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Babysitter Threw Boiling Water on 2-year-old · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: And good morning, everybody. Welcome to the show. Great to
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  Speaker 2: have you with us today on this, what is going
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  Speaker 2: to be a very, very hot Friday. Laura Huckabee will
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  Speaker 2: be along in just a little while with your complete
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  Speaker 2: weekend weather forecast. Now, this is going to be an
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  Speaker 2: important forecast because we have a lot of things happening
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  Speaker 2: outdoors today. This weekend, starting tonight with high school football action. And,
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  Speaker 2: of course, tomorrow, Memphis Tigers making their debut in the
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  Speaker 2: newly renovated Liberty Bowl. And there are going to be
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people there. I want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that you guys stay super hydrated and make sure that
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to end up over at Baptist Hospital
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  Speaker 2: later this weekend. So, again, be sure to hydrate. We've
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  Speaker 2: got the Delta Fair and Music Festival that's cranking up tonight.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, we're going to be talking
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  Speaker 2: to Jane Hamilton about the Delta Fair and Music Festival
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  Speaker 2: coming up just a little bit later today. Also, it
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  Speaker 2: is Friday, and this is the inaugural week, the relaunch
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  Speaker 2: of the KWAM Morning Show. And it has been a very,
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  Speaker 2: very busy week here at the radio station. And we
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  Speaker 2: would love to have your calls as well. It is
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  Speaker 2: Open Line Friday. We do that every Friday on the
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  Speaker 2: national show, and that gives you an opportunity to call
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  Speaker 2: in and maybe talk about an issue that we're not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily talking about today. Or maybe you have a question
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  Speaker 2: that you would like to ask. Well, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: let you do that today. Every Friday here on The
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  Speaker 2: Morning Show, we call it Open Line Friday. All you
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  Speaker 2: have to do is pick up the phone and give
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  Speaker 2: us a call, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. I want to say
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  Speaker 2: a huge thank you. To our friends at Newsmax, last
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  Speaker 2: night I was on with Rob Finnerty, and we did
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  Speaker 2: a really nice long-form interview about my new book, The
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  Speaker 2: Golden Age. And this morning I got word that we
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  Speaker 2: have been officially called a number one, we are number
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  Speaker 2: one new bestseller on Amazon. So thank you for all
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  Speaker 2: of you that went out and had purchased copies. You
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  Speaker 2: are thinking about getting a copy of the book. Today's
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  Speaker 2: a great day to do that, right? And the air
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  Speaker 2: conditioning works great over at Novel Memphis. Also, which, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, the book is available at Novel Memphis, and
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  Speaker 2: we encourage folks to shop local. Novel is locally owned
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  Speaker 2: and operated, so I would really appreciate it if you
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  Speaker 2: went over there and got a copy of the book.
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  Speaker 2: You can also get copies at all of the Barnes &
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  Speaker 2: Nobles in the Mid-South and Books a Million in South Haven.
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  Speaker 2: That would be Wolfchase Galleria, Carriage Crossing, and the new
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  Speaker 2: Barnes & Noble that just opened recently in Germantown. So
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  Speaker 2: all of those are stocked with plenty of copies of
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  Speaker 2: the Golden Age. Well, where do we begin? A lot
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  Speaker 2: of people are talking about what happened at Fox News.
