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CNN Goes Wall-to-Wall over DC Algae · 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 American.
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Speaker 2: That's that's.
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Speaker 3: American.
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Speaker 4: Todd starts, well, well, hello everybody, welcome to the Tonsonar
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Speaker 4: and Jo radio program. I hope you had a great weekend. Man,
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Speaker 4: it was, uh, what a weird what a weird news
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Speaker 4: cycle this this weekend. And a couple of stories, uh
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Speaker 4: that that we're going to be uh, we're going to
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Speaker 4: be following today on the program. By the way, write
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Speaker 4: one two six zero five nine two six. That's nine
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Speaker 4: one two six zero five nine two six. So the
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Speaker 4: two big stories not necessarily in this order. Whatever is
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Speaker 4: happening with the Lincoln Reflecting Pool there on the Washington
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Speaker 4: Mall in our nation's capital, where the algae has apparently
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Speaker 4: come back in full fury, it is quite something to behold.
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Speaker 4: As a CNN has been doing wall to wall coverage,
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Speaker 4: it is somewhat breath taking the level of news coverage
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Speaker 4: that CNN and all the other networks are engaging in.
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Speaker 4: They have turned a blind eye to some of the
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Speaker 4: biggest stories in the world, including the if you want
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Speaker 4: to go all the way back to the botched the
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Speaker 4: botched evacuation of Kabba, Afghanistan. But they didn't think that
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Speaker 4: was a big story. But by golly, the return of
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Speaker 4: the algae to the Reflecting Pool is apparently the number
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Speaker 4: one news story of the decade. Even ABC News Jonathan
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Speaker 4: Carl sticking his hand and pulling up some of the liner,
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Speaker 4: some of the paint that has come off of the
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Speaker 4: bottom of the reflecting pool. Now, look, I'm not a
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Speaker 4: pool expert, and I do not pretend to be one,
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Speaker 4: but I can tell you that the algae is in
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Speaker 4: fact back there. They're telling us that apparently this has
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Speaker 4: to do with the pipes and the drainage systems, and
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Speaker 4: so we'll see if they get it all figured out.
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Speaker 4: But what I find fascinating here is that we now
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Speaker 4: know that there were people, including I mean, these are
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Speaker 4: very bad people. Gosh, several dozen of them have been
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Speaker 4: arrested for vandalizing the pool, and some of them are
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Speaker 4: alleged to have torn I think President Trump's had a
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Speaker 4: three hundred foot gash in the lining of the pool.
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Speaker 4: There was a three time former US Olympian who was
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Speaker 4: arrested for vandalism as well. And all I can tell
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Speaker 4: you is, by the way the presidents wanting to throw
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Speaker 4: the book at these people. We're talking about ten years
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Speaker 4: in prison, ten years in prison for vandalizing federal property.
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Speaker 4: These people are completely insane. You actually have people literally
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Speaker 4: protesting in defense of pond scum. Who does that? So look,
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Speaker 4: I have a theory about all of this. And you know,
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Speaker 4: one of the things that Hollywood loves is the is
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Speaker 4: the dystopian world. I mean all of the Dystopian movies.
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Speaker 4: They love the grit and the grime and the ugliness,
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Speaker 4: this brutalist architecture coming from the nineteen fifties and sixties
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Speaker 4: out of the old Soviet Union. They do not love beauty.
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Speaker 4: Liberals do not love what is beautiful. And you can
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Speaker 4: I'll just give you a great example of this. And
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Speaker 4: I mean nothing wrong with I mean nothing by this,
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Speaker 4: but hear me, and I'll give you a great example
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Speaker 4: for the average American man. Beauty standards are defined by
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Speaker 4: the ladies walking their runway at the Miss America pageant. Right,
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Speaker 4: you want beautiful, talented ladies who look good in a
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Speaker 4: dress or a swimsuit and have some sort of a
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Speaker 4: discernible talent that makes our nation great. For example, being
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Speaker 4: able to twirl a baton that is on fire. I mean,
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Speaker 4: that's talent that for the average red blooded American man
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Speaker 4: would be the ideal woman. On the other side, you
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Speaker 4: have these morbidly obese women with mustaches and magenta hair,
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Speaker 4: and they're wearing the birken stocks and they smell up
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Speaker 4: petrullly oil. That would be the that would They're not
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Speaker 4: classically beautiful, but that would be the the idea of
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Speaker 4: beauty for a soy boy and so so beauty. Classical
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Speaker 4: beauty is it's not in their repertoire, if you will.
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Speaker 4: And that's what's and and that's what's going on. So
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Speaker 4: when you see President Trump and his efforts to make
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Speaker 4: DC beautiful again, and the President has done a remarkable
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Speaker 4: job of that, I mean cleaning up Union Station and
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Speaker 4: Columbus Circle and the beautiful fountains and getting rid of
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Speaker 4: all the dirt and the grime and the filth and
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Speaker 4: actually restoring water and getting rid of all the graffiti.
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Speaker 4: And the Liberals are enraged over this. They are appalled
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Speaker 4: by this, And why are they appalled because they prefer ugly.
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Speaker 4: That's who the these these liberals prefer ugly. And it's
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Speaker 4: a sad thing, but that that's the reality of it,
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Speaker 4: and that's why they would prefer that people live in squalor.
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Speaker 4: You know, when you drive around I look at some
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Speaker 4: of the federal housing projects across the nation, and the
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Speaker 4: filth that is because the Democrats, that's what they love,
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Speaker 4: that's what they aspire. They want people to live in
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Speaker 4: filth and squalor. And then along comes Donald Trump and
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Speaker 4: he says, no, We've got to do something about that.
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Speaker 4: Another great example the Kennedy Center. The thing is literally rotting.
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Speaker 4: Parts of the Kennedy Center are literally rotting. There are
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Speaker 4: gaping holes where waters pouring through. It's filthy when you
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Speaker 4: walk into and I remember years ago, I was invited
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Speaker 4: to attend something at the Kennedy Center and I was
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Speaker 4: taken aback by the smell of mothballs. When I walked in,
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Speaker 4: I thought, wow, wow, wow, what is that smell. Well,
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Speaker 4: it was the smell of death and grime and rot.
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Speaker 4: And the President comes in and says, well, we got
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Speaker 4: to do something about this. That the Kennedy Center is
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Speaker 4: supposed to be our premier theater and it's falling apart,
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Speaker 4: and the Democrats stepped, Oh oh, you can't do that,
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Speaker 4: how dare you? They would rather it be in great disrepair.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that's who the Democrats are. So am I
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Speaker 4: surprised at what they've done. Yes, I'm surprised. Who does that?
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Speaker 4: Who would take their time? Who would go down to
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Speaker 4: the wall to the reflecting pool and literally take a
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Speaker 4: knife and rip through and rip through the lining of
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Speaker 4: the pool?
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Speaker 2: Who would do that?
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Speaker 4: right now again our number nine one two six zero
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Speaker 4: go back to this crazy story involving the the algae
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Speaker 4: and the weird, the weird story that these liberals are
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Speaker 4: rooting for the algae. The liberals are literally rooting for
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Speaker 4: the pond discum. Now, Gene Piro is the US attorney
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Speaker 4: for DC, and she says, look, there, you're creating big,
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Speaker 4: big problems for yourself if you're going out there and
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Speaker 4: you're doing damage to the reflecting pool. Cut number six plays.
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Speaker 7: These are cases that will be prosecuted to the full extent.
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Speaker 7: If there are more serious products that are put into
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Speaker 7: the reflecting pool to create more algae or a bigger problem,
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Speaker 7: then we'll consider more serious charges. But make no mistake,
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Speaker 7: making DC beautiful is a priority, and if you damage, vandalize,
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Speaker 7: or do anything to impact something like the reflected pool,
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Speaker 7: you can be prosecuted.
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Speaker 4: Well, I say, throw the book at all of them.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we ought to be going after everybody, the
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Speaker 4: folks that are vandalizing the statues, trying to tear down
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Speaker 4: the statues. Throw them all in jail for crying out loud.
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Speaker 4: That's what I say. Nine oh one two six zero
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Speaker 4: zero five nine two six. President Trump, by the way,
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Speaker 4: revealing ten year prison sentences for all of these left
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Speaker 4: wing vandals cut number seven.
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Speaker 8: This is a sad story because all Americans, I don't
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Speaker 8: care about your political stripes, enjoy the reflecting pool. But
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Speaker 8: as Charlie points out, we're talking about someone who's gone
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Speaker 8: from competing and Olympic sized swimming pools to being accused
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Speaker 8: of vandalizing the reflecting pool along the mall. And of
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Speaker 8: course he ends up in cuffs, and apparently he's not
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Speaker 8: the only one we're speaking of. A former Olympian canoeist,
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Speaker 8: sixty seven year old David Hearn, three time Olympian by
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Speaker 8: the way, said he was cycling by the monument on
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Speaker 8: Friday he noticed a piece of the pools underliner floating
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Speaker 8: in the water. But authorities they didn't buy his story
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Speaker 8: at all, and now they're accusing him of being one
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Speaker 8: of several individuals trying to saboitage the project, with a
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Speaker 8: pair of arrest being made so far. In fact, the
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Speaker 8: President said as much in a post on True Social
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Speaker 8: announcing quote, many additional people have been arrested having to
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Speaker 8: do with the disgraceful vandalism of our beautiful reflecting pool.
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Speaker 8: What these terrible vandals have done is a true affront
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Speaker 8: to both Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and should
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Speaker 8: be dealt with accordingly.
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Speaker 9: They also poured.
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Speaker 8: Corrosive and destructive chemicals into the pool. Finally, he adds this,
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Speaker 8: we are very proud of what we have done with
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Speaker 8: this magnificent structure, and we'll get it repaired quickly to
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Speaker 8: an equal level of beauty. Now, the pool, which had
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Speaker 8: been restored to a beautiful cerulean as part of the
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Speaker 8: America two fifty celebration. Spent years mired in an algae
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Speaker 8: covered state until the big cleanup. But suddenly we started
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Speaker 8: reading reports of a new algae bloom forming and the
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Speaker 8: peeling lower coding. Critics said it was a shoddy job
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Speaker 8: done by the contractors. Turns out that's not true at all,
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Speaker 8: and now we know why. Now the cleanup of this
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Speaker 8: fourteen million dollar project is ongoing even at this very hour.
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Speaker 8: But given the fact that the fourth of July is
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Speaker 8: right around the corner, to get it ready, they're going
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Speaker 8: to have to work around the clock.
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Speaker 3: Guys.
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Speaker 4: All right, there you go, ladies and gentlemen. What a mess,
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Speaker 4: What a great, big mess. Nine oh one two six
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Speaker 4: the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, there has been a lot
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Speaker 4: of talk about Iran over the week and one of
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Speaker 4: the interesting components of the story, and we're going to
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Speaker 4: get into more of this on the other side of
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Speaker 4: the break here, one of the more interesting components to
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Speaker 4: all of this is that orders have now gone out
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Speaker 4: that and I'm not even sure that these orders came
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Speaker 4: from President Trump. I'm almost fairly certain they have not.
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Speaker 4: But anyone who disagrees with JD Vance has to be destroyed.
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Speaker 4: And that is the message going out on social media
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Speaker 4: that anybody who disagrees with the administration's policy on Iran,
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Speaker 4: which is now as well as of over the weekend,
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Speaker 4: it is now reaching some sort of a peace deal
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Speaker 4: that if you don't support that, if you don't support
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Speaker 4: all of that, that somehow makes you a very bad person.
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Speaker 4: And we're watching over the weekend a number of people
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Speaker 4: on social media platforms who were literally suspended and they
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Speaker 4: were accused of sharing disinformation only because they disagreed with
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Speaker 4: the administration's policies when it comes to Iran and what
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Speaker 4: to do with Iran. And this is a very troubling
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Speaker 4: thing here, folks, And I sort of got pulled into
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Speaker 4: all of this in a very weird, roundabout sort of
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Speaker 4: a way. I know Mark Levin is enraged right now.
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Speaker 4: He doesn't know what's going on. He feels as though JD.
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Speaker 4: Vance is you know, his I don't know his enemy
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Speaker 4: right now. And Levin is on the warpath. Michael Savage
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Speaker 4: is on the warpath against Mark Levin, and then Tucker
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Speaker 4: Carlson just announced and after thirty five years he is
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Speaker 4: no longer a supporter of the Republican Party. Now, my
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Speaker 4: position here has been pretty consistent from day one. I
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Speaker 4: don't believe that Trump is starting a new war, and
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Speaker 4: I don't believe this is going to be a forever war.
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Speaker 4: The fact of the matter is in nineteen seventy nine,
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Speaker 4: In nineteen seventy nine, that's when Iran declared war on
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Speaker 4: the United State. Dates we should have taken care of
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Speaker 4: business back then, but we did not, and instead every
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Speaker 4: other president has kicked the can down the road. Now.
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Speaker 4: I don't know what sort of a deal they're going
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Speaker 4: to end up working out. That remains to be seen.
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Speaker 4: All the information is being held very closer, not showing
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Speaker 4: their cards. So anybody who's out there saying Okay, here's
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Speaker 4: what the deal is. They don't know what they're talking about.
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Speaker 4: They just don't. But still, I don't believe you can
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Speaker 4: trust the Iranians? Do you do you believe that you
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Speaker 4: can actually you can trust the Iranians. They haven't been
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Speaker 4: trustworthy from day one, Ladies and gentleman. So we'll see
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Speaker 4: how all this plays out. But again, as it now stands,
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Speaker 4: there is some sort there is apparently some sort of
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Speaker 4: a deal on the table that would need to be
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Speaker 4: worked out over the next sixty days. That puts us
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Speaker 4: well into August September in the throes of the Campaig
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Speaker 4: and we are still going to be dealing with Iran. Now,
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Speaker 4: the question is what about gas prices? Will oil start
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Speaker 4: flowing through the story to four moves, and if so,
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Speaker 4: how quickly are those gas prices going to come down?
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Speaker 4: That's the big issue on the minds of the consumers.
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Speaker 4: And if gas prices are going to come down, how
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Speaker 4: a little frustrated right now. Are we got to take
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Speaker 4: a break? Nine oh one two six zero five nine
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Speaker 4: Sterns Show. All right, Welcome back everybody, and again our
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Speaker 4: Our telephone number nine oh one two six zero five
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Speaker 4: five nine two six. Let's go to Alabama. Anthony, Anthony,
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Speaker 4: what's on your mind?
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Speaker 10: Good morning there, mister starrs And I'm just want to say,
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Speaker 10: we need more people like you. Would have objected you
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Speaker 10: on the radio. But I've been following this thing going
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Speaker 10: on between Iran and the US, and.
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Speaker 11: I'll tell you what. Trump's falling flat on his face
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Speaker 11: with that. And I just told her call screener that
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Speaker 11: I think past generals and all would really be embarrassed
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Speaker 11: about this. You can't start a war and stop it
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Speaker 11: in the middle and you can't do peace with terrorists.
