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Democrats to Bring Back Deported Illegals · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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Speaker 1: Broadcasting coast-to-coast and border-to-border from Memphis, Tennessee.
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Speaker 2: That's us, that's right. I love this American ride.
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Speaker 3: Todd Starnes.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 5: And hello, everybody.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show, broadcasting border-to-border, coast-to-coast,
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Speaker 2: across the fruited plain, your voice of truth and hope.
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Speaker 2: Across America. And ladies and gentlemen, may I just tell
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Speaker 2: you that I am in a great mood. You know
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Speaker 2: why I'm in a great mood? I had sweet tea
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Speaker 2: and I had a biscuit this morning for breakfast. That's
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Speaker 2: because I'm in Gainesville, Georgia, one of the prettiest cities
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Speaker 2: in all of the South. And we are proud to
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Speaker 2: be broadcasting from the palatial studios of WDUN, these beautiful
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Speaker 2: studios in downtown overlooking the square, where, Dylan, apparently, I
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Speaker 2: don't know what's going on. It looks like people are
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Speaker 2: trick-or-treating or something already. in Gainesville, Georgia. So I'll try
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Speaker 2: to get you some of those full-size Butterfingers while I'm here.
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Speaker 6: You know the way to my heart, Todd. Thank you
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Speaker 6: very much.
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Speaker 2: Well, I do what I can. You know, it's the
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Speaker 2: little things in life. And the full-size candy bars, you
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Speaker 2: know they've got them here in Gainesville. They do everything
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Speaker 2: big here. So anyway, it's great to be with you.
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Speaker 2: We're going to be broadcasting here in Gainesville for the
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Speaker 2: next two days. Tomorrow, we're doing our massive book signing
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Speaker 2: at the Longstreet Cafe. We'll tell you more about that
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Speaker 2: in just a little while. And also, this is really,
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Speaker 2: it's been a lot of fun driving, and I have
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Speaker 2: some stories I will share about the commute from Memphis,
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Speaker 2: Tennessee to Gainesville, Georgia. It was, there were interesting things
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Speaker 2: that happened along the way. So we'll get to all
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Speaker 2: of that along with your calls. Write down our telephone number.
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Speaker 2: You'll need this if you plan on calling into the
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Speaker 2: show today.
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Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. And Dylan, Joe from Ellijay, since we're sort
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Speaker 2: of in his neighborhood, yeah, he's going to have to
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Speaker 2: go right to the top of the list.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 6: You know he has to. He's close by.
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Speaker 2: Joe! That's Todd! Anyway, yeah, he's just right across a
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Speaker 2: couple of mountain ranges from us here in the North
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Speaker 2: Georgia mountains. So look, I've been getting a lot of
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Speaker 2: questions about the midterms, and we're coming into the homestretch here.
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Speaker 2: It'll be a week from tomorrow, and a lot of
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Speaker 2: folks going and casting their ballots, early voting. Here in Georgia,
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Speaker 2: we understand the numbers are off the charts. Well over
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Speaker 2: a million people early voting already in Georgia today. In Tennessee,
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Speaker 2: not too far behind. As a matter of fact, there
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Speaker 2: are still several more days of early voting. And the
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Speaker 2: big question, though, and I saw a report just was yesterday,
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Speaker 2: and the thought process, according to this article here in Georgia,
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Speaker 2: is that Democrats are outpacing Republicans. Now, my question is,
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Speaker 2: how does anybody know that? Because here in Georgia, much
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Speaker 2: like Tennessee, you don't show your party affiliation when you
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Speaker 2: go and vote. So, yeah, there are huge, and yes,
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Speaker 2: there are huge numbers of people coming out to vote.
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Speaker 2: No doubt about that. But no one can definitively say, yes,
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Speaker 2: these are Democrats, or yes, these are Republicans who are
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Speaker 2: coming out en masse. Regardless, somebody's coming out in huge numbers.
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Speaker 2: And folks, I just don't see, I do not see
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Speaker 2: the blue wave happening. I mean, PMS now says, well,
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Speaker 2: it's going to be a huge tsunami. No, I don't
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Speaker 2: believe that's going to happen. And I say that because
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Speaker 2: there's really nothing extraordinary that's moving the needle for Democrats. Now,
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Speaker 2: Barack Hussein Obama out there, and he's out on the
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Speaker 2: campaign trail, and we're going to play some audio from
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Speaker 2: him in just a little while. But yeah, Obama's generating what,
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Speaker 2: 10,000 people came out to hear him speak in Ohio.
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Speaker 2: That's all well and good, but is that moving the needle?
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Speaker 2: So I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this. What
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Speaker 2: is the voting, early voting like in your state? We're
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Speaker 2: hearing huge numbers coming out in Texas. Now, let me
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Speaker 2: give you an example of what I'm talking about. We,
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Speaker 2: even though even though people are not declaring. I think only, what,
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Speaker 2: 13 or 14 states actually allow you to declare Republican
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Speaker 2: or Democrat when you vote. And we'll get to those
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Speaker 2: numbers in just a moment. But in Texas, for example,
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Speaker 2: in Tarrant County, there is a huge Democrat surge there.
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Speaker 2: That could be problematic for Republicans if they are not
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Speaker 2: getting out and voting in other areas of the state.
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Speaker 2: So I go back to my original thesis, which is,
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Speaker 2: if the Republicans... And if evangelical Christians get out and
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Speaker 2: vote in the numbers they're supposed to be voting in,
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Speaker 2: we're going to win. We're going to be just fine.
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Speaker 2: But if we don't, ladies and gentlemen, there could be
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Speaker 2: a problem. And I don't want to overly alarm you.
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Speaker 2: I know there are plenty of other talk radio hosts
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Speaker 2: that are, I don't know, doom, gloom, despair, and agony
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Speaker 2: on me. It's like 24-7. And I'm telling you, at
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Speaker 2: some point, I'm like, geez-a-loo. And I love listening to
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Speaker 2: a lot of the other talk radio hosts, but I'm
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Speaker 2: having to turn them off. Having to listen to the
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Speaker 2: Muzak station for crying out loud just to get my
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Speaker 2: blood pressure back down. But again, it's just a cautionary tale.
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Speaker 2: You know, when I wrote The Golden Age, the whole
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Speaker 2: point of that book is to say, yeah, The Roaring
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Speaker 2: Twenties were great. It was a golden age in American history.
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Speaker 2: But guess what happened? The 1930s came along, and we
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Speaker 2: were plunged into a Great Depression. So we've got to
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Speaker 2: keep our eye on the ball here, folks. And one
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Speaker 2: of the things I am so encouraged by is that
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Speaker 2: evangelical churches are now stepping up, and they're telling their
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Speaker 2: church members, you have an obligation to go and vote.
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Speaker 2: And I've heard several pastors over the weekend say this.
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Speaker 2: I'm not telling you who to vote for, but you
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Speaker 2: need to vote your values. Take a look at what
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Speaker 2: you believe, what the Bible says, and then you get
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Speaker 2: out there and you vote accordingly. So again, ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 2: get out and vote. That's all you need to do
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Speaker 2: right now is just get out and vote.
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Speaker 3: All right, 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. They allowed Ilhan Omar to vote the other day.
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Speaker 2: This is what puzzles me about the whole Ilhan, well,
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Speaker 2: whatever her last name is, story. Ilhan Omar was allowed
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Speaker 2: to go and vote. My question is, why was she
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Speaker 2: not picked up for voter fraud after she cast that ballot?
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Speaker 2: Because she is not, and we now know this based
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Speaker 2: on the investigation of the Justice Department, we now know
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Speaker 2: that Ilhan Omar is not who she says she is.
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Speaker 2: So I'm just wondering, What are we waiting on here?
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Speaker 2: She cast an illegitimate ballot the other day. Anybody doing
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Speaker 2: anything about that? And again, going back to the fact
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Speaker 2: that she has been in this country for decades now,
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Speaker 2: and nobody bothered to investigate any of this. Nobody bothered
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Speaker 2: to check all of her bona fides. Even on the
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Speaker 2: Democrat side of the aisle, by the way, you would
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Speaker 2: think that when she was first running for Congress... her
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Speaker 2: Democrat opponents would have done a deep dive into who
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Speaker 2: this woman really is. But anyway, Ilhan Omar, we're following
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Speaker 2: that developing story as well. She has not been charged.
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Speaker 2: She has not been arrested. But you know, it just
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Speaker 2: seems to me, ladies and gentlemen, every now and again,
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Speaker 2: that listen to the show, a lot of young people. Oh,
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Speaker 2: share some life lessons with along the way. And just
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Speaker 2: for all of you youngsters that are listening to us today,
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Speaker 2: just consider this. It's a good thing in life to,
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Speaker 2: to know your social security number. It's a good thing
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Speaker 2: to know where you were born and who your mom
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Speaker 2: and dad are. And I would say that it's a
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Speaker 2: very good thing to know whether or not you're married
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Speaker 2: to a sibling. Just want to throw that out there.
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Speaker 2: All right, we've got to take a break as we
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Speaker 2: broadcast live from the great studios of WDUN, our affiliate
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Speaker 2: in Gainesville, Georgia. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. Again, that number, 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Now,
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Speaker 2: we do have some states where they do track party affiliation.
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Speaker 2: And I want to go through these states. And you
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Speaker 2: can extrapolate from this whatever you want. But this is
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Speaker 2: based on early voting, okay? And this is from Party
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Speaker 2: Registration Turnout Tracking. First of all, in Florida, and I'll
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Speaker 2: just go ahead and tell you, the thing here is
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Speaker 2: Democrats are leading in all of these states. Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Maine,
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Speaker 2: and Pennsylvania. Now, look, in Florida, for example, this is
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Speaker 2: all within the margins, and this will probably change. But still,
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Speaker 2: it is significant in the other states, where Democrats lead
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Speaker 2: by 0.2% in They lead by 17 points in voting
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Speaker 2: in North Carolina, 18 points in Iowa, 29 points in Maine,
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Speaker 2: and 42 points in Pennsylvania. So if those numbers hold,
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Speaker 2: it will be a good day for Democrats next Tuesday,
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Speaker 2: and it'll be a very bad day for the Republic,
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Speaker 2: which again is why you got to get out and
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Speaker 2: you got to vote. 901-260-5926. Let's start our day in Georgia. Steve,
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Speaker 2: listening to us on WDUN. Steve, what's on your mind?
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Speaker 9: Welcome to Gainesville there, Todd. Good to hear you here locally.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much. You guys have a beautiful
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Speaker 2: city here.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I came through town this weekend, and there was
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Speaker 9: hundreds and hundreds of people out in front of the
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Speaker 9: IHOP with Democrat signs, so they're energized, even in Gainesville, Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Wait, you're telling me, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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Speaker 2: you're telling me you have Democrats here in Gainesville?
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Speaker 9: Sad to say, we've got a good many, actually. They
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Speaker 9: were out in force over the weekend. They had signs,
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Speaker 9: and there were a lot of them out there, a
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Speaker 9: couple hundred, it looked like, in front of IHOP right there.
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Speaker 9: They had signs up, you know, vote Democrat, vote Democrat, stuff.
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Speaker 9: We've got plenty of them. What I wanted to talk
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Speaker 9: about was all I've heard in this voting cycle is
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Speaker 9: the education, how we're getting lost in education and how
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Speaker 9: the Democrat Party has embraced socialism. It starts with the colleges.
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Speaker 9: They brainwash these teachers, and these teachers are brainwashing these children.
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Speaker 9: And it's evident in the way they're looking to vote
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Speaker 9: now and the way they're thinking that is that they're
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Speaker 9: convinced that socialism's good, that China's a great country, and
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Speaker 9: that communism, there's nothing wrong with it, it's fair and
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Speaker 9: it's equal, and nothing could be further from the truth. And,
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Speaker 9: you know, it's been embraced a long time, because even
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Speaker 9: Hillary Clinton, back years ago when Bill was president, she
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Speaker 9: gave a humanitarian award to Cloward and Timmons. These were communists.
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Speaker 9: that their take on how to take down America without
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Speaker 9: firing a single shot was collapse it within. That's exactly
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Speaker 9: what they're trying to do now with debt and giving
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Speaker 9: everything to defeat the evil.
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Speaker 2: Well, let me jump in here for a minute, because
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Speaker 2: you're right, Steve, and this goes back to one of
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Speaker 2: the chapters in my book, The Golden Age, where if we,
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Speaker 2: and I'm very, very deliberate here with my words, if
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Speaker 2: we do not fix what is broken in our education system,
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Speaker 2: we lose the republic. I mean, it really is that
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Speaker 2: severe of an issue. And this is where kids are
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Speaker 2: learning about socialism and communism, but they're not just learning
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Speaker 2: that they were bad systems that have literally never worked
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Speaker 2: anywhere in the world they've been implemented, but they're also
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Speaker 2: very deadly ideologies. And the kids are just not being
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Speaker 2: taught that. They're being brainwashed. And now we have at
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Speaker 2: least one generation of that's gone through this education process,
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Speaker 2: and you've got a bunch of little communists running around
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Speaker 2: taking up shop right outside the IHOP in Gainesville, Georgia.
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Speaker 9: Well, that comes right out of the Communist Manifesto.
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Speaker 2: Yep, that's true.
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Speaker 9: Taking in, infiltrating the government schools with teachers, dumbed down
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Speaker 9: the electorate, and they won't know what you're doing to
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Speaker 9: them as you take over the communist regimes.
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Speaker 2: This is true. This is true. Steve, I hope to
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Speaker 2: see you at the book signing tomorrow night over at
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Speaker 2: Longstreet Cafe. That's going to be a lot of fun,
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Speaker 2: 5 to 7 o'clock. Those of you in the Atlanta
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Speaker 2: area want to come up and visit with us. And, Steve,
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Speaker 2: thank you for the call. 901-260-5926. Let's go to Clear
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Speaker 2: Lake City, Texas. Mike is on the line with us. Hi, Mike.
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Speaker 2: What's going on?
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Speaker 10: Hello, hello.
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Speaker 4: Well, I just wanted to ask you a question. Rather
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Speaker 4: than being deported back to Somalia, if the Justice Department
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Speaker 4: offered Omar asylum and immunity, do you think she'd roll
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Speaker 4: over on the Democrat politicians that were responsible for all
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Speaker 4: the Somali fraud in Minnesota?
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Speaker 2: You know, this is a great question, Mike. And here's
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Speaker 2: what bothers me about Ilhan Omar and the Republicans and
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Speaker 2: the Justice Department. I mean, I appreciate where they're going
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Speaker 2: with all of this, but man, are they taking their
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Speaker 2: own sweet time here. Everybody's known that there was an
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Speaker 2: issue with Omar, and nobody's done anything about it. And tonight,
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Speaker 2: just to show you how defiant this woman is, tonight
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Speaker 2: she's actually going to share a stage with Hasan Piker,
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Speaker 2: who's the guy out there saying that America deserved 9-11.
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Speaker 2: So She's doubling down. She is not backing off at all.
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Speaker 2: And I think one of the reasons why is she
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Speaker 2: knows at the end of the day that she's still
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Speaker 2: going to be in Congress. I'm not sure any Republicans
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Speaker 2: in leadership have the courage or the man parts necessary
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Speaker 2: to do what needs to be done with Ilhan Omar.
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Speaker 4: Well, let me ask you another question then. If she
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Speaker 4: stays in America, given what all she knows, does she
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Speaker 4: become a loose end and wind up like Seth Rich
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Speaker 4: on somebody's sidewalk?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, look, it's a great question.
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Speaker 2: You know how the Democrats are. You know, they've got
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Speaker 2: a long history of that. Mike, thank you for the call. Look,
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Speaker 2: the reality is they could do something now about Ilhan
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Speaker 2: Omar in Congress, but they're not going to do it.
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Speaker 2: And they don't want to upset the apple cart, especially
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Speaker 2: this close to the midterm elections. So we'll keep an
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Speaker 2: eye on that. But the hubris, wow, just off the charts. 901-260-5926,
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Speaker 2: our telephone number, that's 901-260-5926. Barack Hussein Obama is out
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Speaker 2: on the campaign trail, and I mentioned this to you earlier,
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Speaker 2: and he is going off on President Trump, and he's
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Speaker 2: taking some cheap shots also at the war secretary, Pete Hegseth,
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Speaker 2: and is blasting Hegseth for returning manliness back to America.
