I don't think
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  Speaker 5: that we have one hundred and eighty six thousand ghosts
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  Speaker 5: walking into the grocery store and achieving benefits. I think
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  Speaker 5: that we have people who are claiming that they are
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  Speaker 5: getting food stamp benefits. They're using the identity of a
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  Speaker 5: dead person. So it's very much a living person. It's
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  Speaker 5: a living fraudster who's stealing the identity of a dead American.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to be very clear about that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but look right downe with a VP there I
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  Speaker 2: want to go. There's some of these headlines that are
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  Speaker 2: These are in the past twenty four hours NBC News,
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  Speaker 2: The family's going hungry because of Trump's food stamp cuts Alabama.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty thousand people dropped from Alabama snap rolls children and
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  Speaker 2: are the ones who are suffering North Carolina. North Carolina
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  Speaker 2: residents to go hungry counties to pay more for SNAP
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  Speaker 2: under federal changes. So you sort of see how the
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  Speaker 2: media narrative is is going to play out here. The
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  Speaker 2: Associated pressing four point three million people are no longer
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  Speaker 2: going to be receiving foods teams. And the reason why
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  Speaker 2: is those people are able to go and work, but
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to work because that's laziness. Laziness, ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen. All right, nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 2: five nine two six hour telephone number. That's nine oh
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  Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six. This is
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  Speaker 2: the Todd stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. This
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  Speaker 2: is the Tod Stearns radio show. Used to drive me bonkers,
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  Speaker 2: and I would see this, you know, you hear these
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  Speaker 2: apocryphal stories about you know, the folks with the Rabbi steaks,
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  Speaker 2: and they're paying for all of it with the EBT cards.
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  Speaker 2: And I get that. I guess if you can do it,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to do it. But the reality is the
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  Speaker 2: whole point of those cards, and the whole point of
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  Speaker 2: the Snap Benefits program is to help you survive over
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  Speaker 2: a rough patch. And look, I remember in the nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighties when the oil industry collapsed. My dad's job required
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  Speaker 2: that well, he relied on the oil industry for work,
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  Speaker 2: and work dried up. This was when Dad got transferred
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  Speaker 2: down to Louisiana, and there was some time where for
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  Speaker 2: dinner you would have red beans and rice and corn bread.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just the way you did it. You made
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  Speaker 2: do with what you had, and if you didn't have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money. You weren't going out to eat
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  Speaker 2: even at McDonald's or eating a Rabbi steak. You know
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  Speaker 2: those were That was a time in American society. I
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  Speaker 2: think when most people understood that you have to live
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  Speaker 2: within your means, and that if you do need a
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  Speaker 2: hand out from the government, you should not be taking
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  Speaker 2: advantage of that handout from the government. Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: the phones here nine oh one two six zero five
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  Speaker 2: nine two six, let's tarn today in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: Pam is listening to us on w HKP Hi, Pam,
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  Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 9: Good afternoon, Todd calling in regards to the snap benefit.
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  Speaker 9: Exactly everybody reapplied because there's so much nonsense. Prime example,
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  Speaker 9: worked as a cashier at a local grocery store. I'm
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  Speaker 9: a mom with a husband and a fourteen year old.
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  Speaker 3: Boy.
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  Speaker 9: I'm working three jobs. My husband's working full time. They
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  Speaker 9: come in, had a woman that had a heaping bug
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  Speaker 9: of groceries, five hundred dollars worth of groceries, clad legs stakes,
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  Speaker 9: I mean, stuff that I couldn't afford, and they bought
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  Speaker 9: cotton candy.
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  Speaker 10: For the children.
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  Speaker 9: Will it wrung up under a different department as non food.
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  Speaker 9: This woman come unglued over four dollars and fifty cents
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  Speaker 9: because she had to pay that.
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  Speaker 2: So she was upset because she had to pay just
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  Speaker 2: four bucks.
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  Speaker 11: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's exactly, Pam. I'm I'm just wondering.
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  Speaker 2: Here you are having to work all these jobs and
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  Speaker 2: you're you're you're paying your bills, you're doing everything right.
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  Speaker 2: How does that make you feel as an American watching
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  Speaker 2: somebody grift off of your hard earned.
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  Speaker 9: Money, lived lived? I mean, it's a wonder. I had
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  Speaker 9: a tip on the end of my tongue because as
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  Speaker 9: a casher you can't say anything. And it's prints in
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  Speaker 9: North Carolina, it prints the balance of what's left on
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  Speaker 9: their card after they buy something. And this woman had
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  Speaker 9: two brands left on her cars.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's it's shocking, and I think again, as people
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  Speaker 2: are and the media is not going to cover this
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  Speaker 2: story as well as they should. But now a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these people Pam are going onto like social media platforms,
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  Speaker 2: TikTok especially, and they're boasting about all they're bragging about
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  Speaker 2: all the loot they were able to get off of
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  Speaker 2: the EBT card and then they talk about flashing around
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  Speaker 2: their own money so they didn't have to spend any
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  Speaker 2: of their money. So they're they're stealing your money so
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  Speaker 2: they can buy all this crap.
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  Speaker 9: So I could drive a huse and me so if
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  Speaker 9: I didn't have to buy grocery.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's true, especially these days. But trust me, you
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  Speaker 2: don't want a gas guzzler. Trust me on that. Pam.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, Pam, look, I appreciate you phoning in.
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  Speaker 2: And again I thought for a long time I thought, well,
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  Speaker 2: those stories can't be true, but I saw it for
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  Speaker 2: myself ones and now all of these stories are popping up,
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  Speaker 2: and these people are they have no shame. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: don't get me wrong here. There used to be a
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  Speaker 2: point where if you had to go on food stamps,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't exactly something you were throwing a parade in
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  Speaker 2: the neighborhood for right. You didn't want people to know
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  Speaker 2: because it was embarrassing. But sometimes you got to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you just have to have help. But these people
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  Speaker 2: don't need help at all. Let's go to Jeff in Newborn,
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina at the detalk station. Hi, Jeff, what's on
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  Speaker 2: your mind?
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  Speaker 4: Dodd?
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  Speaker 12: I'm a fan of the show. We spoke several times.
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  Speaker 12: I almost always agree with you, but let me mention
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  Speaker 12: the story of a young lady who has three children,
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  Speaker 12: works very hard, has a good job, recently lost her husband.
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  Speaker 12: She's embarrassed over food stamps, especially with gas. Now she's
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  Speaker 12: having to make choices between gas and food to feed
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  Speaker 12: three children from no fault of her own, and you
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  Speaker 12: and your Christian wisdom have just called her fat lace.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Jeff, I'm going to call you out on this
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  Speaker 2: because clearly you were not listening to the opening remarks
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  Speaker 2: of this program when I where I said very directly
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  Speaker 2: that there are some people who do need assistance from
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  Speaker 2: the government. I really don't appreciate you twisting my words
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  Speaker 2: and accusing this woman of being fat and lazy. So, Jeff,
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  Speaker 2: why don't you try getting your fact straight before you
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  Speaker 2: come on and make some sort of an accusation like that.
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  Speaker 12: Todd's not an accusation. I heard your comments.
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  Speaker 2: It is an accusation, Jeff. I specifically said there was
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  Speaker 2: a carve out here that not everybody is like that.
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  Speaker 12: But when you get rid of assistance and you make
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  Speaker 12: everybody start over, who's embarrassed enough, Todd, and who hears
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  Speaker 12: comments like you make like people look at her already
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  Speaker 12: like why.
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  Speaker 10: Do you get it?
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  Speaker 12: And I don't. It's not fair to be so upfront,
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  Speaker 12: especially with the money we waste and give away in
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  Speaker 12: this country. Why don't we attack some of that debt,
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  Speaker 12: some of that giveaway, some of the billion dollars leaving
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  Speaker 12: the country before we worry about making people once again
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  Speaker 12: prove that their situation is putting them in life that
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  Speaker 12: they need help from that they would rather not be embarrassed.
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  Speaker 2: We've got billions of dollars. No, no, no, billions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: is being squandered, billions of dollars is being stole from
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  Speaker 2: the American taxpayers. So again, if in fact this person's
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  Speaker 2: story that you just shared is authentic and legitimate, then
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  Speaker 2: she would have no problem qualifying for those benefits. But
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  Speaker 2: most of the people that are getting these benefits, as
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  Speaker 2: we are now discovering, they're perfectly capable of going out
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  Speaker 2: there and finding work and making a living for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: But they don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 10: Oh no, and she does.
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  Speaker 12: But when she hears comments like you have, she's already
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  Speaker 12: embarrassed enough at having to present the car.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the only reason she ought to be embarrassed is
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  Speaker 2: if she's pulling a scam on the American taxpayers. Otherwise
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  Speaker 2: she's perfectly qualified. I don't have a problem with that.
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  Speaker 12: Crazy They should go get a job with exactly your commune.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly they are. You don't think they are, Jeff. All
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  Speaker 2: these people that are out there, you don't think that.
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  Speaker 2: You don't think they're lazy, the people that could go
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  Speaker 2: and work and get a job, and they don't.
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  Speaker 10: Once again, you.
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  Speaker 12: Said all those people, Todd know there are hundreds of thousands,
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  Speaker 12: if not millions of them that can't. But when you
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  Speaker 12: say all those people people here.
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  Speaker 2: Are, that's right. All of the people that are grifting,
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  Speaker 2: All of the people that are grifting. Jeff, jeez, a
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  Speaker 2: right back, all right, Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. This
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  Speaker 2: is the Tom Stearns Radio Show. So yesterday up on
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Capitol Hill, very interesting thing happened. There was a House
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  Speaker 2: Judiciary committee hearing a sixteen year old kid at Wiley
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: High School that's Texas, a kid by the name of
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  Speaker 2: Marco Hunter Lopez, and he was invited to testify before
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  Speaker 2: Congress about the rise of Islam at his local high school.
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  Speaker 2: And it really was a truly fascinating conversation. And I
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  Speaker 2: want you to hear, and we're gonna play through some
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  Speaker 2: audio here, but it's a This is the sixteen year
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  Speaker 2: old and again sixteen years old testifying before God and
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  Speaker 2: Country and Congress, and so well composed cut number thirty plays.
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  Speaker 13: Can you tell us what are the requirements to create
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  Speaker 13: a student club at your school?
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  Speaker 14: The requirements are to have ten members, a teacher that's
• 19:43
  Speaker 14: willing to sponsor, in a room to meet.
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  Speaker 13: And did the Republican club that you formed meet those requirements?
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  Speaker 14: We did on day one it did. And was your
• 19:52
  Speaker 14: club allowed to be created? No, we were actually notified
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  Speaker 14: that we were denied due to political nature, even though
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  Speaker 14: other ideological group, including groups promoting gender affirming ideology, were approved.
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  Speaker 13: Why do you think the school had such a sort
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  Speaker 13: of obvious double standard.
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  Speaker 14: I'm not sure if it's the educational establishment, it could
• 20:13
  Speaker 14: be any of those. It could be the principles that
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  Speaker 14: have been in the system for a while. They just
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  Speaker 14: don't want conservative values. I think it's a trend we've
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  Speaker 14: seen with you know how Charlie Kirk was on campuses
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  Speaker 14: and on high school campuses. I think that they think
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  Speaker 14: conservative values are a threat because they're true.
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  Speaker 13: And how's the school administration either encouraged or supported World
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  Speaker 13: Hit Job Day.
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  Speaker 14: Our principal actually wore the he job two years in
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  Speaker 14: a row that we know of.
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  Speaker 4: It could be more.
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  Speaker 14: She's posted it promoted on social media saying she quote
• 20:42
  Speaker 14: loved it all caps. And they're just promoting these events
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  Speaker 14: like nothing. But our club, on the other hand, has
• 20:49
  Speaker 14: to receive strict you know, first of all, we weren't
• 20:51
  Speaker 14: improved in the first place, and then once we were,
• 20:52
  Speaker 14: we were the only club that couldn't have other privileges
• 20:56
  Speaker 14: that other groups had, and they took down our posters,
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  Speaker 14: and so there's just a lot of things in this
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  Speaker 14: double standard, clearly to favor the Islamic group.
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  Speaker 13: Is it true that your school, your school's libraries offers
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  Speaker 13: Almic literature like the Quran and and other things.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, so McMillan Jr.
