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American Media Accuse Trump of War Crimes · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Well, live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: It's America's favorite gun toting, bible clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, That's American. Todd starts well.
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  Speaker 3: And hello, everybody, Welcome to the Todd searns Or Radio Show.
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  Speaker 3: We are broadcasting border to Borders to cost across the
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  Speaker 3: fruited plane, and we have a We've got a lot
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  Speaker 3: of ground to cover today everybody. By the way, President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is expected to hold a news conference about midway
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  Speaker 3: through our show, and we are going to take that
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  Speaker 3: news conference live. When it happens, we'll have to dip
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  Speaker 3: in and out of it because we have to take
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  Speaker 3: our mandatory commercial breaks to pay our bills. But we
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  Speaker 3: will be monitoring everything the President has to say. The President,
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  Speaker 3: of course coming out and doing a blow by blow
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  Speaker 3: of what happened over the weekend in this truly historic
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  Speaker 3: moment when American forces went deep into Iran to retrieve
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  Speaker 3: the colonel, the Air Force colonel who was shot down
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  Speaker 3: over over Iran, and we don't know the guy's name
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  Speaker 3: just yet. They're not releasing all that information. They'll they will,
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  Speaker 3: they'll they'll get around to releasing all of that, all
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  Speaker 3: of that intel, but let me just say that this
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  Speaker 3: was truly a unique moment in American history. I hope
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  Speaker 3: as you were listening to all of the reports coming
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  Speaker 3: out over the weekend, that you felt this burst of
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  Speaker 3: pride in being an American citizen knowing that in the
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  Speaker 3: United States of America, the greatest fighting force on the planet,
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  Speaker 3: the US military, our armed forces, no man is left behind.
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  Speaker 3: And it's the idea of leaving the ninety nine to
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  Speaker 3: retrieve the one, that's what happened in Iran. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that a lot of people understand that. I
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  Speaker 3: don't think that a lot of liberals understand that, because
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  Speaker 3: in its essence, that is really what it means to
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  Speaker 3: be pro life, is that every life matters. And in
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  Speaker 3: this case, you had hundreds of men and women that
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  Speaker 3: were willing to put their lives on the line to
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  Speaker 3: go into the line of fire, to go behind enemy lines,
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  Speaker 3: to retrieve this wounded warrior. And I have no doubt, folks,
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  Speaker 3: this is going to become a major motion picture. I
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  Speaker 3: have no doubt about that. I mean, you can't imagine,
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  Speaker 3: you just can't imagine a storyline like this. He was
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  Speaker 3: shot down on Good Friday. He was read skewed on
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  Speaker 3: Easter Sunday, and as he was being shot down, by
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  Speaker 3: the way, this gentleman, this Air Force colonel, who happens
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  Speaker 3: to be a man of faith, said God is good.
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  Speaker 3: So truly just a beautiful moment in American history and
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  Speaker 3: something that we ought to be celebrating. There are liberals
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  Speaker 3: out there. This is just mind blowing to me. Liberals
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  Speaker 3: are out there saying, well, how much did it cost
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  Speaker 3: us that fuel? That that that that airplane fuel. It's
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  Speaker 3: not free, you know. And many there are many in
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  Speaker 3: the in the left wing media that are now questioning
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  Speaker 3: President Trump and whether or not we should have even
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  Speaker 3: gone in. And those people hate America, and and that's
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  Speaker 3: all there is to it. And there are people and
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  Speaker 3: I think when you know, the longer this war goes on,
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  Speaker 3: the more you were going to see people for who
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  Speaker 3: they really are.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Look, President Trump has given a deadline, and that deadline
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  Speaker 3: is tomorrow Tuesday, at eight o'clock tomorrow night. And the
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  Speaker 3: President said, the straits of Hormuz are going to have
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  Speaker 3: to be open, and if they're not, well, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to start targeting your infrastructure. We're going after the power plants.
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  Speaker 3: We're going after the bridges, and now everybody is accusing
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  Speaker 3: the president of committing war crimes, which is simply not true.
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  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, during war, you are allowed
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  Speaker 3: to knock out things like power plants, and also, believe
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  Speaker 3: it or not, ladies and gentlemen, you can even knock
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  Speaker 3: out the bridges because those bridges are being used by
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  Speaker 3: the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to move around troops. So Trump
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  Speaker 3: is well within his rights to do what needs to
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  Speaker 3: be done to bring this war to a close. Now,
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  Speaker 3: there are a lot of folks out there who are
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  Speaker 3: wondering exactly what are we doing over there. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to get to We're going to hopefully get answers to
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  Speaker 3: that at one o'clock Eastern when the President comes out
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  Speaker 3: when he addresses of the American people. Right now, he's
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  Speaker 3: on the lawn of the White House, hanging out with
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  Speaker 3: little boys and girls with the annual White House Easter
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  Speaker 3: egg roll. The President also taking questions from reporters while
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  Speaker 3: he was there. I don't know why he does this.
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  Speaker 3: It just I know it frustrates the president, and I
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  Speaker 3: get that cut number eight plays.
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  Speaker 4: You can't care any.
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  Speaker 3: Money people in your boss who you is.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, well that's a radical left group of lunatics that
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  Speaker 5: you in. Let me just tell you, Let me just
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  Speaker 5: tell you, very fair question.
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  Speaker 6: The Iranian people, when they don't hear bombs go up,
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  Speaker 6: they're upset. They want to hear bombs because they want
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  Speaker 6: to be free. And the only reason they're not out protesting,
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  Speaker 6: you know that, is because they were informed that if
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  Speaker 6: they protest, like the wrestler and his friends, if they protest, they.
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  Speaker 2: Will be shot immediately. And that's an edict that's in writing.
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  Speaker 5: If they protest, if they go out of this, they
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  Speaker 5: will be immediately shot.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have guns, you know.
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  Speaker 5: We said some guns, but the group that was supposed
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  Speaker 5: to give which I said, what.
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  Speaker 2: Happened to my people? I said it. I called it exactly.
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  Speaker 7: We sent guns, lot of guns they were supposed to
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  Speaker 7: go to.
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  Speaker 2: The people said they could fight back against these ducks.
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  Speaker 8: You know what happened.
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  Speaker 5: The people that they sent them to kept him because
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  Speaker 5: they said, what a beautiful gun.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'll keep it.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm very upset with a certain group of people,
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  Speaker 5: and they're going to pay a big price for that.
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  Speaker 3: All right. I know that the band was slightly distracted.
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  Speaker 3: They were dropping some beats there down at the White House.
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  Speaker 3: I like the music, but the president, first of all,
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  Speaker 3: who let PBS in? I thought they were bankrupt? Right,
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  Speaker 3: So the PBS reporter, how are you helping the Iranian
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  Speaker 3: people when you're bombing them?
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  Speaker 4: All?
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  Speaker 9: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Are you kidding? The Iranian people are literally in the
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  Speaker 3: streets cheering every time a bomb is dropped because they look,
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  Speaker 3: they've borne the brunt of all of this, and they
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  Speaker 3: know they know exactly what's going on, and we'll gets tough.
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  Speaker 3: Trump is right, and I was that reporting came out
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend that we had apparently given the Kurds
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  Speaker 3: all of these weapons, and the Kurds were supposed to
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  Speaker 3: turn the weapons over to the Iranian people and that
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  Speaker 3: didn't happen. And Trump said, I tried to tell everybody,
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  Speaker 3: but that's that's water under the bridge at this point.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, we're look, this is it's it's it's difficult
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  Speaker 3: for a lot of folks to understand this. And I
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  Speaker 3: want to do my best during the show today to
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  Speaker 3: to help us all understand what's going on here because
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  Speaker 3: a lot of folks believe that Trump has betrayed the
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  Speaker 3: Marjorie Taylor Green is out there and she's accusing Trump
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  Speaker 3: of being mentally ill. She's Marjorie Taylor Green saying President
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  Speaker 3: Trump is insane. Candice Owens says that the administration is
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  Speaker 3: now demonic, satanic. But in reality, ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 3: what's happening. Trump has not started a new war. Trump
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  Speaker 3: has lived up to his campaign promise. He has not
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  Speaker 3: started a war. He's finishing one that should have been finished.
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  Speaker 3: Back in nineteen seventy nine. Seven US presidents had the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to put a stop to all of this, but
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  Speaker 3: they did not have the manhood. They did not They
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  Speaker 3: did not have the courage, the fortitude to do what
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  Speaker 3: needed to be done. I mean, it really is that simple.
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  Speaker 3: And Donald Trump said, you know what, enough is enough.
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  Speaker 3: Now keep in mind, and I know this is hard
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  Speaker 3: for all you folks out there in social media world
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  Speaker 3: to comprehend, but Donald Trump actually has better intel than
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  Speaker 3: you do. And whatever intel he got, whatever intel he got,
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  Speaker 3: was serious enough that he said, we've got to put
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  Speaker 3: a stop to this once and for all. Now, if
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  Speaker 3: I have a beef, I think the president should have
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  Speaker 3: gone shock and all from day one. No need for
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  Speaker 3: this to drag on. You know, the White House initially
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  Speaker 3: said it's going to be a four to five week war.
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  Speaker 3: Well we're about to We're entering week six now and
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  Speaker 3: there's no end in sight. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: the Iranians told Trump to go pound sand. So we'll
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  Speaker 3: see what happens tomorrow night when the deadline expires. But
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  Speaker 3: right now, ladies and gentlemen, you need to understand that
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  Speaker 3: the president needs our banking here. The question is do
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  Speaker 3: you think the President is doing the right thing here?
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  Speaker 3: Many of you, I know have sincere disagreements about all
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  Speaker 3: of this, but let me just say this as we
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  Speaker 3: go to break, Regardless of what you think about this
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  Speaker 3: White House, what happened over the weekend is a source
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  Speaker 3: of pride for every American citizen. I mean, it ought
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  Speaker 3: to be. And the reason and the reason why people
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  Speaker 3: are angry is they hate America. All these democrats out there,
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  Speaker 3: they hate America. They hate our military, and there are
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people in our media right now and
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  Speaker 3: they want us to lose. They want American troops to
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  Speaker 3: die in Iran. They want us to lose this war.
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  Speaker 3: Their hatred of Donald Trump surpasses their love for this country,
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  Speaker 3: and that's why you literally have Democrats people in Hollywood
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  Speaker 3: and the legacy media and they're actually rooting for the Iranians.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't want you to think about that right now.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to think about the message that ascending
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  Speaker 3: to all those sixteen, seventeen, eighteen year old boys that're
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  Speaker 3: watching what happened this band of brotherhood that we saw
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  Speaker 3: unfold over the weekend. And I'm telling you something, I
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  Speaker 3: do not be surprised if every single military recruiting station
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  Speaker 3: around this country is buzzing with activity today as these
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  Speaker 3: young men, these young in sign up to be a
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  Speaker 3: part of the greatest fighting force in the world. For me,
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  Speaker 3: that's the big story here, and it also sends a
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  Speaker 3: message to the world, don't mess with us, because we
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  Speaker 3: will fight back and we will fight back hard. All right,
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  Speaker 3: to our phone lines nine one two six zero five
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  Speaker 3: nine two six Gary and Daytona Beach, Florida, WOCA are
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  Speaker 3: great affiliate there, I Gary, what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 9: On my mind is how thankful the operation of rescuing
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  Speaker 9: the service member went so well. But it was the
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  Speaker 9: forty eight hours of listening to about ninety percent of
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  Speaker 9: the networks. I won't say route, but they were running
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  Speaker 9: so many scenarios on how and what would happen to
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  Speaker 9: this service member when he's captured, and how it would
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  Speaker 9: turn the epictery around, and how Trump has bungled it.
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  Speaker 9: And I can only think about the family members if
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  Speaker 9: you happen to even be on the network where they've
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  Speaker 9: got somebody from a war think tank or a Trump
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  Speaker 9: hating former member of the military who was going who
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  Speaker 9: is well, now break and now you know the the
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  Speaker 9: Iranian forces will you know have surrounded that area. I
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  Speaker 9: mean it was constant not on how we will be
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  Speaker 9: rescued and how much uh uh prayers and how much
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  Speaker 9: military force to rescue them. It was all about what
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  Speaker 9: what might they do to him when they capture them
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  Speaker 9: and how will they use them? And it was it
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  Speaker 9: was bizarre on how much hate there is out there.
