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The Pollsters Are Lying to You, Republicans! · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee. On the banks of the mighty Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: It's America's conservative blowtorch.
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  Speaker 2: That's us.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Our love is American. Well, hello everybody. Welcome to the
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  Speaker 4: Todd Stearns Radio Extravaganza. You know, the interesting thing about
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  Speaker 4: this show, you never know what's going to happen. You
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  Speaker 4: really don't. And that's part of the joy of doing
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  Speaker 4: the Todd Stearns Radio program. We just have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of fun. We love hearing from our listeners. And yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know what you guys were putting in the
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  Speaker 4: sweet tea. But the callers yesterday, you guys reached an
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  Speaker 4: all-time high. You raised the bar of callers on the
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  Speaker 4: Don Stearns radio show. From the guy who called in
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  Speaker 4: about the government teat to the, what, the adedictomy diagnosis.
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  Speaker 4: Well done. Well done and well played. We have some
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  Speaker 4: of the, dare I say, wittiest. Well, no, yes, of course, Dylan,
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  Speaker 4: of course you're the most attractive. We have the best-looking
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  Speaker 4: conservative women. listening to this radio program in America. I'll
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  Speaker 4: say the world.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: They're beautiful. And the guys, yeah, you guys aren't too bad.
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  Speaker 4: You can't just leave them behind. You're better than average.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm just saying, conservative, and by and large, conservative
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  Speaker 4: women are just drop-dead gorgeous anyway. But the ones that
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  Speaker 4: listen to this program, off the charts. We should have
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  Speaker 4: a calendar. We should do a calendar. Babes of the
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  Speaker 4: Todd Stern Show. Am I digging a hole here that
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  Speaker 4: I can't get out of?
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  Speaker 3: You might already, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It's too early for you to be doing this.
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  Speaker 4: We should take auditions. We should have auditions.
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  Speaker 6: Double down on it.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Later this week, those of you wanting to be Miss February. Wow. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I guarantee you we would get some, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: hold on, let's just put a pin in this. I
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  Speaker 4: know we've got a lot of, we've got to save
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  Speaker 4: the Republic, all right? But let's talk about this for
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  Speaker 4: a moment. I mean, when you think about the average
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  Speaker 4: Democrat gal, if I were to tell you, oh, this
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  Speaker 4: is Marge, and she's a Democrat, what would you immediately think, Dylan?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what I would think.
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  Speaker 4: You don't want to say.
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  Speaker 6: I don't want to say it on the radio.
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: I put you– well, I will because that's what we
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  Speaker 4: do for a living.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: If I were to tell you, oh, I have a
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  Speaker 4: friend named Marge and– no, really, I don't have Democrat friends.
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  Speaker 4: If I have a neighbor named Marge and Marge is
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  Speaker 4: a Democrat, you think a couple of things. First of all,
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  Speaker 4: there's a coexist bumper sticker on the back of the vehicle.
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  Speaker 4: She is, dare I say– She knows her way around
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  Speaker 4: the all-you-can-eat buffet. She's wearing the Birkenstocks. She's got magenta hair.
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  Speaker 4: There are multiple body piercings, including, and this is pretty
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  Speaker 4: much a guarantee, she's got a nose ring. And she
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  Speaker 4: screams like a banshee. I mean, that's immediately– so if
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  Speaker 4: you're thinking– I mean, if I'm telling you, oh, I've
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  Speaker 4: got a liberal that I know, and her name is Marge,
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  Speaker 4: that's what you would think of. Now, on the other
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  Speaker 4: side of the equation, if I were to tell you, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I have a– you will say Kristen. I have a
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  Speaker 4: conservative friend named Kristen. I have a number of friends
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  Speaker 4: named Kristen who are conservatives. Dylan, what would you immediately
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  Speaker 4: think of?
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  Speaker 6: Wonderful hygiene. The hair's nice.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's it. Marge also smells. You can smell her
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  Speaker 4: before you see her.
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  Speaker 6: You forgot that part. I wanted to add it.
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  Speaker 4: Body odor.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Body odor.
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  Speaker 6: Knows her way around deodorant pretty well.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're not building a hole. We're digging a trench.
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  Speaker 4: You're doing this to me, Todd. An entire trench.
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  Speaker 6: You're making me do this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you would think, I mean, when you think
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  Speaker 4: of a conservative woman, you think of maybe a happy homemaker.
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  Speaker 4: or a successful businesswoman who is very well put together,
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  Speaker 4: and she goes to the gym, she takes care of herself,
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  Speaker 4: she knows how to cook, she knows how to shoot
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  Speaker 4: a gun, and she could be a beauty queen. And
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  Speaker 4: many of them are, by the way. I just described
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  Speaker 4: Miss Mississippi, and I've never even met Miss Mississippi. This
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  Speaker 4: is why Southern women mostly, by and large, win the
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  Speaker 4: beauty pageants across America. So I'm just telling you. What
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  Speaker 4: were we talking about? Oh, yes. So we have a
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  Speaker 4: good-looking audience. So all that to say, I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess we could put together like a
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  Speaker 4: conservative women of the Todd Stern show like calendar. I
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  Speaker 4: think it would sell like hotcakes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it might. Yeah, that's for sure. I think– are
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  Speaker 6: you going to do a men's section for us too
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  Speaker 6: or are we just– we're not.
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  Speaker 4: No, we're not.
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  Speaker 6: You and me, we can't be on a calendar together.
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  Speaker 4: No, we can't be on a calendar.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that just leaves, that makes me feel left out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the ladies. But we could, I mean, we could
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  Speaker 4: be like on the back cover or something, like put
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  Speaker 4: a staff shot.
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  Speaker 6: Because we appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: But we've got to, yeah, we've got to put like
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  Speaker 4: the conservative ladies like on John Deere tractors. Oh, yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 4: You know, on a riding lawnmower.
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  Speaker 6: In a hunting stand, deer stand.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, deer stand, yeah. Got to do, oh, working the
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  Speaker 4: smoker over at a barbecue joint.
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  Speaker 8: For sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love this idea.
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  Speaker 6: This is going to go over well.
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait. And, you know, and again, we would
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  Speaker 4: love your ideas, ladies, but we want to celebrate you
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  Speaker 4: and we want to worship you like you should be worshipped.
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  Speaker 4: We love putting conservative women up on a pedestal. Did
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  Speaker 4: we cross the line yet?
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  Speaker 6: I think we've crossed the line five minutes ago.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't even been five minutes into the show. What happened?
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  Speaker 4: This is terrible. So I say that, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: because of what happened the other day at President Trump's rally.
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  Speaker 4: It was in Youngstown, Ohio, when they had this very
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  Speaker 4: large woman who just started screaming at the president. And
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  Speaker 4: they had to haul her out of the stadium there.
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  Speaker 4: And she was yammering. It was ugly. And we described
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  Speaker 4: as they were trying to get this rather portly woman out.
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  Speaker 4: out of the stands. And every time the men tried
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  Speaker 4: to grab onto the blubber, their hands just disappeared into
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  Speaker 4: the fat folds. And it was a terrible situation. And
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  Speaker 4: then as she's being hauled out, they finally got her out.
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  Speaker 4: And I feel bad for the guys, the law enforcement,
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  Speaker 4: because I'm not sure if they had back supports or anything,
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  Speaker 4: but you don't want to throw your back out That's
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  Speaker 4: a lot of weight to lug around. And as they're
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  Speaker 4: hauling her out, they ask her if she wants to
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  Speaker 4: say anything, and she starts cursing Donald Trump. Well, Donald
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  Speaker 4: Trump didn't force you to eat the extra Big Mac, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: That's on you. And so then there's a story out
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  Speaker 4: of Austin, Texas. A liberal white woman is embroiled in
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  Speaker 4: a massive controversy with black college students who So apparently,
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  Speaker 4: the way this story goes, out of Austin, there is
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  Speaker 4: a liberal white woman. She moved into this predominantly black
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  Speaker 4: neighborhood across the street from an HBCU. And she's got
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  Speaker 4: a James Talafrico sign in her front yard. And she's
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  Speaker 4: been screaming at the black college kids over street parking.
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  Speaker 4: And so now the entire neighborhood is coming out. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of like And no offense to big city folks,
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  Speaker 4: but it's sort of like in many of the southern communities,
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  Speaker 4: we've got all these northerners coming down. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to call them Yankees. They are. It's a term of endearment.
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  Speaker 4: But we've got all these Yankees moving to the southern states,
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  Speaker 4: and they move into these neighborhoods. And in a lot
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  Speaker 4: of neighborhoods in the south, people still keep farm animals,
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  Speaker 4: whether it be goats or chickens or roosters or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: And so now these folks, the newcomers, the Yankees, they're invading. Well,
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  Speaker 4: if I wanted to be rude, Dylan, I would have
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  Speaker 4: called them carpetbaggers. I'm not trying to be rude. I'm
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  Speaker 4: trying to be polite, so I'm calling them Yankees. So
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  Speaker 4: the Yankees come down, and the next thing you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're going to the city council. I mean, it's happened,
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  Speaker 4: I know, in our area where you've got the Yankees,
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  Speaker 4: and they're upset because you've got the rooster crowing or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: so they go to the council meetings. Hello, my name
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  Speaker 4: is Guido, and I'm from Joymentown by way of Newark,
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  Speaker 4: New Jersey. And what's up with the roosters? And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: people can't understand them. They're like, what did you say?
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  Speaker 4: You're the rooster, man. It's a go and a cock-a-doodle-doo.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't like people waking me up at the
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  Speaker 4: crack of dawn by saying cock-a-doodle-doo. And you're like, well, sorry, sir.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what roosters do. I mean, they cock-a-doodle-doo. What
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  Speaker 4: do you want us to do? So anyway, that's what
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  Speaker 4: we're dealing with here. And that's what they're dealing with
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  Speaker 4: in Austin, Texas. This liberal white chick moves into the
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  Speaker 4: black neighborhood, and now she's expecting everybody to conform to
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  Speaker 4: her way of living. That's not how it works, ma'am.
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  Speaker 4: And it's always the woke white liberal women.
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  Speaker 8: Always.
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  Speaker 4: So I feel bad for the HBCU students because you
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  Speaker 4: know what? We have to deal with that here in
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  Speaker 4: Memphis a lot. And there's nothing worse than a woke
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  Speaker 4: and there's nothing uglier than a woke white woman. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm not talking about appearance. I'm just talking about the
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  Speaker 4: condition of their soul. They're very unkind people. So all
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  Speaker 4: that to say, hang in there, Austin, Texas, HBCUs, and
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  Speaker 4: feel bad for those kids. All that to say, we've
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  Speaker 4: got a great show today, ladies and gentlemen. Matt Towery
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  Speaker 4: is going to be here, our favorite pollster. I was
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  Speaker 4: listening to Hannity's show yesterday afternoon. I was out doing
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  Speaker 4: the exercise walk over at the Shelby Farms in Memphis.
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  Speaker 4: one of the largest urban parks in America. And I
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  Speaker 4: was listening to Hannity Towery was on and just really
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  Speaker 4: gave a great dissertation on why I am correct about
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  Speaker 4: these polls. You cannot trust the polling data that's out there.
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  Speaker 4: So we're going to talk to Matt Towery. He's got
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  Speaker 4: a new book out that's coming up a little bit
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  Speaker 4: later in the program. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. Again,
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  Speaker 4: that number 901- 260-5926. I just want to explain the
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  Speaker 4: lay of the land here and where we're going with
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  Speaker 4: the midterms. And it seems like every single day my
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  Speaker 4: BS meter has been spiking out. And there is, I
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  Speaker 4: have absolutely no doubt in my mind, no doubt whatsoever,
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  Speaker 4: that there is a concerted effort to take down the
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  Speaker 4: America First movement. And that's really what the midterms– the
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  Speaker 4: midterms is– it's really not about the Iran war. And
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  Speaker 4: hear me on this. It's really not even about high
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  Speaker 4: gas prices or even affordability. Those are not– that's what
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  Speaker 4: they're going to tell you. That's what they tell you
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  Speaker 4: the issues are. And a lot of people are buying
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  Speaker 4: that perception, and I get that. But that's not why
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  Speaker 4: Republicans are dealing with issues right now. I believe it
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  Speaker 4: has everything to do with the establishment Republican, the establishment
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  Speaker 4: wing of the Republican Party, and the Democrats, and the media,
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  Speaker 4: and the pollsters all colluding together here. You see, the
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  Speaker 4: establishment Republicans, they're okay not being in charge. As a
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  Speaker 4: matter of fact, they would prefer to be the minority party.