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Speaker 11: So now you have the IRGC who are still running
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Speaker 11: the country. And I've said this before American people don't
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Speaker 11: have the stomach for it. But you're going to have
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Speaker 11: to put boots on the ground. You cannot bomb people
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Speaker 11: from the air and expect to win a war that way.
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Speaker 11: Now whose boots go on a ground, Well, we really
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Speaker 11: don't know. But Trump started this whole thing and he
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Speaker 11: needs to finish it. And I don't know if you're
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Speaker 11: as frustrated with this as I am, but I've retired
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Speaker 11: from the military and I watched this stuff and I
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Speaker 11: was in Iraq and we finished the job. Finally got
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Speaker 11: said of Hussein kicked that out of the bus. So
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Speaker 11: this thing needs to be finished, and sixty days they're
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Speaker 11: going to take and right up to the big terms.
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Speaker 11: This is going to be a disaster. And another question
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Speaker 11: I have is who is advising Trump? Is Trump thinking
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Speaker 11: all of this up on his own? I mean, to
22:11
Speaker 11: order to deal it ain't here, so you know, I'll
22:14
Speaker 11: let you talk now. But that's that's pretty much my opinion.
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Speaker 11: He needs to finish the job, Anthony.
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Speaker 4: I look, there's a lot to unravel her. First of all,
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Speaker 4: he's clearly there are two sides to this. I think
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Speaker 4: heg Seth and Rubio were on the side of let's
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Speaker 4: go in, let's finish the job, and let's get it done.
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Speaker 4: On the other side, you have Tucker Carlson and Jade
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Speaker 4: Vance and Jared Kushner. And I would say don Trump, Junior,
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Speaker 4: because now all of those guys are out there on
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Speaker 4: social media and they're trying to destroy anybody who have
22:48
Speaker 4: anybody who just said what you said, Anthony is being
22:51
Speaker 4: destroyed on social media right now. I mean, they are
22:53
Speaker 4: literally trying to cancel any conservative who wants to go
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Speaker 4: in and put boots on the ground.
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Speaker 11: Right right, And you're not gonna finish you You can't
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Speaker 11: fight a war just from the air. It's you can't
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Speaker 11: do that. How can you verify that the nuclear materials
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Speaker 11: that they have are going to be secured and that
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Speaker 11: the murderers that are over there? And what about the
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Speaker 11: Iranian people? What's he going to leave them hanging? If
23:18
Speaker 11: he leaves that regime in place, those people are gonna
23:21
Speaker 11: still be stuck in that stuff exactly, And then he
23:24
Speaker 11: says something about getting them help, So he's not keeping
23:27
Speaker 11: his promise to those people. You know what I think
23:30
Speaker 11: about Trump. He makes a lot of threats and he
23:32
Speaker 11: doesn't follow I'm watching, Oh he makes all kinds of
23:35
Speaker 11: threats and he never follows through with him. Going back
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Speaker 11: to the Minnesota thing with the Insurrection Act, he was
23:43
Speaker 11: going to invoke that never invoked it. So what's going
23:46
Speaker 11: on in Minnesota? Nothing's changed. He pulled the ice out
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Speaker 11: of there, That's what he did. So you know, you
23:51
Speaker 11: look at this stuff and said, who's in charge here?
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Speaker 11: Susie Walls of Stephen Miller. Aren't the advisors of him.
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Speaker 11: Maybe they're helping him advise him with poor advice. But
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Speaker 11: I've just sit here watch this stuff, and all you
24:04
Speaker 11: can do is sit back and let the chip shit
24:06
Speaker 11: the floor keep on rolling and when they run out
24:08
Speaker 11: of seam, they'll fall over wherever they fall over. And
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Speaker 11: there's really nothing we can do.
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Speaker 4: No, there's really there's really nothing you can do. The
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Speaker 4: President has clearly aligned himself with JD. Vance. And and
24:23
Speaker 4: here's the challenge. Let's say we reach that sixty days,
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Speaker 4: we're going to be what somewhere in August September, getting
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Speaker 4: close to September. There's what's going to stop Iran from
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Speaker 4: launching another attack at the end of the sixty days.
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Speaker 11: That's exactly right. And another thing is Israel and Hesbela.
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Speaker 11: They shouldn't even be a bargaining chip in this, Trump says,
24:46
Speaker 11: say he jumps all over that Yahoo because that yeah,
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Speaker 11: who's messing up his beautiful piece deal. But yet he
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Speaker 11: needs to tell our end and say, hey, look, uh,
24:59
Speaker 11: Hesbela and Israel are not part of this steal. This
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Speaker 11: deal is between the US and you people who are
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Speaker 11: running O ran right now. But but what it's like,
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Speaker 11: I don't know what to say anymore.
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Speaker 4: Well, Anthony, no, no, no, here's why it should have happened.
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Speaker 4: And and this is this is where I do get frustrated.
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Speaker 4: So over the weekend, it was clear the Iranians were backtracking,
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Speaker 4: and Trump comes out and says, you know what, you're
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Speaker 4: gonna do this, and if you don't, I'm gonna blow
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Speaker 4: up this and your people may not be coming back
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Speaker 4: home from the peace talks. Instead of threatening again, I
25:34
Speaker 4: would have just blown up whatever you're gonna blow up.
25:37
Speaker 4: Send send a direct message to the Iranians, right, he.
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Speaker 11: Throws, He spreads out there, and he doesn't follow through
25:43
Speaker 11: with him. And now the Iranians, I had read an
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Speaker 11: article what are the Ranges are not taking his threats seriously?
25:50
Speaker 11: And I don't blame him, but anyway, I kind of general,
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Speaker 11: you're doing a great job. I love listening or so,
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Speaker 11: and like I said, we need more people in a
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Speaker 11: ratiar like you who are more objective about these things,
26:04
Speaker 11: because you're kind of presented from both sides, you know.
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Speaker 11: But it's some of this stuff is so obvious. I
26:12
Speaker 11: mean I read a lot of comments on on like
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Speaker 11: bright Board and uh and uh the Gateway Pundon and all,
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Speaker 11: and the people are are right with us where they're saying, hey,
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Speaker 11: I didn't vote for this guy to be mediocre and
26:26
Speaker 11: not follow through with this stuff. Yeah, I mean, how
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Speaker 11: are you gonna you.
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Speaker 4: Can, Anthony, I'll give you another example, and then I'm
26:32
Speaker 4: gonna have to go. I gotta let you go, but
26:34
Speaker 4: let me let me just give you another example here.
26:36
Speaker 4: How many times did we hear the Winehouse say we're
26:38
Speaker 4: gonna be defunding any public school that promotes transgenderism or
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Speaker 4: this gender ideology. We I mean, we heard it around
26:46
Speaker 4: the clock. And now when you look, these schools are
26:49
Speaker 4: openly flaunting the rules and regulations from the president's executive orders.
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Speaker 4: And not a single one of these school districts has
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Speaker 4: had any of their federal funding with hell, not a one,
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Speaker 4: not a one.
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Speaker 11: Because lawlessness produces more lawlessness, that's all it does.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And.
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Speaker 11: As you've said, have you seen anybody go to jail?
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Speaker 4: No, you have not seen anybody go to jail. No
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Speaker 4: one's been held accountable for anything anything, All right, Anthony, Yeah,
27:17
Speaker 4: I got I gotta run, Anthony, But I appreciate you
27:19
Speaker 4: call again. Anthony is loaded for bear here everybody. But
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Speaker 4: he's got a lot of points. I mean, he's right
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Speaker 4: that there is a lot of talk. But the question
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Speaker 4: is the follow through nine oh one two six zero
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Speaker 4: someone asked me about immigration, Well, we've got the numbers.
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Speaker 4: According to Homeland Security, only nine hundred thousand illegals have
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Speaker 4: been deported so far during the president's second term. That
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Speaker 4: was as of last May. Now, Homeland Security says more
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Speaker 4: than three million have just voluntarily self deported. Are are
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Speaker 4: you buying that? Are you seeing those those numbers? So
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Speaker 4: if that's the case, then they're saying more than three
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Speaker 4: million people have departed the US. But again, I would
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Speaker 4: contend we've got probably about thirty to forty million illegals
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Speaker 4: actually here in America. I don't believe the ten to
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Speaker 4: twelve million. I certainly don't believe that. But all I'm
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Speaker 4: saying is the administration they've got to be able to
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Speaker 4: back up the tough talk with action here and as
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Speaker 4: soon as these as soon as the Iranians have gone squirrely,
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Speaker 4: I would have hit the button. Okay, we're gonna blow
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Speaker 4: this up. You're gonna keep messing around. Here's here's what's
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Speaker 4: coming up next. I'm just telling you that's how you
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Speaker 4: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. By the way,
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Speaker 4: these uh, these soccer fans from around the world are
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Speaker 4: just the stories are They pretty much take it over
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Speaker 4: social media now. And one guy decided delan to take
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Speaker 4: his son. He's here with his son and they decided
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Speaker 4: to go to a fancy restaurant in Texas, you know,
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Speaker 4: because they wanted to you know, they want a good meal.
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Speaker 4: You want to be able to eat someplace memorable. And
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Speaker 4: so I was thinking, oh, wow, they went to Wharton's
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Speaker 4: or you know, Ruth's, Chris. Where would they where would
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Speaker 4: they go to take their you know, to go out
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Speaker 4: for a fancy meal in Texas of all places. So
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Speaker 4: here's that experience. Cut one.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, I don't know my guy to fancy restaurants, but
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Speaker 12: lock I'm in America with my son. So I'm like,
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Speaker 12: let's got it. Texas Roadhouse. It's unbelievable. First of all,
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Speaker 12: they give you these peanuts. You can eat as many
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Speaker 12: as you want. She's like, yeah, just take a bag.
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Speaker 12: Then they come out and they put this bread on
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Speaker 12: the table and I'm like, I didn't order the bread.
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Speaker 12: It's like, oh, that's free. And it's like and she
31:19
Speaker 12: goes and if you want more bread, would just give
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Speaker 12: you more. And this bread is it's as nice as
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Speaker 12: bread can possibly be. Like, if you're an Australian, try
31:28
Speaker 12: and picture the most unbelievable bread, like subway bread, got
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Speaker 12: this fancy butter, and then they give you the coke
31:36
Speaker 12: of course it's America, so it's unlimited refilled. And then
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Speaker 12: it was all like ribs and steak and chips. There
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Speaker 12: was an onion that had been deep fried and you
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Speaker 12: dip it in the sauce. It's you just leave there
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Speaker 12: so happy. And then Australians all like, yeah, but in
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Speaker 12: America you've got to tip. Now you don't have to tip,
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Speaker 12: you want to tid. These people are the most wonderful
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Speaker 12: people in the world. I don't even know why the
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Speaker 12: Americans are so angry all the time. You guys have
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Speaker 12: Texas ridehouse in your country, you should just be walking
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Speaker 12: around one to hug everybody.
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Speaker 4: I've ever seen someone so happy and overjoyed to be
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Speaker 4: at a Texas roadhouse. By the way, I haven't been
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Speaker 4: there in years, Dylan, And here's what gets me about that.
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Speaker 4: You know, back in the day, they just bring you
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Speaker 4: the peanuts and you'd crack the peanuts and they're just
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Speaker 4: shells all over the floor.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, right. It's so messy in there, But it's
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Speaker 13: like the genuine American experience. I mean, when you go there,
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Speaker 13: it's like the bread cinnamon butter.
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Speaker 4: Cinnamon butter.
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Speaker 13: I mean, you can't really be that at all so.
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Speaker 4: Well, the thing that really surprised me about this was
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Speaker 4: that the peanuts now come in packages, so they've kind
32:52
Speaker 4: of like they've gone upscale, so they just don't bring
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Speaker 4: out the I mean it used to be like, I
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Speaker 4: what a big bowl?
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Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, you just throw them anywhere you want to.
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Speaker 13: They don't care. It's America. But now I guess they're
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Speaker 13: packaging up.
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Speaker 4: I guess. So for the crew, yeah, I guess, But
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Speaker 4: you know, where's the fun in that? But the guy,
33:09
Speaker 4: You know, there's one overarching theme, and this is like
33:12
Speaker 4: across the board. Everybody from over there is shocked at
33:17
Speaker 4: two things. The free refills and the ice.
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Speaker 13: Yeah yeah, free refills is like a you know, a
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Speaker 13: crazy thing for them. They have to pay for refills
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Speaker 13: in their countries, at least in the UK.
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Speaker 4: Well, yes, and there's no ice in Europe. I don't
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Speaker 4: know what the deal is. I went to a hard
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Speaker 4: rock cafe in Rome. This is years ago, and I'm like,
33:39
Speaker 4: where's the ice. You had to ask for ice?
33:42
Speaker 2: Oh you have to ask for it?
33:44
Speaker 4: Oh yeah yeah, your drinks do not come with ice
33:47
Speaker 4: in Europe.
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Speaker 13: I never would have thought that we have a luxury
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Speaker 13: of ice here.
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Speaker 4: Unbelievable. So an air conditioning a parent. Oh that's the
33:55
Speaker 4: other thing. Never go to Italy in the summertime. Most
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Speaker 4: are the smaller hotels than the boutique Cote. They don't
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Speaker 4: have air conditioning. Craziest thing I've ever seen. And then
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Speaker 4: this britt he's talking about three things that America got right.
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Speaker 4: Cut Number two.
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Speaker 14: My ancestors will not like me for saying this, but
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Speaker 14: there are things America does that are better than the UK.
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Speaker 14: And these are three that I can think of right now.
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Speaker 14: So if you're American, let me know if you could
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Speaker 14: live without these things. Number One college sports. In the UK,
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Speaker 14: university sports is basically seven people playing football next to
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Speaker 14: a car park. In America, college sports looks like the
34:31
Speaker 14: Olympics had a baby with the Super Bowl. We're talking
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Speaker 14: sellout crowds, marching bands, fireworks, mascots on a paid salary.
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Speaker 14: I thought people would stop supporting their college teams. Oh no,
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Speaker 14: I asked somebody, how long will you support this team for?
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Speaker 2: You know what they said? Forever?
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Speaker 14: In the UK, our university mascot is just a bloke
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Speaker 14: named Jacob with a stained hoodie. Number two drive through banks.
34:52
Speaker 14: When I first saw one I just thought Americans had
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Speaker 14: become too lazy to commit financial fraud indoors, but honestly
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Speaker 14: incredible idea. In Britain, going to the bank feels like
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Speaker 14: you're attending a council meeting about your financial decline. In America,
35:04
Speaker 14: you can still deposit a check while being emotionally supported
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Speaker 14: by a car seat and a niced coffee. That is
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Speaker 14: innovation and finally, endless refills. This nearly moved me to teas.
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Speaker 14: In Britain, if you ask for another coke, they look
35:15
Speaker 14: at you like you've requested a second mortgage and it'll
35:17
Speaker 14: cost you an extra four British pounds every time. But
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Speaker 14: in America, oh, the waiter just appears every six minutes
35:22
Speaker 14: like some fizzy drink Guardian Angel. Oh they'll keep appearing here.
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Speaker 2: Would you like a refill?
