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Retribution Day for RINO Republicans · 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: common sense conservative commentary from Todd starts that.
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  Speaker 2: Samaritan. Well, Hello, everybody, Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Program.
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  Speaker 2: Happy to have you with us today on this very
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  Speaker 2: busy Monday edition of the show. By the way, as
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  Speaker 2: promised all of you Georgia folks, We've got Martha Zaler
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  Speaker 2: coming up in just a little while, and she's going
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  Speaker 2: to explain what's going on here with the Georgia primary
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  Speaker 2: to our two big two big primaries, well three if
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  Speaker 2: you want to throw in Pennsylvania, but for the Republicans especially,
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  Speaker 2: you've got the common Wealth of Kentucky where all you know,
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  Speaker 2: what is breaking loose, all sorts of wild allegations directed
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  Speaker 2: at Thomas Massey. And then you have a situation in
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  Speaker 2: Georgia where President Trump may have endorsed the wrong guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you listen to Mago World, they seem
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  Speaker 2: to be going towards Rick Jackson as opposed to Bert Jones.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of a lot of things to go
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  Speaker 2: through with Martha Zaler. Also, we're going to talk to
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  Speaker 2: Victoria Churchill, who is a political reporter at the Daily Mail,
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  Speaker 2: and she's going to give us a breakdown of what
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  Speaker 2: happened over the weekend in Louisiana and then what we've
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  Speaker 2: got to Kyle Campbell is going to be here California politics.
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  Speaker 2: The Republicans are surging and there is some new data
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  Speaker 2: showing Republicans in California are turning out en mass for
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  Speaker 2: early voting. This is huge if all of these numbers
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  Speaker 2: hold true, this is really going to be huge for
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  Speaker 2: the America First movement ultimately, though I know I was
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  Speaker 2: watching the numbers coming in from Louisiana and ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: That was what is he called clinical medical political term.
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  Speaker 2: That was a butt thumping that happened over the weekend
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  Speaker 2: with Senator Bill Cassidy, and he has a very weird,
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  Speaker 2: ugly history with President Trump. He of course voted to
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  Speaker 2: convict the President on impeachment charges and quite frankly, he
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  Speaker 2: should have resigned his office at that moment, but he
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  Speaker 2: did not, and over seventy percent of the Republican voters
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  Speaker 2: tossed this guy out of office Saturday. What an embarrassment.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, Cassidy is still he doesn't get it,
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  Speaker 2: or he doesn't want to get it, but he is.
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  Speaker 2: We now just have one less Rhino Republican in the
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  Speaker 2: US Senate, and that's good news. Now here's the question.
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  Speaker 2: You've got Julia Letlow who's the congresswoman, and John Fleming,
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  Speaker 2: who is the state treasurer. Fleming is actually the more
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  Speaker 2: conservative of the two, but let Loo got Trump's endorsement,
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  Speaker 2: and she led the entire field of candidates, so she
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  Speaker 2: really dominated in her performance over the weekend. So the
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  Speaker 2: question is Letlow going to be another version of Bill
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  Speaker 2: Cassidy or should voters really take a long hard look
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  Speaker 2: at John Fleming. We're going to get both of those
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  Speaker 2: folks back when we've had Letlow on a time or two,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to get Fleming on the show as well,
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  Speaker 2: so we can kind of work through all of this.
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  Speaker 2: All that to say good on all of you, all
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  Speaker 2: of the great listeners of the Todd Stearns Radio Show audience.
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  Speaker 2: You guys are engaged, you are paying attention, and you
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  Speaker 2: are doing your research when it comes to these Republican candidates,
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  Speaker 2: and you gotta do it. You just have to because
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  Speaker 2: in many cases, and I'll give you an example in
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee for example, which is a super majority red state.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to have people running for off claiming to
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  Speaker 2: be Republicans when in fact they share the values of
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  Speaker 2: the Democrat Party. And we've watched that play out in
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  Speaker 2: places like Georgia for example, and I would say Texas
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  Speaker 2: for example. I want to start, though, with what happened
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend in Washington, DC. You know, this big,
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  Speaker 2: huge event called Rededicate to fifty. Did any of you
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  Speaker 2: catch the look? I thought it was fascinating, And I
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  Speaker 2: have some observations that I think are going to be
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  Speaker 2: a little controversial, because I just that entire event just
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  Speaker 2: left me with a weird There was just a weird
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  Speaker 2: vibe to it all. First of all, the organizers of
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  Speaker 2: this way, they really did a lousy job of promoting it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think hardly anybody knew about it. I
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  Speaker 2: had Robert Jeffers that actually mentioned it on our program,
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  Speaker 2: what a couple of weeks ago. I wouldn't have known
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  Speaker 2: anything about, not a single thing. So the marketing surrounding
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  Speaker 2: this event was really terrible. And you know, they talked
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  Speaker 2: about what a massive gathering. They had about ten thousand
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  Speaker 2: people there, ten thousand people in the Washington Mall. To
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  Speaker 2: give you some comparison, about two hundred and fifty thousand
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  Speaker 2: people show up for the March for Life, So by
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  Speaker 2: that comparison, it was not a very large event. It
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  Speaker 2: was not a very well attended event, and it was
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  Speaker 2: just it was just strange to me. And I heard
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  Speaker 2: some of the speeches and by and large that they
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  Speaker 2: actually had some very good people that were there speaking.
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  Speaker 2: One of them are good friend of course, doctor Robert Jeffers,
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  Speaker 2: and the other guy you had doctor Jack Graham. You
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  Speaker 2: had Jonathan Folwell, and you had Franklin Graham, and those
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  Speaker 2: guys delivered some pretty powerful messages. I know President Trump
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  Speaker 2: spoke and speaker Mike Johnson, but there were just dozens
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  Speaker 2: of others that just I think there was an authenticity problem.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's what Maybe that's what really bothered me about all.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a I don't know, there was something something
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  Speaker 2: not right about it. It was just off. Now I
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  Speaker 2: want to play some audio here. This is from Franklin Graham,
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  Speaker 2: and Franklin Graham nailed it, and he's catching a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fire by what he said at the event. But
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  Speaker 2: I think ultimately this is the big problem facing our nation.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: The spiritual climate of twenty twenty six is vastly different
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  Speaker 3: than the country that our founding fathers established in seventeen
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  Speaker 3: seventy six. The vast majority of Americans then had at
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  Speaker 3: least a basic understanding of the Bible. Today, the vast
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  Speaker 3: majority have little to no understanding of biblical truth. Two
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  Speaker 3: hundred fifty years ago, the Bible was taught in schools.
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  Speaker 3: For many it was their sole textbook. That doesn't mean
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  Speaker 3: everybody had faith, but they we had a basic understanding
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  Speaker 3: and respect and knowledge of God's word. Today, the Bible
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  Speaker 3: has been removed from our schools and for the most part,
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  Speaker 3: the public square. But there is a downward moral decline,
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  Speaker 3: spiraling ever deeper into the mire. Things that never would
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  Speaker 3: have been talked about publicly just thirty years ago. Sinful
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  Speaker 3: behavior that should make us blush is now celebrated and
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  Speaker 3: flaunted on main street America. America has become Marley Rotten,
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  Speaker 3: completely sick with sin. Transgenderism, same sex marriage, opening women's
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  Speaker 3: locker rooms. The men are just the tip of the iceberg.
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  Speaker 3: Why do we need to rededicate ourselves? When God sent
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  Speaker 3: the flood and destroyed the earth, it was because man's
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  Speaker 3: heart had become so evil and violent. In the news,
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  Speaker 3: we see unimaginable violence, rapes, murders, mass shootings. On YouTube,
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  Speaker 3: there's so us movies, video games are full of violence.
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  Speaker 3: We have an insatiable appetite for violence. And I believe
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  Speaker 3: this grieves a heart of God, and we'll bring his
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  Speaker 3: judgment if we don't repent as a nation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's He's absolutely right here. And again, at least
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  Speaker 2: on this radio program, we truly believe and I believe
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  Speaker 2: that the main problem, the root of every single problem
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  Speaker 2: in America is what Franklin Graham just talked about there.
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  Speaker 2: We have strayed from God. Ultimately, every single issue that
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  Speaker 2: we are dealing with can come back to that one
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  Speaker 2: central theme. And yet you've got a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: folks that were there, and it just seems as though
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  Speaker 2: they are they are gospel grifters, individuals that are up
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  Speaker 2: there and it's all about them. And I want to
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  Speaker 2: play somebody, do we have the Eric Metaxas? This was
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  Speaker 2: just really odd. I just again is just odd. And
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  Speaker 2: people are now saying things and doing things within the
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  Speaker 2: religious circle that are meant to elevate them or at
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  Speaker 2: least to get people talking about them. And here's here's
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  Speaker 2: what Eric Mataxas had to say.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries
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  Speaker 4: for the Lord to raise up a great man to
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  Speaker 4: bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand.
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  Speaker 4: It's extraordinary. We only had to wait two hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, is did I hear that correctly? That God wrote?
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  Speaker 2: God raised up Donald Trump so that we could have
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  Speaker 2: a ballroom built on the Is that what I heard?
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  Speaker 2: Can we play that again? I just want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure I understand what I heard, what I thought I heard.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries
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  Speaker 4: for the Lord to raise up a great man to
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  Speaker 4: bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand.
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  Speaker 4: It's extraordinary. We only had to wait two hundred years.
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  Speaker 2: So Matexas is catching a lot of flag for this,
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  Speaker 2: and now he's coming back and saying, Oh, it's you people.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know. You don't know when I'm telling a joke.
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  Speaker 2: And so Matexas is now saying that what you just
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  Speaker 2: heard he was making a haha joke, haha, funny. I
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  Speaker 2: missed the punchline, and clearly so did the people. Than
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  Speaker 2: the crowd because they're like applauding, they're cheering, they're agreeing
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  Speaker 2: with him, and I'm just getting I don't know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just getting a bad taste in my mouth overall about
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  Speaker 2: where this Christian thing is going in America right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's just in a weird spot. And I think we've
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  Speaker 2: really got to step back and re examine this whole
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  Speaker 2: idea of celebrity Christian influencers. And they're all over the place,
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  Speaker 2: all over the place, and they're doing things, they're saying
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  Speaker 2: things to get money, and it's it's really not much
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  Speaker 2: different than the old television evangelists back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: remember Jim and Tammy Baker and the Big Heritage USA
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  Speaker 2: and all of that stuff. And I'm wondering, are we
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  Speaker 2: really that is that where we're going here? Is that
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  Speaker 2: is that where God wants us to go as a nation.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna say this, and well, I'm curious
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  Speaker 2: to hear your thoughts on this, because I just think
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  Speaker 2: we are off. The whole messaging is off right now.
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  Speaker 2: And it's almost as if a lot of preachers are
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  Speaker 2: trying to be like Donald Trump. They have they are
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  Speaker 2: infatuated with the man's wealth, with the man's power, with
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  Speaker 2: the man's presence. And I've noticed, and maybe this is
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  Speaker 2: just me, because I've gotten messages from some of these
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  Speaker 2: folks out there. And I'm not going to name names.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the point of this because there's they're really
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  Speaker 2: too many to name. But I can tell you who
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  Speaker 2: the good guys are. And the good guys are people
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  Speaker 2: like Paul Chapel, Robert Jeffers, Jack Graham, Franklin Graham, Jonathan Folwell,
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  Speaker 2: those guys, those are good guys. But these these other,
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  Speaker 2: these other folks, they're literally falling all over themselves to
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  Speaker 2: try to stage worship gatherings at Mara A Lago and
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  Speaker 2: the White House and the Capitol Rotunda and the Washington
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  Speaker 2: ball And I know this because I get the messages
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  Speaker 2: asking for money, Todd, we need your help. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: spread the gospel at mar A Lago. Okay, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad, but aren't there people? Aren't there Christians and
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  Speaker 2: Palm Beach Florda who can do that? Why do why
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  Speaker 2: do you have to raise one hundred thousand dollars to
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  Speaker 2: go and evangelize mar A Lago at the ball room
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  Speaker 2: Because it's really not about that. And you know that
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  Speaker 2: because when you see the images from these events, everybody's
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  Speaker 2: wearing the tuxedos, the women are wearing the you know
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  Speaker 2: what twenty five? How much does it cost to wear
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  Speaker 2: a ball gown? One thousand dollars ball gown with the
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  Speaker 2: all the sparkles and all the whatnot. Do you really
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  Speaker 2: need all that to spread the gospel of mar A Lago.