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  Speaker 4: Because ultimately for them, it's really not about serving their constituents.
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  Speaker 4: It's about lining their pockets with lobbyist dollars and donations.
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  Speaker 4: That's why they don't care. It doesn't matter if they're
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  Speaker 4: in the majority or not. They're going to get those dollars,
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  Speaker 4: and they don't want anybody in the way of those paychecks.
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  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, it's a little bit harder
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  Speaker 4: to get those dollars when you're in the majority. So
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  Speaker 4: if it takes losing in November, they're okay with that.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm not okay with that, and I don't think
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  Speaker 4: you are either. And I think at the end of it,
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  Speaker 4: first of all, we've told you don't pay attention to
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  Speaker 4: the polls, all right? Just set those aside for a moment.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, I don't think that
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  Speaker 4: you are– I know you're concerned about gas prices. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think that's going to keep you away from the polls.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're still going to go. And look, you
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  Speaker 4: have every right to be enraged at the Republicans right now.
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  Speaker 4: I know I am. The Lord knows I am. But ultimately,
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  Speaker 4: we cannot allow the communists to get a foothold in Congress.
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  Speaker 4: Do you hear me on that? We can't let that happen.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to teach the Republicans a lesson, fine,
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  Speaker 4: that's great. But not by risking the future of the country.
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  Speaker 4: Because once those communists get a foothold in Congress, there
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  Speaker 4: will be more of them. And after, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: three or four more election cycles, there could be a
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  Speaker 4: whole lot of them. And we could be in a
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  Speaker 4: very bad fix as a country. So all that to say,
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  Speaker 4: hang in there, ladies and gentlemen. Get out and vote.
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  Speaker 4: Don't listen to all the– there are a lot of
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  Speaker 4: negative Nancys out there with the polling data. Don't believe
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  Speaker 4: it at all. I will say this, campaign like you're
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  Speaker 4: 20 points behind. That's what we've got to do every
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  Speaker 4: single day between now and Election Day. And I do
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  Speaker 4: believe we're going to be pleasantly surprised by the outcome
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  Speaker 4: of the midterm elections. I absolutely do. We've got to
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  Speaker 4: take a break.
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  Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 4: That's 901-260-5926. You know what we're going to do, Dylan, today?
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  Speaker 4: Today and today only, our hot female callers, they go
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  Speaker 4: right to the top of the list. How's that?
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  Speaker 6: That sounds great.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to take you on the honor system.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 4: I want to play some audio here. This is from Mississippi,
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  Speaker 4: where the Obama and many of the other big-time Democrats
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  Speaker 4: are campaigning, and they believe that they've got a chance
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  Speaker 4: to pick up some ground and momentum in Mississippi, the
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  Speaker 4: Magnolia State. There's a guy running for the Senate. He's
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  Speaker 4: a Democrat by the name of Scott Collum, and he's
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  Speaker 4: running against Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. She is a rhino. And
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  Speaker 4: she's one of these senators, you know, there are some
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  Speaker 4: senators that enjoy going on the shows, talking to their constituents,
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  Speaker 4: sitting down and defending their votes on controversial issues, and
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  Speaker 4: really being there for the people. She's not one of
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  Speaker 4: those people. So she was doing an interview the other day,
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  Speaker 4: and there was a guy named Charlie Hancher in Tennessee
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  Speaker 4: who was actually on my show. And the guy was
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  Speaker 4: the former Ag Commissioner of Tennessee. He's running for Congress,
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  Speaker 4: and he said he was really upset about the high
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  Speaker 4: prices of beef. So I said, what is your message
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  Speaker 4: to the voters? And he said, well, turkey is cheaper.
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  Speaker 4: I think he said turkey is $ 4 a pound. So
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  Speaker 4: Charlie Hancher, the Republican, says, you know, eat more turkey.
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  Speaker 4: You have Michelle Tafoya, who is running for the Senate
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  Speaker 4: as a Republican in Minnesota, saying, don't buy Starbucks. That's
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  Speaker 4: the answer to, you know, the high prices. So Cindy
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  Speaker 4: Hyde-Smith says, just pick another protein. So that's her answer.
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  Speaker 4: Pick another protein. Take a listen to Cut 33.
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  Speaker 10: The price of beef continuing to go up. You know,
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  Speaker 10: you have so many proteins to choose from.
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  Speaker 3: Pick another protein? I'd rather pick another senator instead.
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  Speaker 4: Pick another protein?
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  Speaker 3: She done lost her damn mind.
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  Speaker 9: I'd rather pick another senator.
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  Speaker 3: Pick another protein? What the?
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  Speaker 7: Pick another senator instead.
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  Speaker 11: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Got a good beat to it. That's actually a very
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  Speaker 4: effective ad. So, again, my question is, it's really not
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  Speaker 4: a question. There are two things going, well, there are
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  Speaker 4: multiple things going on with the Republicans out of the aisle.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, these kinds of answers to these kinds
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  Speaker 4: of questions, that's political malpractice. Shame on you, Republicans. Come
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  Speaker 4: up with a better answer than eat more turkey or
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  Speaker 4: pick another protein. Are you kidding me? Come on, get real.
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  Speaker 4: But again, it goes back to the broader issue here.
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  Speaker 4: Do some of these Republicans really want to win? Are
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  Speaker 4: they trying to sabotage your own campaigns? I mean, that's
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  Speaker 4: what I'd be asking. 901-260-5926. That's our telephone number. Hang tight.
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  Speaker 4: We'll be right back, everybody. So we know a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more now about the guy who became an appetizer
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  Speaker 4: for the Siberian tiger in the UK. Really more not
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  Speaker 4: an appetizer, it was more of an amuse-bouche, I guess,
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  Speaker 4: that little.
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  Speaker 4: Special something before the main meal arrives. His name is
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  Speaker 4: William Chapman, and apparently he's a former child actor. And
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  Speaker 4: many of you have seen this video where he jumps
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  Speaker 4: into the tiger enclosure at this zoo and then decides
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  Speaker 4: to play with the tiger. And the tiger was actually
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  Speaker 4: looking for dinner. And I don't know if the tiger
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  Speaker 4: ordered Grubhub or not, but the tiger turns around and, well,
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  Speaker 4: there he is. And it's a terrible tragedy. It turns
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  Speaker 4: out that the family of this guy said that he
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  Speaker 4: was suffering from severe mental illness. So my question is, okay, well,
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  Speaker 4: why was he being left? to his own devices what
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  Speaker 4: was anybody looking after this guy so the family says
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: they're utterly devastated that their loved one was eaten as
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: any of us would be I suppose The family says, quote,
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: we're devastated by our loss, struggling to come to terms
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: with what has happened. William suffered from significant mental illness
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: over a number of years and was consequently prescribed strong medication.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: The family are hopeful that the relevant authorities will do
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: their utmost to get to the bottom of why our
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: amazing son did what he did. He was remembered by
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: loved ones as a Bright, warm, and engaging young man
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: whose family loved him dearly, and William loved them back.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Video shows him pacing around with his headphones in, happily dancing,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: before asking fellow zoo-goers to snap a picture of him
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: with the tiger in the background. The tiger, by the way,
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: weighed 420 pounds. and dragged him into a wooden part
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: of the enclosure, and then, well, we have to imagine,
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: devoured him. The one-time actor performed alongside Harry Potter stars
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: as a child. Now, this is where it gets interesting.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: President Trump has weighed in on this. And the president
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: sharing the video of the child actor and the tiger.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: And the president said, don't mess with nature. And the
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: president was actually right here. I agree. And we don't
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: know what, I mean, clearly this guy was crazy. He
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: was crazy nuts. But the president's under fire now. And
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: the reason why is that after the president posted the video,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: he posted another video. And it's an AI video. We
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: think it is.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: A lot of people are saying this was an AI video.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: But I don't know about that, Dylan, because it shows
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: President Trump in his trademark blue suit and red tie.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: And the president has jumped into the enclosure and begins
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: wrestling with the tiger. And at the very end of
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: the video, the president, by the way, chases after the tiger,
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: jumps on the tiger's back, they tumble to the ground,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: and then the president and the tiger embrace each other.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: And the president's under a lot of fire for this.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: People are saying that the president is being insensitive. Do
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: we know for sure it's an AI video? I mean,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: our president... He's done some remarkable things. So maybe he
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: has tamed the animal kingdom.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: There's always a chance.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: You never know.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: You can never be too sure about those things.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: But people are just enraged over this. They're saying the
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: president crossed the line. Drudge reports they have no less
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: than five headlines about this. President loses the plot. Chasing
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: AI tigers. Inflation accelerating. Nightmare before midterms. I mean, it's
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: a terrible thing, but everybody's talking about it. Here's what
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: Piers Morgan said. This is appallingly tasteless. Delete it, President Trump. Well,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Piers is British. We really don't care about his opinion.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Republicans against Trump. Someone take Grandpa's phone away. Another person says,
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: I'm utterly convinced he's trying to lose the midterms. Mediaite
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: reporting that President Trump sparked a wave of backlash after
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: he posted an AI-generated video of himself wrestling and cuddling
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: a tiger. The president posted this underneath the video of
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: him cuddling the tiger. Don't ever mess with nature, President DJT.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: The White House rapid response account subsequently amplified that post.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: And then Trump returned to true social with a captionless
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: AI-generated video depicting himself confronting the tiger. Former D.C. Commissioner
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Patricia Aguino said his brain is cooked talking about Trump.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: And independent journalist Aaron Ruppar, who's a radical leftist, says
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: the president is a sick man. Yeah, I just know
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: the person who was sick was the guy who jumped
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: in to the enclosure and went after the tigers. George Conway,
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: the ex-husband of Kellyanne, said the mentally ill president of
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: the United States gleefully posts grisly video of a man
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: being killed by a tiger, and then an official White
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: House account funded by taxpayers reposted. Will the American media
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: finally report on the president's manifest psychiatric disorders? I don't know.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Is the president crazy? Maybe crazy like a fox or
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: a tiger in this case. But in all seriousness, Everybody
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: in the country is talking about it. And I think
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: this is a pretty shrewd move on the president's part
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: because the president knows everybody's talking about it. I mean,
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: when was the last time you saw somebody jump into
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: the tiger enclosure at your local zoo?
• 25:40
  Speaker 11: 901-260-5926, our.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. There you go. It's People are
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: going to– what are they going to– I mean, people are–
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: what are you going to do? What are you going
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: to do? All right. I've got to play this audio,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: and we're posting the video of this on the website.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Her name is Jamie West. She is a Democrat council
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: candidate in Indiana. And at first we thought this was AI.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: It is not AI. This is legitimate. And this woman
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: is slap-crazy nuts. Take a listen.
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: And that's what I have to say about that.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: And our last question of the night is, if elected,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: what is one decision that you expect to make that
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: may be unpopular with some voters, but you believe ultimately
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: would be in the best interest of Fayette County?
• 26:41
  Speaker 13: Hmm.
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: I wouldn't raise your taxes. What is the one decision
• 26:48
  Speaker 12: that I would make?
• 26:49
  Speaker 14: Hmm.
• 26:53
  Speaker 12: Repeat that again. What is the one decision that I
• 26:55
  Speaker 12: would make that might not be popular?
• 26:57
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: That may be unpopular with some voters.
• 26:59
  Speaker 12: Unpopular with some voters.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: But is in the best interest of the county.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Firing all Republicans.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't let them... I mean.
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: I.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Don't even talk to them. I don't like them.
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: I mean, they voted against.
