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“The View” Co-Host Says American Flag Makes Her Unsafe · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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Speaker 1: Well, live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: It's America's favorite gun, total Bible clinging, deplorable America.
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Speaker 2: That's us, that's love.
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Speaker 3: This American.
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Speaker 2: Jud starts, well, you know what really against me here,
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Speaker 2: ladies and jellomen By the way, welcome to the Todd
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Speaker 2: Sterns Radio Show. Happy to have you with us today.
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Speaker 2: A lot a lot going on folks in uh, in
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Speaker 2: the country, and the President Trump is giving well he's
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Speaker 2: tearing NATO a new one. And we'll get to we'll
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Speaker 2: get to that store. We got a lot of stuff
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Speaker 2: to talk about today. Uh So the President doing a
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Speaker 2: great job watching out for us.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Uh what can I say about the about the US
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Speaker 2: men's soccer team as the president has the President authorized
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Speaker 2: an airstrike on Belgium yet do we know we're working
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Speaker 2: We're working that info. Also a terrible story about about
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Speaker 2: Senator Mitch McConnell Laura Loomer yesterday reporting that McConnell is
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Speaker 2: brain dead and is well not expected to come back
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Speaker 2: to the Senate. That's in spite of being brain dead.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, terrible story and we certainly want to
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Speaker 2: pray for the McConnell family. But may I just say
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Speaker 2: something here, and this is what I think. This is
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Speaker 2: what really bothers a lot of folks when it comes
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Speaker 2: to politics in general, because they all both parties do
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Speaker 2: the same thing. They always play the same games. And
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Speaker 2: the Democrats did it with Diane Feinstein and basically Congress
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Speaker 2: is it's a de facto nursing home now, I mean,
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Speaker 2: it really is. It's a terrible situation. And we we
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Speaker 2: had a great political twenty years ago, a guy that
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Speaker 2: Riley Nissan who wrote an essay on why there need
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Speaker 2: to be age limits in Congress and it's a fair
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Speaker 2: thing that And again I disagree with Nissan. I understood
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Speaker 2: the premise, but now I get it. I mean, my goodness,
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Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, this is just insane. But here's the problem.
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Speaker 2: The Republicans are trying to shove all of this under
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Speaker 2: the carpet. Nobody's talking about it. It's like the guy
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Speaker 2: who was diagnosed with clinical depression, the Republican from what
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Speaker 2: New Jersey, Keene was his name. And when you're hospitalized
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Speaker 2: for I don't know, five six months dealing with depression,
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Speaker 2: that is a major issue. You do not belong in
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Speaker 2: the halls of Congress. It's not like you're just suddenly cured.
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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of weird stuff going on right
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Speaker 2: now on Capitol Hill, and the Republicans need to come
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Speaker 2: clean here, but they're not going to do it. They're
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Speaker 2: not going to do it, ladies and gentlemen, because this
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Speaker 2: would upset the balance of power. And that's why the
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Speaker 2: Republicans are hiding all of this and they're shoving it
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Speaker 2: under the covers, is what lumers suggesting now that Mitch McConnell.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, what's the wife up to? She's
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Speaker 2: over in China. What's going on? There? A lot of questions,
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Speaker 2: a lot of questions about it. But I want to
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Speaker 2: start today. And by the way, we've got a great
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Speaker 2: show lined up for you. Congressman John Rose is going
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Speaker 2: to drop by. Also, Josh Jones is here to talk
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Speaker 2: about Graham Platner. And there's a new study out teachers
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Speaker 2: are apparently not teaching American history, and we've got some data.
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Speaker 2: Gabe Delaney, our favorite history teacher at Franklin Road Christian School,
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Speaker 2: is going to be here in just a little while
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Speaker 2: to help us figure out all of that. But I
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Speaker 2: want to start with the gals on the View, and
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Speaker 2: these gals are they're a piece of work. They're a
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Speaker 2: piece of work, I'll tell you that much. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: you had Sonny what is it, Sunny Hostin is her name,
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Speaker 2: and Sonny Houstin is out there talking about how much
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Speaker 2: she hates the American flag. And the context of this,
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Speaker 2: you had the Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly setting up
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Speaker 2: the white nationalists what do they call them, the Patriot
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Speaker 2: Front guys, and they're the ones that wear the masks
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Speaker 2: and the Khanki pants. Is all very odd, and anyway,
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Speaker 2: they were up during the fourth of July. Reuters just
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Speaker 2: happened to have a photographer on a train as the
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Speaker 2: guys were on the Metro train and they were surrounding
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Speaker 2: a black woman who happened to be seated on a
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Speaker 2: seat and just all coincidental, of course, And so that
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Speaker 2: photo now going viral and they're saying, oh, this is
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Speaker 2: this is a form of intimidation. Now, keep in mind,
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Speaker 2: when poor sweet Irena Zarinsky was sitt on a train
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Speaker 2: and was slaughtered, was stamped to death by a black dude,
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Speaker 2: Nobody cared. Nobody on the View cared about that. You
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Speaker 2: weren't allowed to care about that. But in this situation
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Speaker 2: where this black woman was just sitting there and nobody
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Speaker 2: tried to intimidate or aba, it was just a matter
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Speaker 2: of sitting there and all these alleged white supremacists topped
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Speaker 2: on the train. So anyway, Sunny Houston talking about all
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Speaker 2: of this, and here's what she had to say, got
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Speaker 2: number fourteen plays And with an.
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Speaker 5: American flag on that cap, you might as well have
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Speaker 5: a hood on. You might as well have a hood on,
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Speaker 5: because that's what it looks like, that's what.
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Speaker 6: It feels like.
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Speaker 7: But you say this is the best nation, it's the
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Speaker 7: best nation for who. Yeah, we know you say it's
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Speaker 7: the best nation, the best nation for who. Because if
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Speaker 7: we are celebrating two hundred and fifty years, what are
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Speaker 7: we exactly celebrating?
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Speaker 4: Is what I want to know.
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Speaker 7: And so I'm really glad that picture was taken because
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Speaker 7: that picture is how we feel walking into many rooms
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Speaker 7: down the street. That picture is how we feel, and.
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Speaker 8: Nobody will believe us.
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Speaker 7: So look at that picture and understand how it feels.
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Speaker 5: It never should be made to feel like that's wrong
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Speaker 5: to this And I said this on this show many
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Speaker 5: many years ago, because this is my tenth year on
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Speaker 5: the show, and I said, there are times when I
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Speaker 5: walk into a community and I see American flags all
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Speaker 5: over the community, and I suddenly feel unsafe because there
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Speaker 5: is a section of this country that has co opted
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Speaker 5: the American flag, and they equate being an American or
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Speaker 5: an American flag with white supremacy.
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Speaker 2: All right, So a little bit to unravel here, ladies
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Speaker 2: and gentlemen. First of all, she's comparing those of you
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Speaker 2: wearing the ball camps with the American flag on the
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Speaker 2: ball camp. She's saying that you people may as well
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Speaker 2: be wearing a KKK hood. That's what Sonny Houstin just
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Speaker 2: said on ABC on Disney. Then she goes on to
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Speaker 2: say that she feels unsafe. So she's walking through a
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Speaker 2: beautiful neighborhood and I don't know what your neighborhood is like,
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Speaker 2: but we've got a lot of patriots that live in
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Speaker 2: my neighborhood and they all have American flags out, and
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Speaker 2: Sunny Houston is saying that she feels very unsafe in
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Speaker 2: those kinds of neighborhoods very unsafe. I will just say this,
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Speaker 2: living in Memphis, Tennessee, I would rather be walking through
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Speaker 2: a neighborhood that has hundreds of American flags displayed as
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Speaker 2: a bunch of gangbangers in a place like Orange Mounds
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Speaker 2: a lot safer or downtown. So anyway, people are going
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Speaker 2: bonkers over this enator. Tommy Tubberville said, this woman is
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Speaker 2: an example of mental illness, and it's look, it's a
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Speaker 2: fair point. My question to her is, does Sonny Houston
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Speaker 2: feel more unsafe around the American flag than she does
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Speaker 2: an alleged Nazi rapist like Graham Platner, Which one makes
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Speaker 2: her feel more unsafe? Now, we did a little bit
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Speaker 2: of digging on miss Houstin here for this radio program.
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Speaker 2: It turns out that she graduated from the University of
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Speaker 2: Notre Dame. She has a law degree, She is married
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Speaker 2: to a renowned surgeon. She owns multiple homes, one in
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Speaker 2: New York City, another in Martha's Vineyard, and her TV contract,
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Speaker 2: by some estimates, is worth two to three million dollars
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Speaker 2: a year. I want you to think about this for
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Speaker 2: a moment. Ms Houstin was only able to achieve all
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Speaker 2: of this great success in her life because of that
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Speaker 2: American flag, the one that she finds so uncouth, the
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Speaker 2: one she finds so offensive. It's that American flag that
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Speaker 2: provides her the wonderful American dream that she currently is living.
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Speaker 2: It's the people who shed their blood so that she
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Speaker 2: might be free. That's what that flag represents. But people
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Speaker 2: like Sonny Houston, multi millionaires many times over, she turns
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Speaker 2: around and she spits on old glory, and folks, I
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Speaker 2: got to tell you something. After coming off of this
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Speaker 2: incredible weekend, and I would say ninety percent of this
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Speaker 2: great nation celebrating our country, celebrating our freedom, celebrating our exceptionalism.
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Speaker 2: It was a remarkable thing. And then you've got to
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Speaker 2: turn on your TV and you see somebody like Sonny
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Speaker 2: Houston spitting on the American flag, and I just there's
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Speaker 2: really no polite way to say this. But if Sonny
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Speaker 2: Hosted is so offended by the American flag, she can
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Speaker 2: pack her bags and get the hell out of my country.
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Speaker 2: That's what she can do. And that goes for all
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Speaker 2: the rest of you, you people spitting on our flag,
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Speaker 2: attacking our president, going after the troops, attacking people who
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Speaker 2: just want to make America great again. If you don't
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Speaker 2: love the country, if you hate us so much, you
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Speaker 2: pack your bags. And get the hell out and don't
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Speaker 2: let the door hitch you with the lord split shop.
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Speaker 2: I'm done with you. I am done with these people,
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Speaker 2: done with them. There's another story out of Texas, a
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Speaker 2: place called the Hive Bakery. It's located in Flower Mound, Texas,
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Speaker 2: and this story enraged me. Today. We had the story,
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Speaker 2: by the way, on Todd Sterns dot com, and we
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Speaker 2: also had the video of Sunny Hospital on Todd Sterns
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Speaker 2: dot com. And I would urge you to go and
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Speaker 2: go to our website and read these stories for yourself. Now,
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Speaker 2: there's a woman by the name of Haley Pop and
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Speaker 2: she's one of those angry, white, woke women. You know,
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Speaker 2: it's like folks, it's a stereotype, but it's true. She's
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Speaker 2: got the tattoos, she's got the weird hair color, she's
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Speaker 2: got the nosering, and she's angry. Apparently, she's a popular
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Speaker 2: person on the Food Network. She's been on the Food
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Speaker 2: Network in time or two. So anyway, she's got this
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Speaker 2: bakery called the Hive Bakery and Flowerman. She announced on
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Speaker 2: social media that they were not going to be closed
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Speaker 2: for the fourth of July because they actually refuse to
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Speaker 2: observe the holiday. They don't celebrate Independence Day at that bakery.
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Speaker 2: And then she turns around and she smears all of
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Speaker 2: you people that want to make America great again. She
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Speaker 2: called you people a cult of unintelligent, rabid, immoral sycophants.
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Speaker 2: And here's the thing. This woman has every right every
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Speaker 2: right to hate her Maga customer base. Every right, She's
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Speaker 2: got every right to do that. All you Maga people
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Speaker 2: with the sweet to sweet tooth, you go in there
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Speaker 2: for idalo a Boston cream pie. By the way, side,
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Speaker 2: note here, did you realize Little Debbie is now selling
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Speaker 2: Boston cream pies? Just don't tell my cardiologists, but they're
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Speaker 2: pretty durn tasty. Anyway, back to the high bakery. So
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Speaker 2: she has this right, I mean again, if she doesn't
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Speaker 2: want to serve Maga customers, okay, that's her right as
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Speaker 2: a business owner. But you know what, her customers also
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Speaker 2: have rights to purchase their cupcakes and their popovers from
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Speaker 2: a bakery that doesn't spill the red, white and blue.
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Speaker 2: So it's it's it's I'm done. I am just done
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Speaker 2: with these people. I'm done with them hating America, and
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Speaker 2: I'm done with Look the Democrats I've been done with
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Speaker 2: them a long time. But for the past what six
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Speaker 2: months now, you've had every major Democrat standing up and
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Speaker 2: vouching for Grand Platner, an accused Nazi rapist. This man,
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Speaker 2: if these allegations are true, is beyond evil. And you're
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Speaker 2: telling me those are the kinds of people that the
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Speaker 2: Democrats would rather palle around with. Jew haters, Nazi lovers.
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Speaker 2: The Southern Poverty Law Center you see every time, and
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Speaker 2: we talk about this a lot on the program, but
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Speaker 2: every time the Democrats accuse the Republicans of being I
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Speaker 2: don't know, a white supremacist or whatever, the Democrats are
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Speaker 2: the ones guilty of all of that. So I'm just
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Speaker 2: done here, just absolutely done. Did you tell me earlier
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Speaker 2: that the Bakery check angry white chick with the tattoos,
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Speaker 2: They've actually got a podcast. She does a podcast with
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Speaker 2: her and her brother and they try to convince their
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Speaker 2: MAGA appearance to switch sides. Basically does it work. No,
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Speaker 2: not at all.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty Uh, it's pretty lame to try to see
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Speaker 1: them do that because they have terrible points the whole time.
