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JD Vance: Give us Another Chance · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starns Radio Show. So
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  Speaker 3: the house is officially recessed and everybody's heading back to
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  Speaker 3: their hometowns. I'll tell you this much. What a lazy
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  Speaker 3: bunch of so-and-sos. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Tom Stearns
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  Speaker 3: Radio Program. So honored to have you with us today.
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  Speaker 3: And I have a little bee in my bonnet, if
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  Speaker 3: you will. The members of the House have gone. They
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  Speaker 3: say there's a reason for that. The reason why is
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  Speaker 3: that they've done as much as they can possibly do.
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  Speaker 3: House Speaker Mike Johnson says that they have sent over
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  Speaker 3: dozens and dozens of bills to the Senate. And he said, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: nothing's getting done. So they're just sitting around twiddling their thumbs.
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  Speaker 3: And he said, yeah, you know, we're going to we're
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  Speaker 3: going to call it a day. So send everybody home.
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  Speaker 3: Here is Speaker Mike Johnson. Cut 42.
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  Speaker 4: This is one of the most productive in history. And
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  Speaker 4: this House, as I mentioned, the stats, we passed over
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  Speaker 4: 900 bills. Over 700 of them are parked in the
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  Speaker 4: Senate right now.
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  Speaker 5: OK, so.
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  Speaker 4: If the other chamber, if the Democrats in the Senate
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  Speaker 4: will do anything meaningful and contribute any votes at all
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  Speaker 4: for bipartisan wins for the country, like we just did
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  Speaker 4: with the Ratepayer Protection Act, if they will process those
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  Speaker 4: bills and send them over, the House can do meaningful work.
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  Speaker 4: In the meantime, it feels very much like we're spinning
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  Speaker 4: our wheels. Our incumbents here, who are now candidates, need
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  Speaker 4: to be in their districts working with their constituents right now,
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  Speaker 4: working on the issues that matter to them, and telling
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  Speaker 4: the story about how productive we have been. Now, I
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  Speaker 4: said we're on a 48-hour notice of return. If the
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  Speaker 4: Senate moves any of this big legislation that we have
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  Speaker 4: parked in the hopper over there, I will gleefully bring
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  Speaker 4: everybody right back here, and we'll start passing those bills
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  Speaker 4: and getting them to the president's desk.
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  Speaker 3: I hope that that happens.
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  Speaker 6: I certainly do.
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  Speaker 4: And I met with Leader Thune today, and we talked
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  Speaker 4: about that, our collected optimism about the future and going
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  Speaker 4: into this election cycle. And if the Senate If the
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  Speaker 4: Senate Democrats will do what's right for America, they'll move
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  Speaker 4: some of that really, really important legislation that includes legislation
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  Speaker 4: to reduce the cost of living, increase national security, increase
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  Speaker 4: the economy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my God. So so look, here's and Johnson, I
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  Speaker 3: you know, I get it. The guy doesn't get upset.
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  Speaker 3: He's only got he's got one level. I get that one.
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  Speaker 3: He has one emotion. But there needs to be some
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  Speaker 3: righteous indignation here on behalf of the House Republicans when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to the Senate Republicans. Now, he can blame
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats till the cows come home, but the fact
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  Speaker 3: of the matter is the Republicans control the Senate. And
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  Speaker 3: you're telling me 700 bills stalled in the U.S.
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  Speaker 7: Senate?
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  Speaker 3: 700 bills? This is insane. I mean, this is bonkers crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But now you understand why the Republicans are not doing
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  Speaker 3: well in these polls. And I know polls are polls
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  Speaker 3: are polls, but I'm beginning to believe these polls because
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  Speaker 3: the American people are sick and tired of this. And
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  Speaker 3: they know, they know, ladies and gentlemen, that the Senate
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  Speaker 3: Republicans are not living up to their campaign promises again.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody knows that. Even Mitch McConnell knows that.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 3: The poor guy, all he had to do was vote,
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  Speaker 3: and they had to tell him how to vote. This
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  Speaker 3: guy is— you hate to say it, but there's nothing there. No, no, he's—no,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he's a vegetable. I just— I don't think
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  Speaker 3: he's there. I— I mean, he's a shell of a man.
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  Speaker 3: That's not an insult. But you're telling me that Mitch
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  Speaker 3: McConnell has the mental acuity to cast any sort of
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  Speaker 3: a vote on Capitol Hill? Well, maybe he does. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: when you look at everybody else on average, maybe he does.
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  Speaker 3: So then you've got Senator John Kennedy out there. I
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  Speaker 3: want you to listen to this guy and listen very closely.
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  Speaker 3: You know, John Kennedy is that folksy kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the southern folksy kind of a guy, right? Here is
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  Speaker 3: John Kennedy talking about how disappointed he is that nothing's
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  Speaker 3: getting done in the Senate.
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  Speaker 9: I'm very disappointed in how little the Senate has achieved
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  Speaker 9: since we passed one big, beautiful bill. I'm very disappointed.
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  Speaker 3: The public seems really exercised about AI.
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  Speaker 9: I'm embarrassed about it. The public is upset about a
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  Speaker 9: lot of things. They're upset about the cost of living.
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  Speaker 9: They would like answers to what's going on in Iran.
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  Speaker 9: They're upset about artificial intelligence.
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  Speaker 3: That guy, you know, he wants you to think like
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  Speaker 3: he's really disappointed. This guy's not disappointed. Look, don't be
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  Speaker 3: fooled here. John Kennedy, John Kennedy is a rhino. He
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  Speaker 3: is a moderate, and he doesn't care anything about the
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  Speaker 3: Trump agenda. But everybody gives him a pass. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Fox News loves him. Here's the problem with Fox News.
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  Speaker 3: They know their base of the party is evangelical Christian
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  Speaker 3: and Southern, so they try to find all these people
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  Speaker 3: and hire all these people who might be able to
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  Speaker 3: possibly speak to that demographic, which is why they have
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  Speaker 3: people like John Kennedy on. And that's why the Morning
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  Speaker 3: Show gal, she's always dropping the name of Jesus to
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  Speaker 3: remind you that she loves Jesus. Well, coming up today
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  Speaker 3: on Fox and Friends, we're going to show you how
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  Speaker 3: to make beef stew, and later we're going to take
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  Speaker 3: you live to Capitol Hill for the very latest on
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  Speaker 3: the government shutdown. And have I told you how much
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  Speaker 3: I just love Jesus Christ? He's my Lord and Savior.
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  Speaker 3: And that's, come on, really? I mean, they don't even
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  Speaker 3: try to hide it. It's all fake. It's all fake.
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  Speaker 3: Then there are other people out there trying to convince
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  Speaker 3: you on Fox that they're big, oh, we hold Bible
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  Speaker 3: studies in the newsroom. Meanwhile, they're chasing around their interns
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  Speaker 3: in the hallways of Fox News. Where is that in
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  Speaker 3: the Bible? Anyway, I could go on about that for
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  Speaker 3: an hour. I'm in a bad mood today, folks, a
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  Speaker 3: bad mood. So bear with me. And this is the
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  Speaker 3: reason I'm in a bad mood is because the Republicans
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  Speaker 3: are screwing us once again. So then you've got John Kennedy,
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  Speaker 3: which is why Fox loves John Kennedy. They know he's
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  Speaker 3: not real. He's fake. And Fox embraces fake and phony.
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  Speaker 3: They think you can slap enough makeup on it, then
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  Speaker 3: people are going to buy it or hike up the
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  Speaker 3: dresses enough. Do I have stories? So anyway, you've got
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy out there, and he talks with a really, really
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  Speaker 3: exaggerated southern accent. because he thinks that's endearing to people.
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  Speaker 3: And then he'll go on the channel, and he'll just
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  Speaker 3: drop clever Southern sayings like, Well, Sean, if you trust
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  Speaker 3: the government, you obviously failed history class. Or, Sean, our
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  Speaker 3: country was founded by geniuses, but it's being run by idiots. Or, Sean...
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  Speaker 3: It's about as messy as like running with like free
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  Speaker 3: range chickens. Cock-a-doodle-doo. And people eat this up. I'm sitting
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  Speaker 3: there looking at my TVs or wanting to throw something
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  Speaker 3: at it. Well, Sean, somebody's as tough as a bald okra.
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  Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? People are, you know, people really
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  Speaker 3: buy this. So let me tell you something. Nobody's buying
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  Speaker 3: the Gomer Pyle routine anymore. Not this guy. So Kennedy
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  Speaker 3: is just as liberal as the day is long. None
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  Speaker 3: of these people want the agenda to go through. None
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  Speaker 3: of them do. I mean, 700 pieces of legislation still
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  Speaker 3: waiting for the Senate. What are you people doing? And
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  Speaker 3: you watch Thune. He'll send everybody back home. Yeah, including
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  Speaker 3: Mitch McConnell. Get the guy some tapioca pudding or a
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  Speaker 3: shot of bourbon. So now you've got J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance.
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  Speaker 3: We're hauling J.D. Vance out there. I'm just sitting back here, and, folks,
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  Speaker 3: I have offered my thoughts and my words of encouragement
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  Speaker 3: to the administration for weeks now. For weeks. I wrote
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  Speaker 3: a book. a book outlining every single success story that
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  Speaker 3: the administration ought to be running on. But they've got
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  Speaker 3: people in that inner circle and they are feeding the
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  Speaker 3: president a line and it's the wrong line. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: So now you've got J.D. Vance out there and he's saying, look,
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  Speaker 3: and this is the gist of it. This is what
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  Speaker 3: cracks me up. The gist of it is Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we kind of effed things up here. But give us
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  Speaker 3: another chance. We'll get it done. We'll get it done.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen. We're fixing.
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  Speaker 10: Give us another chance or give us another couple of
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  Speaker 10: years to continue to work on the amazing things that
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  Speaker 10: we've been doing for the past two years.
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  Speaker 3: So my question here, ladies and gentlemen, do they deserve
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  Speaker 3: another chance here? Do you think we're really going to
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  Speaker 3: get another– do you think they're going to be able
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  Speaker 3: to do anything in two years? They've already had two years,
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  Speaker 3: and they didn't do anything. 700 pieces of legislation. 700
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  Speaker 3: pieces of legislation. The only reason you should vote for–
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  Speaker 3: and here's the problem with it, and I'm just trying
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  Speaker 3: to explain why there's just so much chaos and confusion.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people are just now jumping in and
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  Speaker 3: starting to pay attention to what's going on here. And
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  Speaker 3: let me explain it. First of all, you've got some
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  Speaker 3: bad candidates out there. And I'm going to say this
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  Speaker 3: about Ken Paxton. Even Donald Trump talked about what a
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  Speaker 3: lousy candidate Ken Paxton is. Doesn't have a good speaking voice,
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  Speaker 3: not a good campaigner. He looks disheveled. Even Trump commented
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  Speaker 3: about his appearance, his clothes, his suits, all that kind
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  Speaker 3: of stuff. And it's a tough sell. Paxton is not
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  Speaker 3: exactly the most aggressive campaigner. Some people have said he's lazy.
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  Speaker 3: you've got his own party working against him, and that
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  Speaker 3: is not helping at all. Now, are they going to
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  Speaker 3: dump a lot of money into the campaign? Absolutely. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they will. Trump will do that. But will it be enough?
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  Speaker 3: And the question for all you Texans, are you more
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  Speaker 3: apt to go to the poll? Because right now, the
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  Speaker 3: message in Texas is not about all the great things
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  Speaker 3: Kim Paskin's going to do. It's about how terrible James
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  Speaker 3: Tallarico is and how you don't want to have your
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  Speaker 3: children in the same room with that guy. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's the messaging coming out of Republicans. Is that enough
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  Speaker 3: to get Republicans out and voting? New polling data out today,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, shows even Greg Abbott trailing in the polls.
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  Speaker 3: But again, the Republicans, the voters, they see what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: They see that nothing is being accomplished. President Trump is
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  Speaker 3: out there on the campaign trail. He was talking about
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  Speaker 3: gas prices. And I love this president, but this messaging
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  Speaker 3: is so bad on gas prices. And now they're talking
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  Speaker 3: about hopefully they're going to have the war wrapped up
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  Speaker 3: in a couple of months. Well, what happened to a
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  Speaker 3: couple of weeks? So here are the choices. And this
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  Speaker 3: is why it's just a weird time to be a Republican.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a weird time because these are your choices.
