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Four Republican Senators KILL Save America Act · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 4: up the phone. Nine oh one two six zero five
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  Speaker 4: we're going to be getting to. Gloria Romero is going
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  Speaker 4: to be joining us. She is right now leading the
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  Speaker 4: pack in the California Lieutenant governor's race. Gloria a former Democrat.
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  Speaker 4: She says she didn't leave the Democrat Party. The Democrat
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  Speaker 4: Party left her. She became a Republican. And we've had
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  Speaker 4: her on before a time or two, and she'll be
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  Speaker 4: joining us a little bit later on to talk about
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  Speaker 4: what's happening in California with this slow moving disaster, and
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  Speaker 4: it's really a slow moving steal. If you haven't been
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  Speaker 4: following the numbers, and we have because I know you
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  Speaker 4: folks are busy, you're starting to do the vacations, and
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  Speaker 4: so we stay up on all of this stuff for you.
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  Speaker 4: It's fascinating because as the numbers are coming in and
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  Speaker 4: there's still about gosh four million ballots that have yet
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  Speaker 4: to be counted, they're saying it could be weeks until
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  Speaker 4: all the votes are counted there in California. But what
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  Speaker 4: I find very interesting is, for example, in the Spencer
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  Speaker 4: Prant race specifically, which is just one city, right, they
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  Speaker 4: should have already been able to count all of the
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  Speaker 4: votes by now we're talking about one city. The Republican
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  Speaker 4: candidate Spencer Prant. I mean it's a nonpartisan race, but
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  Speaker 4: prints you know, basically the de facto Republican in the mix.
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  Speaker 4: He hasn't gained a single vote. However, his opponent, who
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  Speaker 4: was trailing by something like ten percentage points, is now
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  Speaker 4: almost neck and neck with Spencer Prance. So do you
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  Speaker 4: see what's going on here? This is nothing more than
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  Speaker 4: a steal. They are stealing the votes away from the Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: So we're going to talk to Gloria Romero about that.
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  Speaker 4: Also in Maine, new information coming out in Maine about
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  Speaker 4: this about Graham Platner, who is the Democrat probably going
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  Speaker 4: to be the nominee for the US Senate. And here's
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  Speaker 4: what gets me. So yesterday the guy came out and said,
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  Speaker 4: you know, well, if a man stormed into my house
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  Speaker 4: and tried to rob me, I would rape that man.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm sorry, you're like, wait, what not in a
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  Speaker 4: gay way? But he would rape the man. That's what
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  Speaker 4: he said. And what's even more shocking, delement that's not
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  Speaker 4: even the worst of it. I mean again, he's a
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  Speaker 4: Nazi for God's sakes. However, and this is what I
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  Speaker 4: find fascinating. We're gonna be talking to Matthew Ganyon, who
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  Speaker 4: is the CEO of the Main Policy Institute. He's been
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  Speaker 4: all over this, all over the story. What I find
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  Speaker 4: fascinating is there's new polling data out and it turns
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  Speaker 4: out that in spite of all these allegations, and there
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  Speaker 4: have been some scandalous allegations, he mocked a purple Heart recipient,
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  Speaker 4: he mocked I think a handicapped person. He's accused of
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  Speaker 4: beating up and smacking around women, and then there was
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  Speaker 4: the sexting scandal on the Predator's Paradise platform, and now
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  Speaker 4: the the accusations that he once said that he would
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  Speaker 4: rape a man. In spite of all of the oh
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  Speaker 4: oh yes, and he's a Nazi, and in spite of
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  Speaker 4: all of that, he is still leading Susan Collins by
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  Speaker 4: four points. What is going on in the state of
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  Speaker 4: name So this is our starting off point because I
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  Speaker 4: have a theory here and the reason why Susan Cotton
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  Speaker 4: Collins rather is is getting beaten by a wife beating
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  Speaker 4: Nazi man Raper is because she's not doing her job.
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  Speaker 4: People are so sick and tired of rhinos. Apparently in Maine,
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  Speaker 4: they're so sick and tired of rhinos Republicans in name only,
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  Speaker 4: they would rather vote for the man Raper. There's got
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  Speaker 4: to be a better term, Dylan, can you chant gpt
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  Speaker 4: that format? We got to come up with a better
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  Speaker 4: name for.
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  Speaker 5: This TATTOOBT genuinely might they're a better term than man
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  Speaker 5: Raper chat TVT. I'll find out.
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  Speaker 4: But he's not gay. He wants everybody to know that.
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  Speaker 4: So and we appreciate the We appreciate the clarification. But again,
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  Speaker 4: this is how bad it is that it may in Maine.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, Susan Collins is trailing this guy by four points.
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  Speaker 4: Can't make it up. By the way, Stop Mark is
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  Speaker 4: looking great. John's numbers are looking incredible for Trump. Trump
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  Speaker 4: is doing everything Trump is supposed to be doing. The
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  Speaker 4: problem here is Congress. And that's really the jumping off point.
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  Speaker 4: Because last night, while many of you were settling down
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  Speaker 4: and you were I don't know what you were doing.
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  Speaker 4: I was watching another Clint Eastwood movie from the nineteen seventies. Also,
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  Speaker 4: I watched I don't know why I watch Everybody Loves Raymond.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I own the entire series now, so I
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  Speaker 4: always enjoy going back. So I like to decompress when
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  Speaker 4: I you know, there's a lot of Look, when you're
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  Speaker 4: doing a show like this, hosting a show like this,
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  Speaker 4: it's really a twenty four hour job. I mean you're
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  Speaker 4: always on, you're always reading, researching, looking for stories. But
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  Speaker 4: every now and again you got to step back and decompress.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why I like to watch, you know, Andy
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  Speaker 4: Griffiths show, The King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond and
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  Speaker 4: Clint Eastwood movies. I like watching the bad Guys to
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  Speaker 4: get show what can It makes me happy. So anyway,
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  Speaker 4: last night, while many of you were probably doing other
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  Speaker 4: things like yours truly, the Senate convened and all I
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  Speaker 4: can tell you is God bless Enator Tommy Tubberville. And
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  Speaker 4: we've got all of the details, all of the information
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  Speaker 4: over at Todd Sterns dot com. And I would encourage
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  Speaker 4: you to go and check out our website and read
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  Speaker 4: my story about this. But last night, the Republican controlled
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  Speaker 4: Senate once again killed the Save America Act. And I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what to tell you for those of you,
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  Speaker 4: and we're going to name the names, and they're not
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  Speaker 4: unfamiliar names to you. I mean, these are people who
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  Speaker 4: are rhinos. But I think what we're going to try
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  Speaker 4: to do is explain why, explain why this is happening.
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  Speaker 4: And I said something yesterday and I got a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: I got a lot of heat, heated mail from some
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  Speaker 4: of you about about something I said about Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: being a lame duck president. How dare you? How dare
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  Speaker 4: you call the president lame? No, I'm not calling the
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  Speaker 4: president lame. It's the lame duck. It's an expression that
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  Speaker 4: means he can't run again. It's an expression you kind
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  Speaker 4: of do your homework people, So it's an expression. And
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  Speaker 4: these senators know that Trump's time in office is coming
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  Speaker 4: to a close, and it's going to happen very quickly.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, who would have thought we're at the midterms
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  Speaker 4: two years the halfway point here, and that's it. Trump
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  Speaker 4: cannot run again, that's it. He's done. And a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people in the Senate right now they see that,
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  Speaker 4: they know that and they know that Trump does not
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  Speaker 4: have the numbers now and they can stop his agenda.
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  Speaker 4: And they want to stop his agenda because hear me
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  Speaker 4: on this. Hear me on this, ladies and gentlemen. The
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  Speaker 4: Trump agenda is not the Republican Party's agenda and it
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  Speaker 4: never has been. Donald Trump is a populist. He's really
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  Speaker 4: a big tent populist, if you will. And Donald Trump
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  Speaker 4: brought together all of these coalitions of people, and it's
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  Speaker 4: these coalitions of people, and he's delivering on key promises
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  Speaker 4: to all of these coalitions of people. So what happens
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  Speaker 4: when Trump leaves? I think the coalition falls apart. I
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  Speaker 4: truly do, because the establishment Republicans they've got no interest
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  Speaker 4: in continuing the America Verse movement. They just really don't.
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  Speaker 4: So all of this is happening last night, and let
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  Speaker 4: me explain this. So you've got Tom Tillis from North Carolina,
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  Speaker 4: Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, Mitch McConnell from pardoning in my
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  Speaker 4: throat there, Mitch mc there it is again, Mitch mccotty. Anyway,
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  Speaker 4: Senator Turtle, and Susan Collins of Maine, who is losing
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  Speaker 4: right now to a Nazi man. Raper allegedly diy'lant any
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  Speaker 4: update there on the.
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  Speaker 5: It just wants to call it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's not good. Can we maybe tried thesaurus? Maybe
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  Speaker 4: we can try the thesaurus thh You know, thank you,
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  Speaker 4: thanks looking up. Just just put type in THHG you'll
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  Speaker 4: get there. Google. Google will help you out. So anyway,
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  Speaker 4: these are the four you've got. Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell, and Collins.
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  Speaker 4: And they joined the Democrats and they killed the Save
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  Speaker 4: America Act again. God bless Tommy Tubbervilt because I did
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  Speaker 4: point out yesterday this is sort of funny. So I've
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  Speaker 4: got to share this with you. So yesterday I'm watching
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  Speaker 4: all this good and I posted something on X that
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  Speaker 4: went super viral, and I just all right, okay, fine,
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  Speaker 4: I tell it. I will read what I wrote, but
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  Speaker 4: it's on the X page, and people got there were
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  Speaker 4: a lot of upset people up on Capitol Hill. Here's
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  Speaker 4: what I wrote. Any Republican senators calling out Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell,
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  Speaker 4: or Collins. Any Republican senators calling out Majority leader Thoon, Nope, none,
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  Speaker 4: it's political cowardice. Hold them all accountable, every single Republican
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  Speaker 4: senator who refuses to call out and condemn Thoon and
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  Speaker 4: the four rhinos should be primary. And it's gotten a
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  Speaker 4: lot of attention, a lot of reactions. So anyway, about
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  Speaker 4: an hour later, I got a message from Tubberville's people
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  Speaker 4: and they said, hey, look, you know our guy actually
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  Speaker 4: said something. And so so Tuberville is among one of
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  Speaker 4: the few. And there may be a couple out there,
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  Speaker 4: but not many who are willing to call out these
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  Speaker 4: these rhinos. And so that's why I say hold them
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  Speaker 4: all accountable. I think every other Republican senator should have
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  Speaker 4: been taking personal time going up to the floor and
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  Speaker 4: issuing a speech condemning Tom till Us, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch mccollins,
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  Speaker 4: Susan Collins. And here's my concern as we move past
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  Speaker 4: the midterms here, and let's just say, let's just theoretically
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  Speaker 4: say that the Republicans can maintain control of the Senate.
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  Speaker 4: They're really not, because you're gonna have Tillis and Murkowski
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  Speaker 4: and McConnell and Susan Collins until January stopping every single
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  Speaker 4: piece of Trump's agenda because they're already doing it. And
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  Speaker 4: you can throw in Cassidy and Cornyn into the mix
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  Speaker 4: there as well. So it's a tough situation for the
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  Speaker 4: White House right now, and the White House has nothing
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  Speaker 4: to do with it. The White House is doing what
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  Speaker 4: we elected them to do. It's the Republicans in the
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  Speaker 4: Senate and by the way, the House, and I'll get
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  Speaker 4: to that in just a moment. They're the ones that
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  Speaker 4: are the problem here. So last night you had eighteen
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  Speaker 4: Republicans break with President Trump. They sided with Democrats to
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  Speaker 4: pass the massive Ukraine spending bell you ready for this one.
