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Memphis Homeowner Charged For Targeting Teen Thug · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
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Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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Speaker 2: And what a great way to start your morning. Hello, everybody.
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Speaker 2: Good to have you with us this morning. Hope you're
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Speaker 2: enjoying that first, second, or possibly third cup of coffee
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Speaker 2: or iced tea. And we have a great show for
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Speaker 2: you today. Senator Marsha Blackburn is going to be here. Also,
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Speaker 2: we're going to introduce you to an organization that's actually
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Speaker 2: based right here in the Mid-South. And they're all about
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Speaker 2: protecting your Second Amendment rights. So if you are a
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Speaker 2: gun enthusiast, if you are a law-abiding gun owner, then
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Speaker 2: you're going to want to hear all about the Second
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Speaker 2: Amendment Foundation. That conversation is coming up a little bit later. Also...
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Speaker 2: Later today on the national show, Charlie Hatcher, the Republican
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Speaker 2: nominee in the 5th Congressional District, is going to be
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Speaker 2: in studio here at KWAM. That is 11 o'clock this morning. KWAM,
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Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, the Mighty 990, your exclusive source for
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Speaker 2: politics and news. Here in the Mid-South, we have a
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Speaker 2: jam-packed show. By the way, David Hatley, the Independent, mounting
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Speaker 2: a massive campaign against Marsha Blackburn, will be in studio
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Speaker 2: tomorrow morning. And you're going to have the opportunity to
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Speaker 2: call in and even ask him questions. That's coming up
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Speaker 2: tomorrow here on The Morning Show. And by the way,
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Speaker 2: happy fall. It is officially autumn in America, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 2: I know it doesn't feel like it outside, but we're
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Speaker 2: going to have a little nostalgia today. And I have
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Speaker 2: to ask you, what is the one thing that officially
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Speaker 2: makes it feel like fall to you? Is there one
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Speaker 2: thing that officially makes it feel like fall? Could it be,
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Speaker 2: I don't know, the pumpkin spice latte? You know, a
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Speaker 2: lot of people wait. until they drink the pumpkin spice latte.
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Speaker 2: It's a seasonal thing for a lot of people. Some
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Speaker 2: people say, you know what, it's when I put on
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Speaker 2: the first sweater. But I want to hear from you.
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Speaker 2: Here in the Mid-South, what is it, what is it
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Speaker 2: that makes it fall? The one thing that makes it
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Speaker 2: feel like fall. Our telephone number this morning, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 2: By the way, I want to give a big shout-out
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Speaker 2: to the Turning Point USA chapter at Ole Miss and
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Speaker 2: Collierville High School. I'll be speaking to both of those organizations,
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Speaker 2: not on the same day. But Thursday morning, 6-15, excited
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Speaker 2: to be able to be with the kids. They're at
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Speaker 2: Turning Point USA in Collierville. They're going to be meeting
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Speaker 2: at Booyah's, and it's always a lot of fun. K-WAM's
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Speaker 2: feeding them a great Chick-fil-A breakfast. And we're going to
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Speaker 2: talk about what it means to be a conservative. So
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Speaker 2: hope to see if you've got a kid, bring him
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Speaker 2: down before school. We're going to get him out in time.
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Speaker 2: It's not a very long gathering, but we'll have a
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Speaker 2: great time there. We want to start today in an
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Speaker 2: area of Memphis known as Melody Wood Drive. There was
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Speaker 2: a story that caught my attention on Channel 5's website.
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Speaker 2: There was a guy there's a guy named Demarcus Collier.
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Speaker 2: He's 27 years old and he was minding his own business.
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Speaker 2: This was like inside his home at about 450 in
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Speaker 2: the morning. And he heard something. He heard something outside
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Speaker 2: of his home. So he grabs his gun, as any
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Speaker 2: law-abiding Memphian would do, and he goes outside, and there's
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Speaker 2: a teen thug. We call them thuglings here on The
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Speaker 2: Mighty 990. There was a thugling, and the thugling was
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Speaker 2: trying to steal the guy's car. So the guy did
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Speaker 2: what any red-blooded American law-abiding gun owner would do. He
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Speaker 2: opened fire. Now, let me explain. According to the police records—
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Speaker 2: And Mr. Collier, who has been very cooperative with investigators,
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Speaker 2: said that he confronted the guy outside of his vehicle.
