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War Secretary Pete Hegseth Prays to “King Jesus” · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
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Speaker 2: That's us, that's right. Our love is American, right. Todd Starr.
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Speaker 3: Well, the good news, ladies and gentlemen, is that... A
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Speaker 3: lot of people in Washington listen to this radio program.
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Speaker 3: And we are honored and, quite frankly, somewhat humbled by that.
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Speaker 3: And it is... Look, we don't like to stir too
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Speaker 3: many stinks. But when a stink does need to be stirred, well,
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Speaker 3: we are more than happy to oblige. And that's what
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Speaker 3: I did yesterday. You know, I'm not one of these.
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Speaker 3: Well, I do dabble in hyperbole, but that's not what
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Speaker 3: the show is based on. We're pretty straight down the middle,
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Speaker 3: and we do have a lot of fun, and we
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Speaker 3: talk about the issues, but we try to do it
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Speaker 3: with some good nature about ourselves. But yesterday, I was
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Speaker 3: really set off by something that the RNC chair said,
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Speaker 3: and I had to address this. And the fact of
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Speaker 3: the matter is, you've got the chair of the RNC,
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Speaker 3: and he's out there saying, well, you know, the message
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Speaker 3: here is that we need the voters to give us
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Speaker 3: more time. That's all the Republicans need. We just need
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Speaker 3: a little bit more time. Cut number 40, please.
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Speaker 5: President told us on inauguration day that the golden age
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Speaker 5: of America was here and coming. And he keeps on
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Speaker 5: saying that.
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Speaker 3: Watch.
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Speaker 6: You are the first West Point graduates of the golden
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Speaker 6: age of America.
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Speaker 2: It will be indeed a golden age for farmers.
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Speaker 3: It's like the golden age of America. It's the golden
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Speaker 3: age of the automobile business.
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Speaker 5: But when you look at what's going on right now,
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Speaker 5: gas prices nationally, Joe, $ 4. 47 on average. Diesel prices on average, $ 6.
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Speaker 7: 50.
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Speaker 5: Mortgage rates right now are at above 7% nationally. inflation
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Speaker 5: is at 3.4%, while average hourly earnings are lower than
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Speaker 5: that at 3.1%. How are you making the case that
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Speaker 5: that is the golden age?
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Speaker 8: It's a great American comeback. Look at all the great
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Speaker 8: things this president has done. $ 21 trillion.
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Speaker 5: But some would say, whoa, whoa, whoa, we'll come back
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Speaker 5: if 18 months in, 20 months in, those are.
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Speaker 8: Joe Biden left is an absolute disaster. Under him, he
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Speaker 8: had nine and a half percent inflation. Gas prices were
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Speaker 8: over five dollars and there was no conflict. This president
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Speaker 8: has gone to bat for the American workers since day
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Speaker 8: one with all of his policies. He's who can continue
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Speaker 8: to work on their behalf. And listen, he has sympathy
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Speaker 8: for others and he wants his conflict gone. You don't
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Speaker 8: know about a national security impact and we cannot we
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Speaker 8: cannot allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 3: We don't know.
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Speaker 8: Everything that they know. I think he did the right thing.
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Speaker 8: I think I still support him, and I think he's
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Speaker 8: trying to get out of the war.
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Speaker 3: He hates war.
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Speaker 8: That's why he signed eight different peace deals. But that
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Speaker 8: being said, his number one priority and job as President
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Speaker 8: of the United States is to defend our country. And
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Speaker 8: that's what he's doing. And so this war will come
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Speaker 8: and go. He'll get things back on track. We just
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Speaker 8: got to give more time. We've got to have Republicans
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Speaker 8: in both the House and the Senate.
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Speaker 5: There's going to be some some folks who listen to
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Speaker 5: me and listen to you who just say we got
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Speaker 5: to give them more time. Is that really the pitch
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Speaker 5: heading into November?
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Speaker 3: Give us more time.
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Speaker 8: Well, I say look at look at the everything that
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Speaker 8: he has done. Twenty one trillion dollars worth of investments.
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Speaker 8: Trump Rx accounts, Trump accounts. The working family tax cuts.
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Speaker 8: He has transformed the Republican Party into the working man's party.
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Speaker 8: He will get America.
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Speaker 3: Back to work.
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Speaker 8: GDP is high. Stock prices are high.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he has.
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Speaker 8: Empathy for those who are working and who are struggling.
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Speaker 8: We've got to help them, but we help them by growing.
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Speaker 8: We don't think that the communism utopia that the left
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Speaker 8: offers in Havana and Beijing and Moscow is the path
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Speaker 8: we want to take. We've got to do the right thing.
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Speaker 8: We've got to continue to give people the chance to
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Speaker 8: live the American dream.
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Speaker 3: All right, so there you have it. Got to have
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Speaker 3: more time. Got to have more time. And that sort
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Speaker 3: of set me off because, again, this is something I've
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Speaker 3: been watching. I'm a clock watcher, and you have to
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Speaker 3: be in the radio business. You got to watch the
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Speaker 3: clock down to the second. I get that. And you've
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Speaker 3: got to watch the clock when it comes to politics. Now,
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Speaker 3: what I wrote was basically a come-to-Jesus moment, if you will,
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Speaker 3: for the Senate Republicans and for the White House aides,
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Speaker 3: because I believe all of them are just really doing
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Speaker 3: a great disservice to our president, and as a result
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Speaker 3: of that, the American people, the American voters. So the
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Speaker 3: question now is, what are we going to do with
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Speaker 3: all of this? And at the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: all of us are going to have to make that
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Speaker 3: decision whether or not we go and vote and we
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Speaker 3: engage the political process. For me, the answer is very simple.
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Speaker 3: I was talking to a lawmaker earlier today who said
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Speaker 3: the choice is very clear. It's either between common sense
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Speaker 3: or crazy. I mean, that's really your choice. For me,
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Speaker 3: walking into that ballot booth in October when I cast
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Speaker 3: my vote, I do early voting. When I cast my vote,
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Speaker 3: it is black and white issue for me. It is
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Speaker 3: common sense versus crazy. And look, I know you can
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Speaker 3: get into the weeds of the politics and you can say,
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Speaker 3: but Todd, they lied to us again. Yeah, they did.
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Speaker 3: I'm not making excuses, not at all. I'm just telling
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Speaker 3: you this is how I'm able to sleep well at night.
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Speaker 3: I have decided in my mind you're either going to
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Speaker 3: be voting for crazy or common sense, and I choose
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Speaker 3: common sense. It's really that simple for me. And hopefully
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Speaker 3: we will have a Republican majority, and then we will
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Speaker 3: need to tear that Republican party majority a new one
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Speaker 3: for what they have done to us. But right now
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Speaker 3: we've got to stop the communists. We've got to. That's
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Speaker 3: the only thing that matters for me. We've got to
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Speaker 3: stop the communists. By the way, our telephone number, and
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Speaker 3: this is Open Line Friday, so you get to call in.
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Speaker 3: You can talk about whatever is on your mind. If
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Speaker 3: you want to ask me a question about something, you
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Speaker 3: can do that as well. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 3: A lot happening up in New York City at the
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Speaker 3: United Nations. Man, Benjamin Netanyahu, what an awesome speech he gave.
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Speaker 3: He went after Zoran Mamdami, and it was really, really
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Speaker 3: a powerful moment. Take a listen to Cut 51.
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Speaker 9: We're in the office of the anti-Semitic mayor of New York.
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Speaker 9: I say this. Shame on you. Shame on you for
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Speaker 9: distorting the facts. Shame on you for inverting victim and aggressor.
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Speaker 9: Shame on you for spitting in the face of truth.
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Speaker 3: Mr.
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Speaker 9: Mamdani, since you were elected mayor of this city, many
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Speaker 9: Jews no longer feel safe in New York. They talk
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Speaker 9: to me.
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Speaker 10: They tell me.
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Speaker 9: This isn't the city we remember.
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Speaker 10: It changed so quickly.
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Speaker 9: Now, it's no wonder. You praise criminals convicted of supporting Hamas.
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Speaker 9: You count as friends people like Hassan Piker, who said
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Speaker 9: America deserved 9-11. America deserved 9-11. Some friends you have.
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Speaker 9: You invite into your home a Palestinian journalist who filled
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Speaker 9: Hamas terrorists, beating and torturing Israeli hostages, and later admitted
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Speaker 9: that he refused to publish the videos in order to protect,
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Speaker 9: you guessed it, the terrorists. Your wife liked a post
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Speaker 9: praising the October 7th massacre. She liked another post saying
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Speaker 9: Tel Aviv shouldn't exist. You refuse to condemn any of that.
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Speaker 9: You falsely, repeatedly accuse Israel of genocide. Mr. Mamdani, you
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Speaker 9: try to stop me from coming here. You try to
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Speaker 9: silence me. Well, you can't silence me. You can't silence
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Speaker 9: the truth. And here's the simple truth. Here's the simple truth.
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Speaker 9: Israel didn't commit genocide. Israel prevented genocide.
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Speaker 3: It's true.
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Speaker 9: And that's exactly what Mr. Mamdani's Hamas buddies would have
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Speaker 9: done to us Had we not stopped them, they would
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Speaker 9: have killed every last one of us. The lies you
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Speaker 9: and other anti-Semites spread about the Jews and the Jewish
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Speaker 9: state have real consequences.
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Speaker 3: Well said. Again, Benjamin Netanyahu and just really putting Zoran
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Speaker 3: Mamdami in his place there at the UN. When are
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Speaker 3: we going to finally give them the heave-ho? Anybody else
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Speaker 3: just tired of paying the United Nations bills? When are
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Speaker 3: they going to pack up and move to, I don't know,
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Speaker 3: Zimbabwe or wherever? Let's go to the phones here on
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Speaker 3: this Open Line Friday. We will start today in Houston, Texas. Cliff,
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Speaker 3: listening to us. on Patriot Talk 920. Cliff, what do
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Speaker 3: you want to talk about today?
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Speaker 11: I'd like to talk.
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Speaker 12: First, thank you for hearing me, Todd.
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Speaker 13: I'd like to talk about diesel fuel costs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, go for it.
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Speaker 14: Uh.
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Speaker 13: If you go back, if those that are fortunate enough
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Speaker 13: to go to high school.
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Speaker 3: All right, Cliff, here's what we're going to do. We've
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Speaker 3: got a bad phone connection for some reason, so we're
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Speaker 3: going to get that worked out. So don't go anywhere.
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Speaker 3: Hang tight. Let's go to Mike in Clear Lake City, Texas,
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Speaker 3: listening to us on Patriot Talk 920. Mike, what's on
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Speaker 3: your mind?
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Speaker 15: Well, I agree with everything you're saying, and we're definitely
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Speaker 15: going to vote red. But I think it's a deliberate
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Speaker 15: act on John Thune and the establishment, the way the
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Speaker 15: Senate doesn't want to do anything, and the way no
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Speaker 15: senators want him removed and replaced. They're just waiting out
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Speaker 15: President Trump's term, or they're actually trying to lose the
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Speaker 15: midterms so that they don't have to do anything. And
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Speaker 15: in the uniparty, the establishment is back in control.
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Speaker 3: Mike, you know what? I'm glad you brought that up
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Speaker 3: because one of the big challenges I see here is,
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Speaker 3: let's just say, let's say the Republicans do remain in
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Speaker 3: control of the Senate. There's no guarantee they're actually going
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Speaker 3: to move President Trump's agenda. I think they're done. I
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Speaker 3: really do think they're done.
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Speaker 15: Well, I agree. That's my point. For two years, they
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Speaker 15: say more time, more time, more time. They've had two years,
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Speaker 15: and like you say, they haven't codified any of president
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Speaker 15: Trump's executive orders. And the list goes on, you know,
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Speaker 15: Mike Johnson's talking about, we sent him 700 bills that
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Speaker 15: they've done nothing with. I mean, it's kind of like,
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Speaker 15: you know, this like right in your face, they don't
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Speaker 15: want to do anything and they're not going to do anything.
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Speaker 15: And Ted Cruz and Kennedy and Mike, uh, Lee and
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Speaker 15: Rick Scott, they can go on TV and complain all
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Speaker 15: they want to about the Senate and, uh, uh, John Thune,
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Speaker 15: but it's like I always say, none of them are
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Speaker 15: trying to get him removed so they can get things done.
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Speaker 3: Mike, it's a brilliant observation here, and you're right. These
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Speaker 3: guys will get out there, and that's why they don't
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Speaker 3: want to come on this show, because we will call
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Speaker 3: them out on that and say, hey, guys, you're blasting
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Speaker 3: your majority leader. You have the ability to remove him,
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Speaker 3: so why have you not removed him? All these people saying, well,
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Speaker 3: we just can't believe Thune is standing in the way.
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Speaker 3: We'll do something about it.
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Speaker 15: As those bills came through, as the House sent the
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Speaker 15: Senate those bills, they should have been voted on as
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Speaker 15: they came. They shouldn't have been putting a hopper and
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Speaker 15: waiting until like there's 700 of them sitting there to
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Speaker 15: be decided on.
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Speaker 3: Are you ready for this one, Mike? The House has
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Speaker 3: codified about 100 of President Trump's executive orders. So again,
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Speaker 3: waiting on the Senate to follow through.
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Speaker 15: Well, I think it's all by design. I think it's
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Speaker 15: the establishment, and they're just slow walking, stonewalling everything. And
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Speaker 15: after Trump's gone, the Uniparty's back in control, and it's
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Speaker 15: us against the Uniparty.
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Speaker 3: All right. Mike, God bless you. Thank you for calling in.
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Speaker 3: I think we've got things worked out with Cliff in Houston.
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Speaker 3: All right, Cliff, jump right into it. You want to
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Speaker 3: talk about Diesel?
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Speaker 12: Yes, Todd.
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Speaker 13: Return of the call on Diesel. If you go back
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Speaker 13: to high school chemistry, you got a test tube, you
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Speaker 13: put it over a fire, and you start boiling whatever
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Speaker 13: is in the test tube. What all the oil refiners
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Speaker 13: actually do, if you go and see the stacks in
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Speaker 13: an oil refinery, those are just huge test tubes. They
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Speaker 13: have to cook the oil. And in the process of
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Speaker 13: cooking the oil, they get the lubricants, and then they
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Speaker 13: get like white gasoline, which is kerosene, and then they
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Speaker 13: get diesel. You have to really work to get gasoline.
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Speaker 13: The gasoline costs more to produce than diesel or kerosene.
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Speaker 13: And in that process, you know, they get rid of
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Speaker 13: all the lubricants. Well, not all of it, but most
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Speaker 13: of it. So how would you export diesel in an
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Speaker 13: oil tanker?
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Speaker 11: You can't.
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Speaker 13: So I don't buy into this idea that we're exporting gasoline.
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Speaker 13: bunch of diesel overseas where's the facility to load the
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Speaker 13: diesel to the ships not here in the texas area.
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Speaker 3: Cliff it is a good question and uh we'll look
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Speaker 3: into it my friend and uh we'll try to we'll
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Speaker 3: try to get an answer for you but thank you
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Speaker 3: for calling in uh real quick let's go to paul
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Speaker 3: in germantown tennessee listening to us on kwam radio hi
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Speaker 3: paul what's going on hey.
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Speaker 16: Todd uh just listening to your show, and I agree
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Speaker 16: that the Republicans are doing nothing to help Trump about
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Speaker 16: this election. I think they should start putting out commercials.
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Speaker 16: I've seen some commercials for the Democrats showing how bad
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Speaker 16: communism is. An example would be showing old clips of,
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Speaker 16: in Berlin, people trying to scale the Berlin Wall and
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Speaker 16: getting shot trying to get out of East Germany. I'm
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Speaker 16: 72 years old. I don't know if you recall a
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Speaker 16: commercial back when Lyndon Johnson was running against Barry Goldwater.
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Speaker 16: They wanted to bash Goldwater, make him look like a warmonger.
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Speaker 16: They had this commercial, this little girl in a field
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Speaker 16: and she was blowing the flowers and la-di-da and all
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Speaker 16: of a sudden A nuclear bomb went off, and you
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Speaker 16: could see the big cloud and everything, and they just
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Speaker 16: said something about, made a comment, this is what Barry
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Speaker 16: Goldwater will bring you. And it worked. Goldwater got smeared
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Speaker 16: in the election. So that's all I'm suggesting, that Republicans
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Speaker 16: somehow need to do something like that, get the word out.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting, Paul, that ad was called the
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Speaker 3: Daisy ad because the child was in like a field
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Speaker 3: of daisies when the nuclear cloud exploded and vaporized the child.