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  Speaker 2: And don't get me wrong, this may be genuine. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: raising all this cash to host the events at the
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  Speaker 2: high dollar celebrity venues where they all get decked out
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  Speaker 2: in designer fashion. That may be perfectly genuine, or it
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  Speaker 2: may be somewhat insincere a gospel grift. Again, only God
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  Speaker 2: knows somebody's heart, right, Only God knows that. So that's
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  Speaker 2: that I suppose. But I just got to tell you
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  Speaker 2: I would love to see that same sort of intensity
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  Speaker 2: and excitement and enthusiasm within I don't know our local
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  Speaker 2: churches when we're trying to evangelize our own communities, because ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Worship Night at marra A Lago twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six may be fun, but I don't think that's
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  Speaker 2: zero five nine two six. That's nine oh one two
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  Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six. And again going back
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  Speaker 2: to something Robert Jeffers said yesterday, and I it should
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  Speaker 2: have there should have been. There should have been a
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  Speaker 2: million people on the Washington Mall yesterday. There really should
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  Speaker 2: have been. And I'm wondering what sort of a message
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  Speaker 2: it sends when only ten thousand people showed up for
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  Speaker 2: this event. This was supposed to be a major call
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  Speaker 2: to the Christians of America to really rededicate themselves. And
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  Speaker 2: I just I didn't get that vibe aside from the
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  Speaker 2: ministers that I mentioned to you earlier, But Robert Jeffers
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  Speaker 2: said something that really caught my attention. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: These leaders who loved our country and loved our God
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  Speaker 6: would be called Christian nationalists today, and it is a
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  Speaker 6: title they would have gladly embraced. By the way, if
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  Speaker 6: me and a Christian nationalist means loving Jesus Christ and
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  Speaker 6: loving America, count me in.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you, doctor Jeffers. And you know that's
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  Speaker 2: the other side of this issue, and one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons why I think we have to be so very
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  Speaker 2: careful when we're out there claiming to do things in
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  Speaker 2: the name of Christ for America. You need to make
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  Speaker 2: sure you're not one of these gospel grifters, because ultimately
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  Speaker 2: the other side is going to call you out on it.
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  Speaker 2: And the fact of the matter is that we are
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  Speaker 2: meant to be a Christian nation, ladies and gentlemen, That's
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  Speaker 2: ultimately what this was supposed to be. We are our
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  Speaker 2: nation when you look at our founding fathers and their
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  Speaker 2: intentions with our documents we were meant to be a
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  Speaker 2: Christian nation. Are we living up to those ideals? No,
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  Speaker 2: of course not. That's why we call it the Great
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  Speaker 2: American Experiment. But doctor Jeffers is right because now there
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  Speaker 2: are those on the other side who are trying to
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  Speaker 2: marginalize Christianity in the public marketplace, and they're saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: these Christians, you can practice your faith in your church house,
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  Speaker 2: but you just can't bring it out into the culture
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  Speaker 2: at large. And doctor jeff Versus is right when he says,
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  Speaker 2: you know, fine, if that's going to be your definition
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  Speaker 2: of Christian nationalism, that you love God and you love America,
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  Speaker 2: well great, call me a Christian nationalist as well. Absolutely
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  Speaker 2: agree with what the with what doctor Jefferson had to
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  Speaker 2: say there, so we'll keep you updated on this. I
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  Speaker 2: just it just really rubs me the wrong way when
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  Speaker 2: I know that people are taking advantage of the good
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  Speaker 2: hearted Christian people in this country, and it was almost
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  Speaker 2: like watching in some components, it was like watching one
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  Speaker 2: of those I don't know, one of those Christian TV
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  Speaker 2: networks where they're always asking for money and that if
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  Speaker 2: you give them twenty dollars, God's going to turn your
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  Speaker 2: twenty dollars into one hundred dollars. What do they call them?
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  Speaker 2: Prosperity gospel preachers? All of them have their own little
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  Speaker 2: private jets. Jess a loo anyway, nine on two six
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  Speaker 2: zero five nine two six. You know, there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 2: with a private jet. What I'm just saying, it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: I fly commercial. There's nothing wrong with you. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: would Jesus fly in a private jet. Probably not, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. But if you haves these prosperity gospel guys,
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  Speaker 2: you better believe it. An he would drive around on
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  Speaker 2: a commencement address and then speaking at People's Baptist Church
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  Speaker 2: there in Greenville, North Carolina. So any of our great
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: listeners there in the area, we'll be telling you more
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: about that later on later on in the week. Again,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: welcome back to the Todd Sterns Radio Show. Great to
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: have you with us. And again this interesting polling data
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: and a lot of it, and a lot of it
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: is it's all over the place, the numbers and help
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: us understand what's going on in the gubernatorial race there.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Kyle Campbell, who is the host of Politically the Politically
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Basic podcast, also a great Republican strategist. Kyle, good to
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: have you back with us.
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: Hey, Tod, always great to be with you. Thanks so
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: much for having me today.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I want to get your take
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: on one happened over the weekend. I mean, this was
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: a good old fashioned butt whooping, as we say in
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: the Southern States. Bill Cassidy, I mean, losing what almost
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: seventy percent of the Republican base said we're done with.
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: You, right.
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: Well, even Donald Trump, who had a huge hand in this.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: Of course, he posted something quite entertaining, as he often does,
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: which was him taking a good old crack at a
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: golf ball in it. Of course, this max right into
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: Bill Cassidy's head. You know, he doesn't shy away from
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: maybe potentially hammering that final nail into somebody's political career. Coffin,
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: But this is highly interesting to us as we weigh
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: the importance and value of the President's endorsement. And you
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: can look at what Bill Cassidy has done in his
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: past and understand why the President wanted to see him
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: step aside and bring new leadership into the Republican Party.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: And you know, the people really agreed with that. This
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: is someone who voted quite you know, arguably the most
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: damaging potential vote to the president in his history, not
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: just political history, but this would have caused a great
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: damage to his legacy, his family, his personal life, which
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: was to vote to convict him over January sixth and
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: to impeach him. And so you know, he over the
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: years thought has tried to come back around and play
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: nice with the President and get back on his good side,
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: but there was just too much damage done, so the
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: President brought someone else in. It was seemed to land
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: really well with the voters. And Bill Cassidy is out,
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: and so it'll be interesting to see how he goes
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: off and licks his wounds and what he's going to
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: say against the President potentially. But wow, this has reverberated,
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: of course across the entire country, as we see Thomas
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: Massey stepping up now to see what happens in his primary,
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: and of course it's reached all the way out here
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: to California in this subernatorial So presidential endorsement, especially President
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: Trump's really certainly having a huge impact and effect still
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: even today.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting you mentioned California, and we've got
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: some new data and this is coming from Reform California.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: They've been taking a look at the early voting ballot
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: returns and Democrats right now, the Democrat share of early
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: voting is forty one percent, Republicans thirty four percent. That's
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: not terribly surprising, but one of the things that I
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: find very interesting is those numbers. The Democrat numbers are
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: down seven percent from twenty twenty two, and the Republican
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: numbers are up eight percent from twenty twenty two. What
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: do you make of that?
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: Well, this is big news for us out here in California.
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: We saw what Republicans and just fed up voters in
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: general can do in an election that matters. We saw
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: that in twenty twenty four we had massive Republican turnout
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: and high voting percentage for Donald Trump. Well, now we
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: have a jungle primary upon us with this gubernatorial and
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: it's really thrown a lot of wrenches in the process.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: But these early ballot returns are remarkable. We haven't energy
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: and numbers like this in a very long time, and
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: I think they're even surpassing twenty twenty four and what
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: happened there.
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: So it is an.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: All out ballot harvesting battle going on out here on
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: the West Coast, and a lot of great energy, a
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: lot of people really excited to try to see if
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: we can establish some new leadership. We don't even have
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: a single Democrat candidate in this gubernatorial race, Todd, who's
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: getting any kind of energy or exciting the people and
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: the voters at all. And things are just continuing to
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: get worse by the day out here. So really energized
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: to see these ballot returns and excited for what we're
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: going to see happen on Juneesday. But we've got to
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: keep the momentum going.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all, I'm all for that, and I think, look, ultimately,
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: this is it's going to be a massive uphill climb here,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: just based on the on the demographics. However, you know,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: when you look at the latest polling data and the
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: last numbers I saw, Kyle were from Emerson College, they
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: had Javier Masera hopping up into the lead at nineteen
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: percent of the vote, then Steam Hilton seventeen percent, Tom
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Steyer sixteen and Chad Bianco ten percent. The Republicans are
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: going to have to I think, do you think we're
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: going to see the Republicans coalesce around Hilton and just
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: to give him a bit more of a surge and
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: some buffer between him and Styre.
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: Well, I sure hope that would be the case. I'm
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: not terribly convinced that's going to happen. There are a
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: lot of calls for Chad Bianco to endorse Steve Hilton.
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: You know, this is a race about egos, which is
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: why you see sixty one sixty two names on the
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: ballot for governor alone, and these people who are pulling
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: kind of at that ten percent or below. We've got
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: Katie Porter, Matt Mahon. They're still in, they're still fighting,
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: and so again it really comes down to who's going
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: to get strategic and how do the parties properly motivate
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: candidates to step aside and get behind the leader. So
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: I would love to say, you know, in a perfect world,
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: that Chad Bianco would put the full weight of his
• 26:00
  Speaker 7: behind Steve Hilton, really make sure he gets across that
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: primary finish line. But a lot of people are saying,
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: you know, it's just not going to happen. You have
• 26:07
  Speaker 7: a lot of die hard Bianco fans out here, but again,
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: a lot of candidates still slice in the pie on
• 26:13
  Speaker 7: the left. So at this point, it's anyone's game and
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: we're just going to see how far split those votes
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: get here in the next couple of weeks.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I have not shied away from saying this, but
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I'm just I've been somewhat disappointed in Steve Hilton's messaging.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not seeing the and it may be his personality,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm I'm looking for somebody. I
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: kind of want that Spencer, a little bit of Spencer
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Pratt in Steve Hilton, and really Chad Beyonco. But I
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: think Beyonco actually in that last debate, actually did a
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: better job than Hilton of conveying the disgust and the
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: frustration with Democrat Party rule.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: You know what's interesting, I just interviewed Steve Hilton for
• 26:54
  Speaker 7: the third time I got him in person. We sat
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: down in la and he is fired up more than
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: I have seen him this entire last year. And I'm
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: excited to release this episode because he talks about that
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: very thing, about not being moderate, about being aggressive and
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: getting in there. But at the end of the day,
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: one of the biggest challenges for whoever becomes our next governor,
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: especially if it is Steve Hilton, is he has a
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: Democrat super majority. He's got to work with here. It's
• 27:20
  Speaker 7: like walking the tightrope. You have to work with very entrenched,
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: very established, well funded by the unions, mostly Democrats here
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: in this state. And so I think he's doing a
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: very good job of being diplomatic, and that's what we need.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: We need someone who's listening to the people, who can
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: work with the cards already dealt in this state and
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: try to start fixing some of these issues. I'm still
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: a huge Steve Hilton fan. I love to see him
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: at the top of the polls, and we are just
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: praying that the voters get out there, get those ballots back.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: Do it now, don't wait for June's second please and
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: hope that we can see him at least make it
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: into the primary and give us a shot out here.
• 28:00
  Speaker 11: Definitely.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Kyle Campbell joining us host of a Politically Basic podcast.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: You know, Kyle, I mentioned Spencer Pratt, and I'm really
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: enjoying his campaign. I honestly, I'm not quite sure he
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: would know how to run the city if he actually
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: got elected, But honestly, I don't think you could do
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: any worse than what the Democrats have already done. How's
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: all that playing out?
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: Well, exactly just as you said it, Todd. You know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: people are so energized around Spencer because he's a real
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: human who's experienced, unfortunately, the disasters one after the other
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: that have affected him personally, his hometown, his community. And
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: Karen Bass just keeps doubling down on you know, they
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: have done nothing wrong and everything she's done is just fine,
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: and she is acting in a lot of ways as
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: Governor Newsom has acted over the past few years of
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: you know, nothing to see here, just keep gaslighting the people,
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: and to the people of LA's credit, they are not
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: having it anymore. And I'll tell you, you know, Spencer,
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: that's a smart guy. I think he's got his JD
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: from USC or somewhere, very reputable like that. He knows
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: what it takes. And one thing he said in the
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: debate that I really appreciated. He said, you know, I'm
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: I'll be a leader. I'll be the CEO of the city,
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: and I don't purport to know everything about every department
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: or how to run every part of this you know,
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: massive city with fourteen fifteen million people, but he will
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: bring in the right people to get the city back
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: on track. And I think the voters are really resonating
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: with that. Plus, these these ai ads are just an
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: absolutely oh my last to watch and they're spot on.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: If they're wrong, no, not at all. You know, I
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: saw I saw that interview and I thought it was
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: the perfect answer. You know that he knows how to
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: bring in the best people, which is you know, the
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: argument Trump made you know, hey, I've never done politics before,
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: but I'm going to bring in the best people. So
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: it was a it was a good answer. All right, Kyle,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: We're going to leave it there and a great intel
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: and we'll be checking in with you very soon.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Thank you, sir, and congrats on the.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Well well, thank you very much so Kyle Kingbell everybody,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: host of the Politically Basic podcast, and you've got a
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: download that podcast. She does a terrific job, and of
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: course you're going to want to catch that interview she
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: did with Steve Hilton as well. Nine oh one two
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• 30:18
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• 30:21
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• 30:23
  Speaker 2: a very fast pace as we head to the midterms.
