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Mississippi Mayor Snubs Dolly Parton, Refuses to Lower Flag · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clanging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Our love is American, right.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
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  Speaker 5: The good news is we did not blow up Carg
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  Speaker 5: Island last night. I just... I don't know what's going
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  Speaker 5: on here with the president's true social feed, the AI.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to AI ourselves into a world war. What
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  Speaker 5: the heck? Why not? Hello, everybody. Great to have you
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  Speaker 5: with us today. Wow, we have a lot of content
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  Speaker 5: to get through over the next three hours together. I
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  Speaker 5: want to say a very special thank you to all
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  Speaker 5: of you listeners who came out. Last night, Murfreesboro, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 5: Franklin Road Baptist Church, we had a terrific time, did
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  Speaker 5: a big Q & A session on my new book,
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  Speaker 5: The Golden Age. And it was really fun to share
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  Speaker 5: the stage with Gabriel Delaney, who is our resident history teacher.
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  Speaker 5: And Gabriel was up on the stage fielding questions and honestly,
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  Speaker 5: I think just did a terrific job and had just
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  Speaker 5: a great, great weekend. Fine people there at Franklin Road
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  Speaker 5: Baptist Church. And let me just say this. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we talk a lot about churches that are not engaged
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  Speaker 5: in their communities, not engaged in the political process and culture.
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  Speaker 5: This is not one of those churches. It was so exciting. Dillian,
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  Speaker 5: you're not going to believe this. The chairman of the
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  Speaker 5: Rutherford County Library System is a member of the church,
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  Speaker 5: bought 25 copies of the book.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 5: To go into the libraries.
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  Speaker 7: That's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 5: I know it may be the only conservative book in
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  Speaker 5: those libraries. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 7: A light in a dark world.
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  Speaker 5: No, it's just all I'm telling you is just so
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  Speaker 5: nice and refreshing. And may I just say this? So
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  Speaker 5: it was a very productive sort of leisurely weekend. Drove
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  Speaker 5: to Nashville, over to Nashville from Memphis, up Interstate 40.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, my hat is off to Sean Duffy.
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  Speaker 5: They're cracking down on these big rig drivers. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 5: these guys are all over the place. And I guarantee you,
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  Speaker 5: if you were to look inside the cabs of these
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  Speaker 5: big rigs, you're going to find illegals. And we're going
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  Speaker 5: to get to that in just a little while. Sean
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  Speaker 5: Duffy announcing an emergency shutdown of 110 commercial driver's license schools.
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  Speaker 5: And the reason why is more than 5,000 drivers have
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  Speaker 5: failed their English proficiency test. So they don't know what
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  Speaker 5: those signs like stop or slow down or laying close
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  Speaker 5: to head actually mean. So anyway, I was having to
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  Speaker 5: maneuver through all of that, get to Nashville. And maybe
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  Speaker 5: this is just me, but this made an impression on me.
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  Speaker 5: So I had lunch with a friend of the station,
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  Speaker 5: one of our staffers in college there in the Nashville area.
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  Speaker 5: and went to the Green Hill, is it the mall
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  Speaker 5: at Green Hills? Folks, I felt like I had been
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  Speaker 5: transported to some sort of, I don't know, utopia. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it was beautiful. It was this massive indoor mall, and
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  Speaker 5: it had the big high-end stores like Nord Street, all
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  Speaker 5: the stores. They even have the, oh, what's the one
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  Speaker 5: that stinks to high heavens, Dylan? They sell the $ 500
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  Speaker 5: pair of jeans.
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  Speaker 7: It's not coming to me.
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  Speaker 5: Abercrombie.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it stinks to you?
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  Speaker 5: It stinks. It smells. You can smell it.
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  Speaker 7: They do spray a lot of cologne in there.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's in the ventilation system.
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  Speaker 9: It is.
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  Speaker 5: I asked about that once.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I said, what's the deal here? And then they hose
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  Speaker 5: down the clothing, so you never can get that smell out.
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  Speaker 5: It's terrible.
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  Speaker 7: You can't even wash it.
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  Speaker 5: It's brutal.
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  Speaker 11: It's brutal.
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  Speaker 5: The only thing worse than that is watching a 40-year-old
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  Speaker 5: man wearing Abercrombie. That ought to be against the law.
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  Speaker 5: But I digress. Dylan, this was amazing. I mean, here
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  Speaker 5: in Memphis... You go to the Galleria, which is like
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  Speaker 5: the premier shopping destination. It looks like a ghost town.
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  Speaker 5: And all you've got are like hip-hop stores and tennis
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  Speaker 5: shoe shops. That's it.
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  Speaker 7: They've really downgraded our malls here.
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  Speaker 5: It's bad.
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  Speaker 2: For sure.
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  Speaker 7: It's bad.
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  Speaker 5: And it's like rip-offs. It's like knock-off stores. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it was, Dylan, I'm telling you, it was like I
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  Speaker 5: was in a different world. And people were laughing and
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  Speaker 5: smiling and carrying on. There were no thugs or little
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  Speaker 5: thuglings running around shooting people. The food court, everybody was well-behaved.
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, where am I? What is going on here? Wow,
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  Speaker 5: I miss that. And I thought to myself, wow, this
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  Speaker 5: is doable. You actually don't have to live in a
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  Speaker 5: war zone, ladies and gentlemen. Nashville figured out a way
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  Speaker 5: to do it. Anyway, ate at a lovely place called
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  Speaker 5: North Italia. Had the outdoor seating. You didn't have to
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  Speaker 5: worry about a drive-by. It was great. I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 5: is this what we're missing? We just need to pack
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  Speaker 5: up the radio station and relocate, Dylan. We're moving to
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  Speaker 5: Middle Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 5: Or at least it's safer.
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  Speaker 7: That's true.
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  Speaker 5: But in all seriousness, it was just a different world
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  Speaker 5: And I think for those of us who live in
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  Speaker 5: places like New York City and Chicago and Houston and
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  Speaker 5: Dallas and Minneapolis and Memphis, you sort of think, oh,
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  Speaker 5: my God, it's always been this way, but it hasn't.
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  Speaker 5: And there isn't. You know, it doesn't have to be
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  Speaker 5: like this. You can actually have a vibrant shopping community.
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  Speaker 5: And I was downtown in Memphis the other day. We
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  Speaker 5: had a bunch of Christian writers coming to Memphis for
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  Speaker 5: the American Christian Fiction Writers Association. A lot of dear friends.
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  Speaker 5: And I was trying to give them pointers on what
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  Speaker 5: to go, what to see. You know, they were actually
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  Speaker 5: told by the organizers, don't go too far away from
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  Speaker 5: the Peabody. That was the message. I'm like, oh, my gosh,
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  Speaker 5: you've got hundreds of writers and their spouses in town,
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  Speaker 5: and you're telling people, don't get too far. And you
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  Speaker 5: know what I did? I went to the place Friday, Dylan.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to be proud of me. I went to
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  Speaker 5: the Chinese thing, the Good Fortune Company.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: The Chinese dumpling shop.
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  Speaker 7: And how was it?
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  Speaker 5: I met the lovely host. Well, I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 5: you how it was. So it's on South Main, which
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  Speaker 5: used to be like a bustling– I hadn't been up
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  Speaker 5: there in ages. It used to be a bustling area, right?
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  Speaker 5: All the shops, you know, very– it was like people
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  Speaker 5: your age. Yes. It was a ghost town. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: shops boarded up. But there were a few that were open,
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  Speaker 5: and so I went to the Good Fortune, this Chinese place.
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  Speaker 5: It was on Food Network, and so I wanted to go,
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  Speaker 5: you know, show a little bit of love to the locals.
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  Speaker 5: And so I go up there, and I guess there's
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  Speaker 5: some hostess named Mary– at the front desk there.
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  Speaker 12: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, 6364. Hello, I'm Mary. How many win
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  Speaker 5: your party? And I said, oh, it's just a little off-putting.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it throws you for a loop. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: I'll just, one, please. Right this way. So Mary seats me,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't know what her name was, but his name.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure. Anyway, I get seated, and.
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  Speaker 5: And I was trying to, it's one of those places
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  Speaker 5: that you go into and you realize you're not cool
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  Speaker 5: enough to be in this place.
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  Speaker 11: Really?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I just realized right away. So, but then, so I
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  Speaker 5: ordered and I thought, you know what? I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: try to, I'm going to step out of my comfort
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  Speaker 5: zone and I'm going to order a, I ordered some,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, some lemonade. It was called Ube Lemonade.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I thought, okay, well, that sounds good. And it's hot outside.
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  Speaker 5: I had to walk a little way, so I was
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  Speaker 5: feeling parched. So anyway, the waitress, she came over. And
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  Speaker 5: the other thing is they put me right behind the stand,
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  Speaker 5: the host stand.
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  Speaker 7: Unfortunate placing there.
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  Speaker 5: That was my view.
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  Speaker 7: You just couldn't move past it.
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  Speaker 5: No, that was my view.
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  Speaker 7: You just physically couldn't move past it. It was there.
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  Speaker 2: It was there.
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  Speaker 5: So all of that may have flavored my entire experience.
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  Speaker 5: But anyway, the lemonade comes out, and it looks like,
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  Speaker 5: have you ever had this ube lemonade?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, I have.
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  Speaker 7: There's a small garden in there.
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  Speaker 5: It's nasty. It was so nasty. And it looked like grape.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't even look like lemonade. And I think that
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  Speaker 5: was what was all putting about it. And so anyway,
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  Speaker 5: the ladies next to her, there were these ladies, young
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  Speaker 5: ladies next to me. And they're like, oh, that looks
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  Speaker 5: so refreshing. So I'm like, sir, can you please tell
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  Speaker 5: us what you ordered? So I all of a sudden
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  Speaker 5: was like helping them order. And I realized, holy crap,
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  Speaker 5: I'm the cool guy here.
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  Speaker 7: You're the hostess now.
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  Speaker 5: I wasn't wearing a skirt though.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you just missed one piece.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So you became the cool guy in the dumpling place.
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  Speaker 13: I did.
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  Speaker 12: I did.
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  Speaker 5: May I just say it was okay. I'm not a
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  Speaker 5: big fan of that mayonnaise stuff they put in the rice.
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  Speaker 5: But it was good. I liked it. Would I go back?
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  Speaker 5: Probably not.
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  Speaker 7: Fair enough.
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  Speaker 5: But it was good.
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  Speaker 7: I like the big egg omelet thing. that they slice
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  Speaker 7: over the rice. That's what I like. I forget what
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  Speaker 7: it's called every time.
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  Speaker 5: We have gotten so far out of what we're talking
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  Speaker 5: about today, but I wanted to share with you, again,
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  Speaker 5: going back to, oh, by the way, and I left it.
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  Speaker 5: They're very cordial, very nice people. As I was getting
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  Speaker 5: ready to leave, Mary the hostess said, thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Come back again.
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  Speaker 5: And then I was on my way and just hoping
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  Speaker 5: my car was still there, which it was. So, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I guess I can chalk it up to being a
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  Speaker 5: good dad. Oh, this is funny. They gave me the chopstick.
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  Speaker 5: You have to ask for a fork. And so she
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  Speaker 5: realized she actually, the waitress came over. She had my
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  Speaker 5: back because, you know, I stabbed one of the dumplings.
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  Speaker 5: I just took one and stabbed it. And I was
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  Speaker 5: like munching on it. And that apparently is not the
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  Speaker 5: appropriate way to do that.
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  Speaker 7: I can see how you would not be the cool
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  Speaker 7: guy in that restaurant now. I can see where it
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  Speaker 7: came from.
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  Speaker 5: I was trying. And they give you that big plastic spoon,
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  Speaker 5: you know, where you like dip into. It was all
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  Speaker 5: very confusing.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I should have gone to a burger joint, but it
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  Speaker 5: is what it is. All right. So all that to say,
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  Speaker 5: it was a great experience this weekend because it was
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  Speaker 5: a reminder. Nashville was a reminder. We don't have to
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  Speaker 5: live like this. that worrying about being carjacked, getting gas,
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  Speaker 5: or not wanting to go to the shopping mall because
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  Speaker 5: you're afraid of the thuglings, you don't have to live
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  Speaker 5: like that. There's a world out there. All right, 901-260-5926
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  Speaker 5: is our telephone number. I have meandered today. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 5: in the world of broadcast excellence, you know that I
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  Speaker 5: normally disagree right to the point. But today I have
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  Speaker 5: a lot on my mind. I didn't get back until
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  Speaker 5: 2 o'clock this morning, so I'm not working a lot
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  Speaker 5: of sleep, and we had a bunch of early morning
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  Speaker 5: book interviews. All that to say, we will be caffeinated,
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  Speaker 5: and we will deliver the show that you expect for
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  Speaker 5: us to deliver. That brings us to Olive Branch, Mississippi,
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  Speaker 5: which ironically is right here in the Memphis metro area.
