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Todd Starnes - BOOK - The Golden Age · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's eighth five here at fifty five kr CD talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas happy to welcome to the fifty five Carsee
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show. I hope you check him out on the
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  Speaker 1: listen to the Todd Todd Starn Show. He is an
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  Speaker 1: award winning journalist host of the news Max Todd Starn Show.
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  Speaker 1: He also is his national daily radio show. He is
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  Speaker 1: an award winner to regional Edward R. Murrow Awards. He
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  Speaker 1: got the Associated Press Mark Twain Award, written multiple best
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  Speaker 1: selling books, and he has also been honored by the
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  Speaker 1: National Religious Broadcasters, which might come into play when we
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  Speaker 1: discuss his book The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starns, Welcome to the fifty five Krosey Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pleasure to have you on.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it is an honor to be with you. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: My play Hey, listen man, I want to thank everybody
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  Speaker 1: ever at Newsmax. There are a whole being a radio
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  Speaker 1: host and talking about matters political Todd four hours a day,
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  Speaker 1: five days a week. There's a lot of sites I
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  Speaker 1: rely on to get news, and I applaud Newsmax for
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  Speaker 1: its site. I think it's an excellent site and I
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  Speaker 1: use it regularly, so Newsmax dot com for folks, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's I recommend you book mark that one and
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  Speaker 1: also recommend to get a copy of The Golden Age.
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  Speaker 1: How Trump Saved America Saved America Todd Starns. I'll put
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  Speaker 1: you on the understand here. Is that title perhaps sound
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  Speaker 1: a little bit premature. I'm worried as hell about the
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  Speaker 1: DSA and the broader and wider acceptance and approval of socialism,
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking by even some folks that you wouldn't think
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  Speaker 1: would go down that road. Are things so bad that
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  Speaker 1: we are actually going to go down that road? It's
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  Speaker 1: happened so far in multiple different primaries. I'm really worried. Also,
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  Speaker 1: you got mom Dommy running New York City of all places,
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  Speaker 1: well you do.
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  Speaker 2: And just because you say something doesn't mean it can
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  Speaker 2: become lost again. I do think that President Trump saved America.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you know the country suffers from I
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  Speaker 2: think short term memory loss. We forgot just how bad
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  Speaker 2: things were during the Biden administration, those dark years in
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  Speaker 2: a country. And what President Trump has done since he
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  Speaker 2: was re elected is really quite remarkable. And that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons I wrote the book, is that many
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  Speaker 2: of my fallow conservatives were beginning to buy into the
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  Speaker 2: far left narrative that this presidency has been something of
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  Speaker 2: a failure or a disappointment, when in fact most of
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  Speaker 2: the campaign promises have already been delivered on and just
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  Speaker 2: using that as a metric, it has been quite remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: And I lay it all out in the Golden Age.
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  Speaker 2: But as you said, I mean there are great concerns
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  Speaker 2: on the horizon, and I would suggest that the Islambo
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  Speaker 2: communist combo platter is going to be very toxic for
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  Speaker 2: this country. We certainly saw that happen last night again
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  Speaker 2: with another Democrat DSA candidate winning in Florida at least denomination.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, there is a big there's a there's a
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  Speaker 2: big threat on the horizon. But Donald Trump stopped us
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  Speaker 2: from falling over the communist clip in the twenty three
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  Speaker 2: four election. Well.
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  Speaker 1: One of the greatest accomplishments, I think in the most
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  Speaker 1: profound one the immediate closure of the border. It's as
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  Speaker 1: if a switch was flipped, lights were on, lights went off.
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  Speaker 1: By Trump being sworn into office, the border was almost
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  Speaker 1: immediately shut down, which proves the Biden lie. First off.
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  Speaker 1: We were lied to, Oh there's nobody's streaming over the border.
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  Speaker 1: The borders are shut down, the borders are secure. Well
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  Speaker 1: they weren't. We know it. Millions and millions of people
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  Speaker 1: illegally entered this country, I would say, facilitated by the
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  Speaker 1: Biden administration's refusal to uphold the laws that were on
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  Speaker 1: the books. We didn't need new laws, We just needed
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  Speaker 1: someone who had the stones that stand there and close
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  Speaker 1: the border. Welcome Donald Trump and of course getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead. I think that's a great way to look
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  Speaker 2: at it. And look, this was a very dangerous thing
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  Speaker 2: that Biden did, which was literally to destabilize the country.
