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Dem Candidate Says Jesus is Gay, Black Woman · 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, that's right, I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 3: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well, hello everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes
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  Speaker 2: Radio Show, proudly broadcasting border-to-border, coast-to-coast, Across the Fruited Plain.
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  Speaker 2: We really have an epic show coming up for you.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Jim Jordan is going to be here in just
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  Speaker 2: a matter of moments, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Also,
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  Speaker 2: Chad Conley from Faith Wins is going to be along
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the very latest numbers. as we march
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  Speaker 2: toward the midterms. So a lot happening throughout the entire show,
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  Speaker 2: but that just gives you a taste of what you
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  Speaker 2: can expect here in the next little while. Also, Senator
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  Speaker 2: Marsha Blackburn is going to drop by. She's running for
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  Speaker 2: governor in Tennessee. We're going to get to the Kimberly
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  Speaker 2: Guilfoyle story in just a little while. There is a
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  Speaker 2: lot of controversy, and the question now is, can Kimberly
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  Speaker 2: Guilfoyle survive the allegations in this Wall Street Journal report?
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  Speaker 2: Really a jaw-dropping story. a blockbuster report regarding her credit
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  Speaker 2: card bills and how she was using her position within
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  Speaker 2: Trump world to get a lot of favors. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: touch base on that. Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked
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  Speaker 2: about that just a little while ago. on his trip
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  Speaker 2: in Greece. I want to start out, though, with an
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  Speaker 2: interesting comment from Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina. And
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  Speaker 2: he is now on the record, you know, he's got
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  Speaker 2: a new book out, he's doing the book tour, and
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  Speaker 2: he is basically waging war on MAGA, on the America
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  Speaker 2: First movement. Here is Senator Tom Tillis from North Carolina
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  Speaker 2: just last night on the channel. Cut number 23, please.
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  Speaker 4: Following the bad advice of people who mask the fact
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  Speaker 4: that President Biden was not prepared to serve a second term.
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  Speaker 3: If you were advising Mitch McConnell, would you tell him,
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  Speaker 3: I would recommend you step down, sir? You're close to him.
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  Speaker 3: You could tell him that.
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  Speaker 4: You're the one who gets to give him advice in
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  Speaker 4: this equation. Mitch McConnell is retiring this year. I ran
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  Speaker 4: into Mitch. The difference between... The Biden situation, the Mitch situations,
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  Speaker 4: I've had conversations with Mitch. That man's brain is as
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  Speaker 4: sharp as it ever is. His body's failing him because
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  Speaker 4: he's had a lifelong struggle with polio. Now, people are
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  Speaker 4: telling me when I can have a coherent discussion with him.
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  Speaker 4: I met with him a week or so, a couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks ago. Mitch, how are you doing? He spent
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  Speaker 4: probably less than 30 seconds talking about that. And he
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  Speaker 4: immediately jumped to what are we going to do to
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  Speaker 4: help Ukraine? What are we going to do to save
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  Speaker 4: the Senate? and keep the filibuster. Does that sound like
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  Speaker 4: a man who's not prepared to actually finish out his term?
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  Speaker 4: The flip side of it was we had people rash like, no,
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  Speaker 4: nothing to see here.
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  Speaker 2: President Biden's fine.
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  Speaker 4: Whoopsie, we're going to have a different president.
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  Speaker 2: So there you have it. Tillis all but confirming that
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  Speaker 2: the establishment wing of the party is blocking President Trump's agenda. Also,
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  Speaker 2: does anybody really believe that? that Mitch McConnell is of
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  Speaker 2: sound mind. Does anybody really believe that? By the way,
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  Speaker 2: we still have not heard publicly from Mitch McConnell. The
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  Speaker 2: guy's out there, and they're wheeling him out. He's got
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  Speaker 2: this weird little grin on his face. He looks like
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  Speaker 2: he's frozen. And every time somebody asks him a question,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, what does that mean? What's going on there?
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  Speaker 2: The front porch light is on, ladies and gentlemen, but
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  Speaker 2: nobody's home. Nobody's home. So then you've got Tillis, and
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  Speaker 2: he's all but saying that he will do everything in
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  Speaker 2: his power to stop MAGA from ever getting a presidential
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  Speaker 2: nomination again. This is Tom Tillis on 60 Minutes, cut 19.
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  Speaker 2: After a tough 2026.
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  Speaker 5: It'll be 2028. It'll be a presidential cycle. What does
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  Speaker 5: the battle over the future of your party look like then?
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're going to have this situation where the
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  Speaker 4: president's going to have a heavy influence on the primary.
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  Speaker 4: And boy, this is when we really have to speak
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  Speaker 4: frankly about what kind of profile we need to win
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  Speaker 4: a national election in 2028. And it probably isn't what
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  Speaker 4: the president is thinking right now is a go-to pick.
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  Speaker 4: So we're going to have to have a serious discussion
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  Speaker 4: with that. The RNC, other Republican organizations need to come
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  Speaker 4: down and take the president's advice, but look more towards
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  Speaker 4: the Republican Party priorities and things that go beyond 2028.
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  Speaker 5: What would be wrong with the president's go-to pick?
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  Speaker 4: Because I think it's one that works well, and red
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  Speaker 4: MAGA states won't work well for a general election.
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  Speaker 5: Are we talking about the vice president, or are we
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  Speaker 5: talking hypothetically?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I assume right now you had, you know, I guess
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  Speaker 4: the Texas Trumpapalooza, whatever it was called, he was kind
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  Speaker 4: of introduced and I think endorsed by Turning Point, so
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  Speaker 4: it looks like things would lead that way. It's not
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  Speaker 4: necessarily a lock in terms of the president's endorsement, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the president should handpick. The president is,
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  Speaker 4: by definition, going to be in retirement when the next
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  Speaker 4: person is sworn into office. The president should have a say,
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  Speaker 4: but this is not a decision that should be solely his.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that MAGA is going to disagree with that.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the base of the party is going
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  Speaker 2: to disagree with that as well. So we've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of ground to cover today, ladies and gentlemen. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to take an early quick break. We've got Congressman
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  Speaker 2: Jim Jordan coming up in just a matter of moments,
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  Speaker 2: weighing in on the midterm elections. The president delivering yet
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  Speaker 2: another phenomenal rally last night. Massive crowd, even CNN. had
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  Speaker 2: to acknowledge the turnout at the Trump rally. Are you
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  Speaker 2: beginning to understand why the president is out there doing
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  Speaker 2: this now? It's because he is ginning up the base, right?
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  Speaker 2: There's excitement in the air now because the president is
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  Speaker 2: out there, and I think the average American... are now
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  Speaker 2: watching and they're saying, oh, wait a second, MAGA has
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  Speaker 2: not died. The America First movement has not fizzled out.
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  Speaker 2: It is alive and well, and the American people are
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  Speaker 2: still fired up, contrary to what you're hearing on the
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  Speaker 2: news and what you're seeing in the polling data. All right,
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  Speaker 2: our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd
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  Speaker 2: Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the
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  Speaker 2: Todd Stearns Radio Show, and we are in the final
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  Speaker 2: stretch of the midterm elections. One of the big races,
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  Speaker 2: and of all places, Tennessee. And yesterday, word came out
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  Speaker 2: that there is a James Tallarico problem in Tennessee's 9th
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  Speaker 2: Congressional District. The guy running as the Democrat, his name
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  Speaker 2: is Justin Pearson. He is on video praying to Mother God,
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  Speaker 2: also preaching at an Episcopal church in Memphis, where he
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  Speaker 2: says that Jesus, quoting a black liberation theologian, said that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is a gay black woman. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus is black.
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  Speaker 6: We could also say Jesus is gay and any other
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  Speaker 6: identity being humiliated. One of my students, Jacqueline Grant, said
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  Speaker 6: Jesus is a black woman and she is right.
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  Speaker 7: Jesus is a.
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  Speaker 6: Way of talking about God's solidarity with people who are
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  Speaker 6: hurt and despised. This is Reverend Dr. James Cone, the
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  Speaker 6: father of black liberation theology. And this is in his
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  Speaker 6: final book. He said, I wasn't going to tell nobody.
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  Speaker 6: Jesus is a black woman, and she is right.
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  Speaker 8: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Jesus I serve is not a lesbian, ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen. All the more important that someone like this
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  Speaker 2: does not end up in Congress, which is why our
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  Speaker 2: next guest is out on the campaign trail, was recently
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  Speaker 2: in Dalton, Georgia, at a Waffle House of all places campaigning.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be in Tennessee campaigning for Congressman or
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  Speaker 2: State Senator Brent Taylor, the Republican nominee, the Republican going
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  Speaker 2: up against Justin Pearson. And Congressman Jordan joins us today
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  Speaker 2: on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Congressman, what is going
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  Speaker 2: on with these crazy Democrats and their crazy religious beliefs?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, the once great party of FDR and JFK is
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  Speaker 9: now controlled by radicals. They call themselves the Bloc. They're
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  Speaker 9: running for Congress. You've got a good man like Brent
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  Speaker 9: Taylor who's served the great state of Tennessee, running that seed,
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  Speaker 9: who I think is going to win. But, yeah, the guy,
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  Speaker 9: this Pearson guy, is just as radical as they come.
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  Speaker 9: But based on just what you play, that's just flat
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  Speaker 9: out wrong. We all know that. You know, it's funny, though.
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  Speaker 9: These radicals, they hate two countries. Todd, I just did
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  Speaker 9: an interview and I talked about this. There's 193 countries
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  Speaker 9: on the planet. They hate two. America and Israel. The
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  Speaker 9: two that were created for a purpose. And America, where
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  Speaker 9: the individual has liberty and freedom and can, through hard work,
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  Speaker 9: reach their goals and dreams. Israel, a place after the
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  Speaker 9: terrible things people think that happened in World War II
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  Speaker 9: and around the world. It was a place where Jewish
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  Speaker 9: people could come home and be safe in a country
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  Speaker 9: that would welcome them. I mean, just two countries, both
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  Speaker 9: had declarations of independence and declaring why it was appropriate
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  Speaker 9: to do what they did, and the left hates them both.
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  Speaker 9: And you see this Pearson guy, he's emblematic of just
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  Speaker 9: how radical they are, and it's why, again, this election
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  Speaker 9: and making sure they don't get power is so darn important.
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  Speaker 9: and making sure you put– you've got a number of
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  Speaker 9: big races in your state, all good guys, with Brent
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  Speaker 9: running there, Charlie Hatcher running as well, Johnny Garrett running,
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  Speaker 9: all good guys who are coming down to help here
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  Speaker 9: in the next– I don't know, sometime in the next
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  Speaker 9: couple weeks we're going to be in Tennessee helping these guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Congressman, I'm just disappointed. You know that I'm in Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: You have not been to Memphis. I'm ready to take
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  Speaker 2: you out for some ribs and barbecue.
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  Speaker 9: I would love it.
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  Speaker 2: We've got to get you down here one of these days.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, we do. I'm going to be in Arkansas sometime
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  Speaker 9: as well, so we're getting closer, but yeah, we'll have
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  Speaker 9: to come sometime.
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  Speaker 2: You know, again, Congressman, we've got the president who will
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  Speaker 2: be leading a rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, which is the
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  Speaker 2: home of a huge military base. And I know a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are excited, but again, I think it illustrates...
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people say, oh, that must mean Tennessee's
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  Speaker 2: in danger. No, we're not. But I think the president
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  Speaker 2: is combating all this negativity in the media by holding
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  Speaker 2: these rallies and showing that people really are still fired
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  Speaker 2: up about the movement.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think that's right.
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  Speaker 10: And, of course, the president.
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  Speaker 9: I think we had a record crowd out. I was
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  Speaker 9: with a colleague of mine yesterday from Nebraska, and Mike's
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  Speaker 9: a great guy. And he said that at Grand Island,
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  Speaker 9: they had like, at Nebraska, they had like 15,000 people
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  Speaker 9: show up.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 9: So he still draws huge crowds, of course, because people
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  Speaker 9: know he's fighting for the things that matter to Americans.