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  Speaker 5: And the mayor of Olive Branch... is all upset. What's
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  Speaker 5: his name? Ken Adams is his name. And Mayor Adams
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  Speaker 5: making national headlines in the New York Post because he
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  Speaker 5: refused to lower the American flag to honor Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 5: He said that there's no doubt that Dolly brought joy
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  Speaker 5: to millions of people, but he says that honoring her
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  Speaker 5: by lowering the flag would diminish the act of lowering
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  Speaker 5: the flag. The mayor says the flag should only be
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  Speaker 5: lowered to honor military heroes, first responders, and presidents. I'm
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  Speaker 5: wondering if you agree or disagree with the mayor's reasoning here.
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  Speaker 5: The reaction has been insane. Thousands of people have weighed in.
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  Speaker 5: The New York Post picking up the story. Most overwhelmingly
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  Speaker 5: object to what the mayor did. And I'm thinking here,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Mr. Mayor, really, is that the hill that
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  Speaker 5: you really want to die on here? I mean, I know,
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  Speaker 5: you know, as a mayor, you're going to be faced
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  Speaker 5: with a lot of controversial decisions. You know, you're going
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  Speaker 5: to get yourself embroiled in all sorts of crazy scandals.
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  Speaker 5: And you're going to need goodwill, right? You've got to
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  Speaker 5: stock up on the goodwill. And you're telling me, Mr. Mayor,
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  Speaker 5: that's the hill that you want to die on? I
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  Speaker 5: don't know about that. Anyway, President Trump ordered that flags
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  Speaker 5: be flown at half-staff, as did Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves.
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  Speaker 5: But there's something in Mississippi called home rule, and that
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  Speaker 5: means that the local municipalities can override the whatever the
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  Speaker 5: governor says, or in this case, whatever the president says.
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  Speaker 5: So Mayor Ken Adams says that he knows better than
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  Speaker 5: Donald J. Trump, and he knows better than Mississippi Governor
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  Speaker 5: Tate Reeves. And he says, we refuse to lower the flag.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just curious, do you think the mayor made the
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  Speaker 5: right decision here? It just seems to me, Dylan, that
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  Speaker 5: maybe he should just rethink all of this and say,
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  Speaker 5: you know what? We got one more day, right? She
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  Speaker 5: died on Tuesday. It's a whole week. He got one
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  Speaker 5: more day. Why can't the mayor just get out there?
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  Speaker 5: And you know why? Because he's stubborn and he's pigheaded.
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  Speaker 5: That's why he won't do it. But what he ought
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  Speaker 5: to do is lower the flag just for a day.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, extend an olive branch in Olive Branch, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 5: Going to take a break. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. President Trump
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  Speaker 5: sat down with Trey Gowdy and gave a terrific interview.
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  Speaker 5: We've got some great audio from that. Also, we're going
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  Speaker 5: to be playing some clips. from the Q & A
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  Speaker 5: that we did last night at Franklin Road Baptist Church
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  Speaker 5: with the pastor there, Joel Morris and Norris and Gabe Delaney.
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  Speaker 5: Just a wonderful, wonderful time. A lot of great content.
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  Speaker 5: Hang tight, everybody. This is the Todd Stern Show.
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  Speaker 5: All right, President Trump. Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. President
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  Speaker 5: Trump says Iran is officially a failed state, failed nation.
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  Speaker 5: It is dead. I want to read this to you.
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  Speaker 5: This is from the President's Truth Social. Iran is officially
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  Speaker 5: a failed nation.
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  Speaker 7: It is dead.
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  Speaker 5: That's all camps, by the way. They have no Navy.
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  Speaker 5: They have no Air Force. They have no currency. They
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  Speaker 5: are not paying their soldiers or Popo. That's the urban
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  Speaker 5: slang for police. Inflation is at 300%, and their leadership
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  Speaker 5: is in total disarray and incapable of properly representing the country.
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  Speaker 5: The only thing they have is fake news from the USA,
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  Speaker 5: a willingness to kill their protesters, now over 100,000 people dead.
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  Speaker 5: They must be tried for war crimes against humanity and
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  Speaker 5: a good line of BS. B-U, hockey stick, hockey stick.
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  Speaker 5: A blank word. That's what he, yeah, he wrote it
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  Speaker 5: out in all camps. Thank you for your attention to
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  Speaker 5: this matter, President Donald J.
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  Speaker 9: Trump.
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  Speaker 5: So, look, I hope, I have no reason to doubt.
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  Speaker 5: What the president is saying here, I'm just wondering, why
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  Speaker 5: are we still at war with these people? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: if it really is a failed nation, what are we
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  Speaker 5: dealing with? And what does that look like moving forward?
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  Speaker 5: That's all I'm wondering. I think people are ready to
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  Speaker 5: move on. They're ready to get back to life. They
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  Speaker 5: want the gas prices to come down. They want the
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  Speaker 5: grocery prices to come down. They want the price of
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  Speaker 5: a pound of ground beef to come down so we
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  Speaker 5: can enjoy a burger on, what, Labor Day weekend coming up.
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  Speaker 5: But President Trump, making it official, says Iran is officially
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  Speaker 5: a failed nation. By the way, Vice President J.D. Vance
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  Speaker 5: is clarifying something that happened earlier. The vice president said
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  Speaker 5: that the president's recent social media posts are meant to
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  Speaker 5: send a message to Iran over its alleged attacks on
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  Speaker 5: commercial shipping. And again, if it's a failed state, who
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  Speaker 5: are we blowing up? So when something gets shot at
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  Speaker 5: or they're targeting the ships, who exactly? I mean, if
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  Speaker 5: it's a failed state and there is no leadership anymore,
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: who are we blowing up over there? So anyway, Vance
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: telling reporters the president likes to switch it up on
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: social media a little bit. And he talked to reporters,
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: and he said that Trump would be the very first
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: to say he doesn't make announcements about military action on
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: social media. Oh, that's the blowing up Karg Island. We
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: really didn't do that. It's AI. The president's just joking around.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Hang tight, everybody. We'll be right back. Wow, terrible story
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: out of the Grand Canyon National Park where they have
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: these huge floods, these flash floods. That caused all sorts
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: of damage and destruction. Lots of people had to evacuate.
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: We understand at least what two people are dead and
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: at least 20 people may still be missing as a
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: result of the floods. But apparently it's getting a lot
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: worse than that. And the images are just shocking. You know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: one minute you got dry land and the next thing
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: you know, man, you're knee deep in water. So apparently
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: the floods, not only did they destroy nearly all the
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: footbridges in the Bright Angel Canyon area, this is Phantom Ranch.
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: And apparently it also knocked out the Trans Canyon waterline.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: So this is the waterline that supplies water to the
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: park So now they're having to shut down overnight lodging.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: You can't stay there because they have all these water
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: restrictions in place anyway. Just shocking, shocking images. We have
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: those over at ToddStearns.com. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
• 20:23
  Speaker 15: That's 901-260-5926.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: So the president had something to say in this interview
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: about what he did with Fox News. on data centers.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: And this seems to be a huge controversy in communities
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: all over America. Folks are saying, not in my backyard.
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: They do not want these data centers in their towns,
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: in their communities. Here's President Trump cut to. Do you
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: want Republican candidates to take the same AI, take the
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: same message on data centers that you are?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: No, I want them to do what they want.
• 20:56
  Speaker 12: Some people feel differently.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I really want them.
• 20:59
  Speaker 12: If a Republican's against the data center, that's okay with me.
• 21:02
  Speaker 12: I'm only saying that if I ran a community, now
• 21:05
  Speaker 12: there are different types of communities, but generally speaking, if
• 21:09
  Speaker 12: I ran a community, if I was a mayor or
• 21:11
  Speaker 12: if I was a governor in a state, I would
• 21:14
  Speaker 12: want to have the data centers because they bring tremendous
• 21:18
  Speaker 12: income They're clean. They produce their own energy. The new
• 21:22
  Speaker 12: ones are producing their own energy. I would want to
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: have data centers.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: So there you have it. The president says data centers
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: are great. Here's my question. How many data centers are
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: currently being built in Palm Beach? Just want to throw
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: that out there. And one of the interesting things here
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: about these data centers, they are being built in depressed areas,
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: but If they're so great, why not just build one
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: instead of who needs a country club, right? Why not
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: just plop down a big data center right in the
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: middle of the golf course there? What about Bedminster? Right
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: across the street, it looks like a lot of farmland.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Why not just plop one over there? So I get
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: what he's saying. And okay, if we need the data centers,
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: we need the data centers. But let's get real. You
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: better believe that if Elon wanted to build the data
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: centers in Donald Trump's backyard, I think the president would
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: probably have an issue with that. I'm just saying. Anyway,
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: it was an interesting thing the president had to say
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: about the data center issue. That is just, it's beyond
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: me why people are so enraged over it, but it
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: is what it is. All right, I want to play this.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: President Trump, in this interview... now says he will not
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: take a single day off to help Republicans win the
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: midterm elections. Cut number 12.
• 22:53
  Speaker 16: Democrats take the House or Senate. They're going to investigate
• 22:57
  Speaker 16: and they're going to impeach.
• 22:59
  Speaker 7: They're going to.
• 22:59
  Speaker 16: Let's look at the other side of that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: If you defy history, if you keep the.
• 23:04
  Speaker 16: House and the Senate or become the third in history
• 23:07
  Speaker 16: to do it, What can voters expect from the last
• 23:10
  Speaker 16: two years of your term?
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: When you're president, whether you're a Republican or Democrat or
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: whether you're a good president or a bad president, you
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: lose the midterms. Nobody knows why. So it's been two
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: over 50 years. There's been two victories by a president
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: that won and then went on to win the midterms.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: And one of them was a little bit of a fluke.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: And so for some reason. the voters tend to go
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: the other way. I think we're going to do very
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: well because we have communists, we have a party that's
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: been infiltrated by bad thought, by bad policy. I used
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: to talk about socialism, but this isn't socialism. This is
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: largely communism. I look at the people running like in Michigan.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: I watched this interview the other day with Jesse, and
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: I said, wow, this man is out of it. This
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: is very dangerous for our country. I'm not saying good guy,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: bad guy. I'm just saying this is big, big trouble
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: for our country. Likewise, many others. And what's happened is
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: you're seeing Democrats, of which there are fewer and fewer,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: are forced to vote in a way that they would
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: not vote. And they don't even believe in their vote.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: But if they don't vote that way, they lose power.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: With all of that being said, I think we're going
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: to do well. And I'm going to go campaign like
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I did. You know, I took off when we had
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: the presidential election. I took off 120 days, four months.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: Every single day I was on the trail. And if
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: I didn't make one or two or three speeches, I
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: felt guilty. And Kamala, when I looked at her schedule,
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: because you know where they're printed schedules, she took all
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: this time off. She didn't really campaign very hard. And
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: I said, wait a minute, you're going for the gold ring.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: You're going to make America great again. You're going to
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: do you got to go every single day. So it's
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: 120 days. So I campaigned for 120 days without missing
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: a day.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: So do you think that's going to move the needle,
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen? Do you believe that President Trump being
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: out on the campaign trail is going to lead to
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: massive victories today? For the Republicans in the midterms, you know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Trump's not on the ballot here. And one of the
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: big challenges among Republicans when Trump is not on the ballot, well,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: the Republicans, they don't vote. They just stay home. So
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: I'm wondering if this strategy, you know, they're doing this
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: big two-day rally in Dallas, which is a complete technical disaster,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: and we'll get into more of that. I mean, we've
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: been working with the RNC on just the logistics of
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: trying to do the radio show there, and it's just insane.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Nobody knows what's going on. But setting that aside, the
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: president wants to use that as sort of like the
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: jumping-off point for the midterm elections. And my question is,
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: will that do it? Is that enough? And would you
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: decide to— many of you have said, I'm not going to
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: go vote. Would that change your mind if President Trump
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: is out on the campaign trail campaigning for these candidates?
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: I'm just curious about that. Or is this really a
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: referendum on how the Republicans have behaved up on Capitol Hill?