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  Speaker 3: You can either vote for the liars and grifters or
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  Speaker 3: you can vote for the communists. I mean, those are
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  Speaker 3: your choices. And that's a hard sell for a lot
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  Speaker 3: of folks. I know many of you, you work your
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  Speaker 3: butts off, and you have to now because gas prices
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  Speaker 3: are so freaking high, and the grocery prices are outrageous.
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  Speaker 3: So you're tired. You're in a bad mood. Here in Memphis,
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  Speaker 3: we've been under a freaking heat dome for the past month.
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  Speaker 3: It hasn't gotten under. Are you ready for this? It's
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  Speaker 3: been 100 degrees for like four weeks now. Meanwhile, all
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  Speaker 3: you folks up in the Northeast, you're wearing sweaters. You're
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  Speaker 3: putting on a log on the fire. We got people
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  Speaker 3: running around here wearing, you know, cut-off blue jean shorts
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  Speaker 3: and white beater shirts. And those are the bankers. It's
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  Speaker 3: hot here. People are in a bad mood. So if
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  Speaker 3: you're hot, you're in a bad mood. You got no
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  Speaker 3: money in your bank account. Do you really feel compelled
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  Speaker 3: to go and turn off the TV and Put dinner
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  Speaker 3: on hold so you can go and stand in line
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  Speaker 3: to vote for a Republican who's going to screw you
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  Speaker 3: 70 times the next Thursday? That's the question candidates are having.
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  Speaker 3: I told you I was in a bad mood. Just
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  Speaker 3: tired of these Republicans. And I'm tired of people not
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  Speaker 3: hearing the great advice we're giving here. But the White
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  Speaker 3: House doesn't want to hear it. They don't want to
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  Speaker 3: hear it. They feel like you guys should suck it up,
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  Speaker 3: smile when you're pumping gas out the wazoo, and pay
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  Speaker 3: an arm and a leg for it, and you should
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  Speaker 3: just deal with it. That is not a winning strategy.
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  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926 or telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd
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  Speaker 3: Starnes Show. Oh, by the way, here's President Trump talking
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  Speaker 3: about gas prices. This was at the rally yesterday in
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  Speaker 3: North Carolina. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 11: I have to say, you have a little higher, you
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  Speaker 11: have a higher gas. It's a very inexpensive price to
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  Speaker 11: pay for what we've done. Remember that.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little more.
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  Speaker 12: It's even if it was, frankly, even if it was
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  Speaker 12: a lot more. But that's going to come tumbling down.
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  Speaker 12: That's going to be like a rocket ship in reverse.
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  Speaker 3: All right. So the president says you guys don't mind
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  Speaker 3: paying higher prices at the gas pump. Is that true?
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  Speaker 13: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: Let's start the day in Clear Lake City, Texas. Mike
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  Speaker 3: is listening to us on Patriot Talk 920.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: What say you?
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  Speaker 14: Oh, well, I just wanted to tell you I agree
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  Speaker 14: with everything that you said thus far this morning. No,
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  Speaker 14: the Republican Party hasn't done anything to deserve our vote,
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  Speaker 14: but We will be voting red in order to keep
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  Speaker 14: President Trump from being impeached. At the risk of sounding
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  Speaker 14: like Senator Kennedy, the Republican Party is about as useful
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  Speaker 14: as tits on a bull. I'm just so sick and
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  Speaker 14: tired of all these Republican senators going on Fox or
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  Speaker 14: wherever else, get their face in the camera and complain
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  Speaker 14: about the Senate and Thune, but you don't see anybody
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  Speaker 14: trying to get him removed.
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  Speaker 3: No, you don't. And that's the tell right there, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: You're absolutely right. Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, all of them.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody has stood up and said it's time for new leadership.
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  Speaker 3: And that tells me it's all a grift. It is
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  Speaker 3: absolutely all a grift.
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  Speaker 14: I don't mean to change the subject on you, but
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  Speaker 14: since we're in Texas and you know what's been going
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  Speaker 14: on with Beau French and all like that, The guy
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  Speaker 14: was totally right. He was dead on with what he posted.
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  Speaker 14: I wish he wouldn't have removed the tweets.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he was, and now you've got even Turning Point
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  Speaker 3: USA turning on Beau French. Karl Rove is out there
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  Speaker 3: saying he's going to vote for the Democrat in that race. Look,
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  Speaker 3: Beau French was simply pointing out what's happening in major cities,
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  Speaker 3: major communities across the nation where we are being replaced.
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  Speaker 3: They are bringing in H-1B visa holders at massive numbers.
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  Speaker 3: And it's absolutely fair to raise this question. Why are
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  Speaker 3: American taxpayers being forced to cover, being forced to foot
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  Speaker 3: the bills for these universities that are training a majority
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  Speaker 3: of international students? Why is that?
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  Speaker 14: I know that's what I'm saying. The picture that he
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  Speaker 14: posted on social media had nothing to do with the
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  Speaker 14: racial makeup of the people in the picture. That's what
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  Speaker 14: he was truly addressing is how they come here, they
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  Speaker 14: take advantage of our systems, they get educated, and then
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  Speaker 14: they basically undercut the job market by replacing American workers.
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  Speaker 3: And that's exactly what they're doing. They're getting rid of
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  Speaker 3: the American workers, bringing in cheap foreign labor. And we're
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  Speaker 3: seeing it up close and personal right here in Memphis, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Thank you for that call. 901-260-5926. Going right
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  Speaker 3: back to the phones. President Trump says you folks don't
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  Speaker 3: mind paying higher prices. Is that true?
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  Speaker 15: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So let me back up for just a moment. And
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  Speaker 3: we had a Mike from Texas called in and talking
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  Speaker 3: about Beau French. Beau French is running for office there
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  Speaker 3: in the great state of Texas. Railroad Commission. He's the
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  Speaker 3: nominee for the Railroad Commission. His opponent is John Rosenthal.
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  Speaker 3: And Karl Rove decided to weigh in on all this,
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  Speaker 3: wrote a piece on the in the Wall Street Journal.
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  Speaker 3: And he's very upset because over the weekend, French posted
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  Speaker 3: a photograph from the Texas Longhorns game and pointed out
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  Speaker 3: the photograph was mostly filled with Indians or Indian Americans.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know any of the people
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  Speaker 3: in the photograph. I don't know their immigration status, H-1B
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  Speaker 3: visa holders. I don't know. But the point he was
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  Speaker 3: making is that there is a radical demographic shift that
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  Speaker 3: is not organic. This is something that is being forced
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  Speaker 3: on the American people. I pointed out a few weeks
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  Speaker 3: ago one of the suburbs in Memphis where just in
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  Speaker 3: the past few years there's been a massive surge in
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  Speaker 3: the Indian population. One out of every ten people in
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  Speaker 3: the southern community are now Indians or they are Indian immigrants. Now,
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  Speaker 3: there was a local high school in this community that
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  Speaker 3: They listed, I think, 12 or 13 kids that are
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  Speaker 3: national merit semifinalists. All but one of them had Indian
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  Speaker 3: American last names. And that's just pointing out facts. That
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  Speaker 3: doesn't make you xenophobic at all. It doesn't make you Indian-phobic.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a word? I don't know. But anyway, people
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  Speaker 3: get upset when you point these things out, that there
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  Speaker 3: is a replacement going on in this country. So anyway,
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  Speaker 3: Karl Rove says that there's no way that he can
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  Speaker 3: support Beau French. So instead of saying, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just not going to vote or I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: write in George W. Bush's name, Karl Rove goes out
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: there and says he's voting for the Democrat in the race.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: So in doing so, the guy's name is John Rosenthal.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: He's the Democrat running. So now Karl Rove has publicly
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: endorsed not only the Democrat that he's going to vote for,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: but he also is voting for this guy's policies. And
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: here are the policies of this very radical left-wing Democrat.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Karl Rove now admits that he believes that trans rights
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: are human rights. Karl Rove also believes that it's okay
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: to change the sex of a baby listed on its
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: official birth certificate. And Karl Rove also opposes the Parents'
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Bill of Rights, and he also supports a crackdown on
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: gun ownership in the great state of Texas. Do you
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: understand what's going on here? Karl Rove is really the
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: poster child for everything that is wrong with the Republican
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Party right now. All right, let's get to the phone lines.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: A lot of folks wanting to weigh in here. Let's
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: say hello to Billy in Statesville, North Carolina, WSIC. Hi, Billy.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: What's on your mind today?
• 21:56
  Speaker 16: Well, I had two things I was wanting to mention.
• 22:00
  Speaker 16: I'm being from North Carolina, born and raised. It's embarrassing
• 22:04
  Speaker 16: to hear that North Carolina is considered purple instead of red,
• 22:11
  Speaker 16: because I'm not a diehard Republican, but I'm sure as
• 22:16
  Speaker 16: heck not a Democrat. Anyway, and the second thing I
• 22:20
  Speaker 16: wanted to mention was, which would you rather have pay
• 22:25
  Speaker 16: a little higher price for gas or have a nuclear
• 22:27
  Speaker 16: bomb dropped on your head? The way I got to
• 22:29
  Speaker 16: see it, I mean, I don't like higher gas prices either,
• 22:32
  Speaker 16: but I'll take that over a nuclear bomb any day.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you this. How long do you
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: think we ought to be at war over there, Billy?
• 22:43
  Speaker 16: Well, I think it's time to say that they're not
• 22:47
  Speaker 16: going to play ball in any way, shape, or form.
• 22:50
  Speaker 16: It's time to go over and take care of business.
• 22:53
  Speaker 16: It's starting to get drug out a little bit too long,
• 22:56
  Speaker 16: in my opinion. But I don't know all the facts,
• 22:59
  Speaker 16: and that's just the way I feel about it.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Billy, it's hard to understand what the facts are. There's
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: been very little transparency. We, just until a few days ago,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: we didn't realize that some of our military bases had
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: been decimated. We've lost billions of dollars in military equipment
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: that's been destroyed by the Iranian drones and missiles. We've
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: been told at least five times that all-out victory had
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: been declared, and yet we're still in a shooting war
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: with these people. So, Billy, I don't know about you.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I just want a little bit of transparency. I don't
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: need to know the intricate knowledge. I don't need to
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: know what they're going to be doing or how they're
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: going to be going after the Iranians. But I do
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: think it's fair to say, okay, here's where we are, folks,
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: and here's what we're hoping to accomplish. Because, Billy, at
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: the end of the day, nobody wants a nuclear cloud
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: over an American city. My question is, have we stopped
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: that threat yet?
• 23:58
  Speaker 16: I don't think it's been stopped completely. If you leave
• 24:01
  Speaker 16: them alone, the first thing they're going to do is
• 24:03
  Speaker 16: start trying to build a nuclear bomb again.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: You good with $ 10 a gallon gas prices, by the way?
• 24:09
  Speaker 13: I don't care how priced it is.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 24:13
  Speaker 16: Anything's better than a nuclear bomb on this country. And
• 24:17
  Speaker 16: it won't be just one. There'll be more than one,
• 24:19
  Speaker 16: I guarantee you.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I agree. But right now we have no evidence.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, we could be over there for 30 years.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, this could be one of those 30-year wars.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't.
• 24:34
  Speaker 16: Well, if it gets much longer, I'm going to start
• 24:36
  Speaker 16: having double my second thoughts myself.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: But you can't have second thoughts, Billy, because your argument is,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: and this is what they're counting on, nobody wants a
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: nuclear cloud over an American city. Nobody. And so their
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: argument's going to be, well, we've got to stay over there.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: We've got to keep fighting. Even if it's 30 years,
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: we're going to have to keep fighting to make sure
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: that there's not a nuclear cloud. And they're counting on
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: the fact that There are enough people in this country
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: that think like you think and will say, whatever it takes,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: you take care of business.
• 25:10
  Speaker 16: Well, that's what I think, though. But I'm not saying
• 25:14
  Speaker 16: I'm going to change my mind on whether they ought
• 25:16
  Speaker 16: to take care of business or not. I'm just saying
• 25:19
  Speaker 16: I'm changing. I'm not sure about the way it's being done.
• 25:22
  Speaker 16: They need to get over and take care of it
• 25:24
  Speaker 16: and get it in the rearview mirror.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Billy, thank you for the call. Let's go to Charles
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: in North Carolina, listening to us on WSIC. Charles, you
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: just heard Billy there. Lives, I guess, in your community.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: And he doesn't mind paying those higher gas prices. What
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: about you?
• 25:43
  Speaker 16: I sure as hell mind. I'll tell you right now.