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  Speaker 9: You know, we were elected at Todd in 24 to
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  Speaker 9: do basically two things. Secure the border and cut taxes.
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  Speaker 9: And we did those, I would argue, in pretty much
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  Speaker 9: record time. And now we understand things still cost a
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  Speaker 9: little too much. But putting the crazy left, the radicals
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  Speaker 9: in charge, is not going to bring down the cost
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  Speaker 9: of anything. It's just going to take away your freedoms
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  Speaker 9: and your liberties. That's what they always do. It's going
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  Speaker 9: to grow government, add to this debt. All the things
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  Speaker 9: that we know the left does, that's what's going to happen,
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  Speaker 9: and things are still going to cost too much. We're
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  Speaker 9: working on bringing those down. They would have been a
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  Speaker 9: lot higher if it was Kamala Harris or Joe Biden
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  Speaker 9: still in the White House, because we saw the record
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  Speaker 9: inflation under those guys. But the key message now in
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  Speaker 9: these last 26 days is, do you want these radicals
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  Speaker 9: in charge of the United States Congress?
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  Speaker 11: That's the key.
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  Speaker 9: And we've got to go take that message to everywhere
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  Speaker 9: around the country. And I think if we do, we
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  Speaker 9: can still win this thing.
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  Speaker 2: We just had yesterday on the show the president of
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  Speaker 2: the Southern Baptist Convention. That's the largest Protestant group outside
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  Speaker 2: of the Catholics. And he said that it is imperative
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  Speaker 2: for Christians to get out and vote. He said that
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  Speaker 2: he is, on a scale of 1 to 10, that
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  Speaker 2: the threat that we are facing from the communists and
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  Speaker 2: the threat we're facing from the political Islamists is a
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  Speaker 2: clear and present danger to the republic. Do you see
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  Speaker 2: it like that?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, take what you just played, couple that with what
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  Speaker 9: we saw in New York with the pro-Hamas protest taking place.
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  Speaker 9: Even Mamdani, the radical, the leader of these radicals, even
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  Speaker 9: they were criticizing him some. And he said all kinds
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  Speaker 9: of crazy things. So you're right, this combination is frightening.
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  Speaker 9: Do we want to have in America what we see
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  Speaker 9: in Europe? what we've been seeing in France, where, I mean,
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  Speaker 9: this is what's coming if we let, what do they
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  Speaker 9: call themselves now, the bloc, if we let these kind
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  Speaker 9: of folks win the election, they're now, I think they
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  Speaker 9: have control of the Democrat Party. You see Leader Schumer
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  Speaker 9: and Jeffries, they're welcoming these people into the party. They're
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  Speaker 9: talking about a big tent. I don't know a tent
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  Speaker 9: that can tolerate what we just heard from this piercing guy.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know a tent that can tolerate the pro-Hammoth
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  Speaker 9: terrorist group. I mean, give me a break. That makes
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  Speaker 9: no sense. So this is what's coming. This is the
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  Speaker 9: radical left that now, unfortunately, controls, I think, the other party.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Jim Jordan joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker
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  Speaker 2: line today. Congressman, you made some news at that Waffle
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  Speaker 2: House in Dalton, Punchbowl News, bringing up a story that's
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  Speaker 2: circulating that if, in fact, the Republicans do lose the majority,
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  Speaker 2: that you would be very likely to run for GOP leader.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the case? Is that something that you would
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  Speaker 2: want to do?
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  Speaker 9: Todd, no. Look, I'm focused on one thing right now.
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  Speaker 9: We've got 26 days and stopping what we just described.
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  Speaker 9: So that's my singular focus. It's all about making sure
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  Speaker 9: that we keep the majority. Because if they win, understand
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  Speaker 9: what's coming after. They will turn our constitutional duty of oversight,
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  Speaker 9: they will turn that into weaponized government against their political opposition.
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  Speaker 9: They will go after the president again. We know that's coming.
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  Speaker 9: They'll go after the first family. We know that's coming.
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  Speaker 9: They're going to go after cabinet secretaries. We know they're
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  Speaker 9: going to do that. They're going to go after people
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  Speaker 9: in the private sector. And maybe most concerning is I
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  Speaker 9: think they're going to just attack and weaponize government against
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  Speaker 9: whoever they think is going to be our nominee in 28.
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  Speaker 9: So they're going to go after all kinds of people
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  Speaker 9: there as well. They'll go after the vice president. They'll
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  Speaker 9: go after other people. That's what's coming with these guys.
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  Speaker 9: Then they're going to be the bad policies they'll push forward.
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  Speaker 9: Of course, President Trump could veto them. But they're going
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  Speaker 9: to push these crazy policies that the DSA is talking about.
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  Speaker 9: And finally, what's scariest, if they ever get complete control
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  Speaker 9: of the House, the Senate, and the presidency, they will
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  Speaker 9: fundamentally alter, change the structure of our government, our constitutional government.
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  Speaker 9: You've heard them talk about, get rid of the Senate,
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  Speaker 9: get rid of the presidency, pack the Supreme Court, fundamentally
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  Speaker 9: change our election law. All those things they will do,
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  Speaker 9: which makes it statehood for D.C., all those things will
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  Speaker 9: make it difficult for us to ever come back. That's
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  Speaker 9: what the left wants. That's what these radicals want. They
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  Speaker 9: want a parliamentary system, no presidency, a stacked Supreme Court,
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  Speaker 9: on and on it goes. That's what's at stake. And
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  Speaker 9: so I'm focused on that, nothing else other than helping
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  Speaker 9: us maintain the majority so we can stop the left.
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  Speaker 2: I've got about 45 seconds here, Congressman. How important is
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  Speaker 2: it for someone like Brent Taylor to be elected to Congress?
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  Speaker 9: Well, Brent's a good man. He's done a great job
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  Speaker 9: in the Senate. And we need to make sure he
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  Speaker 9: gets to Congress because you don't want Pearson coming in
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  Speaker 9: with this. We know some of these people, like Launder,
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  Speaker 9: who beat Dan Goldman. Dan Goldman was the impeachment lawyer
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  Speaker 9: for Adam Schiff, got elected to Congress, serving in Congress,
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  Speaker 9: running for re-election, and he wasn't good enough for the Radicals.
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  Speaker 9: They send this other guy in there. So we know
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  Speaker 9: some of those people are already going to fake it
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  Speaker 9: because that district is so Democrat. We've got to have
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  Speaker 9: Brent Taylor, solid conservative Republican, fighting the right things, fighting
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  Speaker 9: for the right things. We've got to make sure he
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  Speaker 9: wins this race, as well as Charlie and Johnny Garrett
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  Speaker 9: in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Congressman, we're glad to have you down in Dixie
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  Speaker 2: and hope we're keeping you fed and watered. You're not
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  Speaker 2: going to eat healthy while you're down here. Just want
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  Speaker 2: to alert you to that.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Sounds good. We're looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Congressman. All right. Take care of our good friend,
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Jim Jordan, on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. And
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  Speaker 2: he is out on the road campaigning for a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these Republican candidates, getting everybody across the finish line.
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  Speaker 2: And that ultimately is the bottom line. Because let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you something. We can't have a lawmaker elected to
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  Speaker 2: Congress who who thinks Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior,
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  Speaker 2: is a lesbian. Can't do that. That cannot happen in America.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got a lot of work to do here,
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  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, and you do too. We've got to
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  Speaker 2: get out the vote. All right, 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. Dylan, are
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: they still here?
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: They're all gone.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: They're all gone now. So we should probably tell everybody
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: what was going on behind the scenes. It's been sort
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: of a crazy day. We had Senator Marsha Blackburn and
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: her entire entourage. I mean, they had like security people,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: the whole nine yards. And they were here earlier. So
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: we did a pre-tape interview. And then we had a
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: film crew from Swiss TV come in.
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: Yes, I can confirm those.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: And they all were very French. Did you pick up
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: on that?
• 19:13
  Speaker 11: Yeah, they were. I was a little intimidated, actually.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Oui, monsieur Stades. I'm like, wait, what?
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: I'm still trying to figure out what happened. I'm trying
• 19:21
  Speaker 11: to wrap my head around it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: So apparently they're coming. So here's the thing. So the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: guy who runs my company, Dalton Glasscock, we talk about
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Dalton all the time on the show. So he sends
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: me a text message. He goes, what is going on
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: in the building right now? And I said, well, we've
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: got a crew from Swiss TV coming. And Dalton said,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: are you sure they're from Swiss TV? He says, are
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: you sure it's not Borat?
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking... oh my gosh, am I being punked?
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Am I about to be punked?
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: You want to make sure that doesn't happen to you.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: So I was kind of freaking out. So I figured,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: you know, if the guy, if we opened the door
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: and there was a guy with like, you know, a
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: five o'clock shadow and a mustache wearing a blonde wig with,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: you know, pigtails.
• 20:06
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: That's probably Borat.
• 20:08
  Speaker 11: If you start saying king in the castle, king in
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: the castle, that's probably not Swiss TV. Yeah.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: It's a great point. So I was a little nervous.
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: Rightfully so.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: But they were traveling the Mississippi River is the whole thing.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: So they started like in Minneapolis, and they're going to
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Baton Rouge next. And so they're here for two days,
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: and they interviewed me. They did a nice job. I mean,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: they were good questions.
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: They were real.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Oui, oui, monsieur Stannis. I can't speak French.
• 20:41
  Speaker 11: Pretty good.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: But anyway, so they asked me a lot of questions,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: and they're trying to push back on something. It goes, well,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: shouldn't you be giving Joe Biden credit for the drop
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: in crime? And I'm like, what did they put in
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: your Swiss Miss Mocha, pal? I had to defend our
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: great president. To the Swiss. They don't know better. Is
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: this what it's come to? So anyway, I did look
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: them up, and they are legit. I mean, they're based
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: out of D.C., and they got the accents and everything.
• 21:16
  Speaker 11: We should have had Swissmas here for them.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: No, they're very nice. Wow, you're right. We should have.
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: Really unprepared for the Swiss.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: That would have been great, giving them some hot cocoa.
• 21:26
  Speaker 11: That's literally the only thing that I think that we
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: have that we use of theirs.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: They're very nice guys, by the way.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Very nice.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: You know, I was thinking, aside from the chocolates.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: We don't have any more of the designer chocolates left,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: do we? No, we have all of those. I didn't
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: even get a chance to try one.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: Sorry.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: And they were for me.
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: They tasted very expensive.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Jeez, hello. All right. Well, anyway, all that to say,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: we'll let you know when the interview comes out. We
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: should have asked, how do we watch this?
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: They came in and left. It was like five minutes. No.
• 22:04
  Speaker 11: I don't know where they're going next. They're just all over.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I gave them, I told them where to get some
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: barbecue and the guy was writing it down. I mean,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: it was like, you know, central barbecue, dry rub ribs.
• 22:15
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Rum boogie cafe.
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: Hopefully this is not their first time in America. I don't,
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: this is the first stop is Memphis.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: He said, well, they asked where they should go to
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: see how the crime, you know, how crime has come down.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: And I was going to tell him orange mound, but
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I wanted to make, I didn't want an international incident.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: Maybe not the worst place yet.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I sent him to White Haven.
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: There you go. Start there and make your way to Orange, man.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, I said, so tell me where you guys are staying.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: The Hampton Inn? And I said, oh, that's good. They
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: got the free breakfast.
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: It's always back to the free breakfast. The Hampton Inn?
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: Very good.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: They're very nice guys. Very nice guys. And they actually
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: ask good questions. So it seems like it's going to
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: be fair and balanced.
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: We just have to find it. Whenever it goes live,
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: we have to find it. So just know what happened.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: They did film me coming in with my super-sized jug
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: of Chick-fil-A iced tea.
• 23:10
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: They have to get the entire American experience.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: They've got to get the whole vibe.
• 23:15
  Speaker 11: I don't know if they have large iced teas from
• 23:17
  Speaker 11: Chick-fil-A in Switzerland.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Look, I still have PTSD from having to do that
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: C-SPAN show Sunday morning. Todd versus all the liberals in America.