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  Speaker 3: There is the hatred of Trump is it's the sickness
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  Speaker 3: and is a disease. And we've got to figure this
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  Speaker 3: is going to be studied and analyzed. I have no
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  Speaker 3: doubt for for years to come. But we've got some
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  Speaker 3: sick people in this country, Gary, and the reality is
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  Speaker 3: there are there are some in our media, some in
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  Speaker 3: the Democrat Party. I think only five or six Democrats
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  Speaker 3: actually put out messages celebrating the fact that we had
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  Speaker 3: been able to rescue this this down pilot. That tells
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  Speaker 3: you everything you need to know about these about these Democrats, Gary,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for the call this morning. Nine oh one
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  Speaker 3: two six zero five nine two six. That's nine oh
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  Speaker 3: one two six zero nine two six, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: real quick. And I want to make sure we get
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  Speaker 3: to this because this really there was something that really
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  Speaker 3: bothered me over over the weekend, and it was happening
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  Speaker 3: among the social media influencer crowd. And I'm not even
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  Speaker 3: I'm not talking about the the Candice Owens and all
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  Speaker 3: those folks, I'm talking about others. And what you need
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  Speaker 3: to understand is that a lot of these people on
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  Speaker 3: social media, they make their money based on clicks, so
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  Speaker 3: they post all of this outrageous, outrageous stuff and it's
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  Speaker 3: it's really shocking a lot of them, which is why
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  Speaker 3: we have to tell our crew if there's something on Twitter,
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  Speaker 3: make sure that we get a second or third source
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  Speaker 3: just to verify the information. So anyway, there's searching over
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  Speaker 3: the weekend, and I don't know if you guys caught
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  Speaker 3: ont of this, but they're searching for the airmen. And
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  Speaker 3: then all of a sudden you had these so called
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  Speaker 3: conservative social media influencers and they were posting all of
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  Speaker 3: this this intel, and it was amazing that all of
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  Speaker 3: these maga social media folks were using exclusive sources, sharing
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  Speaker 3: vital information on the search for the missing crew member.
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  Speaker 3: And it got so bad that at one point there
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  Speaker 3: were a couple of folks that were actually saying, well,
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  Speaker 3: they're looking for the missing airmen in this particular spot,
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  Speaker 3: and that's where we think this person is. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it was really amazing to me that these maga influencers
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  Speaker 3: are sharing detail and they were they were sharing details
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  Speaker 3: not even the White House or the Pentagon was revealing.
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  Speaker 3: And that was the clue for me. When the White
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  Speaker 3: House shuts up, when Trump shuts up, when the Pentagon
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  Speaker 3: shuts up, that tells me that we ought to shut
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  Speaker 3: up because something is about to go down. And of
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  Speaker 3: course it did. But in essence, I'm not even sure
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  Speaker 3: that this even factored into what these folks were doing.
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  Speaker 3: But they were basically providing information that could have aided
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  Speaker 3: and abedded the enemy during a time of war. And
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  Speaker 3: for what for clicks, for cash, for notoriety. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's absolutely disgusting. A an American, some guy right now,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why this popped up on my feed.
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  Speaker 3: Some guy in Florida. He's done something like twenty thousand
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  Speaker 3: followers or he goes he's disgusted. I'm just enraged all
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  Speaker 3: of you people. I was the first one to announce
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  Speaker 3: to the world that the airmen had been had been found. Really,
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  Speaker 3: mister Florida man, you over there right now, were you
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  Speaker 3: in one of the rescue planes? If not, sir, shut up.
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  Speaker 3: But honestly, we need to get a handle of this.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean, I would just take all these if
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  Speaker 3: all of these folks these mega people. If they really
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  Speaker 3: were getting intel, they were getting it from leaks from
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  Speaker 3: within the Pentagon. So here's what Congress all do. I
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  Speaker 3: think Congress all of just subpoena all of the social
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  Speaker 3: media influencers and forced them to reveal who the traders were,
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  Speaker 3: Who were those people inside the Pentagon that were leaking
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  Speaker 3: information to you? But here's what I think is really
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  Speaker 3: going on. I don't think a single person in the
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  Speaker 3: Pentagon released any information. I don't think they leaked any information.
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  Speaker 3: I think a lot of these social media influencers are
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  Speaker 3: just making things up. That's what I think was going on.
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  Speaker 3: And we should be counting our blessings that all of
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  Speaker 3: that information that they were sharing did not wind up
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  Speaker 3: getting a wounded warrior killed. But just beyond me that
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  Speaker 3: people are doing stuff like this, And I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 3: I unfollowed a lot of these folks over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: They've lost credibility, but more importantly, they're Unamerican, Unamerican. All right,
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  Speaker 3: gotta take a break here, folks. Nine oh one two
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  Speaker 3: two six. Hang tight, This is the Todd Starns Show.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back everybody. This is the Tod Stearns
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  Speaker 3: Radio Show. So look over the weekend. President Trump was
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  Speaker 3: pretty active there on the social media platform. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he does a lot of stuff over on truth Social
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  Speaker 3: and we have a nice little following over there. Most
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  Speaker 3: of our folks are on Facebook or Instagram many of
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  Speaker 3: the other platforms. But anyway, President Trump is he loves
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  Speaker 3: to post stuff over there, and he does it at
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  Speaker 3: all hours, so that I don't know how he doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Anyway, this is what he wrote, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious to hear your thoughts about this because there
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: are a lot of good church going folks and they're
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: just they're just really disappointed to the president. So anyway,
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: here's what Trump wrote. Tuesday will be power plant Day
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: and bridge Day, all ramped up in one in Iran.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: There will be nothing like it. Open the blanking straight,
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell. Just
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: watch Praise be to Allah, President Donald J. Trump. So,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: so there's a lot to there's a lot to. By
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: the way, he he dropped the g So are you
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: does that make it like less offensive when you drop
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: the g there, Dylan. I'm it's I mean, it's less formal,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: less sure, it's a little slang dropping some street slang.
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it is street talk. That's that's what it is.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: First of all, And and there are like never Trump
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Christians out there. How dare he? How dare he prays
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Allah on Easter Sunday? Okay, well, first of all, breathe.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Second of all, I don't think that's what's going on here.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: The President has not converted. The President was mocking a Llah.
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: That's that's what that's all about, which, by the way,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: does open us up to a holy war. But that's
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: a conversation for another day. So what's going on here?
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Why the language? People are very upset, very upset over
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: the use of the language, and they said President Trump
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: should only be dropping bombs, not f bombs. So look,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: is it language? And I would use no. And I'm
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: just wondering if any of you you don't have a
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: problem with what President Trump said, I'd like to hear
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: from you. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: two six. Again that's nine oh one two six zero
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: five nine two six. But I want to try to
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: put this in some context. So years ago, I watched
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: the movie Paton, and I don't know if any of
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: you have seen that movie, but really they they pretty
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: much lifted a lot of the dialogue from George General
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: George S. Patton Junior's speeches. And there there's something else
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: going on. It's not that Trump was just, you know,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: just randomly cursing on social media. There was there was
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: something much bigger going on here. So Paton talked about
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: all of this. There is an organization called the Modern
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: War Institute, and they said George Patten actually was a
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: very nice guy, but he used foul language, especially during
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: times of war. And they say he liked to give
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: his He liked to give it to the troops double dirty.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: He said, you can't run an army without profanity. And
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: here's the thing. He General Patton said it had to
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity could not. This
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: is a great this is a great line. This is
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: a direct quote. An army without profanity could not fight
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: its way out of a piss soaked paper bag. Oh
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: that is eloquent, isn't it. It gives very descriptive probably
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: his best known speech, which he delivered with small variations
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: on numerous occasions was faced with explicatives. The speech became
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: part of American culture. You in great part to George C.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Scott's Oscar winning performance of General Patten in the nineteen
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: seventy movie Patten. Dylan, Have you ever seen Patten?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Not?
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: One of the great films of all time? And it
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: opens up where he's giving a speech as Patten, and
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: he's dressed in military attire, and he is giving this
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: speech behind a massive American flag. The imagery is just remarkable.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: So anyway, the speech, as Patten's officers used to call it,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: was full of blood and guts, as well as plenty
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: of cursing for effect. They say Patten was much of
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: an actor, as he was a fine general, and he
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: purposely cultivated what he called his warface. He was aware
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: that his men were watching him constantly, and he strived
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: to lead by his words as much as he did
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: by his actions. Some officers found his use of obscenities
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: in the speech disappointing, viewing it as unprofessional. Patten's one
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: time subordinate and later superior General Omar Bradley, was critical
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: of his use of vulgar words and phrases. The question
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: of whether swearing to a powerful rhetorical device or a
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: character blemish might seem trivial, but the art of leadership
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: is not. And Patton was an extraordinarily gifted combat leader,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: and he had the ability to motivate soldiers under his
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: command to close with and kill the enemy in a
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: prodigious manner. And that's what I think Trump was doing here.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: That message, first of all, was for the Iranians, but
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: number two, I think it was also for our troops
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: in the theater of conflict, and they need to know
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: that their president stands with them. But the president also
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: speaks their language. And I'm just going to tell you,
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: and I know this may come as a shock, but
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: you know, if you're in the middle of a war
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: and here we don't have soldiers boots on the ground
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: just yet, but when you've got you've got airmen and
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: they're being shot at and in some cases shot down,
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: you may say things that normally you would not say
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: at a Sunday church social I'm just gonna I know
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: that's a stretch here, but it's true. So all that
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: to say, maybe just maybe President Trump was invoking his
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: enter George Patten here. Maybe that's what was was really
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: going on. But again, as as Paton said, you can't
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: run an army without profanity. And I'm sure some of
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: the champlains may disagree with that, but the reality is
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: this is not church. It's war, and sometimes war is ugly,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: and sometimes war is it's profane. So I do not
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: have a problem with what the President said. Now, there's
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: something else you need to be aware of, because you've
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: got a lot of folks like MTG and Candice Owens
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: and they seem to be leading the charge here, and
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: they're saying he's a crazy man. He's a crazy man.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: He's gonna get us all blown up. Really, are are
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: you sure about that?
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: Are you?
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Are you sure that Donald Trump is crazy? We don't
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: know what he's gonna do. He's not predictable. Yeah, it's true.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Neither the Democrats, or the media or the Iranians can
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: predict what Trump's going to do next. And isn't that
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: the point, ladies and gentlemen, you know, the President giving
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: them this deadline? What is it Tuesday, eight o'clock Tuesday night.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Do you think the President is just dragking this on
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: or is it possible that President Trump is using this
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: time to make sure that our military personnel are put
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: into places where they are able to immediately go on
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: the offensive. But keep in mind when it comes to Iran,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Trump did not start a new war. Donald Trump is
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: finishing the war, the war that started in nineteen seventy nine.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: And every president since Jimmy Carter, every single one, could
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: not muster the courage to do what needed to be done.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: And it turns out Donald Trump, Yeah, he's got the courage.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: All right, hanging tie everybody again. We are waiting for
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: President Trump to hold a news conference that is going
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: to happen to the next hour of the show. We
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: will be dipping into that. We're going to be listening
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: to a lot of that live as much as we
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: can take, uh, and we'll have to do some breaks
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: and things of that nature. Our telephone number nine oh
• 28:51
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• 28:54
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  Speaker 3: day in Houston, Texas. Rophel listening to us on Patriot
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Doc nine twenty. What's on your mind?
• 30:43
  Speaker 12: It was nineteen seventy nine or nineteen eighty when a
• 30:47
  Speaker 12: suicide the proxy of the Iranians drove a truck into
• 30:53
  Speaker 12: our soldiers who were stationed overseas. The soldiers barracks and
• 30:58
  Speaker 12: over two hundred and so were murdered in the attack.
• 31:03
  Speaker 12: And I always wondered why we didn't start a war,
• 31:07
  Speaker 12: like you're saying over that, even that, and now I'm
• 31:12
  Speaker 12: getting answers from you and to President Trump, and if
• 31:18
  Speaker 12: I remember correctly, they were saying that it was a
• 31:22
  Speaker 12: proxy who did it? And oh, we we can't go
• 31:25
  Speaker 12: to war over a proxy. And that's all I have
• 31:28
  Speaker 12: to say. And I'm getting it off my chest after
• 31:31
  Speaker 12: fifty years awaiting.
