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Dems Hate the Cracker Barrel and Cheesecake Factory Crowd · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, 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 4: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, hello, everybody. Welcome. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Program.
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  Speaker 5: Happy to have you with us today. Write down our
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  Speaker 6: 901- 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: That's 901-260-5926. We have some breaking news coming out of
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  Speaker 5: Tennessee in a congressional race. We're going to tell you
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  Speaker 5: about that in just a few moments. I want to
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  Speaker 5: say again, thank you so much to our friends at WDUN, which,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, happen to be our very first radio affiliate.
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  Speaker 5: And they have hosted me for the past two days now.
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  Speaker 5: As we get ready for our big book signing tonight,
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  Speaker 5: in Gainesville at the Longstreet Cafe. And we would love
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  Speaker 5: a book, I want you to come by and say hello.
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  Speaker 5: And I would love to be able to shake your hand.
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  Speaker 5: We have so many great listeners across North Georgia. Our
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  Speaker 5: friends WRWH in the North Georgia mountains, Cleveland, Georgia. So
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  Speaker 5: we want to see all of you folks coming out
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  Speaker 5: later this evening.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Dylan, I think I'm learning a lesson here about politics.
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  Speaker 8: I'm opening ears, Todd.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm never ever going to endorse another candidate again, period. Ever.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care if it's a family member running for office.
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  Speaker 5: I will never endorse another candidate again. You want to
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  Speaker 5: know why?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we just got word, and I called the campaign
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  Speaker 5: to confirm all of this. Just the other day, we
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  Speaker 5: had State Senator Brent Taylor on the show. He's running,
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  Speaker 5: and one of the most high-profile races in all of
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  Speaker 5: the entire country. This is the ninth congressional district that
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  Speaker 5: got redistricted to benefit a Republican candidate. This was Congressman
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  Speaker 5: Steve Cohen's district. And I just want to share this
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  Speaker 5: information with you because, again, this is what we do.
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  Speaker 5: And we call balls and strikes on this radio program,
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  Speaker 5: and we do them fully clothed. And I think it's important, Dylan,
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  Speaker 5: for the audience to know that. We do this radio
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  Speaker 5: program fully clothed. When we take photos, Dylan, I'm normally
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  Speaker 5: fully clothed, right? Wearing a sweater, a shirt, pants.
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  Speaker 8: Todd, I'm getting scared. You're making me nervous here.
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  Speaker 5: Well, this is from the Nashville Scene, which is one
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  Speaker 5: of the publications in Nashville. State Senator Brent Taylor has
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  Speaker 5: admitted that he sent unsolicited nude photos. to a person
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  Speaker 5: as recently as 2021. The state senator dismisses the past
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  Speaker 5: sexual advances as, quote, youthful indiscretions that marked his 30-year marriage. Now,
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  Speaker 5: Senator Taylor is, I think, about a year or two
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  Speaker 5: older than I am, so that would put him in
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  Speaker 5: his 50s when these youthful indiscretions happened. The senator says, well,
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  Speaker 5: let me continue with the National Banner reporting. Multiple sources
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  Speaker 5: say that they had received or seen nude photos from Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: Taylor acknowledged to the scene that he had sent nude
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  Speaker 5: photos in the past, but dismissed them as mistakes that
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  Speaker 5: have since been forgiven by his wife. Lovely lady, by
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  Speaker 5: the way. Quote, as I near 60 years old, the
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  Speaker 5: expiration date has come and gone on any of my
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  Speaker 5: youthful indiscretions, he told the scene. Whatever story you think
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  Speaker 5: you've got, my wife is well aware of, and we've
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  Speaker 5: worked through it a long time ago. My God and
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  Speaker 5: my wife have forgiven me, and I would consider anyone
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  Speaker 5: else or everyone else doing the same. One person who
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  Speaker 5: requested anonymity, citing fear of retaliation, says they received an
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  Speaker 5: unsolicited nude photo from Taylor as recently as 2021, before
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  Speaker 5: he was elected to the state senate. A second eyewitness
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  Speaker 5: source independently confirmed the nude photos sent by Taylor at
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  Speaker 5: the time Taylor was 53. So there we go. Will
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  Speaker 5: this impact the congressional race? I don't think so. First
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  Speaker 5: of all, we've had a lot of early voting, so
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  Speaker 5: a lot of votes, well over 100,000 votes have been cast.
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  Speaker 5: So I can't imagine that it would impact early voting.
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  Speaker 5: But a couple of thoughts here. And again, just full disclosure,
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  Speaker 5: I have endorsed Senator Taylor, and I think he did
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  Speaker 5: a terrific job in the state Senate. I think he
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  Speaker 5: would do a terrific job in the Congress. Probably might
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  Speaker 5: want to switch to just writing letters by hand, but
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, ladies and gentlemen. It just seems to me,
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  Speaker 5: if you are running for— and I just— I' m I'm just now
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  Speaker 5: getting this information, so I'm still trying to digest it
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  Speaker 5: because it's really, quite frankly, a shock. And I say
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  Speaker 5: it's a shock because it just seems to me that
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  Speaker 5: if you are running for office and you had these
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  Speaker 5: issues in your past that you know they're going to
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  Speaker 5: come out, right? I mean, Dylan, you know how it is.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, They research everything, right? So if you're running
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  Speaker 5: for office, you know, you have to know they're going
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  Speaker 5: to have the dirt on you.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like it's a tale as old as time, Todd.
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  Speaker 8: Like anybody who's ever run for office has had something
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  Speaker 8: come out in their path.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, is this, and I'm just pleading ignorance here.
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  Speaker 5: For example, I had no idea when I worked at
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  Speaker 5: Fox News Channel that it was basically a whorehouse. I
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  Speaker 5: had no idea all the shenanigans that were going on.
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  Speaker 5: And maybe I was just naive. But Dylan, I know
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  Speaker 5: the sexting thing is a big deal among the young people, right?
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  Speaker 5: That's kind of a, you know, is that still sort
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  Speaker 5: of a normal thing?
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  Speaker 8: Hey, don't ask me, Todd. I feel, yeah, sure, sure.
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  Speaker 8: I guess it's more younger than older.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, back in our day, you know, if
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  Speaker 5: you were interested in a, you know, a young lady and, oh,
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  Speaker 5: someone asked, I did reach out to the campaign and
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  Speaker 5: they said the photos were sent to a lady. So
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  Speaker 5: if you were interested in a young lady... You would, like,
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  Speaker 5: woo her with, like, flowers or candy. You wouldn't take
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  Speaker 5: pictures of your private parts and then send them to
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  Speaker 5: Kodak and have them developed and then just mail them.
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  Speaker 5: That's what we would have to do. We didn't have
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  Speaker 5: texting back in the day.
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  Speaker 8: Right, right.
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  Speaker 5: So, granted, first of all, we think that all sexting
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  Speaker 5: is wrong. Are we on the record with that? Helen,
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  Speaker 5: can we write all that down? Todd Starnes is opposed
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  Speaker 5: to sexting.
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  Speaker 8: She put it in the notes.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. That being said, I mean, if you're a young person,
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  Speaker 5: it's not that I understand it. It's just something that
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  Speaker 5: young people are doing these days. Is that a fair assessment?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I would say.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Why is– poor Avery is literally hiding under the broadcast
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  Speaker 5: desk now, afraid that I'm going to be asking– I'm
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  Speaker 5: not asking Avery– no, this is a scandal. So we
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  Speaker 5: want to keep Avery out of this.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so we get it that the youngsters, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Gen Z, they're a little freaky. We get that. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, but if you're in your 50s, is that
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  Speaker 5: something that's normal for people in their 50s? Because I'm
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  Speaker 5: just telling you, I'm shocked. I'm shocked by this. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know. I mean, could you imagine? I mean, this
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  Speaker 5: would be like your grandparents sexting. I just, so again,
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  Speaker 5: if you know these things are out there, you have
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  Speaker 5: one of, there are one of two things to do.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, I think it's bad for all the
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  Speaker 5: people that came out and endorsed you and supported you. Because,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I mean, we don't know everything. But something
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  Speaker 5: like that might be a good idea to say, you know,
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  Speaker 5: by the way, just a heads up, you might want
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  Speaker 5: to check your text messages first. So you have some
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  Speaker 5: choices there. Do you step out of the race? Do
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  Speaker 5: you decide not to run in the first place? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: what is a good Baptist to do? So anyway, at
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  Speaker 5: face value, I don't think this changes the dynamics of
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  Speaker 5: the race. I really don't. But then again, who knows?
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  Speaker 5: But what I do know is it's going to get
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  Speaker 5: ugly because... President Trump has come out and he has
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  Speaker 5: endorsed the senator, the state senator. And as a result
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  Speaker 5: of that, well, you know, there's going to be, there's
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  Speaker 5: going to be a national, there's going to be national,
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  Speaker 5: national implications to all of this. So look, well, I'm
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  Speaker 5: curious to hear your thoughts on this. All of our
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  Speaker 5: KWAM listeners in Memphis, Tennessee, this news just breaking and
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  Speaker 5: the Nashville scene broke the story. It's, just a shock.
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  Speaker 5: And you say, Todd, why would you talk about something
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  Speaker 5: like this on the air? Well, because I would do
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  Speaker 5: it if it was a Democrat. That's the reason why.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that the senator probably needs to hold
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  Speaker 5: a press conference I think we need to– and my
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  Speaker 5: other question is what else is out there? Is there
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  Speaker 5: anything else out there? So it's just– it's really sad
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  Speaker 5: and very disappointing because the senator has really done, I think,
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  Speaker 5: an admirable job bringing Memphis back from the brink. And
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  Speaker 5: he deserves credit for that. But you've got to– geez-a-loo. Dylan,
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  Speaker 5: this is why I don't even go to the beach.
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  Speaker 5: And if I do, I'm wearing Dockers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Don't even catch yourself anywhere without clothes, Todd. Unless you're
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  Speaker 8: in your own private space.
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  Speaker 5: Not even the shower.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Not even give me a bathroom.
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  Speaker 8: Now it's just paranoid.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. What a shocking story. All right, so there you
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  Speaker 5: have that. Meanwhile, in South Carolina, by the way, our
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  Speaker 5: telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. In South Carolina, another story
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  Speaker 5: is percolating. Congressman Ralph Norman is now saying he will
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  Speaker 5: not be supporting Darlene Graham in her run for the Senate.
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  Speaker 5: His family is not supporting her. This was certainly a
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  Speaker 5: very Very ugly, ugly primary battle there, and it looks
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  Speaker 5: as though this could end up dividing more of the Republicans. Now,
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  Speaker 5: here's the reality of the situation. You can do that,
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  Speaker 5: but at that point, you're going to be electing a
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  Speaker 5: Democrat to the Senate. I mean, that's just the reality
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  Speaker 5: of that. So are you folks in South Carolina okay
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  Speaker 5: with that, or should Ralph Dorman, should he have just
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  Speaker 5: kept his objections quiet? and gone on with his life.
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  Speaker 5: I love Congressman Norman. I think he's done a tremendous job,
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  Speaker 5: member of the House Freedom Caucus, and he's been out
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  Speaker 5: there fighting the good fight. I think he was done
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  Speaker 5: dirty by the Trump administration. I do think the president
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  Speaker 5: should have stayed out of that particular race and let
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  Speaker 5: the people of South Carolina duke it out. Darlene Graham
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  Speaker 5: is not qualified, in my estimation, to be a senator.
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  Speaker 5: She's just not. She does not have the skill set necessary,
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  Speaker 5: aside from the fact that her brother was Lindsey Graham,
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  Speaker 5: who had his own issues. So all that to say,
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  Speaker 5: when push comes to shove here, ladies and gentlemen, I
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  Speaker 5: do believe the Republicans... are going to win in the midterms.
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  Speaker 5: I believe that. However, we could sabotage ourselves, and that's
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  Speaker 5: something that we've also got to come to terms with.
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  Speaker 5: So we've got to play smart politics here. All right,
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  Speaker 5: got to take a break. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: And if you're calling this program, please wear pants. Remember
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  Speaker 5: I feel gross and disgusting. I want to take a shower.
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  Speaker 5: Is that permissible? I just don't know what else to do.
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  Speaker 8: No, Todd, you're still in public. You have to go
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  Speaker 8: back to your quarters.