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Speaker 2: It was a 2018 Jeep Wrangler parked in the driveway.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, Mr. Collier was alerted by security
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Speaker 2: cameras inside his home that there was somebody lurking, and
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Speaker 2: it was the thug link. So anyway, he confronted the kid,
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Speaker 2: and then the kid indicated that he had a weapon
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Speaker 2: and said, get your blank back in the house. So
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Speaker 2: at that point, knowing that you've got a teen thuggling,
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Speaker 2: and trust me, the teen thugglings in Memphis, they don't
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Speaker 2: care about your life. They don't care if you've got
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Speaker 2: a wife. They don't care if you've got kids. They
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Speaker 2: don't care if you're a baby, a toddler. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they're robbing everybody, and they'll shoot you. They have no
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Speaker 2: value of life. I mean, what these parents are— and when
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Speaker 2: I say these parents, I'm intentionally painting with a broad brush—
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Speaker 2: Because we've got a lot of kids that behave worse
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Speaker 2: than animals here. It's savage. Savages. Unbelievable. So I don't
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Speaker 2: blame Mr. Collier for doing what he did next. He
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Speaker 2: opened fire. He fired multiple rounds. And then the burglar
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Speaker 2: took off in a red sedan. Now, Mr. Collier has
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Speaker 2: been arrested. Oh, yeah, the thuggling is at Le Bonheur
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Speaker 2: Children's Hospital with two gunshot wounds. It was a pretty
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Speaker 2: good shot, and the thuggling is in critical condition. Now, Mr. Collier,
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Speaker 2: the homeowner, is now facing felony charges. He is charged
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Speaker 2: with seven aggravated assaults, and the reason why is because
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Speaker 2: apparently some of the bullets hit a home across the street.
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Speaker 2: Nobody was injured. Nobody was injured. And a lot of
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Speaker 2: folks are saying that this is not right because Tennessee
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Speaker 2: does have a castle doctrine that allows a man to
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Speaker 2: protect his home, and that actually extends into his yard
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Speaker 2: and driveway. So the question is, what's going on here?
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Speaker 2: Everybody in the neighborhood says Mr. Collier is a good,
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Speaker 2: hardworking man. who was just trying to get some sleep,
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Speaker 2: security cameras go off, and now all of a sudden
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Speaker 2: he's facing felony charges. And we've seen this happen before
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Speaker 2: with the MPD, and we love law enforcement here on
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Speaker 2: this program, no doubt about it. But it seems to
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Speaker 2: me they're more prone to go after and throw the
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Speaker 2: book at hardworking, law-abiding homeowners and motorists. Let me put
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Speaker 2: it this way. I have seen firsthand, I have seen this,
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Speaker 2: where you've got folks going 90, 95 miles an hour
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Speaker 2: on I-240, and then you've got somebody going, say, 65
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Speaker 2: in the 55 and they will pull over the 65
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Speaker 2: as the folks are drag racing past the MPD. I
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Speaker 2: don't know why. That's just the way it is. So
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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm curious about this case. This is this
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Speaker 2: is mind boggling. But anyway, even one of the local
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Speaker 2: attorneys that Channel 5 reached out to, they're saying, yeah,
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Speaker 2: this does seem like, you know, overkill. So, again, you know,
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Speaker 2: is there a charge there for, you know, he fired
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Speaker 2: the gun and it hit somebody else's house?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, new legislation modifying Tennessee's property defense standards, just reading
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Speaker 2: from Channel 5 here, took effect on July 1st. Legal
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Speaker 2: experts emphasize that firing weapons in dense residential neighborhoods remains
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Speaker 2: heavily complicated. Well, you know what else? Well, I'll tell
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Speaker 2: you what's not so complicated. What if the kid had
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Speaker 2: been able to open fire on the homeowner here? We'd
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Speaker 2: be talking about yet another victim of crime. I know
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Speaker 2: Channel 5 actually considers the criminal thuggling a victim. No, no, no.
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Speaker 2: You got what you asked for. You play stupid games,
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Speaker 2: you're going to win stupid prizes. Because trust me, in
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Speaker 2: this city, you don't know who is packing heat. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: I'm just curious, who do you stand with here? Do
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Speaker 2: you stand with the police, ladies and gentlemen, who charged
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Speaker 2: this guy? Or do you think the homeowner did the
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Speaker 2: right thing here by opening fire and protecting his family
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Speaker 2: and protecting his property? Our telephone number is 901-260-5926. Again,
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Speaker 2: that number, 901-260-5926. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on
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Speaker 2: this one. We're starting off the day here on the
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Speaker 2: Mighty 990. We have a lot happening. Senator Marsha Blackburn
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Speaker 2: is going to be here. The Second Amendment Foundation, your
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Speaker 2: calls as well. Hang tight, though. We've got to check
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Speaker 2: in with Commander Chuck with a look at your traffic.
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Speaker 2: All right. There's a lot going on here in the Mid-South, everybody. Hello,
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Speaker 2: I'm Todd Stearns. Welcome back to the show. Great to
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Speaker 2: have you with us. By the way, you Bailey Bigger fans,
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Speaker 2: Bailey Bigger going to be in concert at the Grove
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Speaker 2: on Thursday night. They still have tickets available. General admission,
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Speaker 2: $ 13 for adults, $ 8 for adults. for kids ages 5
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Speaker 2: through 18. And the Halloran Center honoring Dolly Parton on Friday.