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: No.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Look, I'm glad you did. And yes, that was in
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: nineteen eighty three, and it was the marine barracks in Beirut,
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: and there were two hundred and forty one military personnel
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: were killed. And you're right the attack was blamed on
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: militants who were linked directly to Iran. So Raphael, not
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: only should we have gone after Iran in seventy nine,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: but in eighty three. We should have completely obliterated Ran
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: for what they do to us, and we just we
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: kept kicking that can down the road.
• 32:09
  Speaker 12: Well we kicked no further.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: No.
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: Are you good with what President Trump is doing here?
• 32:17
  Speaker 12: Yes? And I remember reading about him going to a
• 32:20
  Speaker 12: military school in high school and now a lot of
• 32:24
  Speaker 12: people don't know his military background in that school back
• 32:27
  Speaker 12: in the day because I'm about his age. He went
• 32:30
  Speaker 12: to school in a military school in high school. It
• 32:33
  Speaker 12: was like going to a school it's like going to
• 32:36
  Speaker 12: a military college today. And he learned a lot.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: That Well, yeah, it was the New York Military Academy.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: And you know why he got sent there. He was,
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: you know, Donald Trump. I am shocked. They're saying that
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: he was a disobedient child. Oh I know, Donald really,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: come on, but they know they they sent him, and
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: they say that in that environment that Donald Trump really
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: thrived as a young boy. So from eighth grade until graduation,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: he attended a military academy.
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: You're right, Raphael, Well, thank you, Todd.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: All right, thank you for listening, and thanks for listening
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: to Patriot Doc nine to twenty. Great radio station. Let's
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: go to another great radio station, the talk station in
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: North Carolina out on the coast. Jeff, what's on your
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: mind today?
• 33:25
  Speaker 14: Well, hey, Todd, Actually, I think Trump is very smart.
• 33:33
  Speaker 14: He's getting his information from advisors, probably like psychiatrists and
• 33:39
  Speaker 14: stuff like that, and how to do the art of
• 33:41
  Speaker 14: war and like art of politics, et cetera. When he
• 33:45
  Speaker 14: starts doing the bad names and calling people certain names,
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: it's a way to get to them and it's a
• 33:52
  Speaker 14: way to get something moving. It's like a bully. You
• 33:55
  Speaker 14: can't be nice to a bully because the bully's gonna
• 33:58
  Speaker 14: keeping bullying you. So what he's doing is letting them
• 34:02
  Speaker 14: know he's not going to mess around. And it's to me,
• 34:09
  Speaker 14: it's just he has great advisors.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Well, I think he has no I think you're onto
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: something there. And it reminds me of a story. If
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: you remember back during the first the First Gulf War,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: and George H. W. Bush would always mispronounce Sodam Hussein's name.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: He would call him Sadam. Do you remember that, And
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: a lot of people are like, oh, he does not
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: know he knew how to pronounce the guy's name, but
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: that was an insult. And you're right, there was some
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: psychological warfare going on here, and he was trying to
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: really insult Saddam Hussein uh and diminish his you know,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: his stantire. And I thought it was a brilliant strategy.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: So to your point, No, I think you're right. I
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: think there is some strategy going on here, some psychological strategy.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: But Donald Trump was not worshiped Allah. He was mocking
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: the Islamist That's what that was all about.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 35:06
  Speaker 14: Remember when he called Kim John Un the rocketman, rocketman. Yeah,
• 35:12
  Speaker 14: that was to get to him, to egg him on,
• 35:16
  Speaker 14: to get him moving. So I really believe a lot
• 35:20
  Speaker 14: of this stuff. I believe that Trump doesn't go play
• 35:23
  Speaker 14: golf and call everybody names. He's doing this for a
• 35:26
  Speaker 14: psychological reason, is what I'm thinking.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. And by the way, over the weekend,
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: and we'll get into more of this a little bit
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: later on the show. But the behavior of the media
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: and the Democrats over the weekend was appalling. You know,
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: they were like, where's Trump. We haven't seen Trump in
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: three days. He's dead. He was rushed to Walter reed medicals. No,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: Trump was oh my god, he canceled the marr Lago Easter.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: He's dead. Well, Trump was alive, and well, as a
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: matter of fact, Trump was so aggravated over the fake
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: media coverage he was literally they had to stop him
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: from storming into the press beefing room this weekend and
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: saying that he was alive and well. So President Trump
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: really upset about that, and he should have been. I mean,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: it was just simply outrageous. The behavior of our media
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: while our nation is in the middle of a war
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: is simply unacceptable and we should demand better from the media. Jeff,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: thank you for calling in. Nine oh one two six
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: zero five nine two six is our number. That's nine
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six. Dylan,
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: how is your thing year Thanksgiving? I told this, I
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: told this to have of Newsmacks Happy Thanksgiving everybody. They're like,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: it's Easter, star right, It's Easter during Easter, that's right.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: How is Eastern perfect?
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: No, yeah, it was.
• 36:44
  Speaker 10: It was a great time. Had uh spend some time
• 36:47
  Speaker 10: with the family on both sides. You know, now that
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: I'm married, I get two meals on Easter. So oh
• 36:52
  Speaker 10: it's kind of the best of both worlds.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Well that's not bad.
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: It's not bad.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: So yeah, So the thing is now that you got
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: to spend time with the in laws. So you miss
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: out on the rest of the family.
• 37:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, but you know, it is what it is.
• 37:03
  Speaker 10: You know, it was a good time.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: We were down at the Peabody, had a great time.
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: I saw the pictures.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looked we missed you. We had to go
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: for a smaller table this year.
• 37:12
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you know the Eastern Money. You know, he's coming
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: around the tables and he creeps me out.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Easter Bunny still creeps me. All those like the furries. Yeah,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: and you know, and somebody and oh, by the way,
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: we got to see this was pretty cool though. You know,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: they do the March of the Ducks. Yes, so we
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: went up to the rooftop. We always do family pictures
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: at the at the rooftop, and they had they were
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: doing duck training and they were literally training the ducks.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: They were walking the ducks from their duck plantation house
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: all the way to the elevators plantation house. Yeah, it's
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: it's it's southern. It's a Southern thing. It's a cute
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: little plantation.
• 37:48
  Speaker 10: It is cool.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: But they don't have to work the fields or anything.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: You know, these are these are free ducks more or less.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: All right, hang tied everybody get into your calls waiting
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: for President Trump to come out. Gonna catch you up
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: on the top of the hour news And by the way,
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: don't forget pre order a copy of The Golden Age
• 38:04
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• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: common sense conservative commentary from Todd starts Samaritan.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: All right, so look, here's we're doing things a little
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: weird today for this hour of the show. Welcome everybody.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: I'm Todd Stearns. Great to have you with us. So
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: President Trump is going to be holding a news conference.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: He has not done that in a very long time,
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: and we're going to be talking to or we're gonna
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: be dipping into the coverage of the news conference here
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: in just a few moments when it actually kicks into
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: high gears. So we'll let you know when that happens.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: We are watching our monitors, the press Corps, and it
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: looks like they are filled overflowing there in the in
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: the press briefing room waiting for Trump to step out.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: You know, we were talking in the last segment. There
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: are a lot of people that are really upset that
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump dropped an f bomb on during his remarks
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: on Easter Sunday. First of all, most of the people,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: how darey the most holy day for the Christians? Most
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: people in the media have no idea what Easter Sunday
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: is all about. And most of them didn't even cover
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Easter Sunday. But now all of a sudden they've they're
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: righteously indignant. Well, it's interesting when you go back in time.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Rolling Stone, of all people, did a they did a
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: deep dive into a brief history of presidential profanity. And
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: if you want to talk about one of the filthiest,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: filthiest mouths on a president, LBJ Lyndon Baines Johnson, who,
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: by the way, Dylan, do you know where he used
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: to conduct LBJ used to conduct his his like meetings
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: if he had like important things to tell the staff.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: You know, early this morning. We always start off with
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: little stamp meeting. We do it downstairs in the office
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: and we have plush couches. It's very comfortable. Guess where
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: OLBJ used to do.
• 40:25
  Speaker 10: His can I guess the forest?
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: A weird guess?
• 40:31
  Speaker 10: No, put something out there, I don't know, not the forest.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: While he was taking a dump on the presidential toilet.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: He would literally have the He would be sitting on
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: the toilet and he would have the door open, and
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: he would make his advisors stand outside. This is a
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: true story. He would make his advisors stand outside where
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: they could hear everything and smell everything.
• 40:54
  Speaker 10: Wow. I guess that's one way to make people listen
• 40:58
  Speaker 10: to you.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I look this guy. He was the most
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: profane president in American history. A close second. Are you
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: ready for this one? Barack Hussein Obama? How dare you
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: you rasist? That man was a saint. He was Chicago Jesus.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: But rock husein Obama? How dare you no? But it's true.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, he once called Mitt Romney
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: a bull blanker, like literally a bull blanker and used
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: all sorts of filthy language and a lot of times
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: in his books. So he's doing the audio version of
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: his books and he's just spewing these profane words. Speaking
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: of Mitt Romney. You know, Romney's a Mormon. A lot
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: of people may not be aware of this, but Romney
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: doesn't use bad language. As a matter of fact, he
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: used the whenever he got upset. He would say, at
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: double hockey sticks, all right? Put a pen there, because
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: we understand President Trump is now speaking. We understand Secretary
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: Pete heccesstining alongside of him, along with General Raisin Kane.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Let's go live to the White House.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: By the military.
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: Generally, when planes are knocked down in war, especially when
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: you're finding a strong group an evil group, you can't
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: really do this because you send in two hundred men
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: to pick up one, and it's something that's usually not
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: attempted as much as you want to attempt, and bad
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: things happened to that one or two. And in this
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: case we did too, and it might not have been
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: attempted before, but we did, and we got We had
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: great talent. We get a little luck too, i would say.
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: And we were helped by a lot of people, a
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: lot of great people, and it was an honor to
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: be involved with it. It's very historic. This is a rescue
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: that's very historic. It'll go down to the books. Late
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: Thursday night at American F fifteen fighter jet went down
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: deep inside enemy territory in Iran while participating in Operation
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: Epic Fury, where we're doing unbelievably well well at a
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: level that nobody's ever seen before. The entire country can
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: be taken out in one night, and that night might
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: be tomorrow night. Both members of the crew ejected from
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: the aircraft and landed alive on Iranian soil. I immediately
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: was asked to make a decision. I ordered the US
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: Armed Forces to do whatever was necessary to bring our
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: brave warriors back home. A risky decision because we could
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: have ended up with one hundred dead as opposed to
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: one or two.
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: It's a hard decision to make.
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: But in the United States military, we leave no American behind.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: We don't do it.
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: Within hours of our Armed forces deployed twenty one military
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: aircraft into hostile airspace, many flying at very low altitude, being.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Shot by bullets.
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: You bring rifles into play when you go in that
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: low but there are also certain advantages. And in broad
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: daylight over Iran for seven hours at times, facing very
• 44:23
  Speaker 7: very heavy enemy fire. We have a helicopter. There's got
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: a lot of bullets in it. It's amazing. We just
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: realized how good those weapons are, those our machines are.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Nobody has, nobody has.
• 44:36
  Speaker 7: The equipment that we have, and nobody has the military
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: that we have, not even close the most powerful military
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: anywhere in the world by far. The flight crews and
• 44:46
  Speaker 7: war fighters aboard those aircraft took extraordinary risks to rescue
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: their fellow service members. This first wave of search and
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: rescue forces successfully located the pilot of the F fifteen,
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: and he was extracted from enemy territory by an h
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: EH sixty Jolly Green two helicopter fabulous machine as their
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: warriors faced gunfire at very close range. It's amazing that
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: when you look at the machinery, what happened that nobody
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: was even injured. Meanwhile, the second crew member, Weapons System Office,
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: a highly respected colonel, had landed a significant distance away
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: from the pilot. When you're going at those speeds, even
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: if you go out two or three seconds later, it's miles,
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: it's miles and miles away because you're going fast. He
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: was injured quite badly and stranded in an area teeming
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: with terrors from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ROUGH group,
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: as well as besieged military militia and local authorities. Many
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: on top of everything else, they told the communities actually
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: withinside of Iran, the people of Iran, they were given
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: a tremendous incentive to find this pilot.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Despite the peril.