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  Speaker 5: I said two. Sweet Lord. Welcome back, everybody. This is
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  Speaker 5: the Todd Stearns Radio Show. So look, coming up a
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  Speaker 5: little bit later on, we're going to get into this
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  Speaker 5: with our good friend Mary Walter, but the White House
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  Speaker 5: has fired back over Barack Obama's comments about, and again,
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  Speaker 5: this is coming from over the weekend, about the renovations
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  Speaker 5: done at the White House, which are incredibly beautiful. And
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  Speaker 5: I've been inside the new Oval Office, and it's just–
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  Speaker 5: it's really breathtaking. So Obama said it was like Saddam
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  Speaker 5: Hussein designed a cheesecake factory. And I just have to say,
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  Speaker 5: first of all, Treasury Secretary Scott Besson is brilliant, because
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  Speaker 5: apparently this guy, who's got more money than God, he
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  Speaker 5: loves to eat.
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  Speaker 3: At the.
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  Speaker 5: He ate at the Cheesecake Factory. Here's the Treasury Secretary.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Secretary.
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  Speaker 9: It's an interesting lunch choice today.
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  Speaker 4: What did you order for.
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  Speaker 6: The Cheesecake Factory?
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  Speaker 2: I always had the French dip cheeseburger.
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  Speaker 7: Excellent.
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  Speaker 9: And so, recent news, we've got former President Obama comparing
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  Speaker 9: White House decorations or construction to the Cheesecake Factory, saying
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  Speaker 9: it looks like Saddam Hussein opened the Cheesecake Factory.
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  Speaker 2: Any reaction to that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, two things.
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  Speaker 10: This is the man who built the museum.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like Darth Vader's tomb. And I would just
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  Speaker 2: tell the, I had.
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  Speaker 5: A great meal, always have a great meal, and I
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  Speaker 5: would tell the Martha's Vineyard set to give it a try. Okay.
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  Speaker 9: And what are your thoughts on the midterms thus far
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  Speaker 9: and how Republicans are faring?
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  Speaker 5: I've been out on the campaign trail with the president,
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  Speaker 5: and there's great enthusiasm. Yeah, so good for you. Good
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  Speaker 5: for you, Scott Besant. I wrote this on X, and
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  Speaker 5: it was interesting. Mike Gallagher actually read my tweet on
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  Speaker 5: the air earlier this morning, and I want to share
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  Speaker 5: it with you. I didn't mean for it to go viral,
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  Speaker 5: but over, I think, 600,000 people have already shared it.
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  Speaker 5: It's slightly viral. And here's what I wrote. Again, showing
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  Speaker 5: how disconnected it is, Barack Hussein Obama is from the
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  Speaker 5: average American. For years, eating at Cheesecake Factory or Olive
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  Speaker 5: Garden or Red Lobster was a special occasion for many
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  Speaker 5: American families. There was a time when Americans did not
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  Speaker 5: go out to eat that much as a family. It
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  Speaker 5: was a luxury reserved for a graduation or maybe an
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  Speaker 5: anniversary or a job promotion. Meanwhile, Barack Hussein Obama and
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  Speaker 5: his spouse regularly dine at upscale restaurants around the world,
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  Speaker 5: including one three Michelin star restaurant where the tasting menu
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  Speaker 5: starts at $ 390 per person and another restaurant that serves
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  Speaker 5: $ 175 steaks. A side of condescension cost extra. No smelly
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  Speaker 5: Walmart people or bitter Americans clinging to their guns and
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  Speaker 5: religion in Obama's puffed-up world. And it's true. And I'll
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  Speaker 5: just say this, and look, many of us cannot afford
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  Speaker 5: a luxury like Obama once had. Obama, you might remember,
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  Speaker 5: actually had a private chef until the chef died mysteriously
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  Speaker 5: at Obama's secluded mansion. No, Dylan, I'm not suggesting anything.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just saying that you can Google it. The guy's dead.
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  Speaker 5: He wasn't buck naked, though. That was the other rumor,
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  Speaker 5: but he was not buck naked. So anyway, just want
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  Speaker 5: to throw that out there. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: Coming up, very excited to talk with Josh Jones. Our
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  Speaker 5: chief political strategist will be along. A new Fox News
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  Speaker 5: power poll out. And I'm telling you folks, just go.
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  Speaker 5: If we just get across the finish line, we're going
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  Speaker 5: to be fine. But we're going to go through all
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  Speaker 5: of the data coming from Fox News now. Also, a
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  Speaker 5: little bit later on, one of the Catholic priests who
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  Speaker 5: prayed over President Trump in the Oval Office is now apologizing.
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  Speaker 5: We're going to tell you why the Bishop of Milwaukee apologized. Also, Fr.
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  Speaker 5: Frank Pavone, our good buddy, is going to be here.
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  Speaker 5: He has some thoughts on these far-left woke priests. and
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  Speaker 5: the outrage that's caused because they simply prayed over the
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  Speaker 5: President of the United States.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 5: All right, going to take your calls. Coming up, we're
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  Speaker 5: going to be talking to our good buddy Bill Main
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  Speaker 5: from WTUN. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stern Show, broadcasting live from Gainesville, Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 5: Dylan, I've got to tell you about this morning. So
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  Speaker 5: we're broadcasting here in downtown Gainesville, which is why I
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: feel like I'm the star of a Hallmark movie. So
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: I've got my cardigan sweater on, and I've got the Dockers,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: and I'm walking around the square getting some coffee. And
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: I went to my favorite hot dog joint right before
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: the show, the Collegiate Grill, which is right around the
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: corner from the radio station. And I wasn't robbed or mugged.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: There were no homeless people asking me for cash. I
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: felt like I was in a different universe.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: That is nice when you can actually walk outside and
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: feel okay doing so.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Yes. And this is like the world that Bill Main
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: lives in. He is the executive vice president and general
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: manager of WDUN and one of the coolest guys I know.
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: Oh, my goodness.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: I don't know a lot of guys. I don't know
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: many at all. So, first of all, wow, thank you
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: for all the great hospitality, and what a great town
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: you guys have here.
• 21:11
  Speaker 11: Well, thank you much. Thanks for your kind words, and
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: thanks for coming to visit us here, for sure. We
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: enjoy it every time you're in town. It's a lot
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: of fun. A lot of folks love to have you here.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: You know, one of the things about WDUN, you guys
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: were the very first show to pick up my national
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: show when I left Fox, so I really appreciate that.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: And you didn't charge me an arm and a leg either.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I thought I was going to have to do some
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: pay-for-play or something.
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: No, you were good. You were good. We just really
• 21:35
  Speaker 11: wanted to have you here and be able to give
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: you a home. And, you know, I remember giving you
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: that call. I was on a Georgia Association of Broadcasters
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: trip to South Georgia or wherever, and I'm standing on
• 21:45
  Speaker 11: the pavement. It's 95 degrees, and I'm talking to you
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: in a tie and a jacket. I'm like going, I've
• 21:49
  Speaker 11: got to finish this conversation before I get back in
• 21:51
  Speaker 11: the air conditioning.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: I'm from the South, but I do melt.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: I don't sweat.
• 21:56
  Speaker 11: I perspire.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I glisten.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: And you guys, I mean, there's just, oh my gosh.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I mean, there's some great, the radio station has some
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: great history behind it. Of course, Jim Bohannon, I believe,
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: used to do his show from your studios.
• 22:11
  Speaker 11: Jim Bohannon, Jim Bohannon, when he was on vacation, sometimes
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: if his ISDN failed, he would call us up because
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: he was in Hartwell. That's where they had a home
• 22:20
  Speaker 11: and that's where he retired to. And he would call
• 22:22
  Speaker 11: and say, hey, can I just come down to the
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: show for a couple of days?
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: We set him up in the studio like we did
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: you and I love Jim O'Hanlon. He was one of
• 22:29
  Speaker 11: my favorite guys.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: And, of course, some old-school radio guys, Ludlow Porch and
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: the Fun Seekers Network back.
• 22:34
  Speaker 12: In the day.
• 22:35
  Speaker 11: We've had them in our other studio. We've had them there,
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: and we actually set them up in the conference room
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: because we had so many people come and buy one
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: to meet him.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: I can only imagine. And Ludlow was kind of like
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: the real– I mean, he was just the real deal.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Absolutely was.
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: With Ludlow, you never knew how many of the stories
• 22:51
  Speaker 11: were true and how many were made up. It didn't
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: matter because they were all good. It's kind of like
• 22:56
  Speaker 11: Jerry Clower.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: In a way.
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: Yeah, very much a radio Jerry Clower. And his producer, Denny,
• 23:02
  Speaker 11: was a super guy. He really took care of him.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: I remember one of the nicest things. I got a
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: note out of the blue from Louis Grisard's widow. And,
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: of course, Louis Grisard was a great writer, southern humorist.
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: Let me just jump in real fast about Louis Grisard
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: and my inspiration from him. When I was– 12, 13, 14,
• 23:23
  Speaker 11: my father, who had retired from chasing bootleggers, he was
• 23:26
  Speaker 11: a revenuer, he delivered the afternoon paper, the Atlanta paper.
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: And so we would go there at lunchtime to get
• 23:32
  Speaker 11: the paper and fold them up and get them ready
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: to go. And the first thing everybody did, I mean,
• 23:36
  Speaker 11: to a man, they didn't turn to the sports section first.
• 23:38
  Speaker 11: Everybody grabbed a paper and read what Lewis had to say.
• 23:40
  Speaker 11: And then you read the rest of the paper before
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: you delivered it.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: That's what I did.
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: Lewis is so much a part of our culture here.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: And I think a good argument for one of the
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: ways newspapers kind of went by the wayside is they
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: didn't have those must-read columns, that must-read material in the
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: papers anymore.
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: But she called you.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, so she called me. I think it was
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: after my first book came out, which was an homage
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: to Lewis. They popped my hood and found gravy on
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: the dipstick. And somebody got her a copy of the book,
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: and she loved the book. And she asked for my address,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: and she sent me all the– I've got an entire
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: library of all of Lewis's books.
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: That's incredible.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Which is– So cool. It's very cool. But whenever I
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: write a book, I send them Lewis's just to make
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: sure I didn't, like, you know, accidentally plagiarize. Because, you know,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: I mean, those are some killer lines, you know, and
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: great book titles.
• 24:33
  Speaker 11: He could turn a phrase, and just Lewis was just
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: so great. But, you know– And so much a part
• 24:39
  Speaker 11: of my growing up and the way that I write.
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: I don't write as much as you do, but when
• 24:43
  Speaker 11: I do, it's kind of in that vein. And that
• 24:46
  Speaker 11: book was the first interview that we did with you
• 24:49
  Speaker 11: on the air.
• 24:50
  Speaker 13: Wow.
• 24:50
  Speaker 11: I remember that. And we caught up with each other
• 24:52
  Speaker 11: off the air going, oh, well, and you had a
• 24:54
  Speaker 11: Georgia tie and we kept talking about that and. We just,
• 24:57
  Speaker 11: you know, when you started to do your national show,
• 24:58
  Speaker 11: it was like, we got to have this guy. He's
• 25:00
  Speaker 11: one of us.
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: So trying to, you know, you don't want to try
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: to ever emulate anybody. But, you know, we have a
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: little bit of Rush, a little bit of Ludlow, a
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: little bit of even Martha Zoller, you know, who I
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: knew before I even started doing radio. And, of course,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: we lost Martha. She was such a really a huge
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: part of WTUN.
• 25:19
  Speaker 11: She bailed me out big time. When we first invited
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: her to be on the radio back in the 90s,
• 25:24
  Speaker 11: I was hosting midday. And I'll be honest with you,
• 25:27
  Speaker 11: I did not like it. I just I didn't like
• 25:30
  Speaker 11: the arguments, the controversy. And I was doing a morning
• 25:32
  Speaker 11: show at the same time on the music station and
• 25:34
  Speaker 11: I was writing all the commercial copies. So it was
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: I had enough to do. But Martha came on and
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: sat in on the show and she said, I'd love
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: to come back. I said, sure. So she came back
• 25:42
  Speaker 11: two days a week and then finally was like three
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: days a week. And I said, why don't you just
• 25:46
  Speaker 11: take the show? And so she did. And then, of course,
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: she left for a little while. She ran for Congress.
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: She worked other places. And we actually had a courtship
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: of about five years before she came back. She would
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: call and go, I think I want to come back.
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: Do you have a place? I'm like, I don't have
• 26:00
  Speaker 11: a place. I would call her and go, I got
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: a place. She goes, I really don't want to stop
• 26:03
  Speaker 11: what I'm doing. And so finally it all came together
• 26:06
  Speaker 11: and she came back and I was just so pleased.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: That she did.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: You know, when you think about radio and, you know,
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: I think the corporations have come in and have really
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: hurt our industry.
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: I agree.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: They've taken a lot of the flavor. And when you
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: listen to WDUN, you get North Georgia. When you listen
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: to KWAM in Memphis, you get Memphis. And I think
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: the same can be said about a lot of the
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: other locally owned radio stations. They keep telling us our
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: industry is dying. I just, I don't see it. Maybe
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: it's changing here and there, but at the heart of it,
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: I think we're all about community.