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Speaker 3: Do you know something, Paul? They only paid for that
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Speaker 3: ad to run one time. And Johnson knew that from
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Speaker 3: that point on, every news organization in the country would
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Speaker 3: broadcast the ad free of charge in their newscast. And
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Speaker 3: that's exactly what happened. And you're right. It was an
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Speaker 3: incredibly effective ad campaign.
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Speaker 12: Exactly.
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Speaker 16: The common person today, even if they're Republican, aren't feeling
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Speaker 16: the good things Trump's doing. And they're just out working
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Speaker 16: from day to day. A lot of them don't even
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Speaker 16: own stock and stuff. So they need to do something
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Speaker 16: strong to convince the other people, the dummy down people
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Speaker 16: that are going to vote for this communism, how bad
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Speaker 16: it really is and how good we've got it. And
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Speaker 16: they're just loafing. They're asleep at the wheel.
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Speaker 3: Paul, well said. We're going to have to leave it there.
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Speaker 3: I'm super late for a break here, but thank you
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Speaker 3: for listening to us, and it's a great call. Paul's
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Speaker 3: making an excellent point here. We have got to get
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Speaker 3: back to the messaging here. All right, 901-260-5926. We'll be
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Speaker 3: right back.
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Speaker 15: All right.
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Speaker 3: Happy Dolly Day to you, America. You know, they're doing
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Speaker 3: celebrations all over the United States. And if you guys
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Speaker 3: are doing something cool to honor Dolly Parton in your town,
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Speaker 3: give us a holler. Do you know why today is
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Speaker 3: Dolly Parton Day, Dillon?
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Speaker 10: I actually don't know why.
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Speaker 3: Because it's September 25th, 9 to 5.
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Speaker 6: Wow.
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Speaker 10: You know, I just played that song because I really
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Speaker 10: liked that song. I didn't even know that's why.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. We got to get you more cultured.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you're right.
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Speaker 3: By the way, if you're in Memphis, the Orpheum Theater,
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Speaker 3: they're playing 9 to 5 all day and free of charge.
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Speaker 3: You can go and watch it and have a good
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Speaker 3: old time. 9 to 5. 9 to 5. Come on, Dylan.
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Speaker 3: All right, hang tight. We'll be right back. America going
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Speaker 3: right to your calls next.
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Speaker 10: We did the Florida Save Act.
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Speaker 14: Even though we're already leading in election integrity, this bolstered
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Speaker 14: all of those reforms that I mentioned earlier. And really,
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Speaker 14: as a model for other states, I know we wanted
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Speaker 14: to see the U.S. Senate pass the federal SAVE Act.
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Speaker 14: They were not willing to do that. And it doesn't
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Speaker 14: look like they're going to do that, certainly before this election.
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Speaker 14: And you know what? They may have a lot fewer
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Speaker 14: Republicans after this election. That's the way things go. Politics
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Speaker 14: is cyclical. You have certain opportunities. You really got to
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Speaker 14: seize on those opportunities. And I think if the Senate
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Speaker 14: does go change hands from Republican to Democrat, there's a
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Speaker 14: lot of factors. But I think one of the factors
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Speaker 14: is some of our voters are disappointed that more wasn't
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Speaker 14: done when that was something that so many of them
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Speaker 14: wanted to see.
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Speaker 16: Wow.
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Speaker 3: There you have it. That is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
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Speaker 3: just a few moments ago, ladies and gentlemen. And we'll
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Speaker 3: play some more of that in just a moment. He
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Speaker 3: had some other things to say, but... He flat out
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Speaker 3: said that the Senate was just not willing to pass
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Speaker 3: the Save America Act, and as a result, there may
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Speaker 3: be a lot. fewer Republicans in the U.S.
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Speaker 17: Senate.
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Speaker 3: That coming from Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis. And by the way,
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Speaker 3: DeSantis himself is sort of positioning he's jockeying for a
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Speaker 3: spot as a possible presidential contender. And he could very
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Speaker 3: well make the argument, again, as we head towards 2028,
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Speaker 3: that at this juncture, J.D. Vance was not able to
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Speaker 3: do much with the Senate as far as nudging them
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Speaker 3: into passing the Save America Act. I'm just speculating here, conjecture,
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Speaker 3: but DeSantis is going to have to have an attack route.
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Speaker 3: if he's going to run for the White House. All right,
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Speaker 3: let's go to the phone lines, 901-260-5926. Let's say hello
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Speaker 3: to David in Washington State. David, what's on your mind?
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Speaker 18: First off, I'm talking to you through VA-issued hearing aids.
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Speaker 18: I hope you can hear me clearly.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, doing just fine, David. Go right ahead.
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Speaker 18: I'm sure my good friend, Pastor Dennis Fountain, would want
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Speaker 18: me to say hi if he knew I was talking
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Speaker 18: to you.
20:55
Speaker 3: Well, he's a wonderful man and a great pastor. Absolutely.
21:00
Speaker 18: Very concerned about this. Give us more time movements to
21:04
Speaker 18: try to do right now. I have about 20,000 followers
21:08
Speaker 18: on social media. Most of the hits that I'm getting,
21:11
Speaker 18: most of the clicks is on countering socialism, countering Islam.
21:17
Speaker 18: And for crying out loud, 700 bills backed up in
21:20
Speaker 18: the Senate is just pathetic. They've got to give us
21:23
Speaker 18: some kind of guarantees.
21:26
Speaker 3: Yeah, David, that to me was a shocking number. And again,
21:32
Speaker 3: I just greatly appreciate the work of Speaker Mike Johnson.
21:35
Speaker 3: I mean, they're getting everything through. They're doing their job.
21:39
Speaker 3: And trust me, it's like herding cats to get the
21:42
Speaker 3: Republicans to agree together in the House. but to send
21:47
Speaker 3: 700 bills. And what has the Senate been doing aside
21:50
Speaker 3: from going on vacation, not going into recess, David, because
21:55
Speaker 3: President Trump has not been allowed to make a single
21:58
Speaker 3: recess appointment because of the actions of the majority leader?
22:02
Speaker 18: Well, you know, their message might want to be, hey,
22:05
Speaker 18: give us more time and we will replace our leadership,
22:09
Speaker 18: our speaker. We have to do, we've got to go.
22:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, he does. But, David, we had a call just
22:18
Speaker 3: a little while ago from Texas, and the guy made
22:20
Speaker 3: a brilliant point. And the point is this, that you've
22:24
Speaker 3: got all these folks, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, many others
22:27
Speaker 3: that are standing up in front of the cameras condemning
22:30
Speaker 3: John Thune for not moving, not nuking the filibuster and
22:34
Speaker 3: all of that stuff, and yet not a single person.
22:36
Speaker 3: And this has been going on for almost a solid
22:39
Speaker 3: year now. Not a single one of those individuals has
22:42
Speaker 3: called for Thune or has taken action to remove Thune
22:46
Speaker 3: from power in the Senate. So what does that tell you?
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Speaker 18: Yeah, the message has to be that we're going to
22:52
Speaker 18: stop going along to get along, and we're going to
22:54
Speaker 18: start getting more aggressive. That's plain and simple.
22:56
Speaker 19: That's the only thing they can say.
22:58
Speaker 3: David, it's a great point you made. You came in
23:02
Speaker 3: loud and clear, so you give us a holler back
23:04
Speaker 3: one of these days.
23:05
Speaker 12: Thank you, Todd.
23:06
Speaker 18: You have a blessed day.
23:06
Speaker 3: All right, you too. That's David from Washington State. We
23:10
Speaker 3: have a lot of good friends and listeners in that
23:12
Speaker 3: part of the country. Let's go to North Carolina, another
23:16
Speaker 3: great area. Sean on WSIC. Hi, Sean. What's on your mind?
23:21
Speaker 5: Hey.
23:22
Speaker 13: Hey, Todd.
23:22
Speaker 4: How are you doing?
23:23
Speaker 3: I'm pretty good. Thank you for asking.
23:26
Speaker 17: Yeah.
23:27
Speaker 4: Well, I just want to make a direct statement. I
23:30
Speaker 4: tried getting into you last week, and I got cut
23:33
Speaker 4: off or whatever. But with the Grandmaster Trump over there,
23:40
Speaker 4: We didn't need another Saul term. We need David. We
23:46
Speaker 4: need David. He needs to take a knee and he
23:50
Speaker 4: needs to ask God for guidance because his ego is
23:55
Speaker 4: killing all of us. And it's apparent. When I saw
24:00
Speaker 4: the UN speech that he gave, it's just, it's like,
24:05
Speaker 4: come on, bro. We voted for you and we're getting shellacked.
24:10
Speaker 4: The American people are getting shellacked. Is he waiting for
24:14
Speaker 4: the last minute to pull a rabbit out of a hat?
24:19
Speaker 4: I'm not into that theatric, but he needs to turn
24:22
Speaker 4: to God and be a David. We don't need Saul.
24:26
Speaker 4: We had him as Saul the first round. We need
24:30
Speaker 4: a David.
24:31
Speaker 3: What is it that you think the president needs to
24:34
Speaker 3: be doing or stop doing that he's currently doing?
24:38
Speaker 11: He is.
24:41
Speaker 4: What did he say in his first six months? I'm
24:43
Speaker 4: going to lower gas prices. I'm going to lower energy prices.
24:47
Speaker 4: You know what? Living in North Carolina, you should see
24:50
Speaker 4: my Duke bill. It's through the roof. My gas bill,
24:55
Speaker 4: being an independent contractor, is through the roof. And from
25:00
Speaker 4: what I heard with the whole thing with these truckers
25:02
Speaker 4: that are going to go on strike and punish everybody,
25:07
Speaker 4: it's like, come on. It's like the theatrics... My wife
25:12
Speaker 4: calls it the soap opera. And either America is going
25:19
Speaker 4: to be great again, or like everybody's saying, if we
25:23
Speaker 4: get shellacked in the midterms, his presidency is toast. He's over.
25:30
Speaker 3: Sean, now that is true. If the Democrats retake the Congress,
25:36
Speaker 3: it is over, period. I will say this, just as
25:40
Speaker 3: a little pushback here. I think that ultimately this president
25:45
Speaker 3: has been incredibly successful. problem has been the Congress and
25:50
Speaker 3: specifically the Senate and also the media. But the media
25:53
Speaker 3: is going to be the media. That's what they do.
25:55
Speaker 3: They're never going to give Trump credit for doing anything
25:58
Speaker 3: right at all. But Trump's done a lot right. And
26:00
Speaker 3: that's why I wrote The Golden Age, by the way,
26:02
Speaker 3: is to document all of it. So I've got 300
26:05
Speaker 3: pages of all sorts of great things that Trump has
26:08
Speaker 3: done For America in just the first two years of
26:11
Speaker 3: his presidency. The problem is, and I know that Trump
26:14
Speaker 3: wants to be on the ballot, right? He wants people
26:18
Speaker 3: to think when they go to vote, they're voting for Trump.
26:21
Speaker 3: It's a noble thing, but it's not going to work. Ultimately,
26:24
Speaker 3: it is up to each and every one of those
26:26
Speaker 3: members of Congress. Their names are the ones that are
26:29
Speaker 3: on the ballot, and they're going to have to earn
26:33
Speaker 3: those votes. And I just, you know, I understand what
26:36
Speaker 3: the president is saying, but I really don't think people
26:39
Speaker 3: are going to be going and voting because of Donald J.
26:41
Speaker 3: Trump on Election Day.
26:43
Speaker 4: Okay, but Todd, here's the one thing. Okay, so we
26:46
Speaker 4: invaded Venezuela and we took Maturda out.
26:49
Speaker 14: Okay.
26:50
Speaker 4: And he said, oh, in a couple of months, you
26:53
Speaker 4: will have gas prices will drop.
26:56
Speaker 13: Okay.
26:57
Speaker 18: When?
26:59
Speaker 4: When? For the next president? I mean, he's starting to
27:03
Speaker 4: make Biden look like a superstar, which is making me
27:07
Speaker 4: want to throw up.
27:08
Speaker 3: Oh, no, come on, Sean. That's a bit of a stretch, though.
27:11
Speaker 3: I mean, look, I get it. Gas prices are going up.
27:14
Speaker 3: No doubt about it. But they're not as high as
27:16
Speaker 3: they were when Biden was in office, at least not yet.
27:20
Speaker 4: Todd, I have a family of five, and I've been
27:23
Speaker 4: choked to death for six years now. For six years,
27:28
Speaker 4: I had to fold my business and go work for somebody.
27:31
Speaker 4: And I'll be honest with you. When Trump first got
27:36
Speaker 4: in after Obama, I was dogged out the first year.
27:41
Speaker 4: But the next three years with Trump was fantastic. And
27:45
Speaker 4: then it rode into that first year of Biden, I
27:47
Speaker 4: was still hanging on. Three years of Biden, I've gotten totally...
27:54
Speaker 4: I'll be honest with you, and I'll let you listeners know.
27:57
Speaker 4: I'm on the verge of complete bankruptcy. I'm about to
28:00
Speaker 4: lose my home. I have to go work for somebody.
28:04
Speaker 4: And what President Trump said I'm going to do, I
28:09
Speaker 4: have not seen it. I have not seen it. And
28:13
Speaker 4: I'm like, dude, I voted for you, and I've been
28:16
Speaker 4: holding off for you. And that's what I'm saying. He
28:19
Speaker 4: needs to just take the knee and ask God, like
28:24
Speaker 4: George Washington, take the knee. How do I lead this
28:28
Speaker 4: and get us back? Because I'm just taught. I don't
28:33
Speaker 4: see it. I don't see it. I voted for him.
28:36
Speaker 4: I'm getting shellacked by YouTubers that I call up. And
28:39
Speaker 4: they're like, why'd you vote for him? And I call
28:41
Speaker 4: them and they're like, you're an idiot. You're an idiot.
28:44
Speaker 4: Because they knew what they were setting him up for.
28:48
Speaker 4: he should have been ready for everything. And like I said,
28:53
Speaker 4: I'm on the verge of a complete collapse and I've
28:57
Speaker 4: tried to live the American dream. And I, I, I
29:00
Speaker 4: don't know what to do anymore. I don't know what
29:02
Speaker 4: to do anymore.
29:03
Speaker 3: Sean, I, I want you to, first of all, I
29:05
Speaker 3: want you to hang in there. I mean, it is,
29:07
Speaker 3: it is a tough time. The gas prices, uh, no
29:10
Speaker 3: doubt are high. Um, Oh, I think over 27% higher
29:13
Speaker 3: from last year. So, um, There's no doubt that that's happening,
29:20
Speaker 3: and everything you just said is accurate. Things are going up,
29:23
Speaker 3: and it is getting very, very hard for folks, working class,
29:28
Speaker 3: middle class, to make ends meet. The question is, what
29:31
Speaker 3: is the answer? Is it getting out of the war
29:34
Speaker 3: in Iran? Is that going to do it? Are we
29:37
Speaker 3: going to be able to get back to the process?
29:40
Speaker 3: points that we were at when Trump was first elected?
29:43
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think that's going to take time.
29:46
Speaker 3: But the administration's already told us that the war goes
29:49
Speaker 3: all the way into at least next year. I suspect
29:53
Speaker 3: it'll probably go on longer than that. Sean, I think
29:56
Speaker 3: the problem, and I think there is something to what
30:00
Speaker 3: you said about humility and understanding that he is getting
30:07
Speaker 3: bad advice from his advisors, because I would much rather
30:11
Speaker 3: the president hear from people like you than somebody who's
30:14
Speaker 3: going down and drinking the Chardonnay down at Mar-a-Lago, because
30:17
Speaker 3: there are a lot more people like you than the
30:19
Speaker 3: folks sipping Chardonnay at Mar-a-Lago. Sean, I'm going to have
30:23
Speaker 3: to leave it there, my friend. Don't be discouraged. Don't
30:26
Speaker 3: be discouraged. You pray, my friend, and let's see what happens.
30:31
Speaker 3: Keep me updated. Keep me updated. All right, 901-260-5926. I
30:37
Speaker 3: hate it for people like Sean. He's a good man.
30:40
Speaker 3: He's trying to provide for his family. He's been a
30:42
Speaker 3: longtime Trump supporter, and things are just not going well.