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Speaker 2: Four free screenings of the movie 9 to 5. Showtimes
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Speaker 2: are 9 in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, 5
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Speaker 2: in the afternoon, and 9 at night. Oh, I see
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Speaker 2: what they did. They're very clever. Again, the free Dolly
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Speaker 2: Parton movie day, that's taking place this coming Friday at
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Speaker 2: the Halloran Center downtown Houston. You're going to want to go.
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Speaker 2: That's going to be a lot of fun. Also, this
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Speaker 2: news just coming in. October 1st is World Vegetarian Day.
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Speaker 2: I do not celebrate. World Vegetarian Day, they have now
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Speaker 2: listed Wallet Hub, has revealed the list of best cities
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Speaker 2: for vegans and vegetarians. And ladies and gentlemen, we're on
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Speaker 2: a lot of terrible lists around the nation. Deadliest city
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Speaker 2: in America, most violent city in America. But I am
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Speaker 2: proud to tell you today that we are not on
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Speaker 2: the list of top favorite vegan and vegetarian cities in America.
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Speaker 2: Memphis did not make the list. Congratulations, Bluff City. What
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Speaker 2: I find fascinating, there really are no surprises on this list.
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Speaker 2: There are only two southern cities, though, that made the cut.
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Speaker 2: And one of them, I am very surprised. Atlanta is
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Speaker 2: number 13. But it's, oh, I'm sorry, I keep forgetting
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Speaker 2: about Kentucky. There are three. Lexington, Kentucky is.
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Speaker 3: On the list.
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Speaker 2: But that's like a college town. So that makes sense. Birmingham, Alabama.
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Speaker 2: apparently is one of the top cities for vegans and vegetarians.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on in Alabama these days, but, well,
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Speaker 2: there you go. All right, 901-260-5926. And our question of
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Speaker 2: the day, what is it that– is there a smell?
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Speaker 2: Is there a thing? Is there something that just screams
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Speaker 2: fall to you? This has to happen. and then it
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Speaker 2: becomes fall in the Mid-South. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: We had a wonderful conversation with Adam Kraut. He is
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Speaker 2: in charge of a great organization that's based right here
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Speaker 2: in the Mid-South called the Second Amendment Foundation. Let's take
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Speaker 2: a listen. Adam, let's talk about a big conference you
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Speaker 2: guys have coming up, a gun rights policy conference. which
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Speaker 2: is all sorts of things happening there. A good friend
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Speaker 2: of this program, Dana Lesch, we understand she's going to
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Speaker 2: be a part of that policy event.
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Speaker 1: Yes, she will be speaking on Saturday, the 26th, I believe.
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Speaker 1: I think the 27th is Sunday.
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Speaker 2: She'll be speaking.
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Speaker 1: We're also very happy to have some officials from the administration.
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Speaker 1: Rob Sakata will be there, the director of ATF. ATF's
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Speaker 1: chief counsel, Robert Leiter, will be there. Barry Arrington from
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Speaker 1: the DOJ Civil Rights Division, the Second Amendment section, will
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Speaker 1: be there as well. In addition to just a number
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Speaker 1: of awesome speakers that do this kind of work day
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Speaker 1: in and day out, whether it's in the courts or
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Speaker 1: in the state assemblies and the federal ones.
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Speaker 2: Tell us a little bit more about the conference, when,
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Speaker 2: give us the dates, where it will be.
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Speaker 4: Sure.
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Speaker 1: So the conference will be this, not this coming week,
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Speaker 1: in the following. So September 25th through the 27th in Dallas, Texas,
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Speaker 1: at the Dallas, the Westin Airport Hotel there. You can
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Speaker 1: head on over to saf.org slash grpc. to get more
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Speaker 1: information as far as the lineup, the agenda, register for
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Speaker 1: the event, all that good stuff. But it's going to
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Speaker 1: be an exciting weekend. And then that Friday, we also
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Speaker 1: have a couple other side events, one of which includes
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Speaker 1: the Alternative Mass Media Conference, which I think is sold out.
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Speaker 1: but that's more geared towards the people who are interested
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Speaker 1: in podcasting, YouTubing, blog writing, and how to have effective
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Speaker 1: change there. We also have a Legal Scholars Conference geared
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Speaker 1: towards lawyers. They'll get CLE credits for that. And then
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Speaker 1: there's also a meeting of the state groups on Friday
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Speaker 1: before we get to the main event Saturday and then Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Again, we've got Adam Kraut joining us, Executive Director of
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Speaker 2: the Second Amendment Foundation, and they do some Really incredible
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Speaker 2: work standing up and defending your right to bear arms.
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Speaker 2: And I want you to go and check them out
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Speaker 2: and get involved. This is a great conference for you
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Speaker 2: to go to. I know there are just a lot
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Speaker 2: of people vying for attention. Adam, what sets you guys apart,
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Speaker 2: I think, is just you guys are bulldogging a lot
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Speaker 2: of these very important issues, legislation, and you're getting into
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Speaker 2: the weeds on a lot of this stuff. A lot
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Speaker 2: of other guys, smoke and mirrors, but not the Second
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Speaker 2: Amendment Foundation.