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: Yes, indeed. And the pendulum swings. It really swung toward
• 26:43
  Speaker 11: the digital for a while, and it's still there. But
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: it's come back a little bit, and I think some
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: of the younger folks– I read an article the other
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: day about folks in the Gen Z category kind of
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: rediscovering audio, but not just audio through podcasts, rediscovering local audio,
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: which is radio. But I will say this about radio,
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: and this is a firm feeling. There's a place for
• 27:04
  Speaker 11: national shows, obviously. I couldn't imagine DUN without your show
• 27:08
  Speaker 11: and what you bring to it. But at the same time,
• 27:10
  Speaker 11: you need to have that local tie-in, and for us,
• 27:12
  Speaker 11: my feeling on radio is– A radio, when you look
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: at the radio, it should be looking at a mirror
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: of your community. And if you as a listener don't
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: see yourself in that mirror, we're not doing something right.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: It's a great point. Bill Main joining us, the EVP
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: and general manager of WTUN. One of the things we
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: try to do on our national show, and this is
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: the greatest compliment, is we go into a town and
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: people are like, oh, where do you live? You know,
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: they think I live in their community. And that's kind
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: of what we want to do, even though it's a
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: national show. We sort of treat it as a terrestrial
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: front porch where folks just come and sit down and
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: have a conversation.
• 27:47
  Speaker 11: People want to have a chance to have their say.
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: I mean, we do a lot of local topics on
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: our shows, but we need the national shows where they
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: can also have a say in what's going on around
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: the country. Not that we don't talk about some national issues, obviously. But, yeah,
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: and that's what you should create, and people should be
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: able to see something of their own town. But you
• 28:03
  Speaker 11: have an advantage, I think, over a lot of talk
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: show hosts in the fact that a lot of the
• 28:07
  Speaker 11: places that you broadcast and that you have stations– you
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: go there, you've been there, you know people there, so
• 28:14
  Speaker 11: you have a flavor of the community. I mean, you
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: came and spent time in Gainesville when we brought the
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: show back, and so you kind of know what's going on.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: One of my favorite stories, we were in Waterloo, Iowa,
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: and Jeff Stein, who is one of our fellow hosts,
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: and they had that huge 50,000-watt blowtorch, and there, there
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: are no hills, so you could be in Montana and
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: listen to KXEL. But we did something at the Cattle Palace,
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: I think is the name of it, Which is where
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: they have all the cows and pigs. But we were
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: at a– it had been a long day, and Stein
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: was like, hey, there's a group of Republicans. They're having
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: their annual sloppy Joe dinner in some small Iowa town.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: And I'm like, let's go. And so we're in the
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: radio station van trucking down the highway. And it was
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: a good sloppy joe. I think the big, huge pot
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: was about as big as the broadcast desk here.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, my goodness.
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: It was like a hot tub of sloppy joe.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: But we were sitting on the, you know, the cafeteria,
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: where they had the, you know, you're sitting on the
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: little round stools and just having a good time with folks.
• 29:20
  Speaker 11: And, of course, you get the every school smells the same,
• 29:23
  Speaker 11: whatever that school smell is.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: Whatever it is. And you can tell when it's spaghetti day.
• 29:27
  Speaker 11: Yes, yes. My favorite day was on Fridays. Not every Friday,
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: but when you got out of Lent, you would fish
• 29:33
  Speaker 11: on Fridays. But the rest of Friday, you had the
• 29:35
  Speaker 11: cardboard pizza.
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, got to love the– but you got to get
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: the end piece. That was the square pizza.
• 29:41
  Speaker 11: It's close to real pizza crust as you could get.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: So you host the morning show too.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: So what is a typical– I mean, it's like you
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: work multiple hours of the day.
• 29:50
  Speaker 11: You know, I just love what I do, and that's
• 29:52
  Speaker 11: the thing that everybody gives. But I really have no life.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: No.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: No.
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: I get up at 3.30. I get here at 4.30.
• 29:59
  Speaker 11: I'm on there at 5.30, off at 9, to the
• 30:02
  Speaker 11: office to my real job, which is scheduling and royalty
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: payments and all those sorts of normal manager things. And
• 30:10
  Speaker 11: then supposedly at 3 or 3.30, I'm out of here,
• 30:13
  Speaker 11: but usually it's 4 or 5 o'clock, depending. But, you know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 11: when you're having a good time, it's a lot to
• 30:18
  Speaker 11: be done, but I enjoy what I do.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: Speaking of politics, which we were talking about earlier, here
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: in Georgia, big race is a gubernatorial race, the Senate races.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: How do you see all this going? What are folks
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: talking about?
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: I've been talking with some folks who are out there
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: on the campaign trail with the Rick Jackson bus right now.
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: They're in South Georgia, and what I'm hearing from them
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: on the Republican side is troubling to me because what
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: they're saying is we're seeing a lot of voter turnout
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: in the early voting, and it's really exciting. Most of
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: it coming in the metro areas. The metro area is
• 30:50
  Speaker 11: traditionally going to be going for the Dems. And that's
• 30:53
  Speaker 11: just what we've seen in the past elections. The rural
• 30:56
  Speaker 11: counties and towns are the ones that are really going
• 30:58
  Speaker 11: to the right side of the aisle. And they're telling
• 31:01
  Speaker 11: me that the folks in South Georgia and middle Georgia
• 31:04
  Speaker 11: is not voting, not not getting in the early voting.
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: They're just not fired up.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: Why is that a problem for the Republicans?
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: Because the Atlanta, Athens, especially Savannah, Columbus, Macon. They're all
• 31:18
  Speaker 11: going to go for the Dems, and that's where the
• 31:21
  Speaker 11: population concentrations are. You only have 35 percent of registered
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: voters in Georgia that are in the rural areas.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: So you're talking about a big chunk of your Republican
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: vote is down in South Georgia.
• 31:32
  Speaker 11: You've got a good potential. Most of the rural folks
• 31:34
  Speaker 11: vote Republican.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: I've always been curious about the gubernatorial race, and we
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: were talking about this yesterday. Brian Kemp gets huge numbers,
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: won by a landslide, and yet you guys have two
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Democrat senators.
• 31:49
  Speaker 11: Go figure. Part of that is not good candidates, in
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: my opinion. No, not for you folks who voted for
• 31:55
  Speaker 11: the Republican side. I did as well. But just the
• 31:59
  Speaker 11: candidates were not as strong as they could have been.
• 32:01
  Speaker 11: And I really say Ralph Warnock is Raphael Warnock is
• 32:05
  Speaker 11: a formidable force. I don't know that you're going to
• 32:07
  Speaker 11: have to have an exceptional candidate to get him out.
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: I think John Ossoff right now is not beatable, but
• 32:13
  Speaker 11: I think eventually what we're seeing also, to your point
• 32:17
  Speaker 11: about what these folks are seeing on the trail. They're
• 32:19
  Speaker 11: seeing split ballot. You're seeing people voting for Rick Jackson,
• 32:25
  Speaker 11: Republican for governor, and then they're voting for John Ossoff
• 32:28
  Speaker 11: for Senate.
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: Is that right?
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 32:30
  Speaker 11: You're seeing a lot of split ballot. At least that's
• 32:32
  Speaker 11: what we're hearing from the ground.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: All right. Well, Bill Main, we just appreciate what you
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: guys do here. Can we just talk real quick about
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: the downtown location? Because you guys already had a really
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: nice setup. But you guys relocated to downtown, this whole
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: revitalization of the square, and it's just unbelievable.
• 32:51
  Speaker 14: Well, thanks.
• 32:51
  Speaker 11: We love it. Doug Ivester, of course, built this building
• 32:53
  Speaker 11: we're in. Coca-Cola guy. He was on this very plot
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: of ground in 1996 bringing the Olympic torch in because
• 33:00
  Speaker 11: he was head of Coke at the time. But we
• 33:03
  Speaker 11: were at, for our 75th anniversary, it's what we wanted
• 33:05
  Speaker 11: to do. We were out having breakfast at Waffle House
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: on Friday, Jay and Sandy and I. And Jay said, hey,
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: wouldn't it be cool if we had a downtown studio
• 33:13
  Speaker 11: for 75th? And I'm like, I've always wanted a storefront studio. Yeah,
• 33:16
  Speaker 11: that'd be great. So we literally, after we had breakfast,
• 33:19
  Speaker 11: drove downtown and started looking around. And then he said,
• 33:21
  Speaker 11: there's an empty spot in the Ivester building we'll call Doug.
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: And it just went from there.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: I love it. What a great story.
• 33:27
  Speaker 11: And it's so exciting.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Well, earlier, a couple of old timers were walking by.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: They stopped. They looked and made eye contact. And the
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: guy like, put his face to the glass, and he
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: was like, it's you. And I said, it's me. And
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: off they went.
• 33:42
  Speaker 11: Yeah, we have a lot of folks that I get
• 33:45
  Speaker 11: to know. Terrence, who delivers for the food purveyors who
• 33:49
  Speaker 11: supply the restaurants, I see him in the morning twice
• 33:51
  Speaker 11: a week, and I open the door and chat with him.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: Love it. It's great. All right, tonight, 5 o'clock, it's
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: going to be a lot of fun. Big book signing.
• 33:59
  Speaker 11: Big book signing, going to be at Longstreet Cafe, by
• 34:01
  Speaker 11: the way, General Longstreet. is what Longstreet Cafe is named after.
• 34:05
  Speaker 11: He lived in Gainesville and had a hotel here.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Is that right?
• 34:08
  Speaker 11: I sure did.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: Confederate War General.
• 34:09
  Speaker 11: Exactly. It's about three blocks from where we are to
• 34:12
  Speaker 11: the south. And his house used to be across the
• 34:16
  Speaker 11: street from where Longstreet is in the empty lot. So
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: be there with us. A lot of great food. It's
• 34:19
  Speaker 11: going to be fun. And I want you to come by,
• 34:21
  Speaker 11: meet Todd, buy a book, get it signed, or just
• 34:23
  Speaker 11: meet Todd and have a good meal.
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: Bill May, good to see you, my friend. All right, folks. Great,
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: great guy. Great radio station. Good people here. We're going
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: to take a quick break. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Stern Show.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: We love your MAGA hat. Why is it important for
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: you to be here today?
• 34:48
  Speaker 15: It's important because to me, this man was my very
• 34:51
  Speaker 15: first vote that I cast as. My biggest thing about him...
• 34:55
  Speaker 15: This man is 80 years old and he's doing what
• 34:59
  Speaker 15: he's doing.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: It's amazing.
• 35:00
  Speaker 15: He's the greatest president.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: Of my lifetime.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I think ever.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: He's the greatest president.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: It's very important.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: I'm happy.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: I'm happy he's here with us.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: I'm happy to be here at this rally to support him. And,
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: you know, he doesn't have to do it. That's the thing.
• 35:13
  Speaker 15: He chooses to do it. He chooses to do it.
• 35:16
  Speaker 15: And that's what's insane. This man is a billionaire. He's
• 35:19
  Speaker 15: 80 years old. He can go live his life out
• 35:21
  Speaker 15: somewhere or not. But he chose to stay in a
• 35:24
  Speaker 15: political fight and fight for us.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: He's been shot at. He's had all these things happen
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: to him, and he's still standing. That must mean something
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: to you.
• 35:31
  Speaker 15: That means a lot to me, and I wish a
• 35:33
  Speaker 15: lot more people my age would see that and understand that.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Well, we have a lot of Gen Zers out here today.
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: I'm one myself. And so what would you say to
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: young people who may not be involved or who maybe
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: don't pay attention? What would be your message to them?
• 35:46
  Speaker 15: Pay attention because this world we're living in, you're going
• 35:50
  Speaker 15: to have a lot of lessons to learn.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Learn well.
• 35:54
  Speaker 15: From what's right and what's wrong.
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: You understand?
• 35:59
  Speaker 15: Just like this president, he has awoken a lot of
• 36:02
  Speaker 15: people's eyes since 2016. And like I said, I'm happy
• 36:06
  Speaker 15: that I cast my very first vote for him.
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: Well, that young man was at the big rally in Corinth,
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: Mississippi last night, and thousands of people turned out. By
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: the way, the president was just really in hog heaven. Afterwards,
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: he was back at Air Force One and talking, just
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: really raving about the good people of Mississippi. But what
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: really stood out for me was not the crowd inside.