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: The officer followed his training and climbed into the treacherous
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: mountain terrain and started climbing toward a higher altitude, something
• 46:19
  Speaker 7: they were trained to do in order to evade capture.
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: They want to always go as far away from the
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: site of the shootdown. They want to go as far
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: away because they all head right to that site. You
• 46:34
  Speaker 7: want to be as far away as you can. And
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: he was injured, and he was an amazing, amazing thing.
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: He scaled cliff faces, bleeding rather profusely, treated his own wounds,
• 46:48
  Speaker 7: and contacted American forces to transmit his location. They have
• 46:53
  Speaker 7: a very sophisticated beeper type apparatus that is on them
• 47:01
  Speaker 7: at all times, and when they go out on these missions,
• 47:05
  Speaker 7: they make sure they have lots of battery space and
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: they're in good shape. And this one worked really well,
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: amazingly saved his life. We immediately mobilized a massive operation
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: to retrieve him from the mountain hauled out and he
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: kept going higher and higher. The mountain kept getting rougher
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: and rougher and really very very hard to find. The
• 47:28
  Speaker 7: second rescue mission involved one hundred and fifty five aircraft,
• 47:32
  Speaker 7: including four bombers, sixty four fighters, forty eight refueling tankers,
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: thirteen rescue aircraft and more. We were bringing them all
• 47:43
  Speaker 7: over and a lot of it was subterfuge. We wanted
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: to have them think he was in a different location
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: because they had a vast military force out there. Thousands
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: thousands of people were looking, so we wanted them to
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: look in different areas. So we were scattered at all
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: over like we were right on top of him. We
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: have seven different locations where they thought, and they were
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: very confused. They said, well, wait a minute, they've got
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: groups here, they've got groups there. It's an amazing thing.
• 48:12
  Speaker 7: I was listening to these great people, these great generals.
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: General Raisin Kane's amazing and Pete Hegseth was amazing. But
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: I listened to the whole thing. It was pretty amazing.
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: So that all these different sites where everybody thought he
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: was located, we think we have him over there, because
• 48:31
  Speaker 7: they have nine planes circling a little area that's.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Twenty five miles down the coast.
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: So in a breath taking show of skill and precision, lethality,
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: and force, America's military descended on the area, the real area, engaged,
• 48:49
  Speaker 7: the enemy, rescued, the stranded office that destroyed all threats
• 48:54
  Speaker 7: and exited Iranian territory while taking no casualties of any kind.
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: The heroic F fifteen weapons system officer had evaded capture
• 49:05
  Speaker 7: on the ground in Iran for almost forty eight hours.
• 49:10
  Speaker 7: That's a long time when you're in tough shape and
• 49:13
  Speaker 7: when you're bleeding.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: It's a long time.
• 49:16
  Speaker 7: When we left, as you probably know, we had two
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: large planes, old pretty old planes.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: It carried a lot.
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: We needed a lot more equipment going in than coming out, obviously,
• 49:28
  Speaker 7: because going in we needed to be able to scale
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: mountains and we had a lot of equipment. But the sand,
• 49:36
  Speaker 7: it was sandy, wet sand, so we thought there may
• 49:39
  Speaker 7: be a problem taking off because of the weight of
• 49:42
  Speaker 7: the plane. And then we also had all the men
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: jumping back onto the planes and they got pretty well
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: bogged down.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: And we had.
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: A contingency plan which was unbelievable, where a lighter, faster
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: aircraft came in and they took them out.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: We blew up the old planes, blew them.
• 50:00
  Speaker 7: Up to smithereens because we had equipment on the planes.
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: And frankly, we'd like to take but I don't think
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: it was worthwhile spending another four hours there taking it off.
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: So we didn't want anybody to have We.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Have the best.
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: Equipment anywhere in the world. We didn't want anybody examining
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: our anti aircraft and other equipment. So these were large
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: planes that were old and pretty old, and we blew
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: them up and we had faster, lighter planes come in
• 50:29
  Speaker 7: and they were able to land on the sand. We
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: needed the bigger planes because we had so much equipment
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: that we took three helicopters over there which were very
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: strongly used and couldn't have lived without them. They they
• 50:40
  Speaker 7: performed unbelievably well and if you'd see it, you wouldn't
• 50:44
  Speaker 7: believe it. They came off the plane and these guys
• 50:47
  Speaker 7: had them, the rotors were off. They rebuilt these helicopters
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: in less than ten minutes, and that was one of
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: the more amazing things these A helicopter is small, unbelievably
• 51:03
  Speaker 7: powerful but small, hell very small, so it can get
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: into certain areas. And they got them off the plane
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: and they rebuilt all three of them in a matter
• 51:14
  Speaker 7: of less than I would say less than ten minutes.
• 51:17
  Speaker 7: It's pretty amazing. What the genius of these people who
• 51:21
  Speaker 7: would think that you'd think it would take five days
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: to build them, and in some companies that would take
• 51:26
  Speaker 7: five days and they wouldn't do it well, but they
• 51:29
  Speaker 7: served us well. As Commander Chief, I never forget the
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: extraordinary risk taken by the warriors that we send into
• 51:37
  Speaker 7: battle and the genius. I mean, think of it having
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: a contingency of three planes waiting because we think the
• 51:43
  Speaker 7: sand is so bad it probably won't be able to
• 51:46
  Speaker 7: take off, and the planes really got bogged sand. This
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: was not much of a runway. This was a farm,
• 51:53
  Speaker 7: not a runway. It's a farm. But it did the trick.
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: But to have a contingency as opposed to that, I mean,
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: to wait two days. Can you imagine right in the
• 52:02
  Speaker 7: middle this was central This was right. You would call
• 52:06
  Speaker 7: it central casting if you were doing a movie for location,
• 52:10
  Speaker 7: and probably the toughest area of Irana where we'd be
• 52:14
  Speaker 7: sitting there. So these planes came in, those pilots came
• 52:16
  Speaker 7: in so fast and so quick and.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Got out of there.
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: Everybody got aboard and just got fifteen minute intervals, one
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: load out, one load out, one load out. It happened,
• 52:30
  Speaker 7: and we were watching and we said, that's amazing.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: In many ways, I was.
• 52:34
  Speaker 7: I was almost more impressed by the contingency that we
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: had than the fact that if we would have had
• 52:42
  Speaker 7: a runway or decent soil. But it was an amazing thing.
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: But we thank God for every single one of them.
• 52:49
  Speaker 7: And the talent. The genius is not even talent, it's genius.
• 52:52
  Speaker 7: It's the whole ball game, every one of them. If
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: you look at what we did with Maduro, we went
• 52:59
  Speaker 7: into a military compound and massive with thousands and thousands
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: of soldiers or within a matter of minutes, and he
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: lived behind iron doors. There were steel doors, broke them
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: down so quickly and within almost minutes he was in
• 53:13
  Speaker 7: the back of these planes. It was a similar group. Incredible.
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: We have incredibly talented people and if the time comes
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: we move heaven and earth to bring them home safely.
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: We're going to bring our people home safely. I want
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: to thank every member of the US Armed Forces involved
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: in these historic operations. They really were historic. It's just
• 53:33
  Speaker 7: not something that's done and you'd understand it. Not that
• 53:37
  Speaker 7: they don't want to do it, but when you're going
• 53:39
  Speaker 7: into areas, when you look at these helicopters, when you
• 53:42
  Speaker 7: look at the amount of bullets and everything else that
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: they took. When you go into these areas, you don't
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: come out like we came out.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: God was watching us. Well, it was the Easter. We
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: were in Easter territory, I guess. But God was watching us.
• 53:58
  Speaker 7: Amazing because when you look at the machinery they took damage,
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: it tells you. First thing I say is these are
• 54:05
  Speaker 7: unbelievable machines. How they flew back and not even much
• 54:09
  Speaker 7: of a problem. But these two extraordinary rescues. Because it
• 54:14
  Speaker 7: was two and as you probably know, we didn't talk
• 54:16
  Speaker 7: about the first one for an hour. And then somebody
• 54:20
  Speaker 7: leaked something which will hopefully find that leaker. We're looking
• 54:23
  Speaker 7: very hard to find that leaker and talked about there's
• 54:27
  Speaker 7: somebody missing. They basically said that we have one and
• 54:32
  Speaker 7: there's somebody missing. Well, they didn't know there was somebody
• 54:35
  Speaker 7: missing until this leaker gave the information. So whoever it is,
• 54:38
  Speaker 7: we think we'll be able to find it out because
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: we're going to go to the media company that released
• 54:44
  Speaker 7: it and we're going to say national security, give it
• 54:48
  Speaker 7: up or go to jail.
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: And all right, let me jump in here, because we
• 54:53
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• 54:55
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• 54:59
  Speaker 3: The President saying God was watching over us, over one
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty five aircraft used in the rescue, and
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: the President also vowing to go after the leakers, which
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: is what we certainly encouraged the President to do earlier
• 55:13
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  Speaker 3: Hegseth is now speaking to reporters. Let's listen.
• 57:00
  Speaker 10: Our lives were lost.
• 57:01
  Speaker 15: We leave no man behind, and that is not luck.
• 57:05
  Speaker 15: It's the result of unmatched training, superior technology, and unbreakable
• 57:10
  Speaker 15: warrior ethos and sheer American grit.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Our Special operators, pilots.
• 57:16
  Speaker 15: And support crews performed with near perfection under fire, and
• 57:21
  Speaker 15: they were lethal. Just ask any Iranian soldier who dared
• 57:26
  Speaker 15: attempt to get anywhere near that pilot before or during
• 57:30
  Speaker 15: that mission. Death from above, our troops turned a potential
• 57:36
  Speaker 15: tragedy into a resounding demonstration of American resolve and capability.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: That's what exceless uniform looks like.
• 57:44
  Speaker 15: But make no mistake about it, none of this would
• 57:48
  Speaker 15: have been possible without the courageous leadership and ironclad determination
• 57:53
  Speaker 15: of President Donald J.
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: Trump.
• 57:57
  Speaker 15: From the moment our airman went down, President Trump made
• 57:59
  Speaker 15: it clear we will leave no one behind. The first mission,
• 58:04
  Speaker 15: the first of two, was an audacious daylight thunder run
• 58:09
  Speaker 15: right up the middle. It was authorized in less than
• 58:12
  Speaker 15: two hours from those that pilot going down when we
• 58:15
  Speaker 15: knew where he was, and it was authorized in the
• 58:19
  Speaker 15: middle of the night, because anybody that's worked from this
• 58:22
  Speaker 15: man knows he's up in the middle of the night.
• 58:24
  Speaker 15: Authorized immediately, without hesitation, audaciously. The second mission, as soon
• 58:29
  Speaker 15: as we knew where that pilot was, and John was
• 58:31
  Speaker 15: certainly helpful in that, also executed immediately. You know, I
• 58:37
  Speaker 15: looked up at my screen when the final mission was
• 58:39
  Speaker 15: complete inside our skiff, our secure facility, and we have
• 58:42
  Speaker 15: a running VTC, a running coordination cell, and the top
• 58:47
  Speaker 15: of it read forty five minutes and forty five hours
• 58:51
  Speaker 15: and fifty six minutes. For forty five hours and fifty
• 58:55
  Speaker 15: six minutes, we'd held that call open for coordination. From
• 58:58
  Speaker 15: the moment our pilots went down, our mission was unblinking.
• 59:03
  Speaker 15: The call never dropped, the meeting never stopped, the planning
• 59:06
  Speaker 15: never ceased. The President demanded rapid, decisive action. He backed
• 59:12
  Speaker 15: our military with the full weight of his resolve, refusing
• 59:14
  Speaker 15: to let enemy propaganda.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: Or tactical setbacks deter us.
• 59:18
  Speaker 15: His leadership ensured that every lethal and non lethal resource
• 59:23
  Speaker 15: was brought to bear, that our forces had the authorities
• 59:27
  Speaker 15: and the support they needed to succeed. When the President
• 59:30
  Speaker 15: says he has the backs of our warfighters, he means it,
• 59:34
  Speaker 15: and it means a great deal, and it's a big
• 59:36
  Speaker 15: difference on the battlefield. President Trump understands at peace through strength.
