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Atheist Declares War on Los Angeles Cross · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee. On the banks of the mighty Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: It's America's conservative blowtorch.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 2: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes radio program.
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  Speaker 4: What an honor to have you with us. We have
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  Speaker 4: a lot of ground to cover, and today we're going
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  Speaker 4: to be taking a look at the Northeast. There are
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  Speaker 4: a lot of competitive, very competitive, congressional races there in
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  Speaker 4: New Hampshire. Also, New York State with battleground seats on
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  Speaker 4: Long Island. And Maine, we're going to be taking a
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  Speaker 4: look at the Senate race, where Susan Collins is sort
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  Speaker 4: of neck and neck now with the Democrat there. We're
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  Speaker 4: going to be talking to Kristen Cianci, who is with
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  Speaker 4: the RNC, coming up a little bit later on. Also, nationally,
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  Speaker 4: we've invited Adam Morgan to drop by, former chair and
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  Speaker 4: founder of the House Freedom Caucus in South Carolina. And
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  Speaker 4: he'll be giving us his viewpoint, his vantage point. Andrea
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  Speaker 4: Butler is here. And those of you that are watching
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  Speaker 4: us on our video platforms, YouTube, Rumble, and Facebook, and
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  Speaker 4: also on Acts, you will know that we're going to
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  Speaker 4: be talking about this crazy story out of Los Angeles
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  Speaker 4: where an atheist has filed a federal lawsuit and wants
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  Speaker 4: to have an historic cross and nativity scene removed from
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  Speaker 4: the city's historic district. The El Pueblo Market is what
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  Speaker 4: they call it, or El Pueblo. And it's a beautiful area, beautiful,
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  Speaker 4: ornate cross that's been there for nearly 100 years, and
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  Speaker 4: now it is in danger of being removed. So we're
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  Speaker 4: going to be talking to our friends at Beckett, which
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  Speaker 4: is a great religious liberty law firm, and Corey DeAngelis
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  Speaker 4: from the Heritage Foundation is going to drop by as well.
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  Speaker 4: So I told you, we've got a massive show. Can
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  Speaker 4: we talk about a couple of things here involving the administration?
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  Speaker 4: And so much excitement yesterday as the president came out
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  Speaker 4: and the attorney general, FBI director, and promoting and touting
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  Speaker 4: these incredible crime numbers where crime across America is coming down.
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  Speaker 4: And there has been a dramatic drop because the president
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  Speaker 4: is unleashing law enforcement and giving them the resources they
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  Speaker 4: need to get the bad guys off the streets. So
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  Speaker 4: the problem is that for the rank and file, there
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  Speaker 4: are so many other issues that are impacting voters. And
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  Speaker 4: the economy being one of them, this war in Iran
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  Speaker 4: is dragging people down. And let me just say this.
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  Speaker 4: I am talking to folks all across the country, having conversations.
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  Speaker 4: Last night I was talking to somebody from Virginia. And
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  Speaker 4: they said the issue there are these data centers in
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  Speaker 4: the small towns and communities. And many of these people,
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  Speaker 4: one of them actually gave testimony. This individual said that
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  Speaker 4: she happened to be a longtime Trump supporter going all
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  Speaker 4: the way back to 2015, 2016. And she is really
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  Speaker 4: upset at the administration's categorizing the small town folks as
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  Speaker 4: basically country hillbillies if they don't support these data centers.
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  Speaker 4: And again, it's a matter of they got to go somewhere.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's no doubt about that. We cannot allow
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  Speaker 4: China to be the leader, the global leader in AI
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  Speaker 4: technology and development. So the question is, where do we
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  Speaker 4: put them? That seems to be the big issue. So
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  Speaker 4: there are a lot of things happening out there. Of course,
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  Speaker 4: the gas prices just, you know, insane. We're almost at, what,
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  Speaker 4: $ 4 a gallon here in Memphis, and it is what
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  Speaker 4: it is. And so now a lot of folks in
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  Speaker 4: MAGA world are just saying to shut up and smile
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  Speaker 4: when you pay higher prices at the pump. And to
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  Speaker 4: do anything else is considered to be unpatriotic, which is
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  Speaker 4: sort of funny because when Biden was president and the
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  Speaker 4: gas prices were high, The MAGA folks were going bonkers crazy.
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  Speaker 4: You can't have it both ways. But regardless, it's having
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  Speaker 4: an impact on people. I mean, it really is. And
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  Speaker 4: the people are somewhat dejected. This Iran situation, though, is
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  Speaker 4: starting to concern me because we have declared victory over there.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how many times, four or five times.
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  Speaker 4: There is a new report coming out of Fox that
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  Speaker 4: Iran drone and missiles hit a U.S. vessel in the
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  Speaker 4: Strait of Hormuz. Trey Yankst, who is their chief foreign correspondent,
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  Speaker 4: reported this morning that the U.S. vessel was hit earlier
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  Speaker 4: in the week by an Iranian drone and a missile attack. Now,
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  Speaker 4: that's troubling because the president declared that the Strait is
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  Speaker 4: under U.S. control and that he's been working overtime to
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  Speaker 4: get oil flowing through the transit hub. But according to
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  Speaker 4: Fox News, quoting two sources, it was a U.S. contracted
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  Speaker 4: vessel that was hit, and the incident occurred around the
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  Speaker 4: Strait of Hormuz, not in the Strait of Hormuz. So
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  Speaker 4: we don't know what that means. One of the projectiles
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  Speaker 4: struck the vessel, caused minor injuries. Injuries are being treated
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  Speaker 4: in a Gulf country, and some U.S. personnel were on board.
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  Speaker 4: So that would tell us that there were military personnel.
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  Speaker 4: on board, possibly. So there you go. That's the latest
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  Speaker 4: coming out of Iran. There are also reports out that
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  Speaker 4: some of our military bases were hit, and the damage
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  Speaker 4: is somewhat catastrophic. And yet there has been no reporting
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  Speaker 4: of this at all on any of the media, including
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  Speaker 4: the conservative media. So exactly the extent of the damage,
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  Speaker 4: who knows? Now, I've got something to say about this because, again,
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  Speaker 4: we're not getting a lot of transparency. And in a
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  Speaker 4: time of war or whatever we're calling this, you're not
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  Speaker 4: going to get a lot of information. And it's not that.
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  Speaker 4: We just don't need the information. Right? Because a lot
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  Speaker 4: of times you may end up giving up secrets to
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  Speaker 4: the enemy that you don't, or at least information that
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  Speaker 4: you don't want the enemy to have. Well, CBS News
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  Speaker 4: published new photos that showed extensive damage to U.S. military
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  Speaker 4: bases across the Middle East from these Iranian missile and
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  Speaker 4: drone strikes. According to CBS, the images were provided by
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  Speaker 4: active duty service members who requested anonymity due to strict
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  Speaker 4: military media restrictions. And they show the aftermath of the
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  Speaker 4: Iranian attacks at bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. One
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  Speaker 4: deployed service member said this is major damage to our
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  Speaker 4: bases that has not been communicated to the American public. Quote,
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  Speaker 4: we're standing there with our eyes closed getting punched in
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  Speaker 4: the face. The service member also pushed back on Defense
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  Speaker 4: Secretary Pete Hegsess' previous use of the term squirters after
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  Speaker 4: a March 1st attack killed six American troops. These are
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  Speaker 4: not squirters getting through. We're not defending those bases. We're
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  Speaker 4: just watching them get destroyed. Among the most striking images
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  Speaker 4: is a photo from Prince Sultan Air Force Base in
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  Speaker 4: Saudi Arabia showing a Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft badly damaged
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  Speaker 4: after an Iranian airstrike. According to CBS, the rear of
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  Speaker 4: the four-engine aircraft took a direct hit, separating its tail
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  Speaker 4: from its burning fuselage and damaging the section that supported
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  Speaker 4: its rotating radar. The Pentagon has not responded to CBS News'
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  Speaker 4: request for comments. Okay, so a couple of things here.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, We need to find out who the
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  Speaker 4: military officers or military troops were that are taking photographs
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  Speaker 4: and leaking photographs in a war zone to CBS News.
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  Speaker 4: That needs to be addressed, and that needs to stop.
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  Speaker 4: It is incredibly troubling to see all of these troops
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  Speaker 4: using their phones, posting TikTok videos on these military bases,
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  Speaker 4: engaging in social media in the middle of a war zone. Now,
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  Speaker 4: that being said, and again, it's a situation where two
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  Speaker 4: wrongs do not make a right. These military personnel cannot
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  Speaker 4: be leaking this stuff to the media. So they're going
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  Speaker 4: to have to be punished. And I'm sure we have
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  Speaker 4: a lot of military veterans. We have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: people that are currently serving in the military. And you
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  Speaker 4: can probably tell us how you would deal with that
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  Speaker 4: or what should be done with these folks. Because right now,
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  Speaker 4: If nothing else, the Iranians are going to have a
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  Speaker 4: field day with this. And the other part of it
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  Speaker 4: is this. Do we really need to know if our
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  Speaker 4: military bases are getting bombarded by Iranian missile and drone strikes?
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  Speaker 4: Or do we keep all of that information private? Now,
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  Speaker 4: it seems to me that during World War II, the good,
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  Speaker 4: the bad, and the ugly was being broadcast and was
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  Speaker 4: being reported. And people had a pretty good indication of
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  Speaker 4: how the war was going. But here, the silence and
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  Speaker 4: the secrecy surrounding whatever we are doing over there It's
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  Speaker 4: not helping things, and that's the point. Nobody knows what
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  Speaker 4: the end game here is, what the White House now
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  Speaker 4: telling us. We may not be able to get out
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  Speaker 4: of this thing until maybe sometime next year. We don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know. It was supposed to be a four-
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  Speaker 4: to six-week operation, and it could be four to six years.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody knows. Nobody knows. And for some of you who
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  Speaker 4: are the MAGA diehard folks, you're okay with that. You're
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  Speaker 4: okay with that. But I think for just about everybody
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  Speaker 4: else in America, these are legitimate questions. What are we
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  Speaker 4: doing over there? When do we know when we have
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  Speaker 4: declared victory? What is it that needs to happen for
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  Speaker 4: us to say, we won, let's get our troops home?
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  Speaker 4: But we're not getting any of that. And there is
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  Speaker 4: no transparency. So what we now know is that while
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  Speaker 4: the administration was out there saying, we are winning this,
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  Speaker 4: we have beaten the Iranians, they were firing missiles and
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  Speaker 4: drones and blowing up our military bases. And the American
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  Speaker 4: people are just now discovering this information. In every other
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  Speaker 4: war that we've had, we've gotten casualty numbers. These are
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  Speaker 4: the people that got injured recently. These are the extent
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  Speaker 4: of their injuries. These are the fatalities. We're not really
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  Speaker 4: getting a lot of that here in this whatever this is.
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  Speaker 4: They don't like you calling it a war, but it's
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  Speaker 4: a conflict, an operation. They don't like it. So there
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  Speaker 4: we go. All that to say, this is all piling on,
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  Speaker 4: and Republicans are having a tough time running in their
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  Speaker 4: districts because people are raising these issues. And again, I
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  Speaker 4: go back to this notion that there needs to be somebody,
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  Speaker 4: maybe a czar, a middle-class czar, somebody whose only job
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  Speaker 4: is to make a middle-class salary and go shop at
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  Speaker 4: grocery stores, Kroger, whatever, and convey back to the White House,
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  Speaker 4: this is how the regular folks are doing. This is
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  Speaker 4: what the regular folks are saying as they're waiting in
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  Speaker 4: line at the supermarket or at the gas station. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think they have that right now, and they need
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  Speaker 4: that because there is a disconnect with the rank-and-file America
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  Speaker 4: First crowd. There just is. And it's not, look, it's
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  Speaker 4: a problem, yes, but it's not disastrous. It's not catastrophic yet.