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: But the crowds that had gathered along the streets hoping
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: to catch a glimpse of the president and the motorcade,
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: the beast, folks, that tells me that there is a
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: lot of excitement. And I know the Fox News Power
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: Poll came out earlier this morning and suggested that most people,
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: I think 44 percent, so it's not most, but 44
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: percent of voters said they cast a ballot in early
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: voting against President Trump. So we don't know if that
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: means they're all voting Democrat or what. And again, if
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: people are out there telling you, well, there's a massive
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: blue tsunami, there is actually no evidence of that other
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: than the polling data, because only a handful of states
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: actually monitor or track the numbers of specific Republicans and
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: specific Democrats that are getting out to the polls. So really,
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: it's just conjecture. And I have to tell you, part
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: of what I'm telling you is conjecture, but I'm just
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: providing you the visuals. And if people are really turned
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: off by Trump in, for example, Corinth, Mississippi, they're not
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: showing it. And I will say that I think there
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: was a huge contingent from Tennessee there. When the president
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: gave Marsha Blackburn a shout-out, the crowd went nuts. So anyway,
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: the Mississippi senator, Cindy Hyde-Smith, The president invited her up
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: to say a word, and she says, isn't this the
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: greatest president? And just, like, laughed. And the president's like, wait,
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: where'd you go, Cindy? And he said, normally these guys,
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: they stay up there for 10 minutes, and you're like,
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: come on, pal, this is not your rally. So he
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: said he really loves Cindy. But I think Cindy forgot
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: her speech. Anyway, wow. All right, hang tight, everybody. We've
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: got to take a quick break. Ennis Freedom is coming
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: up next. We're going to talk to him about the
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: WNBA and a big rally happening outside of Nashville. This
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: is the Todd Stern Show. We'll be right back, everybody.
• 38:51
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• 38:56
  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
• 38:59
  Speaker 12: I love this American ride.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Todd Starnes.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show,
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: Hour 2 underway. Hope you're having a great day wherever
• 39:14
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• 39:18
  Speaker 5: in Gainesville, Georgia. Great radio station, great people. And tonight,
• 39:23
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• 39:27
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• 39:30
  Speaker 5: Going to be a lot of fun and look forward
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: to seeing you there. All right, our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: That's 901-260-5926. You just heard from Bill Main from WTUN
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: talking about the situation in South Georgia. which is really
• 39:51
  Speaker 5: a strong area of the state for Republican voters, and
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: there has been a lackluster turnout there in Georgia. Separately,
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: I had heard that there has been a lot of
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: concern over the lack of state party effort to get
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: out the vote in that area of the state. Now,
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: we're hearing, you know, again, other reports of of high
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: Democrat turnout in states like Texas, and now in South Carolina,
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: where Congressman Ralph Norman is causing controversy by saying that
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: he will not be supporting or endorsing Darlene Graham. So look,
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: here's the deal, folks, and this goes for you folks
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: in Texas as well. You have a lot of MAGA
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: voters in South Carolina who probably will not vote or
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: who may not vote for Darlene Graham. and that's okay.
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: You're going to elect a Democrat. Are you okay with that?
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: There's a situation in Texas where all of you establishment
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: folks are butthurt that John Cornyn lost, so you're not
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: going to be supporting Ken Paxton. That would be Karl
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: Rove and the Bush family, among others. That means that
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: James Talofrico could be your next U.S.
• 41:05
  Speaker 14: Senator.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: Are you okay with that? Now, ladies and gentlemen, I
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: think it's time for us to have a grown-up conversation
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: about this chaos in the Republican Party. You guys have
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: to get over it. You have to understand that the
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: most important thing this election cycle is stopping the rise
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: of communism in America. That's it. But if you want
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: to play these games, then you're going to end up
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: with a Democrat-controlled House and a Democrat-controlled Senate. There's really
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: no other way around it. So I just want to
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: warn you ahead of time that there are consequences to
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: all of this. In the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, get
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: out and vote. That is the biggest issue of the day.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: President Trump out on the campaign trail. He's going to
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: be doing two rallies today in Texas. The president, by
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: the way, talking about, well, here we go. Cut number 18.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: This is from the president's speech last night in Corinth, Mississippi.
• 42:11
  Speaker 12: If you elect a Republican House and a Republican Senate
• 42:15
  Speaker 12: on November 3rd, it's so important. We will continue to
• 42:18
  Speaker 12: put America first every single day. We will win the
• 42:27
  Speaker 12: war on corruption and fraud led by our great Vice
• 42:30
  Speaker 12: President J.D.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Vance.
• 42:34
  Speaker 12: We will pass the No Invasion of Our Country Act
• 42:38
  Speaker 12: prohibiting any future president from ever opening our borders to
• 42:42
  Speaker 12: illegal immigrants again. We will ban sanctuary cities and pass
• 42:48
  Speaker 12: the death penalty for large-scale drug dealers, human traffickers, and
• 42:53
  Speaker 12: anyone who kills a police officer or a member of
• 42:56
  Speaker 12: law enforcement. We will pass the Voter Identification Proof of
• 43:04
  Speaker 12: Citizenship and Save America Act to defend our American elections
• 43:10
  Speaker 12: from theft and fraud. And we will enshrine in permanent
• 43:15
  Speaker 12: law no men in women's sports and no transgender utilization
• 43:20
  Speaker 12: of your children.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, he's laying it out there, and I
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: thought he did a terrific job of doing so. May
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: I just, as a brief aside here, the president looks exhausted.
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: And he has been working around the clock. I will
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: say this. If Republican candidates worked as hard as Donald J.
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: Trump has been working, we would be winning all of
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: these races in landslide numbers. I mean, Trump literally is
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: making this entire political season about himself. And I I
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: will just say this. I'm, you know, the man's, what,
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: 80 years old. He's, I'm just concerned about his health
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: and his stamina. I mean, a man can only do
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: so much, and President Trump is putting it all on
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: the line. And it, I mean, there's a source of
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: pride and admiration about that, but also there's a point
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: of concern that the president is putting his health in
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: jeopardy here. And it bothers me because I see a
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: lot of Republican candidates out there who are just phoning
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: it in. Have you seen that? Have you noticed that
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: some of these candidates are just phoning it in? I mean,
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: President Trump crisscrossing the entire nation going to Alaska? The
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: president doing two events. I mean, he got in at
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: the death night last night after being in Mississippi, now
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: to Texas for two events there. I mean, the president
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: is putting it all on the line for the country.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: So my encouragement would be for you to pray for
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: our president. I know his voice is a little raspy.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: When you're doing these kinds of events and you're doing
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: these kinds of rallies, your voice is going to get raspy.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: I'm just shocked he still has a voice. But I'm
• 45:20
  Speaker 5: just curious, ladies and gentlemen, about the president, and I
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: hope that you take a moment take a moment and
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: pray for him, and pray for his health, and pray
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: for his safety out there, because there are very bad
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: forces at work here. All right, our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: That's 901-260-5926. We're going to be taking your calls on that,
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: as well as this crazy story involving Cracker Barrel. I
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: said Cracker Barrel. The Cheesecake Factory. Why did I have
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: Cracker Barrel on my mind? Let me just say this.
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: The Democrats, this is why I think the Democrats are
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: going to lose. They don't get you people. They don't
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: get the folks in Flyover Country. And we are going
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: to be getting Ennis Freedom on the show a little
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: bit later on, and we'll tell you about that in
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: just a few moments. We had a little slight hiccup there,
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: but we will be getting Ennis on the show. But
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: I want to talk about this flyover country story because
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: there's a lot for us to extrapolate from what Obama
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: was talking about the other day when he went off
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: on President Trump and the White House. Now, here's the
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: original comment from B.H. Obama. That's Barack Hussein Obama, cut
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: number five.
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: So when you go through all this, the tally of promises,
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: things have not worked out the way we might have expected.
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: Although I must say I did expect it. And let's
• 46:59
  Speaker 7: be honest, does anybody really think this guy in the
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: White House right now is spending all that time thinking
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: about these issues? I mean, I don't know if you've noticed,
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: but he seems very focused on home renovations. He should
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: be on HGTV. The guy's building a ballroom that's bigger
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: than the White House. Paved over the Rose Garden, put
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: a helicopter pad on the south lawn, and there's gold everywhere.
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: What's up with the gold? Everything, more gold. He's got
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: the white ass looking like Saddam Hussein opened a cheesecake factory.
• 47:44
  Speaker 10: There's gold everywhere.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: You know, this guy is just sleaze. Just sleaze, Obama is.
• 47:57
  Speaker 5: He turned the White House into a shabby little house.
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: There were no upgrades done. There were no repairs made.
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: And quite frankly, it's exactly what you would expect of
• 48:12
  Speaker 5: someone living in Section 8 housing. It's just really appalling
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: the condition that Obama and George W. Bush and Bill Clinton—
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: and the auto-pin president, they left the White House in shambles,
• 48:29
  Speaker 5: turning our beloved White House into, I don't know, some
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: sort of a slum. And along comes Donald Trump. And
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: by the way, Trump actually did a beautiful job of
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: just shredding Barack Obama. Cut number 22, please.
• 48:45
  Speaker 6: Further response to Obama, who made fun of the cheesecake factory,
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: comparing it to the White House and your decoration.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 48:53
  Speaker 12: I've taken care of the White House. I fixed it
• 48:56
  Speaker 12: with the finest artisans in the world. We reskinned it.
• 49:01
  Speaker 12: It was in horrible shape. A lot of the ornaments
• 49:04
  Speaker 12: of the things that were originally built on the White
• 49:08
  Speaker 12: House were missing or damaged or gone for a long time.
• 49:13
  Speaker 12: They were laying on the ground in some cases. And
• 49:16
  Speaker 12: it was in terrible shape. The exterior plaster was broken, cracked.
• 49:20
  Speaker 12: and the painting was terrible. And I've reskinned the building
• 49:24
  Speaker 12: beautifully with the highest, most talented people. Anywhere in the
• 49:29
  Speaker 12: world you're not going to find more talent. And the
• 49:31
  Speaker 12: White House looks beautiful. Guys like Obama, they would pass
• 49:36
  Speaker 12: the front door.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: They'd see the broken masonry.
• 49:40
  Speaker 12: They'd see the broken, the beautiful pilasters that were all broken.
• 49:44
  Speaker 12: For years they were broken. And he wouldn't notice because
• 49:48
  Speaker 12: he doesn't notice that. He doesn't notice dirt and filth
• 49:52
  Speaker 12: that hadn't been cleaned, where the walls hadn't been cleaned
• 49:54
  Speaker 12: for years. He doesn't notice areas that haven't been painted.
• 49:59
  Speaker 12: So it's very easy for me to do.
• 50:01
  Speaker 6: I do it.
• 50:02
  Speaker 12: Very, very simply, because it's by nature, you know, very
• 50:05
  Speaker 12: clean person. And the White House was in terrible shape.
• 50:10
  Speaker 12: The White House is now in the best shape it's
• 50:13
  Speaker 12: been since 1792 when it was built.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: It's in beautiful shape. You take a look at it.
• 50:18
  Speaker 12: It looks beautiful.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: And I'm proud to do it.
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look, the president understands that the White House is
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: not about Donald Trump. It's about the White House. And
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: it's about the White House being a symbol of American
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: greatness and American exceptionalism. That's what this is all about.
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: I mean, you don't want to be showing pictures of
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: the White House and one of the columns has fallen
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: over and cracked. And you got bats coming out of
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: the belfry there. And you got rats running around. No,
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: you know, nobody wants to see that. The smell.
• 50:54
  Speaker 7: No.
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: And I'm just going to tell you, ladies and gentlemen,
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: when I walked into the Oval Office, it smelled pristine.
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: The Oval Office itself was one that just really exuded
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: American greatness and American power. And you compare Obama's White
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: House to what Trump has done, and you'll understand. When
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: you see the photos side by side, you get it.
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: You understand. But I want to go back to the
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: Cheesecake Factory line for a minute. This guy just really
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: angers me. This Barack Hussein Obama talking about you Rust
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: Belt people said you cling to your guns, you cling
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: to your religion, you're better Americans. Hillary Clinton, the basket
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: of deplorables. Joe Biden called you the dregs of society.
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: The list goes on and on. They despise you people.
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: They loathe you people and fly over country. Remember Peter
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: Strzok and Lisa Page, the disgraced FBI agents, the text messages.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: talking about the smelly Walmart people. So when Barack Obama
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: just throws in the Cheesecake Factory, that was a slap
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: against every one of you fine working class and middle
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: class Americans out there. He knew exactly what he was
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: saying with that line, and it's disgusting. But ladies and gentlemen,
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: they just don't get us, and they never, ever will.
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: The Democrat Party is an uppity party full of highbrow,
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: far-left communists. That's who they are. All right, we've got
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: to take a break. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody.
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: It is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Let's go to
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: the phone lines. Danny in Selmer, Tennessee, wants to talk
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: about early voting. Danny, what's on your mind?
• 52:59
  Speaker 16: Hey, good afternoon, sir. My thought process, I thought I'd share.