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  Speaker 2: And my phone was lighting up, lighting up yesterday when
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  Speaker 2: word came down that Fox had, well, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: had parted ways with Maria Bartiromo. Now we know that
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  Speaker 2: Fox News Channel fired Maria Bartiromo, and they're accusing her
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  Speaker 2: of ratting out the network to President Trump. So here's
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  Speaker 2: the back story. And by the way, she was there,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, what, 12 years ago. I was at Fox
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  Speaker 2: for 15 years, and I knew Maria. She was a
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  Speaker 2: great lady and a very easy to work with, very
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  Speaker 2: kind-hearted person. They called her the money honey back when
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  Speaker 2: she was working at the other– was it CNBC? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. Anyway, she was at Fox Business. And anyway,
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  Speaker 2: there had– Maria was all over the– election fraud story,
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  Speaker 2: and there are many people out there who believe that
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  Speaker 2: the 2020 presidential election was stolen. I happen to be
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  Speaker 2: one of those people. I do not believe for a
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  Speaker 2: second that 88 million people voted for Joe Biden. I
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  Speaker 2: just don't believe that. You're telling me that more people
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  Speaker 2: voted for Joe Biden than Barack Hussein Obama. I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe that. I just don't believe it. And we now
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  Speaker 2: know that there was election fraud. Did it rise to
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  Speaker 2: the level of causing issues at the ballot box? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I think it did. But again, you had people out there,
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  Speaker 2: and it's one thing to say, yeah, I believe there
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  Speaker 2: was election fraud, and it's another to go out there
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  Speaker 2: and accuse someone of actually being responsible for it. You
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  Speaker 2: better have proof. And if you don't have proof, your
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  Speaker 2: butt's going to the courthouse. And that's where a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these cable channels got sideways with the story, is
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  Speaker 2: that their reporters, their anchors were making assertions about the
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  Speaker 2: election that could not be proved. And it got them
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  Speaker 2: in trouble, costed them tens of millions, maybe hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: millions of dollars. But anyway, when President Trump was, I
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  Speaker 2: think President Trump was giving a speech about this, and
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  Speaker 2: he started talking about China and Chinese influence in the elections,
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  Speaker 2: which again, I believe, And Fox ordered their host not
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  Speaker 2: to air the story and to stay away from it.
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  Speaker 2: And they sent out a memorandum. And the allegations are
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  Speaker 2: that Maria Bartiromo, who just re-signed with Fox News back,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was back in February, Bartiromo allegedly took
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  Speaker 2: screenshots of the memorandum and sent it to the White House.
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  Speaker 2: And the point she was trying to make is, hey, look,
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  Speaker 2: you guys need to be aware, you don't have friends
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  Speaker 2: here at Fox News Channel. Now, the question is, and
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  Speaker 2: this is the one that has not been covered in
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  Speaker 2: the media just yet, because this story just broke yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and we were starting to get a lot more details
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  Speaker 2: last night. I want to know who at the White
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  Speaker 2: House leaked that back to Fox News. And there are
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  Speaker 2: a lot of former Foxers that work in the White House.
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  Speaker 2: Did one of them have a grudge against Maria and
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  Speaker 2: did they rat her out? How did all of that
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  Speaker 2: play out? So anyway, it's a pretty nasty business. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just going to tell you, I went through this when
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  Speaker 2: I was at Fox. I was there 15 years. We
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  Speaker 2: were in the middle of contract negotiations. They had offered
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  Speaker 2: me a contract, and then the New York Times did
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  Speaker 2: the story attacking me for using the term illegal alien invasion. Now,
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  Speaker 2: back in those days, this was about 2019, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people weren't using that particular phrase, so it was
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  Speaker 2: a big controversy. And the National Hispanic Journalism Association declared
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  Speaker 2: war on yours truly. That's why I try not to
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  Speaker 2: eat too many tacos anymore. Kind of a personal protest. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: so they and so Fox said, you know what, we're
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  Speaker 2: done here. We're not going to ready your contract. That's it. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: But with Maria, they took her off the air. She's
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  Speaker 2: been off the air for a month and she's her
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  Speaker 2: staff has been or I think they fired her executive producer.
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  Speaker 2: Her staff has been ordered not to have any communication
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  Speaker 2: with her at all. That is that's the latest. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: there you have it. Bartiromo spending 20 years at CNBC,
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  Speaker 2: and then she went to Fox News. Let me just
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  Speaker 2: say this about cable. I'm going to say this about
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  Speaker 2: cable TV, conservative cable TV. But it's also important for
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  Speaker 2: you to understand what's happening in the radio world. There's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of conservative cosplay out there. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: people who are pretending to be conservatives, and they get
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  Speaker 2: paid for that. So when you're an actual conservative at
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  Speaker 2: these networks, and I know this is blowing minds across
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  Speaker 2: the Mid-South, but this is true. It is absolutely, verifiably true.