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  Speaker 2: Now that Biden do that, his auto pen or the
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  Speaker 2: far leftists and administration, all of the above, possibly, but
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  Speaker 2: that really doesn't matter right now. We have got to
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  Speaker 2: you know, and again I think that the President's done
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  Speaker 2: a remarkable job of shutting down the border. But now
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  Speaker 2: we've got to follow through on the mass deportations. My
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  Speaker 2: philosophy is, if you're here illegally, you have to go
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  Speaker 2: back to where you came from. You cannot stay here.
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  Speaker 2: We have got if we want to focus on immigrants,
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  Speaker 2: we need to be focusing on the people who have
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  Speaker 2: tried to come here the legal way, right and not
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  Speaker 2: the illegal way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and that the temporary protected status is another one.
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  Speaker 1: The word that the whole concept temporary, It's right there.
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  Speaker 1: It's built into the definition. Who qualify it? Temporary is
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  Speaker 1: not permanent. But the minute you pull the plug and
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  Speaker 1: you go follow through with what they were told when
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  Speaker 1: they were allowed to enter our country, it's temporary. Then
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  Speaker 1: people go crazy and Democrats love status quo, even if
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  Speaker 1: it's bad for America.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great point you bring up. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: as I was writing The Golden Age, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: you see these things happening around the nation and you
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  Speaker 2: just have to thank God every single day that Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump got elected. Otherwise I think we would have already
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  Speaker 2: lost the country. So we have a lot of work
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  Speaker 2: to do. And that really was the point of the
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  Speaker 2: Golden Ages. Yes, what celebrate the great accomplishments, but also
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  Speaker 2: with an eye looking towards the future, how do we
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  Speaker 2: pick up the mantle of the American First movement after
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  Speaker 2: Trump leaves office.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it is not just an ode to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Your book The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America? I
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  Speaker 1: understand you also dive into the details, like, here's what
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  Speaker 1: something I want to know, Todd Starns, What in the
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  Speaker 1: hell's was centate Republicans trying to sabotaze the Save Act?
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  Speaker 1: It's wildly popular, Todd. This is one of those if
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  Speaker 1: I maybe I'm wrong, but I do believe it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those eighty twenty issues where eighty percent of the
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  Speaker 1: Americans realize and appreciate that asking for a photo ID
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  Speaker 1: is no great ask and is good for the protecting
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  Speaker 1: the election.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And again this goes back to the fact
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  Speaker 2: that Donald Trump is really not a Republican. He sort
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  Speaker 2: of hijacked the party to accomplish what needed to be
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  Speaker 2: done the Republicans and to do nothing Congress are. Really
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  Speaker 2: the reason why Trump was created in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: Is voters so frustrated because they would elect these Republicans
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  Speaker 2: and the Republicans would always turn their banks on these voters,
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  Speaker 2: and that's really what led to the age of Trump.
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  Speaker 2: So the Republicans want their party back. They see that
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump is about to become a lame duck president,
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  Speaker 2: and so especially in the Senate, they know they can
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  Speaker 2: outlast Donald Trump, which is why John Thune and the
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  Speaker 2: establishment Republicans have really slamed on the breaks when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to things like, for example, the Save America Act,
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  Speaker 2: or the fact that this is the first president in
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  Speaker 2: modern political history who has not been allowed to make
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  Speaker 2: a recess of appointment because members of his own party
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  Speaker 2: are blocking his efforts to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we have met the enemy, and they seem to
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  Speaker 1: be us, at least in certain to a certain degree.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starns. You see, you know, I've never heard it
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  Speaker 1: put that way, and I think that's a brilliant analysis.
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  Speaker 1: That Trump was an active frustration. We want something nobody's delivering.
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  Speaker 1: He's a different path. Let's give this new guy a shot.
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  Speaker 1: And he actually delivered, I think, on at least two
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  Speaker 1: prongs of the Tea Party effort, which was a comparable effort.