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: Our.
• 27:16
  Speaker 12: Own state representative voted against her own party.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: I mean.
• 27:25
  Speaker 12: What do you want me to say? I don't like
• 27:26
  Speaker 12: being around them. I mean, y'all did this to us.
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: You all voted for us.
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: You made this happen.
• 27:33
  Speaker 12: This ice coming into our communities. Stealing people's jobs.
• 27:39
  Speaker 15: I mean.
• 27:43
  Speaker 12: I've been threatened so many times to my face by MAGA,
• 27:49
  Speaker 12: we'll call them.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Because there's Republicans.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Who.
• 27:55
  Speaker 12: I actually get it. You know, there are good Republicans
• 27:59
  Speaker 12: out there. But then there's these MAGAs who are just
• 28:02
  Speaker 12: racist and aren't very intelligent at all. They call you names.
• 28:10
  Speaker 12: You know, Sheriff's nephew trying to blow my head off. But,
• 28:15
  Speaker 12: you know, what are you going to do?
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Well, that brings us to your opportunity to say just
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: a few last words to the voters.
• 28:28
  Speaker 12: We have guns, too. All right.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: Jeez.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: You know, the first two words that come to mind here, Dylan,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Colt 45.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't lie to match anywhere near that gal. She
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: was pickled.
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: Very pickled.
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: Lots of... I don't know what she was drinking, but
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: that had to be super strong.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: And the way she was just like sprawled out in
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: the chair, and she would keep looking at the camera
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: with the wild eyes. What did I tell you about Macca?
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Macca don't like me. I don't like them.
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: That's actually pretty accurate about what just happened.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Wow. All right. That's going to have to be an
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: SNL skit. But that's the quality and the caliber of
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Democrats that are running local, state, and national. Thank you
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: very much. I love you. By the way, she's not
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: very attractive. I mean, you know, she's not classically beautiful.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying. And that's the thing with booze. It
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: makes you ugly. So you got to get that out
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: of your life. Got to get yourself cleaned up. Got to.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Let's go to the phones here. 901-260-5926. Melissa in Sugarland, Texas,
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. Melissa, what do
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: you make of this video of the president?
• 30:01
  Speaker 16: Good morning. So I love President Trump.
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: Always have.
• 30:06
  Speaker 16: I feel like the Democrats are okay with doing the
• 30:09
  Speaker 16: same sort of thing when it's them doing it. But
• 30:12
  Speaker 16: when the tables are reversed, everyone wants to like say horrible,
• 30:17
  Speaker 16: awful things about him, forget that he's the president of
• 30:20
  Speaker 16: our United States. And I think they haven't even given
• 30:25
  Speaker 16: him a fair shot from day one.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: Melissa, they haven't given him a shot from day one.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: And again, I'm not understanding why people are upset at
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: what the president did, because he's not mocking the kid.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: He's just saying, don't mess with nature. And how many
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: times have we seen, you know, I think we've got
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: like a generation of people that, you know, they buy
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: into this idea that these are just lovable like little
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: furries when they're, you know, they're red-blooded killers, these animals.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: Exactly.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Trying to warn the American people, Melissa.
• 31:00
  Speaker 13: Exactly.
• 31:01
  Speaker 16: And he always, you know, pays the price because of it.
• 31:04
  Speaker 16: I like what he did. I don't feel like he
• 31:06
  Speaker 16: did anything wrong. I mean, from day one until now,
• 31:10
  Speaker 16: he's kept all his promises he made to all of us.
• 31:13
  Speaker 16: He's done everything he said he was going to do.
• 31:16
  Speaker 16: I'll stand behind him all the way, always. So I
• 31:19
  Speaker 16: just pray for Texas right now and all the other
• 31:21
  Speaker 16: states with the midterms coming because Talifrico scares the holy
• 31:25
  Speaker 16: crap out of me.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Is that right? What scares you about, what is it
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: about Talofrico that's got you scared?
• 31:32
  Speaker 16: Well, other than that he's going to totally destroy Texas,
• 31:36
  Speaker 16: and it's for everything that I'm not for, and saying
• 31:40
  Speaker 16: things that aren't true where God is concerned and everything else,
• 31:43
  Speaker 16: it's just, it's cage-rattling. So I just pray that Paxton
• 31:48
  Speaker 16: manages to pull this off, because I'm not really sure.
• 31:52
  Speaker 16: I'm trying not to pay attention to the polls, But
• 31:55
  Speaker 16: every time I hear the newest thing, it's always, oh,
• 31:58
  Speaker 16: they're ahead, they're ahead. So I've kind of just turned
• 32:00
  Speaker 16: a deaf ear to it at this point and just
• 32:03
  Speaker 16: have to vote full Republican ticket and then just hope
• 32:07
  Speaker 16: everything works out.
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: Look, I think you've got the right game plan here, Melissa,
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: and that's what I'm urging everybody to do. Vote straight ticket.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: That's what you've got to do here. We've got to
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: send a message that we're not going to support anyone
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: from a political party that is supporting communism or the
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: rise of political Islam. And you guys are dealing with
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: two big issues right there in Texas.
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 32:34
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Melissa, did you hear the news? I'm actually coming to
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: Houston on Tuesday.
• 32:38
  Speaker 16: So I was just fixing to tell you I look
• 32:41
  Speaker 16: forward to meeting you. I will be at Collectors Firearms
• 32:44
  Speaker 16: on Tuesday, and I can't wait.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: It's going to be a lot of fun, Melissa, and
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: we're bringing a lot of books, so hopefully we'll be
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: able to get you a book as well. So look
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: forward to seeing you there.
• 32:56
  Speaker 16: You as well, Todd. Take care.
• 32:58
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: That's Melissa from Sugarland, Texas. And by the way, we
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: are going to be in Texas in Houston at Collectors
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Firearms on Tuesday, and it's from 4 to 7 o'clock.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: You're going to love it. You're going to have a
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: great time. I'll be saying a few words. We're going
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: to keep it pretty light with the speeches because we
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: want to be able to hang out with all you guys.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: There's going to be free food, free drinks, great prizes,
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: the best darn happy hour in Houston, and a chance
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: to win a firearm, a brand-new firearm. You're going to
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: love this, and it's all coming up Tuesday in Houston.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: I am very excited to make this announcement for all
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: of our Gainesville listeners, WDUN territory. Guys, we're coming to
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: town October 27th. That is the day before my birthday.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: October 27th, we're going to be at the Longstreet Cafe,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: home of their world-famous banana pudding. And they got great biscuits.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: From 5 to 7 o'clock on October the 27th, we
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: want you to come down. It's going to be a
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: lot of fun. We're going to be doing our show,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: our full national show, from Gainesville on that day. So
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: you know it's going to be a wild day. And
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: then we'll be doing the book signing from 5 to
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: 7 o'clock at the Longstreet Cafe, courtesy of our friends
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: at WDUN. And they know how to roll out the
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: red carpet. We'll be doing the book signing the whole
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: nine yards. And we want you to be a part
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: of that as well. All right, 901-260-5926. This is the
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: This is the Tom Stearns Radio Show. Coming up in
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: the next hour, young female athletes around the country are
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: standing up and they're fighting back over these boys that
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: are invading their athletic teams and their locker rooms. And
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: that is something that really should be a source of
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: pride that we have such courageous young people. But also... Really,
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: what the heck, adults, grown-ups? Why aren't you standing up
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: and doing something about this? I mean, that's just crazy. Also,
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: President Trump in Alaska yesterday, he pardoned a couple of
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: truckers who got sent to jail for fixing truck engines.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: So we're going to tell you all about that as well. Also,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Adam Hamilton, the Senate candidate in Kansas, said, All sorts
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: of crazy allegations that he provided cover for a pedophile.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Those are the allegations back in the early days of
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: his ministry career. Adam Hamilton, a Democrat Methodist preacher. And
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: we'll get into more of that. And we've got some
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: new audio. Somebody on Ken Paxton's team leaking a lot
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: of audio to the media. They think this is making
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Paxton look bad. I don't think it is at all.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: I think Ken Paxton... has a pretty good peg on
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: what's actually going on. And let me just say this,
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: and this is something that John Cornyn and Karl Rove
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: and George W. Bush don't want you to know, that
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: Ken Paxton has been an incredible attorney general. He's actually
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: done a very good job. Is he a great campaigner?
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: Absolutely not. We're not going to rehash that. But I
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: want you to know that Ken Paxton actually did a
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: phenomenal job As Attorney General. Some of you say, well, Todd,
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: wasn't he impeached by the Republicans in the Statehouse? That
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: was an attack led by Karl Rove. So you've got
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: to understand what the America First movement is facing here, folks.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: It's not just the Democrats. It's the establishment Republicans coming
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: after our guys. All right, hang tight. Hour two of
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: the big show. We've got a lot of ground to cover.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: Matt Towery, our great political analyst and pollster coming up
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: as well. We'll be right back, America.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: That's us, that's right.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: I love this American ride.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Todd Starr.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: All right, Emerald Robinson, formerly of Newsmax and OAN. has
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: a little item that's causing a bit of a stir
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: on social media. So Kimberly Guilfoyle, the former ambassador of Greece,
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: the country, not the musical, Kimberly Guilfoyle out after accusations
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: that she was involved in a, basically it was a
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: pay-for-play scheme. She needed somebody to pay her bills, and
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: she was offering access in exchange for cash. Those are
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: the dirty allegations. And we don't know what she was
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: using the money for. I don't know. It takes a
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: lot of money to do what Kimberly Guilfoyle does. So anyway,
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Emerald Robinson is now saying that she just got a
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: call that Guilfoyle was actually writing a tell-all book about
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Trump's inner circle called The Devil Wears MAGA. Emerald Robinson says,
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: my prediction, somebody in the Susie Wiles administration is going
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: to pay her $ 100, 000 very soon. That's, by the way,
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: what's left on the Amex bill. You know, the price
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: may go up. I would not be surprised if Guilfoyle
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: does this. Right to tell all book. it'll make her
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: millions of dollars, or at least she'll get an advance
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: worth millions of dollars, and it should at least alleviate
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: some of her financial issues, at least in the interim.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I do not doubt that she would try
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: to do something like this, because President Trump sort of
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: sliding Guilfoyle yesterday, saying that, you know, she wasn't part
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: of the family, and that was interesting. It was interesting.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: But clearly Trump not happy with Guilfoyle, and that is that.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: By the way, our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That number again, 901-260-5926.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: So I want to play some audio here. This is
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: from the president yesterday. And the president in Wasilla, Alaska,
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: you know, he's doing all of these campaign events across
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: the country, trying to gin up the base, try to
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: get everybody, you know, fired up and ready to go
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: and vote. Oh, speaking of that, sorry, I'm getting off
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: on a tangent here, but just bear with me. Today
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: in Tennessee, early voting begins. I got a report just
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: a few moments ago that at one polling location, they
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: have never seen so many people getting out to vote. Now,
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: the downside, apparently a lot of the people voting are
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: wearing face diapers. I don't think that those people are Republicans.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: By and large, Republicans do not wear face diapers in public.
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, they may, but I don't think so. And
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure what to read into that. As a
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: matter of fact, don't read anything into it. We're just
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: reporting what our eyewitnesses are seeing. and they are seeing
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: people wearing face diapers going to vote in one of
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: the Memphis suburbs. But I'm very curious, if you are
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: listening to us in Tennessee, did you go early vote?
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: What was that experience like? And what's your takeaway? So anyway,
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: back to President Trump in Alaska. Cut 35, please.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: They want to put him in jail for 10 years
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: because they fixed an engine. How sick? Now, if you
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: murder somebody, no problem.
• 41:25
  Speaker 14: Unless a Republican does the murdering, then it's, you know,
• 41:27
  Speaker 14: the electric chair, right? If you murder somebody, if you
• 41:32
  Speaker 14: brutalize somebody, you can do anything you want, but if
• 41:35
  Speaker 14: you fix an engine, and the problem is, I would imagine,
• 41:39
  Speaker 14: because I know the way it works, I know a
• 41:40
  Speaker 14: lot about engines, I know a lot about trucking, I
• 41:44
  Speaker 14: have no choice but to know it, but the problem
• 41:46
  Speaker 14: is that you bring them to some of these places,
• 41:49
  Speaker 14: and the people that fix them are no good, right?