• 30:27
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• 30:30
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  Speaker 2: the weekend videos. There's just insanity. This was happening in Washington,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: d C. In the Navy Yard, which Ben Dieter tells
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: me is a really high end it's a fun, kind
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: of funky neighborhood. A lot of young professionals live there.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: And so the thugs have been targeting Navy yarn and
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: they're doing these what do they call them, teen takeovers?
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Have you heard about these?
• 32:26
  Speaker 11: I have, and I'm not loving it. How it's uprising
• 32:30
  Speaker 11: right now?
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'm just going to say what needs to
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: be said here. I know I don't normally do that,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: but it needs to be said. We got a problem
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: in this country. And if this happening all over the place,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: literally all over the place, dozens of these and it's
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: really not a takeover, it's a mob action. These people
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: are rioting, and in every single instance they are black teenagers.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: We've got a problem. Now. If this had been and
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: if you're looking at six or seven of these attacks
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: every weekend in cities across America and they were all Muslims,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you'd be having people demanding that we send in the military,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: the National Guard. You'd be calling it domestic terrorism. There
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: will be wall to wall coverage, but because they're black teenagers,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: everyone's afraid to talk about it. Well, it's just part
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: of their culture, Todd. No, that is, if that is
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: part of that culture, they can take that culture to
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: some other country, because that's not how we're supposed to live.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I am watching this video coming out of a is
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: it Chipotle? I always have a problem with this. How
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: do you say it? Is it Chipotle? Chipotle?
• 33:36
  Speaker 11: Not Chipotle?
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Todd'stle Chipotley. Why can't they just name it like McDonald's.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Everybody knows how to say McDonald's or Burger King yeah,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: or Sonic.
• 33:49
  Speaker 11: It doesn't sound very American.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: All right, So it's Chipotle Chipotle? Okay. So anyway, so
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: they're they're rioting in a Chipotle and they're literally picking
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: up the chairs and they're beating people over their heads
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: with the chairs. These are wooden chairs. And you know,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Chipotle is not like, you know, Subway. Not that I
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: had anything wrong with Subway, but it's like, you know,
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: it's not in the ghetto of fast food establishments, is
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: what I'm trying to get at No Deli. I'm not
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: saying Subway is. I'm just saying it's just got to work.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: With me here, all right. So so anyway, I'm watching
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: this video and there's something that happened that nobody's talking about.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: At the end of this video. I've got it up
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: on our Facebook page. At the end, you can see
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: white customers and they're all like, they're all sort of
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: together out of the view of the camera, but the
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: camera swings over and you see the white dads are
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: protecting their children from this this mob. Now there are
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: going to be people out there, well that starts. He's
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: just racious. I want someone, I dare somebody to call
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: in and say that, because I want to why why
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: is it that? Why? What makes me a racist? I'm
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: just telling you that this is happening all over the country.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Someone just sent me video out of Norfolk, Virginia where
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: they literally the kids did the road takeovers, where they're
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: doing the donuts, they're setting fires. They're literally setting fires.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: It looked like some sort of Mad Max dystopian world.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: And it was Norfolk, Virginia over the weekend. Now, I
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: like what Janine Piro said. And Janine Piro is out there,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: she's the US attorney in DC, and she said that
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: at least within her realm they're going to start charging
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: the parents, but I say, we need to start charging
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: these kids as adults. Forget, enough is enough? You know,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: right from wrong? Right? That's we certainly hope that those
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: parents are I suspect many of them are single family
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: homes at least are being taught right from wrong. But maybe,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: just maybe what needs to happen here is we need
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: to stop talking so much about the redistricting and start
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: focusing on the bigger issue. And the bigger issue is
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: these are no longer teen takeovers. These are black domestic terrorists.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, I want you
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: to think about this. Think about the guy who owns
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: the Chipotle franchise there in Navy Yards. How do you
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: think that guy feels watching his business being destroyed? You
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: think people are gonna want to go back and eat there, No,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: because they're afraid that a bunch of black kids are
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: going to storm in and beat the living crap out
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: of everybody. And I think it's high time for us
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: to stop posty foot hang around. Yes, I said it,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, stop post he foot hang around. We've
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: got to stand up and we've got to start addressing
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: the issue Now, if it was a bunch of white
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: rednecks with no teeth and mullets out there calls it
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: all the mayhem at KFC, you better believe I would
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: be shouting the same thing. But right now, this is everywhere,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: and I suspect and hear me out on this. I
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: suspect that many of you are just you're tired of
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: the You're just fatigued. But this is the reality that
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: we have in America right now. And I hate it,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: by the way, and I don't want to irritate the
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: White House here, but it's happening again in Memphis. I mean,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: it's getting ugly out there. Dylan come over the weekend,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: had a couple of Dodge chargers chasing each other down
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Poplar Avenue.
• 37:34
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I'm not surprised at all.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Unbelieve they literally had in Norfolk, Virginia. We'll post this
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: video on our website. They're literally they have a flamethrower.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Where do you found? Where do you get a flamethrower?
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: How dare you todd? This is part of their culture.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: We marched in the nineteen sixties so the children could
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: have flame throwers and beat a living hell out of
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: people at Chipotle's. Did I say it right?
• 38:05
  Speaker 11: Oh it is not Chipotle, he said Chipotle's.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, I was plural.
• 38:13
  Speaker 11: There's more than one happening in.
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  Speaker 2: Could be free at last, Free at last, beat the
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: hell out of people down at the Chipotle. I don't
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: think that's how that speech was supposed to go, but
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: maybe that's just me. All right, Hang tight, everybody, Hour
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  Speaker 2: two of the Big Show coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Next live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: It's America's conservative blow torch. Ye this American.
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  Speaker 2: Todd start day. Well, Hello, everybody, welcome to our two
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  Speaker 2: of the Big Show. Great to have you with us today.
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  Speaker 2: Write down our telephone number. You will need this if
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  Speaker 2: zero five nine two six. That's nine oh one two
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  Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six. Well, tomorrow a big
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  Speaker 2: day in the state of Georgia. Voters. They're Republican voters
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: heading to the polls in a high stakes race. Actually
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: a couple of them. We're governor and the Senate. I
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: want to go right away to our Patriot Mobile news
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  Speaker 2: maker line. I've figured the best person who knows how
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: to talk about this, Martha Zalar, who is a talk
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: radio host and political analyst. Our good friend from WD
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: you in, Martha, hope you're doing well.
• 39:53
  Speaker 12: I'm doing great job.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: How are you, Martha, I'm I'm well. Thank you for asking,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: and we're I know you're on the road and we
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: hope to be able to wave at you on the
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: interstate as you pass through Memphis.
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  Speaker 12: That's right, because I'm on my way to Arizona.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, sweet Mercy, that's a long tribe.
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  Speaker 12: But when your daughter asked you, her husband started a
• 40:15
  Speaker 12: new job three weeks ago and if she had to
• 40:17
  Speaker 12: get the car and the dog out there, So she said, Mama,
• 40:20
  Speaker 12: will you come?
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: And of course I am, well you'll have. You'll look
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: you're you're a great mom, and you're gonna have a
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: great road trip. And just remember it's like three hundred
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: degrees in Arizona, So okay, I will Martha. Speaking of
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: hot potatoes, can we talk about this election? I am.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people around the country are
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: just flat out confused about what's going on here. And
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: I know we're going to have a Burt Jones on
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: my NEWSMAC show later tonight give us the lowdown. What
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: do you think is going to happen tomorrow.
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  Speaker 12: You know, obviously these are separate party primaries, so you've
• 40:57
  Speaker 12: got to be careful about getting people out. And right
• 41:01
  Speaker 12: now the Democrats are out, you know, outpacing us heavily.
• 41:07
  Speaker 12: Now that doesn't matter right now. When it matters is
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: in November, and so we've got that kind of issue.
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  Speaker 12: But they have the most number of people on the
• 41:16
  Speaker 12: ballot that they've had in thirty years, So they've got
• 41:18
  Speaker 12: a long ballot. We've got a long ballot. So the
• 41:21
  Speaker 12: two top races on the top on the Republican side are,
• 41:24
  Speaker 12: of course, the governor's race to replace Governor Kemp and
• 41:28
  Speaker 12: the Senate race. So as far as the Senate race goes,
• 41:31
  Speaker 12: I you know, Derek Dewley is surging. You know, everybody
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: was scratching their head when the governor put his resources
• 41:38
  Speaker 12: behind Derek Dewley. But I'm telling you what, Governor Kemp
• 41:41
  Speaker 12: did not just cut a couple of ads. He and
• 41:44
  Speaker 12: his wife and his family had been campaigning with Derreck
• 41:47
  Speaker 12: Deoley for a month now. They have been going all
• 41:50
  Speaker 12: over the state and the numbers are surging. There was
• 41:53
  Speaker 12: a poll that came out last night they had Derreck
• 41:55
  Speaker 12: Deoley in the number one foot but again that's one toll,
• 41:59
  Speaker 12: that's an outlaw, but it is moving in that direction.
• 42:03
  Speaker 12: So I think that's going to be Mike Collins and
• 42:04
  Speaker 12: Derek Dooley in the one two spot. And then in
• 42:08
  Speaker 12: the governor's race, it's a little trickier because we had
• 42:11
  Speaker 12: this earthquake that happens at the beginning of February. When
• 42:15
  Speaker 12: Rick Jackson got into the race, he was not expected.
• 42:18
  Speaker 12: He's a guy that everybody has has come to who
• 42:22
  Speaker 12: raise money for everything over the years. I've known him
• 42:25
  Speaker 12: for fifteen years. Never in a million years thought he
• 42:28
  Speaker 12: would run that. His message of foster care a billionaire
• 42:32
  Speaker 12: has really resonated with women, and you know, we have
• 42:35
  Speaker 12: a big problem with squishing Republican women in Georgia. You know,
• 42:39
  Speaker 12: sometimes they vote with us and sometimes they don't. And
• 42:42
  Speaker 12: so this story of his has resonated with women and
• 42:46
  Speaker 12: he's getting the kind of pulling numbers again with them.
• 42:49
  Speaker 12: Only poll that matters is tomorrow on women voters that
• 42:53
  Speaker 12: Johnny Isaacson needs to get. John was the only guy
• 42:57
  Speaker 12: that could ever get. He would get five or six
• 42:59
  Speaker 12: or seven per set more women's voters than the average Republicans.
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  Speaker 8: So he's there.
• 43:04
  Speaker 12: Hert Jones was kind of you know, office feet for
• 43:08
  Speaker 12: a few weeks when Rick first got in and then
• 43:10
  Speaker 12: he's he's gotten back on track again. But as you know,
• 43:15
  Speaker 12: the Trump endorsement in Georgia has worked for Burton the task.
• 43:19
  Speaker 12: But we we have a iffy record on Trump endorsement.
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  Speaker 2: So Martha, let me let me jump in here. Because
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Fox five out of Atlanta, they they did a story
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: on the Insider Advantage poll. That's our good buddy, Matt
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Towry and those guys are they have a really long
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: track record of getting these things right and good. To
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: their point, to your point, they're saying that both of
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: those races look like they're going to be heading to
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: a runoff. And I'm curious so about the because there's
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: another component to all of this, and it involves two
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: other candidates. One is Raffensberger and the other is car
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: and they appear to be splitting votes who are not
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: aligned with President Trump. What are you hearing about their influence?
• 44:07
  Speaker 12: Yeah, so you've got Jones and Jackson are who are
• 44:10
  Speaker 12: competing for the Trump vote, and the Maggot turnout has
• 44:13
  Speaker 12: been pretty strong, Okay, and then You've got these other
• 44:16
  Speaker 12: two guys that Raeflisberger co in twenty twenty two went
• 44:21
  Speaker 12: from the guy nobody would have lunch with to the
• 44:23
  Speaker 12: guy that won his re election at sext tair of state.