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  Speaker 4: We just got to get everybody refocused again, and we
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  Speaker 4: don't have a lot of time. Early voting starts very,
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  Speaker 4: very soon, so we don't have a lot of time
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  Speaker 4: to get all of this together. Our telephone number, by
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  Speaker 4: to take a break. We'll be right back. All right,
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  Speaker 4: let's go right to the phones. We will start our
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  Speaker 4: day in Memphis, Tennessee. Bill is listening to us on
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  Speaker 4: the Mighty 990 KWAM. Bill, what is on your mind today? Hello, Bill.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's put Bill on hold and see what
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  Speaker 4: happened to Bill. Let's go to Anthony in Alabama listening
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  Speaker 4: to us online. Hi, Anthony. What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 2: Howdy, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Starnes. And once again, you have a great show, great controversy,
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  Speaker 5: and great debate. Anyway, I was in the military. I
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  Speaker 5: retired in 2007, been in there, and I've never seen
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  Speaker 5: anything like this. And my idea here is that they
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  Speaker 5: didn't want to put boots on the ground to finish
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  Speaker 5: the job because the controversy. Even General Keene said they
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  Speaker 5: should put boots on the ground. Now we're bogged down
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  Speaker 5: in this mess over there, and prices are going up.
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  Speaker 5: And what I'm seeing with Trump is he talks a
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  Speaker 5: good game sometimes, but he doesn't follow through with stuff.
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  Speaker 5: He did in Minnesota. He did... Well, even Wayne Allen
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  Speaker 5: Root said he ought to invoke the.
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  Speaker 5: A national emergency on the voting situation because there's going
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  Speaker 5: to be a lot of cheating going on. But you
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  Speaker 5: can't win a war by bombing people, and now they're
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  Speaker 5: going to try to do what? Starve the people out?
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  Speaker 5: Starve the IRGC out? That's only going to hurt the
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  Speaker 5: civilian population for the most part. The IRGC, they're going
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  Speaker 5: to be taken care of. So now we're languishing with this,
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  Speaker 5: and this is going to go into the midterms, and
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  Speaker 5: diesel fuels are out of sight, gasoline's out of sight.
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  Speaker 5: And this is just not a way to– you can't
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  Speaker 5: win a war without putting boots on the ground. But
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  Speaker 5: the optics would have looked bad. But, you know, it's
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  Speaker 5: one of them– well, you're between a rock and a
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  Speaker 5: hard place. Now we're languishing. So because he didn't put
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  Speaker 5: boots on the ground to finish the job, now we're
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  Speaker 5: stuck with this mess. So that– That's pretty much what
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to say.
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  Speaker 4: Anthony, I'm curious here because the president came out last
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  Speaker 4: week and said, denied that the Iranian strikes did any
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  Speaker 4: damage to military aircraft. He said there was no damage.
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  Speaker 4: There are these images that CBS has that suggest otherwise.
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  Speaker 4: The Defense Department, they have an inspector general, and this
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  Speaker 4: week they released a report on the war in Iran.
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  Speaker 4: They said equipment losses worth up to $ 3. 7 billion, billion
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  Speaker 4: with a B, including nearly 60 aircraft. So there you go.
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  Speaker 4: We're just getting mixed messages here. But my concern, Anthony,
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  Speaker 4: these soldiers that are out there or airmen, these military
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  Speaker 4: personnel that are leaking information out to the media, how
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  Speaker 4: concerned should we be about that?
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  Speaker 5: Really concerned. And someone, did they need to? Well, there's
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  Speaker 5: no evidently there's no control over the communication thing. So
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  Speaker 5: these people have their cell phones and they have everything
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  Speaker 5: else going for them. And who knows how many of
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  Speaker 5: those people can be trusted? You know, I believe that
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  Speaker 5: the whole military was socially engineered up till when Trump
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  Speaker 5: took office. So there's really probably a lot of cell
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  Speaker 5: people in there who are the woke people. And you
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  Speaker 5: know what? And maybe they can make a buck off
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  Speaker 5: of doing this kind of stuff, you know, but It's
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  Speaker 5: like nobody sticks by their oath anymore. So if this
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  Speaker 5: stuff's getting leaked out, then they need to find those
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  Speaker 5: people and get them out of here.
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  Speaker 7: That's what they need to do.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Absolutely right. Anthony, thank you for the call. Folks,
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  Speaker 4: to the phone lines. Bill in Memphis, Tennessee, back with us,
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  Speaker 4: listening to us on KWAM. Bill, tell me what troubled
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  Speaker 4: you today.
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  Speaker 10: You know, I'm a diehard Trump supporter, as is my wife.
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  Speaker 4: I feel a butt coming.
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  Speaker 10: We're not diehard Republicans. We follow Trump over here because
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  Speaker 10: we like what he said. And then the first term
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  Speaker 10: he He did the best he could because, obviously, he
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  Speaker 10: was fighting the entire time with these idiot Democrats that
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  Speaker 10: were just fighting him. It didn't matter about what the
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  Speaker 10: benefit for the country, but they just fought it. But
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  Speaker 10: the second time, you know, it started out pretty good.
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  Speaker 10: And I'm not, you know, like you said a minute ago,
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  Speaker 10: you know, there's a lot of positive things and great
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  Speaker 10: things he's accomplished. But literally, there are some things that
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  Speaker 10: have changed in him lately. I'm trying to fight it off,
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  Speaker 10: but it's just sort of like I'm looking behind the
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  Speaker 10: bushes at it and I'm seeing it in the yard.
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  Speaker 10: I'm like, wait a minute, who are those people? Things
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  Speaker 10: have just changed. I'm going to tell you this. When
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  Speaker 10: I watch Fox News, I keep hearing these people making
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  Speaker 10: $ 2 million a year to just sit at a desk
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  Speaker 10: and tell us stuff. And they talk about how great
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  Speaker 10: it is and prices are down. And they talk about,
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  Speaker 10: you know, bacon went down 3% this month and then
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  Speaker 10: eggs dropped 4%. You know, things are going great. People
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  Speaker 10: are in great shape. I'm like, no, seriously, you need
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  Speaker 10: to come down here, like you just said a minute ago,
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  Speaker 10: and live with the real people. Three percent drop in
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  Speaker 10: any one item is nothing. And then these gas prices,
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  Speaker 10: you know, I drive for a living. And I'm over it.
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  Speaker 10: I'm just tired of it. This is absurd. I don't
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  Speaker 10: understand how Trump hasn't put pressure on these oil companies.
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: I don't know if he can't control the oil, but
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: Trump can make one phone call and control about anything.
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: These guys are raking in the profits. I mean, they're
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: taking full advantage of these gas prices being these barrels
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: on the market. when it doesn't cost them any additional
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: money to pump this stuff out of the ground as
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: it did before. It's pure profit they're making. And we're
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: being screwed over. You know, we're producing so much oil
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: out of this country that we supposedly can't use here.
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: So they're selling it overseas. We're a big exporter now.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: What about us? I don't understand.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: What about us?
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: This is driving me crazy. And the price of the
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: grocery store, like you've been in a minute ago, are
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: still very high.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, very high. I was grocery shopping yesterday, and I thought, geez-a-loo.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, just got a few things that was like $ 50, $ 60. Exactly. Bill,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: I want to go back and talk about these gas
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: prices for a second, because in January, and this is
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: all coming from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Back in
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: 2026 of January of this year, Regular gas across the nation,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: on average, $ 2. 80 a gallon. By May, the price was
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: $ 4. 47 a gallon. It went back down, and as of today,
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: the average price for regular unleaded, $ 4. 31. And it's tracking
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: upwards again, to your point.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah.
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: I mean, you ain't got to tell me.
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: I mean, I.
• 22:25
  Speaker 10: I don't understand. And I know somebody's got to be
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: able to do something, but they're not. And I do
• 22:30
  Speaker 10: think Trump assumes that we're all following along, which I do.
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: I fight all the time with these knuckleheads that are,
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: you know, of course, you know, these liberal Democrats are
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: just off the planet. But something's got to change.
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: I really think the midterms are in trouble for sure.
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: If somebody doesn't do something drastically soon, because I'll be honest,
• 22:54
  Speaker 10: I'm actually even thinking about things now. I can't vote
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: for these psychos, but, I mean, I don't know. Something's
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: got to change. You know, just think— Taylor Greene is
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: actually talking the truth.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you this. When you look at the race,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: the midterm elections in your state, which is Tennessee— I
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: just don't see a lot of excitement or enthusiasm coming
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: out of the Republicans. It's basically they're bashing Democrats, and
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: that's their message. Democrats are bad. Democrats are crazy. Don't
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: vote for them, which I get. But the Democrats seem
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: to be motivated because they are on a mission. And
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure the Republicans have figured out what their
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: mission is just yet. Let me tell you this.
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: I'm from East Tennessee. And I'm talking to people all
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: the time. And I'm telling you what, Jerry Green has
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: got people's eyes open out there. Marsha, I mean, the
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: word has gotten out about Marsha taking this money. And
• 23:50
  Speaker 10: I'm trying, she's still doing good stuff for the state.
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: But there's a big push somehow, somewhere that's pushing people
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: looking at Jerry Green. I said, you don't know her.
• 23:59
  Speaker 10: She's from West Tennessee. But I'm telling you, there's a
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: swell coming up in East and Central Tennessee that are,
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: hopefully it's not enough. Hopefully it's not enough, but But
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: I'm just frustrated with what's going on. I know you
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: mentioned him just a few minutes ago, and I agree
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: with you 100 percent on it. Something's got to change
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: with Trump or it's going to hurt everybody.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Bill, appreciate you calling in. You stay safe out there,
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: my friend on the roadways. Yeah, it's– you know, again,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: when you look at where we are right now, and look, politics,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: a lot about politics, whether it's good or bad, is
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: about optics. And right now we see what's happening in Iran.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: The story we're getting from the administration is not the
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: reality boots on the ground. Then you've got people struggling,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: and you just heard Bill there, and gas prices are
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: going up, and that impacts everything. Meanwhile, what are we
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: focused on? We're focused on building beautiful arches in Washington, D.C.,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: putting in the new repairing of the reflecting pool at
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: the Memorial. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. building
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: the big, beautiful, huge White House ballroom, which is great.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: But that can't be the overarching focus. And the White
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: House is putting out all of this stuff, and they're
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: doing a great job of it. But at the same time,
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: people are just trying to figure out how to make
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: ends meet. And they've got to figure that out. There's
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: a messaging problem. That's all. It's a messaging problem. Let's
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: go to Ron in Salem, Oregon, listening to us on KYKN,
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: a terrific radio station. Ron, what's on your mind?
• 25:42
  Speaker 13: My brother, I'm going to tell you right now, I
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: got brothers that's been agriculture, you know, working on beekeeping
• 25:49
  Speaker 13: and everything else. They're being affected very hard. When diesel,
• 25:53
  Speaker 13: which transports everything, it takes 13 gallons of diesel to
• 25:58
  Speaker 13: make one gallon when you micro-fry it down to four
• 26:00
  Speaker 13: and let it premium. And this is our Bakersfield. Going
• 26:05
  Speaker 13: back 42 years ago when I was in FFA, this
• 26:07
  Speaker 13: was the simulation they gave us from one of the
• 26:10
  Speaker 13: oil companies at the Kern County Fair.
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: We've got a problem. I'm tired of this green new
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: scam policies. The president needs to declare a state of emergency,
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: number one. Take back over all the refineries in Washington, Oregon, California,
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: and anywhere else. Use them as military bases, hire people back,
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: let's put more supply in the system and process as
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: much as possible. Second thing we need to do is
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: go through and with these countries like Canada, with Ursula
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: von der Leyen doing her garbage, they're trying to undermine
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: and break our currency by making everything bad. And they
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: ain't sending no ship, no tugboat, no forces in the
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: Gulf Coast. As far as I care, we need to
• 27:00
  Speaker 7: get out of there. We need to just bomb them
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: back to the beginnings of time with non-nuke, get other
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: people there, provide weapons so they can do the job
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: on their own, and get out of there. And I
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: feel like our allies abandoned us. That's the second thing.
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: The third thing is, for these people like Assange Piker,
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: And everybody else, Mr. Singh, that wants to live in China,
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: they're born here, but they want to advocate. We need
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: to go back to what Wilson did all the way
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: on up to LBJ, is military tribunals and charging them
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: for sedition and treason, undermining our government, undermining us economically
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: in the state and country. If the Democrats was in power,
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: they'd be doing it to us. just like they did
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: during segregation, just like they did on Plessy v. Ferguson,
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: all the way on up to the Civil Rights Movement.