• 41:51
  Speaker 14: These guys know more about fixing engines than... the people
• 41:54
  Speaker 14: that they have to pay a lot of money to.
• 41:56
  Speaker 14: So the concept is that if you allow people to
• 42:00
  Speaker 14: fix the engines, they're going to take all of the
• 42:03
  Speaker 14: environmental crap that makes it bad, makes it inefficient.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: Makes it expensive, that they're going to undo that.
• 42:10
  Speaker 14: And when you undo that, you therefore send fumes into
• 42:14
  Speaker 14: the air. So we're going to put them in jail
• 42:16
  Speaker 14: for 10 years. Well, I heard about it. I read
• 42:18
  Speaker 14: the story about it and did a little checking. And
• 42:21
  Speaker 14: I'm giving each one of the three an unconditional pardon.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: And that means, I don't know.
• 42:41
  Speaker 14: If you've ever heard, when you give somebody a pardon,
• 42:43
  Speaker 14: they say that means, and I don't know how this
• 42:46
  Speaker 14: works and why it's an expression, but it's well used,
• 42:49
  Speaker 14: that means you're as clean as as a newborn baby's ass.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Now, I never, I never, I never understood that. Why
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: is that so clean?
• 43:03
  Speaker 14: But they felt that was the definition of cleanliness.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: And so you know what we'll do? We'll accept it.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to sign this now. Something that Joe.
• 43:13
  Speaker 14: Biden would be unable to do because he was unable
• 43:16
  Speaker 14: to sign his signature.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: He would have to send it out for an auto patent. Zachary.
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: What an honor. I love doing this stuff.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: And he does, you know, he really does. He really
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: does enjoy helping people who are just trying to do
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: the right thing in life. And When you look, going
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: back to the Biden years, just how dark and dangerous
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: this place became, this country became, for freedom-loving Americans. And
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: President Trump righting a lot of wrongs. And I just
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: greatly appreciate what the president is doing. and did yesterday
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: there in the great state of Alaska. All right, this
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: audio from Georgia. Now, we've been focusing on the governor's
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: race there, the Senate race, and the lieutenant governor's race
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: is really getting interesting. You've got Greg Dolezal, who is
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: the Republican candidate, going up against the Democrat, Josh McLaurin.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: And there was a debate yesterday, and let me tell
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: you something, Dolezal, really, really did a great job. I
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: want you to take a listen to Cut 34.
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: Josh, there was a bill that was going to require
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: convicted child molesters to place a no trick-or-treating sign in
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: front of their house during Halloween. You objected to this
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: bill because you said it was going to be, and
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: I quote, downright humiliating for the child molester.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: You've got to help me out on this one, Josh.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: What were you thinking?
• 45:11
  Speaker 17: So I'm a lawyer, and lawyers take hard cases when
• 45:15
  Speaker 17: the Constitution requires it. And I will not apologize for
• 45:18
  Speaker 17: standing for constitutional rights even when it's difficult. The ACLU
• 45:21
  Speaker 17: is a First Amendment organization. They take incredibly hard positions
• 45:25
  Speaker 17: with unpopular clients sometimes because the rule of law is
• 45:29
  Speaker 17: what matters.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Now, there will be people who scratch.
• 45:31
  Speaker 17: Their heads sometimes when a lawyer says, I'm committed to
• 45:34
  Speaker 17: the First Amendment. You know, and usually when we take
• 45:36
  Speaker 17: these votes, Greg, and you know this too, we have
• 45:38
  Speaker 17: some research staff. We know when federal courts have already
• 45:41
  Speaker 17: ruled against some of these laws, and we know when
• 45:43
  Speaker 17: we're walking into where we're going to have to spend
• 45:46
  Speaker 17: taxpayer money.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: So it's great for your politics.
• 45:48
  Speaker 17: I mean, you can appeal to your base all day,
• 45:50
  Speaker 17: your 70% Forsyth County district where you've won every primary
• 45:53
  Speaker 17: by going all the way to the right. You can
• 45:55
  Speaker 17: appeal to that politics, but at the end of the day,
• 45:57
  Speaker 17: taxpayers have to pay the bill when we do unconstitutional things.
• 46:01
  Speaker 17: So again, I need voters to pay attention to the
• 46:04
  Speaker 17: details and not buy what Greg is saying at a
• 46:06
  Speaker 17: top political level as he's done for eight years. It's
• 46:09
  Speaker 17: more important to look at the actual rule of law
• 46:12
  Speaker 17: and to defend constitutional rights, and to do so in
• 46:15
  Speaker 17: a way that preserves taxpayer money.
• 46:16
  Speaker 7: Mr.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Dolezal, your rebuttal.
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this gets to an overarching problem that Josh and
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: Keisha Lance Bottoms both have.
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: They are soft on crime.
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: Josh was one of just three members of the entire
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: Georgia State Senate, Republican or Democrat, to vote against the
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: Fentanyl Eradication Act. He was one of just five state
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: senators to vote against a Democrat bill that was going
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: to increase fines and prison time for violent street racing.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: Josh McLaurin, alongside Keisha Lance Bottoms, when it comes to
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: public safety, will be like pouring gasoline on the Wendy's fire.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, just unbelievable. Unbelievable. Now, here's what's going down
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: in Georgia. Josh McLaurin, a state senator, sparked a lot
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: of outrage over an amendment, a proposed amendment, regarding registered
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: sex offenders, and the idea was to post a no-candy
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: sign on the residences so that kids would not show
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: up at the home of, you know, pedophiles wanting a
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: Kit Kat bar. I mean, that's ultimately what it was.
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: But McLaurin actually opposed the mandatory wording of the sign,
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: arguing that compelling specific words mandated speech at somebody's house
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: raised serious First Amendment free speech concerns. So this guy
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: had a problem with a law that would have required
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: pedophiles and child sex predators from putting a sign up
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: on the front of their house during Halloween saying, no candy, treats,
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: or trick-or-treating at this residence. It was the no candy sign.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: And what I found fascinating here, that at least in Georgia,
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: and all you people going to vote in Georgia, you
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: need to understand that according to Mr. McLaurin, the Democrat,
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: you are far right if you believe that children should
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: not be getting candy, should not be getting trick-or-treats from pedophiles.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: That makes you a far-right extremist in the state of Georgia.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: That guy is slap-crazy nuts, ladies and gentlemen. All right,
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: more to say about this. 901-260-5926. That is our telephone number.
• 48:38
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  Speaker 4: Real news for real people. All right, one of the
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: things that we're going to be keeping an eye on
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: moving forward, and I told you about this yesterday on
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: the show, that there are a lot of establishment Republicans
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: who are now being emboldened to speak out against President
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: Trump and America First conservatives. The latest is a guy
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: by the name of Spencer Cox. He is the Republican
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: governor of Utah, and he's out there, and he is...
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: He's poo-pooing the Republican Party's chances in the midterm elections.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: Take a listen to Cut 41.
• 50:17
  Speaker 17: I won't ask you to predict whether they will take
• 50:19
  Speaker 17: the House or Senate because.
• 50:23
  Speaker 15: Well, I don't think it's rocket science. It's not looking great, guys,
• 50:28
  Speaker 15: for my team. But if you're going to give me
• 50:31
  Speaker 15: the opening, I'm going.
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: To take it.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: This is.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: Look.
• 50:36
  Speaker 15: Usually the party in charge loses the midterms. That's just
• 50:39
  Speaker 15: the way it works. It's the way it's almost always worked.
• 50:41
  Speaker 17: Only twice since the World War II has a party
• 50:45
  Speaker 17: actually gained seats that have held.
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: The White House.
• 50:47
  Speaker 15: Almost always works this way. The political scientists here will
• 50:50
  Speaker 15: tell you. So that's going to happen. And we're probably
• 50:57
  Speaker 15: going to lose badly. Every party wins by a little
• 51:00
  Speaker 15: and thinks they have a mandate to implement all their
• 51:03
  Speaker 15: wildest dreams. And then the country's like, that's not what
• 51:06
  Speaker 15: we hired you for. That's really dumb. And so we
• 51:08
  Speaker 15: go the other direction. What's interesting with this one, though,
• 51:10
  Speaker 15: is Republicans are doing very poorly. But even though Democrats
• 51:14
  Speaker 15: are probably going to win the House and the Senate's
• 51:17
  Speaker 15: going to be close.
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: So anyway, this guy goes on and he says it's
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: not looking great for the Republicans. We're probably going to
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: lose badly. Republicans are doing very poorly. Folks, this is
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: the top Republican in the state of Utah. And look,
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: if that's the case, then what are you doing, Governor,
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: to reverse that trend? What are you doing to get
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: out the vote? I mean, imagine being a Republican in Utah.
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: You're a candidate on the ballot, and you've got the
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: guy at the top of the ticket saying, well, you know,
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: that doesn't look good. Might want to get those resumes
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: dusted off, boys.
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: I mean, what?
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: Come on. Unbelievable. Look, these Republicans, they just can't help themselves.
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: They just can't help themselves. 901-260-5926. If you want to
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: have those conversations, have them in private. But here's the
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: problem with that. When you say something in private, somebody's
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: recording you, and then they leak the audio of you
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: to the media. I'm telling you, there is a lot
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: of just deviant behavior going on within the Republican world
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: right now. And that's what happened to Ken Paxton. And
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: he was talking about... the the campaign and he was
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: saying that greg abbott is struggling now again these were
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: private conversations that were leaked to the media take a listen.
• 52:48
  Speaker 13: It's the rest of the ticket like you know we
• 52:51
  Speaker 13: hear abbott struggling but is that.
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: So yes abbott is struggling but he.
• 53:01
  Speaker 13: Has a lot of money she has none now And
• 53:05
  Speaker 13: I would, if I asked 99 people in a room,
• 53:07
  Speaker 13: or 100 people in a room, maybe one would know
• 53:09
  Speaker 13: who he is.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: No name ID.
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: He's still close.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: Damn.
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: And he didn't have any kind of negative ads.
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: Those are my two disadvantages.
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: One was three.
• 53:23
  Speaker 9: Actually, not having time to raise more money, having the
• 53:26
  Speaker 9: negative ads, and my opponent is well-funded and well-known. Whereas
• 53:30
  Speaker 9: the rest of the ticket, who knows the Democrats?
• 53:33
  Speaker 13: There's not a single, like if I said, who's your
• 53:35
  Speaker 13: member for Texas A & G as a Democrat?
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I can't even name her name.
• 53:42
  Speaker 12: Mr.
• 53:43
  Speaker 18: Mays is looking okay.
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: For his election?
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: He's probably riding along with the others.
• 53:50
  Speaker 13: It's not like his name is super high, but he
• 53:52
  Speaker 13: spent a lot.
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: Of money in the primary.
• 53:56
  Speaker 16: And he has money.
• 53:57
  Speaker 17: So he's going to be in better shape because he
• 53:59
  Speaker 17: can advertise and vote to enter 50 million.
• 54:03
  Speaker 19: So he can advertise whatever he wants to.
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: Whatever he feels from polling.
• 54:07
  Speaker 15: That's the Chip Roy.
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: He beat Chip Roy.
• 54:11
  Speaker 13: Is the legislature going to get Republican votes? instead of
• 54:15
  Speaker 13: this hybrid thing. I don't know if y'all know, but
• 54:19
  Speaker 13: the legislature's not as good as, it's not a Republican legislature,
• 54:23
  Speaker 13: the House.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: All right, so anyway, ladies and gentlemen, that was some
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: of the interview there. And look, this is about getting
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: out the vote. So all I can do, and I
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: know there are a lot of other talk radio hosts
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: that are doom and gloom 24-7. And look, I can't
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: do that, and I don't want to do that, because
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: I don't want to be a part of the depressing
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: of the vote. I want you to get out there,
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: and I want you to vote. But I'm also very
• 54:54
  Speaker 4: clear-eyed about what we're doing here. And it is absolutely
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: true that the Republican Party has failed you. From the
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: local level all the way up to the White House,
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: they have failed you on a lot of key issues.