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Speaker 4: They're very liberal.
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Speaker 2: So we've got and this audio is from that podcast,
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Speaker 2: is all right, so let's take a listen.
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Speaker 4: What did you do for the fourth of July, Hayley.
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Speaker 9: We were open at the bakery because I'm just disgusted
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Speaker 9: at the current state of the country. I did not
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Speaker 9: want to red, white and blue anything like, I'm just
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Speaker 9: depressed about it. You laugh, but like people love that
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Speaker 9: and I just refuse. So we've been doing like Christmas
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Speaker 9: in July, gingerbread and all that.
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Speaker 10: So we just did that and I.
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Speaker 9: Posted about it. I posted as much and I got
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Speaker 9: a ton of hate.
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Speaker 2: I saw your posts. I think I reposted it Onnecessary Conversation.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, like one guy wanting to burn our bakery down
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Speaker 9: like that, and so I just, you know, screenshot at
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Speaker 9: all these clips and put it over our bake goods
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Speaker 9: and it went viral. So we had a instellar show
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Speaker 9: out for the fourth of July. It was all of
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Speaker 9: my American patriots who are dissenting this two hundred and
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Speaker 9: fiftieth and it was actually really great. It was just
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Speaker 9: a good company, everybody feeling the same way that I do.
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Speaker 9: It's always nice to kind of like feel that in
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Speaker 9: a community where every other business is you know, I
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Speaker 9: love America. I love Trump because I live in like
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Speaker 9: a real red area, you know, where they literally have. Uh,
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Speaker 9: there's one guy in town that owns like seven restaurants.
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Speaker 9: He's like a megafaillionaire, and he has rallies for Greg
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Speaker 9: Abbott and Donald Trump. Jesus, I'm not even with you. Like,
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Speaker 9: that's where I'm living. So, you know, to have like
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Speaker 9: the outpouring of of what I consider like real Americans.
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Speaker 9: It was nice. So came home, watched horror films, turned
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Speaker 9: up the TV so the dogs didn't get freaked out.
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Speaker 2: Wow, what a filthy mouth woman this is. Jeez, it
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Speaker 2: is hard to listen to. Wow, I'd be afraid of
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Speaker 2: I'm just I mean, if I'm a maga person, I'm
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Speaker 2: going in there and I'm worrying my maga hat, I'd
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Speaker 2: be afraid of what they were doing to my food.
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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you I would, honest to goodness, I
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Speaker 2: would be worried. But what a filthy mouth woman. And
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Speaker 2: you can tell she's angry. She's angry, she's got issues.
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Speaker 2: I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, the downfall of America
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Speaker 2: is going to be because of these feminazi libtards. So again,
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Speaker 2: as we go to break, if you don't love our nation.
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Speaker 2: Get out, just get out. I'm sure you'll love Iran.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, everybody. Here's the thing about Nny
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Speaker 2: Houston over at the View, she is literally defending Graham
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Speaker 2: Plattner only because he's a Democrat. She called the guy
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Speaker 2: a cheater and anti Semite, a liar, a homophobe, a racist.
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Speaker 2: And then she said, but and look, this is the Democrats.
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Speaker 2: I mean, what happened to the whole med Too movement?
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Speaker 2: Where did all of that go? Where did that go?
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Speaker 2: So look, don't be surprised here if if Platner is
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Speaker 2: forced out of the race, I still Susan Collins they
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Speaker 2: could put there. There's rumblings that Susan Rice, if you
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Speaker 2: remember her from the Obama years. Susan Rice lives in Maine,
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Speaker 2: has residency in Maine, and is being talked about as
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Speaker 2: a possible replacement. I believe Janet Mills only suspended she's
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Speaker 2: the governor. She only suspended her campaign so she could
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Speaker 2: jump back into the race. I still think Susan Susan
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Speaker 2: Collins is is going to win there. Nine oh one
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 2: We have some new James Talafrico audio. You're gonna you
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Speaker 2: gotta listen to this cut fifteen.
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Speaker 12: I celebrated my thirtieth birthday with a pink scarf around
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Speaker 12: my neck.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well we we're no, we're not judging here, Dylan.
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Speaker 2: That's unfair. I mean, the man's turning thirty years old,
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Speaker 2: by golly, he wants to wear a pink scarf around
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Speaker 2: his neck.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they went to catch Broadway shows.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that, but he was wearing that pink scarf.
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Speaker 2: You wear it proudly, sir, all right, gotta take a
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Speaker 2: dot com. All right, welcome back everybody. This is the
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Speaker 2: Todd Sterns Radio Show. Great to have you with us today. Well,
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Speaker 2: lots of very contentious races around the country and a
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Speaker 2: lot of Republican primaries as well. One of the biggest
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Speaker 2: races in the country is actually happening in the state
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Speaker 2: of Tennessee. Senator Marsha Blackburn is running for governor in
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Speaker 2: Tennessee and she has some competition. Congressman John Rose has
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Speaker 2: thrown his name into the hat as well as the
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Speaker 2: state representative named Matty Fritz. And it is a knockdown,
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Speaker 2: dragged out primary. And we've got one of the candidates
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Speaker 2: joining us today, our good friend, Congressman John Rose. Congressman,
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Speaker 2: I hope you're doing well today.
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Speaker 13: Doing great, Todd for having me on the show. I'm
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Speaker 13: coming to you here from the Houston County Museum Archives
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Speaker 13: in the museum in Aaron, Tennessee today as we're out
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Speaker 13: on our Tennessee True Tour, and we're getting ready to
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Speaker 13: do a town hall just across the street at City
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Speaker 13: Hall here in Erin.
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Speaker 2: You know, Congressman, I don't know if people really can
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Speaker 2: appreciate how large of a state Tennessee is. If you're
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Speaker 2: in Bristol, Tennessee, on the far eastern side of the state,
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Speaker 2: you are closer to the Canadian border than you are Memphis,
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Speaker 2: which is on the far western side of the state
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Speaker 2: of Tennessee.
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Speaker 13: That's right. It is a long state. And you know,
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Speaker 13: we've been to all ninety five counties and getting ready
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Speaker 13: to do our forty first tour stop here in Houston
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Speaker 13: County and Erin today and visiting all the counties again,
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Speaker 13: sitting down with Tennesseeans and listening to their unfiltered questions
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Speaker 13: and giving unscripted answers.
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Speaker 2: Now, it's interesting you say that because there has been
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Speaker 2: a lot of controversies surrounding Senator Blackburn and an encounter
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Speaker 2: she had with a TV reporter in Nashville where she
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Speaker 2: simply refused to answer his questions, stating that she was
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Speaker 2: there on official government business and therefore could not answer
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Speaker 2: any questions about her campaign. I'm curious to get your
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Speaker 2: reactions to that encounter.
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Speaker 13: Well, I think It is, simply speaking, not the case
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Speaker 13: that she could not answer those questions. Todd, I think
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Speaker 13: you've been around this the political war long enough to
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Speaker 13: know there are settings where you could not answer a
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Speaker 13: question of a political nature. On the Capitol grounds in
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Speaker 13: Washington and other federal office buildings, that would be true.
21:44
Speaker 13: But United States senators and members of the House of
21:48
Speaker 13: Representatives we can talk about political things when we're you know,
21:52
Speaker 13: when we're out and about, and so she clearly could
21:54
Speaker 13: have answered those questions if she had desired to.
21:57
Speaker 2: Why do you think she did answer those questions.
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Speaker 13: Well, I think that's a mystery to us. If you
22:03
Speaker 13: had told me a year ago, I got into this
22:05
Speaker 13: election well ahead of Senator Blackburn, so March twentieth of
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Speaker 13: twenty twenty five, and if you had told me at
22:11
Speaker 13: this point in the campaign that my opponent, my main opponent,
22:15
Speaker 13: would not be taking questions from the media, and would
22:18
Speaker 13: not be doing open town halls, and would still be
22:21
Speaker 13: refusing to do a debate, I would have told you
22:25
Speaker 13: I didn't really expect that that's where we would be.
22:27
Speaker 13: But yet here we are, and you know, we have
22:30
Speaker 13: built significant momentum in our campaign. Our pole results show
22:33
Speaker 13: that we're on a path to victory, and I know
22:36
Speaker 13: is that that may come as a surprise to some
22:38
Speaker 13: of your listeners, But we're on a trajectory to win
22:42
Speaker 13: this race, and I think you'll see Senator Blackburn change
22:45
Speaker 13: her tune as we get closer and as she becomes
22:49
Speaker 13: you aware of where she stands in this race.
22:52
Speaker 2: What is your evidence of that the trajectory. Are you
22:55
Speaker 2: guys doing some a lot of polling across the state.
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Speaker 13: That's right. We have this race not regularly, but semi regularly.
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Speaker 13: And you know, we went up on the air just
23:06
Speaker 13: after the state local primaries here in Tennessee back in May,
23:12
Speaker 13: and you know, we've been up for a more than
23:14
Speaker 13: a month without any response from Senator Blackburn raising our
23:19
Speaker 13: name identification. And so what we know is that that
23:22
Speaker 13: considerable gap between the name identification that I had and
23:26
Speaker 13: that Senator Blackburn had, having just run for statewide office
23:29
Speaker 13: and getting elected to a six year term in the
23:31
Speaker 13: United States Senate, we've closed that substantially now and as
23:35
Speaker 13: of this past week, we're actually winning among those people
23:38
Speaker 13: who've heard of John Rose, and that number is now
23:42
Speaker 13: above seventy percent. So that should give you a sense
23:45
Speaker 13: for where this campaign stands today.
23:47
Speaker 2: Oh, I know you're running the ads. I got a
23:49
Speaker 2: message from one of our listeners on KWAM and they said,
23:52
Speaker 2: is Congressman Rose the official sponsor of the Todd Stern Show.
23:56
Speaker 2: Now all we hear are Congressman Rose ads. So it's
24:00
Speaker 2: good to hear.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: So we you know, we had to get our name
24:03
Speaker 13: identucation up. We had to introduce me to the people
24:05
Speaker 13: of Tennessee and our positive message for keeping Tennessee true
24:10
Speaker 13: to Tennessee. That's the message we've been communicating based on
24:13
Speaker 13: what we're hearing from our numerous town halls with Tennessee residents.
24:17
Speaker 13: You know, it's not about what I want, It's about
24:19
Speaker 13: what Tennesseeans want. And the only way we can know
24:22
Speaker 13: that is to actually go listen to Tennesseeans. And so
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Speaker 13: we've been doing that, and you know, I think it
24:28
Speaker 13: now shows in terms of where the candidates are on
24:31
Speaker 13: the issues that face Tennesseans.
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Speaker 2: Congressman. Of course, everyone's after that elusive and much sought
24:38
Speaker 2: after Trump endorsement. The President hasn't done that. And what
24:42
Speaker 2: I thought was interesting and no disrespect to you at all, sir,
24:45
Speaker 2: but a lot of folks thought that was going to
24:47
Speaker 2: go to Senator Blackburn, and it did not. I'm wondering,
24:52
Speaker 2: what do you make of that?
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Speaker 13: Well, I just have to take the President out his word.
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Speaker 13: I mean, what the President said to me is that,
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Speaker 13: and confirmed to many of my colleagues in the Tennessee delegation,
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Speaker 13: is that the facts, which is, I have been with
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Speaker 13: the President one hundred percent of the time, and so
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Speaker 13: I think the President understands that. I think he appreciates loyalty.
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Speaker 13: By contrast, my main opponent in this race has not
25:18
Speaker 13: been with the President one hundred percent of the time.
25:21
Speaker 13: She's tried to create an impression that that's true through
25:24
Speaker 13: ads and other statements and things that the President has said.
25:28
Speaker 13: But I think the proof is in the pudding, and
25:30
Speaker 13: the pudding is that President Trump has not endorsed and
25:34
Speaker 13: has given me the commitment that he will stay out
25:35
Speaker 13: of this race and give us an open runway and
25:39
Speaker 13: give Tennessee voters the chance to make the decision about
25:42
Speaker 13: who they believe is best qualified to be the CEO
25:45
Speaker 13: of Tennessee.
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Speaker 6: You know.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, folks, we have Congressman John Rose
25:49
Speaker 2: joining us. He is running for governor in the state
25:52
Speaker 2: of Tennessee Congress soon. You mentioned early on a debate,
25:55
Speaker 2: and I had asked Monty Fritz, the state representative, if
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Speaker 2: he would be willing if I were to host a debate,
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Speaker 2: and he said that he agreed and would be willing
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Speaker 2: to do that. Congressman, would you be willing to debate?
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Speaker 15: Well, we want to.
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Speaker 13: Make sure that a debate gives Tennesseeans a chance to
26:14
Speaker 13: see all the main candidates in the Republican primary. And
26:17
Speaker 13: so you know, I would say, if Senator Blackburn will debate,
26:22
Speaker 13: we'll absolutely show up and have it and have a full,
26:25
Speaker 13: full throated debate about the issues that are important to Tennesseeans.
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Speaker 2: But what if she doesn't, would you debate? Would you
26:30
Speaker 2: debate Representative Fritz?
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Speaker 13: Well, I don't think that would be productive. I think
26:35
Speaker 13: Tennesseeans know who the main candidates in this race is.
