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Save the Republic! Early Voting Starts Today! · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
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  Speaker 1: Todd Stearns.
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  Speaker 2: And a very good morning to you. Hello, everybody. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Todd Stearns. Great to have you with us today here
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  Speaker 2: on the Mighty 990. And we have really just another
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  Speaker 2: jam-packed program for you. As a matter of fact, several candidates.
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  Speaker 2: are expected to drop by. Jerry Green, who is the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat nominee for governor of Tennessee, will be here in
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  Speaker 2: just a little while. Also, we're going to be talking
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  Speaker 2: to Mitchell Morrison, who is a write-in candidate for Tennessee
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  Speaker 2: House District 93. A fascinating story about what happened with
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  Speaker 2: that House District race. Mitchell Morrison will be here in
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  Speaker 2: just a little while. We're also going to be taking
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  Speaker 2: your calls on this very important day. Today is the
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  Speaker 2: first day of early voting in Shelby County. So this
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  Speaker 2: is the opportunity for you to save the republic from
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  Speaker 2: the communist and the radical political Islamist. And the way
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  Speaker 2: you can do that is get out and vote today.
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  Speaker 2: Early voting starts and, of course, Election Day, November 3rd.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of big races and three proposed
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  Speaker 2: constitutional amendments on the ballot. So we want you to
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  Speaker 2: get out there and engage your rights as an American citizen.
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  Speaker 2: to vote in the election. Now, we also want to
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  Speaker 2: hear from you, those of you who are going out,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you're already on the way to early vote. Give
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  Speaker 2: us a call. Let us know what the lines are
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  Speaker 2: looking like, and let us know what your experience was
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  Speaker 2: like on this first day of early voting. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. In the meantime, there is some wild and
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  Speaker 2: weird political drama going on within the Republican Party in
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  Speaker 2: Shelby County, and multiple, and we don't have an exact number,
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  Speaker 2: but we do know that multiple candidates who say they
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  Speaker 2: are bona fide Republicans, and we've been able to verify
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  Speaker 2: with our sources that these individuals are in fact bona
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  Speaker 2: fide Republicans, were left off of the the GOP ballot
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  Speaker 2: guide that is provided to voters as they go into
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  Speaker 2: the ballot booth. And let me explain what that is.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the official, that's not the ballot that you
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  Speaker 2: actually vote with. This is a guide provided by the
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  Speaker 2: Republican Party to let you know, hey, these are who
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  Speaker 2: the Republicans are. Many people vote straight party and they
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  Speaker 2: want to make sure they're voting for a Republican. Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's our understanding that that a number of those or
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  Speaker 2: multiple people were left off of the ballot. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: question is, was this a matter of gross incompetence or
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  Speaker 2: was there something nefarious or intentional about it? We don't know.
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  Speaker 2: But the Northeast Shelby Republican Club says, quote, we've been
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  Speaker 2: working diligently with the Republican Party of Shelby County to
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  Speaker 2: investigate and correct the potential inconsistencies regarding bona fide candidates
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  Speaker 2: in Bartlett and Lakeland, it is our understanding that the
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  Speaker 2: following candidates do in fact meet the requirements under the
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  Speaker 2: bona fide standard, but were not included in the list
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  Speaker 2: that was provided to the Shelby County Republican Party by
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  Speaker 2: the Shelby County Election Commission. And those two individuals, So
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to be voting today, be aware that
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  Speaker 2: these two are bona fide Republicans. David Reeves, who's running
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  Speaker 2: for Bartlett Alderman position three, and Sarah Castelaw, who is
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  Speaker 2: running for the Lakeland School Board. There is also controversy
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  Speaker 2: in Collierville, where a very outspoken conservative by the name
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  Speaker 2: of Jason Lederfein was left off of the ballot as well.
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  Speaker 2: And Mr. Lederfein is, in fact, a bona fide Republican.
