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Georgia Cop Kills HeeHaw, a Family’s Beloved Pet Donkey · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clanging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 3: Our love is American, right.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really not sure why this story has captured my attention,
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  Speaker 3: but it has. And we're going to start out the
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  Speaker 3: show talking about Hee Haw the Donkey.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Extravaganza as we broadcast border-to-border, coast-to-coast,
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  Speaker 3: across the fruited plain. Great to have you with us today.
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  Speaker 3: A Georgia police officer is in a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: hot water after he shot and killed a family's beloved
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  Speaker 3: pet donkey in Rock Bart, which is in Polk County, Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: All of this went down at about 12.45 a.m. on Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: The name of the donkey, the dead donkey, Hee Haw,
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  Speaker 3: as in Hee Haw. According to the Fox News report,
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  Speaker 3: police were searching for a missing child who was later
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  Speaker 3: found at a nearby church. The police were searching the
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  Speaker 3: donkey's pasture, When the incident occurred. Dylan, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you've ever encountered a donkey in the, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if it's in the wild. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you can domesticate a donkey, but they seem to be
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  Speaker 3: fairly innocent creatures. Goats, not so much. But the donkeys,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they don't seem to be terribly aggressive creatures.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't heard of a donkey being aggressive towards people.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: It's, I mean, alligators, yes. Hippos.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Very aggressive.
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  Speaker 4: Very aggressive. The most aggressive.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, pigs, you go after a mama
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  Speaker 3: pig's little piglets.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're in hot water there.
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  Speaker 4: That's why people go hog hunting. That's a thing.
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  Speaker 6: Snakes.
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  Speaker 4: Snakes.
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  Speaker 3: They're very aggressive.
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  Speaker 4: Very aggressive.
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 3: The water moccasins.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Don't like those things.
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  Speaker 4: I hate those.
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  Speaker 3: But I've never heard of a donkey going out and
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  Speaker 3: attacking anybody. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: saying I've never heard much about it. So it's cats,
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  Speaker 3: you know, can't stand those things. Meow.
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  Speaker 8: Meow.
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  Speaker 3: Don't like the cats. They're very self-centered, kind of like
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  Speaker 3: Michelle Obama. We'll get to that story in a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, the donkey's in his field, right? So the
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  Speaker 3: donkey's doing what donkeys do, whatever they do in the pasture.
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  Speaker 3: So all of a sudden, it's pitch dark. It's what?
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  Speaker 3: After midnight. Nothing ever good happens in the pasture after midnight.
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  Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, this donkey sees strange people
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  Speaker 3: walking on his grass, and so the donkey does what
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  Speaker 3: I think any of us would do, is the donkey
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  Speaker 3: went up to investigate. So the police are claiming that
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  Speaker 3: the donkey, this is terrible, they claim the donkey ran
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  Speaker 3: towards them, so ambushed the cops and began to pray
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  Speaker 3: at the police officers. Hee-haw, hee-haw, hee-haw. And the police
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  Speaker 3: thought they were in danger, and one of the guys
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  Speaker 3: shot and killed the donkey. Now, you said, well, why
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  Speaker 3: didn't they just tase it? Well, they tried to tase
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  Speaker 3: the donkey. The donkey didn't go down. So the donkey
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  Speaker 3: is braying. It's pitch dark. They're in the middle of
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  Speaker 3: a field, and the cops feared for their lives. So
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  Speaker 3: hee-haw was shot and killed. They had to do what
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  Speaker 3: they had to do. So now the family is very upset,
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  Speaker 3: as well they should be. Hannah Israel, age 30, says that, oh,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, it's a baby donkey. That makes it
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  Speaker 3: even worse.
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  Speaker 4: That's so much worse.
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  Speaker 3: The cops are kind of like the, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: Lindsay Clancy of the animal world. This is terrible. The woman, Mrs. Israel,
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  Speaker 3: is horrified. Here's how bad it is. So they found
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  Speaker 3: the dead donkey in the field, and she's shining the spotlight.
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  Speaker 3: And do you know when donkeys get shot and killed,
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  Speaker 3: they die with their eyes open? And that is a
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  Speaker 3: creepy photo. But the poor donkey is, well, it's not good. Anyway, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Israel is beyond inconsolable here. She says, we are heartbroken.
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  Speaker 3: He was my son. I'm sorry, wait, what? The donkey
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  Speaker 3: was my son.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, well, you know, I mean, people have these
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  Speaker 3: connections with their animals, right? I mean, you've seen, what
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  Speaker 3: is it? What is the dog community? The dog community, people,
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  Speaker 3: they treat these animals like they're human beings.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes better, actually, than human beings.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's true.
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  Speaker 4: That's a different conversation.
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  Speaker 3: They get the toys.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The treats. Get fed better.
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  Speaker 3: You want to talk about it, Dylan?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, my dog is my daughter.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Not really. My dog is my dog.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's a dog. I mean, look, it's a beloved pet,
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  Speaker 3: and you don't want to take that away from people.
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  Speaker 3: But again, this was the beloved pet donkey. And they,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the cops came in and shot it dead.
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  Speaker 3: Cold-blooded killers. Bastards. Anyway, a photo taken after the shooting
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  Speaker 3: showed Israel crying over her pet donkey as the animal's
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  Speaker 3: eyes remained wide open as it lay lifeless on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: Can you not just, like, close the eyelids? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we get how bad it is, but when you got
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  Speaker 3: dead soulless eyeballs staring back at you, it's a little off-putting.
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  Speaker 4: Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Israel said, Hee Haw would normally be standing right over
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  Speaker 3: there talking while I'm talking because Hee Haw thought he
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  Speaker 3: could talk like a person could talk. Every time he
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  Speaker 3: saw somebody, he would run up and pray. Hee Haw,
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  Speaker 3: how are you, Dylan? And then Hee Haw would do
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  Speaker 3: a really goofy sound because he loved people and he
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  Speaker 3: thought he was a person. And here's where it gets
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  Speaker 3: a little weird.
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  Speaker 4: It hasn't gotten weird already?
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  Speaker 3: You thought we were at weird.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't gotten there yet.
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  Speaker 4: Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Israel offered up to 11 Alive News about the dead donkey,
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  Speaker 3: telling 11 Alive that he-haw slept in my bed for
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  Speaker 3: the first three months of his life. I hope it
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  Speaker 3: was a king-sized bed. It's a big donkey.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, donkeys are not small animals.
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  Speaker 3: No, could you? I mean, what if the donkey rolled over?
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  Speaker 7: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: Your crush. I can understand a dog in bed, a
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  Speaker 4: donkey in bed. That's a different story.
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  Speaker 3: I have questions now. I have a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 3: Is it like potty trained?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. Ian was showing me pictures of the
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  Speaker 4: donkey in a diaper. So there's something training there. There's
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  Speaker 4: some training going on back there, and I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: So the cops killed a baby donkey wearing a diaper.
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  Speaker 4: If you didn't know it was a baby already, the
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  Speaker 4: diaper gave it away.
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  Speaker 3: You know, somebody's getting fired over this.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You could actually, if the cop had actually killed a human,
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  Speaker 3: there could be justified, they could justify something.
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  Speaker 4: We wouldn't be talking about it.
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  Speaker 3: No, but by golly, you're going to shoot a baby
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  Speaker 3: donkey wearing a diaper. Maybe, y'all. Yeah, you may be
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  Speaker 3: going to jail for it.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: Could you imagine? So anyway, the Cedartown Police Department says
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  Speaker 3: the officer who shot the beloved baby donkey has now
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  Speaker 3: been placed on paid administrative leave.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the family's milking this for all it's worth.
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  Speaker 3: Now the Georgia Department of Agriculture is investigating... And the
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  Speaker 3: police chief said, this is bad. The police chief said
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  Speaker 3: there is body cam footage. The police chief said the
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  Speaker 3: search took them to the incident location where this very
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  Speaker 3: unfortunate and heartbreaking event occurred. Well, let me stop you there, chief. No,
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  Speaker 3: your guy showed up at the wrong place. The missing
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  Speaker 3: child was at a church, sir. The police chief said
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  Speaker 3: he understands the heartbreak that the family and the community
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  Speaker 3: are facing after the donkey's death. Quote, they're members of
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  Speaker 3: the human family. No, it's a donkey. Sir, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's a beloved donkey. Don't get me wrong, but the
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  Speaker 3: donkey was not human, sir. Yes, I know they put
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  Speaker 3: a diaper on the donkey, but that doesn't make– yes,
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  Speaker 3: I know that the woman slept with the donkey. I
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  Speaker 3: get that. but it doesn't make it a human. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just saying. Anyway, they're members of the human family, and I, too,
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  Speaker 3: am heartbroken. Yeah, that cop's getting fired. The family has
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  Speaker 3: created a GoFundMe to help cover the legal cost related
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  Speaker 3: to he Haw's death, and any donations left over would
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  Speaker 3: go to the farm, caring of the animals, and a future...
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  Speaker 3: I can't do this. A Hee Haw Foundation.
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  Speaker 4: Can we donate?
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  Speaker 3: I want to make a donation.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to make a donation.
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  Speaker 4: We should.
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  Speaker 3: It's the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 4: It's only the right thing. It's her son, for goodness sakes.
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  Speaker 3: WWHD. What would Hee Haw do? What would Hee Haw do? Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: she says, oh, I've got to get my eyes checked.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it said my hottie baby donkey, but it
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  Speaker 3: was like my baby, my bottle baby donkey Hee Haw.
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  Speaker 7: Bottle.
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  Speaker 4: Bottle. Is he bottle fed? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good. That's it.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: In the diaper, in the bed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. An actual human, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Rock-a-bye, hee-haw.
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  Speaker 13: Hee-haw.
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  Speaker 3: Hee-haw.
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe we're laughing at this.
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  Speaker 3: No, this is a terrible story. No, we're not laughing
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  Speaker 3: out of humor. We're laughing out of disgust.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe a little. Maybe a little humor. Anyway, she's
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  Speaker 3: raised more than $ 113, 000. She can buy like a whole
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  Speaker 3: bunch of hee-haws.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was me. Just kidding.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, she said, my bottle baby donkey, Hee Haw, was
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  Speaker 3: killed in his pasture by trespassing cops. He was a
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  Speaker 3: loved member of our family and did many petting zoos
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  Speaker 3: and made many people smile. Oh, she's also hired a lawyer.
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  Speaker 3: She's about to throw down. Throw down. So there you go,
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  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, the story of Hee Haw the donkey.
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  Speaker 3: And I say this And I share this story with
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  Speaker 3: you only because the cops went to the wrong location here.
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  Speaker 3: And there have been stories all over the country of
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  Speaker 3: cops that are doing these home invasion things, right? And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: there's an error on the warrants or they show up
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  Speaker 3: at the wrong house. And the cops, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: knock down the door. You know, the family's there on
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  Speaker 3: the ground. And they're being held at gunpoint. And then
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  Speaker 3: the cops are like, oops, our bad.
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  Speaker 7: Oopsie.
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  Speaker 9: Whoops.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't mean for that to happen. So all that to say,
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  Speaker 3: our condolences to the family there on the loss of
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  Speaker 3: Hee Haw. 901-260-5926. Got a lot of ground to cover today.
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: We're following the situation out of Massachusetts. This Lindsey Clancy case.
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: story is very, very ugly right now. Jury cannot reach
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  Speaker 3: a unanimous verdict. The judge told him to go back
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  Speaker 3: and try, so we're going to be talking about that
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Dylan,
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  Speaker 3: I understand we got a call from a disgruntled listener.
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't too pleased with the donkey monologue.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right? Yeah. Any explanation? Was it the content?
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  Speaker 3: Was it my delivery? Anything in particular?
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  Speaker 4: The only word that I was able to decipher was stupid.
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  Speaker 15: Stupid.
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  Speaker 3: Stupid, stupid. Now, let me explain this. So on this
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  Speaker 3: radio program, we like to mix things up a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And when I saw the story of Hee Haw the donkey,
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  Speaker 3: I got righteously indignant. And I knew that I had
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  Speaker 3: to bring Hee Haw's story to the national platforms. And
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  Speaker 3: I take great umbrage, umbrage I say, umbrage, to anyone
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  Speaker 3: who might be critical of the beloved donkey hee-haw. For
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  Speaker 3: the love of God, man, have you no compassion for
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  Speaker 3: this sweet 30-year-old woman who now must sleep by herself,
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  Speaker 3: her donkey no longer by her side. I wonder if
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  Speaker 3: the donkey had, like, sleep apnea, just as an aside.
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  Speaker 3: Did it wear one of the little masks?
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  Speaker 4: These are great questions. We have to investigate.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just asking. How dare you, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Do they have sleep apnea for donkeys?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, but could you, Matt? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you're raising it. Look, if you're a human and
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  Speaker 3: you're sleeping next to a snoring donkey, I mean, that
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  Speaker 3: could be difficult.
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  Speaker 4: She probably has some problems.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt.
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  Speaker 3: All right, moving on along. It's only Tuesday. That's the
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  Speaker 3: problem here. It's only Tuesday, Dylan. That is the problem.