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Speaker 14: Absolutely? I had one sprite in Texas that I'm pretty
35:30
Speaker 14: sure technically never ended. So yeah, they are three things
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Speaker 14: America absolutely got right.
35:36
Speaker 4: Well, it's our pleasure, you know, I mean we had
35:38
Speaker 4: to kick your butt, you know, during the war we
35:40
Speaker 4: get that, well, not once but twice. The second time
35:43
Speaker 4: we took up personally, you burned down our White House
35:46
Speaker 4: for crying out loud, But again, yeah, these are the
35:50
Speaker 4: things that America does and does quite well. I have
35:54
Speaker 4: traveled all over the world. Nothing not a single country
35:59
Speaker 4: measures up to a America, not a one. All right,
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Speaker 4: let's go to Oregon, Andrew, what's on your mind today?
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Speaker 15: I just want to see what you're thoughts on the
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Speaker 15: train to Kurk trial and everything going on surround.
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Speaker 4: Me that what do what do you what do you mean?
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Speaker 9: What?
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Speaker 4: We weren't talking about the Charlie Kirk trial today, but
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Speaker 4: what is there? Is there a particular issue that you
36:21
Speaker 4: wanted to bring up.
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Speaker 2: I'm just I'm.
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Speaker 15: Seeing all this stuff on on them trying to stop
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Speaker 15: certain things being said in the trial about the trains issue,
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Speaker 15: the bullets, keating cameras out the death sinal these but
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Speaker 15: I'm serious.
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Speaker 4: Well yeah, so so look, I've been following the trial,
36:42
Speaker 4: not every single day. I think there's there's a lot
36:46
Speaker 4: of controversy right now over was it was he killed
36:51
Speaker 4: over the transgender issue or is the shooter some sort
36:55
Speaker 4: of of you know, a lanky was you know, there
36:59
Speaker 4: have been allegations that Israel was involved. There's no evidence
37:04
Speaker 4: of that. So it's pretty much all over the place
37:07
Speaker 4: as far as you know, who, who did it and why?
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Speaker 2: All right?
37:15
Speaker 15: I was I was sitting here watching your episode, and
37:19
Speaker 15: it just cover in mind of you obviously knowing him
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Speaker 15: and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: Word.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a it's a terrible it's a terrible
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Speaker 4: thing that that happened, and we've got to get to
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Speaker 4: the bottom of it. For me, I'm all about transparency,
37:33
Speaker 4: you know. I want to know who did it and why.
37:36
Speaker 4: If there were others involved, I think they ought to
37:38
Speaker 4: be held accountable as as well. So you know, it's
37:41
Speaker 4: but it's a are we ever going to get to
37:43
Speaker 4: the bottom of it? Andrew? Probably not, and and that
37:47
Speaker 4: should bother all of us. You know, there's there are
37:50
Speaker 4: a lot of conspiracy theories out there. Do I think
37:53
Speaker 4: that this guy act? I mean, if you're asking me
37:56
Speaker 4: my personal opinion here, I don't think. I don't think
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Speaker 4: we know the full story yet. I really don't.
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Speaker 15: No, I agree with you. I don't think we do,
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Speaker 15: and like you said, I don't think we ever will.
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Speaker 10: And that's unfortunate.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is unfortunate. It should not have to be
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Speaker 4: that way. I think we're you know, we should be
38:13
Speaker 4: at a point in our history and our country where
38:16
Speaker 4: we should be able to handle the truth, no matter
38:17
Speaker 4: how ugly it is. Andrew, I've got to run that
38:20
Speaker 4: music means we've got to scoot out, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 4: five nine two six. Well, America's big Birthday celebration right
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Speaker 4: around the corner, America's two hundred and fiftieth All sorts
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Speaker 4: of celebrations underway. Our next guest has written a terrific
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Speaker 4: book that you need to read called Miracles in American
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Speaker 4: History thirty two amazing stories of answered prayers. Our next
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Speaker 4: guest is a nationally known speaker, has written over twenty
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Speaker 4: books and speaks all over the country. He has a
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Speaker 4: daily radio feature called American Minute. Doctor. We're dishonored to
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Speaker 4: have with us, William Federer, William Hope you're doing well today.
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Speaker 2: Hey Todd, great to be with you.
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Speaker 4: Well, congratulations on this exciting bulk. And I have to
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Speaker 4: imagine what an appropriate time to be talking about miracles
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Speaker 4: in American history.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, well, Teddy Roosevelt said, in no other place, and
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Speaker 16: at no other time has the experiment of government of
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Speaker 16: the people, by the people for the people been tried
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Speaker 16: on too vast scale as here in our own country.
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Speaker 16: So when you look at the span of world history,
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Speaker 16: it's basically kings, Nimrod, Pharaoh, Caesar, Kaiser, sultans are and
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Speaker 16: kings are glorified gang leaders, and it's all top down
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Speaker 16: rule by mandates. And ancient Israel was the first instance
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Speaker 16: of a nation rule bottom up that pre King Sault period,
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Speaker 16: and that was the inspiration for the Puritans and the
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Speaker 16: pilgrims who founded America. So America is an experiment of
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Speaker 16: a polarity change in the flow of set a top
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Speaker 16: down rule by government mandates and spottom up ruled by
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Speaker 16: we the people.
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Speaker 4: I'm wondering, as you were putting together the collection of
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Speaker 4: stories here they're thirty two, did you have a difficult
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Speaker 4: time finding stories of answered prayers in American history?
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Speaker 2: Oh, there's so many of them. Squanto.
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Speaker 16: Here the pilgrims are blown off course land in Massachusetts.
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Speaker 16: Half of them die the first winter, and they wouldn't
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Speaker 16: have survived. But out of the woods comes an Indians
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Speaker 16: speaking to them in perfect English squanto. He had been kidnapped,
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Speaker 16: lived in England for a dozen years, is dropped off
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Speaker 16: the winter before the pilgrim's land, and you can just
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Speaker 16: imagine him walking out of the woods and going to
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Speaker 16: these pilgrims.
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Speaker 2: Hi, you guys from England. Yeah, I used to live there.
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Speaker 16: And he was able to teach him how to catch fish,
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Speaker 16: trade with the Indians, catch beaver skins, and William Bradford
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Speaker 16: says he was a special instrument sent of God for
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Speaker 16: their good, beyond their expectation. So this was an initial
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Speaker 16: miracle in American history. But there's lots and lots more.
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Speaker 4: Give us some examples of a few more.
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Speaker 16: Well, the French and Indian War, George Washington is that
42:11
Speaker 16: his general Edward Braddock is killed, and he takes command
42:15
Speaker 16: and they nine hundred British die, And he gets back
42:19
Speaker 16: to Fort Cumberland and he's writing a letter to his
42:22
Speaker 16: younger brother. He goes, you know, so, like Mark Twain,
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Speaker 16: stories of my death are exaggerated. But he says, by
42:27
Speaker 16: the all powerful dispensations of Providence, I've been protected beyond
42:31
Speaker 16: all human probability. I've had four bullets through my coat
42:34
Speaker 16: and two horses shot out from under me, but escaped unhurt.
42:37
Speaker 16: And of course, if Washington would have died there, he
42:40
Speaker 16: wouldn't have been alive to lead us during the Revolution.
42:44
Speaker 16: But there's lots of stories during the Revolution, and if
42:46
Speaker 16: you want, I can share a couple of those.
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Speaker 3: Sure.
42:51
Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 16: The Battle of Brooklyn Heights. It's the biggest battle of
42:54
Speaker 16: the Revolution and it's the entire American army and the
42:57
Speaker 16: British find a loyalist who leads the British troops through
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Speaker 16: Jamaica Pass to attack Washington from behind. On August twenty seventh,
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Speaker 16: seventeen seventy six, three thousand Americans stye, only three hundred
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Speaker 16: British If we lose here it's over because there's no
43:11
Speaker 16: second string, and Washington's pinned up against the water and
43:15
Speaker 16: he wants to evacuate his troops, but it's obviously the
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Speaker 16: British would see. But his chief of intelligence, Major Ben Talmud,
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Speaker 16: says the next morning that a providential fog obscured both
43:31
Speaker 16: camps and allowed the entire American Army to evacuate. He says,
43:37
Speaker 16: those of us that remained in the trenches became very
43:39
Speaker 16: anxious for our own safety, and when the dawn appeared,
43:41
Speaker 16: there were a sub regiments still on duty.
43:43
Speaker 2: This time a very dense.
43:44
Speaker 16: Fog begin to rise off the river and settle in
43:46
Speaker 16: a peculiar manner over both encampments. Well, Washington's on the
43:49
Speaker 16: last boat that leaves. The fog lives. The British charge,
43:52
Speaker 16: no one's there. The war could have been over right then,
43:55
Speaker 16: but it didn't. And there's others and even one like
43:59
Speaker 16: Bennedict Arnold.
44:02
Speaker 4: William Federer is joining us on our Patriot Mobile newsmaker
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44:13
Speaker 4: know it's interesting, William. As we get ready to celebrate
44:17
Speaker 4: America's two fifty is just shocking to me that there
44:21
Speaker 4: are so many people that are standing up and opposing
44:24
Speaker 4: a lot of the celebrations, and I think maybe their
44:27
Speaker 4: hatred of President Trump is clouding their patriotism, or maybe
44:31
Speaker 4: they just really don't like America.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, there's a globalist trend and one of the books
44:39
Speaker 16: I did on socialism, it's called deconstruction, where you separated
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Speaker 16: people from their past, get him into a neutral where
44:44
Speaker 16: they don't remember where they came from, and then you
44:46
Speaker 16: can brainwash them into the future you have planned for them.
44:50
Speaker 2: It's a sales technique.
44:51
Speaker 16: If I was a toothpaste salesman, the first thing I
44:53
Speaker 16: do is tell you a bunch of negative stuff about
44:56
Speaker 16: the toothpaste you're currently using. You're still brushing with that stuff,
44:59
Speaker 16: O pulse by it. Now I have you in a neutral,
45:01
Speaker 16: your open mind died. What are all the toothpastes out there?
45:04
Speaker 16: Then I give you my pitch for this brand new
45:06
Speaker 16: target controlled breast thresher.
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Speaker 2: So that's what they do.
45:08
Speaker 16: They go into the classrooms and intentionally tell the kids
45:10
Speaker 16: bad things about the founders. They took a love from Indians,
45:13
Speaker 16: they sold people into slavery, forget the fact they gave
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Speaker 16: you a country where you're in charge of your life
45:17
Speaker 16: and all of us together are in charge of the country.
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Speaker 2: Forget that they're all bad.
45:20
Speaker 16: And so the kids are now in a neutral who say, hey,
45:22
Speaker 16: let's have a comparative religion classes to start with Islam. Oh,
45:25
Speaker 16: the semester ends we didn't get around to get around
45:27
Speaker 16: to Christianity, and then they give their push for LGBT,
45:31
Speaker 16: trans socialism, Islamism, whatever.
45:35
Speaker 2: And Europe went through this.
45:36
Speaker 16: Who went from a Judeo Christian Europe to a secular
45:38
Speaker 16: French revolution, free sex, anything goes. Now it's turning into
45:41
Speaker 16: a socialist Islamic Europe with Muhammad b being the number
45:44
Speaker 16: one name for newborns. But when you look at the
45:47
Speaker 16: real history, America has this miraculous history of trusting God
45:52
Speaker 16: in times of crises, with even days of fasting and prayer,
45:56
Speaker 16: like when the British burned the White House James Mattison
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Speaker 16: and had a day of fasting and prayer to Almighty God.
46:03
Speaker 4: I'm curious when I don't know if you've been watching
46:07
Speaker 4: many of the interviews from the European tourists coming to America,
46:11
Speaker 4: really from all over the world. Have they been coming
46:13
Speaker 4: to America and they've just been genuinely shocked and surprised
46:17
Speaker 4: at how nice the country is, how nice the people are.
46:21
Speaker 4: And I think they may be buying it. They have
46:24
Speaker 4: been bought into this national narrative that America, you know,
46:28
Speaker 4: is the big Satan, you know, the responsible for all
46:31
Speaker 4: the evil in the world, and they come here and
46:33
Speaker 4: they find out that's just simply not true after all.
46:37
Speaker 16: Yeah, there was one from France that I saw and
46:40
Speaker 16: he said, nobody in France smiles at you when you
46:43
Speaker 16: walk down the street. He goes, every single person smiles
46:46
Speaker 16: and asks how I'm doing. And one girl was eating
46:49
Speaker 16: an in and out burger and she goes, this is
46:51
Speaker 16: the best burg I've ever had, And she said, there's
46:53
Speaker 16: even scripture Versus on the bottom.
46:54
Speaker 2: Of the cup.
46:56
Speaker 16: But yeah, this is a land where we have freedom.
47:01
Speaker 16: And in Europe they're putting people in jail for forwarding
47:05
Speaker 16: a tweet.
47:06
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous.
47:07
Speaker 4: I think though that, you know, when you were talking
47:09
Speaker 4: about what's happening in our nation's education system, and my
47:13
Speaker 4: greatest concern is that we have not gotten that fixed
47:16
Speaker 4: just yet. And that is a crucial component to fix
47:20
Speaker 4: because I think that American kids, at least where the
47:23
Speaker 4: past couple of generations have been taught that there's something
47:26
Speaker 4: wrong with us, that there's something wrong with our way
47:29
Speaker 4: of life and we've got to fix that.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, they've gone from telling the Christian history to ignoring
47:37
Speaker 16: the Christian history. Now they're teaching that Christianity is the
47:39
Speaker 16: problem with the world and that Islam is wonderful. And
47:42
Speaker 16: it's like, wait a second, people forget that Mohammad was
47:46
Speaker 16: a warrior and Islam and slave tens of millions of Africans,
47:50
Speaker 16: and they sort of gloss over that that in America
47:54
Speaker 16: has the first place to have a war to free
47:56
Speaker 16: slaves that's never happened in an Islamic country.
48:00
Speaker 2: Are unique in America.
48:01
Speaker 16: And it comes down to we get rights from a creator,
48:05
Speaker 16: not the government. And then the government's purpose is to
48:08
Speaker 16: guarantee to us our creator given rights. And this creator
48:13
Speaker 16: is not a respect or person, so we're all equal.
48:15
Speaker 16: These are all biblical ideas.
48:19
Speaker 4: All right. So again the book here, folks, Miracles and
48:22
Speaker 4: American History, thirty two amazing stories of Answered prayer. William.
48:27
Speaker 4: Where can people go if they want to get a
48:29
Speaker 4: copy of the book.
48:31
Speaker 16: Well, thank you, tod it's Americanminute dot Com. American Minute
48:35
Speaker 16: dot com. And we go from the revolution in the
48:37
Speaker 16: War of eighteen twelve and eighteen forty nine cholera epidemic
48:40
Speaker 16: where the President Zachary Taylor had a day of fasting
48:42
Speaker 16: and prayer. Even Woodrow Wilson had a day of fasting
48:45
Speaker 16: and prayer when we entered World War One. We tell
48:47
Speaker 16: the Sergeant Alvin York story and Patent's d Day prayer story,
48:51
Speaker 16: and even Richard Nixon DEPAULA thirteen right when he had
48:55
Speaker 16: a day of prayer. And so these are times in
48:57
Speaker 16: our country's past where there's a crisis, they pray and
48:59
Speaker 16: things turn and it needs to build our faith. So
49:02
Speaker 16: God will do it again.