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  Speaker 2: We were able to verify that information by or through, rather,
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  Speaker 2: the Shelby County Election Commission. So all that to say,
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  Speaker 2: there are some shenanigans going on. And I suspect it's
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  Speaker 2: not just in Shelby County. But all I can tell
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  Speaker 2: you is you've got to do your homework, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: and make sure you're voting for legitimate candidates. You do
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  Speaker 2: wonder what the underlying reason was here. Again, these are good,
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  Speaker 2: hardworking Republicans, and they feel like they were really slighted
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  Speaker 2: by their own party. There's also in the Germantown school
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  Speaker 2: board race controversy. as the Republican nominee on the ballot
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  Speaker 2: has now been facing problems from within her own party,
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  Speaker 2: as some of the party leaders and club members are
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  Speaker 2: now endorsing or supporting covertly an independent candidate in the
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  Speaker 2: school board race. And by all indications, Vicki Gandy is
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  Speaker 2: the only bona fide Republican who was elected in the
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  Speaker 2: primary to be the nominee for the school board. So, again,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to be voting for the Republican in
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  Speaker 2: that race, well, her name is Vicki Gandy. Her name was,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, on that sample ballot. So that was good news. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 2: I think all you know what would be breaking loose.
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  Speaker 2: So really, unforced errors, who knows? Or something intentional, we
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  Speaker 2: don't know. But a lot of very upset Republicans in
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  Speaker 2: Shelby County. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. So we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be taking your calls today. We want to
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  Speaker 2: know who are you voting for? Who are you supporting?
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  Speaker 2: as we move into the midterm elections. My advice that
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  Speaker 2: I shared on the national show, don't believe any polling data.
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  Speaker 2: Don't believe any of it. All of the polling data
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  Speaker 2: out there is meant to demoralize you and depress you.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want Republicans going out and voting on election day.
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  Speaker 2: And that's ultimately the goal of these polls. But we
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  Speaker 2: also know this. History has taught us that the polling
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  Speaker 2: data has always been wrong when it comes to Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump and the Republicans. So what's happening now? And this
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  Speaker 2: started yesterday. We're starting to see the polls and there's
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  Speaker 2: the pollsters saying, oh, wait a second. The Republicans are
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  Speaker 2: gaining some ground. So now all of the races are
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  Speaker 2: within the margin of error because now the pollsters are
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  Speaker 2: going to come out after the election and when the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans win big. The pollsters are going to say, see,
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  Speaker 2: we told you so. It was just too close to call.
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  Speaker 2: It's a load of hooey. Don't believe any of it.
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  Speaker 2: I've been encouraging folks, just act like you're 10 to
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  Speaker 2: 20 points behind. You've got to work your tails off.
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  Speaker 2: Get your people out to the polls, and everything's going
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  Speaker 2: to be fine. I mean, that's really how it works.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I want to play this audio, and this
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  Speaker 2: is from Mississippi. And I'm just curious about you good
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  Speaker 2: people of Mississippi, what in the world is going on there?
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  Speaker 2: Cindy Hyde-Smith is running for the Senate, and her opponent
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  Speaker 2: is a guy by the name of Scott And what
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  Speaker 2: I find fascinating about this guy, he just posted an
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  Speaker 2: ad because Cindy Hyde-Smith was asked, like all the Republicans
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  Speaker 2: are being asked, about grocery prices. We had Charlie Hatcher on,
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  Speaker 2: and Charlie Hatcher said, let him eat turkey. If you
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  Speaker 2: can't afford ground beef, let him eat turkey. Here's what
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  Speaker 2: Cindy Hyde-Smith had to say. Cut 33. The price.
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  Speaker 1: Of beef continuing to go up. You know, you have
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  Speaker 1: so many proteins to choose from.
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  Speaker 3: Pick another protein.
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  Speaker 4: I'd rather pick another senator instead.
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  Speaker 1: Pick another protein?
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  Speaker 5: She done lost her damn mind.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather pick another senator.
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  Speaker 3: Pick another protein?
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  Speaker 1: What the.
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  Speaker 4: Pick another senator instead.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, look, Cindy Hyde... Thank you. Cindy Hyde-Smith telling people
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  Speaker 2: to pick another protein. That's... I'm telling you, it's... You.
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  Speaker 2: I just can't. It's too early in the morning. I
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  Speaker 2: just can't. Let's go to the phones here.