• 44:27
  Speaker 12: He's also a self funder. Chris Carr is the only
• 44:29
  Speaker 12: one that is not a self funder but has raised
• 44:32
  Speaker 12: more money on his own, you know, take out the
• 44:35
  Speaker 12: money that these guys are given themselves. But he's raised
• 44:38
  Speaker 12: more money than any other candidates. So there is an
• 44:42
  Speaker 12: opportunity for one of those candidates to end up in
• 44:46
  Speaker 12: second place. And what I've been saying is is that
• 44:49
  Speaker 12: that I don't know if it's gonna be Jackson or
• 44:51
  Speaker 12: Jones in the first place blot, but it's going to
• 44:55
  Speaker 12: be one of them. It looks like it might be
• 44:57
  Speaker 12: Jackson just by the continued polling. But I think they're
• 45:00
  Speaker 12: an opportunity for one of these candidates to flip in there,
• 45:02
  Speaker 12: because when those the one candidate has been undersided for
• 45:05
  Speaker 12: this whole cycle.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Martha Zalar joining us. He is a host at WDUN
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: Radio in Gamesville, Georgia, a sharp political analyst, and Martha
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: has been doing this a long time, looking at these
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Georgia races, Martha, I think just a lot of people
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: are trying to get their head wrapped around what is
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: going on in Georgia politics.
• 45:25
  Speaker 9: You know it is.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, people assumed it was a red state. You've
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: got two Democrats, you know, representing you guys in the
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: US Senate. What what is the current state of affairs
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: they're in Georgia.
• 45:38
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think I think we're a pink state. You know,
• 45:40
  Speaker 12: we're a light red state. I think that what happened
• 45:44
  Speaker 12: in twenty twenty one was that, you know, with all
• 45:46
  Speaker 12: due respects to the President, he came and campaigned for
• 45:49
  Speaker 12: the runoff and he said you can vote, but your
• 45:51
  Speaker 12: vote might not count. We had four hundred and thirty
• 45:54
  Speaker 12: thousand Republicans that stayed home in that runoff. And I'm
• 45:57
  Speaker 12: not blaming anybody, but that's what happened. And so we've
• 46:01
  Speaker 12: got these two Democrats. And but let's not forget that
• 46:04
  Speaker 12: John Osoff only won by fifty thousand votes. Brian Kemp
• 46:08
  Speaker 12: won by one hundred thousand, and then the first time
• 46:11
  Speaker 12: by fifty thousand.
• 46:12
  Speaker 13: Some.
• 46:12
  Speaker 12: We're tight. We're very tight. And I think that you know,
• 46:15
  Speaker 12: the question I always want to ask John Osoff in
• 46:17
  Speaker 12: this cycle is that he doesn't have an opponent, and
• 46:20
  Speaker 12: he's spent thirty five million dollars. You know, I don't
• 46:23
  Speaker 12: understand that. He says he's spending on research. And then
• 46:26
  Speaker 12: we've got senate candidates, So the Senate candidate has got
• 46:29
  Speaker 12: to drive the day. If we have the right Senate
• 46:32
  Speaker 12: candidate in there. And I'd be happy with either any
• 46:35
  Speaker 12: of these guys.
• 46:36
  Speaker 8: I think they all.
• 46:37
  Speaker 12: We could coalesce around any of these guys and get
• 46:41
  Speaker 12: them over the finish line. Because Osoff is assuming that
• 46:44
  Speaker 12: he's going to win because of all this momentum up
• 46:46
  Speaker 12: and down the ballot. But I don't know, you know,
• 46:49
  Speaker 12: I'm feeling very good about that Senate seat.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: Well, this is interesting. I will say this. It's a
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: good thing Tennesseeans can't cross the border and vote. Otherwise
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Deren Julie might have a hard problem, might have a
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: hard time there among Tennessee fans.
• 47:05
  Speaker 12: So let me ask you a question. I mean, one
• 47:08
  Speaker 12: of the big things they're throwing at Derek Julie is
• 47:10
  Speaker 12: that he did not vote for about twenty years and
• 47:13
  Speaker 12: he started voting again in twenty twenty four. And he
• 47:16
  Speaker 12: said that it was because he was totally focused on
• 47:19
  Speaker 12: his career. He didn't want to take sides, and that
• 47:21
  Speaker 12: COVID changed him, you know, so he looked twenty two
• 47:25
  Speaker 12: and twenty four. I think that's an issue that people
• 47:28
  Speaker 12: like us care about. I don't know if it's an
• 47:31
  Speaker 12: issue that regular voters care about.
• 47:32
  Speaker 7: What do you think?
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. I mean, Martha, it's but it
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: just it seems to me, and I think Time Magazine
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: even to the piece about just how chaotic things are
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: right now in Georgia politics, which is not a bad thing,
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: you know, but again, I think eventually people are going
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: to have to coalesce around candidates and we've got to
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: make sure. And this is really the lesson across the
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: nation is that Republicans are going to have to be
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: electing electable people and the general.
• 48:02
  Speaker 12: Election, Yeah, we're not going to have the herschel Walker
• 48:04
  Speaker 12: problem with Derek Dooley, I can tell you that. I mean,
• 48:07
  Speaker 12: Derek has kind of grown on me. I have not
• 48:10
  Speaker 12: endorsed in this race. But what I like about him
• 48:12
  Speaker 12: is because of that coaching background, he handles the press
• 48:15
  Speaker 12: really well. You know, he knows how to give a
• 48:18
  Speaker 12: press conference when people are yelling at you. So you know,
• 48:22
  Speaker 12: I think he has grown on me over time. And
• 48:24
  Speaker 12: I'm telling you what. The governor has put his resources
• 48:27
  Speaker 12: behind him. Mike Collins has the best organization. He's in
• 48:32
  Speaker 12: one hundred and fifty nine county. So you know, if
• 48:35
  Speaker 12: I were picking today, i'd say the two of them.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, all right, Well, Martha, we'll let
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: you get get on with your journey as you make
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: your way across the USA. I'm sorry to say we've
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: got two BUCkies under construction on either side of Memphis,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: but they're not open yet. Martha.
• 48:51
  Speaker 12: Well that's okay, because the last time I was in
• 48:53
  Speaker 12: a BUCkies I had a panic attack.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: It's somewhat old. Much going on, all of that meat,
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: it's so overwhelming, it's I understand it. It is all right. Well, Martha,
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: safe travels, and hope everybody gets settled there in Arizona.
• 49:12
  Speaker 12: Well, thank you, Ton and best for you, and I've
• 49:14
  Speaker 12: been praying for you.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Well, thanks Martha. I really do appreciate that.
• 49:17
  Speaker 11: Thank you.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: The great Martha Zala everybody on the road and wanted
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: to She was so kind and she's got a lot
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: of stuff going on, but I knew she is the
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: one who knows a lot about what's happening there in Georgia. Well,
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: I'm curious, all of our Georgia listeners, who do you
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: guys like here in the primary? And it sounds like
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: you've got some good guys. The Maga the MAGA voters
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: are are split right now, and that's going to be
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: the big question mark is who gets who gets into
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: that who gets into the primary or in the runoff
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: rather and Matt Towery says, both of those races Senate
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: and gubernatorial going to runoffs in Georgia. All right, our
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: telephone number nine o one two six zero five nine
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: two six. Again that number nine oh one two six
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: zero five nine two six. This is the Todd Sterns show. Wow,
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: when did NASCAR go woke? If you would have asked
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: me of all the sports out there, a NASCAR would
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: have been like at the bottom of the list that
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: there was no way humanly possible that NASCAR would ever
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: go the way of the NFL or the WNBA. So anyway,
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: a couple of stories here from the weekend, And this
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: is the headline from OutKick Bubba Wallace seeing red after
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: being wrecked, female driver rage quits and cries cry. There's
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: no crying in Nascar? What's going on here? Dylan and
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize that let women actually drive in Nascar?
• 50:59
  Speaker 11: Oh my gosh, no comment.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I was surprised. I thought they could wave
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: the flags, you know, and give the give the trophy
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: at the end of the race. I'm in so much
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: trouble right now, it's not even funny. I think my
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: own heartfelt did a couple of extra rotations there. So anyway,
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: apparently one of the female drivers do we call them driverrettes?
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: What do we call the lady drivers? Is there is
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: there a name for that? So according to Outkicksports, and
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: I like OutKick but man, they're right. They're writing is
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: just awful. It's just it's really just not good. And
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: it's always hard to actually find the actual the actual story.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: But according to Outkicksports, one of the one of the
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: female drivers just got really upset and decided just to
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: call it a day, and she's just she's just done.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: This story, by the way, is like seven hundred pages long.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: Her name is Natalie Decker. Are you familiar with her?
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Do you follow them?
• 52:15
  Speaker 13: No?
• 52:15
  Speaker 11: I don't know.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: Anyway, According to one report, Natalie Decker has no business
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: on her racetrack, and she embarrasses everyone every time she
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: speaks beyond over her existence in NASCAR. And I think
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: some of the mail drivers say that she is She's
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: not very fast. Does she always tell the other drivers
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: to slow down? Maybe that's it? Slow down turn here
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: this is the headline for the New York Post. Emotional
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Natalie Decker goes on wild explicative huh you know these
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: blasted pop ups on these social media page they're killing me.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: We don't do that on Todd Sterns dot com. Emotional
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Natalie Decker goes on wild, explicative filled rant before dropping
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: out mid NASCAR race. This series blanking sucks, she said.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Miss Decker, competing Friday in Dover, Delaware in the Craftsman
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Truck Series, finished eighty one latch lapse. Before bowing out
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: of the competition, she was communicating with her team, which
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: wanted her to come to the pit road for a
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: pass through penalty. Decker admitted that she didn't want to
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: keep doing this. You guys, I'm trying my best to
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: hold by Blank together, but I don't want to keep
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: doing this. You know this is going to be like
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: we need a female version of Ricky Bobby. Now, I
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: think that's what we're gonna need.
• 53:46
  Speaker 11: That's the sequel.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: Well, he only had two sons, so one of them
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: will have to transition, but it could still work.
• 53:53
  Speaker 11: That's it. You just made the movie right there, Texas Ranger.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: This is brutal. The twenty eight year old's team. Once
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: the twenty eight year old's team told her that if
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: she didn't want to continue competing, she should come in,
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Decker used more explicatives. Does she know that everybody can
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: hear this? I'm just wondering here, she says. There's just
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: so many blanky things that I could say right now,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: and I'm just trying to keep it together. About the
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: blinking director of the series, she was trying to composet,
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, this is a dangerous thing because
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: you're on the road, you're in a vehicle, and she's
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: like raging right now. I mean she could have liked
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: just I know, gone bonkers road rage. Decker says that
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: she's just very upset with all of this. She gave
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: birth to her son, Levi in twenty twenty five, made
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: her return to NASCAR last August in the O'Reilly series
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: after over a year off. I'm sorry about what does
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: that have to do with anything? And the way of
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Friday's race, Decker took to Instagram to post that she's
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: going to continue fighting out there on the race course.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: You know this is a problem. You let you let
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: the cows drive in the NASCAR races and then they
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: get all emotional about it. It's such trouble right now.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: This is these are the drugs, these are the cardiac
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: trucks talking Dylan, I'm just saying.
• 55:25
  Speaker 11: Sure.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Here's here's what she wrote. I am not going to lie.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: I am really disappointed in myself because after all those
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Oh stop, has a guy ever said anything like this?
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, if they get mad, they just go punch somebody.
• 55:40
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: True, I'm not gonna lie. I'm really disappointed in myself
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: because after all those penalties, mentally I never recovered. I
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: know there's gonna be a lot of hate around my
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: last two weekends racing, and nothing you can say is
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: worse and how hard I am on myself right now.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: But I'm going to push myself to get through this
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: and control what I can control moving forward and show
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: them to my next race with a smile on my
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: face and fire in me to keep doing what I love.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: You know, this is exactly what Richard Petty would have
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: said back in the day as he was swinging idle
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: dough green fermented lawn clippings. This is the state of NASCAR, ladies,
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: and John, Look, it's crazy if I mean, there was
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: a time when all the races were just completely sold out,
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: and they're not anymore. And I think people are just
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: they're throwing at their hands in the air and saying,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: we're done with all of this. We're done spending all
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: the money. We're done investing our time and energy into
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: this wokeness that has sort of invested the sport. So
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: I'm in big trouble. I mean, it's basically WNBA on wheels.
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: The drivers aren't pretty hot though, I mean, if you're gonna,
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: you know, just an observation, just an observation. We just
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: we don't judge here all the Todd Starts Radio Show
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: paying tight. We'll be back, I think, all right, welcome
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: back everybody. This is the Todd Sterns Radio Show. By
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: the way, did you see the protest marches in the
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: UK over the weekend? Just really really remarkable and they're
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: saying I've heard numbers from a million to whatever, and
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: there were a lot of people. And one of the
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: things I greatly appreciated about the weekend gatherings in the
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: UK it was it was really centered on the traditions
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: of Great Britain and to see people literally walking through
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: the streets, thousands and thousands and thousands of people holding
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: wooden crosses. They were waving the Union Jack and I
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: hope they were sending a message that was being heard
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: not just at Buckingham Palace but also inside Parliament. So
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: well done to our cousins across the Big Pond. Well,
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: I want to bring into the conversation Victoria Churchill, a
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: US political reporter at the Daily Mail, and no doubt
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: a lot of politics are going on this week. Victoria,
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: hope you're doing well.