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  Speaker 4: The legislation would provide more than a billion dollars in
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  Speaker 4: security for Ukraine. Now that's George tag money, every single
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  Speaker 4: penny of it, ladies and gentlemen. And that money, by
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  Speaker 4: the way, could have been used. That billion dollars could
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  Speaker 4: have been used to make your neighborhood safe. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we've seen all these what teen mobs out there pillaging
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  Speaker 4: and plundering, rampaging, looting, could have done. We could have
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  Speaker 4: used that money to protect our neighborhoods from these mobs
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  Speaker 4: of teens. But instead the Republicans are giving your hard
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  Speaker 4: earned money to Zelensky. And then just a few days
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  Speaker 4: ago you had another situation where Republicans colluded with the
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  Speaker 4: Democrats to pass the what symbolic measure to stop the
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  Speaker 4: president from taking military action in Iran? So are you
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  Speaker 4: I know you're not going to be surprised by this,
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  Speaker 4: but you need to hear these numbers. And again, the
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  Speaker 4: polling is the polling is the pulling. I get that. However,
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  Speaker 4: right now, congressional approval rating is right around, hovering around
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  Speaker 4: thirteen percent to twenty seven percent. I think the guys
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  Speaker 4: that are standing in the streets with the ouigi's wanting
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  Speaker 4: to clean your windshields, they're more popular right now than
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  Speaker 4: members of Congress. And the reality here, I think that
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  Speaker 4: America first Republicans are angry, and because again the only
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  Speaker 4: reason we gave them control of Congress not because we
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  Speaker 4: liked them. We just need to get the president's agenda throom.
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  Speaker 4: That's it. They were necessary, but they're not doing it.
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  Speaker 4: And many of the president's executive orders are still waiting
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  Speaker 4: to be codified. And until that happens, this is all
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  Speaker 4: we're just we're just sitting here watching political theater. Let
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  Speaker 4: me give you an example, the executive orders on boys
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  Speaker 4: and girls and schools and sports that all that stuff
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  Speaker 4: promoting the LGPT agenda. Look, the executive orders clearly state
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  Speaker 4: any school refusing to obey would lose federal funding. But
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  Speaker 4: the schools are ignoring the President's everybody's ignoring the president's orders.
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  Speaker 4: And if you don't believe me, just do a Google search.
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  Speaker 4: Check out the number of schools celebrating Pride month, and
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  Speaker 4: they're all still being funded by the federal government. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the question here is what are we going to do
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  Speaker 4: about it? Well, they can still codify the president's executive orders,
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  Speaker 4: they can still pass the Save America Act and secure
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  Speaker 4: our elections. But I don't think it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: I really don't. The Majority leader is not an America
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  Speaker 4: First guy. He's never he never has been. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think he's ever going to be. And this is a
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  Speaker 4: guy who craves power, and he is beholden to these
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  Speaker 4: snakes who are lurking about in these murky waters of
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  Speaker 4: the DC swamp. I mean, it really is a Uni party.
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  Speaker 4: And you know why, because the Democrats and the Republicans
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  Speaker 4: are more concerned about their bank accounts their stock market
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  Speaker 4: portfolio is than they are yours. I mean, that's it
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  Speaker 4: in a heartbeat. But they know that Trump is a
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  Speaker 4: lame duck president. They may be traitors, these rhinos, but
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  Speaker 4: they are not stupid. They can read an expiration date
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  Speaker 4: and they are taking some political They're doing a political
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  Speaker 4: calculation here that they're going to be around a lot
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  Speaker 4: longer than Donald J. Trump is.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 4: Look for me, I'm voting Republican of the Fall. And
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  Speaker 4: the only reason I'm doing that is not because of
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  Speaker 4: the Republicans. I'm doing it because of Donald Trump. I
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  Speaker 4: don't want this man dragged through another impeachment process. I
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  Speaker 4: don't that's gonna happen if Republicans stay home. And I
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  Speaker 4: know Matt Towry are good buddy, the Polster. He's been
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  Speaker 4: on with us a time or two. That is his
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  Speaker 4: big concern is that Republicans are completely demoralized right now.
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  Speaker 4: But we still got to get out there and we've
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  Speaker 4: got to protect our president. Look, I got to take
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  Speaker 4: a break here. So much more to say about this,
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's try to work in a call here
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  Speaker 4: O Caalla Florida, Sonny listening to us on WOCA, Hi, Sonny,
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  Speaker 4: what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 7: What's on my mind, Todd, is how anybody could be
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  Speaker 7: a Republican. I am definitely going independent because the Republicans
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  Speaker 7: are disgrace that one bill, seventeen people in the Senate
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  Speaker 7: went and voted with the Democrats. They do this so often.
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  Speaker 7: It's unbelievable why they don't represent the people that elected them.
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  Speaker 7: And to me, that is a criminal for disgrace. It's criminal.
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  Speaker 7: And the American people expect who register as a Republican,
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  Speaker 7: expect the representatives that do the right thing. And to me,
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  Speaker 7: the right thing is that maybe Trump should if he
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  Speaker 7: wants to run for a second term. He doesn't have
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  Speaker 7: any two consecutive terms anywhere, so if he ran again,
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  Speaker 7: this would be his second conservative term, although I hope
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  Speaker 7: he doesn't simply because he's had enough problems with the
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  Speaker 7: Demoats and the demoats and Republican clothing.
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  Speaker 4: We'll call him demon rants and republic raps. How's that, Sonny.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: It's well, by the way, you're not wrong there, but
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  Speaker 4: it was eighteen Republicans, not seventeen, and it's just unacceptable.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: It's a great point, Sonny. I got to run. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you for that. We'll be right back everybody, All right,
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: welcome back to the Todd Starting Show. Great to have
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: you with us. I know we've got a lot of
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: folks wanting to weigh in on the show today. Hang tight,
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: we're going to get to your calls. But right now
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: I want to go to the Patriot Mobile newsmaker line.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: We're honored to have with us. Gloria Romero back on
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: the show again. She has been the leading candidate to
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: be the lieutenant governor in California. She's still leading, at
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: least we think she's still leading in the polls as
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: the votes are still being counted. Gloria, first of all,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: congratulations to your showing thus far in the California primary race.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: Ty.
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  Speaker 10: It's an honor to be back with you again. And
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: if I can just say, I want people across the
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: country to think of this. The number one candidate for
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: governor in California today is a Republican. Number one candidate
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: for lieutenant governor in California is a Republican. So has
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: hell frozen over? No, But Californians are waking up and
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: we are ready for change.
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: Keep hope alive.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I look, I've been preaching that for all this week,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: since Tuesday, and I think that is the big story.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Here is a statewide When you actually look at the
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: maps and look at where you and Steve Hilton have
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: done so well, it is an overwhelming majority of California.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Now look, I get it, You've got Los Angeles, San Francisco,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: San Diego. I understand those are big population centers, but
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: by and large, Gloria, you have to be really impressed
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: that so many Republicans did come out and engage in
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: the political process on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 10: Absolutely, and I'm even going to say even more so Todd.
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: Certainly we motivated the Republican base, but we have to
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: expand that base. There are numerous ends the independent voters,
• 22:02
  Speaker 10: and I will submit to you as well, disaffected Democrats
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: living in San Francisco, living in Los Angeles where Karen
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: Bass and Gavin Newsom burned down half the city who
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: are sick and tired. Maybe they won't change the party affiliation,
• 22:18
  Speaker 10: but they recognize we need a change, and they are
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: voting different this year.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Gloria. President Trump's already weighed in. He is very alarmed
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: that is taking so long to count the votes there
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: in California. He is suggesting, matter of factly, that a
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: steal is underway. Are you concerned that might be happening
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: right now?
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: Well, the biggest issue I think really is looking at
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: the rules, the way that the Democrats have engineered the
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: rule counting, and I think ultimately this is what we
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: need to change. Number One in November will be us
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: being able to implement voter ID that's going to be
• 22:57
  Speaker 10: on the ballot in November, and that will go along
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: way to curing and curbing that potential steal. But on
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: top of it, I agreed the concerns that have been
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: raised where it takes first of all, you get some
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: thirty days to vote, and then up to thirty five
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: days to count the vote, it is absolute craziness. We
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: need to have monitors, We need to have pole watchers.
• 23:20
  Speaker 10: The whole system under Gavin Newsom has got to change.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: Just notice.
• 23:24
  Speaker 10: Well, right before the election, Governor Newsom, the Democrat Legislature
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: fast tracked a bill that went through the legislature to
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: his desk in the dark of night. He signed it,
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: which basically raises questions about even being able to challenge
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: a signature from somebody who might be contesting the election.
• 23:46
  Speaker 10: So it's just maddening. But this is what we have
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: to do in California. We've got to play under the
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: rules that are here. But the major reason why we
• 23:54
  Speaker 10: are running for office and trying to get elected is
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: so that we can legally begin to change those rules.
• 24:02
  Speaker 10: So all eyes on California, All eyes on Governor Newsome,
• 24:05
  Speaker 10: all eyes.
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  Speaker 8: I appreciate the bill. A.
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: Saley, who is again to our district, again, to our
• 24:12
  Speaker 10: US attorney here in California. He's done an incredible job
• 24:16
  Speaker 10: on election integrity. We've got to keep monitoring it otherwise
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: they will steal it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Gloria. The other big story, and the underreported story,
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: I think has been the five congressional seats. Again, there
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: was the redistrict thing the Democrats did. I mean, you
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: talk about criminal behavior. But the reality is there was
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: a concern that all five of those congressional seats would
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: flip to the Democrats. However, at least right now, that
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: is certainly not the case. One of them, where you
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: have what is it, House District forty, You've got King
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Calvert and Young Kim. Those are the top two vote getters,
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: So regardless of what happens, there will be a Republican
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: in that congressional seat. So that takes that one off
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: the table. And also Kevin Kyler, who switched parties. He's
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: an independent now running in his district, and the number
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: two at the last numbers I saw was a Republican.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: So you're going to have now possibly two out of
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: the five that will remain a Republican hands What does
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: that tell you?
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: Well, I think first of all, it shows that the
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: voters recognize the leadership of Calvert and Kylie and will
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: continue to hope that those numbers prevail.
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: But I also.
• 25:26
  Speaker 10: Think it shows that even Gavin Newsom, how incompetent he is,
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: even when trying to rig the election and steal it
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: in his Prop fifty that basically tried to invalidate and
• 25:40
  Speaker 10: take away Republican seats. But we can't take it for granted,
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: they're still counting all the ballots, including in mind in
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: Steve's election, but I do think that the trends are
• 25:50
  Speaker 10: very promising.
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: We're maintaining that.
• 25:53
  Speaker 10: And congratulations to the Republican voters for just saying we're
• 25:57
  Speaker 10: not going to take it, but we've got to big,
• 26:00
  Speaker 10: got to stand up. We cannot walk away. Now is
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: the time to really stand up, show up, speak up,
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: and deliver the vote that is too big, too rig
• 26:11
  Speaker 10: even for Gavin Newsom in November.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Well, you certainly sound pretty encouraged. I know that Steve
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: Hilton has expressed some concerns about about the way things
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: are going right now, let's just and I don't want
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: to go down this path too much, but let's just
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: say at the end of the day, all all the
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Republicans are booted out because of the votes, which we
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: understand could could be going on for days. Is that
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: what you're hearing.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: It can go on for weeks, It could go on
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: for weeks.
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  Speaker 10: The Secretary of State, who by the way, was appointed
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: by Gavin Newsom, just as a just for you to
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: understand that a while back. But see, it's the way
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: that the rules are written in California and the way
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: that they are written, it basically it facilitates.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: It makes it easier for fram to occur. I'm not
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: saying that it is occurring.
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: I want to be very careful on that, but it
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: does facilitate that. I am looking forward to a decision
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: from the US Supreme Court that basically what does election
• 27:13
  Speaker 10: day mean? And my hope is and I wish that
• 27:16
  Speaker 10: the court had ruled earlier. You know, what are they
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: waiting for? But election day should be election day. It
• 27:23
  Speaker 10: doesn't mean thirty days ahead of time. It doesn't mean
• 27:26
  Speaker 10: thirty five days to count the ballots afterwards. We really
• 27:30
  Speaker 10: have to look at this and establish the norms, the rules,
• 27:34
  Speaker 10: the credibility, because otherwise, whether or not there is fraud occurring,
• 27:39
  Speaker 10: and there's every reason to be suspicious. The bottom line
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: is is that it really disincentivizes people, It alienates people.
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: It really causes so much suspicion that what it may
• 27:51
  Speaker 10: do is actually suppress the desire for Republicans to go
• 27:56
  Speaker 10: out and vote. And we can't let them dampen our spirit.
• 27:59
  Speaker 10: We have to remain optimistic. We have to put up
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: the fight. Let's see where it goes, but we have
• 28:05
  Speaker 10: to monitor and come on us Supreme Court.
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: Let's rule.