• 27:53
  Speaker 7: And if there was traitors, whatever, they'd call them on it.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: They'd use military tribunal, because the Supreme Court and the
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: other courts are bought off. They basically discourage our base
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: up and down this West Coast. And in the process,
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: we're paying more and more and more.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: And the last thing I want to say.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, real quick, real quick.
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: 15 seconds. I would go through and do a monopoly
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: check on a lot of the gas stations that are
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: running on I-5. Because a lot of them, they're supposed
• 28:19
  Speaker 7: to be American citizens, but a lot of them, minus
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: the Hindus, they are betraying us and price-fixing. And call
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: them out and be done, actually, through the executive order
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: as quick as possible.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: All right. Ron, thank you for the call. Look, here's
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: the deal. It's a mess. It's a mess. And we're
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: going to have to just internalize this and understand why.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: that we cannot allow the socialists to take over the Congress.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: We cannot do that. As bad as things are, we
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: just cannot do that. So we're going to have to
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: suck it up, conservatives, and we're going to have to
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: go and we're going to have to vote. And if
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: you have to hold your nose, hold your nose. But again,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: President Trump doubling down on this $ 5, 000 dividend check, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: he says it is going to happen 100%. if the
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Republicans maintain majorities in the House and the Senate. So
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: maybe that's an incentive. You'll get your $ 5, 000 check. By
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: the way, where's my tariff check? Has that come in yet?
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: And what about my Doge check? Has that come in yet? Dylan,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: can you check the mail? Maybe it'll be direct deposit.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know. All right, help me understand what's going
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: on here, Dylan. So you've got Ed Sheeran fans, and
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: they're wanting their money back because– is it Macklemore? Is
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Macklemore a group or one person?
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: He is a singular man, American rapper.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: All right. And what, he hates the Jews? Is that it?
• 29:48
  Speaker 9: Essentially, yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Okay. So he hates the Jews, and he gave a–
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: what is it, a free Palestine speech?
• 29:56
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 29:57
  Speaker 9: Used his platform, which is, by the way, he's on
• 30:00
  Speaker 9: tour with Ed Sheeran, or he supposedly was on tour
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: with Ed Sheeran, and he used his time allotted to
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: perform to basically spew his political agenda, saying free Palestine,
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: all this other stuff.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Okay, so Macklemore is not the headliner, it's Ed Sheeran, right?
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Ed Sheeran, right. Wow, he's kind of pale, the Ed
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Sheeran guy.
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: He's a pale fellow.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: Red hair. Yeah, red hair.
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: I found out he is English, not Irish, but still redhead.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: That makes your– Yeah.
• 30:29
  Speaker 9: A little pale.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they all still eat the spotted dick and the
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: whatever else they eat over there.
• 30:36
  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: So anyway, now they're– my understanding is– so they're in
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: this concert. So– and Macklemore should basically– I mean, if
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: you're like the warm-up act, you should– be incredibly focused
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: on doing your job and not screwing things up for
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Ed Sheeran, who was the headliner.
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: And he didn't do that.
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: No, he didn't.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: All right. So anyway, so he gets up and he
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: gives this big free Palestine speech in the middle of
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: the concert. And people are like, what the heck is
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: going on here? Because again, this is a concert, not
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: some sort of a protest rally, right?
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: I mean, people are, so people were upset about it.
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: But Ed Sheeran decided to remove him from his concert
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: tour because of what he did on the stage, which was, say,
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: Fruit Palestine. He gave this whole speech spewing it out.
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: And then Ed Sheeran decided to remove him, which caused
• 31:35
  Speaker 9: this whole big controversy with other celebrities, even his backing band,
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: and then now the other artists that were on tour.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: Wow, so a lot of Jew haters. Holy cow. So, again,
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: so the key point here is that now all these
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: other artists are coming out, and they're attacking Ed Sheeran.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: And there's somebody named, is it Hannah Einbinder? She's a
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: star of Hacks.
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: I've not heard of her.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: I'm not familiar. Anyway, she says, Ed Sheeran, I say
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: this as a ginger, I hope you get a really
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: bad sunburn. The kind on the back of your entire
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: body where it hurts to lie down or walk or sit. Oh,
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: that's mean. That's unkind. That's unnecessary. Wishing somebody pain. Anyway,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: she then posted a poem called Apolitical Intellectuals by Guatemalan
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: activist Otto René Castillo. She also re-shared posts from Sheeran's
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: supporting acts that pulled out of the tour, including North
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: American openers Aaron Rowe and Lucas Graham. Lucas with a K. Interesting.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: And Sheeran's backing bands, known as Bioga and Phineas. I
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: guess they're pulling out as well.
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and so basically Ed Sheeran.
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: From Macklemore's note that he wrote on Instagram said that
• 33:11
  Speaker 9: Ed Sheeran said that Robert Kraft, who's the owner of
• 33:14
  Speaker 9: Gillette stadium, which was one of their tour date stadiums
• 33:18
  Speaker 9: said that he was not going to have any of
• 33:20
  Speaker 9: that on his, at his venues. And then supposedly other
• 33:24
  Speaker 9: venues that were, you know, in the upcoming tour dates
• 33:27
  Speaker 9: also said that. So it wasn't necessarily all Ed Sheeran
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: that was like, I don't want you to do this,
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: but at the same time, it's not a good look. And,
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: Ed Sheeran's the headliner. And so he's the one making
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: the most money from this or has the most money
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: to lose if they're going to continue to do that.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: Well, absolutely.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, it makes perfect sense to me. I mean, what,
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, what was the alternative just to cancel the tour?
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Um, and I look, I don't blame, I don't blame
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: the owners of, uh, the stadium either. I mean, they
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: don't want that kind of nonsense in their, in their stadium.
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 34:01
  Speaker 9: They have the right to not want that. They have
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: the right to not have that in their stadium.
• 34:04
  Speaker 12: Hmm.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Macklemore has apparently performed at pro-Palestinian rallies since 2023 and
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: got in trouble, had to apologize because he dressed up
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: in a costume that was sort of mocking what Jewish
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: people look like.
• 34:18
  Speaker 9: I'm surprised that he was even on this tour. This
• 34:20
  Speaker 9: guy is a, his latest hit song was in 2012. Yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Thrift shop. Thrift shop.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: So the guy's cheap. Interesting.
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: Not very good.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, that creepy little child entertainer, Miss Rachel.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: So apparently she's a big Jew hater too. And she said,
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Ed Sheeran is making a political statement to his fans
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: when he does a concert to support Ukraine but considers
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: Palestine too dangerous and political. That woman is creepy. It's
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: kind of like, I don't know, she's kind of like
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: the female version of James Tallarico, which is, well, I
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: guess that's an oxymoron.
• 35:01
  Speaker 9: You're not wrong about that now that you think about it.
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: No.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: One does wear a dress.
• 35:07
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: We've got to take a quick break here.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: That's 901-260-5926. Oh, Stella Parton is getting involved in all
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: this now. And she's really, you know, she's a lefty.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: That's Dolly's, what?
• 35:23
  Speaker 14: Oh.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: Dolly's relative.
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: Interesting. It's eating up.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: It's all you want. We'll be right back.
• 35:28
  Speaker 12: We'll be right back.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, everybody.
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: This is the Tom Stearns Radio Show. Coming up, we're
• 35:46
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• 35:49
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• 35:56
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• 35:59
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• 36:04
  Speaker 4: going to matter. And so you folks are going to
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: have to get out there and rally, rally, rally. That's
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: what this is all about. So, again, we'll be checking
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: in with the RNC. Also get a recap of the
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: Dallas Convention and see if that actually moved the needle
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: at all. But a lot of folks are just, their
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: minds are on the economy, and I am telling you,
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: It's been my experience over the years that that is
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: the issue. So the Trump administration has to make the
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: argument that they have done a good job of getting
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: things back to normal and making this nation affordable again.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: And if they can do that, then they're going to
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: do well on Election Day. All right. Hang tight, everybody.
• 36:50
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  Speaker 4: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Great
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: to have you with us. Hour two of the big
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: show underway. And this is your place for politics, border
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: to border, coast to coast, across the fruited plain. Wow.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: What a mess in Nebraska right now where the Democrats
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: are in a tailspin, turns out, Their candidate, Dan Osborne,
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: got caught insulting Nebraska Republicans. And he said on tape,
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: and we've got the audio, that you'll be able to
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: hear this is literally Dan Osborne, the Senate candidate. And he's,
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: by the way, just a piece of work, this guy.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Here's what he had to say about all of you
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: good conservative folks there in Nebraska.
• 38:27
  Speaker 15: Billy Bob in f * * * ing Red Cloud, Nebraska,
• 38:30
  Speaker 15: who lives next door to the f * * *
• 38:31
  Speaker 15: ing Trump store as you pull into town. And is
• 38:34
  Speaker 15: waving the Trump flag. All he knows is he's on
• 38:40
  Speaker 15: the winning team. It's really that simple.
• 38:44
  Speaker 12: It is.
• 38:45
  Speaker 15: And Trump, and that is why he's been so effective.
• 38:48
  Speaker 15: He's been so effective at taking Billy Bob and his
• 38:52
  Speaker 15: wife Mary Jane... or Mary Jo, telling them, look, we're winning,
• 38:57
  Speaker 15: you're on the winning team. And that's all they care about,
• 38:59
  Speaker 15: because their lives probably suck so f * * *.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Wow. So this guy claims he's an independent, he's a Democrat.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: And just like all the Democrats, this is what they do.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: They disparage good, hardworking American patriots. Well, I want to
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, and on the
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: other side of the country... following a lot of these races,
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: and we hear the same kind of rhetoric coming from
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: these Democrat candidates who love to attack good, decent American people.
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  Speaker 4: Kristen Cianci is with the Republican National Committee, the Northeast
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  Speaker 4: Regional Comms Director. She joins us today on the Patriot
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Mobile Newsmaker line. Kristen, when you hear people that talk
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: like that and disparage good conservative people, what goes through
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: your mind?
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: You know, unfortunately, it's something we're seeing time and time
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: again in these races is Democrats looking down on real
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: Americans and looking down on the constituencies that they're trying
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: to represent. We've seen it in Michigan with Abdul El-Sayed
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: saying that he hates Michigan. We saw it in Maine
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: with Graham Platner disparaging lobstermen and working class Mainers. It's
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: happening across the board because Democrats don't represent real Americans.
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: They don't represent their values directly. And they have a
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: disdain for them that's just really disqualifying as far as
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: seeking election this November.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: You know, I want to go through some of the
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: states here because every vote, you know, and correct me
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: if I'm wrong here, Kristen, but every vote matters. And honestly,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: every race matters. We have got to make sure that
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: we return majorities to the House and the Senate. And
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: that includes in the Northeast where I understand Cook Political
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Report has actually shifted New York or New Hampshire toward
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: Republican Sununu. I mean, this is huge news, and this
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: would be great news in the Senate race.
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: Absolutely.
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: I mean, and as you said, every vote matters. With
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: this midterm election, we're looking to defy history and grow
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: our majorities, and New Hampshire is going to be a
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: huge part of that. We had Cook Political Report, as
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: you said, shifted New the New Hampshire Senate race from
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: lean D to a toss up. And I think that
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: goes to candidate quality, where you have a strong candidate
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: like John Sununu, who has a clear record to run on.
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: And he has the energy and the vision to really
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: lead New Hampshire from day one when he gets in office.
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: And then on the other side of things, You have
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: Chris Pappas, who is a weak candidate. He has delivered
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: nothing for New Hampshire. He is completely sided with the
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: far left during his time in the House. He voted
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: against condemning socialism. He voted to raise taxes. He voted
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: for the record-breaking government shutdown that impacted so many Americans.
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: So he really has just fully fallen in line with
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: the radical left. He's got nothing to show for his
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: time in the House. And I think New Hampshire is
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: looking at this race and seeing a clear difference between
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: someone who can deliver results and somebody who's all rhetoric.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: I know Susan Collins in a pretty tight race. There
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: are expectations that she's going to be fine and win reelection.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: But the Democrats, what a mess their side of that
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: aisle has been in this race. I mean, just bizarre stuff, Kristen.