• 25:48
  Speaker 15: I mind paying higher gas prices. I mind paying higher
• 25:51
  Speaker 15: food prices. And I think prices are going to continue
• 25:55
  Speaker 15: to go up. You know, we just had an interest
• 25:57
  Speaker 15: rate hike. Housing is going up.
• 25:59
  Speaker 16: Electricity, it's all going up. And a lot of it,
• 26:03
  Speaker 16: you know, has to do with this war in Iran,
• 26:06
  Speaker 16: the lack of fiscal discipline in Congress. But as far
• 26:11
  Speaker 16: as that, as far as what Billy was saying about
• 26:13
  Speaker 16: the nuclear bomb, Todd, I just think that that's fear mongering.
• 26:16
  Speaker 15: Supposedly last year, we destroyed their capabilities. So develop one,
• 26:21
  Speaker 15: so I'm not sure now why they keep saying that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 15: I mean, I heard the same thing about the Vietnam War.
• 26:26
  Speaker 15: I heard the same thing for years about the Iraq
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: War and weapons of mass destruction. And I just think
• 26:31
  Speaker 15: that this is an excuse by the military-industrial complex to
• 26:35
  Speaker 15: justify us being over there. But, Todd, I agree with
• 26:39
  Speaker 15: everything you said there in the first 30 minutes that
• 26:43
  Speaker 15: you were talking. Something has got to be done by
• 26:47
  Speaker 15: the do-nothing Republicans because As bad as the Democrats are,
• 26:52
  Speaker 15: the communists, and I mean, it's a horrible alternative. You know,
• 26:58
  Speaker 15: the other alternative is just a party that's just not
• 27:02
  Speaker 15: listening to the needs of its voters that put them
• 27:05
  Speaker 15: in office. They're not fulfilling the campaign promises. And there's
• 27:09
  Speaker 15: just an extreme level of disillusionment and frustration among the base.
• 27:15
  Speaker 15: And I don't know, Todd, who do you think President
• 27:17
  Speaker 15: Trump is listening to there in the White House?
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I think it's the boys. I think it's the sons. And,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: of course, they are very close with J.D. Vance. That's
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: where I think a lot of this is coming from,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: and with Hegseth. And I just— it concerns me greatly, Charles,
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: because this was already going to be a precarious election cycle,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: no doubt about it. But— to get out into North
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Carolina and to say, you know what, you know, Americans,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: and can we play that again, though? What President Trump,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: I want to play this again, what President Trump said
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: about gas prices?
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: I have to say, you have a little higher, you
• 27:56
  Speaker 11: have a higher, it's a very inexpensive price to pay
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: for what we've done. Remember that it's.
• 28:01
  Speaker 12: A little more, it's even if it was, frankly, even
• 28:04
  Speaker 12: if it was a lot more, but that's going to
• 28:06
  Speaker 12: come tumbling down, that's going to be like a rocket
• 28:09
  Speaker 12: ship in reverse.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Well, it may be, and maybe those prices are going
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: to come down. I hope they come down. But they're
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: talking about the war going on for at least a
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: couple of more months. I've heard some accounts that it
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: could go well into next year. Those gas prices will
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: not be coming down, Charles.
• 28:27
  Speaker 15: No, I don't think anything's going to come down. And
• 28:30
  Speaker 15: I think the Iranians know this, and they and their
• 28:32
  Speaker 15: proxies are going to do everything they can to create
• 28:35
  Speaker 15: more chaos so the gas prices and oil prices continue
• 28:39
  Speaker 15: to rise. And it's going to make it even more difficult. Todd,
• 28:42
  Speaker 15: I was listening to a podcast yesterday. Wayne Allen Root
• 28:46
  Speaker 15: was on there talking about this. It's called the NEED Act,
• 28:49
  Speaker 15: National Election Emergency Declaration. And there are some people in
• 28:54
  Speaker 15: the White House, I think, that are trying to prevent
• 28:56
  Speaker 15: President Trump from signing that. But if he doesn't sign that, Todd,
• 29:00
  Speaker 15: and the Democrats win the midterms, if President Trump thought
• 29:04
  Speaker 15: the first four years were a living hell, the last
• 29:07
  Speaker 15: two years are going to be Unbelievable for him. They're
• 29:11
  Speaker 15: going to try to impeach him. They're going to try
• 29:13
  Speaker 15: to impeach members of his cabinet. If they gain power
• 29:16
  Speaker 15: in 2028, I would be surprised if they try to
• 29:19
  Speaker 15: come after people and throw them in jail. But he's
• 29:22
  Speaker 15: got to do something. They've got to do something and
• 29:24
  Speaker 15: quit because we're just.
• 29:25
  Speaker 13: About out of time.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Well, it's going to be– and I am very prepared for,
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: God forbid, a Democrat takeover of Congress. We are ready
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: to go. This radio show will be ready to address
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: all of that. 2028 will be a bloodbath. If the
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Democrats regain control of Congress, they will win the White
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: House in 2028. And it's too early to have those
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: conversations explain my thinking there. But there are a lot
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: of very dangerous things that will be set into motion
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: if the Democrats are able to win. And it really
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: will be a victory for the communists. And it will
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: be our own fault. I mean, again, the House Republicans
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: going on a 50-day vacation after they just came back
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: from a month-long vacation. This is unbelievable. And Charles, I
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: just think the American people are going to be so dejected.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: That's the thing here. The Republicans have not given them
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: any major victories. And that's the problem. I'll give you
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: the last word.
• 30:33
  Speaker 15: You're exactly right. I mean, nobody takes this much vacation,
• 30:37
  Speaker 15: especially with the issues that the country's facing right now.
• 30:41
  Speaker 15: And it's just people are just begging and are desperate
• 30:44
  Speaker 15: to and telling the Republicans in the Congress, do something,
• 30:47
  Speaker 15: for God's sake, just do something.
• 30:50
  Speaker 16: Get off your butts.
• 30:50
  Speaker 15: And do something, because you know what? If they lose time,
• 30:53
  Speaker 15: they're going to have no one to blame but themselves.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: No doubt about it. No doubt about it. And again,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: you can only warn people so many times. That's the
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: thing here. And we're doing our very best. But these candidates,
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: a lot of these candidates are not helping themselves. Charles,
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: I do have to run Thank you for that call.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Let's try to squeeze in one more before we go
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: to break. Dawsonville, Georgia. Jackie is on the line, listening
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: to us on WDUN. Hi, Jackie. What's on your mind?
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: Hey, Todd. Long-time listener, first-time caller. I started listening to
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: you back when Caleb Hutchins was happy you put your
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: radio show together.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, many, many years ago.
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I've been listening to you a long time. But
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: what I wanted to call in about is I'm a
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: Vietnam vet. And don't pee down my back and tell
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: me it's raining. This is exactly what started in Vietnam,
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: and it's going to be a doppelganger if something ain't done.
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: And as far as voting goes, I'm going to vote
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: one more time. I sent in for an absentee ballot.
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: I'm 76 years old. And I'm going to vote one
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: more time. And, hey, if we lose it, it's not
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: because I'm voting for a conservative or anything like that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: It's just to keep the Democrats out of government. But,
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: you know, I'm fed. I'm just fed up.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: It's really sad, isn't it, Jackie? Because, I mean, look,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: I put my trust in the Republican Party, and they
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: let me down every single time. I feel like I'm
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: a battered spouse or something, Jackie.
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah. Hey, I'm tired of being lied to.
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: You know, the lies have got to quit. I think
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: the American people will be more apt to accept what's
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: going on if they'd be just transparent, just tell us
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: what's going on. But, hey, don't put the mushroom effect
• 33:04
  Speaker 7: on us because, hey, I've seen this movie before.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jackie, I'm with you on that. I got to run,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: my friend. Thank you for calling, and you did a
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: great job. And don't be a stranger, Jackie. Give us
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: a holler back one of these days.
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: All right, bud. I love you.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Love you, too, there, Jackie. Well, we have an awesome audience.
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: I'm just telling you, we have great, great people that
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: listen to this program. All right, we got to take
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: a break here. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stern Show. All right, let's check in.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: The great state of Maine. Denise is watching us on
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: our Rumble channel. Hello, Denise. How are you today? What's
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: on your mind?
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, the gas prices. I don't agree with Trump. I
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: love Trump. I love President Trump. Good business guy, whatever,
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: but it's expensive. I only put a half a tank today,
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: and I was at $ 45.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Holy cow. What kind of a car do you drive, Denise?
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: Well, I've got a Volkswagen Tiguan, and we just bought
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: it before the gas prices really started going.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, geez.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Hello. Plus, then over here in Maine, in the Northeast,
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: you've got Heating oil. You've got to fill up your
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: tanks with oil to heat your homes. And that, I mean,
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: right now it's over $ 5.
• 34:42
  Speaker 17: A gallon.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Is that right? Wow. Well, it's 100 degrees here in Memphis,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: so we're cranking up the A.C. these days, Denise.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's crazy. I don't think anybody wants
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: to pay high prices, you know, and stuff. So I
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: disagree with Trump on that one. But, yeah, you don't
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: know what you're going to do this winter.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: I got a big house. Are grocery prices, are they
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: going up in Maine, or are they staying pretty steady?
• 35:16
  Speaker 13: The grocery prices?
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Grocery prices, are they going up?
• 35:23
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Um, yeah, there, you know, I mean, there's one grocery
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: store that's pretty decent. The other two, they kind of
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: think they hike up their prices, but it's, you know, yeah,
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: it doesn't take much. I mean, I'll have one shopping
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: bag and it's like, there's hardly anything in it. It's 50,
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: 50 bucks.
• 35:42
  Speaker 13: $ 70.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't have anything in here.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: It's crazy.
• 35:49
  Speaker 14: It's yeah.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Everything.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: I mean, property taxes just went up. I just got
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: my property tax bill. And it's over 11,000. I'm like, crazy.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Well, the vice president says that they need a second chance.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: So are you willing to give the Republicans another shot?
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: Well, get it done or get out. Do it now
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: or get out. I mean, you can't keep, you know,
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: like I was hearing you say earlier, you can't keep
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: this thing going on forever, you know. They talk about
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: that we've been fighting this for how many years now,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: 40 years or whatever, and we can't keep fighting them.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Either you're going to do something or you're going.
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: To get out.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Denise, well said. Great way to end this segment of
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: the show. Thank you for watching us on Rumble. You
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: can also watch us on YouTube and our Facebook Live.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: I just think at the end of the day, President
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Trump needs more advisors in his inner circle from Mayberry
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: and not Mar-a-Lago. I think that's ultimately the issue.
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Got to take a break here. Taking your calls as well.
• 36:57
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• 36:58
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• 37:20
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee. On the banks of the mighty Mississippi.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: It's America's conservative blowtorch.
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: That's us, that's right. I love this American ride.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
• 37:37
  Speaker 18: Oh yeah.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: All right. Well, hello everybody. Welcome to hour two of
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: the big show. Great to have you with us. I
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: know we have a lot of folks on hold. Hang tight.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere. We're going to get to your calls momentarily.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: By the way, Dylan, I was checking out some news reports.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: There's a huge football game in Oxford on Saturday. Ole Miss,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: hotty toddy, the University of Mississippi. Am I crooked letter?
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: I crooked letter. I humpback, humpback. I just misspelled Mississippi.
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: I think you butchered that one.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Close enough.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: I forgot a few crooked letters.
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: It makes sense for Mississippi. It's fine.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Colonel rib.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Anyway, I play an LSU and Lane Kiffin is coming
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: back to town. I understand they've actually got, they're going
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: to have snipers on the rooftops, all nine yards. I mean,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: they're prepared for war.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: You know, he's brought several vests of Kevlar. Like he
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: is ready for those fans.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: It's ugly.
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: Ole Miss fans are not going to be welcoming him back.
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: anytime soon with any sort of gladness at all. It's
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: all going to be pretty heated.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: So we had our issues with Lane Kiffin over at
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Tennessee back in the day.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: But the vitriol between Kiffin and Rebels?
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's different. This is something we've never seen before.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: It's great. You know, the lovely advertising goddess, Miss Cheryl.
• 39:02
  Speaker 18: Yep.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: You know, she's a big Ole Miss fan.
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: And I think she's even locked and loaded.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: He's ready.
• 39:09
  Speaker 16: She's ready.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: She's ready for him to be here.
• 39:11
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: The Yankees are coming. The Yankees are coming. So anyway,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: that ought to be a lot of fun. I'm looking
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: forward to that game. I may even drive. I was
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: thinking about just driving down to Old Bay. You're not
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: going to be able to get a ticket for the game.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: No.