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: And it is not right. But we just cannot allow
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: the left to gain a foothold. We cannot allow the
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: communists to win office. We just can't do that. So
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: I'm just telling everybody, you've got to get with the
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: program here. Let's get out the vote. By the way,
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: just got a text from our good friend Justin, a
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: KWAM listener, and said it took 35 minutes, stood in
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: line 35 minutes to vote today. Early voting underway today.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: Let us know how things are going out there, folks.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, just got
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: an email from Courtney. The subject line, rambling nonsense. Courtney says,
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: tell Todd to focus on getting Republicans out to vote.
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: He is spewing counterproductive gibberish. Stay on point if that's
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: not asking too much. Now, I don't know if Courtney
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: has been smoking a little bit of the devil's lettuce today,
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: or maybe she's touched in the head, as they say,
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: or perhaps might be a closet libtard. I don't know.
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: But Dylan, what have I been talking about for the
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: past 90 minutes on this radio program?
• 56:32
  Speaker 6: I have no idea. I'm just kidding. You've been rambling, Todd.
• 56:38
  Speaker 6: Courtney doesn't like it.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: Courtney, you've got to listen. We just literally, before going
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: to break, talked about how important it was for Republicans
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: to get out and vote regardless of the naysayers and
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: the negativity. As a matter of fact, here's a guy
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: that says, you know what? I'm voting for Trump candidates
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: no matter what. Cut 38.
• 57:05
  Speaker 17: I would pay $ 20 a gallon before I vote for
• 57:08
  Speaker 17: any Democrat.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Who do you think is to blame for the price
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: of gas right now?
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: Oh, not Trump. Not Trump.
• 57:16
  Speaker 13: I'm young, so I don't have complete financial freedom yet.
• 57:20
  Speaker 20: It's hard trying to pay for college and worrying about gas.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: Gas is always going up and down.
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: It sucks.
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I like that we stopped gas taxes in Ohio.
• 57:30
  Speaker 17: A little high, but I think when the war is over,
• 57:34
  Speaker 17: they're going to come down fast.
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: Do you place any blame on the president for that?
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: No.
• 57:41
  Speaker 10: I mean, I know he's doing what he can, and
• 57:44
  Speaker 10: I know a lot of people are upset with him.
• 57:46
  Speaker 10: I mean, yeah, I get upset with him.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, I love the man, but I don't always.
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: Agree with him. Yeah, of course not. Who does? I mean,
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: does the president agree with the vice president on everything? No,
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: of course not. So look, President Trump is doing a
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: fine job, and this is not a referendum on the president.
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: I know the president wants it to be, but at
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: the end of the day, it's going to be up
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: to the individual candidates to get themselves across the finish line. 901-260-5926,
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Here is Stephen Miller on
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: all of these midterm polls that I've been telling you
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: do not pay attention to. Cut number 10.
• 58:29
  Speaker 18: The purpose of publishing these suppression polls is designed to
• 58:33
  Speaker 18: demoralize people, to convince people that it's not worth continuing
• 58:38
  Speaker 18: the fight to save and rescue their country. The reason
• 58:40
  Speaker 18: why America has lower energy prices than everyone else in
• 58:43
  Speaker 18: the developed world is because of President Trump. The reason
• 58:46
  Speaker 18: why we have record job creation is because of President Trump.
• 58:50
  Speaker 18: Democrats fought bloody murder to stop all of this. Every
• 58:55
  Speaker 18: single step President Trump took to secure the border... They
• 59:00
  Speaker 18: ran to court and sued to try to order us
• 59:03
  Speaker 18: to keep the border open. Every single thing that President
• 59:06
  Speaker 18: Trump did to bring our energy supply chains back to America.
• 59:10
  Speaker 18: they fought us in court and sued us. Every single
• 59:13
  Speaker 18: thing he did on violent crime, sanctuary Democrat mayors and
• 59:16
  Speaker 18: sanctuary Democrat politicians fought us relentlessly. They voted against tax
• 59:21
  Speaker 18: cuts for every single American family. They voted against the
• 59:24
  Speaker 18: child tax credit they voted against the trump accounts they
• 59:26
  Speaker 18: voted against no tax on tips no tax on overtime
• 59:28
  Speaker 18: no tax on social security they have not been our
• 59:30
  Speaker 18: partners in a single one of the victories that president
• 59:34
  Speaker 18: trump has delivered for america.
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: Well there you go and and again i i know
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: that many of you buy into a lot of the
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: negativity out there i just want to run through a
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: couple of stats here because these are important for you
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: to understand When voters went to the polls, they were
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: talking about the economy. Do you realize that under Joe Biden,
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: inflation was at 9.1% under Joe Biden? That was the
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: highest under Biden, 9.1%. Right now, current inflation rates as
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: of September 2026, 3.7%. I mean, there has been a
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: dramatic change in the economy under Donald Trump, and thanks
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 4: to the president's policies. It's just simply remarkable. What about
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: border crossings? Do you realize that illegal border crossings have
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: fallen by nearly 95% under President Trump compared to Joe Biden?
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: The monthly average under Biden's administration, the monthly average 155,485
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: border apprehensions under Trump, 8,870. I mean, it's just really
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  Speaker 4: remarkable what Donald Trump has done. I mean, we no
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  Speaker 4: longer have a porous border. So when you look at
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: the two presidencies, you get a pretty clear understanding. You
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  Speaker 4: got to cut through all the garbage, all the noise,
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  Speaker 4: and get down to it. And Donald Trump has been
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  Speaker 4: incredibly successful. And if you don't want to do the research,
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, take a look at crime in
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  Speaker 4: not just Washington, D.C. or Memphis, Tennessee, but crime across
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  Speaker 4: the nation has fallen at a dramatic, dramatic way, especially
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to violent crime. 362.9 violent crimes per
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  Speaker 4: 100,000 residents during the Biden years. Trump, 327,000 or 327.6
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: per 100,000. So a dramatic drop in crime. Here in
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: the Memphis area, crime down 49% because of President Donald J.
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  Speaker 4: Trump and the Memphis Safe Task Force. So again, lots
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  Speaker 4: of success stories. And the problem is not only are
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  Speaker 4: the Democrats not talking about it, we know they're not
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  Speaker 4: going to do that, or the media. Yeah, we get that.
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  Speaker 4: But a good many Republicans, they don't have the wherewithal
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  Speaker 4: to actually talk about what really matters. They have an
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  Speaker 4: incredible record, which again goes back and you just have
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  Speaker 4: to ask yourself, okay, does that mean that the Republicans
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  Speaker 4: are intentionally trying to throw this election? And that, ladies
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  Speaker 4: and gentlemen, is a very fair question. Now, one of
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  Speaker 4: the good guys in all of this, Rudy Yakim, who
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  Speaker 4: is out of Indiana, he's a Republican. And I just
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  Speaker 4: want to read this to you because this is true.
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  Speaker 4: This is what the record and this is the campaign message.
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  Speaker 4: Republicans shut down the southern border, created over a million jobs,
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  Speaker 4: delivered the largest tax cut in American history, brought manufacturing
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  Speaker 4: back to America, and kicked men out of girls' sports.
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  Speaker 4: That's the record. And it is a great record because
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  Speaker 4: these are all big issues that voters wanted the Republicans
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  Speaker 4: to tackle, and they did. So good for you, Congressman Yakim,
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  Speaker 4: for actually saying what needed to be said. So Republicans,
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  Speaker 4: embrace that winning agenda. Get that out there. All of
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  Speaker 4: your ads ought to be talking about these big issues.
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  Speaker 4: Securing the border, creating jobs, cutting taxes, bringing manufacturing back
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  Speaker 4: to America, kicking the perverts out of the girls' sports.
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  Speaker 4: God bless America. That's what it's about. All right, got
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  Speaker 4: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Program.
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  Speaker 4: Coming up in the next hour... Excited to talk to
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  Speaker 4: a former member of Ben Carson's presidential team, Jeff Reeder,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 4: says America's best days are still ahead of us. We'll
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: talk to him about that. Also, Matt Towery, who is
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: one of the top political pollsters and political analysts in
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 4: the country. This is one of the good guys. Matt
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: gets a lot of this right. He's going to be
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: joining us a little bit later on in the show.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: He'll also be talking about his new book, The Honoring
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: of Ignorance. The Seven Mirages Destroying America. That's going to
• 1:05:43
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  Speaker 4: for the next hour of the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
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  Speaker 4: All right, 901-260-5926. That is our telephone number. Kid Rock,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: he showed up at the President's Rally in Clarksville, Tennessee.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 4: must have driven up from Nashville, and here's what he
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  Speaker 4: had to say. This is really brilliant, and we need
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  Speaker 4: a lot more people bold enough to say these kinds
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  Speaker 4: of things in public. Cut number nine.
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  Speaker 10: Number one, I was born in Dearborn, Michigan. So was
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 10: my father, raised there. My grandfather raised him there. And
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  Speaker 10: as we know, I don't know if people understand how
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  Speaker 10: it got to be one of the biggest Arab populations
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  Speaker 10: outside of the Middle East and the world. I call
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  Speaker 10: it more of a religious ideology. I know there's extremists
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 10: and there's milder versions of it. I don't want to
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 10: see my grandkids one day have to fight some civil
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  Speaker 10: war over religious ideology.
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  Speaker 4: This is scary.
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  Speaker 10: I think Al-Saeed's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
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  Speaker 3: What's at stake? Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, do you want your children to be under
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  Speaker 10: the arm of teachers unions? Or would you like them
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  Speaker 10: to go to school to learn the basics and to
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 10: be taught, you know, about the men and women who
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 10: fought and died for this country? Or do you want
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 10: them to go to school and learn about gender identity?
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 10: It's pretty simple. You know, until this point in politics
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 10: and going back several years, I never felt Democrats didn't
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  Speaker 10: scare me. It's like, okay, we think differently. You're big government.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 10: I'm small government. You know, all those things. I never
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 10: thought any of them genuinely hated our country. Now I
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 10: look around and I go, wait, these people hate our country.
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  Speaker 4: They do hate our country and they want to change
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 4: our country and they want to change our way of life.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 4: And we just simply cannot allow that to happen. We
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: just can't do it. And that's why we do this
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: radio show, is to alert you to the things that
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 4: are happening, the attacks on our culture. You know, we're
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 4: one of the few talk shows out there that actually
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: focuses on the direct assault on religious liberty. And every
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 4: now and again, I'll get a message from somebody saying, Todd,
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 4: why do you do that? Why do you talk about
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: those kinds of issues? Well, The reason why, and let
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 4: me give you an example. Just the other day, and
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 4: this happened in Oklahoma of all places, Muskegee, Oklahoma. And
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: the school district there canceled a prayer walk. So before
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: school started, the staff of the school, the middle school,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: they were invited to walk around and they were going
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  Speaker 4: to pray at every classroom, pray for the kids, pray
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  Speaker 4: for the moms and dads, pray for their fellow staffers.