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  Speaker 1: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Dean in East Memphis wants to weigh in on this
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  Speaker 2: sample ballot scandal. Dean, what's your take on all of this?
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  Speaker 4: This is just crazy. If it wants to get cleared
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  Speaker 4: up real quick, why didn't somebody with the CEC call
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  Speaker 4: into the show and explain what happened? Simple.
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  Speaker 2: Now, what is the CEC for just the average listener
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  Speaker 2: out there?
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  Speaker 4: That's the County Executive Committee. They're the ones that run
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  Speaker 4: the Shelby County GOP.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the chairs.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and again, at this point, you know, until
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  Speaker 2: we get an explanation from them. you know, it's just
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  Speaker 2: all conjecture. I mean, clearly a mistake was made. My
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  Speaker 2: question is, was that mistake made out of gross incompetence,
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  Speaker 2: or was it made intentionally to maybe help other candidates
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  Speaker 2: on the ballot? Because in some of these suburban races,
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  Speaker 2: and that's predominantly what we're talking about here, Dean, there
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  Speaker 2: are multiple Republicans running for those seats.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly, exactly. So let's find out what the answer is.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, don't let it keep going on and on
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  Speaker 4: and on, and everybody just wondering what the hell is
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  Speaker 4: going on.
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  Speaker 2: Dean, I think, look, it's a good word you have.
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  Speaker 2: And again, we have too much at stake. And I
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  Speaker 2: just know that we have got to focus on getting
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  Speaker 2: Republicans elected and stopping these communists.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir. Have a good day.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Dean. Thank you for that call. 901-260-5926, our
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  Speaker 2: telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. I want to pass this along
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  Speaker 2: for the National Weather Service. There could be a few
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  Speaker 2: severe thunderstorms across the Mid-South today, damaging winds the greatest concern. Again,
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  Speaker 2: there is a cold front approaching, so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: have some cooler temperatures. I was out at Shelby Farms yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of us were sweating like a pig
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  Speaker 2: at a barbecue out there. It was mighty warm. So, again,
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  Speaker 2: we'll keep you updated. And, of course, if breaking news happens,
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  Speaker 2: severe weather happens, we will immediately break into programming and
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  Speaker 2: let you and your family know about that. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's check in with Commander Chuck standing by with a
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  Speaker 2: look at the roads this morning. Wow, it was a
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  Speaker 2: huge night at the Memphis Zoo yesterday. Over 3,500 fans
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  Speaker 2: gathering at the Memphis Zoo to show their support for
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  Speaker 2: the men's and women's basketball teams at the University of Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: It was a great event. Memphis Madness at Zoo Hoops.
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  Speaker 2: So folks had a lot of fun, and there was
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  Speaker 2: a lot of entertainment and a lot of people there.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of folks very excited about the possibilities for
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  Speaker 2: basketball and for Coach Penny Hardaway. I suspect... If you're
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  Speaker 2: reading between the lines here, Hardaway needs to have a
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  Speaker 2: very good season here, especially with how the Memphis football
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  Speaker 2: program has literally been transformed under the leadership of Hardaway.
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  Speaker 2: Coach Hoff. By the way, just got a note from
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  Speaker 2: the Secretary of State, Trey Hargett, about elections today, early voting. Now,
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  Speaker 2: here's what you need to understand. If you're going to
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  Speaker 2: vote today, you need to make sure that you have
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  Speaker 2: a current or expired photo ID that's been issued by
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  Speaker 2: the federal or state government when you vote in person.
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  Speaker 2: College student IDs Non-U.S. citizen IDs and IDs issued by
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  Speaker 2: local governments or other states are not accepted. So you
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  Speaker 2: need to make sure that you have an ID, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's current or expired, that was issued by Tennessee or
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  Speaker 2: the federal government. And all of that information on GoVoteTN.gov.
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  Speaker 2: That's GoVoteTN.gov. 901-260-5926, our telephone number this morning. That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up, our exclusive interview with Jerry Green, the Democrat
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  Speaker 2: nominee for governor. Also, Mitchell Morrison, who is a write-in
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  Speaker 2: candidate for Congress. Tennessee House District 93. Want to play
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  Speaker 2: some audio from a voter in Morristown, Tennessee, really talking
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  Speaker 2: about the struggles they are facing. Cut 22. Talked to
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  Speaker 2: more than a dozen people in downtown Morristown.