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  Speaker 2: If you are an actual conservative at one of these networks,
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  Speaker 2: You have to watch yourself. You've got to watch your
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  Speaker 2: back because it is just as bad as working at
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  Speaker 2: a CNN or PMS now. I mean, that's how bad
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  Speaker 2: it is. And I remember when I was at Fox,
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  Speaker 2: and again, I was an on-air personality, so I'm somewhat protected.
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  Speaker 2: But for the rank and file, I would inevitably, every day,
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  Speaker 2: I would have one of the camera guys or one
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  Speaker 2: of the audio guys pull me aside and be like, hey, Todd.
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  Speaker 2: And we'd be like in the hallway, just right down
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  Speaker 2: from the bagels and the coffee station. And he starts, starts,
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  Speaker 2: just want you to know. man, I'm a conservative too.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, why are we whispering? We are in
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  Speaker 2: Fox News for crying out loud. But that's the way
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  Speaker 2: it was. And about, I would say, and this is
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  Speaker 2: coming from the former Fox executives, of course, they've all
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  Speaker 2: been given the hefo now, but the ones I used
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  Speaker 2: to work with told me that about only 2% of
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  Speaker 2: the people working at Fox were were conservative, less than 0.5%
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  Speaker 2: would share my specific conservative beliefs regarding faith and freedom
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  Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. So anyway, that's the
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  Speaker 2: big story there with Maria Bartiromo. And it's, again, a
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  Speaker 2: reminder that conservative media and conservative cable TV is not
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  Speaker 2: what it used to be. And I think that the
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  Speaker 2: conservative movement is worse off as a result of that.
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  Speaker 2: I really do. I think we've seen a dumbing down
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  Speaker 2: of conservatism around the country and right here, quite frankly,
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  Speaker 2: in the Mid-South. And that brings me to the radio
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  Speaker 2: situation where you have these radio, corporate radio giants like
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  Speaker 2: iHeart and Cumulus, and they are actually run and controlled
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  Speaker 2: by liberals, right? And they do not like conservatives at all,
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  Speaker 2: as a matter of fact. Cumulus, and they operate radio
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  Speaker 2: stations in Memphis, they told their employees, you will get
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  Speaker 2: the clot shot or you will be fired. I had
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  Speaker 2: good friends who had great jobs at Cumulus radio stations,
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  Speaker 2: and they got fired because they refused to get the
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  Speaker 2: clot shot. Now, I'll tell you, as the owner of
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  Speaker 2: a of a news radio station, when that was all happening,
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  Speaker 2: I told our staff, here's the deal. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to wear a mask, wear a mask. Don't want to
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  Speaker 2: wear a mask, don't wear a mask. You want to
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  Speaker 2: get a clot shot? Well, that's between you and your doctor.
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  Speaker 2: But that will not impact your employment with me whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just how we kind of ran things back
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  Speaker 2: in those days. So anyway, it's unfortunate, and I hate
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  Speaker 2: it for anybody to lose their job like that because
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  Speaker 2: it's an ugly business. And the people running Fox News now,
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  Speaker 2: especially their HR department, are very cruel people. And I
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  Speaker 2: have heard this from many, many people who have lost
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  Speaker 2: their jobs recently. over the years since I've been gone.
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  Speaker 2: Very cruel people. I think they came from, actually, I
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  Speaker 2: do know this, they came from a PMS now, NBC.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go. That's what's going on inside the
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  Speaker 2: Fox News corner of the world. Well, you say, what
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  Speaker 2: does that have to do with us here? Well, you
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  Speaker 2: need to be aware and you need to do your
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  Speaker 2: homework on who you listen to and where you're getting
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  Speaker 2: your news and information from. And I can tell you
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  Speaker 2: on this radio station, we work very hard to bring
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  Speaker 2: you some of the finest talk show hosts in America.
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  Speaker 2: People like Lars Larson, people like Armstrong and Getty and
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  Speaker 2: Rita Cosby, Larry Elder, the sage of the South Side.
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  Speaker 2: And we have a lot of fun on this radio station.