49:03
Speaker 4: All right, folks, got to get yourself a copy Americanminute
49:06
Speaker 4: dot com. That's Americanminute dot Com. William, We're gonna have
49:10
Speaker 4: to leave it there, but be sure to appreciate you
49:12
Speaker 4: joining us today and handy fourth of July. We're giving
49:15
Speaker 4: you an early handy fourth of July.
49:18
Speaker 16: Well, same to you, Todd and all the wonderful viewers
49:21
Speaker 16: and listeners.
49:22
Speaker 4: All right, William Federer, ladies and gentlemen, on our Patriot
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49:33
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49:37
Speaker 4: be checking in with our good buddy Ralph read the
49:40
Speaker 4: Road to the Majority Conference coming up in our nation's
49:42
Speaker 4: capital this week. Also, Paul Renner is running for governor
49:48
Speaker 4: there in the great state of Florida. We're gonna be
49:50
Speaker 4: talking with him as well. What a big mess that
49:54
Speaker 4: is down there. And by the way, what's going on
49:57
Speaker 4: in the state of Georgia. So over the weekend there
50:00
Speaker 4: were I was getting reports of this, and so I'm
50:03
Speaker 4: going to need some help from our Georgia listeners. But
50:05
Speaker 4: apparently the Republicans were throwing some sort of a big rodeo.
50:09
Speaker 4: They were rolling out all their candidates and hardly anybody
50:13
Speaker 4: showed up. And one of the things I'm hearing is,
50:16
Speaker 4: and this is a this is something we have heard
50:19
Speaker 4: in Tennessee and other places that the Republican establishment shoving
50:24
Speaker 4: aside grassroots supporters and as a result, they are damping
50:30
Speaker 4: the enthusiasm heading into the midterms. But that was a
50:34
Speaker 4: shocker to see so many empty seats there at the
50:37
Speaker 4: Georgia Republican Party's big rodeo. Nine oh one two six
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Speaker 4: zero five nine two six. Our telephone number, that's nine
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Speaker 4: oh one two six zero five nine two six. This
50:48
Speaker 4: is the Todd Starn Show. All right, Welcome back everybody.
51:02
Speaker 4: And Friday, I was invited to say a few words
51:05
Speaker 4: at a political event. There's a big barbecue center in Piperton, Tennessee.
51:11
Speaker 4: It was a really good turnout, about one hundred and
51:15
Speaker 4: fifty people turning out on a Friday night for free
51:18
Speaker 4: barbecue and to hear from State Senator Brent Taylor. Senator
51:22
Speaker 4: Taylor is running to be the next congressman in the
51:26
Speaker 4: newly created ninth Congressional district. And one of the things
51:31
Speaker 4: I said, and I told the crowd, is that our
51:34
Speaker 4: greatest enemy is going to be complacency. And we have
51:38
Speaker 4: seen this play out in Republican race after Republican race
51:42
Speaker 4: since Trump got e liked it, and for whatever reason,
51:45
Speaker 4: Republican voters are demoralized and they're just not getting out
51:49
Speaker 4: in voting. I mean, that's just the bottom line. So anyway,
51:52
Speaker 4: over the weekend, there was this big hullabaloo in Georgia.
51:56
Speaker 4: They were supposed to have a huge rodeo sponsored by
52:00
Speaker 4: the Republican Party in Georgia. They were rolling out all
52:03
Speaker 4: of their candidates, and I mean it looked like hardly
52:07
Speaker 4: anybody showed up. I mean the video cameras and a
52:11
Speaker 4: lot of conservatives, And I guess there's a lot of
52:13
Speaker 4: infighting right now in Georgia between the grassroots and the establishment,
52:18
Speaker 4: and as a result, people are taking some shots. Look,
52:22
Speaker 4: same thing is happening in Tennessee. Same thing is happening
52:25
Speaker 4: in Florida where they don't want anybody debating Byron Donald's
52:29
Speaker 4: which is a weird thing. And we're going to get
52:30
Speaker 4: to that in just a little while. But anyway, let's
52:32
Speaker 4: go to the phones here. Nine oh one two six
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Speaker 4: zero five nine two six David in Gainesville, Georgia, listening
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Speaker 4: to us on WDU and David, what do you make
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Speaker 4: of this the no show radio rodeo?
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Speaker 17: Hey, buddy, how you doing. I'm glad to get on
52:47
Speaker 17: your show. I love listening to your great America.
52:50
Speaker 9: Thank you.
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Speaker 17: I'm actually on trump Forced team when he was elected
52:56
Speaker 17: in twenty twenty four, and we heard nothing about the rodeo.
53:00
Speaker 17: There's no billboards, no signs, no public any advertisement whatsoever.
53:06
Speaker 17: That's some kicktok no nothing, and so that's probably reason
53:10
Speaker 17: as low turnout. It was just nobody knew anything about it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's not the first time I've heard that complaint.
53:17
Speaker 4: You know, there's just not a lot of promotion, not
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Speaker 4: a lot of marketing. Uh, you would think for something
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Speaker 4: that big, I mean, if they're going to use that
53:23
Speaker 4: as they're big, like Wooho Rodeo, that they would be
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Speaker 4: promoting it out the.
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Speaker 17: Wazoo exactly exactly. And you know, Trump been a little
53:32
Speaker 17: bit wish you wasched young things too. It's not up
53:35
Speaker 17: in any of I mean, he wants together and he
53:37
Speaker 17: said he's not giving Iran money. Now he is giving
53:39
Speaker 17: Iran money, and nobody knows what's going on. So you know,
53:43
Speaker 17: but like I say, pretty much we just didn't know
53:45
Speaker 17: anything about it.
53:47
Speaker 4: Well that's I mean, that is good to know, but
53:49
Speaker 4: it's also a little concerning because we've got a lot
53:53
Speaker 4: writing on what happens in November and it's all hands
53:56
Speaker 4: on deck. David, do you think the Republicans there in Jordan,
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Speaker 4: at least leadership wise, are doing what they need to
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Speaker 4: do to get everybody you know, jazzed up here?
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Speaker 17: Not at all, Not at all. But I'm sure they're
54:08
Speaker 17: still getting paid for it.
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Speaker 4: No doubt about that. Why do you think that is
54:15
Speaker 4: the Wait? Who's that?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Hello wife, Hi Debbie, what were you saying?
54:23
Speaker 18: I said, the volunteers are not really good. They're not
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Speaker 18: out in force like you would think they would be either.
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Speaker 4: You know, we have seen, and I've just seen firsthand
54:33
Speaker 4: that grassroots Conservatives, the volunteers, the folks that would get
54:37
Speaker 4: out there and just work their rear ends off, they
54:40
Speaker 4: just get shoved to the side. And it's it's the
54:43
Speaker 4: craziest thing. And it just seems to me that you
54:45
Speaker 4: would want those people involved, because those are the worker bees.
54:51
Speaker 17: Well, in twenty twenty four, they gave me a list
54:53
Speaker 17: of Republicans I hadn't voted yet, and I went door
54:56
Speaker 17: to door, you know, to help them, offer them arrived
55:00
Speaker 17: the poles or whatever they need to do to be
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Speaker 17: able to vote.
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Speaker 19: And I have heard a.
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Speaker 17: Thing nothing about the mid terms. Nothing. Oh, we did
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Speaker 17: get a visit from Doug what was the name, Mike Codds, Yeah,
55:14
Speaker 17: Mark Collins and hate We got a yard sign, but
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Speaker 17: that was the only one that we had whatever.
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Speaker 4: So anyway, well, David, I appreciate the update. I wish
55:23
Speaker 4: I could tell you I was surprised. We were hearing
55:26
Speaker 4: some similar stories in Texas, by the way, when I
55:30
Speaker 4: I was boots on the ground there a couple of
55:32
Speaker 4: months ago and hearing the same sorts of things. So
55:35
Speaker 4: it does make you wonder what's going on here and
55:38
Speaker 4: why Republican parties across the country are basically shoving the
55:42
Speaker 4: grassroots conservatives off to the side. That is something that
55:47
Speaker 4: should be concerning. And folks, I'm telling you this is
55:51
Speaker 4: a wake up call. You've got to make sure that
55:55
Speaker 4: you do not demoralize the base. Nine oh one two
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Speaker 4: not a good look. I mean, you've got basically this
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Speaker 4: huge stage, all this dirt. I don't even see any
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Speaker 4: cows or horses or whatever you do at a rodeo.
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Speaker 4: I haven' happened to a rodeo in a long time.
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Speaker 4: But more dirt than people. That's that's never a good
56:26
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Speaker 4: to us on WDUN. Hi, Tom, what's on your mind today?
58:54
Speaker 20: It just courge your conversation about the Georgia Rodeo. It
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Speaker 20: was a funny. I'm a Georgia committee person and I
59:05
Speaker 20: received I think it was last week. It had been
59:08
Speaker 20: within ten days an email from our head of the
59:13
Speaker 20: Georgia GOP Josh mccoon talking about the radio that was
59:17
Speaker 20: the only piece of literature I received on promotion. The
59:22
Speaker 20: real reason nobody turned out at the state convention would
59:26
Speaker 20: be over a year ago. The establishment basically stole the
59:31
Speaker 20: thing and basically did everything they could defend their nose
59:36
Speaker 20: at mega and so if that's why, and another data
59:41
Speaker 20: point in the last primary runoff only seven and a
59:46
Speaker 20: half percent of registered Republicans voting.
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Speaker 4: Wow that low? Are you kidding me? That low in Georgia.
59:54
Speaker 20: Seven and a half percent. That's abysmal.
59:58
Speaker 4: That's your shock? Why is that? Have you guys been?
1:00:01
Speaker 4: I mean, if I'm let me put it this way,
1:00:03
Speaker 4: if I'm the chair of the party, I'm holding emergency
1:00:06
Speaker 4: meetings trying to figure out what the heck happened.
1:00:10
Speaker 20: He needs to resign. There is no leadership. It's a
1:00:14
Speaker 20: ship without a rudder, it's a ship without an engine.
1:00:18
Speaker 20: It's a real joke.
1:00:20
Speaker 15: I'm very involved.
1:00:22
Speaker 20: I do what I do, but it's just I to
1:00:28
Speaker 20: talk about it for hours. But the bottom line is
1:00:31
Speaker 20: we are almost like a Titanic as the State GOP.
1:00:35
Speaker 20: It has to be done by grassroots because the establishment
1:00:39
Speaker 20: is just a failure.
1:00:41
Speaker 4: Are you guys going to be able to muster the
1:00:43
Speaker 4: troops you need to, for example, beat John oss Off
1:00:47
Speaker 4: and take back one of those Senate seats.
1:00:50
Speaker 20: For a good question, I would say, right today, the
1:00:53
Speaker 20: odds are against that. No passion, there's no organization, you know,
1:00:59
Speaker 20: there's no leadership.
1:01:02
Speaker 4: It's concerning. And again, Georgia was identified early on as
1:01:06
Speaker 4: one of the battleground states that Republicans really needed to win.
1:01:10
Speaker 4: It by the way, nationwide, Republicans are crushing it and
1:01:14
Speaker 4: they've got millions of dollars in the bank. Democrats are
1:01:18
Speaker 4: in the negative. They are in negative dollar range right now.
1:01:21
Speaker 4: So the Republicans, at least from the financial side, they've
1:01:25
Speaker 4: got a massive edge. The question is what are they
1:01:29
Speaker 4: doing with that moddy and on the state level, what
1:01:32
Speaker 4: is being done to mobilize people and energize the base.
1:01:36
Speaker 4: And I am telling you Tom, I have seen this
1:01:38
Speaker 4: in Texas. I've seen it here in Tennessee. We're watching
1:01:43
Speaker 4: it play out right now for example at North Carolina
1:01:46
Speaker 4: and now in Georgia. That tells me we have got
1:01:50
Speaker 4: a problem and we've got to fix it. We've got
1:01:53
Speaker 4: to fix it because we have too much at stake
1:01:55
Speaker 4: in November, you sure there.
1:01:57
Speaker 15: Are country is at stake.
1:02:00
Speaker 20: If the Democrats gets the House and the Senate, they
1:02:03
Speaker 20: will impeach Trump. That is the plan.
1:02:07
Speaker 4: Oh, no doubt about, No doubt about that. That's why
1:02:10
Speaker 4: I don't care if they're the most liberal Republicans out there.
1:02:13
Speaker 4: You got to vote Republican because we've got to save
1:02:16
Speaker 4: the president from this and Donald Trump doesn't deserve any
1:02:19
Speaker 4: of it. None of this is his font by the way,
1:02:21
Speaker 4: I mean, this is Donald Trump's doing what he promised
1:02:23
Speaker 4: to do. I think a lot of the blowback coming
1:02:26
Speaker 4: from the fact we've elected people who are not living
1:02:29
Speaker 4: up to their campaign promises on the Republican side of
1:02:31
Speaker 4: the aisle. And number two, you've got state parties where
1:02:35
Speaker 4: they're trying to shove the grassroots volunteers out of the picture.
1:02:40
Speaker 4: And when you do that, you demoralize the base.
1:02:44
Speaker 2: Of the party.
1:02:45
Speaker 20: No question, no question. The Republican Party needs to run
1:02:49
Speaker 20: on the successes of Trump bringing back jobs to America.
1:02:54
Speaker 20: It's the American system that has to be the flag
1:02:58
Speaker 20: that they carry.
1:03:00
Speaker 4: All right, Well, Tom, thank you for the call and
1:03:03
Speaker 4: thank you for the heads up there, And I guess
1:03:06
Speaker 4: it makes I guess it makes sense. It's so frustrating
1:03:11
Speaker 4: to me. And I saw this play out firsthand and
1:03:13
Speaker 4: and up close and personal, and it was ugly. And
1:03:16
Speaker 4: I will just say this that local Republican politics is
1:03:20
Speaker 4: a whole lot uglier than national politics. And some of
1:03:24
Speaker 4: these people, and let me, can I just say it
1:03:27
Speaker 4: in some of these cases the Christian Republicans, Wow, talk
1:03:31
Speaker 4: about the devil. I'm just I'm just telling you it
1:03:35
Speaker 4: is ugly. So all that to say is that there
1:03:38
Speaker 4: doesn't need there's no need for the ugliness none whatsoever.
1:03:42
Speaker 4: But I do know that once Trump leaves, you know,
1:03:46
Speaker 4: Trump is going to be gone, and in two years
1:03:48
Speaker 4: he'll be He'll be gone, and there will be a
1:03:51
Speaker 4: civil war like you have never seen for control of
1:03:55
Speaker 4: the Republican Party. It's it's going to be insane because
1:03:58
Speaker 4: right now the establishment they don't really have control. I mean,
1:04:01
Speaker 4: they have control of the states, but not nationally. Trump's
1:04:04
Speaker 4: in control, but you watch, it's going to be an ugly,
1:04:08
Speaker 4: ugly battle. And as bad as things are with us,
1:04:10
Speaker 4: I mean the Democrats, they're gone, I mean their party.