• 23:28
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 23:29
  Speaker 11: I mean, that was— It sounds like a Jubilee video.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: It was easy to do. That was the problem. It
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: was just, you know, having to be around that many
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: liberals on a Sunday morning is tedious.
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: What, at like 5.30 in the morning, too? Yeah. That's hard.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: It's not good.
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: Coffee first.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Exactly. I needed Dieter. You see, this is where I
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: needed the sidekick.
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah. He always kind of helps. He can fend
• 23:51
  Speaker 11: you off.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: We'll stick Dieter on him.
• 23:53
  Speaker 11: Dog. Chihuahua. Chihuahua.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Just like Dieter, actually.
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: All right. 901-260-5926. All that to say, if you're in
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: Memphis and you come across some guys from Switzerland, be
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: sure to say howdy-do and, you know, point them in
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: the right direction. We told them Gus's for the fried chicken.
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Good pick. I think we got them pretty, you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: set up pretty good. Rum Boogie Cafe for some blues, maybe,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: you know, B.B. King's, you know, nightclub.
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: They should go to Bill Street. At least one time.
• 24:27
  Speaker 11: If they're going to be here, might as well send
• 24:29
  Speaker 11: them there.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Did you know Jesus was a lesbian?
• 24:32
  Speaker 11: I didn't realize.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: That's not what we learned in Sunday school.
• 24:35
  Speaker 11: No, me either.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Red, yellow, black, white, they're precious in his sight. That's
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: what we learned.
• 24:41
  Speaker 11: Yeah, that's it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Jesus was a lesbian, too. No, that is not accurate.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: But Justin Pearson, this guy running for Congress, so basically
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: he's Afro-Jesus-ish. That's what we're calling this guy. But he's
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: like James Tallarico and the guy, Adam Hamilton from Kansas.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: And ladies and gentlemen, I just want to caution you
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: that there is false theology going around the Democrat Party.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: And I know that most Democrats are atheists anyway. I
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: get that. But now they are trying to actively deceive
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Christian voters. And you need to make sure that you
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: are doing your research on these guys. But this state representative,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: his name is Justin Pearson, and he's got this giant
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: power throw. And he's a good friend of AOC. As
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, the Democrats, the National Democrat Party,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: has said this is the race they want to win.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: So they're pouring millions of dollars into this. George Soros
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: pouring millions of dollars into the campaign here. to try
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: to get Justin Pearson elected. He was part of this.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: We told you about that big mob that stormed City
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Hall in Memphis just a few days ago. They're all
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: angry over, I don't know, their butthurt about Elon Musk,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: and they're wanting some sort of a paycheck or something
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: from Elon. It's crazy stuff. Anyway, Justin Pearson was there.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: It was his rent-a-mob, and he's sitting back in the
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: back just with this Cheshire grin on his face, really devious,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: because he's behind all of the chaos, which is now
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: on TMZ, the Babylon Bee, ABC, CBS. Everybody's making fun
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: of us, and nobody likes that. So this Pearson guy,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: he went to Bowdoin College in Maine. and was very
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: well educated. But when he's back in the home country,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: he talks like, I don't know, Chris Rock versus MLK
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: versus Malcolm X. And you kind of mix them all
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: up together, and he's like some sort of a Chicago
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Jesus kind of a preacher. But whenever he's in front
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: of an educated audience, he always talks lighter than we do.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: But this guy multiple times prays to Mother God, which
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: is blasphemy. And then to say that Jesus is a
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: gay black woman, it's appalling. But ladies and gentlemen, do
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: people like Justin, and let me just ask you, Texas,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: we have a Do you actually support someone like a
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: James Tallarico? Does James Tallarico represent or reflect your values?
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Somebody who says God is non-binary? You people in Memphis,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: all you folks in the black community in Memphis, does
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Justin Pearson represent your values? Do you, too, believe that
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Jesus is a gay black woman? Do you pray to
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Mother God? I would even say for you folks in
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: some of the rural counties in Tennessee, does Mr. Pearson
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: represent your values? Or what about you folks in Kansas,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: listening to us all across Kansas? Does Mr. Hamilton, the Methodist,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: the far leftist Methodist minister, does he represent your values?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Because these are the people that the Democrats are putting
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: out there as candidates. And all I can tell you
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: is Jesus was no lesbian. Just telling. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. I want to talk about Kimberly Guilfoyle. This
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: is an insane story, and I'm not sure she's going
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: to be able to survive this and remain as the ambassador.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: So the Wall Street Journal doing a— and I don't know
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: how they got their hands on the text messages— I
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: have a couple of theories. I'm not ready to share
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: those theories. But Kimberly Guilfoyle, according to the Wall Street Journal,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: pleaded with a Republican donor to send her $ 100, 000 to
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: pay off her credit card debt. Dylan, $ 100, 000 in credit
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: card debt. What was she buying? This is insane. So
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: the story, it's called Honey, Please. Kimberly Guilfoyle pushed donor
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Tawaila $ 100, 000 to her Amex account. All of this happening
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: when she was preparing for her congressional election. hearing to
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: become the U.S. ambassador to Greece. She reached out to
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: a Trump donor with an urgent request. She needed $ 100, 000
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: to pay her American Express bill in a way that
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: would not leave a paper trail.
• 29:54
  Speaker 11: Uh-oh.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: She wrote on Signal, it won't show up anywhere if
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: you wire money to American Express.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Please.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: And the Wall Street Journal, they've got all of the
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: text messages to a gentleman by the name of Eric Dieters,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: a former congressional candidate in Kentucky who was seeking help
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: in getting the attention of the new Trump administration on
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: some personal tax and legal issues. So this, ladies and gentlemen,
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: is shaping up to be pay for play. Now, Mr.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: Dieters had promised no relation to our Dieter.
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: Todd, you know I'm just sitting back here thinking.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: I saw you.
• 30:37
  Speaker 7: I saw.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: You.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: No relation to our little Dieter. This is a big Dieter.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: And it's a one-tee Dieter. Our Dieter's two E's and
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: a T. This is, never mind. It's not our Dieter.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: So anyway, Mr. Dieter had promised to pay her as
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: much as a million dollars if she was successful. As
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump's, and by the way, this also explains why
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: there was a breakup. She was engaged to marry Don Jr.,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Guilfoyle offered to use her sway, according to Dieters, and
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: messages reviewed by the journal proved that. She forwarded Dieters
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: the messages she'd sent to the new Internal Revenue Service
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: and updated him on efforts to lobby the Justice Department
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: on his behalf. But anyway, the confirmation hearing was coming.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And beyond the confirmation hearing is, Ms. Guilfoyle, can you
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: please explain what you were buying on your credit card?
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: $ 100, 000.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Guilfoyle texted Mr. Dieters, Honey, please, I need you to
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: get this done for me today. She added a prayer
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: hands emoji. and a PDF with bill payment instructions for Amex.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: You could just send it here. Deeters did not make
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: the payment, telling Guilfoyle that it would cost.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Him his marriage.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: You know, that is a fair point here. The missus
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: comes to your office and says, why are you giving
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Kimberly Guilfoyle $ 100, 000? What's going on there?
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Fair question.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Anyway, Guilfoyle last week came under fire from Democrats who
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: urged the State Department to review her conduct. They cited
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: another journal investigation into her promotion of a Greek company
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: whose lobbyists traveled with her to meetings with governments across
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: the Balkans. So anyway, it goes on and on and on.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: And so the gist of this is that she was
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: basically telling people, I have access, and if you give
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: me money, I will get you access. That's a big no-no,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: a big no-no. Now, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio,
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: praised Guilfoyle yesterday. He said, our embassy is doing a
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: great job. Our ambassador has been a strong ambassador. And
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I know that's what he said, but it's interesting that
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: he actually did not mention the ambassador's name. By the way,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio became very upset earlier today when he was
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: asked about it again, and he sort of lost his
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: cool there.
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Dieters is an attorney and the former co-owner of Snappy
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Tomato Pizza, a regional restaurant chain. He has mounted unsuccessful
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: runs for Congress and governor. In a series of interviews,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: he said that Guilfoyle's lack of results left him disenchanted
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: with the Trump administration, even though he mostly supports its policies.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Dieter said Guilfoyle told him that if he came up
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: with the Amex payment, quote, I will be your Trump
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: ride or die forever and ever. But he said she
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: never came through on anything. Mr. Dieters also hosted an
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: AM radio show.
• 34:11
  Speaker 11: Wait, are we sure that this is getting dangerously close?
• 34:15
  Speaker 15: It is.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Dieters lent his voice to the Trump movement, boosting his
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: campaign in 2016. He liked to say, Trump today, Trump tomorrow,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: Trump forever. In the courtroom, he was known as the Bulldog.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: But he also has his own legal problems. He was
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: banned from entering a courthouse after he threatened on social
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: media to burn it down. The Kentucky Bar Association twice
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: suspended him, citing aggressive litigation strategies and false statements in
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: court proceedings.
• 34:53
  Speaker 11: Mr.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Dieters also denounced members of the Kentucky Supreme Court as, quote,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: jokes of human excrement. Wow, that's not good. So anyway,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: here's where it gets really interesting. His dealings with Guilfoyle
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: began in 2020 when he launched an event called Freedom
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Fest in Kentucky. He paid Guilfoyle $ 300, 000 over the coming
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: years to speak at Freedom Fest. He also paid $ 200, 000
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: in speaking fees to Trump Jr. and $ 100, 000 for Eric Trump.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: And he also gave $ 125, 000 to a political action committee
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: supporting the president. So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: It's kind of ugly, and the Wall Street Journal, they
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: got the goods. They've got the goods. Look, we're going
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: to have to take a break. I've got more to
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: say about this, but let me do say this one
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: thing before we go to break. Grifters are going to grift.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: This is not about anybody else. in the administration. This
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: is about Donald Trump, and it's about his agenda. That's
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: all it's ever been. And if you and your behavior
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: are going to get in the way of that, you
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: got to go. That's my take on it. All right,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: we'll be right back.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. It's the Todd Stearns Radio Show. We
• 36:20
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• 37:20
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 3: That's us.
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  Speaker 8: That's right.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, yeah.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know about this advice. It just made, well,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: you know, no, I'm not a big Starbucks guy at all.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Their coffee has never, it's really never been that appealing
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: to me. It tastes burnt. You know, even the pumpkin spice,
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: what is that, the pumpkin spice latte? Is that what
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: they call it, Dylan?
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:02
  Speaker 16: Terrible, by the way.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: It tastes like burnt pumpkin.
• 38:06
  Speaker 11: With a little bit of spice.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: I'm not a big pumpkin guy. Now, if it's a
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: sweet potato, you know what I mean? Sweet potato pie.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Come on now.
• 38:15
  Speaker 11: They didn't latch on too well as the pumpkin spice
• 38:17
  Speaker 11: for some reason.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: But, you know, I've always just marveled at the fact
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: that so many people are willing to fork over five
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: bucks for, what do they call them? I don't know.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: What are the sizes?
• 38:28
  Speaker 11: Venti.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Venti Grande.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Venti Grande.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Mucho grande.
• 38:32
  Speaker 11: The smallest size is called tall, by the way.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, is that right?
• 38:35
  Speaker 11: True story. Oh, geez. They all mean tall in some way,
• 38:39
  Speaker 11: but they're different in Starbucks language.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I just, you know, again, I know there
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: are a lot of people that are millennials that can't
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: afford to buy a house because they spend all their
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: money on avocado toast and these grande lattes at Starbucks.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, that'll eat through your paycheck pretty darn quickly.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: And for me, I would prefer to have my coffee
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: at home where I can enjoy that at a fraction
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: of the cost and not have that nasty foam. It's
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: like the– you know what I'm talking about?
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: Yeah, the cold foam.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like weird. It's like the coffee is sweating.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 39:18
  Speaker 11: I think it's overcompensating for the taste of the coffee.
• 39:21
  Speaker 11: It's got to be because it is burnt. You're right.