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  Speaker 2: But what you hear is what you get in real life.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the point of that. All right, we've got
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  Speaker 2: a lot to get through today. The flock cameras. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: somebody's declared war on flock cameras here in Memphis. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to tell you all about that. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: be taking your calls as well.
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  Speaker 1: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: And it is Friday, and we're going to give away
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  Speaker 2: another copy of my brand-new book. It's called The Golden Age.
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  Speaker 2: How Trump Saved America. All you have to be is
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  Speaker 2: caller number three, caller number three, and you get a
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  Speaker 2: signed copy of The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America.
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  Speaker 2: Our number, 901-260-5926. I'm Todd Starnes. All right. Happy Friday
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  Speaker 2: to you. Just curious if any of you were at
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  Speaker 2: the big reveal last night at the Liberty Bowl. Looked
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  Speaker 2: like several hundred people turned out. And if you were there,
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to get your reaction, your opinion up close
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  Speaker 2: and personal. Hearing lots of great reports about how beautiful
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  Speaker 2: the stadium is, and all of the new features. 901-260-5926,
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  Speaker 2: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Well, there has been a
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  Speaker 2: lot of national controversy as well as local controversy regarding
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  Speaker 2: these flock cameras. Have you seen these things? They're all
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  Speaker 2: over the place. And these cameras are really license plate readers.
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  Speaker 2: And over at the Eastgate Center, there were multiple flock cameras.
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  Speaker 2: And according to Memphis police, somebody came in and destroyed
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  Speaker 2: all of the cameras. They actually took a saw and
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  Speaker 2: they brought them down like they were trees. Memphis police
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  Speaker 2: said at least three flock cameras were destroyed. This is
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  Speaker 2: from Channel 5's reporting. MPD says that the sign of
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  Speaker 2: the damaged poles has reignited local debate over this technology,
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  Speaker 2: which a lot of people says is a direct violation
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  Speaker 2: of the Constitution and your right to privacy. Now, it
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  Speaker 2: turns out that Memphis is home to at least 200
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  Speaker 2: of these automatic license plate readers. And nationally, Flock has
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  Speaker 2: grown since its founding over $ 8 billion. That's how much
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  Speaker 2: the company's worth now. And they hold contracts with roughly, what, 40%
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  Speaker 2: of all law enforcement agencies in the United States. So
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  Speaker 2: my question is, I'm just curious, how do you feel
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  Speaker 2: about the Flock cameras? Because here in the Mid-South, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people are really torn about this. Personally, I
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  Speaker 2: see it as a violation of privacy. However, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of other people disagree with that idea, and they say,
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  Speaker 2: wait a second, Starnes, we live in a war zone.
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  Speaker 2: We need as much help as we can possibly get
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  Speaker 2: tracking down the bad guys. Channel 5 interviewed a guy
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  Speaker 2: by the name of Jeremy Shields. He says, I have
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  Speaker 2: mixed feelings about the flock cameras. And he's talking about
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  Speaker 2: police in many cases. Now, Flock, well, according to the MPD,
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  Speaker 2: they say they use the Flock cameras very responsibly, and
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  Speaker 2: they say everything is audited. This is from Deputy Chief
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Brown. He says, we handle the misuse of that
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  Speaker 2: very seriously. We will fire you if you misuse any
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  Speaker 2: of our technology, period. So curious, folks, do you have
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  Speaker 2: a problem with these Flock cameras? And if so, should
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  Speaker 2: they be removed from businesses and other locales here in
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  Speaker 2: the Mid-South? Now, look, if it's on private property, let's
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  Speaker 2: say you own Eastgate and you've got a problem with
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  Speaker 2: people getting carjacked or whatever, cars getting stolen, then yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's your right as a private property owner. I've got
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  Speaker 2: no problem with that. But the question is, what is
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  Speaker 2: being done with all of the data that is being
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  Speaker 2: accumulated through all of this. I think that's the bigger story.