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: This might be the first football game where people pay
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: attention more to the coaches than the actual game.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: It's going to be like a high. You know they're preparing.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's going to go down. Because those LSU fans,
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: you know how it is in the Grove.
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 39:39
  Speaker 13: Yep.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: There might be a couple fights. Might be a couple
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: things thrown.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Some fisticuffs. Some skirmishes.
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: We'll see. Good to have you with us, though, ladies
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: and gentlemen. And we'll keep you updated on what's happening
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: down in Oxford, Mississippi. They're on the squire, as they
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: call it. All right. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Interesting story that I wanted to share with you from Dr.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. the
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Supreme Court giving mail-in ballot safeguards something of a chance. Dr. Locke,
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: good to have you with us today.
• 40:26
  Speaker 19: It's great to talk to you again, Todd. Thanks for
• 40:28
  Speaker 19: having me on.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: All right. So tell us what the Supreme Court is
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: up to.
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 40:34
  Speaker 19: Well, there have been a number of or a couple
• 40:37
  Speaker 19: of Democratic judges in the country that have put injunctions
• 40:41
  Speaker 19: on the mail-in ballot safeguards. that the Trump administration was
• 40:46
  Speaker 19: talking about. The Supreme Court a couple weeks ago basically said,
• 40:51
  Speaker 19: you can't put an injunction on people within the administration
• 40:55
  Speaker 19: to even talk about what's happening. And so they knocked
• 41:03
  Speaker 19: down that injunction. And then within 48 hours, the Democrat
• 41:07
  Speaker 19: judge in Boston put a new injunction on. And that
• 41:12
  Speaker 19: That was just talked about by the Supreme Court the
• 41:14
  Speaker 19: beginning of this week, where they said, OK, well, now
• 41:18
  Speaker 19: it's too close to the election. We're not going to
• 41:21
  Speaker 19: stop the injunction. So what basically what was happening was
• 41:26
  Speaker 19: the Trump administration had been trying to use the 1960
• 41:31
  Speaker 19: Civil Rights Act, which was set up to protect black
• 41:35
  Speaker 19: votes from being diluted, any type of fraud with regard
• 41:39
  Speaker 19: to blacks voting. And so the local election bureaus would
• 41:45
  Speaker 19: have to keep all their election records for 22 months
• 41:49
  Speaker 19: after the election. You know, if you're allowing illegals to vote,
• 41:54
  Speaker 19: it seems like you're making an argument that you're diluting
• 41:58
  Speaker 19: the votes of American citizens that are there. And so
• 42:03
  Speaker 19: the Trump administration was trying to use that. Again, the
• 42:06
  Speaker 19: Democratic Party. states across the country have been refusing to
• 42:10
  Speaker 19: provide that information. And my guess is they'll eventually win
• 42:17
  Speaker 19: on that. The Trump administration will win. But the Democrats
• 42:21
  Speaker 19: have basically been trying to go to sympathetic judges to
• 42:24
  Speaker 19: try to run out the clock before the midterm elections,
• 42:27
  Speaker 19: and it looks like that they've been able to do that.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I know the administration is incredibly frustrated and aggravated,
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: and I think the voters are too. The Supreme Court
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: is stepping in and putting a stop to the U.S.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Postal Service. Again, you had Alito and Thomas dissenting on
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: that ruling, but you do wonder if Congress is ever
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: really going to get serious, and the courts are really
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: going to get serious, about making sure we have fair
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: elections in this country.
• 43:01
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 43:03
  Speaker 19: Well, I don't think people appreciate how unique the United
• 43:07
  Speaker 19: States is in terms of not having regulations prevent vote fraud.
• 43:12
  Speaker 19: You know, you look at something like mail-in ballots that
• 43:14
  Speaker 19: we have in a number of states where they just
• 43:17
  Speaker 19: automatically send out ballots to everybody who's registered to vote.
• 43:21
  Speaker 19: You know, California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Illinois are some of
• 43:26
  Speaker 19: the states. There's no other country in the world that
• 43:29
  Speaker 19: has mail-in ballots like that. In fact, there are few
• 43:34
  Speaker 19: countries that have anything similar to the absentee ballot rules
• 43:39
  Speaker 19: that we have in the United States. You take something
• 43:41
  Speaker 19: like Europe. There are 47 countries in Europe. 39 of
• 43:45
  Speaker 19: the 47 countries in Europe completely ban absentee ballots for
• 43:50
  Speaker 19: people living in the country. Of the eight that do,
• 43:54
  Speaker 19: all of them, well, none of them will send out
• 43:58
  Speaker 19: ballots in the mail. You have to come in person
• 44:01
  Speaker 19: and show a government-issued photo ID because they want to
• 44:04
  Speaker 19: make sure that the person who is going to be
• 44:07
  Speaker 19: voting the ballot is the one who should be the
• 44:09
  Speaker 19: one who's voting the ballot. And six of those eight
• 44:13
  Speaker 19: also limited to people who are in the military or
• 44:16
  Speaker 19: who will be in the hospital at the time of
• 44:18
  Speaker 19: the election. And even then, they don't take your word
• 44:21
  Speaker 19: for it. You have to have third-party sworn verification from
• 44:25
  Speaker 19: either the military or the hospital. that in fact you
• 44:28
  Speaker 19: will be unavailable to go and vote that day. You know,
• 44:32
  Speaker 19: there are like no states in the United States that
• 44:35
  Speaker 19: have any of the rules that are even in the
• 44:37
  Speaker 19: least restrictive states in Europe for that. You know, you
• 44:42
  Speaker 19: look around the world in terms of things like voter IDs.
• 44:47
  Speaker 19: All 47 countries in Europe require government issued photo IDs
• 44:51
  Speaker 19: to vote, even as I was just saying, even to
• 44:53
  Speaker 19: Even the ones that allow absentee ballots require.
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: That you have to show it to pick up the ballot.
• 44:59
  Speaker 19: There's a lot of discussion about how requiring voter IDs
• 45:02
  Speaker 19: will discriminate against Hispanics or against blacks. All the countries
• 45:07
  Speaker 19: in South America require government-issued photo IDs to be able
• 45:11
  Speaker 19: to go and vote. Mexico requires a government-issued photo ID,
• 45:14
  Speaker 19: and they also ban absentee ballots for people living in
• 45:18
  Speaker 19: the country. You look at the 51 countries in Africa.
• 45:22
  Speaker 19: All 51 countries in Africa require government-issued photo IDs for
• 45:27
  Speaker 19: people to be able to go and vote. You mentioned
• 45:31
  Speaker 19: the SAVE Act. Not only would it be requiring government-issued
• 45:35
  Speaker 19: photo IDs, but it also requires proof of citizenship. You
• 45:40
  Speaker 19: see that around the world. Mexico has rules that are
• 45:45
  Speaker 19: very similar, essentially the same. in terms of providing a
• 45:49
  Speaker 19: birth certificate or other type of ID in order to
• 45:51
  Speaker 19: be able to go and register to vote. All the
• 45:54
  Speaker 19: countries in South America require similar types of rules. And
• 46:01
  Speaker 19: all but two of the countries in Africa have similar
• 46:05
  Speaker 19: rules to be able to go and prove citizenship, to
• 46:08
  Speaker 19: be able to go and vote. So, I mean, you
• 46:12
  Speaker 19: look around the world and, you know, it's just hard
• 46:15
  Speaker 19: to see Why is it that Hispanics and blacks in
• 46:19
  Speaker 19: all these other countries are able to go and abide
• 46:22
  Speaker 19: by these rules, but somehow they're not viewed as capable
• 46:27
  Speaker 19: to be able to go and do that in the
• 46:28
  Speaker 19: United States?
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: Well, indeed, and I actually had a lot more questions,
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: but unfortunately, our time has quickly expired here.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: John Lott, you can read his column on Real Clear Politics. Again,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: the Supreme Court giving mail-in ballot safeguards a chance. So
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: that was written back on August 30th. And of course,
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: now we know the Supreme Court has really hosed the
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: American people with their decision on the U.S. Postal Service. Dr. Lott,
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining us. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. Let me say something about this whole issue of,
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: and the Democrat argument is, that married women will not
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: be able to cast a ballot. What was it? Joe
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: Scarborough was talking about how his wife was unable to
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: vote because of their newlywed status. And then, of course,
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: this insane notion from the Democrats that black people will
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: not have access to IDs. So I want to put
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: this to rest. In the great state of Tennessee, the
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: state of my birth, I'm a proud Tennessee volunteer. We
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: have some of the toughest voter integrity laws on the books.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: You must show a form of identification to cast a
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: ballot in the state of Tennessee. When I show up
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: to vote on Election Day, even though the lady at
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: the front desk knows me very well and we go
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: to church together, She still says, I need to see
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: your ID. Now, I had a chance to talk to
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: the Secretary of State for the state of Tennessee, a
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: guy by the name of Trey Hargett, great guy and
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: doing a phenomenal job. And I asked him point blank, Trey,
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: have you heard of it? Well, I called him Mr. Secretary.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: I said, Mr. Secretary, have you had any reports of
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: across the state of Tennessee, of a newlywed, a bride,
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: being denied the right to vote because she did not
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: have a proper form of ID. He said they have
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: not received one single complaint. Then I asked him, well,
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: have you had any reports of minorities, specifically black people,
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: in Tennessee being denied the right to vote because they
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: did not have access to an ID? And he told
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: me unequivocally, absolutely not. We have not had a single
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: black person or anybody else complain that they have been
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: unable to vote because they could not find some form
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: of identification. So ladies and gentlemen, that's what it's all.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, look, you got to ask the questions and
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: you got to know the right questions to ask. And
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: you got to go to the people who can answer
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: those questions. So based on the information I just presented
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: with you, it tells me this is a false narrative
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: that the Democrats are spreading, and the media, they're too
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: stupid to realize they're being played, or they're actually in
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: on it, and they're lying to you intentionally. Either way,
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: not a good look. All right, we're going to take
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: a break. Going right to our phone lines, 901-260-5926, our number.
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: That's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right,
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: welcome back, everybody. As promised, let's go to the phone lines, 901-260-5926.
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: Let's say hello to Chuck. in Buford, Georgia, listening to
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: us on WDUN. Hi, Chuck, what's on your mind?
• 50:14
  Speaker 13: You have Jeff here from Buford.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: Well, my extreme apologies for getting your name wrong, but
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: go ahead. What's on your mind?
• 50:25
  Speaker 13: I'm willing to pay the $ 10 per gallon for gas.
• 50:29
  Speaker 13: In fact, I just filled up my truck, and it
• 50:31
  Speaker 13: was over $ 100 at $ 4 a gallon, so I'll be
• 50:34
  Speaker 13: paying $ 2. 50 maybe to fill up if it goes to $ 10.
• 50:38
  Speaker 13: I'm willing to pay that, but I really feel sorry
• 50:42
  Speaker 13: for the people that are struggling and living paycheck to paycheck.
• 50:46
  Speaker 13: I don't know how they're going to afford it, and
• 50:49
  Speaker 13: that's probably most people, by the way, and I think
• 50:53
  Speaker 13: that's going to show up in November. I think Trump
• 50:57
  Speaker 13: is kind of out of touch when he starts talking
• 50:59
  Speaker 13: about it's been worth it, you know, to pay the
• 51:01
  Speaker 13: extra dollars, and he's willing to pay more considering what
• 51:05
  Speaker 13: we've accomplished. But really, what have we accomplished? I mean,
• 51:09
  Speaker 13: it seems like the whole purpose of entering the war
• 51:11
  Speaker 13: was to come to an agreement to end the war.