30:47
Speaker 3: And People will come along, and there'll be people, you watch,
30:51
Speaker 3: there'll be people out in MAGA world like, oh, well,
30:55
Speaker 3: he really wasn't a Trump supporter. No, no, he was.
30:59
Speaker 3: And there are a lot of other people that are
31:01
Speaker 3: like him, and we need to hear those voices. But
31:06
Speaker 3: more importantly than hearing, there needs to be something done
31:10
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31:14
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31:19
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31:22
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Tom Stearns Radio Show.
33:00
Speaker 3: Let's go to Ocala, Florida. WOCA Larry is on the line. Larry,
33:07
Speaker 3: what's on your mind today?
33:10
Speaker 19: You just had another scenario where a guy called in
33:13
Speaker 19: and talked about what these Republicans haven't done. And you're
33:16
Speaker 19: almost like MSNBC trying to tell us how great the
33:20
Speaker 19: economy was under Biden. Whenever we saw it, we felt it.
33:23
Speaker 19: We have businesses. We see their down. We have a
33:27
Speaker 19: pizza place and.
33:27
Speaker 11: It's a franchise.
33:29
Speaker 19: One of our franchises is at 46% from last year. And,
33:34
Speaker 19: I mean, how can you not contribute it to diesel
33:36
Speaker 19: fuel and just the overall idea that people are worried
33:39
Speaker 19: about the economy so they don't, you know, they're not
33:41
Speaker 19: spending like what they should. But who do we have
33:46
Speaker 19: to blame? Republicans have all three branches. And the House
33:50
Speaker 19: goes home early so we don't have to impeach the
33:54
Speaker 19: Secretary of War dude. I mean, Pete Hedges. I mean,
33:57
Speaker 19: and release the Epstein file.
33:59
Speaker 11: I mean, we're sick and tired.
34:01
Speaker 19: Of these Republicans lying to us. We either need to
34:04
Speaker 19: fire all the Republicans or find a third party.
34:07
Speaker 3: Well, that's why we do have elections, Larry, and we've
34:12
Speaker 3: got one coming up. So if you're not going to
34:15
Speaker 3: vote for the Republicans and there aren't any other people
34:18
Speaker 3: on the ballot except the communists, who are you going
34:20
Speaker 3: to vote for?
34:20
Speaker 4: The communists.
34:22
Speaker 11: We need some people motivated.
34:26
Speaker 3: To vote, baby. Wait, wait. So if you vote for
34:29
Speaker 3: a communist, that means you would want to be a communist.
34:34
Speaker 11: How do you figure that?
34:35
Speaker 19: Do I sound like a communist?
34:37
Speaker 3: Well, yeah. I mean, if you're going to vote for one,
34:39
Speaker 3: that's a pretty good darn indicator that you're a commie.
34:43
Speaker 19: If you think I'm.
34:44
Speaker 11: A communist, I'll see you on the battlefield, buddy, and
34:47
Speaker 11: I bet.
34:47
Speaker 19: I'll change your mind.
34:48
Speaker 3: Well, I doubt that very seriously, Larry. I do engage
34:53
Speaker 3: in Second Amendment rights, absolutely. But the point I'm trying
34:57
Speaker 3: to make is you just told me you're going to
34:58
Speaker 3: vote for a communist. Who in their right mind would
35:01
Speaker 3: vote for a communist? Except a communist.
35:05
Speaker 19: People who are ready to start the revolution.
35:09
Speaker 3: So what's the revolution? Fine, you're going to start a revolution.
35:12
Speaker 3: What's the revolution about? What do you mean, what's it about?
35:19
Speaker 3: You're going to take up arms against the country. What
35:22
Speaker 3: are you going to do?
35:25
Speaker 11: You said that.
35:25
Speaker 19: I didn't say that.
35:26
Speaker 3: That's what a revolution is.
35:29
Speaker 11: Father, you know what revolution is? It's when I put
35:31
Speaker 11: my money in my pocket and I say, come get it.
35:33
Speaker 11: I ain't taking up arms against them. They're taking up
35:36
Speaker 11: arms against me. I'm not trying to come get theirs.
35:40
Speaker 11: They're trying to come get mine. And I will defend it.
35:42
Speaker 11: And I expect everybody else to do the same. Because
35:45
Speaker 11: we're tired of sending our money over to other places
35:48
Speaker 11: to do things that's anti-American.
35:52
Speaker 6: Interest.
35:53
Speaker 11: This is not what we're doing overseas. It's not in
35:56
Speaker 11: our interest. We need to do things that are our
35:58
Speaker 11: money for us.
35:59
Speaker 19: And the best way to do that is.
36:01
Speaker 11: Keep it in our pocket. We tell these Republicans, get
36:03
Speaker 11: your hand out of our pocket. We're sick and tired
36:06
Speaker 11: of you taking our money and spending it somewhere else
36:08
Speaker 11: and giving it to people who won't work. Either listen
36:10
Speaker 11: to us or deal with the rat.
36:12
Speaker 3: All right. Larry, you sound like you have a little
36:15
Speaker 3: anger management issue there, my friend. You just got to relax.
36:19
Speaker 3: Do you have a stress ball, Larry? Have you heard
36:21
Speaker 3: of those?
36:21
Speaker 11: I can use your face as a stress ball.
36:24
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. But that's a good try, though.
36:28
Speaker 3: You can get them at the drugstore. They have them
36:30
Speaker 3: usually at the front counter. They're these little stress balls,
36:32
Speaker 3: and you can just squeeze it when you feel angry,
36:36
Speaker 3: which right now I think Larry's really angry.
36:38
Speaker 2: All right.
36:41
Speaker 3: Thanks, Larry. He really should try it, and I would
36:45
Speaker 3: be concerned about his blood pressure. I mean, that's not good, right?
36:48
Speaker 3: You don't want your blood pressure. You don't want your
36:50
Speaker 3: BP to spike. He wants to use my face as
36:56
Speaker 3: a stress ball.
36:58
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Speaker 10: Hey, thanks for having me, Todd.
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Speaker 3: All right, so what's going on here? What's the big
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Speaker 14: All right, so, well, there's a lot of stuff going
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Speaker 14: on here, and past is prologue. A lot of your
39:21
Speaker 14: listeners and viewers will remember back in 2019, my team
39:25
Speaker 14: back when we were at Big League Politics broke a
39:27
Speaker 14: story about Ralph Northam, the racist. Democrat governor who dressed
39:32
Speaker 14: up as either the blackface or the Klan hood governor
39:38
Speaker 14: in his yearbook medical school.
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Speaker 3: Michael Jackson. Yeah, I remember that.
39:42
Speaker 14: He moonwalked and then his whole term was basically DOA.
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Speaker 14: And it's funny how these things connect. And I could
39:49
Speaker 14: tell a whole long story with you, Todd, if we
39:51
Speaker 14: didn't get a chance to talk about all this off
39:52
Speaker 14: air before this segment. But it turns out Ralph Northam
39:59
Speaker 14: ended up running away to this place called the Outer
40:02
Speaker 14: Banks from Virginia. He was like in exile. He would
40:04
Speaker 14: run away to the Outer Banks. And oddly and bizarrely,
40:07
Speaker 14: these two stories end up connecting. Fast forward six years.
40:11
Speaker 14: Now we have another crazy, kooky Democrat guy. and his name,
40:15
Speaker 14: he was a lifelong Democrat, longtime Democrat, until just recently
40:18
Speaker 14: when he decided he wanted to hold on to power somehow,
40:21
Speaker 14: some way. His name is Jerry Tillett. He decided he
40:24
Speaker 14: wanted to be somebody after he was asked to leave
40:27
Speaker 14: by the Democrats for all his ethics problems, and so
40:30
Speaker 14: he decided he wanted to be a Republican state senator,
40:32
Speaker 14: and now, unbelievably, he has managed to accomplish that, which
40:36
Speaker 14: is another piece of this story that sheds light on
40:39
Speaker 14: a lot of our party problems, Todd, that I know
40:42
Speaker 14: you and I might be able to discuss, and And
40:44
Speaker 14: maybe we can preach some morals and ethics a little
40:47
Speaker 14: bit later. But now we have this guy who has
40:51
Speaker 14: another racism scandal where he's screaming the N-word and talking
40:57
Speaker 14: about shooting this black guy on this audio recording.
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Speaker 6: And then.
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Speaker 14: That seat actually opened up before the term was over.
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Speaker 14: And so the Democrat governor went ahead and just appointed him.
41:09
Speaker 14: And there's a big, shiny... you know, diploma like appointment,
41:13
Speaker 14: you know, certificate. And I, Josh Stein, this Democrat, he's
41:18
Speaker 14: the protege to Roy Cooper, actually, who's probably going to
41:20
Speaker 14: be our next senator, U.S. senator in the state of
41:23
Speaker 14: North Carolina. Josh Stein went ahead and just a couple
41:27
Speaker 14: of weeks ago installed this guy, this crazy kooky tillet
41:30
Speaker 14: guy who has this N-word scandal into the state Senate.
41:35
Speaker 14: And and I got to say, our Republicans helped to
41:39
Speaker 14: make this happen in North Carolina. Um, just a few
41:42
Speaker 14: weeks before Stein, uh, appointed, um, Mr. Tillett to that seat,
41:47
Speaker 14: our first district, uh, Republican congressional committee, uh, met secretly
41:53
Speaker 14: and nobody wanted to be obviously seen voting for this guy,
41:56
Speaker 14: but they did. They made the recommendation to the governor
41:59
Speaker 14: and to the legislature to go ahead and, uh, appoint him, which, uh, he,
42:03
Speaker 14: he ended up, Mr. Stein, the Democrat ended up doing.
42:07
Speaker 14: And so, um, We've got problems in the Republican Party,
42:11
Speaker 14: which we've had for a long time. Todd, I know
42:13
Speaker 14: you know that. This is what I spend my life
42:15
Speaker 14: doing is trying to clean up our party. And then
42:19
Speaker 14: the Democrats, in what can only be described as a
42:23
Speaker 14: perfect example of what the Uniparty is, go ahead and
42:26
Speaker 14: take their recommendation and put the guy into office. And
42:29
Speaker 14: so the audio, you can go to nationalfile.com. It's there
42:32
Speaker 14: on the website. He's screaming about shooting this black guy.
42:35
Speaker 14: He's calling him the N-word repeatedly. It's him and his son.
42:38
Speaker 14: Jeremy Tillett is the other male voice audible in the audio. Now,
42:43
Speaker 14: the audio has been confirmed by the local district attorney.
42:47
Speaker 14: He confirmed that Jerry's voice was in the recording. His
42:51
Speaker 14: name is Jeff Cruden. And also, unbelievably, this basically scandal-plagued
42:57
Speaker 14: former judge, Tillett himself, went and petitioned all these folks.
43:02
Speaker 10: They didn't want the.
43:03
Speaker 14: Report coming out, so they thought they could stick the
43:06
Speaker 14: state bureau of investigation on us national file the reporters
43:10
Speaker 14: who reported his uh horrible racism and uh the sbi
43:15
Speaker 14: looked into it the state bureau of investigation looked into
43:17
Speaker 14: it and they found of course there was he was
43:19
Speaker 14: claiming all kinds of it was illegally obtained he said
43:22
Speaker 14: or it was ai he was screaming and uh making
43:25
Speaker 14: all these excuses of course none of those are true
43:26
Speaker 14: it was legally obtained because north carolina is a single
43:29
Speaker 14: party consent state and our sourcing of course uh uh
43:33
Speaker 14: confirmed how that audio was obtained and created. And so
43:39
Speaker 14: now we have the district attorney and the State Bureau
43:41
Speaker 14: of Investigation verifying that this audio is legitimate. And we
43:45
Speaker 14: have a Republican who's now, you know, could easily lose
43:48
Speaker 14: the Senate seat if, you know, the election plays out
43:54
Speaker 14: the way that a lot of Democrats want it to.
43:56
Speaker 14: But it's all because our party couldn't get it right
43:58
Speaker 14: and get rid of this guy. They tried. They didn't
44:01
Speaker 14: try hard enough. He barely squeaked through. He won his
44:04
Speaker 14: primary with something like 36, 7%. So you have a
44:07
Speaker 14: guy who doesn't even have a majority of the electorate
44:10
Speaker 14: in the primary coming out and now could very well
44:14
Speaker 14: lose this Senate seat. And this thing, I will say it,
44:18
Speaker 14: it does touch into the Watley race as well. The
44:20
Speaker 14: interesting thing here is the Democrats have been spending millions
44:24
Speaker 14: of dollars trying to smear Watley with an association to
44:28
Speaker 14: this guy called Harvey West, who used to be the
44:30
Speaker 14: chairman of that aforementioned First District Republican Committee, Congressional Committee. Well,
44:36
Speaker 14: guess who's tied to this very same convicted child molester,
44:41
Speaker 14: Harvey West? Well, this same guy with the racist scandal,
44:45
Speaker 14: Jerry Tillett, our now state senator, is very closely, and
44:48
Speaker 14: former lifelong Democrat, is of course, of course, naturally tied
44:53
Speaker 14: to this very closely. This convicted child molester was campaigning
44:58
Speaker 14: in this election season with Jerry Tillett, the guy with
45:02
Speaker 14: the N-word scandal. And so it's a mess down here
45:05
Speaker 14: in North Carolina, just like it's a mess down in
45:07
Speaker 14: South Carolina like we've talked about before. Todd, our party
45:10
Speaker 14: has to clean its act up so that we don't
45:15
Speaker 14: have Republicans who are working together with these crazy, kooky Democrats.
45:18
Speaker 14: And I'm reminded, I got to preach.
45:19
Speaker 10: I got to preach, Todd.
45:21
Speaker 14: Matthew chapter 7. You know, Jesus says, Why do you
45:24
Speaker 14: look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye
45:26
Speaker 14: and pay no attention to the plank? in your own eye.
45:29
Speaker 14: How can you say to your brother, let me take
45:31
Speaker 14: the speck out of your eye, when all the time
45:33
Speaker 14: there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite,
45:36
Speaker 14: first take the plank out of your own eye, and
45:38
Speaker 14: then you will see clearly to remove the speck from
45:40
Speaker 14: your brother's eye. Our Republican Party has a huge log
45:43
Speaker 14: in its eye, and we have somehow found a way
45:46
Speaker 14: in this election cycle to cede the moral high ground
45:49
Speaker 14: to these crazy, kooky commies on nearly every issue imaginable.
45:56
Speaker 14: whether it's the Epstein and the child sex abuse stuff.
45:58
Speaker 14: I don't even know if we can say that stuff
46:00
Speaker 14: on the air where we are now. Apologies if not, uh,
46:03
Speaker 14: or if it's perpetual war and just war theory, you know, God,
46:07
Speaker 14: there is such a thing as just war, um, or enabling, uh,
46:11
Speaker 14: what has clearly become like this, uh, totally unethical, uh,
46:15
Speaker 14: and immoral economic construct that we have here now with
46:18
Speaker 14: like basically rich billionaire oligarchs running, um, every aspect of
46:22
Speaker 14: our economy, okay, and everything that every human being needs,
46:26
Speaker 14: whether it's food and clothes and shelter and water and
46:29
Speaker 14: energy and now tech, and we're just handing it over
46:32
Speaker 14: to these billionaires. Well, what could go wrong, Todd? I
46:35
Speaker 14: think the Republicans need to get back to basics and
46:37
Speaker 14: start reasserting some moral high ground first before worrying about, oh, well,
46:43
Speaker 14: we need to sacrifice some of our morals and ethics
46:46
Speaker 14: just to keep power. So anyway, I'm done preaching, Todd.
46:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, and unfortunately, we've run out of time, Noel. My
46:54
Speaker 3: apologies for that. But where can people go if they
46:57
Speaker 3: want to read the entire story and also listen to
47:01
Speaker 3: this explosive audio?
47:03
Speaker 14: Yeah, it's nationalfile.com, at National File on all of your socials.
47:09
Speaker 14: Thanks for letting me preach, Todd.
47:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, happy to do it, Noel. Folks, head over to
47:14
Speaker 3: National File right now. And again, the lesson here is
47:19
Speaker 3: we cannot be like the Democrats. That is not who
47:22
Speaker 3: we are. And this idea of winning at all costs,
47:25
Speaker 3: even if it means putting up very flawed, very dangerous candidates,
47:32
Speaker 3: that doesn't fly here, and it never has. All right, Noel,
47:36
Speaker 3: thank you again. Nationalfile.com, ladies and gentlemen, go and read
47:40
Speaker 3: that crazy story. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
47:47
Speaker 3: We're going to take a break. When we come back,
47:52
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48:15
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48:29
Speaker 20: Hey Todd, this is Brent from Grand Haven, Michigan. And
48:33
Speaker 20: I just want to tell you that you inspire me,
48:36
Speaker 20: you encourage me, you make me laugh. And when I
48:40
Speaker 20: start getting down, I know I can turn on one
48:42
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48:45
Speaker 20: I really want to hear the audio book of your
48:47
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48:50
Speaker 20: it anywhere. I'm just wondering, are you going to have
48:51
Speaker 20: an audiobook version of that? Thank you.
48:54
Speaker 3: Have a good day, Todd. Thank you, too. Brent from
48:57
Speaker 3: Grand Haven, Michigan, leaving us a shout-out on the KWAM app,
49:02
Speaker 3: the Todd Stern Show app. By the way, if you
49:04
Speaker 3: want to download that app, it's free, and you can
49:06
Speaker 3: do the same thing that Brent just did here. All
49:09
Speaker 3: you have to do is go to toddsterns.com, and you'll
49:11
Speaker 3: be able to get that free of charge. Brett, we
49:14
Speaker 3: are working on... Yes, the answer is yes, there will
49:17
Speaker 3: be an audio book. The problem is I am on
49:20
Speaker 3: the road a lot promoting the book. So as soon
49:23
Speaker 3: as we get finished with the California swing, we're going
49:26
Speaker 3: to sit down and knock out the audio version of
49:28
Speaker 3: the book. Dylan, I have to tell you what happened
49:30
Speaker 3: to me yesterday.
49:31
Speaker 10: Yes, please do.
49:31
Speaker 3: So I had to go to.
49:35
Speaker 3: That did not seem very sincere.
49:37
Speaker 10: No, I genuinely am curious. Sorry.
49:40
Speaker 3: So I had to go to the doctor. You know,
49:42
Speaker 3: the cardiologist, I got to go every couple of months.
49:46
Speaker 3: They want to make sure everything's doing well and that
49:48
Speaker 3: I'm alive. And I developed a few minor complications after
49:54
Speaker 3: the heart surgery. And they're working through all of that,
49:58
Speaker 3: which I greatly appreciate. And it's always fun. I actually
50:00
Speaker 3: have a good time. When I have to go to
50:04
Speaker 3: the cardiologist.
50:05
Speaker 10: They poke you, though.
50:07
Speaker 3: They do. Well, I had to get another EKG. So
50:11
Speaker 3: they're hooking me up to the EKG, and I have
50:12
Speaker 3: my phone by my side. So the nurse does the
50:16
Speaker 3: EKG and leaves. And as soon as she leaves, I
50:19
Speaker 3: get a little alert that I got an email. So
50:22
Speaker 3: I just kind of glanced down at the email. And
50:26
Speaker 3: I want to tell you, this was the message I
50:28
Speaker 3: got from Progressive. The insurance company, Progressive.
50:32
Speaker 2: All right.
50:33
Speaker 3: Here's the subject line. I'm sitting there. I'm getting dressed
50:39
Speaker 3: because they did the EKG, and I'm reading this from
50:42
Speaker 3: the insurance company. Todd, have you thought about final expense insurance?
50:50
Speaker 9: Oh, no.
50:51
Speaker 3: I'm like, what? So I had to read it again. Todd,
50:55
Speaker 3: have you thought about final expense insurance?
50:58
Speaker 6: Yes.
50:59
Speaker 3: And I'm sitting there going, is that what I think
51:04
Speaker 3: they mean here? So I'm scrolling down. Todd, at Progressive,
51:09
Speaker 3: we're here to help you and your family with all
51:12
Speaker 3: of life's needs. Progressive final expense insurance is the affordable
51:17
Speaker 3: way to ease the financial burden for your loved ones
51:21
Speaker 3: left behind.
51:22
Speaker 10: Oh, my God.
51:23
Speaker 3: Oh, my God. I'm like, oh, my God, what was
51:25
Speaker 3: in the EKG? I'm like, holy cow. So the doctor
51:31
Speaker 3: comes in, and I'm like, you're not going to believe
51:33
Speaker 3: the email. And I'm showing everybody in the office the
51:36
Speaker 3: email I just got. And I said, Doc, you got
51:39
Speaker 3: to be honest with me. Just cut to the chase.
51:42
Speaker 3: Am I a goner?
51:45
Speaker 6: Wow.
51:45
Speaker 3: So I think I'm going to be able to be around.
51:48
Speaker 3: You know they listen to everything.
51:50
Speaker 10: That's what I was thinking immediately.
51:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
51:52
Speaker 10: Progressive is like, oh, he's in the hospital again? Let's go.
51:56
Speaker 10: Let's get him.
51:57
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. So they must have known. Whatever algorithm knew, they're
52:02
Speaker 3: probably like logged into my medical files.
52:05
Speaker 10: Have to be.
52:06
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. So the good news, hopefully I'm going to be
52:10
Speaker 3: around for a very long time.
52:14
Speaker 10: That would mess up the EKG for me. My heart
52:17
Speaker 10: rate would not be able to handle an email like
52:19
Speaker 10: that during that time.
52:21
Speaker 3: Final expense insurance, and it starts at just $ 62 a month. Oh, nice.
52:27
Speaker 3: If you're cheap, I mean, good Lord.
52:29
Speaker 2: Bargain.
52:30
Speaker 3: I don't know. My goodness. All right, let's go to
52:34
Speaker 3: Anna in Georgia. Anna, I know what you're going to
52:37
Speaker 3: talk about, but I'm freaked out by this final expense
52:41
Speaker 3: insurance note I got. Apparently it freaked Anna out too.
52:49
Speaker 3: All right. We'll try to get back to Anna. And
52:51
Speaker 3: we lost Arnaz too. Sorry, Arnaz. Freaked them all out, Todd.
52:55
Speaker 10: What are you doing?
52:55
Speaker 11: I know.
52:56
Speaker 3: Everybody thought, Lord, Stearns is dying. No, no, I'm good.
53:00
Speaker 3: I'm good. But I, again, it goes back to this
53:04
Speaker 3: whole idea of what in the world, you know, how
53:07
Speaker 3: did they know?
53:08
Speaker 10: Well, seriously though, we'll talk, we'll be talking about something,
53:13
Speaker 10: whether it's like on air or just, you know, between
53:15
Speaker 10: us off the air. I'll get an ad on my
53:17
Speaker 10: phone the second I get on social media after that.
53:20
Speaker 10: And it's freaky. And I don't like it. And I
53:23
Speaker 10: don't know why.
53:26
Speaker 3: I did that with Nutter Butters. We were talking about
53:28
Speaker 3: Nutter Butters one day. And the next thing I know,
53:29
Speaker 3: on my Facebook, I've got like a Nutter Butter ad.
53:31
Speaker 10: That's dangerous. Because Nutter Butters are the best.
53:34
Speaker 3: Oh, they are. Have you had the chocolate-covered Nutter Butters?
53:37
Speaker 10: Oh, my gosh. I didn't know that was a thing.
53:39
Speaker 3: That's a thing. It's very tasty.
53:40
Speaker 10: It's terrible that I know that now.
53:43
Speaker 3: But I'm trying to eat healthy now.
53:44
Speaker 9: Yeah.
53:46
Speaker 10: You can't be getting the Nutter Butter ads.
53:47
Speaker 3: No, no, you can't be.
53:48
Speaker 10: The salad ads. Who wants the salad ads?
53:51
Speaker 3: They had salmon last night at the Gala.
53:54
Speaker 2: Nice.
53:55
Speaker 3: I took a pass. I went home and I cheated.
53:57
Speaker 3: I had a bologna sandwich. Lifestyles of the rich and famous.
54:02
Speaker 10: Salmon's good, Todd. You need to get on the salmon train.
54:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right.
54:07
Speaker 13: I do.
54:08
Speaker 1: I do.
54:09
Speaker 3: I'm just not there yet. Do we have Anna back
54:11
Speaker 3: with us? All right. Hi, Anna. How are you?
54:16
Speaker 13: Hey, Todd, I'm doing good.
54:18
Speaker 21: Listen, I was listening to the Democrats raising can't about
54:22
Speaker 21: the Chinese leader here. But here's the thing. They're going
54:28
Speaker 21: to vote for communists that are running in the United
54:33
Speaker 21: States for office. I mean, there's a little conflict of
54:38
Speaker 21: interest for you. I mean, they know better than that.
54:41
Speaker 21: And the thing is, I think a lot of these
54:43
Speaker 21: people calling you that are, uh, Democrat communists. I really do. I,
54:48
Speaker 21: I think that's what it is. They're raising cane. They're
54:51
Speaker 21: trying to get through, um, you know, to, to change
54:55
Speaker 21: people's minds. But really, what we really need to do
54:59
Speaker 21: is vote. Just go vote. Go, go to the, go
55:03
Speaker 21: to the polls and vote.
55:03
Speaker 3: That's all it takes.
55:04
Speaker 17: Vote Europe.
55:06
Speaker 11: Yeah.
55:06
Speaker 21: You know, you don't need to do anything but that.
55:10
Speaker 21: People have died for you to be able to do that.
55:12
Speaker 21: And I think, um, I think that's it. That's plain
55:16
Speaker 21: and simple. Just go vote.
55:18
Speaker 11: All right.
55:18
Speaker 3: Anna, it's great advice. So we've got to leave it there, Anna.
55:22
Speaker 3: But great to hear from you, my friend. Have a
55:24
Speaker 3: great weekend. Thanks for listening to WDUN, too. We love them.
55:28
Speaker 3: They're good peoples. All right. Hang tight, everybody.
55:31
Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
55:31
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody. Good
55:52
Speaker 3: to have you with us. Our telephone number on this
55:55
Speaker 3: open line Friday, 901-260-5926. Dylan, I've got to talk to
56:01
Speaker 3: you about this story before we bring in our good
56:03
Speaker 3: friend Steve Gill and Harry Hurley. So we were talking
56:08
Speaker 3: a few days ago about Senator Tommy Tuberville, and Senator
56:13
Speaker 3: Tuberville announced on national television that we were dealing with
56:19
Speaker 3: a crisis in in the skies of America, that there
56:24
Speaker 3: were actually pilots and flight attendants and even air traffic
56:30
Speaker 3: controllers who identified as furries, and there was a very
56:35
Speaker 3: real chance that your flight to, I don't know, Palm
56:40
Speaker 3: Springs or Palm Beach was being piloted by a man
56:45
Speaker 3: with a tail.
56:48
Speaker 2: Yes.
56:48
Speaker 3: People were shocked by this.
56:50
Speaker 10: Very concerned.
56:51
Speaker 3: And there were a lot of questions, you know, when
56:55
Speaker 3: the pilot and the co-pilot are fighting like cats and dogs,
56:58
Speaker 3: are they really fighting like cats and dogs? And what happens,
57:04
Speaker 3: you know, if, you know, they got to go potty?
57:06
Speaker 3: Do they have like a litter box? I mean, how
57:08
Speaker 3: does that all work? Nobody knew.
57:10
Speaker 10: If you're a dog, you can't just go outside either.
57:13
Speaker 3: It's true.
57:14
Speaker 10: The real problem.
57:15
Speaker 3: The other question I have, I didn't even think about this,
57:18
Speaker 3: but let's say you're flying. You know, I'm flying out
57:20
Speaker 3: to California tomorrow. And let's just say that my pilot,
57:26
Speaker 3: for the sake of the conversation here, is a furry
57:30
Speaker 3: and identifies as a golden retriever. What about the, are
57:34
Speaker 3: they the Labradoodles?
57:35
Speaker 10: Sure, yeah.
57:36
Speaker 3: A Labradoodle.
57:37
Speaker 7: Good dog.
57:37
Speaker 3: So what happens? We're flying. We're like 30,000 feet. And
57:41
Speaker 3: you know the dogs. They love to roll down the
57:43
Speaker 3: window and put their head out the airplane. I mean,
57:46
Speaker 3: could that happen?
57:48
Speaker 10: If it needs to happen, it'll happen, Todd.
57:50
Speaker 3: What happens if we're flying over, I don't know, the
57:53
Speaker 3: Rocky Mountains and the Labradoodle pilot sees a squirrel?
57:58
Speaker 2: You know?
57:58
Speaker 10: There's a lot to think about there.
58:02
Speaker 3: And that brings me to this. A woman who identifies
58:06
Speaker 3: as a dog. She was outside of a store. And
58:10
Speaker 3: she was a big woman. She kind of looked like
58:13
Speaker 3: one of those Burmese mountain dogs. She's a big old dog.
58:17
Speaker 3: And this woman started barking, and then she was actually
58:21
Speaker 3: attacked by a real dog. Take a listen.
58:26
Speaker 22: Hey, let go.
58:27
Speaker 12: Somebody help her.
58:29
Speaker 19: You all right?
58:31
Speaker 22: I think so.
58:37
Speaker 3: You know, that dog was like, don't you be, don't
58:40
Speaker 3: you be appropriating me.
58:41
Speaker 10: That dog turned her back into a human.
58:43
Speaker 3: So it, she, it did. She said, let go. She
58:50
Speaker 3: broke character.
58:50
Speaker 10: She broke character.
58:51
Speaker 3: I'm like, wait a minute. And the dog's like, aha.
58:55
Speaker 10: Got you.
58:56
Speaker 3: Because a dog would not say, let go. That's what
58:59
Speaker 3: a human would say. A dog would say, woof, woof, woof, woof.
59:03
Speaker 22: Yeah.
59:04
Speaker 3: Let's go to the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line for more
59:07
Speaker 3: in-depth conversation on this pressing issue. of the day. Harry Hurley,
59:12
Speaker 3: WPG Radio, and Steve Gill, the publisher of TriStar Daily. Gentlemen,
59:17
Speaker 3: there's still time to run away from your cameras.
59:21
Speaker 18: Hello, Todd.
59:22
Speaker 15: Hello, Steve.
59:23
Speaker 7: From now on, when I board an airplane, when I
59:25
Speaker 7: get on and walk past the cockpit, I'm just going
59:28
Speaker 7: to shout, sit. And if either the pilot or the
59:31
Speaker 7: co-pilot comply, I'll know they're furries.
59:36
Speaker 23: Hey, Todd, I would believe you that you said it.
59:39
Speaker 23: I would believe that it was so. I saw Tommy Tuberville,
59:43
Speaker 23: Senator Tommy Tuberville, say that. I couldn't believe my ears.
59:47
Speaker 23: I couldn't believe he was saying it.
59:50
Speaker 3: It's really shocking. I mean, you have enough things to
59:54
Speaker 3: worry about, whether a helicopter is going to fly into
59:57
Speaker 3: your plane when you're landing in D.C. I mean, all
1:00:00
Speaker 3: these things. And now you've got to wonder if your
1:00:03
Speaker 3: pilot or the flight attendant might have a raging case of,
1:00:05
Speaker 3: I don't know, fleas.
1:00:08
Speaker 7: Look, if you see the flight attendant carrying a bowl
1:00:11
Speaker 7: of kibbles and bits to the cockpit, again, you know.
1:00:15
Speaker 2: What's happening in the cockpit?
1:00:17
Speaker 3: Oh, my Lord. Guys, we've got to move on. There's
1:00:21
Speaker 3: a lot of news, a lot of ground we've got
1:00:23
Speaker 3: to cover. I have caused a great controversy in Washington, D.C.,
1:00:28
Speaker 3: with a post I wrote yesterday on X, basically saying
1:00:31
Speaker 3: it was time to have a come-to-Jesus meeting with the Republicans,
1:00:34
Speaker 3: and we have got to figure out the messaging. And
1:00:37
Speaker 3: this idea that the messaging is either going to be, well,
1:00:41
Speaker 3: we just need more time to get the agenda through,
1:00:46
Speaker 3: or it's going to be a negative message. They're all
1:00:49
Speaker 3: over the place. Steve, I want to start with you,
1:00:51
Speaker 3: and then Harry, jump in here. Am I off base?
1:00:55
Speaker 3: It's really not criticism. I'm just trying to be helpful here.
1:00:59
Speaker 7: No, you're exactly on point. I think the problem is
1:01:01
Speaker 7: they misunderstood you, Todd. They read your comments and thought
1:01:04
Speaker 7: you were saying we need to have a come to
1:01:05
Speaker 7: Jesus meeting, and they thought you were pushing illegal immigration,
1:01:09
Speaker 7: and they're opposed to that. I think their problem is
1:01:12
Speaker 7: they're not talking about what they have done and what's
1:01:16
Speaker 7: still left on the bone. I mean, they cut taxes
1:01:18
Speaker 7: on tips some. They cut taxes on overtip times some.