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: Election day should mean election day, not election month.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: I just find it fascinating. Gloria, California's got a population
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: of almost forty million people. Meanwhile in India they have
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: six hundred and forty million people. They're able to count
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: all of their votes in India in just one day,
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: and it could be an entire month until California gets
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: its vote total zen exactly.
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: We have to end this whole mail in balloting charade
• 28:37
  Speaker 10: that they implemented you during COVID.
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: It basically means as.
• 28:42
  Speaker 10: Well too, that ballots go out even if people are
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: dead or went to a dog, or they moved, those
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: ballots are out.
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: It's susceptible to fraud.
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: There's no voter ID, there's no verification of who you are.
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: There's not even a signature affirmation. Then you can put
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: them in these drop boxes, which again and two we've
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: saw in Los Angeles one of these drop boxes was
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: actually set on fire when the ballots were put in.
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: It is maddening, But I want the nation to hear
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: and to see this is California under Gavin Newsom.
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: But I am encouraged.
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: I'm the eternal optimist here to say it does not
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: need to be this way. The people of California are
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: waking up, not only statewide but in Los Angeles with
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: Spencer Prett. We're so excited for you, and I think
• 29:28
  Speaker 10: if we stand up, do not become disillusion or discourage.
• 29:33
  Speaker 10: Stand up, speak up. Let's follow the ballot, let's keep art,
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: let's be vigilant. But we cannot become disillusion to the
• 29:40
  Speaker 10: point that we just say give up. It doesn't matter.
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: That's what they want, and when we do that, that's when.
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: We will all lose.
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: So let's stay vigilant. Let's go forward and fight harder
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: than ever.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: All Right, Gloria, ever the optimist. Good to hear from you,
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: good to see you, and we wish you nothing but
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: the very best. Look forward to being able to call
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: you Lieutenant governor very very soon. Thanks Gloria, Thank you
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: so much. All Right, great lady, right there, But unbelievable,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: right India, six hundred and forty million people they count
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: all of their votes in just one day, and you've
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: got forty million people living in California and it could
• 30:17
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  Speaker 4: Charles in North Carolina listening to us on w s S.
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  Speaker 4: Hi Charles, what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 11: Hey Todd, Todd, I just want to say that I
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  Speaker 11: am just totally and completely lived at Tom Pillis you
• 31:28
  Speaker 11: know it's my senator. And I called him today and
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: of course he doesn't take my call, and I had
• 31:36
  Speaker 11: to leave a message, and I had to leave a message,
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  Speaker 11: and I just told him, I said, you know, senator,
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  Speaker 11: you co sponsored the A Say Act a while back,
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  Speaker 11: and now you're voting against it. And it kind of
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: reminds me what John McCain did, uh, you know, over Obamacare.
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  Speaker 11: Hete the thumbs down. But but I just cannot believe
• 32:00
  Speaker 11: that these senators are doing this. And so once again, Todd,
• 32:04
  Speaker 11: I think that the President needs to call for that
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: emergency session of Congress that he's legally entitled to under
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: articles Who's Section three. Put him in a room and
• 32:13
  Speaker 11: just tell him they're going to work all summer, and
• 32:16
  Speaker 11: to put a little bit more heat on them. Todd, literally,
• 32:18
  Speaker 11: I would turn the air conditioner off into building so
• 32:21
  Speaker 11: you guys can stay in here and swelter like they
• 32:24
  Speaker 11: did one hundred and fifty years ago until you pass
• 32:27
  Speaker 11: the Save Act. No no, uh you know, no uh,
• 32:32
  Speaker 11: no exceptions. And I was listening to you about California
• 32:35
  Speaker 11: and it's just prob it's like a third world with
• 32:38
  Speaker 11: California and they're voting and uh, I tee unless California
• 32:44
  Speaker 11: changes their uh, the way that they do elections. You know,
• 32:49
  Speaker 11: everybody knows that it's illegal for illegals and people who
• 32:52
  Speaker 11: aren't supposed to vote to vote in elections. But there's
• 32:54
  Speaker 11: no one to force some mechanism except the Save Act.
• 32:58
  Speaker 12: But I would just.
• 32:59
  Speaker 11: Help Cautfornia if if I want the dj that, look,
• 33:03
  Speaker 11: you're going to adopt some measures to come you know,
• 33:06
  Speaker 11: ensure that there's uh no voter fraud and until you do,
• 33:10
  Speaker 11: guess what, you can have an election. But we're not
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: going to seat your entire delegation. That means there's gonna
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: be fifty some people in congressman in California that will
• 33:19
  Speaker 11: not be able to be seated in January.
• 33:21
  Speaker 12: Uh.
• 33:22
  Speaker 11: I think we just need to play that kind of hardball.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Do you think though, that the Republicans would play that
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: that sort of hardball? I don't.
• 33:33
  Speaker 11: Well, you might have Senator Tommy Tubberville that would do that. Uh,
• 33:39
  Speaker 11: But for somebody to take the lead, I think that's
• 33:41
  Speaker 11: gonna have to be President Trump, and maybe he needs
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: to call for the resignation of John Thune.
• 33:46
  Speaker 13: Uh.
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: You know, it's a little bit of leverage, but I
• 33:50
  Speaker 11: think President Trump needs to, you know, to call for
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: that session, and I think he needs to bring that
• 33:57
  Speaker 11: topic off about not seeding a delegation and you know,
• 34:01
  Speaker 11: I mean taking a whole month to count votes. I
• 34:04
  Speaker 11: mean that is ridiculous, you know, But in tord unless
• 34:09
  Speaker 11: they do that, nothing's ever going to get done.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: You know, yeah, no, nothing will get done. And that's
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: the point. I don't think they want anything to get done.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: I think ultimately that's that's the issue here, is that
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: they don't and they know they can get away with
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: it because the President is not going to do what
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: you said. Otherwise you would have already done it. So
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I it's a source of great frustration because you have
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: a lot of Republicans up there on Capitol Hill and
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: they don't really care about the America First agenda. And
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: as far as the situation in California goes, everybody knows
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: what's going on here. Everybody knows that the steal is underway,
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: and they're hoping that, you know, three weeks from now,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: the American people will have forgotten all about the election
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: and the fact that you had Republicans leading in just
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: about every single race out there until they started, you know,
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: counting the so called mail.
• 35:04
  Speaker 11: In votes if exactly just like they did in twenty twenty.
• 35:08
  Speaker 11: You know, you had the president ahead, Trump ahead in
• 35:11
  Speaker 11: all six wing states when we went to bed, and
• 35:14
  Speaker 11: then the next morning and over the next week and
• 35:16
  Speaker 11: a half. Uh, that changes changing thing's going along.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly exactly, which again is why we need now. Look,
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: the Save America Act would not have much of an
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: impact on what's happening right now in California, but it
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: would help in the sense of making sure that people
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: are legitimate voters. So you would have you would have
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: that component of it. But the Supreme Court is going
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: to have to step in here. We can't be having
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: elections that drag on for you know, a month or
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: two months or three months. That's just insane. Charles, I've
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: got to run, my friend. Good to hear from you.
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  Speaker 4: us on W d U and Joe, what's going on?
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  Speaker 14: Caught im down in Sea Island. They love you down here.
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  Speaker 14: They love Trump, but I'll tell you something, they're really
• 36:30
  Speaker 14: upset with people like John Thune. They love people like Tubberville,
• 36:34
  Speaker 14: but Thue needs to be replaced. He I think he's
• 36:37
  Speaker 14: the real of course you got you got some other
• 36:40
  Speaker 14: rhinos up there too, but Thoon's the leader, and I
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  Speaker 14: think he needs to go. And I'm hoping that Trump
• 36:45
  Speaker 14: will will call for him to resign because he is
• 36:49
  Speaker 14: he's the problem. He's the leader, you know, and he's
• 36:52
  Speaker 14: taking all these rhinos with him, you know, like Collins
• 36:56
  Speaker 14: and you know who they are. But anyway, that needs
• 36:58
  Speaker 14: to be done because it's gonna be tough unless they
• 37:02
  Speaker 14: get rid of Thoon, because Foon is not going to cooperate,
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  Speaker 14: and so I think. But anyway, they love you down
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  Speaker 14: here in Sea On. They love Trump, and they love Tuberville.
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  Speaker 14: I tell you, Tuberville is really coming on strong.
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  Speaker 12: You know.
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  Speaker 14: I'm down here at Sea Island. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 14: people from all over the country, and Tubberville's name comes
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  Speaker 14: up a lot and also Newsmaks. They like to see
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  Speaker 14: you on newsmanks, so i'd say Tumberville Newsmans and Trump
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  Speaker 14: of the big people like here at Sea Island. But anyway,
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  Speaker 14: appreciate all you're doing. Keep up the great work. We
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  Speaker 14: love you and we're proud on you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Joe, I appreciate that, and I hope you have
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  Speaker 4: a lot of fun down in Sea Island. It's never
• 37:41
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  Speaker 14: Well, Tom, you keep up the great work.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Hello everybody, Happy Friday to you America. This is
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  Speaker 4: of the New York Post just two hours ago is
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  Speaker 4: just incredibly shocking. Graham Plattner and Susan Collins tied in
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  Speaker 4: Maine Senate race post sexting scandal. This is according to
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: new pulling data that's out there against Susan Collins pulling
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  Speaker 4: into a tie with Platner over the allegations that he
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  Speaker 4: was sexting up to a dozen women while he was
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  Speaker 4: still married to his wife on what they called the
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  Speaker 4: Predator's Paradise app known as kick ki K. The poll
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  Speaker 4: and here's what's shocking about. The poll is conducted by
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  Speaker 4: our good friend Tony Fabrizio, who is a President Trump's
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  Speaker 4: big poster. So this is a Republican leaning poll, but
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  Speaker 4: the idea that they are Susan Collins is now tied unbelievable. Well,
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  Speaker 4: to help us figure out what in the world is
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  Speaker 4: going on in the great state of Maine. Just honored
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  Speaker 4: to have a great American patriot, Matthew Ganyon, who is
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  Speaker 4: the CEO of Maine's Policy Institute. Matthew, good to have
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  Speaker 4: you with us today. Thank you for joining us.
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  Speaker 5: You bet, it's a real pleasure to be here.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I don't mean to They're great people in this study.
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  Speaker 4: We have a lot of listeners in the state of Maine.
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  Speaker 4: But dude, what the heck is going on there?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, let me apologize on behalf of my state for
• 40:51
  Speaker 15: having to be in the news like this almost every week,
• 40:53
  Speaker 15: it seems. But the answer to your question is that
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  Speaker 15: we have a extraordinarily unproven vaut little candidate that's running
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  Speaker 15: as the de facto Democratic nominee for US Senate against
• 41:04
  Speaker 15: Susan Collins, and he is imploding in front of our
• 41:07
  Speaker 15: very eyes.
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  Speaker 5: As many of us predicted he would.
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  Speaker 4: So I know there's a lot of frustration. The Washington
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  Speaker 4: Post today had a big piece out Democrats are very frustrated.
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  Speaker 4: But the reality is Democrats are also backing this guy.
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  Speaker 4: You have Elizabeth Warren Pocahontas over in Massachusetts. Bernie Sanders
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  Speaker 4: just the other day was on CNN defending this guy.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know how you defend the Nazi tattoo and
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: the sexting and all the allegations. This is just beyond me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it is.
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  Speaker 15: Although we are getting to a point I think in
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  Speaker 15: this campaign where the I don't know, the aggregate effect
• 41:40
  Speaker 15: of all of these scandals that keep piling up on
• 41:42
  Speaker 15: him is likely to start having a major effect. I mean,
• 41:46
  Speaker 15: you had mentioned that poll that was referencing the scandal
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  Speaker 15: on Kick and him doing the sexting during his marriage
• 41:53
  Speaker 15: and whatnot. The New York Times piece from yesterday and
• 41:55
  Speaker 15: all the fallout from that directly refutes what Graham Plattner
• 41:59
  Speaker 15: told those very people you just listed just a few
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  Speaker 15: days ago when he was in Washington, d C. I mean,
• 42:04
  Speaker 15: Bernie Sanders asked him directly, so did Elizabeth Warren? Are
• 42:07
  Speaker 15: there more things coming out? And he said to them, No,
• 42:10
  Speaker 15: there's not, And within twenty four hours we have this
• 42:14
  Speaker 15: scandal that the New York Times.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: Obviously set off.