• 53:05
  Speaker 16: I don't normally share that much, but I would share.
• 53:10
  Speaker 16: It might help somebody out making decisions. I've never early
• 53:13
  Speaker 16: voted before. But I think with the turmoil in the
• 53:16
  Speaker 16: country right now with the DSA, the threat of socialism, communism,
• 53:23
  Speaker 16: and Islamists, Muslimists, whatever, where they're silently taking over the
• 53:29
  Speaker 16: country where people may not even realize that, I think
• 53:33
  Speaker 16: it's really important to get out and vote and get
• 53:36
  Speaker 16: your vote in there and preserve our country for what
• 53:39
  Speaker 16: it is. And just in case, since I'm older, I
• 53:45
  Speaker 16: got some health issues, and shoot, if my car doesn't
• 53:47
  Speaker 16: start or something like that, I want to make sure
• 53:49
  Speaker 16: I got my vote in. So I happen to be
• 53:52
  Speaker 16: in town. I live where I happen to be in town.
• 53:54
  Speaker 16: So I went and stopped by. I got my vote
• 53:55
  Speaker 16: in just in case something happens on Election Day. I've
• 53:58
  Speaker 16: never done it before. And I think that this election,
• 54:02
  Speaker 16: with all the turmoil going on in the country, I
• 54:04
  Speaker 16: think this election is important. just as important, if not
• 54:08
  Speaker 16: more important, than a presidential election. And we need to
• 54:12
  Speaker 16: get out there and vote. To put it in a phrase,
• 54:16
  Speaker 16: I'm not totally happy with what Republicans are doing, but
• 54:19
  Speaker 16: let's call the horse that's leading us in the cart
• 54:23
  Speaker 16: not doing a very good job. But instead of setting
• 54:26
  Speaker 16: in the buggy, and whip it on the horse, we
• 54:29
  Speaker 16: need to get out and start pushing on the cart
• 54:32
  Speaker 16: and make it happen and help that horse to do
• 54:35
  Speaker 16: what it needs to do. So we've got to get
• 54:37
  Speaker 16: out and vote and support this.
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, look, Danny, I think you're speaking a lot of
• 54:43
  Speaker 5: common sense to the nation right now, and I think
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: that's a really smart and really a wise way of
• 54:49
  Speaker 5: looking at things. And that's really where I was listening
• 54:52
  Speaker 5: to another talk radio host today, and he was Really,
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: he was belittling Republicans who said they were not going
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: to vote because, you know, Trump has betrayed the country
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: on MAGA, you know, in Iran and, you know, high
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: gas prices. And I get, look, I'm not going to
• 55:08
  Speaker 5: do that. That's not what I'm going to do because
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: those are all very legitimate concerns. The issue for me
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: is there is an overarching concern, which is the rise
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: of communism. And Danny, we've got to get a handle
• 55:21
  Speaker 5: on that. And we cannot allow that to get a foothold.
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: in the U.S.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: Congress.
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  Speaker 5: We just can't do that. Danny, thank you. Wise words
• 55:29
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  Speaker 5: our chief political strategist. Josh, we are in the homestretch,
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  Speaker 5: my friend.
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  Speaker 17: You're right. We're reaching out to the medal, and we're
• 58:02
  Speaker 17: racing for the finish line at this point.
• 58:04
  Speaker 5: Well, let's talk about the big news. Fox News putting
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: out their power poll earlier today, and according to Fox,
• 58:14
  Speaker 5: the Ohio Senate and governor's races shifting to the Democrat column.
• 58:19
  Speaker 5: We're hearing that in some places in Tennessee, this information
• 58:23
  Speaker 5: just coming in, that Democrats are far outpacing Republicans to
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: the polls. What say you and what should we be
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: paying attention to?
• 58:32
  Speaker 17: Look, the polls aren't necessarily wrong. Democrats are showing up
• 58:36
  Speaker 17: to vote. There's no doubt about that. If you look
• 58:38
  Speaker 17: at some of these early voting trends around the country,
• 58:41
  Speaker 17: they're showing up to vote. Obviously, Democrats are more prone
• 58:45
  Speaker 17: to vote early or vote by mail. Republicans more oftentimes
• 58:49
  Speaker 17: vote on Election Day itself. With that being said, though,
• 58:52
  Speaker 17: Republicans have a hard need to get out and vote
• 58:55
  Speaker 17: an early vote because you never know if something could
• 58:56
  Speaker 17: pop up on Election Day where you can't make it
• 58:58
  Speaker 17: to the polls. So if you can go early vote,
• 59:00
  Speaker 17: you should do that. But otherwise, show up on Election Day,
• 59:04
  Speaker 17: and I think we'll see some good numbers for Republicans then.
• 59:07
  Speaker 5: A majority of Americans are favoritists. with President Trump. And
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: that is influencing their vote. That's according to the Fox
• 59:15
  Speaker 5: News Power poll that came out earlier today. And I'm
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: wondering if you see that, if you guys are sensing
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: that among voters.
• 59:27
  Speaker 17: Yeah, look, there's Obviously, the Democrats are fired up, and
• 59:31
  Speaker 17: their motivating factor to come out to the polls is
• 59:33
  Speaker 17: to go against Trump. They see this as their opportunity
• 59:38
  Speaker 17: to rebuke the Trump administration. And look, there's a lot
• 59:41
  Speaker 17: of Republican voters across the country who maybe aren't the
• 59:44
  Speaker 17: most enthusiastic about going to vote for Republicans this November,
• 59:48
  Speaker 17: based on maybe candidate quality, or maybe they are more
• 59:52
  Speaker 17: idolatrous and they don't like the intervention in the Middle East.
• 59:55
  Speaker 17: But beyond all of that, what I keep reminding candidates
• 59:58
  Speaker 17: and voters alike is you really have to draw a
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 17: contrast with the Democrats here. I mean, let's not forget,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 17: just a couple years ago, we had Biden in a
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 17: Democrat Congress, and look what that got us. Record high inflation,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 17: you know, millions crossing the border, crime skyrocketing. And now
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 17: the Democrats have turned over this new leaf where they're
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 17: becoming socialists. So it's really about drawing a contrast of
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 17: what the Democratic Party has became over the.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 18: Past couple of years.
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  Speaker 17: Because, look, there's, you know, if people have reasons to
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 17: imagine That's great. Back in the day, somebody who agreed
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 17: with 80% of the time is better than somebody who
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 17: agreed with.
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  Speaker 16: 5% of the time.
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  Speaker 5: No, look, it's a fair point you raise. These approval ratings,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: and it's interesting, Fox actually broke this down, Trump approval
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 5: before Iran versus now, and the president's approval rating hovering
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: right around 50% back last year in 2025. Now disapproval
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 5: is at 64%, so it's very clear that there does
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: seem to be That is having some sort of an impact.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 5: The question is, is that driving out more Democrats to
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: show their disapproval, or are the Republicans just staying home?
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 17: That's a great question. I think it's a little bit
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 17: of A, a little bit of B. Democrats are showing up.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 17: They're fired up to go vote. And there's certain Republicans
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 17: that are going to maybe not show.
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  Speaker 16: Up on Election Day.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 17: We need them to show up. I always tell people, look,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 17: the Republican Party is a big temp party. You have
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 17: your more establishment, traditional Republicans.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: You have your MAGA.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 17: You have America First. So, look, and I think it's
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 17: a compliment to the Republican Party. The reality is, after
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 17: you have that primary, you have to rally around the
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 17: Republican candidate because, again... You know, if someone you agree
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 17: with 80 percent of the time is who you want
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 17: in office versus the Democratic Socialist, who you agree with
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 17: maybe 5 percent of the time, totally uprooting the Constitution
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 17: and how we run our government.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean, I'm with you a thousand percent there.
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  Speaker 5: And I think we've got to go back to, you know, again,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 5: Tim Waltz. This is the kind of Democrat we, you know,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 5: we are on the verge of electing. Cut number 12, please.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: I think we need to push back on this.
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  Speaker 10: There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 10: and especially around our democracy.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 5: So no guarantees to free speech. Now you've got Hillary
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 5: Clinton out there wanting a crackdown on conservative content and
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 5: social media. And you've got Senator Slotkin out there suggesting
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 5: that young conservatives like you, Josh Jones, who might be
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 5: pro-Trump or might have voted for Trump or might even
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 5: be working in the administration– should face some sort of
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 5: a punishment because you are simply serving the conservative cause. And,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: Josh Jones, I don't want to see you hauled off
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: to the gulag.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 17: I don't think I'm going to be taken out to
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 17: the gulag any time soon, fingers crossed. But you speak
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 17: to a greater point. I've always viewed my Democrat counterpart,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 17: as fair opponents on the battlefield of ideas. But it's
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 17: clear that the Democrats don't have that same feeling towards us,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 17: from wanting to scare young staffers from getting involved in politics,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 17: to saying you don't have a right to free speech.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 17: I mean, these are fundamental American principles. As much as
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 17: the Democrats may doll it up that, oh, they're moderate,
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 17: they're not going to go down this path, that's just
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 17: a few radical elements in their party. Well, the reality is,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 17: If Democrats win these elections, a majority in the House
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 17: of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries is not going to stand up
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 17: for the socialist Communist Party. He's just going to bend
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 17: their will.
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  Speaker 5: That's true. Dylan, turn your microphone on. I just had
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 5: a visual, and this is why you've got to go
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 5: and vote, because you know what's going to happen. They're
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 5: coming after me. They're probably going to grant— I know they're
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: coming after Dieter up on Capitol Hill, and poor Josh—
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: We're all going to be working the cotton fields in
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 5: some godforsaken place like Idaho, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 8: I do not want that for you, Todd. I don't
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 8: want that for you.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 5: No, I can't do manual labor. Come on.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 8: No, and they definitely won't have Dr. Pepper to give
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 8: you once you're done. Like, it's not going to end.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: Jeez, Lou.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 5: We'll get dirty water. That's it. I tell you, these Democrats,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: I don't like them. I don't like them because they
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 5: will try to do something like this. That's what bothers
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: me about all of this, guys.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 5: Josh Jones, we have got a super bad phone connection,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: so we're going to have to get that sorted out,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 5: and we will reconnect with Josh. My apologies about that,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 5: ladies and gentlemen. We're going to take a quick break here.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 12: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stearns Show. All right. Welcome back, everybody.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Let's go to Statesville,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: North Carolina, WSIC, our terrific affiliate there. Walt is on
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 5: the line. Walt, what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 14: I'm just thinking that I know there's only a week
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 14: more to go, but the Republicans should recapture the idea
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 14: of the contract with America, but in this case, in
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 14: this election, and maybe the next one, or the next president,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 14: they should have a one-line, one-issue contract with America saying
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 14: they will pledge to keep the border closed, and then
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 14: challenge the every Democrat that goes up against any Republican
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 14: to do the same.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: I love that idea, Walt. I know there's been a
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: lot of frustration out there, but has that played into
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: your decision-making when it comes to voting?
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 14: No, because I know the Republicans are basically that way, too,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 14: but you've got a big middle ground that doesn't know
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 14: anything about any issue.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 11: But if they see any crime.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 14: Or their benefits being reduced, they might start to tune
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 14: in a little more.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: You know, Walt, that is an interesting observation you made.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: I forget who, I was in some, I'm in some
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 5: local neighborhood community group chat thing, and I was just
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: really appalled at the sheer ignorance of basic, basic things
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: about the midterm election, just basic knowledge about, you know,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 5: You know what the party stood for. It was just like, wow,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 5: this is this is not good. You know, the the
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: American people, the voters do have to you have to
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 5: educate yourself. You know, you can't just be walking in
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: there and just willy nilly voting for somebody.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 14: Too many vote for the party that their family votes for,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 14: their friends at work vote for without knowing anything.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: Walt, it's good guidance there. Thank you for that call.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: Let's go to Houston, Texas. Tom is listening to us
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: on Patriot Talk 920 today. Hi, Tom. What's on your mind?
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: Hello, Todd. I'm bringing you a little field report here.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: In Harris County, our early vote numbers as of last
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: night was 480,000, and I wouldn't be surprised by this
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: time today we've broke 500,000. And the entire state is
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: at almost 4.7 billion early voters. Now, I can tell
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: you here in Harris County, previously we would be at
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: somewhere around 200 to 210,000. So I pray and I hope.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: that the inflated numbers are conservatives going to the polls because,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: you know, we typically wait until the final day. That's
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: got to stop. You know, I don't agree with all
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: this early voting, mail-in voting. Here they even have drive-ups
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: of voting. And they did it. One of them was
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: 24 hours. They had a fight. You could just walk
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: up to 24 hours of voting. And I'm all about
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: people being able to vote. But this just leads to corruption.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: But as I say, I pray and I hope that
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: the increase, almost double turnout so far, is going to.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 5: Be red voters. Tom, any indication thus far of who
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 5: might be leading the charge here and getting out the vote?