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  Speaker 10: Ten great, Thank you so much for having me, Todd.
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: You know, Victoria, just really curious to get your take.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: You know, we've seen these it's really a surge of nationalism,
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: people being proud of their country and I don't know,
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: it did my heart good to see what happened over
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: in England over the weekends.
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  Speaker 14: I think for the most part it's great, you know,
• 58:51
  Speaker 14: they've had some issues with people being able to express
• 58:54
  Speaker 14: their free speech over on the other side of the pond,
• 58:56
  Speaker 14: and so I think it's good to see people taking
• 58:59
  Speaker 14: to the streets in this way, and you know, for
• 59:02
  Speaker 14: the most part, the government not getting in the way
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  Speaker 14: of it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's fascinating because there was some reporting out
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: over the weekend thirteen thousand people in the UK have
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: actually been arrested for something they wrote on Facebook or acts.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: It's just insane, the crackdown on free speech.
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  Speaker 10: Over there, you know, it absolutely is.
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  Speaker 14: And a lot of this is tied to the Online
• 59:27
  Speaker 14: Safety Act, which I think ironically it was actually sponsored
• 59:30
  Speaker 14: by some leadership of the Tories, the Conservative Party, and
• 59:35
  Speaker 14: now actually the person that sponsored that legislation has now
• 59:39
  Speaker 14: become a member of the Reform Party, which of course
• 59:42
  Speaker 14: is the party that won big in the elections earlier
• 59:45
  Speaker 14: this month there on local level. And so I think
• 59:47
  Speaker 14: it's interesting that, you know, this person created this piece
• 59:50
  Speaker 14: of legislation. But I think it's also a good warning
• 59:53
  Speaker 14: sign to Americans, where you know, you might have a
• 59:56
  Speaker 14: legislation with the best of intents, but when the wrong
• 59:58
  Speaker 14: people will get into office, they may take it the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 14: completely wrong way.
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  Speaker 10: So, you know, as somebody that covers.
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  Speaker 14: Capitol Hill, I think that's something that our lawmakers here
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 14: in the US need to, you know, keep in the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 14: back of their minds that make sure that they're writing
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 14: legislation that can only be used in the way that
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 14: they intended to.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I do want to switch to what's happening
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: on Capitol Hill and you're up there, you see all
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: these things happening in real time. Are these lawmakers Are
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: they aware of how angry the base is on the
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: Republican side of the aisle? Are they aware of just
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: how frustrated and angry Republican voters are because this is
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: not a good time to be an establishment Republican in America.
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely. I mean they're frustrated for a number of reasons.
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  Speaker 14: Of course, when we talk about the base, you have
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 14: things like the Same of America Act, you have things
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 14: like the FISA reauthorization, which is working its way through
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 14: on Capitol Hill right now. And you know, they see
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 14: a Republican party that controls all three branches of government
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  Speaker 14: here in the in DC, in the nation's capital, and
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 14: you know, they don't understand why their priorities, which they
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 14: also believe for the president's priorities are not getting accomplished
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 14: by our lawmakers.
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  Speaker 2: When you look, for example, at what happened over the weekend,
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: Senator Cansey, I don't think that was much of a
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: surprise were people. Do you think people were surprised to
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: up on Capitol Hill at how badly he got defeated.
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  Speaker 10: Well, Cassidy himself told me earlier this month that he
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 10: planned to win.
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  Speaker 14: And you know the thing that I that prompted me
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 14: asking him that question was actually a poll a few
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 14: weeks ago that had him in third place behind Fleming
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 14: and Letlow, And you know that poll ended up being prophecy,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 14: where that's exactly what happened.
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  Speaker 10: Cassidy didn't even make the runoff. And you know, Cassidy, of.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 14: Course is the one that voted for, you know, the
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 14: impeachment of President Trump, which of course angered a lot
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 14: of Republicans, including the President himself. But you know, he's
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 14: also tried to kind of get back in favor with
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 14: the base, for example, as is his position with the
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 14: Senate Health that's the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 14: You know, he ushered through the nomination of Robert F.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 14: Kennedy Junior, and so he really tried to play both sides.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 14: But I think this goes to show.
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  Speaker 10: That in the Trump era, you can't have people that
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 10: want it both one way and the other.
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  Speaker 14: You have to have people that are in line with
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 14: the president or they end up, you know, facing the retribution,
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 14: which has happened not only in Louisiana but also on
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 14: the state level.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 10: We looked at Indiana earlier this month as well. The
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 10: President backed.
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  Speaker 14: A bunch of challengers to state senators there that did
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 14: not back the Republican redistricting push, and most of those
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 14: senators don't have state Senate seats anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And of course now you've got Thomas Massey on the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: hot seat. Man, has that turned? I mean, it's it
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: went from just being you know, hardcore politics and being
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: opposed to President Trump to now scandal involved with all
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: of these selects shows things. What can you tell us
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: about that?
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  Speaker 10: Of course, this is the big test.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 14: You know, MASSI has been somebody that's been in the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 14: president crosshairs of course on the Epstein issue, which I've
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 14: covered extensively in my role for the Daily Mail, but
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 14: also you look at issues for example like the Iran war.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 14: You know, MASSI was the one that introduced war powers resolutions,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 14: has done so numerous times, stemming back to last July
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 14: when we saw those initial strikes on Iran's nuclear sites.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 14: And so, you know, a lot of people want to
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 14: bring up the issue, the the Iran issue, but I
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 14: think you also have to look at the fact that
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 14: Massy has not backed a lot of the President's priorities,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 14: even going back to just about a year ago. Now,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 14: the tax bill, the major Republican tax bill, big beautiful bill,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 14: working family tax credit. It's gotten you know, multiple names
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 14: here on Capitol Hill, but he was somebody.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 10: That opposed it. And so you know, when you talk
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 10: about people that want to view.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 14: Themselves as physical conservatives, limited government Republicans that won't taxes,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 14: it's hard for him to make that issue when he
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 14: and support that legislation.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, President Trump earlier today posting
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: on True Social the worst Congressman in the long and
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: storied history of the Republican Party is Thomas Massey. I
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: would have thought it was somebody else, but he's going
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: with Massey. He is an obstructionist and a fool. Vote
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: him out of office tomorrow Tuesday. It will be a
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: great day for America and Massey, at least in some
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: polling i've seen, is trailing. So the incumbent could be
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: going down tomorrow. How are things looking? What are you
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: what are you hearing?
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  Speaker 10: Well?
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  Speaker 14: You know, this of course is the big test of
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 14: how much does the president's endorsement way, as well as
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 14: outside money.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 10: You know, that's been one of the things that you
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 10: look at here.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 14: There's been millions of dollars spent to oppose Massey in
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 14: back his Trump back challenger at Galleran.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 10: But I actually had the chance to.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 14: Go to Kentucky last fall and you know, attend to
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 14: number of Massi's events where he really did seem to
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 14: be pretty well liked by the people in his local area.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 14: And so I think it's interesting where you know, I've
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 14: seen pulling as well that shows Massy trailing. But I
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 14: also think it's pretty hard to do that pulling on
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 14: a geography like you know, northern Kentucky. He covers multiple
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 14: media markets in that corner. You know, he covers both
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 14: into the Louisville and the Cincinnati media markets, and so
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 14: that's definitely been an expensive race for the president and
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 14: his allies to plan. But of course, it all comes
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 14: to ahead tomorrow, and you know, I think the world will.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Be watching Victoria real quick before we let you go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just curious about Majority Leader John thun and the
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: unwillingness among Republicans to publicly call him out or condemn
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: him for standing in the way of the Save America Act.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: Why why do you think that is?
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 10: You know, Tod, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 14: I think it's the fact that he has to juggle
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 14: multiple priorities at the same time. And so I think
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 14: that's kind of one of the issues that he has
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 14: to deal with, is that, you know, he he's got
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 14: both his legislative priorities as well as other additional pressures
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 14: from the President. You know, he's also watching his back
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 14: in terms of the campaign, right Like for example, we
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 14: were just.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 10: Talking about Cassidy.
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  Speaker 14: You know, he backed Cassidy both for the Committee chairmanship
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 14: which he holds, as well as in this race. Lots
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 14: of the establishment Republicans tried to back him, and so,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 14: you know, I think he's got definitely not an interviewable job.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 14: I think it's one that few people would want up
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 14: here on Capitol Hill. But I also think it goes
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 14: to show the importance of in these midterms making sure
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 14: that the people that are aligned with the president are
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 14: the ones that are getting the nominations, just like we
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 14: saw with the Louisiana results earlier this weekend as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, Victoria, we're going to have to leave
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: it there. Victoria Churchill. Everybody a US political reporter at
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: the Daily Mail, and be sure to check out all
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: of her great social media platforms. Follow her on X
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  Speaker 2: as well. Victoria, thank you again, appreciate you joining us.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 7: Todd.
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  Speaker 2: All right, great stuff there, and the sheet does a
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: terrific job covering politics. We'll get her back on again.
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  Speaker 2: of California, a California judge let a convicted child molester
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  Speaker 2: walk out of the courtroom. The jury had just convicted
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  Speaker 2: the guy on six felony counts of sexually abusing an
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  Speaker 2: eleven year old girl. Now that was nine months ago.
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  Speaker 2: Because the guy has now been on the run for
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  Speaker 2: nine months. That the district attorney begged the judge not
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  Speaker 2: to let this guy walk out of the courtroom, but
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  Speaker 2: the judge did anyway, Judge McLaughlin. Carl Cascioni was facing
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  Speaker 2: eighteen years in prison, but instead Judge McLaughlin let him
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  Speaker 2: post bail and walk out with the GPS, and ten
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  Speaker 2: days later, the ankle monitor mysteriously lost connection and when
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  Speaker 2: he was charging the anklet and they believed him. He
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  Speaker 2: skipped the sentencing hearing, and now this convicted child molester
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  Speaker 2: is free because one judge refused to take him into constanty.
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  Speaker 2: Now it just seems to me here that there were
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  Speaker 2: a couple of things that the Californians did wrong. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, when you've got somebody convicted of doing anything
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  Speaker 2: to a child, they should get the death penalty. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's very clear to me. So this guy should have
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  Speaker 2: been as soon as they found the guy guilty, what
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  Speaker 2: you do is you go out and you execute the guy.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, it should be very public
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  Speaker 2: right there on the courthouse square. Won a charge of mission,
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  Speaker 2: charge of mission and give all the proceeds to the
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  Speaker 2: family of the victim. That's that was problem number one.
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  Speaker 2: Number two letting this guy go, which is beyond me,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: but at that point, and hear me on this, this
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: is how you fix what's broken with the judicial system.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, as soon as that guy did not show
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  Speaker 2: up for court, the judge should have been charged with
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  Speaker 2: the exact same crimes. Let the judge do the time
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  Speaker 2: eighteen years, and judge, you're gonna let this guy walk
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: out so we can be he can pray on another child. Yeah, okay, judge,
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  Speaker 2: you're doing the eighteen years. Good luck to you at
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: least that's if I estimate. I just when it comes
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: to stuff like this, you gotta play hardball. And if
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: you don't play hardball, well, you know what, what sort
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  Speaker 2: of message are you sending? Any judge that does something
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: like that should be charged with crimes. It's all happening
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: in El Doedo County, California. This is from Casera TV,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: that's the Sacramento TV market. The judge, Michael McLaughlin is
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: catching holy you know what, even from Californians. And by
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: the way, my question is, was there connection here? Why
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: did this judge allow McLaughlin to walk out on a
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: one million dollar bail? It makes no sense whatsoever. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: it's really unfortunate this happened, and I feel bad for
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  Speaker 2: the families, no doubt about it, But that judge belongs
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  Speaker 2: This story out of this story out of Michigan, Della
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  Speaker 2: to New York Post reporting that a Michigan shoplifter was
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  Speaker 2: rushed to the hospital after hiding an entire of wine
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: in her body cavity. Now, I'm looking here at the
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  Speaker 2: bottle of this, A very large bottle of wine, like
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  Speaker 2: the kind that you would I don't know, bang on
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  Speaker 2: the side of a ship when you're like dedicating the ship.
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  Speaker 2: You're christening the ship.
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  Speaker 11: So maybe a little too large to fit in one's
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  Speaker 11: body part.