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think a mess would be an understatement as
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: far as Maine Democrats are concerned about The entire this
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: entire election cycle, Maine Democrats have been in complete and
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: utter chaos. First, they had their choice. Janet Mills was
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: the establishment choice for the Maine Democrats. Graham Plattner came in,
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: gained support despite controversy after controversy. You know, people don't
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: talk about enough about the fact that he obviously dropped
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: out after these horrendous rape allegations came to light. But
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: we knew who he was last year when he had
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: a Nazi tattoo on his chest that was exposed, when
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: his comments about rape were exposed, when his comments about
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: police and all of these other horrendous things that he said.
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: He showed us who he was. And Maine Democrats turned
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: a blind eye until it was no longer politically feasible
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: to push him over the finish line, at which point
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: they swapped him out on the ballot without any voter input.
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: And they subbed in Troy Jackson, who, it turns out,
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: is just another abuser socialist. He also has issues with women.
• 43:29
  Speaker 14: He has all of.
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: This history of aggression towards women in the state Senate.
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: There were abuse allegations against him and the mother of
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: his children, who is also his second cousin. So he
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: has all of these personal issues on top of the
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: fact that he's a far left radical advocating for socialized
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: health care, abolish ICE. He's fully in line.
• 43:52
  Speaker 12: With the.
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: The Maine Democrats are in complete and utter chaos, and
• 43:57
  Speaker 6: Susan Collins is going to pull this out with ease
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: in November.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: We're also following a couple of battleground seats on Long Island.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Tell us about those two big races.
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: Well, we have two really strong pickup opportunities on Long Island.
• 44:14
  Speaker 6: Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen represent Nassau County on Long Island,
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: and they are, you know, complete do-nothing members of Congress.
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: They have really fallen in line with the radical left
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: of their party. They voted in lockstep with National Democrats,
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: and they've abandoned Long Islanders to do that. You know,
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: Tom Suozzi in particular has run year after year on
• 44:37
  Speaker 6: increasing the salt cap and then voted against it. Republicans
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: are the one who increased the salt cap by 300 percent.
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: That's real money back in Long Islanders' pockets. That was
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: a huge priority for Long Island, and they voted against it.
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: And so the You know, that ticket's going to come
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: due in November, and we've got some really strong candidates,
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: Mike Lepetri and Janine Driscoll, who are challenging those, and
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: we're going to flip those seats in November.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: So what's interesting about the New York 4, this was,
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, this was a former Republican seat, and it was,
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, the Democrat narrowly won. So this could be
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: a nice pickup for you guys in western Nassau County.
• 45:16
  Speaker 12: Absolutely.
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: These are really tight seats. They've been read before and
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: they will be read again. And Nassau County has also
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: shifted Republican as well under the leadership of Nassau County
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: Executive Bruce Blakeman, who is running for governor. So, you know,
• 45:30
  Speaker 6: we'd certainly see these as a huge opportunity. What we need, though,
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: is for Republicans to turn out and vote because that
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: will make all the difference.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: So, again, we just don't put a lot of stock
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: in polls, but they're there. People talk about them. And,
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: you know, when they're great, The parties are very happy.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: When they're not, they're like, you can't trust the polls.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: Reuters says President Trump's approval is up from a record low,
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: but the outlook sours for Republicans. That's the Reuters Ipsos
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: polling data. New York Times, Democrat gain midterms edge as
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: Trump drags down Republicans over economy. I want to, first
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: of all, get your take on that, and then I
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: want to circle back and talk about the Dallas convention.
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: Well, you have to remember that President Trump inherited a
• 46:20
  Speaker 6: economy that Democrats had all but destroyed. We saw 40
• 46:25
  Speaker 6: year high inflation. We saw record gas prices who were
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: far higher under President Biden than we're seeing now. And
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: President Biden, President Trump came in and he hit the
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: ground running with his Republican Congress. We passed the working
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: families tax cut. We instituted no tax on tips, no
• 46:41
  Speaker 6: tax on overtime, historic tax cuts across the board. investments
• 46:46
  Speaker 6: in jobs and manufacturing, real economic investments that Americans are
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: able to see the tangible effects of. And so Democrats can,
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: you know, decry that bill all they want. They voted
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: against it. Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen voted against it.
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: But the fact of the matter is American families have
• 47:03
  Speaker 6: felt relief under this administration. So it is a work
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: in progress. And, you know, we inherited a really horrible
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: economy from President Biden and And President Trump was able
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: to turn that around and is going to continue to
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: do so. And affordability is going to continue to be
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: a top priority going into the midterms.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: I'm glad to hear that because that is the issue
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: right now, I think, on the minds of a lot
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: of conservative voters, Republican voters, is the economy. And there
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: are a lot of other issues, the war, and we've
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: talked about those things in the past. But ultimately, at
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: the end of the day, it's those pocketbook kitchen table issues.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: So Real quick here, recapping the Dallas Convention, what did
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: you guys hope to accomplish during that two-day convention, and
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: did you guys meet the goals?
• 47:54
  Speaker 12: Absolutely.
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: So this convention was really about, it was a forum
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: to communicate to the American people all that President Trump
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: and Republicans in Congress have delivered, our vision for America,
• 48:09
  Speaker 6: and really what's at stake in November. And that was
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: absolutely a success. We saw a packed stadium both days.
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: We had speaker after speaker from candidates to real Americans
• 48:21
  Speaker 6: talking about the impact Republican policies have had on them
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: and the real dangers of a Democrat takeover and what
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: that would look like. And, you know, you talk about
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: the economy. We had real Americans talking about the relief
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: that they felt, how investments in their communities have gone
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: a long way. And I think that's why The Republican
• 48:40
  Speaker 6: message is really resonating with voters because we are focused
• 48:44
  Speaker 6: on the issues that matter most to them. And on
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: the Democrat side, their only agenda item is obstructing President Trump,
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: impeaching President Trump, which is what we saw take place
• 48:54
  Speaker 6: in the House last night, was a vote to move
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: forward an impeachment and putting a halt to all the
• 49:03
  Speaker 6: progress that we have seen. That is not what everyday
• 49:05
  Speaker 6: Americans are thinking about. when they come home from work,
• 49:08
  Speaker 6: when they're with their family. They're thinking about putting food
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: on their table. They're thinking about keeping their family safe
• 49:14
  Speaker 6: and prosperous. And that's what Republicans are talking about. That's
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: what we talked about at the convention. And that's what
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: we're going to continue to.
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: Message on through No All right. Well, Kristen, we're going
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: to have to leave it there. Good luck to you guys.
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: And this is exciting to see some of these seats
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: in the Northeast up for grabs. And it's nice to
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: hear battleground seats in places like Long Island. So good
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: luck to you guys. Folks, got to get out and vote.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: We've got to make sure that we maintain control of Congress. Kristen,
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: thank you. Thank you for having me. All right. 901-260-5926
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Let's go right to
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: the phone lines. Arnold is listening to us on our
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: Rumble channel. Hi, Arnold. What's on your mind? Hello, Arnold.
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: All right, let's put Arnold on hold. We'll get that
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: sorted out. Let's go to Terry in Winchester, Virginia, listening
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: to us on the great WINC. Hi, Terry. What's going on?
• 50:18
  Speaker 11: Good afternoon, Mr.
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: Stone.
• 50:20
  Speaker 11: Glad to hear from you, and I hope you're doing well.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: I am.
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: What's on your mind?
• 50:25
  Speaker 11: What's on my mind? Monday, I think it was, we
• 50:28
  Speaker 11: were talking to several people about gas prices, and it
• 50:31
  Speaker 11: made me remember of my grandfather. He always told me
• 50:35
  Speaker 11: as a young boy growing up, he says, gas, one,
• 50:39
  Speaker 11: is the cheapest thing you can put in your automobile
• 50:43
  Speaker 11: compared to the repairs that you make on it. And
• 50:47
  Speaker 11: the second thing he always told me, if you can't
• 50:50
  Speaker 11: afford the gas, you can't afford the automobile. So start walking.
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: So we may look, it may come back to the
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: old school horse and buggy before too long, Terry.
• 51:02
  Speaker 11: Well, that costs money, too, and you have to clean
• 51:05
  Speaker 11: up afterwards.
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: Fair enough. Terry, it sounds like you're a wise man there,
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: the sage of Winchester, Virginia.
• 51:13
  Speaker 11: Yes, sir.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: Terry, God bless you. Thank you for that. Terry dropping
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: some knowledge on us, ladies and gentlemen, from Winchester, Virginia.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: All right, I think we've got Arnold back in New Hampshire.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: All right, Arnold, what's on your mind?
• 51:27
  Speaker 16: Yeah, we all know this is the most transparent administration ever.
• 51:31
  Speaker 16: How come they haven't disclosed to us that all of
• 51:34
  Speaker 16: our bases in the Middle East have been completely blown
• 51:37
  Speaker 16: to smithereens? Don't you think that would be a good
• 51:39
  Speaker 16: thing for the administration to acknowledge?
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: Well, Arnold, if you were listening to us earlier in
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: the first hour, I actually covered all of that, and
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: not all of the bases have been blown to smithereens, but...
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Several have been heavily damaged, and there has been a
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: lot of military planes that were targeted by the Iranians,
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: and they were damaged and destroyed. Yeah, I believe in
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: full transparency, which, Arnold, I said pretty much verbatim. What
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: I just said now, I said earlier in the show.
• 52:14
  Speaker 16: I'm shocked.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: You usually don't talk the truth.
• 52:16
  Speaker 16: You're usually always turd-shining for the Trump administration.
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What did you say? Turd-shining? Is
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: that what you said?
• 52:25
  Speaker 10: I'm sorry.
• 52:26
  Speaker 16: I meant turd-polishing.
• 52:27
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Polishing. I see. Look, what troubles me, Arnold, with your
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: call is not the insults. That's not a big deal.
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: I don't know you. I really don't care what you say.
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: But you lied today. To my call screener, you said
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: that you wanted to talk about the New Hampshire election when,
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: in fact, you did not. And here's the deal on
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: this program, Arnold, if that's your real name. You can
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: talk about, you can agree with me, you can disagree.
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: We just require a smidge of honesty. That's all. And
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: the fact that you came on to this program and
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: you lied to my call screener, well, I just can't
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: abide by that. So, Arnold, goodbye. Enjoy polishing your turds.
• 53:15
  Speaker 11: 901-260-5926.
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, you folks
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: in Arkansas. Wow, this is nuts. So there's a Senate
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: candidate there. Her name is Hallie Schaffner. She's running against
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: Tom Cotton. She's the Democrat nominee in Arkansas. And here's
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: what she had to say about all of you hardworking
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: American workers. Take a listen to Cut29.
• 53:47
  Speaker 17: Every farmer will tell you, yeah, at one point we
• 53:49
  Speaker 17: did or still do employ undocumented immigrants. And it's absolutely
• 53:55
  Speaker 17: ridiculous that these folks are being round up because they're
• 53:58
  Speaker 17: hardworking people. They're some of the best people we know.
• 54:00
  Speaker 17: And honestly, we trade five Americans for just one of them.
• 54:04
  Speaker 17: because of how hard they work. And why is it
• 54:07
  Speaker 17: that there's no pathway for them to work here legally
• 54:10
  Speaker 17: when they're good workers, we pay them well, they spend
• 54:14
  Speaker 17: money here, they have family here. We're acting like all
• 54:19
  Speaker 17: Republicans like what's happening with ICE. And Tom Cotton's basically saying, You, Andy,
• 54:26
  Speaker 17: if you're a Republican and you disagree with my position
• 54:29
  Speaker 17: on ICE or if you're asking any kind of questions
• 54:32
  Speaker 17: about it, well, you must be anti-American and anti-safety. And
• 54:35
  Speaker 17: I'm like, I have a seven-year-old boy. All I think
• 54:38
  Speaker 17: about is safety.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: She says that you folks, you hardworking American-born farmhands, you
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: hardworking Americans, that you're lazy. That's what she said there.
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: She said that the illegal does the work of five Americans.
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: Five Americans. I mean, what an offensive thing to say.