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  Speaker 6: Everyone was mad about prices.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes thinks it's four times what they was a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: A roast I used to get for, well, $ 15, $ 35.
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  Speaker 3: It's awful.
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  Speaker 2: Everything, you know, just keeps going up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it used to spend $ 40 a week.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's $ 140 or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: I just don't think it's going to go down for
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  Speaker 5: a long time.
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  Speaker 4: They're not concerned with people like us.
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  Speaker 3: They said these tariffs that they've got on, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to bring prices down.
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  Speaker 2: They're not.
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  Speaker 3: Because it's going to have to charge more to make
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  Speaker 3: up for them having to pay to bring it in.
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  Speaker 3: And I just say everything's going downhill.
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  Speaker 6: Did you vote for Trump this last time?
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  Speaker 3: No, I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: So let me explain what CNN did there. They went
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  Speaker 2: out and they found a bunch of Democrats in Morristown, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 2: who hate Donald Trump. And they don't tell you that,
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  Speaker 2: but that's exactly what they did. Meanwhile, I want to
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  Speaker 2: go back to the Clarksville event. And President Trump, because
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  Speaker 2: he did have something to say about Memphis and the
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  Speaker 2: incredible successes that we have seen here, thanks to President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: Sending in the Memphis Safe Task Force. Cut number one, please.
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  Speaker 5: But I have a guy talking to me that's a
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  Speaker 5: friend of mine. He said, you know, I've been in
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  Speaker 5: Memphis for years. I was leaving. It was just absolutely leaving.
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  Speaker 5: He said, the job you've done in Memphis, does anyone
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  Speaker 5: have any idea what you've done? You've made Memphis like
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  Speaker 5: a safe city.
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  Speaker 2: We got rid of.
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  Speaker 5: 12,000 career criminals. And my favorite stat, maybe of any stat, 2%
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  Speaker 5: of the people create 91% of the crime. We can
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  Speaker 5: handle 2%. We couldn't handle if it was 50%, but
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  Speaker 5: we can handle 2%. And we got them out of here.
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  Speaker 5: We got them out, and you have a safe Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we do have a safe Memphis, a safer Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: That's not to say crime is still big, because it is.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, two shootings this morning, one
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  Speaker 2: just before 6 o'clock in Binghampton, also another shooting in Soulsville.
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  Speaker 2: We have absolutely no information other than that police are
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  Speaker 2: responding to shootings in both of those locations. But regardless...
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  Speaker 2: The crimes that we have seen a dramatic drop in, carjackings, robberies, burglaries, break-ins,
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  Speaker 2: things of that nature, and that is because of the
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  Speaker 2: work of the Memphis Safe Task Force. 901-260-5926, our telephone number.
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  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. Yesterday on the national show, we had a
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  Speaker 2: guy named Andre call in from Memphis. He is a
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  Speaker 2: pastor of a congregation here. And he is just really
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  Speaker 2: enraged over Justin Pearson. And he's really embarrassed by Justin
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  Speaker 2: Pearson as well and is frustrated that so many black
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  Speaker 2: Memphians continue to vote Democrat when people like Justin Pearson
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  Speaker 2: have done absolutely nothing to help the community. And the pastor,
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  Speaker 2: his comments really resonated with a lot of our listeners
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  Speaker 2: on the national radio show, which you can listen to
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  Speaker 2: at 11 o'clock here on KWAM. But I'm wondering if
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  Speaker 2: there are others. I was talking to State Senator Brent Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: He did not divulge names, but he told me that
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  Speaker 2: some very prominent Democrats that we would know, if I
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  Speaker 2: mentioned their names, you would know them, some very prominent
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  Speaker 2: Democrats were are privately saying, you know what, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to win this thing, and he's getting their support. So
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  Speaker 2: folks may not be coming out and marching in the
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  Speaker 2: streets for Brent Taylor, but I think the average Memphian
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  Speaker 2: understands what's really at stake here. And so the question
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  Speaker 2: then becomes, okay, what happens on Election Day? And what
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  Speaker 2: does Senator Taylor need to do to ensure that he
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  Speaker 2: wins that ninth congressional district race. I think Senator Taylor
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  Speaker 2: is going to win, and I think he's going to
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  Speaker 2: win big because his message is resonating with the people. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: when you look at someone like a Justin Pearson who
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  Speaker 2: sends his wife out to fight his battles, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this is a guy where it's all about him. It's
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  Speaker 2: always about him. And if you notice, he loves to
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  Speaker 2: get the crowd riled up, and then he steps to
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  Speaker 2: the side because he doesn't want to be hauled off
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  Speaker 2: to jail. So this guy instigates a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 2: and then turns around and steps out and takes full
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  Speaker 2: credit for it. After the fact. That's who Justin Pearson is.