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  Speaker 2: I would say Bordeaux.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, the woman stole a bottle of wine. They're saying
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  Speaker 2: that she allegedly stole it. Well, how else did it
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  Speaker 2: end up in there? That's why I'd be wondering. The
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  Speaker 2: forty eight year old woman was caught by shopkeepers drinking
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  Speaker 2: a bottle of booze in a Traverse City liquor store
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  Speaker 2: without paying for it, and return the next day to
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  Speaker 2: get a bottle of chardonnay. I wonder if it was chilled.
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  Speaker 11: I hope so.
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  Speaker 2: According to the New York Post, employees attempted to stop
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  Speaker 2: her but were on able to find the Pilford tipple.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that is a clever sentence. Well done, writers. I
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  Speaker 2: love good writing. That is, until police arrested her and
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  Speaker 2: found it stashed inside an unnamed bodily orifice at the jail. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't her nose. I don't think she could have
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  Speaker 2: gotten it in the ear. Shall we continue? As soon
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: as the police officers discovered that she had an unusual
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: place to store the wine, they took her to the
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: Munson Medical Center for treatment. What this is? This is insane.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: The woman who was not named has been charged with
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: two counts of rectal fraud pardon me, retail fraud, and
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: one count of smuggling and trespassing.
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  Speaker 11: My apologies, it's a common slip there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you get rid of the bottle? I
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: mean do you pass the bottle?
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  Speaker 11: I mean I feel bad for the police officer that
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 11: had you remove that thing.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, well, I guess when they when you get arrested,
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  Speaker 2: what they do something? They do a pat down to
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  Speaker 2: make sure you know you don't you're not bringing anything
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  Speaker 2: into the into the jail. But do they make you
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  Speaker 2: what bend and cough and did the cork pop out?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 11: That's how they knew.
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  Speaker 2: During break people were just showing up with wine glasses
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  Speaker 2: this is terrible. I guess when you stand up, the
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  Speaker 2: thing pours and so then you have to bend back over.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know about this. What is wrong with people? Well,
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  Speaker 2: the Post had reached out to the Traverse City Police
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  Speaker 2: Department for additional details, but they did not immediately hear.
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  Speaker 2: But I would I want to hear. There's got to
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  Speaker 2: be more to the story. There's gotta be more to
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  Speaker 2: the story. So there you go. Well, it's a good
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  Speaker 2: thing it wasn't a kecker, right, I mean, that would
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  Speaker 2: have been really painful. I'm just saying, all right, we've
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  Speaker 2: got to take a break here of folks. Nine oh
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  Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine two six our telephone number,
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  Speaker 2: that's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up, We're gonna be talking to a Tennessee state Representative,
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  Speaker 2: Jody Barrett, who is weighing in on this major congressional
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: redistricting battle. It is getting ugly in Tennessee, and I
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: know over the weekend in Alabama people were marching at Selma.
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  Speaker 2: This is just getting nastier. So we're gonna find out
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  Speaker 2: what the heck is going on with state Representative Jody Barrett.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, everybody, hang tight, gotta take a break here.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stars Radio Show.
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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, total Bible clinging deplorable Americans.
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  Speaker 13: That's that's.
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  Speaker 2: Jud starts. So look, one of the one of the
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  Speaker 2: big questions that's been out there in the in the
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  Speaker 2: Republican sphere has involved why Democrats are just so distraught
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  Speaker 2: over all of this jerrymandering because they've been doing this
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  Speaker 2: for generations. And you know, we've pointed out for example,
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  Speaker 2: Newmical and New England, where of New Englanders voted for
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, not a single Republican congressional district there. You
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  Speaker 2: look at what's what what the maps look like in
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: places like Illinois, in California, for example, where only five
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  Speaker 2: only five Republican seats remain. So it's it's a big
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  Speaker 2: mess and the Democrats have been doing this. So now
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: people are well, why is the Democrats so upset about
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  Speaker 2: all of this? So Stacy Abrams, who was a long
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  Speaker 2: time a political activist in Georgia, failed gubernatorial candidate, and
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  Speaker 2: she eventually went on to become a President of the
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  Speaker 2: Federation and star Trek. She has a theory about this.
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  Speaker 2: She's explaining why Democrats are so upset about all of this.
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  Speaker 15: Take a lessen in a competitive authoritarian nation, which is
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  Speaker 15: what America is now. Democracy is about ensuring that we
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  Speaker 15: have shared power and shared voices. It does not guarantee
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 15: you victory, but it guarantees you access. Authoritarianism, especially competitive authoritarianism,
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 15: attempts to diminish your ability to use those same democratic
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  Speaker 15: institutions to your benefit. With these new maps, we know
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  Speaker 15: that analysis by Fair Fight and Black Voters Matters show
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  Speaker 15: that we could lose nineteen to twenty congressional seats, but
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  Speaker 15: we could lose up to one hundred and ninety one
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  Speaker 15: state legislative seats. And in the South, those state legislators
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  Speaker 15: draw city council districts, county commission districts, school board districts,
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  Speaker 15: and they draw state legislative lines. And so if you
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  Speaker 15: want to know if your child is going to have
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  Speaker 15: fair and equitable access to education, that will be diminished
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  Speaker 15: if your families can't participate in elections and elect leaders
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  Speaker 15: who value your education. If you want healthcare, in the South,
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  Speaker 15: it's the state legislature that decides whether you have access.
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  Speaker 15: All of the things that disproportionately harm communities of color
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  Speaker 15: will now be decided by people who disproportionately dislike and
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  Speaker 15: vote against the needs of pup color. But what we
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  Speaker 15: have to remember, and this is why I started the
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  Speaker 15: Ten Steps campaign, this is a national fight. It may
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  Speaker 15: start in the South, but as national implications progress, that
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  Speaker 15: serves the most disproportionately harmed communities lifts everyone. But if
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  Speaker 15: we do not do so, if we allow the suppression
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  Speaker 15: of black and brown votes, we are harming their neighbors
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  Speaker 15: and we're harming the US.
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  Speaker 2: All right, enough of you, enough beam her out of there,
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Dylan. So look, here's here's the deal. Black
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  Speaker 2: voters are not losing any representation at all. As a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, the argument could be made here and
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  Speaker 2: should be made that under the rule of these now
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  Speaker 2: unconstitutional rule of these jerrymander districts based on race, that
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic crocrats have completely failed the black communities. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line
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  Speaker 2: and we're honored to welcome into the conversation Tennessee State
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  Speaker 2: Representative Jody Barrett and a representative honored to have you
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  Speaker 2: with us. Clearly this has become a huge issue in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Tennessee.
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  Speaker 16: Well, absolutely, and I'm proud to be have been a
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  Speaker 16: part of it to bring a nine to O map
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  Speaker 16: to Tennessee to accurately reflect the conservative values of the
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  Speaker 16: state of Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I thought it was interesting over the weekend
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  Speaker 2: Steve Cohen nineteen years he has served in the ninth
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  Speaker 2: congressional district, and really I don't think has done all
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  Speaker 2: that much for his congressional district, and he actually broke
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  Speaker 2: down in tears over the prospect of losing that district.
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  Speaker 2: What mister Cohen doesn't want to seem to acknowledge is
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: that he was out anyway because the base of the
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  Speaker 2: party they were circling and embracing Justin Pearson, the guy
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  Speaker 2: with the big power.
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  Speaker 16: Frow Well, I think what we've seen with the Democratic
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  Speaker 16: Party across the country, but particularly here in Tennessee, is
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  Speaker 16: the progressive wing, the far left, radical wing of their
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  Speaker 16: party has completely taken over, which has led to this
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  Speaker 16: wave across particularly the Southern states where Republicans have taken
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  Speaker 16: control of state legislatures, which are.
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  Speaker 9: Now means that we are taking control of these maps
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  Speaker 9: as well.
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  Speaker 16: After one hundred and fifty years post Civil War politics
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  Speaker 16: in the South, where Democrats controlled everything, the Republicans have
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  Speaker 16: finally taken control and we're finally starting to provide these
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  Speaker 16: folks in these blue cities with the leadership that they've
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  Speaker 16: been desperately needing and wanting.
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  Speaker 2: How do you respond, though, to the accusations, Oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is all about racism, this is about white supremacy.
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  Speaker 9: Well, it's the only thing that they can can grab onto.
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  Speaker 16: It's when you are in a position that where you
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  Speaker 16: have zero power or control or influence over what is
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  Speaker 16: going on, the only thing you can do is pick
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  Speaker 16: out the most offensive thing that you can possibly allege
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  Speaker 16: against your opponents and try to drive that nail home.
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  Speaker 16: And as try as they might, they just keep missing
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  Speaker 16: the mark over and over and over again. This was
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  Speaker 16: strictly about population and politics. Republicans have control of the
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  Speaker 16: state legislature by an overwhelming majority. We had an opportunity
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  Speaker 16: after the Supreme Court opened the door for us to
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  Speaker 16: take a look at these maps, and we drove a
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 16: tractor trailer through that door.
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious because you are running which now you're going
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  Speaker 2: to be running for Congress. What congressional district. Will you
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  Speaker 2: be running at.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I'm not running this cycle.
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  Speaker 16: I ran to replace Mark Green when he resigned last
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  Speaker 16: year in the special election in the congressional seventh, but
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  Speaker 16: I'm not running this time around. Congressman Van Epps won
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  Speaker 16: that that seat last summer, and with the redraw of
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  Speaker 16: this map, it's moved a little bit more north and
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  Speaker 16: to the east around Nashville, taking away a lot of
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  Speaker 16: the rural counties that I.
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  Speaker 9: Would have relied relied on.
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  Speaker 16: But really my focus has always been on making sure
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  Speaker 16: that I'm representing rural Tennessee as much.
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  Speaker 9: As I can. I'm going to try to continue doing
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  Speaker 9: that in.
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  Speaker 2: Nashville, joining us our Tennessee State Rap Jody Barrett on
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  Speaker 2: the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line. You know, it's interesting there's
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  Speaker 2: new video surfacing of Justin Pearson and some of his behavior,
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  Speaker 2: you know, up on Capitol Hill and in these committee hearings.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the guy, first of all, I think his
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  Speaker 2: his mouth is ash and checks his money can't deliver
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  Speaker 2: on getting up literally into the faces and poking these lawmakers,
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  Speaker 2: these white lawmakers. How is he perceived. I'm curious how
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  Speaker 2: he is perceived among the Republicans and even the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: up on the Capitol.
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  Speaker 16: Hello, Justin Pearson is tmu al Sharpton.
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  Speaker 9: He's a performer.
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  Speaker 16: All he's there to do is to try to get
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  Speaker 16: a response or reaction, something that gets in a sound
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  Speaker 16: bite or something that he can put viral video out
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  Speaker 16: on the internet to make him more money from the folks,
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  Speaker 16: the groups all across the country that love sending this
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  Speaker 16: guy money.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no doubt about it. It's just I'm just wondering.
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  Speaker 2: I know they tried to expel the guy once, but
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  Speaker 2: just his behavior and the way he treated those state troopers,
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  Speaker 2: I just you know, I would have called everybody back
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  Speaker 2: in and given him the heave hoe.
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  Speaker 9: Well, there's certainly we tried that once before.
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  Speaker 16: And I think what we've learned with the expulsion hearings
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  Speaker 16: a few years ago is that all we do is
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  Speaker 16: make more out of these guys when we fall into
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  Speaker 16: their trap of reacting to their performance art that they're doing.
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  Speaker 16: And so the better thing to do is kind of
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  Speaker 16: like when you have a three year old that's throwing
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  Speaker 16: a fit in the floor and you don't give them
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  Speaker 16: the reaction they want.
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  Speaker 9: You just ignore them. And the more you ignore them,
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  Speaker 9: the more angry and bitter they become.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm fair enough, and I get that, and I
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  Speaker 2: understand that. But again it's my concern is that the
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  Speaker 2: ones coming up. You know, everybody thought AOC was a
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  Speaker 2: radical leftist extremist, which she is. But then we were
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: telling people just wait until, wait until you see what's
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  Speaker 2: coming up after AOC. I'm really concerned about what's coming
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  Speaker 2: up after a Justin Pearson.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I'll be honest with you.
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  Speaker 16: From the inside. You asked what the inside opinion was.
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  Speaker 16: Justin Pearson is a performer. The thing that it makes
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  Speaker 16: him dangerous is he is saying not what he believes,
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  Speaker 16: but what he thinks his base of supporters want him
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  Speaker 16: to say, and acting the way he thinks they want
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  Speaker 16: them to want him to act. The other Justin Justin
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  Speaker 16: Jones from Nashville, Baverson County is actually probably the true believer.
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  Speaker 9: He's the one that really believes what he's saying.
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  Speaker 16: The burning of the Confederate flag in the courthouse and
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 16: trying to burn down this new Confederacy.
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  Speaker 9: That's the mantra that he keeps repeating over and over again.