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  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Interesting story here
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  Speaker 2: from Memphis. Police say that burglars stole $ 9, 000 worth of puppies,
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  Speaker 2: baby puppies.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Memphis police say a homeowner returned to his residence in
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  Speaker 2: Overton Crossing and discovered the front door open and his
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  Speaker 2: two micro pit bull puppies gone. I thought, okay, are
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  Speaker 2: you telling me these puppies are worth $ 4, 500 a piece?
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  Speaker 2: Who spends that much money on a pooch? That's what
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  Speaker 2: I want to know. Unbelievable. We're going to post pictures
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  Speaker 2: of the dogs. I guess they're okay. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 2: not like, you know, these dogs, these pit bull, I
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  Speaker 2: don't like the pit bulls. They make me a little nervous.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, they're not, you don't want to call somebody's
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  Speaker 2: dog ugly. Helen, is that inappropriate? I mean, are we
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  Speaker 2: allowed to say, that's like, you don't want to say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's an ugly baby you got there. No, there's rat
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  Speaker 2: dogs for sure. Yeah, the dog looks like he would
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  Speaker 2: be trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just, you know, it's giving you the eye in
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  Speaker 2: the photograph. I mean, it's a very bad photo. And
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  Speaker 2: maybe the dogs just don't photograph well.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: My roommate has a pit bull, so I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: pass that along. But hold on. Who in their right
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  Speaker 2: mind spends $ 4, 500 on a dog? No sane person. Would
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  Speaker 2: you spend $ 4, 500 on any sort of an animal?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: What about Hee Haw, the midget donkey we were talking
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  Speaker 2: about earlier this week?
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  Speaker 3: 250 max.
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  Speaker 1: 250.
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  Speaker 2: All right. And that's a fair price. I mean, we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about a barnyard animal for crying out loud. So
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  Speaker 2: there you go. Ladies and gentlemen, police searching for two
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  Speaker 2: pit bulls, micro pit bulls. Those are the tiny pit bulls.
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  Speaker 2: But I guarantee you the bite is still as strong
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  Speaker 2: as the regular pit bull. All right, 901-260-5926. Really? $ 4, 500. Geezaloo.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we're going to post pictures of the dogs
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  Speaker 2: over on KYMRadio.com. We've got Memphis dog nappers on the loose.
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  Speaker 2: Police searching for two micro pit bull puppies worth $ 4, 500 apiece.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line
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  Speaker 2: this morning and say hello to our good friend. She
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  Speaker 2: is a great American patriot. She is director of the
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  Speaker 2: Delta Fair and Music Festival, the great Jan Hamilton. Jan,
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  Speaker 2: good morning to you.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Todd. How are we?
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  Speaker 2: Jan, I'm going to get to that in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to talk about the Delta Fairy Music Festival.
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  Speaker 2: I have a question here about these dogs here that
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  Speaker 2: were stolen, kidnapped, two micro pit bulls. These puppies, they say,
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  Speaker 2: are valued at $ 4, 500 a piece. Would you spend $ 4, 500
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  Speaker 2: on a puppy?