• 42:17
  Speaker 15: So's he's I think taking on water on his ship
• 42:20
  Speaker 15: for sure, and I don't know if it's fatal for
• 42:22
  Speaker 15: him yet, but the former glow that he had around
• 42:25
  Speaker 15: him is certainly very much diminished.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: I'm wondering if you can just help us understand the
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: political landscape there. For Susan Collins is clearly an establishment Republican.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: She's not a big fan of the president, and yesterday
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: standing in the way of the Save America Act, one
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: of those four votes right there? Is she reflecting her values?
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Do those values reflect those of the voters the good
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  Speaker 4: people of Maine.
• 42:52
  Speaker 15: I think the thing that Susan Collins has reflected for
• 42:54
  Speaker 15: the voters of Maine for a long time is generally
• 42:57
  Speaker 15: politically independent thought. She has never really fallen very much
• 43:01
  Speaker 15: in line with the party. Know she votes with the Republicans,
• 43:04
  Speaker 15: certainly more enough to justify being a member, but is
• 43:07
  Speaker 15: very much willing to go against President Donald Trump, President
• 43:11
  Speaker 15: George W. Bush when he was in office, and sometimes
• 43:13
  Speaker 15: cooperate with Democratic presidents. It's just part of a brand
• 43:16
  Speaker 15: and it's one of the main reasons why she's survived.
• 43:19
  Speaker 15: But I don't think it's because of the moderation or
• 43:22
  Speaker 15: being on the left side of anything. I think it's
• 43:25
  Speaker 15: more because it demonstrates to the people of Maine that
• 43:28
  Speaker 15: she's not beholden to a party or an ideology or
• 43:31
  Speaker 15: a philosophy. She's basically working on their behalf and that's
• 43:34
  Speaker 15: been this key to her I think political success over
• 43:36
  Speaker 15: the years.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: You know what I find interesting. I know that Janet
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Mills was not a popular governor. She was doing a
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: lot of things that really rubbed folks the wrong way.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: The CNN had a story out what a couple of
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: days ago, Matt you may have seen this where she
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: dropped out of the race, But actually she didn't drop
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: out of the race. She's reminding voters that she technically
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: is still on the ballot. First of all, I'm just
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: curious what was it about her that just rubbed people
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: the wrong way? And second, do you think that we
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: might see her jump back into this race.
• 44:04
  Speaker 15: Well, as you pointed out, she doesn't even need to
• 44:05
  Speaker 15: jump back into it because she's already in it. She
• 44:07
  Speaker 15: just stopped campaigning. I think that the reason that she
• 44:11
  Speaker 15: didn't really have the success that maybe Chuck Schumer thought
• 44:16
  Speaker 15: she was going to have, and that maybe she thought
• 44:17
  Speaker 15: she was going to have is because I think, especially
• 44:20
  Speaker 15: in Maine, but across the country right now, the Democratic
• 44:22
  Speaker 15: Party is living through a little mini version of the
• 44:26
  Speaker 15: Tea Party in reverse. They are done with establishment politicians.
• 44:30
  Speaker 15: They are sick and tired of the status quo of
• 44:33
  Speaker 15: the party and how they've operated. They think that everybody
• 44:36
  Speaker 15: in charge in Washington has failed them as they've tried
• 44:38
  Speaker 15: to fight Trump. So they're ready to throw out absolutely
• 44:40
  Speaker 15: everyone who's in charge and replace them with people like
• 44:44
  Speaker 15: Graham Platter, right insurgent candidates who you know almost nothing about,
• 44:47
  Speaker 15: who are just new and different and fresh.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: And Janna Mills has been.
• 44:51
  Speaker 15: Around for a very very long time, four decades in politics.
• 44:55
  Speaker 15: She's obviously seventy eight years old, I believe, and I
• 44:59
  Speaker 15: think represented everything that the Democrats are kind of done with.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: That explains a lot of what her problem was.
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: I think. Wow.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: Matt Ganion joins us. He is the CEO of Main
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: Policy Institute and the website there, folks want to go
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: check out all things mainpolicy dot org. That's main Policy
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: dot org. It was interesting. There is some new polling
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: data out there talking about how President Trump is beginning
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: to see some of his support in the rule parts
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: of America begin to wane. What is the mood there
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: in Maine when it comes to the president and his agenda, You.
• 45:35
  Speaker 15: Know, it depends on the part of his agenda you're
• 45:37
  Speaker 15: talking about. I think the explainer for that poll, in
• 45:40
  Speaker 15: my opinion, certainly talking to people in this state is
• 45:44
  Speaker 15: much less about the broad agenda that he campaigned on
• 45:46
  Speaker 15: in twenty twenty four and just the economic effects that
• 45:48
  Speaker 15: we're seeing right now happening across the country. You know,
• 45:51
  Speaker 15: the situation with Iran obviously has not been resolved at
• 45:54
  Speaker 15: this point, and I just filled up my truck for
• 45:57
  Speaker 15: well over one hundred dollars, and gas is extraordinarily expensive here,
• 46:01
  Speaker 15: and those economic pressures have an effect on people. When
• 46:04
  Speaker 15: stuff isn't going the way that you wanted to, the
• 46:06
  Speaker 15: people in charge tend to be blamed for it. And
• 46:09
  Speaker 15: right now in Washington, President Trump, the Republicans in the
• 46:11
  Speaker 15: Senate and the Republicans in the House are in charge,
• 46:14
  Speaker 15: so they're bearing the brunt of this. And I think
• 46:15
  Speaker 15: that's really the only thing that's happening in these areas.
• 46:19
  Speaker 15: If that can abate itself, you know, if the war
• 46:22
  Speaker 15: comes to a conclusion, gas prices start to go down
• 46:24
  Speaker 15: a little bit, I think you'll see a pretty significant
• 46:26
  Speaker 15: recovery in those numbers.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, the job numbers that came out today,
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: they look really good, solid. I mean, everything's going according
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: to the President's plan. Then this Iran situation, and clearly
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: there there was a lot of disagreement within the administration
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: itself over how to proceed here. And now I think
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: we're getting pretty darn close to not necessarily being in
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: a quagmire. But I don't see this thing ending anytime soon,
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: do you.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Not?
• 46:52
  Speaker 15: To my knowledge, No, I'm obviously not in the inside
• 46:55
  Speaker 15: of these negotiations, but it seems like the leverage that
• 46:59
  Speaker 15: exists here is probably going to continue this thing going
• 47:03
  Speaker 15: for quite some time, because Iran is in a position
• 47:04
  Speaker 15: that they like, honestly, and the President has to decide
• 47:07
  Speaker 15: whether or not he wants to either break the stalemate
• 47:10
  Speaker 15: and actually go in with like ground troops and try
• 47:12
  Speaker 15: to capture that nuclear material, or whether or not it's
• 47:15
  Speaker 15: time to just say, all right, we're out of here
• 47:16
  Speaker 15: and we're done. Either one of those things could change it,
• 47:19
  Speaker 15: but I don't think Trump is willing to do that
• 47:21
  Speaker 15: because he really does want to get that nuclear material
• 47:24
  Speaker 15: dealt with And so we might be sitting here like
• 47:26
  Speaker 15: this for a while.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that could spell trouble, especially if those gas
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: prices are that high. Matt, We appreciate you joining us
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: today and we'll check pack in with you. What an
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: insane story, but it certainly gives you guys a lot
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: to talk about there in the state of Maine.
• 47:44
  Speaker 15: It sure does. And you know, I'm sure there's gonna
• 47:46
  Speaker 15: be much more to talk about, so I'm happy to
• 47:48
  Speaker 15: do it anytime you want.
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: All right, Matt Ganyion everybody CEO a Main Policy Institute,
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: and again you can check out their website mainpolicy dot
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: org and follow Matthew on X and face book. That's
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: Matthew g A G n O N. Matthew Ganyon is
• 48:03
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• 48:31
  Speaker 4: You know a lot have you started you and the missus?
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: You know, you guys are starting out. What is an year?
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Have you guys been married two years now? Has it
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: been two years?
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: To be two years in September?
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: All right, just right around the corner. Have you started
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: working on things like a will and you know, preparing
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: for the hereafter?
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  Speaker 5: Uh No, we haven't. We haven't started working on it.
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: We started thinking about it.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: I know it's still kind of early, you know, in
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: the process. Yeah, you know, maybe seventy years from now
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: or something. Yeah. The reason I asked that, you know
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: a lot of people, you know, they they do their plans,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, some people they don't want to do
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: a will because they feel like that it's like a jinx, right,
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  Speaker 4: so you don't want to put it all down on
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: paper and then kick the bucket exactly.
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's that's basically me. You know, I don't
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: want to. I guess I better I better work on that.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: But anyway, people like do some serious planning. For example,
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: You've got there are folks that will go out and
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: they'll pick out where they want to be buried, right,
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: So whether they want to be cremated, you know, put
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: in the microwave, or if they want to be in
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: a like a mausoleum where they put you in a box.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: You kind of look like a giant filing cabinet. You know,
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: the the Starns plot over at Memphis Memorial Park, you know,
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: which is really a stone's throw from our palatial studios.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: Every morning I drive by and I say hello to
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: our family members.
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: That's good. I'm glad.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: It's a little weird.
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: No, it's it's uh, you're remembering them.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: Hey me, mo, Hey Papa. Hope you are having a
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: good day over there.
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: Did they say anything back to you?
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, they say nothing back. But it's the thought
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: that counts. And we had they had the beautiful grotto
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: over that's a lovely place to go and walk if
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: you will walk dead people at night. So anyway, but
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: people do that, they plan out everything and including like
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: their you know, the casket because a lot of times,
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: you know, you don't want your family. I mean, if
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: you just kicked the bucket, you got no plans, and
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: then they're having to make all these decisions for you.
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: And I'm wondering, especially when it comes to caskets, because
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: you know, that is a lot of money. I mean,
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: it's not like you know, it's just not like a
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: couple of hundred dollars. We're talking about thousands of dollars
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: that it costs to buy a casket and put you
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: in the put you in the ground. By the way,
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: have you seen this trend? There is a trend among
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: certain people groups where they actually for the wake, you know,
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: they don't put the body in the casket. They're actually
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: posing the body doing something that they love to do.
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: Have you seen these The ideas that people have come
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: up with are interesting, to say the least.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: I just I can't I've.
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: Seen, like, you know, someone riding a motorcycle, Like they
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: put an entire motorcycle in a church and put the
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: guy on a motorcycle.
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: What's terrible if he's died in a motorcycle accident. Indeed,
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: there was one person she was a big New Orleans
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: Saints fan, so they had her funeral. She was posed
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: sitting at a table in a living room with a
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: disco ball, and she they had a menthol cigarette and
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: a can of beer.
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, you know, my philosophy is I don't
• 51:55
  Speaker 5: really care what you do with my body.
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: The kids call her, They called her moll, and they
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: wanted to give her. They sent you as a vivacious
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: woman and wanted to give her a good send off.
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: Another person who died at the age of seventy three
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: was a flamboyant philanthropist, wore a pink feather boa and
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: held a glass of champagne. That's how they dressed her up.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: I hope it was her. Oh it wasn't. No, it
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: may have been a dude. Okay, whatever, you're dead. It
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: doesn't really matter. But they call it. They call it
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: extreme embalming is what they call it. There's actually a
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: name for it.
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: That can't be cheap. I mean, it's already expensive enough.
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: This can't be us worse.
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: It's almost like and some of them are actually propped
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: up like they've got them standing like you're going into
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: a wax museum.
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: That's a good way to describe it.
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: No, absolutely unacceptable. So all that to say, by the way,
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: would anybody in the audience do that? Maybe I should,
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: you know, when I kicked the bucket, I could just,
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: you know, y'all could just pose me right here in
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: front of the big, beautiful, huge microphone.
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know if I could walk back into
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: the building if we if we attempted to do that.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: Well, no, this would be like my casket, you know,
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: this would be my Mausoleumka, put a locker on the door.
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: Whatever you want, put it in the will.
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: This headline for the New York Post today, Meet the
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: funeral director offering wild, hot pink caskets and Cheatah printed
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: urns to make death less serious. According to The New
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: York Post, a doom and gloom Adams Family esque funeral
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: service is not what Dan Madden strives for. Mister Madden
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: has been a funeral home director for twenty three years
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: in Ohio for the Stark Memorial Funeral Home. Instead, when
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: mourners step into his funeral parler to plan their loved
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: one services or met with a striking hot pink casket
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: with of course, the option to customize their interior. It's
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: an effort to make deathcare less taboo. They have a
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: name for it now, deathcare less taboo and more fun.