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Speaker 2: back to the military, as if that is somehow a
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Speaker 2: bad thing. Now, keep in mind, when Barack Obama was
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Speaker 2: president of these great United States, he literally turned the
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Speaker 2: greatest fighting force in America into a social engineering petri
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Speaker 2: dish where you had members of the Coast Guard running
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Speaker 2: around in pantyhose and red stiletto heels. No, I am
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Speaker 2: not making this up. You who turned our military into
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Speaker 2: some sort of an alphabet activist organization. And along comes
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Speaker 2: Pete Hankseth, and Pete Hankseth has a pretty good vision
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Speaker 2: of what the military ought to be. They ought to
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Speaker 2: be big and bold and brave and badass, ladies and gentlemen. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I said it. It's in the Old Testament. Badass! Or
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Speaker 2: was that jackass? No, no, that's who Obama is. But again,
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Speaker 2: Pete Hankseth discovered that things were so foul with our military.
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Speaker 2: And ultimately, at the end of the day, we have
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Speaker 2: a military to kill the enemy and blow things up.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's ultimately, at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: what the military is all about. And God bless Pete
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Speaker 2: Hegseth for restoring that sort of warrior mentality, that warrior
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Speaker 2: ethos to the U.S. military. All right, we've got to
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Speaker 2: take a break here. Going to the phones when we
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Speaker 2: come back. Also, all you NASCAR fans, we have a
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Speaker 2: story from Talladega to tell you about. Our telephone number,
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Speaker 2: by the way, 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 5: That's 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 2: Oh, our website, toddstearns.com. Go check that out. We have
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Speaker 2: some great content for you there. We'll be right back, everybody.
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Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns
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Speaker 2: Radio Show. By the way, President Trump heading to MI.
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Speaker 2: Crooked letter, crooked letter, crooked letter, crooked letter. Humpback, humpback.
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Speaker 2: That's Mississippi for all you folks in Salem, Oregon. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: President Trump going to Mississippi. Or as they say now,
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Speaker 2: they're Mississippi. It's a whole language and culture, Mississippi. President
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Speaker 2: speaking in Corinth. Dylan, I was always impressed with the
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Speaker 2: name of the local newspaper. It's called the Daily Corinthian.
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Speaker 6: It's pretty clever, yeah.
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Speaker 2: No, it's great. So the first edition, of course, is
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Speaker 2: the First Corinthian, and then the Second Corinthian.
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Speaker 6: The Daily Corinthian.
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Speaker 2: The Daily Corinthian. So the president doing a big rally there.
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Speaker 2: The Democrats seem to think, and they've been smoking the
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Speaker 2: devil's lettuce because they seem to think that they've got
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Speaker 2: a shot at flipping Mississippi, and I don't see that happening.
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Speaker 2: But we'll see what the president is up to today
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Speaker 2: as he talks to the good people of the Magnolia State.
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Speaker 2: All right, I want to go to the phone lines.
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Speaker 2: We have Erica joining us. She's listening to us on WDUN.
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Speaker 2: And Erica, according to my notes here from our call screener,
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Speaker 2: you're 31 years old and you're voting Republican. How can
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Speaker 2: I help you? What's on your mind?
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Speaker 11: Hey, Todd, thanks for having me. As a younger Republican,
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Speaker 11: I just feel like sometimes my generation is becoming increasingly
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Speaker 11: disconnected from the Republican Party. And I want to know
21:49
Speaker 11: maybe what our party can do or what I can
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Speaker 11: do to keep people my age interested in the conservative
21:55
Speaker 11: values and continue on voting Republican.
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Speaker 2: I think this is a terrific question, Erica. Where do
22:02
Speaker 2: you think the party has gone wrong?
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Speaker 11: I I don't think we've gone wrong. I just feel
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Speaker 11: like people that go to college, it's all liberal, and
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Speaker 11: everybody my age is just leaning liberal, and I don't understand.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think one of the reasons why, I would say,
22:23
Speaker 2: is the education system. And if you are going to
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Speaker 2: a public school, if you're going to a public university,
22:32
Speaker 2: and you go through all that education experience, and you're
22:35
Speaker 2: still coming out as a Bible-believing Christian conservative, then you
22:40
Speaker 2: are a rare breed, because I think the indoctrination is
22:43
Speaker 2: just so massive. One of the things, Erica, I would
22:48
Speaker 2: recommend is for especially young people to get plugged into
22:52
Speaker 2: a Turning Point USA group or a Young America's Foundation chapter.
22:57
Speaker 2: Those are two great organizations working now at the middle
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Speaker 2: school level, so middle school, high school, and then college,
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Speaker 2: just to try to promote conservative values.
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Speaker 11: I think that's great, and I've got two kids of
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Speaker 11: my own, and my goal is to bring them up
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Speaker 11: the conservative way and do the best I can.
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Speaker 2: Well, I have no doubt that you are, and this
23:21
Speaker 2: is a big concern. I think a lot of young
23:23
Speaker 2: people especially, and young people, their values are and their
23:29
Speaker 2: political beliefs are sort of in flux. The older you get,
23:34
Speaker 2: perhaps the more conservative you get, or maybe you take
23:37
Speaker 2: a different viewpoint on something. So I don't see there's
23:41
Speaker 2: anything wrong with that at all. But the problem I
23:44
Speaker 2: see is what you just addressed, is that these kids
23:46
Speaker 2: are coming out of a far-left education system, and they've
23:50
Speaker 2: really been brainwashed.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, for sure. Thank you, Todd. I really appreciate your time.
23:56
Speaker 2: Erica, thank you for calling in. And our telephone number,
23:59
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24:50
Speaker 2: I want to go back. I mentioned Barack Hussein Obama,
24:55
Speaker 2: and he's going after President Trump for all the renovations
24:59
Speaker 2: the president is making at the White House. Take a
25:02
Speaker 2: listen to Cut 5.
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Speaker 7: So when you go through all this, the tally of promises,
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Speaker 7: things have not worked out the way we might have expected. Although,
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Speaker 7: I must say, I did expect.
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Speaker 12: It.
25:17
Speaker 7: And let's be honest. Does anybody really think this guy
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Speaker 7: in the White House right now is spending all that
25:24
Speaker 7: time thinking about these issues? I mean, I don't know
25:29
Speaker 7: if you've noticed, but he seems very focused on home renovations.
25:36
Speaker 7: He should be on HGTV. Guy's building a ballroom that's
25:43
Speaker 7: bigger than the White House.
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Speaker 2: Paved over the rose.
25:46
Speaker 7: Garden, put a helicopter pad on the south lawn, and
25:51
Speaker 7: there's gold everywhere. What's up with the gold? Everything, more gold.
25:59
Speaker 7: He's got the white ass looking like Saddam Hussein opened
26:01
Speaker 7: a cheesecake factory. There's gold everywhere.
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Speaker 2: All right, what a piece of garbage that guy is.
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Speaker 2: That's Barack Hussein Obama, a guy who, by the way,
26:14
Speaker 2: left the White House in ruins, right? I mean, the
26:17
Speaker 2: only reason President Trump is having to renovate the White
26:21
Speaker 2: House is that Barack Hussein Obama and Big M left
26:26
Speaker 2: the building in a state of disrepair. It was in shambles.
26:31
Speaker 2: I mean, the thing was falling apart. And that's the
26:33
Speaker 2: way the Democrats do things, right? Everything the Democrats touch,
26:38
Speaker 2: it turns to a pile of rubble. So Trump comes along,
26:42
Speaker 2: and the president, and I'm just telling you because I've
26:46
Speaker 2: been there and I've seen it for myself. The Oval
26:49
Speaker 2: Office is absolutely stunning and breathtaking, and it is befitting
26:54
Speaker 2: the president of the United States. It doesn't matter if
26:57
Speaker 2: the president is Donald J. Trump or Marco Rubio. It
27:01
Speaker 2: is a breathtaking Oval Office that should instill fear in
27:08
Speaker 2: the hearts of our enemies as they're sitting in that
27:10
Speaker 2: Oval Office being lectured to by the president. Meanwhile, you've
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Speaker 2: got Barack Hussein Obama, who just spent hundreds of millions
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Speaker 2: of dollars on a presidential center that looks like a
27:24
Speaker 2: giant garbage can. So if we want to have the
27:27
Speaker 2: conversation about beautification, we can do that. But also, the
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Speaker 2: hubris of this guy, Barack Obama, bashing the White House
27:37
Speaker 2: by suggesting it looks like a Cheesecake Factory. Well, first
27:40
Speaker 2: of all, it does not. Second of all, what's wrong
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Speaker 2: with the Cheesecake Factory? Yeah, I know they have a
27:47
Speaker 2: 72-page menu, but that's what makes it fun, provided you
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Speaker 2: can get through the menu. But that's who Barack Obama is,
27:56
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. What a man. Oh, my God. 901-260-5926,
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Speaker 2: our telephone number, on this Monday edition of the program.
28:08
Speaker 2: So I told you that I was driving over from
28:12
Speaker 2: Memphis to Gainesville, which is about a six-, seven-hour drive.
28:17
Speaker 2: It took a lot longer because of the– I didn't realize, Dylan,
28:21
Speaker 2: that the Talladega course– The track was literally right off
28:25
Speaker 2: the interstate. And the race was letting out as I
28:30
Speaker 2: was driving through. And it took hours, hours to get
28:34
Speaker 2: through Alabama.
28:35
Speaker 6: Oh, brother.
28:37
Speaker 2: But it's still a nice, you know, there's not much there.
28:39
Speaker 2: It was at Interstate 22. It's a fairly desolate stretch
28:43
Speaker 2: of interstate. You've got one exit where there's a huddle house.
28:46
Speaker 2: And then the other, you know this because, you know, Mrs. Producer,
28:50
Speaker 2: when she was in nursing school in Alabama... used to
28:53
Speaker 2: drive that route all the time. You know there's a
28:55
Speaker 2: Cracker Barrel.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm very familiar with that Cracker Barrel, Todd.
28:59
Speaker 2: So I thought, you know what? I was in the
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Speaker 2: mood for Cracker Barrel, so I pull off the interstate,
29:05
Speaker 2: gas up the Cadillac, and find myself a good parking
29:10
Speaker 2: spot right in front of the Cracker Barrel. And I
29:12
Speaker 2: go in, and it's like it used to be. It's like,
29:16
Speaker 2: You can barely walk through because of all the stuff.
29:20
Speaker 2: And then you make your way over to the hostess stand.
29:24
Speaker 2: And Dylan, I'm telling you, this was the country-est Cracker
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Speaker 2: Barrel I have ever been to in my life. And
29:31
Speaker 2: it was great. It was great. So anyway, they seat me,
29:36
Speaker 2: and they seat me there in the dining room. I
29:39
Speaker 2: counted no less than three men wearing overalls, like dress
29:43
Speaker 2: overalls and, and cowboy hats and, you know, John Deere
29:47
Speaker 2: tractor hats. And I thought to myself, I feel like
29:51
Speaker 2: I'm in, I'm in God's country right now.
29:54
Speaker 8: Yeah.
29:55
Speaker 2: So then the waitress comes over. And she comes bounding over,
30:00
Speaker 2: and she says, my name is Country. No way. And
30:05
Speaker 2: honest to goodness, I said, I'm sorry, what? And she
30:09
Speaker 2: pointed to her apron. She goes, my name is Country.
30:13
Speaker 2: And she had a female accent. I'm not doing a
30:15
Speaker 2: good job. I can't hit the high registers today.
30:17
Speaker 6: I'm going to ask if she was transgender for a second.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my God. It's Cracker Barrel, for God's sakes. Are
30:24
Speaker 2: you kidding me?
30:25
Speaker 6: You just did a low voice, so I just assumed.
30:27
Speaker 9: I know.
30:27
Speaker 6: Okay. We're back on track.
30:30
Speaker 2: My name is country.
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Speaker 6: There it is.
30:32
Speaker 2: No, you see, I can't talk. It's too early in
30:34
Speaker 2: the day for me to talk to that high register. Anyway,
30:38
Speaker 2: her accent, it was the best. It was kind of
30:41
Speaker 2: like Haley Barber, who was the former governor of Mississippi. Now, Todd,
30:46
Speaker 2: how there, Todd? We just love Mississippi. We go hotty toddy.
30:51
Speaker 2: It's that kind of an accent. And so anyway, I'm like,
30:55
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, your name is Country? And she said, yes,
30:58
Speaker 2: that's her name, Country. And I said, well, why is
31:03
Speaker 2: your name Country? Is it a family name? And she said, no,
31:07
Speaker 2: that she talks with such a thick Southern accent that
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Speaker 2: all of her colleagues just call her Country. And I
31:13
Speaker 2: thought to myself, how country do you have to be
31:17
Speaker 2: at working at a Cracker Barrel where your colleagues call
31:21
Speaker 2: you Country?
31:22
Speaker 6: It sounds like you had the best waitress that could
31:24
Speaker 6: offer at Cracker Barrel.
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Speaker 2: It was. And before I could even say what I
31:31
Speaker 2: wanted to drink, she looked down at me. She says,
31:34
Speaker 2: I'm going to fetch you some sweet tea and hot biscuits.
31:37
Speaker 2: And I'm like, all right, great. Let's settle down for supper.
31:41
Speaker 2: And just had a wonderful time. The people next to
31:43
Speaker 2: me were talking about, honest to goodness, talking about where
31:46
Speaker 2: the best place in town was to get turnip greens.
31:50
Speaker 2: I felt like I was in Mayberry. And then I
31:53
Speaker 2: thought to myself, you know, and so country comes back,
31:58
Speaker 2: and we're just having this conversation again about, and I said,
32:01
Speaker 2: I think, she said, you know, she said some people
32:04
Speaker 2: make fun of her because of her accent. And I said,
32:06
Speaker 2: who are those people? I want to have a word
32:08
Speaker 2: with them. And that got to a conversation about, she
32:11
Speaker 2: was complaining about how people were moving into Alabama, and
32:17
Speaker 2: they did not have, you know, Alabama accents. And this
32:23
Speaker 2: is true. If you go to a place like Atlanta,
32:26
Speaker 2: you may as well be in, I don't know, Chicago,
32:29
Speaker 2: because the southern accent is being diluted. And I think, look,
32:34
Speaker 2: and it's happening all over the country. For example, like
32:37
Speaker 2: in Minnesota. Remember, they had that Minnesota. They had the
32:42
Speaker 2: coolest accent, but now it's gone, and everybody talks like Somali.
32:47
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm referring to here, is that sort
32:50
Speaker 2: of the southern accent is being watered down. I'm wondering
32:54
Speaker 2: if anybody else has noticed that. Dylan, I hate that
32:58
Speaker 2: because I love the way our people talk.
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Speaker 6: So do I. It's very warm. It's like you're welcoming
33:04
Speaker 6: to wherever you're at. You always feel at home when
33:07
Speaker 6: you hear that accent.
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Speaker 2: Oh, and then everything. She was like, I ordered the
33:12
Speaker 2: country fried steak, and I got the coleslaw. That's the
33:15
Speaker 2: healthy vegetable on the thing. And she said, is that
33:18
Speaker 2: all you want? I said, yes, ma'am. She goes, God
33:20
Speaker 2: bless you. And I said, well, God bless you. And
33:24
Speaker 2: then she brought me my, she noticed my biscuits were
33:28
Speaker 2: running a little bit low. She brought me back some.
33:30
Speaker 2: I said, thank you. God bless you. I must have
33:32
Speaker 2: been blessed by God 72 times in that Cracker Barrel.
33:35
Speaker 6: Yeah. Wow. That is one of the best Cracker Barrel
33:38
Speaker 6: experiences I've ever heard, Todd.
33:40
Speaker 3: It's amazing.
33:41
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, I'm like, they saved Cracker Barrel. Donald J.
33:45
Speaker 2: Trump saved Cracker Barrel. Remember, he's the one that was responsible.
33:49
Speaker 2: They were going like the whole Chip and Joanna Gaines.
33:52
Speaker 2: They had shiplap all over the place. There was no shiplap.
33:55
Speaker 2: They put it in the fireplace and cranked up the fire.
33:58
Speaker 2: It was amazing.
33:59
Speaker 6: Good. I'm glad. I'm so happy for you.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you. A lot of people, they want to
34:05
Speaker 2: go to Ruth's Chris. They want to go to Morton's
34:09
Speaker 2: or Capital Grill. You give me a good Cracker Barrel
34:13
Speaker 2: in Alabama, I'll be singing Amazing Grace. Thank you, Jesus.