1:04:14
Speaker 4: I was listening to my good buddy Doug Showan, who's
1:04:17
Speaker 4: a Democrat and Doug Shown said last night on a
1:04:20
Speaker 4: Fox News channel that his party has gone. It's been
1:04:23
Speaker 4: taken over by the radical progressives. It's it's done.
1:04:30
Speaker 2: All right.
1:04:30
Speaker 4: Let's go to the phones here, Mike in Gainesville, Georgia.
1:04:33
Speaker 4: W D you and our great affiliate there, Mike, what's
1:04:36
Speaker 4: on your mind? Hello, Mike?
1:04:41
Speaker 21: Yes, yes, Tom got a letter to O the day
1:04:45
Speaker 21: I've been I've got a rich person. I'm old man,
1:04:48
Speaker 21: but I do send money. And they finished because show
1:04:53
Speaker 21: money for the the party two or three times amount
1:04:56
Speaker 21: of records. I got a letter the other day that
1:05:00
Speaker 21: they were gonna discard me from the uh, the Republican organization.
1:05:05
Speaker 21: I've been trying to remember. I could set a card
1:05:07
Speaker 21: and everything, okay, but a week before that i'd set
1:05:10
Speaker 21: up got a letter day the Sumner's I d a
1:05:14
Speaker 21: vice president and I sent some money to him before that.
1:05:17
Speaker 21: And I still got a letter from that, and I
1:05:21
Speaker 21: did I said the same thing. I wiped my hands up.
1:05:24
Speaker 21: I ain't he gonna miss my money. But you know,
1:05:26
Speaker 21: just a few dollars here, a few dollars there. That
1:05:30
Speaker 21: casts a lot of money.
1:05:32
Speaker 4: So what were they so? So you you got you've
1:05:34
Speaker 4: been giving them money and what do they want more money?
1:05:37
Speaker 3: Is that?
1:05:37
Speaker 2: What is that?
1:05:38
Speaker 4: What that was all about?
1:05:39
Speaker 21: That? Yes, that's what it is. That's no problem with that.
1:05:42
Speaker 21: I go. I don't give a big amount, don't get
1:05:44
Speaker 21: me wrong, but and I have been sending more than
1:05:47
Speaker 21: two more than three times money and not much. But uh,
1:05:52
Speaker 21: I'm a Republican. But I'm about to change my mind.
1:05:57
Speaker 21: Then getting a letter.
1:05:58
Speaker 4: Like that, dude, what did the letter say? What did
1:06:01
Speaker 4: the letters say?
1:06:02
Speaker 21: Mike, Okay, I need send some more money to him.
1:06:06
Speaker 21: He's short. I can't remember exactly the word for it.
1:06:09
Speaker 21: If I didn't send to my money, they'll take me
1:06:11
Speaker 21: off the membership of.
1:06:13
Speaker 15: The brother's party.
1:06:15
Speaker 21: They sent me up, Yes, yes, sir. They sent me
1:06:18
Speaker 21: a press card like a like a credit card number
1:06:22
Speaker 21: and everything was was the president picture on it and
1:06:24
Speaker 21: everything about there or three four months ago and more
1:06:28
Speaker 21: than that. I guess there's been a long time.
1:06:30
Speaker 2: Wow. You know what?
1:06:31
Speaker 4: You know what I did, Mike? When they kicked the
1:06:34
Speaker 4: grass roots out, I said, well, if they don't want
1:06:35
Speaker 4: the grass roots, they sure don't want my money. So
1:06:38
Speaker 4: I just stopped sending him anything.
1:06:41
Speaker 21: That's what I did. That's what I'm going there.
1:06:43
Speaker 3: Well, good for you a lot of things.
1:06:45
Speaker 21: I'm sorry.
1:06:46
Speaker 3: The brothers.
1:06:47
Speaker 21: The party needs to needs to budget. I don't know
1:06:50
Speaker 21: in charge all of them, but something needs to be done.
1:06:53
Speaker 21: I don't know what. I'm just the old man sitting
1:06:55
Speaker 21: around and lifted. I can get out in politics. But
1:06:59
Speaker 21: he's not even good shape out gamefield, Jilly. Our president
1:07:03
Speaker 21: is not.
1:07:06
Speaker 4: All right, Mike. I appreciate that call. You sound like
1:07:09
Speaker 4: a great American patriot to me, sir, But my goodness,
1:07:13
Speaker 4: that's know at all seriousness. They were like, well, we
1:07:17
Speaker 4: don't We really don't want your opinion. We want your money.
1:07:20
Speaker 4: And I'm like, okay, well you're not going to get either,
1:07:22
Speaker 4: but good luck to you. This story out of Florida,
1:07:26
Speaker 4: this is just a disgusting story of Florida math teacher
1:07:31
Speaker 4: could lose her teaching certificate. We've got the story up
1:07:34
Speaker 4: at Todd Sterns dot com. She could lose her teaching
1:07:37
Speaker 4: certificate after she told students quote, Trump deserves a bullet
1:07:42
Speaker 4: through the head. The Education Commissioner Anastasios Comantsas, says Hazel
1:07:52
Speaker 4: Washburn made that statement in class at Land o' Lakes
1:07:55
Speaker 4: High School. In October, they named a school after Butter
1:07:59
Speaker 4: who would have thought. The Florida Education Commissioner says, I
1:08:05
Speaker 4: found probable cause to pursue sanctions against her teaching certificate
1:08:09
Speaker 4: and will take every available step to ensure she never
1:08:12
Speaker 4: teaches again. Teachers are entrusted with shaping young minds and
1:08:16
Speaker 4: must foster civil discourse. Celebrating or encouraging violence is fundamentally
1:08:22
Speaker 4: inconsistent with that responsibility and will not be tolerated. And
1:08:27
Speaker 4: I'm just telling you an alarming number of teachers are
1:08:31
Speaker 4: using their taxpayer funded classrooms to create armies of radical
1:08:35
Speaker 4: left wing militants. This is why, by the way, you've
1:08:38
Speaker 4: got these young people out there that are turning themselves
1:08:41
Speaker 4: into snipers, trying to kill people that are conservative, including
1:08:46
Speaker 4: our great president. So again it goes back to something
1:08:50
Speaker 4: we talked about in the first hour of the show today.
1:08:53
Speaker 4: When is the Department of Education going to be defunded
1:08:56
Speaker 4: and dismantled? When are we going to officially return control
1:09:02
Speaker 4: of these taxpayer funded schools back to the states and
1:09:04
Speaker 4: local communities. When is that going to happen? Because that's
1:09:07
Speaker 4: the only way you're gonna be able to get a
1:09:08
Speaker 4: handle and all this stuff. And I want somebody at
1:09:11
Speaker 4: Land o Lakes High School there in Florida. To explain
1:09:15
Speaker 4: to me what shooting President Trump in the head has
1:09:19
Speaker 4: to do with mathematics. That's what I want to know,
1:09:22
Speaker 4: all right. We got to take a break here, folks.
1:09:24
Speaker 4: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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Speaker 4: Our telephone number, that's nine oh one two six zero
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Speaker 10: Oh boy, oh.
1:09:40
Speaker 4: Boy, Dylan, we got a little problem here. I knew
1:09:44
Speaker 4: this was going to happen when you've got so many
1:09:46
Speaker 4: foreigners over here and sometimes things are going to get
1:09:50
Speaker 4: lost in translation. And Dylan, we've we've got a problem.
1:09:54
Speaker 2: Uh.
1:09:55
Speaker 4: British guy wanted to go work out, and you know
1:09:57
Speaker 4: they give you all the PaperWorks you got to fill out, right,
1:09:59
Speaker 4: se a fellow on the paperwork. And so the guy
1:10:02
Speaker 4: he's from Scotland, I said, he's England, he's from He's Scottish.
1:10:06
Speaker 4: And he told the lady, the GEM receptionist, excuse me,
1:10:11
Speaker 4: can I get a rubber? And she said she kind
1:10:15
Speaker 4: of freaked out, and she goes, excuse me. He goes, yeah,
1:10:18
Speaker 4: I need a rubber so I can rub this out.
1:10:24
Speaker 4: And he's making it worse as he's going on. Finally,
1:10:28
Speaker 4: finally she figured out that that's what they actually call
1:10:31
Speaker 4: the eraser on the end of a pencil.
1:10:34
Speaker 13: Okay, a rubber a rubber.
1:10:37
Speaker 4: No, No, that's that's a tough one. There's a something
1:10:43
Speaker 4: got lost in translation. Poor guy, he almost became a
1:10:46
Speaker 4: registered sex offender. I'm glad they all shared a good
1:10:52
Speaker 4: laugh about it, but you know, I'm just it depends.
1:10:55
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're in a it depends on what
1:10:57
Speaker 4: part of the country you're in. That's either a pretty
1:10:59
Speaker 4: darn for any joke or you're going to jail. And
1:11:02
Speaker 4: there's true, there's not much. There's not much wiggle round.
1:11:06
Speaker 4: It's kind of like, do you want to go smoke
1:11:07
Speaker 4: a fag? Right here in America that would mean you
1:11:12
Speaker 4: want to go shoot somebody who's gay, But over in
1:11:15
Speaker 4: the UK it means that you want to go smoke
1:11:17
Speaker 4: a cigarette.
1:11:18
Speaker 13: Yeah, very very different meanings.
1:11:20
Speaker 4: Big time yus.
1:11:22
Speaker 13: See, sorry, we don't say that over here. No, take
1:11:28
Speaker 13: that back to your country, that's right.
1:11:30
Speaker 2: That's.
1:11:32
Speaker 4: Oh boy, oh boy. All right, So just just be careful, folks,
1:11:37
Speaker 4: that's all. Just be careful. And if they're talking with
1:11:39
Speaker 4: an accent, they probably don't have a clue what they're
1:11:42
Speaker 4: talking about. So just bear with them. Uh, let's go
1:11:45
Speaker 4: to Kathy and Salem or again listening to us on
1:11:48
Speaker 4: k y K and Hi Kathy, what's going on?
1:11:52
Speaker 22: Kay?
1:11:53
Speaker 18: Have you heard all of the uh Europeans that are
1:11:56
Speaker 18: here for the FIFA soccer game. They're loving our country.
1:12:02
Speaker 4: They do love America.
1:12:04
Speaker 18: They're saying their governments are just lying to them about us.
1:12:09
Speaker 2: I love it, It's true. I do too.
1:12:12
Speaker 4: I think it's a beautiful thing. I think this has
1:12:14
Speaker 4: done more for world relations than anything else.
1:12:18
Speaker 15: I agree.
1:12:19
Speaker 18: I have a comment about the school fund defunding schools,
1:12:24
Speaker 18: and I have no idea why they haven't done it.
1:12:27
Speaker 18: I've been hearing about it for two years. Why don't
1:12:32
Speaker 18: we give the school system the choice. You can either
1:12:37
Speaker 18: be defunded or we're putting cameras in the classroom.
1:12:42
Speaker 23: Let's them you.
1:12:43
Speaker 4: Oh, I love that idea, Kathy. So basically, if the comps,
1:12:47
Speaker 4: you know, comps are wearing body cameras, so we ought
1:12:50
Speaker 4: to put cameras in the classrooms.
1:12:52
Speaker 20: Yep, they don't want cameras in the classrooms.
1:12:55
Speaker 18: I mean they were up in arms about that when
1:12:58
Speaker 18: it's brought up. But Kay, will either defund you or
1:13:03
Speaker 18: this is what it's going to be.
1:13:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, Canthy, I love this idea. Yeah, this is good.
1:13:14
Speaker 4: This is good. Kathy.
1:13:16
Speaker 18: Okay, that's all I had to say.
1:13:18
Speaker 4: Well, thank you for thank you for calling in Kathy
1:13:21
Speaker 4: from Oregon. But yeah, I you know, I think I
1:13:25
Speaker 4: do wonder though, with the cameras in the classroom, would
1:13:28
Speaker 4: that cut down on a lot of all of this danciness?
1:13:31
Speaker 4: Do I think it would? By the way, over the weekend,
1:13:36
Speaker 4: I don't know if you if you saw the the
1:13:39
Speaker 4: US Open, Dylan, there was a great moment Miles Russell.
1:13:44
Speaker 4: I think he finished seventh overall. Seventeen year old kid,
1:13:50
Speaker 4: great Golfer're going to be going to Florida. I leave
1:13:52
Speaker 4: Florida State to play college golf. So anyway, it's Father's Day,
1:13:58
Speaker 4: and so he decided to put a little joke on
1:14:02
Speaker 4: his dad, and so his dad was summoned over and
1:14:06
Speaker 4: it turned out that the caddy took off his caddy
1:14:11
Speaker 4: you know, blazer, and gave it to the dad, and
1:14:13
Speaker 4: so the dad got to be his son's caddy on
1:14:16
Speaker 4: the last toll of the eighteenth FLD.
1:14:18
Speaker 13: Oh.
1:14:18
Speaker 4: It was pretty awesome.
1:14:19
Speaker 2: It's heartwarming.
1:14:20
Speaker 4: But then there was like then there was chaos. I
1:14:23
Speaker 4: guess there was a lot of heckling going on at
1:14:26
Speaker 4: this golf tournament. No you can't do it. You shouldn't
1:14:30
Speaker 4: do it, like rule number one. Yeah, so they're trying
1:14:32
Speaker 4: to figure out, you know, are they is it time
1:14:34
Speaker 4: for golf to go full blown augusta national? No phones,
1:14:39
Speaker 4: none of that stuff. And because it was, the heckling
1:14:43
Speaker 4: was just off the charge. But anyway, the field good
1:14:45
Speaker 4: story was seventeen year old Miles Russell just a great
1:14:48
Speaker 4: little golfer. So there you go. All right, coming up,
1:14:51
Speaker 4: we're going to be checking with Ralph Reid. Also the
1:14:53
Speaker 4: New York Times commemorating Father's Day by publishing an illustrated
1:14:57
Speaker 4: essay on a woman pretending to be a man, and
1:15:02
Speaker 4: the children are saying, there are these cartoons. The children says,
1:15:05
Speaker 4: you can't grow a beard, you're a girl, and then
1:15:08
Speaker 4: a little the child says, my dad did, and he
1:15:10
Speaker 4: was a girl got ugly. So they celebrated Father's Day
1:15:15
Speaker 4: by publishing stories by people who were in fact not fathers.
1:15:19
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Speaker 4: Road to Majority Conference. I want to go right away
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Speaker 4: to our Patriot Mobile newsmaker line and welcome our good
1:17:14
Speaker 4: friend Ralph Reid from the Faith and Freedom Coalition. Ralph,
1:17:18
Speaker 4: Hope you're doing well today.