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  Speaker 14: High and Wiley I SD offers a Quran but no
• 21:15
  Speaker 14: Bible available.
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  Speaker 13: But no Bible. So there's a Koran, but the Bible
• 21:19
  Speaker 13: is not allowed.
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  Speaker 4: Correct?
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  Speaker 14: Is that true? In multiple libraries? From what I know confirmed,
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  Speaker 14: it's McMillan Jr. High is one that I know of.
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  Speaker 14: I can look at the other libraries and submit them
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  Speaker 14: to you if I find any other findings.
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  Speaker 13: Okay, have you talked to the school about why they
• 21:34
  Speaker 13: would allow a Quran but not a Bible?
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  Speaker 4: So I don't. I haven't.
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  Speaker 14: The principles actually run away, want to run away from
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  Speaker 14: me and hide. So I can't have a discussion with
• 21:42
  Speaker 14: my principles because I act like an adult and they
• 21:45
  Speaker 14: act like children.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, well, you very much are acting like an adult.
• 21:49
  Speaker 13: They probably don't want to be on the record with
• 21:53
  Speaker 13: that policy, given how egregious it is when when clubs
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: such as your sponsor visitors to come to the school
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  Speaker 13: and speak about club interests. Whatever they are are, they
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  Speaker 13: subject to security screenings.
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  Speaker 14: So when our club has guest speakers, including a state
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  Speaker 14: representative or a congressman, we have to submit two weeks
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  Speaker 14: in advance paperwork. We have to submit a week in
• 22:13
  Speaker 14: advance background check. We have to submit their staff if
• 22:16
  Speaker 14: they're coming. All these lengthy processes, I often have to
• 22:19
  Speaker 14: miss my lunch period and skip lunch, skip a meal
• 22:22
  Speaker 14: to fill these out. But on the other hand, the
• 22:24
  Speaker 14: Islamic group got favorable treatment.
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  Speaker 13: Okay, yeah, what were the security protocols that were in
• 22:29
  Speaker 13: place for the Islamic group.
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  Speaker 14: From what I know? None?
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: None, from what I know.
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  Speaker 13: So typically you have to go through a lengthy background process,
• 22:38
  Speaker 13: but this Islamic group didn't have.
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  Speaker 14: Correct Obviously they didn't background check, you know, the organization
• 22:44
  Speaker 14: because it has multiple Taier links, and they didn't. I
• 22:46
  Speaker 14: guess they didn't check the Sharia pamphlets that they gave us,
• 22:49
  Speaker 14: or the krons with the Shahada card. They hadn't. They didn't.
• 22:51
  Speaker 14: They were perfectly fine with it because the principal was
• 22:53
  Speaker 14: there that day just looking at it perfectly fine.
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  Speaker 13: What's been the response from the school since you've been
• 22:58
  Speaker 13: public and vocal about this double standard?
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  Speaker 14: Like I said in my opening testimony, when my mom
• 23:03
  Speaker 14: had requested the principle to email my teachers because I
• 23:06
  Speaker 14: had to miss school, if you, for the first day
• 23:07
  Speaker 14: after that, and had to go late the second day
• 23:09
  Speaker 14: because of death threats and things like that, and my
• 23:11
  Speaker 14: mom had has principal to email my teachers just keep
• 23:13
  Speaker 14: an extra eye on me. And the principle told my
• 23:15
  Speaker 14: mom you can. So it's really that speaks volumes to
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  Speaker 14: the approach of leadership that this school has in the
• 23:19
  Speaker 14: school district has because I guess they just wanted to
• 23:22
  Speaker 14: dismiss my safety in that moment.
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  Speaker 13: You received death threats? Yes, sir, What were some of
• 23:27
  Speaker 13: the death threats? Could you tell us about that?
• 23:28
  Speaker 14: I had people saying that they're going to be at
• 23:31
  Speaker 14: my house waiting for me to get home and they
• 23:32
  Speaker 14: were going to shoot me. I had people telling me
• 23:34
  Speaker 14: to kill myself. A lot of different things. But I
• 23:37
  Speaker 14: know nobody can proclaim anything over me because I wake
• 23:39
  Speaker 14: up every morning with victory with christ Amen.
• 23:42
  Speaker 13: That's exactly right. What has the school's response been to
• 23:46
  Speaker 13: these death threats?
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  Speaker 14: Like I said, that first day was very dismissive.
• 23:53
  Speaker 15: Terms.
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  Speaker 4: I actually received a death threat.
• 23:54
  Speaker 14: Last year, and I had believe I have emails and
• 23:57
  Speaker 14: I couldubmit them to the record of the principal saying, oh,
• 23:59
  Speaker 14: things are already taken care of very I would say,
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  Speaker 14: downgrading it or just MINIMALI minimizing specific situations. I could
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  Speaker 14: submit those emails to the record.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to be clear.
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  Speaker 13: You had a thread against your life, somebody saying that
• 24:14
  Speaker 13: they were going to come to your house and murder you,
• 24:16
  Speaker 13: and your school's response was dismissive.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, all right, riveting testimony, and we're going to play
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: some more of this because one of the Democrats on
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the panel on the committee, Jamie Raskin, really just disrespected
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: this child, and the child held his ground, stood his ground,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: and just did a remarkable job. This is all part
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: of a hearing on Sharia Free America. Why political Islam
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: and shuria law are incompatible with the Constitution. Well, I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: want to bring into the conversation our good friend from Indiana,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Congressman Marlon Stutsman. Congressman, good to have you with us today.
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  Speaker 16: But Tod, great to be with you. Thanks for having
• 24:54
  Speaker 16: me on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I hear the testimony of this young man
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: is so composed for a sixteen year old. I'm fairly
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: certain I could not do anything like that when I
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: was that age. And it's really I'm just curious you
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: heard the testimony. There the idea that this is happening
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: at of all places, Texas Congressman.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, no, I mean it is is. Ironically, this morning
• 25:16
  Speaker 16: in our Bible study, we were talking about Christian nationalism
• 25:22
  Speaker 16: and what people are trying to portray that as and
• 25:25
  Speaker 16: what it's what we as conservatives truly believe, and we
• 25:29
  Speaker 16: believe in religious freedom. But when you have a when
• 25:34
  Speaker 16: you have a community that's trying to separate themselves in
• 25:38
  Speaker 16: using Sharia law and imposing Sharia law, it's just it's
• 25:42
  Speaker 16: against the constitution. So it's and it's just not compatible
• 25:46
  Speaker 16: with the with our constitution, with the American systems. So
• 25:51
  Speaker 16: good for this young man for stepping up and speaking out.
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  Speaker 16: I mean, that's incredible. You know, we need adults to
• 25:57
  Speaker 16: do the same thing and realize that in America is
• 26:00
  Speaker 16: founded on religious freedom. We're not founded on you know,
• 26:05
  Speaker 16: theocracies were founded on Judeo Christian principles. But this is
• 26:10
  Speaker 16: really a conversation and a debate that has to happen
• 26:13
  Speaker 16: because it can't go any further than what it already has.
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  Speaker 2: Well, especially when you see what's happening in New York
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: City over the past several days that the Muslims have
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: been targeting Jews right outside of their synagogues of putting
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: down the prayer rugs and shouting and chanting a la acbar.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: It's not going to be long. But until they start
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: doing that in front of the Catholic churches and the
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Protestant churches.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 16: No, I mean, this is going to be something that
• 26:39
  Speaker 16: you know, my kids and you know future generations are
• 26:42
  Speaker 16: going to have to deal with. You shouldn't have to,
• 26:45
  Speaker 16: and that's why it's important to address it now. And
• 26:48
  Speaker 16: you know, we need members of Congress, we need of
• 26:51
  Speaker 16: course state legislatures and you know, just those who are
• 26:55
  Speaker 16: willing to speak up and say this is not going
• 26:57
  Speaker 16: to be allowed in the United States. You look at
• 27:00
  Speaker 16: other countries and you know, I have done a lot
• 27:02
  Speaker 16: of work in the Middle East, and there's there are
• 27:05
  Speaker 16: positive things happening in the Middle East, but many of them,
• 27:09
  Speaker 16: I mean, including countries like Saudi Arabia, don't have religious freedom.
• 27:13
  Speaker 16: You go try to, you know, establish a Christian church there,
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  Speaker 16: it's not likely going to happen. And so that, you know,
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  Speaker 16: America is so different than you know, most of these countries.
• 27:25
  Speaker 16: But what I've feared, what we're seeing is already happening
• 27:29
  Speaker 16: in Europe is they haven't been pushing back and they
• 27:31
  Speaker 16: haven't been limiting this. And I can't remember the exact number,
• 27:35
  Speaker 16: you might know it, but there's probably twenty five mayors
• 27:38
  Speaker 16: Muslim mayors that have been elected in England in Great Britain,
• 27:42
  Speaker 16: and that's changing the entire governing system there because of
• 27:47
  Speaker 16: their ideology. And so that's why this conversation is so
• 27:52
  Speaker 16: important to have.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Well, it is, and we're starting to see that happen
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: in some towns in the northeast of New Jersey and Michigan,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: but certainly not to the extent of what's happening in
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: the UK. On the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line, we're honored
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: to have Congressman Marlin Stutsman's with US Congressman Switching Gears.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: We had your governor on yesterday on the show, and
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I was really surprised he was. He was really upset
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: at the way the legislature there in Indiana has really,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: he said, dropped the ball when it came to redistricting,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: and of course a good five out of the seven
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: ended up getting beat in the primaries. What's your reaction
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: to all of that hullabaloo.
• 28:33
  Speaker 16: Yeah, no, I agree with them. And this is something
• 28:35
  Speaker 16: that we tried to explain to the State Senate. I
• 28:38
  Speaker 16: served in the State Senate and know a lot of
• 28:41
  Speaker 16: these senators and told them like, look, this is a
• 28:45
  Speaker 16: you know, they had all these different explanations and arguments
• 28:48
  Speaker 16: on why we shouldn't do redistricting, and I said, look,
• 28:52
  Speaker 16: this is this is not the fight that we started.
• 28:54
  Speaker 16: This is a fight. You look at New England and
• 28:58
  Speaker 16: Massachusetts is a great example. It's about sixty four Democrat
• 29:02
  Speaker 16: out of the nine congressional seats, they're all Democrats. Well,
• 29:06
  Speaker 16: Indiana is just opposite. We're sixty forty Republicans. And out
• 29:11
  Speaker 16: of our nine districts to our Democrats, seven are Republican.
• 29:15
  Speaker 16: And if you had a kindergarten class draw the maps
• 29:18
  Speaker 16: in Indiana, they would be nine to zero because we're
• 29:21
  Speaker 16: so red in Indiana. So the governor did the right
• 29:25
  Speaker 16: thing saying, look, we're going to redraw the maps. This
• 29:28
  Speaker 16: is the fight that we have with the Democrat party.
• 29:31
  Speaker 16: And senators said, no, we're not going to do it.
• 29:33
  Speaker 16: We're not going to stick with the team. And they
• 29:36
  Speaker 16: missed the message from their voters. In fact that even
• 29:40
  Speaker 16: as we talked to voters the day after the election
• 29:43
  Speaker 16: said you know, well, why did you vote for the challenger,
• 29:45
  Speaker 16: they said, what's because you know, we need to fight
• 29:48
  Speaker 16: back and make sure that Washington has balanced representation and
• 29:52
  Speaker 16: that the system isn't manipulated by the Democrats where they
• 29:56
  Speaker 16: take advantage of drawing maps in the blue states and
• 29:59
  Speaker 16: we do nothing, get rolled. And so the governor's absolutely
• 30:03
  Speaker 16: right for doing what he did. And obviously those five
• 30:07
  Speaker 16: senators who you know, d the price. And I think
• 30:13
  Speaker 16: that there's going to be others if if they don't
• 30:15
  Speaker 16: redistrict in twenty twenty seven, there's gonna be more that
• 30:18
  Speaker 16: get beat in twenty twenty eight.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you're right about that. And again, this
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: is not about the Republicans winning. I mean this is
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: we're talking about generations that Democrats have been doing this
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: to the Republicans, so it's really a matter of almost
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: catching up. I do think the congresson I'm curious to
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: hear thoughts of this. I do think there needs to
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: be some sort of a conversation about jerrymandering because it's
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: getting it can get out of control. But at the
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: same time, you cannot have the Democrats just doing what
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: they've done for generations and Republicans do nothing.