34:17
Speaker 13: 901-260-5926.
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Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show.
34:32
Speaker 9: All right.
34:33
Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
34:36
Speaker 2: Just catching up. It's like old home week as we're
34:39
Speaker 2: back in Gainesville, Georgia, broadcasting our show. And, of course, tomorrow,
34:44
Speaker 2: our big book signing, which is going to happen at
34:47
Speaker 2: the Longstreet Cafe. And 5 o'clock to 7 o'clock, we'll
34:50
Speaker 2: be signing books. You can stop by, grab dinner. Going
34:54
Speaker 2: to be a lot of fun. And we're going to
34:56
Speaker 2: share a lot of laughs. And you never know what's
34:58
Speaker 2: going to happen at these events. By the way, I
35:03
Speaker 2: walk in, Dylan, and of course the big birthday is
35:06
Speaker 2: coming up this week. And somebody dropped by this incredibly
35:11
Speaker 2: kind gift, and a card as well, and they have
35:16
Speaker 2: good penmanship, so I want to read this. All the
35:20
Speaker 2: best to one of the most faithful branches on the
35:23
Speaker 2: broadcast version of America's New Liberty Tree, Signed, Tom, who
35:27
Speaker 2: is known on air as Little Big Mouth. So I
35:31
Speaker 2: didn't get a chance to visit Little Big Mouth, but
35:34
Speaker 2: there you go. Little Big Mouth, thank you very much
35:36
Speaker 2: for the kind card. Birthday blessings to you. And that
35:40
Speaker 2: will be going back in the carry-on luggage in the
35:43
Speaker 2: Cadillac as I leave here tomorrow night, making my way
35:47
Speaker 2: back to Memphis. So thank you guys very much. Dylan,
35:50
Speaker 2: you know, I'm assuming we have major events planned all
35:54
Speaker 2: this week for the birthday celebration.
35:55
Speaker 6: Is that true? We have so much for you to
35:59
Speaker 6: be excited for.
36:00
Speaker 2: That doesn't sound very reassuring, to.
36:02
Speaker 6: Be honest with you. You know, like a studio, a
36:03
Speaker 6: microphone that you can speak with, all the goods.
36:07
Speaker 2: Can you at least put a bow on it or something?
36:09
Speaker 2: I'll get you a cupcake.
36:11
Speaker 6: How's that?
36:12
Speaker 2: A cupcake? Yeah, I'll make you a cupcake. All right,
36:15
Speaker 2: I'll take it. Oh, I'm good.
36:17
Speaker 6: I'm good.
36:17
Speaker 2: I'm good. Thank you for that, though. Dylan, appreciate it.
36:21
Speaker 2: All right, coming up, we're going to be talking to
36:24
Speaker 2: someone who wants to be the next congressman from the
36:27
Speaker 2: 9th Congressional District in Tennessee, Brent Taylor, who has now
36:30
Speaker 2: been accused of being a racist and a white supremacist.
36:34
Speaker 2: So we will ask him on air if, in fact,
36:36
Speaker 2: he is a racist and a white supremacist. You're going
36:40
Speaker 2: to want to listen to that conversation. Wendy Patrick. joining
36:43
Speaker 2: us to give us an update on what's happening on
36:45
Speaker 2: the western side of the nation. Of course, lots of
36:49
Speaker 2: big races out in California and Arizona, where a pastor,
36:53
Speaker 2: and I believe we have this audio, a pastor of
36:57
Speaker 2: one of the largest churches in Arizona actually urged his
37:02
Speaker 2: congregation to get out and vote. All right, we'll get
37:09
Speaker 2: that audio. All right, let's take a listen.
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Speaker 3: And let me tell you, every follower of Jesus, you
37:15
Speaker 3: need to go vote. Amen? Don't you dare sit on
37:18
Speaker 3: the sidelines during an election. We have a freedom to
37:20
Speaker 3: go vote. Every follower of Jesus should go vote.
37:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, amen to that, preacher. And again, it's not turning
37:27
Speaker 2: your church into a Republican Party headquarters, although you probably should.
37:33
Speaker 2: It's getting out and voting your values. And I'm just
37:36
Speaker 2: telling you right now, the God I serve is not non-binary,
37:40
Speaker 2: and that's who the Democrats worship over there. So you've
37:43
Speaker 2: got to get out there, and I would just tell you,
37:45
Speaker 2: you know what you ought to do? If you've got
37:47
Speaker 2: a Sunday school class, make it a thing, right? Get
37:51
Speaker 2: everybody together, your Sunday school class, go and vote en masse,
37:55
Speaker 2: and then have dinner together. And go down to, I
37:59
Speaker 2: don't know, the Culver's or the In-N-Out or wherever, Chick-fil-A,
38:03
Speaker 2: and celebrate the fact that you took part in this
38:05
Speaker 2: great American experiment. That's what it's really all about. All right,
38:09
Speaker 2: we have some great guests coming up. Hang tight, everybody,
38:12
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38:19
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38:22
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38:48
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39:06
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39:33
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39:58
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40:02
Speaker 2: attorneys in America. Wendy, a lot happening in the California elections.
40:07
Speaker 2: There's been a lot of concern about fraud, voter fraud.
40:11
Speaker 2: We understand that there was an emergency hearing yesterday that
40:15
Speaker 2: Give us the blow by blow of what happened.
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Speaker 14: The blow by blow. I love it.
40:21
Speaker 12: Let me start with saying that it really was a
40:23
Speaker 12: blow to some who didn't think this hearing had merit
40:27
Speaker 12: to learn that the judges agreed to have it on
40:29
Speaker 12: a Sunday afternoon.
40:31
Speaker 14: Go figure. And this was something that was a bit
40:33
Speaker 14: of a surprise.
40:34
Speaker 12: The Trump administration filed this appeal because they felt the
40:38
Speaker 12: district court judge was moving too slowly. That's not unusual
40:42
Speaker 12: to think that the wheels of justice are turning too slowly.
40:45
Speaker 12: But it's a problem when the midterms are in a week.
40:47
Speaker 12: So the judges agreed. They had this hearing. But, you know, Todd,
40:51
Speaker 12: the merits were tricky and the judges didn't issue a ruling,
40:55
Speaker 12: but they really expressed doubt. It was a hearing about
40:58
Speaker 12: whether or not California could be forced to set aside ballots.
41:02
Speaker 12: that were suspect without any sort of merit proof, any
41:07
Speaker 12: kind of a merit-based hearing, set aside these ballots to
41:11
Speaker 12: make sure that they all were legally entitled to vote.
41:15
Speaker 12: So one of the things one of the judges said,
41:17
Speaker 12: one of the Trump-appointed judges said, is, you know, isn't elections,
41:21
Speaker 12: aren't elections run by the states, not by the feds?
41:24
Speaker 12: And it was questionable as to whether this is something
41:27
Speaker 12: that could be proven in terms of how do you,
41:30
Speaker 12: how can you prove that these 20,000 ballots include people
41:35
Speaker 12: that aren't willing, able, and legally entitled to vote.
41:39
Speaker 14: So that's what happened yesterday.
41:40
Speaker 12: But I have to say, you know, I think it
41:41
Speaker 12: was a win that the judges cobbled together, all three
41:44
Speaker 12: of them, to be able to hear this case to
41:45
Speaker 12: begin with.
41:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, this again, you know, Wendy, is a concern nationwide
41:52
Speaker 2: since the Senate Republicans failed to deliver on the Save
41:55
Speaker 2: America Act. I mean, there are some states out there
41:57
Speaker 2: that do have strong voting integrity laws in place. But
42:03
Speaker 2: I think the broader concern here is, okay, what's going
42:06
Speaker 2: to happen? Are we going to have a lot of
42:08
Speaker 2: these fraudulent votes being cast in places like California?
42:13
Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 12: And, you know, to that effect, many of us have
42:17
Speaker 12: been following with much interest the fact that the DOJ,
42:20
Speaker 12: as you may know, you probably already reported on it,
42:22
Speaker 12: sent those letters last week to every county in California
42:25
Speaker 12: asking local elections officials. Now, notice the terminology. asking, this
42:30
Speaker 12: wasn't a mandate, this wasn't an order, but asking basically
42:34
Speaker 12: local election officials to help, to help identify potential voters
42:38
Speaker 12: that shouldn't be voting, that aren't eligible to vote. And
42:41
Speaker 12: remember that there already was that list of 28 that
42:44
Speaker 12: were accused of not being eligible to vote yet being
42:48
Speaker 12: on the rolls.
42:49
Speaker 14: Now, obviously an accusation is not a conviction, but.
42:51
Speaker 12: The point is, you know, what they really were doing
42:54
Speaker 12: at the DOJ is asking for assistance and And you're right,
42:57
Speaker 12: if you don't pass the kind of legislation that upholds
43:00
Speaker 12: election integrity, you do see these sort of lesser forms
43:04
Speaker 12: of attempting to.
43:05
Speaker 14: Gain compliance through basically saying, look, it's in everybody's.
43:08
Speaker 12: Best interest that only people that are legally entitled to
43:11
Speaker 12: vote vote. That's not a controversial idea, and it's not
43:14
Speaker 12: a partisan idea.
43:16
Speaker 2: I want to play some audio here. The attorney general
43:18
Speaker 2: over the weekend was on the weekend shows, Todd Blanche,
43:22
Speaker 2: and just destroyed Margaret Brennan. after she lied about this
43:28
Speaker 2: Justice Department lawsuit against the Alaska Democrats. Of course, they've
43:32
Speaker 2: got this crazy case there where the Democrats got a
43:36
Speaker 2: guy to run. And correct me, I'm going to get
43:38
Speaker 2: this botched, but I believe Dan S. Sullivan is the
43:42
Speaker 2: legitimate Republican candidate. Yes, that's right. The Democrats put up
43:46
Speaker 2: a guy named Dan J. Sullivan, and it's causing all
43:50
Speaker 2: sorts of problems because they have ranked choice voting issues.
43:54
Speaker 2: In Alaska, here is the Attorney General cut number four.
43:58
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, let me correct you, okay?
44:00
Speaker 10: You described facts that were just simply either at best misleading,
44:04
Speaker 10: but really a lie to your viewers.
44:06
Speaker 3: It's not two Dan Sullivans, one an incumbent and one running.
44:09
Speaker 3: That's not true.
44:10
Speaker 10: The head of the Alaska Election Commission, not President Trump,
44:13
Speaker 10: not me, has said that the second Dan Sullivan is
44:16
Speaker 10: running solely to confuse voters, solely to pull votes away
44:21
Speaker 10: from the incumbent senator, okay? So that is something that
44:23
Speaker 10: we're dealing with. It's not just two Dan Sullivans running
44:26
Speaker 10: on the ballot in Alaska.
44:27
Speaker 3: That is not true.
44:28
Speaker 10: And second, President Trump has been talking about what a
44:31
Speaker 10: travesty this is for many, many, many months. And the
44:34
Speaker 10: Department of Justice has been looking at it for many, many,
44:36
Speaker 10: many months, as we should under federal law.
44:39
Speaker 3: And you saw what we did earlier this week, late
44:42
Speaker 3: last week.
44:42
Speaker 10: And it's not to let the federal government take over
44:45
Speaker 10: the Alaska system of selecting their next senator.
44:49
Speaker 3: Or certifying who's going to be senator.
44:51
Speaker 10: It's asking the court to step in where the Alaska
44:53
Speaker 10: Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law,
44:56
Speaker 10: and if necessary, to allow a process for Alaska to
45:00
Speaker 10: decide who should be certified as a winner.
45:04
Speaker 2: So, Wendy, this is not about, you know, the argument
45:06
Speaker 2: that Democrats are making is, oh, the president's meddling in
45:09
Speaker 2: this election. No, the people meddling are the Democrats in Alaska.
45:14
Speaker 14: You know, it's hard to prove that, Todd.
45:16
Speaker 12: And I think that's why this has gotten as much
45:18
Speaker 12: traction as it has. What you're looking at and what
45:21
Speaker 12: we're all looking at is circumstantial evidence.
45:23
Speaker 14: And that's what we do.
45:24
Speaker 12: We can't get into somebody's head and figure out why
45:26
Speaker 12: he or she decided to make a go at it,
45:29
Speaker 12: toss their hat into the ring. But what this reminds
45:32
Speaker 12: me of, it is true. It's not the first time
45:34
Speaker 12: there have been two people on the ballot with the
45:36
Speaker 12: same name. But the circumstances are different here. Not only
45:40
Speaker 12: is it ranked choice voting state, but it's also one
45:42
Speaker 12: of those really the circumstances that you've got a retired
45:45
Speaker 12: school teacher. That would be the Dan Jay. And of course,
45:48
Speaker 12: you've got the Republican incumbent. What also is confusing is
45:52
Speaker 12: that when you put them side to side, they side
45:54
Speaker 12: by side, they look alike. Obviously, they're not dressed alike
45:57
Speaker 12: because they come from very different backgrounds. But it's one
46:00
Speaker 12: of those things where you have to wonder whether or
46:01
Speaker 12: not a lawsuit being filed to hold off certification of
46:06
Speaker 12: the results won't in and of itself draw the kind
46:09
Speaker 12: of attention to the vote where people will be more careful.
46:13
Speaker 14: In deciding who they vote for.
46:14
Speaker 12: You know, it reminds me of in California, Todd, as
46:17
Speaker 12: you probably know, we have all these propositions all the time.
46:20
Speaker 14: And they're all phrased as.
46:21
Speaker 12: Double, triple negatives to where you're not really sure at
46:23
Speaker 12: the end of the day whether a yes is because
46:26
Speaker 12: you like it or no is this. And that's the
46:28
Speaker 12: type of thing that this reminds me of. is they
46:31
Speaker 12: want to look at the result and say, well, if
46:33
Speaker 12: it's so narrow, or maybe we can look at the
46:35
Speaker 12: numbers and be able to tell whether or not people
46:37
Speaker 12: made mistakes.
46:38
Speaker 14: That is hard.
46:40
Speaker 12: But it is also true that you've got to do
46:42
Speaker 12: what they're doing, make this an issue, and maybe that
46:45
Speaker 12: in and of itself will make people pay more attention
46:47
Speaker 12: when they go to the ballot box.
46:49
Speaker 2: Wendy Patrick joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
46:53
Speaker 2: And Wendy, looking at the California governor's race today, It's
46:59
Speaker 2: going to almost take a miracle for Steve Hilton to
47:02
Speaker 2: win this thing. There is a new survey out there,
47:05
Speaker 2: a new poll, giving Javier Becerra a 27-point lead over Hilton, allegedly.
47:10
Speaker 2: But still, we know the lay of the land in California,
47:13
Speaker 2: and I'm just wondering, what is it going to take
47:16
Speaker 2: for people to wake up and understand what the Democrats
47:19
Speaker 2: have done to them out there?
47:22
Speaker 12: It really is exactly that, is they're going to have
47:24
Speaker 12: to really take a hard look at why they would
47:27
Speaker 12: cast a vote for a Democrat. Do they think Democrats
47:29
Speaker 12: are going to lower their taxes or make the border
47:32
Speaker 12: security safer or.
47:34
Speaker 14: Fund police departments? The answer, of course, is no.
47:37
Speaker 12: So you got to wonder whether people are voting without
47:40
Speaker 12: really knowing the facts. And I would say, you know,
47:42
Speaker 12: ignorance and apathy have long been important. Two of the
47:45
Speaker 12: reasons that sometimes the best qualified candidates don't get into office,
47:49
Speaker 12: because when you look at the really the kitchen table issues,
47:51
Speaker 12: they're the same. All of us care about wanting to
47:54
Speaker 12: be able to afford the California dream. And we can't
47:58
Speaker 12: we can't afford it. But voting for a Democrat is
48:00
Speaker 12: not going to lower those prices. And I understand the
48:02
Speaker 12: easy arguments.
48:03
Speaker 14: They're going to lower. They're going to take away the
48:05
Speaker 14: tariffs and, you know, they're going to stop the war
48:07
Speaker 14: in Iran. Is that true? And is that the easy solution?
48:11
Speaker 12: You know, unless somebody can tell you and can prove it.
48:14
Speaker 12: how they are going to make it more affordable, lower
48:18
Speaker 12: those prices, make it make safe schools, health care, housing.