• 39:24
  Speaker 11: I don't know what they're doing. Just leave it on
• 39:26
  Speaker 11: there too long or something. I don't know what's happening.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: And I mean, I have nothing against Starbucks, aside from
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: the fact their coffee is nasty.
• 39:33
  Speaker 11: Which is like the main thing they sell.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: It's true. But they do have, I will say this,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: they do have the lovely fruity beverages that you can
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: get frozen. And those are pretty good. But you can
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: get those at 7-Eleven. They're called Slurpee. For like, what,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: 99 cents? Yeah, way less. Without the attitude as well.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 39:53
  Speaker 11: Or the misspelled name.
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: Oh, my.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm Todd with two Ds. How bad is, how
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: hard is that?
• 40:01
  Speaker 11: Yeah, that's a tough one. Yeah, yours is worse. Yeah.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: So all that to say, Michelle Tafoya, who is running
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: in the Senate race, she's the Republican nominee in Minnesota.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: And by all indications, she's been running a pretty good campaign.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, and that's a good thing because we do
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: need a Republican winning out of Minnesota. It's a mess
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: in that state. But Michelle Tafoya has some advice on
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Americans that are concerned with all these rising prices. And
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: here's what Tafoya had to say. Take a listen.
• 40:36
  Speaker 17: I think right now, at least just kind of keeping
• 40:38
  Speaker 17: a stiff upper lip. Maybe you'd take one less trip
• 40:42
  Speaker 17: to Starbucks. And so that gas goes a little further
• 40:45
  Speaker 17: until this thing is over and these gas prices come
• 40:48
  Speaker 17: back down again. Let's just try to be patriots about this.
• 40:52
  Speaker 17: Whether you agree with it.
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: Or not, we're there.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: So let's just review what we just heard. And this is,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: she is not the first candidate. Somebody at RNC headquarters said,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: is telling these candidates to say stuff like this. We
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: had the guy on a couple of weeks ago running
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: for Congress, and I was trying to help him out
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: a little bit with his messaging because, you know, people,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: they can't afford to buy ground beef so they can
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: make sloppy joes or meatloaf. And his answer was, well,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: let him eat turkey. And then you've got all these
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: other folks out there that are saying out on the
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: campaign trail that it's not a big deal, that all
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: these high prices, you should just deal with it. And
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: now we have Michelle Tafoya, who's out there on the
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: campaign trail, telling people, you know what, you've got a
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: patriotic duty to stop drinking Starbucks. Now, part of me
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: kind of agrees with this because Starbucks is nasty, but
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: that's not the issue here. The issue here is the
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: implication is you're not a patriot if you're spending money
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: at a coffee shop. So many people, I have to imagine,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: are making decisions. Do you take that $ 5 and fill
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: up your gas tank or put $ 5 worth in, which
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: is what, almost a gallon of gas? That's so sad.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: You could probably use your, I don't know, tall Starbucks
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: cup to fill the gasoline and then put that in
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: the vehicle. Because you're not getting a grande at the
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: gas station. I mean, that's outrageous. And that's the messaging,
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: is to suck it up, America. And if you're patriotic,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: you're not going to complain about it. That's the messaging.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Is that a good message? Is that really resonating? Do
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: you feel patriotic by suffering in your home? I mean,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: at some point, this keeps up and prices keep rising.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: You're not even going to be able to afford like
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: the Oscar Mayer ham, right? The square ham that's like
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: paper thin. You're just going to have to imagine you're
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: eating a ham sandwich. Two slices of bread. Maybe even
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: one slice of bread. That's sliced in half. I mean,
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: where do you go with all this stuff? So all
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: that to say, I mean, look, my recommendation is just
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: if I was running for office, I would not be
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: campaigning anywhere near the gas price or affordability issues because
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: there's really no explaining them. I mean, ultimately, isn't that
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: the issue here? There's really no way to explain it.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: Not to anyone's satisfaction. They're going to tell you, well,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: prices were low. Yeah, but they're not now.
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not being critical of anybody. I mean, it's
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: just the reality of it. But if you're telling me,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: suck it up, buttercup, if that's your campaign message, well,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: good luck to you out there. I hope that works.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: But I really do believe that this midterm election is
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: going to be about pocketbook issues. I really do. Now,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: for you folks in Michigan, well, you've got to figure
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: out if you're going to elect a guy who has, well,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: jihadist tendencies. I mean, you've got your own set of
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: problems up in Michigan. By the way, that debate is
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: tonight with Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed. Trump called him
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Muhammad last night, and that apparently triggered Abdul. So anyway,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: that ought to be interesting, but again— I think the
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: race in Michigan is a little different because they're dealing
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: with radical extremism. So there you have it. Curious to
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: hear your thoughts on this, ladies and gentlemen. Affordability, is
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: it an issue? And what do you tell Republicans who
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: are running? What do you want to hear from them? 901-260-5926,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. By the way, President Trump
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: last night says that Mrs. Trump, the first lady, really
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: not happy with him about his pronunciation of certain words.
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: He said all of a sudden, he's a vegan. You know,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: my wife told me, sir, do me a favor. You
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: have to do me just a little bit of a favor.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: It's not vegan, it's vegan. I don't know about that stuff.
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: I'm not into it.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: And he said, it's vegan.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Please pronounce that word properly.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: I called it vegan, vegan.
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: I thought it was.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: How the hell would I know?
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: I like steak.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the crowd went nuts. And it's true. Talking
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: about James Talofrico, who, by the way, has the flu, allegedly.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: The guy has been off the campaign trail for almost
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: two weeks. Almost two weeks. What kind of a flu
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: do you have that takes you off the campaign trail
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: for two weeks? There's something going on. I don't know
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: if there's an October surprise coming or what. but something's
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: going on with Talafrico. And meanwhile, Trump is pointing out
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: that Talafrico once campaigned as a vegan or a vegan.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: They call him a vegan? A vegan. Trump says vegan,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: but it's vegan. Anyway, Trump calling this guy out. And
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: the president was in a good mood yesterday. And he
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: loves it, especially it was a standing room only crowd,
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: even CNN.
• 46:31
  Speaker 13: CNN.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Had to acknowledge that Trump had a huge turnout last
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: night in Texas. I'm just telling you, ladies and gentlemen,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: things are looking good for the Republicans. I'm telling you,
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: in spite of all the prices and the Starbucks, things
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: are looking good. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 46:59
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• 47:03
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• 47:57
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• 48:00
  Speaker 2: lines today, 901-260-5926. Say hello to Barbara from Georgia. Hey, Barbara,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
• 48:08
  Speaker 18: Hi, Todd.
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: Hi, Todd.
• 48:11
  Speaker 18: Thanks for taking my call. I have a question. Is
• 48:14
  Speaker 18: it the law of economics? Is it overspending by consumers
• 48:20
  Speaker 18: just buy, buy, buy, put everything on credit? Or is
• 48:24
  Speaker 18: it corporate trying to make back profits by overpricing their
• 48:30
  Speaker 18: products to where they're trying to make up maybe for
• 48:33
  Speaker 18: post-COVID losses? I just can't understand what's causing inflation. Why
• 48:41
  Speaker 18: am I paying $ 4 for a box of Pop-Tarts when
• 48:44
  Speaker 18: they really should be 99 cents?
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a great question, and a lot of that
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: has to do with the companies trying to make money.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: I hear a lot of companies still trying to use
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: COVID as an excuse. I'm not sure. If that's actually
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: fair to use that as something to blame or a
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: reason why.
• 49:09
  Speaker 18: It's been too long.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it has been. It's been too long enough.
• 49:12
  Speaker 10: It's cozy.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: You know, Barbara, I think you have to go back
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: to 2021. Inflation during the Biden administration was $ 7. Last year,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: it was at 2.7%. It's ticked back up a little
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: bit in August to 3.4%. So, you know, that is
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: an issue. So inflation surged. and then slowed through 2024
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: and 2025. So that's kind of where we're at now.
• 49:44
  Speaker 18: Why aren't they saying that? Why aren't they explaining that
• 49:48
  Speaker 18: to your average Joe? Why aren't they explaining it? This
• 49:51
  Speaker 18: is the way it was under the Biden administration. We
• 49:54
  Speaker 18: almost need Ross Perot. charge to show people.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Barbara, I think there is just a disconnect between
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: the administration right now and the average American who needs
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: things to be, you know, all of us are not
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: financial experts, right? So it's not even a matter of
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: dumbing it down. It's a matter of talking to people
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: so they can understand what's really going on here. Now,
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: the biggest drive of inflation right now is the energy prices.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: And you look at gasoline and oil, but there are others,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: you know, as well. But those are the two big
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: ones right now. And again, annual inflation, 3.4 percent, according
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. So that's kind of
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: where we're at right now. But it's a fair question
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: to ask. And I know it's frustrating a lot of
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: people because, and I see it when I'm at the supermarket.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, prices are really climbing.
• 50:55
  Speaker 18: Well, I'm at the age where it doesn't affect me
• 50:58
  Speaker 18: that much, but I understand young people. I understand young
• 51:02
  Speaker 18: people that are trying to make a living, trying to
• 51:04
  Speaker 18: buy a home, trying to just make ends meet. But
• 51:08
  Speaker 18: I just don't think that we're getting the point across.
• 51:12
  Speaker 18: And I understand that you do have to sometimes lay
• 51:18
  Speaker 18: your personal feelings aside. But I just don't think the
• 51:21
  Speaker 18: Republicans are getting the message out that, Well, the problem
• 51:26
  Speaker 18: here is, you know, again.
• 51:27
  Speaker 9: When you look at grocery prices, for.
• 51:30
  Speaker 18: Example, a lot of that has to do with higher
• 51:34
  Speaker 18: transportation costs.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: And the tariffs. I mean, the tariffs have had an
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: impact as well. However, grocery inflation has actually slowed down
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: quite a bit, yet we're still having to pay high
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: prices at the grocery store. And as a matter of fact,
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: we're paying more for food now than we were in
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: some cases five years ago. So that you do have
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: to start looking at the individual grocery stores and say,
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: are they intentionally keeping the prices high? We talked a
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago about the price of beef. That's
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: because we don't have as many cattle out there right now.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: So that's going to lead to higher beef prices. The
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: more we start raising cattle, those beef prices should eventually
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: come back down.
• 52:35
  Speaker 18: And let me say... Kudos to our governor, Brian Kemp.
• 52:40
  Speaker 18: He's reduced the, I mean, I'm paying $ 3. 64 today for gas. So,
• 52:46
  Speaker 18: you know, kudos to him for, right now, he's eliminating
• 52:52
  Speaker 18: the gas tax for this month. So that's helping us out.
• 52:56
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: Barbara, how are you guys feeling about your midterm elections
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: here in Georgia?
• 53:03
  Speaker 18: Well, where I am, which is rural, I'm feeling pretty
• 53:07
  Speaker 18: good because we're definitely red in my area. I just
• 53:10
  Speaker 18: hope there's enough red to beat out the blood.
• 53:13
  Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: So you're talking about... I don't know.
• 53:15
  Speaker 18: About John Ossoff. You know, it's kind of, I don't know.
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 53:19
  Speaker 18: I would love for someone to replace him, but I
• 53:24
  Speaker 18: don't know.
• 53:25
  Speaker 10: If that's going to happen.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: With Mike Collins in that Senate race. By the way,
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: I'm envious, Barbara. Gas prices average here in Tennessee, $ 3. 97
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: a gallon. So, good on Brian Kemp.
• 53:37
  Speaker 18: $ 3. 64. Yeah, $ 3.
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: 64 on that. I may have to drive over to
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Gainesville and get my gas bill.
• 53:47
  Speaker 18: Well, you may not find it in Gainesville.
• 53:49
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 53:50
  Speaker 10: I'm in rural.
• 53:50
  Speaker 18: I'm in northeast Georgia.