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Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate that. We've been involved in over 280
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Speaker 1: lawsuits since our inception, whether it's filing them, funding them,
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Speaker 1: or writing briefs supporting other peoples to get Second Amendment
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Speaker 1: rights restored to where they are. We currently have two
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Speaker 1: cases that are going to be heard before the Supreme
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Speaker 1: Court this December, challenging bans on semi-automatic firearms, as the
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Speaker 1: anti-gunners like to say, assault weapons. But We have two
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Speaker 1: cases that the court agreed to hear. So we're very
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Speaker 1: excited about, you know, finally getting that law stricken down
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Speaker 1: across the country and restoring rights for millions of Americans.
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Speaker 1: The United States government, we have ceded some time for
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Speaker 1: them to come in and argue in favor of striking
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Speaker 1: down these bans. And we have a whole lot of
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Speaker 1: other things working on the burners to keep the heat
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Speaker 1: up and keep restoring Second Amendment rights everywhere.
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Speaker 2: What would you say is, you know, right now and
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Speaker 2: a lot of, you know, a lot of times when
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Speaker 2: you've got Republicans in control of Congress and at the
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Speaker 2: White House, people think, OK, my rights are good. They're protected.
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Speaker 2: You know, we're just going to sit back now. But
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Speaker 2: you really can't do that, can you?
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Speaker 4: No, I know.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, that's the one thing that's very frustrating about gun
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Speaker 1: owners is sometimes the apathy, you know, when Democrats take
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Speaker 1: control and anti-gun people. legislation's rolling forward, everybody goes on
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Speaker 1: the defensive and, you know, makes those phone calls that
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Speaker 1: they need to do and votes the way they need
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Speaker 1: to and helps fund groups like the Second Amendment Foundation
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Speaker 1: in order to fight against these unconstitutional restrictions. But as
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Speaker 1: you said, you know, when Republicans, you know, everybody kind
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Speaker 1: of just takes a step back and goes, okay, well,
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Speaker 1: we're safe. The reality is, is that we need to
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Speaker 1: keep pushing forward, particularly while there's time to make hay.
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Speaker 1: And when Republicans, you know, at the federal level control
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Speaker 1: the House, you You know, the Senate's a different story,
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Speaker 1: but also the presidency. You see some good things coming
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Speaker 1: out of there. I mean, there's no question that under
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Speaker 1: this administration in the last two years that the work
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Speaker 1: being done in the DOJ as far as rolling back regulations,
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Speaker 1: attacking various municipalities and cities for unconstitutional restrictions directly from
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Speaker 1: the federal government instead of a group like the SAF
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Speaker 1: suing them, it's unquestionably the best we've ever seen on
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Speaker 1: Second Amendment rights.
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Speaker 4: Is it perfect? No.
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Speaker 1: But you can't hold a candle to anything else. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, being involved, I think, ultimately at the end
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Speaker 1: of the day and continuing to push forward and getting
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Speaker 1: out to vote are all important things.
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Speaker 2: And also, I think just the networking, which is why,
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Speaker 2: you know, I believe that the conference, the policy conference
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Speaker 2: you guys support is the GRPC, ladies and gentlemen, the
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Speaker 2: Gun Rights Policy Conference is coming up. September 25th through
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Speaker 2: the 27th in Dallas, Texas. SAF.org is the website. You'll
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Speaker 2: go there and you can find all the information. They've
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Speaker 2: got the featured speakers. Excited to see Cam Edwards, who
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Speaker 2: is going to be one of the speakers, and Brandon Herrera,
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Speaker 2: a great guy, and, of course, our good friend Dana Lesch.
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Speaker 2: So you certainly have an all-star lineup there. And I
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Speaker 2: have to imagine, though, the networking and just meeting fellow
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Speaker 2: gun owners and Second Amendment enthusiasts and defenders has got
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Speaker 2: to be a lot of fun. All right. And that
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Speaker 2: is just a smidge of our interview we did. You'll
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Speaker 2: be able to be able to watch all of it
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Speaker 2: at Todd Stearns dot com. Our good friends at the
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Speaker 2: Second Amendment Foundation.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: Coming up, Senator Marsha Blackburn wants to be the next governor.
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Speaker 2: A lot of polling information out there. We're going to
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Speaker 2: get to that. We're going to talk to the senator
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Speaker 2: about some of the big issues facing the state of Tennessee.
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Speaker 2: All of that is coming up in just a matter
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Speaker 2: of moments. Plus your calls, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. When is
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Speaker 2: it officially fall for you here in the Mid-South? We'll
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Speaker 2: be right back.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Happy fall, everybody. You can now officially drink pumpkin spice
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Speaker 2: latte and people will not mock you incessantly. Hey, we've
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Speaker 2: got to give a shout out here. First of all,
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Speaker 2: to the Tennessee Titans. They're having a terrible season, but
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Speaker 2: they're doing some good deeds in the community. And to
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Speaker 2: Memphis area students here. Getting recognized, Emily Castillo at Southwind
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Speaker 2: High School and Brayden Santabayes at Collierville High School. They
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Speaker 2: were named nominees for the NFL Latino Youth Honors. The
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Speaker 2: program recognizes high school seniors for achievements in academics, community involvement,
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Speaker 2: and football. Eight nominees nationwide received college grant money, and
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Speaker 2: the national honorees will be announced tomorrow. during Super Bowl week.