• 51:14
  Speaker 13: So I don't think we've accomplished anything. We may as
• 51:16
  Speaker 13: well have stayed in Obama's agreement with Iran that he
• 51:19
  Speaker 13: made 10 years ago. So, yeah, I think he's out
• 51:27
  Speaker 13: of touch on this one, and it's going to show
• 51:30
  Speaker 13: up in November. That's my take on it. I think
• 51:33
  Speaker 13: people care more than he realizes about that. And by
• 51:36
  Speaker 13: the way, the price of groceries and everything else, it
• 51:39
  Speaker 13: is going up. So, yeah, inflation in general has been
• 51:44
  Speaker 13: going up. So I don't know. He's not doing that
• 51:46
  Speaker 13: real well on the economy as far as I can tell.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: No, and that's showing up in the polling data as well.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: But again, I can afford to pay $ 10 a gallon,
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: but I don't want to. And it angers me that
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: I've got to pay, you know, I would have to
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: pay that amount of money, the amount I'm paying right now.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: And it's very frustrating because you're right. And I see
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: this at the market I go to where people are trying,
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: you can tell they're trying to figure out what they
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: can afford to put in that basket. And that is
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: heartbreaking for me to see because those are people who
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: are living on fixed incomes and every little bit counts
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: and matters. And when you've got gas prices that have
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: gone for $ 2 a gallon, almost to $ 4 a gallon,
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: that's impacting somebody's life.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 52:39
  Speaker 13: And the government downplays the price of groceries because they say, well,
• 52:44
  Speaker 13: the price of eggs has gone down. The price of
• 52:47
  Speaker 13: milk has gone down. Well, it's easy for the food
• 52:50
  Speaker 13: companies to lower that. It's hard for them to get
• 52:52
  Speaker 13: away with that because a dozen eggs is a dozen
• 52:53
  Speaker 13: eggs and a gallon of milk is a gallon of milk.
• 52:55
  Speaker 13: So it's obvious when the price does not go down.
• 52:57
  Speaker 13: But everything else, all your package stuff, the price has
• 53:01
  Speaker 13: gone up because the unit price, the packages are so
• 53:03
  Speaker 13: much smaller. Those prices have gone up dramatically. I don't
• 53:07
  Speaker 13: know if the Consumer Price Index actually captures that stuff.
• 53:10
  Speaker 13: They just capture the basics like toilet paper, eggs and
• 53:13
  Speaker 13: milk and things like that. And so, all these other,
• 53:16
  Speaker 13: you know, prices. So the price of groceries has gotten way,
• 53:19
  Speaker 13: way up. It's still going up.
• 53:22
  Speaker 18: All right.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you for that call, and thanks for those observations. But, yeah,
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: I'm not happy. If, God forbid, gas goes to $ 10
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: a gallon, there's no way I'm going to be happy
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: about that. Let's say hello to our friend Patty in Statesville,
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: North Carolina. Hi, Patty. What's going on?
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Hey, Todd. How are you?
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: I'm well. Thank you for asking.
• 53:44
  Speaker 20: Listen, you know what? I'm willing to pay anything. I
• 53:49
  Speaker 20: don't want no commies in our Senate. I don't care.
• 53:54
  Speaker 20: If I have to sacrifice my own life, I don't
• 53:56
  Speaker 20: want these people near that Capitol.
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't either, but the reality is the Republicans
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: are not doing a very good job of convincing the
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: American people they deserve a second chance.
• 54:12
  Speaker 20: Oh, I know that. I know that. But let me
• 54:14
  Speaker 20: tell you something. I'm willing to pay the higher prices
• 54:17
  Speaker 20: because in the long run, four years of Joe Biden
• 54:23
  Speaker 20: and word salad. Let me put it this way. There's
• 54:28
  Speaker 20: no way you can undo two years in two years
• 54:33
  Speaker 20: of what they. You know what? These people get in.
• 54:36
  Speaker 13: They're going to.
• 54:41
  Speaker 20: You think the country's in bad shape now? If they
• 54:44
  Speaker 20: get in there, if they win, we're going to have
• 54:48
  Speaker 20: seven socialist communists in there on the Senate floor.
• 54:54
  Speaker 7: Seven, Todd.
• 54:56
  Speaker 20: Now, that's a lot. That's a lot of communism. And
• 55:01
  Speaker 20: I don't even call it socialism no more. It's communism.
• 55:05
  Speaker 20: And I'm going to tell you something. I would rather
• 55:07
  Speaker 20: sacrifice paying higher prices than have any people get on
• 55:13
  Speaker 20: my Senate floor. Now, if that makes me a bad person,
• 55:16
  Speaker 20: I'm sorry. But you know what? I want to fix income.
• 55:19
  Speaker 20: I get the security. I live with my daughter, Nicole.
• 55:23
  Speaker 20: She has a good job. She makes good money.
• 55:26
  Speaker 5: God bless her.
• 55:27
  Speaker 20: But I'm going to tell you, Todd, I'll sacrifice anything
• 55:29
  Speaker 20: to keep those people out of the Capitol.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: All right, Patty, I've got to run. We're up against
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: a hard break here, but thank you for calling in.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: 901-260-5926.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stern Show. Dylan, I think I've
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: got to stop tweeting when I'm in a bad mood.
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: It'll get you in trouble, Todd.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: I think I'm in trouble. I think I'm in trouble.
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: So I... I wrote, I don't know why, I have
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: multiple things setting me off today. And it's just one
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: of those days. I don't know why, but it's just
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: one of those days. So anyway, here's what I was
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: going after all of, I call them the Jesus grifters.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: And these people really get on my nerves. The Jesus
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: grifters and the conservative movement are about to make me
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: lose my religion. TV hosts name-dropping our Savior on air
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: while chasing interns around the newsroom. Worship leaders raising cash
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: to host services at Mar-a-Lago. Preachers boasting about their access
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: to the Oval Office. Religious liberty and family groups lusting
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: after Christian celebrities for their conferences. Christian universities that are
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: Christian in name only. Meanwhile, the country's going to hell
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: in a handbasket. I feel better.
• 57:03
  Speaker 6: I mean, you're not wrong.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: So did I get anything? I didn't get anything wrong there.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Did I?
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: I don't think so.
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: It adds up. I just can't. I was watching Fox
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: and one of the chicks who name drops Jesus every
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: three minutes. And it's just like, really, folks? This is
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: really not good. It is not good. And I hate
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: to say it, but there's just a lot of fake
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: and phoniness on Fox these days. And then they've got
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: these little conservative Charlie Kirk wannabes. Oh, those are the
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: ones that get me. And they're dressed up in their,
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Augusta National shirts and driving around on
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: their private planes. And it's like, OK, this is it
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: is so not relevant to anything dealing with the conservative
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: movement right now. And this is the problem. Let me
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: just say this. One of the big problems with the
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: conservative movement right now is the lack of education. A
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: lot of people have no idea why they're actually conservative
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: or why they should be conservative. And that's a problem. Anyway,
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: all right, let's go to the phones here. 901-260-5926. We're
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: going to Liberal Kansas, listening to us on KSCB. Daryl,
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: what's on your mind?
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: Well, Todd, I just wanted to point out, and it
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: seems like America has totally missed it. In 1982, America
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: had 254 operating refinery plants. Today, America only has 128,
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: maybe 130. The demand is higher today than it was
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: in 1982.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, it's a fair point. And again, a lot
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: of people are just wondering, why is it that our
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: gas prices are so high? if we're you know and
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: why are we relying on other countries for for gas for.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: Fuel and we have more fuel we we export fuel
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: versus keeping it at home that don't make no sense no.
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: And no it doesn't let me ask you this you're
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: out in kansas uh You guys have, I mean, they're
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: talking about maybe having the first Democrat senator in ages.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: Roger Marshall, is he really in trouble out there?
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I don't know, according to the news,
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: if you can believe the news he is. And you
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: just spoke about religion. The Adam who's running against him
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: is a false teacher. He's a false prophet.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a Methodist guy.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right. You don't want to even listen to him.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: He's a false teacher. That's all I'm going to say
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: Well, I will say this, Darrell, and thank you for calling, sir.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: Thank you for listening to KSCB. I will say this,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: that Pew Research did a study. They went out and
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: polled voters, and They say the economy is front and
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: center the issue. So whoever tackles that issue and gets
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: it right, they're going to win big. According to Pew Research,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: the November elections on the horizon, neither party is seen
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: as having an advantage on the issue of prices, affordability,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: and the economy at large. Americans are almost evenly split
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: over which party they most agree with on economic policies. 37%
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: say the Democrats and 36% say the Republicans. At this
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: early stage, Democrats both have an edge in voters' congressional
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: candidate preferences and an engagement advantage among their coalitions. 43%
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: say they would back a Democratic candidate for Congress if
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: the election were held today. 37% would back a Republican candidate.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: So there it is, and there are those numbers. 901-260-5926,
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Oh, here is Tim Burchett.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: And wanted to pass along some news regarding these Doge hearings.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: You know, he's chairing the subcommittee on Doge. Cut 47, please. Hey, everybody.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: Tim Burch.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 18: A lot of folks are asking, what are we doing
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 18: with Doge? And not hearing much out of it. Well,
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 18: we're still working and doing things. The media chooses not
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 18: to cover us. That's what happens. And that's why I'm
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 18: telling you this here. We had a hearing over the...
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 18: the industrial homeless complex and what was going on in L.A.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 18: They've received over a billion dollars and it's largely unaccounted for.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 18: Three things have happened, though. We had our hearing Tuesday.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 18: Karen Bass has resigned from LASA. She's the mayor of L.A.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 18: LASA is the organization responsible for dispersing the money and
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 18: being held accountable for it, which they obviously weren't. Several
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 18: people apparently have been charged. The Justice Department has gone
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 18: in dealing with some things that we dealt with in
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 18: the committee on Tuesday. And then today we're hearing that
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 18: LASA has decided basically to disband or will no longer
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 18: be responsible for dispersing any money for the homeless folks
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 18: in Los Angeles and in that area. So that is
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 18: some great work. DOGE has been On top of this thing,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 18: my staffer, Noah Hooten, did a great job at getting
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 18: us prepared Tuesday, and the other staff people were just wonderful.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 18: So I wanted you to know what we're doing. We're
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 18: having some success. Again, you're not going to hear from
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 18: it in the press, but, Dadgummit, that's what you sent
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 18: us there to do, and that's what the Doge Committee
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 18: is charged to do, to root out waste, abuse, and fraud. And, Dadgummit,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 18: that's what we did. And it is great news for
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 18: the taxpayer community. And I feel very, very good about
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 18: the work we've done. Probably one of the things I'm
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 18: most proud of this year is that accomplishment. So thank
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 18: you all so much for sending me here.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: Well, you're welcome. Thank you, Congressman Tim Burchett, doing a
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: great job. One of the handful of people up on
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: Capitol Hill that are actually living up to their promises. Oh,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: this is Maria Salazar. She's the Congress chickette from... Florida.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: She's a Republican. And Trump gave this woman his endorsement.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: And she just came out yesterday with a new ad.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: She is Cuban-American. She's from, well, her people are from Cuba.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: Here she is cut to 40, please.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 16: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 8: In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 8: had no criminal record. Be careful what your advisors are
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 8: telling you about immigration policy. The same Hispanics who helped
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 8: you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 8: You can be for immigration when Lincoln was for slavery
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 8: and Reagan was for communism. I'm not talking about giving
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 8: them amnesty. I'm talking about giving them a dignified life
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 8: in this promised land. I am Maria Elvira Salazar, and
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: I approve this message.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I'm Todd Starnes, and I don't approve that message.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: So this woman wants to give them a dignified life?
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: What is that all about? No, if you are here illegally,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: you go back to where you came from. Comprehende, senora?
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: I don't think she comprehends. I really don't. But again,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: it's this kind of stuff, folks, that has me concerned.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: Because these Republicans are abandoning the America First agenda. I mean,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: Maria Salazar may as well be a Democrat at this point,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 3: but that's where we are. All right, 901-260-5926 is our
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Coming up, we're going to be
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: talking about this crazy story out of York, Pennsylvania. A
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: mob of black people pulled a college girl off of
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: the front porch of her home and beat her, almost
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: beat her to death. Now, the media is not covering
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: this story. We are going to cover it, and we're
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: going to tell you what happened and what's going on there.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: coming up right after the break. But again, midterms almost
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  Speaker 3: here tonight. Rob Fenerty on Newsmax revealing the growing threat
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: from the DSA and the radical left. Fenerty says it's
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 3: time for the Republicans to hit the panic button. I mean,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: and again, Americans are angry. We've been talking about this
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: for most of the show today. The progressive left wants
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: to control Congress, Tallarico, El Sayed, AOC, Bernie Sanders. So
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: Fenerty has President Trump's secret plan to fight back, and
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• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Just a terrible
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: story out of York, Pennsylvania, where a woman was just
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: brutally attacked. She was literally pulled off of her front
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: porch by a mob of black teenagers there in Pennsylvania,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: cut 39.