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  Speaker 3: So look, coming up, we're going to talk about this
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  Speaker 3: situation in Massachusetts. A lot of people don't realize this,
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: but one of the big problems Fox had with me
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: at the end, there were two. One was what I
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: said about the illegals. The other is something I said
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: about Democrats. being pro-abortion. And at the time, we had Dr.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Robert Jefferson, the pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas,
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: and he said that Democrats worship at the altar of
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: the god of child sacrifice. That would be Moloch in
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  Speaker 3: the Old Testament. And Fox News became enraged over that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean enraged. And look, they have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: Democrats that work at Fox News now. It is what
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  Speaker 3: it is. So they took great offense to And that's
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: ultimately they decided, you know what, we're not going to
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  Speaker 3: redo your contract. And that was that. So I will
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  Speaker 3: say that once again, I was proven right. They also
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  Speaker 3: didn't like what I said about the illegals. At the time,
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  Speaker 3: I was the only person categorizing what was happening at
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  Speaker 3: the border, at least on Fox News, as an invasion
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  Speaker 3: this at the time, and I do not apologize for
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  Speaker 3: anything I said. I said at the time that the
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  Speaker 3: illegals were invading our nation, and there was a time
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  Speaker 3: in world history when one country invaded another and sent
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  Speaker 3: people over the border. Without that country's permission, that was
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: called a war. And we used to fight wars over
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  Speaker 3: stuff like that. Anyway, Fox, you know, whatever. They didn't
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  Speaker 3: like that. But when you look at what's happening right
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: now in Massachusetts, and you can't tell me the women,
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  Speaker 3: and it's what, overwhelming women on the jury. You can't
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  Speaker 3: tell me it's the women that are causing the problems
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  Speaker 3: on that jury right now. You can't tell me those
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  Speaker 3: women didn't go home over the weekend. They should have
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: been sequestered, but they weren't. And you're telling me they
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: didn't see all the media coverage? They didn't see all
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: of those Karens wearing the pink T-shirts out there protesting
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: in defense of Lindsay Clancy. You're telling me they didn't
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  Speaker 3: see all that? Oh, they saw it, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: They saw it. So anyway, they came out today and said, Judge,
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  Speaker 3: we can't reach a unanimous decision. The jury is deadlocked.
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  Speaker 3: The judge says, go back in there and try again.
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  Speaker 3: They can try until the cows come home or Hee
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  Speaker 3: Haw comes home. It doesn't matter. Nothing, they're not going
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  Speaker 3: to change their mind. And the reason why in Massachusetts
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  Speaker 3: they have no respect for life, in Massachusetts there is
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  Speaker 3: no respect for life, which is why the governor a
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago signed into law the abortion measure
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  Speaker 3: that says any woman in the Commonwealth can kill her
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  Speaker 3: baby on the day of its birth. You think these
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  Speaker 3: people respect life? Of course not. And that's why they
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  Speaker 3: think Lindsey Clancy is actually the victim here. And these people,
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  Speaker 3: the pink hat people, they think the kids got what
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  Speaker 3: was coming to them. I mean, that's what we're really
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  Speaker 3: of Robin Hood only in theaters September 10th. Alright, so
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: there is just really Really bad stuff happening in Massachusetts
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: right now. I want you to listen. These are Lindsay
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Clancy supporters, and they're out there talking to reporters today.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Cut number 26.
• 20:20
  Speaker 16: Do you stand with her, yes or no?
• 20:22
  Speaker 17: I don't think she did it.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 20:24
  Speaker 17: We feel she's very sleep-deprived.
• 20:25
  Speaker 14: Her job as a labor and delivery nurse working night
• 20:28
  Speaker 14: shifts and three children is.
• 20:29
  Speaker 17: It's a lot.
• 20:31
  Speaker 12: A lot.
• 20:31
  Speaker 9: Do you have children?
• 20:32
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 20:32
  Speaker 17: Would you ever hurt them?
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: Yes and no.
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: As a mom or as a dad, I think that.
• 20:38
  Speaker 17: You are not perfect.
• 20:39
  Speaker 16: So what are the consequences she should face for this? Obviously,
• 20:42
  Speaker 16: she's already in a wheelchair. He should go to jail
• 20:45
  Speaker 16: for negligence. He needs to take care of his kids,
• 20:49
  Speaker 16: and that was his responsibility.
• 20:50
  Speaker 17: Is this any of your girlfriends?
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: This is your girlfriend?
• 20:54
  Speaker 17: I think you have to do some.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: Reflection on that.
• 20:57
  Speaker 16: I just have seen a little bit on TikTok of
• 20:59
  Speaker 16: the case.
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: I'm watching it on TikTok or, like, the live streams.
• 21:04
  Speaker 16: Where are you getting your news that the defense might
• 21:06
  Speaker 16: not be getting theirs?
• 21:07
  Speaker 19: TikTok.
• 21:07
  Speaker 17: What did you say?
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: TikTok.
• 21:10
  Speaker 15: Oh, boy.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. And the
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: woman said about she was asked whether or not you
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: would hurt your kids, and she said yes and no.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Ladies of America, what is going on out there? I
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: want you to listen to Anne Hathaway, the.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Movie star. And here's what Anne Hathaway has to say
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: about all of this. Cut number 22, please. Cut number 22. Okay,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: we don't have that. So we'll get back to you.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: All right, let's take a listen.
• 21:53
  Speaker 20: When you are a young woman starting out your career,
• 21:55
  Speaker 20: your reproductive destiny matters a great deal. My own personal
• 21:58
  Speaker 20: experience with abortion, and I don't think we talk about
• 22:01
  Speaker 20: this enough, abortion can be another word for mercy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 17: We don't know. We don't know.
• 22:06
  Speaker 20: It's not a world in which we know that no
• 22:08
  Speaker 20: two pregnancies are alike and it follows that no two
• 22:10
  Speaker 20: lives are alike. That follows that no two conceptions are alike.
• 22:15
  Speaker 20: So how can we have a law? How can we
• 22:17
  Speaker 20: have a point of view on this that says we
• 22:20
  Speaker 20: must treat everything the same? And where I come at
• 22:22
  Speaker 20: it from is when you allow for choice, you allow
• 22:25
  Speaker 20: for flexibility, which is what we need in order to
• 22:29
  Speaker 20: be human.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: But what she is saying is inhuman. That's inhumane is
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: what that is. Killing your child is not merciful at all.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: But this again, ladies and gentlemen, this is what happens
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: when you do not cherish life, when you do not
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: respect life. I mean, we live in a nation that
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: wants to kill babies. And we've had tens of millions
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: of babies slaughtered. In the name of choice. Here is, again,
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: so many people outside the courthouse there in Massachusetts. And
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: one reporter went and decided to ask men versus women
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: on whether or not they think Lindsay Clancy is guilty.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Let's take a listen to Cut20, please.
• 23:21
  Speaker 21: The jury is deliberating on a verdict for Lindsay Clancy,
• 23:24
  Speaker 21: and so we are asking people today whether or not
• 23:26
  Speaker 21: they think that she's innocent or guilty.
• 23:28
  Speaker 17: I think she's innocent.
• 23:29
  Speaker 16: I think if she was guilty, I think it needs
• 23:30
  Speaker 16: to be a state of psychosis. She does not deserve
• 23:32
  Speaker 16: prison time.
• 23:33
  Speaker 22: Based on all the evidence I've seen, the time stamps
• 23:36
  Speaker 22: just doesn't add up to.
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: I don't think she had enough time to kill all.
• 23:39
  Speaker 17: Three kids and harm herself.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Guilty.
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: Sorry, I said it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: I think she's guilty, but I do think there's a
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: lot of, like, gray area and i don't know her
• 23:49
  Speaker 8: husband seems obsessed to me i.
• 23:51
  Speaker 23: Think she should be found guilty from the little bit
• 23:53
  Speaker 23: of research that i have done uh i think her
• 23:56
  Speaker 23: her diagnosis she said i think it was a mental
• 23:58
  Speaker 23: issue she was trying to blame it i don't.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: Agree she's guilty of.
• 24:04
  Speaker 22: The murdering part of it but um i do think
• 24:08
  Speaker 22: that there's a lot of underlying mental health issues and
• 24:11
  Speaker 22: you know women's health issues that need to be talked
• 24:13
  Speaker 22: about with that.
• 24:13
  Speaker 13: Trial whether or not she did it from a state
• 24:15
  Speaker 13: of sanity she killed her kids Yeah.
• 24:17
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, she shouldn't be walking.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Free, probably.
• 24:20
  Speaker 11: Lindsay Clancy trial.
• 24:21
  Speaker 21: Have you guys been following it?
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: My girlfriend has.
• 24:24
  Speaker 22: I know nothing about it, but she's on TikTok for
• 24:26
  Speaker 22: like three hours in the morning.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: What does your girlfriend say about it? She thinks she's innocent.
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: What do you think?
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know enough about it.
• 24:33
  Speaker 17: I just know what she says.
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I wish I knew something about it.
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: The guilty party is like the medical system that failed
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: both her and the children.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Hey, who is that?
• 24:41
  Speaker 13: She's on trial right now for strangling her three kids
• 24:43
  Speaker 13: to death.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: Wait, is this the lady who had postpartum?
• 24:48
  Speaker 13: I hope that Lindsay Clancy not only gets strapped to
• 24:50
  Speaker 13: an electric chair, but that they lethally inject her three
• 24:53
  Speaker 13: different times. And here's the crazy part about the Clancy trial,
• 24:55
  Speaker 13: and I could go on for days on this.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Two things.
• 24:56
  Speaker 13: Number one, if you think that men are holding women
• 24:59
  Speaker 13: to too high of standards and your poster child is
• 25:01
  Speaker 13: Lindsay Clancy, how low do you want the standard to be?
• 25:03
  Speaker 13: The only thing we're asking she refrain from doing is
• 25:06
  Speaker 13: killing the kids when her husband goes out to get
• 25:08
  Speaker 13: her Midol. Is that too much to ask for? Is
• 25:10
  Speaker 13: that a Leviathan lift for you? Please don't kill the
• 25:12
  Speaker 13: kids while we're out getting bananas. And number two, You
• 25:14
  Speaker 13: can't have it both ways, okay? The same women that
• 25:16
  Speaker 13: are standing outside of the courthouse railing on and on
• 25:18
  Speaker 13: about how her husband should have intervened and taken control
• 25:20
  Speaker 13: of her medications and, God forbid, involuntarily had her committed
• 25:23
  Speaker 13: and separated from her children would have been the same
• 25:25
  Speaker 13: women who, if he had done that, would have said,
• 25:28
  Speaker 13: handmaid's tale.
• 25:28
  Speaker 16: Do you feel like men's response to this trial has
• 25:30
  Speaker 16: been fair?
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: No.
• 25:33
  Speaker 13: I don't think a man should have any say in it, honestly.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: That is a big problem in America right now. So
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: now the argument is that she did what she did
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: because she was, what, hormonal. So, again, you just have
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: to step back and ask this question. If, in fact,
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: that's the argument here from the defense, does this open
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: up a whole other can of worms? Because you could
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: turn around and say, okay, well, you know what? We
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: need to go ahead and fire every female police officer because,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: God forbid, they get hormonal on us. I mean, where
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: do you draw the line here if you want to
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: go down that path? So this is a very, very
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: sad situation. But again, the breaking news of the jury
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: says they cannot reach a verdict. Judge said, go back,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: try again, and we'll keep you updated on the developments here.
• 26:28
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• 27:09
  Speaker 3: let's go to the phone lines here. Elizabeth in Georgia. WDUN,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: our great affiliate there. Hey, Elizabeth, what's on your mind?
• 27:18
  Speaker 17: Good morning.
• 27:19
  Speaker 24: How are you doing?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I'm good. Thank you for asking.
• 27:23
  Speaker 24: Okay, now, I'm calling about the donkey lady.
• 27:25
  Speaker 19: First of all, she should be.
• 27:27
  Speaker 24: Charged for cruelty to animals. She didn't ask that animal
• 27:31
  Speaker 24: if he wanted to lay in bed with her. He
• 27:33
  Speaker 24: just took advantage of this poor donkey. And I loved
• 27:36
  Speaker 24: your story. I loved you laughing about it. I'm 84
• 27:39
  Speaker 24: years old. I could be dead tomorrow, and I need
• 27:42
  Speaker 24: all the laughs I can get. So I thank you
• 27:44
  Speaker 24: very much for the story. And the people who said
• 27:47
  Speaker 24: that you were stupid, they're stupid, so don't worry about them.
• 27:50
  Speaker 24: I love your program. I listen to you every day.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Elizabeth. I hope you live a long
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: and healthy life. You've got plenty of good years ahead
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: of you.
• 27:59
  Speaker 24: From your lips to God's ears.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: So you're saying that there was no consent given here,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: so this could be a me-too situation.
• 28:10
  Speaker 24: Absolutely. And as for the poor cops, cops have a
• 28:14
  Speaker 24: difficult job. There are how many cops in the United States?
• 28:17
  Speaker 24: Thousands and thousands and thousands of cops. If one makes
• 28:21
  Speaker 24: a mistake, they're all covered with the same paintbrush.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: So you're saying it's not like they're going out there
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: and shooting every donkey on sight?
• 28:30
  Speaker 24: No, just hee-haw.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Just hee-haw. Elizabeth, you're killing me here.
• 28:38
  Speaker 24: No, that's what we need. This lady that killed her baby,
• 28:44
  Speaker 24: she should be in an electric chair, very slowly dying. Yeah,
• 28:48
  Speaker 24: I agree. I pushed myself into that one, too.
• 28:53
  Speaker 12: Sorry.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: No, don't apologize, Elizabeth. Well, thank you for calling. Elizabeth,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: you be healthy, and thank you for that. You know,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I really didn't think the conversation was going to go
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: in that direction, Dylan.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: No, I didn't think about it either, but she has
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: a good point.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: A donkey never asks. Yeah, that's true. I mean, do dogs,
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: and again, hear me, I'm just opening up a can
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: of worms here. But aside from the fact that the
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: donkey was wearing a diaper, does that make the donkey uncomfortable?
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: And if that's the case, what about the dogs? I
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: see all these little dogs, and especially the ones that
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: are like the little metrosexual dogs.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: The kickable ones?
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Like the Pomeranian, the weenie dogs?