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Speaker 2: So congratulations to Brayden and Emily, proudly representing all of
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Speaker 2: us here in the Mid-South. Well done. All right, 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. By the way, our friends in DeSoto County
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Speaker 2: asked me to pass this along. Senior safety bingo. In Nesbitt,
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Speaker 2: the Senior Safety Bingo Bash, that is happening Wednesday morning
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Speaker 2: at the Agri-Education Center. That's tomorrow. It's absolutely fantastic. free
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Speaker 2: of charge, and you're going to have a lot of fun.
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Speaker 2: You're going to get a lot of info on how
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Speaker 2: to protect yourself on social media, online. That is a
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Speaker 2: huge thing for our great senior saints here in the Mid-South. Again,
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Speaker 2: event open to the public. That is the Senior Safety
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Speaker 2: Bingo event at the Agra Education Center in Nesbitt. I
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Speaker 2: want to play some audio here. I've been hearing a
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Speaker 2: lot of complaints from Republicans that they're going to stay home.
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Speaker 2: They're not going to go vote in the midterm elections because...
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Speaker 2: Trump hasn't done every single thing they wanted him to do,
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Speaker 2: or the Republicans have not delivered on every one of their— actually,
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Speaker 2: the Republicans haven't delivered on any of their promises, but
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Speaker 2: let's set that aside. Here's a woman explaining what's really
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Speaker 2: going down. Cut 16.
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Speaker 3: I don't like $ 4. 20 gas, and I don't like $ 6. 20 diesel,
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Speaker 3: and I don't like foreign conflicts, and I don't like
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Speaker 3: it when politicians don't do what I think they need
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Speaker 3: Do you see how stupid that sounds, guys? I know
21:13
Speaker 3: we're not getting everything that we want right now as Republicans,
21:16
Speaker 3: but I'm going to need you to rally, OK, for
21:18
Speaker 3: the sake of the next generation. Can we not let
21:21
Speaker 3: freedom die on our watch? You're voting for the lesser
21:24
Speaker 3: of two evils, and that's not a new phenomenon. We've
21:26
Speaker 3: been doing that since. the the day of creation and
21:29
Speaker 3: we're going to do that until the day jesus comes
21:31
Speaker 3: back there's nothing new about that jesus ain't on the
21:33
Speaker 3: ballot so i'm going to need you to rally pick
21:35
Speaker 3: yourself up by your bootstraps and take yourself down to
21:38
Speaker 3: the polls and spend about 15 minutes of your time
21:40
Speaker 3: over the course of the next 45 days that you
21:43
Speaker 3: have to do it and i'm going to need you
21:45
Speaker 3: to vote for the people who don't hate our country
21:47
Speaker 3: they happen to be republicans i know they're imperfect all
21:50
Speaker 3: of us are One more thing, please also vote no
21:53
Speaker 3: on all three amendments that are going to be on
21:55
Speaker 3: your ballot. I don't want to look into the eyes
21:57
Speaker 3: of the next generation and tell them that we gave
22:00
Speaker 3: the keys to the country over to the communists because
22:03
Speaker 3: we were frustrated and so we stayed home. I really
22:05
Speaker 3: don't think the excuses I'm hearing right now are going
22:08
Speaker 3: to cut it when we're chit-chatting it up in the
22:10
Speaker 3: bread lines with our kids. So let's rally, y'all. Let's
22:13
Speaker 3: get it done. Let's save Virginia. Let's save our country.
22:16
Speaker 2: Yeah. So this lady across the state line over in
22:20
Speaker 2: East Tennessee, she's in Virginia. She she gets it right.
22:24
Speaker 2: And I look, I don't want to go to the gulags.
22:26
Speaker 2: And these Democrats are slapped. Crazy, folks. Slap crazy. You've
22:32
Speaker 2: got all these DSA folks, and they are on the
22:34
Speaker 2: record as wanting to put all of the Trump supporters
22:37
Speaker 2: in gulags. I'm just telling you right now, I'm not
22:40
Speaker 2: going to do well in prison. I'm just being flat
22:44
Speaker 2: honest with you. And I don't know, I love, look,
22:47
Speaker 2: I love all you fine conservative folks out there, but
22:50
Speaker 2: I don't want to be, I don't want to be
22:52
Speaker 2: like having to work a chain gang up in the
22:56
Speaker 2: Mississippi Delta picking cotton in the fields. And I think
22:59
Speaker 2: that's exactly what could happen if the Democrats ever get
23:02
Speaker 2: control of the country again. So here's the deal. Like
23:06
Speaker 2: she said, I get it. I get it. The Republicans,
23:09
Speaker 2: you can't trust them. I understand that. But the problem
23:12
Speaker 2: is the other side is slap-crazy nuts, and we can't
23:17
Speaker 2: allow crazy anywhere near power. We just can't do that.