• 30:49
  Speaker 16: It is it's out of control, and you know, there
• 30:51
  Speaker 16: should be some sort of balance and whether you know,
• 30:54
  Speaker 16: we use the baseline of the parties in each state
• 30:58
  Speaker 16: that says Okay, look, you got to within this realm
• 31:01
  Speaker 16: and look at Virginia. For example, Virginia's a fifty to
• 31:04
  Speaker 16: fifty state and they are six to five Democrats. The
• 31:09
  Speaker 16: Democrat has, you know, the six Democrat seats that lean
• 31:12
  Speaker 16: Democrat in five seats that lean Republican. Well, Democrats went
• 31:17
  Speaker 16: to Virginia and took it to the ballot one barely
• 31:22
  Speaker 16: to redraw the maps to make it ten to one,
• 31:24
  Speaker 16: ten Democrats to one Republican. So again you can see
• 31:28
  Speaker 16: that the Democrat Party has been doing this and they
• 31:29
  Speaker 16: know how to do it for a very long time.
• 31:32
  Speaker 16: But if they play this game, which I think in
• 31:35
  Speaker 16: the long run, we've got to figure something else out.
• 31:38
  Speaker 16: I don't know exactly how that's done, you know, because
• 31:41
  Speaker 16: the Constitution is clear the states need to elect their representatives.
• 31:46
  Speaker 16: It doesn't give guidance onraw drawing the maps. But we
• 31:51
  Speaker 16: should have some sort of you know, spit frost the
• 31:57
  Speaker 16: fair representation according to the of the party line of
• 32:03
  Speaker 16: votes along the baselines. But that's for another conversation. We
• 32:07
  Speaker 16: haven't done that, and I think that's why you know,
• 32:09
  Speaker 16: we saw we have a president, is that if we're
• 32:12
  Speaker 16: going to fight back, we're not going to just let
• 32:13
  Speaker 16: the Democrat Party roll us in this situation. This is
• 32:17
  Speaker 16: what we have to do in the meantime. This is
• 32:19
  Speaker 16: what we're going to do until something changes. If there's
• 32:22
  Speaker 16: there's more fair maps.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Well, Congressman, we're going to be there. We're getting a
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: little bit of a bad phone signal there, but I
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: think we got the gist of that, and we sure
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: to appreciate you joining us today on the show. Thanks Congressman.
• 32:33
  Speaker 16: Thanks ton great to be with you today.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: All right, Congressman Marlon Stutzman, Ladies and gentlemen from the
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: great state of Indiana. By the way, tonight, five o'clock eastern,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: we're going to be talking to the Lugenan governor of
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: South Carolina, where again rogue Republicans have tried to stop
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: redistricting efforts. One of the leaders of that effort, a Republican,
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: said that the country is better when there's a strong
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Democrat Party. Okay, join them for crying out loud. So
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  Speaker 2: It's called The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America, And
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: I want you to get a copy of this, the folks.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: You can pre order today at your favorite bookstore Barnes
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: and Noble Books, a million Amazon. The book will be
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: out this summer. It is scheduled to i think go
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: to the press sometime in the next week or so.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: And this is going to be a big book. And
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for the impact this could have in the country,
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: and I'm excited for you to read it as somebody
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: who listens to this radio show every single day. And
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, some of our conversations we've
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: had on the radio are actually featured included in the book.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: So again, The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. You
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: can get it on what the hardcover kindle. There is
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: going to be an audio version that is not ready yet,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: but again you'll be able to get those. You'll be
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: able to pre order the hardcover and the kindle version
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: of The Golden age. All right, hang tide, everybody, hour
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: or two of the Big Show coming up. This is
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: the Todd Star.
• 36:56
  Speaker 17: Show live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: It's America's Conservative Blowtorch's American.
• 37:38
  Speaker 15: Starts.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a lovely day here in Memphis, Tennessee. I
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: hope it's a great day wherever you might be across America.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: And Dylan, there's a lovely breeze outside. And as I
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: stepped outside just to get some fresh air, and wow,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: can I just tell you, I am man this uh
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: you know, the heart thing that I went through. I
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: thought I was going to be able to bounce back
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: a lot quicker. It's eating my lunch and so I
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: was trying to go outside, get some fresh air and
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: clear my head. And I caught a whiff of barbecue
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: in the air. Oh, and I remembered it's the World
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Barbecue Championship. They're in town.
• 38:19
  Speaker 18: They are in town. It is fantastic championship.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Over two hundred barbecue teams from around the world, and
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: they're here in Memphis for the next couple of days.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: I think raps. It started yesterday and they had the
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: huge ceremony and including the annuals. They have a wrestling
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: competition and you wrestle in barbecue sauce, which sounds sort
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: of messy, but they do provide wet wipes, so that's
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: a good thing. And of course the opening ceremony, this
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: is kind of interesting. They had the Budweiser Cleinesdale horses
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: and I think they're just glad that there's no category
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: for horse on the menu. This is America. So anyway,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: they had the lighting of the grill, which is you know, again,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: this is like the Olympics, the super Bowl of Swine
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: as they call it, and they had the lighting of
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: the grill much like the Olympic torch, and the sauce wrestling,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: which was presented by Dude Wipes. That was all last night,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: and man, from here on out, it is all barbecue.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: And you've got later on today you're gonna have the
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: mister Piggy Idol contest. And that's remember back in the day, Dylan,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: when guys used to you know, they used to this
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: at school where the coaches would dress up like the
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: ugly women, you know, the ugly Women contest. Yes, I
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: do remember, and that just used to be like normal fun, right, yes.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Now it's like it's a letter in the alphabet activist chain.
• 39:50
  Speaker 18: Yeah, you have to add on.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Very strange. But anyway, they're doing a Mister Piggy or
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: a Miss Piggy rather, and it's basically a bunch of
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: ugly dudes dressing up and strutting down stage, all good,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: wholesome Christian fun at the barbecue competition. And then we're
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: looking at a competition. I mean they this is this
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: is really about pork, all right. So I don't want
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: you folks in Texas to get terribly riled up here,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: but we're talking about pork. What you guys do is
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: called brisket, and we love brisket, but it's not barbecue.
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: This is this is barbecue. It is pork, and we
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: have I think they're sauce. But I'm a dry rub
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: guy myself. Do you have any sort of a preference there, Dylan.
• 40:32
  Speaker 18: Not really. I like our dry rup. It's like the
• 40:35
  Speaker 18: Memphis staple. I'm really not to I haven't explored too
• 40:40
  Speaker 18: far outside of that realm though.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: So one hundred and ninety thousand dollars in prize money,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: by the way, Wow, this is a big deal. And
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: the judges are not just folks that show up. You
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: actually have to be certified and trained, professionally trained to
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: be a judge. I mean, this is the real deal
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: again at the World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. It is
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: the most prestigious barbecue cooking contest on the planet. Well,
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: but they have a category for kids too. Now that's
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: always a good thing. You want to get the young people.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: You want to get the young people involved and all
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: that sort of whatnot. So Ife, and we're trying to
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: get somebody on, but you know, they really can't be
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: pulled away. And Dylan, if we would have thought about this,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: we could have just done the show down there at
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: the barbecue competition.
• 41:27
  Speaker 18: I think I would have been tempted a little too
• 41:29
  Speaker 18: much to actually eat all the barbecue. So but that's
• 41:33
  Speaker 18: not a bad idea.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Well we next year, no way. And I want to
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: find out what is it? What is it that makes
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: barbecue the best in the busy because everybody's got everybody's
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: got something right. They've got their own rubs or their
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: own sauces, and I'm just curious, what is it that
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: makes barbecue world champion barbecue? That's what I want to know.
• 41:53
  Speaker 18: I don't think that they would tell you because it
• 41:55
  Speaker 18: is like their secret, right It's like the secret sauce,
• 41:58
  Speaker 18: the secret turn over when it's too hot.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: So the major you've got the categories ribs, shoulder, and
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: whole hog, then patio, patio and open fire, and the
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: teams have they have some pretty clever names. You've got
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Won't Stop porkin back Bay Boardlords. That's interesting. You've got
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: the Fat Boys, that's e H A T. The Fat Boys,
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: and also the parrot Head Porkers of Hagaritaville. Are you
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: are you picking up on the swine.
• 42:30
  Speaker 18: That's pretty good.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Ye, Sweet cheeks, that's one of the other teams. You've
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: got Big ho Hose. Oh, that's Big row Rose Barbecue.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: My apologies. There also fat Head Barbecue and the Beached
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Pig by Dude Wipes. Not sure you know, I don't
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: think I want the word wipe in my barbecue name.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying so anyway, just hundreds, over two hundred
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: teams are competing, including Brown Chicken, Brown Cow, Snout Cast,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Southern Hoggers, Poker Porkers, and Pablo et Skill Barbecue.
• 43:08
  Speaker 18: That's my favorite right there. That's if we're going off names,
• 43:12
  Speaker 18: that's the winner for me.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: But can we talk about something else here? There's also
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: and this is their official name, the Norwegian National Barbecue Team.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: I am, I am really intrigued by this.
• 43:23
  Speaker 18: That sounds very competitive.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Oh we love Bobby Cool y'all. Y'all, I mean, what
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: is that? How do you get to be a member
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: of the National Barbecue Team of Norway?
• 43:33
  Speaker 18: Yeah? I wonder if they cook it any differently than
• 43:37
  Speaker 18: how we do.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: I wonder. I wonder if it's barbie. I mean, what
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: are they Barbie?
• 43:41
  Speaker 18: What animal?
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: What kind of critters do they have up in Norway?
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Totally bored? Oh that's clever, porking in the park. Oh god,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: you can't say that on national radio. Uh swinging and
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: piggin and oh here we go, Hammy Segar barbecue. That's
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: so years ago, Fox, and you sent me down to
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: cover the Memphis I always always looking for an angle
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: to get back home to visit everybody in Memphis, and
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: that the company had to pick up the tab, so
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: they sent me down to cover the barbecue festival. We
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: ended up meeting up with these guys from Birmingham, Alabama,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: and I don't they're one of the popular teams and
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: they invited our camera crew, our guys back after hours,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: and so we went down there and Dylan, they actually
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: had these huge like you know, the Milo's t jugs
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: the gallon cheese aren't, so they had those filled with moonshine. Oh,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: and they had this strawberry like strawberry dackery mix or
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: something out some sort of a beverage and they would
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: pour it in there and shake it up and they
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: would they would. I mean they were drunk after one sip.
• 44:48
  Speaker 18: Yeah, it makes sense to me.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a couple went blind and it couldn't heavy,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: but they held their liquor. I'll tell you that much.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: So anyway, give us a call a few, We've got
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: some ideas. Oh, steel and squeal barbeque.
• 45:04
  Speaker 18: Wow m I think the people that won last year
• 45:07
  Speaker 18: are actually they were from Olive Branch, so very locals.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: Olive Branch, Mississippi. K Whiam listeners. Yes, Oh rub me tender.
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: I like that. That's clever. And hog of Palooza, I
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: think I've heard of them before. And the hog Wild
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: you've got the hog Wild competition team and Swinos Swino's Wet,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: which I suppose means they're going to be a not
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: a dry rub team. And of course fat head Barbecue
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: and dirty old Basters had to be careful there. It's
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: gonna get wild in Memphis, I'm afraid.
• 45:47
  Speaker 18: And very yummy in Memphis.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Mmmm. Absolutely. Oh by the way, yesterday, ladies and gentlemen,
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: we we took a little turn and did something a
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: little different. We were what was oh it was President Trump.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: He was calling on Americans to have more babies, all
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: of you young people, you young fertile Americans. And so
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: we wanted to do our part for the ma fomb movement.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: That's make America fertile again. And we created a baby
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: making playlist and this is I mean, it's a pretty
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: good list here of songs doing from Teddy Pendergrass, turn
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Out the Lights, oh my classic.
• 46:30
  Speaker 18: You gotta have something to read the list.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Holy smokes, the Platters made the list. Only you. Oh,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: here's Marvin Gay. What was it? Hellen said? Seasonal, Seasonal Healing? No,
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: that was not that song, Helen Close. Yeah, Josh Turner,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: your man made the list. Marvin Gay. Let's get it on.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Barry White. I think everything Barry White does is on
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: the list. Now here's something Randy Travis forever and ever.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: I'm in the Righteous Brothers Unschained Melody, Ronnie Millsap. Haven't
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: heard him in a long time. He's still alive. That's
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: a that's that's impolite to ask.