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: Madden offers wild, pimped out funeral goods both in house
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: and on his fashion's website, where the bereave can buy
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: everything from Butterfly. Oh, Ian's gonna love this from Butterfly
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: to Star Wars themed vessels. So you could, like, I
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: don't know, I have an idea here. You could like
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: be cremated and your remains could be poured inside. I
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: can eat what an R two D two like little urn?
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: I can hear Ian writing down his will right now.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: This is weird, man. Millions of people on social media
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: are viewing all of these these designer caskets. Would that
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: be you? Ladies and gentlemen? People keep asking if there
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: are different options that were more unique, more colorful, not
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: these same traditional choices. What do you mean like traditional
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: choices like a wood? I mean you're going in the
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: dirt right, But anyway, people are wanting to spend thousands
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: and thousands of dollars to make this happen. Is this
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: like pimp my ride pit, my urn, my iron pit,
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: my urn. They have everything from hot pink Cheetah printed
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: earns to biodegradable turtle shaped urns next to a brightly
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: covered coffin for his fashion show series Let's go to
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: Richard in Murphysboro, Tennessee. Richard, what do you think about
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: these crazy caskets.
• 55:24
  Speaker 16: They stole all of that from Rod Serling because this
• 55:28
  Speaker 16: was exactly the plot of one of the Twilight Zone episodes.
• 55:32
  Speaker 16: Back in the sixties. Three American astronauts had to land
• 55:38
  Speaker 16: on what turned out to be a habitable planet and
• 55:42
  Speaker 16: they started walking around him. They noticed that all of
• 55:45
  Speaker 16: the buildings and structures and things looked like an American
• 55:48
  Speaker 16: town from the sixties. Only difference was whenever they went
• 55:53
  Speaker 16: into him, and you know, they had people and stuff
• 55:56
  Speaker 16: in it. None of the people were moving, and they
• 56:01
  Speaker 16: were all posed. And they finally came up to a
• 56:04
  Speaker 16: house and they knocked on it and nobody answered. They
• 56:07
  Speaker 16: went in and aft a couple of minutes, a gentleman
• 56:11
  Speaker 16: came out, introduced himself, said he was mister Wickwire, and
• 56:17
  Speaker 16: he maintained the property. So, you know, they had a
• 56:22
  Speaker 16: little question and answer session back and forth, and he'd
• 56:24
  Speaker 16: offered them something to drink, and.
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't want you to tell us the whole
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: episode here, so people can go ahead watch it. But
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: that's creepy man, creepy it is.
• 56:35
  Speaker 16: I'll just say, let's say he offered done something to drink,
• 56:38
  Speaker 16: and it turned out to be eternifying fluid.
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: Eternifying fluid. Jesus, it sounds like somebody drank the kool aid. Richard,
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: thank you for that. That is a trip down memory lane.
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, would you get buried in a hot
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: pink casket? And would you allow your remains to be
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: into a disposable turtle? Nine oh one two six zero
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: five nine two six. This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: All right, welcome back to the Todd Stars Radio Show.
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: I want to bring into the conversation our good buddy
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: Joe Messina, host of the nationally syndicated radio show The
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: Joe Messina Show, and hanging out with us in lovely
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: Santa Clarita, California. Joe, I've got to ask you, have
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: you started planning for the hereafter I heard that God?
• 57:47
  Speaker 17: And I prefer, you know, something more along a what
• 57:51
  Speaker 17: do you want to what do you wanna call?
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: Like a turquoise?
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: Is kind of more my call.
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: A turqoise, you know, I am. I am really intrigued
• 57:59
  Speaker 4: by this because it's big business. And I will say this, Gosh,
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: last year, there's a lovely suburb of Memphis called Collierville, Tennessee,
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: and it's like a quintessential southern town and somebody died
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: and I went to the funeral home, and the funeral
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: it was a brand new funeral home out there, and
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: it was absolutely stunning because you felt like you were
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: id loo at some sort of a retreat in the countryside,
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: and they had fireplaces and couches. It was just so
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: relaxing and so chill. It wasn't like, you know, some
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: sort of a stoic, you know, funeral home. And I thought, wow,
• 58:37
  Speaker 4: you know, if if I got to kick the bunkeet,
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: which I'm going to one day, I wouldn't mind having
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: a party here.
• 58:45
  Speaker 17: You know, I've got two things I might want to do.
• 58:48
  Speaker 17: One is not so christian like, and what I want
• 58:50
  Speaker 17: to do is I want to be cremated, and I
• 58:52
  Speaker 17: want somebody to grab a drone and drop maybe a
• 58:55
  Speaker 17: tablespoon of my ashes on all these homes. Repeat. People
• 59:00
  Speaker 17: hated me over the years, so they they're stuck with
• 59:03
  Speaker 17: a little part of me on their property. Number Two,
• 59:07
  Speaker 17: though I don't know they do this where you're at,
• 59:11
  Speaker 17: but up in northern California they're doing eco burials, So
• 59:16
  Speaker 17: they take your body and they cremated, and they take
• 59:19
  Speaker 17: your ashes and they plant a tree, but they put
• 59:23
  Speaker 17: your ashes down in the bottom of the trees being planted,
• 59:26
  Speaker 17: so you'll regrow, get like reborn into the tree. Sounds
• 59:32
  Speaker 17: like a wonderfully democrat thing to do, don't you think.
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Look, I'm still trying to get the visual of
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: Joe Messina dropping his ash over people's homes in southern California.
• 59:44
  Speaker 17: This one's for you, buddy.
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, so we're getting some messages on this.
• 59:50
  Speaker 4: One of our good buddies. Todd Over at are a
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: great affiliate in Winchester, Virginia, says, do not believe the
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: Trump casket will be huge, gold player and adorned with
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: forty five and forty seven stamped with and closed is
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: the greatest president of all time?
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 17: Oh No, that would be much much, too little for him. No,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 17: it's gonna be mausoleum style.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: I'm sure, no doubt about it.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 17: I do pictures and all kinds of things.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: I do. Wonder though, what about Costco or do they
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: sell caskets at Costco? Do we know they do sell caskets? No,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: they do not they do?
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 17: They wouldn't they let you try them on? I mean,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 17: when you want to know how comfortable you're gonna be
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 17: in the eternity.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: I am shocked by this. Dylan. In the break, we're
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: sending ian Ian the intern down to Costco with the
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: company Costco card. We need we need a casket and
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: an urn.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 5: He's probably gonna come back with much more. Actually, great
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: deals over there.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: And one of the hot dogs do they still have
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: what is the hot dog?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: They had that hot dogs.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: You gotta have the hot dogs, Joe. According to this
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: and again this is a fascinating story for those of
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: you just joining us. The New York Post says there's
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: a funeral director offering wild, hot pink caskets and cheetah
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: printed eurns to make death less serious. And one of
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: his clients, believe it or not, is Snooky from the
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: Jersey Shore, and she said that she would love a
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: hot pink, cheetah printed earn.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 17: I got nothing I know is that that's the best
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 17: thing you can do.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: What you call it?
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 17: Did you call it death care earlier?
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they call it death care? Yes, that one.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 17: I'm gone. What kind of care do I need? Seriously,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 17: gotta ask.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: Paul, said. Paul Shanklin, texting end, says that he's going
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: to be turned into a non dairy coffee creamer, so
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: he would be creameraried. Oh god, cramora cramora is what
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: he's calling it. That's disgusting.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 17: Well, they're gonna have to use my ashes for sour
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 17: patch kids, because you know, say, I'm pretty sour.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: Hey, Joe Messina, we were going to talk about politics,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: but apparently this is a major story that we've snumbled
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 4: upon and I want to bring into the conversation. Tom
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 4: from Houston, Texas, listening to us on Patriot Talk nine twenty. Tom,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: you're on the air with Joe Messina, and I understand
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: that you were a funeral director. Is that right, Yes, sir.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 13: That's right.
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  Speaker 12: Almost twenty two years I left business now. But if
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 12: you want to ask me a question or I can
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 12: tell you some stories.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: Well I'm afraid of both. But you know what, why
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: don't you tell us a story here? I'm very intrigued, Tom.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 12: Okay, the most expensive funeral I ever was involved with.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 7: Do you know a name?
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 12: Stand Richardson.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 4: I don't believe so.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 12: Okay. He's a Texas old man, made and plenty of money.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 12: At one point, well, he was the original owner of
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 12: the Dallas Cowboys lived in Fort Worth, Texas, and I
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 12: was working at the funeral home that took care of
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 12: him at his time of me. Well, the phone rang
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 12: early that morning and spoke to our funeral director in charge,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 12: and it was John Connelly on the phone. Are you
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 12: familiar with John Connelly?
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: I am, yes, I sir, am all right.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 12: John Connolly was mister Richardson's financial man. Everything went through him.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 12: So John tells the director whatever, Miss I won't say
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 12: the name once she gets her already did Miss Richardson,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 12: excuse me? And so she gets it no matter what. Anyway,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 12: this was at a point in time when a really
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 12: nice general was in the five to seven thousand dollars range. Well,
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 12: she chose arrangements that totaled upwards of thirty five thousand dollars.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: Whoa thirty five thousand dollars.
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 12: It was in fact, they gold plated casket, okay, and
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 12: we had multiple limousine golets. Anyway, so we had the
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 12: funeral and mister Conley calls up and he says, I'll
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 12: be down there in the next week or so to
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 12: settle the bill with So him and the main funeral
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 12: directord go in the office and has his file in
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 12: his hand. He sticks and let him know it thirty
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 12: five thousand dollars and John Connley says, I don't care
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 12: what you say. This is what I'm paying for this funeral.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 12: And well, mister Dohna, I had he showing you the paperwork.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 12: How do you know? He says, I don't care, this
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 12: is what I'm paying. He pushes an envelope across the desk.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 12: It's for four point three million dollars. WHOA. Now, what
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 12: was going on here is that the funeral is considered
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 12: a final expense. Therefore, whatever you spend on that funeral
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 12: sends down your assets. And mister Conley informed mister funeral director. Then,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 12: as long as this check is cashed by the funeral
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 12: home for the purposes of this funeral, the estate is
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 12: going to save almost six hundred million dollars.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: Show Mesta, are you hearing this, Joe, this is a
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: wild story.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 17: I would grab that check and I would ask the
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 17: other guy to sit there for a second while I
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 17: shot to the bank and made sure it cleared.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: You'd be swells.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 12: In fact, our funeral director says, there's no way I
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 12: can accept this amount of money. Blah, blah blah. Mister
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 12: Tony said, I've been around you for a long time.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 12: I've seen you all the way back to the kid.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 12: You never leave town, you never You're always here. Your
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 12: family doesn't hardly see it till ten pm at night.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 12: He said, as you and your family, y'all go to
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 12: Disney World, y'all go to Europe. Do whatever you want,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 12: but go enjoy our little life.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: So what did he do? Did they cast the check?
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 11: Oh?
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 12: Yes, it had to be in order for the ry, of.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: Course, of course. And Tom Tom, I wish we could continue.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: I bet you know we should do an entire segment
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: on funeral director stories because I know that Tom is
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 4: probably loaded for bear. Tom. Thank you for that call.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 4: Joe Messina joining us from Santa Clarita, California. Joe, that's
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: a story.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 17: Uh My mom was a hairdresser in Boston and to
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 17: make extra money of the weekends, she did the hair
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 17: of dead people. And she tells the story that you've
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 17: probably heard before where the body started to move while
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 17: she was doing the hair. No, sir, she shot out
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 17: of there, no coat, no purse, no tools, nothing, and
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 17: never went back.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: No you, that can't be no body moved.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I guess. I guess you could ask another funeral director.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 17: I guess when even when they're dead, they muscle contractions
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 17: or things happened to the body. But she said it moved,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 17: and she was off like a shot.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah that that. Yeah, I'm good. I'm good, Joe. I
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 4: will say this though, I however, I will say that
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: there had been reports of dead people moving around in
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: California voting. Yes, real quick before we let you go?