48:21
Speaker 12: If they can't tell you how, then you have to
48:23
Speaker 12: look elsewhere and try to figure out whether or not
48:25
Speaker 12: just voting Democrat, no matter who it is, is a
48:27
Speaker 12: great idea.
48:29
Speaker 2: No, you're absolutely right about that. And again, Becerra not
48:31
Speaker 2: even trying to campaign. No, doesn't need to. You're right.
48:37
Speaker 2: It's really a source of great frustration. we are really
48:42
Speaker 2: hoping for some good news coming out of the congressional races.
48:45
Speaker 2: But again, with redistricting there, we're losing good people like
48:49
Speaker 2: Kevin Kiley, I'm afraid, and others. So I just don't know, Wendy.
48:55
Speaker 2: It's really frustrating when you look at it from, you know,
48:58
Speaker 2: we see what's happening in California. We just don't understand
49:01
Speaker 2: why the people of California don't see that.
49:04
Speaker 12: You know, I will say one thing about what the
49:07
Speaker 12: people of California do and don't see. And I'll harken
49:10
Speaker 12: back to the last presidential election where everybody said this
49:14
Speaker 12: is what we're going to do.
49:15
Speaker 14: And then we all watched together as the pendulum swung
49:19
Speaker 14: the opposite direction. direction.
49:20
Speaker 12: So I do have to believe that because let's let's
49:24
Speaker 12: just face it, no matter who you are, no matter
49:26
Speaker 12: what party you claim, you're going to vote for the
49:28
Speaker 12: candidate that's going to make your life better, make your
49:30
Speaker 12: streets safer, your schools better and your children safer. that's
49:35
Speaker 12: who you're going to vote for. So it is a
49:36
Speaker 12: matter of, in a word, turnout. It's true that Donald
49:40
Speaker 12: Trump is not on the ballot, but turnout may make
49:43
Speaker 12: a difference on either side of the aisle. So I
49:45
Speaker 12: am just hoping and praying that however Californians want to
49:47
Speaker 12: cast their ballot, they do so.
49:50
Speaker 2: All right. Wendy Patrick joining us on our Patriot Mobile
49:53
Speaker 2: Newsmaker line today. Wendy, always good hearing from you. Thanks.
49:58
Speaker 14: Thank you, Todd.
49:59
Speaker 2: All right. There you have it. The great Wendy Patrick.
50:02
Speaker 2: We're going to take a quick break here and then
50:06
Speaker 2: get to your calls. Also, I'll give you the very
50:09
Speaker 2: latest between Donald Trump and Bill Maher. That's not going
50:12
Speaker 2: over very well. And there is a big controversy over
50:17
Speaker 2: a British bear who is not Winnie the Pooh. We
50:21
Speaker 2: will tell you about that.
50:22
Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
50:22
Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show. Dylan, I feel like
50:38
Speaker 2: I'm in a Hallmark movie. We're broadcasting the show. There
50:42
Speaker 2: are these huge plate glass windows, and people are strolling
50:46
Speaker 2: through the downtown, the beautiful fall foliage, and nobody's getting shot.
50:52
Speaker 2: I haven't seen anybody carjacked, and folks are having a
50:55
Speaker 2: good time out here.
50:56
Speaker 6: Wow, maybe you are in Mayberry, Todd. This sounds more
50:59
Speaker 6: great each time It is.
51:00
Speaker 2: A quintessential Southern downtown. And, Dylan, we're always honored to
51:06
Speaker 2: have our alumni who leave us, they abandon us, and
51:10
Speaker 2: go on to greater things. And Avery Bryson was the
51:14
Speaker 2: very first call screener for the show after I left Fox.
51:18
Speaker 2: And Avery, you were just like a call screener, but
51:23
Speaker 2: now you're like a movie star, and you've got your
51:26
Speaker 2: own show, radio show now.
51:28
Speaker 11: Yes, sir.
51:29
Speaker 2: So welcome back.
51:30
Speaker 6: Thanks, Todd.
51:31
Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm happy to be here. It's been quite some
51:34
Speaker 15: time since I've been with the Todd Starnes Show, so
51:37
Speaker 15: I'm happy to be back.
51:38
Speaker 2: Many moons ago. Yeah.
51:40
Speaker 15: What was it? I think about, because I was at
51:42
Speaker 15: Liberty University in 2021, and I had to focus on
51:47
Speaker 15: my education during that year. And so it's been about, yeah,
51:51
Speaker 15: almost four years now, which is crazy.
51:52
Speaker 2: So, and now you do, and Dylan, you've probably seen
51:55
Speaker 2: the videos of Avery, who was like just, you know,
51:58
Speaker 2: the sweet, quiet, Southern, you know, a Baptist kid. And
52:02
Speaker 2: now you're like doing sword fighting and like stunts and
52:06
Speaker 2: the whole nine yards. It's pretty impressive.
52:09
Speaker 15: Yes, sir. I am, by the grace of God, an
52:11
Speaker 15: official Screen Actors Guild of America stunt performer as of
52:16
Speaker 15: March of this year. Um, so I've, uh, officially been
52:20
Speaker 15: a member of the union for, for that amount of time.
52:23
Speaker 15: And it's just been a blessing truly just to be
52:24
Speaker 15: able to go and do what I do.
52:26
Speaker 6: Uh, it's, it's a weird career.
52:29
Speaker 15: I'll tell you that much. Cause I'll, I'll, I'll tell
52:31
Speaker 15: some friends and stuff like that. Like, Oh, they'll ask
52:34
Speaker 15: me like, Hey, how's your week going? I'm like, Oh,
52:35
Speaker 15: it's pretty good. I, I got shot earlier in the week.
52:38
Speaker 15: That was pretty fun. And tomorrow I'm getting stabbed. So
52:40
Speaker 15: that's pretty fun.
52:41
Speaker 2: This is amazing. Dylan, I'm thinking here with Avery that
52:45
Speaker 2: maybe we should have brought him to Memphis so we
52:47
Speaker 2: could experience all of that in real life so there
52:49
Speaker 2: was no snow work involved.
52:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, some method acting there. That would be pretty good
52:54
Speaker 6: for him.
52:55
Speaker 15: Yeah, it'll be a real-life experience for sure.
52:59
Speaker 2: But I'm saving the best for last year because you
53:02
Speaker 2: also had a great role in the new Daily Wire movie.
53:06
Speaker 16: Yes, I did.
53:06
Speaker 2: A lot of people don't realize Daily Wire, they're in
53:08
Speaker 2: the film business now. And they've got a new film
53:11
Speaker 2: out called Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels. Yes. Tell us about
53:16
Speaker 2: your role.
53:16
Speaker 15: So briefly, I was working as a crew member, just
53:21
Speaker 15: as a PA, a production assistant. which is just basically
53:24
Speaker 15: I'm running around doing whatever I'm told to do. That
53:26
Speaker 15: was getting coffee for anybody and anybody who asked. And
53:29
Speaker 15: I was more than happy to do that. I just
53:30
Speaker 15: love doing that. But then also, as a member of
53:34
Speaker 15: the Screen Actors Guild, this was a union project. And
53:37
Speaker 15: so there was a stunt coordinator where we needed two
53:40
Speaker 15: actors to be thrown in for a scene really quick.
53:43
Speaker 15: And some way, somehow, the scheduling of finding these two
53:46
Speaker 15: people fell through the cracks. A lot of stuff happens
53:49
Speaker 15: on a film set, so it's easy for stuff like
53:51
Speaker 15: that to happen sometimes. Uh, but I was asked by
53:55
Speaker 15: the coordinator. He saw me doing my regular job and
53:57
Speaker 15: was like, Hey, we need you get thrown in here.
53:59
Speaker 15: And I was like, all right, yes, sir.
54:00
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
54:00
Speaker 15: So I took off all my stuff, uh, all my
54:02
Speaker 15: gear and they threw me in a costume and told me, Hey,
54:06
Speaker 15: this actress right here, she's going to be your, uh,
54:08
Speaker 15: your pretend girlfriend. Uh, and you two are going to
54:10
Speaker 15: get shot. Uh, and so you're just going to get
54:13
Speaker 15: ready for that. We're going to rig you up with
54:14
Speaker 15: a blood bag. Uh, we did a quick rehearsal of
54:17
Speaker 15: how to fall. I was very honored. The, the actress
54:20
Speaker 15: I was working with, she's never done stunts before. So
54:23
Speaker 15: the coordinator was like, all right, Avery, show her how
54:25
Speaker 15: to fall. So I was very, very pleased that the
54:26
Speaker 15: coordinator was like, all right, you fall, show her how
54:28
Speaker 15: it's done. And so took the reaction like I was
54:32
Speaker 15: supposed to miming it before I actually, you know, the
54:34
Speaker 15: blood bag went off. Everything went off without a hitch.
54:37
Speaker 15: And then the camera started rolling. They're like, all right, three, two, one, action.
54:41
Speaker 7: Boom.
54:42
Speaker 15: Clicked the button. Blood bag exploded on my chest. And
54:45
Speaker 15: I fell to the ground on a very comfortable eight-inch
54:48
Speaker 15: foam pad.
54:49
Speaker 3: And it was great.
54:49
Speaker 2: They don't have the foam pads in Memphis when they
54:51
Speaker 2: have shootings.
54:52
Speaker 3: No, they don't.
54:53
Speaker 15: They really don't. I mean, they're nice. They're nice to
54:56
Speaker 15: fall to the ground to once you get shot.
54:58
Speaker 3: That's for sure.
54:58
Speaker 2: Avery, where can people, if they want to follow you,
55:02
Speaker 2: you're what, Instagram? Is that it?
55:03
Speaker 8: Yes.
55:04
Speaker 15: I have an Instagram, abryson _ _ stunts. is my
55:08
Speaker 15: Instagram handle, so I post a lot of my content there.
55:11
Speaker 2: That's exciting, and it must be exciting to work with
55:13
Speaker 2: people of faith. We've only got about 60 seconds here,
55:15
Speaker 2: but working with people of faith as well.
55:18
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's something else, because I was in Tennessee, of
55:21
Speaker 15: all places, working on a movie a couple years ago,
55:24
Speaker 15: and I was just praying. I was just like, Lord,
55:26
Speaker 15: I know this is what you have for me, But
55:28
Speaker 15: I don't have anybody I can do it alongside with.
55:30
Speaker 15: I need those people. And flash forward two, three years later,
55:33
Speaker 15: and I've got those people now.
55:34
Speaker 5: That's terrific.
55:35
Speaker 2: And tell us what you do here at WDU. And
55:37
Speaker 2: I love this story.
55:38
Speaker 15: I'm a multimedia producer here at WDUN. I do social
55:42
Speaker 15: media stuff. I do photography, videography, and I also host shows.
55:45
Speaker 15: The Swap Shop, daily Swap Shop show on Saturdays from
55:49
Speaker 15: 7 a.m. to 8 a.m.
55:50
Speaker 17: Every day.
55:51
Speaker 13: I love that.
55:52
Speaker 15: On Saturdays.
55:52
Speaker 2: And I bet you get a lot of calls.
55:54
Speaker 6: We do, actually. We got a lot of calls.
55:55
Speaker 15: A lot of people call in asking, hey, I've got
55:57
Speaker 15: some chickens for sale. If anybody wants chickens, here's my
55:59
Speaker 15: phone number.
56:00
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
56:00
Speaker 2: What's that number, by the way? Maybe we should do that, Dylan.
56:04
Speaker 2: We could do like a Swap Shop nationwide hour maybe
56:08
Speaker 2: once a week for the show.
56:09
Speaker 15: I will say I'm also kind of nationwide a little
56:11
Speaker 15: bit right now as well because I've had some people
56:12
Speaker 15: call in from Maine. saying I've got some car parts.
56:16
Speaker 15: So I might have beaten you to it.
56:18
Speaker 2: I love it. That's awesome. Avery, we are so proud
56:22
Speaker 2: of you. Thank you. We look forward to seeing you
56:24
Speaker 2: up on the big screen. You could be like the
56:26
Speaker 2: next Arnold Schwarzenegger.
56:27
Speaker 15: I don't think I'll be as buff as he is,
56:30
Speaker 15: but maybe big enough in personality. There's always a chance there.
56:33
Speaker 2: Oh, that works. That's good. All right. Got to take
56:37
Speaker 2: a break here, Avery. Great. I know you've got to
56:39
Speaker 2: skedaddle and do other things, but we just wanted to
56:41
Speaker 2: say hello. It's great to see you again.
56:42
Speaker 15: Thanks for having me, Todd.
56:43
Speaker 2: All right. Avery Bryson, great young man and just a terrific.
56:47
Speaker 2: He loves the Lord. And that's really all you need
56:49
Speaker 2: to know about Avery. But he can also, you know,
56:52
Speaker 2: get shot and live to tell about it.
56:54
Speaker 3: All right.
56:54
Speaker 2: Hang tight, everybody. We'll be right back. And welcome back
57:20
Speaker 2: as we broadcast from the North Georgia mountains. Dylan, I
57:24
Speaker 2: got some Intel from Avery Bryson on what's happening in the,
57:29
Speaker 2: in this beautiful park that I'm literally staring at. This
57:33
Speaker 2: is the town square in downtown Gainesville. Apparently like a
57:36
Speaker 2: lot of the business set up like Halloween displays and
57:39
Speaker 2: you get to vote on who has, I guess the
57:42
Speaker 2: scariest Halloween display.
57:44
Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
57:44
Speaker 6: Any, anything looking good so far?
57:47
Speaker 2: No, it did sort of terrify me. As I was
57:51
Speaker 2: walking over, they have a beautiful hotel downtown. The whole
57:54
Speaker 2: thing is brand new, this area. And I walked over
57:58
Speaker 2: and saw a skeleton, which was a little unsettling. But otherwise,
58:02
Speaker 2: you know, it looks very family-friendly out here.
58:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, you never want to see that in a park
58:05
Speaker 6: without knowing the context, right?
58:07
Speaker 2: This is true. I'm from Memphis, trust me. It's not
58:10
Speaker 2: the first time we've seen a dead corpse. 901-260-5926. Speaking
58:18
Speaker 2: of Tennessee, a major national race, it's become national, the
58:22
Speaker 2: 9th Congressional District Race, pitting a radical far-left activist who
58:28
Speaker 2: pals around with Hassan Piker against our next guest. He
58:32
Speaker 2: is the Republican nominee. His name is Brent Taylor. He
58:35
Speaker 2: is running to be the next congressman for the 9th
58:38
Speaker 2: Congressional District. Brent, good to have you with us. And
58:43
Speaker 2: you made some headlines over the weekend, at least your
58:46
Speaker 2: opponent did, by calling you a white supremacist and a racist. So, Brent,
58:52
Speaker 2: I just want to get right to it here, rip
58:54
Speaker 2: off the Band-Aid. Sir, are you a racist white supremacist?
58:59
Speaker 17: Well, of course not. But, you know, he made that
59:02
Speaker 17: allegation with no... facts to back it up. And that's
59:07
Speaker 17: his M.O., is he... likes to call everybody a racist
59:12
Speaker 17: when he doesn't get his way. And just to give
59:14
Speaker 17: you a couple of examples, here a few years ago
59:18
Speaker 17: in the Tennessee House of Representatives where he serves, he
59:20
Speaker 17: took to the House floor with a bullhorn, disrupted the
59:24
Speaker 17: House proceedings, for which they expelled him temporarily. And he
59:29
Speaker 17: claimed it was racism that was the reason.
59:31
Speaker 9: They expelled him.