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: Uh.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: Daydreams about night things and pure love. Shaggy is that
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: like from Scooby Doo?
• 47:28
  Speaker 18: I don't think so.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: It says boom Oh, it's boom bastard. I thought I
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: said boom basket. It's boom basting. What the temptations? George
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: michael get, George michael Off, this list, Come on, he's good,
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Sam Cook, bring it, bring it on own to me. Oh,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: I mustang Sally, Here we go, Chicago. You're the inspiration.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: That's a good song. Cago. You know it's got to
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: be the right mood.
• 48:03
  Speaker 18: There are like sweet songs on this list, and there
• 48:05
  Speaker 18: are raunchy songs on this list. It's a list for everyone.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, can't fight this feeling anymore? Oh that was like
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: the eighties, Like that's this Reo Speedwagon a wild thing
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: from the Trogs. Love to Love You, Baby, Donna, subber Love,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: the one You're with, Stephen Stills, Oh, Michael Bolton, When
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: a man loves a woman. So if you do have selections,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: we're going to be publishing this list on the website.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: This is the Ton Sterns. Baby, keep that music going,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: because I'm not quite finished yet. We got a note.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: I've got to read Dylan. But anyway, give us a
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: call if you've got a selection your favorite love song.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. Well,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: we got a note from Phil who listens to us
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: out in Fort Hayes. That's Fort Hayes State University over
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: in Kansas. Phil said, Todd, I was in and out
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: of the car all afternoon, yes today, So someone else
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: may have said this with regard to your song list.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: You know, today Wednesday, Todd is hump day. Thank you, Phil,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: appreciate you. All right, let's you know what, Let's go
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: to break a little bit more Teddy Pendergrass.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: There.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. And then all right,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: welcome back everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Pardon Me
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Radio Show. Let's go to the phone lines. Clarksville, Georgia.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Teresa is listening to us on w d u N. Teresa,
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: how can we help you on this fine day?
• 49:59
  Speaker 19: Hello God, how are you doing?
• 50:00
  Speaker 20: It.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: You know I'm doing well. Thank you for asking.
• 50:03
  Speaker 11: Good.
• 50:04
  Speaker 19: Well, the reason I'm calling you said you wanted to
• 50:06
  Speaker 19: know anybody's favorite love song. Yeah, well, David and I
• 50:10
  Speaker 19: that's my husband. We will be married forty one years
• 50:13
  Speaker 19: this year, and our favorite song is Less Make Love
• 50:16
  Speaker 19: by Tim McGraw on Faith Hill.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Oh that's actually a really nice song. Forty one years,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: you say.
• 50:24
  Speaker 19: Yeah, we've been together for forty three, Yes.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: Sir, wonderful. So what's the secret songs there? How do
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: you make a long long standing relationship work?
• 50:35
  Speaker 19: Well, I would say you never go to bed angry,
• 50:39
  Speaker 19: and you never stop telling someone how much you care
• 50:41
  Speaker 19: about them and how much you love them.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: I just I love Well, that's really good advice, really
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: good adviceories, and you can't go wrong with oh is this?
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: It is this? The song.
• 50:55
  Speaker 19: That's big?
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Oh bod. So you're there in the Clarksville and the
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: North Georgia Mountains and the sun is setting. You got
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: some vintage I don't know, lousy in sweet.
• 51:12
  Speaker 19: Tea there, Yes, sir, Well, you have a great day, sig.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Well, Theresa, Well, thank you for calling in, and yeah,
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: thank you for the song. I like this. Let's make
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: loves well that's the name of the song again. All right, Teresa,
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: God bless you and your great husband.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: David.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Dylan, Yeah, this is a good song. I forgot
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: about this one.
• 51:38
  Speaker 18: I don't think I've heard this. I'm liking.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I guarantee a lot of folks in the North
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Georgia Mountains have all Right, there you go again. It
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: goes back to this whole idea of President Trump and
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: say what you want to about their president, but he
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: really does care about this country. And the reality is
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: we have got to start, you know, we've got to
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: start pro creating America. I mean, that's the bottom line.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you. Uh so get to it. Let's
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: go to John in Dawsonville, Georgia. I wants to talk
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: about that young man from Texas Wiley High School. Hi, John,
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: what's going on?
• 52:16
  Speaker 10: God? Is your old friend John from Dawsonville.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: John, good to hear from you.
• 52:22
  Speaker 10: I'm before I get serious here, let me first day,
• 52:26
  Speaker 10: I'm glad you got through your heart procedure, all right,
• 52:30
  Speaker 10: but you need to stay away from that barbecue contest
• 52:33
  Speaker 10: so you'll have another stint.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: John. I tell you I'm struggling because I really did
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: think that gravy and barbecue sauce was a lubricant for
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: those arteries. And it's just not true, my friend, it's
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: not true.
• 52:46
  Speaker 10: I know I've got three of them. I know where you're.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: Coming to you Wait, you have you had to go
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: through that three times?
• 52:53
  Speaker 10: Three times? Still kicking?
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: John, Well, I'm glad to hear that, but I got
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: to tell you I can barely get through it the
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: first time. So anyway, my go ahead. What were we
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: talking about?
• 53:02
  Speaker 10: Well, and then I got a song for you. It's
• 53:05
  Speaker 10: it's kind of a raunchy one, but if you do
• 53:08
  Speaker 10: the live version, it's long enough where you can finish
• 53:13
  Speaker 10: what you started before before the song's over. And that's
• 53:16
  Speaker 10: a slow ride by Foghead.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for that visual. Yeah, I appreciate that, John.
• 53:28
  Speaker 10: Anyway, now the uh I have told you before about
• 53:36
  Speaker 10: I don't know how long it's going to be, but
• 53:38
  Speaker 10: we're going to end up fighting these Islamis in the
• 53:42
  Speaker 10: streets in this country before it's over with. And you know,
• 53:46
  Speaker 10: I hope it's a long long time, but I don't know.
• 53:50
  Speaker 10: And I'll tell you another thing that I believe everybody
• 53:53
  Speaker 10: talks about. Oh well, all Muslims aren't extremists. You know,
• 53:59
  Speaker 10: there's good Muslims, you know, blah blah blah. It's just fine.
• 54:03
  Speaker 10: I'll find a good But I guarantee you, if you're
• 54:07
  Speaker 10: a nice Muslim, neighbor will be trying to kill you
• 54:12
  Speaker 10: if we end up having to battle these people in
• 54:15
  Speaker 10: the streets for our country. All these Muslims that say
• 54:19
  Speaker 10: they're not extremists, they'll turn extremists when it comes down
• 54:23
  Speaker 10: to it.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: John, I hope, I hope everybody's paying attention to what's
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: happening in Brooklyn, New York this week, because that that
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: should not be happening in this country. And my concern
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: is they're gonna be there. They're already throwing down the
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: prayer rugs and shouting a la acbar in front of
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: the synagogues. They're going to be doing that in our
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: neighborhoods very soon. And I'm with you, I don't see
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: that ending well, I really don't. And we've got to
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: get a handle on this.
• 54:50
  Speaker 10: And I Todd, I actually I owe you apology because
• 54:54
  Speaker 10: I've told you a couple of weeks ago, but to
• 54:58
  Speaker 10: stay away from the barbecues. It's because I saw you
• 55:00
  Speaker 10: on TV. Oh what I should have said, was God.
• 55:05
  Speaker 10: Next time, next time you go to the barbecue place,
• 55:09
  Speaker 10: just get a half rack and no potato salad.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: John, I'm sorry, but what's the point. What's the point
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: in living? If that's what you're gonna do at the
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: barbecue joint. That's that That would be my question. But John,
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: thank you. It's coming from a good place in your heart.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: John from Dawsonville. All right, hang tied. Oh by the way,
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: another country music song. Somebody just sent in Dylan. Get
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: off the stove, Granny, you're too old to ride the range.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back, everybody. This
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: is the Todd Sterns Radio Show. Great to have you
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: with us. I want to play some audio. This is
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: for all of you folks in North Carolina. This is
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: a crazy story. So the NAACP and I mentioned this
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: to you yesterday and we now have the audio. The
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: NAACP in Charlotte, North Carolina, has now said on the
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: record that there's no way that a white guy should
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: be allowed to be mayor of Charlotte. The current mayor
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: has resigned. She's a black woman. Been on. I guess
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: she's been the mayor for a long time. Anyway, one
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: of the guys they're looking at in the interim is
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: a white guy, and that's set off the NAACP. Listen
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: to cut thirty two plays.
• 56:40
  Speaker 21: Why would we replace the black outgoing mayor with a
• 56:43
  Speaker 21: white person?
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: That's simple.
• 56:46
  Speaker 22: NAACP Charlotte Mecklenburg Chapter President Karn Mack refusing to walk
• 56:50
  Speaker 22: back her comments. In this Facebook post from Monday, Mack
• 56:54
  Speaker 22: wrote that it is quote seriously disturbing for white folks
• 56:57
  Speaker 22: to be lobbying to be Charlotte's interim mayor. City council
• 57:00
  Speaker 22: is currently searching for someone to serve out the remainder
• 57:03
  Speaker 22: of y Llows's term, who is set to resign at
• 57:06
  Speaker 22: the end of June. In an interview with Queen City
• 57:08
  Speaker 22: News on Wednesday, Mac argued, recent rulings on voting rights
• 57:12
  Speaker 22: and redistricting efforts are evidence of black representation being undermined
• 57:16
  Speaker 22: and stripped, and voters in short, have been intentional about
• 57:19
  Speaker 22: having black representation.
• 57:21
  Speaker 21: And my question to the white folks who are up
• 57:23
  Speaker 21: in arms and outrage, are the outraged about the fact
• 57:26
  Speaker 21: that black representations in attack? Are the outrage about the
• 57:30
  Speaker 21: jury mandering has happening all over this country?
• 57:32
  Speaker 23: Martin Luther King is rolling over in his grave thinking
• 57:34
  Speaker 23: about hearing something like what was said today in that post.
• 57:39
  Speaker 22: Dula Ali, the vice chair for the twelfth Congressional Republican Party,
• 57:42
  Speaker 22: rejected Max's argument, saying it's antithetical to the original mission
• 57:46
  Speaker 22: of the NAACP.
• 57:47
  Speaker 23: I think it's ridiculous because we're not talking about black
• 57:50
  Speaker 23: people not being able to vote. We're not talking about
• 57:53
  Speaker 23: black people not being able to run for office. If
• 57:56
  Speaker 23: that were the case, and any law that came out,
• 57:58
  Speaker 23: whether it was done by the Trump administration or Republicans
• 58:01
  Speaker 23: in any state, I'd stand with her against that, But
• 58:03
  Speaker 23: that's not what we're talking about.
• 58:05
  Speaker 22: The search for interim mayor, meanwhile, is still in its
• 58:08
  Speaker 22: early stages, but council has said they want Laws's replacement
• 58:11
  Speaker 22: ready in time for her June thirtieth resignation.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: All Right. You know, if I were a white guy
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: and I was under consideration or a white goal, I'd
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: be heading over to the taining salon right away, right away,
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: you know, Dylan, and I do wonder though the NAACP
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: woman brings up an interesting point. Are there some things
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: that white people should not be allowed to do? I mean,
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: clearly in Charlotte, North Carolina. You can't be the mayor
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: because you know, if you're on the Caucasian persuasion. But
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering if there are other, like other careers that
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: white people should just stay away from.
• 58:46
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I'm gonna let you have that one if you
• 58:48
  Speaker 18: if you have any.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: I was thinking right away, hip hop artist.
• 58:52
  Speaker 18: Okay, what do you say to Eminem?
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: Then?
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Hip hop artist? Okay, that's what I say. Let's bring
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: into the conversation, Luke, symbol are political strategies, Luke, do
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: you know of any jobs that white people should not
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: be doing?