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: And that right now, I can't tell you. I'm not
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: ready to go down that path. And I want to
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: get past Labor Day. And I think at that point,
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: we're going to have a pretty good idea, a pretty
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: good tell on the mood of the people. Because right now,
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: it's just, I mean, there is a lot of conjecture. Now,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: we can extrapolate from the primaries, and there's been low
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Republican turnout. There's a big enthusiasm gap. The question is,
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: will President Trump and will you allow President Trump to
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: bridge that enthusiasm gap? I mean, that's really the broad
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: question here. By the way, there's a UMass poll out,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: and I'm just sharing this. I'm sharing it with you
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: so you can be aware. Over two-thirds of Americans disapprove
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: of President Trump's handling of the Iran war. Four in
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: five say the war has increased food and gas prices.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: The UMass poll finds Trump's overall approval down to 32 percent,
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: as Republicans' approval of the president has fallen 14 points
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: since March. One in six Trump voters say they would
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: not vote for him again. Well, he can't run again,
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: so what's... I don't know why that is an issue.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: But again, if President Trump wants to frame the midterms
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: as really a referendum on his job performance, how do
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: you grade the president? What sort of a grade would
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: you give the commander-in-chief if, in fact, that is what
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: we're going to be doing? Because that does change the
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: dynamic just a smidge when you're out there campaigning. Because
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: now it's not about you, the individual candidate. It's about
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Donald J.
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: Trump.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: All right, 901-260-5926. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on that.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: That's 901-260-5926. So I told you that last night I
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: was honored to be at the Franklin Road Baptist Church,
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: and the pastor there, Dr. Joel Norris, great guy, the
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: history teacher there at the Christian school, Gabriel Delaney, and
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Gabriel's been on this show a number of times, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: so we sat down for a Q & A about
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: the Golden Age, and I wanted to play a clip
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: here on some of the things that Christians need to
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: be aware of. Cut number four.
• 28:59
  Speaker 17: What are some things you're seeing right now in America
• 29:03
  Speaker 17: that you think Christians need to be aware of? And
• 29:05
  Speaker 17: here's the reason why is I think that probably we
• 29:07
  Speaker 17: all understand that there's a lot that gets blasted out,
• 29:10
  Speaker 17: but not always what is blasted out is what is
• 29:13
  Speaker 17: of vital importance. And so we want to take just
• 29:16
  Speaker 17: a moment and kind of lay some foundational groundwork of
• 29:18
  Speaker 17: what are some things that you're seeing right now that
• 29:21
  Speaker 17: you feel like that Christians need to be aware of?
• 29:23
  Speaker 17: What are we not seeing? What are we not hearing?
• 29:26
  Speaker 17: And I would love to take, let's start with Gabe,
• 29:28
  Speaker 17: why don't you start with that and And then we'll
• 29:30
  Speaker 17: just go ahead and let you knock it out of
• 29:31
  Speaker 17: the park the first time, all right?
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: I think one of the biggest things that Christians face today,
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: if you look in your word, in God's word, you
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: see that the most foundational institution that God created, it's
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: not government, it's not the church, it's actually the family.
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: And I think the biggest attack on Christians today is
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: the attack on the family, the emasculation of fathers, the
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: singularization of mothers, the attack on children through public school systems,
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: through social media, and then most blatantly the abortion of
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: the unborn. And I think that is probably hands down
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: the biggest attack that Christians face is that our families
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: are being attacked each and every day. And we as Christians,
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: as parents, you guys, and even as kids, we need
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: to make sure that we're staying strong, that we're keeping
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: families close to Christ. that we're developing our bonds with
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: each other because that's where the devil is trying to
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: attack us. It's easy to attack through the government. It's
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: easy to infiltrate as wolves in sheep clothing in the church,
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: but the family has to remain strong. That is the
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: basic unit of all of society. So I think that's probably,
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: as Christians, where the biggest attack is coming from.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: And this is why Gabe is our expert guest on
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: the radio show with that terrific answer there.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: I think the country started going squirrely about the time
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Chick-fil-A tried to start serving something called cauliflower chicken. Remember that?
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: The cauliflower chicken. And then Cracker Barrel went vegan on us.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: I thought, oh, boy, that's not good. But, no, I
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: think there are some big issues that we need to
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: be aware of in the country. One is the rise
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: of what we're calling political Islam. And this is a
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: very dangerous thing. for all of us who are Christians.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: And I think we need to be very much aware
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: that this is something that has infiltrated our nation. This
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: was not something organic. This happened during the previous administration,
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: which quite frankly, led to some very dark things happening
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: in our nation and within the government itself. You know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: the other thing that I think is a danger is
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: the rise of communism. Now, they're going to say it's
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: democratic socialism. There's nothing democratic about it. It's just full-blown socialism.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: And this is something that Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Reagan fought back in the 1950s and 60s. And what
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: is old is new again. And the way they've done
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: it is they've infiltrated our nation's education system. And this
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: is really the engine driving every single radical agenda in
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: our nation, from the sex and gender stuff to socialism, communism,
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: to even Islam. Now, earlier today, the governor of New
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: York State, Kathy Hochul, actually covered herself with a hijab
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: as a way of... bowing down to the Islamist there
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: in New York State. So I talk about these things
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: in the book. It's a celebration of the great things
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: that have happened in America. But ultimately, if you've seen
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: the cover, it was intentional about the roaring 20s and
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: the great Gatsby-like cover, because after the roaring 20s came
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: the Great Depression. So we have to pay very close
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: attention to what's happening in the culture at large. All right,
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: just a snippet there. We've got plenty more of those,
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: and we'll work those in through the show today. Again,
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Franklin Road Baptist Church, and just had a wonderful time
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: at about, I think, 700, 800 people turned out last
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: night for the conversation and signed a lot of books
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: afterwards and met a lot of wonderful, wonderful people. By
• 32:54
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• 32:56
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• 34:00
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• 34:03
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• 34:09
  Speaker 5: just crazy, crazy situation there in the Grand Canyon. ToddStearns.com.
• 34:17
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• 34:23
  Speaker 5: at Young America's Foundation. They have a new study out,
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: and we'll be talking about the downfall of the country's
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: education system. This was actually a topic of conversation last night,
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: and we talked about the importance and really challenging every
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: church in America to start their own Christian school. And
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: that's going to be a fun topic. Rob Tandy joining
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: us from Young America's Foundation. Also, a little bit later on,
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: Wendy Patrick will be here. The latest on the Lindsey
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: Clancy verdict. We're still waiting for the jury to come out,
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: and this is not good. Judge sent the jury home
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: over the weekend. They did not sequester the jury. So
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: you better believe, and it's all in the honor system.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: So do you really believe that? Do you really believe
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: the jurors in that case are not reading up? on
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: all of the media coverage, you know they're reading everything.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: So anyway, we'll see how all of that... All of
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: that plays out. Harry Hurley and Steve Gill are going
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: to be here as well. Got to talk some politics,
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: big political news over the weekend, and we'll get to
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: that with those guys as well. Also, we've got more
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: audio from President Trump and this Fox interview he did.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: And the CEO of Buc-ee's is in the news. He
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: actually said the company is going to focus on building
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: in conservative red states and not blue states. Makes perfect
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: sense to me. Cut number nine.
• 35:55
  Speaker 11: Opportunities, we're growing, we're building in a lot of places.
• 36:00
  Speaker 11: But when you find a conservative, business-friendly state with a
• 36:06
  Speaker 11: phenomenal workforce, it makes a difference. and I'm starting to
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: realize life's too short to try to build in places
• 36:15
  Speaker 11: that people don't appreciate what you're bringing versus a place
• 36:19
  Speaker 11: like this where people do appreciate what you're building.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, just opened up a store right outside of Little Rock,
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: and that's where he was interviewed. I don't blame the
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: guy one bit, right? Why would you want to subject
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: yourself to the turmoil of having to start a business
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: in a blue state where they're going to rob you
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: blind anyway? So good for him. I think that's a
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: pretty smart Pretty shrewd business model. By the way, Dylan,
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: I forgot to tell you about this. They've got an
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: In-N-Out in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
• 36:48
  Speaker 7: No way. Did you go?
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: We went to Firebirds, which was right next door to it.
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: You know, I've got to eat healthy. They offered to
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: take me there, but I said, no, no, no. But
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: one of the things, this is the news nugget here.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: We were wondering about the palm trees, you know, because
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: they're planting the palm trees. They died.
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: That's tragic.
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: Terrible so i think they're planting like regular trees look
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: it's tennessee i we were we were debating that so
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: there you go so anyway by the way they were
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: doing brisk business out there as well welcome to tennessee
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: in and out burger all right hang tight everybody hour
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: two of the big show coming up this is the
• 37:31
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  Speaker 12: So.
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  Speaker 5: Dylan, I got a question for you. You're a big
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  Speaker 5: sports guy. Did you watch any of the NFL games
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  Speaker 5: over the weekend?
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  Speaker 7: I didn't even know we had NFL games because college
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  Speaker 7: football started, so I watched college football.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: How about the Memphis Tigers?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, how about those Tigers? That's a great win.
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  Speaker 5: So they went down to Vegas, and they were playing UNLV.
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  Speaker 5: Are they still the running Rebels?
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  Speaker 7: They're the Rebels.
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  Speaker 11: The Rebels.
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  Speaker 5: So you know what happened?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: They got jinxed. You know why?
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: You know why.
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  Speaker 7: They brought out the king.
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  Speaker 5: They brought out Elvis.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that was not a good move.
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  Speaker 7: We took that personally, for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Elvis is ours. We let them borrow Elvis in Vegas.
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  Speaker 7: And see what Vegas did to Elvis? That was terrible.
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they did. I mean, they got him hooked on
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  Speaker 5: drugs and the obesity.
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  Speaker 7: So many people were commenting and they were like, you
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  Speaker 7: know that Vegas was the worst part of Elvis' life.
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  Speaker 5: Like you're doing this to yourself. Um, I want you
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  Speaker 5: to go to toddsterns.com. We're going to have a conversation
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  Speaker 5: about the lead story here. Um, but the NFL has
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  Speaker 5: male cheerleaders and now I think they're adding even more
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  Speaker 5: male cheerleaders to the, um, to their roster. And so
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  Speaker 5: Philadelphia and I think it's Philadelphia and the Patriots, they've
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  Speaker 5: got male cheerleaders, and these are not like your typical
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  Speaker 5: male cheerleaders. I mean, when you're in college, there are
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  Speaker 5: male cheerleaders, but their job is to basically throw the
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  Speaker 5: girls up in the air and basically catch them And
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  Speaker 5: then be the base of all the big pyramids and
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  Speaker 5: things of that nature.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: They're usually strong. They could be on the football team
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  Speaker 7: if they had to sub in.
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  Speaker 5: Gymnastics.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They're kind of like in a gym. And they're guys.
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  Speaker 5: They're just regular guys. So the NFL, though, decided to
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  Speaker 5: go in a different direction. Are you looking at the video?
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  Speaker 8: I am.
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  Speaker 7: Unfortunately, I'm looking at the video of the Eagles cheerleader
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  Speaker 7: right now.
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  Speaker 5: So I just wonder why the– first of all. First
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  Speaker 5: of all, the Patriots guy is in a onesie.
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  Speaker 9: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: And I just think that may be the first one. ToddStearns.com,
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  Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen. Go and check out the story titled,
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  Speaker 5: Can We Talk About the NFL's Male Cheerleaders? Because we
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  Speaker 5: need to talk about this. They're going viral on social.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, proceed with caution, by the way. There's a lot
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  Speaker 7: of gyrating going on here that I didn't wish that
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  Speaker 7: I saw.
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  Speaker 5: And a guy shouldn't gyrate like that in a onesie.
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 5: And he's shaking a onesie he's shaking his pom-poms yeah
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  Speaker 5: go patriots go boys you.
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  Speaker 7: Know they had to spend extra money just on his
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  Speaker 7: uniform right.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah but i'm not i'm not sure the women
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  Speaker 5: would be caught dead wearing that thing no and then
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  Speaker 5: what is the what is the patriot here's the thing
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  Speaker 5: um the guy for the eagles what's up with that he.
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  Speaker 7: Just looks like a fan they grabbed off the stand
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  Speaker 7: like Take these pom-poms and go out there and do
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  Speaker 7: your thing.
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  Speaker 5: That's exactly what it looks like. I'm like, holy cow.
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  Speaker 5: So a lot of people are like, what is going
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  Speaker 5: on here? Why is the NFL doing this? Literally no
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  Speaker 5: one wants to see this. Is this true? Is this true? Now,
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  Speaker 5: there is some speculation that ultimately this is about wanting
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  Speaker 5: to attract, I don't know, a gay audience to the NFL.