23:20
Speaker 2: So get out and be sure that you engage in
23:24
Speaker 2: your right to vote. That is your constitutional right, and
23:28
Speaker 2: you need to get out there and exercise that. It
23:31
Speaker 2: is appalling right now that Justin Pearson is within four
23:35
Speaker 2: points of Brent Taylor. Oh, by the way, There's a
23:40
Speaker 2: little bit of drama over on the Democrat side of
23:43
Speaker 2: the aisle. Turns out Steve Cohen has yet to endorse
23:46
Speaker 2: Justin Pearson. So how freaking crazy is Justin Pearson that
23:52
Speaker 2: not even Steve Cohen is endorsing the guy? That tells
23:56
Speaker 2: you a lot right there. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
24:05
Speaker 2: Get out and vote, ladies and gentlemen. So Senator Marshall
24:09
Speaker 2: Blackburn dropping by, and we had a great sit-down conversation.
24:14
Speaker 2: Here's just a smidge of what the senator had to say. Senator,
24:18
Speaker 2: I know you have been working around the clock when
24:21
Speaker 2: you're not on the campaign trail. You're back in Washington
24:24
Speaker 2: and doing a lot of good for the American people.
24:27
Speaker 2: You know, when you look at what's happening nationwide right now,
24:32
Speaker 2: I think people are fired up. Are you sensing that
24:35
Speaker 2: people are understanding the significance and the importance of retaining
24:40
Speaker 2: Republican control of Congress?
24:43
Speaker 4: Indeed, what we see is that the Democrats are just crazy.
24:48
Speaker 4: all of this socialist, communist, you know, 1776, the battle
24:54
Speaker 4: cry was the British are coming. 2026, it's the communists
24:58
Speaker 4: are coming. And everyone is frustrated with the high cost
25:02
Speaker 4: of living right now. But Todd, the important thing to
25:05
Speaker 4: bear in mind, the Democrats would see $ 5 a gallon
25:09
Speaker 4: gas as the floor and the price increasing from there.
25:13
Speaker 4: And Republicans are saying, how do we get it back
25:16
Speaker 4: down to $ 1. 75 a gallon? And how do we reduce
25:20
Speaker 4: these costs? They had inflation. The Democrats had it at 9%.
25:24
Speaker 4: It is still way too high at 3%. But we're
25:29
Speaker 4: working to try to get it down so that you
25:31
Speaker 4: don't have that price inflation. Every time you go to
25:35
Speaker 4: fill up the car, go to buy groceries, go to
25:38
Speaker 4: buy supplies for the kids for school or new tennis
25:42
Speaker 4: shoes for them because they're on the track team or
25:45
Speaker 4: they need new shoes for basketball or football.
25:49
Speaker 2: Senator, do you think that, based on what you just said,
25:52
Speaker 2: do you think there's some sort of an intentional disinformation
25:55
Speaker 2: campaign underway nationwide to really demoralize Republican voters? Because you're right.
26:00
Speaker 2: I mean, when you compare where we were under the
26:02
Speaker 2: previous administration, even to where we are now with some
26:05
Speaker 2: of the prices going back up, They're still far below
26:08
Speaker 2: what it was when Biden was in office.
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Speaker 4: Of course. And President Trump has worked hard to get
26:15
Speaker 4: us on the right track. And we all know that.
26:20
Speaker 4: But you can't turn the economy around overnight and prices
26:25
Speaker 4: are still way too high. And there are things that
26:29
Speaker 4: can be done, making housing more affordable, simplifying permitting. And
26:35
Speaker 4: these are things, whether it's the local level, state level,
26:39
Speaker 4: federal level, those are policies where government can say, hey,
26:43
Speaker 4: we've got a role in this. And regardless of whether
26:46
Speaker 4: it's local, federal, or state, what are we going to do?
26:51
Speaker 4: And when you look at the state, let's make certain
26:53
Speaker 4: that we in Tennessee... pass our amendment to the Constitution
26:59
Speaker 4: to say we will never have a state property tax
27:03
Speaker 4: and make certain that we close that, go on and
27:07
Speaker 4: foreclose that idea. And then look at what counties and
27:12
Speaker 4: cities can do to get the property tax down on
27:16
Speaker 4: senior citizens. Nobody should ever be taxed out of their
27:20
Speaker 4: home or off their farm or forced to sell their
27:24
Speaker 4: businesses because they cannot pay the taxes.
27:28
Speaker 2: Senator, I want to switch gears here. One of the
27:30
Speaker 2: big conversations that's happening, not just in Tennessee, but around
27:34
Speaker 2: the nation, these data centers, of course, Memphis and the
27:38
Speaker 2: Mid-South has really become the hub. Elon Musk building Colossus here.