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 5: Is it Republicans, Democrats?
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 10: No.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: Well, that's my point, is, as I said, typically, previous midterms,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: the early voting numbers at this day, you know, whatever
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: we are, day five or eight of early voting, has
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: been just about 200,000, 220,000, 210,000, 217,000, something like that.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: And like I say, we're almost at half a million now.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: So I'm hoping that the increase is red voters. And
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: If you're not pressing time, have you seen this? In
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: Sugar Land, Texas, the father at a soccer game that
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: walloped another guy with a half-gallon water bottle, and he
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: just fell to the ground like a stiff board. He
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: was unconscious before he even hit the ground. And this
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: was at a kid's softball game.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 5: And what does that have to do with the election? Sorry,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 5: you lost me there for a second.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: No, it's just something local.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, gotcha. Well, Tom, let's stick with politics here. We'll
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 5: look into that story, no doubt about that. But I
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: do appreciate the call. I want to play some audio.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 5: Here's a guy from Texas thanking the Democrats. Cut number nine, please.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: Texas, what's going on, Texas?
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 15: Hey, hey, listen up.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: Quick PSA.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: The midterms are coming up.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 16: You hear me?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 15: And I just would like to take this opportunity to
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 15: thank every Democratic leader, Democratic representative.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: I want to thank you all.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 15: It is because of you and the words that are
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 15: coming out of your mouth that I am pushing everything red.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 10: I don't care what name on that.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 2: If it's red, I'm pushing it.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 5: Well, he's pretty fired up. And this is why, folks,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 5: this is why you just can't step out there and
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: say there's going to be a blue wave or a
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 5: red wave. You just never know. By the way, one
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: thing we can tell you about, President Trump weighing in
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 5: on the lovely ladies in Mississippi, cut number 17.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 12: So now I say it's my fifth favorite. Thank you.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 12: I love you too, darling.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: I have no idea where you are, but you sound
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: good to me.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 11: Oh, there she is.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: I do love you, actually.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 12: Well, I'll get myself into political trouble. They have beautiful
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 12: women in Mississippi, I can tell you. We're all in trouble,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 12: we're all. They have, look at these women, they're standing up.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 12: We love you, Donald, we love you, they're so beautiful,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 12: it's crazy. But you know, you're not allowed to say,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 12: I'm not allowed to say that a woman's beautiful, because
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 12: that's usually the end of your political career. So I
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 12: will not say, excuse me for saying.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: That you're beautiful, darling, you know what?
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: I hope you weren't insulted.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 4: It's, how crazy, how crazy.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: Is the world?
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, Dylan, he's not wrong. We actually did
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 5: some research here. The president making a really interesting claim
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 5: that Mississippi women are beautiful. And so you're from Mississippi, Dylan.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 5: So can you attest to what the president had to
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 5: say there?
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't think there's anything wrong with saying that
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 8: women are beautiful or Mississippi women are beautiful. So, yeah.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't like it. Look, more often than not,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 5: You're going to be hard-pressed to find a morbidly obese,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: magenta-haired woman with a nose ring running around Mississippi. I mean,
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: maybe Jackson, but.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, everywhere else is fine, but Jackson, avoid that.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 5: But we did a little bit of research here because
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 5: the president made a pretty interesting claim about the women
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 5: of Mississippi, and it turns out, and Dylan, you may
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: be surprised to know this, that four women from Mississippi...
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: have won the Miss America pageant. That's pretty extraordinary for women.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 5: And overall, as a region, 28 Southern women have been
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: crowned Miss America over the years.
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Not surprised at all by that fact at all.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So because, you know, Southern women are, first of all,
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  Speaker 5: they are beautiful. And many of them know how to,
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 5: they're very gracious and graceful people. And they know how to,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 5: they have a talent for, whether it be setting a
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 5: baton on fire and twirling it in the air, or
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe they know how to cook, and
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 5: maybe they know how to shoot a gun.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 8: It's not just about looks here.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 5: It's very well-rounded.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 8: They've got beautiful personalities. It's a well-rounded beautifulness.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 5: Speaking of well-rounded, the bathing suits. I mean, you know,
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 5: the Southern women look good in bathing suits.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we got the leg up on that one. We're good.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 5: Yes, we did. So anyway, all that to say, Mr. President,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 5: we didn't mean to fact check you, but we wanted
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 5: to because I suspected you were right. And Mr. President,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 5: you are correct. So consider that a positive fact check
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 5: of President Donald J.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 7: Trump.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 5: Southern women are the most beautiful in America. There you go. 901-260-5926,
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• 1:14:31
  Speaker 5: coming your way. Ennis Freedom, soon-to-be WNBA star, will be
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 5: joining us. Also, Mary Walter is going to be here
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 5: to weigh in on the Cheesecake Factory story. And also,
• 1:14:42
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• 1:14:44
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• 1:14:55
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• 1:14:57
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• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: little fellowshipping, do a lot of eating, and maybe even
• 1:15:04
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• 1:15:13
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• 1:15:18
  Speaker 5: hang tight, everybody. Got to take a quick break. In
• 1:15:20
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• 1:15:23
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• 1:15:25
  Speaker 5: great stories we've just posted, including my commentary on the
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 5: Cheesecake Factory story. You're going to love that one. All right,
• 1:15:32
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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to Hour 3 of the Todd
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 5: Starnes Radio Show. Happy to have you with us today.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 5: And all sorts of news happening out there.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: We have.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 5: We have this item coming to us from Kid Rock.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 5: Kid Rock now says he is a woman and plans
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 5: to enroll in the WNBA draft. This is huge news.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 5: Can Kid Rock play, Dylan? I have not heard of this.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 8: I have not seen his game yet. I want to
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 8: know how tall he is.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we've got to get some intel on that. Before
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 5: we sign off on this and endorse Kid Rock for
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 5: the WNBA draft, We're going to have to get some
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 5: more intel. We don't need any more intel for our
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 5: next guest, who hopes to be the next superstar WNBA player.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 5: He is participating in a rally with our good friend,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 5: Senator Marsha Blackburn, a great American patriot, the next governor
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 5: of Tennessee. Also, Clay Travis is there at this event
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 5: in Hendersonville. And our next guest is, as well, Ennis Cantor. Ennis,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: what an honor to have you on the program today. And, man, congratulations,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: and God bless you for all the great things that
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 5: have been happening.
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 6: Well, thank you for having me. It's an honor to
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 6: join you guys, and I'm really excited to be here.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 5: Ennis, first of all, just want to get the very
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: latest on the WNBA journey. Where are we at here?
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 5: When can we expect to see you wearing a jersey?
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 6: I mean we've been getting kicked out of the games
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 6: for the last two games i tried to attend i
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 6: mean the last game i tried to attend they didn't
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 6: even sit let me sit on my seat they just
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 6: said hey we're gonna put you in a suite which
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 6: to me is a prison box uh which was i
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 6: was like there's no way i'm gonna be sitting in
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 6: a prison box that you guys trying to put me
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 6: on but um you know um i have every right
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 6: to put my name on a draft which i did
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 6: um So according to their rule, if you identify as
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 6: a woman, you're allowed to play. And, you know, around
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 6: two months ago, I came out and said, hey, I'm
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 6: a woman then, right? So let's see what happens. The
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 6: draft is in April. So it's going to be definitely
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 6: a very interesting time period for me and definitely for
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 6: them as well.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 5: But here's what I appreciate. I mean, you're showing interest.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 5: I mean, you're showing off the games. You know, you
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 5: want to do your part to support your fellow ladies
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 5: out there on the court.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 6: Of course, you know, they've been losing millions of dollars
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: every year. You know, I think I am the answer
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 6: to that. So I'm just going to go out there
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 6: and make sure that, you know, every fan comes to
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 6: watch the games. There is not going to be any
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 6: empty seats anymore. I just hope that they select me
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 6: for like a really, really good team so I can
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 6: win a championship.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: Well, we're going to hope and pray that that is
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 5: the case. Ennis, I'm curious to hear your reaction about
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 5: the WNBA stars. They're apparently triggered by the Star Spangled Banner.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 5: They've been running off the court during the national anthem.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 5: What's your take on that?
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 6: It's a shame, man. I mean, they have no idea.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 6: These people have no idea how good they have it
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 6: in this country, how blessed and lucky they are. Listen,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 6: I grew up under the dictatorship, right? I had no
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 6: freedom of speech, no freedom of religion, no freedom of expression.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 6: I haven't seen my family almost 14 years now. So
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 6: when you are fighting against these dictatorships, socialism, communist countries,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 6: you realize that how blessed you are to be in
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 6: a country like America. So for that reason, man, I
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 6: just hope that they understand because they're in the biggest
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 6: stage out there and millions of kids are... looking after
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 6: these players. So I just hope that, you know, somehow
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: whoever the new commissioner is can set some rules that
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: they can start respecting our flag, our country, and our veterans.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 5: I just, you know, we have a regular caller to
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 5: our show. She escaped to the communist in Vietnam and
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 5: came here as a child with nothing. And now she's
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 5: a successful business person in the Houston area. And she
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 5: calls in frequently, and she said just what you said.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 5: She escaped from this evil, and she is very concerned
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 5: that we could see the rise of communism here on
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 5: American soil. What about you?
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, 100%. I mean, you see now from all
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 6: the social medias and the apps that this socialism is
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 6: just being pumped, and they are brainwashing our children. They
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 6: think it's cool right now, but I ask every single
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 6: one of them, show me one country that socialism worked.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 6: So I think we have to keep America the way
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 6: it is. We have to save America from these socialist-minded people.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 6: But I think it's their parents' job because now all
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 6: these dictatorships are pumping this anti-American propaganda on these apps. Like,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 6: for example, TikTok, right? And then, you know, when these
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 6: kids are scrolling these videos, they just start– I mean,
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 6: I organize a lot of basketball camps, and these kids
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 6: are asking me about a lot of anti-American questions. I'm like,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 6: where do you guys get this from? They said, well,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 6: social media and TikTok. So I think parents need to
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 6: definitely do their part and protect their kids.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 5: You know, as bad as the WNBA is on the
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 5: national anthem, what LeBron James did, I just– for me,
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 5: that just– That really infuriated me as an American citizen.
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 5: What about you?
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 6: Listen, this country gave him everything. His money, his career,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 6: his respect, dignity. This country gave him literally everything. And
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 6: he knew that he just signed with a team, right?
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 6: That team was going to be the most watched season
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 6: opener ever, which it became a most watched season opener ever.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 6: And then every kid, everyone's eyes was going to be
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 6: on him. And he somehow decided to work on his
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 6: golf swing during the national anthem. I mean, you get
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 6: 20 minutes before the game to just warm up, right?
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 6: So you couldn't just stand there for literally a minute
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 6: or two to respect our country. It's a shame, man.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 6: But I'm just glad that he's coming towards the end
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 6: of his career because I believe he is the reason
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 6: that NBA is a woke-minded environment.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 5: Ennis Freedom joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 5: And Ennis, you're part of this huge GOTV rally. Senator
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: Marsha Blackburn has been one of the most ferocious defenders
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 5: of protecting women and women's sports. That's going to be
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 5: just a great event. And I'm just curious, from your perspective,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 5: how important is it for folks like Senator Blackburn to
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 5: be engaged in this fight to protect these female athletes?
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 6: You know, first of all, around five years ago, I'm
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 6: sure you guys know that I got kicked out of
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 6: the NBA because of I talk about the problems that
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 6: are happening in China. And after I got kicked out
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 6: of the NBA, like none of my teammates, my coaches,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 6: no one reached out. And I got this like a
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 6: random call from Washington, D.C. I was in Boston and
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 6: it was Marshall Blackburn's office. And they said, hey, for
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 6: you to know that, you know, the senator supports you. And,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 6: you know, we would love for you to come here
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 6: and just meet the senator. And then we had this
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 6: like a five minute interview with her. And that gave
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 6: me so much hope, man. That gave me so much motivation.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 6: I'm like, wow, a U.S. senator is actually supporting me,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 6: you know. And then after that, I was like, this
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 6: is my time to pay respect, you know. So she's
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 6: the only conservative in the ballot. And I think it's
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 6: very important for people to know that she stands with
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 6: common sense and morality. And I think she's the only
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 6: candidate that is going to keep men out of a
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 6: woman's locker room, woman's bathroom, and woman's shower. I mean,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 6: I ask this question to my teammates. I'm like, think
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 6: about if your daughter, if your sister, if your wife
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 6: being in same spaces like bathroom or locker rooms or
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 6: shower with a biological male. You know, this player says,
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 6: I will wait outside and punch him in the face.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 6: So I think she stands with morality, she stands with principles,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 6: and she stands with common sense. And to me, it
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 6: was a no-brainer for sure.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 5: Well, Enes, we know you're a busy man, and we
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 5: sure do appreciate you taking a few moments to join
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 5: us here on the national show. And we really respect
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 5: the stand you are taking out there, and we do
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 5: look forward to seeing you playing in the WNBA. Thank you.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 6: I appreciate that, man.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: That means a lot.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 5: All right. The great Ennis Freedom, everybody. Great patriot right there.