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  Speaker 4: This was all voluntary. Nobody was being forced to do anything.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: And somebody actually complained about this. Somebody reached out to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: the Freedom From Religion Foundation, which is an atheist hate
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: group out of Wisconsin. Man, these people hate Jesus. They
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: hate Christians. And they reached out to the school and
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 4: accused them of breaking the law, and they threatened them.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 4: And so what did the school do? The school canceled
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 4: the prayer walk. Well, first of all, there's nothing illegal.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, the attorney general in Oklahoma
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: stepped into the fray and said, hey, look, there's no
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: coercion here. There's no captive audience. There's no establishment clause violation.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: And it's too bad the school didn't check with the
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 4: attorney general's office first, but I get it. These people
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: are scared. They don't want lawsuits, and everybody's terrified of
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: the atheist. But the reason I cover these kinds of stories,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: and by the way, we have that story up. We
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 4: just posted it this morning at toddstearns.com. I'd encourage you
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 4: to go to our website and read that. But the
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: reason why we do it is that when our founding
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 4: fathers were sitting down and they were coming up with
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 4: all of the freedoms that we needed to have. Religious liberty,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: freedom of religion was the very first freedom. That was
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: our first freedom. That was our foundation. The foundation for
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 4: every other thing that we believe in is rooted in
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 4: Judeo-Christian teachings. So it's not a surprise to me that
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: the Islamist and the atheist and the communist, an unholy trinity,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: has been targeting the faith of our founding fathers. They've
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: been chipping away at the foundation of our country, and
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: if we don't do something about it, the foundation will crumble.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: And that's why it is so vitally important that we
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: talk about these kinds of issues, and that's why we
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: do that on this radio program. We're always going to
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: do that on this program. But that's why religious liberty
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: is so vitally important. Without it, we fall apart. And
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: that's why I truly believe that God has blessed America,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: because we've been faithful to those teachings over the generations.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 4: By the way, school in this school, God bless the
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: moms and dads here, they got wind of a survey
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: steering the kids towards liberalism. And what did they do?
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: They immediately went to the media. And I say, good
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: for those parents. We've got that story up at ToddStearns.com
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: as well. So I'd encourage you to go to the
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 4: website and to read both of those stories, a couple
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 4: of our new fresh stories that we posted this morning.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: Also want to remind all of you folks in Tennessee,
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: early voting is underway. We're getting reports of heavy turnout
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 4: in some locations around the state, Also, you folks in
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 4: Georgia now voting early. I want to hear from you guys.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: What is it like at the polling stations you're going to?
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 4: Are you seeing a big turnout? And I'm just curious,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: are folks voting Republican? Are they voting Democrat? Are people
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: talking about it? Give us a call. We'd love to
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 4: hear about that. Also, just a reminder for our Houston listeners,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: we'll do this every hour. We're excited about the big
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: event on Tuesday. coming up at the Collectors Firearms in Houston.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to be there from 4 to 7. We're
• 1:12:02
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  Speaker 4: a happy hour, free food, free beverages, and a chance
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• 1:12:24
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• 1:12:28
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• 1:12:38
  Speaker 4: We're doing a big event at the Longstreet Cafe. We're
• 1:12:42
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• 1:12:45
  Speaker 4: a lot of banana pudding. That's what can I tell you?
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: So we'll give you more details about that as well.
• 1:12:50
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• 1:12:54
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• 1:12:56
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• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: able to meet you as we're out on the road
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 4: promoting the book and bringing more affiliate radio stations into
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: the fold. So that's going to be a lot of fun.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 4: All right, folks, we've got to take a quick break here.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 4: When we come back, we're going to go to our
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 4: interview with Jeff Reeder and also Matt Towery. Heard him
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 4: yesterday on Hannity Show and just really did a tremendous
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 4: job of outlining what we're dealing with here. I mean,
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 4: it really is political warfare. And there is a major disinformation,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 4: misinformation campaign going on in this country, and the media
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 4: is responsible for all of it. And you better believe
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 4: that you should blame the Republicans and the Democrats for
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 4: everybody's in cahoots. And that's what really bothers me about
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: all of this. Everybody is in cahoots. Also, we're going
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 4: to try to get to some audio. Some teenage athletes,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: female athletes, deciding, you know what, we're not going to
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: be competing against boys anymore. And those young ladies staging
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: a protest here in Washington State, we'll tell you all
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: about that as well. All right, hang tight, folks. Got
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 4: to take a quick break. Your top of the hour news.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: Then back to the show. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting coast to coast and border to border from Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 12: That's us.
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  Speaker 21: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 14: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show, Hour 3.
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  Speaker 4: And we have a lot of ground to cover throughout
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 4: this hour of the show. I do want to go
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 4: to the phones, though. We've been asking, how are things going?
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  Speaker 4: at the polling places in Georgia and now Tennessee, early
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 4: voting underway. Our telephone number, by the way, 901-260-5926. I
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 4: want to go to Gainesville, Georgia. A.J. is joining us
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  Speaker 4: on the line right now. All right, A.J., how are
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: things looking out there?
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  Speaker 7: Well, things are going pretty good, Todd. I'm a longtime
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 7: listener and an occasional caller. I'm in a little town
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 7: outside of Gainesville, and we listen to WDUN called Winder.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 7: And they started early voting yesterday, and we couldn't get
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 7: there until today. But they're getting some pretty hopping stuff.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 7: The time we were there, we usually wander in by
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 7: ourselves and wander out. But we had to wait in
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 7: the big long line, people coming and going the whole time.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 7: Nobody was wearing a diaper. So I'm not sure who's
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 7: voting what, but they got a lot of people voting
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 7: today up over here where we're at.
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  Speaker 4: I like to hear that, A.J., and again, it's a
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 4: matter of principle for me. I'm a Christian man, and
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 4: I believe that Christians especially have an obligation to get
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 4: out there and vote on Election Day.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's absolutely true, and now I understand that they're
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 7: going to be starting to push a little more– stiffness
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 7: from the pulpit to get people rallied up and get
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 7: things straightened out like they used to do in the
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 7: old days. But yeah, everything's going pretty good here. So
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 7: we'll see what the outcome is. But you never know
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 7: with Georgia. Been here 46 years. So, you know.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 4: So you've, you've seen a lot, uh, AJ.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I'll become, I'll become Southern fried because we originally, uh, uh,
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 7: came from, uh, Detroit, Michigan. So used to be the
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 7: greatest city in the world. Now it's getting better, but, uh,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 7: We're up here, and we're just all becoming what I
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 7: call a Detroit redneck, so we're hanging in.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 4: Well, nothing wrong with that, A.J., and don't be a stranger.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 4: Give us a holler back one of these days, and
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 4: thank you for the update there at the polls. Well,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 4: well done, A.J., and that's how you do it, ladies
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 4: and gentlemen. All you have to do is pick up
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 4: the phone and give us a call, 901-260-5926. You know,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 4: we talk a lot about the future of America. I've
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 4: always been very hopeful and bullish about America, only because, well,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 4: primarily because this is it. There is no other place
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 4: where you can engage in the freedoms that we have.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 4: So I think this is a country worth fighting for.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 4: Our next guest has written a book called The Best
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 4: Bold Hope for America, How to Refuse Normal and Pursue Extraordinary.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: The author joins us. He is the vice chair of
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 4: United and Purpose, Jeff Reeder. Jeff, welcome to the show.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 4: Congratulations on the new book. Thank you, Todd.
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  Speaker 9: I'm so excited to get to spend some time with you.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 9: I am honored to be here. I'm not even sure
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 9: that I qualify with all the amazing, incredible people you
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 9: have on your show to be on because if you
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 9: look at the list of people that you've had, I
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 9: don't look as cool as most of those people, so
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 9: I'm just grateful and tickled pink to get to be
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 9: a part of your show today.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know about that. No, we're excited to
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 4: have you, and I will just say this, and this
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 4: is really for our audience, Jeff. We have a lot
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 4: of people wanting to come on our show because our
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 4: audience especially loves to read books. And when authors come
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 4: onto the program, they sell a lot of books. So
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 4: we have to be very judicious about the authors that
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 4: we do invite. So, Jeff, I think that's... says a
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: lot about the content of your book and the importance
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 4: of the book. So no, you are very welcome here,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 4: and you deserve to be here. And I'm very curious
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 4: about this bold hope you're talking about. What's going on there? Well,
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 4: I've fallen in.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 9: Love with this book, but the three words are four-letter acronyms.
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 9: And so the final word, hope, is helping others pursue extraordinary.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 9: And basically, the book, Here's What We Believe, is that
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 9: the best bold hope for America is for all of
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 9: us on this call, to become God's best version of
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 9: ourselves and run after helping others pursue extraordinary. And when
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 9: we help enough other people pursue extraordinary, then we ourselves
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 9: are interconnected with that extraordinary word. And so the other
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 9: two words are best is balance in life, excellence, pursuing excellence,
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 9: not mediocrity, serving others, And then truth is the T,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 9: the truth of God, biblical truth, honesty. And then the
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 9: bold word is, if you want to run a, have
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 9: a bold life, then take time being, be still, be
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 9: in prayer, be yourself, be who you were created to be, be, own,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 9: own everything. Don't skirt the issue, but say, that's my fault.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 9: That's my mistake. I did the wrong thing or we
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 9: did the right thing and give others credit in that,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 9: but my part of the right thing. And then the,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 9: so be own. And then the L is love, love others,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 9: love others, agape love. In that chapter, we, we spend
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 9: quite a bit of time dissecting all the different Greek
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 9: words for love. And then the final word there is do.
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 9: Don't do before you spent time being, being. still and
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 9: focus on the big picture before you start doing things.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 9: So many people that are amazing on this call are
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 9: doing amazing things before they've spent enough time being because
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 9: they're doers and they're type A people. And so we're
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 9: encouraging you to have a time daily, early morning, spiritual reflections.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 4: All right, so that's a lot for us to unpack there.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 4: I do want to go back to December of 2025.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 4: There was a Pew Research survey that was released. Fifty-nine
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 4: percent of Americans think the country's best years are behind us.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 4: And I'm wondering, when you saw that survey, what went
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 4: through your mind, and what do you think it's going
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 4: to take to restore hope in the American dream?
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Todd, it's such a troubling time. And, you know, I,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 9: I spent a lot of time trying to convey, uh,
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 9: in the early part of this book that I love
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 9: America with all my heart, but it's in trouble and
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 9: it's in big trouble. And, um, and, and it's, you know,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 9: not really what I'm talking about is a geopolitical issue
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 9: as much as I'm talking about the American dream is
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 9: no longer perceived as a possibility. And so, um, Yeah,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 9: I think so many studies are suggesting that on so
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 9: many levels, we're not okay. And our hopelessness is high.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 9: Our mental health is low. I was talking literally yesterday
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 9: to the leading person at Turning Point USA. And he
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 9: told me that 31% of Gen Z women are moving
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 9: toward lesbianism because there are basically no Gen Z men
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 9: that are the kind of men that they would want
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 9: to date. And so I'm just like, oh my goodness,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 9: that is crazy. But lots to think about there in
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 9: how do we go forward in a different way, by design,
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 9: not by default.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 4: So how do we do that? Yeah, I think it's
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 4: you and I.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 9: Becoming more and more as God uniquely created us to
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 9: become with balance in our life, pursuing excellence, not mediocrity,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 9: serving others with our life, and the truth of God
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 9: being kind of the cornerstone of everything we're doing. And
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 9: if we will dedicate ourselves, and this book really does
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 9: talk about that that focused kind of practical specific things
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 9: by design, not by default to create an outcome where
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 9: we're different, that we want others to come alongside of
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 9: us as different people growing into who God creating them
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 9: to be. And just watch what happens when that movement
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 9: in America occurs.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 4: I want to go back in time to 2016, New
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 4: York city, There was a meeting of evangelical leaders with
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump. Curious to know your role in that meeting.
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 4: And was this the one at the Marriott in Times Square?
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 9: You're remembering well, Todd. That was such an amazing day.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 9: And I had been Dr. Ben Carson's campaign finance chairmen.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 9: And we had done well for a while and then
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 9: we were out of the race. And then Ben Carson
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 9: said he's going to endorse Trump. And we had a
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 9: conversation about that. I was like, oh my gosh, seriously?