27:42
Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting. Elon is not, I figured
27:45
Speaker 2: he'd be staying at the Peabody while I was here.
27:47
Speaker 2: He's actually living in a trailer near the construction sites.
27:53
Speaker 2: that he's doing a lot of good for the area,
27:55
Speaker 2: helping to renovate schools and gymnasiums. And yet the Democrats
28:00
Speaker 2: are coming after him. Also, a lot of Republicans are
28:03
Speaker 2: concerned about these data centers. What do you make of
28:05
Speaker 2: all the controversy?
28:08
Speaker 4: Yes. And there is going to be controversy around data
28:11
Speaker 4: centers because this if you go back 100 years, Todd,
28:16
Speaker 4: and look at the controversy around factories. There were communities
28:20
Speaker 4: that wanted a factory. There were communities that did not.
28:24
Speaker 4: And there is a proper place for data centers. We
28:27
Speaker 4: know as long as people are using those cell phones
28:30
Speaker 4: and are creating that data, it's got to be stored
28:34
Speaker 4: here in the United States. Now, the Chinese Communist Party
28:38
Speaker 4: wants to have all of that data stored over in
28:42
Speaker 4: Beijing because they want access to the data. They want
28:46
Speaker 4: to build a virtual you And they want to control
28:50
Speaker 4: that by tracking everywhere you go on your cell phone.
28:54
Speaker 4: And if they're controlling the data in their data center,
28:59
Speaker 4: that means they've got access to it. But communities are
29:03
Speaker 4: going to decide whether or not they want a data center.
29:06
Speaker 4: We've got counties that are here in Tennessee that don't
29:10
Speaker 4: want them. We've got counties that are putting out the
29:13
Speaker 4: y'all come sign because they do want them. They have
29:18
Speaker 4: excess water and utilities and power that they can use,
29:23
Speaker 4: and they want those full-time jobs because the full-time employment
29:29
Speaker 4: at data centers is a lot of skilled labor, and
29:33
Speaker 4: they want to have those high-paying jobs that are going
29:37
Speaker 4: to open doors of opportunity for individuals that live in
29:42
Speaker 4: their community. So this is going to be a decision
29:46
Speaker 4: that local governments are going to make. Now, the state
29:51
Speaker 4: does have a role in this because we can go
29:55
Speaker 4: in and pass a ratepayer protection plan This is something
29:59
Speaker 4: President Trump has supported. And having a ratepayer protection plan
30:05
Speaker 4: so that individuals know their utility rates are not going
30:10
Speaker 4: to go up because there is a data center. And
30:13
Speaker 4: you mentioned what they're doing there in Memphis with XAI.
30:19
Speaker 4: And indeed, the expansion of that project and the way
30:22
Speaker 4: they're giving back to the community. They're building a graywater facility.
30:27
Speaker 3: They are.
30:28
Speaker 4: going to be in a position to sell power back
30:31
Speaker 4: to the grid if there is a need from Memphis
30:34
Speaker 4: Light Gas and Water to have that power back on
30:38
Speaker 4: the grid. They're also working on battery storage of power
30:43
Speaker 4: for commercial batteries in case there is a need to
30:48
Speaker 4: expand that or go to that if you've got some
30:53
Speaker 4: kind of grid outage. So I think it's going to
30:57
Speaker 4: be up to communities to make these decisions and the
31:01
Speaker 4: state to put that framework in place. And then we'll
31:05
Speaker 4: see what communities want them and which do not.
31:08
Speaker 2: All right. Just some of our pretty lengthy interview with
31:12
Speaker 2: Senator Marsha Blackburn. You can watch all of that interview
31:16
Speaker 2: at kwamradio.com. That's kwamradio.com.
31:20
Speaker 3: All right.
31:20
Speaker 2: We've got to take a quick break here, folks. It
31:23
Speaker 2: is going to be a nice, warm day. The cool
31:26
Speaker 2: down is coming as we celebrate fall, the very first
31:30
Speaker 2: official day of fall here in the Mid-South. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
31:34
Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. We'll be right back. All right, a lot
31:49
Speaker 2: of you folks are weighing in on the KWAM social
31:52
Speaker 2: media pages. Kristen says, it feels like fall when I
31:56
Speaker 2: bust out the crock pot and start making soups and stews. Well,
32:01
Speaker 2: that sounds good. Also, and we have a lot of
32:05
Speaker 2: folks weighing in here, I'll try to get some of
32:07
Speaker 2: the comments here. Brandon says, Todd, the first frost, that's
32:12
Speaker 2: when I know it's fall. Planterman says, dew on the grass.