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 53:52
  Speaker 18: We're pretty competitive.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Well, Barbara, thank you for calling in, and good thoughts,
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: and thank you for the gas price update. They're $ 3. 97
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: a gallon here in Tennessee. Barbara says $ 3. 64 in Georgia.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: Curious to know what gas prices are like in your neighborhood.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901. 260-5926. By the way,
• 54:20
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• 54:25
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• 54:29
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• 54:31
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• 54:36
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• 54:40
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• 55:00
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• 55:16
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• 55:21
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• 55:24
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• 55:51
  Speaker 2: It's the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Had a great time
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: last week in California at the Spiritual Leadership Conference. Around
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: 4,000 pastors and church workers, Christians from all over the country,
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: gathering for just an incredible time of of great messages,
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: panel discussions, workshops, and I was honored to lead one
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: of the workshops on engaging the culture in your local community. Also,
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: we had a great panel discussion, and one of the
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: individuals on the panel joins us today on our Patriot
• 56:25
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• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Faith Wins. Chad, good to see you in California last week.
• 56:34
  Speaker 16: Hey, Todd, it's crazy that two guys from the South
• 56:36
  Speaker 16: have to run in each other in California, but that
• 56:38
  Speaker 16: was awesome. And I really appreciated your leadership always. And,
• 56:42
  Speaker 16: you know, just looking down that line on the panel,
• 56:45
  Speaker 16: I took that selfie. Well, I took a picture of
• 56:47
  Speaker 16: all of you guys because I was so honored to
• 56:50
  Speaker 16: be a part of it. But yeah, great crowd, great enthusiasm,
• 56:53
  Speaker 16: great awareness of what we got to do as a
• 56:56
  Speaker 16: movement to get this culture on track.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: You know, Chad, we're looking at the midterm elections. And again,
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: I'm one of the few people feeling actually good about this.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: And I may be proven wrong. I hope not. But
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: I am wondering what you are seeing out there, because
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: there are a lot of folks that are concerned, including
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: a number of congressmen that I've talked to over the
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  Speaker 2: past couple of weeks. And they're really concerned about what
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: they are seeing out there. What say you?
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  Speaker 16: Well, you know, the concern comes because there's an uphill
• 57:27
  Speaker 16: climb in the midterm when your party has the White House.
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  Speaker 7: We know that.
• 57:31
  Speaker 16: We also know our side's not good at midterm turnout anyway.
• 57:35
  Speaker 16: We've been historically bad. But I think this could be
• 57:39
  Speaker 16: one of those years that we defy the historical odds.
• 57:42
  Speaker 16: I think Republicans have won in an uphill midterm climb
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  Speaker 16: twice in like 94 years. So the historical references are accurate. Also,
• 57:52
  Speaker 16: there's a lot of things going against us like gas prices.
• 57:54
  Speaker 16: The war has lingered. The tariffs are causing a ripple
• 57:58
  Speaker 16: effect on the prices. Here's why I'm optimistic. I have
• 58:01
  Speaker 16: now been, I think, last night's meeting above Denver in
• 58:05
  Speaker 16: that key congressional. That's my 21st state to be in
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  Speaker 16: since July 15th. I think our 84th or 85th pastor meeting.
• 58:14
  Speaker 16: There's an awakening among our people. And they realize that
• 58:17
  Speaker 16: while Republicans certainly aren't perfect, A lot of the fixes
• 58:20
  Speaker 16: that Trump is working on aren't quick, but also they
• 58:25
  Speaker 16: realize the left is crazy. The progressives have lost their
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  Speaker 16: ever-loving minds, and I think that's causing an awakening among
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  Speaker 16: our people, Todd, and that's what's.
• 58:33
  Speaker 7: Got to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Chad, I'm wondering, are there any races that you're looking
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  Speaker 2: to as bellwether races in the House and or the Senate?
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir. We're looking at several. We actually are.
• 58:46
  Speaker 16: We had 43 congressional house districts we're looking at. And
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  Speaker 16: when I do your show next week, I think we're
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  Speaker 16: going to have our final 10.
• 58:54
  Speaker 7: They're going to be the bellwethers.
• 58:56
  Speaker 16: I'm a little reluctant to pick them right now, but
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  Speaker 16: I think we're getting close. In the Senate, you probably
• 59:02
  Speaker 16: saw that the National Republican Senate Committee has pulled money
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  Speaker 16: out of North Carolina totally. In fact, Michael Whatley suspended
• 59:10
  Speaker 16: all TV buys. In Georgia, they've reduced the spending. And
• 59:14
  Speaker 16: the concerning thing for our side is that the Trump
• 59:17
  Speaker 16: super PAC and the RNC are shifting money to usually
• 59:21
  Speaker 16: reliably red states, Texas, Kansas, South Carolina. But we'll have
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  Speaker 16: a good list for you next week on our updates.
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  Speaker 16: of the top, top ones we're watching. But there's two
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  Speaker 16: in Iowa. There's one in Ohio that I think is key.
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  Speaker 16: But on the Senate side, watch New Hampshire. I'm feeling
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  Speaker 16: better and better about a potential flip to an American
• 59:44
  Speaker 16: as opposed to a commie-loving liberal on their side that's
• 59:48
  Speaker 16: held that seat. And also watch Ohio and Iowa Senate.
• 59:53
  Speaker 16: But the real one I'm looking at is Michigan. I
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  Speaker 16: think we're going to be fine in Texas. We're going
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  Speaker 16: to be fine in South Carolina. I think Kansas, the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 16: people are going to pull that through. But in Michigan,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 16: our pastors are talking to pastors who are typically leaning
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 16: Democrat or solid Democrat who cannot stomach Al Sayed and the, hey,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 16: America deserved 9-11 kind of thinking that's come out of
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 16: his campaign. And here's the kicker, Todd. President Obama has
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 16: been pulled out of retirement to campaign against in reliably
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 16: blue districts. That tells me while we're nervous about a Texas,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 16: a Kansas, even a South Carolina, Ohio.
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  Speaker 7: Iowa, they're very nervous.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 16: And maybe the polls have done what they've typically done.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 16: They've overweighted D voters. And we all know that liberal
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 16: white women love to answer polls and conservatives don't. So
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 16: to have Obama pulled out tells you two things. Number one,
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 16: there's no national leader of the Democratic Party they can
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 16: rely on. Kathleen Kamala can't be pulled out of the campaign.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 16: And they can't pull out Biden. And, of course, Hakeem
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 16: Jeffries isn't well-liked. So they pull Obama out to go
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 16: to Michigan, where he's going to lecture young black males
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 16: like he did in 24, I guess. Oh, go vote Democrat.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 16: So I think things are looking up in a lot
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  Speaker 16: of places. But watch Michigan. Watch New Hampshire. And on defense,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 16: watch Ohio and Iowa for Senate races.
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  Speaker 2: Chad, I just want you to, we're going to play
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: make-believe for just a moment. Let's just say that November
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: is a disaster for the Republicans. As a political analyst,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: if you were to look back and say, okay, here's
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: what went wrong, can you sort of like, just let's
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: play make-believe for a minute. We've lost both the House
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: and the Senate. Where do we go astray?
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 16: We've ignored our base. You know, Todd, you and I
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 16: have talked about this. This has been my song and
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 16: dance since I was a state party chairman. I ran
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 16: that test in 2010. I found underperforming counties and precincts,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 16: and I went to churches. That's how I built my
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 16: chairmanship in South Carolina. I went to churches. And when
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 16: I ran GOP faith from 13 to 17, I went
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 16: to churches.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 7: I went to pastors. I talked to them about Jesus
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  Speaker 7: isn't running.
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  Speaker 16: We're voting for the lesser of two evils by definition.
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  Speaker 16: Let's look at the policies. And that was easy to
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 16: compare the platforms. I think that the National Party, certainly
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 16: the White House, they check a box, obviously, trying to
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 16: do what they can with faith. But there is no
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 16: authentic faith engagement, evangelical outreach going on anywhere. I can't
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 16: tell you how many campaigns, super PACs, and even candidates.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 16: I told Michael Whatley a year ago that I had
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 16: about 4,000 churches in North Carolina that if he just
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 16: talked to them, If we just did a real authentic
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 16: push and crickets. So we've ignored our base. It's what
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 16: we do every time. It's what Reince Priebus figured out
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 16: and got sick of losing after 2012 and what we
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 16: changed in 2014. Let's don't parachute in in August and say, Ooh,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 16: look what we're doing. We're reaching out to the African-Americans
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 16: and the evangelicals and the Hispanics. That's just stupid bad.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 16: We need to have an ongoing authentic outreach engagement with
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 16: the faith through base groups that are the Republican Party,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 16: the conservative side's base, and nobody at a national level
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 16: seems to want to do it. But that's why Faith
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 16: Wins exists, because we saw that they're not doing it
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 16: and probably not going to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and I'm so glad that your organization is
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: there and you founded Faith Wins. By the way, faithwins.org
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: is the website, ladies and gentlemen, faithwins.org, and I would
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: encourage you to check that out and get involved. I mean,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: that's the key here is getting involved. You know, Chad,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: we had the president of the Southern Baptist Convention on
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: the show yesterday, Dr. Wiley Rice, and I really appreciate
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: his attempts to re-engage Southern Baptist pastors into the fight.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: I would also say that I am concerned that the
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: faith component at the White House, that organization is not
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: influential because of some of the leadership there, and I
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: don't think they have, you know, I think you have
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: to have some of the leaders of these large denominations
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: involved in the process to get, you know, larger numbers
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: of Christians engaged in the midterms.
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  Speaker 16: Todd, amen and amen. Look, I'm so fired up that Dr.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 16: Rice made that post. I retweeted it, I put it
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 16: on Facebook, and my tweet was basically, this is about time.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 16: The Southern Baptist Convention has left a hole, and people
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 16: need to have clarity on all these anti-biblical, anti-God, anti-American initiatives.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 16: They've come about because Christians aren't engaged, and nature hates
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 16: a vacuum, and the enemy's only too happy to fill it. Look,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 16: I told the faith office, I've talked to them since 2016, 2017,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 16: this has got to be more than your same friends
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 16: that fill, and I'm not against the charismatics. I've got
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 16: a lot of charismatic pastor friends But if you take
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 16: the same group of people to the White House and
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 16: you claim that we're reaching the faith groups, what are
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 16: the charismatics? 2% of the evangelical vote?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 7: That's great. I hope we got them all. I don't
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 7: think we do. But what about the other 98%? I
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 7: cannot tell.
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  Speaker 16: You how many lists of pastors I have submitted trying
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 16: to get them engaged and find out what the White
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 16: House is doing, have some relationship, and just I'm sorely disappointed.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 16: And I just Look, this has been my song and
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 16: dance and ongoing mantra for years, Todd. Our side, and
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 16: here's why. There's just a lot of people in the
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 16: consultant class that don't want to deal with me and you, brother.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 16: They want our votes and our voices. Faith winds exist
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 16: to exert our voices. I want to have a pastor network.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 16: I don't care about the biggest. I want the most
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 16: effective list of pastors that the political class cannot ignore because.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 7: These issues matter.
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  Speaker 16: And, you know, look, I'm the only male human being
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 16: that was removed from the platform committee after my delegation
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 16: voted me in in 2024. And the reason they did
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 16: that is I had said publicly if they tried to
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 16: remove life or marriage from the platform, I would activate
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 16: my national pastor list. And boom, I was taken off
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 16: and we saw how the platform was steamrolled. That wasn't
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 16: the president. That was the consultants who've always thought, let's
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 16: get life and marriage off that platform. And they don't realize, okay,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 16: maybe you attracted whatever percentage, but you suppressed the Christian vote. Fundamentally,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 16: that crowd, and I would give the credit to people
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 16: with initials like Karl Rove, they're like, where are the.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 7: Christians going to go? And he's got a point.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 16: Maybe in an analytical sense, strategic sense, there are not
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 16: a lot of options for Christians Therefore, I founded Faith Wins.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 16: I ran GOP Faith for this very purpose, that they
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 16: could not ignore these issues. These are winning issues. Life
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 16: is a winning issue. People are disgusted by this abortion
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 16: up to birth. Boys not getting in girls' sports and
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 16: bathrooms and showers, that's a winning issue. And yet there's
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 16: a reluctance to talk about that stuff because they're based
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 16: in the faith that you and I hold, and God
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 16: is God, and the Word of God is infallible.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: Chad, we're going to leave it there. We'll look forward
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: to seeing every Thursday leading up to Election Day. We're
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: going to be talking to Chad Conley and getting all
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: the very latest news and intel. Chad, hope you're doing well.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: Be safe out there, my friend.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 7: You know what, brother? Appreciate you. God bless you, brother.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: All right. Chad Conley, faithwins.org. Be sure to check out
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: the website. All right, you heard Chad's take on it.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back, everybody.