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the little weenie dogs. And they're owners of... or masters,
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: what do they call them? Masters.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Parents. No, owners.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: Fluffy, go pick some cotton. Woof, woof.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Like, woof. I'm sorry.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: What do they call them, owners? Is that the appropriate?
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, owners.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Okay, so there's... I just can't today. So anyway, I mean,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: but again, you've got these dogs out there. Do the
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: dogs really like the outfits is what I'm getting at.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: You know, when you dress your little dog up and
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: it looks like a little Dolly Parton.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: My dog hates getting an outfit, so we don't do
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: it anymore.
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: Good for you.
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: Well, good.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: And that's what I was wondering. is if that's like
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: a thing. Okay, I've got to take a break here. Folks,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: it's just, it's a weird day. That's all I can
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: tell you, a weird day. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. This
• 30:27
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• 30:43
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• 30:49
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• 30:52
  Speaker 3: say hello to James in Arkansas, listening to us on KWAM. Hi, James,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: what's on your mind today?
• 31:00
  Speaker 19: Hey, Todd, thanks for taking the call. You know, this
• 31:03
  Speaker 19: is just absolutely disgusting, these people talking about how they
• 31:07
  Speaker 19: defend her and it's not her fault. So was it
• 31:10
  Speaker 19: Susan Smith's fault when she put her kids in her
• 31:13
  Speaker 19: car and shoved it off in a lake and drowned them?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Great question.
• 31:18
  Speaker 19: Did she get a pass for that? Are we going
• 31:19
  Speaker 19: to let her out of jail now? You know, I'm
• 31:23
  Speaker 19: sick to death of this, and the Republicans, and I
• 31:26
  Speaker 19: know it's kind of a different topic, but the Republicans
• 31:28
  Speaker 19: are just as bad. They won't call evil evil.
• 31:31
  Speaker 25: That's evil.
• 31:32
  Speaker 19: I don't care what you were going through. I don't
• 31:34
  Speaker 19: care how bad a time you were having. You murdered
• 31:37
  Speaker 19: your children.
• 31:39
  Speaker 16: You didn't just.
• 31:40
  Speaker 25: Shoot them suddenly, you know, 30 seconds and, oh, my gosh,
• 31:44
  Speaker 25: the gun went off and I shot all my kids. No,
• 31:46
  Speaker 25: you did it one by one.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: You are evil.
• 31:50
  Speaker 25: You need to go to jail. You need to be shot.
• 31:53
  Speaker 25: You need to be assassinated with the same bands you
• 31:56
  Speaker 25: killed your kids with.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: James, I'm not disagreeing with anything you say at all,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: and it troubles me that the death penalty was not
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: on the table there. They can't do the death penalty, but,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's a very real possibility this woman will
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: be able to, she can't walk out because she's paralyzed,
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: but she may very well be able to roll out
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: of that courtroom today or tomorrow or whenever the jury
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: comes back and says, yeah, we can't figure this out.
• 32:25
  Speaker 26: Yeah, well, you know what?
• 32:26
  Speaker 19: They can't figure it out. The WNBA can't figure out
• 32:29
  Speaker 19: what a woman is.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: No, it's a messed up world.
• 32:33
  Speaker 19: Again, we need to call evil what it is, evil.
• 32:37
  Speaker 19: And all these people, I'll say it real quick, Todd.
• 32:41
  Speaker 19: Let me tell you something.
• 32:42
  Speaker 25: All these people doing all this stuff and defending all
• 32:44
  Speaker 25: this stuff and doing the things you're doing, you better
• 32:46
  Speaker 25: stop and think about it because my Lord and Savior,
• 32:49
  Speaker 25: Jesus Christ, is going to come back real soon. And
• 32:52
  Speaker 25: when he does, oh, boy, you're all going to have
• 32:54
  Speaker 25: a rude awakening.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Well, that's a sermon right there, James, and that'll preach
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: as they say. James, thank you for the call. And
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: James is right. By the way, the Republican Party, to
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: his point, the Republican Party in 2024, they went in there,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: party leaders went in and weakened the party platform on
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: the issue of abortion. So let that sink in. That
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: gives you an idea of where this political party is going.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Georgia. Nelson is on the line. Nelson,
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: what's on your mind?
• 33:33
  Speaker 25: Hello.
• 33:33
  Speaker 27: How do I speak every day? It's good to hear
• 33:35
  Speaker 27: your voice.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 33:38
  Speaker 27: I'm just on hee-haw. That's one of those miniature donkeys.
• 33:43
  Speaker 27: I've got a mini farm. I've got chickens. We're fixing
• 33:46
  Speaker 27: to buy a couple, though, with me and my wife,
• 33:48
  Speaker 27: because they're just They make just wonderful pets, and I
• 33:53
  Speaker 27: hate that it happened. I hate it for the top.
• 33:56
  Speaker 27: I hate it for the bottom. I really do.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you, Nelson, so these miniature donkeys, how
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: big are we talking, like a St. Bernard or a Greyhound?
• 34:07
  Speaker 27: They're a little bit smaller. They're just right at a
• 34:11
  Speaker 27: little tiny, a little bit smaller than St. Bernard when
• 34:14
  Speaker 27: they get full grown.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: It's like a little midget donkey.
• 34:17
  Speaker 27: Yeah, that's what they are, and they make pets that
• 34:20
  Speaker 27: are just they're they're it's amazing they're i've got german
• 34:24
  Speaker 27: shepherd dogs on my property that guard my chicken house
• 34:26
  Speaker 27: i've got a lot of bears up here and uh
• 34:30
  Speaker 27: you know it's uh but i'm building a little barn
• 34:32
  Speaker 27: right now on some lower property i got before i
• 34:35
  Speaker 27: get these two little donkeys because i just i just
• 34:37
  Speaker 27: want a couple of them for pets i mean my
• 34:38
  Speaker 27: life loves them and i hate it happened to that
• 34:41
  Speaker 27: lady and i you know like i said i hate
• 34:43
  Speaker 27: it for the police officers just It's a bad situation
• 34:46
  Speaker 27: all the way around.
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Are the donkeys aggressive? Will they attack you?
• 34:50
  Speaker 27: No, absolutely not. They'll come up to you. It's like
• 34:56
  Speaker 27: the lady said, don't do it. I've been around these donkeys.
• 35:00
  Speaker 27: I've played with them. I've got buddies of mine that's
• 35:02
  Speaker 27: got them. I've got a friend of mine that raises them.
• 35:06
  Speaker 27: They're very docile, but they love to play. Like she said,
• 35:12
  Speaker 27: they do think they're human. I mean, they're really a
• 35:15
  Speaker 27: funny creature. When you get to know one of them,
• 35:18
  Speaker 27: and they just, I don't know, they won't bite you
• 35:22
  Speaker 27: or nothing like that, like a horse whale or a
• 35:24
  Speaker 27: full-grown donkey, because they will bite you.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Well, when I first heard about this story, Nelson, I've
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: got to be honest with you. When I first heard
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: that somebody gunned down the little donkey, hee-haw, I immediately thought,
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: where's Kristi Noem?
• 35:40
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 35:41
  Speaker 27: Amen. I agree with that 100%.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Well, I, I'll tell you this. I guarantee you all
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: the animals on her farm. They are, they are very
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: well behaved.
• 35:57
  Speaker 27: Mine are too. I've got a, I got chickens. We
• 36:00
  Speaker 27: grow everything we eat. We're just, we're hillbillies. That's just
• 36:03
  Speaker 27: what we are.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: No, you're good country folks. Nelson, that's what you are.
• 36:08
  Speaker 19: That's what we are.
• 36:09
  Speaker 27: We just, Girls that way, I'm 70 years old. I
• 36:12
  Speaker 27: grew up that way.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Nelson, you'll appreciate this story. In the middle of, this
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: is Midtown Memphis, and it's in the medical district. So
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: you have a bunch of highfalutin folks and doctors and everything.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: But there's a restaurant that's been around, I don't know, 40,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: 40 some odd years called The Cupboard, the world famous
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: cupboard restaurant. And you go in there, it's good food.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: You know, you can get a good, but the funny
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: thing is when you walk in, they've got all this
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: fresh produce. So if you want a whole bag of
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: fresh tomatoes off the farm, you can get a little
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: bit of produce there. So that's good. You don't see
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: that in New York City.
• 36:48
  Speaker 27: No, you don't. And you mentioned that. We're a canner.
• 36:51
  Speaker 27: We've already put up 200 quarts this year. My wife
• 36:54
  Speaker 27: is home today canning apples. She's canning brandy apples today,
• 36:59
  Speaker 27: putting a little bit of brandy in it. We've just
• 37:01
  Speaker 27: done our peaches and Dunstown green beans and the tomatoes.
• 37:06
  Speaker 27: We don't buy nothing in town.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: How do the brandy peaches work? So a couple of
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: drops in and a couple of drops in you. Is
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: that the way it works with the brandy?
• 37:17
  Speaker 27: I'm an evangelist, and a buddy of mine asked me
• 37:19
  Speaker 27: one time, he said, Nelson, I know you take a drink.
• 37:22
  Speaker 27: And I said, oh, let me tell you something. I said,
• 37:24
  Speaker 27: Jesus said, anything you do, my children do in moderation.
• 37:27
  Speaker 27: And there's only one man in the Bible that's not
• 37:30
  Speaker 27: supposed to take a strong drink. And that was John
• 37:32
  Speaker 27: the Baptist. But Jesus said we would drink with him
• 37:36
  Speaker 27: with a covenant with new wine. So I do believe
• 37:39
  Speaker 27: Jesus takes a sip of wine every now and then himself.
• 37:42
  Speaker 27: I do believe that.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, to put up with the Democrats, you've
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: got to take a swig of something. I'll just tell
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: you that.
• 37:47
  Speaker 27: Much right now. My daddy's family made whiskey all their lives.
• 37:53
  Speaker 27: And that's how they made it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, look, we just call it extreme communion.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Make it a double, preacher. Nelson, good call. And you
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: sound like good people. Can't wait to try some of
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: those brandied apples.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Hour two of the big show coming up. You're going
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: to want to stick around for what President Trump just said.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: We'll be right back, everybody.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starnes.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: And this is the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Hello, everybody. Welcome.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Great to have you with us today. Border to border,
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: coast to coast. Across the Fruited Plain, we have a
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: terrific hour lined up for you. Coming up in just
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: a little while, we're going to be talking politics with
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: our good buddy Chad Connolly. Also, Mary Walter coming up
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: a little bit later. And we're going to place a
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: bit of our interview that Rita Cosby did with me.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: So last night, I was not the guy asking the questions.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: I was a guest on Rita's national radio show. and
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: she interviewed me about my new book called The Golden Age,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: How Trump Saved America. And we just had a really
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: fun conversation, and we're going to play a little bit
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: of that for you. By the way, you can get
• 39:35
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• 39:39
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• 39:41
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• 39:44
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• 39:51
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• 39:55
  Speaker 3: And again, you can get it wherever you buy your books. Well,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: this is a very disturbing story coming out of Minnesota.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: And I did a double take when I got an
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: email from our friends at First Liberty Institute, very surprised
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: at this news that apparently The Amish are coming under attack,
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: and one particular Minnesota county is now jailing and fining
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Amish people for simply building homes and businesses in accordance
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: with their belief system. I want to go right away
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line and say hello to
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: our good friend Ryan Gardner, who is senior counsel at
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: First Liberty. Ryan, thank you for joining us. What in
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: the world is going on down there in Amish country?
• 40:41
  Speaker 11: That's a very good question. And when I found out
• 40:44
  Speaker 11: about the facts of this case, I had the exact
• 40:46
  Speaker 11: same reaction that you did. We represent two Amish congregations
• 40:50
  Speaker 11: in Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, and their request is a
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: very simple one. They want to live according to their
• 40:57
  Speaker 11: religious beliefs. And if you know anything about the Amish
• 41:00
  Speaker 11: religious beliefs, what that really entails at the end of
• 41:03
  Speaker 11: the day is allowing them to be left alone to
• 41:05
  Speaker 11: some degree. But this county just won't do that. It
• 41:09
  Speaker 11: is using the petty tools of government to make clear
• 41:12
  Speaker 11: to the Amish that they are not welcome in their community.
• 41:16
  Speaker 11: What this all stems down to from the county side
• 41:19
  Speaker 11: is permitting issues, and this has been going on for
• 41:22
  Speaker 11: a number of years. What the county originally did is
• 41:27
  Speaker 11: they took this permit scheme, which you used to go
• 41:29
  Speaker 11: in and do by paper, they turned that into an
• 41:32
  Speaker 11: electronic system with no paper option. Well, as you might
• 41:36
  Speaker 11: be aware, the Amish don't really go online or otherwise
• 41:40
  Speaker 11: use technology, so they didn't even have the option for
• 41:42
  Speaker 11: a long time to get permits, and the county refused
• 41:44
  Speaker 11: to work with them. Now, as time went on, they
• 41:47
  Speaker 11: eventually went back to allowing an option for the Amish
• 41:50
  Speaker 11: to again get permits, but now they have to pay
• 41:52
  Speaker 11: a special fee of like $ 50 to come and get
• 41:55
  Speaker 11: a paper copy, and it really is only the Amish
• 41:57
  Speaker 11: people that would be getting that kind of thing. So
• 42:00
  Speaker 11: during this time when they couldn't get permits, many of
• 42:03
  Speaker 11: the Amish just decided to build their own homes for themselves.
• 42:07
  Speaker 11: They needed a place to live, worship, conduct their business,
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: and they did so. And by the way, they did
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: so pursuant to their methods of building things that dates
• 42:20
  Speaker 11: back centuries. So if you're talking about safety concerns, Amish
• 42:24
  Speaker 11: have some of the best handiwork of anybody in the country,
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: and their buildings are going to be amongst the most
• 42:29
  Speaker 11: safe in this country. But despite that, the county is
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: now going after them.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, let me jump in here. So help me understand this.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: It's my understanding that people have been arrested here? What
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: are the charges?