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  Speaker 1: Early on we went through that sort of wrestling with
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  Speaker 1: what the Republicans mean. But remember the Tea Party fiscal responsibility,
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  Speaker 1: limited government, and free markets. Now I think Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: is delivered to the extent he can get away with it.
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  Speaker 1: The limited government part getting rid of reckless, wasteful spending,
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  Speaker 1: farting out fraud, waste and abuse in that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: and fostering free markets. But there's that old fiscal responsibility thing,
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  Speaker 1: to your point that he's not a Republican. Republicans traditionally
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  Speaker 1: campaigned on a pledged fiscal responsibility. Todd Starns. I'm staring
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  Speaker 1: at a printing press printing out trillions of additional dollars
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  Speaker 1: every year and a forty trillion dollar, ever growing federal
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  Speaker 1: debt that we have to pay debt service on. Are
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  Speaker 1: we ever going to get fiscal responsibility? Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the answer to that question is no, we are not.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 2: It's really bad. Yeah, So, you know, and again I
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  Speaker 2: think that's the big problem. It's why, for example, I
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  Speaker 2: live in Tennessee, which is a super majority red state,
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  Speaker 2: and I was having this conversation with someone a few
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks ago. You know, we believe in limited government,
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  Speaker 2: So why is it our majority Republican legislature keeps creating
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  Speaker 2: all of these new laws? You know, I think once
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  Speaker 2: you get elected, you just can't seem to help yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You want to create more laws, and you want to
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  Speaker 2: spend other people's money. And you know, that's a problem
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  Speaker 2: that the Republicans they're going to have to get a
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  Speaker 2: handle on. I don't know that they've learned their lesson,
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  Speaker 2: but they're going to have to.
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  Speaker 1: I was having a discussion Todd Starns', author of the
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  Speaker 1: book we're talking about today, the Golden Age, How Trump
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  Speaker 1: Saved America, And parenthetically, Todd and my listeners, you can
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  Speaker 1: get a copy of this book at fifty five kre
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  Speaker 1: see dot iHeart dot com right there on the podcast
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  Speaker 1: and blog pages. Just put that up a link so
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  Speaker 1: we can easily buy it, and I know they will.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes. But talking with a Jewish friend of mine
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  Speaker 1: the other day about a whole bunch of different political topics,
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  Speaker 1: dear friend of mine, and he's on the left side
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  Speaker 1: of the political ledger, and I was asking him about
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  Speaker 1: what is with your side of the political ledgers embracing
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  Speaker 1: anti Semitism. You've got some wildly anti Semitic candidates going
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  Speaker 1: back to lsied and mom Dommy getting elected. When did
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  Speaker 1: the Democrat Party become the anti Semitic party? But in
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  Speaker 1: your book you comment on the rise of anti Semitism
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  Speaker 1: within the Republican Party. That is not as widely reported.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starns, what's the where is this coming from?
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  Speaker 2: Right? Your You're right, it's a dangerous thing. And again,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when one of the dangers of this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: populist movement within the Republican Party is uh, You're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a lot of different viewpoints, and that is
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  Speaker 2: one of them. This rise of anti Semitism, especially among
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  Speaker 2: younger Republican voters, very disturbing thing. I think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of this has to simply do with the lack of education.
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  Speaker 2: I write in the book that the lynchpin to all
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  Speaker 2: of this. If we really do want to save America,
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  Speaker 2: we have to abolish the Department of Education. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: local control you know, of the schools back to the communities,
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  Speaker 2: because that's ultimately the engine. These taxpayer frontic classrooms, this
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  Speaker 2: is the engine driving this radical change in our country,
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  Speaker 2: not just from you know, anti Semitism, the radical sex
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  Speaker 2: and gender ideology, critical race theory, you name it. It's
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  Speaker 2: coming from our nation's education system without quiet.
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  Speaker 1: But the genesis of anti Semitism has always been puzzling
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  Speaker 1: to me. Todd Starnes, and I know you're a devoutly
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  Speaker 1: Christian man, and you even write about the power and
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  Speaker 1: the strength of our country predicated on our belief in
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  Speaker 1: the Almighty God. Sadly, more and more people these days,
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  Speaker 1: and over decades of damning and demonization of Christianity, generally
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  Speaker 1: speaking in the media, in comedy. I think a lot
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  Speaker 1: of young people don't even have any sense of religion.