26:38
Speaker 13: Certainly our polling substantiates that Representative Fritz, and I don't
26:42
Speaker 13: mean any offense to him is not going to be
26:44
Speaker 13: one of the contenders for the Republican nomination for governor
26:49
Speaker 13: in Tennessee. It's just not well enough known, and that's
26:53
Speaker 13: unfortunate for him and his supporters. But so I think
26:57
Speaker 13: you know, if there could be a debate that would
26:59
Speaker 13: include the three of us, I would be happy to
27:02
Speaker 13: participate in that. I think it doesn't make good sense
27:05
Speaker 13: to have the listeners get a chance to hear from
27:09
Speaker 13: two candidates. Certainly, if they want to hear from me
27:11
Speaker 13: and want to ask me unfiltered questions, they can come
27:14
Speaker 13: to our town halls that we're holding all across the state.
27:17
Speaker 13: And so there's you know, we have certainly not made
27:20
Speaker 13: ourselves hard to get in touch with. I just came
27:22
Speaker 13: from Gibson County earlier today, was in Memphis last night
27:26
Speaker 13: to did a tour stop in Lake County yesterday and
27:29
Speaker 13: one in Weekly County, where you know, voters in the
27:32
Speaker 13: West Tennessee area can come out and we'll be back
27:34
Speaker 13: in that area soon. And so I think if we're
27:38
Speaker 13: gonna have a debate, it needs to really be a debate.
27:41
Speaker 13: I think you want you don't want a forum. I'm
27:43
Speaker 13: doing that where people can come and ask me questions.
27:46
Speaker 13: But we need to know what would the senior senator
27:49
Speaker 13: from Tennessee actually do if she got to be the
27:51
Speaker 13: chief executive of Tennessee. She doesn't have any experience doing
27:56
Speaker 13: that kind of work, and so I think Tennessee's deserved
27:58
Speaker 13: to see her on the hot seat if you, as
28:01
Speaker 13: it were, and be able to ask questions and compare
28:05
Speaker 13: the credentials that she has for being governor of Tennessee
28:08
Speaker 13: as compared to me.
28:10
Speaker 2: One final question a congressman. Of course, over the weekend,
28:13
Speaker 2: a lot of violence in Memphis. You had a lot
28:17
Speaker 2: of mobs of teenagers running around shooting guns and fireworks
28:21
Speaker 2: at people, one of them killed by National Guard troops
28:25
Speaker 2: when he turned around and had a weapon in his
28:28
Speaker 2: in his hand. Memphis happens to be the one area
28:32
Speaker 2: of Tennessee where people are running away from the population
28:36
Speaker 2: and decline. You've got a lot of businesses that are relocating.
28:40
Speaker 2: As governor, how do you fix what's broken in Memphis?
28:45
Speaker 13: Well, I think it is a major responsibility of the
28:48
Speaker 13: next governor to work to make sure that we restore
28:51
Speaker 13: the grandeur of Memphis, and obviously that begins with getting
28:55
Speaker 13: crime under control. The Memphis State Safe Task Force has
28:59
Speaker 13: made room remarkable progress, but as we saw on display
29:02
Speaker 13: this past weekend, there's still more work to do, and
29:05
Speaker 13: the next governor can't rely on the federal government indefinitely
29:10
Speaker 13: maintaining an outsized force in Memphis. So the next governor's
29:14
Speaker 13: got to roll up their sleeves and figure out how
29:16
Speaker 13: we help Memphis get back on track, make sure for
29:19
Speaker 13: Tennessee that Memphis is indeed restored to its grandeur and
29:23
Speaker 13: is you know, the capital of the mid South as
29:25
Speaker 13: it should be.
29:26
Speaker 4: And the only way Tennessee.
29:28
Speaker 13: Is going to benefit and Memphis is going to prosper
29:30
Speaker 13: is if we solve the crime problems in Memphis. And
29:33
Speaker 13: so the next governor has got to fix that. I
29:35
Speaker 13: have been talking with the leading law enforcement officials across
29:39
Speaker 13: the Shelby County in Memphis area and beyond, and you know,
29:43
Speaker 13: the prosecutors and judges and reflecting on how we solve
29:47
Speaker 13: that problem. It's going to take some out of the
29:49
Speaker 13: box thinking to get it done, and ultimately, I believe
29:51
Speaker 13: it will take an amendment to Tennessee's constitution to empower
29:56
Speaker 13: the state government to do the proper oversight over jurisdiction
30:00
Speaker 13: like Shelby County.
30:01
Speaker 2: All right, well, Congressman, we're gonna have to leave it there.
30:03
Speaker 2: We appreciate you coming on the show and answering the
30:06
Speaker 2: tough questions, and we'll we'll see if we can't get
30:10
Speaker 2: a debate between you and you and the Senator.
30:13
Speaker 13: In the meantime, i'd encourage your listeners to go to
30:15
Speaker 13: John Rose dot com and they can find out more
30:17
Speaker 13: about my platform to be the next governor Tennessee.
30:20
Speaker 2: All right again, John Rose dot com. Ladies and gentlemen,
30:23
Speaker 2: very easy website address, John Rose dot com. Congressman, be
30:28
Speaker 2: safe out there.
30:30
Speaker 13: Thank you Todd, thanks for having me on.
30:32
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Speaker 2: company slogan, I mean the slogan of the company we
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Speaker 2: exist to love and value people. That is quite frankly
42:30
Speaker 2: unheard of in the mortgage business.
42:33
Speaker 16: Yeah, we talk about that almost daily. Something comes up,
42:37
Speaker 16: what kind of decisions should we make? Well, we exist
42:39
Speaker 16: to love and value people, so how should we do?
42:42
Speaker 16: What kind of decisions should we make? And the interesting
42:45
Speaker 16: thing is is people have put millions, They've sent us
42:48
Speaker 16: millions and millions of dollars over the period of the
42:51
Speaker 16: last couple of decades that we've been in business, and
42:55
Speaker 16: went into their home equity. Now that they have that
42:58
Speaker 16: home equity todd, they can turn around and use it
43:01
Speaker 16: in their retirement years, just like you can an IRA
43:04
Speaker 16: or Social Security that you put money into while you
43:07
Speaker 16: were working, and so on. And so we look at
43:09
Speaker 16: changing the lives not just to the first time home
43:12
Speaker 16: buyer or the movement buyer, but also that person who
43:16
Speaker 16: is my age, who is looking for the best possible
43:19
Speaker 16: retirement and the best possible thing that they can pass
43:21
Speaker 16: on to their children.
43:23
Speaker 2: So why is it and for there may be people
43:26
Speaker 2: that just haven't really focused much on the reverse mortgage story.
43:31
Speaker 2: Why is it that so many people do not like
43:33
Speaker 2: reverse mortgages?
43:35
Speaker 16: Well, when they first came out, it was a wild
43:38
Speaker 16: West and they were dangerous, and they were used to
43:40
Speaker 16: trick seniors into losing their houses essentially, and that was
43:46
Speaker 16: obviously how it was branded until Ronald Reagan came along
43:49
Speaker 16: in nineteen eighty eight and said, just a minute, this
43:53
Speaker 16: makes sense. We just got to handle this correctly. And
43:57
Speaker 16: so that was when the Housing Act of nineteen eighty
43:59
Speaker 16: eight eight started and the rules changed, and now it
44:03
Speaker 16: is federally guaranteed and federally regulated.
44:07
Speaker 4: But there's a lot of people that were hurt before.
44:10
Speaker 4: There's still people that are hurt now with rogue programs
44:13
Speaker 4: that are not guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration, and
44:17
Speaker 4: those stories.
44:18
Speaker 16: You know, bad news goes faster than good news, you
44:20
Speaker 16: know that, And so there's been a lot of bad
44:23
Speaker 16: news proliferated out there.
44:25
Speaker 4: And it's like anything else.
44:27
Speaker 16: There's there's bad plumbers, there's bad real estate ations, there's
44:30
Speaker 16: bad investment companies. I bet you might even know some
44:32
Speaker 16: bad radio show hosts.
44:35
Speaker 4: So there's ways that.
44:37
Speaker 16: It can be misused, like any other product that's in
44:40
Speaker 16: my book, a drug, sex, and reverse mortgages, and that
44:44
Speaker 16: seems to be turned too often because drugs can kill
44:47
Speaker 16: you or they can save your lives, and sex, of
44:49
Speaker 16: course can be good or evil, and soa can reverse mortgages,
44:52
Speaker 16: so can just about anything.
44:53
Speaker 10: Yeah.
44:54
Speaker 2: Sorry, that is the coolest book title I think I've
44:57
Speaker 2: ever heard.
44:58
Speaker 4: Well, it's actually a chapter, but still it's.
45:01
Speaker 2: A great book. Chapter And tell us again about the
45:05
Speaker 2: book you wrote, because again, I think this is something
45:07
Speaker 2: that people are going to want to do a lot
45:09
Speaker 2: of research on.
45:11
Speaker 16: Yes, I wrote the book because there are so many,
45:14
Speaker 16: so much misinformation, So I want to put the proper
45:17
Speaker 16: information out there. And so what I did specifically is
45:21
Speaker 16: put together all of those things where the people ask
45:23
Speaker 16: the most questions, and every client that we work with,
45:27
Speaker 16: we give them a copy of the book, even if
45:30
Speaker 16: they're not necessarily going to do business with us, just
45:32
Speaker 16: to do some research. And I'd offer that same thing,
45:34
Speaker 16: of course to the callers that would call in from
45:37
Speaker 16: your show, just to be able to help them understand,
45:41
Speaker 16: because there's so many people that walk away from something
45:44
Speaker 16: good because they just don't understand it.
45:47
Speaker 2: We are talking today with Harlan Acala, who is with
45:51
Speaker 2: a Movement Mortgage, an incredible and incredible program. You also
45:56
Speaker 2: have a chapiteron in your book about three buckets of wealth.
46:01
Speaker 2: What do you mean by.
46:03
Speaker 16: That, Well, it's probably the simplest way to explain how
46:07
Speaker 16: reverse mortgages work. Everybody has three buckets of wealth. Who
46:10
Speaker 16: owns a house. Bucket one is their ability to make
46:13
Speaker 16: money and earn a living and make money from their
46:16
Speaker 16: business whatever. Bucket two is money that they put away
46:18
Speaker 16: for the future investments for one case, iras, life insurance, annuities, whatever.
46:23
Speaker 16: And then bucket three is money that they put in
46:25
Speaker 16: their house. When you think about it, people put in
46:27
Speaker 16: hundreds of thousands of dollars into bucket three, and then
46:31
Speaker 16: what do you do with it at the end. So
46:32
Speaker 16: what we do is show how those three buckets can
46:35
Speaker 16: be used for the benefit of the client and the
46:37
Speaker 16: benefit of their heirs of properly pulling money out of
46:41
Speaker 16: Social Security, out of their iras and other investments and
46:45
Speaker 16: their house in the most tax efficient way possible to
46:48
Speaker 16: preserve the most for their retirement while still not hurting
46:52
Speaker 16: the long term strategy for inheritances for the next generation.
46:56
Speaker 2: So we have a lot of listeners out there, and
46:58
Speaker 2: we have we have a pretty vast audience. We have
47:00
Speaker 2: a lot of young people that are listening to the show,
47:02
Speaker 2: but we also have a lot of folks that are
47:04
Speaker 2: getting close to maybe those retirement years. Who is who
47:09
Speaker 2: is the typical Todd Stern show listener that ought to
47:12
Speaker 2: be paying attention to learning about reverse mortgages.
47:17
Speaker 4: Well, anybody over sixty two that is eligible should certainly
47:21
Speaker 4: start looking into it right away because they may have
47:24
Speaker 4: missed some of the opportunities. Those that are younger should
47:28
Speaker 4: talk to us about how does this fit into my
47:30
Speaker 4: plan when I do turn sixty two, when I am
47:32
Speaker 4: retired and children should be talking about it with their parents,
47:37
Speaker 4: because many children don't want their parents' house, and they
47:41
Speaker 4: want their parents to have the best retirement.
47:43
Speaker 16: And yet many parents sometimes eat beans and rice, so
47:47
Speaker 16: to speak, so that they can give more to their kids,
47:49
Speaker 16: when that's not what their children are wanting. And so
47:52
Speaker 16: really just about everybody should be looking at it, but
47:54
Speaker 16: especially those who are over sixty two, not to decide
47:58
Speaker 16: to do it, but just to ask questions and find
48:00
Speaker 16: out could this fit? Does this maybe make sense for me?
48:04
Speaker 2: It makes perfect No, this makes perfect sense, Harlan. Where
48:08
Speaker 2: can people go if they want to get more information?
48:10
Speaker 2: If they could call, is there a website they should
48:12
Speaker 2: go to?
48:14
Speaker 16: They should certainly start by going to movement dot com
48:17
Speaker 16: slash starns, and we'll give them special treatment and make
48:21
Speaker 16: sure that they get a free book because they came
48:23
Speaker 16: through you on the radio show as a special partner.
48:27
Speaker 16: Some people don't want to go on the on the
48:29
Speaker 16: web web at all, and they just wanted to call somebody. Well,
48:33
Speaker 16: it's five eight zero reverse, really easy to remember, five
48:36
Speaker 16: eight zero reverse, And so either way, either movement dot com,
48:42
Speaker 16: slash starns or five aight oh reverse would be just
48:46
Speaker 16: enjoy a conversation. It's not something that is salesy to
48:49
Speaker 16: sell them.