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  Speaker 16: He's the guy that I think is dangerous because he
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  Speaker 16: really truly believes what he's saying.
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  Speaker 9: Justin Pearson is just performing for the cameras.
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  Speaker 2: So in the ninth Congressional District, you've got Charlotte Berdman,
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  Speaker 2: and I think she has run against Steve Cohen, She's
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  Speaker 2: a Republican, and she's run against go I believe, six
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  Speaker 2: times and has lost all six times by bigger number,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 2: by larger margins every year. I know she's thrown her
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  Speaker 2: hand into the ring. There are a couple of guys
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  Speaker 2: from Middle Tennessee who have thrown their hand to the ring.
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  Speaker 2: And then State Senator Brent Taylor, who has really been
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  Speaker 2: leading the charge nationally on making Memphis safe. How do
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  Speaker 2: you see that playing out there in the ninth Congressional District.
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  Speaker 16: Well, I know that Charlie's got a following there in
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  Speaker 16: Shelby County and she's trying to expand that base. Obviously,
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  Speaker 16: I think she's going to have a hard time getting
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  Speaker 16: outside of Shelby County moving east in this new district.
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  Speaker 16: As you mentioned, Senator Taylor has made national headlines and
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  Speaker 16: have been very active in trying to make sure that
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  Speaker 16: President Trump and the state legislature is actively involved in
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  Speaker 16: Shelby County, but I think represented Todd Warner on the
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  Speaker 16: east end of this district in Marshall County. He represents
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  Speaker 16: part of Williamson County currently as well, So I think
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  Speaker 16: this is probably going to be a primary race between
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  Speaker 16: those two. Senator Taylor represented Warner to see who can
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  Speaker 16: get these counties in the middle between those two ends
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  Speaker 16: of that long district.
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  Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, Well, no doubt a lot of
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: folks are going to be paying attention to this, and
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: it's good to see Tennessee in the national spotlight. And
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: certainly appreciate the great work you guys did there at
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: the State House and redistricting. And I'm needed to be
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  Speaker 2: done and you guys got the job done. State Representative,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining us today.
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  Speaker 9: My pleasure. Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you have it, everybody. I made the
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: little faux pa there. I forgot that he had already
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: run for Congress. But he's a good guy, Jody Barrett,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 2: and we certainly appreciate him coming on the program. Dylan,
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  Speaker 2: I have a Steve Cohen story to share with you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's the guy. It just really greasy kind
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: of kind of a guy, and he's a leftist and
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 2: hates hates me, and so anyway, he was crying over
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: the weekend. And that's why it reminded me of the story,
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: because you hate to see a grown man weep on
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  Speaker 2: national TV. Nobody wants to see that they don't love
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: me anymore. You feel bad, and then I remember the story.
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  Speaker 2: So there is this guy and or Steve Cohen, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm a member of the Tennessee Association of Broadcasters and
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: I'm on the board of directors, and so anyway, the
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: TAB as a lobby and group, and so they went
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: up to Capitol Hill, a group of them, including the
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: executive director of the TAB, who called me and relayed
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: this story. And they put together this beautiful, beautiful, full
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: color brochure of all the things that Tennessee broadcasters had
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: been doing, and that particular here the radio station I
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: own KWAM and Memphis had been doing a lot of
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: work in the community and a lot of volunteer work.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: And that was the whole point of it, is to
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: show these lawmakers. And they visited every single one of
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: the congressional delegation and made this presentation and said, hey,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: this is why radio is so important, and this is
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: why TV is so vitally important so that they had
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: wonderful meetings. They get to Steve Cohen's office and he's
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: sitting down with him and I only may have had
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: a bucket a KFC here by, I'm not sure. I
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: can't verify that. But they gave him the brochure. The
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 2: meeting was going well until he stopped on the Todd
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 2: Sterns kwaan page and the beautiful full color bro Sure,
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  Speaker 2: what whatith Somebody tell me?
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 9: Who?
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  Speaker 2: Why is this man's face in here? This Todd Starns
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: And they're like, well, yeah, he's, you know, one of
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: our board members. And they tried to relay all of
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: this to him. I hate that man, I hate him.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: And the guy took the took the beautiful full color
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 2: brochure and these are very these are professional broadcasters. I
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: hate that. Get that and get that cramp out of
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: my office right now. Get it out of my office.
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: And he took it and he ripped it into shreds.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: Guess wow, it's hard to speak like that on the voice.
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  Speaker 2: He kicked him out of the office.
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  Speaker 11: Wow. All for Todd Starrs, all for me.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: I felt so bad for those guys. I hate that
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: man that Todd starts, he gets my gizzards going.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 11: Well, it would be worse if you liked you.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not gonna happen. So anyway, that's my Steve Coles.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: They literally ripped up this this package of goodwill.
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  Speaker 17: I that man.
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: Anyway, he's gone gotta take a break here nine O
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  Speaker 2: one two six zero five nine. This is the Todd
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: Stern Show. All right, welcome back everybody. This is the
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: Tod Stearns Radio Show. Dylan's You ever got a prom?
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 2: High school prom?
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  Speaker 11: I did go to prompt, Todd, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You did take me through that experience.
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  Speaker 11: What you had?
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: You had a date?
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  Speaker 11: I had a date. Yes, we had a tuxedo.
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  Speaker 18: She was a she.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 11: She was a she. She had a dress. I had
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 11: a tuxedo.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 11: We took pictures at a local park and then awkwardly
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 11: danced the night away.
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  Speaker 2: Awkwardly danced the night away.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, it's in high school. I was a Baptist. Still
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  Speaker 11: am kind of no rhythm, didn't know how to dance. Still,
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  Speaker 11: don't you know?
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  Speaker 2: I heard the only people who have less rhythm than
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: the Baptist or the Church of Christ crowd.
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  Speaker 11: Oh yeah, that might be true.
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  Speaker 2: Had the studio. I can't that was that was for him.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: He's giving me angry looks or the Presbyterians. Uh So, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: did you do like I mean, did you have like
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: a car? You know a lot of guys they rent
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  Speaker 2: the back in the eighties. That was like the big
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  Speaker 2: thing was renting a Limo.
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  Speaker 11: Uh No, I drove a two thousand and one Ford
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  Speaker 11: Ranger to prom Oh you did, Yeah, I was. I
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  Speaker 11: was my own chauffeur.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, that's a sweet ride. Though.
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  Speaker 11: It was sweet, you know, the steering wheel had a
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  Speaker 11: little problems, but you know it was my own.
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  Speaker 2: What about food?
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  Speaker 11: Food, I don't even remember. I don't think I had
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  Speaker 11: any food. Nothing, nothing special.
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  Speaker 2: Really, So like you didn't take her out to eat,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: like at waffle house.
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  Speaker 11: Or something afterwards? Oh did we go somewhere? I think
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  Speaker 11: we may have gone somewhere. I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Is that like a thing, because back when I was
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: in school, it was like the guys had to First
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: of all, you had to have a corsage. You had
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: to buy a corsage. Yes, you had to make sure
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  Speaker 2: you had your tucks matched, right, the cumbermund and the
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: boat I had to match.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: At whatever the girl was wearing, and usually the moms
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: took care of all of that stuff. And but you
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  Speaker 2: also had to make sure you had reservations at a
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  Speaker 2: nice place to eat before the prom.
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  Speaker 11: I think we went to Olive Garden now that I'm remembering,
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 11: we went to Olive Garden.
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  Speaker 2: You can't go wrong with this, yeah, because you can
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: like do the you what's the what's the Disney movie
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  Speaker 2: where the dogs are making out over the.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, that perfect opportunity to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah. I don't think we did that though.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: Or you can allow your breadsticks to touch, you know,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: like a say, now all right, aymaw, that's a big
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 2: a meat them, all of them. So anyway, all that
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: to say so it was a nice you. I mean,
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: how much do you remember how much you probably spent
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: money wise on prom?
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  Speaker 11: Probably the most was on the tucks, so maybe like
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 11: one hundred and fifty to two hundred bucks, so.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: A couple hundred bucks, under five hundred bucks definitely. So
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: when we come back, we got to talk about what's
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  Speaker 2: happening with these these kids and prom? And there's a
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  Speaker 2: crazy story where a city worker actually used city funds
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: to rent a helicopter for the daughter's prom night experience.
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  Speaker 11: What kind of problem is this? I would have loved
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  Speaker 11: a helicopter.
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  Speaker 2: Look some of these and this is predominantly in the
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: in the black community. They may be doing it in
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: the white community, but predominantly in the black community, because
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: they're posting all these pictures about these high end prom
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: experiences where they're literally throwing money in the air. They
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: had these allow celebrate. I mean, it's like thousands of
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: dollars that people are spending on prom. Well, what do
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: you remember your prom, ladies and gentlemen. I mean maybe
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: we spent a couple of hundred bucks tops and we
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: had a great time. All right, nine oh one two
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  Speaker 2: six euro five nine two six. That story coming up next.
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  Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Sterns
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  Speaker 2: Radio Show. So this is a headline from Thehill dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Helicopter prom stunt causes a st in the Chicago suburbs.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen to the report in.
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  Speaker 17: City leaders insisting that the park director crossed the line
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 17: for a photo op for her daughter. A photoshoop. At
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 17: least the deposit we now know was chards with a
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 17: credit card that taxpayers pay for less than a week
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 17: after this helicopter landed at the Markham Park, catching many
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 17: by surprise. This prom stunt for the park director's daughter
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 17: is now political. Here's what Queen Tina Brown told officers.
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  Speaker 16: I got it okay to the park.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I didn't you know what's.
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  Speaker 17: Going on with the seat Yet city leaders never authorized
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 17: the landing in the public park where children were playing.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 10: Did they say you can as a learning commissioner, I
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 10: can bring it over.
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  Speaker 17: The pilot had a notice signed by the park director herself.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 17: The company later handed over this invoice to the city attorney.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 17: The receipts raises much bigger questions. The bill was for
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 17: a minimum of eight hundred dollars for an hour. At
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 17: the bottom there's a credit card number linked to Brown.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 17: She named Markham Parks as the company and even used
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 17: the address of the fieldhouse and provided her signature on
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 17: the taxpayer funded credit card.
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  Speaker 18: The plot seconds as they say.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 17: The city attorney says, there's no way Brown accidentally entered
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 17: all that information. In fact, he spoke to the helicopter company.
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  Speaker 18: They told me that the deposit was charged to the
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 18: card and they have not been successful in getting the
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 18: remaining eight hundred dollars off the card for.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 17: Whatever reason, using the park district credit card either to
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 17: pay or hold the reservation is why Markham's mayor says
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 17: residents should be concerned.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 11: Why wouldn't somebody question that?
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 17: In fact, the city started questioning spending at the park
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 17: district and its board in the fall of twenty twenty five.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 17: CBA Chicago reported when Brown was first called on bodycam
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 17: getting served with it injunction. Leaders alleged Brown and the
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 17: park board were not paying bills and left most parks
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 17: with broken equipment and deplorable conditions.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 11: They've been landed helicopters in different ways over there.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 17: And remember that invoice, there's a line which says every
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 17: additional six minutes over the hour would be eighty dollars.
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 17: We're told police grounded that chopper for at least three hours.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 17: Now the big question who will pay for the extra minutes,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 17: not to mention the original eight hundred dollars. Keep in
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 17: mind that contract is under the net of the Markham
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 17: Park District.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: Holy cow, your tax dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: talk about helicopter parenting. My goodness, So again, all of
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: this was, all of this was done for a child's
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: prom experience. And I'm wondering if this is something that
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 2: is just is this a fad? Has this been going
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: on for a while, Is this like the latest craze?
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: Because again, back when we were in school, back in
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 2: the eighties, I mean, if you would normally get a
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: bunch of guys together, you would rent like a limo,
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: and then you know that would be that and parents
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: would always be hamping a spring for something like that
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: because it meant the kids weren't, you know, driving, because
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: we all know what happens around the punch bowl at
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 2: prom night. Oh don't look at me like that, Dylan.
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 11: Oh, I know what's going on.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: Baptist kids are the worst.