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  Speaker 5: But Dylan, hear me out on this, and I have
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  Speaker 5: a couple of questions for our gay listeners. First of all,
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  Speaker 5: is that attractive to you? Do you find a grown
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  Speaker 5: man in a onesie shaking his pom-poms and gyrating on
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  Speaker 5: the sidelines, do you find that attractive? And it seems
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  Speaker 5: to me, Dylan, that the NFL already has a gay audience.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Because they're watching the football players.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, they're not watching the cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 7: Male cheerleaders, no. They're watching the football players.
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  Speaker 5: They're watching the football players, even the lesbians.
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  Speaker 7: The lesbians can watch the cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't think so. I don't think they– you know,
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  Speaker 5: the lesbians– well, okay, maybe. I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Not the male cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 5: Did you ever see The Replacements?
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  Speaker 7: No, I haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you've got to watch this. One of the best
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  Speaker 5: football movies, Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, and it was based
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  Speaker 5: somewhat on a real story of when the NFL went
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  Speaker 5: on out on strike and they brought in the replacement players.
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  Speaker 5: So it's called The Replacement. It is the best. It
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  Speaker 5: is so funny. Those of you who have seen the movie,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I'm talking about. They brought in the cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 5: They had to go because the cheerleaders were not crossing
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  Speaker 5: the picket line. So they went to a local dancing establishment,
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  Speaker 5: and they got some of the dancing girls. And they
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  Speaker 5: set up shop right there on the sidelines. And the
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  Speaker 5: funniest thing in the movie was, They were dancing provocatively
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  Speaker 5: and distracting the other team while they were in their huddle.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, whatever works.
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  Speaker 5: And the coach is like, you can't do that. Tell
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  Speaker 5: that woman to get out that other woman. It's a
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  Speaker 5: great movie.
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  Speaker 7: It sounds like it.
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  Speaker 5: All that to say, God only knows what that scene
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  Speaker 5: would look like nowadays. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 7: This is rough. I don't know if I would ever
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  Speaker 7: want to see that. I mean, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 7: watch the cheerleaders anyway. I'm watching the game.
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  Speaker 5: Well, my question, and because you know the camera guys,
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  Speaker 5: this is the only reason guys like to work the
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  Speaker 5: cameras at the NFL games is they want to get
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  Speaker 5: those crowd shots, right? Or they want to get to
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  Speaker 5: the cheerleaders. I'm not sure you're going to have many
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  Speaker 5: manly camera operators filming that.
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  Speaker 7: I bet you they'll try, and it's not going to
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  Speaker 7: work out well. You'll see everyone turn off their TV
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  Speaker 7: at that moment right then.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just going to make a recommendation. I don't begrudge
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  Speaker 5: these guys at all. I'm just saying, really? Do you
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  Speaker 5: have to behave like... I mean, is that wrong for
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  Speaker 5: me to even ask that question? I mean, is that
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  Speaker 5: how people.
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  Speaker 7: I just have never seen it before. And I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe there's guys out there that aspire to be NFL cheerleaders. Like,
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  Speaker 7: good for you. But I just don't know many people
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  Speaker 7: that would pay to watch cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 9: Like, At all.
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  Speaker 5: Male cheerleaders on Eagle Squad draw strong fan backlash. The
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  Speaker 5: Eagles have three male cheerleaders, and they're really not male cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 5: They're very effeminate. Is that a fair thing to say?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they really are effeminate.
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't begrudge it. It seems to me they
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  Speaker 5: would be better off at the WNBA. In all seriousness.
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  Speaker 7: That would fit pretty nicely.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, because they look better than most of
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  Speaker 5: the women. I'm just saying, they're more ladylike.
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  Speaker 7: Conventionally attractive, maybe. Helen wants the mic.
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  Speaker 5: They're not exactly classically beautiful.
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  Speaker 15: Todd, I think also what's next is, what about the
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  Speaker 15: furry crowd? Do you think next they're going to appeal
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  Speaker 15: to the mascots and dress them up? And maybe then
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  Speaker 15: the furry crowd will be in the NFL too.
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  Speaker 9: My.
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  Speaker 5: Lord, they've already got the mascots. What's the big weenie
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  Speaker 5: race they do, you know, where you have all the
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  Speaker 5: sausages running? That thing creeps me out. I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's a fair concern. Anyway, according to this
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  Speaker 5: is all happening right now on social media. They're saying
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  Speaker 5: that clips of their performances led to posts declaring men
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  Speaker 5: should not be cheerleaders. and vowing to skip NFL games. Now,
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  Speaker 5: here is the problem. Let's just say, I mean, if
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  Speaker 5: you're at, like, seat level with the cheerleaders, right, you're
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  Speaker 5: right there. Do you really want your kids watching a
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  Speaker 5: guy in a onesie gyrating in front of, you know,
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  Speaker 5: shaking his moneymaker?
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  Speaker 7: It's an expensive seat to be watching that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Supporters, though, highlight cheerleading's roots as a male-led activity. And
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  Speaker 5: the squad's athletic demand. Okay, there is nothing athletic about
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  Speaker 5: what that guy is doing. And again, I'm saying this
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  Speaker 5: is not like your traditional male cheerleading. And that's the
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  Speaker 5: whole point of this. This is more like, oh, what's the,
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  Speaker 5: in the basketball, the hoochie mama dances. You know, the
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  Speaker 5: girls come out there. Yeah. Simulate sex right there on
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  Speaker 5: the basketball court.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. This is not an athlete. This is not the
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  Speaker 7: Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders like performance. This is. This could be
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  Speaker 7: in a different place.
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  Speaker 5: This is borderline stripper territory. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 7: To say the least.
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  Speaker 5: One guy says, yeah, this will guarantee I keep not
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  Speaker 5: watching the NFL. No one, literally no one wants to
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  Speaker 5: see this. And I kind of feel bad for the
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  Speaker 5: guy because it looks to me like this dude's living
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  Speaker 5: his best life out there. Also, There's something about guys
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  Speaker 5: without hair on their legs. And if you've noticed, the
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  Speaker 5: guy's like, it looks like he's lathered up in some
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  Speaker 5: sort of suntan oil.
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  Speaker 7: Gosh.
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  Speaker 5: Or it could be extra. I doubt it's extra virgin.
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  Speaker 5: But I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Something's not right here.
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  Speaker 7: He's got to get those motor skills working. He's got
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  Speaker 7: to move a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Let's rally, boys.
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  Speaker 11: Let's rally.
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  Speaker 5: Let's rally. Go team! I don't know. Ah, there you go. 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: The NFL's so screwed. You know, may I just say this?
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  Speaker 5: Even baseball, I was just shocked. Many of these stands
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  Speaker 5: are empty. I mean, people are just, what's going on
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  Speaker 5: with sports? Are people just disinterested now?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I'm pondering that too. Baseball, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know. I feel like baseball games are just
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  Speaker 7: too long in general. Maybe that's why people don't go,
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  Speaker 7: but I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I will say this, folks. Go to toddsterns.com and watch
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  Speaker 5: the videos. And am I being over the top here? Because, again,
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  Speaker 5: the guy's in a onesie. You know, you could throw
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  Speaker 5: a hip out doing some of those moves. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just– I'm sort of mesmerized now. Yeah, absolutely. You
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  Speaker 5: got to be limber. You got to be limber. Or
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  Speaker 5: maybe the girls– no, I'm not going to. I can't
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  Speaker 5: go there.
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  Speaker 7: Go too far.
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  Speaker 5: I was about to go real far. 901-260-592. I was
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  Speaker 5: just going to say, get a couple of lesbian gals
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  Speaker 5: out there, a couple of linebackers, and maybe they could
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  Speaker 5: be like the new guys. the new male cheerleaders.
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  Speaker 7: Switch up the roles just a bit?
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  Speaker 5: May as well.
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  Speaker 7: They're the base.
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  Speaker 5: Nobody even knows what their pronouns are anymore in this country.
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: We've gone to hell in a handbasket. What's going on?
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  Speaker 5: All right, let's go to Danny in Selmer, Tennessee. Danny,
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  Speaker 5: I'm just curious. You're a man. Would you want to
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  Speaker 5: watch these male cheerleaders at the NFL games?
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  Speaker 13: Not at all, truly, honestly, no. But my fear is
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  Speaker 13: that we're going to have drag queen cheerleaders next, the
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  Speaker 13: way things are going.
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  Speaker 5: You know, don't even say that. Don't joke around about that, Danny.
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  Speaker 13: It's a scary time we're in. It's a scary time
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  Speaker 13: we're in.
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  Speaker 5: Sweet mercy. I know it's like you can't unsee. I
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  Speaker 5: can't unsee what I just saw on my own website.
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  Speaker 13: Have a blast.
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  Speaker 5: Danny, take care. All right.
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  Speaker 12: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: You know, just think about this. You're down at the
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  Speaker 5: machine shop, right? and you're talking with the guys, lunchtime
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  Speaker 5: and everything, and you pull out this video. Let me
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  Speaker 5: show you. My boys in the NFL, fellas, I'm just
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  Speaker 5: so proud. Little Blaine.
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  Speaker 7: You're terrible.
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  Speaker 5: I am terrible today, and I take full responsibility for this.
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  Speaker 5: All right, we've got to take a break. This is
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  Speaker 5: the Todd Stern Show. No, I'm just saying, Dylan, that
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  Speaker 5: it appears to me these guys, first of all, the
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  Speaker 5: dude has zero muscle development, no muscles at all. He's
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  Speaker 5: like a beanpole. And again, the whole point of having
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  Speaker 5: a male cheerleader out there is to protect the female cheerleaders, right?
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  Speaker 5: You're throwing them up in the air, you're catching them.
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  Speaker 5: I think the girls would be throwing this guy up
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  Speaker 5: in the air.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's not throwing anything.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 7: Zero athletic ability there.
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  Speaker 6: None.
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  Speaker 5: And it's almost as if he is cosplaying what he
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  Speaker 5: thinks is almost like a drag cheerleader in the sense
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  Speaker 5: that he thinks this is what a female cheerleader ought
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  Speaker 5: to do.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Because I don't know any female cheerleaders that do that.
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  Speaker 7: No, not in the NFL standards sense of the word.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, or even the high school level. You can get
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  Speaker 5: a little dicey there. I just think the football cheerleaders
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  Speaker 5: seem to be more traditional. And then when you have
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  Speaker 5: the basketball cheerleaders and the dance teams out there, those
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: are the ones that, you know, I'm surprised people aren't
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  Speaker 5: throwing dollar bills out there on the court.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Now, this NFL male cheerleader, he would fit in with
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  Speaker 7: a basketball dance team. That's what it's more likely resembling.
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  Speaker 5: But somebody made the decision at NFL headquarters that the
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  Speaker 5: average NFL fan wants to see more of this.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Don't know who that was, but it can't be someone
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  Speaker 7: who wants to make money, right?
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  Speaker 15: No.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. And it seems to me if you're
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: a gay dude, you're like, well, wait a second. Are
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: you kidding me? This is not what gay people are. So, I, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: It's all very strange. ToddStearns.com. Go watch the videos, and
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: you decide for yourself. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: I want to work in some audio here. This is
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: from our event we did last night at Franklin Road
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, doing a panel discussion on
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: the Golden Age. And cut number six, please.
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  Speaker 17: Would you spend just a few moments and share maybe
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  Speaker 17: some things that you've experienced that you've found helpful in
• 53:20
  Speaker 17: regards to just conversation around the truth? Pastor, I was
• 53:23
  Speaker 17: just shocked. We did our book launch signing in Memphis
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  Speaker 17: at a Barnes & Noble, and I'm just a lovable guy.
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: I don't know. We heard this huge commotion outside. Senator
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: Marsha Blackburn was with us and Congressman David Kostoff. And
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: all of a sudden the state troopers come in and
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: they say, we're being inundated. There was a mob of women,
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: woke white women, with nose rings and magenta hair, and
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: they stormed the Barnes & Noble book signing. And they
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: were saying all kinds of things that were inappropriate. And
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: so I just went over to them and we just
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: smiled and waved. And I tried to get them to
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: buy a copy of the book, but they didn't want
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: to do that. You know, you just have to be winsome,
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: I think, in your arguments. Sometimes you have to confront
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: absurdity with absurdity. At this hour, the WNBA is still
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: trying to figure out what the W stands for. And
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: I think some of the former NBA players' approach to
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: that is just absolutely brilliant because, again, it exposes the
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: absurdity of their arguments. So that's one of the challenges.