1:01:23
Speaker 7: They cut taxes on seniors some. But the Democrats blocked
1:01:27
Speaker 7: the full boat. So they've got to talk in terms
1:01:30
Speaker 7: of here's how we finish the job. Here's what we're
1:01:32
Speaker 7: doing next. And I don't think they're doing that effectively
1:01:34
Speaker 7: at all. You've got to not just talk about it's
1:01:37
Speaker 7: better than under Biden. But here's what we're going to
1:01:40
Speaker 7: do next is going to be even better. Yes.
1:01:43
Speaker 23: Well, gentlemen, if they need more time, it's 38 days
1:01:48
Speaker 23: until the general election, and there's already people voting and
1:01:51
Speaker 23: early voting as we speak. There's no time left. Most
1:01:56
Speaker 23: voters have their minds made up right now. I mean,
1:02:00
Speaker 23: if the Iran war ended, something so undeniably significant, you
1:02:06
Speaker 23: could still have a game changer. But for most people,
1:02:09
Speaker 23: They know what a gallon of gasoline costs and they
1:02:11
Speaker 23: don't like it. They know what the groceries cost. They
1:02:14
Speaker 23: don't like it. And we're in trouble. And Todd, I
1:02:19
Speaker 23: said something similar on a joint discussion with you and
1:02:23
Speaker 23: Steve that I think they should bring Newt Gingrich in.
1:02:26
Speaker 23: I think they should have a conversation like Newt did
1:02:30
Speaker 23: when they had a simple message, the contract with America,
1:02:34
Speaker 23: vote for us. And it was the first time in
1:02:36
Speaker 23: 40 years that that Republicans took the House, and I
1:02:40
Speaker 23: believe they won because they said, this is what we
1:02:43
Speaker 23: will do. So now they're in, and they have to
1:02:47
Speaker 23: show the voters that they've done enough to deserve a
1:02:50
Speaker 23: new contract. But what are you going to do? What
1:02:53
Speaker 23: are we going to do? And we're in a rate
1:02:56
Speaker 23: increase now environment. Nobody wants that. So now everything is
1:03:00
Speaker 23: more expensive. They don't have any more time. They better
1:03:05
Speaker 23: sharpen their pencils.
1:03:06
Speaker 12: And that's exactly right.
1:03:08
Speaker 7: Except we've lost our credibility saying we're going to do
1:03:12
Speaker 7: doesn't work when we didn't do it.
1:03:14
Speaker 2: I mean, we've got majorities in the house and Senate,
1:03:16
Speaker 2: and I know we've got, you know, the.
1:03:17
Speaker 7: House has passed like 300 bills that the Senate won't
1:03:20
Speaker 7: even deal with. And why isn't the president literally by
1:03:23
Speaker 7: the scruff of his neck, drag John Thune out of
1:03:26
Speaker 7: his seat and put JD Vance in forced the hand
1:03:30
Speaker 7: on the stuff that we could pass with, with 51 votes, uh,
1:03:34
Speaker 7: We can't talk about what we'll do as much as
1:03:36
Speaker 7: Harry's right on point when we haven't done it when
1:03:39
Speaker 7: we had the time, and it's going to be hard
1:03:41
Speaker 7: to explain. And even if the facts are good about
1:03:44
Speaker 7: most of the economy is not that bad, the feelings
1:03:47
Speaker 7: aren't there. And to kind of use an oil comparison,
1:03:51
Speaker 7: track your feelings. The bottom line is the feelings matter
1:03:54
Speaker 7: more than facts at this point, and the facts are
1:03:57
Speaker 7: not on our side.
1:03:58
Speaker 3: Harry, let me ask you about the president. I just
1:04:01
Speaker 3: feel like he is getting very bad feedback. advice and
1:04:03
Speaker 3: guidance right now. There's a disconnect between Mar-a-Lago and Mayberry
1:04:10
Speaker 3: right now. And I wrote about this on X. I
1:04:14
Speaker 3: don't know if there's anybody in there who truly understands,
1:04:16
Speaker 3: you know, the folks that are going grocery shopping. You know,
1:04:19
Speaker 3: they're trying to fill up their car and they're having
1:04:21
Speaker 3: to decide, do I get a half a tank, you know,
1:04:24
Speaker 3: so I can, you know, have some money to, you know,
1:04:25
Speaker 3: buy groceries. You know, are you sensing that? What is
1:04:30
Speaker 3: going on in the White House?
1:04:33
Speaker 23: Well, I think with President Trump, he knows that he's
1:04:36
Speaker 23: getting closer and closer to just two years left.
1:04:40
Speaker 2: And that's it.
1:04:40
Speaker 23: He knows he served the first term. He knows he's
1:04:43
Speaker 23: almost halfway through the second term. I think he's thinking
1:04:46
Speaker 23: about his legacy. I think he wants to improve as
1:04:49
Speaker 23: many things as he can while he's there that will
1:04:53
Speaker 23: be lasting after he's gone. And some of them are
1:04:58
Speaker 23: not good politics. They're good governance policies. and he's doing
1:05:02
Speaker 23: the right thing, but some of it's not good politics.
1:05:05
Speaker 23: Like doing what he's doing with Iran. Easiest thing he
1:05:08
Speaker 23: could have done was do what everybody did for the
1:05:10
Speaker 23: last 47 years.
1:05:12
Speaker 2: And that's do nothing.
1:05:14
Speaker 23: And this midterm election, Republicans would be leading in the House,
1:05:18
Speaker 23: the Senate would already be one, but he did something
1:05:22
Speaker 23: very bold, very daring, and of course, it does not
1:05:26
Speaker 23: come without political consequence. So I think some of the
1:05:30
Speaker 23: Trump agenda is is good ultimately for America, but bad
1:05:34
Speaker 23: short term for electoral politics.
1:05:37
Speaker 3: Steve, again, when you look at the administration and look at,
1:05:42
Speaker 3: first of all, and in the new book I wrote,
1:05:44
Speaker 3: The Golden Age, I lay it all out there. These
1:05:46
Speaker 3: are the incredible accomplishments of the president. Every single member
1:05:50
Speaker 3: of Congress ought to be running on that and what
1:05:53
Speaker 3: I wrote in the book. Instead, the messaging is just
1:05:57
Speaker 3: all over the place. They want to talk about, okay, well,
1:06:00
Speaker 3: we've got to talk about how bad the communists are
1:06:02
Speaker 3: or the socialists are. Okay, well, the president of the
1:06:05
Speaker 3: United States is palling around with Zoran Mantami in the
1:06:09
Speaker 3: cameras saying, you know, and singing his praises. And again,
1:06:13
Speaker 3: that takes that issue off the table to some extent.
1:06:16
Speaker 3: It's just, again, it's a mess.
1:06:18
Speaker 7: And hosting a big dinner with President Xi of China,
1:06:20
Speaker 7: the big communist regime. So again, the messaging doesn't fit
1:06:24
Speaker 7: the visuals. I'll tell you why the gas prices are
1:06:27
Speaker 7: so impactful. And a friend of mine shared this insight.
1:06:30
Speaker 7: When you go to gas stations right now, pay attention
1:06:32
Speaker 7: to how many of the gas pumps show that somebody
1:06:35
Speaker 7: just put.
1:06:35
Speaker 2: 20 or $ 25 in their tank. They're not filling it up.
1:06:39
Speaker 2: They're not putting $ 70, $ 75 in.
1:06:42
Speaker 7: People are hurting, and those gas prices are hitting us
1:06:46
Speaker 7: harder than I think Washington recognizes, where so many of
1:06:48
Speaker 7: them travel by Uber or something else. When you look
1:06:51
Speaker 7: at how many people are just putting $ 20 or $ 25
1:06:54
Speaker 7: just to get by, that is a bad.
1:06:57
Speaker 2: Bad signal.
1:06:58
Speaker 23: Yeah, and they have to do that every other day
1:07:00
Speaker 23: because at five-something a gallon, it's not going very far.
1:07:05
Speaker 23: You're talking about maybe four gallons, five if you're lucky.
1:07:09
Speaker 23: All you have to do, guys, is look at the
1:07:11
Speaker 23: start of the Iran war. The generic sampling was a
1:07:16
Speaker 23: dead heat, which means Republicans would have kept the House
1:07:19
Speaker 23: and romped in the Senate. You can follow the price
1:07:22
Speaker 23: of it. I've said this on your show before, Todd.
1:07:24
Speaker 23: The price of a gallon of gasoline will tell you
1:07:27
Speaker 23: who's going to win every single time. And that's what's
1:07:30
Speaker 23: driving the bus right now. And now you have plus
1:07:33
Speaker 23: seven Democrat majority. And although it's race by race specific,
1:07:38
Speaker 23: when you have a seven point lead, you usually win
1:07:41
Speaker 23: in the national sampling.
1:07:42
Speaker 2: It's going to be a problem.
1:07:43
Speaker 3: I want to play some audio here, guys. This is
1:07:45
Speaker 3: Governor Ron DeSantis out of Florida just a little while
1:07:48
Speaker 3: ago talking about the Senate. Cut number 60, please.
1:07:53
Speaker 14: We did the Florida Save Act. Even though we're already
1:07:56
Speaker 14: leading in election integrity, this bolstered all of those reforms
1:08:01
Speaker 14: that I mentioned earlier, and really as a model for
1:08:04
Speaker 14: other states. I know we wanted to see the U.S.
1:08:06
Speaker 14: Senate pass the federal SAVE Act. They were not willing
1:08:10
Speaker 14: to do that, and it doesn't look like they're going
1:08:13
Speaker 14: to do that, certainly before this election. And you know what?
1:08:16
Speaker 14: They may have a lot fewer Republicans after this election.
1:08:19
Speaker 14: That's the way things go. Politics is cyclical. You have
1:08:22
Speaker 14: certain opportunities to You really got to seize on those opportunities.
1:08:25
Speaker 14: And I think if the Senate does go change hands
1:08:29
Speaker 14: from Republican to Democrat, there's a lot of factors. But
1:08:32
Speaker 14: I think one of the factors is some of our
1:08:34
Speaker 14: voters are disappointed that more wasn't done when that was
1:08:38
Speaker 14: something that so many of them wanted to see.
1:08:40
Speaker 3: Steve, were you surprised to hear the governor being so
1:08:43
Speaker 3: honest and open about all of this?
1:08:45
Speaker 7: You know, one of the things I like most about
1:08:48
Speaker 7: Governor DeSantis is he tells it like it is. He
1:08:51
Speaker 7: doesn't sugarcoat it. He doesn't you know, hide behind talking points.
1:08:54
Speaker 7: And again, that's one of the reasons he's so popular
1:08:56
Speaker 7: both in Florida and nationally.
1:08:58
Speaker 2: He's got a track record. record of doing, not just talking.
1:09:03
Speaker 7: And so many of our national Republican leadership, they talk
1:09:06
Speaker 7: a lot and they accomplish literally nothing. And I think that's, again,
1:09:11
Speaker 7: that's part of the problem as we head towards November 3rd.
1:09:14
Speaker 7: And there's, as Harry pointed out, there's a limited time
1:09:16
Speaker 7: for action to have any impact, action to have any
1:09:19
Speaker 7: results at this point. I think we still have a
1:09:22
Speaker 7: good shot to keep the Senate by maybe a one
1:09:26
Speaker 7: or two and maybe clean out some of the worst
1:09:29
Speaker 7: that we have.
1:09:30
Speaker 2: But the House, I think, is in desperate straits.
1:09:33
Speaker 7: And if we're going to keep one, we need to
1:09:35
Speaker 7: keep the Senate, because if you have changes in the
1:09:37
Speaker 7: Supreme Court, a vacancy, if you have opportunities to put
1:09:41
Speaker 7: in judges, that's our firewall more than the House would be.
1:09:45
Speaker 2: If you can keep one or the other, we've got
1:09:47
Speaker 2: to keep the Senate.
1:09:47
Speaker 3: Spot on.
1:09:48
Speaker 2: Spot on.
1:09:50
Speaker 23: The Senate right now is 47-47 with six races that
1:09:54
Speaker 23: are going to decide it all. I was very encouraged
1:09:57
Speaker 23: with Senator Collins' latest poll. She's up by about four.
1:10:01
Speaker 23: In Maine, that's a very good thing because if she's
1:10:04
Speaker 23: up by four, she's up by more than that. Shocking
1:10:07
Speaker 23: if Ashley Moody is having a hard time with this
1:10:10
Speaker 23: incredible radical Nixon in Florida. I don't want to believe it.
1:10:15
Speaker 23: And I think Byron Donalds will be fine for governor.
1:10:17
Speaker 23: He's going to be a great governor. But Steve is
1:10:19
Speaker 23: exactly right. I think the House is lost. Right now,
1:10:23
Speaker 23: you've got the Democrats at 215. There's 19 seats that
1:10:26
Speaker 23: are too close to call. They're going to win at
1:10:28
Speaker 23: least three of them. They'll probably win half of them.
1:10:31
Speaker 23: They're going to have a small majority. It'll be a
1:10:33
Speaker 23: nightmare because the investigations begin. The Trump impeachment is filed, pre-filed,
1:10:39
Speaker 23: and that's going to be a horror show. But if
1:10:42
Speaker 23: you had to give them one, it can't be the Senate.
1:10:45
Speaker 2: Steve is right.
1:10:46
Speaker 7: And if they have that narrow majority, they will vote
1:10:48
Speaker 7: lockstep and bobble their heads and nodding to the most
1:10:52
Speaker 7: radical DSA leadership.
1:10:54
Speaker 2: That's the danger. And America better wake up to it.
1:10:57
Speaker 3: Big time. Big time. Steve, real quick here. At Tennessee
1:11:00
Speaker 3: governor's race, it's taking an interesting turn. The independent guy,
1:11:05
Speaker 3: David Hatley, seems to be gaining ground. Death threats were
1:11:10
Speaker 3: smeared on one of the buildings he owns. He's a multi-bazillionaire.
1:11:14
Speaker 3: Marsha Blackburn, her campaign, the Republican, they're putting out a
1:11:18
Speaker 3: lot of attack ads targeting Hatley, not so much the
1:11:22
Speaker 3: Democrat opponent, Jerry Green. What's your take of what's happening
1:11:26
Speaker 3: there in Tennessee?
1:11:27
Speaker 7: Well, the fact that they are launching attacks on the
1:11:30
Speaker 7: independent candidate that are so vitriolic, so rhetorically out of bounds,
1:11:35
Speaker 7: creates the incentive for somebody to do the kind of
1:11:37
Speaker 7: death threat at his building. And I am shocked that
1:11:40
Speaker 7: neither she nor Greene have condemned any kind of threats
1:11:44
Speaker 7: or violence in politics.
1:11:45
Speaker 2: We're a year after Charlie Kirk.
1:11:47
Speaker 7: We ought to all be calling for ratcheting down the
1:11:50
Speaker 7: kind of venom that is being thrown out here and
1:11:52
Speaker 7: across the country, because it's not that the campaign is
1:11:55
Speaker 7: going to go dispatch somebody to make death threats. But
1:11:57
Speaker 7: those who are weak-minded on both sides of the aisle
1:12:01
Speaker 7: will think, well, I'm going to do something if this
1:12:03
Speaker 7: guy is that dangerous. That's the problem of calling Republicans Nazis.
1:12:07
Speaker 7: If you could take out Hitler when you could, you
1:12:09
Speaker 7: almost have a moral obligation to do so. So the
1:12:12
Speaker 7: campaigns need to ratchet down their rhetoric. And I talked
1:12:16
Speaker 7: to David Hatley yesterday. They were very disturbed by this because, again,
1:12:20
Speaker 7: he's new to this. And there's no place for violence,
1:12:25
Speaker 7: threats of violence, death threats, And Green and Blackburn ought
1:12:29
Speaker 7: to be loudly condemning it right now.
1:12:31
Speaker 2: All right. Quick comment.
1:12:32
Speaker 3: Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah.
1:12:35
Speaker 9: OK.