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  Speaker 10: So, five minutes ago, AOC and Ayanna Pressley were accusing
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 10: white people of having lynched a black woman in Mississippi.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 10: Turns out her killer was a black man, and they
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 10: haven't corrected the record once. But here we have a
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 10: white girl who was standing on her own front porch
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 10: being beaten and dragged around by her hair by a
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 10: mob of about 30 black kids, and that's... Nothing. So
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 10: this happened at York College in Pennsylvania. This girl was
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 10: standing on the front porch of her own house when
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 10: a mob of non-college kids showed up and started trashing
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 10: the neighborhood, throwing garbage cans around and beating on people's
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 10: front doors. She told them to get out of her yard,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 10: so they attacked her, dragged her by her hair to
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 10: a stop sign, and beat her senseless. She called 911
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 10: five times before the cops finally showed up. Now other
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 10: college kids in this neighborhood say they don't feel safe
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 10: in their own homes because these mobs of black kids
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 10: keep showing up and wrecking everything and assaulting people. And
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 10: we've seen this in city after city after city. And
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 10: there is no way under the shining golden sun that
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 10: this story would not be national news for days if
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 10: the races had been reversed. and everybody knows it. But
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 10: you only hear about violence if liberals and the media
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 10: think they can blame it on white supremacists, even when
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 10: they have to make up the narrative to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a great point. Let me just say this. Again,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: York College in Pennsylvania, and this young lady was a student,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: and the local Fox station did an interview with this
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: young girl. She's a student there at York College, and
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: she was making tacos with her friends when all of
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: a sudden this crowd of hundreds of blacks staged one
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: of these street takeovers. And these have been happening all
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: over the country. Dylan, we had one of these at the–
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: The Delta Fair in Memphis over the AgriCenter.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I was thinking about going to that,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm kind of glad that I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: No, you don't want to. I mean, it's dangerous because
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 3: these kids, they behave like worse than animals.
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  Speaker 6: Their parents are nowhere to be found.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, not at all. Parents are, you know, at
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: the club.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So that's what happened. And so they're making the tacos
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: in the house, and they hear this massive noise. And
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, imagine just seeing, and just think
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: about this. You're in a nice area of town, and
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden you've got hundreds of black thugs
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: walking staging a street takeover. They jumped onto her porch.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: So the young girl did what you're supposed to do.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 3: She called 911. It took over an hour for police arrived.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: Others called 911. So five times people called 911, and
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: it took over an hour for the cops to get there.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 3: And by then it was too late. The student says
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 3: she was sitting on the porch with two friends when
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: dozens of people who were not students stormed the residence,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: screaming and yelling. The student said, we weren't even talking
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 3: to them. We just asked them to leave. The three
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: students were attacked, and these were the white kids, attacked
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: by the hostile mob and beaten mercilessly. She said, I
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: don't remember much. I was trying to keep my shirt
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: on while getting punched and kicked over and over again.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: Her friends were dragged by their hair across the porch
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: and beaten. These are the white kids being beaten by
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: the blacks. The victim said she was punched and kicked
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: by both men and women over and over. Quote, I
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 3: have finger marks all over my thighs while they were
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: grabbing me. Students identified one of the assailants to the police,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: but at the time of the assault, no arrests were made.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: Campus safety did not intervene. Several people say York College
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: president Dr. Thomas Burns issued a video condemning the attack,
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: but no formal communication has been sent out to the
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 3: student body. This is not the first incident of its kind.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: Another student was attacked earlier this year, and other students
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: have transferred due to being targeted by local black Utes.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, is it fair or unfair to say
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: that white people are now being targeted by these black
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: mobs across America? I mean, how many attacks like this
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: does it take to finally say, we've got a big problem,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: we have an epidemic of violence? directed at white people
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 3: perpetrated by black people. At what point do we get
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: to say that and address that? And I only ask
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: that because AOC is out there saying they're lynching people.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: You know, white people are not lynching anybody. As a
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: matter of fact, there was one lynching, and the suspect
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: was a black guy. So, again, I mean, there's one–
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 3: you've got AOC out there just lying and making things up,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: and then you have actual video evidence, town after town,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: city after city, of white people– Innocent white people being
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: targeted by these black mobs of teens who, by the way,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: and let me just say this, these black teen mobs,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: this is the product of critical race theory. These kids
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: have been taught for all of their lives. I mean,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: we're talking about 15, 16-year-old kids. They've been taught all
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: of their lives that white people are responsible for all
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: of their problems in life. That's what critical race theory does.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: So this is the product of all of that. So
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 3: now you've got these poor kids at York College. They're
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: not able to eat their tacos on the front porch
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 3: of their home. Now, my recommendation is buy a gun,
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: learn how to use it, and don't allow yourself to
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: become a victim. The local paper there calling it a brawl.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: It was just a brawl. No, this was a riot.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: And if it had been a bunch of white kids
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: out there targeting a black young lady and doing that,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: it would be wall-to-wall cover. You would have every news
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: organization in America broadcasting from your college. You would have
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: people calling for the college to be shut down. But again,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: in society, society says it's okay for minorities to brutally
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: attack and beat white people. I mean, it's really that simple.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 3: It's not right, but that's the reality of it. And
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: trust me on this, this is the only radio show
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 3: in America that's willing to say what needs to be said.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: All right, got to take a break. Hour three of
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: the big show coming up. This is the Todd Stern Show.
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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 3: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Our love is American. Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: Radio Show, hour three of the big show. Great to
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: have you along for the ride. Sorry, I'm literally texting
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: back and forth between C-SPAN and our publicity team for
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: the book. We are actually doing a C-SPAN one-hour book special.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: on C-SPAN. They're pretty excited about it, which I'm excited
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: that they're excited, because The Golden Age, How Trump Saved America,
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: is really, really doing well. We are selling a lot
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: of books, which I'm grateful for, but the message of
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: the book, which is returning to the foundational roots of
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 3: our country, That's the message that I hope people really
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: appreciate and understand. I'll be doing a big event at
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: the Spiritual Leadership Conference in Los Angeles County coming up
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: in just a couple of weeks. And we also got
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: word in October we're doing a book event at the
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 3: Reagan Presidential Library there in the Simi Valley in California.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: So I'm spending a lot of time in California over
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 3: the next couple of weeks as we promote the book.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 3: By the way, you can get a copy, if you
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: haven't already done so, at your favorite bookstore. Barnes &
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 3: Noble partnering with us on a lot of our book
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: events across the country. And, of course, you can also
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: purchase a copy on Amazon. Well, some very disturbing things
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: are coming out of the state of Texas. And just
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: the other day, we played you some audio. And, Dylan,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: if we had this audio of James Tallarico, and he was–
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 3: He was asked a question, an off-the-cuff question, about his
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: favorite drag queen. Take a listen.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 13: Mr.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: Calarico, so nice to meet you.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I broke my head. I was there when you
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: defended the drag.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 21: Who's your favorite drag queen in Texas?
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 6: Probably Alyssa Edwards. Alyssa Edwards. I love Marky Mays. Thank
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 6: you so much.
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 3: The fact that it took him less than two seconds
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: to name his favorite drag queen was insane because the
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: average Texas man– He can probably name his favorite quarterback
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: and his favorite Walker, Texas Ranger episode in less than
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: two seconds, but not his favorite drag queen. Now we
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: know a little bit more about this favorite drag queen.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I want you to hear
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: this audio of this drag queen who specializes in training
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: young children to become drag queens. Take a listen. Five, six, seven, go.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 21: Run.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 7: J.J. in character.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 6: Do, do, do, do, do.
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  Speaker 3: Much better.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 6: J.J.
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  Speaker 21: 's got it all.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I cannot wait to see what his future holds
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: for him.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 14: Although I see my mini-me, Justin Johnson in a million
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 14: years never could have been that at nine years old.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: Okay, well, J.J. is 11 years old. 11 years old,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: and this is beyond disgusting. James Tallarico also saying that
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: parents who refuse to acknowledge their child's identity are abusive. Well,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: to help us understand just how dangerous this is, I
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: want to bring in a great American patriot. Walker Wildeman,
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  Speaker 3: the CEO of AFA Action. Walker, good to have you
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  Speaker 3: with us today. Hey, Todd.
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  Speaker 21: Good to be back on the program, brother.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Walker, you watch all of these clips that
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: are coming out about James Tallarico, God is non-binary, Jesus
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 3: is pro-abortion, and all of his radical positions on transgenderism.
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  Speaker 3: What do you make of what's going on there in Texas?
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, the left keeps going left, and I don't know
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  Speaker 21: how long we call them left. When they keep going left,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 21: what's the next term we use? But look, James Tallarico
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  Speaker 21: makes Beto O'Rourke look moderate, and I can't believe I
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 21: would ever say that. James Tallarico makes Barack Obama look conservative.
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  Speaker 21: These Marxists keep going left and off the deep end
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  Speaker 21: every single election cycle, and James Tallarico is no different.
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  Speaker 21: Another thing he also said on the record in 2019
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  Speaker 21: during a Texas House committee hearing on transgender treatments for minors,
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  Speaker 21: or otherwise known as gender mutilation surgery for minors, He
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  Speaker 21: said that it's not abusive to mutilate little kids and
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  Speaker 21: give them cross-sex hormone treatments. He said it's actually abusive
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  Speaker 21: not to. He said in this committee hearing, he said, quote,
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  Speaker 21: I think there are some folks that would think that
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  Speaker 21: if you deny your child's gender identity, that's incredibly harmful.
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  Speaker 21: And whether or not we label it with the term abuse,
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  Speaker 21: it's abusive for sure. So not calling little Johnny Susie,
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  Speaker 21: according to Tallarico, is abusive behavior.
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  Speaker 3: Walker, I think a lot of people across Texas are
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  Speaker 3: surprised that, you know, and again, polls are polls, but
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  Speaker 3: Tallarico does seem to be attracting people with this radical
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  Speaker 3: message here. But I think a lot of people are
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  Speaker 3: surprised that he's attracting people there in the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think is behind that?
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  Speaker 21: Well, from what I've heard on the ground in Texas,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 21: a lot of folks don't know how radical Tallarico is.
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  Speaker 21: So I don't know whether they're, you know, not listening
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  Speaker 21: to the Todd Sarnes show. or they're watching CNN and,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 21: of course, not getting the factual information there. I'm not
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 21: sure what's going on other than just a lack of
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  Speaker 21: information and a lack of paying attention to Tallarico's true
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  Speaker 21: record here. So that's what I'm hearing on the ground
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  Speaker 21: in Texas. I don't know whether the polls are correct.
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  Speaker 21: Either way, this race is probably going to be uncomfortably
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  Speaker 21: close for Republicans. Ken Paxton does have some unfavorability in
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  Speaker 21: the state with Republicans.
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  Speaker 6: But look, Tallarico.
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  Speaker 21: has a terrible track record legislatively, and is as radical
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  Speaker 21: as they come. And one thing I'll say to brag
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 21: about Ken Paxton, whatever you think of Ken Paxton in
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 21: the state of Texas, his track record as attorney general
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  Speaker 21: is absolutely phenomenal. He has been, over the last decade,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 21: the best state attorney general in the state, in the country, rather.
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  Speaker 21: And there's no question about it. There's not any other
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  Speaker 21: attorney general that even comes close. So Paxton has a
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  Speaker 21: phenomenal record professional career as Attorney General, and the Texas
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 21: voters need to remember that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you're right. He has done a remarkable
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  Speaker 3: job as AG. Again, is the guy a good campaigner? No,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think he has been. I don't think he's
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  Speaker 3: been very effective. But that's where the state Republican apparatus
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: and the national Republicans have to step in. And the
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: question is, will they do that? And I think John
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  Speaker 3: Cornyn is doing his best to sabotage And that's what
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  Speaker 3: I'm concerned about is the sabotage coming from within the
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  Speaker 3: Republican Party there in Texas. And that's not just limited
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  Speaker 3: to Texas. I think we're dealing with a problem across
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  Speaker 3: the country.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, you're right. Ken Paxton has to stand on his own.
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  Speaker 21: And we can't blame the Republican establishment for everything. But
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  Speaker 21: what you're saying is correct here. The Senate Republican Committee,
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  Speaker 21: which is the campaign arm of the Senate Republicans, they
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 21: spent millions of dollars on Cornyn's race to defeat Paxton,
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  Speaker 21: of which Cornyn lost, obviously. They spent hundreds of thousands
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 21: in the Darlene Graham race to defeat Ralph Norman, and
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 21: they've spent millions of other dollars supporting establishment figures like
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 21: Susan Collins in Maine and otherwise in Murkowski in Alaska.