48:50
Speaker 2: Something, right, So this is really more conversational, informational, and
48:55
Speaker 2: you're going to provide our listeners with information for them,
48:58
Speaker 2: So there's no hard sell here. This is really more
49:01
Speaker 2: informational and then go from there.
49:05
Speaker 16: It is sometimes people call up and say, I don't
49:07
Speaker 16: know if I want one of these yet, and I said, well,
49:10
Speaker 16: we don't know if we if you should get one.
49:12
Speaker 4: So don't feel like that's what the purpose of the
49:15
Speaker 4: call is.
49:16
Speaker 16: It's like, let's find out you don't plan your retirement
49:19
Speaker 16: in a phone call. Whether it's with an IRA, or
49:21
Speaker 16: whether it's with your Social Security planning or your Medicare planning.
49:24
Speaker 16: It's just part of the whole equation and it shouldn't
49:27
Speaker 16: be ignored. It's too big of an asset.
49:28
Speaker 2: I just love this. And again, Harlem, the name of
49:31
Speaker 2: your book in case folks want to get a copy
49:33
Speaker 2: of that.
49:34
Speaker 16: That's a home equity and reverse mortgages, the Cinderella of
49:38
Speaker 16: the baby boomer retirement. And you can get an Amazon
49:41
Speaker 16: for about twenty bucks from us for free, So weigh
49:44
Speaker 16: that out.
49:45
Speaker 2: So yeah, we like free here on this program. So,
49:48
Speaker 2: and they if they call in or if they go
49:50
Speaker 2: to the website slash starns, they'll they'll be information on
49:53
Speaker 2: how they can get the book as well.
49:55
Speaker 4: Exactly correct.
49:56
Speaker 16: We'll get in touch with them and let them know,
49:58
Speaker 16: get their address and all that sort of thing and
50:00
Speaker 16: let them know how that fits into their planning.
50:03
Speaker 2: I just love this well, Hartl. Look, we're going to
50:05
Speaker 2: get you back on and welcome to the show. And
50:08
Speaker 2: we're just excited for this opportunity for our listeners. I
50:12
Speaker 2: know this is probably you know, finance is always weighing
50:15
Speaker 2: on people's minds. But what a great thing you guys
50:18
Speaker 2: are doing. And we really appreciate the great work that
50:21
Speaker 2: you guys do.
50:22
Speaker 16: Well in the business of changing lives and just like
50:25
Speaker 16: you are with the information of getting out there, and
50:28
Speaker 16: especially from a conservative Christian standpoint, this is something that
50:33
Speaker 16: is so much overlooked and we just appreciate the opportunity
50:36
Speaker 16: and honored to be in your show.
50:37
Speaker 2: All right, folks, again, the website movement dot com slash starns.
50:43
Speaker 2: That's Movement dot com slash starns. If you're going to
50:46
Speaker 2: want to get a copy of free copy of Harlan's
50:48
Speaker 2: great book, home equity and reverse mortgages, the Cinderella of
50:51
Speaker 2: the baby boomer retirement. You can also call them at
50:55
Speaker 2: five eight oh Reverse. That's five eight oh Reverse. Be
50:59
Speaker 2: sure to mention my name when you call. All right, Harlan,
51:02
Speaker 2: thank you again, folks. We've got to take a quick break.
51:06
Speaker 2: This is the Todd Sterns Show. All right. I just
51:18
Speaker 2: wanted to circle back around with our last guess. Harlan
51:23
Speaker 2: Akala is the reverse mortgage director at Movement Mortgage. And
51:29
Speaker 2: these folks are believers. They're Christian folk, and they are
51:33
Speaker 2: very very good at what they do, many many years
51:38
Speaker 2: in the mortgage business, and they want to send you
51:41
Speaker 2: some information. So again, this is all free of charge.
51:44
Speaker 2: They're not going to be they're not going to be
51:46
Speaker 2: trying to sell you anything at all. They just want
51:50
Speaker 2: to make sure that you're getting all of the information
51:54
Speaker 2: you need. And again that website address is Movement dot
51:58
Speaker 2: com slash again Movement dot com slash Starns. And you'll
52:05
Speaker 2: be able to get the free book, Harlan's free book,
52:09
Speaker 2: which I'm pretty excited about, and you'll be able to
52:11
Speaker 2: get all that information. I know, I just had all
52:14
Speaker 2: this information. I'm completely losing my mind here ladies, and
52:18
Speaker 2: here we go if you can, if you want to
52:20
Speaker 2: give them a call instead, super easy five eight zero reverse,
52:24
Speaker 2: that's five eight zero reverse, and be sure to mention
52:28
Speaker 2: my name Todd Sterns and you'll get that free book
52:31
Speaker 2: that Harlan mentioned just a moment ago. Again, no hard
52:35
Speaker 2: pressure self that. I want you to get the information
52:37
Speaker 2: read up on it and then you can make an
52:39
Speaker 2: informed decision, which is what we do with all of
52:43
Speaker 2: our sponsors here on the Todd Sterns Show. So one
52:46
Speaker 2: more time Movement dot com slash Starns the number five
52:50
Speaker 2: eight zero reverse. Well, we've been following this crazy story
52:55
Speaker 2: out of New York City, this high rise. We've got
52:58
Speaker 2: the video up at Todd Sterns dot com. This is insane,
53:01
Speaker 2: just absolutely insane. But a building under construction is unstable
53:06
Speaker 2: and could actually collapse. They're trying to bring in beams
53:11
Speaker 2: to stabilize the thirty eight story high rise. It's just
53:15
Speaker 2: a few blocks east of Grand Central Terminal, which is
53:18
Speaker 2: one of the major major commuter hubs there in New
53:22
Speaker 2: York City. Unbelievable. The I know the cable channels are
53:27
Speaker 2: all over it, but they've got a frozen zone set
53:29
Speaker 2: up between fortieth to forty fifth streets between first and
53:32
Speaker 2: third Avenues. You're talking about thousands, thousands of people that
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Speaker 2: are that are being evacuated as a result of all
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Speaker 2: of that. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
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53:50
Speaker 2: some audio here. This is a the This is uh
53:57
Speaker 2: jd Vance talking to Kristen Welkner on NBC about these
54:03
Speaker 2: redistricting plans. And we just we were just talking about
54:06
Speaker 2: that a few days ago. And I love how the
54:09
Speaker 2: Vice president handled this question. Cut sixteen plays.
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Speaker 11: President Trump's agenda is so popular. Why do Republicans need
54:18
Speaker 11: to add additional seats to the map?
54:20
Speaker 17: Well, first of all, Christian, you have to ask yourself,
54:22
Speaker 17: why have Democrats jerry mannered their states aggressively over the
54:25
Speaker 17: past ten to twenty years. If you look, for example,
54:27
Speaker 17: at the popular vote in a lot of these states,
54:31
Speaker 17: and Massachusetts where thirty two percent of the presidents of
54:34
Speaker 17: Massachusetts voted for Republicans, zero Republican federal representatives.
54:39
Speaker 4: So we're not trying to sort of all we're.
54:42
Speaker 17: Doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little
54:45
Speaker 17: bit more fair on a national scale.
54:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, as a matter of fact, if it was fair,
54:51
Speaker 2: then we wouldn't be having these conversations right now. But
54:54
Speaker 2: it hasn't been fair for a very long time. In
54:56
Speaker 2: the mainstream media has turned a blind eye to all
54:59
Speaker 2: of this. The fact is that forty percent of New
55:01
Speaker 2: England voted for Donald J. Trump and there are zero zero,
55:07
Speaker 2: zero zero Republicans in Congress representing New England. Just to
55:14
Speaker 2: give you an idea of how jerry mandering really goes.
55:17
Speaker 2: So it doesn't become a problem until the Republicans bring
55:21
Speaker 2: it up, and then all of a sudden it becomes
55:23
Speaker 2: a problem. Now, keep in mind when it comes to
55:25
Speaker 2: the states, like in the Southern States, you're dealing with
55:28
Speaker 2: a Supreme Court decision there. But look at California right now,
55:33
Speaker 2: where if if everything works out the way the Democrats hope,
55:36
Speaker 2: there will only be five Republicans representing the entire state
55:40
Speaker 2: of California and it's all because of the jerry mandering
55:45
Speaker 2: from the Democrats. All right, we've got to take a
55:47
Speaker 2: break here. Coming up, Josh Jones' is on deck. We're
55:51
Speaker 2: going to be talking about what's happening in the state
55:53
Speaker 2: of Maine with Graham Platner. Man, what a disgusting story.
55:57
Speaker 2: That is nine oh one two zero five done two six.
56:01
Speaker 2: Our telephone number, that's nine oh one two six zero five,
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Speaker 2: done two six. This is the Todd Sterns Show. All right,
56:24
Speaker 2: welcome back to This is the Todd Sterns Radio Show.
56:26
Speaker 2: And again we're following the developments out of New York
56:29
Speaker 2: City with this crazy high rise. Go to our website
56:33
Speaker 2: Todd Sterns dot com. We have videos there, all sorts
56:36
Speaker 2: of information for you again Toddsterns dot com. Well, turning
56:42
Speaker 2: to the world of politics. This story out of the
56:46
Speaker 2: state of Maine is just awful. And it was, it's
56:50
Speaker 2: been awful, and now it's turning into something I just
56:54
Speaker 2: it's evil, just evil. Politico has the exclusive story here.
57:00
Speaker 2: Jessica Piper and Adam Wrenn are the two journalists. A
57:04
Speaker 2: woman who dated Maine US Senate candidate Graham Platner says
57:08
Speaker 2: he forced her to have sex with him nearly five
57:12
Speaker 2: years ago, despite her repeated objections. Now Platner has denied
57:17
Speaker 2: these allegations. The woman, forty one years old, detailed the
57:21
Speaker 2: incident to Politico in three interviews over the past two weeks.
57:25
Speaker 2: Politico also spoke to with a man that Jenny Ratio
57:32
Speaker 2: dated and confided in the years after the alleged incident,
57:36
Speaker 2: and reviewed documents, including emails between her and her therapist
57:41
Speaker 2: and messages between her and an acquaintance who warned whom
57:46
Speaker 2: she warned against getting involved with Platner years before he
57:50
Speaker 2: ran for office. The woman said she had an on
57:53
Speaker 2: and off relationship with Platner, who is now the Democratic
57:57
Speaker 2: Senate nominee, for more than two years before he entered
58:00
Speaker 2: her rural main home uninvited one night in twenty twenty one,
58:05
Speaker 2: deeply intoxicated and forced himself on her while she repeatedly
58:10
Speaker 2: told him to stop. She said she cut off contact
58:13
Speaker 2: with him after telling him the encounter was not consensual,
58:19
Speaker 2: and it goes on from there. Now, I again, it's
58:24
Speaker 2: my question would be for the accuser here, why didn't
58:28
Speaker 2: you call the cops? Why didn't you do so? Somebody
58:30
Speaker 2: barges into your home unwelcome? Why would you not call
58:34
Speaker 2: the police? So a lot of weird questions there, odd questions. Regardless,
58:41
Speaker 2: there's a lot of smoke, and where there's a lot
58:43
Speaker 2: of smoke, sometimes there's a mighty big fire. I want
58:46
Speaker 2: to go right away to the Patriot Mobile news maker
58:48
Speaker 2: line say he look, our good friend and our chief
58:50
Speaker 2: political strand is just Josh Jones. Josh, good to have
58:53
Speaker 2: you with us today. To all right, so what do
58:57
Speaker 2: you make of what's going on up in Maine right now?
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Speaker 3: Well, to put it, Milado mess, particularly for the Democrats. Obviously, Look,
59:04
Speaker 3: they nominated this socialist, far left candidate that you know,
59:08
Speaker 3: Republicans had been saying for a while was you know,
59:11
Speaker 3: one unqualified per office but too deeply just work character
59:16
Speaker 3: and poort judgement and frankly a criminal potentially depending on
59:19
Speaker 3: how these allegations turn out. But look, good news for Republicans,
59:23
Speaker 3: says look, it's not our guy.
59:26
Speaker 2: Well that's true. Yeah, I mean, at least, you know,
59:30
Speaker 2: on the Republican side, when allegations like this are raised,
59:34
Speaker 2: I don't think we've had any of this bad, but
59:36
Speaker 2: there have been some. For example, Matt Gates and the
59:39
Speaker 2: party said okay, we're done.
59:41
Speaker 3: With you, right, yeah, I mean we Republican that Liken
59:45
Speaker 3: thing obviously, you know it's a little bit less, I
59:49
Speaker 3: guess expedible coming from someone who worked in Republican politics.
59:52
Speaker 3: So I'd like to think Republicans do a pretty good
59:54
Speaker 3: job of keeping our people accountable, and we'll seek the Democrats.
59:58
Speaker 7: To do the same.
59:58
Speaker 2: So this is and we're just going to play some
1:00:01
Speaker 2: audio here. These are very prominent Democrats. And by the way,
1:00:04
Speaker 2: this guy has been accused of mistreating women for like
1:00:08
Speaker 2: months now, and the Democrats are standing by this guy.
1:00:12
Speaker 2: This is Roe Kahanna cut number seventeen place.
1:00:16
Speaker 17: My view is that even according to the New York
1:00:18
Speaker 17: Times piece, they said there was no harm, no injury.
1:00:20
Speaker 12: There was toxic toxicity, and there was a verbal.
1:00:25
Speaker 2: Intimidation, which I condemn.
1:00:27
Speaker 12: But Graham has made it clear that there was no
1:00:30
Speaker 12: evidence of buds. That to me is a red line.