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: Uh what we had Gloria Romero on in the in
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: the first hour of the show. She seems to be
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: pretty optimistic. I'm not all that optimistic. What about you.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 12: Not either, Todd.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 17: Look, we have they're telling us it's gonna be another
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 17: three weeks before they sure this thing up. There's still
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 17: ballots coming in there. They they had ballot boxes that
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 17: hadn't been picked up as a midnight or one o'clock
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 17: on election evening, and so no, I mean they had
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 17: ten million ballots. Stay why they still hadn't been counted?
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 17: I think as of uh it was Thursday morning. Then
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 17: it was Spencer Pratt, the LA City. They found twenty
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 17: thousand found, mind you, they said found they found twenty
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 17: thousand ballots, of which about fifty percent went to Bass
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 17: and fifty percent went to the other woman, and Pratt
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 17: got zero.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 5: Votes out of the twenty thousand.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 17: That's statistically impossible, and so the percentages aren't working out right, Todd.
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 17: They just don't look right.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 4: I'm wondering if the people will, well, are they gonna
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: rise up here? I mean again, this is I mean,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 4: we we all know what's happening here. I mean we
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 4: see it with our with our own eyes. It's a
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: slow moving disaster. Are are the people going to rise
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 4: up over this?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Dude?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 17: This is California, man, you know, whatever happens, it's a
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 17: it's karma. No, it's I don't know what they're gonna do.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 17: We do a lot of talk, we don't have a
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 17: lot of action in California. We have a very extremely weak,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 17: uh California Republican Party at at the state level, and
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 17: they're not going to do much on any of this.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 17: If I was I'd be standing there, I'd be begging
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 17: Trump to help us send some lawyers to watch over
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 17: these things and make a look at the ballots.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: I'd do it, so absolutely all right, Joe Messina, By
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: the way, I was as you and I were chatting here.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: Sure enough, Costco does have You can go to their
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: website and they've got they've got caskets going for about
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: thirteen almost fourteen hundred dollars. There's one that lists the
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 4: Lord's Prayer casket. Looks nice and they have the Hampton
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: end No, the Hampton casket, the I think the Hampton casket.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 17: Get free breakfast net in a bathroom and all that or.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so anyway, but yeah, no, no exotic, no
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: exotic designs like the guy from Ohio. So all right,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 4: Joe Messina, good to see you, my friend.
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 17: You too, stay healthy.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: Oh got right, bless Jesus. Loop two six zero five
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: nine two six is our telephone number. That's nine oh
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 4: one two six zero five to nine to six. Hang tight,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 4: it is open line Friday. Going right to the phones,
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 4: but we have to take a break. We'll be right back,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 4: all right. Coming up, we're gonna be checking in with
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: Jason Raepert, who is the founder and president of the
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: National Association of Christian Lawmakers. A meeting at Liberty University
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 4: and was supposed to be I was supposed to be
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: m seeing that entire event this weekend. I was supposed
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: to be at the National Talkers Convention in New York,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 4: but the cardiologist has me grounded. Right now, any what
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 4: do you what are you gonna do? Coming up in
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: the next hour, though, we're gonna take you to the
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: trial of Carmelo Anthony. He's the black guy who stabbed
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: a white teenager. This all happened at a track and
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: field meet in Texas, and you've got some pretty horrible things. Well,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 4: want you to hear what they're having to do with
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: a lot of these blacks are out in front of
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: the courthouse, and let's play cut forty for folks.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 18: Only, good, good, good, good.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 4: All right, enough of that, enough of that. We're salting Americans, sir,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 4: your disgusting piece of excrement. Anyway, let's go to the phones.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 4: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: Let's say hello, Hotel Lamar in Gainesville, Georgia. Lamar, I
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: understand you want to talk about you want to talk
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 4: about the Oscar Meyer Wiener race. What's going on?
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 19: I was just wondering if you had say it. I know,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 19: I hear you're talking about the oil.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 3: No, what does so?
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but Lamar, A couple of months ago, we had
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: the Oscar Mayer wienermobile come into town. We sent I
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 4: the intern uh to uh to go down to observe it,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 4: he said, the Wiener is much larger in person. Yes, sir, wow,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 4: So so you've seen it.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 19: I watched the Nascall right, wait two weeks ago and
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 19: has it come on? They had the Oscar my Wiener
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 19: right at Indianapolis, Indiana, And I just I didn't know
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 19: if you had seen that. And if you had, I
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 19: was going to have one of your efforts to look
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 19: it up before you'll see a good right.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 4: Well you know what, Lamar, thank you for that. I
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: I did not. I did not catch the race. I
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: wish I would have known about it. I would have
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 4: been all over that.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 19: Well, you need to look at it. Check it out.
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 19: They'll get a kick out of UFA.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 4: All right, Lamar, thank you for that. And that's that's
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: really thoughtful that you remembered us talking about the Oscar
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 4: Mayer wienermobile. Look, you can't you can't help, but not
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 4: like it. The Oscar Mayer wienermobile. Right, It makes you
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 4: makes you smile driving down the road and all of
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 4: a sudden you see a great big Wiener past. Yea
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  Speaker 4: I mean, come on, man, that's America.
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  Speaker 5: True. It's true. It was not lying. It's a bunch
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  Speaker 5: of Oscar Mayer wienermobiles racing like a NASCAR race, like
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  Speaker 5: the Indianapolis five.
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  Speaker 4: How many other are there? A lot of there A lot? No,
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  Speaker 4: I believe him. I had seen a reporter or something,
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  Speaker 4: and so they're literally Oscar Mayer wienermobiles.
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  Speaker 5: It looks like at least twelve of them, like all
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  Speaker 5: line up and they they actually race. I had no
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  Speaker 5: idea this was the thing.
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  Speaker 4: Was there a winner? A Wiener?
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  Speaker 5: Probably it was a Wiener? Different for sure, there's probably
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  Speaker 5: a winner.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, no, no, no hold of justice. Well
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  Speaker 4: just think about this for a moment, though, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: what happened do you know if the race was fixed?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what happens if one of the wienermobiles is
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  Speaker 4: actually a foot long?
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  Speaker 14: You know?
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  Speaker 4: I mean you have the bun length Wieners and then
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  Speaker 4: you have the foot long Wieners.
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  Speaker 5: I think they're all the same. I think there was.
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  Speaker 5: It was fair game here.
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  Speaker 4: And then the red hots. Yeah, let's go. I'm not
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 4: sure why are we laughing?
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  Speaker 5: Because it's funny?
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  Speaker 4: Would you be would you be buried? In an Oscar
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  Speaker 4: Myer wienermobile.
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  Speaker 5: I would, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's the yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't mind, or like a themed casket, like it
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 5: doesn't have to be the actual thing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I've got it. So back in the day,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: back in the day, we used to have when you're
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 4: going to McDonald's, you would get like a styrofoam your
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 4: your big Mac would come in a big styrofoam box.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 4: What if you can be buried and like a McDonald's
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  Speaker 4: Big macbox?
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  Speaker 5: Sounds sounds delightful.
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  Speaker 4: Would you do that?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It's I I may I get it. You know, it's
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 4: a celebration, you know, but it's no you've got to
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 4: have some formality about it. And you're you know, you're
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: kicking the bucket for crying out loud.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I don't really care. I don't care what
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  Speaker 5: they do because I'm not gonna be alive.
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  Speaker 4: You're not gonna be there, You're not gonna you don't
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  Speaker 4: so you're not gonna care if your hair's not done,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: your makeup.
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  Speaker 5: No, my hair is never done when I'm alive, So
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 5: I don't know why I would care when I'm dead.
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  Speaker 20: Well, we're doing great, but we would be doing better
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  Speaker 4: I've heard that, actually, and I'm just kidding you, no, Jason,
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  Speaker 4: but I understand you guys are just really having an
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  Speaker 20: Well it is, as I say, we really wish you
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  Speaker 20: grateful that God is restoring you to health. And I
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  Speaker 20: guess you could say I'm in Studio B of the
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  Speaker 20: on that we couldn't hear out there. But we actually
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  Speaker 20: have another record crowd. This is the eleventh national in
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 20: person gathering of the NACLS in six years. And last
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  Speaker 20: night we had Attorney General Tim Griffin of Arkansas spoke
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  Speaker 20: to us and did a wonderful job receiving award. And
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  Speaker 20: then really a man's man, a legendary military leader in
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  Speaker 20: our nation, General boykend received a Lifetime Leadership Award. And
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  Speaker 20: I could go on and on. We had the Governor
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  Speaker 20: of Samaria Yosi to goon and today already really siding
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  Speaker 20: part of this proceedings today is that Ambassador Sam brown
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  Speaker 20: the Ashcroft the brown Back Ashcroft Fellowship to really get
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 20: into building men and women who cannot be destroyed. And
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 20: this is a actually you can go online to Christian
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• 1:19:23
  Speaker 20: for this programming that is going to go on for
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 20: the next year. And so they are in the midst
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  Speaker 20: right now. As you know how these work, they are
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  Speaker 20: in the midst of policy. So they're discussing model policies,
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  Speaker 20: whether that is dealing with the abortion pill issue right now.
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  Speaker 20: There are also updates on the Ten Commandments and Todd,
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  Speaker 20: I got to tell you I love this. You know,
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  Speaker 20: I sponsored that Arkansas monument in twenty fifteen. I literally
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  Speaker 20: just helped two counties in the state of Texas put
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  Speaker 20: up brand new Ten Commandments monuments in Rockwall County, Texas
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  Speaker 20: and Terrance County, Texas. And tonight Senator Ted Cruz is
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  Speaker 20: be here and what will probably be tough for us
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  Speaker 20: to see everybody because it is a sold out crowd
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  Speaker 20: here people from forty states, nearly one hundred current We
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  Speaker 20: got seventy two current elected officials. When you count the
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  Speaker 20: former we're nearly one hundred former and current together and
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  Speaker 20: it really is awesome to see what these men and
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 20: women have been able to do standing up for God
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  Speaker 20: and country. And Bastor Brownback said today that he believes
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  Speaker 20: what the NaCl is doing is important to saving not
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  Speaker 20: only the United States but the entire Western civilization. And Todd,
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  Speaker 20: you'd be so proud. We have invitations to come literally
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  Speaker 20: to do so many interesting things. We literally have The
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 20: Israeli government authority has invited us to help put a
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  Speaker 20: Life of Jesus program right on the Sea of Galilee
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  Speaker 20: next to the Jesus boat exhibit that you've seen. They're
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  Speaker 20: inviting us to tell the story of Jesus in the
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  Speaker 20: Sea of Galilee. Now, who would have thought of that
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 20: twenty years ago. In addition to that, Todd, we're about
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 20: to go to Europe because Europe has asked us to
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 20: help them save their civilization as well. So God's doing
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 20: great things, not only the United States. And just like
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 20: Matthew twenty eight, we're to go out and disciple nations,
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  Speaker 20: and so we're happy to be doing that.
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  Speaker 4: Jason, I've got a lot of questions, so we'll we'll
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• 1:21:25
  Speaker 4: we have together. And again, Jason Rapert is the founder
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 4: and president of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers. And Jason,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 4: you know, first of all, you know there may be
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  Speaker 4: a lot of Christian lawmakers out there who are not members.
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  Speaker 4: How can they join and what tell it? Give us
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of background about what you guys are
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  Speaker 4: doing this weekend at Liberty University.
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  Speaker 20: So you can become a member very very easily. And
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  Speaker 20: I also have the question todd not only lawmakers, but
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  Speaker 20: somebody says, hey, I want to support what you're doing.
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  Speaker 20: You could literally go out to Christian Lawmakers dot Com
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  Speaker 20: and there is a member page and you could simply
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 20: choose whether you're a current elected official or a former
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 20: elected official. And those members serve in what we call
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 20: the National Legislative Council. They have eight standing committees. They're
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 20: covering life issues. This week, they're covering human trafficking issues
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 20: here this week, they're covering some educational school choice type issues.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 20: Here this week you'll find people that's talking about standing
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 20: up for the Second Amendment, etc.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: Etc.
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  Speaker 20: And they create model policy to run back in their
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 20: home states to try to make a difference and actually
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  Speaker 20: on that website. There is a model policy page there
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 20: where you can go learn about the different models that
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  Speaker 20: we've sponsored over the last six years and actually take
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 20: that and give it to a legislator, say we want
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 20: to see you run this bill to try to do
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 20: this in our state. And so in terms of how
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 20: to become a member, they go on a website. In
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 20: terms of what we're doing, it literally uns the gamut
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 20: from A to Z and to the policy issues and
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 20: really why, it's because we want these lawmakers to address
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  Speaker 20: the most important issues facing the country from a biblical
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  Speaker 20: world view, because without God, America does not exist and
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  Speaker 20: we need to resurrect in this America two fifty that
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  Speaker 20: we're celebrating this this year, those fundamental founding principles. And
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  Speaker 20: many say that NaCl is absolutely a part of what
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  Speaker 20: we believe will be saved in the nation.