59:32
Speaker 17: Forget the fact that he disrupted the proceedings. And a
59:36
Speaker 17: year later, he had to be physically restrained from attacking
59:39
Speaker 17: a white lawmaker by the name of Andy Farmer. He
59:44
Speaker 17: had to be physically restrained from attacking Farmer. And when
59:49
Speaker 17: they held him back, he claimed it was racism. He
59:53
Speaker 17: famously or infamously goes up into the gallery last year
59:58
Speaker 17: during the special session where he stood nose to nose
1:00:02
Speaker 17: with law enforcement and attempted to provoke a reaction from
1:00:07
Speaker 17: a PHP officer, Tennessee Highway Patrol officer, by calling him
1:00:11
Speaker 17: a stupid MF-er and a boy. And then he claimed
1:00:15
Speaker 17: that the state troopers were racist and white supremacist. And
1:00:18
Speaker 17: then lastly, and the most laughable one, was he was
1:00:21
Speaker 17: before the Memphis City Council with a bullhorn, disrupted their
1:00:25
Speaker 17: city council meeting where they had to adjourn, and then
1:00:28
Speaker 17: they issued a letter to him saying that he could
1:00:31
Speaker 17: not attend the next two council meetings, and he claimed
1:00:34
Speaker 17: that they were racist. Todd, the only problem is the
1:00:37
Speaker 17: Memphis City Council is majority black. So he is so
1:00:42
Speaker 17: accustomed to screaming racism that he forgot that it was
1:00:44
Speaker 17: a majority black council. Look, that's all this guy has
1:00:47
Speaker 17: to offer. is to play the race card when he
1:00:51
Speaker 17: doesn't get his way. And look, he will be an
1:00:53
Speaker 17: ineffective congressman if he ever got elected. And as a result,
1:00:58
Speaker 17: you could count on him showing up at these smaller
1:01:01
Speaker 17: town councils and county commissions with a bullhorn because they
1:01:04
Speaker 17: know they don't have the resources to deal with him
1:01:06
Speaker 17: like they do in Congress.
1:01:08
Speaker 2: And this is the troubling thing. God forbid this guy
1:01:11
Speaker 2: gets elected. He is basically Jasmine Crockett in a power throw.
1:01:17
Speaker 2: And he is going to cause disruption and chaos. And
1:01:21
Speaker 2: I just can't imagine that even some of the older Democrats,
1:01:24
Speaker 2: let's set aside the younger Democrats, I can't even imagine
1:01:28
Speaker 2: that the older Democrats who live in Memphis, black leaders
1:01:33
Speaker 2: are putting up with this kind of nonsense from Justin Pearson.
1:01:37
Speaker 17: They're not. Matter of fact, I have received numerous phone
1:01:40
Speaker 17: calls and text messages from Democrats black democrat leaders and
1:01:45
Speaker 17: i look i know these folks i've served on the
1:01:47
Speaker 17: memphis city council uh... before certainly should be county commission
1:01:50
Speaker 17: it was chairman election commission so i i have a
1:01:53
Speaker 17: lot of uh... contacts and people that i know on
1:01:56
Speaker 17: the other side of the aisle and they are all
1:01:59
Speaker 17: contact me saying uh... you're gonna win this race he
1:02:03
Speaker 17: does not have the support he thinks he has mainly
1:02:06
Speaker 17: because we don't like his antics we work too hard uh...
1:02:09
Speaker 17: during the civil rights era too to make sure that
1:02:13
Speaker 17: we were equal partners, that we were able to have
1:02:16
Speaker 17: a seat at the table, and he is dismantling that
1:02:18
Speaker 17: with his antics and rendering their ability to get things done,
1:02:25
Speaker 17: rendering it very difficult for them to get things done
1:02:27
Speaker 17: as a result. They're not for him. That doesn't mean
1:02:30
Speaker 17: they're necessarily going to vote for me, but they may
1:02:33
Speaker 17: just skip the race. Matter of fact, Steve Cohen, the
1:02:38
Speaker 17: outgoing incumbent in District 9... was asked by a local
1:02:43
Speaker 17: reporter this past weekend, and he basically said that my opponent,
1:02:48
Speaker 17: Democrat Socialist Justin Pearson, was a liar, that he had
1:02:52
Speaker 17: lied to him and about him, and he has yet
1:02:55
Speaker 17: to publicly endorse Democrat Socialist Justin Pearson. Instead, he's called
1:03:00
Speaker 17: him a liar. So we think Pearson is having a
1:03:03
Speaker 17: very difficult time closing ranks among the Democrats in Shelby County.
1:03:07
Speaker 2: You're out there on the campaign trail, and I'm wondering
1:03:10
Speaker 2: what you are hearing, what the mood is. Certainly there's
1:03:14
Speaker 2: the polling data. There really hasn't been much polling done
1:03:17
Speaker 2: in Tennessee, but certainly the numbers are huge in early voting.
1:03:22
Speaker 2: Are you guys getting any indication of whether that's a
1:03:25
Speaker 2: huge Republican turnout or a Democrat turnout?
1:03:29
Speaker 17: Well, it's a large Shelby County turnout, but a lot
1:03:34
Speaker 17: of that is driven by some contested municipal races that
1:03:39
Speaker 17: are going on in Shelby County. The turnout is, Todd,
1:03:42
Speaker 17: equally being matched out in the rural counties. District 9
1:03:47
Speaker 17: is 15 counties, most of which are rural counties, and
1:03:53
Speaker 17: their turnout is high, so it's matching the Shelby County turnout.
1:03:57
Speaker 17: But look, I think it's because the reason the rural
1:04:00
Speaker 17: counties are turning out is because they know that the
1:04:02
Speaker 17: choice in this election is a stark contrast between competence
1:04:07
Speaker 17: and chaos, between common sense and communism, between radical, between
1:04:12
Speaker 17: reasonable and radical. And so voters are going to turn out,
1:04:15
Speaker 17: I think, and choose competence over chaos. Because everywhere my
1:04:19
Speaker 17: Democrat socialist opponent goes, chaos ensues.
1:04:22
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy, he's a low-information candidate, and whenever
1:04:26
Speaker 2: he doesn't get his way, he screams racism. That doesn't
1:04:30
Speaker 2: necessarily concern me. I mean, it's outrageous. But what concerns
1:04:35
Speaker 2: me is this guy sitting on a couch with people
1:04:38
Speaker 2: like Hassan Piker, a guy who says America deserved 9-11.
1:04:43
Speaker 2: I don't see much daylight between someone like a Justin
1:04:46
Speaker 2: Pearson and a Hassan Piker or a Zoran Mamdami. What
1:04:50
Speaker 2: say you?
1:04:52
Speaker 17: Well, no, you're right. He has been on Hassan Piker's
1:04:55
Speaker 17: podcast at least once. And if you look in the background,
1:05:00
Speaker 17: the picture that came from that appearance on Hassan Piker's
1:05:05
Speaker 17: podcast is a sign that says Democrat Socialist of America.
1:05:10
Speaker 17: And so he is so far up Hassan Piker's ass
1:05:14
Speaker 17: that he turned it out.
1:05:18
Speaker 2: Wow. That's pretty up there. Got to dislodge that guy.
1:05:22
Speaker 2: Brent Taylor joining us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line.
1:05:27
Speaker 2: He is running in the 9th Congressional District, one of
1:05:29
Speaker 2: the major national races. Democrats believe they've got a chance
1:05:33
Speaker 2: to keep this seat. But I'm just not sensing it, folks.
1:05:38
Speaker 2: I'm really not. And, Brent, I know that you've been
1:05:41
Speaker 2: working around the clock visiting lots of communities. This is
1:05:44
Speaker 2: a big district, by the way. What are you hearing
1:05:47
Speaker 2: from voters? What are you hearing from Republicans?
1:05:53
Speaker 17: Well, as a matter of fact, I'm in Middle Tennessee
1:05:55
Speaker 17: right now. I had a meeting this morning in Williamson County,
1:05:59
Speaker 17: and I'll be speaking to a Murray County Republican meeting tonight.
1:06:06
Speaker 17: We'll be back in Middle Tennessee tomorrow. So we're working
1:06:09
Speaker 17: very hard talking to real people, real Americans. And, again,
1:06:15
Speaker 17: what they're saying is they are afraid— of Democrat Socialist
1:06:18
Speaker 17: Justin Pearson. They're afraid of the direction he would take
1:06:21
Speaker 17: the country. They're afraid that he's going to show up
1:06:23
Speaker 17: at their town council or their county commission with a bullhorn.
1:06:27
Speaker 17: They are afraid of the policies that he would implement.
1:06:30
Speaker 17: And that's why they say that the choice is clear
1:06:33
Speaker 17: between competence and chaos. And so we feel really good
1:06:38
Speaker 17: about where we are in the campaign. It's eight days left, Todd,
1:06:42
Speaker 17: and we believe we have the momentum. in this race.
1:06:46
Speaker 17: And he talks about he's for the working man and
1:06:51
Speaker 17: against the billionaire class. Well, he's the only billionaire that
1:06:55
Speaker 17: has weighed in in this race is Fat Boy Pritzker
1:06:58
Speaker 17: from Illinois, who has spent over $ 2 million of his
1:07:02
Speaker 17: own money for the benefit of Justin Pearson. And he
1:07:06
Speaker 17: is doing that for one reason. He wants to buy
1:07:11
Speaker 17: Democrat Socialist Justin Pearson's loyalty when he runs for president.
1:07:16
Speaker 17: And so it's rich when he says that I'm the
1:07:19
Speaker 17: billionaire candidate, but he's the one with the actual billionaire
1:07:22
Speaker 17: putting $ 2 million in money backing him.
1:07:25
Speaker 2: Okay, well, we're going to have to leave it there, Brent.
1:07:27
Speaker 2: We've got a rough little phone connection there, but we
1:07:30
Speaker 2: wish you nothing but the best out there on the
1:07:32
Speaker 2: campaign trail. Brent Taylor running for the Congress of the
1:07:37
Speaker 2: 9th Congressional District in the state of Tennessee. Brent, good
1:07:40
Speaker 2: luck to you.
1:07:42
Speaker 17: Thank you, Todd. We appreciate you.
1:07:44
Speaker 3: All right.
1:07:45
Speaker 2: There you go. And, folks, this is what is at
1:07:51
Speaker 2: risk here. And this is what's on the table. We
1:07:54
Speaker 2: have got to, across the nation, stop these DSA candidates
1:07:59
Speaker 2: in their tracks. And you can do that by getting
1:08:02
Speaker 2: out and voting. Because, ultimately, yeah, I think a lot
1:08:06
Speaker 2: of people are incredibly frustrated with a lot of stuff.
1:08:09
Speaker 2: But the most important issue, the only issue that we
1:08:13
Speaker 2: need to be focused on right now is putting a
1:08:16
Speaker 2: stop to these communist candidates. All right, we're going to
1:08:19
Speaker 2: take a quick break here. When we come back, I'm
1:08:23
Speaker 2: going to talk about this Bill Maher story. Donald Trump really,
1:08:28
Speaker 2: really upset at Bill Maher. We'll tell you why coming
1:08:31
Speaker 2: up next.
1:08:37
Speaker 5: All right, welcome back, everybody.
1:08:44
Speaker 2: It is the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Great to have
1:08:46
Speaker 2: you with us. Dylan, during the break, I don't mean
1:08:50
Speaker 2: to be braggadocious. You know, that's not me. That's not
1:08:52
Speaker 2: my style. But the owner of WDUN brought by a
1:08:58
Speaker 2: Baptist martini. And for you Methodists out there, that's a
1:09:02
Speaker 2: Diet Coke with a wedge of lemon and hot, fresh,
1:09:05
Speaker 2: homemade churros.
1:09:08
Speaker 6: Oh, my gosh.
1:09:10
Speaker 2: So I didn't realize as we were interviewing Brent Taylor.
1:09:13
Speaker 2: I'm just doing a confessional here. I mean, they were
1:09:17
Speaker 2: piping hot. And so we're interviewing Senator Taylor. This is
1:09:21
Speaker 2: a major news story we're talking about. And I took
1:09:24
Speaker 2: a bite of the churro, and I thought it was
1:09:26
Speaker 2: a soft churro, but it's a crunchy outside fluffy metal.
1:09:31
Speaker 2: So you may have heard me crunching the churro on
1:09:35
Speaker 2: national radio.
1:09:35
Speaker 6: I didn't want to say anything, Todd, but I could
1:09:38
Speaker 6: definitely tell that you were eating a churro.
1:09:40
Speaker 2: And so then I turn away from the microphone, and
1:09:43
Speaker 2: I'm still hearing me crunch, and I can't figure out
1:09:47
Speaker 2: how to turn off the microphone. And I was just like, please,
1:09:50
Speaker 2: Senator Taylor, keep talking while I finish swallowing the churro.
1:09:55
Speaker 6: Wow. So was it good? What's the verdict here?
1:09:58
Speaker 2: The interview or the churro?
1:10:00
Speaker 6: The churro.
1:10:00
Speaker 2: Oh, the churro was great. It was delicious. I'm still
1:10:04
Speaker 2: eyeballing him right now.
1:10:05
Speaker 18: Yeah.
1:10:06
Speaker 2: And apparently Avery, you know, who's Mr. Stuntman, has, I
1:10:09
Speaker 2: don't know, he came at me aggressively. I think he
1:10:11
Speaker 2: wants a churro.
1:10:13
Speaker 7: Yeah.
1:10:13
Speaker 6: You might want to give him a churro. He's a body.
1:10:15
Speaker 2: Slammer or something.
1:10:16
Speaker 7: No. No.
1:10:17
Speaker 2: It would be like a... professional wrestling or something. Anyway,
1:10:21
Speaker 2: all that to say thank you again for the warm,
1:10:23
Speaker 2: warm welcome we've received in Gainesville, Georgia. And we're really
1:10:27
Speaker 2: looking forward to tomorrow night as we get ready for
1:10:31
Speaker 2: the big book signing. And we have plenty of books.
1:10:34
Speaker 2: We'd love for you to come by, buy a copy
1:10:35
Speaker 2: of the book, grab some dinner, and hang out with us,
1:10:38
Speaker 2: fellowship with us over at Longstreet Cafe. That's all starting
1:10:42
Speaker 2: at 5 o'clock tomorrow night. All right, this thing with
1:10:46
Speaker 2: Donald Trump and Bill Maher, I don't know what Bill
1:10:50
Speaker 2: Maher was doing that set President Trump off, but Trump
1:10:55
Speaker 2: is done with Bill Maher. All I can tell you,
1:10:58
Speaker 2: and well, let me just, I'll share what info we have.
1:11:01
Speaker 2: The president writing a 1,300-word essay about this on True
1:11:07
Speaker 2: Social and talking about how Bill Maher showed up to
1:11:11
Speaker 2: the White House and drunk and smoking the devil's lettuce.
1:11:16
Speaker 2: And I don't care who you are, but you know
1:11:19
Speaker 2: your mama raised you right. You're not supposed to go
1:11:21
Speaker 2: to the White House reeking of marijuana smoke. That is
1:11:25
Speaker 2: just not kosher. So anyway, President Trump, 1,372 words, posted
1:11:33
Speaker 2: this last night on True Social, and he He's calling
1:11:37
Speaker 2: him a complete and total loser. He said he's got
1:11:40
Speaker 2: a low-rated show on low-rated HBO. He's not hot anymore.
1:11:47
Speaker 2: After the second dinner, Bill's show was far worse than
1:11:50
Speaker 2: the first. So he's basically accusing Bill Maher of going
1:11:54
Speaker 2: on TV and saying one thing and then saying something
1:11:57
Speaker 2: to President Trump in private. And that's not what Trump
1:12:03
Speaker 2: is all about. So Trump is out there. And you
1:12:06
Speaker 2: know how the president is. He's not a drinker. The
1:12:10
Speaker 2: president probably sitting there eating a big steak. And in
1:12:12
Speaker 2: comes Bill Maher, and he smells like weed and vodka.
1:12:17
Speaker 2: And the president is like, what's going on here? I
1:12:21
Speaker 2: remember when I was invited to the Oval Office. There's
1:12:25
Speaker 2: a certain decorum. And you make sure that you take
1:12:28
Speaker 2: your suit to the dry cleaners. You make sure everything
1:12:31
Speaker 2: is pressed. You got to shine your shoes. The president's
1:12:33
Speaker 2: real big on that, by the way, Dylan. The president,
1:12:36
Speaker 2: he always looks at the shoes. And if your shoes
1:12:39
Speaker 2: aren't shined, I mean, well, you know, he was not
1:12:41
Speaker 2: happy with the footwear of Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth
1:12:44
Speaker 2: and gave them a pair of new shoes. And I
1:12:47
Speaker 2: don't want to be that guy. So I made sure
1:12:50
Speaker 2: I went over and I got the Johnston and Murphys.
1:12:53
Speaker 2: I got my shoes shined. You want to make sure
1:12:57
Speaker 2: that you look like you're going to church on Sunday
1:13:00
Speaker 2: because you've been invited to the Oval Office. And you
1:13:03
Speaker 2: want to have a little bit of decorum about you,
1:13:05
Speaker 2: a little self-respect. Bill Maher, apparently the guy's a sleazebag.