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  Speaker 3: Now, Todd, you know I'm the animal lover. If you
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  Speaker 3: come to the fair and I'm missing, I'm at the
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  Speaker 3: petting zoo. or i'm at one of our animal attractions
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  Speaker 3: but todd i'm a country girl and most of our
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  Speaker 3: dogs just appeared you know people are terrible and do
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  Speaker 3: that to animals but uh I don't buy dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for $ 4, 500, I can think of a lot of
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  Speaker 2: other things. Like, for example, I don't know, you could
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: buy tickets to go to the Delta Fair this weekend.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Yes, you could. And everybody says, oh, it's hot.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Come on out.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: We have an air-conditioned building. You can come in and
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: see all of our great exhibits. We have attractions even
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: in the building. We've got a brand-new dino encounter, and
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: it's inside in the air conditioning. But, Todd, you know,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: we've got all those great attractions outside. Lady Houdini, Grizzly Encounter.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: We've got a petting zoo, Todd, that our city kids,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: any kid, and our adults, to come and feed animals
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: and learn about animals. And it's just a great making
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: memory opportunity.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Now, Jan, we have a lot of farmers that listen
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: to the program. We do a lot with agriculture around
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: really the entire state. And there are a lot of
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: things happening with the livestock shows. And I'm always intrigued
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: by these. But you guys have like the you're the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: king of the livestock shows.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: We start, in fact, my FFA students were here last
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: night setting up inns in the Showplace Arena getting ready
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: for this weekend. This weekend is our big cattle show.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: From your run-of-the-mill cow to your Brahma. I mean, we
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: have some beautiful cattle. And, you know, we're all about education. And,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: of course, we have our horticulture, what we call gardening,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: inside the building. But, yes, now your fair ticket includes
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the livestock shows. So you come to the fair. You
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: can run over to the barn and catch a show
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: and come back to the fair.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: See, I love this. And it's just so much fun.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people may not know this. We
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: actually have nationally recognized FFA programs at Collierville High School.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: one of the top in the nation right here in
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: the Mid-South. These kids are just really solid young people.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: And our Mumford crew. Oh, my goodness.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Mumford, yes.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: My livestock director is an ag teacher at Mumford. And
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: she comes and does this every year for us. Ann
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Johnson is just the most wonderful lady you'll ever want
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: to meet. And, of course, we have youth shows. We
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: have adult shows. And, Todd, it wouldn't be fair without
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: the rodeo. We have the Patriot Pro Rodeo coming in.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Sunday and Monday evening.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot of fun, ladies and gentlemen,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: and it all starts tonight, today, September 4th through the 13th,
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: the Delta Fair, and there's also a music festival, and
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I want to get to that in a moment. This
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: is all at the Agra Center. If you want information,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: the complete schedule, because, I mean, there's really no need
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: for you to be bored over the next couple of weeks, right, Jan?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: There is plenty for you to do at the Delta Fair.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: We have something for everyone. All the interests. If you
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: want to see something amazing, come watch Lady Houdini. She
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: escaped from a water tank in chains. Okay?
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: It is just.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: We do... All kind of things, not just the midway. Now,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: we all know the midway is important because you've got
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: to go get that thrill ride, or you might just
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: want to ride on the Ferris wheel or the merry-go-round.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: But we've got it all, Todd.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I'm intrigued by the Lady Houdini escaping. So this is
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: very interesting. Is this something that's new to the fair
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: this year?
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: No, she's been here before.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: So she's escaped before. Okay, gotcha.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: She is just the most awesome lady. I mean, from chains, handcuffs,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: and padlocks. And water when she does this.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Wow. All right, this is fascinating. Let's talk about the
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: music component of this because you guys have some great
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: music as well. What can folks expect?
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Now, we bring in a lot of your local acts because,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: as you know, Memphis is famous for its music. So
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: we have two stages. We have a main stage and
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: we have a Delta stage on the lower midway. Sunday,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: we'll be doing some gospel stuff and we have music
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: every night and day.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: This is going to be exciting. And Again, this is
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: a family-friendly event, right, Chan? So the whole family can
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: come and have a good time.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes. And, Todd, we are very, in the day
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: we live, we have to be very security conscious. So
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: when patrons come to see us, they will walk through
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: our full-body scanners. We will be doing bag searches, and
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: it's a shame we have to do that, but we
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: want everybody to feel safe at Delta Fair.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Well, look, you guys do a great job of that,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: and I've been over there. I mean, it was really impressive,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: the number of law enforcement out there, and it's not overwhelming.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: It's just nice to know they're there keeping an eye
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: on things. And, you know, you're there to have a
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: great time, and that's what it's all about. Jen, I
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: understand there are going to be some theme days like
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Salute Our Military Day, First Responders Day, and even school, homeschool, 4-H,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: and FFA Day.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Now, today, opening day, if you are military, veteran, or active,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: if you are a first responder, Todd, our first responders
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: are so important. We are giving you free admission to
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: Delta Fair because we appreciate you. So that's this evening.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: So grab your families, you young guys and gals, grab
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: a date, and head on over to Delta Fair tonight
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: to see us because we appreciate your service.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: We just got a text from someone in Millington. Will
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: there be Pronto Pups?