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Speaker 22: I'm doing great. Great to be with you. Thanks for
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Speaker 22: having me as.
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Speaker 4: Always, and congratulations. You guys have been doing this right
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Speaker 4: over sixteen years now and it really has become the
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Speaker 4: premiere conservative gathering in our nation's capital.
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Speaker 22: Well, it really has, todd We're not quite sold out.
1:17:40
Speaker 22: We're very close to selling out. We'll be filling the
1:17:43
Speaker 22: largest ballroom in our nation's capital, the Washington Hilton, which
1:17:50
Speaker 22: I think the capacity is two thy five hundred. We're
1:17:52
Speaker 22: going to have some overflow. Our room block is sold out,
1:17:57
Speaker 22: and we have about half of the Cabinet coming, congressional leaders,
1:18:03
Speaker 22: over seventy speakers, and the White House announced this morning
1:18:08
Speaker 22: that President Donald J. Trump will grace our stage for
1:18:11
Speaker 22: the tenth time on Friday afternoon.
1:18:15
Speaker 4: Well, it's a tremendous thing whenever the President speaks and
1:18:19
Speaker 4: you guys throw a one heck of a great conference.
1:18:21
Speaker 4: What do you anticipate hearing from the President this year
1:18:25
Speaker 4: as we head into the midterm elections.
1:18:28
Speaker 22: Well, by the time he steps out on that stage
1:18:33
Speaker 22: on Friday, will be right out one hundred and thirty
1:18:36
Speaker 22: days from one of the most important midterm elections in
1:18:40
Speaker 22: our lifetimes. And make no mistake about it, Todd, even
1:18:45
Speaker 22: though President Trump will not be on the ballot in November,
1:18:50
Speaker 22: his agenda and his presidency will be on the ballot.
1:18:53
Speaker 22: If they were to take control of the House, and
1:18:56
Speaker 22: especially if they were to get the House in the Senate,
1:18:59
Speaker 22: you can count on at a minimum another impeachment effort,
1:19:04
Speaker 22: maybe multiple impeachment efforts. They will do everything they can
1:19:08
Speaker 22: to expand the Supreme Court, not to eleven or thirteen members,
1:19:13
Speaker 22: but maybe as many as twenty one. They will try
1:19:17
Speaker 22: to admit Puerto Rico and Guam and DC estates and
1:19:22
Speaker 22: the investigations, the quote unquote oversight, they harassment of this
1:19:28
Speaker 22: administration and Trump family members. Todd, there will be it
1:19:34
Speaker 22: will be unlike anything we've ever seen. And Todd, you
1:19:37
Speaker 22: know we already saw. I think it was forty seven days.
1:19:40
Speaker 22: I may have the day count wrong, but I think
1:19:43
Speaker 22: it was roughly forty seven days. If they shut down
1:19:48
Speaker 22: a broad swath of our government, you know earlier, that'll
1:19:54
Speaker 22: be nothing compared to what they'll do. They won't pay
1:19:58
Speaker 22: our military, they won't pay our border patrol or our
1:20:04
Speaker 22: you know Ice, they'll probably try to abolish the border
1:20:08
Speaker 22: patrol in Ice. So we got to do our job
1:20:11
Speaker 22: in one hundred and thirty days. And by the way,
1:20:13
Speaker 22: early voting begins in only one hundred days. So I
1:20:17
Speaker 22: don't think that's all the President's going to talk about,
1:20:19
Speaker 22: but I think he's going to urge us to do
1:20:21
Speaker 22: the job again that we did in twenty twenty four
1:20:24
Speaker 22: to turn out the largest Christian vote in modern American
1:20:28
Speaker 22: political history. And Todd, you know this. We knocked on
1:20:33
Speaker 22: nine point seven million doors in the battleground states and districts.
1:20:37
Speaker 22: It was the largest ground gave operation by an outside
1:20:42
Speaker 22: group outside the party on our side of the ball
1:20:44
Speaker 22: in history.
1:20:45
Speaker 4: It's really remarkable the amount of work that you guys
1:20:48
Speaker 4: do and honestly, the effectiveness of it. And Ralph, we've
1:20:53
Speaker 4: been hearing reports for quite some time from a lot
1:20:56
Speaker 4: of our listeners about this. I don't know third g
1:21:00
Speaker 4: within the Republican Party right now. We've seen this play
1:21:05
Speaker 4: out and a lot of the primaries that have already
1:21:07
Speaker 4: been held where you're just not getting a lot of
1:21:10
Speaker 4: people out and voting. Over the weekend, they had a
1:21:14
Speaker 4: pretty small turnout at the Georgia Rodeo, which was supposed
1:21:17
Speaker 4: to be some big event to launch the Republicans late
1:21:21
Speaker 4: of candidates in the state of Georgia. So I'm just wondering,
1:21:25
Speaker 4: what have you been able to figure out. Why is
1:21:27
Speaker 4: it that Republicans just seem, I don't know, maybe a
1:21:30
Speaker 4: little complacent, And what's it going to what's it going
1:21:32
Speaker 4: to take to light a fire under those voters because
1:21:35
Speaker 4: we need everybody out and voting in the midterms.
1:21:39
Speaker 22: Yeah, well, I wish it weren't the case, Todd, but
1:21:42
Speaker 22: it is the case, and I've seen it throughout my
1:21:44
Speaker 22: political career that sometimes negative energy is more powerful and
1:21:50
Speaker 22: energizing than positive energy. And you saw it for us
1:21:56
Speaker 22: in twenty four you know, we were scared to death
1:22:00
Speaker 22: of Kamala Harris presidency and whether it was the highest
1:22:04
Speaker 22: inflation in forty years, the worst border crisis on our
1:22:09
Speaker 22: southern border in American history, and all that, you know,
1:22:14
Speaker 22: and Biden's clear infirmity in the office. You know, there
1:22:19
Speaker 22: was real fear and real anger, and that was a
1:22:23
Speaker 22: negative force that drove a massive turnout. Well, now they've
1:22:28
Speaker 22: got that on their side. And right now, if you
1:22:31
Speaker 22: look at the most recent I think ABC News Washington
1:22:36
Speaker 22: Post poll, the Democrats and the Liberals enjoy a roughly
1:22:42
Speaker 22: fourteen point advantage on turnout and enthusiasm. So we've got
1:22:48
Speaker 22: a very short period of time to turn that around.
1:22:50
Speaker 22: I mean, here's the good news. The election isn't tomorrow,
1:22:55
Speaker 22: It's in one hundred and thirty four days, So we've
1:22:58
Speaker 22: got time to turn this around. But if if we
1:23:02
Speaker 22: don't turn it around, it's going to be a very
1:23:04
Speaker 22: ugly picture in November, and people need to be reminded
1:23:09
Speaker 22: of what a Democratic House and Senate would look like.
1:23:13
Speaker 4: I think it's that's a great point. And I've been
1:23:15
Speaker 4: telling people I don't care. I don't care how bad
1:23:18
Speaker 4: the Republicans have betrayed you or have not done what
1:23:21
Speaker 4: you said they would doing. This is it's not about them.
1:23:24
Speaker 4: It's about protecting President Trump at the end of the day,
1:23:27
Speaker 4: and it's about protecting the Supreme Court. I mean those
1:23:30
Speaker 4: and I think you're right. I think we've got to
1:23:32
Speaker 4: make sure that people understand exactly what is at stake
1:23:36
Speaker 4: here and down the road. Clearly, Ralph, I think we're
1:23:41
Speaker 4: going to have to all have conversations about what the
1:23:43
Speaker 4: future of the reporting Republican Party looks like after Donald
1:23:47
Speaker 4: Trump and making sure that people of faith have a
1:23:51
Speaker 4: very firm role in shaping what that party looks like.
1:23:56
Speaker 22: I couldn't agree more. I mean, it's you know, people
1:24:00
Speaker 22: don't like to hear this, Jod, but self identified born
1:24:03
Speaker 22: again evangelicals are about half of the entire Republican vote.
1:24:09
Speaker 22: I mean, if you look at the votes that Donald
1:24:12
Speaker 22: Trump got, and he got about seventy seven million votes,
1:24:16
Speaker 22: give or take in twenty twenty four, you know, right
1:24:21
Speaker 22: at forty three million of those were born again evangelicals.
1:24:27
Speaker 22: And by the way, that was eight million more then
1:24:31
Speaker 22: he got in twenty sixteen. It was seventeen million more
1:24:36
Speaker 22: than Mitt Romney got in twenty twelve. So the idea
1:24:41
Speaker 22: that you can have a Republican majority of any kind
1:24:44
Speaker 22: without voters of faith, and that doesn't even include mainline
1:24:50
Speaker 22: conservative Protestants who might not identify as born again evangelicals,
1:24:55
Speaker 22: and it doesn't include most pro life Catholics. So you
1:24:58
Speaker 22: put them in the mix, Todd, it's about two thirds
1:25:01
Speaker 22: of the Republican vote. And if they were raptured tomorrow.
1:25:06
Speaker 22: I mean, there wouldn't be a Republican Party. So yeah,
1:25:09
Speaker 22: we've got to make sure that our role remains significant
1:25:13
Speaker 22: because there's no future without it.
1:25:16
Speaker 4: All right, Well, again, a large part of that actually
1:25:19
Speaker 4: starts this week in Washington, DC. Ladies and gentlemen. You
1:25:24
Speaker 4: heard Ralph say just a few minutes ago, they do
1:25:25
Speaker 4: have a few places still available, a few tickets available.
1:25:29
Speaker 4: You need to be at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's
1:25:33
Speaker 4: Road to the Majority Conference. This is the way to
1:25:36
Speaker 4: get the base energized, Ralph, Where can people go if
1:25:40
Speaker 4: they want to get tickets?
1:25:43
Speaker 22: If they want tickets I would urge them to go
1:25:45
Speaker 22: immediately and go to FF as in Faith and Freedom
1:25:49
Speaker 22: Ffcoalition dot com. That's Ffcoalition dot com. Or they can
1:25:54
Speaker 22: just google Road to Majority Conference and it'll take them
1:25:57
Speaker 22: to the same landing page and they can order tickets.
1:26:00
Speaker 22: There are still some packages available and we would love
1:26:04
Speaker 22: to have them, todd. It starts Thursday afternoon at two
1:26:08
Speaker 22: pm and runs through Saturday night with our galap all.
1:26:13
Speaker 4: Right, and let me tell you that's always one heck
1:26:15
Speaker 4: of a great gala. Ralphrie knows how to throw a
1:26:17
Speaker 4: good party. Ralph good to see you, my friend, and
1:26:22
Speaker 4: here's hoping for an incredible week in Washington.
1:26:26
Speaker 22: Thank you, Todd.
1:26:27
Speaker 4: All right with you, my friend. Good to see you
1:26:30
Speaker 4: as well.
1:26:30
Speaker 3: Ralph.
1:26:30
Speaker 4: Read everybody the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Big Road
1:26:34
Speaker 4: to the Majority Conference, and again if you want tickets
1:26:37
Speaker 4: FF Coalition dot com. That's FF Coalition dot com. Well,
1:26:43
Speaker 4: I do have some very sad news to share with you,
1:26:46
Speaker 4: breaking news coming out of Gainesville, Georgia this afternoon. Breaking
1:26:51
Speaker 4: news now on the Todd Starn Show. Well, just during
1:26:57
Speaker 4: the conversation with Ralph, I received some very very sad
1:27:01
Speaker 4: news for many, many, many people around the nation, especially
1:27:06
Speaker 4: those of you that listened to WDUN and wanted to
1:27:11
Speaker 4: share this information with you. The great Martha Zaler, who
1:27:15
Speaker 4: has been a guest on this program for many many times,
1:27:18
Speaker 4: filled in for me a time or two. Martha Zolor
1:27:21
Speaker 4: passed away today. It was a very sudden thing. The
1:27:26
Speaker 4: news and information on Access North Georgia dot com. That's
1:27:30
Speaker 4: Access North Georgia dot com. But Martha Zolor passing away.
1:27:34
Speaker 4: She hosted the Martha Zalar Show on WDUN and had
1:27:40
Speaker 4: been a regular on air voice for the station. Are
1:27:43
Speaker 4: you ready for this? From nineteen ninety four to two
1:27:45
Speaker 4: thousand and nine. She passed away this morning at the
1:27:49
Speaker 4: Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville after a sudden illness.
1:27:55
Speaker 4: The irony is that she had announced plans, I belie
1:28:00
Speaker 4: last week or week before last, to step away from
1:28:03
Speaker 4: her daily radio program because of some ongoing health concerns.
1:28:09
Speaker 4: So we are just so stunned to hear this news.
1:28:14
Speaker 4: She was really a great, great lady and an incredible broadcaster.
1:28:19
Speaker 4: Our good friend Bill Maine, and every Tuesday I'm on
1:28:22
Speaker 4: Bill Mayne's program on WDUN in the early morning hours.
1:28:26
Speaker 4: Bill Maine writing this, I am stunned. When I spoke
1:28:30
Speaker 4: with her before the show on Friday, she was full
1:28:32
Speaker 4: of energy and we were sharing some jokes she texted
1:28:36
Speaker 4: from the hospital. I think back on all the calls
1:28:39
Speaker 4: we shared during her time away. We kept up with
1:28:42
Speaker 4: each other, and I was excited when she returned to WTUN.
1:28:46
Speaker 4: More than a great broadcaster, she was a great friend,
1:28:49
Speaker 4: always willing to help whomever she could wherever she could.
1:28:55
Speaker 4: Martha ran for Congress as a Republican in twenty twelve
1:28:59
Speaker 4: and was also a member of the state Board of Education.
1:29:02
Speaker 4: She represented District nine. There in Northeast Georgia. But she
1:29:08
Speaker 4: was an incredibly prominent, prominent pundent there in the state
1:29:13
Speaker 4: of Georgia, and of course nationwide. Martha Zalard has gone
1:29:18
Speaker 4: home to be with the Lord. And I'm sure some
1:29:21
Speaker 4: of you great listeners at WGUN might want to call
1:29:25
Speaker 4: in and share your thoughts about Martha. Just a lovely,
1:29:28
Speaker 4: lovely lady, and we are going to miss her voice
1:29:31
Speaker 4: on the radio. Nine oh one two six zero five
1:29:35
Speaker 4: nine two six. Our telephone number, that's nine oh one
1:29:39
Speaker 4: two six zero five, nine two six. This is the
1:29:42
Speaker 4: Todd Stern Show, all right, and the following some breaking
1:29:53
Speaker 4: news here on the Tom Sterns Radio Show from Gainesville, Georgia.
1:29:57
Speaker 4: The great Martha Zaler one of the nation there's most
1:30:00
Speaker 4: respected political pundits. She was a regular guest on this
1:30:04
Speaker 4: radio program and she was always a part of our
1:30:07
Speaker 4: election night coverage. Martha Zaler has passed away. She died
1:30:12
Speaker 4: suddenly this morning at a hospital in Northeast Georgia. She
1:30:18
Speaker 4: had a heart problem, and she was a dear friend
1:30:22
Speaker 4: and a powerful voice on the radio. And certainly I
1:30:25
Speaker 4: hope all of us in our audience will just say
1:30:28
Speaker 4: a prayer for Martha's family, but also say a prayer
1:30:31
Speaker 4: for Martha's radio family at WDUN. Some of the most
1:30:35
Speaker 4: precious people on the on the radio, good people at WDUN,
1:30:45
Speaker 4: and it's just a shock a shock to them today.