1:12:36
Speaker 23: My friend Ali North told me 35 years ago, two
1:12:38
Speaker 23: of the same can't be one of the same. They
1:12:41
Speaker 23: threw Marshall Coleman in there so that Ali would not
1:12:44
Speaker 23: become the senator. They tanked the Republican on purpose. And
1:12:47
Speaker 23: Chuck Robb got another six years. They're coming hard at
1:12:50
Speaker 23: the independent because they don't want to fall prey to
1:12:54
Speaker 23: that where the Democrat wins. because the other two were
1:12:58
Speaker 23: too similar. It's not right, but that's why they're doing it.
1:13:01
Speaker 3: Good point. All right, guys, we've got to leave it there.
1:13:04
Speaker 3: Have a great weekend. Harry Hurley, Steve Gilt. Guys, thanks
1:13:08
Speaker 3: a lot. Great stuff.
1:13:09
Speaker 6: Go Vols.
1:13:10
Speaker 17: Good luck, Steve.
1:13:11
Speaker 11: Good luck, Steve.
1:13:12
Speaker 13: I'm rooting for you.
1:13:13
Speaker 3: Go Vols. All right, thanks, guys. We'll be right back.
1:13:23
Speaker 3: All right, guys. Just got a note on one of
1:13:26
Speaker 3: our social media feeds. A lot of you folks weighing
1:13:30
Speaker 3: in today says, Todd, do you see what kind of
1:13:36
Speaker 3: idiots you are firing up? They are going to stay
1:13:39
Speaker 3: home on election day. Your lazy approach to your show
1:13:44
Speaker 3: is infuriating. Your job is to get people to vote
1:13:48
Speaker 3: for our side, regardless of who we are up against.
1:13:52
Speaker 3: Vote Republican. Well, Courtney, thank you. Thank you so very
1:13:57
Speaker 3: much for educating me on how I should do my job.
1:14:04
Speaker 3: Greatly appreciate that, Courtney. All right. Hang tight. Hour three
1:14:08
Speaker 3: of the big show coming up. Don't be lazy, folks.
1:14:13
Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
1:14:31
Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
1:14:37
Speaker 3: That's us, that's right, our love is American. Well, hello, everybody.
1:14:47
Speaker 3: Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Before we get
1:14:51
Speaker 3: to our guest, poor Jim has been holding on forever
1:14:55
Speaker 3: and a day. Jim listing to us some beautiful Lakeland,
1:14:58
Speaker 3: Tennessee on KWAM. Jim, thank you again. What is on
1:15:04
Speaker 3: your mind, good sir?
1:15:06
Speaker 12: Well, I got a dog story for you. I've got
1:15:09
Speaker 12: a little 20-pound parent terrier. It's about four years old.
1:15:13
Speaker 12: And the other day, my wife was putting on makeup
1:15:15
Speaker 12: in the master bathroom, trying to get ready to go
1:15:18
Speaker 12: out and knock on some doors. And he was trying
1:15:22
Speaker 12: to get her attention. He kept trying to get it
1:15:24
Speaker 12: and trying to get it. She wasn't paying no attention
1:15:26
Speaker 12: to him. He wanted to go outside. So what he did,
1:15:29
Speaker 12: he just turned around, walked over there, hiked his leg,
1:15:31
Speaker 12: peed on her purse, and walked out the door.
1:15:34
Speaker 18: Wait, what?
1:15:35
Speaker 13: What?
1:15:36
Speaker 12: He just walked over and hiked his leg up and
1:15:39
Speaker 12: paid on her purse and walked out the door.
1:15:41
Speaker 3: Well, so does your wife have a new purse now, Jim?
1:15:45
Speaker 12: No, it was a washable purse, thank God.
1:15:47
Speaker 24: I'd be afraid of that dog.
1:15:48
Speaker 12: That's a dog with an attitude right there. Oh, he's smart.
1:16:01
Speaker 12: He's a real smart.
1:16:02
Speaker 18: Little fellow, you know.
1:16:03
Speaker 12: But anyway, I just had to tell you that story
1:16:05
Speaker 12: since you were talking.
1:16:06
Speaker 2: About dog stories.
1:16:08
Speaker 3: And to be clear, this is an actual canine. It's
1:16:10
Speaker 3: not like a human with a tail.
1:16:12
Speaker 12: No, this is an actual canine. Wizard of Oz dog.
1:16:18
Speaker 3: Oh, okay. Very nice. Yeah, I know exactly what you're
1:16:21
Speaker 3: talking about. All right, Jim, thank you. I'm not sure
1:16:25
Speaker 3: your wife is going to appreciate you telling that story,
1:16:27
Speaker 3: but that's a good one, my friend.
1:16:30
Speaker 16: All right.
1:16:30
Speaker 12: Thank you.
1:16:31
Speaker 18: All right.
1:16:32
Speaker 3: Thanks, Jim.
1:16:34
Speaker 13: Wow.
1:16:35
Speaker 3: That dog. Dylan, I would be afraid of that dog.
1:16:38
Speaker 10: I'd be too. I'd also probably be buying a new purse.
1:16:42
Speaker 10: No washing machine could wash that.
1:16:45
Speaker 22: 10,000%.
1:16:46
Speaker 7: Yeah.
1:16:46
Speaker 3: Yeah.
1:16:49
Speaker 4: Wow.
1:16:51
Speaker 3: All the downy in the world. All right. Welcome, everybody.
1:16:56
Speaker 3: It's Friday. What are you going to do? We've got
1:16:59
Speaker 3: a bizarre story coming out of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
1:17:03
Speaker 3: and of course, one of the things that we really
1:17:06
Speaker 3: focus on on this program is when religious liberty comes
1:17:11
Speaker 3: under attack, when Christians come under attack, and that is
1:17:14
Speaker 3: exactly what is happening at a university in Virginia. I
1:17:18
Speaker 3: want to go right away to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker
1:17:20
Speaker 3: line and say hello to Ryan Bangert, who is with
1:17:24
Speaker 3: our good friends at Alliance Defending Freedom. Ryan, good to
1:17:28
Speaker 3: have you with us today. Tell us what's going on
1:17:30
Speaker 3: there in Virginia.
1:17:32
Speaker 2: Hey, Todd, it's great to be with you today.
1:17:35
Speaker 22: And yeah, it's amazing the things that college administrators come
1:17:39
Speaker 22: up with to violate constitutional freedoms on a daily basis.
1:17:44
Speaker 22: Virginia State University this summer implemented a new policy that
1:17:48
Speaker 22: that told Christian campus ministries, these are student ministries run
1:17:52
Speaker 22: by students, that all of them had to come under
1:17:55
Speaker 22: the authority of a campus minister. But they excluded from
1:17:59
Speaker 22: the policy the Muslim Student Association, they excluded secular associations,
1:18:05
Speaker 22: so this was directed explicitly at Christian clubs, and it
1:18:10
Speaker 22: denied them the ability to associate with outside groups, it
1:18:14
Speaker 22: told them they couldn't be registered student organizations anymore, and
1:18:18
Speaker 22: put them under the thumb of basically what amounts to
1:18:21
Speaker 22: a college speech commissar. It's just the most brazen example
1:18:26
Speaker 22: of discrimination against religion, and in this case against Christian clubs,
1:18:31
Speaker 22: you'll ever see.
1:18:33
Speaker 3: This is remarkable. So how did you guys find out
1:18:35
Speaker 3: about all of this?
1:18:37
Speaker 22: Yeah, they reached out to us, and we're working now
1:18:40
Speaker 22: with the two student organizations that were affected by this.
1:18:45
Speaker 22: And they were courageous enough to bring a lawsuit challenging
1:18:49
Speaker 22: this policy in court. And so now we have asked
1:18:52
Speaker 22: the federal court there in Virginia to issue an injunction
1:18:57
Speaker 22: prohibiting the school from implementing this policy and denying these
1:19:01
Speaker 22: student organizations the rights that they're entitled to under the
1:19:05
Speaker 22: First Amendment.
1:19:07
Speaker 3: Wow. Ryan Bangert joining us from Alliance Defending Freedom. Let's
1:19:13
Speaker 3: drill down here. What are some of the things that
1:19:16
Speaker 3: the university was doing to the Christian kids, to the students?
1:19:21
Speaker 22: Well, the students there have the right to organize and
1:19:25
Speaker 22: form what are called Registered Student Organizations, or RSOs. And
1:19:30
Speaker 22: an RSO has a number of different benefits associated with it.
1:19:35
Speaker 22: It can receive supporting funds from from the school. It
1:19:38
Speaker 22: can use channels of communication at the school to communicate
1:19:43
Speaker 22: and recruit members. These organizations can associate with outside groups
1:19:49
Speaker 22: for support. And by taking away the ability for only
1:19:54
Speaker 22: Christian campus ministries to become registered student organizations, they're denied
1:19:59
Speaker 22: all of those benefits under the school policy. Now, of course,
1:20:03
Speaker 22: all of those benefits are still available to clubs that
1:20:06
Speaker 22: aren't Christian or clubs that are religious but are not
1:20:10
Speaker 22: Christian religions, like the Muslim Student Associations. And the reason
1:20:15
Speaker 22: that the campus minister gave for this policy was just bizarre.
1:20:19
Speaker 22: They asked him, why are you doing this? And he says, well,
1:20:21
Speaker 22: it's because you profess Jesus Christ, so you need to
1:20:24
Speaker 22: answer to me. It's the most insane example of discrimination
1:20:30
Speaker 22: against Christianity you'll see on a college campus.
1:20:34
Speaker 3: I am curious if there are other religious groups, perhaps
1:20:38
Speaker 3: Muslim groups, were they required to jump through the same
1:20:41
Speaker 3: hoops that the Christian schools or the Christian clubs were?
1:20:46
Speaker 22: No, in fact, they were expressly carved out of the policy.
1:20:51
Speaker 22: So yes, there are other religious clubs on campus, and
1:20:54
Speaker 22: none of them were affected by the policy. Only Christian
1:20:58
Speaker 22: clubs were affected by the policy.
1:21:01
Speaker 3: And we understand these are the ministries involved here, Women
1:21:05
Speaker 3: of Victory and the Bethel Campus Fellowship. Is that right?
1:21:09
Speaker 22: That's correct, Todd. In fact, both of those organizations, Women
1:21:12
Speaker 22: of Victory and Bethel, are associated with broader national organizations.
1:21:19
Speaker 22: And one of the consequences of this policy is that
1:21:22
Speaker 22: the national organizations can no longer support the clubs on
1:21:27
Speaker 22: campus at Virginia State University. They've been denied that right.
1:21:32
Speaker 22: No other club has been told this. Every other club,
1:21:35
Speaker 22: as long as they're not Christian, is allowed to associate
1:21:39
Speaker 22: with outside organizations. And that's one of the claims that
1:21:42
Speaker 22: we've raised in the lawsuit. This violates both Women of
1:21:45
Speaker 22: Victory and Bethel's associational rights under the First Amendment. It
1:21:50
Speaker 22: also violates their rights of free exercise under the First Amendment.
1:21:55
Speaker 22: And moreover, It constitutes express religious discrimination, which violates the
1:22:00
Speaker 22: Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. So no matter how
1:22:03
Speaker 22: you slice it, this policy is unconstitutional.
1:22:07
Speaker 3: If I could, I just, and again, I want to,
1:22:11
Speaker 3: this is not a leading question at all, but I just,
1:22:14
Speaker 3: I genuinely want to know from the university, why are
1:22:17
Speaker 3: you guys targeting or why are they targeting the Christian clubs,
1:22:22
Speaker 3: but they're giving the Muslim groups a pass? I don't
1:22:25
Speaker 3: understand that.
1:22:28
Speaker 22: We'd sure like to know the answer to that as well, Todd.
1:22:31
Speaker 3: Okay, so they haven't told you guys. They haven't explained
1:22:34
Speaker 3: that to you.
1:22:35
Speaker 22: The best that we've gotten is the campus minister is
1:22:38
Speaker 22: a Methodist minister, and he says, well, I don't feel
1:22:40
Speaker 22: qualified to oversee a Muslim club, but I sure feel
1:22:43
Speaker 22: qualified to tell these Christian clubs exactly what they can
1:22:47
Speaker 22: and can't do, so I'm going to do that.
1:22:49
Speaker 3: Well, I was going to say something snarky about Methodist,
1:22:52
Speaker 3: but I'm going to take a pass. I'm going to
1:22:54
Speaker 3: take a pass on that right now. I'm not sure
1:22:57
Speaker 3: that guy's qualified to even weigh in on the Christian clubs,
1:23:00
Speaker 3: to be honest with you.
1:23:02
Speaker 22: Well, I'll tell you, there was two hours of commentary
1:23:06
Speaker 22: where he spoke with these clubs, and they asked him
1:23:08
Speaker 22: several questions about why this policy was being put in place.
1:23:13
Speaker 22: And basically what it came down to was, trust me,
1:23:16
Speaker 22: I'm a minister, and you need to do what I'm
1:23:19
Speaker 22: going to tell you to do. It was just a
1:23:21
Speaker 22: ham-handed effort to exert complete and total control over what
1:23:26
Speaker 22: these organizations are doing. In fact, the Women of Victory
1:23:30
Speaker 22: held a pajama party on campus after the policy was announced.
1:23:35
Speaker 22: And of course, they didn't think they needed to ask
1:23:37
Speaker 22: his permission for a bunch of young ladies at school
1:23:41
Speaker 22: to hold.
1:23:42
Speaker 10: A pajama party.
1:23:43
Speaker 22: But he got upset with them over that and said
1:23:45
Speaker 22: he needed to be told about this pajama party and
1:23:47
Speaker 22: potentially oversee it. It's just bizarre and it's crazy.
1:23:50
Speaker 3: That's a little creepy. So the campus minister, a guy
1:23:53
Speaker 3: by the name of Thomas Wynn, where do things stand
1:23:58
Speaker 3: now and what are you guys doing?
1:24:01
Speaker 22: Well, Todd, we just filed a lawsuit this week and
1:24:04
Speaker 22: we are asking the court to grant immediate temporary relief
1:24:08
Speaker 22: to both women of Victory and Bethel that would allow
1:24:12
Speaker 22: them to escape this policy so they can begin exercising
1:24:16
Speaker 22: their religious freedoms once more. So we're asking the court
1:24:20
Speaker 22: to put a stop to this policy. It's as if
1:24:22
Speaker 22: the university were saying you need a permission slip from
1:24:25
Speaker 22: the university and from the campus minister to exercise your
1:24:28
Speaker 22: First Amendment rights. But the reality is the First Amendment
1:24:31
Speaker 22: is the only permission slip they need. And that's what
1:24:34
Speaker 22: we're asking the court to say.
1:24:35
Speaker 3: All right. Good stuff. Ryan, I want you guys to
1:24:37
Speaker 3: please keep us updated on this very important story. I'm
1:24:42
Speaker 3: sure the students there are so happy that you guys
1:24:44
Speaker 3: are defending them. Again, Alliance Defending Freedom, Ryan Bangert, joining
1:24:49
Speaker 3: us today. Ryan, thank you very much.
1:24:52
Speaker 10: Todd, thank you.
1:24:54
Speaker 3: All right. There you go. What a story. But again,
1:24:58
Speaker 3: and I think ultimately I do know why. I do
1:25:01
Speaker 3: know why they're giving the Muslim students a pass, and
1:25:03
Speaker 3: they don't want to be blown to smithereens. That's why.
1:25:08
Speaker 3: I'm just going to throw it out there. I mean,
1:25:10
Speaker 3: it's true, right? They're terrified of the Muslims. But, man,
1:25:15
Speaker 3: those Christians, oh, they'll smack the Christians around. And that's
1:25:20
Speaker 3: what they're doing at Virginia State University. Absolutely unacceptable. Let's
1:25:25
Speaker 3: go to the phones here. Richard in Ocala, Florida, WOCA. Richard,
1:25:30
Speaker 3: what do you make of this discrimination here?
1:25:33
Speaker 24: Well, Mr. Todd, first, thanks for taking my call. But, Todd,
1:25:37
Speaker 24: it comes as no surprise. It's nothing more than we
1:25:40
Speaker 24: should expect. Jesus told us in his word. that we
1:25:46
Speaker 24: were going to be hated by all men for his
1:25:48
Speaker 24: name's sake. And it's been that way for decades. The
1:25:51
Speaker 24: news media, when the venom drips from their voice the most,
1:25:55
Speaker 24: it's when they're talking about the Christians and the conservative
1:25:58
Speaker 24: and the righteous people. And it really shouldn't come as
1:26:01
Speaker 24: a surprise. It's just what God told us what was
1:26:04
Speaker 24: going to happen. And, Todd, it's not going to get
1:26:07
Speaker 24: no better. It's going to get worse. I had a
1:26:10
Speaker 24: sainted dad that died January 1st of this year. I
1:26:14
Speaker 24: didn't force country in the Western hemisphere spent the last
1:26:17
Speaker 24: 33 years there. And he told me before he left America,
1:26:21
Speaker 24: the last time about seven years ago, he said, son,
1:26:24
Speaker 24: today's the best day you're going to have the rest
1:26:26
Speaker 24: of your life. He said, ain't going to get no better.