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: In Arkansas, of all places, this is Senate candidate Hallie Schaffner.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: saying that she values illegals over all of you American-born workers.
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: That's unbelievable. But look, I mean, at least she's honest.
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: At least you know going to the poll on Election
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: Day exactly what she thinks about all you American workers.
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: All right, got to take a break.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926.
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: We'll be right back, America. We'll be right back. And
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: Great to have you with us today. And before we
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: go to our next guest, we do have some breaking
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: news to share with you.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Breaking news now on the Todd Starnes Show.
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: Dylan, turn your microphone on. Do you remember Freddie the German?
• 56:07
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah, from the World Cup.
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: From the World Cup, right. The guy was all over
• 56:12
  Speaker 4: the place. And he became sort of like a celebrity
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: because of how much he loved America and People started
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: lavishing him with all this free stuff. And, you know,
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, we were ready to make him a naturalized citizen.
• 56:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah, we welcomed him pretty well here.
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: Well, we have some breaking news. It turns out that
• 56:31
  Speaker 4: Freddie is in Memphis, Tennessee today.
• 56:34
  Speaker 9: No way.
• 56:35
  Speaker 11: He is.
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: So Freddie drove last night, and they made it all
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: the way to West Memphis, and they stayed at the
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: Southland Casino, which it's crazy. phenomenal if you haven't been
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: to that hotel because it's it's like something you would
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: see in vegas yeah but it's in west memphis arkansas.
• 56:52
  Speaker 9: Wait he's still in america i thought he went back.
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: He did but somehow he came back and bmw gave
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: him a car so it's like they don't even have
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: to rent cars.
• 57:01
  Speaker 9: Wow he really got famous then i guess.
• 57:03
  Speaker 4: So he said we made it all the way to
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: west memphis yesterday we didn't realize in the dark but
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: we can actually see the bass pro shops pyramid from
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: our window Now we're trying to figure out what to
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: do in Memphis today. It is insanely hot outside, so
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: we're looking for something indoors.
• 57:20
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 57:21
  Speaker 9: Well, he should go to the Pyramid at least, and
• 57:23
  Speaker 9: then we should try to hit him up.
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: Well, we should hit him up. We've got it 68
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: degrees right here, Freddie, at the Mighty Night Night. Nice
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: and cool. Also, Peabody Ducks, got to go to the hotel.
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: Central Barbecue. Got to get some barbecue. Central Barbecue down
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: by the Civil Rights Museum.
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: We can set Freddie up.
• 57:42
  Speaker 9: I think he'll be, yeah, yeah.
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: Maybe he's taking to Elwood Shack.
• 57:46
  Speaker 9: Ooh, not a bad choice there.
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: Bog and barley.
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: For the efficient chips. Wow.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: We can do it. Welcome to Memphis, Freddie. I hope
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: he's ready for the gunfire.
• 57:59
  Speaker 9: Drop by, buy some Kevlar. You'll be fine.
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: That's it. So if any of you Memphis listeners have
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: some suggestions for Freddie, he's in the Mid-South, and he's
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: going to be touring our beloved town. So there you go.
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. A story over
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: at ToddStearns.com involving a cross, really an historic cross, and
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: a nativity scene in Los Angeles, of all places. An
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: atheist has filed a lawsuit demanding that the cross and
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: the nativity be removed Well, fortunately, our good friends over
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: at Beckett are all over this. Andrea Butler is an
• 58:44
  Speaker 4: attorney with Beckett and joins us live now. Andrea, good
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: to have you with us. So help me understand what's
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: going on here. Maybe set the scene and tell us
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: about this historic cross and nativity. Where is it?
• 58:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, thanks so much for having me, Todd. So this
• 59:00
  Speaker 8: case involves a historic cross and a nativity, like you said,
• 59:03
  Speaker 8: in El Pueblo Historical Monument. which is the very most
• 59:08
  Speaker 8: historic part of downtown Los Angeles. It's, um, near the
• 59:12
  Speaker 8: site where the city was originally founded, um, in the
• 59:16
  Speaker 8: late 18 or excuse me, the late 1700s. And so
• 59:21
  Speaker 8: that's really what the cross is there to commemorate. It's
• 59:23
  Speaker 8: there to commemorate the city's founding and it was erected
• 59:26
  Speaker 8: almost a hundred years ago, um, commemorate that historic event.
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: So it's been there. People either love it or they
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: don't pay attention to it. And it really is beautiful.
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: We actually have images of it for you to see,
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen, over on the website. And so this
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: atheist comes along. And what kind of a problem did
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: the atheist have here?
• 59:47
  Speaker 8: So the local resident who's suing to get the cross
• 59:51
  Speaker 8: taken down basically says he finds it offensive because of
• 59:55
  Speaker 8: the religious message that he perceives it sending. Obviously, it
• 59:59
  Speaker 8: is a cross, but it was also erected to commemorate
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 8: a historical event. So he's saying, you know, I want
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 8: this cross taken down because I don't like it.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: Now, I'm curious about the local merchants here because this
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 4: is really a historic area. They have a lot of shops,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: and I have to imagine tourists and other folks there.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: What are the locals saying?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 8: So Beckett represents the Olvera Street Merchants Association, which is
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 8: an association of vendors who have a shop at Olvera Street,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 8: which is within El Pueblo. Most of their families have
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 8: had shops in the area since the 1930s, which is
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 8: when the market first opened, when the area was really
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 8: revitalized and its historic importance recognized. So we represent the merchants.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 8: They are asking to join the lawsuit in order to
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 8: defend the cross and nativity. The merchants themselves put on
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 8: many of the cultural events that are there to celebrate
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 8: the history and tradition of the Mexican-American community in El Pueblo.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 8: So they are vigorously defending these aspects of what they
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: see as their historical and cultural heritage.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: It's really shocking. And by the way, it's a beautiful cross.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: It's a 10-foot-tall wooden cross, and it's engraved with all
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: this beautiful artwork. And it's just shocking because, I mean...
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, they could be forced
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: to remove this cross, which is nearly 100 years old.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 12: Yes, yes.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 8: And, you know, at the behest of one person who
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 8: says that he doesn't like it when, you know, it's
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 8: so important to the community that has formed there and
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 8: has been there for decades.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 4: The guy's name is Jack Gerritsen. He filed the suit
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: back in 2025 suing the city. And he wants the
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: cross removed. He wants to stop the nativity display. And
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: my understanding is that the nativity is actually part of
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: a multi-day Christmas celebration there in Los Angeles.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 8: So, as I said, the merchants put on an event
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 8: known as Las Posadas, which replicates the story of Joseph
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 8: and Mary going through Bethlehem, asking for... asking for a
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 8: place to stay at an inn. And, you know, the
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 8: community comes together and they kind of have a procession
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 8: that they go around to the different shops and they ask,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 8: you know, symbolically for a place to stay and they're
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 8: turned away and then eventually they're let in. So it's
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 8: this big community event where people come together. And yes,
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 8: it does have religious roots, but, you know, it's a
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 8: chance for people to get together and spend time together.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 8: And the nativity is alongside that event.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 4: Andrea Butler is the lead attorney here on this case
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: with Beckett. And I'm curious, from the legal standpoint here,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: it sounds like this is a First Amendment issue. Does
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: that mean that the cities are not allowed to display
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: these sorts of religious images?
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 8: So that's what Mr. Gerritsen is arguing. He's claiming that
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 8: the First Amendment requires the city to take it down
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 8: because it basically preferences one religion over another. But the
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 8: Supreme Court has said in recent years, you know, these
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 8: are not the types of, you know, just public displays
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 8: that really offend the First Amendment. And the First Amendment
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 8: does not require cities to take down particularly monuments with
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 8: such historical importance to the surrounding community.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 4: All right. So where are we now? And what sort
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: of information are we waiting for from the judge?
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 8: So the case is kind of in two different places
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 8: at once.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 18: Mr.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 8: Gerritsen asked for a preliminary injunction, which is a temporary
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 8: order requiring the city to cover up the cross. And
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: that is currently before the Ninth Circuit. It has been
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 8: completely briefed. And so we're expecting the Ninth Circuit to
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: issue an order sometime in the next couple of months,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 8: making a decision on whether he's allowed a temporary injunction
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 8: against the displays and then It will go back down
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 8: to the district court and they will make a decision,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 8: a permanent decision about whether or not the displays are constitutional.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: I'm wondering who wants to tell this guy, this Gerritsen guy,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 4: that the city he is suing is actually named City
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: of Angels. Who wants to do that?
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, that's kind of the irony here is,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: you know, once you start pulling at this thread and
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 8: start taking down things just because of their vaguely religious connotations,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 8: then we're going to have to rename the city of
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 8: Los Angeles, the city of San Francisco, the city of
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 8: Santa Barbara. You know, it's just, you know, a waterfall effect.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 8: It is.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 4: Well, look, I'm so glad you guys are on the case.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: Go get them. Keep us updated. We want to know
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: how this all ends up being resolved.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 8: Absolutely. Thank you so much, Todd.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: All right. Beckettfund.org, if you want to follow the case, everybody,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: the Beckettfund, Beckettfund.org. What an insane story. And again, where
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: do you draw that line? I mean, if they're going
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: to have to take down the cross, you may very
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: well may have to rename the city of Los Angeles
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: and San Francisco and Santa Barbara, Santa Clarita, San Diego,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: or San Diego, if you will. Unbelievable.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: Got to take a break here. 901-260-5926. And any of
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: you folks have suggestions in Memphis, Freddie the German in
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: the bluff city. I wonder if he's already crossed over
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 4: the Mississippi River Bridge. If you have an idea, give
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: us a call. What does Freddie need to do when
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: he's in Memphis? 901-260-5926. We'll be right back.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: So I saw a post on social media, Instagram, And
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: a dad, someone screenshotted, I guess the dad screenshotted his
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 4: conversation with his daughter. And the daughter is, I guess,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: in college. It's hard to get a, but I think
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 4: this is a college-age young lady we're talking about here.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: And so she said, Dad, I need some help. I've
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: got to change my tire. I've got a flat tire.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: How do I change the tire? And she said, Can
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 4: you walk me through how to do it? And the
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: dad replies, well, wait a second, aren't you with Jason?
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 4: So Jason's the boyfriend. And she said, yeah, but he
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: said he's never changed a tire before. Just walk me
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 4: through it. And dad said, okay, step one, break up
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: with Jason. So that sparked a conversation, and I mean
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: a huge conversation. More than 2,000 people weighing in on this.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 4: And the question is, did the dad give good advice
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: to his daughter? That's the question. So, Cars Tuesday, which
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: is like Instagram's number one supercar page, over 1.7 million followers.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: When your girlfriend's dad asks what you bring to the
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: relationship and you say, good vibes. This viral story started
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 4: after a father gave his daughter some very direct relationship
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: advice when he found out her boyfriend could not change
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: a flat tire. According to the dad, knowing basic car
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 4: maintenance is not just about fixing a tire. It's about
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: being self-sufficient, being prepared and useful when something goes wrong.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 4: And apparently that was enough to trigger the Internet. Some
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 4: people agreed if you can't change a tire, what happens
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: when she gets stranded? Others argue that knowing automotive repair
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: has absolutely nothing to do with being a good partner. Meanwhile,
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 4: car guys everywhere are reading this like, so that's why
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: I bought all those tools. Because apparently the emergency jack,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: lug wrench, jumper cables, tire inflator, and 47-piece socket set
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 4: were just not for the garage. They were relationship insurance.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 4: The real question is, Would you actually consider basic car
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: knowledge a requirement in a partner? Dylan, what do you
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: think about this?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 9: I'm glad you asked. I can see both sides. In
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 9: today's age with AAA and all that stuff, it's not
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 9: the biggest of deals if you don't know how to
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 9: do it as the male in the relationship. But I
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 9: think from a broader protective husband standpoint, you want to
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 9: know how to do at least some of those things.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 9: The oil, sure. But a tire, yeah, you should probably
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 9: know how to change a tire. If your wife's stranded,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 9: your girlfriend's stranded, you don't want her father to be
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 9: the one that has to drive all the way over
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 9: And you're in the car and you're like, all right, hey, sir,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 9: how's it going? You don't want to be that guy.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 9: Just learn how to change the tire.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: But for me, though, I think the dad actually, I think,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: offered great advice. Because you want your daughter to marry
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 4: somebody who's going to be able to take care of her.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 4: And that may even mean, I don't know, beyond a car.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: I mean, what happens if something needs to be fixed?