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: It's easy to be angry about something. But again, we're
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: supposed to be ambassadors for Christ. We're supposed to be
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: happy warriors. And we try to do that. Do I
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: accomplish that all the time? No, of course not. But
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: we really do try to do that. And I think
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: that's important to reeling the ultimate argument, which is where
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: are you going to be spending eternity? It was a
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: fun night last night and just had some great conversations.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: That congregation is really plugged in politically, asked a lot
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: of smart questions about politics and the rise of socialism,
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: the rise of communism in America. And we'll play some
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: more of that conversation in just a little while. Coming up, though,
• 55:10
  Speaker 5: we are excited to be able to talk to our
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: friends at Young America's Foundation. Rob Tandy is the new
• 55:16
  Speaker 5: media coordinator there, and they have been spotlighting a big
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• 56:27
  Speaker 5: All right. Welcome back, everybody. Great to have you with
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: us today. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Well, every
• 56:39
  Speaker 5: year our good friends over at Young America's Foundation release
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: a study called the Comedy and Tragedy Report talking about
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: the chaos that we're finding on many universities and especially
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: elite universities around the nation. And I want to go
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: right away to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and bring
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: into the conversation Rob Tandy, Media Coordinator for Young America's Foundation. Rob,
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: good to have you with us today.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me, Todd.
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: All right, well, let's get to the comedy first. So
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: we'll end on a positive note, a funny note. But
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: let's talk about the strategy. What did you guys discover
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  Speaker 5: in the study this year?
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, so we've been releasing this report all the way
• 57:22
  Speaker 18: back since 1995. And what we look at is course
• 57:26
  Speaker 18: catalogs and different academic programming that our teachers are teaching
• 57:32
  Speaker 18: the next generation. And what we found is this theme
• 57:37
  Speaker 18: of teaching the next generation of socialism, LGBTQ plus ideology,
• 57:43
  Speaker 18: identity politics, and they really get into the weeds on
• 57:47
  Speaker 18: race and gender. So it's a very, this is a
• 57:52
  Speaker 18: reoccurring theme that we've seen in this report, but it's
• 57:55
  Speaker 18: extremely important to highlight what's actually going on inside of
• 57:58
  Speaker 18: the classroom.
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  Speaker 5: All right, well, let's give us some of the most
• 58:02
  Speaker 5: egregious examples.
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  Speaker 18: So some of the most egregious examples in the report
• 58:08
  Speaker 18: are from the University of Pennsylvania. And if you don't mind,
• 58:10
  Speaker 18: let me run through a few of those. They offer
• 58:13
  Speaker 18: sex and socialism, white nationalism in the age of climate change.
• 58:18
  Speaker 18: I don't really understand what that's supposed to mean. And
• 58:22
  Speaker 18: one of the most important things I think we should
• 58:25
  Speaker 18: look at is they're teaching in their first year seminar
• 58:29
  Speaker 18: Marxism in the 21st century. So their goal is the
• 58:34
  Speaker 18: second that our young people are stepping onto these college campuses,
• 58:37
  Speaker 18: they're learning about socialism and how Marxism should be the
• 58:41
  Speaker 18: way moving forward in the 21st century. I mean, that's
• 58:43
  Speaker 18: an extreme problem. And University of Pennsylvania is not the
• 58:48
  Speaker 18: only one that's doing this. And it's obvious now why
• 58:53
  Speaker 18: the idea of socialism is so persistent. in America today,
• 58:59
  Speaker 18: it's because this is what's being taught at America's higher
• 59:02
  Speaker 18: education institutions now.
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  Speaker 5: It's insane. And I can't imagine anyone wanting to have
• 59:08
  Speaker 5: sex during a socialist or communist regime, but go figure.
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: Who knows? I am curious, though. I mean, look, my
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: understanding was the White House was cracking down the executive orders,
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: going after these universities that were advancing all this woke
• 59:25
  Speaker 5: ideology that And it's still here. Are you guys surprised
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: by that?
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  Speaker 18: Well, what we're seeing a lot of, and that's in
• 59:34
  Speaker 18: the report as well, these schools and higher education institutions,
• 59:39
  Speaker 18: they may be changing the names or the descriptions of
• 59:42
  Speaker 18: the courses that they're offering. But at the end of
• 59:45
  Speaker 18: the day, the ideological path and what they're actually teaching
• 59:49
  Speaker 18: has not changed. They're still teaching our students why socialism
• 59:54
  Speaker 18: is better. A lot of colleges even are teaching racial capitalism.
• 59:59
  Speaker 18: And that's a problem. And when you get to the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 18: end goal, they're not teaching our students how to think.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 18: They're not teaching them how to critically think and exchange
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 18: different ideas. What they're really doing is indoctrination. They're teaching
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 18: our students what to think, and they're telling our students
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 18: what to think. And that's the result.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: Rob Tandy joining us from Young America's Foundation, and their
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: annual report is out highlighting a lot of the chaos
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 5: on university campuses. Where are you guys getting all this information?
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: I know a lot of schools have been cracking down
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: on students who rat out their liberal professors and things
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: of that nature. How are you guys getting all this intel?
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 18: Well, a lot of these universities aren't ashamed of putting
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 18: this stuff out there.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 19: So a lot of it is public.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 18: And you could go right to their websites to find
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 18: all of these courses. And they're just listed in the
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 18: course catalog. To see all the courses listed, you could
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 18: go to YAF.org and see the full report. We look
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 18: at just over 90 schools from around the country and
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 18: hundreds and hundreds of different course offerings that they're offering.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 18: that our students are subject to taking. And I think
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 18: one really important thing to look at is the cost
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 18: of these classes. At Harvard University, it costs more than
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 18: $ 5, 000 to take some of these classes. So this is
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 18: what our students are paying for. And this is the
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 18: education that they're getting when in fact, it's not an
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 18: education at all. It's indoctrination.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 5: So we've talked about the tragedy here. Tell me about
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: some of the funny things you guys discovered.
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  Speaker 18: I think the whole, the culmination of the report, when
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 18: you're looking at it and you're reading these classes and
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 18: you're reading off on the report and you're like, there's
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 18: no way that this could be real. I mean, who
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 18: could possibly be teaching or taking queer studies and tech science?
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 19: How do those two go together?
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 18: That's part of the comedy.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 19: But again, if you look at just.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 18: If you look below the comedy, this is a serious
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 18: issue because this is what the youngest generation and the
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 18: next generation of leaders in this country is learning. So
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 18: I don't know how they're going to take any life
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 18: lessons out of queer science and technology. But, you know,
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 18: here we are.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, indeed. All right. Well, Rob, we appreciate you guys
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 5: and the great work you're doing at YAP. Again, spotlighting
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: the downfall of the country's education system. And again, you
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: can check out that entire report. It is a lengthy report.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: over at yaf.org. That's Y-A-F dot O-R-G. Rob, we're going
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: to leave it there. Thank you, sir.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Todd.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: Have a good one.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: All right. And we're going to take a quick break
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  Speaker 3: All right. We have been polling some of the gay
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: listeners of the Todd Stearns Radio Show audience.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 5: And they confirm what I suspected, Dylan, that they already
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: watch the NFL, but it's not the male cheerleaders they're watching.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 7: Fair enough, yeah. I figured that that would be the
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 7: consensus there.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 5: For the record, just want to put a pin there,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 5: put a bow on it, a lovely bow. Oh, my goodness. Look,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 5: I don't begrudge anybody. It's just weird, right? It's just weird.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, weird is the best way to put it.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 7: Not right.
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  Speaker 5: All I could... Yeah, exactly. It is not right. And
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: it's just the wrong sport. Why don't they do that
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: for hockey?
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 7: God, could you imagine? Actually, you would think football would
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 7: be the most intolerable of that. But like hockey, they
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 7: also beat each other up too. So I don't know.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: I think the reason why... Rush Limbaugh actually predicted that
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 5: the left would turn on football. And the reason why...
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: is because it represents the gender roles in America, right?
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: You have the big burly guys out there, and they're
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: on the gridiron. And then you've got the beautiful girls
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: that are the cheerleaders, and then you've got the fans
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: cheering for death and destruction, and blood, guts, and glory.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's America right there on a football field.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 5: And Rush correctly pointed out that the woke left would
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 5: do its gut-level best to try and destroy professional football,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 5: and honestly, football in general. And I think that's one
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: of the reasons why a lot of these football stadiums
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 5: are no longer filling up like they used to. But
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 5: that's just me.
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  Speaker 15: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: American flag to honor Dolly Parton. Do you believe that
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 5: the mayor did the right thing here? He's basically thumbing
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: his nose at President Trump. Ken Adams is the mayor.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: He's also thumbing his nose at the governor of Mississippi
• 1:05:37
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• 1:05:41
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  Speaker 5: the flag to honor military heroes and first responders who
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 5: have fallen or presidents. And I would contend, and somebody
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 5: actually pointed this out, that Dolly Parton has done a
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  Speaker 5: lot more than a lot of politicians in this country.
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  Speaker 6: And it's true.
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  Speaker 5: That's 901-260-5926. This crazy story involving the Daughters of the
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: American Revolution. Curious to hear your thoughts on this, ladies
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: and gentlemen. So a mom got a call, and you
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: would expect, let's just say this, you would expect that
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: when your daughter joins the Daughters of the American Revolution,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 5: there is an expectation that that she would be rooming
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 5: with another girl, right? Because the Daughters of the American
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 5: Revolution are for women, for girls. Anyway, Laura Logan had
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: this story on her podcast, and it turns out that
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: a woman says her daughter was invited to serve as
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: a page for the Daughters of the American Revolution. You
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 5: can imagine her surprise when the teenage girl calls home
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: in a panic. Mom, there's a man in my hotel room.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 5: A man.
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  Speaker 9: Man.
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  Speaker 5: It turns out the mom was so horrified. And you know,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 5: these ladies have money. The DAR girls, they got a
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 5: little money. The mom was so horrified, she got on
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 5: a plane, flew to the event, moved her daughter to
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 5: another hotel room, all at her own expense. So it
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 5: turns out, sure enough, that this young girl, this teenage girl,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 5: was serving as a page for the Daughters of the
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 5: American Revolution. And it turns out that a number of
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 5: young men who are biological men were assigned hotel rooms.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 5: So they were literally rooming with these young girls. And
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 5: moms were not told in advance. Cut number 15.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 20: Some of the moms got a call from their daughter saying,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 20: there's a man in my hotel room. I've been booked
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 20: in a room with another page who is a man.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 20: And it was physically obvious. So the mom gets on
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 20: her phone and she's calling the other chaperones trying to
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 20: figure out what's going on. And they just told her
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 20: it's not a big deal. They are an official member
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 20: of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 20: It's absolute insanity.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 21: That is absolute insanity. If I was a mother... And
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 21: my 18-year-old daughter had to share a room with a
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 21: man she never met, pretending to be a woman, so
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 21: he was obviously mentally unstable in the first place. I
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 21: don't even want to tell you what I do.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 20: One of the moms got on a plane, and she
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 20: went there, and she immediately booked a flight and booked
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 20: another hotel room for her daughter to go stay in.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: And took her daughter out.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 20: At her own expense, and she went up there and
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 20: got her.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, the problem with that is that it allows you
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 21: to protect your own child, but it does nothing to
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 21: protect all the others.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
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  Speaker 21: And it doesn't do anything to hold the organization accountable,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 21: and it doesn't do anything to stop it happening again.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 20: They've been fighting this for years now, trying to hold
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 20: their organization accountable and figure out what on earth is
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 20: going on here because they had no idea.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 5: Dylan, can we get Tyler Perry on the line? I've
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: got an idea for a new Madea movie. Madea joins
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: the Daughters of the American Revolution. Could you imagine? Here's
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 5: the problem. We need more big mamas in this country. Oh, yeah.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 5: You know, the grandmas, the old school grandmas, and they
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: will knock you into next Tuesday you pull something like this.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 7: They go to bed with a frying pan.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 4: They do.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 5: Cast iron skillet, baby. Cast iron skillet. And they got
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 5: a pistol on the other hand.
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 7: Nothing goes to waste.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 5: Could you imagine Madea, though, getting the call? Madea, there's
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 5: a man in my hotel room. Oh, hell no.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 5: Madea rushes in. I'm writing the screenplay as we're chatting.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 7: I like this.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 5: Madea flies to Washington. Hello.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 11: Hello.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 6: Hello.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 5: Stop.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 9: Stop.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 7: I've been working on that.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 5: So Medea goes up there, and she meets the head
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 5: of the DAR and says, Hello.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 10: Hello.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 7: What the hell?
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 6: Stop.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 7: That's what would happen.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 5: And they'll tell some, well, hello, Mrs. Medea, but we're
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 5: the Daughters of the American Revolution, and we believe, that
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 5: men can identify as women. Put the shut to the up. Hello?
