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Hannity: Fox News Pressured Me to Push Covid Vaccines · 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. I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 3: Hello. Hello.
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  Speaker 4: Is the microphone on, ladies and gentlemen? Welcome to the
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  Speaker 4: Todd Starnes Radio Extravaganza. Yes, I said it. Extravaganza. Wow,
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  Speaker 4: we have got a great show for you today. You
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  Speaker 4: know what it is, Dylan? I hit the wall. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I've been going a million miles an hour, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what it is, but today I just, boom,
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  Speaker 4: hit the wall.
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  Speaker 5: I think the wall hit you, Todd.
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  Speaker 4: And it was one of those situations where this morning
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, the alarm went off, and I always set
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  Speaker 4: the alarm knowing I've got 30 extra minutes to sleep.
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  Speaker 4: So then the 30 minutes was up and I hit
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  Speaker 4: it for another 10 minutes and then another five minutes
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  Speaker 4: and another minute. It was rough getting up this morning.
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  Speaker 5: You're better than me because I will set a certain
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  Speaker 5: amount of alarms to wake me up. And if I
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  Speaker 5: pass that threshold of alarms. then I just leave it
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  Speaker 5: up to chance at that point.
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  Speaker 4: Ten days on the road, nonstop, sun up to sun down.
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  Speaker 4: Got back at 1 o'clock in the morning yesterday. We
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  Speaker 4: did the show, raced over to the church because we
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  Speaker 4: were hosting a national convention, and I had volunteered to
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  Speaker 4: work a shift. So we've got like 2,500 Christian counselors
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  Speaker 4: at the church, and my job was, well, first of all,
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  Speaker 4: they had me on dessert duty. So I had to
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  Speaker 4: put like the dollop of whipped cream on the chocolate brownies.
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  Speaker 4: And then after that, I had to work, I had
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  Speaker 4: manned the coffee machine. And these are like, I put
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  Speaker 4: pictures on Facebook, and these are like industrial-sized coffee things.
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  Speaker 4: These Christian counselors are guzzling this stuff. In just one day,
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  Speaker 4: 120 gallons of coffee was consumed.
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  Speaker 5: Should have took some for yourself, Todd.
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  Speaker 4: I was ready just to jump in.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: But anyway, it's all that to say, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 4: we will persevere today. We will fight the good fight
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  Speaker 4: because we've got a lot going on. We have a
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  Speaker 4: lot happening in the country. We have a midterm election.
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  Speaker 4: We've got to save the country from the communists. Dylan,
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  Speaker 4: tell Ian to put on some coffee. I'll show him
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  Speaker 4: how to work the filters. I know how it works now.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I felt like I was a barista. I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to get pulled back into this, but I
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  Speaker 4: felt like I had learned a life skill.
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  Speaker 5: No, you really have. And now we can just get
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  Speaker 5: rid of our Keurig here. Who needs it? We have
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  Speaker 5: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't go that far, but yeah, I wouldn't go
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  Speaker 4: that far.
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  Speaker 5: It's never too late to learn a new skill.
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  Speaker 4: I don't need to add more to my daily responsibilities.
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  Speaker 5: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 4: So, bad news, America. Memphis, Tennessee has made the Babylon Bee.
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  Speaker 4: We had a problem. We had a situation last night.
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  Speaker 4: We've got the video up at ToddStearns.com. It's a mess. So, look,
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  Speaker 4: Elon Musk is at the center of controversy here in Memphis.
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  Speaker 4: And I want to explain why and what's going on
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  Speaker 4: because it was insane. So Elon is building the data centers.
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  Speaker 4: And let's get real. They're being put in industrial areas
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  Speaker 4: and areas that are somewhat impoverished. So the reality is
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  Speaker 4: they're a little noisy. And apparently they're trying to figure
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  Speaker 4: all of that out. But the other side, the anti-data
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  Speaker 4: center people, are out there saying, well, you know what?
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  Speaker 4: Those data centers are killing people. They are literally killing people.
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  Speaker 4: So we did some research and investigation. First of all,
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  Speaker 4: nobody's been killed by the data centers, and nobody's actually
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  Speaker 4: suffered any sort of health issues whatsoever. as a result
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  Speaker 4: of the data centers being constructed. So that's that. Those
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  Speaker 4: are the facts. So anyway, Elon's coming in, building all
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  Speaker 4: of these bazillion-dollar data centers, what is called Colossus, and
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  Speaker 4: it's generating the tax revenue that this is all generating
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  Speaker 4: is off the charts. which is great because Memphis, of course,
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  Speaker 4: being the deadliest city in America, we've had thousands and
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  Speaker 4: thousands of people leave. The businesses have fled. There was
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  Speaker 4: a shocking story that all of the high-rises in downtown
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  Speaker 4: Memphis are completely empty. There's nobody there. It's insane. So
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  Speaker 4: all of this is going on. The county leaders came
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  Speaker 4: out a few days ago and said, hey, look, We
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  Speaker 4: got a problem here because all these businesses have packed up,
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  Speaker 4: they've moved out, citizens have left, and they're preparing people
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  Speaker 4: for massive property tax increases. So while all that is happening,
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  Speaker 4: here comes Elon to save the day. And Elon Musk
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  Speaker 4: builds these beautiful data centers. And the people became insane. enraged.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen anything like this. So they had a
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  Speaker 4: meeting last night at City Hall, and the city leaders
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  Speaker 4: were going to decide on whether or not to halt
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  Speaker 4: any future data center construction. And the mob showed up. Now,
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  Speaker 4: there's this guy we've been telling you about. He's running
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  Speaker 4: for Congress, and he's like our version of Jasmine Crockett,
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  Speaker 4: I think she's more masculine than he is. But anyway,
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  Speaker 4: the guy, he's not a very tall little fella. His
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  Speaker 4: name is Justin Pearson, so he wears a power fro,
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  Speaker 4: which adds, I don't know, Dylan, would you say about two,
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  Speaker 4: two and a half feet?
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  Speaker 5: At least two. At least three.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. Yeah, I mean, he's a tall guy now, but
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  Speaker 4: it's mostly he's all hair.
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  Speaker 5: It's a lot of hair.
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  Speaker 4: So it is a lot of hair. A lot of hair.
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  Speaker 4: So anyway, this guy is a community organizer, and we
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  Speaker 4: told you about him. He went to a very, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the guy pretends like he's from the hood. In fact,
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  Speaker 4: he went to Bowdoin College in Maine, and he talked
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  Speaker 4: whiter than we talk. Then he comes back to Memphis,
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  Speaker 4: and he's like Malcolm X. Malcolm X and who's the
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  Speaker 4: Dave Chappelle? No, Chris Rock. That's who he is. And
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  Speaker 4: so he was leading this mob, this mob action. It's
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  Speaker 4: hundreds of people. They're screaming. We have the audio here.
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  Speaker 4: This is just some of the audio. I want you
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  Speaker 4: to listen. This is, oh, by the way, this is
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  Speaker 4: one of the city council gals. And cut 13, please.
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  Speaker 2: Clear out the.
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  Speaker 8: Auditorium.
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  Speaker 9: Call the people.
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  Speaker 10: Call the people.
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  Speaker 2: Call the police.
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  Speaker 5: Call the police.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody call the po-po.
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  Speaker 10: Get the po-po.
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  Speaker 1: You have a nice beat to it, bro.
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  Speaker 4: Where's the pom-pom bean?
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  Speaker 9: Somebody call the pom-pom!
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  Speaker 4: Okay, stop, stop, stop.
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  Speaker 5: I was bopping my head to that. I tell you what, it's...
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  Speaker 5: That's a good protesting rhythm.
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  Speaker 4: We needed a drum circle.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That was like oozing drum circle. You didn't hear the
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  Speaker 4: first part, but she's like, who's got the effing, who's
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  Speaker 4: got the effing megaphone? That's the city council chair. It
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  Speaker 4: was chaos. And so it goes on. People are screaming there.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's the council members were jumping up and
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  Speaker 4: they were getting into it. Kind of number 14, please.
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  Speaker 4: This is insane. So while all that was going on,
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  Speaker 4: then the fistfights broke out. I'm telling you, it was wild.
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  Speaker 4: This is why the Babylon Beast coming out. We're national
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  Speaker 4: news now. National news. And so then the fistfights come out.
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  Speaker 4: And it's happening on live TV. And you've got the
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  Speaker 4: little reporter dude, and he was terrified. He's like, man,
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  Speaker 4: they don't pay me enough money. I mean, you could
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  Speaker 4: see that he was thinking, I made a really bad
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  Speaker 4: life choice coming to Memphis. So they've got women, and
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  Speaker 4: they're fist fighting and punching, and I'm hair weaves. They're flying.
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  Speaker 4: You got the weaves flying. Insane. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 11: Right now what i'm seeing this is something that is
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  Speaker 11: going on right now i want to show what's going
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  Speaker 11: on you can see right now that they are flying
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  Speaker 11: and falling out now i did ask some people in
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  Speaker 11: the area what happened and they did tell me that
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  Speaker 11: the meeting is going on you can see that there's
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  Speaker 11: punches being thrown his being thrown and we are still
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  Speaker 11: here wondering what is going on now we're not sure
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  Speaker 11: if they have made a vote yet but i did
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  Speaker 11: ask some people that they have made a vote to
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  Speaker 11: push it back to October 20th. We're still waiting to
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  Speaker 11: verify that. But you can see that this is getting
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  Speaker 11: very chaotic as members are starting to walk outside right
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  Speaker 11: now and shouting out that they want justice for this moratorium.
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  Speaker 4: You can see this lady right here talking.
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  Speaker 11: Can you kind of go ahead and walk us through
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  Speaker 11: on what happened?
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  Speaker 12: Moratorium.
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  Speaker 13: Just more delay, more delay.
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  Speaker 14: What we do.
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  Speaker 13: Know is there's contracts out there and folks that have
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  Speaker 13: been paid, and Memphis is constantly in stall. We need
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  Speaker 13: to be heard. We need to be paid. We need
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  Speaker 13: to be able to understand who's making decisions behind our back.
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  Speaker 5: What did you hear in there?
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  Speaker 4: What was it like inside?
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  Speaker 11: I know I was inside for an hour or two,
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  Speaker 11: and I heard back and forth going on. What did
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  Speaker 11: you hear in that last five minutes when I came outside?
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  Speaker 13: We were not able to vote for the moratorium today. Basically,
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  Speaker 13: it is going to be prolonged again. So right now,
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  Speaker 13: it's been a pause on just the vote for the moratorium.
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  Speaker 13: And right now, data centers are continually able to come
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  Speaker 13: in here and play this Wild Wild West game like XAI.
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  Speaker 15: And all the rest.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to Memphis. This is what we have to deal
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  Speaker 4: with here. Meanwhile, Elon is coming in here, and he
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  Speaker 4: has donated tens of millions of dollars to the community.
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  Speaker 4: We have a lot of schools that are falling down,
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  Speaker 4: and Elon came in. Many of them didn't have air
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  Speaker 4: conditioning units. and Elon actually paid for air conditioning units.
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  Speaker 4: He paid for a brand-new gymnasium and locker rooms and
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  Speaker 4: bathrooms for another school. He donated millions of dollars to
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  Speaker 4: the Memphis Boys and Girls Clubs. And then his staff
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  Speaker 4: actually has been going out, and they've been cleaning up
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  Speaker 4: blighted areas of the city. They've been picking up trash
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  Speaker 4: and all sorts of stuff. And the people there, this
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  Speaker 4: Justin Pearson guy, they don't want that. They would rather
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  Speaker 4: the people of Memphis live in squalor. But the broader
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  Speaker 4: issue here is this Justin Pearson, he was at the
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  Speaker 4: center of all of this, and this guy could be
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  Speaker 4: elected to Congress of all you Republicans stay home and
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  Speaker 4: don't vote. And I don't know about you, but I
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  Speaker 4: don't want that happening inside our Capitol building. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's just insane. But again, I know there are a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people that are just enraged over the data centers.
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  Speaker 4: You know the great irony here? Every person that was
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  Speaker 4: complaining about the data centers, every single one of them
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  Speaker 4: had a smartphone. Every single one of them. What do
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  Speaker 4: you mean? No, I know it's hypocrisy. But like the
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  Speaker 4: woman said, I want my money. I want to be paid.