• 1:07:42
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• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Any of you folks
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: big Disney fans? I was having this conversation with a
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: bunch of folks in California last week, and it was
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: just my general observation that when you go to Disney...
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: whether it's Disneyland or Disney World, most of the people
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: there are not even children. They're like grown adults, like
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: in their, I don't know, 30s and 40s and 50s,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: experiencing their, I don't know, childhood again. And now folks
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: are all upset because Disney raising prices once again.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 11: Cut 21, please.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 12: Walt Disney World raising the price of admission for premium
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 12: tickets Tuesday, their annual pass increasing the most going. up $ 120,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 12: totaling $ 1, 749. And if you want fast access to all
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 12: the rides, it now costs a whopping $ 499. However, Disney
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 12: executives insist they are sensitive to families on a budget.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 12: Their cheapest admission tickets going unchanged. At $ 120, the company
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 12: aiming to keep base ticket prices low.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Can you not just, you know, stay home and
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: maybe watch the Disney Channel? Is that cheaper? I mean,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: that's crazy. Who pays that? Would you pay that much? Dylan,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: would you pay that much to go to Disney?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 11: No, no, no. I'd rather go to Dollywood if I'm
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 11: going to a theme park anyway.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Or Branson.
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  Speaker 11: Branson's great. Six flags I'll even go to.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: That's a little dangerous. Not anymore. Yeah, that's the thug ride.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 11: You can't even get on the Batman ride without causing
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 11: a commotion. It's true. Yeah, it's too much. And the
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 11: Disney adults creep me out. So unless I'm going with
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 11: my family, then I'm really not that much interested.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: I thought it was just me. And I get it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're an adult and you want to
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: relive your childhood... But I know I've seen grown adults together,
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: not with kids, right? But together, and you're wearing the
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: mouse ears, and you're, you know, it's just sort of like, hmm.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 11: It's not reliving childhood. It's just being stuck in your childhood.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 11: You haven't ever left your childhood.
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  Speaker 2: At some point, you have to grow up, and you've
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 2: got to put the ears away.
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  Speaker 11: But these people are loaded, apparently. I mean, like, how
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 11: do you afford to be at Disney all the time?
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  Speaker 2: So that's a great question. And even if you have
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: these passes, I mean, that is still a lot of money.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 11: The FastPass, that being $ 400, that's just like your ticket
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 11: to ride quicker in the lines. That's a pretty hefty price.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: They say, and by the way, the prices are going
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: up at Florida and California parks. But they say that
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: most of the people that go to Disneyland actually live
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: in Southern California.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 11: Interesting.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: So when you're looking at the travelers, they're the ones
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: going to Disney World, which I guess is larger. But
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: the highest-priced one-day ticket at Disney, $ 229 plus tax. There's
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: no way. No way. At Disneyland, several mid-tier ticket options.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: The least expensive ticket is $ 104.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 16: $ 104.
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  Speaker 2: And that doesn't include, like, food once you get in.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: And by the way, and just hear me on this,
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 2: the food in these parks is not great. It's really not.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: And as a matter of fact, I think it's terrible.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: And then you've got parking. It is, and if you're
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: going to go there, you've got to stay at a hotel. So,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're looking at maybe $ 10, 000, $ 15, 000 to take
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: your family to Disney World or Disneyland.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 11: No, I'm probably not going to be that parent. I
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 11: hate to say it to my future kids, but we
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 11: can go to Dollywood and that'll just be fine.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: And they have a little, I bet they have a
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: petting zoo. Do they have the petting zoo at Dollywood?
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 8: Probably.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 11: I think so. They have everything there.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: I'm very curious about all of this now, but you're right.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, like Pigeon Forge, and by the way, at
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: Pigeon Forge, they've got the strip and they've got all
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: sorts of stuff going on.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 11: It's better looking, too. Like everything, the views, like East
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 11: Tennessee is great.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at, does Dollywood have a petting zoo? Oh,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: they don't have a petting zoo. But pets, oh, and
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 2: they don't allow pets, except for service animals. So they also,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: they do have a daily kennel service called Doggywood.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 11: That's brilliant. That's brilliant.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: I love this. I love this. But they also have
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: a Smoky Mountain Deer Farm and Exotic Petting Zoo nearby.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: So I guess, you know. But again, I mean, you're
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: not spending thousands and thousands of dollars.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 11: Not to mention they have the Crazy Cinnamon Bread, which
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 11: if you haven't had the Crazy Cinnamon Bread in Dollywood,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 11: you're really, really missing out.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: So the food, I've heard the food at Dollywood is unbelievable.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 11: I think they have the turkey legs, if I'm not mistaken,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 11: the giant turkey legs like the state fair foods.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, nice.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you can't beat that.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: All right. For a kid, $ 84 to go to Dollywood.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: If you're a senior citizen, same price, $ 84. Oh, wow.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 11: No discrimination.
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  Speaker 12: Mm-hmm.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: Somebody asked, oh, I forgot about this. Somebody asked me
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: when I was in California if I wanted the senior discount.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 17: Oh, no.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 11: No. No.
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I had words.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm sure.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: I said I'm not old enough yet. Give me a
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: few years. But then again, if it's a pretty good discount,
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: I might take it.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: Hang tight. Hour three of the big show coming up.
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• 1:14:31
  Speaker 10: From Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right. I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 3: Todd Starrs.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: Hello, everybody. Welcome to Hour 3 of The Big Show.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: We have a jam-packed hour coming your way. In the
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: last hour, we were talking about this crazy story, Disney
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: prices going out the wazoo again. A lot of folks
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: really concerned about rising prices. I want to go real
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: quick to Tom in Texas, listening to us on Patriot
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: Talk 920. All right, Tom, what can you tell us
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: about Disney?
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  Speaker 10: All right. Three years ago, the grandkids wanted to go
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 10: to Disney World out in Florida. And both grandmas, their kids' parents,
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 10: and four people from the daughter-in-law's side went. So my
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 10: gal and her son stayed in a condo, their timeshare situation.
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 10: We got it for $ 238 for the week.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 10: It was less than a mile outside of the front gate.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 4: Now....
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 10: Inside Disneyland, there was a group of nine who stayed
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 10: in the hotel, who got the monorail pass, who got
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 10: the food pass. You know, you can flash the card
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 10: and you eat in the buffet for free, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 8: Okay?
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 10: For nine people, for one week, that was $ 22, 000.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: What?
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 10: $ 22, 000?! Yes, that's nine divided by nine, and then you
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 10: figure out how many eggs they ate and how many
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 10: salads they ate. Man, it's a deal. I'm telling you what.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 8: I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Tom, I can't do it. I'm telling you. I'm going
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: to Dollywood.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 10: You understand my sarcasm.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah. And I was so glad that I stayed home
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 10: and I handled dog duty.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: And I bet you ate better.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 10: Well, I don't know. I don't care. I got to
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 10: hang out with my dogs and watch my NASCAR and
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 10: all my political shows. That recliner got a good workout
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 10: that week, I want.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: To tell you. And it didn't cost you a dime,
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: did it, Tom?
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 10: No, no, I tell you. And then, you know, I
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 10: got to... Well, I ain't going to go into my
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 10: loungewear as I'm there in the house alone.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: Tom, America thanks you for that, my friend.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 19: $ 22, 000.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: $ 22, 000.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: All right, Tom, thank you for the intel.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 11: Dylan, $ 22, 000.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I choked on my.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 10: Coffee just now. My word.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 7: My word.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 11: Not a small number.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: No, it's not. I'm just telling you, there's got to
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: be more affordable things for kids to do. Like, I
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: don't know, send them to a national park. Have them
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 2: try to outrun a bison at Yosemite.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 11: Send them to the front yard. That's all you need.
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's even better. Give them a scooter. A big wheel.
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 11: A big wheel.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 17: All right.
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. I want to go
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, a brand new book out,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: and this is one you're going to want to read.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: It's called The Intellect of Charlie Kirk, and his longtime
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: collaborator on how young conservatives win the argument joins us
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line, Brent Hamachek, joining us
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: from Just the Books. Brent, I hope you're doing well.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 8: Pleasure to be here. Thanks for having me. having me.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 8: And I'm doing a little.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 19: Special tribute to Charlie by sitting in the studios of
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 19: the Freedom Chamber out here in the Chicago suburbs. He
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 19: played a key role in Turning Point did and helped
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 19: him get that off the ground. So a little special
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 19: geography for our interview today.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: So you and Charlie met a long time ago. Take
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: us back to that original meeting back in the fall
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: of 2013.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 11: Sure.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 19: I had a gentleman who I had just gotten to
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 19: know barely in the world of business, which is where
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 19: I lived, who had met Charlie. uh, through an early
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 19: donor who thought I should meet Charlie Kirk because he
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 19: thought I might be able to help him. I could
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 19: not fathom why, in what way I could possibly help
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 19: this young kid he was telling me about. And, uh, anyway,
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 19: after ignoring a couple of pleas to get together, reach
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 19: out to Charlie, he finally set up a dinner. And
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 19: at that dinner that night, I say in the book,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 19: I mean, there were five of us at the table,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 19: but really there were just two. And that was Charlie
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 19: and I. And, uh, We spent three hours at that
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 19: dinner table, had an extraordinary series of conversations. I was
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 19: incredibly impressed by what I heard. Still left the dinner
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 19: table having no idea how I might actually be able
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 19: to help him in any way. But it turns out
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 19: that Charlie was able to figure that out. And it
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 19: was only a few months later, after having stayed lightly
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 19: in touch, that he reached out to me over New
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 19: Year's and asked me if I would... help him with
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 19: a column he was trying to have published. And I
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 19: had no background experience, but I thought, well, you know,
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 19: I'm not doing anything over the holidays.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 11: Why not?
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 19: And so I gave it a try. And the column
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 19: was published. And that first event led to a history
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 19: together that by the time we were done encompassed 370,000
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 19: words of opinion columns and radio show monologues on which
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 19: we collaborated. So a rather unpredictable beginning, rather extraordinary run.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: First impression of Charlie, because you're what, a little bit
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: older than Charlie?
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 8: 31 and a half years. He used to like to
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 8: throw the half year in.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 2: So you're a lot older than Charlie.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 7: Way older.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: Way older. So sometimes, you know, I mean, you know,
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: it's hard to get a read on, especially kids. And
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: he was what, 19 years old at the time. And,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: you know, sometimes kids change their political viewpoints as they
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 2: get older. What was your impression of Charlie?