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: Put the shut to the up. That'd be a great movie.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I would pay to watch that.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: I'd watch that. I sure would. I think it's on
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 5: Netflix now. They got a deal. So I would definitely
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 5: watch that. So anyway, yeah, this is insanity here. And
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: I just wonder how many other moms actually made the
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 5: effort to go and do something about it. I just
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 5: feel for the young girls, these teenage girls, they're put
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 5: in this incredibly awkward situation, and you know that they
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: were told by leadership, you just have to deal with this.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 5: You're the one with the problem. You're the one who
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 5: is transphobic. But this is the daughters of the American Revolution.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: They have been embroiled in this controversy for a long
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 5: time now. As a matter of fact, it was over
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 5: the summertime. The leadership, and the leadership is very liberal,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 5: very woke. The rank-and-file members are not, but they pulled
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: a fast one on the membership, and they rejected what
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 5: would have been a ban on transgender people. So they recognized,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 5: I think the rank-and-file recognized that we've got a problem here.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 5: We can't be having grown men running around in panty loons. No,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 5: you can't. Many of these ladies, I mean, they can
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 5: trace their families all the way back to the Mayflower.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 5: They can trace their families back to the American Revolutionary time.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: And the Daughters of the American Revolution is a very
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 5: important organization for them. And I'm pretty certain there were
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: no transgender people fighting in the American Revolution. I'm just
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 5: willing to step out on that one. I don't think
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 5: there were. But again, now a lot of these ladies
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: are now leaving the Daughters of the American Revolution, the DAR.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 5: They say they joined the Daughters of the American Revolution,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: not the dudes of the American Revolution. And there is
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 5: a smidge of a difference. I'm just saying. 901-260-5926 is
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Coming up, Wendy Patrick, Newsmax columnist,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 5: a career trial attorney in Southern California, San Diego. She's
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 5: going to join us with the very latest on the
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 5: Clancy verdict. Still waiting. We still do not have a
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: verdict in that trial. So we'll try to find out
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 5: what's going on with Wendy Patrick. Folks, there is, you know,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 5: at this point, There's a possibility she could be set free.
• 1:13:31
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• 1:13:34
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• 1:13:38
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• 1:13:40
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• 1:13:43
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• 1:13:45
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• 1:13:54
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Todd.
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  Speaker 19: Todd, great to be with you.
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  Speaker 20: Hi, Steve.
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  Speaker 5: Steve, I'm going to start with you. There's a crazy
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  Speaker 5: story out of Olive Branch, Mississippi, which is just right
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 5: outside of Memphis across the state line, where the mayor,
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 5: Ken Adams, says that he is going to defy President
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 5: Trump and the governor of Mississippi and not lower the
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 5: flag to have staff to honor Dolly Parton. What do
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 5: you make of that?
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  Speaker 2: You know, the whole world loves Dolly. The whole world
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: loved her and the whole world is grieving.
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  Speaker 6: I appear regularly on London TV and other outlets throughout
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 6: the world. And I had hosts calling me and telling
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 6: me that they were literally weeping at the news about
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 6: Dolly's passing. So I don't know why Olive Branch Mississippi
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 6: somehow disdains Dolly, other than you've got a pastor who's
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 6: putting his political Trump derangement syndrome ahead of love and
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 6: affection for Dolly Parton. because there is no other explanation
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 6: for it and certainly no excuse for it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Harry, what do you make of the other saying? Well,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 5: the mayor says, well, it should only be reserved for
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 5: fallen military personnel or presidents. There is precedent. It was
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 5: George Bush who lowered flags to honor Bob Hope back
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 5: in the day. So there is some precedent there. What's
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 5: your take on it?
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  Speaker 19: Well, I think I also remember, and she was from
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 19: New Jersey, that There were similar things done for Whitney
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 19: Houston when she died. Steve is exactly right. And if
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 19: he didn't say it, I would have. It's Trump derangement syndrome.
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  Speaker 2: That's all.
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  Speaker 19: If Barack Obama or Joe Biden wanted to lower the
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 19: flags to half staff for some star that had passed,
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 19: that had made contributions during their lifetime, No Republicans would
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 19: really complain, and no Democrats would complain. How is Dolly
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 19: Parton objectionable to anyone? She lived almost a perfect life,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 19: if there's such a thing. She gave to reading causes.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 19: She gave in ways we don't even know. Her generosity.
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  Speaker 19: She did Dollywood so that she could create jobs in
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 19: the Pigeon Forge area. So it is it is TDS.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 19: They've got it bad. And it's only because President Trump
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 19: did it or we wouldn't even be talking. about this
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  Speaker 19: right now.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Guys, I don't know if you've seen the news, but
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 5: the governor considering renaming Nashville International Airport in honor of
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 5: Dolly Parton. And our understanding is we've gotten a look
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 5: at what could be the newly designed airport, which includes
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 5: two giant... side-by-side rotundas with domes, giant domes, and apparently
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 5: one will be called Concourse D and the other Concourse
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 5: Double D.
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  Speaker 19: You went and did it. Keep in mind, that petition
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 19: was around since January of 2025. Within hours of her death,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 19: it had over 100,000 signatures, and there are people complaining
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 19: about that, just like the issue that you brought up, Todd,
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  Speaker 19: about the flag.
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  Speaker 6: Steve, I remember- Yeah, Todd, I think the boarding pass
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 6: designation for Nashville, if they do that, should be triple D. Now,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 6: get your minds out of the gutters, guys. That's Dolly, Dolly, Dolly.
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  Speaker 6: But people will want that boarding pass. They're going to
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 6: get it out of Dolly Parton International Airport. And I
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: think they're going to expedite that. By the way, the
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 6: University of Tennessee just announced today that they're going to
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 6: put a butterfly Dolly Parton symbol on their flag, on
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: the back of their helmets this football season.
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  Speaker 2: To honor Dolly at the University of Tennessee. So, uh,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: while Olive Branch, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 6: Made this Dane Dolly, the rest of the world is
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 6: still crying, weeping and, and the, uh, the Opry, uh,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 6: tribute to her. If you can watch that, particularly when
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 6: all the artists stand on stage, watch her sing, I
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 6: will always love you, uh, and not have a tear
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  Speaker 6: in your eye.
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  Speaker 2: You're not a real American.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, that was, that was pretty remarkable. I watched
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 5: that Steve. And, uh, Again, it's a silly thing. I mean, really,
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  Speaker 5: that's your hill to die on, Mr. Mayor? Okay, but whatever. Guys,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 5: I want to move on here. President Trump doing a
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 5: sit-down interview with Trey Gowdy over at Fox covered a
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 5: lot of ground. The president says that he's not going
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 5: to take any days off to help Republicans, or he
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 5: will take no days off. So we can help Republicans
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  Speaker 5: win the midterm election. So the president really does. It
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 5: seems like he wants to make this a referendum on
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 5: the job he has done. My question and Harry, I'll
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 5: let you start. And Steve, I want you to respond
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 5: as well. My question is, will that resonate with voters?
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  Speaker 5: Are they really going to go to the polls and
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 5: vote on Trump's job performance as opposed to the do
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 5: nothing Congress?
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 19: Well, President Trump's style is he's not just going to
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 19: sit back and let it happen. So he's going to
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 19: do everything that he can to try to positively impact it.
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  Speaker 19: My experience is when President Trump was on the ballot,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 19: we do better than when he's not on the ballot.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 19: It seems as though some of the support is not transferable,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 19: but the blame is 100% transferable. I'm very concerned. The
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 19: latest polling average will show you that all eight battleground U.S.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 19: Senate seats right now, even Abdul El-Sayed is ahead 100%.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 19: of Mike Rogers. I mean, how is this even possible?
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 19: They're eight for eight right now, the Democrats. We may
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 19: lose the House and the Senate.
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  Speaker 5: Steve, what say you?
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  Speaker 2: I agree with Harry.
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  Speaker 6: I think we're in deep trouble because of the lethargy
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 6: on the Republican side.
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  Speaker 2: And we saw it in some of the primaries. People
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: are not enthused. They're not excited. They're not turning out.
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  Speaker 6: We have the Shelby County Republican Party, who has closed
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 6: their doors until after Labor Day in this midterm election season.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 6: And I think President Trump needs to be going around
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 6: the country highlighting what he has done and what remains
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 6: and needs to be done. But I think he also
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 6: needs to go over to the U.S. Senate and start
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 6: kicking some of those senators in their rear ends. They
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 6: are refusing to fund the Senate race in Texas after
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 6: they spent millions to elect the RINO legacy, Darlene Graham Nordone,
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 6: in South Carolina, but they're willing to let Texas slip
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 6: away to the Democrats in Tallarico. President Trump needs to
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 6: be calling out the senators by name. He needs to
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 6: be dumping money into these races and directing it. And
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 6: it's time for him to take the gloves off and
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 6: go right at these senators who are willing to sacrifice
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 6: America because they've got their nose bent out of shape
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 6: because their precious rhinos didn't win primaries.
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  Speaker 2: And that includes guys we would normally trust.
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  Speaker 6: Like John Kennedy in Louisiana. He's one of the ones
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 6: leading the fight not to fund the race in Texas.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 6: Trump needs to take the gloves off and start slapping
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 6: these guys around.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I know, for example, in Georgia, I got a
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 5: note from a well-placed Politico there complaining about just the
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 5: lack of anything happening on the Republican side of the
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 5: aisle right now for any of the cases, from Rick
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 5: Jackson all the way to Mike Collins. So there's a
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 5: lot of concern there in Georgia about the Republicans getting
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 5: their act together. I mean, there's plenty of money, so
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 5: I just don't understand why the lethargy within the party itself.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 5: And Steve, you pointed out a couple of days ago
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 5: on TriStar Daily that the Shelby County Republican Party headquarters
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 5: in Memphis was actually shut down until after Labor Day. Meanwhile,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 5: the Democrats opened up their headquarters so that people could
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 5: recharge and get some air conditioning after the power was
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 5: knocked out.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, again, I think this just shows a deaf
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 6: ear by Republicans that, again, as Harry pointed out, when
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 6: Trump isn't on the ballot, MAGA voters tend to not
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 6: turn out. When Trump is not on the ballot, there's
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 6: lack of enthusiasm and grassroots attitude. And he can instill
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 6: it a little bit. He can go do rallies all
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 6: over the country, and that will help. But that's going
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 6: to talk to his base, and maybe that will get
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 6: them out. But you've got to reach independents. You've got
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 6: to reach disaffected Democrats.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: You think the DSA agenda.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 6: is off the rails, you've got to bring those people
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 6: to sanity and reality and the difference in good and
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 6: evil in this campaign.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: And it's going to take more than President Trump doing that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Harry, here's my concern. You've got this, whatever
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 5: it is, in Dallas. There's a lot of confusion. The
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 5: coordination and the logistics are a complete disaster. I only
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 5: know that because we've been trying to work with them
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 5: to do our show from down there. And I finally decided,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 5: you know what, guys, it's not worth it. It's just
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 5: not worth it. And, yeah, look at the calendar, Harry.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 5: September the 10th, it's the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 5: And then September 11th, you've got the 25th anniversary of
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 5: the 9-11 attacks. And you know that is going to
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 5: be sucking up all the oxygen in the news world.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 19: Yeah, it's true.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 5: It makes no sense to me.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 19: And look, I mean, maybe today Judge Groff is finally
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 19: going to say, hey, there's probable cause– to put the
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 19: suspect on trial for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. How
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 19: about we're going to be lucky if we get a
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 19: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial by 2028? 27 years after the fact,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 19: some of this stuff is just mystifying.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Steve, again, you've been doing this a long time.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 5: I don't want to keep going back to the conspiracy theory,
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 5: but it just seems to me the Republicans are doing
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: their best to try to lose this midterm election.