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  Speaker 21: But the fact that the Senate Republican Committee spent over
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  Speaker 21: $ 25 million in the primary, not the general, the primary
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  Speaker 21: in Texas, basically they burned their cash on the primary.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 21: Now they're telling Ken Paxton, good luck with the general.
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  Speaker 21: That's very shameful on the Senate Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: Walker Wildeman is joining us today on our Patriot Mobile
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 3: Newsmaker line from AFA Action. You know, Walker, the one
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  Speaker 3: interesting thing about Tallarico is he is an alleged theologian,
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 3: and he's really been weaponizing the faith, taking Bible verses
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: completely out of context. I think even the minister of
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 3: his church, the lesbian pastor of the church that he attends,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 3: said that even some members of the congregation had hoped
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump would be assassinated. I mean, this church makes...
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 3: Jeremiah Wright's church looked like the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 3: Remember that guy? America's chickens have come home to roost.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're talking about people now radicalizing religion and
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 3: taking that to the ballot box.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah, you're exactly right. And I don't know what form
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  Speaker 21: of Christianity Tallarico is claiming, but I can tell you
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 21: one thing. It's not the Christianity of the Bible, which
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 21: is the only true form of Christianity. These people that
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 21: claim Christianity... but yet don't hold one single fundamental Christian
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  Speaker 21: viewpoint is absolutely antithetical to Scripture, and it's a shame,
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  Speaker 21: and the public ought to reject this wholeheartedly at the
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  Speaker 21: ballot box in November. Tallarico is the farthest thing from
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 21: a Christian, and it's absolutely hard to watch. And when
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 21: you hear these clips as well, not only does he say, yeah,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 21: you know, maybe God's done non-binary, but then he also
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 21: goes on to talk about how you know, Islam and Christianity,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 21: I mean, it's basically the same thing. No, it's not
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 21: the same thing, and nobody from either faith will claim
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 21: it's the same thing. So these are just loony thoughts,
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 21: loony beliefs, and Tallarico's, if he is a Christian, boy,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 21: is he not living like it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're not kidding. And then you've got in Kansas,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: you know, you've got Adam Hamilton, who's the pastor of
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 3: that Methodist megachurch, who's taking on Roger Marshall in the U.S.
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: Senate race there. So it's interesting to see that component
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: within the Democrats rise up these far-left religious folks out there. Walker,
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 3: I'm just curious. You guys have a lot of radio stations.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 3: You hear from a lot of folks out there. Looking
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 3: at the midterms, what are you hearing from AFR listeners?
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  Speaker 21: I think that people that have been huge fans of
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 21: President Trump, voted for him multiple times, and that are
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 21: seriously engaged in the political arena and the news, I
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 21: think they're going to vote conservatively regardless. It doesn't matter
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 21: what the gas prices are. They know that they need
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 21: to vote every election cycle. It's a matter of stewardship,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 21: of being a good citizen. So they're going to show up.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 21: The problem is, is what are we going to do
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 21: with everyone else? And You've got this crazy podcast world
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 21: that's doom and gloom every day. The Tucker Carlson's of
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 21: the world are now encouraging people to vote for the Democrats.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 21: That's a problem. And how much that moves the needle,
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 21: I don't know. But the Democrats are so bad. To me,
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 21: the Republicans, they can keep the House and the Senate
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 21: because the Democrats are so bad.
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  Speaker 3: Now, will they?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 21: Is the anti-Trump vote going to show up? like it
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 21: has in few midterms in the past, maybe. But the
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 21: Democrats are so bad. I mean, their candidates are so radical,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 21: so off the deep end, that I think the Republicans
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 21: could potentially hold this, especially the U.S.
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  Speaker 13: Senate.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's what I'm hoping on. And again, I'm telling people,
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 3: if nothing else, go and vote Republican just to stop
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 3: Trump from being impeached, because there will be an impeach-a-palooza
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 3: if these Democrats regain control. Yeah, they will.
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  Speaker 21: I mean, Representative Al Green just last week, a Democrat,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 21: put forth a resolution to bring forth articles of impeachment.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 21: And this is before they're in charge. They're still in
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 21: the minority, and they're burning House floor time on these
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 21: resolutions for impeachment. So they'll impeach not just President Trump.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 21: They'll try to impeach multiple cabinet officials, and it will
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 21: be two years of an absolute circus. So that's what
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 21: we can avoid if you vote conservatively and Republican. But
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 21: November is going to tell, and it's really unfortunate the economy–
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 21: meaning the gas prices and the energy prices.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 6: It's very unfortunate.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 21: It's not good politically, but at the end of the day,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 21: there's so much more to consider than just what the
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 21: gas price is at the pump when it comes to
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 21: how you vote in the midterms.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things I really appreciate about you guys, Walker,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 3: and the entire ministry organization over at American Family Association
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 3: is that You guys haven't wavered. What you believed 20,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 3: 30 years ago, 40 years ago, you still believe today.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 3: That is the mission. And I wrote something on social
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 3: media that's getting me a little bit of blowback. But
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 3: I think one of the bigger problems here in our
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 3: world of politics is the Christian community. And I think
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 3: a lot of religious liberty organizations have gotten way off
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 3: the reservation of And I'm going to read to you
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 3: what I wrote. And I'm curious if you agree or disagree,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 3: but I just think we have big spiritual problems in
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 3: the country, more so than we have. We do have
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 3: political problems, but I think the overarching issue is a
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 3: spiritual problem. And quite frankly, as I wrote, I said,
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 3: the Jesus grifters and the conservative movement are about to
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 3: make me lose my religion. You've got the TV host
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 3: name-dropping our Savior on air while chasing interns around the newsroom,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: worship leaders raising cash to host services at Mar-a-Lago, preachers
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 3: boasting about their access to the Oval Office, religious liberty
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: and family groups lusting after Christian celebrities for their conferences,
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 3: Christian universities that are Christian in name only. Meanwhile, the
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 3: country's going to hell. in a handbasket. Did I get
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: anything wrong there?
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 21: No, you're on to something, Todd, and what you're on
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 21: to is the fact that there are people in it
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 21: for the right reasons, and there are people in it
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 21: for the wrong reasons. And unfortunately, with every movement, you
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 21: have people in it for the wrong reasons. But the
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 21: problem with that is not just the fact that they're
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 21: in it for the wrong reasons, but ultimately it hurts
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 21: the movement. I mean, we ought to be here to
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 21: win this thing. And I understand what does victory look like,
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 21: the fact that it took our country, you know, decades
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 21: to get to this place, this terrible place that we're
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 21: in with Marxism and paganism. And it's going to take
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 21: a long time to get out of this and improve
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 21: the state of the country. But the last thing we
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 21: need is fake conservatives and fake Christians in the movement
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 21: for themselves. So we ought to be about getting things done,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 21: getting victories achieved. I think President Trump and I think
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 21: a lot of people in the movement are in it
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 21: for the right reasons, but some aren't. And you can
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 21: usually spot those that aren't. And so I think we
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 21: need to call out the fraudsters and the fake conservatives
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 21: when we can. And we need to stay focused on
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 21: actually having principles, because the one unfortunate thing that I
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 21: saw with this $ 5, 000, whatever you want to call it,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 21: that President Trump's promising after the midterms, that's just a
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 21: bad idea. And look, I support President Trump. I cheer
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 21: him on every single chance I get, and I'll still
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 21: do it now. But when we put forth as a
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 21: movement terrible ideas, we need to be able to have
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 21: a conversation cordially about how terrible the idea is. It
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 21: doesn't mean I'm never Trump, anti-Trump, not MAGA. I'm just saying,
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 21: The last thing we need is to be spending $ 5, 000
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 21: per American citizen after the midterms, and we've got $ 41
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 21: trillion in debt. Now, if you want to talk tax cuts,
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 21: tax credits for American families, how we can keep our
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 21: hard-earned money, I'm 100% on board with it. But we've
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 21: got to be careful about the kind of ideas we float,
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 21: the kind of people we hang around with, and we
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 21: have to keep conservative conservative.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: All right. We're going to have to leave it there, Walker.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 3: You know how it is. We have bills to pay,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: my friend, so we do have to take a break.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 3: Walker Wildman, you keep fighting the good fight, and thanks
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 3: for the great work you and your family are doing
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: there in Tupelo.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 21: Hey, thanks, Todd.
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  Speaker 6: Glad to be on the program.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 3: All right. Good man right there, ladies and gentlemen. Walker Wildman,
• 1:31:02
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• 1:31:06
  Speaker 3: they are a fine group. And I know they would
• 1:31:09
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• 1:31:13
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• 1:31:31
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• 1:31:38
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• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: to crack down on crime. That is a huge, huge
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 3: success story coming from this administration. And you just don't
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 3: hear a lot about that in the media right now
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 3: because they don't want to talk about the great things.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump has done. They want to nitpick. And so
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• 1:33:14
  Speaker 3: wherever you are. We're dealing with this, they call it
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: a heat dome. And I know I've been watching video
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 3: from out in every other part of the country, and
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 3: I guess it's already starting to cool down. People are,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 3: I don't know, wearing sweaters? Is this true? I've seen
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 3: photographs and video where people are, you know, they're sort
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: of bundling up there in places like, Washington, D.C., and
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 3: the Northeast, and New England. I even hear the leaves
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 3: are changing. It has been 100 degrees here for the past, what,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 3: four weeks now, Dylan? Is that about right?
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's felt like the entire year it's been 100 degrees.
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  Speaker 14: Word.
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: It's just not stopping. And so this heat, they call
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 3: it a heat dome, and it's not going, it hasn't
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 3: moved in about a month. And there's no end in sight.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 3: We have not gotten rain. It's almost like tumbleweeds in Memphis.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 6: It literally makes no sense. I don't even know what
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 6: a heat dome is because this is the first time
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 6: I've ever heard of a heat dome. And now it's
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 6: just sitting over the top of Tennessee like we're just
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 6: ready for cooking. We're just eggs.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 3: So basically, I'm going to try to explain this as
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: best I can. It's basically a weather. This has nothing
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 3: to do with global warming. But you have a strong
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 3: high-pressure system, and it gets stuck. And it acts like
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 3: a lid on a pot. You know how you have, like,
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 3: water in a pot?
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 3: And you put the lid on top of it, and
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 3: what happens? It heats up very quickly and begins to boil,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 3: and that's exactly what's happening with us. Heat dome.
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 6: Why did they choose Tennessee of all places to put
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 6: a heat dome?
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's not fair.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 6: Literally, we have the humidest summers of all time.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 3: No offense. I was kind of hoping that it would
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 3: move over to Alabama.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 6: Seriously.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, really.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 6: I know it's hot down here, but it's really hot
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 6: in Tennessee.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 3: It's brutal. We need some relief, man. We need some relief. Apparently,
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 3: 12 states are like, I don't know, there are 12
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 3: states impacted. I think Kansas, I think Wichita is dealing
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: with this as well up there. Oh, here we go.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 3: Wait a second. Alabama is part of it. All right,
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 3: my condolences. It's the southern states, damn Yankees. These are
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 3: the states impacted by the heat dome. You feel like
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 3: it should be like some sort of like music or something.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 3: We need some sort of like, you know.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 6: Evil tone for it.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: Evil.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 3: Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 3: and Texas. So we're all suffering.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 6: It's not going to stop anytime soon. We should be
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 6: getting ready for like pumpkin spice season.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 3: It's not happening. So I got invited out. I have
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 3: to tell you this funny story, Dylan. I got invited
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 3: to dinner last night. Some dear friends and they live,
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: we call it the home, but it's one of these
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 3: upscale retirement communities, right? And it's one of these places
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 3: where they have, you could buy your own home there.
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 3: Or you could buy an apartment, and it's basically your
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 3: literal forever home. Yeah. So when you move in, that's
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 3: where you're going to be when you move out.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 6: But it's cool.
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 3: But it's cool. So this place has like a– it's
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: in the Memphis area, and it's got like a steakhouse,
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: and it's got a sushi bar, and it's got an
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 3: outdoor wine bar thing. They've got beautiful– they have a bistro.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: And they have this beautiful restaurant. They had multiple restaurants.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: And it's really nice. And so they're trying to, my
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 3: friends are trying to get me to take the plunge.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 6: You should. It sounds like a resort. You should just
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 6: live there. It sounds like a resort you live at.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 3: But the problem, this is the problem. I'm not, am
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 3: I really ready for that to be my forever home?