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Dear, Pronto Pup is a Memphis company. And we have
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: several pronto booths here on the lot. Be sure, they
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: have two ciphers, Todd. Have you seen the footlong one?
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Can't say I've seen the footlong, to be honest with you, Jan.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: And you know, that's a secret family recipe.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: I don't want to know the recipe.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I'm just kidding.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: No, it was– hold on. Terry Brimhall, our good friend
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: over at Brim's Snack Foods, and he knows that I'm
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: a huge fan. I am addicted to their pork rinds.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: And so one day– and he was being very kind.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: He says, hey, why don't you come over, and I'm
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: going to show you how we make the pork rinds.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I said, Terry, I'm good. I don't need to know.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Just give me the final product.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Remember, now, I used to, could render lard, but it's
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: been many years.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That is not a topic for the morning show, Jan.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Now, we have some great activities going on.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: We have Delta Queens pageant. Everything from baby Delta Fair
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: to Miss Delta Fair. We have a songwriting competition. We have.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Just.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Anything you can imagine, as you know, I have all
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: the ladies and gentlemen, because we do have men that quilt.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: We have all of that already set up for everyone
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: to see from our photography, our art, our woodworking, our crafts,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: all our baking contests. We've already had one of those,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: and we've got a couple more coming up.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Well, Jan, if you need me to judge again, let
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: me know. And that's always been a fun thing that
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: I've done over the years. And let me just say
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: there are some mighty fine cooks here in the Mid-South,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: no doubt about that.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: There sure are, Todd. And our big music contest for
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: youth is called Star of the Fair. All right. Now,
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: this is patterned after American Idol. They go through auditions.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: They go through the first show. And then, of course,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: we get the winner the last night. And that is
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: open for people, for the public to watch.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Well, Jan, we're going to have to leave it there. But, folks,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: there is so much for you to do. It's so
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: much fun. And it's all about the Delta Fair and
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Music Festival. Go to DeltaFest.com. That's DeltaFest.com. You'll be able
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: to get all the information, purchase tickets. All the info
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: you need is right there. Jan, congratulations on what I
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: think is going to be one of the best Delta
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Fairs of all time.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Thank you for having us, Todd, and we'll see you
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: at Delta Fair.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: All right. There you go. The great Janet Hamilton. You know,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: it's interesting. I was checking out some of the events. Ian,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: our intern Ian, Helen, on the national. show, he's a
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: big Star Wars guy, and they do that kind of,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: you know, all the Star Wars costumes and everything, the cosplay.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: They have a cosplay contest. We should enter Ian. And
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: we shouldn't tell him. We're just going to take him
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: as a group, and then we'll show up. Make him
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: do it. But she's not kidding. I should have asked
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Jan this, but it's the morning show, and I didn't
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: want to go into great detail here. But she's not
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: kidding about the family-friendly. She says, talking about the cosplay event,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: this is a family-friendly event. No nudity, no exposed buttocks,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: or excessively revealing costumes are permitted.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Well, I was real concerned when she was like, well,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: we have the youth shows and we have the adult shows.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, okay. Hey, hey, hey.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: I'm just wondering, though, that tells me that somebody showed
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: up with exposed buttocks at the Delta Fair. They had
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: to write a rule. I wonder if they do that
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: every year. They just take notes, copious notes. Well, we
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: had a problem here. We had an incident involving exposed
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: buttocks in the Superman costume contest. Anyway, it's going to
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. Hope to see you and
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: your family over there at the Delta Fair. We've got
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: to take a break here, folks. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. We'll be right back. All right. Welcome back, everybody.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us. I'm Todd Starnes. Big,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: busy weekend. A lot of fun on this Labor Day weekend.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: And hope you and your family are having a great
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: time wherever you are. Some new intel coming out from
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: the world of politics. The Beacon Poll just released, and
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: they surveyed all of you Tennesseans about the gubernatorial race.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Marsha Blackburn holding a really commanding 21-point lead in the
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: governor's race today. This is according to the Beacon Poll.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Bill Hagerty holds a massive lead in the U.S. Senate
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: race over his Democrat opponent. What's interesting, though, as well
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: as Marsha Blackburn is doing and Bill Hagerty, President Trump
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: is not. For the first time ever in the history