• 42:41
  Speaker 11: Yeah, so failing to get a building permit. That's basically
• 42:43
  Speaker 11: what it comes down to is failing to have the
• 42:45
  Speaker 11: proper permit. When one of our clients went into court
• 42:50
  Speaker 11: to have his day in court on all of this,
• 42:52
  Speaker 11: he was convicted of a criminal offense and put in
• 42:55
  Speaker 11: jail for 30 days for not having a permit. which
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: I do a lot of these sorts of land use
• 43:00
  Speaker 11: cases around the country, it is exceedingly rare that you're
• 43:04
  Speaker 11: going to get incarcerated for this kind of offense. At most,
• 43:08
  Speaker 11: you're going to get a fine typically, but it's clear
• 43:11
  Speaker 11: that what the county wanted to do with this individual
• 43:13
  Speaker 11: is to make an example of him. So he immediately
• 43:16
  Speaker 11: was taken into custody after he was convicted of not
• 43:20
  Speaker 11: having this permit. And by the way, to add insult
• 43:24
  Speaker 11: to injury, Not only was he taken to jail, but
• 43:27
  Speaker 11: while he was in jail, he was taken from his
• 43:30
  Speaker 11: cell and forcibly had his mugshot taken against his will,
• 43:34
  Speaker 11: which is another violation of his religious beliefs. As you
• 43:37
  Speaker 11: might be aware, the Amish do not want to be photographed.
• 43:39
  Speaker 11: They don't want to be videoed. And in doing so,
• 43:41
  Speaker 11: it violates their beliefs. And so you have a trampling
• 43:43
  Speaker 11: of the religious rights of the Amish community across the board.
• 43:46
  Speaker 11: And here's the kicker about this whole permitting scheme built
• 43:50
  Speaker 11: into the very ordinance that they're attacking the Amish with
• 43:53
  Speaker 11: is the option to give them an exemption. The county
• 43:57
  Speaker 11: could give them an exemption, but just doesn't want to
• 43:59
  Speaker 11: do so.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: So I understand that you guys, along with Harvard Law School,
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Foley and Lardner, or the Harvard Law School Religious Freedom Clinic,
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: are sending this demand letter. It's beyond offensive here, especially
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: when you see how the folks in Minnesota bend over
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: backwards to accommodate the Muslim community and the Somali community
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: while targeting the Amish.
• 44:28
  Speaker 11: I couldn't agree more that this is truly something that
• 44:32
  Speaker 11: is egregious. And if you look across the country, communities
• 44:37
  Speaker 11: everywhere make efforts to accommodate the Amish, and they do
• 44:40
  Speaker 11: so successfully without incident. That's really all we're asking for
• 44:44
  Speaker 11: here is for Mille Lacs County to treat the Amish
• 44:47
  Speaker 11: the same way that other communities around the country treat
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: the Amish. And by the way, if you look at
• 44:52
  Speaker 11: the Amish's record on religious liberty cases, Some of the
• 44:55
  Speaker 11: foundational Supreme Court opinions in this country come from the
• 44:59
  Speaker 11: Amish standing up for their rights. So I would say
• 45:01
  Speaker 11: they have a pretty good track record up at the U.S.
• 45:03
  Speaker 11: Supreme Court.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Ryan, looking back here, was there a time when they
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: did not have to do all of this stuff? The
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Amish were exempt from it. When did things change?
• 45:15
  Speaker 11: Yeah, there was a time. Maybe if you went back
• 45:18
  Speaker 11: 10 years ago, I think things were much better. But then,
• 45:20
  Speaker 11: as often happens in these small communities... new people come
• 45:24
  Speaker 11: into power, new people take over these government positions, and
• 45:27
  Speaker 11: they see things a new way. And here, the official
• 45:30
  Speaker 11: that came in, for whatever reason, instituted a regime that
• 45:34
  Speaker 11: is no longer tolerant of the Amish community.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable what's happening here. All right, so what
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: are you guys wanting the county to do? I suspect
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: if things don't go your way, we're heading to court here,
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: but what is it that you're demanding they do?
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: So at this point, we sent a letter last week
• 45:57
  Speaker 11: demanding that the county cease its illegal activity and enforcement
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: against the Amish and simply accommodate them, work with the Amish.
• 46:05
  Speaker 11: The thing about this community is they are not a
• 46:09
  Speaker 11: litigious society. The Amish, they simply want to be left alone,
• 46:15
  Speaker 11: separate from society, to live out according to their beliefs
• 46:19
  Speaker 11: with their families and their congregations. And that's really what
• 46:22
  Speaker 11: we want here. We want the county to work with
• 46:25
  Speaker 11: us to find a solution that works. Up to this point,
• 46:29
  Speaker 11: the Amish community has been met with hostility and reproach
• 46:32
  Speaker 11: every time they've tried to approach the county officials about
• 46:35
  Speaker 11: finding a compromise. But that compromise, frankly, has already been
• 46:39
  Speaker 11: struck by the First Amendment and by federal law. And
• 46:43
  Speaker 11: what it requires is a combination of the Amish religious beliefs.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: Well, all right. Well, Ryan, we appreciate you joining us today.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: We want to stay up to date on this case.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Keep us updated, and good luck to you.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 46:56
  Speaker 11: You can always find out more at firstliberty.org.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: All right. That's Ryan Gardner, ladies and gentlemen, First Liberty Institute. Unbelievable.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: They're going after the Amish. I mean, you've got the Somalians,
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars in fraud.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: You've got Ilhan Omar and the Islamists. But they're going
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: to turn a blind eye to all of that, and
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: they're going to target the Amish on building permits. Unbelievable.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: All right, our telephone number, 901-260-5926. We'll take your calls
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: on this story. Again, 901-260-5926. Dylan, I am so impressed,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: and this is an interesting story out of Memphis, Tennessee.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: The new head football coach at the University of Memphis
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: is making national headlines. His name is Charles Huff, and
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: this guy won the National Coach of the Week, the
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: Bear Bryant Award, this week.
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: And, I mean, that's huge.
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, huge accolades. And for Memphis, too, that's a huge, like,
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: you know, we're not that big of a school, but, like,
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: this guy being … He has a great track record
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: as a coach, and it's cool to see.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: First-year coach just got hired, and they went to UNLV,
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: and they beat him. But what I appreciate is that
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: this coach is very different. There was a comparison made.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Jason Whitlock, I was listening to his podcast, and he
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: was making the point that Charles Huff is the exact
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: opposite of Deion Sanders, primetime.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: And Coach Huff is just like, hardcore basics. We're not
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: playing the rap music.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: Who is it?
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: Lil, is it Lil Baby? Is that the, is that,
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: did I get that right?
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's, yeah, Lil Baby.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Lil Baby. Lil Baby.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: Not Little Baby.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, Lil, Lil.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Lil.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Lil, alright, like Lil Baby. Anyway, no, they don't do
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. Not under this coach. Why don't
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: you listen to Coach Charles Hoff talking to the national
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: media about what they're doing at the University of Memphis.
• 49:00
  Speaker 23: We don't play music at practice. So if you want music,
• 49:03
  Speaker 23: you're not going to play for me. So we get
• 49:05
  Speaker 23: the kids who are worried about football and creating value
• 49:08
  Speaker 23: for themselves. We don't do ice cream trucks. We don't
• 49:11
  Speaker 23: do fun things. You know what's fun? That locker room
• 49:15
  Speaker 23: right now is fun.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: You know what's fun? When these guys graduate and they
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: get to walk across. the state, that's fun. So no, we're.
• 49:22
  Speaker 23: Not the, and what I'm not saying, I'm not saying
• 49:24
  Speaker 23: that other programs that do that are not right.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 49:28
  Speaker 23: We have an opportunity for the next six months for
• 49:30
  Speaker 23: some of these kids to change their life forever.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: So it is our job as coaches, adults, administrators.
• 49:36
  Speaker 23: Supporters to do everything we can to We spent a
• 49:39
  Speaker 23: week and a half with Dr.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Sherry Mai teaching these guys how to sleep.
• 49:43
  Speaker 28: Why?
• 49:43
  Speaker 23: Because this trip was important. So she taught us how
• 49:45
  Speaker 23: to sleep. She taught us the value of sleep. She
• 49:47
  Speaker 23: taught us what to do Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday coming up.
• 49:50
  Speaker 23: Guys on the plane with eye masks, guys on the
• 49:52
  Speaker 23: plane with 30 minute timers on. Last night, we're staying
• 49:55
  Speaker 23: up 30 minutes later because we're trying to do everything
• 49:59
  Speaker 23: we can at the University of Memphis to help these
• 50:01
  Speaker 23: guys be successful in life. And if that means we
• 50:04
  Speaker 23: had to bring in a sleep doctor to help them
• 50:06
  Speaker 23: sleep a little better because we were playing, it's 1.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: O'clock back home, right?
• 50:12
  Speaker 23: So if we had to do something to that minute
• 50:14
  Speaker 23: of a detail to help these guys, it's what we
• 50:16
  Speaker 23: have to do. And I think once they get here
• 50:19
  Speaker 23: and they feel that love, I think they really embrace it.
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: I love this. And this is the kind of a
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: coach that you would want your son to play under.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: this kind of a guy for sure.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: He doesn't mess around at all he knows exactly what
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: his job is there's no extra stuff almost this is
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: a very refreshing take as a coach honestly because like
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: we've been hearing all the nil stuff and how it's
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: affecting college football this guy mentioned that it's fun to
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: walk across the graduation stage like that's so refreshing to
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: hear because he's you know they're students first and he
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: prioritizes the discipline that it takes to be a student
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: and an athlete.
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna it's gonna be a fun year
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: uh for memphis but i think for For the coach,
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: it's going to be a fun year at graduation watching
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: these young men walk across that stage.
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for sure. This is exciting.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's great. And meanwhile, at LSU, it didn't
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: take long for Lane Kiffin to cause controversy.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: No, it never does.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: I can't believe this, but it's true. Dabo Sweeney is
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: really upset, and his team is getting ready to play
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: LSU this And LSU is trying to roster a number
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: of people who have played in the NFL and now
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: want to go back to college.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I heard that. What is going on over there?
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: No way.
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: But, I mean, they're going to try it. It's not
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: going to work.
• 51:42
  Speaker 16: No.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: Look, we need more coaches like Charles Huff making the
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: rules and fixing what is broken in college football right now.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: You know he worked for Nick Saban, right?
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: And that shows right now. You can see it.
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: It does.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: You're right. So I think this is, it's, it's a
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: fascinating situation, but I, I'm so encouraged. We've heard a
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: lot of bad stuff about what's wrong with college football.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: It's nice to know that Charles Huff is doing and
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: leading the charge and what is right. And it's happening
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: right here in our own backyard. You go into the
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: game Saturday.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: I want to, this, he makes me want to like
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: go out and I'm an alum from the university of Memphis.
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: So I like, I want to go out and support
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: this team and this coach.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Did you play? You played in the marching band.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: Played in the marching band.
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: What was the name of your?
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: I played the trumpet.
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: I know you.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: What was the name of the band?
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: The Mighty Sound of the South.
• 52:33
  Speaker 15: Okay.
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: Gotcha.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: Well, no, those are big things in the South. You know,
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: the bands all have big names.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah. They all say the, we all like claim that
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: we're the mightiest or we're the biggest, but you know,
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: we actually, we actually were.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: Like Jacksonville State University used to have a rockin' marching band.
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, marching band's the best. It's a free ticket to
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: every football game, especially if you're a fan.
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: But let's not forget the greatest of all, which is
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: the Pride of the Southland band.
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: You can have that opinion. I'll let you have it.
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: For Dolly.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: For Dolly. So the Tennessee Volunteers are doing something for
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: Dolly at Saturday's game.
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: Yep. So they're going to be honoring her all season
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: with decals on their helmets. There's sort of like a
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: butterfly with Dolly in the middle of it. And, you know,
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: I'm sure the walkout's going to be a little, you know,
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: they're going to be honoring her for sure, but I'm
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: sure it's going to be sad because they play Rocky
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: Top with Dolly Parton.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: I think it is going to be interesting to watch the,
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: you know, 400-pound linebackers with the butterflies on their helmet.
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: Don't you be dissing Dolly.
• 53:38
  Speaker 28: Nope.
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: Don't you be saying Dolly.
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: That's a good point.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: It's a fair point. All right, we got to take
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: a break here.
• 53:44
  Speaker 28: 901-260-5926.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Starnes Show.
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Tom Stearns Radio Show.
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: Michelle Obama, she's very upset on a number of different levels.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: But right now, she's having the time of her life.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: I just have a question for you. When your kids
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: moved off to college, were you sad? Was there a
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: part of you that sort of like, you know, you
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: miss your kids?
• 54:29
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: And I think most parents out there, you know, when
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: you spend 18 years raising your kids, and then they
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: go off to college, and a part of you feels like,
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: you know, you miss them. But not Michelle Obama. No, no, no, no, no.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, she could not wait until her kids
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: went off to school. Cut number 23, please.
• 54:54
  Speaker 13: But, you know, the energy and excitement of the kids
• 54:56
  Speaker 13: being around is so incredible.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: I don't miss them.
• 55:00
  Speaker 10: I don't.
• 55:00
  Speaker 17: I love them. I'm going to see them tonight for dinner.
• 55:03
  Speaker 17: I love them.
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 55:05
  Speaker 10: But, you know, Barack cried when they went to college.
• 55:08
  Speaker 17: I was like, bye, little boy. Goodbye.