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 4: I think every man in America needs to have basic
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 4: construction skills. tech 101 skills.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 9: Yeah i think it's like part of being a guy
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 9: like your hobbies should be car your hobby should be
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 9: paint or whatever it is like fix something.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 4: Because you're building a shelf.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 9: Because in the long scheme of things it's not about
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 9: that it's about when that needs to happen when the
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 9: moment arises when you need to use that skill of
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 9: yours you need to have it on hand because you
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 9: don't want someone else to do it for your.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: Girl well there's a great episode of everybody loves raymond's
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 4: And Raymond was sitting there. His wife started choking on something,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: and Ray didn't know how to do the Heimlich maneuver.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: I guess he freaked out. And so then the brother, Robert,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: comes over and saves the day. I think if I
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: remember that correctly. All that to say, the whole episode
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 4: was Raymond feeling so inadequate because he couldn't even save
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 4: his own wife.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 12: Exactly.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you don't want that moment to happen, so just
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 9: start now. Just start now. Learn how to do it.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: Dads of America, did this dad get it right?
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: When he said to break up with Jason. Wow. So
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 4: you wonder if she left him stranded on the side
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 4: of the road after she changed the tire.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 9: Along with the flat tire.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: Here's what I want to know. Did Jason make her
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 4: pull the spare out of the... Did Jason do anything
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: at all here?
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 9: Just the worst guy ever. He sat in the car.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: On his cell phone.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 9: He started a YouTube video.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, gosh. So I have a story about this.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 9: I was.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, we were feeding the troops. And so I pulled in,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: and I guess I hit something. And when I came out,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: everybody had already gone. I was part of the cleanup crew.
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: And so when I came out, I had a flat tire.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 4: And here's the problem. And this is how I felt
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 4: so bad about this. So I have a heart problem,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 4: and I'm not allowed to do anything like that. You know,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 4: just jacking up. I can't do any of that. I'm
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: not allowed to. I guess I'm allowed to, but I,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 4: you know. God forbid I bleed out or pop something,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: and I'd be a goner. So I had to call AAA.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: And so they came out, and the guy came out.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: And I felt so embarrassed, I actually showed him my
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: heart card, my heart surgery card. I said, I can't
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: do this. I said, I can do it, but I
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: can't do it because I'm recovering from this heart issue.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: He goes, you don't have to explain anything. I'm like, no,
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: I really do. I really need to explain this to you.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 4: I'm not Jason.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 9: I can really do it. I promise.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: Right. Exactly. And I always went out, but I couldn't
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 4: help because I'm not allowed to lift or carry. And
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 4: you guys know that I try to carry stuff and
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 4: you're like.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 9: You take it out of your hands physically.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 4: You do. So I'm just, I'm just surprised by this.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 4: It would be better if Jason was making the call
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 4: and saying, hello, Mr. Smith. Um, I'm here with your daughter.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 4: We've got to change the tire. Um, How do I
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 4: do that?
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 9: I don't know if that's better. You don't think that's...
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 9: I don't think so. I think that's worse for him.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 9: He's like, son, I need you to do one thing.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 9: Call an Uber home. I'll be there to help my
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 9: daughter soon.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 19: Wow.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: Well, there you go.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 4: What would you do, ladies and gentlemen? Was that good
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: advice the dad gave to the daughter? Break up with
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: the boyfriend.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 5: 901-260-5926.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: That's 901-260-5926. Here's a thought. What happens if your girlfriend
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: invites you over for dinner and she doesn't know how
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: to cook something simple like spaghetti? Does your mom tell you,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: get out of there while you can?
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 9: That's an interesting thought. There's two sides to it.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, there are two sides, right? I mean, do
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 4: you really want to marry a girl who can't cook?
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, she may be good at other things. And
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: maybe that balances it all out.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 9: We don't want to be hypocritical, though.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 4: No, of course not. I'm just saying. So there you go. Anyway,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: gender roles. All right. Got to take a break here.
• 1:13:51
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• 1:13:53
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• 1:13:53
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• 1:14:24
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• 1:14:29
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• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: Todd Starks.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: All right, we are following this breaking news out of
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: Memphis where Freddie the German made famous during the World
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 4: Cup for traveling across America and posting all of his
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: adventures on Acts. Well, now Freddie is in Memphis, Tennessee today,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: and so a lot of people are very excited. And
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 4: so we're trying to help Freddie out. He was looking
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: for some things to do. It's hotter than the gates
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: of hell outside right now in Memphis. And so Freddie
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: was looking for some activities. And Dylan, I am so
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 4: impressed with the audience at our flagship station, KWAM, in
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 4: Memphis today. Because already, just getting dozens of recommendations, they
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 4: say that he should go to some place called Paula Rayford's.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah, tonight he should, at nighttime.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: Is it like a lounge down there? Oh, is that the, oh,
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: that's the crazy place.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 9: Oh, that's Rayford's, man. That is like, you go there
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 9: to par-tay.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: All right, so Ben Dieter used to love that place.
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 9: He loves Rayford's.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: Another place called Bar Dog.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 9: Bar Dog's good. I think it's in South Haven, though, but,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 9: you know, still good.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 4: Well, he's got to get, you know what, our good buddy,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 4: Jim Lasapio, who listens to this program, he owns Rum
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 4: Boogie Cafe on Beale Street, and so I'm sure we
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 4: could get a table for Freddie and his pals.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah, that would be great. He needs to go
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 9: to Beale Street.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 4: They call them the lads over there.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 8: Oh, really?
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: Freddie and his lads.
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 8: Yes, lads.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah. A lot of people saying, all right, Graceland, Rendezvous, no, no, no, no,
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 4: Central Barbecue. Beale Street, Redbirds game.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 8: Eh, okay.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 4: And a lot of people are saying, oh, Tiger Man
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 4: Karate and Dojo Museum.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 9: Now, that's a new one that I've not heard suggested before.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 4: So this is important. Now, Elvis fans, we have a
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 4: lot of Elvis fans in the audience. This is where
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 4: Elvis Presley used to practice karate back in the 1970s.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 9: That's very interesting.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 4: The king of rock and roll, he was like, hi-ya!
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 9: I didn't know this. Why am I just now finding
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 9: this out?
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: Tiger Man Karate Dojo.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 4: You should go check it out. They've got a museum.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 9: I think I have to now. As a Memphian, I
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 9: can't go without that.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 4: So if you've got any recommendations, oh, Memphis Zoo. Yeah,
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 4: it's a great zoo, by the way. One of the
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 4: top zoos in America. And one of the tigers just
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: gave birth to little, what do they call them, tigarettes?
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 11: Cubs.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 4: No, cubs. Thank you. I'm sorry.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 9: Tigarettes is like two-meter.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 4: Tigarettes are female athletes. Yeah. All right, so anyway, there
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  Speaker 4: you go. All right, 901-260-5926. Welcome to the Mid-South, Freddie
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 4: the German. 901-260-5926. I want to go real quick to
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 4: our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Say hello to a great
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 4: American patriot, Adam Morgan, former state lawmaker with the Freedom Caucus,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: president of Majesty Music. Adam, hope you're doing well today.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 5: Hey, Todd.
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  Speaker 20: Thanks for having me on.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no. Happy to do it. We're going
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: to talk politics in a minute. But, Adam, I've got
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 4: to ask you, we were telling a story in the
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: last hour. A young lady was out with her boyfriend,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 4: had a flat tire. She's texting her dad for help
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 4: on how to change a flat tire. And the dad says, well,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: isn't your boyfriend there, Jason? And Jason was there, and
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: she said, yeah, but Jason doesn't know how to change
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 4: a tire. She says, just tell me what to do.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 4: And he said, okay, step one, get rid of your boyfriend.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 4: And you're a dad. So you're a dad. And I'm wondering,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 4: what would you, do you have, you have, you have
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 4: a daughter?
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 20: I have three kids. And actually when we had just
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 20: had our third, I got all three kids in the
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 20: car in the middle of nowhere, a tire blows and
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 20: the heat of, you said it's hotter than Hades there
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 20: in Memphis, same in the coast of South Carolina.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 20: And I had to change a tire on an SUV.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 20: So I've been there. But, you know, I think the
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 20: most embarrassing part is the poor guy. Like, we're in
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 20: the 21st century. He's got to phone his girlfriend's dad.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 20: He can't just leave. it up on the internet. If
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 20: you really don't know, you can't just find a YouTube
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 20: video instead of embarrassing yourself. I mean, come on, guys.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you got to man up. You got to man up. Adam,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: I want to bring in Chris from Georgia, who's calling in.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 4: And Chris... I know you wanted to weigh in on
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 4: this issue, and you're a dad of a girl. What's
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 4: your take here?
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  Speaker 18: Well, I got two daughters, and when they started driving,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 18: the first one didn't have her license even a month.
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 18: I took her to a parking lot that was kind
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 18: of off to the side, and I explained to her
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  Speaker 18: the pinch points, where to put the jack, put the
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 18: parking brake on, and I went through the whole thing,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 18: loosening the lug nuts before you jack it up and everything.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 18: So she wouldn't have to have a Jason idiot to
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 18: have to depend on that she'd be able just to
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 18: get out and do it on her own. I'm a
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 18: car guy, and I made sure she may not be
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 18: a car girl, but at least when she gets out,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 18: she knows what a flat tire is. It's not just
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 18: the bottom that's flat. It's the whole tire.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, Chris, it sounds like you're a great dad, and
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: you just wanted your daughters to be prepared.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 18: I taught them how to, they got in their own
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 18: little box in the back of each car, they got
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 18: the little, they got the flashlight, and they've got the
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 18: flashing light to put on the trunk, and they've got everything.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 18: I mean, I made sure they know how to.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 6: Use it all.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Chris, good for you. All right, I love that. Chris,
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 4: thank you for calling in, and we sure do appreciate that. Yeah,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 4: you know, Adam, I just, first of all, I think
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 4: it's great that dads do that, you know, so they're
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 4: teaching their girls, you know what, you're going to learn
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 4: how to fix a tire. You may never need it,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 4: but you may be dating Jason one day.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 20: We shouldn't put it on the girl dads, though. I mean,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 20: I think the real failures here are the dads of
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 20: the sons who don't know how to change the tire.
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 20: That's who the focus should be.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 4: You see, this is why the country is on that
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 4: slippery slope to purgatory. It's really unfortunate, but we've got
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 4: to start teaching our kids basic things here. And that's
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 4: one of them, I think, Adam.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 20: Basic safety, basic competency.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Common sense. Adam Morgan, president of Majesty Music. Adam,
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 4: we brought you on to actually talk about politics. Here
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 4: we are, a week removed from the big convention in Dallas.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 4: And I'm wondering, we had somebody on from the RNC,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 4: and they said, mission accomplished. We're good to go. I'm
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 4: not so sure about that. I'm curious. You're in the mix.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 4: What do you say about all of that?
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 20: Yeah, I was out in Dallas. You know, I wish
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 20: we were good to go. But if someone is saying
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 20: that we're good to go, we have nothing to worry about,
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 20: let's just coast, they need their head examined. I mean,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 20: there's all sorts of issues going on. I mean, people
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 20: are paying for gas every day. When they go to
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 20: vote in November, how many gas stations are they going
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 20: to have to drive past? Are they going to have
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 20: to stop and get gas either that day or the
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 20: day before? And if we don't get a really strong
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 20: economic answer for a lot of these issues and really
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 20: be pushing out the wins from the Trump administration and
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 20: from Republicans, and if Republicans can't give a vision about
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 20: what they're going to do for you and your family
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 20: and your community before the midterms, I think it's actually
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 20: going to be a very dark day for our country.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 20: We have a lot at stake. And even in ruby
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 20: red states, I think there's going to be a blue wave.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 20: So these politicians... These guys running for office, they better
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 20: get their heads examined and actually get on message.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 4: You know, I keep hearing, you know, the Republicans talking
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 4: about how bad the Democrats are, that the DSA is
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 4: going to destroy America. It'll usher in an age of communism.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: And I believe every single bit of that. Absolutely. But
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 4: the problem is, is it a winning message? Is that
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 4: going to compel Republicans to get out and vote, especially
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 4: when When gas prices are high, grocery prices are high,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 4: we're in what is now becoming, clear to me, a
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 4: never-ending war in Iran. I don't know if that's going
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: to win.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 20: Yeah, the message of we're not as bad as the
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 20: other guys. I mean, that's a real inspiring message, right?