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 19: Well, that he was extraordinarily intelligent, very, very focused on
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 19: his mission to start Turning Point USA, very much a
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 19: seemingly principled libertarian. By the way, with regard to this book,
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 19: I will share with your audience, this is the only
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 19: place where you would be able in one volume to
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 19: track the evolution of of a changing thought process. You
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 19: mentioned how young people change. Charlie changed a lot from
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 19: the days we started working together until the end. One way,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 19: I'll give your audience one in this brief time we have,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 19: and that is he used to swear up and down
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 19: to me that Turning Point USA would never get involved
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 19: in social issues. Well, and of course, by the time
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 19: of his assassination, he was the culture warrior, Turning Point
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 19: very much involved in social issues. That was neither good
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 19: nor bad. That was an evolution of thought in terms
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 19: of deciding what he thought was important and what needed
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 19: to be focused upon. Uh, so, uh, first impression of
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 19: him is that he was naturally innately brilliant and probably, uh,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 19: what I learned very quickly, he was the most natural
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 19: marketer I have ever met.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 8: Hmm.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: You mention in the book, and by the way, folks,
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: we're excited to have Brent Hamachek with us, the author
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: of The Intellect of Charlie Kirk. This is not some
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: sort of a eulogy. You're going to be taking us
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 2: on a journey into facts told through these great stories.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, you literally had a front row seat to
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: watch all of this.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 8: I did, and it gave me an opportunity to contribute.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 19: When I was a Teenage kid in high school, I
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 19: really wanted to get involved in the world of ideas.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 19: And I did, 40-some years later. And that was because
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 19: it took that long for me to find somebody who
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 19: spotted something in me that made them feel as though
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 19: I had something to contribute. So I'm on your show
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 19: today because of Charlie Kirk. If it weren't for Charlie Kirk,
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 19: I'd be sitting in a business meeting right now somewhere.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 19: And this world into which I entered, I never would
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 19: have touched. Uh, so we used to call, I live
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 19: in the Chicago suburbs. We used to call it Northbrook,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 19: Scott talent. And he gave me a ticket to Hollywood. And, uh,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 19: so I'm grateful for that and all the good things
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 19: that have happened since.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: I'm, I'm wondering what that process was like for you after,
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: after Charlie's assassination, which is when you started, you know,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 2: afterwards you, you started putting all of this together. Did,
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: did you know what direction you, you wanted to take here?
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 8: Well, I can take no credit for the idea of
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 8: this book.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 19: The idea was given to me by John Solomon and
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 19: Mark Meckler literally on April Fool's.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 8: Day this year.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 19: So all I knew was I was sitting with all
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 19: of this content. And by the way, it's not only
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 19: a collection of radio show monologues and opinion columns. I
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 19: also work with Charlie on persuasive communication. And he ultimately
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 19: had me train turning point activists. That entire training program,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 19: that Socratic method, that deconstructing questioning process, everything that we
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 19: went through together, it's in the book. So I like
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 19: to use the phrase, you know, if you want to
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 19: bend it like Charlie, read the book. It's in the
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 19: chapter titled Our Own Private Lyceum. And you can learn
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 19: exactly what he learned and bring that to bear in
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 19: the public square your own way.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: The name of the book, again, The Intellect of Charlie Kirk,
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 2: and you can get it wherever you get your books,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. I would encourage you to read this book.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: What is the takeaway here? A lot of people are
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 2: still trying to figure out where does Turning Point USA go?
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: Who's going to be the next leader of the movement?
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 2: Or was this just a once-in-a-generation movement? moment that we
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: all got to see and you got to have a
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 2: a front row seat.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 19: At uh interesting question my answer to that is uh
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 19: you know is it a once in a generation moment
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 19: i would say likely and i would actually add and
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 19: probably not once every generation uh to find somebody of
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 19: charlie's age who started an organization like he did and
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 19: had it experienced that sort of growth and impact we
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 19: did this when we wrote Time for a Turning Point together.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 19: And by the way, folks, if you bought that book,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 19: you'll love this book because it's the content by the
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 19: same two people. But when we wrote Time for a
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 19: Turning Point, we went back and looked at history and said,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 19: who else has done what Charlie's done so far?
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 8: By the way, that was only up through 2016. We
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 8: had to.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 19: Go back to our founding fathers to find people so
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 19: young who had made such an impact in this particular realm.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 19: So I don't think that you can be looking for
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 19: a Charlie Kirk successor or replacement. I think what you
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 19: have to look for is hopefully a legion of people
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 19: who embrace some of the ideas and the determination and
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 19: other things and then contribute to the extent they can
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 19: as best they can.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 8: I think that's the best we can hope for.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: Folks, I want to encourage you to get the book.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: And again, the title, the full title, The Intellect of
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk, A Collection of Writings, Ideas, and Stories. from
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: a transformative American. And Brent, you've just done a terrific
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: job writing this. Of course, the forward, as you mentioned,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: by our good friend, John Solomon. And we really appreciate
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: you sharing all of your insider information here and giving
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: us another perspective on the life of Charlie Kirk.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 8: Look, it was a privilege for me to do it.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 19: It was a privilege for me to be involved in
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 19: creating that work over all this time. uh this uh
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 19: when i was debating whether or not to do this
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 19: when it was suggested to me i talked to people
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 19: who knew charlie and universally they all said look this
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 19: is a piece of history that the world really ought
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 19: to have and they ought to know and so i
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 19: didn't write it for my own benefit i wrote it
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 19: as sort of a gift uh to those who care
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 19: and are are interested and uh i hope that folks
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 19: um Find it interesting and enjoy it.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 8: I did the best I could.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: I have no doubt about that. And folks, you need
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: to get a copy of The Intellect of Charlie Kirk.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: We're going to have to leave it there. Brent, we
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 2: really appreciate you joining our radio audience today. Congratulations on
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: this incredibly important project.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 19: Thanks so much. It's a privilege to be here.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: All right. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Brent Hamachek.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: And you should go to his website, by the way, brenthamachek.com.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 2: That's H-A-M-A-C-H-E-K.com. The name of the book, The Intellect of
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk. And it's a really fascinating story. You're going
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 2: to want to read that. All right, we've got to
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: take a quick break here.
• 1:28:26
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• 1:28:26
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• 1:28:30
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• 1:28:40
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• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: So the vice president making a big announcement today. The
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: administration now suspending Microsoft and Adobe and many others from
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: an employment-based green card program. And the vice president says
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: that many of these major tech firms are now outsourcing
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 2: companies and abusing the visa system at the expense of
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 2: American workers. And we have seen this in the Memphis area,
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: especially when it comes to, for example, FedEx. The vice
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: president also, well, here is the vice president. Let's listen
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 2: to Cut27, please.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 15: To suspend the PERM program for Microsoft, which means they
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 15: will no longer be able to apply, they'll no longer
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 15: be able to take those H-1Bs and apply for permanent
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 15: resident status within the United States of America. Now, our
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 15: message to Microsoft and to any other foreign or domestic
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 15: corporation is quite simple. We obviously want you to thrive
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 15: in the United States of America. We want people to
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 15: invest in in the United States of America, particularly the
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 15: American technology sector.
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: We are the biggest boosters of your industry.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 15: We want you to continue to grow and to employ
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 15: a lot of people, but we want you to employ
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 15: American workers. And so our message to Microsoft is you're
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 15: a great American company, but you've got to hire great
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 15: American workers. You cannot lay off American workers and then
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 15: replace them with foreign indentured servants.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: And I want to talk a little bit about that.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 15: When I say indentured servants, here's what I mean. When
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 15: somebody comes in on an H-1B, they are completely... They're completely...
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 15: subordinate to that company. If they lose that job, they
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 15: have to leave the country. So if you think of
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 15: the basic idea of an American constitutional republic, where we
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 15: bring people in who are fair and equal citizens of
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 15: the United States of America, they are not controlled by
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 15: their employer. But you bring people in and you basically
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 15: tell them that if they get out of line, if
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 15: they get too uppity at work, they're not just going
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 15: to lose their job, but they're Those people are not
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 15: full citizens, and that's why those people are earning wages
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 15: that are far below the average for American citizens.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: All right, so he went on to say that 6,000
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: American workers, just at Microsoft, 6,000 American workers last year
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: lost their jobs. Meanwhile, Microsoft then hired all of these foreigners, 6,300...
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: to replace the American workers. Vance said for every worker
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: and a half foreign indentured servants. So good for the
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: administration here, and they've got to start playing hardball. I
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: don't know about you, but it's not right that kids
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: graduating college with good degrees are not able to get
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: jobs because foreigners are currently filling those positions. That's not right.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the vice president also announced
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: federal investigations are underway right now into nine universities for
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: visa fraud and, once again, undercutting American citizens. In many cases,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 2: you would be shocked to see just how many foreigners
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: are currently enrolled at American universities. Meanwhile, American kids, there's
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: no room for those kids. None whatsoever. So I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: to see the administration cracking down on all of this nonsense.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 2: Absolutely unacceptable what's going on and the way that some
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: of these American companies are treating American workers. So good
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 2: for you, Vice President Vance. All right, got to take
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: a break here, folks.
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  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 2: That number again, 901-260-5926. We'll be right back. All right,
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 2: welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: I want to go right away to our Patriot Mobile
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: Newsmaker line and say hello to our good friend Kyle Campbell,
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: host of the Politically Basic podcast. And Kyle, first I
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: have to tell you, what a great time. Ten days
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: I spent in the great state of California. Did not
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 2: make it over to your neck of the woods, but wow,
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: what a great time out there.
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 14: I'm so glad you had a good time, Todd. I'm
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 14: sad to miss you. Sorry about this heat wave we're
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 14: still having. It's a bit of an Indian summer, but
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 14: I figure you're a Tennessee guy. You probably handled it
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 14: just fine.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, it was, yeah, it was, you know,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: we're in the middle of fall here, so it's really
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: nice and pleasant. I made it up to San Francisco
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: and it was 97 degrees. And I'm thinking, what in
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: the world is going on here? Because, you know, a
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: lot of these small businesses in San Francisco don't have
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: air conditioning. They just don't need it. So I think
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: I kind of did feel bad for the good people
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: there in San Francisco.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 14: Well, we, yeah, that's an actual real issue that we
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 14: have here is our energy costs are so high. Everyone
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 14: has to parse out when you turn the AC on,
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 14: but lots of open windows and Little plug-in fans over here.
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 14: We're making do. I will tell you, though, my energy
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 14: bill last month was $ 1, 000. So we're scaling back.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 12: What?
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I can't even imagine. Kyle, big
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: election coming up, and I was really interested to get
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 2: your take on the gubernatorial race. We understand that Javier Becerra,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: facing a little bit of controversy, he was telling people
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: that his father was actually an immigrant when in fact
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: his father was not. And I'm wondering if that's having
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: any sort of an impact right now on changing minds
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: and maybe helping Steve Hilton out.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 14: I think it is, Todd. It's a bit of a
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 14: scandal for sure. And Democrats in the state of California
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 14: tend to think that They can do no wrong, right?
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 14: It doesn't matter if they squidge the lines of a
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 14: statement they make or if they don't campaign or they
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 14: don't show up for debates. But every now and again,
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 14: something lands with the voters, a la Eric Swalwell and
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 14: his very unscrupulous past relationships and treatment of women. Sometimes
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 14: you get to that point where something tips the voters over.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 14: The voters aren't taking too lightly to this one with
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 14: Javier Becerra claiming and forever telling this story that both
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 14: his parents were immigrants, he's the child of immigrants, they
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 14: came with $ 12 in their pocket, and hasn't he done
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 14: so well for himself, so he should be elected governor. Well,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 14: that's not true. And as the details of the story
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 14: come out, people are realizing that Democrats, they have always
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 14: taken advantage of the immigrant population here. We have quite
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 14: a few people, of course, who come from Mexico and
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 14: South America, But when you are of that same population
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 14: and you take advantage of them, it's further putting that
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 14: wedge in between people who are here in the state
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 14: of California who immigrated legally. We have many of those
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 14: and those who are undocumented and receiving a lot of benefits.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 14: There's a lot of strife between those two groups. And
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 14: I think that Javier Becerra just poured a little lighter water.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 14: fluid on that on that fire and they're not liking
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 14: it so he ran and hid i'm sure you guys
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 14: have seen he is hiding from the debates hiding from
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 14: campaigning and hoping this blows over in the next few weeks.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah i think what he he he ducked out of
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 2: a debate a scheduled debate.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 14: Yeah it was really bad actually that's kind of the
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 14: number one thing that you never ever do when you're
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 14: campaigning for an office as high as governor especially in
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 14: a state like california It's sort of one of those
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 14: cardinal rules of campaigning and especially of debate prep. You
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 14: got to show up, show up sober. Don't drink from
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 14: the styrofoam cup every 30 seconds, hoping it's going to
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 14: spare you from having to answer. And Steve Hilton was
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 14: more than happy to go take that L.A. Times opportunity.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 14: So it was a bad look for Javier. He's continuing
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 14: to hide. And we'll see if he shows up in
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 14: the next three weeks, Todd.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 14: He might just try to ride it out. I'll tell
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 14: you what, that could very well happen.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: Kyle, who is texting you? Tell them to stop. You're
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 2: in the middle of a national interview, Kyle Campbell.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 14: Talk about cardinal rules, Todd.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 2: I'm sitting here going, wait a second, am I beeping?