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 9: This guy, it was Carson and Trump were the only
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 9: two non-political people in that race back then.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 4: And then we.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 9: Talked about that further and further.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 6: And Dr.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 9: Carson helped us create this meeting where the evangelical community,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 9: about 1400 of us came together. We thought that there
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 9: might be a few hundred, but there's literally 1400 people
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 9: that came together with the United in Purpose group leading that.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 9: And we, we had the most amazing powwow that I
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 9: think changed the course of history in America that day,
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 9: because we, we made an agreement with President Trump that
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 9: we would support him. And he made an agreement to,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 9: to be, uh, with us on numerous things. There was
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 9: probably seven or eight things that he agreed to that day.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 9: Supreme court justice, uh, selection was, was toward the top
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 9: of our list.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 4: And then we kind of went from there. Uh, again,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 4: it's a wonderful book. It'll be in stores, bookstores across
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: the nation on October the 20th, the best bold hope
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 4: for America, Jeff reader, uh, the acclaimed author. And, uh,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 4: this is one of those books that you need to read, uh,
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 4: Jeff drawing from his decades of experience in leadership, business, faith,
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: and throwing in his personal experience as well to write
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: a really practical book that I think every American needs
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: to read. Jeff, we really do appreciate you joining us today,
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 4: and congratulations on the new book.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 9: And you can actually get it on Amazon or Barnes &
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 9: Noble even right now, even though its release date is
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 9: coming up on Tuesday.
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 4: Fantastic. That's good to know. Folks, you know what to do.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: Get yourself a copy of Jeff's great new book. Jeff Reeder,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 4: Vice Chair of United and Purpose, joining us today on
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 4: the show. Thanks a lot, Jeff.
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 3: Thank you. All right.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 4: Some of the folks, by the way, that have endorsed
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 4: the book, and there are a lot of them, including
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 4: Ann Graham Lotz and the Hunt family. Those were the
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 4: folks who own the Kansas City Chiefs, the big NFL team.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 4: Also Willie and Corey Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame, and Dr.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 4: Ben Carson. So sort of a who's who as far
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 4: as endorsers for this big book project. Okay, got to
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 4: take a break here. Going to your phone calls coming
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 4: up next.
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  Speaker 13: 901-260-5926.
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 4: That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right,
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 4: welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Sterns Radio Show.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 4: So Chick-fil-A coming under fire again, this time from the
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 4: Today Show. You know, These folks in the media, they
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 4: just can't help themselves. Let me explain what's going on
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 4: here with Chick-fil-A. They hate Christians, and they especially hate
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 4: Christians who hold on to the Bible's teachings on some
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 4: of the big culture issues of the day, including things
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 4: like marriage, for example. So it was, gosh, was it seven?
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 4: It was seven years ago? A little, maybe less. longer
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 4: than that. Oh, it had to have been. It's over
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 4: a decade ago. Chick-fil-A came under national fire. It was 2012.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 4: I was at Fox News, and yours truly is one
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 4: of the ones, me and Governor Mike Huckabee, we launched
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 4: this national podcast. this national plan to defend Chick-fil-A. They
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 4: came under fire after Dan Cathy, who's the son of
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 4: the founder, Truett Cathy, said that he believes that marriage
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 4: is between one man and one woman. And all you
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 4: know what broke loose, and we all remember the great
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 4: chicken wars of the 21st century. And it was an
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 4: ugly situation. And so Chick-fil-A over the years has softened
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 4: its position on those issues because of all the controversy
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 4: that ensued. And in doing so, pretty much threw a
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 4: lot of Christian conservatives, including Mike Huckabee, under the bus.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 4: And that was unfortunate, and it was wrong. And unfortunately,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 4: you've got cowards in leadership at Chick-fil-A. And I don't
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 4: mind saying that there are cowards at Chick-fil-A because we're
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 4: in the middle of a war to save this country.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 4: And if you can't stand up for what you believe in,
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 4: then you are a coward. It's that simple. I don't
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 4: want to call them cowards, but that's what they are.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 4: They gave in, and they stopped donating to organizations that
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 4: were deemed anti-gay. One of the ones that came under
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 4: fire for supporting the Fellowship of Christian Athletes So anyway,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 4: here's the Today Show. And I don't know what they
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 4: thought was going to happen here. The CEO, Andrew Cathy,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 4: was asked about all of this on the Today Show.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 4: Here's how that went.
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  Speaker 22: It's a company that was sort of built on God,
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 22: if you will. And that still also seems to be
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 22: very much a part of the DNA of Chick-fil-A.
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  Speaker 20: It is our anchor in the sense of what our
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 20: corporate purpose states, that we're in business to glorify God
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 20: by being a faithful steward of all that's entrusted to us.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 20: have a positive influence on all common contact with chick-fil-a.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 21: That corporate purpose came under fire in 2012 when andrew's
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 21: father dan publicly stated the company was opposed to gay
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 21: marriage public documents revealed chick-fil-a had donated millions to conservative
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 21: christian organizations opposed to lgbtq rights chicken's.
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  Speaker 3: Good chicken's great why are we not.
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  Speaker 21: Discriminated The comments and financial disclosures unleashed a culture war
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 21: with protests, boycotts and political pushback on both sides. Dan
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 21: Cathy never changed his stance on gay marriage, but he
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 21: did express regret for involving the company in the debate.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 22: There were folks who were protesting, they were boycotting Chick-fil-A.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 21: They don't stand with the LGBTQ plus community.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 3: What would you say to those folks?
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  Speaker 20: Well, for anybody that hadn't tried us, we'd love for
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 20: you to come try and have our great taste of
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 20: food and the hospitality that we're known for. I think
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 20: that everybody that will be willing to walk in the door,
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 20: they'll see that they're Welcome to come eat with us.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 20: We'd love to give them a great tasting sandwich and
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 20: give them a great hospitality.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 22: You don't want to talk about that chapter in Chick-fil-A's history.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 22: We're focused on serving everybody that come in and eat
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 22: with us. The company's official position on equal rights is.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: We're.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 20: Focused on hospitality, serving great tasting food and great service.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're not going to let up. They are going
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 4: to stay on Chick-fil-A until Chick-fil-A bows down and pledges
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 4: allegiance to the rainbow flag. That's what they're going to do.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 4: By the way, I also love this part of the story, Dylan.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 4: Remember the cauliflower sandwich?
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 6: Unfortunately, I do remember that.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it turns out they don't offer that anymore because,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 4: according to Mr. Canthe, there was not a lot of
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 4: demand to eat a cauliflower sandwich at Chick-fil-A. I'm not surprised.
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 6: Makes a lot of sense.
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 4: So there you go. That's when I knew they were
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 4: going full-blown woke. I mean, anybody who puts cauliflower on
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 4: a bun, yeah, I don't think so. Hey, got to
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 4: take a break here, ladies and gentlemen. Do you stand
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 4: with Chick-fil-A?
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  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back to the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 4: Great to have you with us. Hour three of the
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 4: big show. And yesterday I was getting in a little
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 4: exercise after the show, listening to Sean Hannity and heard
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 4: our next guest, our good friend Matt Tallery. And Matt,
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 4: you were getting every second, I was getting just more
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 4: and more pumped up. Listening to you and Hannity and
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 4: the conversation you guys were having, it's good to have
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 4: you on the show today.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 8: Well, you know, I have to tell Sean that we're
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 8: a new exercise routine. I had no idea that would work.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 4: That's it. You guys burn more calories than Pilates.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 8: Glad to hear it.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 4: Matt, you've got a great new book out called The
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 4: Honoring of Ignorance, The Seven Mirages Destroying America. And we're
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 4: going to talk about that in just a second. But
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 4: one of the things I've been so upset about this
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 4: election cycle are these polls that have been coming out.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 4: And I'm just not buying what the pollsters are trying
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 4: to sell us. I mean, you've been doing this a long,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 4: long time. What say you?
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 8: Well, you know, fortunately, we've had a record of being
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 8: one of the most accurate pollsters in 2016, 20, and 24.
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 8: And in the 22 midterms, We weren't accurate, but we
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 8: weren't at the top, and there was a reason why,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 8: because we listened to the national pollsters who polled the
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 8: generic ballot. And even the New York Times and the
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 8: others were saying, oh, the Republicans are going to sweep.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 8: And so we adjusted our models based on that, and
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 8: of course the Republicans did sweep. Some critical races were
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 8: lost by the Republicans. It wasn't a bad year for Republicans,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 8: but it wasn't the banner year people thought. Now, I'm
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 8: not listening to these national pollsters this time. I do
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 8: my own weighting. By the way, this is my last
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 8: year of polling. Todd, you're getting me in the last
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 8: year before I retire and just write books and continue
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 8: to get punditry. But I'm not going to miss this race.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 8: Let me tell you what they're doing. They're doing what
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 8: they do every single year. They underweight Republicans. They undersample Republicans.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 8: They make assumptions in their weighting that is incorrect. they
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 8: thought this was going to be a year where young
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 8: people were upset and they were going to turn out,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 8: start a revolution, moving towards socialism. Well, what we're seeing,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 8: and it's just not me, but Robert Cahaley at Trafalgar,
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 8: you know, Robert, the folks at Rasmussen, they've all polled it.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 8: We've been sharing our polling, and every single poll shows
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 8: that senior voters, 65 and older, are the ones who
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 8: are turning out, most excited about turning out. And by
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 8: the way, We now have evidence to back that up.
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 8: We've seen early voting in Ohio, Michigan, and now in Georgia.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 8: Seniors are voting off the chain, and believe it or not,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 8: they have now moved much more to the Republican Party
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 8: than they had after the pandemic. You and I, I think,
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 8: discussed this before, that after the pandemic, some seniors got
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 8: a little upset. They felt like Trump didn't handle it right.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 8: They felt like they were very vulnerable during that time period.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 7: Well, guess what?
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 8: They are back with the GOP big time because they
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 8: don't want socialism and they don't like what they're seeing.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 8: So these pollsters are off. Racists are going to get very,
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 8: very tight. And we're going to be there to tell
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 8: everybody what the truth is, whether Democrat or Republican. I
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 8: don't know, but I know they're tightening.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know either, Matt. And again, my encouragement
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 4: to people is to get out and vote. I mean,
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 4: you ultimately control that. You know, you get to decide
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 4: whether you are going to engage in the political process
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 4: or not. You know, my frustration has been it just
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 4: seems like the media and the polling agencies have been somewhat,
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 4: I don't know if they're colluding, complicit in really misleading
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 4: the American people. And it seems to me there seems
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 4: to be some election interference going on.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 8: Well, you know, the funny thing about in the book,
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 8: The Honoring of Ignorance, and people, you want to, you
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 8: have a member of your family. or someone who just
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 8: will not listen to you and thinks that you're crazy
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 8: for being a Republican or liking Donald Trump, buy that
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 8: and shove it in their face and tell them to
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 8: read it and then debate them afterwards. I went through
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 8: every part of this time. I documented it by numbers.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 8: I gave the details all apart in the policy to
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 8: Trump and the like, and what some of his statements,
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 8: the way they're misconstrued or omitted by the media, and
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 8: I put it all together and wrapped it up in
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 8: a bow. And I'm telling you, If you get this book,
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 8: you will beat anybody in your family on any debate.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 8: I'm not sure that we could be able to come back.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 8: And part of the reason is this. So you get
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 8: the best pollsters in the country based on basic.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 7: Just error rate.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 8: And those have been Insider Advantage, Rasmussen, Trafalgar, let's see, Qantas,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 8: Atlas Intel, which really is a Brazilian company. They don't
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 8: do as much as people think. Emerson College. There are
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 8: a handful of others that write every time. What happens
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 8: is they set up these groups like it used to
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 8: be 538, which was owned by Disney and ABC, and
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  Speaker 8: now it's Nate Silver and the Silver Bulletin and some
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  Speaker 8: of his other friends, and.
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  Speaker 7: They rate pollsters.
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  Speaker 8: What they do is they go through and find excuses
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  Speaker 8: to take the people who are the most accurate and
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  Speaker 8: give them bad grades. It makes it look like they
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  Speaker 8: can't run an insider advantage on a network or on
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  Speaker 8: any decent newspaper. In fact, we've been the most accurate
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  Speaker 8: every single time.
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  Speaker 4: You sure have.
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  Speaker 8: That's a game they play, Todd. It's designed to do that.
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  Speaker 8: Let me give you an example. So when Nate Silver,
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  Speaker 8: I don't have his, he changed his ratings, he changes
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 8: them all the time. But he ranked the top pollsters
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 8: in the country. Most of the polls, he ranked the top.