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 20: And the reality is we have control right now. Republicans
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 20: have control of the Senate, and yet nothing is getting passed.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 11: Why?
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 20: Because of the quality... of the leadership who were elected
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 20: to be the leaders by the other Republican members of
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 20: the Senate. So really, they're all to blame here. And
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 20: I'm not hearing people openly calling for Thune's removal within
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 20: the Senate.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 4: Why is that?
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 20: Why can Republicans not have nice things? We have the
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 20: Supreme Court, the presidency, and both houses in Congress. There's
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 20: really no excuse. And You know, I will say President
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 20: Trump has had a large list.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 10: Of major wins.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 20: We're doing some great things. But at the same time,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 20: Congress has really been a failure. And the midterms are
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 20: referendum on Congress. Yes, it's the president, too. And he's
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 20: saying that his name's on the ballot. But the reality
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 20: is you have all these different races, 400 and however many,
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 20: including the different senators and congressmen that are that are
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 20: up on the ballot. And if they can't produce real results,
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 20: the people are going to respond and try a different option.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 20: And it is terrifying because the other side is so crazy.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 20: But don't make your entire message, we're not as bad
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 20: as the other guys. Tell us how great things are
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 20: going to be if we continue to give you the majority.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 20: And maybe call out the people that have caused the
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 20: problems for why we haven't gotten a lot of things
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 20: done so far in the past year and a half.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 4: Adam Morgan is president of Majesty Music, majestymusic.com, and a
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 4: great politico there in South Carolina. When you look at
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 4: some of the polling data, I'm a big Trafalgar Group fan.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 4: They've been the only ones to consistently get these races right,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 4: going all the way back to Trump's first win in
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 4: office back in 2016. And it just seems to me
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 4: that their polling data is incredibly concerning in places like
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: North Carolina, in places like Georgia, where the sample actually
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 4: favors Republican voters. And yet in both of those states,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 4: the Republican candidates lose in the Senate races.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 20: Yeah, it's hugely concerning. And like I said, if people
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 20: are telling you, oh, the meeting we did in RNC,
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 20: the convention was good, we're good. You know, they're crazy.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 20: And by the way, Republicans are making this worse. I
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 20: don't know if you saw just yesterday, there's a big
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 20: effort to try to cut the gas tax or suspend
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 20: it for 60 days in South Carolina to help voters.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 20: And by the way, Darlene Graham is running a race
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 20: that might end up being a tight race against the
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 20: Democrat here. And what does the governor say in response
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 20: to that? The Republican governor? Oh, no, we don't need
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 20: to do that. We don't want to short the government
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 20: the money that we get from that. Even though we've
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 20: had a surplus for almost a decade, $ 2. 7 billion surplus
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 20: last year, we can't suspend the gas tax because we
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 20: don't want to short ourselves. I mean, that's ludicrous going
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 20: into the November elections. You have local municipalities and counties
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 20: run by Republicans that are putting ballot referendums to increase
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 20: sales tax. when people can hardly afford groceries and housing
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 20: and all these other things, health care. So, yeah, I
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 20: think the Republicans are really off message. They're really giving
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 20: a lot of bad messaging out there to the public.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 20: And if they want to win, they need to get
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 20: focused on affordability and on real solutions for people.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 4: Well said. Adam, great intel as always. We're going to
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 4: get you back on soon. We love what you have
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 4: to say and the way you think about these things. Folks,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 4: go check out majestymusic.com, Adam's great website, and just really
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: an incredibly talented family there and doing great work for
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: the kingdom as well. Adam, good. Oh, by the way,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 4: are you going to the big spiritual leadership conference?
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 20: Oh, yes, sir.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 12: Of course.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 20: We're actually running the kids program out there.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 4: That's wonderful.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 4: Well, I look forward to seeing you there heading out
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 4: next Friday and flying into California. I'm going to be
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 4: there for like eight or nine days, so it's going
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 4: to be a great A great time out there. Good
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 4: time to fellowship. Look forward to seeing you out there.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 20: Look forward to seeing you then.
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 4: Adam Morgan from Majesty Music. He'll be one of those
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 4: at the Spiritual Leadership Conference. That's happening at Lancaster Baptist
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 4: Church and West Coast Baptist College starting next, well, week
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: after next there in California. All right, 901-260-5926. Let's go
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 4: to the phones real quick. Margie in Charlotte, North Carolina,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 4: has a story about changing a tire. Margie, I'm all ears.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 4: Tell me about it.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 19: Well, when I was 16, my father, on my birthday,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 19: came up with a cup of black coffee, which I
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 19: thought was really gross. Told me to put my play
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 19: clothes on. took me downstairs, blindfolded me, walked me out
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 19: to the driveway, and there was a brand new car.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 19: He had three tires off and one tire on. And
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 19: he said to me, if you can get this one
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 19: tire off and put the three other tires on, the
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 19: car is yours. My feeling is that every child should
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 19: be taught that. So if you're ever stuck, you know
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 19: how to do it.
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 4: Absolutely. Margie, I'm curious, what happened there? What did you do?
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: Did you get the car?
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 12: I put three.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 21: Tires back on.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 19: He helped me. And took the fourth one off, and
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 19: he put it back on, and he said, the car
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 19: is yours, but hold on. It was six shifts. So
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 19: then I had to learn how to drive six shifts.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, geez-a-loo.
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 12: But you know what?
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 19: That was the smartest thing.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 12: He could have done. Yeah.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 4: What a great story. Do you still have the car
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 4: by any chance? What kind of a car was it?
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 19: It was a Ford Comet.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 4: A Ford Comet.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 4: You still got the car?
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 12: Heavens no.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 19: I'm 83 now.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 4: Well, thank you. What a great story. And thank you
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 4: for calling in. Thank you for listening to our friends
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 4: at WSIC as well.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 18: Wow.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 3: 80.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 4: Ford Comet. Good for you.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 4: Got to take a break here. 901-260-5926, our number. This
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 4: is the Todd Starnes Show. All right. Welcome back, everybody.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 4: Let's get to the phones. Don in Texas listening to
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 4: us on Patriot Talk 920. What a great radio station. Don,
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 4: what's on your mind?
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 12: Well, I'm wondering why the Republicans are not getting the
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 12: message that we out here are sending them. It just
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 12: don't seem like there's any response. And let me tell you,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 12: down in Texas, the Democrats are flooding this market with
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 12: ads against taxes. And, I mean, every time you turn
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 12: on the TV, it's just all over. And the only
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 12: time I can remember when it was this bad... was
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 12: a year or so back when Ted Cruz was running against,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 12: oh gosh, I can't remember his name, Collins something, I think,
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 12: but I could be wrong on that. They spent $ 100
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 12: million down here, and they still lost. But they're doing
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 12: the same thing this year. And every time you turn
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 12: on the TV, the market is being flooded. And the
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 12: Republicans seem.
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 10: To be responding.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 12: And I'm wondering why. I mean, are they not listening
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 12: to the radio? Do they not listen to the watch TV?
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 12: What's up with these people? They just sit there in
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 12: their little cocoon and they think everything's fine?
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 10: But it's not.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 4: Don, I think the answer is, to a large extent, yes.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 4: They have been so dismissive of the talk radio audience
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 4: that And what they don't understand is the talk radio
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  Speaker 4: audience has never really gone away. They are truly the
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 4: base of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. And
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  Speaker 4: you're right about that. Now, we understand the president's putting
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 4: a lot of money into Texas. We understand Thune is
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 4: finally coming around. And we've still got time to turn
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  Speaker 4: it around here. But again, you're absolutely right in your
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  Speaker 4: assessment that And I still believe that there are efforts
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  Speaker 4: underway by the establishment Republicans to sabotage the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I think is ultimately going on here. Don,
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• 1:33:45
  Speaker 4: Schools Have an Empty Desk Problem. The article written by
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  Speaker 4: Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow for the Center for Education
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 4: Policy at Heritage Foundation, Corey joins us on our Patriot
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  Speaker 4: Mobile Newsmaker line today. Corey, first of all, great to
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  Speaker 4: have you with us. A great column. My question is,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 4: where are all the kids going to?
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  Speaker 14: Well, they're not showing up at school. It's almost like
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 14: monkey see, monkey do. During COVID, the teachers didn't want
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 14: to show up, so maybe the students were like, maybe
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 14: we don't have to show up either. But I think
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 14: part of the problem is the root cause is that
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 14: the schools are failing tremendously. The kids know it. They're
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 14: not learning all that much at school. So they don't
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 14: show up. They don't feel safe. There's a lot of
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 14: bullying at school. And in fact, there was a random
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 14: assignment evaluation out of the D.C. voucher program finding that
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 14: if you want a scholarship to go to a private school,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 14: the kids were about 20 percent likely more likely to
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 14: say that they're in a very safe environment. And they
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 14: were about 20 percent more satisfied with their with their
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 14: education that they were getting at the private school. and
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 14: they were about 30% less likely to be chronically absent.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 14: So I think if you're in a place that you like,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 14: that you're actually learning something, the teachers are showing up,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 14: the students are going to show up too. And just
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 14: think about it. We spend over $ 21, 000 per student per
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 14: year in the government-run school system today. One in five
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 14: children are now defined as chronically absent. And in teachers'
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 14: union-controlled places like Chicago, that number is up to 40%
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 14: looking at the latest data. So it's It's crazy. Taxpayers
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 14: aren't getting what their money's worth.
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  Speaker 4: I was reading a New York Post story. They were
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 4: taking a look at the University of California. 103,000 students
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 4: last year with a 4.0 GPA or higher. Meanwhile, only 30%
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 4: of 11th graders are proficient in math, 57% in English.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 4: The argument is they're handing out straight A's like it's candy.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 4: but kids cannot do basic mathematic functions like do fractions.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, they're lowering the standards so that the teachers unions
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 14: can pat themselves on the back and say.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, look, we're doing a great job.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 14: Everybody has a 4.0. But then reality hits when those
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 14: kids get to college. They're all doing remedial middle school
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 14: math when they're getting into the California colleges. And then
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 14: you have Governor Gavin Newsom and his infinite wisdom the
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 14: other day tweeted out a brag. Well, he thought it
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 14: was a brag. He was saying that he shared a
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 14: graphic which showed that Per student spending in California since
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 14: 2019 alone has increased by 66% in real terms. The
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 14: outcomes haven't gotten 66% better, that's for sure. They're now
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 14: spending over $ 28, 000 per student per year in the California
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 14: public school system. So, I mean, it's... The teachers' unions
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 14: are in bed with the Democrats. The Democrats just take
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 14: their money year after year, and then they go and
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 14: give the unions whatever they want, and the kids be damned.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 14: The PISA scores just came out. The international assessment last
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 14: week showing that, voila, the U.S. spends more than any
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 14: other country on the planet, yet our outcomes are in
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 14: the gutter still. It's an international embarrassment. And one last thing,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 14: Gallup just had some new polling come out last week
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 14: as well. finding that the Americans have the lowest level
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 14: of satisfaction for the public school system now more than ever.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 14: And I'd argue that's an argument to put the pedal
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 14: to the metal when it comes to school choice. We've
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 14: already had a lot of development there lately, but now
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 14: we should open it up to every single child. And
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 14: I'm glad President Trump has been pushing that issue since
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 14: he got into office.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I live in Memphis, Tennessee, and our school
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 4: system is horrendous. 70% of the kids are not at
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 4: their grade reading level. We had a great superintendent that
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 4: got hired, and she was ferocious. She was cracking down
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 4: on the administrators. She was literally going along to knock
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 4: on the doors of kids who were not showing up
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 4: to class truancy, a huge issue here. And, of course,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 4: in response to that, the woke school board fired her. So,
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 4: you know, you wonder what exactly– What's going on across
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  Speaker 4: the nation? Why is it that our schools are dumbing
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 4: down our kids?