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, who cares? It's so nice. That's the best situation you.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 13: Could ask for.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 6: It is nice.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 3: So anyway, they were like, come out for dinner. And
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 3: we had a lovely time. It was a great dinner.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm actually eating healthy. I'm doing the calatrin thing.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 3: I had something called salmon.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 3: With a vegetable.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 6: Great fish.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, you know, it's not steak, but, you know,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 3: if you put any one sauce on it, it's still salmon.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 6: I can't tell.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 3: No. You can tell. It's a little fishy.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 3: But anyway, it was great food. And the service, they
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 3: just treat you like you're on the, I was going
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 3: to say the Titanic, but they treat you like you're
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 3: on a really– wow.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 6: The Titanic before it went down.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 3: No, but it's a very nice– I had a great time.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 3: But here's what was really funny. So because everybody's young
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 3: and hip and, you know, it's not like an old folks' home.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 3: You know, people are having a good time. They're laughing,
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 3: carrying on. There's carousing. There's all sorts of great stuff happening.
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 3: So anyway, I said, okay, I will come. I will
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 3: have dinner, and I've toured it. It's a great facility.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: So I pulled. in, and there's a fire truck and
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 3: an ambulance.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 6: Never a good sign.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 3: And my first thought was, oh, I guess another apartment
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: became available.
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 12: Yep.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 6: That's what I would think.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 3: It's like, whoops, discount. That was really bad of me
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 3: to think that.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 6: No, that's perfectly normal.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 3: So I don't know. So anyway, I just, I had
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 3: a great time, but I'm just not sure I'm ready to,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 3: you know, make the big plunge. I mean, you're, you're still,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 3: you know, you're free as a bird. You can do
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: whatever you want to do. But anyway, I just, I
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 6: They don't have bingo nights on Thursdays there.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 3: They don't do bingo.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 7: Okay. No, no.
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 6: I think you're okay. It sounds cool.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 3: More like poker night. Oh, they've got a sports bar.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, this is great.
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 3: And it's like dark paneled pool tables, like the big
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 3: screen TVs.
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 6: Okay, if you don't move in, I will. I'm going.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 6: This sounds great.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 3: We could just move the whole show over there.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 6: A whole community.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 3: So they told me I would be like one of
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 3: the youngest people. You had to be like 55 to
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 3: get into the place.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 3: So I would be like one of the younger people.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 6: Spruce it up just a bit.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I'm thinking about it.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 13: Good.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 3: I just– here's the problem I have. It's kind of like–
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: so this is terrible. I'm burying my soul here. You know,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 3: I've been trying to join Sunday school classes, and, you know,
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 3: there's just– the challenge is that in certain Sunday school
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 3: age groups, there is a lot of death. I mean,
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: just people die because, you know, they're old. And I just–
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 3: I'm not quite there yet. You know what I mean?
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: I'm not reading the obits every morning when I'm eating
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 3: my oatmeal and my heart-healthy cereal.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 6: There's got to be an in-between. There's got to be.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. There's got to be. Because I
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 3: can only make so many covered dishes a week. And
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 3: you don't want to be the guy that shows up
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 3: with a bucket of KFC to the funeral fellowship, right?
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry. It's the wake, not the fellowship.
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 6: Afterwards.
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 3: Man, it's tough. See, this is why I could never
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 3: be like a minister because I just don't handle death well.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 6: This is why you surround yourself with us because we
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 6: keep you young.
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 3: Exactly. Exactly.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah. But you need to pass that along to the
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 6: older generation. You need to go and be the young
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 6: person for someone else.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 3: My word. What a mess. So anyway, I don't know.
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 3: I am curious if any folks have... Oh, I was
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 3: talking to somebody over at the pharmacy, which is kind
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 3: of like our little– it's my little Mayberry. You go
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 3: over there, and it's one of the nicest pharmacies, and
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 3: everybody knows everybody. And actually, somebody who works there lives at– well,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 3: I'm just going to call it the old folks' home.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 3: They live there, and they have a blast. They say
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 3: their social life has really picked up a notch.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 6: Well, there you go.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 3: They do the pickleball.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that is a great sport.
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so– And there's a lot of drinking, apparently. Not
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 3: at the drugstore, but at the old folks' home.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 6: It sounds fun. It sounds like a good time.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just kind of kick back and chill out.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 6: If you want to be social. I mean, not everyone
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 6: likes to be social. I like to have my alone time.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 6: Maybe you wouldn't have that as much.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: Well, no, I enjoy it. But here's the thing. I
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 3: try to be incognito about the whole thing, right? Because
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 3: you don't. So when I walked in to the, I mean,
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 3: it is beautiful. It's just really beautiful. As a matter
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 3: of fact, I was talking to somebody who, they had
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 3: a couple from Florida that moved from Florida to our
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: area just because they did their research and found out
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 3: this was the best place to like, this is the
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 3: best retirement community in America.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 6: That's a good testament to that place then because Florida
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 6: has the villages.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 3: So I'm, so anyway, I'm walking and I'm trying to
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: be incognito. And there it is, a huge sign in
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: the lobby. Welcome, Todd Starnes.
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 6: You can't get away from it.
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 3: No, you can't.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 6: You're everywhere.
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 3: And then I noticed my biscuit books were on the— Oh, gosh.
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 6: Maybe give it a few more years, then you'll be ready.
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'm thinking about it.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking about it. So, I mean, who knows? All right, Naito,
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 3: what was this even all about? Why was I even
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 3: talking about this?
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 3: It was on my mind. This has been weighing heavily.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 3: I'm just conflicted. I don't know what to do. We
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 3: need more people to call. We need more testimony. More testimonies.
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 3: Old people testimonies.
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 6: Old people testimonies.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 3: Dylan goes to the end of the corner. Let's go
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 3: to Elizabeth in Georgia. Hi, Elizabeth. How are you today?
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 17: I'm good, baby, and I'm alive and kicking.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, I like to hear that. That's great news.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 17: Yes, don't go to a retirement home or whatever the
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 17: retirement home is called because you can't make friends with
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 17: your next-door neighbor because one day you'll borrow a cup
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 17: of sugar and you'll be dead.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 3: They'll be dead, I know.
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 6: You see, that's my.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 3: Elizabeth, that's the problem. You show up for breakfast in
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 3: the morning and it's like, oh, where's Gary at? Oh,
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 3: Gary died last night.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 17: Yes, that's a big problem. I wouldn't want to do
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 17: it myself. Kids want me to go into a retirement home.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 5: They're crazy.
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 17: I live in a retirement home, my own house, leaving
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 17: me alone because I don't want my next-door neighbor to
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 17: be dead when I wake up.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: So, Elizabeth, some people are doing the whole, is it
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 3: called aging at home, or they just decide, you know what,
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 3: we're going to stay in our homes. We're not doing
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: the retirement thing. We're just going to stay in our homes.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 17: We live on one floor, basically. We have a two-story house.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 17: We live in four or five rooms, a kitchen, a bedroom,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 17: and a bathroom. That's all we need. That's all they're
• 1:44:37
  Speaker 17: going to give us in a retirement home. You can
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 17: order food in. You can have everything sent. You can
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 17: have cooked food and public food or send you food. So, no,
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 17: I really live in a retirement home. That's all my
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 17: kids leave me alone.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 3: I love that. You see, I do have an independent streak,
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 3: and it's like I don't want to rely on, you know,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 3: family and everything. You know, you just want to, you know,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 3: you want your family to live their lives, and, you know,
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 3: you want to do your thing.
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 17: Leave me alone.
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my grandmother was like that. Her name was Meemaw,
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 3: and she was like, I love you people, but get
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 3: out of here.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 17: Every southern grandmom was Meemaw, except me.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 3: What are you, Elizabeth?
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 17: I'm from Philly. I'm no Meemaw, but I live in Milton, Georgia,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 17: so I love Georgia. Yeah, I'm glad to be here,
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 17: but I don't want to live in a retirement home
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 17: because it's the reason I just stayed. You know, you're
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 17: getting friends with somebody, and it's a shame. It's going
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 17: to happen to all of us. You know, the kids
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 17: love it, but I don't want to wake up and
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 17: my next-door neighbor won't be there anymore.
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 3: Fair enough. Fair enough. Elizabeth, thank you for calling in,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 3: and I guess that is an option. People are deciding
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 3: just to kind of like senior, like remodel their homes
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 3: to accommodate their, you know, senior lifestyle.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I would probably want that. I like
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 6: my alone time too, so I get that. I don't
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 6: think that helps, Todd. I mean, she's saying the exact
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 6: thing that you're scared of.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 3: So when your buddies get together, what are you guys
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 3: talking about? When you get together, what are you talking about?
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, sports.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 6: There's a lot of nothing that is talked about.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 3: So here's my problem with that. So if you move
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 3: into a senior home, you're like, oh, hey, Carl, how's
• 1:46:26
  Speaker 3: it going? Well, my bursitis is acting up today.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that's a good point.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 3: Got a corn on my big toe.
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 6: It's just a therapy.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm over-exaggerating. I don't know. This is therapy on
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 3: the air for me. I probably should be paying somebody
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 3: to talk about these issues.
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 6: No, this is great. There's a vast audience of people
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 6: that can help us.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 3: I'm at a point now where I'm like, do I
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 3: buy a condo or do I just, you know, buy
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 3: into this? That's my big thing.
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you have options.
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 3: That's what happens.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 6: You're not at a point where you don't have an option.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's true. Yeah, and that's a fair point. But
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 3: I don't want to end up, you know, you don't
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 3: want to spend your twilight years in some place that
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 3: smells like a dirty locker room.
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 6: Fair enough.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 3: Right? Yeah, nobody wants that. All right, got to take
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 3: a break.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 12: 901-260-5926.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 3: Our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. This is the Todd Starnes Show.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 3: All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 3: Radio Show. Great to have you with us today. By
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 3: the way, tomorrow, Open Line Friday, and can't wait for
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 3: that to happen. I always love Open Line Friday. We
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 3: have some crime news, a lot of crime news to
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 3: share with you, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: Keeping you updated on crimes sweeping across the fruited plain.
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 3: This is the Starnes APB. That's right, all points bulletin.
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 3: And Dylan, today we have an animal version of the
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 3: crime report. Dateline, Dayton, Ohio. Police there searching for a
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 3: goat named Cardio. Police say the goat was picking fights
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 3: with parked cars. Cardio had been repeatedly found head-butting parked
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 3: vehicles across the city. The Humane Society says... He apparently
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 3: saw his own reflection and thought another goat was challenging him.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 3: Police eventually did find Cardio. They detained the goat. Authorities
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 3: now trying to find him a new home, preferably away
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 3: from shiny cars.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 6: What a guy.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 13: I know.
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 3: Where's our little bloop thing? Thank you. Horses. From Santa Fe,
• 1:49:11
  Speaker 3: New Mexico, or New America as President Trump calls it,
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 3: a horse leads cop on a high-speed chase. The horse,
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 3: waiting to participate in a New Mexico parade, escaped and
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 3: prompted a response that involved, believe it or not, motorcycle cops,
• 1:49:29
  Speaker 3: bicycle cops, and animal control officers. They also had to
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 3: deploy actual cowboys. They eventually caught the horse and gave
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 3: him some water. Remarkably, even made it back to the
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 3: parade in time. I guess you really can lead a
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 3: horse to water, so there you go. From Burning Man,
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 3: we have this story. Two yellow-bellied marmots mysteriously appeared in
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 3: the San Francisco Bay Area. Now, the marmots are not
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 3: indigenous to San Francisco. But they are from the Sierra
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 3: Nevada area, so they're trying to figure out how the,
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 3: apparently they believe the yellow-bellied marmots may have stowed away.
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 3: Do you know what they call, you know what the
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 3: yellow-bellied marmot is, Dylan?
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 6: I didn't know what a marmot was until about five
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 6: seconds ago. That thing looks terrifying.
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 3: It's a groundhog.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 1:50:26
  Speaker 3: That's what they call the groundhogs.
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 6: So they're actually groundhogs?
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 3: Punxsutawney fell as a yellow-bellied marmot.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 6: I thought it was a squirrel.
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 3: No, they're big, big, big marmots, big critters. So wildlife
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 3: authorities say they believe the yellow-bellied marmots crawled into cars
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 3: and hitched rides back from Burning Man. So apparently, maybe
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 3: they were inebriated. You never know. So there you go.
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 3: All right, that's it, ladies and gentlemen. You can't even
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 3: trust the wildlife these days. The whole country's gone to
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 3: hell in a handbasket. Or in this case, a yellow-bellied marmot.
• 1:51:05
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