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  Speaker 4: Well, again, I think it goes back to a fundamental
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  Speaker 4: truth that the state legislatures are so vitally important to
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  Speaker 4: a lot of these issues, especially on issues regarding abortion
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  Speaker 4: because of Supreme Court rulings, a lot of things moving
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  Speaker 4: back to the state. If the Department of Education has
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  Speaker 4: ever abolished, a lot of those responsibilities are going to
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  Speaker 4: go back to the states as well, which is why
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  Speaker 4: it is so vitally important that we have Christian lawmakers
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  Speaker 4: in our state houses in all fifty statessolutely.
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  Speaker 20: Well, you know, it was the colonies the states that
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 20: actually created what we now have in this federal system
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 20: that we have. We started with the Articles of Confederation originally,
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  Speaker 20: as we all know, and later they adopted the US Constitution.
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  Speaker 20: And this idea of federalism is inherent. You know, the
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 20: Tenth Amendment says that all powers that aren't delegated to
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 20: the federal government remain with the states. And what a
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 20: lot of policy makers know, and this is why the
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 20: NACO keeps growing leaps and bounds. Washington hardly gets anything done.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 20: I've seen you talk about this, Todd. I'm with you
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 20: on this. They literally, even when we have majorities, many
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 20: times they fail to get things done. But in the states,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 20: the states are where it's at where you want to
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 20: save life. The states are where it's at when you're
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 20: looking for school choice and education opportunities. And so it's
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 20: important that the seven three hundred and eighty three state
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 20: legislation in America absolutely are grounded and rooted in truth,
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  Speaker 20: and we believe that the foundation should be biblical truth.
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  Speaker 4: And let me say this, and the states are also
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 4: responsible for making sure that we have secure elections. And
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 4: I know here in Tennessee we have a super majority
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 4: of Republicans and our legislature and we have to show
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: id every time we show up to vote. Again to
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 4: your point of there is a major role for state
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 4: legislatures to play in what's happening in our towns, in
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 4: our communities.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 20: Absolutely absolutely well, since you mentioned Tennessee State Representative Chris
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 20: Todd is our state chair for the great State of Tennessee,
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 20: and he's here in person working on these issues. He
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 20: actually received last night one of our inaugural America Is
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 20: Real Leadership Awards for his sincere work in that regard.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 20: And we want to thank Chris Todd for his leadership
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 20: in that state. And so what we have seen is
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 20: that over the last six years, people have come here
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 20: because they like dealing with a legis native led entity.
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 20: You know, Todd, You've been to a lot of Chicken dinners, right,
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 20: and people get up and claim a lot of responsibility
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 20: for all these things they've done. What you love about
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 20: NaCl the men and women that are literally on the
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 20: front line proposing bills and passing the bills. They lead
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 20: the programming here, and so you're literally rubbing shoulders with
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 20: folks that are out there on the front line, and
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 20: I'm so proud of what they've done. I'm very glad
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 20: that the Lord gave us this vision and has now
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 20: brought it to fruition.
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 4: Jason, we're going to have to leave it there. I
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 4: know you've been very busy, and we appreciate you carving
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 4: out just a few minutes to visit with us here
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 4: on the National Radio Show. And folks, if you would
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 4: like information on becoming a member joining the National Association
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 4: of Christian Lawmakers, go to Christian Lawmakers dot com. I
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 4: have endorsed this organization, this group one hundred percent. I'm
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 4: proud to be a member, and you need to go
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 4: and check out the great work they're doing Christian Lawmakers
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 4: dot com. Jason, here's the problem. The problem is you
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 4: hold these meetings in some really great areas that have
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 4: great food, for example, College of the Ozarks. So unfortunately,
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 4: you're going to have to make sure there's something grilled
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 4: and green the next time I'm there.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 20: My friend, well, we will do that and you know
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 20: they've been getting after me too, Todd, and I want
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 20: to tell you as a friend what you've shared about
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 20: your health experience. I'm paying close attention, you know what.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 20: We've got to stay healthy to finish the race, and
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 20: you and I run pretty hard. And so I'm so
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 20: grateful God is taking care of this, and I look
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 20: forward to seeing you at the next opportunity.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 4: All right, Jason Rayper and everybody, founder and president of
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 4: the National Association of Christian Lawmakers here on the program.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 4: And they're doing some really, really great work. All right,
• 1:27:47
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• 1:27:50
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  Speaker 12: Hello, Hello?
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  Speaker 21: Well, I don't want to see any more Republicans go
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 21: before the cameras and complain about a two tiered justice system,
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 21: not after John Bolt and all what he's done and
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 21: says just getting a slap on the rist. Are the
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 21: California elections with John Thune not getting the SAYAC passed
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  Speaker 21: or Epstein files When the redacted versions that were released
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 21: under Trump spent twenty years as FBI evidence that was
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 21: used against no one. The Republican Party is about as
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 21: useful as tits on a bull.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir, we're not dump We're not dumping, Matt. You're
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 4: allowed to say that because bulls do have those Well
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 4: they don't have those parts. But I get your point there, Mike,
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 4: and you're right. Look, this is it's a big problem,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 4: and the reality is the Republicans do not have the
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 4: man parts necessary to do what needs to be done.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 4: I will say this, and this is a bit of
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 4: news coming in from California where a US attorney, an
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 4: assistant US attorney now inside a ballot processing center. They
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 4: are announcing multiple get this, multiple federal investigations into voter
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 4: fraud in California. Well, good, let's let's get right to it, Mike,
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  Speaker 4: thank you for that call. Let's go to John in Pendleton, Oregon. John,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 4: what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 13: Oh, good afternoon, my friend.
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  Speaker 19: Love your show.
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 4: Thank you. I appreciate that. John.
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  Speaker 13: Hey, you were talking yesterday about the federal government about
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 13: how we may lose the House in the Senate, which
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  Speaker 13: I don't see any reason why we wouldn't now at
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 13: this point. But it was interesting. I was listening to
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 13: Lars Larson a couple about a week ago, and he
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 13: looked in you can look online. You can look into
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 13: the amount of days they have left available to work
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 13: between now and November. And I don't know how they
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 13: get this, but they're only going to be in session
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 13: for forty five days. For the next five to six months,
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 13: they're gonna be on vacation. You've got October coming where
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 13: it's still all be out pushing their constituents for reelection.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 13: You've got the fourth of July break, you've got summer break.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 13: All of August they're gone, and then you have they
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 13: come back for a couple weeks in September, and they're
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 13: gone from that point on for the election. There's not
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 13: enough time to do what they need to get done.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 13: I just don't see as winning this next election. And boy,
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 13: pray for our country because they're the first thing they're
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 13: gonna do if they get power back, because they'ren to
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 13: impeat Trump.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt about. That'll be day one, John, day one.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's interesting, we did run those numbers, one
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 4: hundred and sixty five days a year. That's how many
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 4: days members of Congress allegedly work. One hundred and sixty
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 4: five days a year. But John, here's the problem.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 4: I can understand if the Senate's going to be in recess,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 4: but the reality is John Thune is not putting the
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 4: Senate in recess, which prevents President Trump from making any
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 4: recess appointments. So they are the Republicans are deliberately sabotaging
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 4: President Trump. That's a huge problem.
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  Speaker 13: Absolutely agree. I think Thune has no business being in
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 13: that position. Of course, neither did McConnell. But yeah, I
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 13: don't understand why Ted Cruise. Have you had Ted Cruse
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 13: on your show lately?
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 4: We haven't had him on lately. But Cruz is just
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 4: sort of you know, he's he talks the big talk,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 4: but he has not come out to condemn John Thune.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 4: The only person who's condemned these folks is Tommy Tubber.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I don't I don't get it because Ted Cruz
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 13: is he's usually a bully when it comes to it.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, when it.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 13: Comes to doing the fight, he's not afraid at all
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 13: putting his foot down. But like you said, I haven't
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 13: heard much of him talk about it either.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 4: Nobody yet. Yeah, same with Mike Lee.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 13: He was for what they're doing.
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  Speaker 4: No excuse, no, no, not at all. John. Hey, we
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: appreciate you calling in and you give us a holler back.
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 4: Lars Larson is a good buddy of mine and we
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 4: love Lars. He's he's good people. I know he's right
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 4: in the thick of things there in the great uh
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 4: in the great Pacific Northwest. Yes he is all right, John,
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for that call. Nine oh one two six
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 4: zero five, nine two six our telephone, and we've got
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 4: to take a quick break here, folks. We're going to
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 4: get right back to your calls for the next half hours.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 4: So if you want a weigh in, now is the
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  Speaker 4: We'll be right back everybody. Dylan, are you still on
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 4: the Costco website?
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm perusing right now.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 4: What are you perusing?
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, we talked about the fact that they
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 5: actually do carry caskets on their website, so now I'm
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 5: just you purely interested in what they have to offer.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 4: Behind anything that catches your eye.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, I guess so you could say. I mean,
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 5: they could work on the names a little bit better.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 5: They have the others casket and the president casket. They
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 5: don't have anything like the board ops casket or the
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 5: producer casket. They need to.
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 4: That's unfortunate.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 5: They have some reviews on the caskets, which I was
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 5: surprised by, but mostly positive.
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, do you know I'm changing the top?
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 4: Do you know what happened? What's happening this way? This
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 4: is like the big Pride weekend in the Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 5: You can't escape the marketing that's going on right now.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 4: This is one of the weird By the way, the
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 4: Episcopal Diocese of Memphis of West Tennessee, they they're decorating
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 4: all their episcopal churches with rainbow colors. And they have
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 4: a huge sign out in front of the episcopal diocese
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 4: and it's it's it's the colors of the rainbow. And
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 4: here's what the episcopal I'm just going to do my
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 4: best to read this, if that's all right. This is
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 4: what the episcopalions in Memphis are saying. God made you fabulous,
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 4: just fabulous. In all camps by the way, fabulous. Oh,
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 4: i'll see Episcopalians.
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 5: Is that the same as in his own imagure? Is
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 5: that that's different?
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 4: We're made in Rue Paul's image. Go girl. So this
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 4: is the one time out of the year in Memphis
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 4: where people are no longer smoking pork butt they're spanking
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 4: the pork butts. So just be careful if you're down
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 4: on Beale Street. Yes, please be careful. Uh, okay, let's
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 4: let's go to the phones. Nine oh one two six
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  Speaker 4: zero five nine two six John and Dawsonville, Georgia listening
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  Speaker 4: to us on wdun. Hi, John, what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 9: God is your old friend and die terry adviser Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: Dawson Bill, John, how are you, sir?
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  Speaker 9: I'm good.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 9: Before I get to my point, I gotta tell Dylan
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 9: two movies. He's got to watch Glenn Eastwood movies. He
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 9: needs to watch every which way but loose. And if
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 9: he's going to watch any of the Westerns, he's got
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 9: to watch The Outlaw Josey Wales.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 9: That's his best questern I think.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 4: Now help me? Is the Clint east would every which way,
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 4: but loose was that the one with the orangutan or
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 4: the monkey or something, right, And.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 9: It's got it's got action, it's got comedy. It's really good.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 9: I think he'd really enjoy it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was, you know, that's right, the orangutan. That's
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 4: I forgot about that. Yeah, so Cline's I'm wondering is
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 4: that the movie that led to there was a TV
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 4: series called BJ and the Bear if you remember that
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 4: back in the day.
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 12: I remember that.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think that that's.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe not all right, I'm getting I'm getting off on
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 4: a tangent. Now, my apologies, John, excellent choices. Uh, and
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  Speaker 4: again it just shows you the range of talent that
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 4: Clint East would have, so anyway, acting with the Rangatans.
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  Speaker 9: You know, my main point, Todd was I've always voted.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna vote next week in the runoff elections here
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 9: in Georgia. I'm gonna vote in November. But if they
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 9: don't pass the Save Act after November, I'm done. I'm
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 9: not even I'm seventy years old and I'm not even
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 9: gonna buy to voting anymore. It's just it's gotten so
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 9: ridiculous that I'm just disgusted.