1:30:48
Speaker 4: And when you do this five days a week, throughout
1:30:52
Speaker 4: three hours a day, you sort of become family. Even
1:30:55
Speaker 4: if you don't know the people personally, you feel like
1:31:00
Speaker 4: you do and you feel like you're a part of
1:31:02
Speaker 4: their lives. And you know, one of the one of
1:31:04
Speaker 4: the things that we try to do on this program is,
1:31:06
Speaker 4: you know, I just try to, you know, be open
1:31:08
Speaker 4: and share with you. If I'm having a good day
1:31:10
Speaker 4: or a bad day, I sort of let you know.
1:31:12
Speaker 4: And that's what it's like in the radio business, in
1:31:16
Speaker 4: the radio world. Let's go to the phone lines nine
1:31:19
Speaker 4: oh one two six zero five nine two six. Our number,
1:31:23
Speaker 4: that's nine oh one two six zero five nine two
1:31:25
Speaker 4: six Doug in Gainesville, Georgia. W d U N Hi Doug.
1:31:30
Speaker 4: What's on your mind today?
1:31:33
Speaker 23: Well, as you know, I've called and talked to you
1:31:34
Speaker 23: a number of times, and thank you for all your
1:31:37
Speaker 23: incredible work. Spread your voice the conservative religious message in
1:31:43
Speaker 23: Martha did the same thing here. I'm trying. It's just
1:31:47
Speaker 23: it broth my heart. It broth my heart. I used
1:31:50
Speaker 23: to call in to her as Positive Doug because I
1:31:53
Speaker 23: always wanted to say something positive and she was so receptive.
1:31:56
Speaker 23: So I'll leave it at that. It breaks my heart
1:31:59
Speaker 23: and Mark, We'll see you on the other side, Honey.
1:32:02
Speaker 23: Nobody gets out of here alive. And I'm looking forward
1:32:04
Speaker 23: to hearing her voice again. Thanks for everything you do, Todd,
1:32:07
Speaker 23: you are You're the best. That's all I can say.
1:32:11
Speaker 3: Bye, Doug.
1:32:12
Speaker 4: Thank you for that Positive Doug. Next time he calls in,
1:32:15
Speaker 4: I want to make sure that we call him positive
1:32:18
Speaker 4: Doug on the rid. We need we need more callers
1:32:20
Speaker 4: like that.
1:32:22
Speaker 11: You know.
1:32:22
Speaker 4: I I think back to you know what I've been
1:32:27
Speaker 4: going through just with my heart situation, and it just
1:32:30
Speaker 4: it really hits home. It really does. And you never know,
1:32:34
Speaker 4: you never know when when the Lord is going to
1:32:37
Speaker 4: call you home. I will tell you. Martha was just
1:32:40
Speaker 4: a devout Christian woman as well, and she loved the Lord.
1:32:44
Speaker 4: She was driving through We were trying to meet up
1:32:46
Speaker 4: just a couple of weeks ago. She was driving her
1:32:48
Speaker 4: daughter to Arizona. They were her daughter was taking a
1:32:52
Speaker 4: job out there, and and so we were not able
1:32:58
Speaker 4: to do that, but she was on the air if
1:33:00
Speaker 4: you remember she called in. She was in the car
1:33:03
Speaker 4: as they were as they were driving somewhere on I forty.
1:33:07
Speaker 4: But anyway, we certainly, we certainly do, we certainly do
1:33:14
Speaker 4: miss We're gonna miss Martha, and I know you folks
1:33:17
Speaker 4: in Georgia are gonna miss her as well. Nine oh
1:33:19
Speaker 4: one two six zero five, nine two six are telephone number.
1:33:23
Speaker 4: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two
1:33:26
Speaker 4: six if maybe you'd like to say something about Martha.
1:33:28
Speaker 4: I know we have a lot of listeners in North Georgia.
1:33:31
Speaker 4: We're going to take your calls and we'll we'll do
1:33:34
Speaker 4: our part to share in the in the great memories
1:33:37
Speaker 4: as we grieve the passing of a dear, dear friend.
1:33:41
Speaker 4: Coming up, we're going to be talking to Paul Renner,
1:33:44
Speaker 4: who is running for governor in the great state of Florida.
1:33:49
Speaker 4: There's a lot of controversy down there, and we'll be
1:33:52
Speaker 4: getting into all of that. Again. Our number nine oh
1:33:55
Speaker 4: one two six zero five nine two six. Again, that's
1:33:58
Speaker 4: nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
1:34:01
Speaker 4: Hay tight, everybody, This is the Todd Stern Show and
1:34:36
Speaker 4: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Sterns Radio show,
1:34:39
Speaker 4: Monday edition of the program Trust you are doing well today.
1:34:43
Speaker 4: Our telephone number nine oh one two six zero five,
1:34:47
Speaker 4: nine two six. That's nine oh one two six zero five,
1:34:51
Speaker 4: nine to six.
1:34:53
Speaker 2: Well.
1:34:53
Speaker 4: There's been a lot of controversy in the state of
1:34:56
Speaker 4: Florida over the gubernatorial race and the state Party stepping
1:35:02
Speaker 4: in and tipping the scales in favor of Congressman Byron Donalds.
1:35:08
Speaker 2: Well.
1:35:08
Speaker 4: Former House Speaker Paul Renner says the GOP in Florida
1:35:12
Speaker 4: is cheating voters out of its opportunity to weigh the
1:35:16
Speaker 4: merits of the candidates by refusing to stage a debate.
1:35:21
Speaker 4: And I want to go right away to our Patriot
1:35:23
Speaker 4: Mobile Newsmaker line and say hello to the former House
1:35:26
Speaker 4: Speaker Paul Renner. Paul, good to have you back with us.
1:35:29
Speaker 9: Todd, great to be with you.
1:35:31
Speaker 4: I just you know, I'm as conservative as they come,
1:35:34
Speaker 4: and I'm as Republican as they come. But I really
1:35:38
Speaker 4: draw a line in the sand here. If if you're
1:35:41
Speaker 4: going to want us run for office, you need to
1:35:44
Speaker 4: be willing to stand and debate. And it bothers me
1:35:48
Speaker 4: when these candidates will not do that. But now to
1:35:51
Speaker 4: have the party step in, this is a new one
1:35:53
Speaker 4: on me.
1:35:55
Speaker 25: Well, Conservatives and Republicans are supposed to believe in competition,
1:35:58
Speaker 25: in putting the best possible can it in front of
1:36:01
Speaker 25: the voters to run against the Democrat, and now you have,
1:36:04
Speaker 25: at really Congressman Donald's direction, to be honest, the state
1:36:08
Speaker 25: party weighing in and saying we've come up with some
1:36:10
Speaker 25: arbitrary criteria that was never published, never agreed to, until
1:36:14
Speaker 25: last week it was published that coincidentally, nobody but Byron
1:36:18
Speaker 25: Donalds can meet and therefore there won't be any debates.
1:36:21
Speaker 9: But there are debates.
1:36:22
Speaker 25: There's a debate on July fifteen, July twenty first, which
1:36:25
Speaker 25: I agree to back in February. The other Byron has
1:36:28
Speaker 25: not agreed to that debate, but there will be other
1:36:30
Speaker 25: candidates there. I plan to be there. The voters want
1:36:33
Speaker 25: a debate, they deserve a debate, and it's disrespectful to
1:36:36
Speaker 25: them not to have a debate.
1:36:39
Speaker 9: I know.
1:36:39
Speaker 4: We're dealing with the similar situation in the state of Tennessee.
1:36:42
Speaker 4: Marshall Blackburn, who I have endorsed, leading the field by
1:36:47
Speaker 4: a significant amount. You've got Congressman John Rose and State
1:36:51
Speaker 4: Representative Monti Fritz, the latter two wanting to hold debates.
1:36:56
Speaker 4: Senator Blackburn not doing a debate according to the most
1:37:01
Speaker 4: recent polling, and you may have other polling data, So
1:37:03
Speaker 4: my apologies if this is out data. But June eleventh,
1:37:07
Speaker 4: the AIF poll showed Donalds leading the primary by forty
1:37:11
Speaker 4: six points. I don't care if he's a head by
1:37:13
Speaker 4: seventy points if there are other candidates in the race,
1:37:16
Speaker 4: you got a debate.
1:37:18
Speaker 25: Well, that's a junk poll. AI first of all, is
1:37:21
Speaker 25: endorsed Byron Donalds. It was a two hundred voter sample.
1:37:24
Speaker 25: It's not a quality debate. We show him in the
1:37:27
Speaker 25: high twenties, low thirties with undecided leading the field, which
1:37:31
Speaker 25: is a bad.
1:37:31
Speaker 9: Place to be.
1:37:32
Speaker 25: With a Trump endorsement in a year and a half
1:37:34
Speaker 25: in the race and spending a lot of money.
1:37:36
Speaker 9: This race is.
1:37:37
Speaker 25: Wide open, and one of the ways that voters can
1:37:39
Speaker 25: determine who they want as their next governor is debates.
1:37:42
Speaker 25: And so again, if you can't debate your fellow Republicans,
1:37:46
Speaker 25: you can't lead. If you can debate your fellow Republicans,
1:37:49
Speaker 25: how can you go up against the Democrats, And how
1:37:51
Speaker 25: can you protect the free State of Florida that along
1:37:53
Speaker 25: with Governor DeSantis, I helped build as a leader in
1:37:55
Speaker 25: the legislature.
1:37:57
Speaker 4: What is it about Donald's that that gives you pause.
1:38:02
Speaker 9: Well, it's a lot of things.
1:38:03
Speaker 25: On the qualifiers, you know, Like I was twenty years
1:38:05
Speaker 25: in the military, two wars, prosecutor, business owner, all before politics,
1:38:10
Speaker 25: so experience versus Donald's grand canyon gap, as well as
1:38:13
Speaker 25: a grand canyon gap on results. As I mentioned, the
1:38:16
Speaker 25: Governor said that our two years when I led the
1:38:18
Speaker 25: legislature run matched. They called it the Session of the Century.
1:38:22
Speaker 25: James Madison Institute did conservative think tank.
1:38:25
Speaker 9: We got more done in those two years.
1:38:27
Speaker 25: And then Byron Donalds has gotten his whole political career.
1:38:31
Speaker 25: And then when it comes to going to the fight
1:38:33
Speaker 25: when others run for the fight, Amendment three and four,
1:38:35
Speaker 25: you know, Amendment four. I stood up for life to
1:38:37
Speaker 25: defeat the extreme abortion amendment. I passed the Heartbeat Protection
1:38:41
Speaker 25: Act when I was speaker. Nobody else showed up to
1:38:44
Speaker 25: that fight like I did. I put two million dollars
1:38:46
Speaker 25: out of a political committee in twenty twenty four alone, between.
1:38:49
Speaker 9: That and school board races.
1:38:51
Speaker 25: Because that's what leaders are supposed to do not in
1:38:53
Speaker 25: my job description, not a requirement for the speaker, But
1:38:56
Speaker 25: just like the governor, I don't want the left to
1:38:58
Speaker 25: win and take down the State of Lord and make
1:39:00
Speaker 25: us a potter abortion state. Byron Donalds didn't show up.
1:39:03
Speaker 25: He sent out a tweet and that's just not leadership.
1:39:06
Speaker 4: No, I yeah, I'm with you there. You've got to
1:39:10
Speaker 4: be willing to debate and uh, that's there's just really
1:39:14
Speaker 4: no no way around that. In my estimation, one of
1:39:18
Speaker 4: the candidates that certainly has been causing a lot of
1:39:21
Speaker 4: controversy out there is what the Fishbox is that his name?
1:39:26
Speaker 2: Yeah?
1:39:27
Speaker 4: What is is he actually viable? Jimmy James Fishback.
1:39:32
Speaker 25: He's got a large following among younger people. He is
1:39:36
Speaker 25: a creature of social media, and so he is running
1:39:39
Speaker 25: a campaign that has been to the extend it's had
1:39:41
Speaker 25: any success. It's been successful by people who consume all
1:39:45
Speaker 25: their information on social media. But I don't think in
1:39:49
Speaker 25: the long term he has a shot to beat Byron.
1:39:52
Speaker 25: I think I'm the only one, frankly, that can both
1:39:54
Speaker 25: beat Byron Donalds and beat David Jolly, the Democrats that
1:39:57
Speaker 25: put up ticket that I think is going to be
1:39:59
Speaker 25: a viable.
1:39:59
Speaker 9: To if it's a tough election year and if you
1:40:02
Speaker 9: have it.
1:40:02
Speaker 25: I talked about the qualifiers Todd, if you have a
1:40:05
Speaker 25: candidate that has challenges, and Byron does missed a lot
1:40:08
Speaker 25: of votes in Congress, gotten rich in office, these types
1:40:11
Speaker 25: of things.
1:40:12
Speaker 9: That will trip him up in a general election.
1:40:14
Speaker 25: I believe I'm the only one that can beat David
1:40:17
Speaker 25: Jolly in the general election.
1:40:19
Speaker 4: And again to that point, you know, Florida has really
1:40:22
Speaker 4: been this this great example of you know, conservative leadership.
1:40:27
Speaker 4: You've had a lot of people moving there because of
1:40:29
Speaker 4: the tax situation on down to you know, cost of living.
1:40:33
Speaker 4: You don't want to blow all those things up by
1:40:36
Speaker 4: electing Democrats, by having bad candidates or unvetted candidates that
1:40:42
Speaker 4: simply just refused to debate.
1:40:45
Speaker 9: Well, and that's it.
1:40:46
Speaker 25: I mean, if you say that, you know I'm anointed
1:40:48
Speaker 25: and you've got to do your job and vote for me.
1:40:50
Speaker 25: I talked to a lot of people I'm one of
1:40:52
Speaker 25: them that supported the president through throughout that are strong
1:40:55
Speaker 25: Trump supporters who.
1:40:56
Speaker 9: Say, I'm not voting for this guy.
1:40:58
Speaker 25: Donald's that is because he's not right guy for Florida,
1:41:01
Speaker 25: and I'm voting for you.
1:41:02
Speaker 9: And so we see that wherever we go.
1:41:04
Speaker 25: Obviously, we've got to get to that voter who's never
1:41:06
Speaker 25: going to go to an event or see us on
1:41:08
Speaker 25: social media or listen to your show. Though everybody should
1:41:10
Speaker 25: listen to your show, Todd, but that's just reality that
1:41:13
Speaker 25: some people will sit at home and be on Fox
1:41:16
Speaker 25: News all day long, and that is going to be
1:41:18
Speaker 25: someone who's going to tend.
1:41:19
Speaker 9: Toward Byron Donald's.