1:13:10
Speaker 2: Who knew? The president says, after the second dinner, Bill's
1:13:16
Speaker 2: show was far worse. He went crazy. He's gutless because
1:13:20
Speaker 2: he enjoyed every minute. Also, I am not building a
1:13:23
Speaker 2: swimming pool in the White House press briefing room. Never
1:13:25
Speaker 2: had any intention of doing so. Can I just say, Dylan,
1:13:32
Speaker 2: I think that may have been my fault. I'm the
1:13:36
Speaker 2: guy that suggested they turn it back into a swimming pool.
1:13:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember that. You remember that?
1:13:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my bad. I'm sorry, Mr. President. That
1:13:43
Speaker 2: was on me. I still think it's a good idea, though.
1:13:47
Speaker 2: The president did say that I'm thinking about moving the
1:13:50
Speaker 2: press and putting them in a different location. Oh, how
1:13:53
Speaker 2: about Baltimore? That's a good location. The president goes on
1:13:58
Speaker 2: to say Bill also attacked our great Republican candidates. when
1:14:01
Speaker 2: he knows my endorsement record is 98% of the House
1:14:05
Speaker 2: and 100% of the Senate. So how can he make
1:14:08
Speaker 2: a false statement like this? These statistics are facts, and
1:14:12
Speaker 2: he should speak about them, but he won't because he's
1:14:15
Speaker 2: very unfair.
1:14:16
Speaker 9: Wow.
1:14:18
Speaker 2: The president's really fired up over all of this. And
1:14:23
Speaker 2: it may end up helping Bill Maher's flailing career. So
1:14:29
Speaker 2: the president is all about honesty and loyalty. And if
1:14:33
Speaker 2: you pull this stunt where you show up and you
1:14:36
Speaker 2: talk about, you know, X, Y, or Z to the president,
1:14:39
Speaker 2: and then you turn around and when you go public,
1:14:42
Speaker 2: you're attacking the president. Oh, no, no, that's not. Homie,
1:14:46
Speaker 2: you don't play that game. Homie being Donald J. I'm
1:14:49
Speaker 2: just telling you that the president is done, done with
1:14:55
Speaker 2: Bill Maher. And I can't say I blame him either.
1:14:59
Speaker 2: So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the latest there.
1:15:02
Speaker 2: We've got a great third hour of the show coming up.
1:15:06
Speaker 2: We're going to be talking to a guy. He's a
1:15:10
Speaker 2: retired Methodist minister. His name is Dr. Terry Walton and
1:15:14
Speaker 2: has written a terrific book called Monday Memo, a collection
1:15:18
Speaker 2: of reflections on faith. life and family. We're going to
1:15:22
Speaker 2: be talking to him coming up in the next hour.
1:15:24
Speaker 2: We're going to be taking your calls. How do you
1:15:26
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1:15:32
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Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, on the banks of the mighty Mississippi,
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Speaker 1: it's America's conservative blowtorch.
1:16:02
Speaker 2: That's us, that's right, I love this American.
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Speaker 7: Wow.
1:16:14
Speaker 2: Well, hello, everybody. Welcome to the Todd Starnes Radio Show.
1:16:18
Speaker 2: We are broadcasting today from the palatial studios of WDUN
1:16:23
Speaker 2: on the beautiful square in downtown Gainesville, Georgia. Welcome, everybody.
1:16:28
Speaker 2: Great to have you with us. We're sort of like
1:16:30
Speaker 2: in a Hallmark movie today and have a lot of
1:16:34
Speaker 2: fun meeting a lot of our great listeners here in Gainesville.
1:16:37
Speaker 2: Of course, tomorrow, our book signings. at the Longstreet Cafe,
1:16:41
Speaker 2: 5 o'clock until 7 o'clock Eastern time. And we'd love
1:16:44
Speaker 2: for you to drop by and say hello. I know
1:16:46
Speaker 2: some of the team here from WDUN will be there,
1:16:49
Speaker 2: and we're just going to have a great time eating
1:16:51
Speaker 2: some very unhealthy food. If I see anyone eating a salad,
1:16:54
Speaker 2: you're out of there. So only sweet tea and good
1:16:57
Speaker 2: Southern cooking tomorrow at the Longstreet. No, I'm just kidding. Well,
1:17:01
Speaker 2: if you're a vegan, you can come along, too. We'll
1:17:04
Speaker 2: have a great time. Look, we're very excited today. We've
1:17:08
Speaker 2: got a great guest coming up in just a little while.
1:17:11
Speaker 2: His name is Dr. Terry Walton and has written a
1:17:14
Speaker 2: terrific new book. He is a longtime minister in the
1:17:17
Speaker 2: state of Georgia, one of the most respected ministers in
1:17:20
Speaker 2: the state of Georgia. And we'll look forward to our
1:17:22
Speaker 2: conversation with him in just a little while. In the meantime,
1:17:26
Speaker 2: we are following a lot of election news happening around
1:17:30
Speaker 2: the country. There is a lot of concern about voter
1:17:34
Speaker 2: integrity in states that, for example, like California, like New York,
1:17:39
Speaker 2: and even in Georgia. And we understand that here in
1:17:44
Speaker 2: Georgia that the Justice Department will be dispatching poll monitors
1:17:49
Speaker 2: to Fulton County. Take a listen to cut number seven, please.
1:17:54
Speaker 19: It was announced your administration, the Department of Justice, will
1:17:56
Speaker 19: be having poll monitors at six metro Atlanta counties. What
1:18:01
Speaker 19: will they be doing, and what do you want to
1:18:03
Speaker 19: say to people who could be concerned about any possible
1:18:05
Speaker 19: federal interference?
1:18:07
Speaker 6: Well, they want to watch.
1:18:08
Speaker 18: You know, in Fulton County, you know that disaster. They
1:18:11
Speaker 18: want to watch. They're not going to do anything other
1:18:13
Speaker 18: than watch. And if they see something wrong, we want
1:18:16
Speaker 18: to all have honest elections. And the one thing we
1:18:19
Speaker 18: have to have is honest elections.
1:18:22
Speaker 19: Are you concerned about elections here in Georgia and the administration.
1:18:25
Speaker 14: Of them right now?
1:18:26
Speaker 18: Well, I think that when you look at the people
1:18:30
Speaker 18: that run Atlanta, as an example, when you look at
1:18:34
Speaker 18: some of the people around, yeah, I would be worried
1:18:36
Speaker 18: about it, but we won't have to because we'll have
1:18:39
Speaker 18: professionals that just will be there to watch.
1:18:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm sure the people in the Atlanta area,
1:18:46
Speaker 2: that's Fulton County where Atlanta is, they definitely need it.
1:18:50
Speaker 2: I would recommend DeKalb County as well, sending those poll monitors.
1:18:54
Speaker 2: And quite frankly, we need them in every state where
1:18:57
Speaker 2: there are not Strong voter laws on the books. Now,
1:19:02
Speaker 2: in Tennessee, my home state, you've got to show an ID.
1:19:05
Speaker 2: If you want to vote, you've got to show an ID.
1:19:07
Speaker 2: And by the way, they will check that ID to
1:19:10
Speaker 2: make sure your address and everything is up to snuff.
1:19:15
Speaker 2: And if not, you're not going to be able to
1:19:16
Speaker 2: cast a ballot. It really is that simple. So good
1:19:20
Speaker 2: on the president for dispatching folks to Atlanta to monitor
1:19:26
Speaker 2: the election next week. Very curious to hear your thoughts
1:19:30
Speaker 2: about how things are going. Georgia, one of those states,
1:19:34
Speaker 2: it's the weirdest thing. And maybe somebody, one of our
1:19:36
Speaker 2: Georgia listeners can call in and help us understand this.
1:19:39
Speaker 2: You've got an incredibly popular Republican governor who won with
1:19:45
Speaker 2: landslide numbers in the last election. And yet at the
1:19:48
Speaker 2: same time, you guys are electing radical leftists to the U.S. Senate.
1:19:52
Speaker 2: Doesn't make much sense. So folks are wondering, is it
1:19:56
Speaker 2: a case of voter fraud? What's going on there? 901-260-5926,
1:20:00
Speaker 2: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. You know, another reason we've
1:20:08
Speaker 2: got to send a message to these Democrats, you had
1:20:11
Speaker 2: Senator Alyssa Slotkin just a few days ago talking about
1:20:15
Speaker 2: how we've got to come up with these lists. We've
1:20:17
Speaker 2: got to start tracking down, hunting down, and punishing young people,
1:20:22
Speaker 2: especially who want to go and work in the Trump administration.
1:20:27
Speaker 2: She also talked about wanting to punish people who are
1:20:30
Speaker 2: currently employed in the Trump administration so that we might send,
1:20:35
Speaker 2: and by we, the Democrats, might send a message that
1:20:38
Speaker 2: if you work for a Republican, there could be you-know-what
1:20:42
Speaker 2: to pay. And we heard Angie Nixon down in Florida
1:20:49
Speaker 2: running for the Senate there. She's the Democrat, talking about
1:20:52
Speaker 2: how she wanted to put her opponent in jail. No
1:20:56
Speaker 2: crime other than to be a Republican. But according to Ms. Nixon,
1:21:01
Speaker 2: that was enough to warrant being thrown into jail. And
1:21:05
Speaker 2: so now you have Jennifer Rubin, who used to be
1:21:08
Speaker 2: a Republican. You have Ezra Klein having a discussion about
1:21:13
Speaker 2: what we need to do if the Democrats regain control
1:21:18
Speaker 2: of Congress. Take a listen to cut number three.
1:21:21
Speaker 13: It's not enough to win. What do you expect if,
1:21:26
Speaker 13: in fact, candidates that you've supported, Democrats, frankly, do get elected?
1:21:32
Speaker 13: What is the kind of change that you want to
1:21:35
Speaker 13: see beginning in terms of controlling our economy, taking back regulation,
1:21:41
Speaker 13: taking back the rule of law? What's the bar we
1:21:44
Speaker 13: should set for elected leaders?
1:21:47
Speaker 20: Look, I've got this picture I just recently put on
1:21:49
Speaker 20: my wall. That's Viktor Orban being protested by a pro-democracy organizer,
1:21:53
Speaker 20: one of the members of the opposition in their parliament. They,
1:21:56
Speaker 20: six months ago or so, had a crushing defeat against
1:21:59
Speaker 20: their authoritarian. Orban went down. He didn't just go down.
1:22:01
Speaker 20: He went down so, so completely that he couldn't sabotage it,
1:22:05
Speaker 20: that it ushered in this air of accountability and reform.
1:22:08
Speaker 20: And earlier this month, the first of Orban's corrupt ministers
1:22:12
Speaker 20: were arrested and there is more to come. I think
1:22:15
Speaker 20: what comes next is going to happen in stages. And
1:22:19
Speaker 20: we have to be realistic about what's possible. When we
1:22:22
Speaker 20: win the election, as you say, when pro-democracy forces win
1:22:24
Speaker 20: the election... They will have won an opportunity to start
1:22:27
Speaker 20: reinstating the rule of law and making sure democracy reasserts itself.
1:22:30
Speaker 20: They cannot suddenly change the Constitution. They cannot suddenly enact
1:22:34
Speaker 20: laws over Trump's veto. The Republicans will likely continue to
1:22:38
Speaker 20: back him up in Congress, almost lockstep. So what can
1:22:42
Speaker 20: they do? They will have gavels in the House and
1:22:44
Speaker 20: the Senate. They can refuse to seat more of his
1:22:46
Speaker 20: corrupt judges. They can instigate investigations. They can send subpoenas.
1:22:51
Speaker 20: They can hold him to account. They can refuse to
1:22:53
Speaker 20: give in to his legislative demands. They can pass their
1:22:55
Speaker 20: own budget, taking back money from his Gestapo forces and
1:22:59
Speaker 20: start actually laying the groundwork for what a real reform
1:23:02
Speaker 20: era looks like. And that reform era is going to
1:23:04
Speaker 20: come in 2029. So we should be thinking not only
1:23:08
Speaker 20: what can they do unilaterally starting in January 2027 to
1:23:11
Speaker 20: hold these guys to account. And that means Trump's folks,
1:23:14
Speaker 20: but also people outside the regime who are buddying up
1:23:16
Speaker 20: with him as we are seeing this past weekend. But
1:23:19
Speaker 20: what legislation are they passing that becomes H.R. 1 and S. 1,
1:23:23
Speaker 20: the first bills that are passed in 2029? That should
1:23:25
Speaker 20: be hammered out. And we should not play footsie with
1:23:28
Speaker 20: this regime or with Republicans who are cooperating with this
1:23:31
Speaker 20: regime over the next two years.
1:23:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, there you have it, folks. They're telling us what
1:23:37
Speaker 2: they're going to do. And the Democrats actually deliver on
1:23:40
Speaker 2: these promises, which is why we should be alarmed by
1:23:44
Speaker 2: the fact that they want to practice retribution. As a
1:23:47
Speaker 2: matter of fact, it was Hakeem Jeffries who said just
1:23:52
Speaker 2: a little while ago that one of the first orders
1:23:55
Speaker 2: of business, if in fact they are able to regain control,
1:23:59
Speaker 2: they want to bring back all of the illegals who
1:24:03
Speaker 2: have been deported. All right, I want to go to
1:24:06
Speaker 2: the phones here.
1:24:06
Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
1:24:06
Speaker 2: John in Kentucky. John, what's on your mind?
1:24:14
Speaker 16: Hey, Todd, great show today. I just told your call
1:24:17
Speaker 16: screener what Melissa Slotkin and the Democrats are doing. It
1:24:21
Speaker 16: sounds like a certain time of history in the 1930s Germany.
1:24:26
Speaker 16: Anybody that went against a certain regime, of which I'm
1:24:31
Speaker 16: not going to mention, they went after them. They made
1:24:34
Speaker 16: a list. They hunted them down. They confiscated property. They
1:24:38
Speaker 16: confiscated everything that they owned. And Todd, you mentioned this
1:24:42
Speaker 16: more than once, and I'll hang up and listen for
1:24:44
Speaker 16: your response. The one thing that this great nation has,
1:24:47
Speaker 16: and its citizenry has, is we have a thing called
1:24:49
Speaker 16: the Second Amendment. If Melissa Slotkin wants to start doing
1:24:53
Speaker 16: this stuff, the families need to actually think about defending themselves.
1:24:57
Speaker 16: Making a list, Todd?
1:24:59
Speaker 4: Seriously?
1:25:01
Speaker 16: That sounds exactly like a certain regime. And these guys
1:25:04
Speaker 16: are accusing us of being that type of people?
1:25:07
Speaker 13: No.
1:25:08
Speaker 16: They're the ones that are imposing a danger to this republic.
1:25:10
Speaker 16: And it's not a democracy, Todd. And you've said this
1:25:12
Speaker 16: more than once. People down south are the ones that
1:25:15
Speaker 16: won't be pushed around. But it sounds exactly what happened
1:25:18
Speaker 16: in 1930s Germany, Todd. And I hang up and listen
1:25:21
Speaker 16: for your response. God bless you, brother.
1:25:24
Speaker 2: John, thank you for that. And look, it is disturbing,
1:25:28
Speaker 2: and you hate to throw— I don't like it when people
1:25:30
Speaker 2: throw around, oh, he's Hitler, or oh, that's Nazis. No,
1:25:35
Speaker 2: this— John is right here. This is exactly what the Nazis did.
1:25:41
Speaker 2: It's also what they did in the Soviet Union, and
1:25:43
Speaker 2: the communists would create lists of their political enemies, and
1:25:48
Speaker 2: then they would What's the word the young people are
1:25:52
Speaker 2: using these days? Unalive them. That's what they would do.
1:25:57
Speaker 2: So it is a disturbing thing to hear people on
1:26:01
Speaker 2: American soil talking about doing this kind of stuff. Look,
1:26:06
Speaker 2: I have great disagreements with Democrats. Do I want them dead? No,
1:26:10
Speaker 2: of course not. Do I want them thrown into prison? No,
1:26:13
Speaker 2: of course not, unless they've broken the law. But that's
1:26:16
Speaker 2: where we are right now. Very, very sad, disturbing situation
1:26:20
Speaker 2: in American politics. All right, we've got to take a
1:26:23
Speaker 2: quick break here. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Coming up, we're going
1:26:31
Speaker 2: to explain to you why President Trump is infatuated by
1:26:35
Speaker 2: Nicki Minaj's buttocks. We'll be right back. All right, welcome back, everybody.