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  Speaker 14: It's become a jobs program for adults as opposed to
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 14: an education initiative for kids. It's so obvious with the
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 14: teachers unions and their conferences this year, they were passing
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 14: resolutions to keep secrets from parents, to support gender affirming
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 14: care across all stages of life in their own words.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 14: So supporting sex change surgeries for kids. And you have
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 14: the teachers unions pushing this stuff. I read all, there
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 14: are 200 pages of resolutions, not a single one. had
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 14: anything to do with improving student achievement. But if you
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 14: look since 2014, the number of employees in the school
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 14: system has increased by about 620,000 people. At the same time,
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 14: we've lost nearly 775,000 students from the public school system.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 14: So in what other industry, Todd, do you lose all
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 14: your customers and you go and hire more and more
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 14: and more people? It's because the unions use those individuals
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 14: to push their vanity projects. Randy Weingarten's under investigation by
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 14: Congress right now for apparently spending $ 1. 4 million in teachers'
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 14: paychecks to promote her book calling conservatives fascist, and then
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 14: they give all that money to Democrat politicians. 99.9% of
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 14: the union's contributions from Randy Weingarten go to Democrats. It's
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 14: basically a money laundering organization. It's all political, and it
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 14: has nothing to do with improving education for kids.
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  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 4: Corey DeAngelis joining us from the Heritage Foundation. This great
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 4: piece he wrote there, heritage.org, America's public schools have an
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 4: empty desk problem. What I'm fascinated by is the rise
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 4: of homeschooling in America, which used to be, and maybe
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 4: this is a wrong perception, but at least it was
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 4: my impression, that it was predominantly due to religious reasons.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 4: Now it's sort of a hodgepodge. But when you look
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 4: back in 1999, according to one survey, you had, what,
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 4: 850,000 kids being homeschooled. Now that number is north of
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 4: 3 million. What do you make of that? And are
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 4: you seeing that same trend?
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 14: Well, the teachers' union stepped on a rake during COVID.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 14: People figured out, well, I can teach my kid more
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 14: in a fraction of the time when schools were closed.
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 14: And families got to see all the wackiness going on
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 14: in the public school system. They saw the transgender insanity.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 14: They saw critical race theory, Marxism. And a lot of parents,
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 14: even Democrats, were like, you know what? The school system
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 14: doesn't care about me. I'm going to figure this out
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 14: for myself. And homeschooling since 2019 in America has doubled,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 14: according to the U.S. Census Bureau. So people are voting
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 14: with their feet. School choice programs are passing like bananas
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 14: all over the place. There's 18 states now with universal
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 14: school choice programs. That's mostly red states. Trump has passed
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 14: in the big, beautiful bill a nearly universal school choice program.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 14: 31 states have already opted into it, including two Democrat-led states.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 14: Colorado and New York are even going to participate in
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 14: the first year. Hopefully more come along and see the
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 14: writing on the wall that this is what parents want
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 14: across party lines, Republican, Democrat, Independent. Families want more of
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 14: a say in their kids' education. And the good thing
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 14: is the public schools improve in response to competition. Even
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 14: on the question of chronic absenteeism, there's a top peer-reviewed
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 14: journal article published by David Figlio and his research team
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 14: in American Economic Journal that finding that when you have
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 14: more school choice competition, the public schools get better with
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 14: test scores, but they also reduce their chronic absenteeism rates
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 14: as well. So this creates a better environment, and the
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 14: kids who get a choice, they obviously benefit too.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 4: I'm curious if there is a solution here. Can our
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 4: nation's public school system be fixed? Yeah, I mean.
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 14: It can improve. And I think the vast majority of
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 14: studies we have, there's about 30 of them, 27 of
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 14: them find positive effects of school choice competition on the
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 14: outcomes in the public schools. And if they don't improve,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 14: they should shut down. That's a feature of the market,
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 14: not a bug. But what we do typically find is
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 14: when there is school choice, they improve. And just a
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 14: few years ago, the school boards were basically calling for
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 14: the Biden administration to label parents as terrorists. They even
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 14: had a threat tag created by the FBI specifically for
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 14: parents protesting at school board meetings. But if the customers
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 14: can walk and you're the school system and you're like,
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 14: you know what, they can take their money away. Maybe
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 14: we should treat them as a partner in the relationship,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 14: maybe as customers as opposed to the enemy. And the
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 14: school systems who don't listen to parents and who continue
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 14: to double down on keeping parents in the dark, Well,
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 14: they should be defunded. Parents should be able to take
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 14: their money for their kids to get a better education.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 14: And as Votie Bauckham best said, we cannot continue to
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 14: send our children to Caesar for their education and be
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 14: surprised when they come home as Romans. Parents got to
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 14: wake up. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. These
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 14: are your kids, not the government's. So even if you
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 14: win Supreme Court cases, even if you get a school
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 14: choice program, You still need to keep a watchful eye
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 14: on what's happening in that public school system because those
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 14: people go and vote. And in places like New York City,
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 14: they vote for socialists. So we've got to stop that
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 14: socialist creep in our country. We've got to save it.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 14: And I think the school system is ground zero for
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 14: saving our country.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 4: America's public schools have an empty desk problem. Go and
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 4: read that article right now at Heritage.org. Corey, good to
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 4: see you, my friend. Thanks for hopping on the show today.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 14: Thanks so much, Todd.
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 19: Wow.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable. Great, great research there by Corey over at Heritage Foundation. Well,
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 4: the midterms are almost here, and Republicans, we've been talking
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 4: about it today. Well, tonight, Rob Fenerty on Newsmax reveals
• 1:44:02
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• 1:44:06
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• 1:44:13
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• 1:44:18
  Speaker 4: wants total control of Congress. Tallarica, Al-Sayed, AOC, Bernie Sanders.
• 1:44:23
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  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 4: So the Daily Wire was doing an interview with Tallarico's
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 4: longtime pastor. This is St. Andrew's Presbyterian Satanic Church in Austin.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 4: And the pastor says, You know, because Tallarico's now coming out,
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 4: and he's sort of hemming and hawing over the whole
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 4: transgender issue stuff. And Tallarico's pastor was recorded in an
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 4: undercover sting by the Daily Wire as saying, yeah, you know,
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 4: it's all just, yeah, he's just feeding everybody a line
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 4: right now. He really hasn't changed his positions. He's just
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 4: doing this to, you know, to get elected. So, geez-a-loo. Unbelievable. Hey, Dylan,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 4: turn your microphone on.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 12: Hi.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 4: Who's your favorite drag queen?
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 3: Ooh.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 9: I don't have one.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 4: There you go. That's the guy answer.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 9: If he's doing that to get elected, he's doing a
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 9: terrible job.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 4: By the way, we've got some research. We've done some research.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 4: We'll have the story up here this afternoon on ToddStearns.com.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 4: But this drag queen that's his favorite all-time drag queen
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 4: loves performing with children and for children. Again, why? Why
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 4: do children need to be exposed to drag queens? They
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 4: never go to the senior citizen's home, do they?
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 9: That's a good point.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 4: You're not going to see the drag queens doing a
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 4: showdown at Kirby Pines.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 9: No, you're not. Yeah, sad.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 4: Or the Nazarene retirement community. Shake it, seniors.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 9: You're not missing much.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 4: No, you're not.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 12: You're not.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 4: Let's go to the phones here. Athens, Georgia. Gina on
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 4: the line. Go Georgia Bulldogs. Hey, Gina, what's going on?
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 12: Hey, Todd.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 21: I want to start by saying I do not have
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 21: a favorite drag queen.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 4: Thank you. See, even God-fearing women. Thank you, Gina.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 11: Exactly.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 21: But I wanted to talk a little bit about Trump
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 21: and sort of– so I'm– I'm a diehard Trump. I
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 21: have been for, you know, all the while since he's
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 21: been running, voted for him every time. But, you know, basically,
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 21: I think everyone thought if anyone could really change things,
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 21: that it would be Trump. And he has gotten in
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 21: there this time and sort of fallen into the same trap. actions, motives,
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 21: whatever that everyone else has.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 10: Which is, you know, he started the war now.
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 21: The gas prices, I just looked on the way here.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 21: I mean, Athens Diesel was, what, six what? I don't
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 21: even know if it was that high with Biden. It
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 21: was close if it wasn't. But, you know, the gas
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 21: prices are high. And interest rates, I just heard on
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 21: the news, have gone up now. They've raised it again.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 21: So that's absolutely crazy. detrimental to the midterms. And he's out,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 21: you know, dogging people here in Georgia about data centers
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 21: and why they.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 10: Don't want them.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 21: And, you know, it's not because people think AI is
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 21: going away or anything like that. They don't think it's
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 21: going to go away. But they don't want those huge
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 21: concrete data centers in their backyard and in their pastures
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 21: that usually home cows that produce food for us. You know,
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 21: they don't want the noise. They don't want the water
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 21: use up, the high electric bills, all of that. And
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 21: he's just sort of dismissing all that as though we
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 21: are idiots. And we're not. And Congress has done nothing.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 21: John Foon is an absolute disaster that should have been
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 21: thrown out long ago. And Mitch McConnell, oh my word,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 21: what is he even doing back at work? He should
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 21: be retired.
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 14: Where am I?
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 4: Where am I?
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 4: Sorry.
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 21: Exactly.
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 19: So there you go.
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 21: I could add on and on, but that's basically it.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 21: People are just like, we can't settle for the Democrats.
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 21: I mean, we're settling for the Republicans. We don't want
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 21: the Democrats. So what does that leave us with?
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  Speaker 12: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: Gina, I'm just going to say this. I think about 75%
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 4: of MAGA feels the same way you feel right now.
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  Speaker 4: And it's tough. It really is. Because the White House
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  Speaker 4: is just off message. As much as I love the ball,
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  Speaker 4: I love all of those things that he's doing, the
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  Speaker 4: improvements to Washington. They needed to be done. I want
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 4: to see that much effort and enthusiasm and commitment to
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  Speaker 4: getting the Save America Act passed, to getting the president's
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  Speaker 4: agenda through Congress. I think a lot of people are
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 4: looking for that, and we've got to figure out what
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 4: the heck is going on with Iran right now, and
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  Speaker 4: how do we get the heck out of there?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, exactly. That's the other.
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  Speaker 21: I didn't even mention that. That's a huge disaster. And
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  Speaker 21: that's just, I think Lindsey Graham, may he rest in peace,
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  Speaker 21: had a lot to do with that. Trump listened to him,
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  Speaker 21: did the same thing they all do, and now we're
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 21: stuck over there. And people don't like that.
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  Speaker 4: No, they don't. Gina, so hang, look, hang in there.
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  Speaker 4: And I think, you know, again, it's going to come
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  Speaker 4: to the point is we can't give the Democrats control.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 4: We just can't give the Democrats control.
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  Speaker 21: We can't.
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  Speaker 18: It's true.
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  Speaker 11: They're awful.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, are you keeping are you keeping our friends at
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  Speaker 4: WDUN in line there? You know, Bill Main in the
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 4: mornings and Avery on the weekends. Great people over there
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 4: at WDUN.
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  Speaker 21: I do like them, but look, when are you going
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  Speaker 21: to be there?
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  Speaker 12: Have you already done that for your book tour?
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  Speaker 4: No, no, we haven't. We are planning something for the fall.
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 4: It's like 300 degrees in Memphis right now, so I
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 4: don't want to try to get out much, but we
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 4: are going to be doing a big event in Gainesville.
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  Speaker 11: Okay, good.
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  Speaker 10: You announce it, and.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be there. We will let everybody know well in advance.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be a lot of fun. We always
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  Speaker 4: love coming to Gainesville. It's just a great, great place. Gina,
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  Speaker 4: God bless you. Thank you for calling in. Guys, we
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 4: could not get to all the calls today. I am
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 4: so sorry. We'll be back at it tomorrow, so be
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 4: sure to hang out with us. ToddStearns.com, our website. Please
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 4: go and check that out. Get out there, grab some
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 4: iced tea and a funeral fan, and pray for cooler temps,
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  Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen. Get out there, everybody. Be good.