1:00:33
Speaker 2: Okay, Oh, here's Elizabeth Warren Josh talking about Graham Platner.
1:00:40
Speaker 16: I am here because Washington needs fighters, and Graham Platner
1:00:45
Speaker 16: is the fighter we need.
1:00:49
Speaker 18: You bet, I.
1:00:51
Speaker 2: Said to myself, that's my kind of man. Okay, stop there, oh, Josh.
1:00:58
Speaker 4: Oh.
1:00:58
Speaker 2: By the way, here's Bernie Sanders cut nineteen.
1:01:01
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do everything I can to make sure that
1:01:04
Speaker 1: Graham Platner is the next Senator from the state of
1:01:06
Speaker 1: the name Josh.
1:01:08
Speaker 2: They owned this guy. I mean this, this is a Democrat.
1:01:13
Speaker 3: They owned this, They propped him up to become the
1:01:16
Speaker 3: Democratic nominee. And even before this allegation dropped in scandal
1:01:21
Speaker 3: where you know some of them might waiver from their endorsements,
1:01:23
Speaker 3: there was plenty of other stuff leading up to this
1:01:25
Speaker 3: that would have warranted disfetting yourself from this guy and
1:01:29
Speaker 3: not wanting to be associated with him. But they were
1:01:31
Speaker 3: doubling down. That's a socialists, frankly, don't care so long
1:01:34
Speaker 3: as they get power, and I thought this could be
1:01:36
Speaker 3: a paragraph where their radical leftist agenda and that's why
1:01:39
Speaker 3: they were back in this guy but clearly a deeply,
1:01:42
Speaker 3: deeply flawed individual.
1:01:44
Speaker 2: So here's the here's the problem they've got in Maine. Now,
1:01:46
Speaker 2: he hasn't withdrawn, he hasn't pulled out of the race,
1:01:49
Speaker 2: and he's got until next Monday to do that. That's
1:01:53
Speaker 2: the state deadline to finalize the November ballot, and then
1:01:58
Speaker 2: Maine Secretary of State could declare a vacancy and allowed
1:02:00
Speaker 2: Democrats to choose a replacement. I mean, who do you
1:02:03
Speaker 2: go for there? I know the Washington Post has put
1:02:06
Speaker 2: out a list of several folks, chief among them the
1:02:09
Speaker 2: current Governor Janet Mills, who had backed that, who had
1:02:13
Speaker 2: dropped out of the race, but she could, I guess
1:02:15
Speaker 2: jump back in.
1:02:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, I mean Jenna millis the Democrat establishment
1:02:21
Speaker 3: choice for Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats. I thought
1:02:24
Speaker 3: that was a face set and turns out of those
1:02:26
Speaker 3: favor than Graham Platner, so we'll see. I mean, Democrats
1:02:30
Speaker 3: have burned a lot of political capital propping up this
1:02:32
Speaker 3: guy just for him to have a turn around to
1:02:35
Speaker 3: drop out. I mean, that's a lot of money wasted
1:02:37
Speaker 3: on their apartment resources. So this is a good news,
1:02:39
Speaker 3: good news for Republicans because I mean, we were already
1:02:42
Speaker 3: on a good court here. They keep the Senate Republican control,
1:02:45
Speaker 3: but they just bosted that effort. Means super competitive state
1:02:49
Speaker 3: since the Collins is a solid candidate, So Republicans should
1:02:52
Speaker 3: be happy right now.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean what got me was the I'm surprised she's
1:02:57
Speaker 2: not pulling at like eighty or ninety percent said, But
1:03:01
Speaker 2: there are apparently a good number of Democrats who've got
1:03:03
Speaker 2: no problem with you know, a Nazi rapist allegedly.
1:03:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean those are the type of voters where, look,
1:03:12
Speaker 3: if you're if you're still a Democratic voter in Maine
1:03:15
Speaker 3: and you think you're a sensible and you're voting for
1:03:17
Speaker 3: Graham Platten or still backing this guy, then it gets
1:03:20
Speaker 3: like you're not a sensible voter.
1:03:21
Speaker 15: You're not a.
1:03:22
Speaker 3: Middle of the road voters.
1:03:23
Speaker 2: You know, Josh, and we're talking to Josh Jones or
1:03:26
Speaker 2: our chief political strandgist. You know, Josh, when you look
1:03:29
Speaker 2: at what's happening around the country with these Democrats, I
1:03:32
Speaker 2: mean they are becoming beyond radicalized here. I mean you
1:03:36
Speaker 2: know Trump talks about them being communist. I mean, yeah,
1:03:39
Speaker 2: they are communists.
1:03:41
Speaker 3: I mean the President's right. I mean he even addressed
1:03:44
Speaker 3: it in Is Your Life Force speech multiple times. If
1:03:47
Speaker 3: you look at New York where the sloth of the
1:03:50
Speaker 3: establishment democratic candidate, if you're not taken out by these
1:03:53
Speaker 3: socialists in New Jersey, same thing in Maine whenever Janet
1:03:58
Speaker 3: Mills lost, Democratic Party is becoming a socialist party. They
1:04:03
Speaker 3: might not be fully there yet, but they're well on
1:04:05
Speaker 3: their way. So if you're a Democratic voter and you
1:04:09
Speaker 3: know you're a capitalist to say the least, or a
1:04:12
Speaker 3: moderate voter, you need to take a long, hard look
1:04:14
Speaker 3: at your party because it is changing fundamentally, and this
1:04:17
Speaker 3: is just reflective of that.
1:04:18
Speaker 2: Have you you've been following the James tallerco race, we
1:04:23
Speaker 2: have some new audio. I'm just curious to hear your
1:04:25
Speaker 2: thoughts on this. This is James tall Rico talking about
1:04:29
Speaker 2: how he celebrated his thirtieth birthday fifteen.
1:04:34
Speaker 17: I celebrated my thirtieth birthday with a pink scarf around
1:04:38
Speaker 17: my neck.
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Speaker 2: Josh, does that go over well with the men of Texas.
1:04:49
Speaker 2: That's what I'm curious. I know you got a lot
1:04:50
Speaker 2: of candidates you're repping down there.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
1:04:54
Speaker 3: No, this guy is totally a fraud. I mean, I
1:04:57
Speaker 3: do a lot of work in Texas, so it's not
1:04:59
Speaker 3: just me speaking from you know, the back row here.
1:05:01
Speaker 3: I in Texas politics quite a bit.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
1:05:04
Speaker 3: This guy's a total frogs fraud people and people are
1:05:07
Speaker 3: starting to realize that Republicans were saying it already. But
1:05:11
Speaker 3: after the primaries on both sides ended, when we know
1:05:13
Speaker 3: we have Ken Paxson as our nominee, we could turn
1:05:16
Speaker 3: our attention to James Talla Rica. I mean, just gos
1:05:19
Speaker 3: a total fraud. He's not a Texan beyond being from Texas. I'suppose,
1:05:23
Speaker 3: but he does not relate to the people at Texas whatsoever.
1:05:26
Speaker 2: He met his what girlfriend at a gay bar. Look, dude,
1:05:31
Speaker 2: just stop either come, you know, either get real with.
1:05:35
Speaker 3: Apparently it's a vegan, he doesn't eat meat. He hates
1:05:39
Speaker 3: his own religion. Like this dude is crazy and he
1:05:43
Speaker 3: complains about being why and he just tot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I forgot about that though. But hey, look, and
1:05:52
Speaker 2: we don't judge here. I mean, if that's look, if
1:05:54
Speaker 2: you want a pink scar for your thirtieth pardon God
1:05:56
Speaker 2: bless America, that's you know, it's it's your right. I'd
1:05:59
Speaker 2: just I'm not sure that flies down in Laredo. Right,
1:06:05
Speaker 2: all right, Josh Jones, everybody on our Patriot Mobile news
1:06:09
Speaker 2: maker line today, Josh always good, catch.
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Speaker 6: It up it Okay, I forgot you. He's got to
1:06:15
Speaker 6: he's he's got a problem with his whiteness. H James,
1:06:19
Speaker 6: we call him James talacrepo here. But yeah, he's doing
1:06:23
Speaker 6: the and again it's look, it's America. And if you
1:06:27
Speaker 6: I don't know what this guy's afraid of, you know,
1:06:29
Speaker 6: we came out there running that he ran a meat
1:06:31
Speaker 6: free campaign, and then of course everybody calls him out
1:06:34
Speaker 6: on it. So the next thing, you know, the guy's
1:06:35
Speaker 6: just chowing down on brisket. Lord knows how many cows
1:06:38
Speaker 6: they had to kill for that guy, just so we
1:06:40
Speaker 6: could prove that he eats meat. And then he's going
1:06:43
Speaker 6: around talking about how he's you know, he's a you know,
1:06:47
Speaker 6: really butch, straight guy who met his girlfriend who nobody
1:06:51
Speaker 6: knew about.
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Speaker 2: But he met his girlfriend and he said, oh yeah,
1:06:54
Speaker 2: I met her at the K bar. And you're like, wait,
1:06:55
Speaker 2: I'm sorry what? So I don't know is he trying
1:06:59
Speaker 2: to hard? I mean, why not just come out and
1:07:02
Speaker 2: say and I'm just saying theoretically here, but if you
1:07:05
Speaker 2: know the guy is a is A is a gay
1:07:08
Speaker 2: vegan who loves pink scarves, Just come out and say
1:07:11
Speaker 2: that and let the voters decide. And who knows. I mean,
1:07:15
Speaker 2: you know, Austin's weird. I mean, they may go for
1:07:18
Speaker 2: all of them. Is their slogan Austin, We're weird or something.
1:07:21
Speaker 2: But again, I just I don't understand why this. He
1:07:25
Speaker 2: just doesn't appear to be comfortable in his own skin.
1:07:27
Speaker 2: That's that's it. And I don't think he's being authentic
1:07:29
Speaker 2: to voters. And the voters are going to see through
1:07:32
Speaker 2: that and in Texas they just want somebody who is
1:07:35
Speaker 2: is going to be authentic and probably you know, not
1:07:39
Speaker 2: wear a pink scarf. We'll be right back, all right,
1:07:51
Speaker 2: Let's get ran to the phones here nine oh one
1:07:54
Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six sailo to Nate
1:07:57
Speaker 2: and Tallahassee, Florida. Hi, Nate, what's on your mind today?
1:08:03
Speaker 15: Hey Todd, Thanks again for having me on here. I
1:08:06
Speaker 15: just wanted to ask you actually a question about socialism
1:08:09
Speaker 15: and then tell you I think something I know about it.
1:08:12
Speaker 15: Your guest earlier said that the Democrats have essentially become
1:08:16
Speaker 15: the communist party. I'm going to disagree with that and
1:08:19
Speaker 15: say that they are just the socialist party because I
1:08:22
Speaker 15: think they have no intention of becoming communists because under
1:08:26
Speaker 15: communism there's supposed to be no governments and they don't
1:08:29
Speaker 15: want that. They want total control and that's socialism, not communism.
1:08:33
Speaker 2: Well, well, you would also be disagreeing with the President
1:08:37
Speaker 2: of the United States. Here is President Trump over the
1:08:42
Speaker 2: weekend cut number three plays of.
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Speaker 14: The American system, and the communist system has never worked.
1:08:49
Speaker 14: Our warriors did not fight communism on battlefields across the world,
1:08:54
Speaker 14: only to have that menace rear its ugly head right
1:08:58
Speaker 14: back here in America.
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Speaker 10: We're not going to it happened.
1:09:05
Speaker 14: Would like to stop a threat like that immediately and
1:09:09
Speaker 14: before it begins. Just like a cancer, you got to
1:09:12
Speaker 14: cut it out. You got to cut it.
1:09:13
Speaker 2: Out fast, all right. So that's what the President had
1:09:17
Speaker 2: to say. So where did the President get it wrong?
1:09:21
Speaker 15: I agree with what he's saying in terms of that
1:09:24
Speaker 15: we can, by communism, be in this country like that. However,
1:09:28
Speaker 15: what I disagree with is the fact that under communism
1:09:31
Speaker 15: there's supposed to be no governments because everybody's supposed to
1:09:34
Speaker 15: be equal, and everybody fades away. There's never been a
1:09:38
Speaker 15: truly communist country because of that. Socialism always comes before communism.
1:09:45
Speaker 2: Well, I would say, well, well, I would say that, well,
1:09:48
Speaker 2: actually both of them. Democratic socialism and communism are both
1:09:53
Speaker 2: offspring of socialist theory, and one of them is a
1:09:57
Speaker 2: lot worse than the other, but the other one, democratic
1:10:01
Speaker 2: socialism will lead ultimately to full blown communism. We're talking
1:10:06
Speaker 2: about abolishing private property, you're getting rid of the markets,
1:10:10
Speaker 2: and everything is centralized within the government as we saw
1:10:15
Speaker 2: in the old Soviet Union. But democratic socialism, they say
1:10:21
Speaker 2: that it's really about reforming capitalism, but that's ultimately not
1:10:25
Speaker 2: what it's about. I mean, when you look at what
1:10:27
Speaker 2: these people want to do, they want to bring about communism.
1:10:30
Speaker 2: They may be calling it democratic socialism, but at the
1:10:33
Speaker 2: end of the day, Nate, it's going to lead to
1:10:36
Speaker 2: full blown communism.