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  Speaker 4: That's what she wants. They want a handout from Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 4: So all that to say, good luck, good luck, folks,
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  Speaker 4: if Elon comes to your neighborhood. And I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 4: the good people of Memphis, they ought to be naming
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  Speaker 4: a street after Elon Musk because this guy is doing
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  Speaker 4: what all the nonprofits are not doing. He's actually helping
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  Speaker 4: the community. So you know what? On behalf of Memphis,
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  Speaker 4: Elon Musk, thank you. God bless you. And if you
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  Speaker 4: ever come at, you know what, Elon? I want to
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  Speaker 4: treat you to barbecue. Barbecue's on me. A full rack
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  Speaker 4: of ribs plus the sides. Thank you, Elon Musk. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 4: All right. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. You should have
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  Speaker 4: seen the hair. By the way, did you say it
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  Speaker 4: was a blonde weave, Dylan? Did you see the video?
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  Speaker 16: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 5: A blonde weave.
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  Speaker 4: A blonde weave. Somebody was cultural appropriating. That's exactly what
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  Speaker 4: I thought. I'm just saying. By the way, President Trump
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  Speaker 4: is going to be addressing the nation from the Oval
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  Speaker 4: Office sometime during the show. We're going to bring that
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  Speaker 4: to you live when that happens. Also, Marco Rubio is
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: in Greece delivering yet another powerful speech on Western civilization.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to cover all of that. And also, parents...
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  Speaker 4: are now using AI instead of getting their kids a
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  Speaker 4: photo at the school. So you know how you have
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  Speaker 4: the yearbook photos? Parents are now using AI to make
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  Speaker 4: their kids look better. I'm not kidding. All right, we've
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  Speaker 4: got to take a break. This is the Todd Starnes Show.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 4: 30-year anniversary of Fox News.
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  Speaker 17: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Has it changed over the years? We're going to talk
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  Speaker 4: more about that later. But I thought it was interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Sean Hannity coming out and making a rather shocking statement.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not sure that he should have said this, to
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  Speaker 4: be honest with you. I'm just really, it's really sad.
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  Speaker 4: Sean Hannity says he was pressured to tell his audience
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  Speaker 4: to take the China virus clot shot. Take a listen
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  Speaker 4: to Cut 17.
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  Speaker 18: I was being pressured, pressured to tell my audience to
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  Speaker 18: take the jab.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I'm not a doctor. I'm just not.
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  Speaker 18: I don't know anything about your health. I don't know
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  Speaker 18: anything about your pre-existing conditions, your current condition, comorbidities you
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  Speaker 18: may have. And I don't know anything about this shot,
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  Speaker 18: but I kept putting people with different views on.
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  Speaker 12: And I said, take it seriously.
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  Speaker 18: Consult your doctor.
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  Speaker 19: Make your own mind up.
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  Speaker 12: That's the right thing. That's all I'm supposed to do.
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  Speaker 12: But the mandates came along. You couldn't move in the
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  Speaker 12: world without getting the shot. And that's the egregious part.
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  Speaker 18: We did the come get the shot and everyone knows
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  Speaker 18: viruses mutate yeah take the jab and you won't get
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  Speaker 18: covid take the jab you won't impact others that's complete.
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  Speaker 12: And they knew it that's what they knew it that's
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  Speaker 12: what the diary shows us and but people are still
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  Speaker 12: giving it to kids and pregnant women it's unbelievable to
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  Speaker 12: me and the the craziest thing of all is the
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  Speaker 12: lack of medical thinking, nuance, risk-reward analysis. Alpha and Delta,
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  Speaker 12: those were bad. That was different than Omicron. Completely different illness.
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  Speaker 12: Completely different.
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  Speaker 5: I got Alpha.
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  Speaker 19: Which one did you get?
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  Speaker 5: I got Alpha.
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  Speaker 12: It was bad.
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  Speaker 19: I got Omicron, too.
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  Speaker 12: I've had that, too, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's different, right?
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  Speaker 4: Completely different. It's a piece of cake.
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  Speaker 12: I've still got ringing in my ear from Alpha.
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  Speaker 18: I lost taste and smell for a year.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a lot of people, there are a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people that listen to Fox, watch Fox, and they
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  Speaker 4: take every single thing they say over there as the
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  Speaker 4: gospel truth. And you wonder how many people lost their
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  Speaker 4: lives because they were watching Fox News and were told,
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  Speaker 4: you've got to get the vaccine, you've got to get
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  Speaker 4: the clot shot. I mean, it's just, it's despicable to me.
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  Speaker 4: And again, if Hannity is saying that he was pressured...
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  Speaker 4: At this point in his career, Sean Hannity has more
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  Speaker 4: money than he can ever spend in his lifetime. Why not, again,
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  Speaker 4: if you're in it for the money, okay, I guess I, no,
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  Speaker 4: I don't get it. Don't you have an obligation to
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  Speaker 4: your audience? I can tell you from day one, day one,
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  Speaker 4: I told you to consult your doctor. But I also
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  Speaker 4: said that there is no way I'm getting the shot.
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  Speaker 4: None whatsoever. I was very honest and open with folks.
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  Speaker 4: Are you disappointed in what Sean had to say there?
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  Speaker 4: Because he should have just announced it on his TV show. Said,
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  Speaker 4: you know what? My bosses are forcing me to tell
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  Speaker 4: you to get the shot, and I'm not going to
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  Speaker 4: do it. I think a lot of people would have
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  Speaker 4: respected that. Sean Hannity, wow.
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  Speaker 20: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 4: This is the Todd Stern Show. Welcome back, everybody. This
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  Speaker 4: is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Let's real quick go
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  Speaker 4: to Fort Myers, Florida. Barry is on the line. Hi, Barry.
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  Speaker 4: What's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 16: Well, you spoke about the coronavirus problem. And, you know,
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  Speaker 16: it's really, to me, it's personal. It's really terrible how
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  Speaker 16: the doctors lied and politicians lied and the requirements for
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  Speaker 16: all of this. I couldn't take a boat. I couldn't
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  Speaker 16: take a plane. cruise or whatever if I didn't have
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  Speaker 16: the shot. And meanwhile, they were killing people. They literally
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  Speaker 16: killed my wife five years ago. She died because of
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  Speaker 16: the corona shot.
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  Speaker 20: Is that right?
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  Speaker 4: Your wife died?
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  Speaker 16: She died from, yes, because the shot was, she wound
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  Speaker 16: up with a blood clot in the brain from the shot.
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  Speaker 16: And it was one of the things that it could cause. And,
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  Speaker 16: you know, and nobody's been prosecuted on this with all
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  Speaker 16: the killings and murder. To me, they murdered people when
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  Speaker 16: they lied to the people and they and they actually
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  Speaker 16: hadn't required them to take these shots.
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  Speaker 3: It's murder.
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  Speaker 16: It's outright murder. And nobody's been prosecuted. Not one person.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing just passed.
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  Speaker 16: And everybody's fine. You know, and meanwhile, you have a
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  Speaker 16: how many million and a half Americans died for this thing.
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  Speaker 16: And then Fauci was involved. And I call him Frankenstein Fauci,
• 20:08
  Speaker 16: by the way. He was involved in actually developing the
• 20:11
  Speaker 16: darn disease, and God knows what else he was involved in. Obviously,
• 20:15
  Speaker 16: he's not a very nice person. So it's terrible. I mean,
• 20:22
  Speaker 16: I think that we're just letting these things slip.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Barry, do you feel let down by Hannity and what
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: he said? Because, again, Fox News was really pushing this
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: vaccine on folks.
• 20:38
  Speaker 16: Well, not only Fox, but I'm really sad that so
• 20:43
  Speaker 16: many people were pushing the vaccine. I don't know how
• 20:47
  Speaker 16: much money the pharmaceuticals were handing out under the table.
• 20:50
  Speaker 16: I have no idea. But obviously the Democrats and Republicans
• 20:54
  Speaker 16: were collecting on this thing. And nobody was protecting me. Now,
• 20:58
  Speaker 16: I hire a government and pay an awful lot of
• 21:01
  Speaker 16: money in taxes my entire life. To be protected by them.
• 21:04
  Speaker 16: They're called representatives. They represent me.
• 21:07
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 21:07
  Speaker 16: They work for me. But they don't know that. All
• 21:10
  Speaker 16: they think is they're working for themselves once they get in.
• 21:13
  Speaker 16: And they lie like crazy to get into office. And
• 21:15
  Speaker 16: then they get in. And it's a different story.
• 21:18
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 21:18
  Speaker 16: And so much things happen behind our back, as you know.
• 21:21
  Speaker 16: You know, it's terrible.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 21:23
  Speaker 16: Because this actually killed people.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: Barry, no, you're absolutely right about that. And quite frankly,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: shame on Fox for what they did and their part
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: in all of this. Barry, so sorry you lost your wife.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: I do thank you for calling in today. God bless you, sir. 901-260-5926,
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. So yesterday, the House Ways
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: and Means Committee held a field hearing on And they
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: heard testimony from small business owners about how the big,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: beautiful bill had helped their businesses. And really extraordinary stories.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I want to bring into the conversation on our Patriot
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: Mobile Newsmaker line, Michael Falkender, a former U.S. Deputy Secretary
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: of the Treasury. Michael, good to have you with us today.
• 22:18
  Speaker 19: It's great to be with you.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: So I was talking to a restaurant owner, one of
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: the guys who testified at the field hearing, and he
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: was going on and on and on about how the
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: one big beautiful bill really did make a difference in
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: his business, especially the no tax on tips. Your reaction
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: to yesterday's hearing?
• 22:43
  Speaker 19: Yeah, the hearing really highlighted for people, particularly in Tennessee,
• 22:48
  Speaker 19: just the the real-world impact. You know, it's one thing
• 22:51
  Speaker 19: when we go on TV shows and we talk about
• 22:54
  Speaker 19: macro statistics, but personalizing it to how individuals were able
• 22:58
  Speaker 19: to keep more for what they worked for, be rewarded
• 23:02
  Speaker 19: for work. You know, we have a societal problem that
• 23:07
  Speaker 19: the Democrats want to pay people to not work because
• 23:10
  Speaker 19: they think that's how they get votes, whereas we need
• 23:12
  Speaker 19: people to be rewarded rather than punished for going out
• 23:16
  Speaker 19: and working. And that's why when we see the people...
• 23:18
  Speaker 19: If you provide great service, if you're going to work extra,
• 23:21
  Speaker 19: we're not going to have the government take the taxes
• 23:25
  Speaker 19: off of that piece. You should keep it for yourself.
• 23:27
  Speaker 19: And highlighting the success of that and enabling families to
• 23:33
  Speaker 19: take care of themselves rather than view dependency on government
• 23:37
  Speaker 19: as a way of life, it's not just the economics
• 23:42
  Speaker 19: of it. It really is highlighting who we are as
• 23:45
  Speaker 19: a people and the values.
• 23:46
  Speaker 21: That we hold dear.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: I'm curious, though, because as successful as the One Big
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Beautiful Bill has been, I think the administration, I think Congress,
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: they have not done a very good job of communicating
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: that to the American people. I mean, if you were
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: to walk into the grocery store and ask somebody what
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: the One Big Beautiful Bill was, I don't think anybody
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: could really tell you.
• 24:11
  Speaker 19: Yeah, no, it's unfortunate that there was not more of
• 24:14
  Speaker 19: a campaign coordinated out of the White House with members
• 24:17
  Speaker 19: of Congress, particularly around tax refund season. Anytime I'm in
• 24:23
  Speaker 19: front of an audience, the first thing I ask is,
• 24:24
  Speaker 19: how much larger was your tax refund this year? Tell
• 24:27
  Speaker 19: me about what you were able to do with your
• 24:29
  Speaker 19: tax refund this year that you hadn't been able to do.
• 24:32
  Speaker 19: Because that is when people were able to kind of
• 24:35
  Speaker 19: most realize the benefit to them was that when they
• 24:39
  Speaker 19: got that much larger refund, back in March or April
• 24:43
  Speaker 19: of this year than they previously had. And there really
• 24:46
  Speaker 19: should have been more of a campaign around those stories
• 24:51
  Speaker 19: and how people felt rewarded for being involved strong contributors
• 24:57
  Speaker 19: to their communities because that's really the philosophy behind what
• 25:00
  Speaker 19: we were trying to do is to say people who
• 25:02
  Speaker 19: work hard should be able to keep more of their
• 25:04
  Speaker 19: money and we should be highlighting the success that it
• 25:07
  Speaker 19: had and how much more money people had in their
• 25:11
  Speaker 19: pockets as a result of the work that members of
• 25:13
  Speaker 19: Congress did on that tax bill.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we talked to one of the restaurant owners who
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: testified yesterday at the hearing. He said that for his staffers,
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're looking at just the no tax on tips,
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: adding about $ 5, 000 a year to their take-home pay. I mean,
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: those are huge stories, and those are success stories.