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 5: And he's standing up for young girls all across America.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 5: And we got to give a shout out to Senator
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 5: Marsha Blackburn. Let me tell you something. She is a
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 5: fierce warrior. And she has proven over her career as
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 5: a state lawmaker in Congress, in the Senate, and soon
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 5: to be in the governor's mansion. that she is going
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 5: to stand up for the young female athletes of America.
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 5: And that is something that I greatly appreciate. All right,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 5: we've got to take a quick break here. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 5: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 5: And we are working to get State Senator Brent Taylor
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 5: on the show this hour. So we'll let you know
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 5: if that happens. We are working through all of that
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 5: with his team. No, Dylan, we're not texting. Stop.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 3: Stop.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 8: You stop. Too soon.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: Too soon.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 11: Oh, geez.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 5: All right, I want to go right away to the
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 5: Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. This is just a ridiculous story.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 5: And shame on this Catholic bishop. You got the bishop
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 5: in Milwaukee, one of a number of Catholics who were
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 5: praying in the Oval Office, and they were praying over
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 5: President Trump. And a photo was taken and shared. And
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 5: now one of the bishops has apologized for praying with
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 5: President Trump. I want to go right away to our
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 5: good friend, Father Frank Prevone, who is the director of
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 5: Priests for Life. Frank, I just don't get this one.
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: You know, Todd, thanks for having me on about this.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 10: You know, you have to be oblivious to what's happened
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 10: in America over the last decade plus since President Trump
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 10: came on the national political scene. Nobody's done more for
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 10: religious freedom.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: Nobody's done more for the Catholic Church. Look what he
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: did just recently.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 10: His Department of Education issued new guidance for the freedom
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 10: of students in public schools to pray. He's issued executive
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 10: orders helping.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: The clergy to be more free to speak in the pulpit.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 10: He has advanced religious freedom nationally and globally. And here
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 10: you have a religious leader who should be bowing in
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 10: reverent gratitude to gratitude to this president and his team
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 10: for what they have done to enable leaders like him
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 10: to preach the gospel without the weaponization.
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: That comes from the Democrat side of the aisle.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 10: And meanwhile, he's saying, oh, yeah, well, we were, he
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 10: and also another bishop, the bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, oh,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 10: you know, we.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: Were exploited for partisan purposes. What are you talking about?
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 10: You want to be on the side of the Democrats instead,
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 10: you know, that is suppressing religious freedom? So, I mean,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 10: like you, Todd, I'm scratching my head and saying, you know,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 10: what kind of world are these men living in?
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 5: It's a great question. And to your point, Frank, you
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 5: had an administration, a previous administration, that tried to convince
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 5: Catholic priests to spy on their parishioners. You had a
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 5: previous administration that arrested pro-life Catholics who storming their homes
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 5: and pulling their kids or pulling the husbands and wives
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 5: out in front of their kids. I mean, they were terrified. Catholics.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 5: And so I'm just not understanding where was their outrage
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 5: and moral, you know, righteous indignation then?
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, Todd, they're not paying attention. And I
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: think it's providential.
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 10: That this story broke so close to Election Day, because
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 10: I want to invite people to make these contrasts, use
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 10: this story as one of them, but make the contrasts
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 10: for voters based on the fact that we've got the
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 10: best record ever on the conservative side and the faith side,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 10: and the Democrats have the worst, most radical proposals ever.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 10: This contrast has never been starker for America. And Todd,
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 10: I developed on my own political organization, Pro-Life Vote. We've
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 10: developed some ads and some downloadable flyers that voters can
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 10: use to make these contrasts that we're talking about now
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 10: and thousands of other contrasts. So if they go to
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 10: pro-life vote dot com, they can get this this info. And,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 10: you know, also, you know, the accomplishments for people of faith.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 10: President Trump and his administration issued a summary recently, 250.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: Victories for people of faith.
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 10: And folks can find that, too, on the on the
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 10: Web site. We got to be trumpeting this stuff now
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 10: as people are in the midst of voting in this midterms.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 5: I'm curious about the Catholic Church at large. Are we watching,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 5: I mean, are there a lot of woke bishops and
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 5: priests out there? Is that the problem, or is this
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 5: an anomaly, or are we dealing with a much larger issue?
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 10: Well, Todd, I wrote a book back when President Trump
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 10: started campaigning for the presidency in 2015. I published a
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 10: book called Abolishing Abortion, and in the midst of that,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 10: I addressed this issue of the Catholic Church and how
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 10: they deal with politics and elections.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: And I pointed out, and.
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 10: What these bishops have said is a symptom of this,
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 10: that they're so concerned, and this is churchwide, they're so
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 10: concerned about, quote, the appearance of partisanship, so.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 2: Much so that they won't even allow.
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  Speaker 10: Their priests to do nonpartisan voter registration and education activities.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 10: They instill fear in them instead. and say, oh, well,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 10: you know, the church might lose its tax exemption if
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 10: you do this.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, that's garbage.
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  Speaker 8: That's nonsense.
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  Speaker 10: You know, political, I mean, legal experts laugh out loud
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 10: about all that. The way these bishops interpret it is way, way,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 10: way too cautious and paranoid.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: So it is a church-wide problem.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 10: And then there's also Trump derangement syndrome within some of
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 10: the Catholic hierarchy. Hey, Todd, that's why, as you and
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 10: I have discussed on other episodes, they actually threw me
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 10: out of the priesthood because I was too supportive of
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 10: President Trump, too political for their likings. And my argument
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 10: back to them was, you do not have a better
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 10: friend in the political world, you as the Catholic Church,
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 10: you as pastors, do not have a better friend than
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 10: President Donald J.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 7: Trump.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 10: And his administration, and in fact, the Republican Party. So, yeah,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 10: it is a church-wide problem. It goes all the way
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 10: up to the Vatican, and there are a lot of
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 10: good ones in there. Obviously, a lot of good ones
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 10: that we all collaborate with, but you've got a lot
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 10: of folks in there that just need their political minds
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 10: opened up.
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  Speaker 5: Frank Pavone is the National Director for Priests for Life,
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 5: joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. You know,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 5: it seems to me, as we're looking at the midterm
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 5: elections just next Tuesday— one week away, and I know
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 5: there has been a lot of controversy over just trying
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 5: to get evangelical pastors out there to talk about getting
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 5: to the polls. What's happening on the Catholic side of
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 5: the aisle?
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: Well, we have a mixed picture, as we usually do.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 10: There are a good number of conservative Catholic ministries and groups,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 10: my own included, that are finding good response, because we
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 10: know priests that are more... active and more open to this,
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 10: and they see what is going on. But then you
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 10: also see what we've seen in so many elections over
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 10: the recent decades, that you've got pastors that just want
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 10: to tune out. Some pastors will say, and priests and
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 10: pastors across denominational lines, well, I'm just commissioned to preach
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 10: the gospel. And my argument back to them is very simple.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 10: I want to invite all our listeners to use the
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 10: same response. And that is, hey, pastor, preach the gospel. Yes,
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 10: by all means, we're with you on that. But unless
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 10: you get involved in politics, you're going to lose the
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 10: freedom to preach the gospel. And that is a very basic,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 10: factually based affirmation. and you look at the track record
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 10: of the Democrats, and you look at now what they're
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 10: doing with pushing this socialism, communism.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: Garbage, that's godless.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 10: It's power concentrated in the state. And what these pastors
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 10: have to understand is when you have a political party
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 10: that wants to concentrate all power in itself and in
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 10: the state, the two biggest obstacles, Todd, to that.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 2: Goal are the family and the church.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 10: And that's why they're going to hate both, and the
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 10: Democrat Party does hate both.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: And to the.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 10: Extent that pastors realize that, they are stepping up to
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 10: the plate.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: They're getting people to the polls. They're doing voter registration.
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 10: To the extent that a pastor doesn't realize that, they
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 10: are sitting on the sidelines and letting evil take the
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 10: upper hand.
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  Speaker 5: All right, and with that, Frank, we're going to have
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 5: to leave it there, but we'll provide a link to
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 5: Priests for Life on our website. Frank Pavone, thanks for
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 5: joining us today. Appreciate it. All right, folks, coming up,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 5: State Senator Brent Taylor joining us live here on the
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 5: Todd Stearns Radio Show. All right, a bombshell allegation made
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 5: earlier today that has caused all sorts of conversation across
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 5: the state of Tennessee and could have some implications in
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 5: the 9th Congressional District race, pitting Justin Pearson, who is
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 5: a radical communist, against State Senator Brent Taylor. The Nashville
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 5: scene earlier today reporting that Senator Taylor, and they were
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 5: citing unnamed sources, and multiple sources, they say they either
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 5: received or saw nude photos allegedly sent by the senator.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 5: According to the publication, one person who requested anonymity said
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 5: they received an unsolicited nude photo from Taylor in 2021
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 5: before his election to the Senate. Senator Taylor telling the
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 5: Nashville scene that as I near 60 years old, the
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 5: expiration date has come and gone on any of my
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 5: youthful indiscretions. Well, on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, Senator
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 5: Brent Taylor. And, Senator, we appreciate you joining us. I
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 5: have to imagine it is a difficult day. But, sir,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 5: I guess the first question that a lot of folks
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 5: would have is, what the hell were you thinking, sir?
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 18: Well, that would be a good question. And I will
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 18: tell you that that is what I have been telling people,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 18: that you can tell we're seven days from an election.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 18: You can tell who the frontrunner is when these types
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 18: of stories come out just mere days before the election.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 18: And look, I will readily admit and acknowledge my indiscretion.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 18: And it's unfortunate. And what's really frustrating is that that
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 18: my wife, who she and I worked through this together
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 18: long ago, we've moved on from it. But what's frustrating
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 18: is now my wife has to relive all of this
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 18: in the waning days of the campaign. And the thing
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 18: about it is Tennesseans, they don't care about the personal
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 18: struggles in my family. They care about the personal struggles
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 18: in their family. And none of this discussion about my
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 18: past indiscretion has anything to do with lowering energy prices,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 18: lowering gas prices, lowering diesel fuel prices, and as a result,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 18: it just serves as a distraction. But that's why I'm
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 18: running for Congress, Todd, is I want to make sure
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 18: that I go to Congress and will work to reduce prices,
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 18: reduce the cost of living, and that's why I'm running
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 18: against Democrat Socialist Justin Pearson. Because if he were to
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 18: ever get elected to Congress, he would be an ongoing
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 18: public embarrassment to Tennessee. And the choice is clear in
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 18: this election. People will have the opportunity.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 5: Let me jump in here, though, Senator. But don't you
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 5: think these revelations are a public embarrassment, too?
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 18: Oh, they are. It's very embarrassing. Because obviously I'm sitting
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 18: here having to talk about something that my wife and
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 18: I had to work through together. um, and talk about
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 18: it in an open way. No, no family, uh, would
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 18: want to have to do that. Every family has different
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 18: types of struggles that they don't want to have to
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 18: discuss publicly, but.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 5: No, no doubt about that.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 4: Hold on.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 5: But Senator, no doubt about that. I completely understand, but
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 5: knowing that those photos were out there, why would you
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 5: put your family through this by entering a race? And
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 5: you had to have known that this was, was going
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 5: to come out.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 18: Well, uh, Again, I put that in my past and
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 18: what other people decide to do with something that I
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 18: may have shared with them whether it was a text
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 18: communication or a picture, what they decide to do that
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 18: is up to them. What I wanted to do is
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 18: to move forward. My wife and I worked through this
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 18: together and we have moved on from it. And the
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 18: great thing is she has forgiven me. My God has
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 18: forgiven me. and I'm looking forward to going to Congress
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 18: to help lower prices, because none of this has anything
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 18: to do with lowering gas prices or diesel prices. The
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 18: choice is clear in this election. Competence or chaos.
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 5: And I completely agree with that. I think the concern
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 5: here is the Republican Party has built itself as a
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 5: party that was fighting for the culture war issues, and Also,
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 5: these kinds of things would put any congressman in a
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 5: position where they could be blackmailed down the road if
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 5: these things had not come out. So again, I think
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 5: it is a legitimate question, you know, to be raised.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 5: But I heard you say that you asked for your,
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 5: you know, you talked to your wife, and that's a
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 5: personal thing. You talked to God. But what about the
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 5: voters and your constituents and your supporters in the 9th
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 5: Congressional District? Are they owed an apology here?