1:10:39
Speaker 15: I agree with you one hundred percent. And I think, honestly,
1:10:42
Speaker 15: the more we educate people about it. And like I said,
1:10:45
Speaker 15: I wasn't trying to attack the president. I've done a
1:10:47
Speaker 15: lot of research on this as well, and I'm a
1:10:49
Speaker 15: the anti socialist slash communist as you can get. I'm
1:10:52
Speaker 15: a constitutional conservative. I just think it's disgusting that all
1:10:56
Speaker 15: these people think it just means you'll get everything for free,
1:10:59
Speaker 15: but you don't realize that somebody is paying for it.
1:11:01
Speaker 4: Nothing is ever free, No, it's not.
1:11:05
Speaker 2: And and the president the points the president's making here,
1:11:08
Speaker 2: he's just going he's really cutting through the red tape
1:11:12
Speaker 2: and telling everybody, hey, look, this is really about communism.
1:11:15
Speaker 2: And and that's where all of this is heading. So
1:11:19
Speaker 2: if we don't get up, if we don't get a
1:11:20
Speaker 2: handle on this very quickly, it's going to spiral out
1:11:24
Speaker 2: of control. And I think that's that was the concern
1:11:27
Speaker 2: that the president was making over the weekends.
1:11:31
Speaker 15: Yes, sir, I agree, and I apologize if I came
1:11:33
Speaker 15: on aggressively sounded like I was criticizing Trump. Is that honestly, No, No.
1:11:38
Speaker 2: No apologized, No, this is look. We love We love
1:11:41
Speaker 2: people with differing opinions and perspectives. And the fact of
1:11:45
Speaker 2: the matter is there is a difference between democratic socialism
1:11:48
Speaker 2: and communism, but not much. And if you are embracing
1:11:52
Speaker 2: democratic socialism, you are right on the path and it
1:11:55
Speaker 2: is a slippery slope to communism.
1:11:59
Speaker 15: I find and a lot of people just don't understand
1:12:01
Speaker 15: the definitions, because I mean unpopular opinion. I often find
1:12:05
Speaker 15: a lot of people talking about is a Hitler was
1:12:08
Speaker 15: a socialist and they try to call him a fascist?
1:12:10
Speaker 15: And then when you ask him, why do you call
1:12:12
Speaker 15: him a fascist? They'll give you all these definitions, but
1:12:14
Speaker 15: then you can stun them with saying, why is socialist
1:12:17
Speaker 15: in the National Party name? They don't want to accept
1:12:19
Speaker 15: that fact because it doesn't fit the narrative.
1:12:22
Speaker 2: No, well, no, it does not fit the narrative. And Nate,
1:12:26
Speaker 2: I do appreciate you calling in and weighing in on this,
1:12:29
Speaker 2: and that's going to lead into our next conversation in
1:12:32
Speaker 2: the next hour, where we're going to be talking to
1:12:35
Speaker 2: Gabriel Delaney, who is a history teacher at Franklin Road
1:12:39
Speaker 2: Christian School. And there are folks that are now calling
1:12:44
Speaker 2: out public school teachers simply for not teaching American history.
1:12:49
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's pretty awful. I want you to
1:12:51
Speaker 2: listen to cut twenty four. This is a guy by
1:12:55
Speaker 2: the name of Pete Seat on CNN.
1:12:58
Speaker 8: There was a Cato Morning Console poll that came out
1:13:02
Speaker 8: in advance of the two hundred and fiftieth Birthday of America,
1:13:06
Speaker 8: and forty six percent of Americans, sixty one percent of
1:13:10
Speaker 8: gen Z didn't know what we were celebrating. They didn't
1:13:14
Speaker 8: know what the two hundred and fiftieth was. They didn't
1:13:16
Speaker 8: realize that it was the anniversary of the signing of
1:13:18
Speaker 8: the Declaration of Independence. And that's shame on all of us.
1:13:23
Speaker 8: That's shame on our society, that's shame on our schools,
1:13:25
Speaker 8: that's shame on our museums that people didn't know the
1:13:29
Speaker 8: importance of that day. And it relates to this because
1:13:33
Speaker 8: if you read the key findings of this report, it's
1:13:36
Speaker 8: pretty damning. They claim that there is no major exhibit
1:13:40
Speaker 8: dedicated to our founding era, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, the
1:13:45
Speaker 8: Continental Congress not to be found at the Museum of
1:13:47
Speaker 8: American History in Washington, d C. They noted in this
1:13:51
Speaker 8: report that Independence Day was not marked either in twenty
1:13:54
Speaker 8: twenty five or in twenty twenty six at the museum,
1:13:58
Speaker 8: even though it was open. That's just a couple of examples.
1:14:02
Speaker 8: So if the National Museum of American History isn't marking
1:14:06
Speaker 8: this occasion, isn't hosting an exhibit about our founders and
1:14:11
Speaker 8: our founding document and the Declaration of Independence, how do
1:14:14
Speaker 8: we expect the Americans to.
1:14:15
Speaker 4: Know the history?
1:14:16
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, look, it's a great question the guy
1:14:19
Speaker 2: was asking there, and we're going to get into that
1:14:21
Speaker 2: in the next hour of the program. Sixty this is crazy.
1:14:26
Speaker 2: Sixty one percent of gen Z Americans don't know what
1:14:30
Speaker 2: we're commemorating. Don't know what we're commemorating with America two
1:14:34
Speaker 2: fifty Why do you think that is, Ladies and gentlemen,
1:14:38
Speaker 2: Who is to blame for that? Nine oh one two
1:14:42
Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six. We're going to be
1:14:44
Speaker 2: getting into it in the next hour. We'll be right
1:14:47
Speaker 2: back to everybody.
1:15:04
Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
1:15:09
Speaker 1: America's conservative blowtorch, that's.
1:15:16
Speaker 2: American starts. Well, I am not terribly surprised by this
1:15:26
Speaker 2: Morning consult and Aho Institute survey. Hello, everybody, Welcome to
1:15:32
Speaker 2: the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Great to have you with us. Look,
1:15:36
Speaker 2: the reality here is that American schools, at least the
1:15:42
Speaker 2: public schools, are simply failing our kids. But in not
1:15:48
Speaker 2: only failing our kids, but I think also failing our nation.
1:15:52
Speaker 2: And and that's the troubling part. As if there is
1:15:56
Speaker 2: an attempt to dumb down the nation and the reason why,
1:16:02
Speaker 2: I think it's pretty nefarious, especially when you look at
1:16:05
Speaker 2: the rise of socialism and democratic socialism across the Democrat Party. Anyway,
1:16:11
Speaker 2: this fashioning poll out of the Cato Institute a Morning
1:16:14
Speaker 2: consul found that about two thirds of gen z, while
1:16:19
Speaker 2: they could correctly identify George Washington, thirty four percent could not,
1:16:25
Speaker 2: and a shocking number sixty one percent of gen Zers
1:16:30
Speaker 2: had no idea what we just celebrated over the weekend. Well,
1:16:34
Speaker 2: I want to talk about this, and I couldn't think
1:16:37
Speaker 2: of a better person than our good friend he is
1:16:40
Speaker 2: a great history teacher at Franklin Road Christian School in Tennessee.
1:16:44
Speaker 2: Gabriel Delaney, Gabriel, good to have you with us today.
1:16:48
Speaker 10: Yes, sir, thank you for having me.
1:16:50
Speaker 2: All right, So what's going on here? Why is it
1:16:53
Speaker 2: that kids don't know what we were celebrating over the weekend?
1:16:59
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, I think that that poll is really
1:17:02
Speaker 10: indicative of where our society.
1:17:04
Speaker 4: Is in general.
1:17:06
Speaker 10: There isn't an emphasis on American culture, American heritage, the
1:17:10
Speaker 10: things that make America great, the things that have made
1:17:14
Speaker 10: America great. And it's honestly sad to see how far
1:17:17
Speaker 10: our society has come from where we used to be
1:17:20
Speaker 10: and where we used to pride ourselves on being.
1:17:23
Speaker 2: As well, I'm wondering why why is it that? And
1:17:26
Speaker 2: I know the Christian school world is a lot is
1:17:28
Speaker 2: a lot different, and I want to get to that
1:17:30
Speaker 2: in just a moment. But why why do you think
1:17:34
Speaker 2: the teachers are not teaching things like Civics and American
1:17:37
Speaker 2: history and why why do you think there's this disconnect?
1:17:42
Speaker 10: Well, teachers teach what they are taught to teach, how
1:17:47
Speaker 10: they are trained, how they are told, the curriculum that
1:17:50
Speaker 10: they are given by their public school or by their county.
1:17:53
Speaker 10: That's what they're going to teach. There's a quote that's
1:17:55
Speaker 10: often often attributed to Karl Marx, even though there's not
1:17:58
Speaker 10: much evidence it came from in but it says, take
1:18:01
Speaker 10: away a nation's heritage, and they are more easily persuaded.
1:18:05
Speaker 10: And I think this is probably, like you said, a
1:18:08
Speaker 10: nefarious reason behind why there is such a disassociation between
1:18:14
Speaker 10: the American today and their heritage and their culture. Because
1:18:18
Speaker 10: if you take away the heritage, you take away the culture,
1:18:20
Speaker 10: you take away the past, then they're going to be
1:18:22
Speaker 10: far more easily persuaded to places like socialism and other ideologies.
1:18:28
Speaker 2: Just like that, I have to imagine that if people
1:18:34
Speaker 2: don't know what their rights are, that it's not too
1:18:37
Speaker 2: difficult to take those rights away from people.
1:18:41
Speaker 4: Yeah.
1:18:41
Speaker 10: Yeah, for sure. And that's one of the beauties of
1:18:44
Speaker 10: the Bill of Rights being listed there, even though a
1:18:47
Speaker 10: lot of the Founders were against that originally listing out
1:18:49
Speaker 10: our rights. The fact that we have this Bill of
1:18:52
Speaker 10: rights that tells us that we have these rights not
1:18:56
Speaker 10: given to us by a government. I think that's an
1:18:58
Speaker 10: important note that the Founders would want us to talk
1:19:00
Speaker 10: about today, is that these rights don't come from government.
1:19:03
Speaker 10: These rights actually come from God himself. God is the
1:19:07
Speaker 10: creator and God is the giver of these unalienable rights
1:19:11
Speaker 10: that no government or man can give or take away,
1:19:14
Speaker 10: but that we all inherently have.
1:19:16
Speaker 2: So you teach in a Christian school environment, and I'm
1:19:20
Speaker 2: curious what you guys teach that might be different than
1:19:24
Speaker 2: what's happening in a public school setting.
1:19:27
Speaker 10: Yeah, I teach everything that I just listed. We have
1:19:30
Speaker 10: a week or two in US history where we talk
1:19:33
Speaker 10: about the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention.
1:19:39
Speaker 10: But also we have an entire class just on government.
1:19:42
Speaker 10: We start with the history of government. We talk about
1:19:45
Speaker 10: how it's developed and changed and why the Constitution is
1:19:49
Speaker 10: one of the most amazing documents in the.
1:19:51
Speaker 4: History of the world.
1:19:52
Speaker 10: And we talk about all of these things, but we
1:19:54
Speaker 10: make sure to have a biblical emphasis, because that's the
1:19:59
Speaker 10: exact viewpoint the founders were drafting and writing these documents from.
1:20:04
Speaker 10: As well.
1:20:05
Speaker 2: Is there like a trajectory? Are there things as a
1:20:08
Speaker 2: teacher that you expect the students to know by the
1:20:12
Speaker 2: time they get to a certain grade in the school?
1:20:17
Speaker 10: There is for sure by the time they come to
1:20:19
Speaker 10: my class, there typically in ninth, tenth or eleventh grade,
1:20:22
Speaker 10: and I would begin my class. I begin the school
1:20:27
Speaker 10: year off every year with just a basic history poll,
1:20:30
Speaker 10: just to kind of see where my class is at.
1:20:32
Speaker 10: And it's honestly surprising to me. One of my favorite
1:20:34
Speaker 10: activities to do is a timeline. I'll put pictures up
1:20:37
Speaker 10: from American history and they have to try to rank
1:20:39
Speaker 10: them on a timeline, so I can see where their
1:20:42
Speaker 10: head's at about some of these great historic I don't
1:20:44
Speaker 10: do niche historical events either. These are great historical events
1:20:48
Speaker 10: in our past. And it's surprising to me how many
1:20:51
Speaker 10: students struggle with even placing the Declaration of Independence versus
1:20:55
Speaker 10: where would Abraham Lincoln be on this, even though there's
1:20:58
Speaker 10: a one hundred year gap almost between those two. It's
1:21:01
Speaker 10: surprising to me. So when I teach through history, I
1:21:04
Speaker 10: really have to get down to the basics and make
1:21:06
Speaker 10: sure I'm coming from a place of knowledge and that
1:21:09
Speaker 10: I'm not just teaching some obscure fact that they don't
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Speaker 10: have any understanding of it.
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Speaker 2: This may be an unfair question, I asked, but I'm
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Speaker 2: wondering if if you can tell say a kids, you
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Speaker 2: know grades, you know, k through whatever they've been in
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Speaker 2: Christian school compared to maybe somebody who's coming into a
1:21:24
Speaker 2: Christian school environment in the seventh or eighth grade. Can
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Speaker 2: you actually tell us a teacher, oh, yeah, they're coming
1:21:30
Speaker 2: from the public school.
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Speaker 10: Definitely, there is Unfortunately I wish this wasn't the case,
1:21:37
Speaker 10: but unfortunately there is a huge difference. Having grown up
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Speaker 10: in a school that teaches about men like George Washington,
1:21:44
Speaker 10: teaches about our Biblical founding, our Christian heritage, those students
1:21:48
Speaker 10: have a much stronger grasp of history and its concepts
1:21:52
Speaker 10: than those that are coming from the public school here
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Speaker 10: in Rutherford County. And it's not just history as well.