• 59:41
  Speaker 15: It's not a slogan, it is a doctrine that saves
• 59:45
  Speaker 15: American lives. His unwavering commitment to rebuilding our military and
• 59:49
  Speaker 15: restoring the warrior spirit has paid dividends in missions just
• 59:54
  Speaker 15: like this one. Under his command, America projects power with
• 59:58
  Speaker 15: confidence and bring our people home with victory.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 8: And that continues today.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 15: By the way, per the President's direction, today will be
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 15: the largest volume of strike since day one of this operation.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 15: Tomorrow even more than today, and then Iran has a
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 15: choice choose wisely, because this president does not play around.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 15: You can ask Solimani. You can ask Duro, you can
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 15: ask Kamane. To those heroes who planned and executed these rescues,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 15: Your nation stands in awe. I stand in all. The
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 15: Chairman stands in all. We all stand in awe of
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 15: your professionalism and bravery. We serve for you. You embody
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 15: the very best of America. To the rescued airmen and
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 15: their families, welcome home your courage and endurance. The quiet
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 15: declaration of faith amid the storm inspires us.
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  Speaker 2: All God is good every day.
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  Speaker 15: And to our adversaries watching from Tehran, let this be
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  Speaker 15: a clear message. The United States military will go anywhere,
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  Speaker 15: at any time to protect our own and complete the mission.
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  Speaker 8: We execute with precision. We control the sky.
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  Speaker 3: You see.
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  Speaker 15: We flew for seven hours in daylight over Iran to
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  Speaker 15: get the first pilot, and we flew seven hours in
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  Speaker 15: the middle of the night to get the second, and
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  Speaker 15: Iran did nothing about it. We fight with honor, and
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  Speaker 15: under President Trump's leadership, we win. So God bless our troops,
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  Speaker 15: God bless President Trump, and God bless the United States
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  Speaker 15: of America.
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  Speaker 16: Thank you, well, good afternoon everyone, Thank you mister President.
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  Speaker 16: Thank you, Miss Chreck Terry. I note before I start,
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  Speaker 16: I know many of you want general Pacific details. In
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  Speaker 16: these briefings. We will share what we can, but I
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  Speaker 16: will retain what I must in the event that we
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  Speaker 16: have to go do this again sometimes, and I cannot
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  Speaker 16: stress the importance as the President said, around operational security.
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  Speaker 8: The Secretary and I'll do more detailed.
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  Speaker 16: Briefing tomorrow morning, and we'll look forward to sharing the
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  Speaker 16: details that we can. On Thursday two April, at ten
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  Speaker 16: ten pm Eastern time, four forty in the morning local
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  Speaker 16: Iran time, the Joint Personnel Recovery Center, which handles the
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  Speaker 16: Central Command Area of responsibility, declared an isolated personnel recovery
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  Speaker 16: event for a US Air Force fifteen e Strike Eagle
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  Speaker 16: call signed DUDE four to four, which was down in
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  Speaker 16: hostile Iranian territory. The pilot and weapons system officer had
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  Speaker 16: both safely ejected and were isolated behind enemy lines. Following
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  Speaker 16: confirmation of active rescue beacons and on the direction of
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  Speaker 16: the Secretarium by order of the President, a rescue operation
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  Speaker 16: was launched with the stated purpose of bringing both Americans
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  Speaker 16: home safely. As the Secretary said, several hours later on
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  Speaker 16: the morning, after positive actively locating the front seater call
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  Speaker 16: signed Dude four four Alpha and aware of an aggressive
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  Speaker 16: ongoing search by the enemy. A US Central Command plan
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  Speaker 16: was approved by the Secretary of the President.
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  Speaker 8: Shortly thereafter.
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  Speaker 16: A US Air Force Combat Search and Rescue task Force
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  Speaker 16: comprised of a ten warthogs in their sandy roll and
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  Speaker 16: I'll describe what that is in a minute. HC one
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  Speaker 16: thirty Combat Kink twos hight sixty Jolly Green two helicopters,
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  Speaker 16: an Air Force Special Warfare airman a package comprised of
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  Speaker 16: combat rescue officers and pair of rescuement operators audaciously penetrated
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  Speaker 16: enemy territory in broad daylight to find, fix, and recover
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  Speaker 16: Dude four to four Alpha from behind enemy lines. This
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  Speaker 16: was an incredibly dangerous mission, an incredibly dangerous undertaking, but
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  Speaker 16: a filled promise made every American warfighter that you will
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  Speaker 16: not be left behind. We will always come find you,
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  Speaker 16: and we will always bring you home. Over the next hours,
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  Speaker 16: the Search and Rescue Task Force crossed the beach, entered
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  Speaker 16: into Ranian airspace, protected by a fighter strike package, and
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  Speaker 16: moved into the objective area, all under fire en route.
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  Speaker 16: As some of you have seen on social media, the
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  Speaker 16: helicopters took gas off the C one thirties and pressed
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  Speaker 16: onward and forward up into the objective area. While this
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 16: was ongoing and out in front of them, the Sandy
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  Speaker 16: flight of A tens and other remotely piloted aircraft, drones
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  Speaker 16: and other tactical aircraft were violently suppressing and engaging the
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  Speaker 16: enemy in a close in gunfight to keep them away
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  Speaker 16: from the front seater and allow the pickup force to
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  Speaker 16: get into the objective area. During this engagement, one of
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  Speaker 16: the Sandy aircraft, the one primarily responsible for communicating with
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  Speaker 16: a down pilot, was hit by enemy fire. This pilot
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  Speaker 16: continued to fight, continued the mission, and then upon exit,
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  Speaker 16: flew his aircraft into another country and determined that the
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  Speaker 16: airplane was not landable. This was one of our A
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  Speaker 16: ten Sandy aircraft. The pilot then made the decision to
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  Speaker 16: eject over friendly territory and was quickly and safely recovered
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  Speaker 16: and is doing fine after picking up Dude four to
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  Speaker 16: for Alpha. The HH sixty Jolly Green fight was engaged
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  Speaker 16: by every single person in Iran who had a small
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  Speaker 16: arms weapon and one of the aircraft. The trailing aircraft
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  Speaker 16: took several hits. The crew sustained minor injury and they
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  Speaker 16: are going to be fine. A note for those of
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  Speaker 16: you that do not know what a Sandy does, named
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  Speaker 16: after the flight callsign that did this very mission in
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  Speaker 16: Vietnam flying A one Skyraiders and A seven Coursairs. A
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  Speaker 16: Sandy has one mission, get to the survivor, bring the
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  Speaker 16: rescue force forward, and put themselves between that survivor on
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  Speaker 16: the ground and the enemy.
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  Speaker 8: They are committed to this.
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  Speaker 16: This is what they live for, and this is what
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  Speaker 16: they've trained for over many many years. The A ten
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  Speaker 16: Force and the Rescue Force did fantastic did a fantastic
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  Speaker 16: job rescuing Dude for for Alpha. He was recovered Friday afternoon.
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  Speaker 16: As I said, and the nation needs to know this,
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  Speaker 16: this was an incredibly brave and courageous mission and a
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  Speaker 16: testament to the courage, skill, and tenacity of the Joint
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  Speaker 16: Force and our leaders, and.
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  Speaker 8: Especially a daylight option.
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  Speaker 16: Having the guts to try means so much to so many,
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  Speaker 16: while the backseater, as the President's secretary have said, had
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  Speaker 16: continued to work and survive through the hours of daylight.
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  Speaker 8: Dude four to four bravo.
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  Speaker 16: The backseater evaded using every means available. The efforts of
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  Speaker 16: the United States Military, the Central Intelligence Agency, and others
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 16: were attempting to find and locate with precision dude for
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  Speaker 16: four Bravo the backseater. A note on the back seater
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  Speaker 16: and the front seater, the single most important contributor to
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  Speaker 16: a successful rescue operation is the spirit of attack inside
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  Speaker 16: the heart of that down deviator. Their will to survive,
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  Speaker 16: their will to evade, their will to recover is everything.
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  Speaker 16: In this case, the backseater's absolute commitment to surviving made
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  Speaker 16: much of our efforts possible. On Saturday, for April, after
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  Speaker 16: establishing positive communications with the backseater, we learned, as the
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  Speaker 16: President said, that he was injured and actively evading enemy forces,
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  Speaker 16: and thanks to our interagency partners, we were able to
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  Speaker 16: get eyes on his location and positively IDM Throughout this
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  Speaker 16: entire time, the enemy force continued to search for for
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  Speaker 16: for Bravo, and the joint force continued to strike them
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  Speaker 16: over and over and over again, fighting off marginal weather
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  Speaker 16: in Iran and the enemy search.
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  Speaker 8: For a second time.
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  Speaker 16: On Saturday, at the recommendation the Sancom Commander and at
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  Speaker 16: the approval of the Secretary and the President, we launched
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  Speaker 16: a Rescue Task Force to recover dude for for Bravo again.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 16: This came to the President and the Secretary for approval,
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  Speaker 16: this time with a much larger force package based on
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  Speaker 16: the time that the enemy had to prepare to find
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  Speaker 16: for for Bravo again. This force was protected by a
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  Speaker 16: ten Warthogs using the same Andy callsign. And this force
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  Speaker 16: had one single mission, do everything they can to bring
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  Speaker 16: an American home. This meant having a plan, being prepared
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  Speaker 16: to execute that plan, and more importantly, being prepared for
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 16: multiple simultaneous contingencies.
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  Speaker 3: All right, and we are going to have to take
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  Speaker 3: another mandatory break here you're listening to General Kine describing
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  Speaker 3: this incredibly dangerous mission. We're going to keep the press
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  Speaker 3: conference live on our digital video feeds, which you can
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: watch on our Facebook page, YouTube or Rumble. You'll be
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: able to continue watching that during the break. We'll be
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  Speaker 3: right back. All right, President Trump back behind the podium.
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  Speaker 3: This news conference at the Whitehouse we've been following. Let's
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  Speaker 3: go back to the President live here on the Todd
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  Speaker 3: Sterns radio show.
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  Speaker 7: Genius that called us from it was forty miles away
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  Speaker 7: and he said, you know, we're seeing something.
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  Speaker 2: Moving up in the mountain, this at night, and they
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  Speaker 2: kept the.
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  Speaker 7: Camera on him for forty five minutes. He wasn't moving
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  Speaker 7: and they said, you know, probably wrong, but we're seeing
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  Speaker 7: something moving. This is a vast mountain, vast thick with bushes, trees.
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  Speaker 7: He said, we see something moving forty miles away. It
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  Speaker 7: was the ahead of a human being. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 7: it's moving. And then all of a sudden, forty five
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  Speaker 7: minutes later, he moved a lot, stood up and they said,
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  Speaker 7: we have him. And that was really the beginning of
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  Speaker 7: something incredible. We had an idea where he was, but
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  Speaker 7: not specifically.
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  Speaker 2: That's a big mountain.
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  Speaker 7: So I want to thank the CIA too. I don't
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  Speaker 7: think they get enough credit for the great job they've done.
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  Speaker 17: Yes, please, thank you very much, President for this great
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  Speaker 17: opportunity country. It has super army. You make a difference.
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  Speaker 17: Mister President, Thank you for your greatest leadership.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 17: I have a two quick questions, mister President. What was
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  Speaker 17: your reaction when you learned that Kurdistan region had resumed
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  Speaker 17: exporting oil to the international market with your support as
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  Speaker 17: United States of America.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I expected that we've gotten along with the Kurds
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  Speaker 7: for a long time, so I expected that.
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  Speaker 17: And as a question, what would what would be your
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  Speaker 17: reaction if the Iranian people raise up against their regime
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  Speaker 17: during a case fire.
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  Speaker 7: Well they should do it, but again the consequences are great.
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  Speaker 7: I mean they were told you if you protest, you
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  Speaker 7: will be shot immediately. You saw what happened to the
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  Speaker 7: young wrestler. He was a great champion, by the way,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 7: he was a great wrestler, one of the top in
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  Speaker 7: the world. And he and his two friends were hung
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  Speaker 7: and all they did was say a little bit about liberty.
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  Speaker 7: They wanted liberty, and they were violently executed. But u
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  Speaker 7: the number is up to probably forty five thousand people
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  Speaker 7: were killed. So you know when somebody stays in the house,
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  Speaker 7: when they know if they walk out of the house
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  Speaker 7: to protest, they'll be immediately shot and killed. And they
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  Speaker 7: issued that, you know, there was publicly issued. It's not
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  Speaker 7: a secret. That's why so many people say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 7: why are you doing this way? We can't let Iran
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  Speaker 7: have a nuclear weapon. You know, we got regime change.