• 59:09
  Speaker 24: Look, God, this is completely unacceptable. And it is just
• 59:15
  Speaker 24: amazing to me that these very groups like the NAACP
• 59:19
  Speaker 24: that were started to get rid of race based hiring
• 59:26
  Speaker 24: to advocate and you know, Martin Luther King Junior said
• 59:29
  Speaker 24: it best judge people by the content of their character,
• 59:32
  Speaker 24: not the color of their skin. And now these very
• 59:34
  Speaker 24: same groups are now advocating and stating that somebody should
• 59:39
  Speaker 24: be given a job because of their skin color. And
• 59:41
  Speaker 24: we just saw it with the Katanji Brown Jackson addition
• 59:45
  Speaker 24: to the Supreme Court, with the bid of the Administration,
• 59:47
  Speaker 24: they specifically said they wanted a black woman in that role.
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: That is disgusting.
• 59:53
  Speaker 24: And rather than look at who is best for the job,
• 59:56
  Speaker 24: like the mayor of Charlotte, rather than look who is
• 59:59
  Speaker 24: best for the job, they are choosing first to look
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 24: at skin color. Not only is that illegal race based
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 24: hiring is against federal law, but it is morally bankrupt
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 24: and we have to call it out. And kudos to
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 24: utadd for making this a national story.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they got to call it. But you know
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: they're doing it. I mean, yeah, everything you said is true,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: but they but they've been doing it and they're not
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: the only ones. And you know, you live in Memphis, Tennessee,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: and the unspoken joke is that if you're not black
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: or Democrat, you're not getting elected. I mean, that's just
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: that's it. Because people do not they vote on skin color.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: You're right.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 24: Not only is it an unspoken rule, it is a
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 24: spoken rule people just openly accepted. We have a county
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 24: commissioner here in Memphis, as Shelby County, where Memphis is located,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 24: who every time there is a contract that comes up
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 24: before the county commission she asks about the racial makeup
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 24: of that contract, or how many people of color do
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 24: you employee. She asks, that is illegal. And if only
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 24: we had a company who is going out for the
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 24: bid owned by a white person or maybe employees of
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 24: that contractor potential contractor, to sue Shelby County government and
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 24: say you are not allowed to have race based considerations
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 24: when contracting. It is against federal law. It cannot be
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 24: a consideration at all. And yet we hear it now
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 24: on the national stage. We're hearing it in Charlotte, and yes,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 24: we hear it in Memphis, Tennessee. It is toxic, and
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 24: that is why I'm so glad that the Supreme Court
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 24: struck down to race base the majority minority congressional districts, well,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 24: any legislative districts. I'm so glad they struck that down
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 24: because that just adds to the toxicity of our electoral
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 24: process where you have groups that are saying, well, we
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 24: want a majority minority district and because of that we
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 24: vote Democrat. That's just gross, that's disgusting. We need to
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 24: be focusing on the things that bring us together as
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 24: American is, and not what separates us like skin color
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 24: and gender, et cetera.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Well, what the NAACP woman said is very important because
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: there is a mindset in this country that the certain
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: political positions can only be held by black people. And
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: to your point, that's when the Supreme Court stepped in
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: and said, no, that's unconstitutional, and you're gonna have to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: redo these congressional districts. You can't be deciding districts just
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: to ensure that a person of a certain skin color
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: gets gets elected. So I'm especially excited to see Tennessee
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: standing up to the to the the Democrats here and
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: redistricting and and quite frankly gutting what used to be
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: Congressman Steve Cohen's congressional district. How do you think that
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: plays out?
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 24: Look, I think it plays out. I think the courts
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 24: are going to uphold it. Tennessee did a really good job.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 24: The Attorney General did a good job of navigating the
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 24: legislature through what they needed to do. And here's here's
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 24: the thing that people are missing in the conversation. You
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 24: cannot vote in an unconstitutional legislative district. The Supreme Court
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 24: rule that drawing legislative lines based on races unconstitutional. And
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 24: so it really confounds me when you look at Mississippi
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 24: and South Carolina that are kind of backing down on
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 24: this issue. If a district is unconstitutional, the DOJ can
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 24: come in and sue the state, And so maybe that's
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 24: what needs to happen here. Now, the DOJ has already
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 24: gone into Texas and worked with Texas, and Texas withdrew
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 24: its lines. They were going to come into Tennessee. I
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 24: bet if we did not redraw our lines, and now
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 24: Mississippi and South Carolina are backing down. No, the DOJ,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 24: let's get involved here.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 2: It's going to be ugly, and you're going to have
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: Republicans that are pushing back, you know, I know in
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: South Carolina, what a complete mess that was. And tonight
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: five o'clock on the NEWSMAC Show, we're going to have
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina joining us. I think
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: it's also a reminder that a lot of the Southern Republicans,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say a lot, A good many of them
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: are actually Democrats. I mean, and they're heart of hearts.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: I think they're Democrats.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 24: Yeah, this whole we need to go along. We need
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 24: to get along. And again that's ignoring the constitutional issues here.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 24: We need to go along and get along. That those
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 24: days are behind us. Donald Trump has taught the Republican
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 24: Party how to fight back and how to use the
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 24: same tools that Democrats have been using for decades. This
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 24: is nothing new. Democrats have been playing this game and
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 24: Republicans are finally catching up. And if we get smart,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 24: savvy Republicans willing to fight, we're going to do it better.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 24: And it just they don't get it, and those people
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 24: need to be voted out of office, just like we
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 24: saw in Indiana with those state senators who were voted
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 24: out of office in primaries because of this issue. The
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 24: American people and the Republican base rather are saying fight back.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 24: We want you to fight, and we want you to win.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 24: And this whole spineless Republican who cares whatever the Chamber
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 24: Commerce thinks they're fine with unfedered immigration. No, the American
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 24: people are fed up with it. Start fighting, fight back,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 24: and play the game better. All we are doing is
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 24: playing the game, but the Democrats have been playing for decades.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: I like this idea, and again it's we've got to
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: push back and we've got to play hardball here. I mean,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: that's all there is to it, all, right, Luke, how
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: is the seventh Congressional race. It looks like you've got
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of folks running. A Senator Brent Taylor, who
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: we've had on the show, looks like he could be
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: the front runner here. I have no polling official polling data,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: but he certainly is ranking up a lot of big
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: endorsements around the country.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 24: Yes, that ninth congressional district that Steve Cohen held for
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 24: so long, we have a lot of Republicans and Democrats
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 24: running in that district. Now, you're right. State Senator Brent
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 24: Taylor has been endorsed by Senators Marshall Blackburn, Bill Haggerty,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 24: state legislators across the state. I really think he is
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 24: the front runner at this point. I think you will
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 24: see some very important endorsements coming out in the coming days.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 24: And look, he was viewed, You've had him on your show, Todd,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 24: on the radio show in Newsmax. He's been viewed as
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 24: a fighter who wins for Memphis and Shelby County, tackling
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 24: the crime issue, taking on the sorrows back DA, getting
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 24: accountability for the DA, forcing soft on crime judges to resign,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 24: and make Memphis Matter initiative. It is very rare for
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 24: a state legislator to be a household name in a
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 24: community and that's certainly what State Senator Brent Taylor has done.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 24: And now he's a statewide name as he runs for
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 24: this nine congressional district. And I think you'll see a
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 24: large primary victory for him in August, and he's going
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 24: to be battling radical leftist and racist Justin Pearson in
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 24: the general election. I bet in November Justin Pearson has
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 24: declared he's going to run in the ninth district. His
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 24: announcement yesterday was absolutely disgusting, likening the Republican Party to
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 24: the KKK and white supremacy. It was nasty and he
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 24: must be defeated in November, and I think Brent Taylor
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 24: is the best person to do that.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: I wonder if do we know which which version is running?
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: Is at the college educated white Justin Pearson with the
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: power frow or is it the give in Justin? Do
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: we know which one?
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 7: It is?
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 24: Definitely the latter time.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: All right, well, all right, that ought to be interesting
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: because Senator Taylor doesn't, to my knowledge, doesn't jive talk.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, what was it a Missus Cleaver on
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: Billingsley Airplane movie? No, no, no, I no, I just
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: say it. I'm just we're just we're just talking amongst friends,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: all right, Luke Symbol. Good stuff and we look forward
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: to checking in with you next week.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 24: Thanks for having me, Todd.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: All right, do you remember that scene out of Airplane Dylan?
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Please tell me you've seen the airplane parody movie.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 18: I haven't. I know the jokes.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Well, so the joke was that Barbara Billingsley,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: who played Missus Clean on Leave It to Beaver, was
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: a very prim and proper woman. And so anyway, the plane,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: these two passengers, two black dudes, were in distress and
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: they were speaking jive and no one could understand the guys.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: So in the movie, ju missus miss Billingsley, her character
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: comes over and says, pardon me, I speak jive, and
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: we're gonna pull that scene. It's one of the best
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: scenes of all time. That was a great That was
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: a great decade for comedy movies. You had Police Academy,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: you had the Airplane movies. It was good stuff. Pardon me,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: I speak jive?
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 16: All right?
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six Dylan,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: I want to rethink this. It's not jobs that white
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: people should not have. Maybe we ought to talk about
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: maybe we should be refining that to the jobs that
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: we are qualified to have as white folks.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I like that. A mayonnaise maker, white bread maker,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 18: definitely white bread. Not ritz cracker, but saltine, saltine American.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 14: Baby.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, a lot of people get upset, they asked me.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Someone asked me that do you get upseent when people
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: call you a cracker? And I said, no, I really don't.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: But I prefer saltine American. You know it's a new
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: want white white painter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just Oh,
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: definitely definitely mild food, no hot sauce.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 18: No seasoning.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: Maybe that's the job we can't have, is a spice
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: in the spice world.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 18: Oh no, none, we can't do that.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: Oh we also can't be choir directors. We can't hit
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: that down beat. Yeah yeah, we got no rhythm. Our
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: people got no rhythm. If you're a Baptist, well I
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: don't know about that anyway, we'll come up with the
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: list again. We just want to help people here. That's
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: all we do on this program. We help people. And
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the n double acp AM. I getting that.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to get the inflection right the N double
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: ACP N double acp N double acp. Anyway, they don't
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: think white people should be serving as a mayor in Charlotte,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: North Carolina. So anyway, gotta take a break. Care This
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: is the Todd Story show.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 16: Can I get you something?
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: She moved folks butter Lane into the barn.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 22: Take me up, take me.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 16: I'm sorry, I don't understand.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 23: Cutty Safe can't hang oh stuardas I speak jug He
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 23: said that he's in great pain and he wants to
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 23: know if you can help me.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 25: All right, would you tell him to just relax and
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 25: I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: Just hang loose blood.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 6: She gonna catch up and rebat out of the midside.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: What it is big mama, Ma mama to raise no dummies.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: Yet?
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: Chump one alive up?
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thats dude, don't got no brains. And it was
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: one of those. It was one of the funniest movies.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: And the thing is doing back in the day, you
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: would actually go to the movie theater. Right, we didn't
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: have the v you know, we didn't have Blockbuster and
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: all that, and we'dn't have Netflix, so you'd have to
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: go to the actual movies, and so we would just
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: go as kids. We would go over and over and
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: over again so we could catch there were so many lines,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: great stuff.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 18: What the ticket price is like forty nine cents back.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: Then forty nine cents. Wondering what are you talking about?
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 18: I love going to the movies. Now it's actually I
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 18: think it's coming back going to the movies.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: Really, so people are there's like a resurgence.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I mean Netflix and all them are raising their
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 18: prices constantly. So you know, the movie tickets were expensive,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 18: but I don't know, I think it's just about the
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 18: experience now. They just want to be back outside of
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 18: the house.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: Have you noticed that for example, Amazon Prime. I'll just
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: say this. I watch The Boys, which is a crazy
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: you know, so insane. Yeah, well actually I think it's
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: thirty plus thirty plus. But anyway, the commercials, it's like
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: you upgrade to get the commerce, you know, without the commercials.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: Well they keep adding the commercials and charging you more money.
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: It makes absolutely no sense.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 18: I thought that we were upgraded because I also watched
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 18: The Boys and U yeah, came to found out every
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  Speaker 18: fifteen minutes it's a minute and thirty second.
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  Speaker 2: As unbelievable, and so at what point, I mean, the
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  Speaker 2: whole point of getting those services was to not have
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  Speaker 2: to worry about the commercial exactly. And so now I
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  Speaker 2: guarantee you people are probably paying twice or three times
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  Speaker 2: as much as they were when they were just getting
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  Speaker 2: their regular cable.