• 25:38
  Speaker 19: That's right. And these are middle-class, everyday Americans that are
• 25:43
  Speaker 19: providing service to us on a daily basis. And under
• 25:47
  Speaker 19: the bill, they were able to exempt up.
• 25:49
  Speaker 22: To $ 25, 000.
• 25:49
  Speaker 19: Worth of taxes. And when people are paying tax rates
• 25:53
  Speaker 19: in the 20% range, 20% of $ 25, 000, that's $ 5, 000, as
• 25:57
  Speaker 19: you said, that's coming back to them in the form
• 26:00
  Speaker 19: of that refund. And it's your everyday, it's your first
• 26:04
  Speaker 19: responders that are working overtime. it's the waiters and waitresses
• 26:08
  Speaker 19: that are helping us on a daily basis. It's the bartenders. So,
• 26:11
  Speaker 19: you know, you think about all the different parts of
• 26:13
  Speaker 19: our life where we engage in commerce and we receive
• 26:16
  Speaker 19: benefits from people providing service to them. And the bill
• 26:19
  Speaker 19: was meant to say, hey, you deserve to keep more
• 26:21
  Speaker 19: of that money. You deserve to be rewarded for doing that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 19: It's just a fundamentally different philosophy about what kind of
• 26:28
  Speaker 19: society we are. Do we reward people for work or
• 26:31
  Speaker 19: do we pay them to not work? And I wish
• 26:35
  Speaker 19: that our members on the Republican side of the aisle
• 26:38
  Speaker 19: would do a better job framing it, not just you
• 26:40
  Speaker 19: have more money in your pocket, not just able to
• 26:42
  Speaker 19: spend more, but it's, again, what kind of society are we?
• 26:45
  Speaker 19: What are the attitudes and activities that we want to reward?
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Look, I mean, it's a fair point you raise, and
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: we're just, what, a couple of weeks away now from
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: the midterm elections. What is it that you want to
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: hear these members of Congress saying out on the campaign trail?
• 27:03
  Speaker 19: I want to hear them talking about how the work
• 27:04
  Speaker 19: that they have done and will continue to do will
• 27:07
  Speaker 19: continue to support the American people. There are new issues
• 27:10
  Speaker 19: that are emerging. So how do we make sure that
• 27:13
  Speaker 19: we stay ahead of China on the race for artificial intelligence?
• 27:16
  Speaker 19: How do we make sure that it's deployed in a
• 27:18
  Speaker 19: way that's responsible? Shutting it down, which is what the
• 27:21
  Speaker 19: Democrats want to do, just means ceding national security to China.
• 27:24
  Speaker 19: We can't do that, right? That we are going to
• 27:26
  Speaker 19: tackle housing affordability by getting unnecessary bureaucrat taxes out of
• 27:32
  Speaker 19: We at AFPI have estimated that about 25% of the
• 27:35
  Speaker 19: price of a new home is just compliance with zoning
• 27:38
  Speaker 19: and regulatory requirements. Well, we can greatly reduce that. We
• 27:42
  Speaker 19: don't need housing to be a full employment for bureaucrats
• 27:45
  Speaker 19: type of activity. Instead, it needs to be about providing
• 27:48
  Speaker 19: better housing for the American young people. We need to
• 27:52
  Speaker 19: fix our education system. Your last caller was talking about
• 27:55
  Speaker 19: the mistakes that were made during COVID. Do we want
• 27:57
  Speaker 19: to reward the party that was all about the shutdowns?
• 28:01
  Speaker 19: and telling our kids that they should Zoom from home
• 28:04
  Speaker 19: rather than get an education and make sure they have
• 28:06
  Speaker 19: the skill set to get ahead. This election that's upcoming
• 28:09
  Speaker 19: is a choice election, and the two parties have never
• 28:13
  Speaker 19: been more apart at any time in my life than
• 28:15
  Speaker 19: they are now about these just fundamental values as to
• 28:18
  Speaker 19: who we are as a people.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: All right. Well, Michael, we really do appreciate you coming
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: on the show today. Michael Falkender, a former U.S. Deputy
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Secretary of the Treasury, and it is a beautiful thing. Look,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: I really do hope the big, beautiful bill is communicated
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: to the American people and to the voters in a
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: way they can understand just how important it is that
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: we maintain our majorities in the House and the Senate. Michael,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: thank you again for joining us today.
• 28:48
  Speaker 19: Great to be with you.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: All right. There you go.
• 28:52
  Speaker 16: Wow.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: It's missed opportunities, and we're doing the very best job
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: we can do, folks, to keep everybody energized and enthused
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: and excited. And I know that many of you are
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: not any of those things right now. I understand exactly
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: where you're coming from, but we have got to figure
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: out a way to get people out of their homes
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: and and to the ballot box on Election Day. Early
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: voting is starting very soon, and we've got to make
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: sure that we get as many Republicans as possible to
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: the ballot box. So we're going to be taking your
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: calls on this. What do you think the Republicans need
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: to be doing that they are not doing right now?
• 29:37
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  Speaker 7: Hi, Todd.
• 30:44
  Speaker 23: I was listening to Salcedo on Monday, 9-28, when you
• 30:48
  Speaker 23: were in California. He had a lady on at the 1-hour, 49-minute,
• 30:55
  Speaker 23: 29-second mark, and please play her every day until Election Day.
• 31:01
  Speaker 17: Alright.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: All right, well, thank you very much for that. I
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: believe that was Gloria from Mayflower, Arkansas, leaving us a shout-out,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: and you can do that on our app. All you
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: have to do is download that at toddsterns.com. Real quick here,
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: before we go to the phones, there is... There's another
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: unforced error coming from the White House. So the president
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: has two very close advisors, James Blair and Chris LaCivita.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: And some reporting came out earlier today that while President
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Trump is doing the midterm election, the rallies, his two
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: top political advisors are in some far-flung place called the
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Republic of Spurkaska. Some pro-Russian government. So they're out there
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: helping this pro-Russian government, President Trump's top two political advisors.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: The president just releasing a statement saying, they don't work
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: for me other than as outside consultants. They most likely
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: have numerous other clients. But for that, you would have
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: to ask them. They're allowed to do work for others,
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: just like all consultants in D.C. I don't have any
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: idea who else they work for, but will, on reflection,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: ask them. And if there's a conflict, I will terminate
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: them immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Is it just me? It just seems to me that
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: President Trump and America First voters are more passionate about
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: winning the midterms than congressional Republicans or these White House advisors.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but anyway, it's just, I'm
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: telling you, more consultants from Mayberry, not Bar-a-Lago. Let's go
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: to Carrie in Memphis, Tennessee. Hi, Carrie. What's on your mind?
• 33:02
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I can tell you what the Republicans should be doing,
• 33:05
  Speaker 17: what President Trump needs to do for Election Day. Republicans
• 33:11
  Speaker 17: should be getting out and go vote early. President Trump
• 33:16
  Speaker 17: needs to be putting ICE agents at all the polling
• 33:18
  Speaker 17: places in blue states.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know they're not going to do that, Carrie,
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: and that is so unfortunate. I'm with you. I think
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: we ought to have ICE agents. And again, if we're
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: not going to have– they didn't pass the Save America Act.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: So the only other way for us to make sure
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: that only Americans are voting is to send ICE agents
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: and making sure that illegals don't vote. I'm with you
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: on that. What's that now?
• 33:47
  Speaker 17: I said, I'll be glad to show an ID to
• 33:49
  Speaker 17: an ICE agent when I go vote.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Me too.
• 33:52
  Speaker 17: By the way, voting starts a week from today on
• 33:54
  Speaker 17: the 4th pink.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it does. Kerry, God bless you. Thank you for calling.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: Let's go to Larry in Ocala, Florida. Hi, Larry. What's
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: on your mind?
• 34:05
  Speaker 14: Hey, man. Would you agree that the Affordable Care Act
• 34:09
  Speaker 14: didn't make insurance affordable and made it worse?
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: Affordable Care Act.
• 34:14
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 34:16
  Speaker 14: So whenever they said no tax on tips, there absolutely
• 34:20
  Speaker 14: are tax on tips. All they did was reduce the
• 34:23
  Speaker 14: tax on tips. They said no tax on overtime. They
• 34:26
  Speaker 14: didn't make no tax on overtime. They made a limit,
• 34:29
  Speaker 14: a cap. They also made it expire. So none of
• 34:33
  Speaker 14: this stuff is like scraps from the table. I mean,
• 34:36
  Speaker 14: not to mention, if you had a person who was
• 34:39
  Speaker 14: punching you in the face and then they stopped punching
• 34:42
  Speaker 14: you in the face, And then you'd be, oh, so
• 34:45
  Speaker 14: thank you for stop punching me in the face when
• 34:47
  Speaker 14: they were the ones.
• 34:48
  Speaker 24: Punching you in the face.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Larry, can I interrupt you for a second? Larry, you've
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: called in, I don't know, maybe four or five times.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: You're always angry and yelling. Why is that?
• 34:57
  Speaker 14: All I ever say for you is that you avoid
• 35:00
  Speaker 14: the topic.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: No, I'm asking you a question. Larry, Larry, I'm asking
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: you a question. So I'm giving you a platform. I
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: will not argue. Okay, you know what?
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: No, no, no.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: You're not going to do that on this radio show, Larry,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: because I run this show, not you, sir. Larry, goodbye. Folks, yeah,
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Larry doesn't call back yet unless he learns how to
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: act in a civil manner. I mean, every single time
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: with this guy. All right, let's go to Charles, North Carolina. Charles,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: what's on your mind?
• 35:33
  Speaker 7: Hey, Todd.
• 35:34
  Speaker 24: Todd, I'll tell you what I think the Republicans could
• 35:36
  Speaker 24: be talking about that they're not talking about as much.
• 35:40
  Speaker 24: And I noticed it when Martha McCallum was talking to
• 35:43
  Speaker 24: Abdul El-Sayed about affordability and everything. You know, he was
• 35:47
  Speaker 24: talking about the Iran war and gas prices and that
• 35:49
  Speaker 24: sort of thing. I think Martha should have asked him, well, Abdul,
• 35:54
  Speaker 24: how about all these illegal aliens that are coming into
• 35:57
  Speaker 24: Michigan and they're driving up home prices for young people,
• 36:00
  Speaker 24: health care for seniors? food prices for everybody, and driving
• 36:04
  Speaker 24: down wages for all Michigans. What do you think about
• 36:07
  Speaker 24: mass deportations? And also, in the area of education, you
• 36:11
  Speaker 24: talked about how you wanted to fund, spend more money
• 36:14
  Speaker 24: on education to improve the quality of it. How about
• 36:17
  Speaker 24: the fact that we spend more per capita on education
• 36:20
  Speaker 24: in any country in the world, and all we're doing
• 36:22
  Speaker 24: is we're indoctrinating kids about transgender, child mutilation, and we're
• 36:28
  Speaker 24: promoting democratic socialism, and teaching kids to hate their culture,
• 36:32
  Speaker 24: their institutions, and their Constitution. What do you think about
• 36:35
  Speaker 24: defunding that? I think that's what Republicans need to be
• 36:38
  Speaker 24: pushing on a lot, that they're not.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think those are all good things. And Charles,
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: I'm going to have to leave it there, but... And
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: I'll address some of this in the next hour. I
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: don't even know if the culture war issues are going
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: to move the needle for voters. I think right now
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: this is going to be a pocketbook election. All right,
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: we've got the president of the Southern Baptist Convention coming
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: up next. Hang tight, everybody. This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Broadcasting coast-to-coast and border-to-border from Memphis, Tennessee.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right. I love this American ride.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: Todd Starrs.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: And hello, everybody. Welcome to Hour 2 of The Big Show.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: Great to have you with us today. By the way.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. So last week when
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: I was in California speaking to about 4,000 Baptist pastors
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: at the Spiritual Leadership Conference at West Coast Baptist College,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: one of the more popular sessions happened to be our
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: panel on religious liberty and really a call for Christians
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: to stand up and engage in the political process, to
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: be a part of the public square. And for so long,
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: we have seen Christians disengage, and I believe it has
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: created big problems in our country. What was it? John Adams,
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: our second president, said that our Constitution is wholly inadequate
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: for anyone who other than a moral and a religious people.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: So when you take God out of the equation, you
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: get chaos in the culture. Well, I am very excited
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: about what's happening within the Southern Baptist Convention, which is
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: my convention. I'm a Southern Baptist. I'm a womb to tomb,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: born at Baptist Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and I'm a
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: proud Southern Baptist, but I've been so engaged— I've been
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: so engaged with what's been happening in the culture at large,
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: it is nice to see Southern Baptists stepping back into
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: the fray. I want to bring into the conversation a
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: man who's been making some headlines for all the right reasons.