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 2: Because normally that's me. I'm the one dinging. My apologies.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 14: As long as it's not a kid, we're good to go.
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: No, yeah, you're good. You're good. If it's the kids, yeah,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: you got to take care of that. So no worries.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. I was watching some of the videos,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: and you know where I'm going with this. This ad
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: that Steve Hilton put out that's caused a lot of controversy,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 2: I think, in the Christian community. I know Pastor Jack Hibbs.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 2: sort of came out and said, hey, look, this was
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: crossing a line. And the ad featured two young women,
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 2: and it was rather suggestive. And then, of course, at
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 2: the end, it was about trying something new, which was
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: voting Republican. And I just wonder, as Christians, sometimes we
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: forget that we're just a sliver of the pie that
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 2: these candidates have to reach out to to get elected.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: And I can understand why some Christians would be offended
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: by that ad, but at the same time, I also
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: understand why Steve Hilton did it.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 14: Sure, and Jack Hibbs was right. I mean, his statement
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 14: was all about, look, we don't have to like this,
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 14: but we understand what he's trying to accomplish. Let me
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 14: give you the perspective from a Christian woman who is
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 14: a senior political advisor to the Hilton campaign. I talked
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 14: to his team specifically and reached out to them after
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 14: I saw that ad. I said, I don't like this
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 14: at all. I don't like what it's messaging. I don't
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 14: like that it's messaging coercion, that it's uncomfortable. And this
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 14: isn't who Steve Hilton is. And people should know, I
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 14: think it's fair everyone knows, this was Spencer Pratt's media team.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 14: Spencer Pratt, during his run for L.A. Mayor, which he
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 14: should still be running for, by the way. We all
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 14: know how that went down. They were excellent at putting
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 14: forward very creative, very impactful ads. And so Steve has
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 14: been wise to bring them on board to create some
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 14: of these ads to kind of snap people out of
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 14: this zombie-like way that we're moving through this election here
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 14: in California. We're disengaged, we're fed up, we're exhausted, and
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 14: he's trying to break through. So we understand that. We
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 14: don't like the ad. We don't agree with the messaging.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 14: And I let them know very candidly that this did
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 14: not land well with a lot of people. And Steve's
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 14: point was, give us some grace. We are trying everything
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 14: we can to get through to people that we don't
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 14: have to continue living this way and being burdened and
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 14: suffering under this horrific, very anti-person of faith leadership that
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 14: the Democrats have a lock on here in the state.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 14: So I think it was a misstep, but I think
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 14: that they handled it the right way. It certainly shouldn't
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 14: change anyone's mind about voting for Steve Hilton. And we
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 14: wouldn't be a sliver of that pie, Todd, if every
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 14: person of faith in this state voted. It's so easy
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 14: to do. Please vote. We're desperate for some change here.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 14: And it's got to start at the top. It's got
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 14: to start with Steve.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: Well, it does, and I think he'd do a fine
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: job in the governor's mansion, and we've just got to
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: get out the vote. I keep going back to this
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: interview we had yesterday, so impressed with the new president
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: of the Southern Baptist Convention, Dr. Willie Rice, and he
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 2: put out the all-call, and he told Christians, you have
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: got to go and vote in the midterm elections. He's
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: sounding the alarms on the rise of communism, the rise
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 2: of political Islam. And I see the nation's largest Protestant
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: denomination re-engaging with the culture. And Kyle, I have to
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: wonder if that is going to help out in some
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: of these close races around the country.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 14: It's really got to. You know, every time we have
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 14: a major election, we dig into those numbers. I always
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 14: want to see where are the Christians, where are the Catholics?
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 14: Where are the people of faith? Are they turning out?
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 14: Are they voting? In 2016, we had one of the
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 14: highest turnouts of people of faith. It was almost 85%,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 14: which is shocking.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 18: It's amazing.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 14: Should be a hundred, but I digress. In 2024, they
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 14: came again. It was over 80%, but midterms are different.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 14: And what we're trying to find out now is what
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 14: the left is putting forward. This socialist viewpoint, communist viewpoint is,
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 14: packaged in, hey, we just want everything to be fair.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 14: We want to help people. We want it to be compassionate,
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 14: which does resonate with people of faith. Is that scary
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 14: enough to people who know what it really is to
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 14: get the vote out, to vote for the other side?
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 14: I'm not sure we're there yet. And I hope people
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 14: do understand what's at stake. It is our constitutional republic.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 14: It is our way of life. It is our religious
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 14: protections and our freedoms, the very foundations of how We
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 14: get to live in such a blessed nation today. It's
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 14: very much at stake. And as Obama loves to tout,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 14: democracy is at stake. It really is, just not in
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 14: the way that he wants you to think it is.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 14: So it's so critical. And I want to start sounding
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 14: the alarm a little bit more here and have people
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 14: understand that this is really critical, that they do make
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 14: sure no matter what they get out and vote this cycle.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: All right, Kyle, we're going to have to leave it there,
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 2: my friend. Always good to hear from you. And next time,
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: we're going to have to have lunch somewhere in California.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 14: I'm going to come find you. I'm headed to Tennessee
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 14: in a couple weeks. I'm going to see if I
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 14: can make it work.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 2: All right, wait, what part of Tennessee?
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 14: We'll be outside of Nashville, but your state's a little
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 14: bit smaller than mine, so maybe it's not as far.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: As I think. Yeah, we'll have to make that happen.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 2: Kyle Campbell, everybody, be sure to check out her incredible podcast,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 2: Politically Basic Podcast, and you can also follow her on
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: the socials, Instagram. at Politically Basic and also at being
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 2: Kyle Campbell. There you go.
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: Got to take a break here, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 19: 901-260-5926.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: Again, that number, 901-260-5926. We'll be right back. All right,
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 2: I want to go to Anthony D'Esposito, who is the
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 2: Inspector General for the Department of Labor. And here's what
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 2: he just had to say about all these universities abusing visas.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: So what they're doing is they're using the H-1B visas
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: to replace American workers and American students. Cut 28, please.
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 3: Crystal clear.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 13: I spent a career as an NYPD detective. I worked
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 13: the streets of Brooklyn investigating violent criminals.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: Who thought that they were untouchable.
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 13: I did not back down then, and I sure as
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 13: hell will not back down now. I don't care how
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 13: prestigious a university thinks it is. Break the law and
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 13: screw the American people, and I will personally cuff you
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 13: in the university square. I don't care how large your
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 13: endowment is, how powerful your alumni are, or how many
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 13: politicians you have on speed dial. As Vice President Vance said,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 13: nobody is above the law. That's why we're establishing a
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 13: visa fraud strike team, bringing together investigative expertise from across government.
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 13: We will follow the money, uncover the schemes, and work
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 13: with Attorney General Todd Blanche to prosecute criminals.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 3: We are also launching.
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 13: A Labor Inspector General Most Wanted Fraudster list, featuring 16
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 13: criminals who have stolen nearly a half a billion dollars
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 13: from Americans to those fugitives as perpetrators A.G. Blanche's team
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 13: has said they will find you anywhere.
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 3: On this planet. And our results speak for themselves.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 13: Since Vice President Vance's task force to eliminate fraud was established,
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 13: our investigations have contributed to 171 indictments, 203 convictions, 80 arrests,
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 13: more than 70 search warrants, and over a billion dollars
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 13: identified for the taxpayers.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 3: And we're just getting started.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 2: That's hardcore right there. And I believe that guy. I
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 2: would be very, very concerned if you're a part of
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 2: one of these universities and you're committing visa fraud. Here's
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 2: the vice president today talking about the federal investigations into
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: nine specific universities for visa fraud. Take a listen to Cut29.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 4: Cut29.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 15: If you were brought in by one of these foreign
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 15: outsourcing firms, you're making $ 48, 000 less than an American citizen
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 15: in a similar position. So I'm sure that everybody here
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 15: understands the game that is being played. You bring in
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 15: indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers,
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 15: and if you're a corporation, you make a ton of
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 15: money by undercutting the wages of American workers, replacing them
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 15: with people who frankly shouldn't be in the United States
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 15: of America to begin with. This is a terribly pernicious system.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 15: It's gone on for too long. And we'd all encourage,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 15: by the way, Congress to do something about it. But
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 15: there are things within our authority under the law, our
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 15: regulatory authority as an administration to fix this problem.
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 3: And that's exactly what we're going to do.
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 15: I want to make one final announcement here, because while
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 15: we see a lot of H-1B visa fraud, we also
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 15: see a lot of J-1 visa fraud. And this is
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 15: where some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners, again,
• 1:46:58
  Speaker 15: to undercut the wages of American residents.
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 3: Now, there are nine universities.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 15: In particular that we believe merit an investigation. Those universities
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 15: are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 15: Arizona State.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 3: And MIT.
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 15: And what we see is that when you employ an
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 15: American worker as a graduate student, as a researcher, they're
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 15: making about $ 20, 000 more than someone brought in under a
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 15: J-1 visa. And importantly, these universities are employing J-1 visas
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 15: for federally.
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 3: Funded grants at a rate of about 61%.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 15: The national average is 38%. So something weird is going
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 15: on at these universities. They're using these visas way too much.
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 15: They're using them to undercut the wages of American grad
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 15: students and American researchers.
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 3: And it simply has to stop.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. And I'm glad the administration's doing this.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times I've heard stories
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: about American kids, American-born kids, that have been denied a
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 2: seat at one of these great Ivy League schools or
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 2: one of their state schools because those positions went to
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: international students. And Dylan, I keep going back to your
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: graduation at the University of Memphis, of all places, where
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: you were one of the very few American people there.
• 1:48:17
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I was the whitest friend. there, I think. It
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 11: was tough. I felt bad for the person pronouncing all
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 11: the names. Oh, my goodness.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 2: They had a hard time. Yeah, it's Mr. Yabba Dabba
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 2: Doo Shackalacka. Ding dong. I don't like it. It's hard.
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 11: It seemed like most of the foreign kids were from India.
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 11: That's what the names were seeming like.
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 2: And it's not just like one. We're talking overwhelmingly.
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah. I was definitely the minority there.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 11: Not even joking.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 2: And by the way, that explains, and don't get me
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 2: wrong here, but that explains why there are so few
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: students at like the football games and basketball games.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I guess if you guys had a cricket team, it
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: would be like, you know, or what do they call it? Soccer.
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  Speaker 11: Soccer.
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  Speaker 2: Football.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Football.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Pretty good women's team.
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  Speaker 8: Indian?
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  Speaker 11: Mostly white.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 11: For the soccer team.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, for the soccer team. Okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 11: But, you know, they could go.
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  Speaker 2: But still, it's just, again, this is all, and people say, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're paying tuition. That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: Those are universities paid for by our tax dollars, and
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: they should be used to educate American-born children. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's really simple to me. That, to me, it's a
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  Speaker 2: black and white issue. Very simple to me. And if
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  Speaker 2: you're telling me that the only way you can pay
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 2: your bills as a university is to bring in kids
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  Speaker 2: from another country, then you need to shut down your
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 2: university because that's a waste of our tax dollars. You're
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 2: squandering our tax dollars. So anyway, we're going to keep
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 2: an eye on this. Glad to see the administration cracking
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 2: down on it. By the way, Governor Mike Huckabee really,
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 2: really upset at Zoran Mandami and the way Mandami framed it.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 2: the October 7th terrorist attack on Israel, as if somehow
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 2: Israel is to blame. And then Mamdami yesterday gets chased
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: out of a big protest by the Palestinians. Look, dude,
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 2: you made your bed, now you've got to lie in it.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's absolutely insane. So we'll get into more
• 1:50:30
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• 1:50:57
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• 1:50:59
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• 1:51:04
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• 1:51:08
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• 1:51:12
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• 1:51:15
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