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  Speaker 18: Oh yeah, absolutely, that is that is happening right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's that's interesting. I'm so so, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 2: happy to hear that because it was really for a while,
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  Speaker 2: you know, those theaters were pretty empty. Nobody wanted to
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: go to the movies.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, it really does depend on what's coming out. I
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 18: recently saw The Sheep Detective. You probably don't care about that,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 18: but it's a movie that came out and I went
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 18: to go see it. So I did my part.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you, Good for you. I mean, back in
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: the day, you know, everybody went to the movies. That
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: was where you hung out. You know, your parents would
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: drop you off and you'd have the afternoon. You know,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 2: they're at the movies and maybe if it was on
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: the weekends, you could maybe go watch two movies. But
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: now you know, there was you got all the kids.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: Nobody knows how to behave in the movie theaters anymore.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: You got the young people making out. You try to
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: tell them, go take that to the car, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Not here we're trying. People are screaming and talking on
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: their iPhones. Nobody knows how to behave in public anymore.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, you're right, that is tough. You have to pick
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 18: the right movie to go to at the right time.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, I wish they would start making movies
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: like Airplane again. That's some funny stuff. All right, we
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  Speaker 2: got to take a break here in nin know one
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  Speaker 2: two six year o five nine two six is our
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 15: Todd starts fday.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, Jimmy Kimmel is under fire from a
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  Speaker 2: lot of different areas. You've got well every Republicans up
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  Speaker 2: in arms, the Trump administration, and now now religious broadcasters. Hello, everybody,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: welcome to our three of the Big Show. Great to
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: have you with us today. So Jimmy Kimmel making summer
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: really crass, disgusting jokes, taking shots at President Trump and
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: the first Lady, and it was just really ugly, really
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: ugly stuff. But honestly, everything Jimmy Kimmel does is pretty ugly.
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: Now the NRB is getting involved in all of this,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: and I want to go right away to our Patriot
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  Speaker 2: mobile news maker line and welcome Mike Ferris, who is
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: the general counsel for NRB. And Mike, I understand that
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: you guys have actually filed a complaint with the FCC. First,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: good to have you with us. A second, tell us
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  Speaker 2: about this complaint.
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  Speaker 26: Well, First, Todd of the I'm really glad to see
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 26: you back in the saddle and we.
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  Speaker 2: Were praying, thank you, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 26: Second, we have defended Jimmy Kimmel's First Amendment rights in
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 26: the past and prior mixed up with or flat with
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  Speaker 26: the FCC where he is being basically challenged because of
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  Speaker 26: his unfair inaccurate renditions about the President. That's free speech.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 26: He should be able to do that. The reason that
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 26: we had something on this particular occasion was because violence
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 26: was involved. The implication when he says, here's an expectant
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 26: widow and shows the first Lady on the air. That
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 26: is an invitation to someone, at least implicitly, an invitation
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  Speaker 26: for someone to get violence against the president of the United States.
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  Speaker 26: And free speech has a recognized barrier when it comes
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  Speaker 26: to the advocacy of violence, particularly against elected officials and
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  Speaker 26: especially the President of the United States. And so we
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  Speaker 26: filed a request for the FCC to investigate this because
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  Speaker 26: the free speech doctrines apply in the First Amendment broadcast context.
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  Speaker 26: But there's a balance there, and we believe the balance
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  Speaker 26: trips in the favor of doing something when there is
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  Speaker 26: an advocacy of violence.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I think this is the big, the big challenge. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Michael, Mike, where does all of this you know,
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  Speaker 2: where is where is that line, especially when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to you know, late night comedians, whether or not they
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 2: may be funny or not.
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  Speaker 26: Well, it's the first Moment is very broad and it
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 26: certainly protects the right to say something that people in
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  Speaker 26: power don't like. I mean, that's the essence of the
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  Speaker 26: First Amendment.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 26: And and so we you know, we need to stand
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 26: for that, and we need to stand for that when
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 26: we don't like what they're saying, we need to stand
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  Speaker 26: for that. When we do like what people are saying,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 26: we need to be consistent about that. But there are
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  Speaker 26: recognized limitations, and the key case of this is Brandon
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  Speaker 26: versus Ohio, where a person was advocating violence. And there's
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  Speaker 26: a three step test here uh for criminal prosecutions that
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  Speaker 26: you have to be advocating violence in a way that
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  Speaker 26: people understand it to be so, and secondly you have
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  Speaker 26: to intend it. And then that's going to be the
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  Speaker 26: necessary consequence, the predictable consequence of what you're saying. The
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  Speaker 26: one element that's that's the hardest to tell from just
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 26: listening to the statement is what he intended. But we
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 26: believe in the broadcast context it should be really more.
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  Speaker 26: The test should be is the reasonable listener does it
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  Speaker 26: interpret it as an invitation to violence, soliciting violence against
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  Speaker 26: the president the United States? And if a reasonable interpreter
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  Speaker 26: is understands to be soliciting violence. We think that the
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  Speaker 26: public broadcasting context warrants a slight adjustment of the Brandenburg test,
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  Speaker 26: but essentially maintained that the core elements of Brandenburg and
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  Speaker 26: that's a recognized exception to First Amendment. You can't there.
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  Speaker 26: You know, others defamations not protected, yelling theater and a
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  Speaker 26: crowded fire is not protected, or the other way around,
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  Speaker 26: whichever you prefer. And we think that the advocacy of
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  Speaker 26: violence should be something that we may make sure it
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  Speaker 26: is not broadcast over our airways.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I see that. I just for me as
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  Speaker 2: a broadcaster, I do this every day, and I crack
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  Speaker 2: a lot of jokes, and some people on the left
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  Speaker 2: would probably be offended by a lot of them I'm doing.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: I would just be concerned if the other side decided, okay,
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: well let's let's go after the conservatives now and try
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: to try to shut them down as well.
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  Speaker 26: Well, that's exactly what the Biden administration did. They called
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 26: in into the White House on a regular basis all
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 26: the social media companies and told them to shut down
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 26: messages that they don't like. And so you know they're
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 26: already doing that. That's that's not new. But the constitutional
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  Speaker 26: line is the line between violence and nonviolence. We don't
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  Speaker 26: like it is one thing, and by violence, I mean
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 26: actual physical violence, inviting someone to kill someone, that's violence.
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  Speaker 26: The idea that all speech is violence, and you hurt
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  Speaker 26: my feelings in that's violence. That isn't That's not a
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  Speaker 26: stitutional tests. That's an emotional test that prevails in some
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  Speaker 26: college classrooms. That's not a real legal test. The real
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  Speaker 26: legal test is actual physical violence. You know, pulling out
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  Speaker 26: a dentis that's viling?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that and that and that certainly and that
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  Speaker 2: certainly makes sense. So you guys have filed the complaint
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  Speaker 2: any have you heard anything back from the FCC.
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  Speaker 26: Now, this is the kind of complaint that we we've
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  Speaker 26: only asked for an investigation. You know, you can file
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  Speaker 26: a complaint with the FCC that amounts to a lawsuit.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 26: We've not done that because we don't have the investigatory
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  Speaker 26: power that the FCC has to find out what Jimmy
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 26: Kimmel intended. And his intention does matter, but they have
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 26: the power to demand records and logs and email traffic
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  Speaker 26: and so on to see what was he thinking. You know,
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  Speaker 26: what was what were the plan plans for the show
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  Speaker 26: to say, you know, is this something that they intended
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 26: someone to say, Well, we hope somebody listens and pays
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  Speaker 26: attention to it. If they found something like that, they're
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  Speaker 26: going to have evidence of intention and that will that
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  Speaker 26: potentially not only be an FCC matter. That could be
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 26: a criminal matter if they find evidence of intent.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting you mentioned the Biden administration, and
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  Speaker 2: the reality is, man, did they They really went after
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  Speaker 2: a lot of conservative broadcasters, but also a lot of
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: Christian broadcasters as well, and that did not get a
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: lot of play in the national media during those years.
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  Speaker 26: No did it. In that case ended up in the
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 26: Supreme Court of the United States, and the court, you know,
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  Speaker 26: went in the right direction, but they did not draw
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  Speaker 26: a very strong free speech line in the sand. The
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  Speaker 26: brief that I filed for national religious broadcasters in that
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 26: case argued that the exception in First Amendment cases for
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 26: the government to be able to invade free speech requires
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 26: proof that there's a compelling governmental interest, and the idea
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 26: that we want to silence you because we disagree with
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 26: you is a compelling governmental interest. We advocated a rule
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 26: that the government, we were talking about protected speech. The
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 26: government can never say we want you to shut them down.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 26: They can say, please broadcast our message. They can say
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 26: we disagree with this message, and here's why, fine say that.
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  Speaker 10: All you want.
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  Speaker 26: What the government could not legitimately do is say we
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 26: want you to silence people disagree with that, that was
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 26: our position in that case.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, Mike, we're gonna have to leave it there.
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  Speaker 2: We always appreciate the great work you guys are doing
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  Speaker 2: over it in our b and please keep us up
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  Speaker 2: to speed on how all of this transpires with Jimmy Kimmel.
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  Speaker 26: Thank you very much, stet keep up the good work.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Mike Ferris,
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  Speaker 2: who is the general counsel for a National Religious Broadcasters
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  Speaker 2: and I think ultimately this is going to be the
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  Speaker 2: big argument here. I'm one of those who is I'm
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: a free speech purist. I think you ought to be
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: able to say whatever you want to say. Yeah, are
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: there consequences for that? In some cases, absolutely there are consequences.
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  Speaker 2: But my concern here is they have done this to conservatives,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 2: They've done it to me, and it is an ugly thing.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: And I trust me, if the Democrats ever get back
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: in charge again, they're going to come after all of us.
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 2: But I think you know, at the end of the day,
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: the best way to deal with Jimmy Kimmel is to
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: turn off, turn off the TV and let his sponsors
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: know why you're not watching his show and therefore not
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: watching their ads. Let the marketplace handle Jimmy Kimmel nine
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  Speaker 2: oh one two six zero five nine two six. That's
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• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: five nine two six. This is the Todd Sterns Show.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. So we had Mary Walter and
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: case My Pill on my NEWSMAC show. Those ladies always
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun. A pretty serious topic though, a
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: situation of louting or more than forty young girls have
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: now been victims of a transgender dude who actually took
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: their photos and bathroom stalls at the high school. Let's
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: take a listen to our ladies panel featuring Mary Walter
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 2: in case My Pill. To you first, again, it's loud
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 2: in county and this is not the first time we've
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 2: had some sort of an allegation like this.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 4: No Latin county has this fair share of promises.
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  Speaker 11: But see, this is how you know that it's a
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 11: dude and not a woman, because a woman would never
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 11: think to do something like that, because it's gross, Like
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 11: I don't know of one woman who would ever say, oh,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 11: I have to film other girls going to the bathroom
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 11: that wouldn't happen. So this is the dead giveaway that
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 11: this is a dude and not a woman and has
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 11: nothing to do with biology in this instance. They can
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 11: scream all they want, but this is a pattern that
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 11: if you're paying mild attention, we're seeing this pattern where
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 11: kids who are transgender wind up and adults too wind
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 11: up being sex offenders, wind up committing some horrible crimes
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 11: against women and sometimes against young boys as well. But
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 11: there's a pattern here because this is an undiagnosed mental illness.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 11: In my humble opinion, I am not a doctor, but
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 11: in my humble opinion, there is a common thread and
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 11: we need to look into it. I don't know if
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 11: it's the medication or it was there before.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, and we're getting some breaking news.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: We understand the superintendent there in Loudon County, doctor Aaron Spence,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: has been called to testo him for Congress. There's a
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: hearing called breaking Trust, a tax on parental rights, inappropriate content,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 2: and legal abuses at American schools. Look, I'm still trying
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: to understand here, and I support the Trump administration's efforts,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: but this was all supposed to be resolved thanks to
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: that executive order the President's side, and it seems like
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: the schools are simply ignoring the executive order.