1:26:47
Speaker 2: Good to have you with us. So look, President Trump,
1:26:51
Speaker 2: you know, Dylan, if you've been to a Trump rally,
1:26:55
Speaker 2: he gets a little salty sometimes. The language gets a little,
1:26:59
Speaker 2: you know, adult.
1:27:01
Speaker 6: Sure, sure, yeah.
1:27:03
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what happened over the weekend. The president
1:27:08
Speaker 2: was making some campaign stops, and he, well, several times,
1:27:14
Speaker 2: this was in the Ohio Senate race, when he complimented
1:27:18
Speaker 2: Ohio Senator John Husted's derriere. Let's take a listen to
1:27:24
Speaker 2: what the president had to say.
1:27:26
Speaker 8: So he's over here, I'm over here, and I'm studying
1:27:30
Speaker 8: his body. I've never studied the body of a man before.
1:27:33
Speaker 3: It's not my thing.
1:27:35
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with it, of course.
1:27:36
Speaker 8: I always proceeded by saying nothing wrong, but it's never
1:27:41
Speaker 8: been my thing, to be honest with you. But I
1:27:45
Speaker 8: looked at his ass. And then I looked at his legs.
1:27:52
Speaker 8: And I said, his ass is like a pile of muscle.
1:27:58
Speaker 8: Then I looked at his legs. And I said, man,
1:28:01
Speaker 8: his feet are big. Then I looked at his shoulders
1:28:04
Speaker 8: and I tapped him on the shoulder. And it actually
1:28:06
Speaker 8: hurt my hand.
1:28:09
Speaker 2: It was like a piece of steel.
1:28:11
Speaker 8: And he said, this guy's a monster.
1:28:16
Speaker 2: Okay, Dylan, a lot to unwind here. So look, the president,
1:28:22
Speaker 2: the leftists are out there saying the president's lost his mind,
1:28:28
Speaker 2: that he has dementia. There are other people, I knew it.
1:28:32
Speaker 2: I knew Donald Trump was gay. He's a gay man.
1:28:35
Speaker 2: I don't think that's the case. And we'll play what
1:28:39
Speaker 2: he said in Nicki Minaj's derriere in just a moment here.
1:28:43
Speaker 2: I'm just curious. So the president, he does seem to
1:28:46
Speaker 2: be somewhat impressed with the senator's physique.
1:28:52
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd say the least. I want to see this guy.
1:28:57
Speaker 6: He seems like a huge, in this case.
1:29:00
Speaker 3: I don't know.
1:29:01
Speaker 6: I don't even know who this guy is.
1:29:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, who was it? There was a senator from Massachusetts,
1:29:07
Speaker 2: Scott Brown, who was elected, and he was kind of
1:29:11
Speaker 2: like a rhino Republican, but he was also... I think
1:29:15
Speaker 2: he did, like, adult films. He paid his way through
1:29:18
Speaker 2: school or did something with adult films back in the day.
1:29:21
Speaker 2: So they say he was well... I'm just not in the...
1:29:24
Speaker 2: I mean, you don't walk around and, you know.
1:29:27
Speaker 11: Dylan.
1:29:28
Speaker 2: I don't think most guys walk around and look at
1:29:30
Speaker 2: other guys' buttocks.
1:29:32
Speaker 6: No, not generally, but I feel like as guys, we
1:29:35
Speaker 6: like to compare ourselves to other guys, not in like
1:29:39
Speaker 6: an insecure way, but just like you, you compliment a
1:29:42
Speaker 6: guy when you know, he's been to the gym because that,
1:29:44
Speaker 6: you know, it's going to boost his ego a little bit.
1:29:45
Speaker 6: That's just what you do.
1:29:47
Speaker 5: Really?
1:29:48
Speaker 2: Avery, turn your microphone on. I don't know if you're
1:29:51
Speaker 2: hearing any of this. Is this true? I mean, you
1:29:53
Speaker 2: guys in the film business, are y'all going around checking
1:29:55
Speaker 2: each other's butts out there on the, uh, Not particularly.
1:29:59
Speaker 15: But we definitely, like what Dylan was saying, we do
1:30:02
Speaker 15: like to hype each other up and give each other
1:30:04
Speaker 15: a good compliment and be like, dude, you're looking great.
1:30:06
Speaker 15: I'm so proud of you. You're clearly being disciplined in
1:30:10
Speaker 15: all sorts of different areas.
1:30:11
Speaker 2: Your butt's not like Jell-O anymore!
1:30:14
Speaker 15: I mean, I won't typically say that specifically. I won't
1:30:17
Speaker 15: get specific with anything, but it's more of a generalization.
1:30:20
Speaker 2: I'm feeling very uncomfortable here, guys. Dylan, I'm just shocked
1:30:24
Speaker 2: to hear this, so Normally it's like guys especially just
1:30:27
Speaker 2: kind of keep to themselves in the gym.
1:30:30
Speaker 6: You would think. But guy friendships, you know, we can
1:30:35
Speaker 6: get a little complimentary, you know. It's just what you
1:30:38
Speaker 6: do as a guy. But I will, you know, we
1:30:40
Speaker 6: don't go specifics like Avery said. Like we're not talking
1:30:43
Speaker 6: about the butt specifically. We're just talking about your build.
1:30:46
Speaker 2: So Trump is, I mean, basically it's a bromance is
1:30:50
Speaker 2: what it is.
1:30:50
Speaker 6: Yes, it sounds like it.
1:30:51
Speaker 2: Is that fair enough? Okay. Well, we're good. Thank you, Avery,
1:30:54
Speaker 2: for him. your analysis there.
1:30:56
Speaker 15: What, my analysis?
1:30:58
Speaker 2: Hold on. Well, I mean, no, it's, I mean, you
1:31:01
Speaker 2: gave your opinion. Dylan, it's getting uncomfortable, man. Can we
1:31:07
Speaker 2: play what he said about Nicki Minaj?
1:31:11
Speaker 8: And I didn't like it, but I'm looking at him
1:31:15
Speaker 8: up and down, and I'm studying him, and I made
1:31:18
Speaker 8: the mistake. I told, in fun, I said, I looked
1:31:23
Speaker 8: at his ass, and I've never done that with a
1:31:25
Speaker 8: man before.
1:31:26
Speaker 11: It's true.
1:31:29
Speaker 18: Off the record, women, yes, men, no, okay?
1:31:32
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, there you go.
1:31:33
Speaker 18: That's... By the way, I looked at one hell of
1:31:39
Speaker 18: a beautiful ass before, Nicki Minaj.
1:31:47
Speaker 2: That's hard to miss. That's stand-up. That's hard to miss.
1:32:01
Speaker 2: You know, Dylan, I wonder if President Trump had to
1:32:06
Speaker 2: sleep in the Lincoln bedroom last night.
1:32:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm thinking so.
1:32:09
Speaker 2: I'm thinking Melania had some words.
1:32:11
Speaker 6: Probably didn't like that one too much.
1:32:13
Speaker 2: You know that beautiful new landing oval they have for
1:32:16
Speaker 2: Marine One when it comes in? If you look off
1:32:19
Speaker 2: to the side, I think you could have seen Melania
1:32:21
Speaker 2: with her hands crossed and her toe tapping, saying, we
1:32:25
Speaker 2: need to have a talk.
1:32:27
Speaker 6: That's a presidential couch right there for you.
1:32:29
Speaker 2: That's it. Presidential doghouse. But you know, I was watching,
1:32:35
Speaker 2: and again, people say Trump is off his... his game.
1:32:38
Speaker 2: I don't think he is. I think the president's having
1:32:40
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. He probably is exhausted. He's been
1:32:43
Speaker 2: traveling all over the country doing these events, and that
1:32:46
Speaker 2: takes a lot out of you, no matter who you are.
1:32:48
Speaker 2: But what really impressed me, you've got to look behind,
1:32:51
Speaker 2: and when you watch the video, there are a lot
1:32:54
Speaker 2: of women that are seated behind him, and they're in
1:32:56
Speaker 2: on the joke. And they are loving it. They're laughing.
1:33:00
Speaker 2: They're cutting up, having a good time. So everybody's sort
1:33:02
Speaker 2: of in on the joke, except for the Democrats. And again,
1:33:05
Speaker 2: it goes back to this one truth That just breaks
1:33:09
Speaker 2: my heart. The Democrats, in spite of all of their faults,
1:33:12
Speaker 2: the greatest is they just don't have a sense of humor.
1:33:16
Speaker 2: And that's sad. That's sad. And a lot of them
1:33:19
Speaker 2: have flabby behinds. But, you know, what are you going
1:33:23
Speaker 2: to do about that? Hit the gym, I guess. So
1:33:25
Speaker 2: we've learned a lot this segment of the program, ladies
1:33:28
Speaker 2: and gentlemen. I'm not quite sure what, but we've learned
1:33:30
Speaker 2: a lot. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. By the way, ladies
1:33:36
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1:34:05
Speaker 2: All right, up next, Dr. Terry Walton, author of a
1:34:09
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1:34:26
Speaker 9: All right.
1:34:29
Speaker 2: Dylan, I've got to figure this out. So we need
1:34:33
Speaker 2: multiple birthday celebrations. I forget who it was. Oh, my
1:34:36
Speaker 2: good friend, the lovely Sarah Haley, who hails from Memphis, Tennessee.
1:34:41
Speaker 2: And we worked together at Fox News like a bazillion
1:34:44
Speaker 2: years ago. And she's now married and has three wonderful
1:34:48
Speaker 2: kids and just doing incredible things. She would have an
1:34:53
Speaker 2: entire week of birthday celebrations.
1:34:56
Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
1:34:57
Speaker 6: That's a lot of birthday celebrations, Todd.
1:34:59
Speaker 2: And she required people to celebrate, too. So it was
1:35:03
Speaker 2: like a mandatory thing. Kind of like, what is it,
1:35:05
Speaker 2: the Hanukkah? You got something every night.
1:35:09
Speaker 6: Did you just compare your birthday to Hanukkah?
1:35:11
Speaker 2: Well, no. Well, sort of. There goes my honorary membership
1:35:16
Speaker 2: into the Jewish Republican Club. It was either that or
1:35:19
Speaker 2: the pulled pork I brought to the last get-together.
1:35:21
Speaker 11: Sorry.
1:35:22
Speaker 2: It turned out not to be kosher. But anyway, no,
1:35:26
Speaker 2: so we've got to figure this out. So I will
1:35:27
Speaker 2: be back Wednesday, and I'm expecting big things.
1:35:31
Speaker 6: Okay, we'll be ready for you, Todd.
1:35:33
Speaker 2: I want at least a six-pack of Dr.
1:35:36
Speaker 6: Pepper. Yeah, no worries there.
1:35:37
Speaker 2: Oh, remember, where is it? A couple of years ago,
1:35:40
Speaker 2: the lovely Melissa, one of the makeup artists who makes
1:35:42
Speaker 2: me look presentable for TV, actually made me a Dr.
1:35:45
Speaker 2: Pepper cake, and it actually had suspended over the cake
1:35:49
Speaker 2: a Dr. Pepper pouring down. like it was pouring a
1:35:52
Speaker 2: stream of Dr. Pepper onto the, you remember that?
1:35:54
Speaker 6: I remember because we ate every bit of it and
1:35:57
Speaker 6: it was very good and Dr. Peppery.
1:35:59
Speaker 2: It was very good.
1:36:01
Speaker 8: All right.
1:36:01
Speaker 2: That's good. Well, anyway, all that to say, welcome back.
1:36:03
Speaker 2: And yeah, it is birthday week here on the Todd
1:36:05
Speaker 2: Stearns radio show. And we're going to have a lot
1:36:08
Speaker 2: of fun. I suspect at my expense as we go
1:36:11
Speaker 2: through the week. Well, my next guest, I am so
1:36:14
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1:36:20
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1:36:23
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1:36:27
Speaker 2: just got back from visiting the wine country over in California.
1:36:32
Speaker 2: We're going to have to get the scoop on that.
1:36:35
Speaker 2: But she is just a lovely person and connected me
1:36:39
Speaker 2: with this incredible book. The cover is just really breathtaking.
1:36:43
Speaker 2: It's called Monday Memo. a collection of reflections on faith, life,
1:36:48
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1:36:51
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1:36:53
Speaker 2: you need to read. It is going to bless your heart.
1:36:57
Speaker 2: The author, one of the very well-respected ministers here in
1:37:01
Speaker 2: the state of Georgia, Dr. Terry Walton, and he joins
1:37:04
Speaker 2: us on the Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today.
1:37:07
Speaker 12: Dr.
1:37:07
Speaker 2: Walton, what an honor to have you with us.
1:37:10
Speaker 5: Well, Todd, it's an honor to be a part of
1:37:12
Speaker 5: your show. Thank you for this invitation.
1:37:15
Speaker 2: And I probably shouldn't have had, and I want to apologize, Dr. Walton,
1:37:18
Speaker 2: we did the whole segment about President Trump complimenting people's
1:37:21
Speaker 2: buttocks before we brought on the preacher, so my apologies there.
1:37:27
Speaker 5: I thought you were going to say Dr. Pepper before Dr.
1:37:29
Speaker 7: Walton.
1:37:32
Speaker 2: Well, nothing wrong with Dr. Pepper, I'll tell you that much.
1:37:38
Speaker 18: Dr.
1:37:38
Speaker 2: Walton, first, congratulations on the book, and I know you're
1:37:43
Speaker 2: a busy guy. I'm wondering how you found the time
1:37:47
Speaker 2: to write this incredible manuscript.
1:37:51
Speaker 5: Well, it all started in September of 2020 during the pandemic,
1:37:56
Speaker 5: and my bishop said, Terry, would you mind writing a
1:38:00
Speaker 5: weekly inspiration that could go out to folks across Georgia,
1:38:05
Speaker 5: just encouraging them in these days, inspiring them along the way.
1:38:10
Speaker 5: Her plate was pretty full, and So I was honored
1:38:13
Speaker 5: to do that. And so it took off. And folks
1:38:18
Speaker 5: who read the inspirations week after week, they came out
1:38:21
Speaker 5: on Monday mornings. That's why we call them Monday memos.
1:38:25
Speaker 5: They hit people's emails at 5 a.m. And then they
1:38:28
Speaker 5: would share them with relatives and friends. And long story short,
1:38:31
Speaker 5: people kept saying to me, you know, that really spoke
1:38:33
Speaker 5: to my soul. Have you thought about publishing? Well, I
1:38:36
Speaker 5: didn't know anything about publishing, Todd. But I did know
1:38:39
Speaker 5: Anna Jacobs, and I knew that Anna knew some about it.
1:38:42
Speaker 5: And so as I moved toward retirement, I thought, well,
1:38:46
Speaker 5: let's just throw this bread on the And I owe
1:38:51
Speaker 5: a lot of credit to Anna and her hard work
1:38:53
Speaker 5: and her team that put all these reflections together, categorized them,
1:39:00
Speaker 5: and the result is the book that came out in May,
1:39:02
Speaker 5: and I have been humbled by the interest and what
1:39:06
Speaker 5: people say it adds to their lives.
1:39:08
Speaker 2: You know, I think one of the things that I
1:39:11
Speaker 2: find compelling, and I've read several of the entries, and
1:39:15
Speaker 2: it is, folks... over 700 pages here, so lots of
1:39:19
Speaker 2: great inspiration. But one of the things that really encouraged me,
1:39:23
Speaker 2: it's just a weird time in the country. I think
1:39:27
Speaker 2: it's a weird time in the world, and Dr. Walton,
1:39:30
Speaker 2: I think one of the reasons why it's weird is
1:39:32
Speaker 2: not because of our politics. It's because we've really gotten
1:39:35
Speaker 2: away from the foundation of our faith.
1:39:39
Speaker 5: I would agree. It seems like either we never really
1:39:42
Speaker 5: knew to start with, or we've forgotten how to talk
1:39:45
Speaker 5: with people who see things a little differently than we do,
1:39:49
Speaker 5: and we seem to not realize what we can learn
1:39:53
Speaker 5: from each other, both in our spiritual lives as well
1:39:57
Speaker 5: as our emotional lives. My mama used to tell me, Terry,
1:40:00
Speaker 5: you've got two ears and one mouth, which means you
1:40:03
Speaker 5: ought to listen twice as much as you talk, and
1:40:05
Speaker 5: that's been hard for this preacher. But it feels like
1:40:08
Speaker 5: we just have a culture now that doesn't know how
1:40:11
Speaker 5: to sit down and talk. And so the thoughts that
1:40:14
Speaker 5: I began to put in inspiration were thoughts that just
1:40:17
Speaker 5: would get people.