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: His name is Dr. Willie Rice, and he is the
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: new president of the Southern Baptists. Convention.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Dr.
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: Rice, what an honor to have you on the show today.
• 39:33
  Speaker 25: Todd, it's a great honor to be with you. Thank you.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: Dr. Rice, you have been making national headlines over a
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: recent call you made on pastors to step up politically
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: ahead of the midterms. What do you mean by that?
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  Speaker 25: Well, you know, just kind of what you were talking
• 39:53
  Speaker 25: about there, that we need to be active. We don't
• 39:56
  Speaker 25: need to be afraid of being engaged. We need to
• 39:58
  Speaker 25: be able to articulate you know, our Christian convictions on
• 40:04
  Speaker 25: the most important issues of the day. And we need
• 40:06
  Speaker 25: to be able to disciple our people. We need to
• 40:08
  Speaker 25: help them think rightly and biblically from a Christian perspective
• 40:12
  Speaker 25: about the pressing issues. And when we don't speak to
• 40:15
  Speaker 25: those issues, our people are left without that guidance. They're
• 40:18
  Speaker 25: left without what we call in the church, as you know, discipleship.
• 40:21
  Speaker 25: They're not being taught how to engage those cultural issues.
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  Speaker 25: So I do think it's important that pastors lean in
• 40:28
  Speaker 25: and not lean out to step.
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  Speaker 5: Up, as we say.
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  Speaker 4: And really over the past, I don't know if it's
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: fair to say the past decade, it seems as though
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Southern Baptists have not been as engaged. And I wonder,
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: was there an effort to encourage pastors to step back
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: from the culture at large?
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  Speaker 25: You know, Todd, I kind of think there was. I
• 40:51
  Speaker 25: don't know if somebody ever cooked it up in a
• 40:53
  Speaker 25: back room somewhere, but I think that was the practical effect.
• 40:58
  Speaker 25: really in the early 2000s, some of the most influential
• 41:01
  Speaker 25: evangelical leaders, and you could name some names, some very
• 41:04
  Speaker 25: good men who did some very good things, all began
• 41:07
  Speaker 25: to distance themselves from some of what were sometimes referred
• 41:11
  Speaker 25: to as the cultural and political debates. And you had
• 41:16
  Speaker 25: several streams of a movement, all of which kind of
• 41:19
  Speaker 25: said this, in order to be missiologically effective, we needed
• 41:23
  Speaker 25: to withdraw, sometimes it was called pejoratively, the culture wars,
• 41:28
  Speaker 25: to quit being so political, to quit being so divisive,
• 41:31
  Speaker 25: that if we wanted to reach people in a pluralistic
• 41:34
  Speaker 25: post-Christian age, we had to quit talking about those controversial issues.
• 41:39
  Speaker 25: And I think the practical effect of that is that
• 41:41
  Speaker 25: pastors did grow silent on a lot of those issues,
• 41:45
  Speaker 25: and particularly Baptist leaders grew silent on some of those issues.
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  Speaker 4: You know, what really fascinated me about this whole thing,
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: and it's the Trump effect, I think, And I would
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: go into some churches, and the senior pastors would be
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: all engaged. They know exactly where I'm coming from, why
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: I was supporting the president. The younger pastors on staff,
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: a completely different vibe, Dr.
• 42:09
  Speaker 26: Rice.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: And I actually lost a good many Christian friends as
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: a result of my support, for example, for President Trump
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  Speaker 4: and his agenda.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 25: Well, you know, you're right. I mean, the Trump era
• 42:23
  Speaker 25: has been a complicated one. And because of all the
• 42:26
  Speaker 25: things about President Trump, his past and some of the
• 42:30
  Speaker 25: statements he makes and some of the way he does things.
• 42:33
  Speaker 25: But it came about in that broader kind of background of, hey,
• 42:39
  Speaker 25: let's not be controversial. Let's not talk about things that
• 42:43
  Speaker 25: are divisive and polarizing. I live, for instance, in what
• 42:47
  Speaker 25: would be called a swing county, a purple county. You know,
• 42:50
  Speaker 25: my county can go red or it can go blue.
• 42:53
  Speaker 25: And in a swing state, well, Florida is not so
• 42:57
  Speaker 25: much a swing state anymore, but the area of Florida
• 43:00
  Speaker 25: that it usually would determine which way Florida went. And
• 43:04
  Speaker 25: so I want to reach all kinds of people. I
• 43:06
  Speaker 25: don't want to be a red church. I don't want
• 43:08
  Speaker 25: to be a blue church. I want to be a
• 43:09
  Speaker 25: Jesus church. I want to talk about the gospel. I
• 43:11
  Speaker 25: want to talk about Jesus. I want to preach the Bible.
• 43:14
  Speaker 25: And I think that's a good motive, and I think
• 43:16
  Speaker 25: pastors were drawn to that. But in order to do that,
• 43:20
  Speaker 25: many of them bought into the idea that these controversial
• 43:24
  Speaker 25: cultural issues that deal with sexual morality, that deal with marriage,
• 43:28
  Speaker 25: that deal with what it means to be a human,
• 43:31
  Speaker 25: therefore we cannot talk about those issues if we want
• 43:34
  Speaker 25: to reach all kinds of people. I do want to
• 43:36
  Speaker 25: reach all kinds of people, but in order to reach them,
• 43:40
  Speaker 25: we have to deal truthfully with not just with the
• 43:43
  Speaker 25: essence of the gospel, but with the implications of the
• 43:47
  Speaker 25: gospel on all of life. We don't have to be arrogant.
• 43:51
  Speaker 25: We don't have to be unnecessarily partisan. We don't have
• 43:54
  Speaker 25: to be unnecessarily unkind or divisive. But we do have
• 43:58
  Speaker 25: to lean in and engage the issues. People are asking questions.
• 44:03
  Speaker 25: Our people are watching. They want to know how to
• 44:05
  Speaker 25: engage these issues. And so I just think what was
• 44:09
  Speaker 25: often called the third way mindset, that we have to
• 44:12
  Speaker 25: have a third-way alternative of addressing this side or that side.
• 44:17
  Speaker 25: It just didn't work. And the practical effect is, at
• 44:21
  Speaker 25: the moment we needed our voice so critically, many, many
• 44:26
  Speaker 25: evangelical leaders grew quiet, and our people did not learn
• 44:30
  Speaker 25: how to process and think about these issues.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: I've been seeing the polling data and the surveys, and
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: it seems that, at least within Generation Z, there is
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: a renewed interest in Christianity and really a deeper dive
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: into Christianity. I'm wondering if you were seeing that from
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: the pulpit, and if so, what do you think is
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: behind all of that?
• 44:56
  Speaker 25: Well, I think I do see it to a degree.
• 44:59
  Speaker 25: I don't know that I would say we're in an
• 45:00
  Speaker 25: awakening or that we've seen a widespread cultural movement. But
• 45:04
  Speaker 25: you certainly are watching young people lean in, and we're
• 45:08
  Speaker 25: seeing many, many trends about that. I think it's a
• 45:12
  Speaker 25: hunger for authenticity. I think it's a hunger for truth.
• 45:15
  Speaker 25: I think they've seen the philosophies of the world, the materialism,
• 45:19
  Speaker 25: the hedonism, all the sexual libertinism that is out there.
• 45:25
  Speaker 25: They've seen all of this, and it's left them wanting
• 45:29
  Speaker 25: and hungering for truth. And here's the interesting thing. When
• 45:33
  Speaker 25: they come into our churches hungering for the truth, they're
• 45:36
  Speaker 25: not interested in superficial fluff. It's not going to capture them.
• 45:41
  Speaker 25: It's not going to disciple them. Again, they don't want
• 45:45
  Speaker 25: you to be overly partisan. They don't want you just
• 45:48
  Speaker 25: to wave a political flag, but they don't want you
• 45:52
  Speaker 25: to be afraid of wading into the critical issues of
• 45:57
  Speaker 25: our day and our culture. And by the way, those
• 45:59
  Speaker 25: critical issues inevitably have political implications. So while we are
• 46:04
  Speaker 25: not political pundits, we can't be afraid of engaging those
• 46:09
  Speaker 25: issues head on, talking about them, opening the Bible, and
• 46:14
  Speaker 25: giving them the real answers that God's Word provides.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: I love that. And I think that's an amazing and
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: terrific approach to what I think, again, is a It's
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: just a controversial issue. I don't think it has to
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: be all that controversial, Dr. Rice. You know, we talk
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: about the issues of the day. We read the Bible,
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: see what the Bible says about those issues, and then
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: vote accordingly on election day.
• 46:38
  Speaker 25: Well, that's right. But we have to help our people
• 46:41
  Speaker 25: sometimes connect those dots. You know, the job of pastors
• 46:44
  Speaker 25: and spiritual leaders is to help them understand what the
• 46:48
  Speaker 25: Bible is saying and connect it to those contemporary and
• 46:53
  Speaker 25: I would call them underlying civilizational issues. You know, Christians
• 46:57
  Speaker 25: can disagree on a host of political debates. You know,
• 47:01
  Speaker 25: we can have a debate about the marginal tax rate.
• 47:03
  Speaker 25: We can have a debate about a certain fiscal policy,
• 47:07
  Speaker 25: and we can have opinions about those things. But there
• 47:09
  Speaker 25: are underlying issues that literally are foundational and intrinsic to
• 47:15
  Speaker 25: human flourishing, to the enduring of our civilization, to the
• 47:19
  Speaker 25: success of our country. And those issues are spoken about
• 47:23
  Speaker 25: in the Bible. God's word gives the answers to those issues.
• 47:26
  Speaker 25: And we have to help our people connect those dots
• 47:30
  Speaker 25: and arrive at the proper conclusions. And that's not telling
• 47:33
  Speaker 25: them how to vote in the sense of vote for
• 47:36
  Speaker 25: candidate X or Y, or you can't come to church here.
• 47:39
  Speaker 25: It's actually just teaching them the whole counsel of God,
• 47:43
  Speaker 25: how to think biblically, how to think wisely, and how
• 47:46
  Speaker 25: to draw the right conclusions. If we give them the tools...
• 47:49
  Speaker 25: If we teach them the Bible well, they'll arrive at
• 47:53
  Speaker 25: the right conclusions. Our job, though, is to disciple them
• 47:57
  Speaker 25: and to help them think in a mature and wise
• 47:59
  Speaker 25: fashion about those things.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: Dr. Willie Rice, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention,
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: also the senior pastor at Calvary Church in Florida, joining
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today.
• 48:12
  Speaker 7: Dr.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: Rice, we've been watching, I think, on the political landscape,
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: two major concerns that One is the rise of political Islam,
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: and the other is the rise of communism. How concerned
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: should Christians be? How concerned should the church be?
• 48:29
  Speaker 25: A 10 on scale of 1 to 10. Both of
• 48:34
  Speaker 25: those ideologies are absolutely contrary, first of all, to a
• 48:39
  Speaker 25: Christian worldview. They are incompatible with a Christian worldview. And
• 48:43
  Speaker 25: beyond that, they're really incompatible with the flourishing of Western civilization.
• 48:48
  Speaker 25: When you take socialism slash communism, anytime a collectivist materialistic
• 48:54
  Speaker 25: philosophy has been embraced, it has led to diminished freedom,
• 48:59
  Speaker 25: diminished liberty, and especially religious liberty. So the America that
• 49:05
  Speaker 25: we know for two and a half centuries that has flourished,
• 49:09
  Speaker 25: that has brought more freedom and more prosperity to more
• 49:12
  Speaker 25: people and more kinds of people, than any other government
• 49:16
  Speaker 25: in the history of humankind. And there's not a close second.
• 49:20
  Speaker 25: That is incompatible with socialistic communism. Those materialistic philosophies simply
• 49:29
  Speaker 25: will not support the freedom that capitalism has produced. And
• 49:33
  Speaker 25: when you see the rise of, as you call it,
• 49:36
  Speaker 25: political Islam. I heard a friend of mine, Michael Youssef,
• 49:39
  Speaker 25: called it the other day, Islamicism, which is not just
• 49:43
  Speaker 25: the religion of Islam, but it is that political application.