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  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of people have finally figured
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  Speaker 2: out what this guy is really all about. Because when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to Justin Pearson, it's all about Justin Pearson.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't care about you. He cares about himself. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Got to take a break here. 901-260-5926. Coming up, Mitchell
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  Speaker 2: Morrison and Jerry Green right here on KWAM. And welcome back, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: This is Todd Stearns. And just a reminder, National Weather
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  Speaker 2: Service said things could get a little bumpy today. Severe
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  Speaker 2: storms moving into the area. Laura Huckabee will have your
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  Speaker 2: full forecast coming up also. You good folks in South Haven,
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  Speaker 2: there is a great opportunity for you today. There is
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  Speaker 2: a free community document shredding event coming up. South Haven
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  Speaker 2: residents can safely dispose of sensitive documents at this event
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  Speaker 2: organized by the AARP of Mississippi. It's going to happen
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  Speaker 2: starting 8 o'clock Saturday morning at Planters Bank. On Get
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  Speaker 2: Well Road, you can bring up to two bags or
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  Speaker 2: boxes of documents, and they will be more than happy
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  Speaker 2: to shred those for you free of charge. a great
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  Speaker 2: way to prevent identity theft and recognizing scams. So good
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  Speaker 2: information there from South Haven. Well, many of you remember
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  Speaker 2: the tragedy of State Representative G.A. Hardaway passing away. He
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  Speaker 2: is a longtime representative of District 93. His son, TJ,
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  Speaker 2: had announced a campaign to run in his dad's race
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  Speaker 2: as a write-in candidate, but he has since ended that
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  Speaker 2: write-in campaign. And our next guest believes he's got a
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  Speaker 2: shot to win that race also as a write-in candidate
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  Speaker 2: for Tennessee House District 93. Mitchell Morrison joins us. Mitchell,
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  Speaker 2: good to have you with us.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Good morning, Mr. Starnes. Thank you for giving
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  Speaker 1: me a few minutes to speak to the voters.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, absolutely. And let's get right to it. Why
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  Speaker 2: do you want to run for the statehouse?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've been in business for 30 years, and I
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  Speaker 1: look at things with a business angle. Logistics, PR, diplomacy,
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  Speaker 1: contract fulfillment, everything. dealing with people from all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: So this is my background. So it would be very
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  Speaker 1: easy to operate in that same thread. But my hobby
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  Speaker 1: for 30 years has been paying attention to politics. And
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in a family that had a deep
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  Speaker 1: love and appreciation for Christianity and the Constitution. So while
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are focused on sports and different
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: things like that, it was always legislation that I followed
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: and would talk about it at the water cooler versus sports.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: So this is just an opportunity to plug in and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: further strengthen constitutional values. I listen to radio programs like
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: yours all the time in the background when I'm working
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: or cleaning house or whatever. And you hear constant stories
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: about corruption. And I hate it. And so I'm close
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: to retirement. And this situation, this unique situation came up.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: And I said, well, you know, I pay attention to
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: politics for decades anyway. I want to see constitutionalists get
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: in there. So I decided to put my name down
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and ask the voters to consider me and write my
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: name in on November 3rd.
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  Speaker 2: The website, ladies and gentlemen, votemitchellmorrison.com. Mitchell, I'm curious, what
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: is the top issue? Let's say you get elected. What is,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: on your mind, what is the top issue that must
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: be addressed?