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  Speaker 20: Well that's sort of classic liberal schooling in not just
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 20: America but all over the Western hemisphere at this point, Like,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 20: I don't know what is in the water in Loudin County,
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 20: but they just have these ongoing Like you said, it's
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 20: loud And County again, there is just something. There's something
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 20: going on there and it needs to be investigated, like deeply,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 20: we need to look into the actual root cause and
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 20: sociology of what is going on in that place. And
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 20: you're right, Todd, this should have been resolved by Trump's
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 20: executive order. But this is where all these liberal groups
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 20: come in and try and fight what they know to
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 20: be right because they're funded by people who make money
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 20: off issues like the whole transgender thing. You know, Mary,
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 20: I thought you're incredibly diplomatic and very fair in your
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 20: response by saying that, in your opinion, it's a mental disease.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 20: I think it's one hundred percent a mental disease. It's
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 20: not a real thing. Being transgender is not a real thing.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 20: Wanting to dress in women's clothes and parade around pretending
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 20: to be a woman is a mental health issue. We
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 20: used to just call it cross dressing, and it was
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 20: a weird thing that men did behind closed doors because
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 20: it's part of their you know, like sex orientation or
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 20: whatever you want to call it.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: It's not it's not a real thing.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 20: If transgenderism was a real thing, it would have been
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 20: around forever. It's not. And it's just absolutely disgusting that
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 20: once again it is young women and is sometimes young
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 20: boys who end up becoming the victims of these other
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 20: young boys and young men and some young women who
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 20: you know, really should be taken aside and explain to them. Listen,
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 20: if you want to dress in the clothes of the
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 20: opposite gender, be my guest, you know, be my guest.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 20: But you don't get to go and then pretend to
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 20: be that gender. You don't then get you know, indulged
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 20: and spoiled and told that you're special because this is
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 20: a thing that you want to do. It's not a
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 20: real thing. It's just you know, hopefully a temporary situation
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 20: for a lot of these young men and women, and
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 20: they're not being treated for whatever this mental health disease
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 20: is that they have. I don't know, I could rant
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 20: on about this all day.
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  Speaker 15: Guys, if you let me, so, don't let me.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, Yeah, we don't have I wish we
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: had time to ramp, but we've got an agenda here.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 4: We got to follow a ladies.
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: And of course, by the way, all of us follow
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: each other on X and so folks hang out with
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 2: us on the social media platforms. We made beautiful tweets together. Mary,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: I saw one of yours. You reposted a video of
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: a Monmouth County realtor exposing the unbelievable tax rates imposed
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 2: on New Jersey homeowners.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 4: Let's watch this. This should truly be criminal.
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 27: One hundred and eighty one hundred and eighty five thousand
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 27: dollars transfer tax on a home that's closing tomorrow for
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 27: one of my sellers, we're closing at four million dollars.
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 27: They're paying a four percent mansion tax on top of
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 27: their New Jersey real estate transfer tax. Get this, If
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 27: they were moving out of state, they would have an
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 27: additional two percent withholding. Something does need to change. I
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 27: don't like to be political, but this is outrageous.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: Okay. I still don't get why you folks in New
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: Jersey can't pump your own gas.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 4: But Mary, this is insanity right here.
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 11: Okay, I could rant about pumping your own gas because
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 11: it's amazing and wonderful and you don't know what you're missing.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 4: Okay, that's the first thing.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 11: But we could do a whole segment on that. All right.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 11: So here's the thing. There's several different things, and she
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 11: conflated two of them. I wrote them down. The mansion
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  Speaker 11: tax is what she's talking about. This came in two
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  Speaker 11: thousand and four, and it was to punish people who
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 11: can sell their home for over a million dollars, you know,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 11: so we can give them money to other people. Well,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 11: it hasn't been adjusted for twenty two years. The price
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 11: has not been adjusted. That the cap has not been adjusted.
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  Speaker 11: In Mammoth County, where she is and where I live,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 11: homes don't go for much under a million dollars.
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  Speaker 15: It just is what it is.
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 11: Because we're so close to New York and it's so
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 11: easy to get to the city on the ferry that
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 11: as New Yorkers flee, they come to within like a
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 11: mile commute, and here we are, and they pay far
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 11: over asking price. So homes are skyrocking. I don't think
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 11: there's a home. I'll take out the condos in my
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 11: town that sells under a million dollars, so you have
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 11: to pay one percent above that, and it's up now.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 11: I thought it stopped at three point five percent. She
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 11: said four. But then the other thing that she's talking about,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 11: also known as the exit tax, is the real estate fee.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 11: It's the capital gains that you pay two to three
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 11: percent in addition on the profit you made on the house,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 11: and the state takes it off the top. If you're
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 11: leaving the stake because they're afraid you're not going to pay.
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  Speaker 4: It, it's insanity.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: And again, the problem I had is is not necessarily
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: the Democrats who raise taxes. It's the people who keep
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 2: voting for these morons. All right, I got to switch
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: to this last story here we teased it. Delta Airlines
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: some very bad news, ladies, especially if you love those
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: Biscof cookies. Delta announcing they're going to end their inflight
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: snack service for shorter flights. This starts May nineteenth. Delta
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: says that a statement that change was made to create
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 2: a quote more consistent experience across the network. Yes, consistently horrible.
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  Speaker 4: What do you say to that?
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  Speaker 16: King?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah? I completely agree.
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  Speaker 20: I think the absolute premium that people pay to fly
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 20: these days, the bare minimum that we deserve for those
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 20: flights should be those little bisk of cookies which are
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 20: absolutely delicious, Like anyone who doesn't like them is crazy
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 20: and a drink like. It's the absolute bare minimum that
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 20: should come with the flight, absolute bare minimum. I think
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 20: that this is I think this is a really stupid
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 20: decision by Delta, and I hope they're going to cut
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 20: prices to make up for the lack of comfort that
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 20: they're now going to provide on even though it is
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 20: just these short flights. It doesn't matter, It really doesn't matter.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 20: Shouldn't be happening.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good luck with that.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they're I don't think they're going
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: to drop their prices at all. Mary, what does this
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: say about the airline industry?
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 4: Listen, flying is like entering the Hunger Games. We all
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 4: know it.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 11: You're going to battle when you get to the airport, right,
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 11: Just getting just getting into Nork Airport in and of
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 11: itself is it is just the beginning of running the gauntlet.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 11: And then you got to deal with those really super
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 11: friendly TSA agents no offense.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 15: I know they have to deal with people.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 11: And I would be cranky too if I had to
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 11: deal with the detritus of humanity that comes through an
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 11: airport on any given day. Right, So they cram you
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 11: in a seat, they tell you to sit down, shut up, smile,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 11: do what we tell you, turn your phone off, don't
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 11: put your seat back. By the way, you ain't getting
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 11: anything to eat. So most people bring snacks on the
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 11: plane with them, but then they're going to complain that
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 11: there's not going to be snacks because people are pigs
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 11: and they leave the food in the aisles. It's a
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 11: terrible thing. I only fly if I have to. That's
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 11: just the way it is at this point. If it's
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 11: within driving distance, we drive. I just drive. I don't
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 11: care if it takes me two days I'm driving. If
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 11: I have to fly, I will, But otherwise.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 15: Thank you now.
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 11: And it used to be a great experience, but people
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 11: were about, you know, when you wear your slippers and
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 11: pajamas on the plane, what kind of service do you expect?
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 4: So we kind of started this.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to everybody. This is the Todd
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: Starns Radio show, Don't forget Tonight, five o'clock Eastern we
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: do the Todd Starns Show on Newsmax. We have a
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: very busy show. We'll be breaking down all the big
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: stories happening in our nation's capital. I want to go
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: right away to our patriot moble news maker line and
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: salo to Indiana Congresswoman Aaron Houchin, who joins this congress someone.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: Hope you're doing good today.
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  Speaker 19: Great to be with you.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of a lot of talk about redistricting
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: around the nation. Of course Indiana, you guys were at
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: the center of that big controversy as as well. And
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: I'm just curious, how do you see things playing and
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: how do you feel about Republicans in some of the
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: southern states playing hardball with the Democrats.
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  Speaker 25: Well, I'll tell you, Todd that last week's Indiana Republican
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 25: primary voters sent a very clear message they expect their
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 25: elected officials to support President Trump and fight for Republican priorities.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 25: There were senators who blocked the redistricting effort in Indiana
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 25: who paid the price at the ballot box. In fifty years, Todd,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 25: only five Republican incumbent senators had lost their race, and
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 25: on Tuesday, six incumbent senators at least lost their primaries
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 25: to Trump backed challengers. Those were the ones who voted
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 25: against redistricting in Indiana. We're seeing Democrats for years jerrymander
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 25: states like California and Illinois, and the attempts in Virginia.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 25: Republicans can't afford to leave seats on the table. They've
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 25: got to fight back. And I tell people that the
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 25: border of this the battle is bigger than the border
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 25: of the state of Indiana. This is for the national
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 25: control of Congress, and we need every Republican seat we
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 25: can get to continue pushing forward with President Trump's agenda
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 25: and the agenda that the majority of the American people support.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: I know you spent a lot of time back in
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: your district. How are people doing doing? What is the mood?
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: What is the vibe? Are people excited above midterms so
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: they sort of not ready to get involved in politics
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: just yet? Where do folks stand?
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 25: I would say we saw our primary electorate tick up
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 25: just a little bit than what I would consider normal
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 25: for a non presidential year. People are still naturally concerned
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 25: about gas prices, which is why I was pleased that
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 25: Governor Braun is providing some relief at the pump. I'm
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 25: calling on Congress to also suspend the gas tax. You know,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 25: I was one of two senators in Indiana who voted
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 25: against raising the gas tax. So Governor Braun has since
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 25: suspended that, giving people relief at the pump. But also
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 25: we're working in Congress. We just passed a year round
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 25: E fifteen out of the House of Representatives that will
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 25: be an ethanol type of fuel that currently is in
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 25: a ten percent formulation in our pumps, but we want
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 25: to be fifteen percent to give our corn growers some
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 25: opportunities that will reduce the price at the pump between
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 25: ten and thirty cents a gallon. So people are concerned
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 25: about the naturally, the pocketbook issues, the kitchen table issues,
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 25: and we're just we're fighting every day to try to
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 25: give relief, still trying to dig out from a disastrous
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 25: Biden economy. Unfortunately, when you open the southern border to
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 25: twenty million people coming across the border illegally, it will
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 25: reacavoc on things like rental costs, the cost of health
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 25: care and public safety and these other factors that we're
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 25: still trying to remedy. But we will get the job done.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I have no doubt about that. I do
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 2: think though, that when you look at gas prices, they
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: were coming down pretty dramatically and of course right back
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 2: up because of the war in Iran. And I think
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 2: if the war can be wrapped up soon, I think
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: the prices and do you think prices are going to
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: go back down at the pump and otherwise I think
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: we're going to have some issues with getting Republicans out
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: to vote in the fall.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 16: I know that this.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 25: Doesn't help the situation that people are currently in, but
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 25: I would note that gas prices are still lower than
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 25: the highest they were under President Biden. Yes, we need
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 25: to keep driving those down, and I do think a
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 25: resolution with the war in Iran will help. But what
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 25: I want people to understand is that the conflict in
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 25: Iran and President Trump stepping forward to prevent them from
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 25: obtaining a nuclear weapon and standing up to the regime
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 25: for the first time in forty seven years, this president
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 25: said they will never get a nuclear weapon, and he
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 25: means it.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 10: This is an.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 25: America first posture because if Iran we're able to get
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 25: a nuclear weapon, and that weapon we're able to be
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 25: transported to let's say Cuba or Venezuela. We know Iran
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 25: is operating in Cuba. We know they were operating in Venezuela.