1:26:29
Speaker 24: It's going to get worse. He said, I don't mean
1:26:31
Speaker 24: you won't have a good day every now and then,
1:26:32
Speaker 24: but he said, the overall picture is going to get
1:26:36
Speaker 24: worse and worse till Christ comes back. He said, it's
1:26:39
Speaker 24: not going to turn around and get better. And Todd,
1:26:41
Speaker 24: I see it. Um, They hate the Christians more than anything,
1:26:47
Speaker 24: and that God told us it was going to happen.
1:26:49
Speaker 24: We just need to be prepared for it in our hearts.
1:26:52
Speaker 3: Richard, it's a good word, and it is true. Things
1:26:56
Speaker 3: are going to get difficult for Christians, and again, it
1:26:59
Speaker 3: doesn't matter, and I know it's hard for us to
1:27:02
Speaker 3: understand that as Christians in America, because yes, there is persecution,
1:27:06
Speaker 3: but people, you know, but it's not like being in
1:27:10
Speaker 3: Nigeria or some of these other countries where People are
1:27:13
Speaker 3: being slaughtered inside their church houses on a regular basis.
1:27:17
Speaker 3: That could happen here one day. And the question is,
1:27:20
Speaker 3: when that day comes, it's not a matter of if,
1:27:22
Speaker 3: but when that day comes, when the great persecution comes,
1:27:27
Speaker 3: will Christians stand firm in their faith? I mean, that's
1:27:32
Speaker 3: a question that all of us are going to have
1:27:33
Speaker 3: to consider. Richard, thank you for that call and a
1:27:36
Speaker 3: very thoughtful message there. When student leaders asked the chaplain
1:27:43
Speaker 3: why the policy restricts only Christian groups, he replied, quote,
1:27:48
Speaker 3: because you are all faith-based, because you purport Jesus Christ
1:27:52
Speaker 3: in faith. The chaplain then announced a policy that a
1:27:59
Speaker 3: policy was going to be eliminated where they provided Sunday
1:28:03
Speaker 3: shuttles to take kids from a local church on Sunday
1:28:07
Speaker 3: mornings and Because the school wanted to crack down on
1:28:09
Speaker 3: transportation to outside churches. Wow. Virginia, ladies and gentlemen. Virginia.
1:28:18
Speaker 3: All right. Got to take a break.
1:28:20
Speaker 13: 901-260-5926.
1:28:20
Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, welcome back
1:28:36
Speaker 3: to the show, everybody. Great to have you with us.
1:28:40
Speaker 3: Let's go to Georgia. Susie is on the line. Susie,
1:28:44
Speaker 3: what's on your mind today?
1:28:47
Speaker 17: Hi, my friend, Todd.
1:28:48
Speaker 3: Well, Miss Susie, how are you?
1:28:51
Speaker 17: I'm good, Todd.
1:28:52
Speaker 11: How are you?
1:28:53
Speaker 17: Are you okay?
1:28:54
Speaker 3: Well, my insurance company doesn't think I am, but I'm
1:28:56
Speaker 3: feeling pretty darn good. All right.
1:29:00
Speaker 17: Well, my car insurance company is the pits, you know.
1:29:03
Speaker 3: I feel your pain.
1:29:09
Speaker 17: But I'm not going to gripe and complain, Todd. I'm blessed.
1:29:13
Speaker 17: I'm blessed to be free in America. And I want
1:29:17
Speaker 17: to ask you a question, but I want to tell
1:29:19
Speaker 17: you something that happened at my house today. I want
1:29:21
Speaker 17: to talk fast. I was outside trimming my shrubber with
1:29:24
Speaker 17: my hand trimmers, and I heard these two jets. coming
1:29:30
Speaker 17: from east, going west. And they were not real close
1:29:34
Speaker 17: to my house at this time, but I knew they
1:29:36
Speaker 17: were not leered to. They were military jets, and they
1:29:38
Speaker 17: were going fast. And so I thought, well, they're coming
1:29:41
Speaker 17: from Fort Stewart in Savannah, you know, going training. And
1:29:45
Speaker 17: so in a little while, Todd, he had to come
1:29:46
Speaker 17: back around on the other side of my house, going
1:29:49
Speaker 17: west again. And then in a few minutes, here comes
1:29:54
Speaker 17: two more, Todd. And I thought, oh, well. I thought, oh, well,
1:29:59
Speaker 17: they're just all doing a bunch of training. And, Todd,
1:30:01
Speaker 17: I bet it was 15 minutes. Here come all four
1:30:04
Speaker 17: of them in formation, low over my house, and I
1:30:08
Speaker 17: could have waved at those pilots.
1:30:09
Speaker 3: Is that right?
1:30:12
Speaker 17: Yeah. And, anyway, it didn't scare me. But I know
1:30:17
Speaker 17: there were military jets, and my son, one of my
1:30:19
Speaker 17: sons said, well, I never heard of military jets flying over.
1:30:23
Speaker 17: This grandmama may be old, Todd, but I know a
1:30:26
Speaker 17: military jet.
1:30:27
Speaker 3: I believe it. I believe it, Susie. Wow.
1:30:30
Speaker 4: All right.
1:30:30
Speaker 3: Well, congratulations. Did you get a photograph by any chance?
1:30:34
Speaker 17: I did not, but I want to ask you something, Todd.
1:30:37
Speaker 3: All right.
1:30:39
Speaker 17: Why was Iran's president allowed to speak at the U.N.? Susie, he.
1:30:45
Speaker 3: Should have been taken into custody as soon as he
1:30:47
Speaker 3: stepped foot on American soil. Yeah.
1:30:51
Speaker 17: Why did that happen, Todd?
1:30:53
Speaker 3: I don't know, Susie. I don't know. I wish I
1:30:56
Speaker 3: could tell you. It frustrated me. It really frustrated me.
1:31:02
Speaker 13: Me too.
1:31:02
Speaker 17: And I didn't listen to it. I've just seen bits
1:31:04
Speaker 17: and pieces. And he stood up there and told a
1:31:07
Speaker 17: bold-faced lie. They are not a terrorist country.
1:31:11
Speaker 3: Yeah. No, you're absolutely right. Absolutely right.
1:31:15
Speaker 7: Yeah.
1:31:15
Speaker 17: And then we top it all off, Todd, and I
1:31:17
Speaker 17: let you go. And I had the adventure of having
1:31:20
Speaker 17: to put a raccoon out of its misery.
1:31:23
Speaker 3: Wait, you should have led with that. What happened, Susie?
1:31:27
Speaker 17: Well, my dog was barking at something, and I looked.
1:31:30
Speaker 17: I have chickens, and they're outside. And I heard she
1:31:34
Speaker 17: ran and was barking at something.
1:31:36
Speaker 4: I looked.
1:31:36
Speaker 1: It was a raccoon.
1:31:37
Speaker 17: I thought, that raccoon shouldn't be out here in the daytime.
1:31:40
Speaker 3: No.
1:31:41
Speaker 17: So I came in the house and got a little protection,
1:31:44
Speaker 17: you know, and put him out of his misery.
1:31:49
Speaker 3: How many shots did it take?
1:31:52
Speaker 7: One.
1:31:53
Speaker 3: Wow. Don't mess with Miss Susie.
1:31:58
Speaker 17: I thought you'd get a kiss.
1:31:59
Speaker 3: I love that. Good for you. And just for the record,
1:32:03
Speaker 3: because it's been a weird show, we're actually talking about
1:32:06
Speaker 3: actual chickens, right? Not people coated in feathers.
1:32:11
Speaker 17: No, I have two laying kids, Todd.
1:32:14
Speaker 3: Of course you do.
1:32:15
Speaker 18: Okay.
1:32:16
Speaker 17: And they run around outside in the yard until at
1:32:19
Speaker 17: night and I put them in their house.
1:32:21
Speaker 3: Oh, that makes sense. Well, of course, yes. Well, Susie,
1:32:24
Speaker 3: you are a friend of the poultry community. I know
1:32:27
Speaker 3: the chickens are going to rest well now that that
1:32:30
Speaker 3: raccoon's been taken care of.
1:32:31
Speaker 17: Okay, Todd, have a good weekend.
1:32:33
Speaker 12: All right.
1:32:35
Speaker 3: Susie from Georgia, WTUN, laying in. We love Susie. 901-260-5926,
1:32:44
Speaker 3: our telephone number. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Dylan,
1:33:07
Speaker 3: I have a question for you. It's a TV comedy
1:33:11
Speaker 3: sitcom or TV-related question. So who do you think of
1:33:16
Speaker 3: when somebody says Uncle Jesse?
1:33:19
Speaker 10: Oh, gosh. What is that? The show with the house.
1:33:23
Speaker 10: Full house.
1:33:24
Speaker 3: Full house.
1:33:26
Speaker 13: Full house.
1:33:27
Speaker 3: Full house.
1:33:27
Speaker 10: Final answer.
1:33:28
Speaker 3: Is that your final answer? So if you asked me
1:33:31
Speaker 3: who Uncle– if somebody said Uncle Jesse, I would have
1:33:34
Speaker 3: said Dukes of Hazzard.
1:33:37
Speaker 10: There's an Uncle Jesse in Dukes of Hazzard.
1:33:40
Speaker 3: Okay. I'm sorry. Was that a question mark at the
1:33:43
Speaker 3: end of that statement? Yeah, I think so. Dylan, you
1:33:46
Speaker 3: have just surrendered your Southern credentials.
1:33:48
Speaker 10: I'm 0 for 2 today. First is Dolly Parton, and
1:33:50
Speaker 10: now it's Uncle Jesse.
1:33:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, no. According to a survey– which may or may
1:33:57
Speaker 3: not be authentic on social media. Gen X, when Gen
1:34:02
Speaker 3: Xers are asked that question, they always say Uncle Jesse
1:34:05
Speaker 3: from the Dukes of Hazzard, and millennials would say Full House,
1:34:09
Speaker 3: Uncle Jesse from Full House.
1:34:11
Speaker 10: What did Gen Z say? They don't know Uncle Jesse.
1:34:14
Speaker 3: I don't know. You're kind of like Jen. Nobody really
1:34:16
Speaker 3: cares about, you know.
1:34:19
Speaker 22: Thank you.
1:34:19
Speaker 3: Where's Caleb Park?
1:34:20
Speaker 2: He's here.
1:34:21
Speaker 3: Hey, Caleb Park, when you hear Uncle Jesse, who do
1:34:25
Speaker 3: you think of?
1:34:27
Speaker 6: To be honest, I didn't watch either of those shows,
1:34:30
Speaker 6: so I don't really think of anybody when I.
1:34:33
Speaker 3: Hear Uncle Jesse's. You were homeschooled or something, living a cult?
1:34:38
Speaker 6: I was homeschooled for half a year, but no, I
1:34:41
Speaker 6: watched Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, and Seinfeld growing up,
1:34:46
Speaker 6: so I was cultured, but on different channels, apparently.
1:34:52
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, have you heard the phrase, Dylan, have
1:34:54
Speaker 3: you heard the phrase, Daisy Dukes?
1:34:56
Speaker 10: Yeah, I have.
1:34:57
Speaker 3: Well, that came from the Dukes of Hasbro.
1:34:59
Speaker 10: Well, that makes sense.
1:35:00
Speaker 6: I definitely knew that. Yeah.
1:35:02
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:35:03
Speaker 3: Just a good old boy. And remember, you've got Enos,
1:35:09
Speaker 3: who was the deputy, and Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane. And
1:35:13
Speaker 3: what was the name of the dog? Was it Roscoe
1:35:16
Speaker 3: who had the dog or was it Boss Hog? Somebody's
1:35:18
Speaker 3: going to call, and if somebody calls, we're going to
1:35:20
Speaker 3: hook it up with a book. Whose dog was it?
1:35:23
Speaker 3: Was it Boss Hog?
1:35:24
Speaker 2: I can't.
1:35:25
Speaker 3: Okay, somebody will call. 901-260-5926. Caleb, we've got a lot
1:35:31
Speaker 3: to talk about, and one of the most fascinating stories
1:35:34
Speaker 3: of the week is a Palestinian Rachel Dolezal. So we
1:35:40
Speaker 3: should probably tell people about Rachel Dolezal. She was the
1:35:44
Speaker 3: woman who was, what, white, who pretended to be black,
1:35:48
Speaker 3: and now we've got a Palestinian version of that. What's
1:35:51
Speaker 3: going on?
1:35:53
Speaker 11: Yeah.
1:35:53
Speaker 6: So she's a Philadelphia teacher and radical activist. No surprise there.
1:35:58
Speaker 6: Her name's Hannah Gann. And she recently admitted on social
1:36:03
Speaker 6: media that she's been faking being Black, Palestinian, and Tunisian.
1:36:09
Speaker 11: Oh, wow.
1:36:10
Speaker 6: So she's a white woman. She says she's from a
1:36:13
Speaker 6: privileged family, and she actually has Jewish heritage. And so
1:36:18
Speaker 6: she's part of these pro-Palestine groups. And Some of the
1:36:22
Speaker 6: leadership was questioning, after they did some investigating, why some
1:36:27
Speaker 6: of her family was living in Israel. And yeah, they
1:36:31
Speaker 6: were like, this doesn't really add up from what she's
1:36:33
Speaker 6: been saying at these rallies and marches and fundraising on this.
1:36:39
Speaker 6: And I think that's the biggest thing here, Todd, is
1:36:44
Speaker 6: she used it to get credibility and to gain popularity
1:36:50
Speaker 6: and seek financial help. And I think, you know, she
1:36:53
Speaker 6: grows that grow or she joins that growing list of
1:36:56
Speaker 6: Rachel Dolezal, Elizabeth Warren, the list goes on and on
1:37:01
Speaker 6: liberals who, you know, Pocahontas, they take on this identity,
1:37:05
Speaker 6: you know, for, for themselves. And the funny thing was too,
1:37:11
Speaker 6: she said, you know, you can believe me about this.
1:37:15
Speaker 6: And she's like, don't doubt the things that I've been
1:37:17
Speaker 6: saying about Palestine and against Israel, about the, you know,
1:37:21
Speaker 6: quote unquote genocide and all that jazz.
1:37:24
Speaker 3: Very odd. Very odd indeed. Moving along to a situation
1:37:30
Speaker 3: in Philadelphia where a woman actually saw another woman being
1:37:35
Speaker 3: assaulted by a man. And so she actually decided to
1:37:39
Speaker 3: step in and do something about it. What happened?
1:37:42
Speaker 6: Yeah, so her name's Mary Martin. She is definitely an
1:37:46
Speaker 6: American hero.
1:37:47
Speaker 10: She saw this.
1:37:48
Speaker 6: She did the classic see something, say something, and then
1:37:52
Speaker 6: she did something. So she was riding her bike and
1:37:55
Speaker 6: she saw this man sexually assaulting a 63-year-old woman in
1:38:03
Speaker 6: broad daylight on the sidewalk. And she went over, started yelling,
1:38:07
Speaker 6: and she took her bike helmet and she started hitting
1:38:11
Speaker 6: him with it. And then she realized, you know, I
1:38:13
Speaker 6: might be in trouble here. So she started taking pictures
1:38:16
Speaker 6: and yelling and she gave the information over to the
1:38:20
Speaker 6: SVU in Philly. And yeah, she's definitely a hero. Her
1:38:27
Speaker 6: message was we have to look out for each other
1:38:29
Speaker 6: and kudos to Mary. That's a very, you know, this
1:38:33
Speaker 6: is more than like the good Samaritan situation, Todd. She
1:38:36
Speaker 6: went out of her way and she put her safety
1:38:39
Speaker 6: on the line for that woman. And they're searching for
1:38:42
Speaker 6: the man. So if you're on social media, check out
1:38:44
Speaker 6: that photo of him. And if you're in Philly, report him,
1:38:48
Speaker 6: you know, if you see him on the sidewalk.