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  Speaker 1: Schools. I remember watching programs 20 years ago like 2020
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and 60 Minutes, where they would do a deep dive
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: into some experiments that the Catholic schools were doing, and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: they would compare it to the government schools, and they
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: would show that they spent less money, that children were
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: better behaved, that children were happier, that children had more playtime,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: their scores were better, they had a better comprehension of
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: decades ago. And here we are now, and it's constantly
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: in the news about how children can't read and how
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: they treat their teachers when we've had these experiments going
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: on that have worked forever. And while I was very
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: young in the Reagan years, I remember that he had
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: a report conducted to see what the result had been
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: since Jimmy Carter created the federal education program And I
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: remember it was something about it. It was they said
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: it was the equivalent of a terrorist act against America.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: And so just now, you know, four decades later, the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Department of Education is being dismantled. So that's disgusting. I
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: see a lot of the issues today of single parent homes.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: that can create other problems and lead to crime and
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: people not paying enough attention to children. They're just kind
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: of left to their own in the neighborhood or sat
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: in front of the television because there's only one parent
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: who has to work. And I think a lot of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: that comes from a culture that of the children being
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: with each other all day instead of more adults and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: seeing a more mature way. You know, when you put
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: young people together with young people, you'll get a certain culture.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: When you put young people with more adults where they're
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: more focused on on more mature things and more mature
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: behavior towards adults they'll pick up on that and it'll
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: just become the culture all.
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  Speaker 2: Right let me jump in here yeah let me jump
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  Speaker 2: there because we do not have a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: and I do have a question about the state takeover
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  Speaker 2: of Memphis Shelby County schools do you believe that was
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: the right call to make yes OK, we.
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  Speaker 1: Can't we can't if we if we've done something for
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: four years and decades and grades continue to fall and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: crime continues to rise. Someone who has a better track
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: record of of having better scores and happier children has
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  Speaker 1: got to step in and do something.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, Mitchell, we wish you the very best
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  Speaker 2: out there. Of course, early voting starts today. You can
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: write in Mitchell Morrison on your ballot for Tennessee House
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: District 93 if you live in District 93. If you'd
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: like information on his platform, you can find all of
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: that information at VoteMitchellMorrison.com. That's VoteMitchellMorrison.com. Mitchell, thank you. Good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. Mitchell Morrison,
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: who is hoping to make it to the Statehouse. I
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: liked his answer on the education stuff. All right, we've
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: got to take a quick break. When we come back,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Jerry Green wants to be the next governor of Tennessee.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: We'll explain why coming up next. All right, welcome back.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: This is The Mighty Night Honey. I'm Todd Stearns. And
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I told you that when it comes to politics, we
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: bring everybody to the table. And this week, you've already
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: heard from Chas Mulder, who was in town. And he'll
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: be back with us again next week. And now we
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: have the Democrat nominee for governor and also our Memphis
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: City Council member, Jerry Green, hanging out with us. So
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: you and Chas Mulder needed to set up office space
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: here at the building.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: We do actually share a headquarters down on Poplar, but yes,
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: we should just hang out here.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: One of the things that was interesting yesterday, we had
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Brent Taylor on the show. Brent is going downstairs, Chaz
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: is coming up, and that was the very first time
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: they had actually met in person out on the campaign trail.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: So we were glad to bring, I told them, we
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: are the fair and balance of the campaign.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, Brent and I, our districts overlap, and
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: we work together all the time. So that's funny that
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: they haven't met yet.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: You know, I just, again, when I was at Fox News,
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I was embedded with the Obama campaign. So I was
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: the guy that traveled with Barack Obama for that entire campaign.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: We were somewhere in Iowa. I don't know, some far-flung place.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: We were on the bus, and, you know, they have
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: you in that big bubble with the cops and all
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: that stuff. And people were literally, I was just kind
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: of gazing out, and people were literally, they had pulled
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: their pickup trucks and cars, and they were sitting in
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: the backs of the truck beds. wanting to capture history.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: And I think, you know, as a journalist, you know,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I don't want to get too corny, but it really
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: is something special, elections, where the people get to have
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: a say.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and we've been feeling that on the road. I mean,
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: we're getting huge crowds. We've made, I think, over 210
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: stops now. And everywhere we go, we're getting that same
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: sort of thing, the lines to shake my hand and
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: take pictures, people bringing their kids, their daughters in particular,
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: to take pictures of me. Yeah, we're definitely feeling that, people,
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: since there is some history about to be made in Tennessee.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: You were, and we played this clip yesterday on the show.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: You were in Jackson, I believe.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Massive crowds. You are, I mean, these are very large crowds.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: And we are, I made the observation that your crowds
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: are a lot bigger than what we're seeing on the
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Republican side of the aisle right now. What is going
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: on in Tennessee?