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  Speaker 8: Most of the races they were polling in the 2024 election.
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  Speaker 8: He takes little bitty place. Bowenburg in Pennsylvania, I'm sure
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 8: a very fine school. But they don't poll that much.
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  Speaker 8: They just poll Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 9: He's way up there.
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  Speaker 8: And they missed the one race that they polled in
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  Speaker 8: their own state. They had Harris winning. So he takes off.
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  Speaker 8: little pictures you've never heard of, and ranks them ahead
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  Speaker 8: of Trafalgar and Insider Advantage and McLaughlin and the rest
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  Speaker 8: of Houston. So we can't run their ads. They're not
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  Speaker 8: transparent enough. Well, that's nonsense. We put all our stuff up.
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  Speaker 8: Or we're not a member of some position in the polls.
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  Speaker 8: We don't do that because the people who run those
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  Speaker 8: things are ultra-liberal, and our polls are part of that.
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  Speaker 8: So they use excuses, and then they try to peddle
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  Speaker 8: it to the news organizations. So what you're seeing right
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  Speaker 8: now is them pushing polls from the usual suspects who
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 8: have traditionally, basically in the last 10 or 15 years,
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  Speaker 8: particularly in the Trump era, had thrown. So that's why
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  Speaker 8: you have a good reason to question. Now, I'm not
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  Speaker 8: telling you the Republicans are winning every state. Our polls
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  Speaker 8: right now show the Democrats winning a lot of states,
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  Speaker 8: but by one or two points. But with this wave
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  Speaker 8: which is occurring, which I'll talk about, the silver wave,
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  Speaker 8: We're going to have to re-wait our polls, and things
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 8: are going to change big time.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Towery is joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line,
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  Speaker 4: has a new book out called The Honoring of Ignorance. Matt,
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  Speaker 4: one of the things you address in the book, and
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  Speaker 4: this concerns me because I've long suspected this might be
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  Speaker 4: the case. I think we are, the country is heading
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  Speaker 4: towards really a very difficult moment, and you write about this,
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  Speaker 4: and you say that this liberal ideology could eventually lead
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  Speaker 4: to some sort of a separation. Tell us about that.
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  Speaker 8: What's so interesting is, of course, we all know the
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 8: Civil War was bloody and something no one likes to
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  Speaker 8: think about, not a proud moment in history. It was
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  Speaker 8: probably led by the South. And I think in the future,
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  Speaker 8: You're going to see the North wanting to break away
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  Speaker 8: because think about this, Todd, as we get further down
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  Speaker 8: the road and more people move to states like Florida
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 8: and Texas, Tennessee and South Carolina, you're going to see
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 8: the map in that direction. You're going to see regional
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  Speaker 8: districts more in that direction. And as a result, you're
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 8: going to see maybe 10 years in balance in this country.
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  Speaker 8: And as a result, The state will lose New York, California.
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  Speaker 4: Let me jump in here. Guys, we have got a
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  Speaker 4: very bad phone connection that is getting worse with Matt.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 4: We're going to try to reconnect with him. So let's
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 4: put Matt on hold. But again, Matt in the book
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  Speaker 4: is positing the theory that we could see a division
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  Speaker 4: of the country along state lines and where we might
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  Speaker 4: work together for the common defense, but the politics is
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  Speaker 4: becoming so isolated that you could have red states and
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 4: blue states partner together. So we're going to take– we've
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  Speaker 4: got Matt back. All right, Matt, I think we've got
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  Speaker 4: you back. Let's circle back and share what you were
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 4: saying about the divisions of the states here.
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  Speaker 8: Well, to be concise– It was the South that really
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  Speaker 8: led towards the Civil War back in the 1860s. We
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  Speaker 8: understand that sad period of time. And I'm from the South,
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  Speaker 8: and I regret that, but it is what it is.
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  Speaker 8: Now it's the northern states that have the incentive to
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 8: try to pull away because they are losing their population.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 8: They're going to lose their electoral votes. They're going to
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 8: lose their congressional districts. And ultimately, they're going to see
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 8: the Supreme Court continue to move towards conservative appointees And
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 8: they don't like the way things are running, so they're
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 8: going to want to end the filibuster. They're going to
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 8: want to stack the court. And if they can't do that,
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  Speaker 8: they're going to want to pull away from the country.
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  Speaker 8: And we polled New York, for example. The majority there
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 8: want to be no part of the United States. They
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 8: just want to be a part of the blue state.
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  Speaker 8: So what I think is going to happen if we
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  Speaker 8: don't get control of this country is that you're going
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  Speaker 8: to see blue states form contacts, as we call them,
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 8: or contracts, in which they honor one another's laws. And
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 8: then that would lead to the red states having to
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 8: do the same thing. And the country would ironically go
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  Speaker 8: back to being what it was supposed to be originally,
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  Speaker 8: which is a smaller federal government designed for our defense,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 8: for our protection, for interstate commerce, and for a common currency.
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  Speaker 8: And there are probably a lot of people who would
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  Speaker 8: like that. I'm not trying to be anti-American. But I
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  Speaker 8: predicted a lot of things over the years, as you know, Todd.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 8: I predicted that financial crisis. I predicted Donald Trump would win.
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 8: in 2016, I see this as a long-term trend, not
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 8: right now, but something in the future that we may
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 8: have to deal with.
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  Speaker 4: Do you see the blue states continuing the slide towards socialism?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, absolutely. They have no reason not to. They are
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 8: controlled by groups that have tremendous influence, and they also
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 8: have allowed non-Americans, immigrants, to basically participate in their electoral process.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 8: And they claim they don't. But in reality, what happens
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 8: is they become residents, they become citizens, they give them
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 8: driver's licenses. You can't tear it through and vote.
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  Speaker 3: You can't.
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  Speaker 8: And so sooner or later, these blue states are going
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 8: to go. They're not going to reverse. But we're also
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 8: seeing Florida, for example, great example of this. If the
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 8: Constitution had not been... It wasn't... It was amended, but
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 8: then there was a federal law that actually limited the
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 8: number of the members of Congress we can have. You
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 8: realize that under the original Congress right now, we would
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 8: have 10,000 members of the House of Representatives. And a
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 8: state like Florida would have upwards to 7,000 representatives in
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 8: the House of Representatives because it's grown so much. Well, obviously,
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 8: that's not where we are right now. But in the end,
• 1:45:19
  Speaker 8: states like Florida, South Carolina, Texas.
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  Speaker 12: And others.
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 8: are going to have a tremendous influence over this country
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 8: that they've never had before. And that's going to sit
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 8: well with these blue states because they're not going to
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 8: change their ways.
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  Speaker 4: I'm wondering, and I know you wrote about this, I'm
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 4: wondering how the founding fathers, if they could see what
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 4: the country has become today, how do you think they
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 4: would look at where we are?
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  Speaker 7: Well, let me tell you.
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 8: So I wrote The Honoring of Ignorance, ironically, 40 years ago.
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 8: I started on it when I was a student at
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 8: Cambridge University. And I got a literary agent, and the
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 8: agent was a well-known one in New York, and they
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 8: pitched it everywhere, and publishers said, we love it, but
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 8: he's too young to say these things. Now, 40 years later,
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 8: I may be too old to say these things. But
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 8: that said, the founders would be shocked, because as you know, originally,
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 8: we weren't supposed to vote for president. Our legislatures were
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 8: choosing the electors. The electors then.
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 7: would.
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 8: Choose a president and the runner-up would be the vice president.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 8: There were no tickets. There were no parties. There was
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 8: no filibuster. There was no taxation system whatsoever. We had
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 8: no federal tax. So much of what we have right
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 8: now in the federal government did not exist and was
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 8: not envisioned by the founders. I think they would be
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 8: shocked and they would be appalled, to be honest with you,
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 8: because we've allowed the media to influence the mob and
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 8: the mob to rule. And that's a big issue Right now,
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 8: as we see a media that's planted in one direction,
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 8: they use omission and they use misinterpretation and selective reporting
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 8: to influence the public that then they get pollsters to validate.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 8: And then they use these fact checkers to say their
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 8: facts are correct and anyone who is a conservative or
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 8: has another view is incorrect. And that is what I
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 8: call the mirage machine. I talk about it in the book.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 8: I show how it works. And that's what's influencing politics
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 8: in America right now.
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  Speaker 4: It's a fascinating book, folks. You've got to get a
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 4: copy of it, The Honoring of Ignorance by Matt Towery.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 4: And I think it's also a sobering look at what's
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 4: been happening in America and where all of this is going. Matt, congratulations.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 4: Are you looking forward to getting out of the polling business?
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 4: I mean, retire.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 8: I can't wait. Well, you know, I blame all this
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 8: on one person, Sean Hannity, because every time I try
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 8: to retire, Sean, and you know, Todd, we've known each
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 8: other for 40 years, and we talk a lot on
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 8: the phone. Tell you're not going to retire.
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 7: You're not retiring.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 8: Well, I said, well, Hannity, you don't run my life. Well,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 8: sure as heck, it gets me to do it again. So, no,
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 8: I told Sean, this is it.
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 11: It's over.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 8: Forget it. He could send me a Ferrari and buy
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 8: me a new house, and I wouldn't do it. So,
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 8: I'm through Poland. But I'll still be there to interpret
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 8: and give people my opinions and the thoughts of great
• 1:48:11
  Speaker 8: people like you. And tell your folks to go to Amazon.com.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 8: It's the honoring of ignorance. Get it, folks. You can
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 8: fight anybody who doesn't. believe us with this book.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 7: I wrote it for you.
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 4: All right. Well, I'll let Hannity handle the Ferrari. I'll
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 4: get you a Chick-fil-A. How's that, Matt? That's the deal.
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 8: I'd rather have that.
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Scott.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 8: Always enjoyed being with you.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 4: Matt, likewise. Great man right there, ladies and gentlemen, and
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 4: an incredible writer, The Honoring of Ignorance. And you're going
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 4: to want to read this. But he posits this idea
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 4: that a system dedicated to promoting liberal ideology, and quite frankly,
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 4: one that may ultimately force a country to consider a
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 4: separation between like-minded states on the right and then states
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 4: that are wanting to embrace socialism. And that is an
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 4: interesting theory. All right, got to take a break.
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  Speaker 12: 901-260-5926.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 4: We'll be right back. Alright, welcome back. Good to have
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 4: you with us. Let's go right to the phone lines.
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 4: Say hello to Anna in Dawsonville, Georgia. Hi, Anna. What's
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 4: going on? Hey, John.
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  Speaker 19: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 11: These schools, the school systems have got to start teaching
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 11: the kids the Constitution of Federalist Papers. Because if they don't,
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 11: I mean, this isn't a trite expression, but we're going
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 11: to lose our country. We've got to stop with the
• 1:49:47
  Speaker 11: liberal cosmic morality garbage and the radical indoctrination because.
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  Speaker 19: We're taking these.
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 11: People that are supposed to represent us and they're behaving
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 11: as if they're celebrities. And these kids that, you know,
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 11: especially with this crazy woman over there in Minnesota, Omar,
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 11: whatever her name is, she.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 19: She's disrespectful. She's everything you don't want to be. If
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 19: you have children, you don't want them to follow her.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 19: And they are. They're out there supporting her with banners
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 19: and what have you.
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 11: And it's just a sad situation.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 19: They have no idea about what the Constitution says. They
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 19: don't know that. The First Ten Amendment, the Bill of Rights,
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 19: they don't understand any of those things. And we have
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 19: got to put some– we've got to get those teachers
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 19: to get real about this.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Anna, what we've got to do– and I hate
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 4: to cut you off, but the computer is going to
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 4: cut us off if I don't. What we need to
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 4: do are reclaim our local school classrooms and make sure
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 4: that teachers– And these schools are teaching American history, American government, civics,
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 4: so that we are raising up American patriots and not
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 4: mindless socialists, which is unfortunately what's happening in a lot
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 4: of these classrooms. Anna, I've got to run. Folks, it's
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 4: been a great day. We're back at it tomorrow right
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 4: here on the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Be good, America.