• 55:13
  Speaker 10: Now Friday nights aren't wrecked with terror and fear about
• 55:17
  Speaker 10: where are you?
• 55:18
  Speaker 17: Where are you?
• 55:19
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 55:20
  Speaker 17: No, I get that. I love their emancipation and growth.
• 55:24
  Speaker 7: The thing I miss, though, is the job. Don't you miss?
• 55:27
  Speaker 8: No.
• 55:27
  Speaker 7: See, your kids are still in high school, so it's
• 55:28
  Speaker 7: still a job.
• 55:29
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 55:31
  Speaker 7: It gave a meaning and pattern to my life.
• 55:34
  Speaker 17: I'm good.
• 55:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 55:36
  Speaker 17: Look at all the meaning I have.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: She's different.
• 55:39
  Speaker 17: I have a wonderful pattern.
• 55:41
  Speaker 7: Oh, man.
• 55:41
  Speaker 17: I love my kids' schedule.
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's something about the schedule.
• 55:45
  Speaker 10: I love their schedule. I love my schedule. I have
• 55:48
  Speaker 10: a great schedule, and it's all mine. But I think
• 55:55
  Speaker 10: fathers can be that way because you weren't there.
• 55:57
  Speaker 17: From six and nine.
• 55:58
  Speaker 5: And we missed a lot of it.
• 55:58
  Speaker 17: You missed a lot of it. I mean, I've had
• 56:00
  Speaker 17: so much quality time with my children.
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: But again... But you're a mother.
• 56:07
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: This reminds me. She sat down to an interview with
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: Robin Roberts from ABC News, and she actually asked Michelle Obama,
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: name one thing that you want to be all about
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: in the future. And Michelle Obama, well, she said this,
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: cut 24.
• 56:29
  Speaker 13: One word to describe your next chapter.
• 56:31
  Speaker 26: One word.
• 56:32
  Speaker 22: Fun.
• 56:35
  Speaker 15: Uh, me.
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 56:39
  Speaker 7: That's what you call drop the mic.
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: What a narcissist this woman is. It's all about Michelle.
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: Golly.
• 56:48
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: Hang tight. We'll be right back. All right, welcome back,
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: I want to talk just briefly about what's happening in
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: Texas with the Senate race there. Ken Paxton, the Attorney General,
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: going up against James Talofrico. And the problem here is
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: the National Republicans are not doing anything to help this
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: guy out, Ken Paxton. Not a thing. As a matter
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: of fact, here's Senator John Kennedy on Fox confirming that
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: They're not lifting a finger to help Ken Paxton cut 27.
• 57:41
  Speaker 21: It didn't sound from his answer that the president made
• 57:43
  Speaker 21: any commitments, either himself or through his super PAC, to
• 57:47
  Speaker 21: write checks for Paxton, at least right now. Does Senate
• 57:52
  Speaker 21: Leadership Fund or NRSC have any plans for TV ads
• 57:57
  Speaker 21: to support him? Because he's down in spending there.
• 58:00
  Speaker 26: Well, I listened to your interview. It was very good,
• 58:03
  Speaker 26: by the way, with the attorney general. Look, there's no
• 58:06
  Speaker 26: sense bubble wrapping it. We've got a race in Texas.
• 58:10
  Speaker 26: And the attorney general is going to have to do
• 58:15
  Speaker 26: two things. He's going to have to point out the
• 58:17
  Speaker 26: deficiencies of Mr.
• 58:19
  Speaker 17: Tavarico.
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: He really is a.
• 58:22
  Speaker 26: Lulu Lennon, and he's a little bit of a weenie.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: But at the same time, Mr.
• 58:30
  Speaker 26: Paxton is going to have to talk about what he's
• 58:32
  Speaker 26: going to do, a positive platform for the United States Senate.
• 58:36
  Speaker 26: You can't win an election by saying the other guy
• 58:39
  Speaker 26: is worse than me. Money is an issue.
• 58:43
  Speaker 12: Mr.
• 58:43
  Speaker 26: Tallarico has been raising bucket loads of money from California, Hollywood,
• 58:49
  Speaker 26: all the beautiful people who partied with Harvey Weinstein. We
• 58:54
  Speaker 26: in the Senate don't have the money budgeted for Texas.
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: We need help from the president.
• 58:59
  Speaker 26: The president says he has $ 850 million in his campaign accounts.
• 59:06
  Speaker 7: That's a lot of jack.
• 59:08
  Speaker 26: I'm hoping that the president's going to spend $ 100 million.
• 59:10
  Speaker 26: $ 100 or $ 200 million in Texas. But he hasn't committed
• 59:13
  Speaker 26: to it yet. But in the meantime, we've.
• 59:18
  Speaker 7: Got a race. We're good.
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: We're good. I want to bring into the conversation the
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: founder of an incredible organization called Faith Wins, Chad Connolly. Chad?
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: I can't believe what I just heard Senator John Kennedy
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: say right there. They don't have any money budgeted for Texas.
• 59:37
  Speaker 29: I can't believe it either, Todd. I sure hope they
• 59:39
  Speaker 29: change their minds pretty quick because the nightmare doomsday scenario
• 59:43
  Speaker 29: is if you have to compete in a Texas or
• 59:47
  Speaker 29: like my state, South Carolina, or reliably red state, you've
• 59:50
  Speaker 29: got a massive problem. And I think we're staring at
• 59:52
  Speaker 29: that right now, brother.
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: Well, when you look at what happened in South Carolina,
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: I want to get to that in a minute, but
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: the fact they had to put all that money and
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: effort to get Darlene Graham across the finish line when
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: they had a very respectable Freedom Caucus conservative running that
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: they just shoved to the side, that's beyond me. But
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: going back to Texas for just a moment here, I've
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: been hearing reports on the ground that conservatives are very
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: concerned about losing this race. that Ken Paxton is lazy,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: that Ken Paxton is not out there fundraising. And if
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: you read between the lines, that's exactly what John Kennedy
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 3: is saying here as well. And I get that, but
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: we still have to have a majority in the Senate.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: So why don't they have them? They've got tens of
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: millions of dollars. Why are they not making Texas a priority?
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 29: It's a valid question. I think that the thing I'm hearing,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 29: and I've been in Texas a couple times already, we're
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 29: actually running pastor network meetings in Texas, and we've never
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 29: done that before because we're concerned. And let's face it,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 29: this Talafrico, as you said, he's telling people he's a Christian,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 29: but God's not. And so it is a massive concern.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 29: I'm glad they're playing in our arena. We're going to
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 29: tap that back in an appropriate way. But the thing
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 29: that people are asking me in Texas is, how much
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 29: money did the National Republican Senatorial Committee receive spend on
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 29: behalf of John Cornyn knowing he was going to lose big. And,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 29: you know, like any other money spent early on, you
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 29: kind of scratch your head and go. hey, we might
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 29: need that money in the fall. This is a big deal.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 29: We're already facing the uphill climb of the midterms. Let's
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 29: face it, we're not very good at that. As the
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 29: president has pointed out, we're not very good at running
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 29: in a race that he's not on the ballot when
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 29: he has been great at bringing out a low propensity voter.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 29: So we're already facing an uphill climb. I think a
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 29: lot of people are very concerned that the House is gone.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 29: And now looking at the Senate being tossed up in
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 29: usually reliably red areas, It's a big deal, brother, and
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 29: I hope somebody on the president's team is screaming about
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 29: the five alarm fires that I think we're facing.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: I'm curious, Chad, this event that's happening next week, the rally,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: and President Trump has gone out there and said on
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: the record now that he wants this to be a
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: referendum on him and the job he has done. I
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: think that's basically admitting that the Republican Congress has failed
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: and they've really got nothing to run on. Do you
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: think that is going to work though? I mean, the
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: voters are pretty shrewd. Do you think they're going to
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: go and vote based on the job Trump has done
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: or what the Congress has not done?
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 29: It's a great question. Look, I think people are very
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 29: frustrated that the Senate won't pass an 80-20 issue like
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 29: Save America Act. They're very frustrated with John Thune. I
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 29: think the marginal Republican don't go out to vote all
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 29: the time. Voters going, what for? Why would I vote
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 29: for these guys? But every time I think of the
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 29: doom and gloom, I think about what we do and
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 29: you do, and that is get people out to vote
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 29: because it's a biblical obligation. Look, I think that the
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 29: whole thing about next week, Trump has realized he has
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 29: to make it about himself and he's got a message appropriately.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 29: We've got a great message. I've heard Mike Johnson give this.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 29: I just need to hear it. over and over and
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 29: over again, you may not be super happy with Republicans,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 29: but this is common sense versus crazy. The left has
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 29: gone so far crazy that that may help us because
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 29: they may suppress enough of their normal flag-waving American vote
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 29: that they don't want to go vote for an LCA
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 29: in Michigan or a This crazy woman in Florida that's
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 29: screaming and ranting through a bullhorn. Those things may be
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 29: in opposition to common thinking and intuition that may actually
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 29: help us as well. So there are so many dynamics.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 29: The convention next week, I think, is tough. He's looking
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 29: for the TV ratings. We're going up against the NFL.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 29: I'll be in Dallas, obviously. I'm a delegate for my
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 29: state of South Carolina, but it is an uphill climb,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 29: and I think everything you're seeing is an acknowledgment. This
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 29: is an uphill climb, and we've got to do everything
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 29: we can.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: Well, not only do you have the NFL, you've got
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: the one-year anniversary of Charlie Kirk's assassination, and you've got
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: the 25th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. So, I mean,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: there's no oxygen left. So, I just, I'm really... I
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: hope that they get what they want out of this,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: but I don't know. Chad, I want to go back.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 29: To— I'm not as hopeful. I'm not as hopeful for it.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 29: I mean, look, somebody's advising the president— Spend time on
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 29: renaming a lake.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 4: And I love that.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 29: I love Lake America.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: I love that.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 29: But there's no middle-of-the-road Republican, low-propensity voter going, yes, now
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 29: I'm going to vote for the Republicans. It just seems
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 29: to be we're all over the map. We don't have
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 29: a coherent message. And, you know, this was what Reagan
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 29: was the best at, right? He was staying on message.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 29: and breaking through the media barriers so people would hear
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 29: what we had to say. And that's what scares me
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 29: the most, Todd, is I'm not hearing. There's plenty to
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 29: run on. We got great messaging. Crime is down. The
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 29: southern border is secure. We've defended our Israeli allies and
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 29: taken the nuke away from Iran. There's a lot of
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 29: things to be really positive about. But you know how
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 29: it is. You got to break through the media barrier
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 29: and say it over and over and over and over
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 29: again so that people actually get the message. And That's
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 29: what I'm worried about 60 days out, brother.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: Chad, I want to go back to South Carolina, which
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: is your home state. I'm sorry. That debate, geez-a-loo. I mean,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 3: that was bad. And I think, look, I don't know
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: what happened. I know why Trump endorsed Darlene Graham. I
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: get that. But I feel bad for Ralph Norman. He's
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: a good guy. My question is, he's It seems like
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 3: he hasn't gotten over this yet, and I'm wondering if
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: that could impact voter turnout on the Republican side. Do
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 3: you think Republicans are going to get out to vote?
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 29: Yeah, we'll be okay in South Carolina. I haven't talked
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 29: to Ralph yet. I did talk to one of his
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 29: chief staffers today. He said that Ralph walked it back.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 29: He didn't hear the question well. Ralph's always been a
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 29: team player. He'll push for the team. We cannot let
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 29: crazy Andy Andrews, who's pro-gay marriage, pro-LGBT everything, pro-trans, pro-choice
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 29: up to birth, kill the babies up to birth. She's pro-everything.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 29: You and I have been against our entire lives, and
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 29: she won't win in South Carolina. But again, it goes
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 29: back to our first conversation about making a reliably red
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 29: state uncomfortable. This is a bad deal, right? And I
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 29: was in the front row of the debate, and I
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 29: was glad to have that hosted in my hometown in Newberry,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 29: South Carolina, the old opera house. It was fantastic. And
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 29: here's what I think. We're going to have a hard
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 29: time replacing Lindsey Graham and 30 years of foreign policy
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 29: chops of 30 years of relationships. I really think the
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 29: guy gets a lot of credit behind the scenes for
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 29: the Abraham Accords because he built those relationships. I don't
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 29: care who it is. It's going to be really difficult
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 29: replacing that. And I think the left sees an opportunity
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 29: just in that venue.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 3: Chad Conley joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: He is the founder of Faith Wins. a great ministry
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: mobilizing pastors really across the nation. I was at Franklin
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: Road Baptist Church over the weekend, and we were doing
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: a book event there, and a good friend of ours,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: Dave Delaney, the pastor at First Baptist Church Long Beach,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: his son teaches at their Christian school and is actually
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: a chapter. He's got a chapter in the book just
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: based on how he's teaching history to these kids. Anyway,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: we were all part of this little panel discussion, and
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: I want you just to weigh in on this. Cut
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: number eight, please. The pastor, I believe, is asking a
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: question here. This is Joel Norris.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 28: But we talked specifically about prayer. We talked about that
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 28: we as Christians should be praying, and so we want
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 28: to close tonight by just giving a few prayer requests
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 28: that you believe and that you've seen that Christians can
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 28: be praying for right now during this time.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 6: I think we can pray for our religious leaders. I
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 6: think we can pray for our churches. But most importantly,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 6: and I've said this a few times tonight, but pray
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 6: for our families. That's the foundation of our society, and
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 6: families need prayer now more than ever. So I would
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 6: say those would be my big three for sure.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: I would concur with that. The communist said that The
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: ultimate way to conquer America is to destroy or weaken
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: the family, the nuclear family. So that is why the
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 3: nuclear family is under attack in America. And I do
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: believe that we need strong families. I also want to
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: encourage us to pray for those that are out campaigning. Again,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: D or R, to put yourself out there and to campaign,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: that is a tough thing to do. So I hope
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: you pray for those candidates as they're out there campaigning.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: And most importantly, I hope when you go and vote,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: take a look at the issues and take a look
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: at what the Bible says about those issues and vote accordingly.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: Amen.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: Did I get that right? Was that all right there, Connolly?