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Speaker 10: Surprisingly it's most subjects, which is very unfortunate and a
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Speaker 10: sad sign for our public education system.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you were following this story, but
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Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, the Texas State Board of
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Speaker 2: Education actually decided to reintroduce the Bible into the classroom
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Speaker 2: K through twelve and kids, you know, every age group
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Speaker 2: is going to be learning something different about the Bible
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Speaker 2: or a Bible story, and the whole point of it is,
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Speaker 2: you know, Bible literacy. But I really just don't see
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Speaker 2: how you can teach American history and the founding of
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Speaker 2: our nation without having a pretty good grasp on the Bible,
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Speaker 2: which quite frankly was the one book that really did
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Speaker 2: frame a lot of a lot of our way of
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Speaker 2: life here in this country.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean, that is exactly right. You can't talk
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Speaker 10: about American history without talking about the Quakers and the Baptists,
1:22:53
Speaker 10: and the Protestants that came over, the Puritans. Definitely, all
1:22:57
Speaker 10: of these major these came over for religious freedom, political freedom,
1:23:02
Speaker 10: intellectual freedom. You literally cannot talk about American history without
1:23:06
Speaker 10: talking about the influence of religion, but specifically the religion
1:23:10
Speaker 10: of Christianity and God's word.
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Speaker 2: All right. Gabriel Delaney, a history teacher at Franklin Road
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Speaker 2: Christian School in Tennessee. Gabriel, I'm real curious on the
1:23:21
Speaker 2: to put on your political hat for just a minute.
1:23:23
Speaker 2: What's your take on all of these young gen Zers
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Speaker 2: in politics running on the Democrat side and they're raging
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Speaker 2: democratic socialist. What do you make of that?
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Speaker 10: I think it's probably quite a bit of misinformation, and
1:23:39
Speaker 10: I'm hoping that we see the opposite take place as well,
1:23:43
Speaker 10: where some young gen Z people who are passionate but
1:23:47
Speaker 10: also conservative are willing to stand up as well. So
1:23:51
Speaker 10: it's definitely going to be interesting to see these next
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Speaker 10: few years play.
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Speaker 2: Out, Governor Delaney. That's got a good ring to it. Yeah, yes,
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Speaker 2: we'll see all right. Uh, Gabriel, always good uh checking
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Speaker 2: in with you. It's great guidance. And I'm excited to
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Speaker 2: see the kids that are coming out of Franklin Roade
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Speaker 2: Christian School. That sounds like they're getting a great education
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Speaker 2: out there.
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Speaker 10: Yes, sir, yep, I'm excited to see them too. God's
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Speaker 10: canna use them in unbelievable boys.
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Speaker 2: All right, Gabriel Delaney, Ladies and gentlemen on our Patriot
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Speaker 2: Mobile news maker line. All right, we got to take
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Speaker 2: a break. You heard Gabriel's take on all of this.
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Speaker 2: I want to hear yours. How do we fix us?
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Speaker 2: How do we teach our kids and make sure our
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Speaker 2: and tolls Oklahoma. Helen is hanging out with us today. Hi, Helen,
1:25:14
Speaker 2: how are you then?
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Speaker 5: Great?
1:25:16
Speaker 2: How are you, Helen? I am, well, thank you for asking.
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Speaker 2: What's on your mind?
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Speaker 18: Well, you know, I think it's the parent's fault that
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Speaker 18: the kids are not learning what the fourth of July is,
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Speaker 18: or Independence Day or any of the American history. They
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Speaker 18: are getting too complacent, assuming that the school is responsible
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Speaker 18: for teaching their children everything that they need to know,
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Speaker 18: and they're not checking up to see what they're learning.
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Speaker 18: And second of all, why are they celebrate what's their children?
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Speaker 2: Helen? I was wondering the same thing. How do you?
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Speaker 2: Didn't it ever cross anybody's mind? Waiting a second?
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Speaker 13: What do we?
1:25:50
Speaker 2: What do we? What are we sell it? What's all
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Speaker 2: the red, white and blue for exactly America?
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Speaker 18: Grilling out?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, Helen. It's a lot of common sense,
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Speaker 2: a lot of common sense.
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Speaker 18: Well, thank you, apparently.
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Speaker 2: No right exactly, But I love this guy. Gabriel Delaney.
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Speaker 2: His dad is the pastor of the First Baptist Church
1:26:20
Speaker 2: in Long Beach, California, And man, they're just they're bursting
1:26:24
Speaker 2: at the seams down there. Gabriel is just a great
1:26:28
Speaker 2: history teacher. And I'm just so excited for those kids
1:26:31
Speaker 2: because those kids, you better believe they're learning something.
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Speaker 18: They sounded like I heard him, he sounds great.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, great kids. Boy, we sure do right, Amen to that?
1:26:42
Speaker 2: All right? How are you listening to us out in Tulsa, Helen.
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Speaker 18: On the radio run down the Roads?
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Speaker 2: Is that right? All right? Well, we sure to appreciate
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Speaker 2: to Matthew in Georgia. Hi, Matthew, what's on your mind?
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Speaker 3: And I was going to say the same thing she said.
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Speaker 19: If the schools ain't teaching the kids, the parents should
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Speaker 19: be teaching their kids what they're celebrating.
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Speaker 2: Matthew. I don't know. I don't know about you, but
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Speaker 2: when I was a kid, my mom made sure that
1:27:22
Speaker 2: I knew how to read before I stepped foot in
1:27:25
Speaker 2: a school building. And I think there's there's we're missing
1:27:28
Speaker 2: that and a lot of and a lot of homes
1:27:30
Speaker 2: today for whatever reason. Maybe both parents are working, both
1:27:34
Speaker 2: parents don't have you know, the time, but you know,
1:27:37
Speaker 2: you're going to have to make the time. And I
1:27:39
Speaker 2: think moms and dads need to take on personal responsibility
1:27:43
Speaker 2: for teaching their kids about America.
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Speaker 19: They sure do. My grandma paid us five dollars if
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Speaker 19: we could read a book and answer all the questions
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Speaker 19: that she had for.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, my mom, you know it is interesting she subscribed us.
1:27:59
Speaker 2: I'll never forget the I was just a little tiny fella,
1:28:02
Speaker 2: but she subscribed us to the Book of the Month
1:28:04
Speaker 2: club with Walt Disney back when Disney was actually good.
1:28:08
Speaker 2: And I'll never forget, you know, waiting at the mailbox
1:28:11
Speaker 2: for the book and you know, learning how to read.
1:28:14
Speaker 2: And it got to a point where I was able
1:28:16
Speaker 2: to read the book instead of my mom. And you know,
1:28:18
Speaker 2: that was a big day as a little tiny fella.
1:28:21
Speaker 2: And again it was you know, my mom. She was
1:28:23
Speaker 2: she didn't go to college, but she understood the importance
1:28:27
Speaker 2: of an education, of making sure that once you get
1:28:29
Speaker 2: a kid able to read, they're going to be able
1:28:31
Speaker 2: to do whatever they want to in life. Yeah that's right, Hey, Matthew,
1:28:38
Speaker 2: all right, You're most welcome. Thank you for listening to us.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to Sean in North Carolina. Hi, Sean, what's
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Speaker 2: on your mind today?
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Speaker 11: Hey?
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Speaker 19: I just wanted to do a shout out to my
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Speaker 19: friend Maggie, but.
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Speaker 14: Todd.
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Speaker 19: I don't know what's going on with the conservative end
1:29:11
Speaker 19: of our party, but we have to defeat Roy Cooper.
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Speaker 19: Roy Cooper cannot get in power. I'm I've dealt with
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Speaker 19: eight years of his nonsense. He ran on a bathroom bill.
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Speaker 19: The guy's a complete failure. If you hear if you
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Speaker 19: hear his commercials, it would make you sick because he's saying,
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Speaker 19: I'm a defender of justice.
1:29:43
Speaker 2: I put hardened criminals to jail.
1:29:47
Speaker 19: Well, what happened to the girl on the training Charlie?
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Speaker 19: What happened to Huh? Where are you? Ten days after Helene?
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Speaker 19: Where was he? He was an know where to be found?
1:30:00
Speaker 19: I found out that there was two point five million
1:30:04
Speaker 19: dollars dowlocated to western North Carolina that they never saw
1:30:10
Speaker 19: a dollar of it. Mhm, Josh, I mean, Josh Todd.
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Speaker 19: I'm sorry because I always thought to Josh, your buddy.
1:30:20
Speaker 19: I'm I'm blown away that people. Why why are people
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Speaker 19: so dumb?
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, they're dumb sometimes intentionally. You know, there
1:30:35
Speaker 2: are a lot of people that will vote Democrat. You know,
1:30:38
Speaker 2: their entire life and their towns are you know, little
1:30:42
Speaker 2: you know, war zones. Businesses are packing up and leaving,
1:30:46
Speaker 2: and people are just stupid like that. I just I wish,
1:30:49
Speaker 2: I wish I had some sort of a philosophical, you know,
1:30:52
Speaker 2: answer for you. But people are just stupid. And you know, God, yeah,
1:30:57
Speaker 2: I grew up.
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Speaker 19: I listen, I grew up in staf Island. I grew
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Speaker 19: up as a Democrat.
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Speaker 15: Okay.
1:31:05
Speaker 19: And the crazy thing is is that when I met
1:31:09
Speaker 19: my wife, Heather, which I love her a death, she
1:31:15
Speaker 19: turned it around and she was like, you can't believe
1:31:19
Speaker 19: it in that nonsense, and I'm like, what do you mean?
1:31:23
Speaker 19: And she opened my eyes to everything. Now we have
1:31:29
Speaker 19: five beautiful children, and we have grandchildren and I never
1:31:36
Speaker 19: thought I never thought I would be here, and by
1:31:42
Speaker 19: God's grace, but this is the thing that I just
1:31:45
Speaker 19: wanted to throw data. Your listener is we need to
1:31:48
Speaker 19: save North Carolina from the throes of the Democrats because
1:31:55
Speaker 19: they lie. Roy Cooper is a liar, He's lawed and manipulated,
1:32:03
Speaker 19: He's destroyed businesses, he destroyed my business, and we need
1:32:10
Speaker 19: to hold these people accountable.
1:32:12
Speaker 2: Well, Sean, and maybe that's a you know, and we're
1:32:15
Speaker 2: coming up on a break, so I'm gonna have to
1:32:16
Speaker 2: let you go. But I mean, look, you're right, and
1:32:19
Speaker 2: I think North Carolina is worth saving, and so is
1:32:22
Speaker 2: the state of Georgia, two states with a very similar problem.
1:32:26
Speaker 2: I think that both of those states, I think North
1:32:28
Speaker 2: Carolina and Georgia are at their core very conservative states
1:32:34
Speaker 2: and through a process of kerfuffles the Republican a lot
1:32:39
Speaker 2: of Republican infighting has led to Democrats sweeping in and
1:32:43
Speaker 2: taking charge. And so maybe the question is, as we
1:32:48
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1:32:49
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Speaker 12: Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel,
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Speaker 12: the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker,
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Speaker 12: but an American too. You each hold a special power,
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Speaker 12: the power to determine what America means. The powerful have
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Speaker 12: always known their answer America in their view is an
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Speaker 12: arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom,
1:34:34
Speaker 12: where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them,
1:34:38
Speaker 12: becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will
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Speaker 12: tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent
1:34:44
Speaker 12: or the right shade of skin. The rest of us,
1:34:46
Speaker 12: they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit,
1:34:50
Speaker 12: how small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. At every
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Speaker 12: moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and
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Speaker 12: isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by
1:35:02
Speaker 12: turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick
1:35:06
Speaker 12: in politics and the cheapest. But time and again, including
1:35:10
Speaker 12: two hundred and fifty years ago, those forces of division
1:35:14
Speaker 12: have been vanquished by the forces of progress. As Thomas
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Speaker 12: Paine once wrote, this new world hath been the asylum
1:35:22
Speaker 12: for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. Hither
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Speaker 12: have they fled? And yet today too many of our
1:35:29
Speaker 12: leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation
1:35:31
Speaker 12: as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one
1:35:35
Speaker 12: that persecutes those seeking asylum. As we mark two hundred
1:35:39
Speaker 12: and fifty years, what do we see? We see a
1:35:43
Speaker 12: city of contradictions. Within our nation of contradictions, we see
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Speaker 12: the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one
1:35:50
Speaker 12: where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first
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Speaker 12: trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every
1:35:57
Speaker 12: industry and oligarchs by elections. We see massed agents terrorizing
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Speaker 12: our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before
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Speaker 12: spiriting them away in unmarked vands. We see a nation
1:36:10
Speaker 12: whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused,
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Speaker 12: dirt streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and
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Speaker 12: chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has
1:36:20
Speaker 12: allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead
1:36:23
Speaker 12: and the soft hands of a precious few. Yes, we
1:36:27
Speaker 12: see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick.
1:36:30
Speaker 12: But that is not all we see when we look
1:36:32
Speaker 12: for America. We see it too in the nurse who
1:36:35
Speaker 12: works a double shift and then stops on our way
1:36:37
Speaker 12: home to check on an ailing neighbor. Yes, we see
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Speaker 12: America in corporate landlords, for whom negligence is a business model.