• 49:47
  Speaker 25: It is that aggressive approach to Islam. Again, nowhere in
• 49:52
  Speaker 25: the world where that kind of Islamic ideology has been
• 49:56
  Speaker 25: embraced have human beings flourished with the kind of religious
• 50:00
  Speaker 25: liberty that we have known in the West. And so
• 50:03
  Speaker 25: both of those ideologies, which strangely join together in a
• 50:07
  Speaker 25: kind of bizarre intersectionality in America, both of those things
• 50:12
  Speaker 25: are direct threats to religious freedom, and they are direct
• 50:15
  Speaker 25: threats to America's flourishing as we know it.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Dr.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: Rice, we don't have a lot of time, and we've
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: got to get you back on. I love everything you're
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: saying here, and I think it's important for the country
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: to hear this. Another thing that we are seeing happen,
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: I know we base our show in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: A megachurch pastor on the left side of the aisle
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: got up and told his congregation that Jesus was a
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: socialist and therefore we should all be socialist. Over a
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: thousand people rose to their feet and applauded. You've got
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: two candidates, one in Texas, James Tallarico, who says God
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: is non-binary. You've got Adam Hamilton, the Methodist megachurch pastor
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: in Kansas, who's running, and they have come under fire
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: for their interpretation of Scripture. What do you make of
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: all of this happening on the left side among the Democrats?
• 51:15
  Speaker 25: Yeah, it's interesting that you're starting to see religious language
• 51:19
  Speaker 25: from some of those candidates dripped into the political debate
• 51:25
  Speaker 25: from the left side, which we haven't seen in a while.
• 51:28
  Speaker 25: And unfortunately, if people are not well-versed in the Bible
• 51:32
  Speaker 25: and well-grounded in historic Orthodox Christian doctrine, it can sound
• 51:37
  Speaker 25: good on the surface. But socialism actually violates a great
• 51:43
  Speaker 25: many of the Ten Commandments. It's based on a materialistic worldview.
• 51:48
  Speaker 25: in which people's life and their quality of life is
• 51:51
  Speaker 25: judged almost entirely on a materialistic worldview. It is motivated
• 51:58
  Speaker 25: by envy and greed, and it empowers the government to
• 52:02
  Speaker 25: take from one to give to the other. And as
• 52:04
  Speaker 25: another great Memphis preacher, Adrian Rogers, once said, and I'm
• 52:07
  Speaker 25: going to paraphrase him here, you never make a person
• 52:10
  Speaker 25: rich by making another person poor. It never has worked
• 52:13
  Speaker 25: in the history of the world, and it won't work
• 52:15
  Speaker 25: now And not only does it not work, I think
• 52:18
  Speaker 25: it absolutely violates a sound understanding of Scripture. And to
• 52:23
  Speaker 25: pin that on Jesus is, I mean, to me, that
• 52:27
  Speaker 25: almost borders on blasphemy.
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: All right, Dr. Rice, we really appreciate you coming on
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: the show. By the way, we're the only national talk
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: radio show with our official chaplain, which is Dr. Robert Jeffress.
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: So he keeps us in line, Dr. Rice, when we
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: sort of stray.
• 52:43
  Speaker 25: He's a good one to have around.
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: He is a good one. We love Dr. Youssef as well.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: He comes on a lot to talk about Islam, and
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: we would love to get you back on as well. First, congratulations.
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: And as a Southern Baptist, we're just so excited to
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: see you as our president.
• 52:58
  Speaker 25: Todd, thank you so much. And we appreciate the prayers
• 53:01
  Speaker 25: of so many people. And I believe Southern Baptist people are,
• 53:04
  Speaker 25: at their heart, convictional, biblical people. And like so many
• 53:09
  Speaker 25: other Christians, we need to be engaged in the cultural process.
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: All right, Dr. Willie Rice, everybody, the president of the
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: Southern Baptist Convention and also the senior pastor at Calvary
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: Church on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. By the way,
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: the Southern Baptist, the largest non-Catholic denomination in America. So again,
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: when you've got those two organizations that disengage from the culture,
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: it gets a little squirrely. which is why I'm so
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: excited to see the Southern Baptist speaking up and speaking
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: truth to the culture. That's what it's all about. We've
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: got to take a break. We're going to the phones.
• 53:46
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• 53:46
  Speaker 4: This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: If you missed the interview, if you want to go
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: back and listen to the full interview, and I would,
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: especially if you've got a pastor, be sure to send
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: them the interview we just did with the Southern Baptist
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: Convention president. Let's go to the phone lines. Washington State,
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: Azariah is on the line. And we met at the
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: Spiritual Leadership Conference last week in California. Azariah, what's going on?
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: What's on your mind?
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Hey, howdy.
• 54:21
  Speaker 19: How are you doing?
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: I'm doing well. Thank you for asking.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Awesome.
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: Well, I was just wondering, I meant to ask you
• 54:27
  Speaker 10: at the conference, but I forgot. I was like, you
• 54:30
  Speaker 10: were talking about how we don't think the media isn't
• 54:32
  Speaker 10: giving us all the real information. What's a good spot
• 54:35
  Speaker 10: to get the real information? Like, obviously your radio, but
• 54:37
  Speaker 10: what are other places we can get the real information
• 54:40
  Speaker 10: of what happened?
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: You know, that's a great question. And, you know, one
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: of the things, and we talked about this at the conferences,
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: you know, all of my information is coming from my worldview,
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: which is a conservative worldview. So you have to take
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: that into consideration, and I think that goes with every
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: other journalist as well. But I think you would be
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: good to read publications like Breitbart, The Washington Times, Washington Examiner,
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: The Daily Signal, but also read some on the other side,
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: The New York Times, Washington Post, because you kind of
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: want to see what the other side is thinking as well, Azariah.
• 55:18
  Speaker 10: Oh, that's a really good answer. I'd stay longer, but
• 55:21
  Speaker 10: I have a class in like two minutes.
• 55:23
  Speaker 7: Oh, wow.
• 55:23
  Speaker 14: Thank you.
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: Well, Azariah, no problem. And I've got a break like
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: right now, so that kind of worked out well. Azariah,
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: thanks for calling in. Give us a holler back one
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: of these days. We'll be right back, everybody.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: Radio Show. By the way, I want to remind you
• 56:00
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• 56:02
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• 56:07
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• 56:09
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• 56:15
  Speaker 4: already started posting clips of our one-hour special on the book.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: That's going to be featured on the C-SPAN Book TV channel. Dylan,
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: I know that you're an avid fan of that.
• 56:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I am. I'm a new fan. And now
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: I'm avid.
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: I think all of five people watch the C-SPAN book channel.
• 56:37
  Speaker 5: It's just a fun concept to have a book channel
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• 56:40
  Speaker 4: No, it is. We had a lot of fun. We
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: did the taping in California and had a blast. It
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: was a lot of fun. And it'll be broadcast October 11th.
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: That's what they're telling us. And then October 20th, I'll
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: be at the Reagan Presidential Library for a Q &
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  Speaker 4: it and I hope you tune in to the C-SPAN
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• 57:07
  Speaker 4: want to go right away to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: Say hello to our good friend Liz Peek. LizPeek.com is
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: her landing page. Liz, hope you're doing good today.
• 57:18
  Speaker 22: I am doing very well, thank you, and you too,
• 57:20
  Speaker 22: I hope.
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: Doing well, Liz. I was in California for 10 days,
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: and I went from Los Angeles and then up to
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: San Francisco. And I just, again, it just overwhelms me
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: to see what the Democrats have done to what was
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: once a beautiful, wonderful state.
• 57:38
  Speaker 22: You know, when you have one party rule, it's never
• 57:43
  Speaker 22: a good idea. But when you have one party Democrat rule,
• 57:46
  Speaker 22: it's a disaster. And really, you look at the sort
• 57:50
  Speaker 22: of evolution of San Francisco, which to my mind was
• 57:54
  Speaker 22: the most beautiful city in America 30, 40 years ago.
• 57:58
  Speaker 22: And it just became an absolute hellhole. Thankfully, the voters
• 58:02
  Speaker 22: in San Francisco finally wised up and realized that allowing
• 58:08
  Speaker 22: theft to go unpunished and other crimes to go unpunished,
• 58:13
  Speaker 22: much as we're seeing in New York right now, doesn't work.
• 58:16
  Speaker 22: You get more of it, and pretty soon it becomes
• 58:20
  Speaker 22: an unlivable city. And that's what happened. So now it's L.A.,
• 58:24
  Speaker 22: but it's sort of under fire. Forgive the expression. for L.A.,
• 58:29
  Speaker 22: but L.A. is a disaster as well. Crime is out
• 58:33
  Speaker 22: of control.
• 58:34
  Speaker 10: But, you know, I mean, here's the thing.
• 58:36
  Speaker 22: These blue cities, particularly the coastal blue cities, have opened
• 58:41
  Speaker 22: their doors to unlimited numbers of people in the country illegally.
• 58:45
  Speaker 22: They offer them enormous amounts of benefits, and then they
• 58:49
  Speaker 22: wonder why they run perpetual budget deficits, as New York
• 58:54
  Speaker 22: is doing and as California has done, And so all
• 58:57
  Speaker 22: the sort of other spending on road repair, on forest
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  Speaker 22: maintenance in California, things like that, policing and so forth,
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  Speaker 22: and by the way, building affordable housing. it just doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 22: There's no money left in the till. I mean, that
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  Speaker 22: is actually a real statement. So these states, I mean,
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  Speaker 22: they can't help themselves. They promise everything, like we're doing
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  Speaker 22: in New York right now, free buses, free healthcare, free childcare,
• 59:26
  Speaker 22: for heaven's sakes, free schooling, free university. And, you know,
• 59:30
  Speaker 22: eventually the people paying the bills move out because they
• 59:34
  Speaker 22: can't afford it any longer, and they have choices. And,
• 59:37
  Speaker 22: you know, Todd, this is a simple story, but, man,
• 59:41
  Speaker 22: Democrats are pretty slow to catch on.
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  Speaker 4: Liz, I hope you'll find the humor in this. I decided,
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: and I was staying in downtown San Francisco at the
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: Palace Hotel, which is a beautiful hotel. there was no
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: foot traffic in San Francisco at all. And that used
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: to be such a vibrant downtown area. Went over to Berkeley,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: and here's how bad it is in Berkeley. The anarchist
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: bookstore shut down. They're out of business.
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  Speaker 5: That's how bad it is.
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  Speaker 22: They can't even stand their own crowd.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Lordy. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 22: I mean, really, San Francisco is a crime.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 22: You know, it has so many tourist attractions. Remember when
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 22: President Xi came to visit and they rolled out the
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 22: red carpet, but they also scurried around and cleaned up
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 22: the city. They put away, I don't know where they
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 22: stowed all the vagrants and the people high on drugs
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 22: and so forth that normally populate the streets and make
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 22: it so horrible, but they did. And it shows you
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 22: can do it. It's not impossible. But, you know, it's
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 22: just the policies in these places are not meant to
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  Speaker 22: be good for the average taxpaying citizen. It's good for
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 22: the criminals. It's good for the dope addicts. It's good
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 22: for people illegally. You know, I mean, how do voters
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  Speaker 22: keep how do voters keep reelecting them? That's what I think.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great question.
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  Speaker 22: You know, now you look at Steve Hilton. Running for governor,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 22: Steve Hilton's a really smart guy. He actually could be
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  Speaker 22: committed to making California better. He's running against a totally
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 22: boring machine Democrat who, in the first debate, got so
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 22: hammered by Steve Hilton, I mean, was completely unable to
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  Speaker 22: answer the charges leveled by Republican Steve Hilton, that he
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 22: refuses to do any more debates. If I were a
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 22: voter in California, I would say, right away, you are disqualified.
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  Speaker 22: You are not earning my vote. Anyone who cannot stand
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  Speaker 22: up for the policies and principles of their party, get
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  Speaker 22: out of the way. And honestly, I hope California... It's
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 22: not that.
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  Speaker 22: I mean, you know, it's an uphill battle because registered
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  Speaker 22: Democrats outnumber Republicans two to one, I think, in this state.
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  Speaker 22: But you know what? If you catch the public's imagination...
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  Speaker 22: that things could be better as Steve Hilton is doing,
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  Speaker 22: you never know.
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  Speaker 4: You never know. Liz, you've got a great piece up
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: on your website, LizPeak.com. Anxious Democrats lie about Trump again.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I was on a flight with a member
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: of Congress, a Republican from a very safe district, and
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: he's really concerned about the midterms. I'm somewhat optimistic. I
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: know I may be in the minority here.
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  Speaker 2: I just.