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  Speaker 12: We do.
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  Speaker 7: We deal with a much different regime than before. We're
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  Speaker 7: dealing with different people. They're smarter. I think they're Sharper
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  Speaker 7: uh and far less radical. We have regime change, but uh,
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  Speaker 7: we didn't do this for regime change. We did it
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  Speaker 7: for the fact. And my view was very simple. I
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  Speaker 7: so somebody said, oh, he doesn't have a plan. I
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  Speaker 7: have the best plan of all. But I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 7: tell you what my plan is.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 2: They want me to say, here, here's my plan.
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  Speaker 7: We're going to attack at nine forty seven in the morning,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 7: and then we're going to do this, and then we're
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 7: going to and if you don't do that, they say,
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  Speaker 7: I have a plan. These people know what the plan is.
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  Speaker 7: Everybody here knows what the plan is. But it's very
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  Speaker 7: unfair to say we know because I don't mind being insulted.
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  Speaker 7: I've been insulted for many years by the by the
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 7: fake news. But you can't. It's so bad for the
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 7: people that are so pre You just so two great
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 7: and John Ratlift, three unbelievable people. They have a plan,
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  Speaker 7: every every single thing has been thought out by all
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  Speaker 7: of us, but I can't reveal the plan to the media,
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  Speaker 7: so you know, but we're just thrilled by the success
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  Speaker 7: of this operation.
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  Speaker 18: Yes, you've said Iranians would be mad if you stopped
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 18: these attacks. But why would they want you to blow
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  Speaker 18: up their infrastructure to to cut off their power. Wouldn't
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 18: that be punishing Iranians for the actions of the regime.
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  Speaker 7: They would be willing to They would be willing and
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  Speaker 7: it's suffering. They would be willing to suffer that in
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  Speaker 7: order to free them. The Iranians. We've had numerous intercepts,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 7: please keep bombing, bombs that are dropping near.
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  Speaker 2: Their homes, Please keep bombing. Do it.
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  Speaker 7: And these are people that are living where the bombs
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 7: are exploding. And when we leave and we're not hitting
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 7: those areas, they're saying, please come back, come back, come back.
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  Speaker 7: These are the people. I don't know what they do.
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  Speaker 7: All I can tell you is they want freedom. They
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  Speaker 7: have lived in a world that you know nothing about.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 7: It's a violent, horrible world where if you protest, you
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  Speaker 7: are shot. Remember the Great Woman protests where they had
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 7: four hundred thousand, five hundred thousand women and they were
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 7: all enthus and they were going to protest, and everybody say.
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  Speaker 3: All right, folks, So we're going to have to leave
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: it there for just a moment. The President again holding
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: this news conference, answering questions. We've got to take a
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: quick break for your local radio station. In the meantime,
• 1:14:59
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• 1:15:03
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• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: So haying ty, everybody gotta take a quick break. We
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• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: Todd starts.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: A lot of breaking news today. President Trump holding a
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: news conference at the White House and we listen to
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: most of that during the last hour of the program.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: We are monitoring that and of course you'll also be
• 1:16:05
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• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: our YouTube channel. You know, it's interesting the media giving
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 3: Trump a hard time over this vulgar language that he
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: used on the True Social Post on Easter Sunday, and
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: now some of the nation's religious community is weighing in.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: This is from Tony Perkins from Family Research Council, and
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: he says that President Trump's profanity is problematic. I want
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: to read to you what Tony Perkins said. While his
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: Sunday True Social post on Iran may be designed to
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: transmit bravado towards the Iranian regime to bring the conflict
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: to an end, the continuing decline in language and decorum
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: of our leaders is very troubling and should not be acceptable.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: Do you agree or disagree with Tony Perkins? Ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: look the way I see it, Uh, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 3: There has been there has been coarseness in the language
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 3: in the country. But honestly, it's always been there. And
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: when you go all the way back to I mean,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: well Abraham Lincoln. Even Abraham Lincoln loved off color jokes.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: So this has been a part of the culture at
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: the White House and in politics for quite some time.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 3: But anyway, Trump getting a lot of blowback from especially
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: evangelical conservative Christians. Our telephone number is nine oh one
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: two six zero five nine two six. That's nine oh
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: one two six zero five, nine two six. So, guys,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: I want to dip back in if we can to
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: the President who is taking questions from reporters. Uh, let's
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 3: see what the president's up.
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  Speaker 7: To instances, and if they did, in my opinion, I
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  Speaker 7: told this to be be next Yahoo yesterday. Israel would
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 7: have been extinguished. Large portions of the Middle East would
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 7: have been extinguished, whether it's Saudi Arabia, Guitar UAE or others.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 7: And you saw that with thousands of missiles raining down
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 7: upon them. They didn't think they were going to be hit.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 7: They thought they'd be watching us fight, and all of
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 7: a sudden, Yui got hit by fifteen hundred missiles. He
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 7: would have taken them out also, and they were powerful.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 7: If I didn't come along and terminate the Obama deal,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 7: which was terrible, The Iran nuclear deal was a road
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 7: to a nuclear weapon, a big one, unlimited legally. I
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 7: terminated it without even much thought. It was so easy.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 7: I terminated that, and then the B two bombers, and
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 7: I did one other thing. I had killed Cassam Salamini,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 7: who was an evil genius. And the reason I did
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  Speaker 7: it I heard he was going to knock out five
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 7: of our military bases.
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  Speaker 2: And had he lived, I believe.
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  Speaker 7: We would be fighting perhaps a different ran right now,
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 7: because because he's never he's never been replaced, you know.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 7: And I Also, I did one other, but this one
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 7: was not picked up. Osama bin Laden if you read
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 7: my book, I said, you got to take him out
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 7: one year before the World Trade Center came down. So
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 7: I wish you'd read the book. But you, as a president,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 7: to be a good president, I believe you have to
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 7: have good instincts, and a lot of this is instinct. Yeah. Please,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 7: thank you so much.
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  Speaker 19: Last week, last week you suggested that Europe should take
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 19: the lead on reopening the straight.
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  Speaker 20: Up our moves.
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  Speaker 19: Has circumstances changed now that you're issuing a direct eight
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 19: hour I mean forty eight hour ultimatum. And secondly, would
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 19: a new seaspiring flude Israel or would it just be between.
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  Speaker 7: We can't talk about. But I can tell you that
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 7: we have a active, willing participant on the other side.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 7: They would like to be able to make a deal.
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  Speaker 7: I can't say any more than that.
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  Speaker 8: You've listened.
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  Speaker 2: President who you.
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  Speaker 17: My name is with the largest Kurdish media to down
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 17: media network. It's based in the Iran. You said before
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 17: that you don't want the Kurdish forces to eatake Iran
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 17: and be harmed.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, uh so we'll get back in there when an
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: Americans asking a question, who wants all the foreign people?
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 3: I don't get that anyway. Let's go to the phone
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 3: lines here, Mike in North Carolina, what's to weigh in
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 3: on President Trump and the language issue? Hey, Mike, what's
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 3: what you got for us?
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  Speaker 11: Tod I'll say you. I started out noticing the language
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 11: just was going way south after Twitter was purchased, and
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 11: that was a huge battle over free speech. Of course,
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 11: became at two social team on board, and it just
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 11: seemed like it was open season on style language. Wherever
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 11: you went. You couldn't go online to any any social
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 11: media whatsoever without uh you know, efemis and you know
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 11: all of that stuff. You know the danger. You know
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 11: they're using that as free speech, and it is it is,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 11: but there's also UH should be some standards there also,
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 11: and especially for a president. You know that I didn't
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 11: like Alex Over. I'm a I'm a believer. H he
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 11: can and he's done a lot for Christian people. He's
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 11: done a lot for the Christian community.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 21: For UH.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 11: Right to life and he has he's done a good
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 11: job with all that.
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 21: But he is.
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 11: Well, let me just say this. There were a lot
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 11: of things that came out of Bill Clinton's presidency that
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 11: were not good for the country.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's interesting you say that because there,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 3: if there were, there are presidential historians who will tell
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: you that that was the moment that it all sort
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 3: of came out into the open, because presidents have always
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: been profane. Uh, no doubt, there's no doubt about that,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 3: you know, behind closed doors though. Uh then you had
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: the whole situation with Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 3: the the blue dress and the cigar in the Oval office,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 3: and it all of a sudden became you know, national news,
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: and everybody was kind of forced to deal with.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 11: That, right right, Yeah, And like I said, it's just
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 11: all of a sudden on the last four or five years,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 11: maybe maybe not even that long. But I noticed it
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 11: first again when uh Twitter became act and the big
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 11: fight was over free speech to free speech to free speech.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 11: Oh yeah, that it just seemed like it's been open
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 11: season on foul lands with no standards whatsoever. Anyway, Like
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  Speaker 11: I said, the president should be an example, you know,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 11: all right, speaking in public.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, Mike, I think you made your point here.
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 3: I want to try to get in as many people
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 3: as we can here and get their opinions. So I
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: appreciate you calling in. Let's go to Debbie and Jackson, Tennessee. Hi, Debbie,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 3: what say you?
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 22: Hey, Well, I say that I totally disagree with you.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 22: I think Trump by far has been the worst when
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 22: it comes to speaking to the public and his profum
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 22: and his mouth. And I've been listening to him president
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 22: for a long time, and I'm going to tell you,
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 22: if I was still have wrote what that man that
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 22: you read, it would have been a whole lot harsher
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 22: than what he said. And that's coming from a Christian woman.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 22: I just would be used to him when he starts
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 22: at us, and he starts it pretty early in the game.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 22: So yes, I totally no, no, no speakers should ever
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 22: get up a knife like that. And I don't care
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 22: if they're the president or who they are. If you're
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 22: speaking to crowd, you show.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 11: Some kind of respect from now Donald Trump.
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: Now, Debbie, I will say this as a you know,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 3: I'm a tennesseean lifelong Tennessee and moved to New York City,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: and I realized right away that the average New Yorker
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 3: uses that F word like we would say bless your
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 3: heart or how y'all doing I've I mean some I've
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 3: I've heard people use that word, and it's it's a
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: bit shocking. And I'm not making excuses. I'm just saying
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 3: President Trump is a New Yorker, and New Yorkers, by
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: and large, I'm paint with a broad brush here. They've
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 3: got they've got dirtier mouths the most of the rest
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: of the country.
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  Speaker 22: I still and they probably let's have less respect for
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 22: that the rest of the country also.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, well I could be Debbie. Look, I know you're
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 3: taking me to the woodshed here, Debbie, Okay, I've.
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  Speaker 22: Listened to you for Partowell and normally I agree with you.
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 22: I don't even tell the end, But today I just
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 22: had to say, no, you need to back up and
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 22: think of who all's listened to it? Women, kids? How
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 22: can you even ask the teenage year old person to
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 22: sit down and listen to that?
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 3: I would, It's fair enough, Debbie, do you remember Lyndon Johnson?
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 3: By any chance? Were you old enough to remember LBJ?
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 12: No?
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 7: Huh?
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: All right, well, Lyndon Johnson. President Johnson was by all accounts,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 3: considered our most profane and vile president. And Debbie, I'm
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 3: gonna let you hang up because I don't know. I
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 3: can't have this conversation with Debbie on the air. I
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 3: know you'll be listening, Debbie, but I just want to
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 3: protect the innocence of your ears. But Lyndon Johnson was
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 3: no Dylan to brag, to boast about the size of
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 3: his Johnson so much so that he gave it a
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: nickname that was used prominently around the lighthouse called Jumbo,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 3: and on many occasions Lyndon Johnson would actually, shall we say,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: take Jumbo out for a walk?
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 10: Okay, wait, did he give himself that nickname?
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 12: Oh?
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, he gave he gave himself the nickname, which
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 3: according to all sources was quite accurate. And there's Jumbo.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 10: I don't so Jumbo sounds like Dumbo, like the elephant.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 10: Maybe yeah, maybe yeah, that's him.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, so But anyway, he actually would He actually,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 3: in cabinet meetings would unzip his birches to make a point,
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 3: and a lot of people were shocked and horrified by that. Personally,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: I would have been out the door when he decided
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 3: to sit down on the toilet and commence holding a
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 3: staff meeting. That's where I would have drawn the line.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 3: But that's just me. Let's go to Cheryl in Jefferson, Georgia.