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 3: Not me.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 11: I was drinking water, of course you were.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: It was tropical punch. Just don't lie to match anywhere
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: near me. According to the Hill dot Com, the mother
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: behind all this is the chief of the Markham Park
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: District and she arranged for the helicopter to land. The
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 2: funny thing is most of the people in this town
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: they don't think there's anything wrong with this. Well, Maria
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: Brown was able to get some pictures with the flyover
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 2: that her mother, Quintina Brown, had arranged never happened. Quentina
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: acknowledged the stunt maybe excessive to some, She told WGN
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: that that was the intent. Brown revealed she wanted to
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: create a long lasting experience, albeit with an eight hundred
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 2: dollars price tag. Are you okay, but is that really
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: what you want to spend your money on? I mean,
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 2: is that at the end of the day, you're telling
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 2: me that that's what you want your daughter to remember
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: about her high school experience, was that you rented an
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: eight hundred dollars an hour helicop. I don't know about
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: that anyway, The parks director says she doesn't understand what
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: all of the fuss is about. Well, the fuss is
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 2: you used the taxpayer credit card to get a helicopter
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 2: for your daughter's prom night. She says, I'm a little
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: sad and disappointed because I didn't know there was an
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 2: issue with the helicopter being out there. Really okay? The
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 2: Markham Park District Board commissioner Kenneth Muldrow agrees. So your
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 2: contention is there's nothing on the books that would have
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 2: prevented her from doing this, and he says that's definitely correct.
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 2: There's nothing on the books that makes us illegal. The
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: mayor says, hey, look, this is about safety, and he
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 2: said that he flies helicopters, but normally he's taking people
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: to the hospital, not prom That's a fair that's actually
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: a fair point. So anyway, there you go. I mean, look,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you've got money to spend into your
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 2: own money, I guess you don't knock yourself out. But
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm just curious because most of these these
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: just elaborate displays that we were seeing are in very
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: impoverished neighborhoods, and it just seems to me maybe I
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: don't know, maybe that money could be used on something else.
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 2: But look, I think we all remember what problem was
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: like and we didn't spend you know, boatloads of cash
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: on it. Either's just all about having a good time.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 9: You know what?
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 6: Is it?
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: The Footloose? This is a great movie, by the way,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: exactly you know what the bad guy in that movie was?
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 11: I don't remember. Is it the foot?
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: The foot?
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 11: When does foott footlooths happen in the movie?
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: Have you seen Footloose? Do you even know what the
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 2: movie is about? I think they dance, yes, they dance,
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 2: But why who's the bad guy in Footloos.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 11: I don't know the pastor.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: Oh no, Helen, don't tell him.
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 11: Is the Baptist preacher?
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: Is a Baptist preacher? Of course he was Beaumont, Texas.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 11: They hate us dancing, was it?
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah? You know, you know this would be a great
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: trivia question. Who played the pastor in the original Footloose?
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: Not that ridiculous, outrageous revamp they did. Who played the
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: past the original pastor in Footloose? That's a great question.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six zero five, nine two six.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 2: That's our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six
• 1:41:22
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• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: That's a great trivia question. Oh, we got to take
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: a break. We'll be right back, all right. Talking about
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 2: proms and whatnot led to a trivia question about Footloose
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 2: and let's go to Hughie in North Carolina. Huey, how
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 2: are you today? Do we have Huie? Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: Dana in Missouri. Dana, how are you today? I'm great, Dana,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 2: I'm doing well. Thank you for asking. By the way,
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 2: what part of Missouri? What part of Missouri do you
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: live in?
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 8: I live in Springfield and the Ozarks, not.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 2: Too far away from lovely Branson.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 8: No, not at all. We go down there now and then.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: Well wonderful. Uh, it's a look we love Branson. I
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 2: made the mistake one time of driving from Memphis to Branson,
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 2: and we'll never do that again. So I'll be flying
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: into Springfield the next time.
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 8: Yes, it's just a hop, skip and a jump down there.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: That's not too bad at all. All right, Dana, we're
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: going to try to win you a little prize here,
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: and you will be our first prize winner if you
• 1:42:42
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• 1:42:48
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• 1:42:50
  Speaker 2: So don't goof this up. Okay, all right? Can you
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 2: can you name the pastor the minister in the movie
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 2: the origin little movie Footloose?
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 8: Yes, John Luscow.
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh Dana, you didn't even have to you.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: This brings us back, doesn't.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 8: It It sure does? That's right in my heyday?
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: Wow, same here, of course, that was the nineteen eighty
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: four I was a junior in high school. Geez blue sophomore. Yeah, wow,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: that was like I'm telling you every guy was going
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: to the the the barbershop asking for a Kevin Bacon haircut. Yes,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 2: and of course when was that hold on, Danny, you'll
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: have to help me out here. Of course. Then there
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: were the girls who were going and getting Molly Ringwald
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 2: hair jews back with the uh was it sixteen candles
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 2: came out?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, that's right, pretty in pink all those she was
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 8: in a lot of those movies.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, those were like those were like the movies
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: of our growing.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 8: Up years most definitely.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 2: Yes. Wow. Well, congratulations, h Dana. You we're gonna we're
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 2: gonna send you It's gonna be a while, just about
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 2: a month. But my new book coming out, The Golden Age,
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 2: How Trump Saved America, And we want to send you
• 1:44:22
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  Speaker 8: Oh that's fantastic, thanks so much. Well, Ingle banner is
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 8: on my coffee table right now, is that right?
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 12: Yes?
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I love that. That was a fun book to
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 2: write with my good friend Michelle Cox, and we just
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: had a wonderful time. And I know you're gonna love
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 2: The Golden Age as well. So hang tight, Dana, and
• 1:44:41
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• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. Friday,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: Ken Paxton joined me on my NEWSMAC show. We had
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: a good conversation about the upcoming election, the runoff election
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 2: between him and John Cornyn, and I know this is
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 2: of interest to a lot of our Texas listeners. Let's
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 2: listen in and first I'd like to get your thoughts
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 2: on what the President just had to say about the
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: Democrat James tallerco calling him a weird dude. I kind
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 2: of think he's a dangerous dude. What say you?
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  Speaker 12: I totally agree with you, Todd.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 13: He is a deceptive guy presenting himself as a Christian
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 13: pastor and yet very calmly espousing very anti Christian views,
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 13: from his view on God being non binary to his
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 13: focus on Mary and abortion and all his positions seem
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 13: to be very anti Biblical. And yet you know, people
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 13: believe sometimes just as we saw Satan used the Bible
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 13: against Jesus in the Temptation of Christ, here we have
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 13: a guy expressing his views on the Bible that are
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 13: so seemingly anti Christian.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 2: I know the President still has not made an endorsement here,
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering how critical is that endorsement. We're just what
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 2: about a life seven days out from the runoff.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Look, I have a lot of respect to the president.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 13: I've been with him from the beginning. I endorsed him
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 13: with Troy nelsby the first two politicians to show up
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 13: at mar Lago when he announced. You know, I stood
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 13: with him at his trial as the first person to
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 13: show up at his trial. John Corny, on hand.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: Has not been so so kind of the president.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 13: Twenty sixteen, he did not support him, saying he was
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 13: now patrusts around our neck. And in twenty twenty four
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 13: he said said that President Trump's time had passed and
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 13: that we should go a new direction. That Trump may
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 13: be potentially legally liable for having committed crime. So you know,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 13: now that he's in a primary with me, he's changes
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 13: positions on almost every issue, including Donald Trump.
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 2: Look, there's no doubt about that. I mean, it's all
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 2: out there for people if they want to look at it.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: And by the way, there's a new ad out there
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 2: saying that Senator Cornyn has a special place in his
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 2: heart for radical Islam and even believes that we have
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 2: a moral obligation to support Muslim mass immigration. And I'm
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 2: wondering does the Senators be for the majority of Texans
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 2: on that issue.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 13: No, he absolutely did not. I've been fighting that issue.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 13: We've been fighting sharia law. We've sued Epic City in
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 13: my county. We shut down another development in Cofney County.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 13: We've defended the state against the Muslim Brotherhood. Are still
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 13: in that lawsuit. We've addressed school districts trying to have
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 13: Muslim only events. Look, Sharia law has no place in
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 13: this country. It cannot stand with our constitution. It's empathetical
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 13: to it. I am fine, the First Amendment should be honored.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 13: Everybody issues a little to worship as they please, but
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 13: having a separate set of laws. And John Corn has
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 13: been very supportive of this movement in the past. Of course,
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 13: right now he's not speaking much at all because I
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 13: think he is receiving a lot of support from that community.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting there was actually a sixteen year
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: old boy from Texas Wiley High School who was actually
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 2: testifying up on Capitol Hill, and I think that young
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: man actually had more boldness when it came to talking
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: about that very issue. Then the sitting senator from the
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: state of Texas right now, What does that tell you.
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  Speaker 13: I'm telling you that kid, I haven't met him, and
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  Speaker 13: I'm so impressed with him. I met him in person,
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  Speaker 13: so proud of him. He stood strong, he stood up
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  Speaker 13: to that congressman, and You're right, he's had more boldness
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  Speaker 13: and he has more conviction about that issue than John
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  Speaker 13: Corn ever has or ever will. John's going to play
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  Speaker 13: the game right now and keep his mouth shut, not
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  Speaker 13: talk about it, but we know where his heart lies,
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  Speaker 13: and that boy, I'd love to see him take John
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  Speaker 13: Corn on on that very issue because we know who
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  Speaker 13: would win that debate.
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  Speaker 9: And it would be that sixteen year old boy.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's interesting, mister Attorney General, The Save America
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  Speaker 2: Act is not going anywhere in the Senate. I think
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  Speaker 2: we all sort of knew that. The frustration I have
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  Speaker 2: is with the sitting senators, the Republican senators, who are
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  Speaker 2: not doing anything, and they could do something. And I'm wondering,
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  Speaker 2: if you are elected based on what John Thune has
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  Speaker 2: already done to stop the President's agenda, would he get
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  Speaker 2: your vote to be majority leader.
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  Speaker 13: So look, the Save America Act, The President said in
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  Speaker 13: the stated, I was there, I heard a most important
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  Speaker 13: bill in front of our Congress, because it's necessary for
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  Speaker 13: the mid terms, it's necessary for our future. We have
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  Speaker 13: all these democratic states that a jurymandered, that have not
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  Speaker 13: just Jerry made, but they've rigged their elections with mail
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  Speaker 13: and ballot fraud, having non citizens vote, no photo ID.
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  Speaker 13: These are very essential things to fair elections, and I
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  Speaker 13: don't know how it's possible. And I even said it
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  Speaker 13: right after the runoff. I said I'd consider dropping out
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  Speaker 13: if John corn after forty two years, actually accomplished one
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  Speaker 13: good thing which he hasn't done in forty two years,
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  Speaker 13: and that one good thing was get to save America past.
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  Speaker 13: And guess what something that fundamental that we have the
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  Speaker 13: votes to get with fifty three Republicans, they went on
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  Speaker 13: vacation for two weeks instead of passing it, came back
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  Speaker 13: for a week, and I think then they took another break.
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  Speaker 13: So it's very frustrating to me. And this is exactly
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  Speaker 13: what I'm trying to highlight as I run against John Cornyn.
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  Speaker 13: It's time to deliver results for Texas and for the country,
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  Speaker 13: and John Cornyn hasn't done it, and so it's time
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  Speaker 13: to change out. It's time to put in a picture
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  Speaker 13: who will actually throw a fastball?
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  Speaker 2: All right? That was a bit of our conversation with
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  Speaker 2: the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. This is going to
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  Speaker 2: be a major race to watch.
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  Speaker 16: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting President Trump has yet to endorse anyone in
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  Speaker 2: this race. And there's a lot of speculation as to why.
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  Speaker 2: I say, let the guys, let the guys do get out.
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  Speaker 2: There's really no reason why the President needs to jump in.
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  Speaker 2: But let's see how all this plays out. I'm curious though,
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  Speaker 2: for Texas voters if President Trump comes in at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day and says, all right, John Cornyn
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  Speaker 2: is who I'm endorsing, Who do you vote for at
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  Speaker 2: that point? And I suspect the people of Texas are
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 2: going to rise up and vote for Ken Paxton. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I think is going to happen. But regardless, this
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  Speaker 2: has been a really, really expensive runoff. It's been incredibly nasty,
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  Speaker 2: and for what It's very clear that the Texas voters
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 2: are done with John Cornyn, and they're simply done with
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  Speaker 2: all of these Republicans that campaign as conservative, but then
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  Speaker 2: they behave just like Democrats when they get up on
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  Speaker 2: Capitol Hill and the voters are saying, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: enough is enough. We're just not We're not going to
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 2: go down this path anymore. So anyway, curious to hear
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 2: thoughts on that and will We're gonna be paying very
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 2: close attention. Of course, tomorrow primary day in Georgia and Kentucky.
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: We're going to keep close tabs on all of that race,
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 2: on both of those races. Rather tomorrow on the show
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  Speaker 2: following tomorrow, the end of the war in Iran? When
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 2: is that going to happen? President Trump now alluding to
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 2: the fact that most wars take years to conclude. That
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  Speaker 2: is not going to be acceptable. It's just not going
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 2: to be a sentible to the America first base. That's
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 2: just mag is not going to be happy with that.
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  Speaker 2: But we're gonna we'll check in and see how things
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  Speaker 2: are going there and whether or not we're gonna be
• 1:52:08
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