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 18: Well, again, the apology is to my wife. That is
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 18: the person that I committed this indiscretion against. She's the
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 18: one that was owed an apology. I gave her that apology.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 18: We worked through this together, and so that's what we're
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 18: working through. But look, you just raised the issue about
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 18: people being blackmailed. That won't be the case here because
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 18: I have discussed this openly and publicly before an election.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 18: And then the other thing is, you know, this goes
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 18: to show you, and I had a reporter earlier ask me,
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 18: they said, you know, what about, how could you do
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 18: this as a Christian? I think this exemplifies the whole
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 18: story of being a Christian, and that is that it's
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 18: about redemption. And as I said, my wife, I asked
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 18: for her forgiveness. She's given it to me. My God
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 18: has forgiven me.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 5: I understand that, Senator. And look, I know it's a
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 5: tough spot to be in. And I hate asking these questions.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 5: And I know it's got to be difficult for you.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 5: But I've been getting a lot of text messages from
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 5: your constituents, and they are just really shocked. And really,
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 5: they feel like they've been let down as a result
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 5: of all of this. What do you say to those
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 5: constituents who feel let down?
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 18: Well, I would say this, and that is if you
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 18: elect me to Congress, the one thing you can know
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 18: for certain is I will stand in front of you
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 18: and tell you the truth, just like I did when
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 18: I had to talk to my wife about the indiscretion
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 18: years ago that we worked through, and just like I'm
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 18: doing today by coming on your program and others and
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 18: facing the voters and telling them the truth. I think
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 18: that is what people are looking for in a congressman,
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 18: And yes, look, I made a mistake. I had an
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 18: indiscretion years ago that my wife and I have worked through.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 18: She's having to relive all this now. But the important
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 18: thing is to recognize that when I made a mistake,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 18: I stood up, I faced folks and told the truth
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 18: about it. And that's what we're looking for in a congressman.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 5: So, and I just want to make sure we're clear
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 5: about all of this. Was it just one person that
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 5: you texted? Were there multiple individuals?
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 18: Well, I'll let the Nashville scene, they're the ones that
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 18: did the reporting. I'm not disputing the premise of their article.
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 18: I do believe there are inaccuracies in it, but the
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 18: premise of it is what I acknowledge, and that's what
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 18: I acknowledge to my wife, and she and I worked
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 18: through this years ago, and it's unfortunate and frustrating, but look,
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 18: I understand. I deserve to be held accountable on this,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 18: but it's frustrating that she has to relive all of this.
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 5: Again, I just want to be clear. Was this one instance,
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 5: or were there multiple people who received these text messages?
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 18: Well, again, I think there could be inaccuracies in the article.
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 5: What were the inaccuracies? I know that, but you and
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 5: I are on, and you've been a frequent guest on
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 5: this program, Senator, and we're not hanging anybody out to
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 5: dry here. We're just asking questions that came out of
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 5: the story, and these are questions that people are asking
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 5: of us, so... It was just a simple question.
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 18: Well, it's a simple question. The simple answer is I'm
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 18: acknowledging the reporting in the Nashville scene. And whether it
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 18: was one or multiple, one was too many. And I'm
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 18: acknowledging the indiscretion.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 3: That I made.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 18: And it really doesn't matter whether it was one or more.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 18: It was an indiscretion that my wife and I have
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 18: worked through together. We've moved on from it. And she's
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 18: forgiven me. My God has forgiven me. And the voters
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 18: will have an opportunity in seven days to render a
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 18: judgment on that. But I believe most Tennesseans, again, aren't
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 18: concerned about the personal struggles in my family. They're concerned
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 18: about the struggles in their family. And electing a Democrat
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 18: socialist like Justin Pearson will be a constant embarrassment and
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 18: would impact their families for years to come.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 5: Just two more questions. And you mentioned youthful indiscretion. You
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 5: were in your 50s. Do you still want to go
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 5: with that description? It was a youthful indiscretion.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 18: Well, the older I get, the younger 50 becomes. But
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 18: maybe a more accurate term would be past indiscretion.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 5: I see. I'm just curious. I know you're fielding a
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 5: lot of calls from the media. Does this take you
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 5: off the game as we're heading into, like you said,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 5: the final stretch here? And are there any more shoes
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 5: that are going to drop between now and Election Day?
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 18: Look, it does not take us off our game. We're
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 18: moving forward. We've been working hard in this campaign. We've
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 18: got seven days left. Again, what I have heard is
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 18: from constituents who are shocked that this type of reporting
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 18: and smut would come out a week before the election,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 18: and it's clearly time to try to impact the election.
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 18: But look, I'm a big boy. I'm willing to be
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 18: held accountable for my past indiscretion. And again, I think
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 18: the important point to draw from all this is, do
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 18: you want somebody who's going to tell you the truth
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 18: when things get hard? And clearly I have demonstrated that
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 18: I will stand in front of my wife and tell
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 18: her the truth when things are bad. And I will
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 18: stand in front of the voters as I'm doing today
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 18: with you. When things are bad, I'm going to tell
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 18: you the truth. You don't have to worry about shading
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 18: the truth or hiding something.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 5: All right. Well, Senator, we appreciate you coming on and
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 5: answering the tough questions. And certainly, several days to go
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 5: before Election Day, we'll see how all of this plays out.
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 5: But good luck to you out there on the campaign trail.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 5: Thank you for coming on the show today.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 18: I appreciate you, Todd. Thank you.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 5: All right. All right. There you have it. State Senator
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 5: Brent Taylor addressing these issues.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 5: So here's what we can tell you is that we
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 5: did ask the senator if there were other photos, if
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 5: there were other incidents, and he declined to answer that question.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 5: So there you go. We're going to take your calls
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 5: on this coming up, 901-260-5926. That's 901.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 7: 260-5926.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 5: This is the Todd Starnes Show.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 5: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 5: And look, that was a tough interview. I consider Brent
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 5: Taylor to be a friend. I've given him an endorsement.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 5: I've supported his political campaigns in the past. But again,
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 5: on this program... And we would have done the exact
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 5: same thing to a Democrat. And you know– and the
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 5: Democrats are going to have a field day with this.
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 5: But again, we gave this– first of all, I appreciate
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 5: the senator coming on and answering these questions about the
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 5: sexting scandal. But when you talk about youthful discretions when
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 5: you're in your, what, 50s? I don't know about that.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 5: I want to bring into the conversation– Our dear friend
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 5: Mary Walter, a host of Mary Walter Radio Podcast. And Mary,
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 5: we appreciate you sliding your time here so that we
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 5: could get in this breaking story involving a state senator
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 5: in Tennessee running for the 9th Congressional District, now embroiled
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 5: in a sexting scandal.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 13: Hi. First of all, thanks for having me back. Here's
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 13: the thing.
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 16: I don't know.
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 13: Democrats brush Nazi tattoos under the rug and stick by
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 13: their guy. I think this is something between him and
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 13: his wife, right? Like, I don't know. Like, I think Republicans,
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 13: I'm tired of Republicans holding Republicans to a higher standard. And,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 13: you know, we're better than they are. Yeah, okay.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 13: I'm just a big fan of, it's nobody's business but
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 13: him and his wife, as far as I'm concerned. This
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 13: is clearly a political hit. They wait until the week
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 13: before the election to release it. They've been sitting on it.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 13: This is what Democrats do, because Democrats know that Republicans
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 13: will go after their own. because they feel they're better
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 13: and they're morally superior to Democrats.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 5: You see, I just don't see it like that. I
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  Speaker 5: see it as, again, if you're going to be the
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  Speaker 5: party that promotes family values and all this kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 5: then you've got to toe the party line on that
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  Speaker 5: kind of issue. But look, I appreciate the senator coming
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  Speaker 5: on and answering the questions.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: But then the question is, do Republicans really just promote
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  Speaker 13: family values? Or, you know what, I kind of think
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  Speaker 13: like Republicans promote, listen, this is how we believe people,
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  Speaker 13: like the world should be. Like, you should get married,
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  Speaker 13: you should have kids, you should do whatever. But we
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  Speaker 13: are far less likely to condemn people who make different
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  Speaker 13: choices as long as those choices don't affect us. Like,
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  Speaker 13: I'm a big fan of the Democrats are out of
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  Speaker 13: my wallet and Republicans are out of my bedroom, you know,
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  Speaker 13: kind of politics. And, you know, the difference is Republicans,
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  Speaker 13: if we don't like something that you do, we just
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  Speaker 13: won't participate in it. But as long as it doesn't
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  Speaker 13: affect us.
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  Speaker 11: You go do it.
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  Speaker 14: I don't care.
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  Speaker 13: And Democrats are far more likely to impose their values
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  Speaker 13: and beliefs on us.
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  Speaker 18: You know, COVID, for instance.
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  Speaker 5: Mary, I want to switch gears. We originally had you
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  Speaker 5: scheduled to come to talk about this Cheesecake Factory thing
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  Speaker 5: that Obama stirred up. And again, for most of us,
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  Speaker 5: going to like a Cheesecake Factory, that was like a
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  Speaker 5: big deal. I mean, that was, in our family, somebody
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  Speaker 5: was graduating from something or somebody got a promotion.
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  Speaker 13: Okay, so having grown up in the Northeast where chain
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  Speaker 13: restaurants don't tend to do well because we have so
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  Speaker 13: many great restaurants, right? So I had never been to
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  Speaker 13: McDonald's when I was in high school. Didn't have one.
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  Speaker 13: There wasn't one. I had never been to the Cheesecake
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  Speaker 13: Factory until 2017. When I was living in Friendship Heights, Maryland,
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  Speaker 13: working in Washington, D.C., on a radio station there, and
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  Speaker 13: where they were putting me up for the time being,
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  Speaker 13: downstairs there were Maggiano's and a Cheesecake Factory and something else.
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  Speaker 13: So for the first time ever, Cheesecake Factory.
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  Speaker 18: I'm like, this is going to be great.
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  Speaker 13: I don't like Cheesecake Factory. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: But that's besides the point, Mary. I know it's got
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  Speaker 5: like a 72-page menu. But the point is that they
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  Speaker 5: sort of look down at those of us who go
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  Speaker 5: to places like the Cheesecake Factory or Cracker Barrel or
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  Speaker 5: Red Lobster, for example.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right.
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  Speaker 13: But see, doesn't that tie in with what we were
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  Speaker 13: just talking about? They look down on people who don't
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  Speaker 13: hold themselves to the same values that they do. They're
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  Speaker 13: very judgy, right?
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 13: You're 100% right. Who was it who said, oh, gosh,
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  Speaker 13: which election when Trump was running in 2016? They smell
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  Speaker 13: like they shop in Walmart. Remember that?
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  Speaker 5: Peter Strzok, the smelly Walmart voters.
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  Speaker 10: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 13: So they're very holier than thou, and we don't like it, right?
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  Speaker 13: Because it's rude. It's nasty. And so I love that
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  Speaker 13: Scott Besson went and ate there yesterday. And, of course,
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  Speaker 13: this photograph coming out of Cheesecake Factory. I had a
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  Speaker 13: great lunch. We love Cheesecake Factory. They kind of just, like,
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  Speaker 13: rubbed it in their noses in it, right? And I
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  Speaker 13: love that. I absolutely love that. Every time they think
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  Speaker 13: they're putting you down or trying to take a hit
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  Speaker 13: at you, it just shows them for these elite snobs
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  Speaker 13: they are. And it's just so off-putting. But I'm glad
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  Speaker 13: that it didn't really work for them.
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  Speaker 12: I love it.
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  Speaker 5: Mary, I've got about 30 seconds here. Who is coming
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  Speaker 5: up on the big podcast today?
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  Speaker 13: No one today. I am in the Adirondack Mountains cleaning
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  Speaker 13: out a house. No one today. But next week on
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  Speaker 13: Election Night, David Gellman will be joining me. He is
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 13: a political commentator and a lawyer in New Jersey as well.
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  Speaker 13: And so he will be joining me on Election Night.
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  Speaker 13: And then I will be working overnight on another station
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  Speaker 13: doing all the late-coming stuff. returns that are coming you
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  Speaker 13: know later.
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  Speaker 5: At night mary walter uh joining us on our patriot
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  Speaker 5: mobile newsmaker line today mary thank you for uh for
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  Speaker 5: being a good sport about today folks tonight five o'clock
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  Speaker 5: eastern my book signing at long street cafe here in
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  Speaker 5: gainesville georgia hope you guys come out and join the
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  Speaker 5: fun please wear pants and we'll see you later tonight
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  Speaker 5: be good america
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  Speaker 4: Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na