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 29: I thought that was awesome, brother. And for you to
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 29: say that, you're right. It takes so much heart and soul.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 29: It takes a lot out of you. I mean, I've
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 29: run before and I've lost and it's just, it's very tough.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 29: It's tough on the family of the people that run,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 29: but to throw your heart over the bar to do
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 29: whatever it takes to run for office is a big deal.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 29: And I love that the comment was made of the
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 29: communists want to destroy, just what you said. They want
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 29: to destroy the nuclear family. And we see the utter confusion.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 29: I talked about it in my Sunday school class at
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 29: First Baptist in Newberry on Sunday. This is the goal
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 29: of the communists. It's just one more reason for us
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 29: to oppose them.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: And look around.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 29: You don't have to look very far to see the confusion.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 29: We got people that can't define what W is in
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 29: the WNBA. I thought all along it was woman. We've
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 29: got nine women and three men in a jury that
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 29: can't decide that a woman who strangled her babies is
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 29: wrong because her feelings. This is what a terrible education
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 29: that wasn't foundationally based on virtue, has gotten us. As
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 29: we kowtow, we bow to feelings now instead of facts
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  Speaker 29: and truth. And we're in a mess, Todd. So yes,
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  Speaker 29: prayer for all of that. I love the Norris family.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 29: Mike Norris has been just a hero and a mentor
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 29: of mine.
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  Speaker 4: I know Joel.
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  Speaker 29: I'm glad you were there to say all those things, brother,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 29: because they've got to be said and prayer's got to
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 29: be committed to for God to turn this country around.
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  Speaker 3: Great, great people. And I will say this, they even
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 3: got me some Dr.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 7: Pepper.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: So- Those are really good people in my book. All right, Conley,
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: people go to your website. They want to get involved.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: What do they need to do?
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  Speaker 29: Yeah, go to faithwins.org, F-A-I-T-H, faithwins, W-I-N-S,. org. We got
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 29: all the resources, Todd. Your church has to run a
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 29: voter registration drive. We're actually pushing that next thing out
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 29: on Thursday. We suggest two back-to-back Sundays in September before
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 29: early voting starts. and also after people have finished their
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 29: summer travel and after Labor Day, all the resources for
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 29: every state is on faithwins.org. Go to your pastor. Pastor,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 29: let's run a nonpartisan voter registration drive and volunteer to
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 29: help in the back of the church, in the vestibule,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 29: the foyer, and just stand there. And different states are different.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 29: Some of you can register on a QR code online.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 29: Some of you have to fill out a form. We
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 29: have all those instructions for all the folks in the
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 29: various states, Todd. And I'll see you at Spiritual Leadership.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 29: We're doing a panel out there just in a few weeks, brother.
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  Speaker 3: That is true. Spiritual Leadership Conference at Lancaster Baptist Church.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, it's open to the public. Thousands of
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: Christians are going to be gathered. There's going to be
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: an incredible several days together. on the beautiful campus of
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: West Coast Baptist College, and we'd love to see you
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: guys there. All right, my friend. Safe travels, and we'll
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 3: see you in California.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: You're the best. Love you, bro. Take care, man.
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  Speaker 15: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Old Chad Conley, always fired up. He's a good guy.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: But again, faithwins.org, if you want to get information on
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: how your church can get involved. And again, this is
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: not turning your church into a local Republican party. This
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: is about engaging the culture and engaging the culture in
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: your neighborhoods. And I just cannot stress the importance of
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: that enough. That really is a central theme of the
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 3: Golden Age. It is imperative that churches once again take
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: their place in the public marketplace. And if we do,
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  Speaker 3: We're going to see some great things happen in this country.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: I have absolutely no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: Got to take a break. 901-260-5926. This is the Todd
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: Stern Show.
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  Speaker 15: I don't know what it is.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: I wrinkle with these headphones every day.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: I want you to listen to this woman. We've got
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: this story up on the website, toddstearns.com. Cut 15, please.
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  Speaker 22: Some of the moms got a call from their daughter saying,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 22: there's a man in my hotel room. I've been booked
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  Speaker 22: in a room with another page who is a man.
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  Speaker 9: And it was.
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  Speaker 22: physically obvious so the mom gets on her phone and
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 22: she's calling the other chaperones trying to figure out what's
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 22: going on and they just told her it's not a
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  Speaker 22: big deal they are an official member of the daughters
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 22: of the american revolution wow it's absolute insanity.
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  Speaker 30: That is absolute insanity if i was a mother and
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 30: my 18 year old daughter had to share a room
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 30: with a with a man she never met pretending to
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 30: be a woman so he's obviously mentally unstable in the
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 30: first place I don't even want to tell you what
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 30: I do.
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  Speaker 22: One of the moms got on a plane and she
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 22: went there and she immediately booked a flight and booked
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 22: another hotel room for her daughter to go stay in
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 22: at her own expense and she went up there and
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 22: got her.
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  Speaker 30: Yeah, the problem with that is that It allows you
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 30: to protect your own child, but it does nothing to
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 30: protect all the others.
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  Speaker 19: Exactly.
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  Speaker 30: And it doesn't do anything to hold the organization accountable,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 30: and it doesn't do anything to stop it happening again.
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  Speaker 22: They've been fighting this for years now, trying to hold
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  Speaker 22: their organization accountable and figure out what on earth is
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 22: going on here because they had no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a crazy story. Daughters of the American
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: Revolution under fire, a group of moms from Texas, Fort Worth, Texas,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: say their daughters were forced to room with men who
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: identify as women, and the moms are ready to go
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: to war. So we've got the story up at ToddStearns.com.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: I encourage you to go. We've got to take a
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: break here shortly. Go to the website and read the story.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable what these poor girls had to go through.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: But again, it shows you that every single one of
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: our beloved institutions is under attack. And by the way,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: we went back and looked. There were no transgender people
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 3: in the Mayflower. And to our knowledge, no transgender people
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: among the Minutemen. I just want to throw that out there.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: Hang tight, everybody. Got to take a quick break here. 901-260-5926,
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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University studio in Memphis, Tennessee, it's
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: America's conservative blowtorch.
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  Speaker 10: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 23: I love this American ride.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 23: All right.
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  Speaker 14: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, everybody.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 3: Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Honored to have
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: you with us today. By the way, we have launched
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: new attacks on Iran. We'll be keeping you updated on
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 3: that story. So anyway, that's how that goes. So we'll
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: keep you updated on that breaking news coming out of Iran,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: but the U.S. launching airstrikes again on the nation that
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: we have defeated multiple times. So we'll keep you updated.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: on all of that. Last night, I had a wonderful
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: opportunity to visit with my friend Rita Cosby. She is
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: a nationally syndicated radio host. She's based out of New
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: York City, WABC, the historic WABC. And Rita was kind
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: enough to interview me about the Golden Age. We talked
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: about President Trump. It was just a really fun conversation.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 17: Joining us now, is the great Todd Starnes.
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 18: He is a big best-selling author, a great TV host,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 18: a great radio host. He's also the owner of the
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 18: great station KWAM, K-W-A-M, an awesome station in Memphis, Tennessee,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 18: which is so smart because it syndicates the Rita Cosby Show.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 18: So you know that Todd has good taste. And Todd
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 18: has another awesome book out right now. It is called
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 18: The Golden Age. How Trump Saved America. Todd, it's great
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  Speaker 18: to have you here, my friend.
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  Speaker 5: Rita Cosby, you are the queen of the bluff city.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 5: Forget about the king of rock and roll. We've got
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 5: the queen of talk radio on the Mighty 990, KWAM.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 5: And Memphis loves Rita Cosby.
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  Speaker 18: Thank you. Well, I love Memphis, by the way. It
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 18: is like one of the most beautiful cities. And I
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 18: just want to tell you, I'm totally jealous. That you're
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 18: based there because it is one of the most magnificent cities.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 7: And I love the blues.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 18: I love Elvis. So like everything about Memphis and I
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 18: love you, Todd Stearns. And I think you got another
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 18: big bestseller, my friend. Tell us how important this moment is.
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  Speaker 18: I love that you focus in this new book, by
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 18: the way, about. How Trump saved America. That's why I
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 18: had to play the he ain't Babe Ruth that he
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 18: just said. Because think about how different America would be
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 18: if it was Kamala Harris, Joe Biden part two.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Rita, one of the reasons Memphis is a great
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 5: city is because of Donald Trump. And I write about
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 5: this in the book. The president was a guest on
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 5: my radio show, and this was right after he sent
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 5: the National Guard into D.C. And I said, Mr. President,
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 5: we appreciate you saving the nation's capital, but you got
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 5: to take a look at what's happening in Memphis. It's like,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 5: we call it Mogadishu on the Mississippi. That's how bad
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 5: it was down here. And the president said he wasn't aware,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 5: but he would look into it. And Rita, after this
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 5: long interview we did, before we hung up, he said, Todd,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 5: I'm going to look at Memphis, I promise you. And
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 5: a couple of weeks later, got the call from the
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 5: White House, and they said, the president is sending in
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 5: the National Guard. Rita, crime, violent crime in Memphis down
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 5: almost 50% as a result of what the president did.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 5: And that's really why I wrote this book to remind
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 5: Americans of the great things this man has done for America.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 5: When after three assassination attempts, he could have spent the
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 5: rest of his life playing golf and enjoying parties at Mar-a-Lago.
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 5: But he said, we've got to do something to save
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 5: America for the next generation. And that's why I wrote
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 5: The Golden Age.
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  Speaker 18: You know, I love that you brought it up to him, Todd.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 18: That's so awesome about the crime. And, in fact, just
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 18: last night he was touting the success of D.C.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 12: And Memphis.
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 18: So I think that is so spectacular that you had
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 18: such an impact, too, and that he followed that and
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 18: he's touting those great numbers. You know, it's incredible, Todd, too,
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 18: because you think about what life would have been like
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 18: and what it might be like If in, say, 2028,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 18: an AOC or who knows. goes into the White House.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 18: It really is frightening. You think about already how many
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 18: folks came across that wide open southern border and how
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 18: different had some of the woke policies, the boys and
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 18: girls sports, all these things that he's really been a
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 18: barrier to. And just even the first day signing off
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 18: on the executive order, the minute he came in, it
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 18: was like, okay, the border is closed. It only took
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 18: a president to do it. It didn't take Congress or
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 18: a new policy. It took somebody with will in the
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 18: White House. So talk about just how transformative he's been.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 18: And also, what's at stake in November?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I had the honor of being able to sit
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 5: down and interview the president several times. And those conversations
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 5: sort of flavor the book. And you're right. This country
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 5: was in a very dark place after the auto auto
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 5: pen presidency of Joe Biden. And I say that not
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 5: to not to insult Joe Biden at all. But there
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 5: were some very dangerous people that were put into the
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 5: bureaucracy after that he had no clue about. And it
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 5: was a very dangerous and dark time. I think we
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 5: were really on the cusp of going over the socialist cliff,
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 5: and President Trump gets elected, and he literally slams on
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 5: the brakes and puts the bus in reverse. and I
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 5: think really saved the country from a disaster which actually
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 5: started during the Obama years when Obama promised to fundamentally
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 5: transform America. And I kind of go through all of
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 5: that in the book. This is not some sort of
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 5: a stuffy policy book. This is sort of a rip-roaring fun.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 5: There's a lot of laughter in the book. But we
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 5: just tell it like it is and give credit where
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 5: credit is due. And Rita, I just got sick and
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 5: tired of some of my fellow conservatives throwing shade on
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 5: my president, who has done a remarkable job.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 18: Yeah, and I think about the courage of going after Iran.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 18: I mean, so many presidents, Republicans as well, always talked
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 18: about the threat Iran posed. He had the guts to
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 18: go after it. I mean, there's something that's so incredible
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 18: about the steel industry. of President Trump. And you and
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 18: I both know it because we both have been blessed
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 18: to spend time with him. I mean, it's remarkable seeing
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 18: how many different things are on the president's plate. Not
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 18: afraid to pick up the phone to talk to Putin
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 18: and try to bring Putin and Zelensky together. Not afraid
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 18: to try to talk to Kim Jong-un.
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 7: There's something very remarkable. He's fearless.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: You know, he really is. And I have to tell
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: you a funny story. We do have some fun of
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 5: the book. And there was a we had an incident
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 5: at our book signing. Senator Marsha Blackburn was there. Congressman
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 5: David Kostoff. We're at the Barnes and Noble in Memphis
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: of all places. And we were we were having a
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: great time back in the periodical section, citing books and
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 5: talking to folks. All of a sudden, there was this
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 5: huge commotion. There was a thundering herd of morbidly obese
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 5: white woke women with the nose rings and And Rita,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 5: honest to goodness, they stormed the Barnes & Noble and
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 5: were trying to shut down our book signing. There's a
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 5: chapter in my book where on the radio, I just
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: feel bad for these women. I think they're sad and lonely.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 5: And I offered myself up as a life coach to
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 5: what I call the gals of girth to help them
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 5: find meaning in life by getting them husbands. And apparently,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 5: they took great offense at that, Rita, and I just
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 5: really did it out of the goodness of my heart.
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: You were trying to play matchmaker, right?
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 5: Well, yes, with my assistant life coaches, the lovely Mrs.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 5: Betty Crocker and a lady from across the big pond
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 5: known as Lady Bick. Yeah.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 19: Ha, ha, ha.