1:40:18
Speaker 4: To think it.
1:40:19
Speaker 5: And honestly, there was a lot of disagreement with some
1:40:22
Speaker 5: things I wrote, but I told the bishop, I said,
1:40:25
Speaker 5: anybody that responds to these Monday memos, I will respond
1:40:29
Speaker 5: back to try to create an environment of conversation. So
1:40:33
Speaker 5: that's really been my personal goal is to get people
1:40:36
Speaker 5: talking to each other and listening to each other.
1:40:40
Speaker 2: How do we do that? I mean, there was a
1:40:41
Speaker 2: time in the country when a lot of homes, a
1:40:44
Speaker 2: lot of houses had those big, giant wraparound front porches,
1:40:48
Speaker 2: and the whole point was to invite company to come over,
1:40:51
Speaker 2: as we used to call it back in the day.
1:40:53
Speaker 2: We would love for company to come over and just
1:40:55
Speaker 2: sit and fellowship and talk.
1:40:58
Speaker 5: Well, I think we need to remember that, number one.
1:41:01
Speaker 5: Number two, we need to acknowledge the distractions. Gosh, I
1:41:07
Speaker 5: love a good movie. I love sports. So if anybody's
1:41:11
Speaker 5: kind of tied to a screen at times, it's me.
1:41:14
Speaker 5: But it can be distracting. I'll be sitting in the
1:41:16
Speaker 5: same room with my wife and text her and say,
1:41:19
Speaker 5: can we talk? You know, I think we need to
1:41:22
Speaker 5: acknowledge the distractions. I think we need to acknowledge that
1:41:25
Speaker 5: we're not right about everything. We may have passions, and
1:41:29
Speaker 5: that's okay. But let's have room for others' passions. And
1:41:33
Speaker 5: we're not going to know that unless we just kind
1:41:36
Speaker 5: of take a breath, pause, and listen to one another.
1:41:40
Speaker 5: I have relatives on all spectrums of the political cycle
1:41:46
Speaker 5: as well as faith cycle. And one of the things
1:41:50
Speaker 5: I will say about our family is we know when
1:41:54
Speaker 5: we're getting close to touching a hot button, and we
1:41:57
Speaker 5: know that it's important to kind of stop and love
1:42:00
Speaker 5: one another in that moment than to push that moment.
1:42:03
Speaker 5: That seems to have helped us, and maybe that could
1:42:06
Speaker 5: help others.
1:42:07
Speaker 2: Dr. Terry Walton joining us is the author of an
1:42:10
Speaker 2: incredible book called Monday Memo, a collection of reflections on faith, life,
1:42:15
Speaker 2: and family. You know, I go back through, you know,
1:42:18
Speaker 2: the last, I don't know, 12 or 15 years of
1:42:22
Speaker 2: culture in America where, you know, the admonishment many times
1:42:26
Speaker 2: coming from Washington was, you know, you're sitting around your
1:42:29
Speaker 2: dinner table, you need to use it as an opportunity
1:42:32
Speaker 2: to sway your family members on political issues. And I
1:42:36
Speaker 2: remember growing up, my grandmother, who was a devout United
1:42:39
Speaker 2: Methodist back in the day, there was no talk about
1:42:43
Speaker 2: politics or religion at the dinner table.
1:42:46
Speaker 16: Right.
1:42:47
Speaker 5: That's right. And my mom and dad, you know, I
1:42:51
Speaker 5: love them dearly. My mom is still living. She's 92.
1:42:53
Speaker 5: My dad left us in 1990. Excuse me, he was 90.
1:42:57
Speaker 5: He left us in 22. You know, they just taught
1:43:01
Speaker 5: us to always pay attention to people's character and to
1:43:05
Speaker 5: pay attention to people's faith walk, to pay attention to
1:43:08
Speaker 5: the fruit that people bear rather than what they say. And,
1:43:13
Speaker 5: you know, I think the best advice I ever got
1:43:16
Speaker 5: when my three kids who are now adults were entering adolescence,
1:43:21
Speaker 5: I was nervous about that. What are they going to
1:43:24
Speaker 5: do in their teenage years? That's more a reflection of
1:43:26
Speaker 5: probably what I tried to get away with. And somebody
1:43:29
Speaker 5: said to me, Terry, you know, It's important, I think,
1:43:33
Speaker 5: to remember they are watching more than they are listening.
1:43:37
Speaker 5: That has helped me a lot, Todd, and I think
1:43:40
Speaker 5: that's true about our faith. Let's pay attention to the
1:43:43
Speaker 5: fruit people are bearing in our homes, in our communities,
1:43:47
Speaker 5: in our nation, and in our world. The world is
1:43:50
Speaker 5: so much smaller than it was when I grew up,
1:43:53
Speaker 5: and we just need to pay attention and acknowledge fruit
1:43:57
Speaker 5: That necessarily is not the best. Maybe it's moving toward
1:44:00
Speaker 5: the best. Nobody's perfect. But at the same time, if
1:44:04
Speaker 5: there's rotten fruit, acknowledge rotten fruit. And let's pay attention
1:44:08
Speaker 5: to the fruit people are bearing rather maybe than the
1:44:11
Speaker 5: words they're saying.
1:44:12
Speaker 2: Like kumquats and pears. I'm not a big fan of
1:44:15
Speaker 2: those fruit, but I guess they serve a purpose. I
1:44:20
Speaker 2: love what you wrote on the back of the book.
1:44:23
Speaker 2: And you talk about quiet moments. I'm always reminded of
1:44:27
Speaker 2: the prophet Elijah, that great story from the Old Testament,
1:44:31
Speaker 2: when Elijah's running from God, really, and he's hiding in
1:44:35
Speaker 2: a cave. And so God said, you better get ready
1:44:37
Speaker 2: because I'm about to pay you a visit. But it
1:44:40
Speaker 2: was interesting, you know, there was a huge lightning storm,
1:44:42
Speaker 2: and then there was an earthquake, and Elijah kept walking
1:44:45
Speaker 2: out looking for God in the huge lightning storm and
1:44:48
Speaker 2: the earthquake. But it was when there was just a
1:44:50
Speaker 2: whisper of a wind that And that's where God was.
1:44:54
Speaker 2: And sometimes I wonder, Dr. Walton, do we as people
1:44:57
Speaker 2: of faith, we look for God in maybe the wrong places?
1:45:01
Speaker 5: Well, I know that can be my temptation as a
1:45:04
Speaker 5: fellow human being. And I'm discovering that it's in the
1:45:08
Speaker 5: little things. It's in the moments in our lives when we, well,
1:45:14
Speaker 5: I think, you know, the saying is God moves in
1:45:16
Speaker 5: mysterious ways. I like to say God moves in mischievous ways.
1:45:21
Speaker 5: He surprises us in some ways. Again, I go back
1:45:25
Speaker 5: to that phrase, pay attention. Pay attention to a child.
1:45:29
Speaker 5: I mean, Jesus very clearly said to the disciples, you
1:45:32
Speaker 5: let those children come to me, because in them you're
1:45:34
Speaker 5: going to see the kingdom of God. Pay attention to
1:45:37
Speaker 5: a child. Pay attention to the most humble person in
1:45:41
Speaker 5: your midst. Pay attention to the person sitting there that
1:45:45
Speaker 5: doesn't say much, but when they do, it kind of
1:45:47
Speaker 5: reminds me of that old, old, old commercial E.F.
1:45:49
Speaker 13: Hutton.
1:45:50
Speaker 5: When EF Hutton speaks, we all listen. You know, I
1:45:54
Speaker 5: think we need to pay attention to the quieter moments.
1:45:58
Speaker 5: We're busy. Even in my retirement, I feel like I'm
1:46:01
Speaker 5: plucking retirement, staying so busy. And sometimes I don't take
1:46:05
Speaker 5: time to be quiet. Be still and know that I
1:46:08
Speaker 5: am God, the psalmist said, and I think there's some
1:46:10
Speaker 5: real wisdom in that.
1:46:12
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's a good word, especially as we're
1:46:14
Speaker 2: coming into a very noisy time in our nation's history
1:46:17
Speaker 2: with the election coming up next week and There's just
1:46:20
Speaker 2: a lot of noise in the culture, and I can't
1:46:23
Speaker 2: think of a better time to maybe step back from
1:46:26
Speaker 2: all of that and really focus on what's important.
1:46:30
Speaker 5: Well, I agree. It's noisy, and there's a lot of voices,
1:46:36
Speaker 5: if we will, coming our way. And I would just say,
1:46:39
Speaker 5: you know, we call Grace amazing in the song that
1:46:43
Speaker 5: most all people at least have heard of that song
1:46:46
Speaker 5: if they couldn't sing it or quote it. And it's
1:46:49
Speaker 5: amazing because it's grace that really helps us, I think,
1:46:53
Speaker 5: pilot our way through the noise. If we can just
1:46:56
Speaker 5: be gracious to one another, do little things for one another,
1:47:01
Speaker 5: especially toward those we seem to think we vehemently disagree with,
1:47:08
Speaker 5: offer some grace. And I think in the midst of that,
1:47:11
Speaker 5: we might discover a real blessing. That's where we might
1:47:14
Speaker 5: discover the voice of God.
1:47:17
Speaker 2: Good. That'll preach right there. That's a sermon, Dr. Walton.
1:47:22
Speaker 5: I would agree. I would agree.
1:47:24
Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. So you've got all these, and is
1:47:28
Speaker 2: it fair to call them devotions or just reflections? How
1:47:31
Speaker 2: do you categorize these?
1:47:33
Speaker 5: Well, I start each one with the phrase, I was thinking,
1:47:37
Speaker 5: and I end each one with the phrase, always thinking.
1:47:42
Speaker 5: And I just, it's my way of saying this is
1:47:45
Speaker 5: where I am in this moment in time about this topic,
1:47:49
Speaker 5: this issue. So some have called them devotions, some have
1:47:53
Speaker 5: called them articles. It's just my way of kind of
1:47:56
Speaker 5: putting out there with a scripture woven in to help
1:48:02
Speaker 5: a reader for about a five or six minute read
1:48:04
Speaker 5: have something to have as food for thought. And if
1:48:09
Speaker 5: it can stir a thought in us, I think God
1:48:11
Speaker 5: can use that. You know, Paul said, let this mind
1:48:15
Speaker 5: be in you, which is also in Christ Jesus. This
1:48:18
Speaker 5: idea that God can work through our mind and through
1:48:21
Speaker 5: our heart. So if a thought I put on paper
1:48:25
Speaker 5: can stimulate a thought that takes you somewhere, then I
1:48:28
Speaker 5: give God thanks. So they're really, they're not very lengthy.
1:48:33
Speaker 5: They're not put in calendar kinds of ways. You can
1:48:35
Speaker 5: just open the book and start reading right there if
1:48:38
Speaker 5: you want to, or you can start from cover to cover.
1:48:41
Speaker 5: Whatever speaks to the person, it's a way to get
1:48:44
Speaker 5: you thinking about where we are, who we are, and
1:48:47
Speaker 5: what we can be.
1:48:50
Speaker 2: All right. Folks, you can find more information about the
1:48:53
Speaker 2: book at mondaymemo.org. That's mondaymemo.org. You can also get a
1:48:59
Speaker 2: copy on Amazon where you can order a copy, and
1:49:01
Speaker 2: I would encourage you to do that. You know, the
1:49:03
Speaker 2: holidays are coming up, and what a wonderful gift. And especially,
1:49:06
Speaker 2: you know, not just for Christmas, but if you're invited
1:49:09
Speaker 2: over for like a Thanksgiving event or something of that nature,
1:49:12
Speaker 2: what a wonderful gift to give the hostess of the gathering.
1:49:15
Speaker 2: Monday Memo by Dr. Terry Walton. Dr. Walton, we really
1:49:20
Speaker 2: appreciate you spending a few moments with us today. Congratulations
1:49:23
Speaker 2: on the new book.
1:49:25
Speaker 5: Thank you very much. I'm humbled to be a part
1:49:27
Speaker 5: of what you're doing, and thank you for your time.
1:49:30
Speaker 2: Well, with this political season, we need as many preachers
1:49:34
Speaker 2: on this show as possible, Dr. Walton. Oh, my goodness.
1:49:40
Speaker 2: All right. There you go, everybody. Wow, what a great book.
1:49:42
Speaker 2: And the cover is just really stunning. It's just a
1:49:45
Speaker 2: breathtaking cover. You'll go to MondayMemo.org. and you'll see what
1:49:52
Speaker 2: I'm talking about. All right, we've got to take a
1:49:54
Speaker 2: quick break here, folks.
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Speaker 2: it always takes me about a day when we're doing
1:50:17
Speaker 2: the show out on the road like this. It takes
1:50:19
Speaker 2: me a day to get sort of like, you know,
1:50:21
Speaker 2: in the groove. And then it's time to come back.
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Speaker 17: I know.
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Speaker 6: It's just right when you're starting to have fun, you've
1:50:27
Speaker 6: got to leave. It's like the worst part of a vacation.
1:50:30
Speaker 2: But we're back here tomorrow, and we'll be broadcasting the
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Speaker 2: show noon to 3 Eastern. And then tomorrow evening, we've
1:50:37
Speaker 2: got our big book signing at Longstreet Café. I had
1:50:40
Speaker 2: no idea. I always thought it was just named Longstreet
1:50:43
Speaker 2: because the name of the street was Long. Thank you.
1:50:48
Speaker 5: Right.
1:50:48
Speaker 2: But it turns out that it's actually named after a
1:50:52
Speaker 2: great Civil War general, General Longstreet. So it's got this great,
1:50:55
Speaker 2: when you go to the cafe's website, it's got all
1:50:58
Speaker 2: this great information about the history of the cafe. And
1:51:01
Speaker 2: it really is sort of like, I don't, some of
1:51:05
Speaker 2: our listeners will understand what I, it's kind of like,
1:51:08
Speaker 2: Piccadilly or Morrison's. It's kind of sort of cafeteria style,
1:51:13
Speaker 2: but it's great homemade home cooking. And it's a great
1:51:17
Speaker 2: Southern restaurant. So it's a great fit for us whenever
1:51:20
Speaker 2: we're doing a book signing.
1:51:22
Speaker 6: I'm still caught up on the Longstreet thing. So if
1:51:25
Speaker 6: he had a street, it would be Longstreet Street. It
1:51:28
Speaker 6: wouldn't just be Longstreet.
1:51:30
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they would have to maybe Longstreet Avenue Boulevard.
1:51:33
Speaker 6: Sure.
1:51:33
Speaker 9: Yeah.
1:51:34
Speaker 6: It'd have to be something else other than a street.
1:51:36
Speaker 18: Probably.
1:51:37
Speaker 3: Wow.
1:51:38
Speaker 6: Sorry about that.
1:51:40
Speaker 2: No, look, it's Monday. You think about those things.
1:51:44
Speaker 13: It's true.
1:51:44
Speaker 2: I mean, what can you say? All right, coming up tomorrow,
1:51:50
Speaker 2: we have a jam-packed show. Dylan Ennis-Freedom is coming by.
1:51:54
Speaker 6: I'm so excited for this.
1:51:56
Speaker 2: And it's going to be a lot of fun. We're
1:51:58
Speaker 2: going to ask him about the WNBA. And why do
1:52:01
Speaker 2: I keep saying, you know why? Because the Howard Stern movie,
1:52:06
Speaker 2: The way you pronounce WNBC is WNBC. So whenever they,
1:52:11
Speaker 2: it was like a shtick in the movie. So now
1:52:13
Speaker 2: whenever I hear WNBA, I say WNBA instead of WNBA.
1:52:17
Speaker 6: I like that better than just saying WNBA. It's better.
1:52:21
Speaker 2: WNBA. Anyway, NS Freedom is going to be here tomorrow. Also,
1:52:25
Speaker 2: we're going to be talking to Josh Jones, who's going
1:52:27
Speaker 2: to give us the very latest in the world of politics. And,
1:52:31
Speaker 2: of course, we're going to be taking your calls. And
1:52:34
Speaker 2: who knows what's going to happen around here. We are
1:52:36
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1:52:41
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