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 4: John, I am very sympathetic. I am not trying to
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: talk you out of anything, and I'm with you. I
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 4: am I will be voting in November. I will do
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 4: my part. But this Save America Act is it's this
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 4: is the hill to die on for Republicans.
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 9: I believe it is, because if they don't pass that
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 9: make it law, then we're done for We might as well,
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 9: you know, there might as well not even be a Republican. Marty.
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  Speaker 4: Well, when you see what's happening in California right now,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is why we need something like the
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 4: Save America Act. We have got to get a handle
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 4: on this. There is absolutely no reason why they can't
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 4: be counting all of those ballots in one night. They
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 4: do it in India. They've got six hundred and forty
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 4: million people, California forty million people.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 9: Well, like you saying, everyone knows why it takes them
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 9: so long, Oh yeah, because they're trying to manipulate the vote.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 9: I mean, anybody with a brain knows that.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 4: Well exactly, yeah, exactly. Look, it's like John, it's it's like,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 4: you know, every nobody wants to address the issue. It's like,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 4: you know, you're in you're in church and you've got that,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 4: h You've got the one nephew that has the track lighting.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 4: Everybody knows, but nobody wants to talk about it. Everybody knows, John,
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for the call. If you've seen the movie
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 4: Steel Magnolia, you know what I'm talking about. So I
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 4: think all the ladies of the todd Sernge listening show
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 4: audience got that. If not, you can google it.
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  Speaker 13: Uh.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 4: I'm going to play some audio here. This is CNN
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 4: Harry Inton. He's the guy that just like guzzles red
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 4: Bull before every TV appearance cut forty one place, chief
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 4: data analyst Harry and Iowa. One of the things we
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 4: know about.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: Iowa farm country has pretty rural field of dreams.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 4: How to rule voters feel about the president?
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Iowa has been traditionally a field of
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 2: dreams for the president of United States, but it's quickly
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: turning into potentially a field of nightmares. There seems to
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 2: be a rural revote going on in this country against
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Take a look here. Royal voters on Trump.
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: Look at Corn of Fox News. He was easily winning
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: them back in October of twenty twenty four versus Kamala
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 2: Harris eighteen points ahead the exit pole even had it
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 2: a bigger margin. But look at where he is now,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: whoo down there underwater underneath the cornfields. He's now fourteen
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: points underwater. That's an over thirty points switch through against
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: the president United States. As I said, there appears to
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 2: be a rural vote going against Donald Trump. What could
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 2: one of those reasons be. You know, one of the
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: big reasons that there seems to be a rural vote
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: against Donald Trump. Simply put, it's the economy. It's inflation.
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 2: Take a look at this. You thought that that switcheroo
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: is big. How about this one. Rural voters on trumpet
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: inflation versus Kamala Harris, he was more trusted by thirty
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 2: seven points. Now he is nineteen points under water with
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: rural voters on inflation. That is an over fifty points
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 2: switcheroo against the president of the United States. Rural voters
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 2: light the rest of the country turning against Trump on
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 2: the key issue that got him elected to a second
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: term back in twenty twenty four.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 4: He's done the water.
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 3: He's done the water, the rules, the rules.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 4: People, You know, Dylan All. Honestly, when I lived in
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 4: New York City. This is the honest to goodness truth
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 4: in New York City. Everybody thinks that the land west
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 4: of the Hudson River, all right, is it's a vast
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 4: wilderness that has no electricity. The people don't wear shoes. Yeah,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 4: that's what they think about it.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, if you stay there long enough, I'm sure
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 5: that's what you'll that's what you'll get. You just have
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 5: to come down here.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 4: They're not wrong. I mean, if you go to Alabama
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 4: or something a certain part, we're just kidding. We love
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 4: Alabama except dairy football season. Let's let's go to the
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 4: phone lines. Uh nine oh one two six zero five
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 4: nine two six. Let's say hello to Mike and Memphis,
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 4: Tennessee listening to us on k w A. M Hi, Mike,
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 4: what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 22: A lot of things? Well, to take it from my stage.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 4: Okay, I think we've got a bad phone connection here
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 4: with Mike. Mike, you might want to call us back here.
• 1:42:34
  Speaker 4: We'll get that worked out. Let's go to Wayne in Newburn,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 4: North Carolina. Wayne, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 19: Well, your last, that's the last.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 4: Wayne, do me a favorite? Can you do me a favorite?
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 4: Are you on a speaker phone buying chance. All right,
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 4: if you could just pick up that phone so we'll
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 4: be able to hear you loud and clear. Now you're great,
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 23: Okay, your last color on all that.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 12: Information on the economy that actually fits in good, because
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 12: that's what I was calling.
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  Speaker 23: I have a problem lately with why us you know,
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 23: Republicans and our leaders cannot defend our economy and we
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 23: take these hits from the Democrats and telling us how
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 23: this is the worst economy, this is this, this is that,
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 23: and there's a people, there's a fact. This is that
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 23: people in the media and social platforms, what they share
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 23: seventeen times what they share is negative vice positive. And
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 23: so what I want to do is just kind of
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 23: go through a little positive and wish that this would
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 23: be expanded and get out to more people. Because right
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 23: with all the three major indexes, the DOLLS and NASDEK
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 23: and the SMP, I actually wrote down when Trump took office.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 23: I wrote down those numbers the friday before he was inaugurated.
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 23: I wrote down those numbers, and I've tracked him ever since.
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 23: And from the Dolls standpoint, as of yesterday, it was
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 23: up eighteen point six percent. Now, this is in sixteen months,
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 23: and Nasadak was up thirty six point seven percent, and
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 23: the S and P was up twenty six and a
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 23: half percent in sixteen months. And these are never you know,
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 23: they're never repeated.
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 12: I called you a while back.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 23: And there was and we talked a little bit about
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 23: the panic that sent in, about when the market went
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 23: down ten percent and everybody was screaming, and about their
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 23: retirement funds were down this much that much. You know,
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 23: there's things that we see, we can observe clues that
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 23: are left. That's one of them. We aren't sharing any
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 23: of that anymore. Well, economy, we don't, you.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 4: Know, Well, well let me let me do it. First
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 4: of all. I remember when the stock market was all
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 4: over the place, and you know, our advice that we
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 4: give every time something like that happens is pretty much
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 4: the same is that don't do anything. Just let just
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 4: leave everything be because the stock market works these things out.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's the way that goes. However, and
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 4: you're right, I mean, the stop market is doing great.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 4: The jobs numbers today were tremendous. But when there is
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 4: a difference between how things are going on Wall Street
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 4: compared to how things are going on Main Street, which
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 4: is really the economy of the you know, the mom
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 4: and pop stores and middle class America, and right now
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 4: people are struggling and a lot of that has to
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 4: do with what's happening with the war. The high gas prices,
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 4: prices were still high, are still high at the supermarket,
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 4: and those are the those are the issues that are
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 4: concerning people, not so much wall stream. It's just the
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 4: average you know, what's happening in their own communities.
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 12: Can I disagree with you on that? Yeah, go ahead, Okay,
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 12: there is and I've checked this out before, there is
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 12: over sixty percent of Americans that are somehow involved in
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 12: the stock market in some ways.
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 4: Right, but it's not every day I'm talking about every
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 4: day living.
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 23: I'm okay, I'm with you on there, but I've still
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 23: got some disagreements and stuff like this. The other thing
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 23: is we talked about the gas gas prices being higher,
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 23: but we have had this year record breaking forty five
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 23: million Americans traveled during Memorial Day, three point sixty six
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 23: million more by air. People have money, we go to
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  Speaker 23: the food prices they're high, yet we've got tons of
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  Speaker 23: people overweight, no beats, you know, Democrats can complain about
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  Speaker 23: all of this, but they can't even imagine it manage
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  Speaker 23: their own state. And if they could control their fraud
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  Speaker 23: and their policies, all residents would be better.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So, Wayne, I've given you four minutes and
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  Speaker 4: forty five seconds, which is about the amount of time
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  Speaker 4: I would give a sitting member of Congress. And again,
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  Speaker 4: I go back to this issue. There is a difference
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  Speaker 4: here between Wall Street and what's happening on Main Street.
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  Speaker 4: Two different issues. Now, the reality is that I think
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  Speaker 4: when people call in and they talk on this radio program,
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  Speaker 4: they do talk about the gas prices. They do talk
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  Speaker 4: about the fact that their kids are not able to
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  Speaker 4: get into their first starter home. I mean, those are
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  Speaker 4: legitimate issues. And even the White House has been talking
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  Speaker 4: about affordability issues, Speaker Mike Johnson talking about affordability issues.
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  Speaker 4: So isn't it is an issue, but one that's not insurmountable.
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  Speaker 4: We've just got to figure it all out, and that
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  Speaker 4: needs to get that sort of language used to be
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  Speaker 4: coming out of the White House. Got to run. Wayne,
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  Speaker 4: Thank you for the call. I think we've got Mike
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  Speaker 4: back on. All right, Mike, what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 22: Greens Todd, I just real quick. I wanted to re
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  Speaker 22: emphasize that when President Trump classified the number of people
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  Speaker 22: dying and injured in the Middle East, and then you
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  Speaker 22: know double down with his you know barring his executive
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  Speaker 22: order barring employees from releasing that was a thing in
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  Speaker 22: Millington called the Bureau Personnel. And anytime someone dies in
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  Speaker 22: the military, there's a lot of notifications that go out
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  Speaker 22: that are not classified. And the numbers are getting near
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  Speaker 22: a thousand that include deaths and injuries, and they're releasing information.
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  Speaker 22: Now it's gone all over the country. People are being deployed,
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  Speaker 22: they're getting notices of preparation for deployment to the Middle East.
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  Speaker 22: And this could be turned around instantly. The operation down
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  Speaker 22: the Strait will open itself, the gas prices will drop,
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  Speaker 22: and he will get credit and things will go back
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  Speaker 22: to normal. But the Greater Israel project is going to
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  Speaker 22: be his Achilles heel that's going to destroy his whole.
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  Speaker 4: Where are you getting your numbers here? Because the official
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  Speaker 4: totals are thirteen US service members have died in the
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  Speaker 4: Iran and the Operation Epic Fury. Where are you getting
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  Speaker 4: the thousand.
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  Speaker 22: From that's including as about eight hundred. I'm sorry seven,
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  Speaker 22: it's in the seven hundreds that are actually dead and
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  Speaker 22: the rest are listen is injured to the Bureau of
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  Speaker 22: Personnel in Millington, Tennescy, right up the road. There's people
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  Speaker 22: that work there and they live locally, and they send
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  Speaker 22: out the notices of people that die. When they die,
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 22: their family gets a notification and it comes out of
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  Speaker 22: that office.
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  Speaker 4: So why isn't this in the national news? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: seven hundred people have died. Again, the official number is
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  Speaker 4: thirteen US service members. Where are the point? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: where's if if that many people were dying, there would
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 4: be flights coming back, there would be ceremonies to receive
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  Speaker 4: the remains of that. And I haven't seen any of
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  Speaker 4: that on the news.
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  Speaker 22: It's not on the news because it's classified.
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  Speaker 4: So all the So you're telling me that hundreds and
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 4: hundreds of people have been killed American service members and
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  Speaker 4: nobody's allowed to know about it, not even I guess
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  Speaker 4: they're family members because it's classified.
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  Speaker 22: Oh no, the family members know about it. They're getting
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 22: the notices. Point, they're getting the notice.
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  Speaker 4: All right, where's your evidence of that? Though? Seriously, where
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  Speaker 4: is your e I mean, this is a shocking thing.
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  Speaker 4: If it's true. I'm again, I'm just trying to find
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  Speaker 4: out where we're getting this, Where we're getting this information from.
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  Speaker 22: The Bureau of Personnel and Millington Tennis.
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  Speaker 4: Have you physically been there and you have seen all
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  Speaker 4: seven eight hundred names and the fact that they were
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  Speaker 4: killed in action in Iran?
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  Speaker 22: Well, I can't say I have sources, but if you
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  Speaker 22: get all right, I've.
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  Speaker 4: Seen all right, Well, we'll look at it. We'll look
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  Speaker 4: into it. But again, the official numbers are thirteen. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's what we're working on. And look, this administration has
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  Speaker 4: been pretty open and transparent about everything. So again, if
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  Speaker 4: there are eight hundred dead service members, I would like
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  Speaker 4: to think we would know that information. Mike, I've got
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