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 4: Cheryl, what say you, Hey, Todd, I just wanted to
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 4: time in on this foul mos thing. Yes it is foul,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: and yes, do I think Trump need to step above
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: it and not go to their level.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, but he has.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 4: The world on his shoulder and he was trying to
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 4: rescue this pilot and do the most dangerous you know,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 4: you know all about it mission ever, and he's human.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 4: I mean it happened, however, against fodder for the left
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 4: and all those who hate him, and then give pause
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 4: to the Christian Conservatives. So I get it. It doesn't
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 4: bother me. It shows his level of frustration and commitments
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 4: and absolute fire to get the job done. But you know,
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 4: he gives them food for fodder, fodder whatever.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 3: Look, Cheryl, I truly believe that this I don't think
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 3: the president, this president does not go off half baked,
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 3: if you will, I'm watching my words. This president says
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: what he says, and there's a reason for it. And
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 3: I really do believe this president was sending a very
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: direct message to the Iranians and look, these radical Islamis, Cheryl,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 3: that's all they understand. This is the language. They understand.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: It is very direct, and they do not risk any
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 3: other They don't respect anything else other than brute force.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 3: And I think President Trump stopping, you know, just shy
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 3: of calling them, you know, goat fornicators, did exactly that.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I agree with you. I agree with you.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 3: All right. Yeah, so I Donald Trump, I got out
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: to the Islamas. I said, guys, let's just you know what,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: let's just gather around the fire and let's sing Kumba yah.
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: I don't think that's going to do the trick. This
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: very well may do the trick. Who knows. We will
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: wait and see.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they don't understand that. They have no clue what
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 4: it's like. No, most Americans so.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: Appreciate you, tod all right, thank you, Cheryl, thanks for
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: calling in. All right, phones are lighting up here. Nine
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six. Let's
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: go to uh. Steve in Houston, Texas listening to us
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: on Patriot Talk nine to twenty. All right, Steve, what
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 3: say you?
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  Speaker 21: Hey, tod Man, I'm a longtime listener of your show.
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 21: I'm a Trump supporter. I've supported what he's doing. Sometimes
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 21: it seems like he. I know he's under a lot
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 21: of pressure, but he's starting to seem like he's a
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 21: little bit unhanded. You know, I was shocked this morning
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 21: when I heard, you know, his social media statement to
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 21: the Iranians. And what most people don't catch is when
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 21: he's talking about bombing infrastructure and bombing their power plants,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 21: we're talking about bombing civilians. I mean, it's not the
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 21: military running these plants. And you know, I get it,
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 21: We've got to win this war somehow. But you know,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 21: I knew from the beginning, and I still believe we
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 21: will never destroy the Iranian regime without ground troops. And
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 21: people need to realize that we tried it in Iraq.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 21: You know, we can bomb the crap out of them,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 21: but you know, a military with the size of the
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 21: Iranian army, you know, there's no way we're going to
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 21: get rid of them without And I personally think, you know,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 21: if if ground troops are sin in, it should be
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 21: the Israeli. I mean, I don't want to see American
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 21: ground troops over there.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: Let's see what happens here, Steve, And I look, I
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 3: hear what you're saying, and if we do end up
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 3: sending ground troops. I'm gonna have something to say about that.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 3: It is that is going to be a step in
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 3: a direction that will make this last a very long time.
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 3: That is not going to be a quick fix. So
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 3: let's see what happens. Trump gave him a deadline. Forty
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 3: eight hours eight o'clock Tuesday is when the President set
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 3: that deadline, and we'll see how all that plays out. Steve,
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 3: I got to run. Thank you for listening to the show.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to a Patriot Talk nine twenty
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 3: as well. All right, hang and tight, everybody, we'll be
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 3: right back. Our number, by the way, nine oh one
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  Speaker 3: to two six zero five nine two six. This is
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: the Todd Sterns Show.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 19: Because you're knowing your journey.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 7: Hundreds of thousands of soldiers along the path. I mean,
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 7: look at some of the helicopters, how they got hit.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 7: So yeah, there were people within the military that said
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 7: it so wise. And don't forget how many men did
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 7: you send all together approximately for the operation.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 9: I'd love to keep that a secret.
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, well we are, but I will tell you the number.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 7: I'll keep it a secret, but it was hundreds and
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 7: hundreds of these people.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 2: It's pretty good? Is he central? Is he central? Casting?
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 7: But hundreds of people went into this journey. Hundreds of
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 7: people could have been killed. Forget about the equipment, a
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 7: lot of equipment. Nobody kiss them.
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: Hundreds of people could have been killed.
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the president just moments ago. And the
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: President again reiterating Iran has until eight o'clock tomorrow to
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 3: make a deal. By the way, the President also said
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 3: they're gonna somebody's gonna make a movie about this, and
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 3: he said, whoever plays Bravo is a Bravo forty forty
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 3: four Bravo a dude forty four Bravo has to be
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: good looking, Dylan, We're gonna we're gonna send in Parker
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 3: May's mug shot. I think Parker May could be like, yeah,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: you know, audition, Yeah, I mean he's tall. Yeah, he
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 3: kind of looks like an Air Force guy.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 10: That's all you need.
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 3: That's that's it. That's it. Well, ask h he's coming
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 3: up in a matter of moments to talk about the president.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 3: By the way. In college sports, all right, hanging tight, everybody,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 3: Our our three is well underway. The final half hour
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  Speaker 3: of our three nine oh one two six zero five
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• 1:33:45
  Speaker 3: five nine two six. This is the Tod Starr Show.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: All right, the press conference has officially concluded. Hello, everybody,
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 3: welcome back to the Ton Stearns Radio Show. This feels
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 3: like it's a weird different show when we very rarely
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: do we get to cover a presidential press conference live,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 3: and I think that was a pretty spectacular And I
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 3: want to give our team here a great big shout out.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 3: Look Dylan. Yeah, we got to talk about Lebron James,
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 3: among other things, and President Trump stepping into fix college football,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 3: Lebron James, he's cramping on Memphis. And I know we've
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 3: got our great sports director here from KWAM News Radio,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: Parker May. And Guys, I think we all know that
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: Memphis is like the deadliest city in America. We get that.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 3: But only we can criticize Memphis because we all live here, right,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: isn't that the rule?
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 10: I would say that's fair. Yeah, don't let any outsiders
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 10: say anything bad because we will defend it tntil we die.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 10: And we may die here, but it's fine because we
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 10: love it.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 23: I think if you spend one or two nights a
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 23: year here, it's Lebron James does you don't have the
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 23: ability to talk as badly as he did about this city.
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's all true, but who do you think
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: you are, Lebron James.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 10: He's talking well, he was talking trash about the hotels, right,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 10: the hotels that the NBA players get to stay in
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 10: when they're here, which are very nice. By the way,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 10: they're the nicest hotels that we have.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 3: So I have a so Lebron James making headlines. Everybody's
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: picking on Memphis, and it just seems to me, Parker May,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 3: that there seems to be a concerted effort to try
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 3: to move the Memphis Grizzlies from Memphis to Nashville.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 23: And I really don't understand why, because you think about Nashville,
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 23: Alredy has a tone of great sports. They've got the
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 23: Nationale Sounds and the Triple A affiliate, They've got the Predators,
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 23: they have the Titans, they have an MLS team, So
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 23: you think about that, it'd be hard to fit them in.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 23: If you were going to move the Grizzlies, I'd have
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 23: to share an arena with the Predators, which is not
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 23: the easiest thing to do. And why would you take
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 23: them out of this city who has loved them so much,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 23: especially through the ups and downs this franchise has had.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 3: You know, it's a fair point, and Dylan, I want
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: you to jump in as well, because when you look
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 3: at Nashville, first of all, they're not selling out their hockey,
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 3: the hockey team games, the hockey matches, they're not selling
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 3: out the football game. They're getting this bazillion dollar new
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 3: football stadium and they're not filling it up. And if anything,
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 3: the talk I've heard is that Nashville would be in
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 3: line for maybe a Major League Baseball franchise.
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 23: You're exactly right with the NBA already trying to expand it,
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 23: and it will be right next to them trying to expand.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 23: Nashville is really hoping to get one of those two
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 23: teams in the MLB, potentially in Washington as well, but
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 23: Nashville is a big one that is trying to get there,
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 23: so it wouldn't really make much sense for them to
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 23: bring two teams on. And I think it's a really
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 23: they have a great case for it in Nashville, which
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 23: is why I don't do not think they should take
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 23: the Grizzlies.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 3: Dylan.
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  Speaker 10: I just think, can we just have one thing, Can
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 10: we keep the Grizzlies, because I mean, this is our
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 10: one of the biggest, you know, money makers we have,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 10: right is the Grizzlies. It's our biggest attraction, one of
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 10: the biggest things that people come here for Memphis to do,
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 10: and I mean, to get rid of it would just
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 10: be not good for the city. Also the fans that
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 10: there's a lot of people that go out to Grizzlies games,
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 10: especially now the city is safer, downtown is safer, so
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 10: people are actually going out enjoying that scenery and going
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 10: to games.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 3: It's true, only seven people got shot in downtown over
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: the weekend, so you know it's only that's yeah, progress
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 3: we're making. It's the baby stumps, right guys. I think
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 3: they're all gonna live. It should be, they should be fine.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 3: They'll get over it. But again it's you know, this
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 3: this idea of you know, the It was Lebron James
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 3: who was upset because of the Weston, which is the
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 3: team hotel, and he did he says that the NBA
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 3: players just don't like staying at this particular hotel.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 13: And I don't understand that.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 23: I saw a YouTube video, actually a YouTube creator actually
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 23: went to this hotel this past weekend just kind of
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 23: show the experience of it.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 13: It's a fantastic hotel.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 23: It is right across the street from the FedEx Form
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 23: so you don't have to worry about taking a bus
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 23: over the arena in the morning when you're going to
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 23: street round or going to the game. You can walk
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 23: or take a two minute bus ride.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 14: Like.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 13: There's nothing to complain out for that hotel.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 3: I will say this, there was actually a big shootout
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 3: in front of the hotel, but it was two rampers.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 3: Was it the pooh shin sty guy or was that somebody?
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 3: You know he did something else. I think he and
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 3: his dad kidnapped somebody.
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 3: I'm not big into the whole rap culture, but anyway,
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 3: you know, you had a couple of rampers going at it.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 10: What are you gonna do? It sounds like you're agreeing
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 10: with Lebron almost here.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well I am. But you know I'm allowed to
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 3: do that because I live here. He can't do that.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 3: He doesn't live here. And by the way, you're right,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 3: the hotel, the bathtubs, the beds, everything are made. The
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 3: showers are made for you know, people that are twelve
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 3: feet tall.
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 23: You make a great point because not only is Lebron
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 23: James just completely unnecessary talking about it, we said it
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 23: per like we live here, that we've experienced the city,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 23: our whole lives. For you to come in and just
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 23: tear down the one part that you've seen in Memphis
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 23: isn't really worth it?
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 3: And what is it? He from Akron, Ohio. Yes, come on, Akron,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: good lord, what a crap city. No, we're not. We
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: don't broadcast there, so we can say.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 10: It's actually really fun to go to Grizzlies.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 3: Games when an Akron No, sorry.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 10: So sorry, this is like when when Lebron is in
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 10: Memphis and he's playing against the Grizzlies, it is so
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 10: fun because our fans hate hate him, Lebron hate him.
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 3: By the way, you know, I didn't realize this. John
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 3: Morant is selling his house, which is worth what three
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 3: million dollars. He lives in Eads, which is like where
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: all the wealthy people live. I figured he'd have like
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 3: a little townhouse or something, and I don't know, Orange
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 3: Mound or something like that.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 10: Well, he may be moving there. Actually, he may be
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 10: moving somewhere far far away. Because seems like we're about
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 10: to get rid of.
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 3: Him KWHAM news or sports director Parnker by joining us
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 3: and Parker the big story. President Trump just a couple
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 3: of days ago signed an order calling for an urgent
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: national action to save college sports. What do you think
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: about the President jumping into all of this.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 23: I think it's fantastic so that he's willing to step
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 23: in into this day and age of college sports. That
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 23: it's just literally the NIL and transfer portal and it's
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 23: just been chaotic, and I think President Trump is trying
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 23: to start the change of It needs some sort of
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 23: balance and way of doing things because it is just
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 23: pure chaos right now.