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: of Beacon Polling, the president's approval rating has gone underwater
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: here in the volunteer state. Blackburn has a 21-point advantage
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: over Democrat Jerry Green, 55 percent to 34 percent. Blackburn's
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: lead comes after that nasty Republican primary battle between John Rose,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Monty Fritz, and Blackburn. So the question is, will Marsha
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Blackburn be able to garner the support of Fritz supporters
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: and John Rose supporters, because it was ugly. I hope
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: they will. I think they will, but we shall see.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Marsha did not get a majority of the Republican, I mean,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: like 50% and above of the Republican vote. Now, President
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Trump's job approval rating, according to the Beacon Poll, has
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: gone underwater for the first time since 2023. Just 48%
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: of voters approve of his job performance. 51% say they
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: do not approve of the president's job performance. Now, if
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you're going to analyze it, look, the president's numbers across
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: the nation, they're soft right now. That will change coming
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: up next week when the Republicans gather for the midterm
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: and the president is going to be front and center,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: the star of that big event. there's always big momentum
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: coming out of a Trump rally and event. And the
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: president says he's going to be on the road every
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: single day helping Republicans win in the midterms. Cut number,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: let's see here, 12, please.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Democrats take the House or Senate. They're going to investigate
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and they're going to impeach.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: They're going to. Let's look at the other side of it.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: To do it.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: What can voters expect from the last two years of
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: your term? When you're president, whether you're a Republican or Democrat,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: or whether you're a good president or a bad president,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: you lose the midterms. Nobody knows why. So it's been two,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: over 50 years, there's been two victories by a president
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: that won and then went on to win the midterms.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: And one of them was a little bit of a fluke.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: And so for some reason, The voters tend to go
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: the other way. I think we're going to do very
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: well because we have communists. We have a party that's
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: been infiltrated by bad thought, by bad policy. I used
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: to talk about socialism, but this isn't socialism. This is
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: largely communism. I look at the people running like in Michigan.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: I watched this interview the other day with Jesse and
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I said, wow, this man is out of it. This
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: is this is very dangerous for our country. I'm not
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: saying good guy, bad guy. I'm just saying this is big,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: big trouble for our country. Likewise, many others. And what's
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: happened is you're saying Democrats, of which are fewer and fewer,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: are forced to vote in a way that they would
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: not vote. And they don't even believe in their vote.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: But if they don't vote that way, they lose power.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: With all of that being said, I think we're going
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: to do well. And I'm going to go campaign. Like
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I did, you know, I took off when we had
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: the presidential election. I took off 120 days, four months.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Every single day I was on the trail. And if
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I didn't make one or two or three speeches, I
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: was I felt guilty. And Kamala, when I looked at
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: her schedule, because, you know, with their printed schedules, she
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: was took all this time off. She didn't really campaign
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: very hard. And I said, wait a minute, you're going
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: for the gold ring. You're going to make America great again.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: You got to go every single day.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: So it's 120 days.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: So I campaigned for 120 days without missing a day.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: And so he's going to work hard. And if this
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: is going to be a referendum on Trump, then I
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: think the Republicans might have a fighting chance here. But again,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: there is a secondary poll out, Reuters, Ipsos, and they
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: polled Tennessee voters as well. They, too, found that the
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: president's net approval rating in Tennessee at its smallest margin
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: during his second term Men and women split slightly on Trump, 49%
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: of women disapproving, 51% of men say Trump's doing a
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: great job. When you look at breaking it down among
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: the political parties, 77% of Republicans say that they approve
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: of the job Trump is doing. That's not good. That
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: should be well up into the 80s and 90s for
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: the Republicans, and that's your problem area right there. All right,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: we're going to break all these numbers down coming up
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: at 11 o'clock on the national show exclusively right here
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: on the Mighty 990. Join us coming up next, Armstrong
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: and Getty. Folks, it's going to be a fun weekend
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: in the Mid-South. Hope you and your family have a
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: happy Labor Day. We're going to be right back at it.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: We will see you next week right here on the
• 37:09
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