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 25: That is a severe national security threat to the entire
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 25: eastern seaboard of the UNI United States. So this makes
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 25: it a critical piece of his America First agenda, keeping
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 25: Iran from having a nuclear weapon and neutralizing that threat,
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 25: and while it's in the Middle East, before it becomes
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 25: the threat to the homeland. With Iran blocking the strait
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 25: of our moves, that is a substantial conflict, and it
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 25: is a It's causing substantial harm to our shipping lanes
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 25: that is supposed to be open internationally, and it's not
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 25: the United States that close that transit lane, it is Iran.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 25: We have to keep the pressure on. I think the
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 25: President's strategy is working. I think we'll hopefully soon see
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 25: an end to the conflict and gas prices going down,
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 25: and I think they'll go down before November. But what
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 25: I want people to understand is that this is an
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 25: America First put forward toward a resolution that does not
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 25: involve Iran having a nuclear weapon so that they can't
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 25: be a threat to the United States.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 2: And you know, I'm glad you brought that up because
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: the President was asked about that a few days ago,
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: and the media completely distorted what he was saying because
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 2: they pulled or lifted out the comedy said. Well, I'm
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 2: really not concerned about people's economic situations. He said that,
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: but it was other than the context of we don't
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 2: need to have a nuclear cloud over an American city here,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 2: So the most pressing issue is making sure that Iran
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: doesn't have those news. So again, you can't trust the media.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 25: Actually, right, that's exactly right, And I was disappointed in
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 25: the media's portrayal of that comment. Of course, we hear
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 25: from constituents who only listened to the media on the left.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 25: What I'll say is that what President Trump is concerned
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 25: with is primarily our national security and public safety first,
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 25: because if Iran is able to hit the United States
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 25: through their ties in Cuba and other places that are
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 25: in close proximity to the United States, gas prices will
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 25: be the least of our concerns. If we're hit with
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 25: a nuclear weapon, that has to be first and foremost,
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 25: and then we will obviously naturally be working on driving
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 25: gas prices down. President Trump had us in the first
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 25: term in the Energy and dependent for the first time
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 25: in forty years. Joe Biden dialed all of that back.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 25: Now we're creeping our way back to energy and dependence,
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 25: becoming less reliant on foreign oil as we should be.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 25: But what the American people should look for in November
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 25: is vote. If you're not happy with the current circumstances,
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 25: try to remember what it was like under President Biden,
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 25: with open borders and high gas prices and high inflation
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 25: and overburden some regulations from a big federal government. Think
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 25: they're much better and freer and more prosperous under President Trump.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 25: Stick with us. We certainly don't want to undo all
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 25: of the good work and success that House Republicans, with
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 25: the help of President Trump, have led to this point, I.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: Want to pivot. This is like a hard pivot here,
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: so there's really not a nice segue. You have done
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: something that is I think is so admirable. You've introduced
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: the Smart Kids Act. And I'm intrigued by this because
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 2: I think that excessive screen time is hurting our kids,
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: and I agree with you on that. I also think
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: it's hurting adults too. But I am so glad to
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: see you addressing this, and I want you to tell
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: our listeners explained what your Smart Kids Act would do.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 25: Well, thank you for bringing that up. Of course, I'm
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 25: a parent of three kids that are now twenty two,
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 25: twenty and seventeen, but we were in the height of
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 25: it during you know, the cell phone boom if you will,
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 25: or the smartphone boom, and the Smart Kids Act directs
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 25: the Attorney's Surgeon General to develop a screen time regulation
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 25: or screen time recommendations for what is healthy and unhealthy.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 25: I think that can certainly be applicable to adults too,
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 25: but we want the Surgeon gen to weigh in so
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 25: that parents have some guidelines and some information and research
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 25: to back their perspective when it comes to limiting screen
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 25: time for their kids. It's too much in the abstract now,
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 25: and we definitely could use the Surgeon General weighing in
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 25: on what that should look like from a reasonable perspective.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 25: One of the things I tell school groups when I
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 25: talk to them, particularly middle schoolers, is every time your
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 25: doom scrolling and your finger is clicking on that screen,
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 25: just wipe up to the next video. You should be
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 25: mentally in your head hearing the sound to change to
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 25: change cha ching, because that is you paying money to
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 25: the platforms that are benefiting from the amount of time
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 25: that your eyeballs are on that screen. It's not just kids,
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 25: it is adults. It's a good reminder to all of
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 25: us to put down our phones, enjoy the great outdoors
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 25: and the people that we love.
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  Speaker 2: I like that, all right, Congress. I would always appreciate
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: your time, and thank you for joining us on the
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: radio show today.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 25: Thank you so much.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 12: Tom.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: Great to be with you, all right, Congress, Home and
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: Aaron Houschin, everybody from the great sit of and this
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: has sort of been Indiana week here on the show.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: We had the Governor, we had Marlin Stuntsman on, so anyway,
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 2: good stuff there. All right, We've got to take a
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: quick break here, folks. Nine oh one two six zero
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 2: five nine two six. You know, I am curious do
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 2: you moms and dads, grandmas and grandpa's or even young people,
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: do you watch and do you keep track of how
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 2: much time that you spend on your phones on the computer,
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: And if you have kids, are you monitoring what they
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 2: are doing and how much time? And I'm just curious
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 2: to know if if moms and dads are literally putting
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: together programs like Okay, you can only be on the
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know what, Dylan, what's a fair number, like
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 2: an hour of iPhone time, like per day, per day?
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 18: Maybe like maybe like four hours.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: Four hours. They got a new homework.
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 18: Okay, okay, never mind, let me backtrack. I'm an adult now,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 18: I'm not in school. Okay, hour, yeah, sure, hour.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: I was gonna go with twenty minutes. Wow, strict, I'd
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: be a strictrict Yeah, I'd be a strict parrot. Go outside,
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 2: don't come back till the street lights are odd.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 18: Well, my kids aren't having iPhones, so I don't know.
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 18: Oh really, not until it's you know, not until it's
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 18: time to have an iPhone.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: What I wonder, what is what is that age that
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 2: you get you should get give your kid an iPhone?
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 18: That's a good question. We should ask someone that knows
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 18: that's a parent.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 2: Right now, I'm thinking eighteen yeah, sure, seriously, Yeah, I
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: mean I don't I don't see anything good coming out
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 2: of having kids on you know, on the iPhone.
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 18: They need their brains need to be more developed than
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 18: than not.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 2: Well in that case, twenty six but okay, yeah.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 18: I shouldn't have an iPhone right now.
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: I am curious all right, nine oh one two six
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: zero five nine two six are number. That's nine oh
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six. Yeah, I
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: wouldn't get my kid one until they're eighteen. In all seriousness,
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 2: that's that's crazy out there. We'll be right back, all right,
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: the great Ben Ferguson joining us on our NEWSMAC show
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 2: to talk about these out of control gas prizes. Let's
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: take a listen to Ferguson. Then this is exactly what
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: the Democrats have been doing to Republicans for decades, yeah,
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 2: four decades.
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 28: And then when they actually get caught trying to make
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 28: it even worse, and Republicans are like, all right, if
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 28: this is the game we're going to play, then let's
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 28: play the game. Then all of a sudden they're freaking out,
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  Speaker 28: losing their minds and upset that someone like a Todd
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  Speaker 28: Starns or a Ben Ferguson or Brent Taylor could get
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  Speaker 28: elected from Memphis, Tennessee, for example. That's the irony of
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  Speaker 28: all of this is that there's areas that they deliberately
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  Speaker 28: have drew only for a Democrat to win, only for
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  Speaker 28: even you could argue, a minority to win. And then
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  Speaker 28: it stays there forever. And then when they redraw a
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  Speaker 28: map where it's like, all right, well this looks more
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  Speaker 28: fair and we'll just see what happens, They're like, you
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  Speaker 28: can't do that anymore. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  Speaker 28: I love that this has happened. I agree there is
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  Speaker 28: a bigger question, a bigger conversation about Jerry Manning.
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  Speaker 15: But let's also be clear, Todd.
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  Speaker 28: The next issue for me is beyond where we are now,
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  Speaker 28: and that is this, how much over representation is there
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  Speaker 28: in places like California because they have counted illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 28: in the census data, and then when they do the maps,
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  Speaker 28: they look at these maps and they have over representation,
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  Speaker 28: meaning too many Congress people from the state of California.
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  Speaker 28: I'm ready to go there next. Let's make this thing
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  Speaker 28: as fair as we possibly can. Illinois is another example.
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  Speaker 28: New York's another example. You look at Democrats and they've
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  Speaker 28: been cheating for years by counting people that aren't American
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  Speaker 28: citizens and therefore getting more representation in Congress. It's time
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  Speaker 28: we fight back there now. I'm sorry, gloves are off,
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  Speaker 28: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, it's a street fight. We got to talk
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  Speaker 2: though about about gas prices, midterm election coming up. We
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  Speaker 2: know what James Carvel said back during his lucid years,
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  Speaker 2: it's the economy stupid turns out.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's right, it really is right. You've got
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  Speaker 4: in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: I had to go fill up the Cadillac this weekend
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  Speaker 2: bid and I had to do a double till.
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  Speaker 15: You had a bougie car. But that's the next level.
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  Speaker 28: I just got to give you a golf clap on
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  Speaker 28: that Cadillact there. I'm not letting that slide by like
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  Speaker 28: that keep going.
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  Speaker 2: For sixty nine a gallon. I can't afford to put
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  Speaker 2: that much gas in my Cadillac. Come on, how concerned
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  Speaker 2: are you are these gas prices? If they keep going up,
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  Speaker 2: could be a problem. Yeah, they've got to get down.
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  Speaker 28: They've got to get down significantly before the midterms or
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  Speaker 28: this will be a disaster for the Republicans.
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  Speaker 15: I know that.
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  Speaker 28: You know that the problem is we're fighting still over
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  Speaker 28: things like E fifteen and regulations, and we're still fighting
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  Speaker 28: over subsidies in corn, and we're fighting over these alternative
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  Speaker 28: fuels when we need to get rid of all that.
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  Speaker 28: We need to protect small refineries in this country. There's
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  Speaker 28: some Republicans are trying to screw them this week, and
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  Speaker 28: they try.
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  Speaker 15: To do it in the Farm Bell.
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  Speaker 28: They're trying to do it again in Congress, which is
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  Speaker 28: insane that we'd be fighting over small refineries. We desperately
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  Speaker 28: need producing right now, not having to produce ethanol at
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  Speaker 28: these small refineries, and yet they're doing dumb games like this.
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  Speaker 28: Republicans need to understand right now we need everybody producing
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  Speaker 28: small refineries, big refineries, and the President understands this. The President,
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  Speaker 28: by the way, has said we need to leave small
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  Speaker 28: refineries alone. But this is what Republicans are fighting over,
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  Speaker 28: trying to get subsidies and farm subsidies for people that
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  Speaker 28: are growing corn.
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  Speaker 15: That is not the time to be doing this or
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  Speaker 15: changing it right now.
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  Speaker 28: And the second thing I think is even more important
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  Speaker 28: than that Todd, is this, if the President can take
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  Speaker 28: away and have a quick you know, do away with
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  Speaker 28: the federal taxes that he's collecting on gas right now.
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  Speaker 28: We've mentioned this from the White House. The President's talked
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  Speaker 28: about this, maybe having a moratorium during these summer months.
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  Speaker 28: That would be a brilliant move by the president. I
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  Speaker 28: think it's worthy of this. It's something that needs to
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  Speaker 28: be done, but we've got to get them down long
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  Speaker 28: before election day, otherwise we're in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, no doubt about that. Or real quick.
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  Speaker 2: Here, the New York Times added again they've gone an
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  Speaker 2: article bashing people who don't believe in climate change.
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  Speaker 4: Why I'm just.
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  Speaker 2: Curious, why are everyday Americans called deniers simply for questioning
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  Speaker 2: a government mandate?
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  Speaker 24: Here?
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  Speaker 28: Yeah, look, this goes back to the Democratic Party, and
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  Speaker 28: it's a religion to them.
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  Speaker 15: The Green New Deal is a religion.
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  Speaker 28: This mandate that you and I must drive a green
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  Speaker 28: or alternative fuel car, that we must not have stoves
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  Speaker 28: that burn gasoline anymore. Again, it's totally insane natural gas.
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  Speaker 28: This is the Democratic Party. They will never let this
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  Speaker 28: go because there really Marxist socialis and communists masquerading as
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 28: Democrats are completely irrational. The New York Times is out
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  Speaker 28: there pushing this propaganda agenda. And if you go back
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  Speaker 28: and look at their own words, go back and look
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  Speaker 28: at out Gore. I'm pretty sure we should all be
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  Speaker 28: underwater right now, are dead, And yet we're not underwater
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  Speaker 28: and we're not dead. So when you do this, guy
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  Speaker 28: as falling for twenty five years and chicken little and
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 28: it doesn't happen. You become white noise. And the Democratic
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  Speaker 28: Party has become white noise on this. The New York
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  Speaker 28: Times is white noise on it as well well. So
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  Speaker 28: I hope they stick to this incompetency because it only helps.
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  Speaker 15: It makes easier for us to get elected as well.
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  Speaker 15: And I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I do too, and we always appreciate Ben
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