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  Speaker 4: find it very hard to believe that people are going
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: to vote for communists and political Islamists in the midterms.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: So I'm pretty hopeful, but there is a lot of
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: concern out there, and the misinformation coming out of the
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: media about the president is off the charts, and I
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: think it's only going to get worse.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 22: It's only going to get worse, and unfortunately, Trump is
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 22: not always careful about what he says. That's just not
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  Speaker 22: who he is. He's out there I think he intends
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 22: to have 33 rallies between now, basically one a day
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 22: between now and the election, almost one a day. And
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 22: guess what? He's going to make some flubs and they're
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 22: going to jump on that because they know if they
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 22: let his message get out about lower taxes, light regulation,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 22: all the things that are propelling a business surge in America,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 22: an economic surge, they're toast because that's what's happening. And
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 22: they've done a great job, number one, of downplaying the
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 22: economic successes of this administration. Number two, just blizzarding the
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 22: country with negative commentary about the election. Why is that important?
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 22: Because you, the voter, is going to say, well, you
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 22: know what, my guy's going to lose, so I might
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 22: as well not even vote. Or I might as well
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 22: not even send in the hundred bucks that might help
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 22: his campaign. It is a determined, purposeful, dishonest effort to
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 22: drive down Republican enthusiasm and turnout because Trump is out
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 22: there driving it up, and they're scared to death that
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 22: their imagined blue wave is simply not going to materialize.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 22: I tell you what, there's a very sound, intelligent investment
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 22: group called Stratagast. Right now, they put out a note
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 22: to their investor clientele today saying 75% chance the Republicans
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 22: hold the Senate. That's not what you're seeing in the
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 22: betting markets. That's like 60% Democrats take it. But that's
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 22: their thoughtful, non-political analysis necessary for investors to figure out
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 22: what the heck's going on. So I'm with you. I'm
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 22: a little bit, I am more than a little bit,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 22: I am very skeptical of New York Times polling where
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 22: they asked 600 people in Iowa, you know, whether they're
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 22: going to report, vote for the Republican or the Democrat vote.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 22: And they come up with a prognostication. 600 people. That's
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 22: what all those New York Times, CNN polls were that
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  Speaker 22: were for Senate candidates. Maybe they'll turn out to be right.
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  Speaker 22: But I, for example, Texas, where Tallarico is shown to
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 22: be up, I think, more than six points. I tell
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 22: you what, I talk to a lot of people in Texas.
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  Speaker 22: They hate Ken Paxton, but they're going to vote for
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 22: him anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly. Yeah, exactly. Real quick before we let you go, Liz,
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  Speaker 4: President Trump just a few moments ago announcing in the
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: Oval Office, you know, the Trump accounts are now being
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: expanded to every single child in America. Over 70 million
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 4: accounts will be open for children. That's up from the
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: current 8 million. And the Treasury Department ceding the accounts
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 4: with $ 1, 000 parents can contribute. up to $ 5, 000 per year.
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  Speaker 4: How about that?
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  Speaker 22: You know, I think it's one of the great ideas
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 22: that Trump has had. Again, liberal media is not going
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 22: to give him any credit for this. It's so important,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 22: not just because it gives every kid a little bit
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 22: of a nest egg, but it'll grow over time. And Todd,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 22: think of the learning opportunity that this entails. Kids are
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 22: going to learn about compound interest or what it looks
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 22: like to own a stock for 10 years and have
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 22: it double in value. I mean, it's a great idea.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 22: I really applaud him for doing it. And every time
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 22: it expands, by the way, the uptake on it was
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 22: great to begin with, but I think this is even better.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 22: I think it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Liz, always good hearing from you and really
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: appreciate your great work.
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  Speaker 22: Hey, thanks so much for having me on, Todd. Take care.
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  Speaker 17: All right.
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  Speaker 4: LizPeak.com, everybody. Go bookmark her page and read it. And
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: I'm glad to know Liz and I are optimistic. And
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: I know there are a lot of naysayers out there.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: I get it. I do. And look, all of your
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: frustrations right now against the Republicans are justified. And I
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 4: would even say the White House, it's justified because they're
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: making a lot of mistakes. And we can't afford to
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 4: do that. We are in a fight for the country
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: right now. That's what's going on. Real quick, let's try
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: to work in a couple of calls, well, at least
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: a call here. Then we'll go to break 901-260-5926. Let's
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: go to Gary in Daytona Beach, Florida. Hi, Gary. What's
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: on your mind?
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  Speaker 19: Hey, welcome back.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you. I found it kind of rich that some
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 7: of the DSA candidates are calling in the big gun,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 7: Barack Hussein Obama, to come and pull him across the line.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 7: And it was amazing. A lot of people have forgotten
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 7: that he'll fit in good with them because several of
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 7: them have said that they are not proud of America,
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 7: that they dislike this country. And as we all remember,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 7: Michelle Obama also was not very proud and stated she
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 7: wasn't proud of this country until her husband was president.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 7: So they've got the right person. They knew who to tap.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 7: And he also, and I went back and looked at
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 7: some of his comments, was very proud of the European
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 7: model on how they were running their country. And I
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 7: thought that fits right into the headlines of today.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Gary, Obama's campaigning for Al-Sayed, Abdul Al-Sayed in Michigan,
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: and he's always lurking behind the scenes, right? He's got
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: his tentacles everywhere. And Obama is the one president who
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: never did move out of D.C. He still has a
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: mansion there. And this is the guy, I think, ultimately
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: controlling this radical lurch to the left that's happening within
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 4: the Democrat Party right now.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 7: You bet.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Gary. Hey, thank you very much. Good to
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 4: hear from you. All right, got to take a break.
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  Speaker 20: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 4: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Coming up in
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: the next hour, we've got some great audio from a
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: couple of debates that happened yesterday. One in Maine. It
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: was for the Senate campaign, the Senate race there. And
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: Susan Collins just really delivered a stunning performance. And we're
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 4: going to play some great audio from that. Also in Iowa.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: The gubernatorial race, and it was brutal. The Republican in
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: that race just clobbered the Democrat, and we're going to
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: have some of that great audio. Also, Senator Tom Tillis
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: sat down, and he has, this guy is, he's a Democrat.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: There's really no, I mean, I know he's been a Republican,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 4: a lifelong Republican, but this guy's behaving like a Democrat.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: And he's also declaring war on MAGA. So we're going
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 4: to get into more of that in the next hour
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: of the program as well. Really, he is legitimizing a
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: lot of concerns that I have had about the establishment
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: Republican wing of the party. Let's go to Little Rock, Arkansas.
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  Speaker 4: Steve on the line. Hi, Steve. What's going on?
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: Hey, Todd. You were wanting to hear some ideas about
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: what the Republicans need to be doing over the next month.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, everybody's saying this, but I'm going to give
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: an example. I've got to do a better job of
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: messaging on these gas price deals. I did a little
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: research on Google AI, and just to put things in context,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: the average monthly savings for the average middle-class American household
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: on the Big Beautiful Bill, based on the Big Beautiful Bill,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: is President Trump's policy there saved between $ 500 and $ 1, 000
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: a month. The average increase of gas budget for the
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: same household due to this Iran thing over the last
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: six months has increased about $ 70 a month. So that
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: two things right there, it's kind of like if you
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: gave Dylan a $ 800 a month raise.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 4: All right now.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: But you were paying his parking fee over here because
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: you didn't have any parking at your radio station. You
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: were paying a $ 70 a month parking fee for it.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: But you gave me that $ 800 raise and said, but
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: you're going to have to pay your own parking fee.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: Him getting mad and quit because you quit paying his
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: parking fee.
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  Speaker 4: Steve, I don't like where you're taking this conversation. But
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: I will say we provide complimentary parking. We don't charge
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: the staff. But that's not a bad idea, actually. Except
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: for Ian, the intern. Dylan, we're trying to train him
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 4: how to park a car.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that reverse is a little tough.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: Did you see how he parked? Nobody can get through.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 5: I think he's trying to send us a message. Maybe
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: he's trying to block us in.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 4: Could be. Steve, no, look, it's a great point. It's
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: a great point you're bringing up. And again, going back
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 4: to the messaging here of the one big, beautiful bill,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 4: because there are a lot of great things in there.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 4: They're just not talking about them. And everybody knows, even...
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 4: I think Ken Paxton, we've got some audio. We'll play
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 4: this in the next hour. Ken Paxton caught on, and
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: they're trying to make it a shock thing because Paxton
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: was talking about the war in Iran and the high
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: gas prices and grocery prices being problematic. Yes, I mean,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 4: everybody knows that. So what is it about the messaging?
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 4: And I think that's really the big issue here is
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 4: the messaging.
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  Speaker 3: Can I make one quick comment?
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 4: Real quick, yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: This is the way I look toward Iran. President Trump
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 3: knows how to win elections. Do you think he doesn't
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: know that the timing on this is very bad with
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: the midterm elections? There has to be some reason that
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: it was more important to go take these nuclear weapons
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: away from Iran than it was to win the midterm elections.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: Well, I know he's not. He's not. And I'm sure
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: there was a reason. I'm just not sure what that
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: reason is. And, I mean, again, if the president can
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 4: convey that to the American people, I think the American
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: people might understand. But the six-week war is going to
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: be turning into a one-year war before too long. Steve,
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 4: got to run, my friend. Thank you for that call.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 4: All right, Ian, go park your car. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
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  Speaker 4: That's us, that's right, our love is American. And hello, everybody.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: Welcome to Hour 3 of The Big Show. Great to
• 1:14:48
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  Speaker 28: That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I just have to tell you right away how
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: excited I am about the work the State Department has
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 4: been doing And our great Secretary Marco Rubio doing a
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 4: phenomenal job earlier today giving an address in Greece from
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 4: the birthplace of Western civilization. You know, it's interesting. I
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: had just finished writing my book. It was already in
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 4: the process of going through initial edits when Secretary Rubio
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 4: gave a speech in Europe about saving Western civilization. It
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 4: was such a powerful speech. I called my publishers and said,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: we've got to include this in the book, which we did.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 4: And I'm glad we did, because when you look at
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 4: what's happening overseas, especially across Western Europe right now, It
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 4: is a very, very dangerous time. And if we do
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 4: not pay very close attention and take a stand here
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 4: in this country, we will become and we will go
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 4: the way of Western Europe. And we don't want that
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 4: to happen. Well, I want to go right away to
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. We're honored to have Paloma
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 4: Chacon with us, principal deputy spokesperson for the State Department. Paloma,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 4: good to have you with us today.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 26: Thanks for having me on.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 4: So you didn't make the cut to get to go
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 4: to Greece, but you get to hang out with us.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 4: So I guess that's a good consolation prize.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 26: I'm here in Washington, D.C. We just watched the Secretary
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 26: give a phenomenal speech in Greece, in Athens, the birthplace
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 26: of Western civilization and democracy.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 4: This is not the first time he's delivered this sort
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 4: of a speech before. What is it that you guys
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 4: are seeing at the State Department that this is a
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 4: major issue for the department?
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 26: Well, one of the things that is so important that
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 26: Secretary Rubio said today imploring our European allies is act
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 26: now or lose the choice to act. And what this
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 26: speech did is it is encouraging our allies to not
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 26: embrace decline. Instead, we must reject the decline of Western
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 26: civilization for the safety and security of our countries. So
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 26: much of our national security is intertwined with Europe. And
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 26: so the Secretary made this clear during his speech. It's
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 26: important to have secure borders. It's important to embrace the
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 26: re-industrialization of the United States so that we can continue
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 26: to build and make things here at home. And it's
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 26: important to have a strong military and national defense. And
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 26: so those were the themes that were echoed in Athens today.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 4: I'm wondering, Paloma, as you guys are going through your work,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 4: one of the big stories we've been following is is
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 4: the number of visas that have been revoked by the
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 4: State Department. What is it? Over a quarter million. Is
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  Speaker 4: that right?
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  Speaker 23: That's correct.
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  Speaker 26: The State Department under the Trump administration has revoked more
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  Speaker 26: than 250,000 visas. These are from individuals who have gotten
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 26: a visa and they've come to the United States and
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 26: they've committed crimes such as DUIs, assaults or thefts or
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 26: they've committed fraud or we have identified them as national
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 26: security threats. And so we are revoking these visas to
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  Speaker 26: ensure that we are keeping our homeland and the American
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 26: people safe.
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 4: You know, were you surprised? Were you guys surprised by
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 4: the numbers here when it came to the revocation?