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  Speaker 1: That is a parental obligation, speaking of education, but we're
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  Speaker 1: moving away from that. But insofar as anti Semitism is current,
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  Speaker 1: I've never understood it. But why is that a How
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  Speaker 1: is it in any way, shape or form a political thing.
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  Speaker 1: We don't live in a theocracy, Todd. How is demonizing
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  Speaker 1: Jewish people, How does that advance any political agenda? Or
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  Speaker 1: how is that in any way, shape or form good
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  Speaker 1: for well, really anyone.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great question, and I would contend that, and
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  Speaker 2: you're right, we're not a theocracy. However, we are a
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  Speaker 2: nation that was founded on Christian teachings, right, and our
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  Speaker 2: second president, John Adams, you know, said that our constitution
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  Speaker 2: is holly inadequate for anyone other than a moral and
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  Speaker 2: religious people. So I contend when you do take God
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  Speaker 2: out of the equation, you get chaos in the culture,
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  Speaker 2: which I think we've got a lot of right now.
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  Speaker 2: And that's one of the reasons why I really issue
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  Speaker 2: a call to restore the values of our founding fathers
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to you know, being a nation that
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  Speaker 2: that believes that God has really predestined for us to
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  Speaker 2: be the nation we are. You know, it's not a
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  Speaker 2: deep dive into religion, but it certainly plays a role
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  Speaker 2: I think in the day to day affairs of mankind.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I have always been of the mind that you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's like Marxists don't believe in God. The state is
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  Speaker 1: the most powerful thing, and that is from where all
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  Speaker 1: rights and anything comes from. But if you have a
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  Speaker 1: sense of there being a higher power, something above the state,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a comforting thing. And I also think
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  Speaker 1: that also suggests that, you know, we need to be
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  Speaker 1: more responsible for ourselves. You know, God's there and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: he'll provide us a path. But in the final analysis,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's us and our belief in a higher
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  Speaker 1: power and our belief in ourselves to accomplish something or not,
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  Speaker 1: and not turning over the keys of decision making to
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  Speaker 1: some person who doesn't even know us in our representative democracy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's a fair a fair assessment, and
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  Speaker 2: we cover those topics in the Golden Age. One of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite chapters. I don't know, but you heard the news.
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  Speaker 2: We did have a book signing in Memphis, which is
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  Speaker 2: my hometown, at the Barges of Noble, and Senator Marshall
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  Speaker 2: Blackbird was there and Congressman Devotos. We had a good crowd.
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  Speaker 2: All of a sudden we hear this screaming and it
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  Speaker 2: turns out that a ginormous thundering herd morbidly obese, white
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  Speaker 2: woke women was storming the Barnes and Noble, and they
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  Speaker 2: were screaming and cursing and tried to shut down our
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  Speaker 2: book signing. It was the craziest thing I'd ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: And the irony is there's a chapter in the book
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  Speaker 2: where I address these, uh, these far left, woke white
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  Speaker 2: women who have been leading these protests around the country,
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  Speaker 2: and ironically, it was happening right in front of my
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  Speaker 2: very eyes. The chapter is called the Gals of Girth,
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  Speaker 2: and it's Brian. It's a parody chapter where I become
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  Speaker 2: a life coach trying to help these these large women
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  Speaker 2: find husbands so they can find satisfaction with a meaning
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  Speaker 2: in life.
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  Speaker 3: You just sold a whole bunch of extra copies, Todd Stars, boy,
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  Speaker 3: I could talk to you for hours, and will of
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  Speaker 3: course be listening to the Todd Starns starring show on
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  Speaker 3: newsback and getting a copy of the book we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about today, The Golden Age.
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  Speaker 1: Trump Saved America. Brilliant Todd Starnes. I thank you for
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  Speaker 1: authoring the book and spending time with my listeners. And
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  Speaker 1: I did in me today uh fifty five kres dot
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  Speaker 1: iHeart dot com where you get it, Todd, keep up
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  Speaker 1: the great work. Brother. I