1:41:20
Speaker 25: We were reaching them by door knocking, phone banking, and
1:41:23
Speaker 25: doing the other things necessary to reach those voters.
1:41:25
Speaker 4: I know the governor has been pretty upset about this,
1:41:28
Speaker 4: Governor DeSantis. He says, you know, the party has a
1:41:31
Speaker 4: very limited role. It should it really should be a
1:41:34
Speaker 4: candidate driven process and not for people to be making
1:41:37
Speaker 4: decisions who voters have never voted into those positions to
1:41:41
Speaker 4: begin with. So line up something with TV, radio, all
1:41:45
Speaker 4: these different forms, there's a whole host of ways that
1:41:48
Speaker 4: you can you can do a debate. I'm just wondering
1:41:52
Speaker 4: why the party is doing this and what do they
1:41:57
Speaker 4: have to gain by not having debates.
1:42:01
Speaker 25: Well, what they're doing is they're really doing Byron Donald's bidding,
1:42:04
Speaker 25: and I think there's some internal political reasons for that,
1:42:06
Speaker 25: but it's not the parties. The party's never done this.
1:42:10
Speaker 25: The party has no authority to do it, to be clear,
1:42:12
Speaker 25: And now they're saying, oh this. You know, there's sanctioned
1:42:14
Speaker 25: and unsanctioned debates. Look, there's legitimate TV organizations, local TV
1:42:19
Speaker 25: stations here in Florida that are hosting a debate on
1:42:21
Speaker 25: July fifteenth, July twenty first, I'll be there.
1:42:24
Speaker 9: Again. If you can't debate, you can't lead.
1:42:26
Speaker 25: And I'm calling on you know, Byron Donalds in another
1:42:29
Speaker 25: candidate who has refused to confirm to that debate, to
1:42:33
Speaker 25: show up with the other candidates and let's have a debate.
1:42:35
Speaker 25: And if Byron Donalds performs well there, maybe he'll be
1:42:38
Speaker 25: our next governor.
1:42:39
Speaker 9: But I don't think so. He just doesn't have a
1:42:40
Speaker 9: record to run on.
1:42:41
Speaker 25: He's really an empty suit when it comes to experience
1:42:43
Speaker 25: results in leadership.
1:42:45
Speaker 9: And so we look forward to the debate and I
1:42:47
Speaker 9: will be there.
1:42:48
Speaker 2: All right.
1:42:49
Speaker 4: Well, Look, I have great respect for any Republicans willing
1:42:52
Speaker 4: to debate, and I think that just makes us stronger
1:42:55
Speaker 4: as a party. And honestly, when you look at the
1:42:58
Speaker 4: general election, you want to ntedate that has been vetted
1:43:02
Speaker 4: in the heat of those debates. I'm going to give
1:43:04
Speaker 4: you the final word on that, Paul.
1:43:06
Speaker 25: Well, I agree, and look, we're also not just the
1:43:08
Speaker 25: right message for the right message on affordability to eliminate
1:43:12
Speaker 25: homestead property taxes. I'm the only one with a viable
1:43:14
Speaker 25: plan that can do that while playing for police and
1:43:16
Speaker 25: fire and schools. You know, reduce insurance rates, electric rates,
1:43:21
Speaker 25: stop at these hyperscaled data centers. And as a former prosecutor,
1:43:24
Speaker 25: I'm endorsed by the largest police organization.
1:43:26
Speaker 9: We're going to keep Florida safe, We're going to.
1:43:28
Speaker 25: Keep it free as the architect of the free State
1:43:30
Speaker 25: of Florida, protected and expanded.
1:43:32
Speaker 4: Vote renter dot com is the website address, ladies and gentlemen,
1:43:35
Speaker 4: that's vote renter dot com. Go and check it out.
1:43:39
Speaker 4: You can also follow Paul their links to all of
1:43:41
Speaker 4: the social media platforms. Again, vote renter dot com. Paul,
1:43:45
Speaker 4: We're going to have to leave it there. Good luck
1:43:47
Speaker 4: to you, Thank you, sir. Well, there you have it,
1:43:51
Speaker 4: ladies and gentlemen. And again, if it's happening in Florida,
1:43:55
Speaker 4: it's going to be happening all over the place. And
1:43:57
Speaker 4: the question is very simple, as we go to break
1:44:00
Speaker 4: should these Republican candidates debate during the primary. Yes or no.
1:44:05
Speaker 4: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six
1:44:09
Speaker 4: is our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six
1:44:12
Speaker 4: zero five nine two six. This is the Todd Starting show.
1:44:26
Speaker 4: All right, let's go to the phones here, Richard and o'calla,
1:44:30
Speaker 4: Florida WOCA. Richard, you just heard from Paul Renter. What
1:44:35
Speaker 4: do you think?
1:44:38
Speaker 19: Well, I want to thank you first that you interviewed him.
1:44:41
Speaker 19: Thank you for daking McCall. Mister Todd. I actually heard
1:44:45
Speaker 19: him being interviewed by local radio commentator here maybe a
1:44:49
Speaker 19: week ago, and I liked every single thing that Paul
1:44:52
Speaker 19: Renter said. I feel one hundred percent in my heart
1:44:56
Speaker 19: and mind that he's the one we want, that he's
1:44:59
Speaker 19: the true concernervative. I realized that Trump endorsed the other guy,
1:45:03
Speaker 19: mister Donald, but Trump was wrong. Trump's not a good
1:45:07
Speaker 19: judge of character all the time. I've said for a
1:45:10
Speaker 19: long time. His first vice vice presidential pick cost him
1:45:15
Speaker 19: the twenty twenty election, and I think the second one's
1:45:18
Speaker 19: not going to be true to him. But I like Trump.
1:45:21
Speaker 19: I voted for him free time. But I don't know
1:45:23
Speaker 19: he picked the wrong person when he picked mister Donald's.
1:45:27
Speaker 19: I do not think Donald's is a true conservative. I
1:45:29
Speaker 19: don't think he's a constitutional conservative. And I believe Brenner is.
1:45:33
Speaker 19: I believe Renter will do everything in his power to
1:45:36
Speaker 19: keep Florida conservative just like she is. And I hope
1:45:41
Speaker 19: and pray that if.
1:45:41
Speaker 15: This God will would get Renter for a governor.
1:45:43
Speaker 19: Well, I think there's the most difference of daylight and
1:45:46
Speaker 19: dark between the two.
1:45:47
Speaker 4: Looking at and there are multiple polls here. The McLoughlin
1:45:51
Speaker 4: and Associates that would be the Trump poll, by the way,
1:45:54
Speaker 4: McLoughlin and Associates has Donald's with a forty six point lead.
1:46:00
Speaker 4: It's donald then Fishback, then Collins, and then Renner and
1:46:05
Speaker 4: then thirty one percent. That's the big number there, thirty
1:46:07
Speaker 4: one percent. Don't know. You've got fifteen candidates running for
1:46:11
Speaker 4: the Republican primary. We had some folks asking about Bobby
1:46:15
Speaker 4: Williams on our social media pages. Yes he is one
1:46:19
Speaker 4: of the fifteen running. But as far as those that
1:46:21
Speaker 4: are polling, then you have the Change Research poll pretty
1:46:26
Speaker 4: much the same lineup Donald's, Fishback, Collins, and Renn Stetson
1:46:31
Speaker 4: University as Renner at seven percent. But again in that
1:46:35
Speaker 4: one twenty eight percent are voting don't know. Seventeen percent
1:46:39
Speaker 4: are voting for someone else other than the front runner.
1:46:42
Speaker 2: There.
1:46:43
Speaker 3: So all right, that's just my opinion that it's a
1:46:50
Speaker 3: great opinion, and I thank you for calling in nine
1:46:54
Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six.
1:46:56
Speaker 4: Let's go to Gainesville, Georgia. Wdun. Pat is on the line, Hi, Pat,
1:47:01
Speaker 4: what's on your mind today?
1:47:04
Speaker 26: Hello Todd. I'd like to pay tribute to Martha. I'm
1:47:09
Speaker 26: happy for her, but I'm sad for Georgia. She was
1:47:15
Speaker 26: so politically savvy. I have learned so much from her.
1:47:20
Speaker 26: I've listened to her since way before she ran through election,
1:47:25
Speaker 26: and I'm sad we're gonna miss her. But like I said,
1:47:32
Speaker 26: I'm happy for her.
1:47:35
Speaker 4: You know, Pat, It's funny whenever somebody would ask a
1:47:38
Speaker 4: question about Georgia politics, my first text message was to
1:47:42
Speaker 4: Martha's dollar said, Martha, what the heck is going on
1:47:45
Speaker 4: in Georgia? Give me the lowdown, and she'd always do it.
1:47:49
Speaker 26: Yes, And she had such an awesome philosophy that if
1:47:56
Speaker 26: we could sit down, face to say, Republicans Democrats and
1:48:02
Speaker 26: have a discussion, then we could get things done. It's
1:48:09
Speaker 26: the same we can't do that more now.
1:48:13
Speaker 4: Well, it is Pat, and I know that you guys
1:48:16
Speaker 4: are going to miss her voice quite a bit there
1:48:18
Speaker 4: on WDUN, and we're going to keep doing our best
1:48:22
Speaker 4: to bring those conversations to you every single day, not
1:48:26
Speaker 4: just on WDUN, but radio stations around the country. Pat,
1:48:30
Speaker 4: thank you so much for calling in, and we certainly
1:48:32
Speaker 4: appreciate your your kind words. And I know our friends
1:48:36
Speaker 4: at WDUN appreciate that.
1:48:38
Speaker 2: Today.
1:48:39
Speaker 4: Such a tight knit group of folks at that radio station,
1:48:43
Speaker 4: and it's really like family over there. So certainly, I
1:48:48
Speaker 4: hope all of you folks listening to us on WDU
1:48:50
Speaker 4: and you give those give them a call and let
1:48:53
Speaker 4: them know you're thinking about them and you're praying for them.
1:48:55
Speaker 4: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
1:48:59
Speaker 4: That's nine one one two six zero five nine to six.
1:49:04
Speaker 2: Oh, here we go.
1:49:05
Speaker 4: This is Bill Maher and you know I Bill Maher
1:49:09
Speaker 4: had Kenny Chesney on and they were talking about all
1:49:12
Speaker 4: they were talking about all sorts of stuff. But one
1:49:14
Speaker 4: of the interesting things about comedians, they don't like to
1:49:17
Speaker 4: go to these university campuses anymore because it's too woke
1:49:20
Speaker 4: and the kids don't have a sense of humor, and
1:49:22
Speaker 4: they really don't like doing the comedy clubs up north
1:49:26
Speaker 4: because the North litters, by and large, do not have
1:49:29
Speaker 4: a sense of humor. So Bill Maher was talking about
1:49:32
Speaker 4: how much he loves doing shows in the South. Take
1:49:35
Speaker 4: a listen to cut eight.
1:49:37
Speaker 27: You know the ones I were really I mean I
1:49:38
Speaker 27: loved all the ones, but by especially like the ones
1:49:41
Speaker 27: in the South. There was the truck stop, the truck
1:49:45
Speaker 27: stop in Raleigh, Yeah was, And you know, I do
1:49:49
Speaker 27: have an affection not just for that part of the country,
1:49:53
Speaker 27: because I've played it my whole life, and those are
1:49:56
Speaker 27: my people, and those are your people, and I love
1:49:59
Speaker 27: your people. I hate it that America and the kind
1:50:02
Speaker 27: of snobby people that I rubbed shoulders with.
1:50:05
Speaker 2: A lot out here.
1:50:05
Speaker 27: I'm sorry, but that is a lot of what Los
1:50:07
Speaker 27: Angeles is, very uber, woke, snobby types who just and
1:50:12
Speaker 27: I think I used to be more of them.
1:50:15
Speaker 2: I'm glad I'm not.
1:50:16
Speaker 27: And I think traveling the country and being in those
1:50:19
Speaker 27: places just gave me a very different perspective than people
1:50:22
Speaker 27: who just stay here, because you know, I always have
1:50:27
Speaker 27: more fun there. I like the audience better usually because
1:50:31
Speaker 27: they were generally liberal but not stick up their ass
1:50:36
Speaker 27: woke like anti because political and.
1:50:39
Speaker 2: Politically and you can't say anything.
1:50:41
Speaker 27: Yeah, that's great, you know, so I would always have
1:50:43
Speaker 27: a better time in Huntsville, Alabama.
1:50:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, or where NASA is. You know, you play Knoxville.
1:50:50
Speaker 2: I'm from Knoxville, Tennessee. Did you ever go there? Of
1:50:52
Speaker 2: course I played them all.
1:50:55
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know it's interesting and Dylan, I will say,
1:50:58
Speaker 4: you went to the Oh who's the the guy the
1:51:00
Speaker 4: comedian that I like, I can't remember Jane Gillis, Yes,
1:51:03
Speaker 4: thank you. Yes, those are the kinds of comedians I
1:51:06
Speaker 4: love me too.
1:51:08
Speaker 13: I mean they're not afraid to really say anything. I mean,
1:51:10
Speaker 13: they haven't changed their jokes based off of you know,
1:51:13
Speaker 13: where they are in the country. And I was luckily
1:51:16
Speaker 13: I was able to be in Birmingham, Alabama. So really
1:51:19
Speaker 13: it was a bunch of people that laughed at things
1:51:22
Speaker 13: that are actually funny, not was scared to dance around
1:51:25
Speaker 13: something that could have been woke or something right.
1:51:27
Speaker 4: I mean, so I think for for a comedian, if
1:51:30
Speaker 4: you're like a Bill Maher and you've got an audience
1:51:33
Speaker 4: that is just with you, and they're laughing at some
1:51:36
Speaker 4: of the most inappropriate stuff, that's just going to give
1:51:39
Speaker 4: you the the impetus you need to do to deliver
1:51:43
Speaker 4: a better show. YEA, As opposed to just worrying about
1:51:46
Speaker 4: whether or not you're going to say something that's going
1:51:48
Speaker 4: to get you in trouble. You don't want to be
1:51:50
Speaker 4: run out of town.
1:51:51
Speaker 13: I think most like comedians are. They would say they're liberal,
1:51:54
Speaker 13: but they're tired of the woke crowd because I mean,
1:51:57
Speaker 13: the jokes that they say are not going to be
1:52:00
Speaker 13: for those people. It's gonna be for people that really
1:52:02
Speaker 13: genuinely enjoy.
1:52:03
Speaker 4: Someone said, I know I'm with you. Somebody said this,
1:52:06
Speaker 4: and I can't remember who it was. They said, you know,
1:52:08
Speaker 4: the difference between a liberal and a leftist. A liberal
1:52:11
Speaker 4: is somebody you may disagree with, but at least you're
1:52:13
Speaker 4: still gonna invite them over to have a barbecue.
1:52:15
Speaker 18: You know.
1:52:15
Speaker 4: The leftist wants to shoot you.
1:52:18
Speaker 13: Exactly.
1:52:19
Speaker 26: It is true, though.
1:52:21
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1:52:24
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