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 6: Well, you have a lot of Republicans in the Senate
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 6: that I think feel more comfortable screaming about what needs
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 6: to be done rather than getting up off their, as
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 6: you say, pressured assurance and getting up off their rear
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 6: ends and actually doing something. And again, if we don't
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 6: start doing and quit talking, voters are not going to
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 6: embrace giving us more.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: Time to do more when we've done so little.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Harry, jump in on that.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 19: Just a quick follow-up. Thanks, Todd. Steve is on point
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 19: as usual. Think about this. If John Cornyn had won
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 19: the primary election and not Paxton, we would not be
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 19: talking about it. The money would flow in. The support
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 19: would be there. They don't like that Paxton won. I
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 19: don't think John Thune likes that Paxton won. And I
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 19: think it was Steve that said a few weeks ago
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 19: on your show, Todd, that maybe Republicans want to be
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 19: in the minority because it's just easier. It's hard being
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 19: in the majority.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 9: It's hard.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 19: Having the expectation of getting things done. There are many
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 19: opportunities that have been missed, and you have to wonder,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 19: with all this experience that they have, is it that
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 19: they're missing it by accident, or are they missing it
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 19: all on purpose? Why aren't they supporting Paxton? If you
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 19: go all in, all hands on deck, Paxton will beat Tallarico.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 19: If you go all hands on deck, Rodgers will beat
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 19: Al-Sayed in Michigan. You know, they're all losing right now.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 19: Susan Collins is losing. Detroit Jackson, all eight battleground states,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 19: Democrats leave right now. That would be a disaster if
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 19: we don't turn this around.
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 5: Steve, I was reading over the weekend that Cornyn, who
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 5: is a phenomenal fundraiser, I mean, say you want to
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 5: about John Cornyn, but the guy knows how to raise money.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 5: He's not raising any money for Ken Paxton. He's helping
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 5: out other Republicans in other states. And honestly, you can't really,
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 5: you know, we can't blame him for that. I mean,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 5: you know, people said he's got to go. He got
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 5: booted out. And so he said, fine, you got what
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 5: you voted for. But we're hearing that Ken Paxton is
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 5: just a little lazy out there on the campaign trail,
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 5: not doing much fundraising at all.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 2: Well, and again, the.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 6: Candidate has to drive and be the driving force in
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 6: any campaign. And if Ken's not out there hitting it
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 6: 180 yards, degrees every day, hitting everywhere he can, then
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 6: he's not doing his job. But at the same time,
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 6: we saw two years ago, there were seats... that Republicans
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 6: should have won. My friend Senator Bill Hagerty here in
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 6: Tennessee was leading that effort, and they would not put
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 6: money into some of the key races he was targeting.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: And we came up just short. We have another couple
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: of U.S.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 6: Senators if they had listened and put money into the
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 6: races that were winnable, rather than putting it behind their
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 6: rhino friends, their soft, squishy Republicans, because the leadership in
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 6: the Senate, Thune and the rest of them, including some
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 6: who pretend to be conservatives, are not all in when
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 6: it comes to adding to their ranks.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 19: And Steve, they want to prove that they're right. Oh,
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 19: my goodness. You lost Texas. You put the wrong kind
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 19: of candidate up. So they're really rooting for Paxton to lose,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 19: I think.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you're right about that. And their argument
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 5: will be this is why you can't elect MAGA candidates
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 5: anymore because they can't win. Well, yeah, they can't win
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 5: if you're going to be campaigning against them along with
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 5: the Democrats. And this is what Trump is dealing with
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 5: right now, fellows, in the Senate. And we've got.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 6: A Kentucky senator we have not heard or seen from
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 6: in over 75 days. If he's alive, can we not
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 6: get a proof of life video of some kind that's
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 6: not AI or bogus? Why is he not on the
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 6: job and why are we allowing this to happen one
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 6: single day more, John Thune?
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 5: It's a great question. Guys, we're going to have to
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 5: leave it there super late for a break. You know
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 5: how that goes. Steve Gill, publisher of TristarDaily.com. Harry Hurley,
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 5: WPG Radio. Guys, always good to have you on the show. Thanks, guys.
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 19: See you, Steve.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: This is the second week. They have been like, they
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 5: are just, they're reading the same things I'm reading. I'm
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 5: still holding out hope. that we're going to be able
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  Speaker 5: to turn this ship around, but they do not have
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  Speaker 5: much hope. What about you, ladies and gentlemen? What is
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  Speaker 5: your take as we head toward November 901-260-5926, our telephone number?
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  Speaker 5: That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right,
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  Speaker 5: let's go right to the phone line. Say hello to Ted,
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  Speaker 5: listening to us in Salem, Oregon, on KYKN. Hi, Ted.
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  Speaker 5: What's going on today?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I just want to let you know that Oregon
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  Speaker 10: is completely lost to the woke program. There are 4
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  Speaker 10: million people in Oregon, and over a million are on Medicaid.
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  Speaker 10: And I think a lot of those are from the
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  Speaker 10: male homosexuals who are couples who are living together on
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  Speaker 10: Medicaid and health care from trauma. I can't remember the
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  Speaker 10: name of it. And then also, other than that, are
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  Speaker 10: you aware that the Obama administration was paying universities $ 5
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  Speaker 10: million for each Muslim professor they hired?
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  Speaker 5: No, this is all news to me. Wait, what?
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  Speaker 9: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: I was watching graduation from Oregon State University back in
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  Speaker 10: maybe 2010, and a Muslim professor was being honored for
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  Speaker 10: hiring 30 foreign or Muslim professors. And the university got
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  Speaker 10: $ 5 million for each one.
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  Speaker 5: All right, we're going to have to look into that.
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  Speaker 5: I've never heard that before.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, oh, yeah, it's been going on for decades. And,
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  Speaker 10: of course, he flew in millions and millions of Muslims,
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  Speaker 10: you know, that flew them into military bases that were closed.
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  Speaker 10: They had barracks that were available, and then they would
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  Speaker 10: get oriented there and get fed and sent out to
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  Speaker 10: across the country.
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  Speaker 5: What's interesting about the numbers here, you're right, a little
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  Speaker 5: over 4 million people you've got in Oregon. About 1.3
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  Speaker 5: million Oregonians are actually enrolled in Medicaid, which is about 30%
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  Speaker 5: of the state, which is far higher than the national average.
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  Speaker 5: But they say it has nothing to do with sexuality. But, Ted,
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  Speaker 5: those numbers– That's staggering. Ted, hang in there, my friend.
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  Speaker 5: Don't be discouraged. Let not your heart be troubled, my friend.
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling you, the golden age, ladies and gentlemen. Got
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  Speaker 5: to read it. All right, I want to go right
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 5: away to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Say hello to
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  Speaker 5: our good friend, Newsmax columnist. She is a trial attorney.
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  Speaker 5: Our good friend, Wendy Patrick, joins us. Wendy, we have
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  Speaker 5: been following the jury and the deliberations. And first of all,
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  Speaker 5: I think a lot of people are just very surprised
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  Speaker 5: that the jury didn't come back almost immediately with a verdict.
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  Speaker 5: What do you read into what's going on and where
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  Speaker 5: we are now, day three of deliberations?
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  Speaker 9: Todd, it would have been impossible for them to come
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  Speaker 9: back with a quick verdict. There are just too many
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  Speaker 9: moving parts to this case. I mean, think about it.
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  Speaker 9: They've heard from 85 witnesses, 21 days of testimony. They
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  Speaker 9: now have a series of choices for their potential verdicts
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  Speaker 9: ranging from what we call murder one, first degree murder,
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  Speaker 9: all the way down to not guilty. They've got murder one,
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  Speaker 9: murder two, manslaughter. But the biggest question, Todd, why I
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  Speaker 9: think this is taking up so much of the time is,
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  Speaker 9: Is they have to decide not the did she do it,
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  Speaker 9: but why?
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  Speaker 5: How?
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  Speaker 9: Was it because she premeditated and planned it and strategized
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  Speaker 9: sending her husband out for just enough time to give
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  Speaker 9: her the access to the kids? Or was she completely
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  Speaker 9: within the throes of a mental defect or disease such
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  Speaker 9: that she did not understand? right from wrong or was
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 9: unable to control her conduct. Todd, there is no way
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  Speaker 9: a jury can become unanimous, at least on this in
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  Speaker 9: a short amount of time, because there are too many
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  Speaker 9: facts to work with. There's the medication, there's a diagnosis,
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  Speaker 9: there's her behavior. And at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 9: it's going to come back to actions speak louder than words.
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  Speaker 9: They're going to look at what she did on the
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  Speaker 9: day of the executions and probably come to a conclusion
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  Speaker 9: that this was a logical, rational thinking day, including the
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 9: time that she killed the kids. That is one reasonable
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  Speaker 9: interpretation of the evidence.
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  Speaker 5: Wendy, I think a lot of folks, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: our listeners have been wondering, why was the jury not sequestered?
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  Speaker 9: Sequestration, Todd, is a last resort because of the disruption
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 9: it causes in people's lives. You're correct that that is
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 9: a very hot button question that is being asked in
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 9: this case, because think about those poor jurors over the
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 9: weekend trying to avoid any mention of the facts of
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  Speaker 9: this case. I mean, where can you go where people
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  Speaker 9: aren't talking about it? You can't talk about it with
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  Speaker 9: your family. I mean, it is a very tough thing
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  Speaker 9: to do to try to be non-sequestered. But Todd, it's
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 9: even harder to be sequestered. And over the years, it
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 9: has been disfavored unless it's absolutely necessary. We've seen very
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 9: few cases over the last couple of years where it's
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 9: been necessary. That was litigated here as it is in
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 9: every high profile case. But up till now, the judge
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  Speaker 9: has decided we can get through this without it. Something
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 9: might happen. There might be some kind of misconduct alleged,
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  Speaker 9: but so far, so good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, a lot of people are wondering, though,
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  Speaker 5: and I hear what you're saying, there's a lot for
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  Speaker 5: them to consider here, but they're wondering, okay, is this
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  Speaker 5: going to be another OJ?
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's very different from OJ in terms of the
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  Speaker 9: types of evidence that came into the record in court,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 9: but it's also very different from OJ in terms of
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 9: the publicity that this trial has received, which makes it
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  Speaker 9: even more likely that that you would argue sequestration would
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  Speaker 9: at least be a way to insulate those jurors from
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  Speaker 9: social media, which is ubiquitous. I mean, there's nowhere you
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 9: can go, there's no station you can turn on where
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  Speaker 9: you won't hear something about it. However, over the years,
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  Speaker 9: we've also learned that sequestration is not always... as kind
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  Speaker 9: to the jurors and as wellness-oriented as they perhaps need
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  Speaker 9: to be in order to fairly and justly try a case.
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  Speaker 9: You don't want jurors in such a condition, so shut
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  Speaker 9: off from their families, from the outside world, that they
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 9: either want to arrive at a verdict more quickly than
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 9: they should or that they're really being compromised emotionally. Think
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  Speaker 9: about how hard it is already sitting in judgment on
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  Speaker 9: a case like this. I mean, I don't know how
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  Speaker 9: much worse it gets killing your own three young children children.
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  Speaker 9: You almost can't imagine a fact pattern that is more traumatic.
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  Speaker 9: A sense of normalcy could, and it's an interesting argument
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  Speaker 9: to make, but a sense of normalcy may render these
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  Speaker 9: jurors in a better place to be able to fairly
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  Speaker 9: and accurately judge this evidence and take as much time
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  Speaker 9: as they need to be able to come up with
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  Speaker 9: a just verdict.
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  Speaker 5: I know in all of these cases, the judge will
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  Speaker 5: issue instructions to the jury, and in this particular case,
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  Speaker 5: The judge told the jurors that Lindsay Clancy would not
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 5: be criminally responsible if she had a mental disease or
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  Speaker 5: defect that prevented her from controlling her actions or from
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 5: understanding they were legally or morally wrong. What does the
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 5: jury do with that kind of instruction?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, and you read it exactly. That is the instruction
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  Speaker 9: from the judge. And what they do with it is
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  Speaker 9: they look at the facts of the case and see
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  Speaker 9: what evidence corroborates her state of mind one way or
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  Speaker 9: another at the time she killed her kids. Not at
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  Speaker 9: some time in the past, not at some time after
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  Speaker 9: the murders, but at the time she did it. Was
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  Speaker 9: she suffering from that kind of a mental disease or defect?
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  Speaker 9: So here it would be postpartum psychosis. That's the disease
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  Speaker 9: defect at issue. Did that take over her mind, cloud
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  Speaker 9: her judgment, render her incapable of telling right from wrong
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  Speaker 9: or controlling her conduct? All you need to know, and
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  Speaker 9: this was the prosecutor's argument, all you need to know
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  Speaker 9: is look at what else she did that day. Took
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  Speaker 9: her kids to the doctors, made them lunch, posted photos online,
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  Speaker 9: talked to her husband, and then look what she did afterwards.