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 13: The goal was to bring structure.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 23: I think that's what President Trump is starting to do,
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 23: and I love what this has.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 13: The potential to do.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 23: It would limit the transfer portal, put regulations on NIL
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 23: to where you're not having college athletes go to five
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 23: different schools in five years.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand why. I mean, it's such a commonsense
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 3: thing that it is doing here. I don't understand why
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 3: the NCAA could not come up with this on their own.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 23: That is one of the many problems the NCAA is
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 23: facing right now. On top of trying to expand the
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 23: NCAA tournament and dealing with nil roster construction. It's just
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 23: a lot of mess that they're doing. President Trump's trying
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 23: to help them out.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 3: I love this idea. And by the speaking of that,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 3: the what is it now, seventy seventy eight team seventy six, seventy.
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 13: Six Good lord, guys, we don't need it.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, all you have to do is look
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 3: at the NBA right now. I mean there's a big
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 3: problem within the NBA and their business model is not working.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 3: And someone actually suggested cutting the games for the NBA
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 3: down to like sixty games a season. But I mean,
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 3: now we're going to look at the tournament going on
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 3: almost as long as the regular season. In the college basketball.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 23: The problem is now, if you do expand the tournament,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 23: you'll add an extra week to that, which means you
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 23: have to push the transferportal back, which means your college
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 23: basketball season you'll start playing games in first week of November,
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 23: you won't be through until middle of April. It's such
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 23: a long season for these college kids, as well as
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 23: managing their class schedules and stuff like that. So you've
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 23: just got to find a way to regulate it, and
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 23: there's no need for seventy six teams.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: Delan, what say you?
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 10: I mean Parker's spot on there. So this is maybe
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 10: a little random, maybe not. But I noticed as I
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 10: was watching the games over the weekend, you know, Illinois
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 10: was playing Yukon. This may just be a random observation
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 10: or something like that, but half of their team, their
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 10: top players, they were not from America. Like two players
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 10: are from Serbia, and then someone's from like Czechoslovakia or
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 10: something like that. It was it was strange hearing the
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 10: last names because I thought that we were listening to
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 10: like fourign basketball at that point.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 23: Yeah, the A line I have gone to something called
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 23: the Bulkan five five players from that part of Europe.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 23: And their head coach, Brad Underwood, has kind of leaned
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 23: into the European recruiting. And that's part of the problem
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 23: that President Trump is trying to fix. You've got so
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 23: many different players and coaches just trying to steal talent
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 23: from Europe, which are professionals are they're playing in pro
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 23: leagues in Europe and bringing them to the NCAAA.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: May I just say, and this may be this may
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 3: be racist, but I just said it's kind of nice
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 3: to see wine GUIs playing basketball again.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 10: I didn't think we could do that in America. We
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 10: can't get the white Americans to play basketball.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 3: But their baby steps.
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  Speaker 13: We have to go to Europe.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's where our forefathers came from. So I'm
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 3: just saying this. I'm like, oh, wow, there's a white
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 3: guy and.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 10: His name is Maxvic. That's fine.
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 3: They have to wrap his name around the jerseys. So
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 3: it just sort of guys, I want to play something
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 3: from Nick Saban. He's very happy for President Trump taking
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 3: a listen.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 20: And really works long term without some kind of regulations,
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 20: you know, something that allows you know, universities to preserve
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 20: of opportunities for all sports, you know, including women's and
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 20: Olympic sports, you know, not just football and basketball. And
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 20: you know, I want to thanks the President for you know,
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 20: showing leadership and a creating a roundtable which consisted of
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 20: you know, college presidents, commissioners, police directors, coaches to gather
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 20: information as to you know, what might help create some
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 20: regulation that would help us long term be able to
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 20: manage and fund all sports so that we can continue
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 20: to create opportunities for young people.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 3: Now this is interesting because there's a story out of California,
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 3: California Baptist Universe. Do you guys play the cal Baptist
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 3: We do not. Okay, So they're pretty large Christian school.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 3: They've just announced they're cutting a good number of their
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 3: men's sports just to be in compliance with Title nind
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 3: So they're men's men's wrestling, golf, swimming, and diving is
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 3: being removed. And now you've got three wrestlers that are
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 3: filing a federal lawsuit. But I mean, that's really again,
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 3: is that really what Title nine was supposed to be about,
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 3: is like limiting the number of opportunities for young men.
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 23: It's a really weird case in the college game that
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 23: you've seen universities have to deal with because you, as
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 23: you mentioned right there with cal Baptists, schools are having
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 23: to cut men's sports or add other women's sports that
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 23: they're not used to competing in just to meet those requirements.
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 3: Let's go to the phones here nine oh one two
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 3: six zero five to nine two six Harold in Memphis
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 3: listening to us on k WAM or flagship station. Harold,
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 3: you're on the air with Parker May.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 21: What I do agree with y'all?
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 14: That from Memphis.
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 21: You can talk about Memphis.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 12: If you're not, you better not talk about it.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 21: I'm a Grizzlies fan, don't get me wrong, But Kenny,
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 21: Grizzlies make it here without the shortfall of money that
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 21: the city in the county pays every year.
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 9: That's my question.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 3: That is a good question, And you know that's a
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 3: big challenge is they've been playing to a lot of
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 3: empty seats at the FedEx.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 13: For them, it's a real challenge.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 23: And Harold is a great question, and I think the
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 23: answer is you kind of to trust the process a
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 23: little bit. And I think it's hard on the city
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 23: when the Grizzies have been trying to renovate FedEx Swarm
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 23: in the past couple years. They've slowly made progress on that.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 23: But I think obviously this is a down year for
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 23: the Grizzlies. Obviously a bright future ahead with hopefully healthier
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 23: pieces coming back with Zach Edy and then a potential
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 23: top five draft pick. But it is a weird time
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 23: when the city is trying to grow the team and
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 23: but there's no funding there.
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 11: To use it.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 3: Have you guys seen banana Ball. It's fantastic, So have
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 3: you guys actually been to like a banana ball. What's
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 3: that like?
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 23: It is kind of it's very unique, that's the best
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 23: way to put it. It's truly an experience. You don't
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 23: feel like you're just a spectator. You kind of feel
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 23: like you're part of the game, which is such a
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 23: unique role they have where if you're a fan you
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 23: catch a foul ball, it's an out.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 13: So that's one of my favorite roles that they have.
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 23: It's they are reinventing the game of baseball for a
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 23: younger audience, which I think is that's what the Major
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 23: League Baseball is missing. They're trying to they're getting better
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 23: with the automated strike zone and trying to get the
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 23: younger fans more involved. But I'm really liking what the
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 23: Bananas are doing.
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 10: I love the CEO of Banana Ball. He's so cool
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 10: and the fact that he won't raise the price of
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 10: tickets is one of my favorite things about him, because
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 10: his whole philosophy is it is for the fans. It's
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 10: not for anybody else, Like we're doing this because of
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 10: the fans. The only problem with that is you can't
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 10: get a ticket. They're all sold out everywhere you go.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 10: Is completely sold.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 3: So, you know, they came to Memphis and they were
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 3: at the AutoZone Ballpark and sold out for the two
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 3: nights they were there. Then opening night for the Memphis
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 3: Redbirds and maybe two thousand people showed up, and everybody's
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 3: trying to figure out, oh, how do you know, how
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 3: do we get people back in the seats? Well, maybe
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 3: they ought to take a look at what Banana ball
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 3: is doing.
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 23: It is a tough thing to look at, especially from
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 23: minor league baseball and a team that the Red Bords
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 23: have been playing good baseball so far this season, eight
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 23: and one on the year, but they haven't drawn the attendance.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 23: And I think some things we said that you mentioned
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 23: doing the ticket pu Subanabal, they're very affordable for all families.
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 23: Maybe the Red Berds need to look at limiting ticket
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 23: or lowering ticket prices five dollars ticket nights, one dollar
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 23: ticket nights, something like that to just get the fans there.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 13: Maybe you make money off concessions.
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 3: Nonyway Major League Sports has outpriced you know, the fan
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 3: I mean honestly, and I was looking at there were
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 3: some people that were getting the tickets in the cheap
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 3: seats for the for the NCAA championship game, but they
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 3: weren't watching the women and you couldn't even see they
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 3: were so far up. I mean, who in their right
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 3: mind thought it's a great idea to put a basketball
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 3: game in a giant football stadium.
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 13: It is a weird argument.
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 23: I've understood both sides of it as someone who has
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 23: been to the Final Four a few times and sat
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 23: near the top.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 13: I actually think.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 23: It's good for the fans to have it in that
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 23: football stadium because now you might not get the best
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 23: viewing experience as you would it feels out of basketball arena,
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 23: but you're getting more fans in the building. It's more
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 23: affordable for the everyday fan instead of like if you
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 23: played that at an NBA arena where the capacity is
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 23: seventeen to twenty thousand, the ticket prices would be triple.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 13: So it's a tough argument, Dylan.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 3: I have seats every single game for like football, right
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 3: there on the fifty yard line in my home. Can
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 3: you stick around for a secondly, Parker May joining us
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 3: talking sports. We love it when Parker's come is in town.
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 3: Our number nine oh one two six zero five nine
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 3: two six. This is the Ton Stern Show. All right,
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 3: ramping up a very busy news day, talking a little
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 3: sports with our good friend Parker May, sports director for
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 3: KWAM News Radio and you know Dylan. Guys, while we
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 3: were chatting, apparently now the Artemis two folks are now
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 3: the farthest from the Earth than any humans in history. Wow,
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 3: that's that's pretty awesome.
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 10: The pictures coming out of that is so it's so amazing,
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 10: like unbelievable.
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 3: You know, they fixed the toilet problem too, and they
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 3: had to turn literally the spacecraft to the sun because
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 3: all the pea apparently the water the fluid froze and
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 3: so they had to unfought and then once they did that,
• 1:50:13
  Speaker 3: everything was fine.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 13: Unbelievable.
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 10: It's kind of funny turning the ship towards the sun.
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 3: It does seem though, guys, because last week we were
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 3: talking about the aliens. I don't know, if you know,
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 3: they're telling us that apparently we've got aliens, and they
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 3: are the government is breeding the aliens with illegal aliens
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 3: that are coming across the border, and it's quite the thing.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 3: So we had a big conversation about last week. But
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 3: here's my deal, guys, If in fact we really do
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 3: have these aliens, and we've got all their technology. Why
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 3: why can't we fix the toilet on the little space spaceship.
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: I don't understand that, I guess right exactly.
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 10: I mean put alien mechanic or something alien plumber, I guess.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to figure out who are the aliens? I mean,
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 3: if they are breeding, what are they doing with him?
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 3: Do we have like a little colony of like alien people.
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a great question.
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 13: Way too many questions I have about that.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 3: You know, it could be well, it could be the
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 3: Albanians or whoever. We're getting all these basketball players from, yeah,
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 3: Uzbekistan or something.
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 10: It's like eight foot tall alien Derbia all over Czechoslovakia
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 10: just finding players in the in the Eastern Europe for him.
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 3: I love it all right? And when's the championship game?
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 13: Is that what I'm might?
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 3: Oh wow? On top of everything else.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 23: To you, God, it's a really tough game for me
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 23: to pick, honestly, Michigan and Yukon. Michigan, who's been one
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 23: of the most dominant teams all season long, and then Yukon,
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 23: who upset Duke in the lead dy and then got
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 23: a big one over Illinois in the final four and
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 23: Dan Hurley. We mentioned he's such a controversial coach, but
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 23: he is a winner. Going for a winner, third title
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 23: in four years is unbelievab hard to pick against him
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 23: in a national title game, but I think I'm gonna
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 23: take Michigan.
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 13: They're a little too they have.
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  Speaker 10: Too much for you, a Yukon just because Parker's picking Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: All right, there you go. We've got some adversity here,
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  Speaker 3: all right, some strife, gentlemen. Great to see you, Parker,
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  Speaker 3: Great to see you. Safe travels as you head back
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  Speaker 3: to college. All right, folks, Tonight five o'clock Eastern, The
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 3: Tom Stern Show. We have a jam packed lineup. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to see you back on the radio tomorrow at
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  Speaker 3: neon o'clock. Get out there and be going, everybody,