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  Speaker 18: By the way, speaking of good humor, which you obviously
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 18: had to have at that moment, did you have any
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 18: other occasions where people were like, how could you be
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 18: out there promoting Trump? It's like everything President Trump— I have
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 18: never seen, and you and I have been in the
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 18: media a long time, Todd, but I've never seen— A
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 18: single individual who takes so much incoming from the press
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 18: and from, you know, those who just have Trump derangement
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 18: syndrome like those women, obviously, too. Did you have any
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 18: other experiences?
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 7: Because.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 18: It's crazy. He could walk on water and they would say,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 18: is his feet getting dirty in the water and polluting?
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 18: He'd cure cancer and they'd be mad that he'd be
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 18: putting the pharmaceuticals out of business.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 5: No, you're right about that. That's what makes me so
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 5: angry is that, Rita, you're the real deal. The Rita
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 5: Cosby from 20 years ago is the Rita Cosby today.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 18: And you too, my friend.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 2: You too, Todd Starnes.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 5: And so that's what I do is I go back
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 5: and I look at these people and their history because
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 5: a lot of these folks are just grifters. And I
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 5: hate to say this, but there are a lot of
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 5: folks in the conservative movement and they're sort of gullible
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 5: and they buy into all of this stuff. And it
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 5: really it's really heartbreaking to see them when they realize, oh,
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 5: these people were taking them down a bad path. And again,
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 5: this is why I wanted to write The Golden Age,
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 5: celebrate all the things that Trump has done, but also
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 5: a reminder, Rita, that Trump leaves office in two years,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 5: and it's really going to be up to us to
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 5: carry that banner forward. What does that look like, and
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 5: how do we do it? And I sort of lay
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 5: out some ideas and thoughts about that in The Golden Age.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 18: So who do you think will be in that crowded field,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 18: and who sort of carries the mantle? I mean, obviously,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 18: there's a J.D.
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 10: Vance.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 18: And there's Rubio. But then today, a reporter was asking him, Todd,
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 18: I don't know if you heard it. What do you
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 18: think about Pete Hegg said some report he might be
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 18: running in 2020? And President Trump said he's great. I
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 18: think there's going to be a lot of people. I
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 18: think it's going to be a very unless he clears
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 18: the path. But I think 2028 is going to be
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 18: a very interesting time.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're going to have a deep bench and
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 5: we've got some really formidable candidates out there. I don't
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 5: think you can dismiss Ron DeSantis down in Florida, who's
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 5: really done a tremendous job as governor down there. You know,
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 5: so we'll you know, I like Marco Rubio. He's Marco's
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 5: just he's great. Tremendous job. And Pete Hegseth, you know,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 5: I will say this, his wife used to be my
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 5: producer back when I was at Fox back in the day.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 5: I know them both. And I think, you know, look,
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 5: Pete's done a remarkable job with the military. There's a
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 5: chapter on how Trump saved the military of the book.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 5: And look, I think I think we've got a deep bench.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 5: The challenge is going to be the midterm elections. And Rita,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 5: I know people are really missed at Congress right now
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 5: and the Republicans.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: I get that.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 5: But the only reason you need to go and vote
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 5: if I get you hate the Republicans right now, folks,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 5: but you got to get out there and save our
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 5: president from being impeached, because that's what's going to happen
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 5: if the Democrats get control of Congress.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I have no doubt. Al Green, by the way,
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 18: did you hear? Todd already has filed his papers. He's
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 18: working on his papers on his way out the door.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 18: It's like, let me just do one for old time's sake,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 18: one impeachment. It's like they've got impeachment-itis. And I agree
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 18: that the stakes could not be higher, especially given so
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 18: many of these folks that we see at the DSA.
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  Speaker 17: Well, Todd, you have an awesome book. I want to
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 17: tell everybody again.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 18: It's called The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America. And
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 18: you also have the best station there in Memphis, the
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 18: Mighty 990 KWAM. And they're lucky to have you, Todd,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 18: every day. And I'm blessed to be a part of
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 18: it and hopefully in some small way.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 13: I love it.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 5: Well, we love you. We love cats. You guys are
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 5: great and sound great down here in Dixie. And we
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 5: love the great work you're doing for the country and
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 5: for the president, Rita.
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  Speaker 17: Thank you.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 18: And you too, my friend. We've got to save America.
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 18: We've got to keep up the good pace. And Save America,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 18: and Trump already saved it via The Golden Age, and
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 18: your awesome great book. And I'm glad the ladies didn't
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 18: get to you, Todd, at the bookstore.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 5: We felt like we could outrun him if we had to, Rita.
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 18: Todd, you're great. We love you. Congrats on another great book,
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 18: my friend.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 17: We'll talk soon.
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 5: All right. Take care.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 18: Thank you very much. And everybody, be sure to check
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 18: out Todd's awesome book, The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America.
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 18: Thank you.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Tonight,
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 3: I'll be on Ed Henry's show on Newsmax. We're going
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 3: to be talking about the book and also you folks
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: across the great state of Kansas. Andy Hoosier will have
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 3: me on his program this afternoon. So they're keeping us
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 3: pretty busy and It's been really exciting to see the
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 3: interest in the golden age. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. I want to go back to what's happening
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 3: in Texas. This is Pastor Jordan Wells, and he is
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 3: really upset about the lack of Republican interest in the
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 3: Texas Senate race, cut 28.
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  Speaker 12: You know my biggest issue with the Ken Paxton race
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 12: is My biggest issue is with some of the Republicans
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 12: in the GOP Senate, especially Thune, which I think has
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 12: been a disaster as a majority leader. We all knew
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 12: he was going to be a disaster, but he's been
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 12: a bigger disaster than I think. I mean, Mike Johnson's
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 12: done a great job. In my opinion, I think he's
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 12: a great Speaker of the House. I think Thune is horrible. OK,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 12: so first of all, we are supposed to be the
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 12: party of freedom. We're supposed to be the party that
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 12: respects election results. Cornyn had been in office for like
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 12: 20 years.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 7: Which I don't believe anybody should stay in office in
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 7: one position that long.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 12: These jobs are public servant jobs. These are not jobs
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 12: to retire. That's why we got Mitch McConnell, who is
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 12: a senator, but is pretty much brain dead somewhere, probably.
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 12: Like he's he's he's literally people being pushing the wheelchairs
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 12: into the Senate. That is never what our founders meant.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 12: That's never what our founding fathers wanted.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 18: Right.
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 7: People to die in office.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 19: Right.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 7: That's why the George Washington, he could have done that.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 7: But he chose to only do two terms.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 12: But I think two or three terms as a senator
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 12: is enough time to let.
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 7: Somebody else come in.
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  Speaker 12: So you got this situation where Cornyn has been there forever.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 12: The people, I think, even if Trump would have endorsed Cornyn, I.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 7: Think Paxton would have won.
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 12: That's how much I think most Republicans were done with Cornyn.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 12: You can't be mad. The voters did not want Cornyn.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 7: They just didn't want him. And then you have the
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 7: GOP now that is angry. Let's think about this.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 12: In Texas, which is a Republican state, Tallarico is outracing
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 12: Paxton 1 to 10, right? I mean, of course, Trump
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 12: is coming in and Elon Musk is going to help
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 12: big time to catch up with that. But just think
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 12: about the fact that the GOP, that Thune spent $ 100
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 12: million on Cornyn.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 7: On a primary.
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 12: Well, he should have stayed out of the primary and
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 12: let two Republicans duke it out. But instead, he used
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 12: 100 million of people's money to backhorn it. Now he's
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 12: barely because he's mad that the people fire Cornyn. He's
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 12: refusing to invest any money as almost a F you
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 12: to Donald Trump and the Republican base. This is why
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 12: turnout is such an issue when Trump is not on
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 12: the ballot, because Republicans know that Trump is really one
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 12: of the only Republicans that they actually love them and
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 12: will fight for them, even if they disagree with him sometimes.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 7: It is a shame right now.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 12: And I know PAX is still going to win because I.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 7: Think Tyler Frico is a lunatic.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 12: And I just can't believe that Texas would vote for
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 12: such an insane person to believe there are six genders
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 12: and that God is not binary.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Well, there you go. And Pastor, well said.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 3: Well said. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901- 260-5926.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 3: There is a beautiful story out of Huntsville, Alabama, a
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 3: lady by the name of Jeannie Guffey, 74 years old.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 3: She'd been diagnosed with lung cancer, and she was confined
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 3: to a bed. And one day she was talking to
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 3: her nurses. They were about to send her home to hospice.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: She was talking to the nurses and said that she
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 3: really wanted to be baptized. She'd never been baptized. And
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 3: so they were trying to figure out how to make
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 3: this happen because she was on the fourth floor of
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 3: the hospital, hooked up to all these machines and tubes,
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 3: and the nurses put their money together, and they purchased
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: a kiddie pool. Jeannie's family found an electric air pump
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 3: to blow it up, and then they used ventilator tubing
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 3: to make a makeshift water hose, and they actually baptized
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: this precious woman right there at the hospital. her son,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 3: doing the honors of baptizing his mom there at the hospital,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 3: went home to hospice the next day, and then the
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: following week, Jeannie passed away. But she died with her
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 3: dream fulfilled, thanks to those three Alabama nurses, all good Samaritans.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. All right, welcome back, everybody.
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Starnes Radio Show. Always an honor
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: to have our good friend, the queen of talk radio,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 3: Mary Walter, joining us. Mary, I have gotten so many
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 3: great comments from the interview we did last week. You
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: had me on your podcast, and it was a lot
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: of fun. I had a great time.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 9: It was, and it wasn't really an interview, was it?
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 9: It was really just us talking, which is what the
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 9: podcast is all about. But Todd, may I just say,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 9: you tell a story like no other.
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: Well, I am Southern, so we do stories good down
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 3: here in Dixie.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so much fun. That's why I love having you on,
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 9: because you just make me laugh through the entire thing.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 9: And I So yeah, so that's up online. If people
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 9: want to watch it, they can go to YouTube, Rumble,
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 9: or Getter. Look for Mary Walter Radio if you want
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 9: to listen to it. It is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 9: and Spreaker. And it's always a pleasure when you join me.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 9: Because I know how crazy you are. I look at
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 9: your feed. You're at book signings here. You're there. You're
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 9: all over the place. And so having you take that
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 9: time out for us was really special.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 17: So thank you.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 3: No, it was great. Look, I tell you this. I
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 3: did Rita Cosby's show, and she's like super late night.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 3: And I forgot and took my sleeping pill. So I
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 3: was really concerned that I wasn't slurring my words last
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 3: night during Rita's show. But you, I waited to take
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: my drugs. Oh, thank you. That's friendship.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 9: Because I'm your drug.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 3: Look, I want to ask you about this story. And
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 3: it generated, shockingly, a lot of controversy. This is out
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 3: of Polk County, Georgia. where police were searching for a
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 3: missing child. They ended up in a pasture. And this
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 3: was like 1230. It was like right after midnight. And
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 3: the cops were approached by what they called... Dylan, they're
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 3: not midget donkeys. What do they call them?
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 4: Miniature donkeys.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 3: Little donkeys. Yeah, the miniature donkeys, like the miniature horses.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 3: They have miniature donkeys. And the donkey brayed at the cops...
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 3: And the cop, fearing his life, first tried to tase
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 3: the donkey. When that didn't work, they pulled out a
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 3: gun and they shot poor little Hee Haw.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah. This happens far too often with family pets, et cetera,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 9: with the police. And if you're a cop in Georgia,
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 9: how do you not know that a miniature donkey is
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 9: no threat? How do you not know that? It's a
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 9: miniature donkey. They're adorable and cute. But they shoot family dogs, too.
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 9: I don't understand the culture that allows that, right? Like,
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 9: I don't get it. Just saying, oh, I feared for
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 9: my life, and suddenly you're off the hook. No, this
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 9: is really horrible, and something needs to be done. I
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 9: don't know what justice would be, but the family needs
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 9: some kind of justice.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: Well, the family has a GoFundMe page, and they've already
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 3: raised over $ 100, 000 in little hee-haws. And that's the name
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 3: of the donkey, by the way.
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 12: Hee-haw.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 3: I know. And the woman said, the 30-year-old woman who
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 3: owns the donkey was just devastated. She said she treated
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: the donkey like her son. Hee Haw was her son.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: She allowed Hee Haw to sleep in bed with her.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, that's a bridge too far. I love donkeys. But
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 9: unless you put a diaper on that thing, it ain't
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 9: getting in bed with me, all right? I mean, I
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 9: love them. My cat sleeps in the bed, but he
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 9: also gets up and.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 3: Uses his litter box. Dylan, you want to chime in
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 3: here on that one?
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, the one key piece of information that Todd missed. Well,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 4: he didn't miss. He was probably going to get to it,
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 4: but the donkey did, in fact, wear a diaper.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 19: Oh, okay.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 4: So is the bed more justified?
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 9: All right, but he ate that. I also think it
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 9: is a barnyard animal, and so I think the diaper
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 9: on the donkey is also a little bit too far.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 9: You can let it in the house. I get that.