1:38:50
Speaker 3: I saw this story online, and I haven't had a
1:38:52
Speaker 3: chance to do a deep dive, but you have. There's
1:38:56
Speaker 3: a lesbian bar that's facing backlash. Why is the lesbian
1:39:00
Speaker 3: bar facing backlash?
1:39:03
Speaker 6: Todd, this story sounds like the Babylon Bee made it up.
1:39:07
Speaker 6: It is so ridiculous. So this lesbian bar in Massachusetts,
1:39:11
Speaker 6: they decided to drop the mask mandate that they had
1:39:16
Speaker 6: since COVID we're going on six years now for one
1:39:20
Speaker 6: night a week. And so they, they dropped it on
1:39:23
Speaker 6: Saturday nights. And then some of the members started getting
1:39:26
Speaker 6: really upset and they got more backlash.
1:39:29
Speaker 10: And, um, three.
1:39:31
Speaker 6: People decided to open up this bar. And one of
1:39:35
Speaker 6: them is now going to clown school. Uh, another, like
1:39:39
Speaker 6: they're just trying to cope with this. And the, the,
1:39:43
Speaker 6: lesbian patrons like got really upset about this they're in
1:39:46
Speaker 6: like thousands of dollars in debt so it's a progressive
1:39:51
Speaker 6: nightmare going on there a woke 2.0 experiment um and
1:39:58
Speaker 6: i you know i don't know how many uh mask
1:40:01
Speaker 6: wearing lesbians there are in massachusetts but apparently they all
1:40:05
Speaker 6: congregate at this bar but there's there's not enough and
1:40:08
Speaker 6: so they're trying to drop the mask mandate todd All.
1:40:11
Speaker 3: Right, Caleb Park joining us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line,
1:40:15
Speaker 3: a journalist and host of The Good Report with Caleb Park. CalebPark.com,
1:40:20
Speaker 3: that's Park with an E, is his website. You know what, Caleb,
1:40:24
Speaker 3: let's go to the phones here. We're going to say
1:40:27
Speaker 3: hello to Keith in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. K-W-O-N, our great affiliate there. Keith,
1:40:33
Speaker 3: how are you doing today?
1:40:35
Speaker 4: Good, Mr.
1:40:36
Speaker 13: Starnes.
1:40:36
Speaker 19: How are you this afternoon?
1:40:37
Speaker 3: Keith, I'm doing good. Thank you for asking. Normally, I'm
1:40:42
Speaker 3: pretty up on my pop culture, but I drew a blank.
1:40:46
Speaker 3: We were talking about the Dukes of Hazzard, and who
1:40:50
Speaker 3: had the dog?
1:40:52
Speaker 4: Roscoe P. Coltrane was the sheriff, and his dog's name
1:40:55
Speaker 4: was Flash.
1:40:56
Speaker 3: Flash. That's right. Flash. And he used to say it
1:40:59
Speaker 3: just like that.
1:41:00
Speaker 13: Flash.
1:41:01
Speaker 19: Yeah, he sure did.
1:41:02
Speaker 3: Uh-oh, Keith.
1:41:03
Speaker 19: Caleb.
1:41:04
Speaker 24: Caleb.
1:41:05
Speaker 3: Listen in, boys.
1:41:06
Speaker 1: It's a day.
1:41:10
Speaker 2: They was born.
1:41:11
Speaker 10: Come on now.
1:41:11
Speaker 9: You know, Bartlesville.
1:41:13
Speaker 2: Knows this song.
1:41:14
Speaker 3: Never will. Taking their way, the only way they know how.
1:41:35
Speaker 3: Come on, sing it, America.
1:41:37
Speaker 12: That's just a little bit more than the whole of life.
1:41:42
Speaker 3: All right, well, there you go. A little guitar picking
1:41:49
Speaker 3: and grinning right there. Keith, congratulations, my friend.
1:41:53
Speaker 4: Thank you.
1:41:54
Speaker 12: All right.
1:41:55
Speaker 3: We're going to put you on hold, Keith, and I'm
1:41:56
Speaker 3: going to send you a copy. We'll do Culture Jihad,
1:42:01
Speaker 3: which is a really wonderful book. You're going to love that.
1:42:04
Speaker 3: Let's put Keith on hold. And Caleb, I didn't hear
1:42:07
Speaker 3: you singing along. I know you have a lovely singing voice.
1:42:11
Speaker 6: I think I accidentally got muted. I was hollering over here.
1:42:17
Speaker 2: I was like the song.
1:42:22
Speaker 3: So flash. I'm sorry. Flash. Flash.
1:42:25
Speaker 6: Yeah. Now I know.
1:42:28
Speaker 3: Yes, a lot of people think it was the guy
1:42:31
Speaker 3: who ran the gas station there, the auto mechanic, was
1:42:35
Speaker 3: Goober and Gomer, but that's the Andy Griffith show. Oh,
1:42:39
Speaker 3: there you go.
1:42:40
Speaker 2: Yeah.
1:42:41
Speaker 6: The farther you get from it, the more things start to, like,
1:42:45
Speaker 6: you know. Mix a little bit in your mind.
1:42:48
Speaker 3: Well, it's true. Look, it's one of those things, of course.
1:42:51
Speaker 3: So you had Goober and Gomer on the Andy Griffith show,
1:42:57
Speaker 3: and then you had Cooter on the Dukes of Hanzard.
1:43:03
Speaker 3: You know what, Dylan? I'm going to start calling you Cooter.
1:43:06
Speaker 10: Is that a compliment? I genuinely don't know.
1:43:08
Speaker 3: I think it is.
1:43:09
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:43:10
Speaker 7: I guess.
1:43:11
Speaker 22: Yeah.
1:43:12
Speaker 6: That sounds like a good name.
1:43:13
Speaker 3: You know what? We're throwing out. It's Friday. We're having
1:43:16
Speaker 3: a little bit of fun here. We're going to do
1:43:17
Speaker 3: another trivia question. The guy who played Cooter, he actually
1:43:24
Speaker 3: became a member of Congress. So we had Congressman Cooter. Sorry,
1:43:32
Speaker 3: that sounds really bad. Can you name the actor who
1:43:37
Speaker 3: played Cooter on the Dukes of Hades? Isn't that a
1:43:40
Speaker 3: great trivia question, fellas?
1:43:42
Speaker 6: Has he gone to be with the Lord, or is
1:43:44
Speaker 6: he still around with us, Todd?
1:43:46
Speaker 3: Well, let me see here.
1:43:48
Speaker 10: That could be part two.
1:43:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be.
1:43:50
Speaker 10: That's a good question.
1:43:52
Speaker 6: I was going to say, maybe someday he could run
1:43:54
Speaker 6: for president, President Cooter.
1:43:56
Speaker 3: No, he, no, he, he, he, no, no, no.
1:44:00
Speaker 22: Yeah.
1:44:00
Speaker 2: Okay.
1:44:01
Speaker 3: Sorry.
1:44:01
Speaker 2: Sorry.
1:44:02
Speaker 7: Yeah.
1:44:02
Speaker 3: Cooters, Cooters with Christ.
1:44:05
Speaker 2: So.
1:44:07
Speaker 3: What are you laughing at? Don't laugh.
1:44:08
Speaker 13: But.
1:44:09
Speaker 6: That sounds like a campus organization or something.
1:44:13
Speaker 3: No, that would be Campus Crusades.
1:44:17
Speaker 2: Cooters for Christ.
1:44:19
Speaker 3: No, Cooter was one of the beloved characters of that
1:44:24
Speaker 3: old show, and the phones are lighting up because this
1:44:28
Speaker 3: show is Dukes of Hansard Country, fellas.
1:44:31
Speaker 2: Praise God.
1:44:32
Speaker 3: Amen to that. Amen to that. So anyway, 901-260-5926. Real quick, Caleb,
1:44:39
Speaker 3: some happy news here. We understand that grocery prices are
1:44:43
Speaker 3: coming down in at least one national grocery store chain.
1:44:47
Speaker 3: Tell us about it.
1:44:49
Speaker 6: Yeah, so Aldi, you know, they are already known for
1:44:53
Speaker 6: having low prices. They are slashing prices on a third
1:44:56
Speaker 6: of their groceries today. And there's some good ones for
1:44:59
Speaker 6: the fall you want to check out. They've got apples, grapes, squash.
1:45:04
Speaker 6: Those kind of things are on sale right now. And
1:45:06
Speaker 6: they're really good prices. I have one in the neighborhood. Unfortunately,
1:45:10
Speaker 6: I find myself shopping at Kroger and Publix too much.
1:45:13
Speaker 6: But yeah, go get some deals there. And they're saving.
1:45:18
Speaker 6: All the savings are through November 3rd. So we've got
1:45:21
Speaker 6: this next month through October. Maybe buy the Thanksgiving meal
1:45:26
Speaker 6: a little early if you're shopping at Aldi.
1:45:28
Speaker 3: Oh, there you go.
1:45:29
Speaker 6: Not too early, I guess.
1:45:31
Speaker 3: All right.
1:45:32
Speaker 6: Depends on how long the... expiration is.
1:45:35
Speaker 3: Caleb i want to go back to the phones here
1:45:37
Speaker 3: we've got melissa in sugarland texas melissa you're on the
1:45:40
Speaker 3: air with caleb park and uh yours truly how are
1:45:43
Speaker 3: you today melissa.
1:45:44
Speaker 21: I'm excellent it's friday how are you guys oh.
1:45:47
Speaker 3: It is you know it's so beautiful outside you can
1:45:50
Speaker 3: breathe the air you don't get sunburned now it's uh
1:45:53
Speaker 3: it's fall is here what can i say.
1:45:55
Speaker 21: Melissa I don't know, not here in Texas, Todd. It's
1:46:00
Speaker 21: 95 degrees and hot.
1:46:01
Speaker 3: Oh, come on now. Well, it's Texas, you know. Temperatures
1:46:07
Speaker 3: are always bigger in Texas, as they say.
1:46:09
Speaker 21: Always, and the humidity so much so.
1:46:12
Speaker 3: You know, I've always wondered about that because, you know,
1:46:14
Speaker 3: the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, they always have the big, beautiful hair.
1:46:17
Speaker 3: I'm like, how do they keep that up with all
1:46:19
Speaker 3: the humidity out there?
1:46:20
Speaker 17: I don't know about the cowgirls.
1:46:22
Speaker 23: We're Texas fans.
1:46:24
Speaker 3: Oh, gotcha. Well, I said that because last night I
1:46:28
Speaker 3: was at a pro-life gala, and I was the master
1:46:31
Speaker 3: of ceremonies, and our speaker, Jonathan Evans, the son of
1:46:35
Speaker 3: Tony Evans, and, of course, he was the chaplain for
1:46:38
Speaker 3: the Dallas Cowboys. Oh, wow, cool. Yeah, so there you are. Melissa,
1:46:43
Speaker 3: you've got to help us out here. So we're talking
1:46:45
Speaker 3: about Kuter on the Dukes of— I just love saying it
1:46:48
Speaker 3: like that— Yes, Cooter. Who played Cooter? He went on
1:46:55
Speaker 3: to be a congressman.
1:46:57
Speaker 19: Ben Hardy?
1:46:59
Speaker 3: No. Oh, Melissa, I am so sorry. It's close. I'm sorry.
1:47:04
Speaker 3: Say that one more time.
1:47:06
Speaker 16: Ben Hardy?
1:47:07
Speaker 19: H-A-R-D-Y?
1:47:09
Speaker 14: No.
1:47:09
Speaker 3: I am so sorry, Melissa. That was a good try, though.
1:47:13
Speaker 3: You got the first name right. Let's go to Chris
1:47:16
Speaker 3: in Georgia. W-D-U-N-S. Chris, who are we talking about here?
1:47:22
Speaker 3: Who is Cooter?
1:47:24
Speaker 13: We're talking about Ben Jones.
1:47:26
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely. Oh, yeah. All right, sing along, Gainesville, Georgia.
1:47:33
Speaker 3: You know you want to.
1:47:35
Speaker 12: Oh, you know I want to.
1:47:37
Speaker 3: Since the day they was born. Well, thank you, Chris.
1:47:45
Speaker 3: You never know what's going to happen on this show,
1:47:47
Speaker 3: to be perfectly honest with you.
1:47:49
Speaker 11: No, you don't.
1:47:51
Speaker 12: You really don't.
1:47:52
Speaker 3: No. It's true. I mean, we got Miss Susie shooting
1:47:57
Speaker 3: raccoons trying to eat the laying hens. I mean, it's
1:48:01
Speaker 3: just a potpourri. Caleb, we forgot to tell you about
1:48:04
Speaker 3: that story.
1:48:07
Speaker 6: That's a good one.
1:48:08
Speaker 3: Ben Jones. Chris, is it fair to say, and I'm
1:48:11
Speaker 3: trying to remember, he was back in office back in
1:48:14
Speaker 3: the late 80s into the early 90s. And I think
1:48:19
Speaker 3: he was he was. probably one of the old school
1:48:21
Speaker 3: conservative Democrats or, you know, maybe a little bit liberal,
1:48:24
Speaker 3: but nothing like what we've got today.
1:48:27
Speaker 16: Oh, no, no, not at all.
1:48:29
Speaker 17: What do we have today is a disgrace.
1:48:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he was a member of, he represented Georgia's, what,
1:48:34
Speaker 3: fourth congressional district back in the day.
1:48:37
Speaker 17: Yeah, he was a real nice guy.
1:48:38
Speaker 13: I met him once.
1:48:39
Speaker 10: He was real nice.
1:48:41
Speaker 3: He did seem like a really nice fella. And, of course,
1:48:44
Speaker 3: that's back in the Zell Miller days.
1:48:47
Speaker 12: Yeah, I met him and his wife once.
1:48:49
Speaker 3: Very nice. Yeah, I've got a great Zell Miller. I'll
1:48:52
Speaker 3: tell the Zell Miller story another day, but I've got
1:48:54
Speaker 3: a great story from Young Harris, Georgia, if I do
1:48:57
Speaker 3: remember that correctly. Chris, congratulations. Hang tight. We're going to
1:49:02
Speaker 3: send you a copy of Culture Jihad. And that's just
1:49:06
Speaker 3: our little way of saying thank you for calling in
1:49:08
Speaker 3: and hanging out with us. Caleb? What a weird segment,
1:49:12
Speaker 3: my friend. But you did well.
1:49:14
Speaker 6: It was delightful. Yeah, I learned a lot this segment.
1:49:17
Speaker 10: Thanks, Todd.
1:49:18
Speaker 6: Continuing that Southern education.
1:49:21
Speaker 3: I want you to go and I want you to
1:49:24
Speaker 3: watch the Dukes of Hazzard.
1:49:27
Speaker 6: I'll do it all weekend.
1:49:28
Speaker 3: Yes, and I want you to especially pay attention to
1:49:31
Speaker 3: the incredible theatrical performance of one Catherine Bach, known as
1:49:36
Speaker 3: Daisy Duke.
1:49:38
Speaker 16: Oh, yeah.
1:49:39
Speaker 2: Daisy Dukes. All right.
1:49:40
Speaker 3: Yes. Praise the Lord. I think they were Baptist, actually. Caleb,
1:49:44
Speaker 3: good to see you, my friend.
1:49:46
Speaker 6: Good to see you, Todd.
1:49:48
Speaker 3: All right. Caleb Park on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. Dylan,
1:49:52
Speaker 3: I think going out to break, maybe a little bit
1:49:54
Speaker 3: more of some Waylon. That would be the Dukes of Hazzard. Yeah,
1:50:00
Speaker 3: I got that.
1:50:01
Speaker 2: Thank you. Okay.
1:50:04
Speaker 11: Just a good old boy.
1:50:07
Speaker 1: Never meaning no harm.
1:50:11
Speaker 9: Beats all you never saw. Been in trouble with the
1:50:14
Speaker 9: law since the day.
1:50:15
Speaker 12: They was born. Straightening the curves.
1:50:20
Speaker 11: Yeah.
1:50:21
Speaker 12: Flattening the hills. Someday the mountain.
1:50:27
Speaker 2: Might get them, but the law never will. Taking their way.
1:50:34
Speaker 2: The only way they know how.
1:50:46
Speaker 12: All right.
1:50:47
Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody. Just got a text. Let's face it, Stearns,
1:50:51
Speaker 3: even lesbians don't want to hear lesbians at full volume.
1:50:56
Speaker 3: The mask acts as a muffler. Oh, there you go.
1:51:01
Speaker 3: All right. Thank you. That was Paul Shanklin, ladies and gentlemen. Okay,
1:51:06
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1:51:22
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