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  Speaker 26: We are looking at up to hundreds of thousands of
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 26: individuals who have either committed crimes or have committed fraud.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 26: Some of them have been identified as national security threats.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 26: And so we are going in and we are restoring
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 26: integrity in our visa program because we saw policies that
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 26: allowed for mass migration and abuse of some of these
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 26: programs under previous administrations.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk about another big issue, and that is the
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: new America.gov website. What are folks going to find there?
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  Speaker 26: Well, very exciting. Just last week, Secretary Rubio announced, starting 2027,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 26: that Americans getting their passport for the very first time
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 26: will be able to do so entirely online through America.gov.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 26: That means no more going to the drugstore, getting those
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 26: mugshot style photos, no more printing out paperwork and running
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 26: over to the post office. and no more paying third
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 26: parties to deal with some of this government bureaucracy for you.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 26: You'll be able to do it from the comfort of
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 26: your home at america.gov, and you'll be able to take
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 26: your passport photo using your cell phone. So you'll be
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 26: able to see how it looks and track your passport
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 26: application entirely online.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, this is, I was talking to some friends in
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  Speaker 4: San Francisco, and a husband and wife, and they were
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 4: wanting to do some overseas travel, and their passports had expired.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 4: like many, many, many years ago. And I said, no worries.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 4: And they didn't believe me. I said, guys, the State
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 4: Department is completely revising all of this. I think this
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  Speaker 4: is really going to make a lot of people very,
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  Speaker 4: very happy, Paloma.
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  Speaker 26: I definitely agree with you. For those individuals who are
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 26: simply renewing their passports, They can already do this online.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 26: You can go to america.gov and type in the search bar,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 26: renew passport, and it will teach you exactly how to
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 26: do it right there online. But again, 2027 is for
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 26: those Americans who have never had a passport and they
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 26: are getting it for the first time. They'll be able
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  Speaker 26: to do so online.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Paloma, we really appreciate the great work that you
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 4: guys are doing there at the State Department, and it's
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 4: got to be a lot of fun working for the secretary,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: just seeing all of these great things happening.
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  Speaker 26: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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• 1:21:16
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• 1:21:49
  Speaker 4: All right. I want to play some audio here. This
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 4: is from Ken Paxton. So this was I mentioned this
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: a little while ago. People are like, oh, this is
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 4: gotcha video that, you know, Paxton hates Trump. Paxton doesn't
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 4: hate Trump. Ken Paxton is trying to get himself elected.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 4: And by the way, he's battling not only the Democrats,
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 4: but also the establishment Republicans in Texas. So he is
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 4: really up against the wall here. I want you to
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: listen to this again. Somebody secretly recording Ken Paxton. These people,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 4: if you're out there secretly recording people, you have no morals,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 4: no moral standards at all. Cut number 20.
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  Speaker 23: So what are the issues that are dragging on you?
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 25: I mean, just people.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 4: Where do people, what are people thinking about tariffs?
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 8: Do they see that in any connection?
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  Speaker 21: What are they thinking?
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  Speaker 16: War.
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  Speaker 29: The war is gas prices, it's diesel. It's over $ 6
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  Speaker 29: a gallon of diesel. I mean, it's... So that's by
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 29: far our biggest problem.
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  Speaker 8: And I think that's why we're having a hard time
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 8: with the numbers today.
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  Speaker 2: And how do you respond to it?
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 8: So I have offered up a plan that would help.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 5: I can't really do it.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 8: My plan is first-time tax deduction for birth and second
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 8: time so you can move up. $ 25, 000 deduction for medical
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 8: expenses and premiums for every number of things. It's $ 25, 000, $ 25, 000, $ 25, 000, $ 25, 000.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 26: $ 25, 000.
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  Speaker 8: $ 5, 000 deduction for healthy living so we can keep it healthier,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 8: whether it's gym memberships, nutrition programs, or GLP-1.
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  Speaker 12: It would help cover that cost.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 8: And then doubling the child tax credit. Again, trying to
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 8: put more money.
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  Speaker 20: In people's pockets if they need it.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 8: And then allowing the Trump Council to do it. So
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 8: that's kind of the beginning of my proper infallibility.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 17: That's great. I'm just trying.
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  Speaker 8: To figure out ways that I can help people. That's
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 8: the only way.
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  Speaker 17: I can propose legislation.
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  Speaker 29: You can't stop the war.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 12: I have no control over the House of Representatives.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 8: So many of the factors in this federal race are uncontrollable.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 12: I don't make the decisions.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 5: I don't know what's behind.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 4: Some of this. So there you go, ladies and gentlemen. Again,
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: I don't think... You know, at the end of the day,
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 4: Ken Paxton is saying what everybody else is saying in
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 4: the country when it comes to those issues that are
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 4: really going to challenge the Republicans running for office. I mean,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 4: there's nothing. I don't think this is a gotcha video
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 4: at all. But meanwhile, you've got Tom Tellis out there
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 4: from North Carolina. And the Republicans have already sort of
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 4: written off North Carolina. They don't think Michael Watley is
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 4: going to be able to beat Cooper in the Senate
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 4: race there. So that could be a shift to the Democrats.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 4: But Tom Tillis is out there, and he was doing
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: an interview with 60 Minutes. Here's what he had to
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 4: say about future MAGA presidential candidates. Cut 19.
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  Speaker 15: After a tough 2026... It'll be 2028. It'll be a
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 15: presidential cycle. What does the battle over the future of
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 15: your party look like then?
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  Speaker 6: You know, we're going to have this situation where the
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 6: president's going to have a heavy influence on the primary.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 6: And boy, this is when we really have to speak
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 6: frankly about what kind of profile we need to win
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  Speaker 6: a national election in 2028. And it probably isn't what
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  Speaker 6: the president is thinking right now is a go-to pick.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 6: So we're going to have to have a serious discussion
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 6: with that. The RNC, other Republican organizations need to come
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 6: down and take the president's advice, but look more towards
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 6: the Republican Party priorities and things that go beyond 2028.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 15: What would be wrong with the president's go-to pick?
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  Speaker 6: Um because i think it's one that works well and
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 6: red mega states won't work well for a general election
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  Speaker 6: the nation are.
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  Speaker 15: We are we talking about the vice president are we
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 15: talking hypothetically.
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  Speaker 6: Uh well i don't know i assume right now you
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 6: had uh you know at i guess the texas uh
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 6: uh trumpapalooza whatever it was called uh he was kind
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 6: of introduced and i think endorsed by uh turning point
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  Speaker 6: uh so it looks like things would lead that way
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  Speaker 6: it's not necessarily a lock in terms of the president's
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 6: endorsement but I don't think the president should handpick. The
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 6: president is, by definition, going to be in retirement when
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 6: the next person is sworn into office. The president should
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 6: have a say, but this is not a decision that
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  Speaker 6: should be solely his.
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  Speaker 4: There you go. And this, again, no surprise to our
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 4: great audience, because you guys know, you know, that the
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 4: establishment has been at war with this president, and it
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 4: has been a covert war. It has been a stealth war.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 4: But the establishment Republicans have been slow-marching this president's agenda.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 4: They've been thwarting his agenda behind the scenes, and that
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 4: is only going to get worse as we move beyond
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 4: the midterms into 2028. So, again, ladies and gentlemen, Be
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 4: prepared here for the civil war within the Republican Party. Now,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 4: my question is this. Who comes out on top? Who
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 4: ends up being victorious? Will it be the establishment? Will
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 4: it be the MAGA candidates? And who would the MAGA
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 4: candidates be? I mean, again, everybody thinks it's going to
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 4: be J.D. Vance, and I don't think Vance is going
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 4: to be the nominee. I don't think Vance could win
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 4: a national election. I really don't. He doesn't have a
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 4: track record outside of being President Trump's vice president. He
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 4: just simply doesn't. And we're already starting to see people
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 4: like Ted Cruz, Ron DeSantis, Glenn Youngkin, among others, that
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 4: are beginning to percolate in the presidential arena. Here's also
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: Tom Tillis talking about President Trump's cabinet. Cut 18, please.
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  Speaker 27: I should note against a lot of people in the
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 27: president's cabinet, you say Pete Hegseth is the biggest regret
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 27: of your career. You admit that you should have stopped
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 27: rfk jr from becoming health secretary you say tulsa gabbard
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 27: won't be challenging anyone for president of her local mensa
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 27: chapter you say christian ohm's a dog murderer and that
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 27: howard lutnick quote is nuttier than.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 6: Squirrel now stand by all that what else you got.
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 27: Is there anyone good that you think Trump has hired?
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, the majority of people in the cabinet
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 6: I support.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 27: That's the majority of his cabinet in his first year.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 6: No, it's not. These people.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 27: Maybe their left have been fired.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 22: These are right.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 6: And incidentally, this person had seven Democrats vote for. But
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 6: the point is... I've we hired them. We made a
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 6: decision to put them in there. I'm giving them their
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 6: annual review.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 12: They didn't pass.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 6: You cycle them out, get somebody else, get somebody in
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 6: there that can tell the president the truth, set the
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 6: priorities right and get us reelected. That's all this is about. Look,
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 6: I've been a Republican all my life, starting back in Tennessee.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 6: I'm going to be a Republican until the day I die.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 6: We've got problems right now that we need to fix
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 6: because we've got I was coming back. I was riding
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 6: on a train today. I had a guy come up
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 6: to me, said, you know, he recognized me. He said,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 6: I've been a Republican for 56 years, but I don't
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 6: think I can support y'all this year. I like what
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 6: you're saying, but I don't like what the party's for
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 6: right now.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 22: I need that.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 6: I said, I hope you'll change your mind because you
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 6: need to understand the Democrats win with that thought. It's
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 6: not another Republican that wins. The Democrats win. And I
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 6: have to believe that at the end of the day,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 6: you don't want that. We've got to have a discussion
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 6: with the Republicans who are a bit frustrated now knowing
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 6: there are people like me that are going to go
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 6: back and get us back focused on the main thing.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, Tom Tillis, ladies and gentlemen. And again,
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 4: it just goes back to this notion that senators, and
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 4: Tom Tillis said that about 30 Republican senators are not
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 4: on board with the president's agenda. Quite frankly, I think
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 4: we could probably guess who they are, but we need
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 4: to be naming names. Because that's just not right. The
• 1:30:41
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• 1:30:45
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• 1:30:48
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  Speaker 20: Back. Hello, Todd. This is Tony Gurra, San Leandro, California.
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• 1:34:00
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  Speaker 21: All right, let's bring in our guest. Todd Starnes is
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• 1:34:11
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  Speaker 21: thank you so much for joining us. Todd, Paxton's got
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 21: some problems. What do you think?
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, look, well, first of all, thank you so much, ladies.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 4: Great to be with you today. Look, here's the bottom line.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: I don't think there's really that big of a problem
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 4: for Ken Paxton. I just cannot believe the good, red-blooded
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 4: patriots in Texas are going to elect somebody to the
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 4: Senate that maybe has an affinity to tofu and veganism.
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 4: I just don't see that happening. That being said, I've
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 4: been warning people on my national radio show, do not
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 4: believe the polling data that's coming out. As a matter
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 4: of fact, I wouldn't believe any stories that are coming
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 4: out over the next few days leading up to Election Day.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 25: I think it's all fake.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 4: Absolutely fake. The issue for Republican voters is to get out,
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 4: don't be demoralized, don't be discouraged by all the negative
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 4: Nancys in the media, and get out and vote on
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 4: Election Day. And if they do that, Ken Paxton is
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 4: going to be the next senator from Texas.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 21: You know, Christian, my daughter, Sumner, is a brilliant political strategist.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 21: She called me last night with the latest donation numbers, in-state, out-of-state,
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 21: special interest, and polling and all that to discuss this
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 21: exact race. And she doesn't believe the polls.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 4: She thinks they're flawed.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 21: She thinks the Angela Paxton ad helps because you turn
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 21: it into the team, not him. Take it away from that.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 21: How do you see this?
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 6: Because.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 21: She also said, I don't see somebody who voted for
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 21: Cornyn voting for Tallarico. Where are you coming down on this?
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 28: Well, there's a couple of things going on here, and
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 28: we have our Texas Youth Summit coming up, and I
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 28: have the Attorney General, Ken Paxton, there, as well as
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 28: his wife. ex-wife, Angela Paxton, they're both great. They're both
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  Speaker 28: going to be there and they support the Republican ticket.
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  Speaker 21: They're great.