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Speaker 12: We see it too, and the father who tucks his
1:36:46
Speaker 12: children into bed beneath a ceiling stained with leaks, who
1:36:50
Speaker 12: wakes before dawn to go to work and still believes
1:36:52
Speaker 12: his country can do better by his family. Yes, we
1:36:56
Speaker 12: see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs
1:36:59
Speaker 12: and baylife us, when we sell our elections to the
1:37:02
Speaker 12: highest bidder. Yet we see it just as clearly in
1:37:05
Speaker 12: every American who still believes this country belongs to we,
1:37:08
Speaker 12: the people. We see America each time neighbors link arms
1:37:12
Speaker 12: with neighbors without asking how long they have lived here
1:37:15
Speaker 12: or what papers they have, as ice invades our neighborhoods.
1:37:18
Speaker 12: We see America each time those young and old stand
1:37:21
Speaker 12: in the beating rain or the stifling heat to cast
1:37:23
Speaker 12: their ballots. We see America each time working people demand more,
1:37:28
Speaker 12: not just for themselves, but for their fellow Americans. There
1:37:32
Speaker 12: are some who respond to those who ask for more
1:37:34
Speaker 12: from America with a simple refrain, Love it or leave it,
1:37:38
Speaker 12: they say. But patriotism has never been about pretending our
1:37:42
Speaker 12: nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous assent.
1:37:47
Speaker 12: It is every march let under the heavy sun. It
1:37:49
Speaker 12: is every protest held a decade before its time. It
1:37:53
Speaker 12: is precisely because we love this nation. That we will
1:37:56
Speaker 12: not leave it.
1:37:59
Speaker 2: Those are the world words of a man who has
1:38:01
Speaker 2: been a naturalized citizen for all of eight years. Ladies
1:38:04
Speaker 2: and gentlemen, the leader now the leader of the Democrat Party,
1:38:08
Speaker 2: the mayor of the largest city in America, who came
1:38:11
Speaker 2: from a family of extreme wealth, the very wealth and
1:38:17
Speaker 2: power that he was be bemoaning. Pardon me, I had
1:38:20
Speaker 2: to clean up my language just to smidge there. But
1:38:24
Speaker 2: this guy, Zoori Mamdami is just like Barack Hussein Obama.
1:38:29
Speaker 2: And these guys specialize in a very special form of
1:38:32
Speaker 2: oratory that involves spewing loads of great a fertilizer. You
1:38:39
Speaker 2: could grow a crop of butterbeans with what was coming
1:38:41
Speaker 2: out of that guy's mouth. Now, let me let me
1:38:45
Speaker 2: just say this about ma'am Domi. Those words like oligarchy,
1:38:49
Speaker 2: those are all code words for communism. So all you
1:38:55
Speaker 2: folks that did not pack up and get out of
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Speaker 2: This is a terrible story out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. I
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Speaker 2: am shocked by this story to be perfectly Blunt, a
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Speaker 2: part time conductor at Chattanooga's Incline Railway, has been fired
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Speaker 2: after a video of comments he made to passengers on
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Speaker 2: the fourth of July spread across social media. So if
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Speaker 2: you've been to Chattanooga, you know it's nestled in the
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Speaker 2: shadow of Lookout Mountain and you can take a rail
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Speaker 2: car up the side of the Incline. It's really breathtaking.
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Speaker 2: The video was shared on TikTok and it shows the
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Speaker 2: conductor addressing passengers before the train left. And here's what
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Speaker 2: the train conductor said, Happy Independence Day to the rest
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Speaker 2: of you. Welcome to the greatest country on the face
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Speaker 2: of the planet. And if you disagree, you can leave.
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Speaker 2: To the very very few Americans in here, Happy Independence Day,
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Speaker 2: I love it. I love this. Good for you, mister
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Speaker 2: train conductor. Well, apparently he got fired. Karta CRTA is
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Speaker 2: I guess, the organization that handles the Incline Railway. According
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Speaker 2: to the transit agency, the Incline Railways director met with
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Speaker 2: the employee that day and immediately fired him. Quote he
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Speaker 2: will not work for KARTA or the Incline Railway again.
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Speaker 14: Now.
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Speaker 2: Jack Peterson is the conductor in the now viral video,
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Speaker 2: telling News Channel nine in Chattanooga, quote, I'm very patriotic.
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Speaker 2: It was the USA's Independence Day. I was celebrating with
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Speaker 2: my fellow Americans, native or non native. I truly do
1:40:52
Speaker 2: believe we're the greatest country on Earth. My statement about
1:40:55
Speaker 2: if you don't like the country and don't believe we're
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Speaker 2: the best, then you can leave is a freedom that
1:41:00
Speaker 2: many other countries do not have. It is not a
1:41:05
Speaker 2: racist or xenophobic thing to say. If you don't believe
1:41:08
Speaker 2: in making this country better, then why are you here.
1:41:12
Speaker 2: I love this guy, the Chattanooga Area Rapid Transit Authority.
1:41:21
Speaker 2: That's what CARDI stands for. They apologized. Some guy by
1:41:25
Speaker 2: the name of Scott Wilson is the chief wuss. He says,
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Speaker 2: I want to apologize directly to the passengers who experience
1:41:34
Speaker 2: this and to everyone who has seen the video and
1:41:37
Speaker 2: felt it sting. It should never have happened. Never. We're
1:41:42
Speaker 2: so sorry with Ariy. What do you people? What are
1:41:48
Speaker 2: you apologizing for? What did the guys say that was wrong?
1:41:51
Speaker 2: Did you hear anything, ladies and gentlemen, did you hear
1:41:55
Speaker 2: anything that was remotely offensive? Wilson goes on, I'm telling
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Speaker 2: you this guy, Jesus a loom. We have zero tolerance
1:42:05
Speaker 2: for language that to means ere excludes anyone who rides
1:42:09
Speaker 2: with us. For one hundred and thirty one years, the
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Speaker 2: Incline Railway has welcome visitors from Chanttanooga and from around
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Speaker 2: the world. And every passenger who boards our railway deserves
1:42:21
Speaker 2: to feel respected and welcome, and we are committed to
1:42:26
Speaker 2: making sure that's always the case. We're so sorry, unbelievable.
1:42:35
Speaker 2: The Incline Railway, according to news Channel nine, one of
1:42:38
Speaker 2: the Chattanooga's best known tourist attractions. They carry visitors up
1:42:42
Speaker 2: and down Lookout Mountain since eighteen ninety five. Well, there
1:42:47
Speaker 2: you go. I'm with the train conductor. If you don't
1:42:52
Speaker 2: love our country, get out, just get out, leave us alone.
1:42:58
Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six to zero five telephone number.
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Speaker 2: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
1:43:05
Speaker 2: I want to share a bit of news. Many of
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Speaker 2: you know that Bellevue Baptist Church is one of the
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Speaker 2: largest churches in the nation and it's based right here
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Speaker 2: in Memphis, Tennessee. Many of you who drive Interstate forty
1:43:18
Speaker 2: going wherever you're going in America, you drive by the
1:43:21
Speaker 2: church and the giant steeples or the giant crosses there.
1:43:25
Speaker 2: And I want to share some information because there have
1:43:28
Speaker 2: been reports of a shooting at Bellevue Baptist Church. And
1:43:33
Speaker 2: what we can tell you is this, This is officially
1:43:36
Speaker 2: from the Memphis Police Department that the preliminary information indicates
1:43:40
Speaker 2: that it was a self inflicted gunshot, so there is
1:43:44
Speaker 2: no active shooter at Bellevue Baptist Church. Wanted to clear
1:43:48
Speaker 2: that information up. We've been getting a lot of calls
1:43:50
Speaker 2: about this. Again, there was no active shooter. This individual,
1:43:54
Speaker 2: whoever this person was, died of a self inflicted gun
1:44:00
Speaker 2: shot wound. We have no idea where it happened, but
1:44:04
Speaker 2: we can tell you hopefully. I mean, it's a terrible tragedy,
1:44:07
Speaker 2: but there was no active shooter situation there. No one
1:44:11
Speaker 2: is in danger there at Bellevue Baptist Church. Wanted to
1:44:14
Speaker 2: pass along that information. I know we have a lot
1:44:16
Speaker 2: of listeners that have people that go there. So all right,
1:44:19
Speaker 2: I got to take a break here. Nine oh one
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Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six. This is the
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Speaker 2: Todd Sterns show. Well, it just seems rather silly if
1:44:41
Speaker 2: you ask me. I mean, the poor guy, the train
1:44:43
Speaker 2: conductor was just sharing his opinion, and I find nothing
1:44:47
Speaker 2: wrong with that opinion. Then this story from KGO Great
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Speaker 2: Station out of California Hercules, California, Hercules, Hercules, Hercules, California,
1:45:02
Speaker 2: West Contra Costa Unified School District. They launched an investigation
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Speaker 2: into a Hercules High School teacher following what they called
1:45:14
Speaker 2: racist social media post by the teacher. The controversy stems
1:45:20
Speaker 2: from an alleged classroom discussion during student walkouts in January
1:45:24
Speaker 2: and February protesting immigration and customs enforcement activity. According to
1:45:31
Speaker 2: the founder of a group called Together We Stand, an
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Speaker 2: organization that advocates for victims of discrimination, the teacher made
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Speaker 2: a statement that if she knew a student was illegal,
1:45:45
Speaker 2: she would want them deported. Good for you. Wow in California. Wow. Okay,
1:45:54
Speaker 2: oh boy. Multiple students came forward with complaints about the
1:45:58
Speaker 2: teacher and expressed concerns about her presence on campus. So
1:46:02
Speaker 2: the teacher, the teacher is a danger because she's a
1:46:05
Speaker 2: law abiding American citizen. But the illegal kids, they're okay,
1:46:10
Speaker 2: you following this one, folks. They argue the district must
1:46:15
Speaker 2: do more to enforce its anti discrimination policies. They have
1:46:21
Speaker 2: a policy, they read it every time at board meetings
1:46:24
Speaker 2: against discrimination against hate. This is according to mister Fernandez,
1:46:29
Speaker 2: the founder and director of Together We Stand. Yet when
1:46:32
Speaker 2: we are faced with these issues, it doesn't seem that
1:46:36
Speaker 2: appropriate action is being taken. And a statement posted online
1:46:41
Speaker 2: the district identified the teacher as Michelle Gerst and said
1:46:45
Speaker 2: she was placed on administrative leave while the initial allegation
1:46:49
Speaker 2: was investigated the district. And this is the quote from
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Speaker 2: the district statement to ABC seven US Kate g O
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Speaker 2: the district takes any hateful language or discriminatory conduct very seriously.
1:47:05
Speaker 2: When the social media posts were brought to the district's
1:47:08
Speaker 2: attention in febru w every, the Hercules High School administration
1:47:13
Speaker 2: immediately notified the district office. According to the district, action
1:47:20
Speaker 2: was taken in March, following the end of the initial investigation,
1:47:23
Speaker 2: but they did not say what that action was. In
1:47:26
Speaker 2: a statement, Superintendent Cheryl Cotton said, we are taking the
1:47:31
Speaker 2: allegations regarding miss gerst conduct with the utmost seriousness, and
1:47:36
Speaker 2: we hold our educators to a very high standard for
1:47:39
Speaker 2: creating a safe, inclusive learning environment. Well let me just stop.
1:47:44
Speaker 2: You arrived there wait just one Cotton pick ad minute.
1:47:48
Speaker 2: You're telling me. The superintendent of the school is named
1:47:52
Speaker 2: Cheryl Cotton. Now, ladies and gentlemen, we all know that
1:47:57
Speaker 2: Conton once was the fabric of our lives, but now
1:48:01
Speaker 2: it is a symbol of racism, of oppression. So therefore,
1:48:07
Speaker 2: how is it possible that the schrul district they're in Hercules, California,
1:48:14
Speaker 2: as a superintendent with the last name of content, may
1:48:19
Speaker 2: as well have superintendent Collared Greens. I mean, how offensive? No, no,
1:48:29
Speaker 2: why not being no, I'm not being serious, I'm being
1:48:31
Speaker 2: somewhat facetious. A petition calling for teacher girset dismissal is
1:48:39
Speaker 2: now circulating. Fernandez says that, oh Fernandez is a shee.
1:48:45
Speaker 2: My apologies. Fernandez says, while she supports free speech rights,
1:48:50
Speaker 2: she believes educators should be held to a higher standard
1:48:52
Speaker 2: because of their role in the classroom. Well, if that's
1:48:55
Speaker 2: the case, and let's just take what miss Fernandez said
1:48:58
Speaker 2: at face value here, If that that's the case that
1:49:01
Speaker 2: educators should be held to a higher standard, then they
1:49:03
Speaker 2: should have a higher level of free speech than everybody else,
1:49:07
Speaker 2: because the whole point is free speech is free speech.
1:49:14
Speaker 2: Fernandez goes on to say that classrooms are a place
1:49:17
Speaker 2: to have critical thought and dialogue, but when it crosses
1:49:20
Speaker 2: the line to statements that make people truly feel unsafe,
1:49:24
Speaker 2: that is just unacceptable. I'm trying to understand exactly what
1:49:29
Speaker 2: the teacher said that was inappropriate. The teacher said that
1:49:33
Speaker 2: she wanted illegal students to be deported. Anybody disagree with that.
1:49:38
Speaker 2: It seems to me that we would we would all
1:49:41
Speaker 2: agree with that. I'm just shocked. It's a California school teacher.
1:49:47
Speaker 2: I'm just I'm genuinely shocked by that. Nine oh one
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1:51:16
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