32:17
Speaker 2: Planterman's got to be one of our listeners to the
32:19
Speaker 2: Mid-South Gardening Show on Saturdays. Yvonne says, not being enveloped
32:25
Speaker 2: in southern humidity and sweating like a pig. Yvonne, thank
32:29
Speaker 2: you for the visual there. It's true. Leslie says, the
32:33
Speaker 2: colorful leaves. And well done, Leslie. Yes, you got to
32:38
Speaker 2: love a fall. I'm afraid, though, with this particular fall,
32:41
Speaker 2: there's not going to be any color. The leaves are
32:43
Speaker 2: just going to combust. It's been really hot around here,
32:47
Speaker 2: really hot. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. What's the one
32:53
Speaker 2: thing that officially makes it feel like fall to you?
32:57
Speaker 2: Give us a call, 901-260-5926. Real quick, got a note
33:02
Speaker 2: from our friends over at the Hernando Chamber of Commerce,
33:06
Speaker 2: the Main Street Chamber. of Commerce, and they wanted us
33:10
Speaker 2: to pass along this information. This coming weekend, if you're
33:13
Speaker 2: looking for something very fun and fall to do, the
33:16
Speaker 2: Hernando Water Tower Festival will return to the historic Courthouse Square.
33:21
Speaker 2: It's all happening this coming weekend. from 9 until 3
33:26
Speaker 2: in the afternoon. There are going to be more than
33:28
Speaker 2: 150 vendors. This is so much fun. I went last year,
33:32
Speaker 2: and you're going to love it. There are going to
33:34
Speaker 2: be a lot of food trucks. They've got a children's zone,
33:36
Speaker 2: a kids' zone. And the best part about it, this
33:39
Speaker 2: is all absolutely free. So admission is free, and you'll
33:44
Speaker 2: be able to go and have a great time and
33:46
Speaker 2: go hang out at downtown Hernando right there on the
33:50
Speaker 2: Courthouse Square, the Water Tower Festival. So I want to
33:54
Speaker 2: swing back around to politics for just a moment. There
33:58
Speaker 2: has been a lot of controversy surrounding Hassan Piker, who
34:02
Speaker 2: is a very prominent figure in Democrat and far-left politics.
34:08
Speaker 2: And this guy has become the de facto spokesman of
34:11
Speaker 2: the Democrat Party. Now, you can agree or disagree, but
34:15
Speaker 2: that is the fact. And Abdul El-Sayed, who is running
34:20
Speaker 2: for the U.S. Senate from Michigan against Republican Mike Rogers—
34:24
Speaker 2: Al-Sayed is now facing a lot of questions about his association,
34:29
Speaker 2: his interactions with Hassan Piker, as is, by the way,
34:34
Speaker 2: Zoran Mamdami. And yes, I'm aware of what the president
34:38
Speaker 2: said about Zoran Mamdami. We're going to talk about that
34:41
Speaker 2: at 11 o'clock. I've got a lot to say about
34:43
Speaker 2: that at 11 o'clock here on The Mighty 990. But
34:46
Speaker 2: circling back, there is now a local angle. So a
34:49
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, State Representative Justin Pearson, who is
34:54
Speaker 2: the Democrat nominee for the ninth congressional district race, was
34:58
Speaker 2: invited to a radical leftist event in Colorado. That event
35:04
Speaker 2: was so radical they had to cancel it. But Justin
35:09
Speaker 2: Pearson still got together with some of his radical buddies
35:13
Speaker 2: for a sit-down Q & A on a podcast. and
35:16
Speaker 2: Pearson was sitting on the couch next to Hassan Piker.
35:21
Speaker 2: Hassan Piker was wearing an outfit that was very similar
35:27
Speaker 2: to the kinds of outfits that Mao Zedong used to wear.
35:33
Speaker 2: I mean, the guy's a communist, and he's not afraid
35:35
Speaker 2: to tell you he's a communist. My question is, why
35:38
Speaker 2: is Justin Pearson sitting on the couch there? Because Pearson's
35:43
Speaker 2: out there saying, there's no way I'm a socialist. I'm
35:49
Speaker 2: just a preacher boy from Whitehaven.
35:53
Speaker 4: Hallelujah!
35:55
Speaker 2: That's Justin Pearson. But in reality, Justin Pearson... is a communist. Now,
36:04
Speaker 2: he may be in the closet, but he's a communist. Now,
36:08
Speaker 2: it's interesting because he's sitting there in this little room
36:11
Speaker 2: on the couch with Hassan Piker, and Hassan Piker actually
36:15
Speaker 2: believes that America deserved 9-11. Hassan Piker said that. He
36:20
Speaker 2: said that Americans deserve to die on 9-11. Hassan Piker
36:25
Speaker 2: also said that America is worse than al-Qaeda. So my
36:30
Speaker 2: question to Justin Power for O'Pearson, why are you hanging
36:35
Speaker 2: out with this guy? We need an answer to that question.
36:40
Speaker 2: Why are you hanging out with this guy? Hey, look,
36:42
Speaker 2: we got to leave it there, folks. It's been a
36:43
Speaker 2: great day. 11 o'clock right here on the Mighty 990.
36:46
Speaker 2: Get out there and have a great one, everybody. Happy fall.