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  Speaker 28: What I can say about this is when it comes
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 28: to outside spending, Paxton's had to rely on Senate leadership
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 28: to provide over $ 130 million. So when it comes to
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 28: PAC funding, he cannot directly correspond to with those PACs
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 28: because that's against the FEC rules. And so then, therefore,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 28: he's having to rely on this outside spending to message
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 28: for him. And he's trying to make sure that he
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 28: gets his message out. But he's had a great third quarter.
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 28: He's raised $ 18 million. And he's going to do everything
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 28: that he can to get Republicans to vote for him
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  Speaker 28: across the state. He's doing a great job.
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  Speaker 16: Right.
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  Speaker 21: I mean, James Tallarico is not a great candidate. I mean,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 21: Texas Senate, he's now on the defense after 2020 comments
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  Speaker 21: from a discussion about defunding the police resurface. And Tallarico
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 21: reportedly saying this to a pro-defund the police, a progressive group.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 21: So this guy doesn't believe in God. He loves the
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 21: trans kids, but he hates the cops. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 30: Defund the police is considered off limits in our political
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 30: debate when defunding health services defunding public education has been
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 30: the stated policy of our state government for decades.
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  Speaker 21: Now Todd what do you think about this Tallarico he
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 21: is everything he's for I would assume Texas Texans are
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 21: against what.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think Yeah, this guy gives me the creeps.
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 4: There's something off about this guy. But you know who
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 4: I'm really upset about?
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  Speaker 16: Karl Rove.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 4: Because Karl Rove says he's going to vote for this guy.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 4: Karl Rove wants to defund the police. You know, I
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 4: am so sick and tired of these establishment Republicans. When
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 4: they don't get their way, when their candidates don't win...
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 4: They try to sabotage the actual nominee of the party.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 4: Ken Haxton won that primary fair and square. And it's
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 4: time for every Republican to get behind the nominees. And
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 4: this is a big problem that the Republicans are having
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 4: across the nation right now.
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  Speaker 16: You know what?
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 25: I'm a conservative.
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 4: I had to hold my nose and vote for Mitt
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 4: Romney and John McCain.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 17: Back in the day.
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 4: Were they my guys?
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 5: No, not at all.
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, they were the
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 4: nominees of the party, and therefore, they got my vote.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 4: Shame on any Republican who is not supporting their nominees. Yeah,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: I like Hallorov.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 21: I think he's brilliant, but I was surprised by that
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 21: comment too. President Trump attacking South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 21: Annie Andrews with an anti-trans slur. Andrews is running against
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 21: the Republican incumbent, Darlene Graham, who of course took her
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 21: brother's seat. Trump writing this, he said, Annie Trani Andrews
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 21: is running against our wonderful Darlene Graham for the Senate
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 21: in South Carolina. Darlene is a high quality person, maybe
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 21: the highest, and Annie Trani is not in particular as
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 21: it pertains to representing the values of the great people
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 21: of South Carolina. She's in favor of transgender for everyone.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 21: Trani is not for South Carolina. And South Carolina must
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 21: show in the upcoming election that it is not for her. Now,
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 21: for the record, she is not reportedly transgender. But, Kristen,
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 21: your thoughts about the president and whether or not those
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 21: sort of lines are working for him in this election.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 21: She's got quite a knack for nicknames, though.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 16: You've got to give him that.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 7: He does. Right.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 28: Well, he's been doing this since 2015, and he's been
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 28: widely successful, so he's unparalleled. I don't think anyone else
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 28: could get away with these types of nicknames, but he does.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 28: He calls In Texas, James Talafrico. And so he has nicknames,
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 28: and he knows how to message, and that's why he's
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 28: been a billionaire is because he knows how to raise money,
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 28: make money, and he knows how to get his message
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 28: out and get earned media like nobody else. And here
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 28: we are talking about it because of the things that
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 28: he says.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 21: Well, Christian, thank you so much. Good luck with the
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 21: Texas Youth Summit, and always good to talk to you.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 22: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 17: All right.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 4: I just say what's on my mind on these things. No,
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 4: I'm not politically correct, especially on TV, even on the radio.
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 4: So I want to switch gears here. We've been talking
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 4: about Texas and Talafrico, Ken Paxton. There are some other
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 4: big races, and I've got to give a shout-out to
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 4: this situation in Iowa where– Rob Sand and Zach Lawn
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 4: are going at it for the gubernatorial race. And I
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 4: want you to take a listen. The Republican just cleaned
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 4: this guy's clock. Take a listen to Cut 16.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 31: You understand that this is a central lie of Rob
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 31: Sand's campaign. You'll understand that he's been spreading this lie
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 31: using money that his family has given him to do
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 31: that all over the airwaves. People see it all the time.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 31: But here's the deal. Rob, you're now encountering somebody who's
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 31: not going to be intimidated by how much money your
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 31: family has. It just won't happen. I can't be intimidated
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 31: like that. The truth is I'm a sixth generation Iowan.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 31: I live in Iowa today. I have lived in Iowa.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 10: Rob has been.
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 31: Lying about this. And the issue is I have a
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 31: blended family and my kids split time.
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 5: That's the issue.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 31: But Rob has chose to make this issue the primary
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 31: focus of his campaign. And I'll tell you, yes, I travel.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 31: I travel for business. I travel for family. You know
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 31: who else travels?
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 7: Rob.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 31: Rob traveled to Aspen, Colorado, to their $ 77 million mansion there.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 31: Rob travels to their multi-million dollar home in Northwest Iowa.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 31: Rob travels around the state in a Ford F-150. When
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 31: he gets home, he gets in the $ 200, 000 Mercedes G-Wagon.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 31: Rob is not telling the truth about who he is,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 31: and he's definitely not telling the truth about who I am.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 31: But I'm going to tell you this right now. This
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 31: issue is about one thing. It's about my children.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 31: I have a blended family, and they split time. And
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 31: I'm going to tell you right now, I am not
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 31: going to be intimidated on this. I will spend whatever
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 31: effort necessary to defend my children from people who'd like
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 31: to exploit them like you. And my promise to the
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 31: voters of Iowa is this. I will also defend your
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 31: children from people who'd like to exploit them like Rob Sand.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 4: And Rob is the Democrat. And Rob is a multi-bazillionaire,
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 4: thanks to his wife. is a 44-year-old, and you heard
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 4: that he drives– he's trying to– Rob Sand is trying
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 4: to make himself– he's portraying himself as some sort of
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 4: a regular Joe Farmer when, in fact, he is a
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 4: multi-billionaire many times over. And glad that he got called
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 4: out on that. So I think– look, Iowa voters are smart.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 4: They can smell– when a candidate is authentic and when
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 4: somebody is spreading manure. And Rob Sand is spreading a
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 4: lot of manure. So is Zoran Mamdami, the mayor of
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 4: New York City, who, again, in the same light as
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 4: Rob Sand, a Democrat socialist, they have millions of dollars
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 4: in the bank. So they want to be wealthy, and
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 4: it's okay for them to be wealthy, but it's not
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 4: okay for you to be wealthy. So Mamdami comes out today,
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 4: October the 7th, three years since the worst, the deadliest
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 4: attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust, and Mamdami
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 4: puts out a statement. I want to read this statement
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 4: to you. This day is profoundly painful for so many
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 4: New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 4: crimes of October 7th. On that day, Hamas killed more
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 4: than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 4: our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss. Now,
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 4: that's a fine statement. And if that's all he would
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 4: have written, it would have been okay. But he didn't
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 4: stop there. He goes on then to spend the rest
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 4: of his statement attacking Israel. The suffering did not begin
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 4: nor end that day. So what Mandami is now doing
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 4: is saying and providing some justification for the attack. It
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 4: instead continued through the Israeli government's devastating ongoing genocide in Gaza,
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 4: in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, including
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 4: more than 21,000 children, all undocumented. Seriously, there's no evidence
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 4: that these numbers are accurate. Ever since the so-called ceasefire,
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 4: more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 4: intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals. Again,
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 4: didn't happen. Every drone strike targeting a residential building or
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 4: journalist and every shipment of food aid turned away at
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 4: a border crossing. By the way, all of this is
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 4: not true. As a matter of fact, the only reason that,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 4: for example, an apartment building would be targeted is because
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 4: there's evidence of the terrorist of Hamas in the basements
• 1:45:03
  Speaker 4: of those buildings. Mandami goes on and on and on.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 4: So this is really, he is not sympathetic towards Israel
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 4: at all. This is Mandami saying, using the anniversary of
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 4: this horrifying attack to go after Israel. And that's unacceptable.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 4: And by the way, if the Palestinians would simply go after,
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 4: if the folks in Gaza would simply turn on Hamas,
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 4: this thing would be over very quickly. But that's not
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 4: what happened. So there you go. Mamdami showing his true colors.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 4: You know, they say he's a jihadist sympathizer, but I
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 4: think when it's all said and done, we're going to
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 4: discover he was more than just a sympathizer to the jihadist.
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 4: There's something else going on there, and it's not good.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 4: It's not good at all. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 4: By the way, Amy Klobuchar, back at it again, speaking out.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 4: speaking in Somali, waving an upside-down American flag while the
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 4: crowd is literally waving Somali flags in America. Cut to
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 4: number five, please.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you so.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 17: Much, Siad.
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 9: Thank you for your leadership, for your many years of service.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 30: To this community.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 27: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 17: Okay, very good.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 20: And I have three.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 25: Things to say.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 29: Danta, dalka, and danka.
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  Speaker 9: As you know, we are home to the largest Somali
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 9: population in the United States, and we are so proud
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 9: of that fact in Minnesota. We are here, of course,
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 9: to celebrate Somalia's successful election of President Abdullahi and to
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 9: show solidarity between our Somali community here in Minnesota and
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 9: the growing democracy in Somalia. Congressman Ellison and Senator Franken
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 9: and I worked so hard to reduce the redundant regulations
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 9: on remittances to Somalia. lessening the burdens for banks. We
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 9: have more to do, but we will continue to fight
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 9: for you. Let us remember we are one Minnesota, and
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 9: our Somali community is part, an important part, of that
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 9: one Minnesota.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 25: Thank you, everyone.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 19: Wow.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 4: By the way, that Somali community, gangs are now roaming
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 4: across parts of Minnesota, Eden Prairie, there was a shooting
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 4: at a high school football game, and apparently there were
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 4: warring Somali gangs that were involved in that. Also, the
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 4: Fed's announcing today, this is just today, that there was
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 4: a terrorist attack thwarted against the Mall of America. The U.S.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 4: Attorney for Minnesota, Dan Rosen, says the FBI arrested and
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 4: charged an 18-year-old Sheikh Dun Abdelali Mohammed. for planning a
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 4: mass casualty attack in support of ISIS at the mall.
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 17: Unbelievable.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 4: The 18-year-old was arrested trying to buy an AK-47 and
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 4: 200 rounds of ammo to target innocent people. That's what
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 4: it's like to live in Minnesota now.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 4: All right, got to take a break here. 901-260-5926. Our
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 4: telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. We'll be right back. All right,
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 4: President Trump getting ready to head to Texas this evening.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 4: He's doing a big rally in San Antonio for Ken Paxton. Meanwhile,
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 4: a lot of folks are wondering what's going on with Talafrico.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 4: The guy's been missing in action for 11 days now.
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 4: Some campaign events getting canceled. A lot of people wondering
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 4: what's going on. He was last seen in Texas on
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 4: September the 26th. So a lot of folks are wondering, okay,
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 4: is something going on? Does the guy have, I don't know,
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 4: a cold? Or maybe he slipped and fell and has
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 4: a boo-boo? Or is it possible that there may be
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 4: something else going on? You know, he is really infatuated
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 4: with the children, with the transgender children, this guy. No,
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 4: I'm not alleging. I'm just wondering. I don't know. I mean,
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 4: it's weird. It's just genuinely weird. Attorney General Kim Paxton
• 1:50:24
  Speaker 4: pointing all of this out and putting out all the evidence,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 4: people are just wondering why. Where in the world is
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 4: James Tallarico, 28 days until the election, and he's nowhere
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 4: to be seen, nowhere to be found. It does make
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 4: you wonder. So anyway, I'm sure President Trump may bring
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 4: that up. But again, ladies and gentlemen, I feel very
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 4: confident that Republicans are going to be able to pull
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 4: off big wins in the midterms. So long as you
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 4: get out and vote. I mean, that's really the caveat there.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 4: You've got to get out and vote. All right, I've
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 4: got to scoot out of here. We're going to be
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 4: back tomorrow. We have Congressman Jim Jordan will be joining
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 4: us also. Senator Marsha Blackburn, we have a jam-packed program
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 4: for you. Folks, in the meantime, check out ToddStearns.com and
• 1:51:16
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