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  Speaker 9: Everything else she did was rationally planned. There was nothing
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  Speaker 9: to indicate, so goes the argument, that she was temporarily insane,
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  Speaker 9: which is the colloquial way we talk about a defense
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  Speaker 9: like this, at the time she killed the kids. There
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 9: was too much pre-planning and research to keep her husband
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  Speaker 9: out of the house for enough time. There was too
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 9: much planning as to taking each child separately, the older
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  Speaker 9: ones first, to carry out the murder that it doesn't
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  Speaker 9: seem like it was a spontaneous loss of consciousness to
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  Speaker 9: what's right and wrong, inability to control behavior. It's consistent
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  Speaker 9: more with what the prosecution's rebuttal psychiatrist testified to. That's
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 9: what the prosecution would argue. The defense on the other side,
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 9: they had a very emotional closing argument. And I thought
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  Speaker 9: the defense attorney did a great job with what he had.
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  Speaker 9: But that's all you can do is what do you
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  Speaker 9: have in terms of admissible evidence that points one way
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  Speaker 9: or another? And both sides put on all their evidence,
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  Speaker 9: even though, of course, the defense doesn't need to prove anything.
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  Speaker 9: Did the prosecution disprove the extent of that temporary or
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 9: however long it took? state of criminal non-culpability to where
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 9: it would actually support a not guilty by reason of
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 9: insanity verdict. Prosecution argued that that wasn't there.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I've always wondered about this. Do judges in
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  Speaker 5: these cases or in all cases, are they allowed to
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  Speaker 5: sort of like lead the jury to kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 5: was the judge trying to kind of like say, okay,
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 5: think about this, you know, with that instruction, are the
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 5: judges allowed to do that? to kind of like guide
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  Speaker 5: of the jury?
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  Speaker 9: They have to be completely impartial. Because they have to
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 9: be completely impartial, they're also so careful to really hammer
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  Speaker 9: home the instructions that may be at issue in the case.
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  Speaker 9: I'll tell you one that's at issue here is the
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 9: emotion versus logic. So dueling closings, the prosecution was evidence-based.
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  Speaker 9: Here's the evidence of what happened that day. The defense
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 9: was a lot of emotion. And who isn't emotional about
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 9: this case? Everybody is sympathetic. to Lindsay Clancy, who tried
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 9: for so long to get the help for the mental
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 9: conditions she suffered with. She talked about having thoughts about
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 9: harming her children. I mean, it doesn't get any worse
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 9: than that. We're all sympathetic that she didn't get the
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 9: help that she needed, but that's not a legal defense
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 9: to murder.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and here's where I fall on this, because you're right.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if I'm on the jury and I'm hearing, well,
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  Speaker 5: wait a second, she tried to get all this help,
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  Speaker 5: She was prescribed these psychiatric medications. She self-admitted to a
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 5: psych hospital, and yet she wasn't able to get the
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 5: help she needed, so then she kills the kids. It
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  Speaker 5: just seems to me, and again, this is just my
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 5: thinking here, Wendy, but it just seems to me that
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  Speaker 5: if you know that you want to hurt your kids,
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  Speaker 5: you're literally going to divorce yourself from those kids. You're
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 5: going to stay as far away as humanly possible. But
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 5: that is not what happened here.
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  Speaker 9: It's not what happened here. And I have to say,
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 9: you know, that argument about not being helped by all
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 9: the pharmaceuticals, we just can't keep losing track. And I
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 9: don't mean you and I, I mean, just I'm watching
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 9: what's going on on social media. She was a nurse.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 9: She wasn't somebody that was totally unfamiliar with certain types
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 9: of drugs and interactions. She kept a meticulous log of
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 9: what she was taking and she knew the side effects
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 9: and wasn't taking everything. That was prescribed. But the biggest thing.
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  Speaker 9: I hope everybody is paying attention to. Go back to
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 9: the action. Speak louder than words. Was she able to
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 9: make a series of rational decisions. The day that she
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 9: killed her children. And the answer is yes. And even
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 9: including the methodology. She used. to kill each of those
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 9: children separately and individually and in the right order because
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 9: she knew the older ones probably would fight back and
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 9: then strategize killing herself. You know, you heard the prosecution
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 9: go from at the beginning of the case, you know,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 9: was it a staging or a suicide back to pretty
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 9: much conceding it was an attempted suicide and closing argument.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 9: But be that as it may, it's tangentially related to
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 9: the bigger question of when she killed the children. Did
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 9: she suffer from that mental disease or defect to where
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 9: she should be held criminally not responsible? I think it's
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 9: going to be tough for the juror to come to
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 9: that result. It's likely going to be a first degree. Now,
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 9: the other likelihood, Todd, and you've heard me say this
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 9: on other cases, yes, there's a high degree, the high
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 9: likelihood it might be hung because you need to have
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 9: all of those jurors on the same page to reach
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 9: a verdict of any kind.
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  Speaker 5: And they've got a lot of facts that they have
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 5: to sift through to eventually get to whatever their decision
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 5: is going to be.
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  Speaker 9: Not only do they have a lot of facts to
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 9: sift through, but because they have all of those potential
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 9: verdicts to consider, they have to sift through those facts
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 9: to decide, are they supportive of more than one of
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 9: those potential verdicts? Now, I got to tell you, manslaughter,
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 9: I wish that wasn't there because there really aren't facts
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 9: that would support reducing murder to manslaughter. And it arguably
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 9: could give the jury an off-ramp if they wanted to
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 9: have a compromised verdict. Maybe they do believe it's a
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 9: first-degree murder, but they feel so sorry for the woman
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 9: sitting there in the wheelchair who tried to kill herself,
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 9: didn't get help from the medical profession. The medical profession is.
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 13: Not on trial.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 9: But we worry that that might cause them to cast
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 9: a vote for a crime that they even don't think
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 9: is supported by the evidence. But because of all those
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 9: facts they have to sift through, they're going to have
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 9: to sift through them with respect to each of those charges.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 9: What does that do? It adds the amount of time
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 9: it's going to take them to reach a unanimous decision
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 9: on any one of them.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, this is interesting. There's some reporting out there. I
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 5: think this is from Fox, Wendy. The jury, now at lunch...
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 5: But we understand multiple female jurors showed up today wearing pink,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 5: which has been used by Clancy supporters to show solidarity. So,
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 5: I mean, if that's the case, could the judge remove
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 5: those jurors if they're making a statement here?
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  Speaker 9: That is an enormous observation to report because absolutely that's
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 9: what those women were doing outside in solidarity. for Lindsay Clancy.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 9: What I would also want to know is how did
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 9: they know about the showing of solidarity? Is it because
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 9: they walked past those women every day on the way
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 9: to court? That's probably true. Or, God forbid, did they
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 9: learn about it on TV, on social media? Did they
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 9: hear about it? That sounds like something that would have
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 9: been explored, and I'm sure that we'll hear that reporting
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 9: when it comes in, but absolutely, absolutely it is something
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 9: to consider because what is it doing? It's an unspoken
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 9: sort of showing of support to the jurors that aren't
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 9: wearing pink. I mean, that's a bombshell observation.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 5: We'll see how that comes about. Again, that's the reporting
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 5: of Fox News, so we don't have a second source
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 5: on that. But anyway, we'll pay attention to all of that. Wendy,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 5: thank you so much for joining us. We so appreciate
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 5: all of your great, wise insight and great counsel here.
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  Speaker 9: It's always a pleasure. Thank you, Todd.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 5: The great Wendy Patrick, everybody, on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
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  Speaker 5: We've got to take a quick break. We'll be right back.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 5: Welcome back. Want to get right back to it here.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 5: More from our Q & A we did last night
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 5: at Franklin Road Baptist Church. right outside of Nashville. What
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 5: are some of the things that give you hope for
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 5: the future of America? Cut seven.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 17: What are the areas or what are some of the
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 17: stories that you've seen that are giving you hope for
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 17: the future of America?
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 8: I think what's most hopeful for me is in knowing
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 8: how God's word ends, the prophecies of how this world's
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 8: going to come to an end. We know that Jesus
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 8: Christ wins. And no matter what's going on in this world,
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 8: no matter what we see on the news or going
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 8: over in the Middle East or what's going on, We
• 1:47:38
  Speaker 8: know that Jesus Christ ultimately is our hope because he's
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 8: going to win it all in the end. So I
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 8: think that's the number one place we put our hope,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 8: but in a more practical way. I read a stat
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  Speaker 8: the other day that said that of young men 18
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  Speaker 8: to 29 years old, 42% say that religion is of
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  Speaker 8: very high importance to them. That's a 15% jump from
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  Speaker 8: five years ago. So that's 15% more young men, I'm
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  Speaker 8: like right in the middle of that age group, that
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  Speaker 8: say that religion is very important to them. That's almost
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  Speaker 8: half of all 18 to 29 year olds in America.
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  Speaker 8: And that's hopeful for me because young men are going
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  Speaker 8: to be the ones that lead our churches, that are
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  Speaker 8: going to lead our government, and that hopefully are going
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  Speaker 8: to lead our families forward. back in a way in
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  Speaker 8: a Christ honoring and loving way.
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  Speaker 5: And again, I think this is one of the reasons
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  Speaker 5: why we as a church need to be prepared for
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  Speaker 5: those folks, you know, having strong youth ministries and youth programs,
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  Speaker 5: having men's ministries, um, you know, having those, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like for example, some of the, the historic, um, you know,
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  Speaker 5: scouting organizations have gone left So looking for those opportunities,
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  Speaker 5: Trail Life USA is something that we're very involved in,
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  Speaker 5: American Heritage Girls. For the young ladies, the Girl Scouts
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  Speaker 5: have embraced Islam now. We have a story up on
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  Speaker 5: our website about that. I do have hope, and I
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  Speaker 5: shared this this morning, Pastor, that our hope can't be
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  Speaker 5: in a political party. It just cannot be. We used
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  Speaker 5: to sing that song, my hope is built on nothing
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  Speaker 5: less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. Ultimately, as I write
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  Speaker 5: in The Golden Age, it's not about prosperity. It's not
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  Speaker 5: about affordability. The Golden Age, in my estimation, is about
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  Speaker 5: restoring the foundational truths that made America great. John Adams,
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  Speaker 5: our second president, said our Constitution is wholly inadequate for
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  Speaker 5: anyone other than a moral and a religious people. So
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  Speaker 5: when you take God out of the equation, you get
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  Speaker 5: chaos in the culture. And we've just got a lot
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  Speaker 5: of chaos in the culture. And that's where we get
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  Speaker 5: to step up and say, we've got the answers. But Pastor,
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  Speaker 5: there's a story I love sharing about Ronald Reagan. This
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  Speaker 5: was not too long after he survived the assassination attempt
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  Speaker 5: outside the Washington Hilton. And we were in the throes
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  Speaker 5: of the Cold War. Those are some very dangerous times.
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  Speaker 5: I was in junior high school back then, and we
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  Speaker 5: didn't know if the nuclear bombs were going to start dropping.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's how crazy things were then. Reagan had
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  Speaker 5: a lot on his mind. Well, it turned out his father-in-law,
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  Speaker 5: Loyal Davis, was a renowned neurosurgeon. And he was nearing
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  Speaker 5: the end of his life, and he was not a believer.
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  Speaker 5: He was an atheist. And so Ronald Reagan, in the
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  Speaker 5: throes of all of this chaos, sat down in the
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  Speaker 5: Oval Office and wrote a four-page letter to his father-in-law.
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  Speaker 5: And he talked about how he and Mrs. Davis experienced
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  Speaker 5: a love that very few get to experience in life.
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  Speaker 5: And he said as great as that love was, There
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  Speaker 5: is a greater love. And he shared the gospel message.
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  Speaker 5: He quoted from John 3, verse 16. And he presented
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  Speaker 5: the plan of salvation to his father-in-law. And I thought,
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  Speaker 5: here we are in the throes of all sorts of
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  Speaker 5: horrific things. And this man took the time to write
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  Speaker 5: a letter to one person. The only thing that mattered
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  Speaker 5: on that day was the soul of one person. And
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  Speaker 5: I think for us, we look at what's happening in
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  Speaker 5: our country and we think, there's no way we can
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  Speaker 5: fix all of this. Well, that's not our job. Our
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  Speaker 5: job is to reach out to just one person. And
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  Speaker 5: if we can start changing lives like that, I think
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  Speaker 5: the country is going to fix itself. God is going
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  Speaker 5: to do a miraculous thing here. But it's a lovely
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  Speaker 5: story about Ronald Reagan. Nancy said... that in a later
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  Speaker 5: interview that her father did come to know God. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, to that we say, blessed assurance. But again,
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  Speaker 5: it's just about sharing the gospel message.
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  Speaker 20: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Just again, a little bit of our great, great conversation
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  Speaker 5: last night. Gabriel Delaney, who you hear on the program.
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  Speaker 5: Pastor Joel Norris, just a wonderful time there in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Hey, ToddStearns.com,
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