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 9: But ultimately, it should probably sleep outside in its own
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 9: little home.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 7: That's all.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you. I mean, it's a farm animal.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 3: It's a critter. Beds are for humans, and you know,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: barns are for critters. And so anyway, it's, but yeah,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 3: so the cops underinvestigate, or he's on leave as they
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 3: investigate and everybody, and apparently the little donkey was very
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: popular in town and everybody's just distraught. They killed the
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 3: little midget donkey.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 9: Can I just say, like, you're a cop and you're
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 9: afraid of a miniature donkey, we might revisit your ability
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 9: to be a police officer. Because if that's where you
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 9: draw the line, that's where you just start shooting because
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 9: a donkey, a miniature donkey brays at you in the
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 9: middle of the night, you have to kill it. I
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 9: just don't know if your constitution is for the whole
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 9: policing thing.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 3: Now, I will say.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 9: Expect them to be braver than me.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 3: Well, if they've been a sea lion, you know, I
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 3: was out in California, and we were out on the beach,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 3: this was years ago, and we stumbled upon like a,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know, what do you call them, a posse
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 3: of sea lions? Those things are really aggressive. I mean,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: they'll try to like.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 17: They are.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 3: They lumber after you.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 29: Come on, Todd.
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 9: Even you, though, can outrun a sea lion. They sprint,
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 9: but for a very short distance, okay?
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: They get out of breath, too.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and they get out of breath as well. So
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 9: I think that, Todd, my money, if I had, I
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 9: see a fundraiser. I see a fundraiser, Todd. You versus
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 9: a sea lion in a 50-yard dash and who finishes
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 9: it first, right?
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: It's sort of like our own version of what the
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 3: 250 games that Trump just had, the freedom games. I
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 3: can just take on various animals.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 9: Kind of, but maybe the hillbilly version. But, yeah, I
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 9: think you could raise so much money if you're doing that.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 9: I love the idea.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 3: Mary Walter joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 3: You know, Mary, we're still waiting on the verdict, by
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 3: the way. The jury came back today, and they said, yeah,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 3: we can't reach a decision. We don't have a unanimous decision.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 3: Judd said, no, you got to go back in there. Mary,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to be able to, I
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 3: don't think they're going to be able to reach a decision.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 3: What say you?
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 9: You know, I agree. And I keep saying, I'm so
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 9: glad I was never on this jury because like you
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 9: would have to pay me to be on this jury.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 9: Like you can pay me enough to be on this
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 9: jury because I can see both sides of it. You know,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 9: there are people in this country who we say, oh,
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 9: unfit to stand trial. We just had a guy from
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 9: an illegal alien from Turkestan or whatever, one of the stands.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 9: And he, he was, you know, guilty of, you know,
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 9: by reason of insanity, couldn't, couldn't stand trial. So he
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 9: goes to like happy home and they're not supposed to
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 9: let him out, but they, but Virginia gave him a,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 9: like a weekend pass. And while in that weekend pass,
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 9: he managed to get a credit card and he got
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 9: his passport and, And then in his next weekend pass,
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 9: which he wasn't supposed to get either, he wasn't supposed
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 9: to be released, he flew back home. So this guy's
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 9: not guilty by reason of insanity, but yet he was
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 9: sane enough to work all that out, to get a
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 9: credit card, to get a passport, and to make reservations
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 9: to fly back to one of the stands. So I
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 9: think sometimes we hand it out, but because her crime
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 9: is so unfathomable to us, how can a mother kill
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 9: her children? Like that to us is just so taboo that.
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  Speaker 9: I think we tend to treat women more harshly when
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  Speaker 9: it comes to that, right? Even a father who does it,
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  Speaker 9: I think we don't treat as harshly as we would
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  Speaker 9: a woman. So I kind of see both sides of this.
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  Speaker 9: She was seeing a gazillion doctors. I think the medical
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  Speaker 9: system in this country, when it comes to mental health,
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  Speaker 9: needs a lot of work. And she was on a
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  Speaker 9: cocktail of all sorts of mood altering drugs. And I'm
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  Speaker 9: really torn on this.
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  Speaker 3: You see, this is where you and I may part
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  Speaker 3: ways on this issue. Because for me, she knew she
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: had a very serious problem and was trying to get help.
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  Speaker 3: So it seems to me if the argument is that
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 3: she was not getting the help that she thought she needed,
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  Speaker 3: it seems to me she should have somehow separated herself
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  Speaker 3: from her children so that she would not be able
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  Speaker 3: to harm them. If, in fact, that's, you know, she
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 3: was wanting to harm her children and she needed help.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 3: you separate yourself from that. But she didn't do that.
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  Speaker 3: And I was watching Nancy Grace, who terrifies me. Nancy Grace.
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  Speaker 9: She's your mini donkey.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my Lord. So she's out there saying, look, she
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  Speaker 3: planned everything here, so there's no way she can claim
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 3: the psychosis part of it because this thing was so
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 3: well planned out. And that's her take on it. But
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  Speaker 3: I don't think the jury sees it that way.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, I get it.
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  Speaker 9: I under, I understand that this woman did time in
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 9: a mental, a mental institution, but it would then was
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  Speaker 9: let go after, you know, I think like three days
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  Speaker 9: or something like that. I, I, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 9: think when you're trying to get the help and the
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 9: medical system fails you, is that the medical system's fault
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 9: or is that her fault? I, I, I don't know.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 9: And like, but at the same time, there's three dead
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  Speaker 9: children and it just crushes my heart.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I say, fine, punish the doctor. The medical community,
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 3: whoever screwed up, they need to pay a price. If
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 3: the husband did something or didn't do something, then he
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 3: should pay a price. But ultimately, only one person killed
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 3: those kids, and it was her. And, I mean, she
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  Speaker 3: could very well roll out of that courtroom today if
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 3: they end up coming back and finding her not guilty.
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  Speaker 9: And would a sane person do what she did, trying
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 9: to kill herself?
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Afterwards i don't know i don't know.
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  Speaker 9: See these are the questions this is why this is
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 9: why first of all i'm never going to get on
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  Speaker 9: a jury anyway that's number one because of what i
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 9: do for a living never getting on a jury so
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 9: that that's number one but number two i think this
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 9: is a really hard jury to be on i really
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 9: do and i feel for these people but i think
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 9: the other problem is is they were not sequestered so
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 9: they took in they're not supposed to but you couldn't
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 9: go anywhere and not hear about this story especially when
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 9: people find out you're on the jury everybody wants to
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 9: give you their opinion So that part of it, I think,
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 9: is really hard, too, because I think they've gotten a
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 9: lot of input from a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I never get on the juries either. I
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 3: don't know why. I always show up. I wear the
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 3: same thing. I wear the NRA ball cap and I've
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 3: got a Donald Trump T-shirt, a MAGA shirt. I never
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 3: get picked. They always, sir, you're excused.
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  Speaker 9: But let me ask you a question. I would like
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 9: to serve on a jury in a way. Like I go,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 9: like I don't avoid it because God forbid I'm ever
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 9: in front of like need a jury. Like I want
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 9: a jury of my peers, not a jury of people
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 9: who were too dumb to get out of it. Do
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 9: you know what I mean? Or people who, you know,
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 9: a lot of the seniors would show up every single
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 9: time they're called. I want a jury of my peers.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 9: That's all I'm saying. I want a jury of my peers.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 9: And I don't think you get a jury of your
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 9: peers all the time because so many people do their
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 9: best to get out of it. So I, I show up,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 9: I do what I'm supposed to do. And I'm never,
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 9: I either, I don't get out of the jury room downstairs.
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 9: Like I never make it up into the courtroom. And
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 9: the one time I did, they asked me what I did,
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 9: where I worked and they're like dismissed. And then, and
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 9: it was the defense that dismissed me. I'm like, Oh,
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 9: he's guilty.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 7: That right.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 3: Well, it's a fair point, but maybe, you know, one
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 3: day maybe I would like to do it, but you know,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 3: God forbid I get put on one of these long
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 3: cases and, I'm going to miss the radio show. I
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 3: would miss you guys.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 9: No, 100%. And that's one of the reasons why at
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 9: this point in our careers, I don't even get called
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 9: to the jury, to the court, because if I don't work,
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 9: I don't get paid. But when I'm retired, yeah, I'll
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 9: do it. I'll absolutely do it. I'm not going to
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 9: be one of these people who's, it's like Friday at
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 9: Costco and I'm going there for lunch, so I'm going
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 9: to show up all the time. But I definitely will
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 9: do it because I don't know. I think that's the
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 9: system and we should all participate.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: Mary Walter coming up tonight. Another podcast. Who's on the
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 3: big show tonight?
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 9: The big show tonight is the ITG. So if you
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 9: watch the podcast, you know who the ITG is. Because
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 9: when we were on vacation, we had an experience that
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 9: I think what we want to share. And he was
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 9: the key player in it. So he's going to be
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 9: talking about the experience. But I think it plays to
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 9: a bigger topic. So that's what we're going to be
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 9: talking about. I know, very cryptic. But join us at
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 9: 7.15 p.m. Eastern Time on YouTube Rumbler Getter. And you
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 9: can ask questions. You can leave questions and comments. And
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 9: you'll hear the story.
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, that was a lot of fun. You know, answering
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 3: the questions as they were coming in in real time.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 3: You've got a great audience.
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 9: And they had so many questions after you left that
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 9: we didn't get to because it just keeps going. So
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 9: these were questions that were asked like 15 minutes later
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 9: and you had to go and people asked some great
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 9: topics all about your new book, The Golden Age.
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 3: Awesome. Mary Walter, great to see you. And we'll see
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 3: you tonight on the podcast.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 9: Thank you so much.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 18: Bye, everybody.
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 3: Great American patriot right there, Mary Walter. We did have
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun on that podcast and I've I
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 3: don't think I'm a very good interviewee. I love asking
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 3: the questions and really sort of steering the conversation. And
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 3: I'm always, I don't know, I'm just like, I get
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 3: a little tense.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 4: I disagree.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like you do like to tell stories,
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 4: and that's like the best part of you. I mean, so,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 7: I disagree.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 3: We try to have a little bit of fun.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 3: It's always fun. All right, we've got to take a
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 3: quick break, everybody. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, so our
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 3: flagship station in Memphis, KWAM, they've got an interesting piece.
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 3: up on their website, kwamradio.com. And there has been a
• 1:48:22
  Speaker 3: big arrest, more than 120 people arrested by federal authorities
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 3: at a Mexican nightclub. And I want you to listen
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 3: to Cut 17, please.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 8: Imagine going out for a fun Saturday night with your friends,
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 8: your family, your community, and then more than a hundred
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 8: of you being kidnapped and arrested by ICE, thrown into
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 8: buses and shipped off to detention facilities God knows where.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 17: That's exactly what happened in Memphis this weekend.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 8: And this is exactly what happens when Republicans are in
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 8: power in state and local governments and totally bend the
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 8: knee to Donald Trump. The National Guard is still deployed
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 8: in Memphis. The Memphis Unsafe Task Force is still deployed,
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 8: harassing migrant communities across the city. When I was out
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 8: in Memphis this weekend, I was told how ICE is
• 1:49:14
  Speaker 8: deliberately targeting Latino communities. One man was pulled over for
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 8: just having two dark tinted windows. He didn't have the
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 8: proper paperwork and he was deported because of his window tint.
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 8: These are your neighbors, your co-workers, their local business owners.
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 17: And they are being deported.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 8: Kidnapped and sent to concentration camps in july alone ice
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 8: kidnapped 50 000 people and i don't know about you
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 8: but my groceries aren't any cheaper my health care isn't
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 8: any cheaper my rent hasn't gone down these are people
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 8: that were just trying to go out and enjoy their
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 8: saturday night and now this administration and the memphis city
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 8: government has told them they're not even safe to do that.
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 3: Um okay first of all let me just clear up
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 3: something here there are no concentration camps in memphis No,
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 3: the smoke you might see is coming from a pit smoker.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 3: So people are not being, nobody's being gassed. Nobody's being
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 3: burned alive in Memphis. Dylan, remember, we can't say the
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 3: name of our favorite taco place.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 6: Ah, yes.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 3: And, um, you know, we're, and look, we're, we're great
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 3: American Patriots here on the Todd Stearns radio show, but
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 3: we have a, our favorite taco place is you could
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 3: walk there from here. It's just right around the corner. And, uh,
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 3: What was it, last year? We saw all the black
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 3: vehicles zooming by, and they ended up at the taco joint.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a tough day.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I'm like, not our taco joint. Come on, man.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 3: But we had to take one for America that day.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 3: We had to take one for America.
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 4: They have other locations.
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 3: Could you imagine, though? And look, this is the thing.
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 3: Over 120-some-odd people arrested. I think there was like a
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 3: gambling operation. This is at a Mexican joint. No, it
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 3: wasn't the crazy Mexican. There was a shooting there, but
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 3: this was another location. And so anyway, they're all upset.
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 3: The local Fox TV affiliate said it was a dark
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 3: day in Memphis. Wow. They're just as liberal as the
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 3: day is long. But my question is this, because the aftermath,
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 3: now they're marching in the streets, and they're saying all
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 3: of these children no longer have parents. All right, it
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 3: was like 1 o'clock in the morning. Why were mommy
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: and daddy at the Mexican bar instead of at home
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 3: with the children? In case anybody wants to answer that question,
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 3: because for me, I'm thinking, well, okay, if your kids
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 3: really matter to you, why are you not at home
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 3: with them? Why are you out, you know, whatever they
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 3: do at a Mexican bar? Do they have a mariachi band?
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 4: Probably a lot of tequila being consumed.
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, or margaritas or whatever. Tequila. Yeah, that's true.
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 3: Maybe some guac.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 3: Pardon me.
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 7: Guac.
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 3: Guacamole. I think the G is silent.
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 4: Queso.
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 3: Queso. Oh, you got to have delicious queso. Oh, what
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 3: was it? Remember ponchos?
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
• 1:52:13
  Speaker 3: That was some queso right there. Cheese dip. Very good.
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 3: Very tasty. Maybe we could just keep those people. And,
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 3: you know, just look the other way. Because those are
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 3: darn good tacos on our favorite taco joint. I'm just saying.
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 3: All right, we've got to get out of here. We'll
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 3: see you tomorrow, America.