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: I think people are fed up. They're fired up for change.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: You know, I think they hoped that President Trump and
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: others would bring change and they're not seeing it in
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: their daily lives. You know, it's just still so unaffordable
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: and they're sick of the chaos and the corruption and
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: they're ready for somebody who's just going to like listen
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: to working people. I mean, that's the other thing is
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: I go out and I take questions and and respond back.
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: So I think that's part of it. But yeah, there's
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: definitely an energy and momentum out there in Jackson. The
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: restaurant was so full, they had the patio open, but
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: it was when the hurricane was coming through and people
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: stood on the patio way in the back with umbrellas
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: in the pouring down rain to hear us too. Everywhere
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: we go, you know, Paris, Tennessee, we had 300 people
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: come out on a college football Saturday when it was
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: still 100 degrees. I went up to a place called Kerryville.
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: You've never even heard of it. It's a plus 90
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: Trump district, plus 90. Their normal meetings are four people.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: Four people show up to their Democratic meetings. We had
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: 125 show up on a Tuesday night after three days notice.
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: Something is happening out there.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: We've seen this with with Mayor Mulder, who, again, has
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: been really making a play for Shelby County. The Republican nominee,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Charlie Hatcher, has not been here much at all. And
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: we've noticed that a lot of independents. are beginning to
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: look at Mulder as a possible contender in that race.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Who's being attracted to your campaign right now? Where are
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: you getting support that you normally don't get support?
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: Well, of course, the Democrats are pretty solidified and excited
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: about their candidate, but we are getting independents. We're getting Republicans.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: I hardly go to a stop where somebody doesn't say,
• 30:00
  Speaker 6: I'm a lifelong Republican. I voted for Trump three times,
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: and I'm voting for you. Marsha is a pretty polarizing
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: figure one way or the other.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: I think it's a combination of things, but I think
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: the biggest thing is they see how much dark money,
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: PAC money, corporate money that she gets from out of state,
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: and then that combined with she doesn't hold town halls,
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: she doesn't talk to people, she doesn't talk to the press, right?
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: You saw that in the primary. We were all ready
• 30:30
  Speaker 6: to come in and debate, me, you, Monty, John Rose,
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: and Marsha wouldn't show up. So I think people just
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: feel like they're not going to be heard.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Speaking of debates, you have agreed to one, the Tennessee
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Press Association, holding one at MTSU, David Hatley, Laura Pinkston,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: the three of you will be up on that stage.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Senator Blackburn will not be on that that stage. What
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: do we need to be looking for at that debate?
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, we have held three debates already that
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: we invited Marsha Blackburn to. Speaking of crowds, the first
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: one was in Brentwood, a couple of miles from her home,
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: and foreigner people showed up. She didn't. We also agreed
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: to David Hatley's debate where he said he'd write a
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: million dollars. I said, please write a check that is
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: good and I'll embarrass you both. But he didn't show
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: up either for that one. And so, of course, I've
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: agreed to the other one. Look, I'm a Georgetown trained
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: trial attorney. I'm ready to debate anybody. You should be
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: looking at people who have experience in government. It's one
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: thing to have experience in business. It's one thing to
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: have experience in the nonprofit world. But government's a different
• 31:33
  Speaker 6: animal and somebody who is actually got plans that will
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: help Tennesseans. So I think it's not just wishes and
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: dreams and hopes. But somebody who has done the work
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: and has a proven track record.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: I see what you did there with the see if
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: the check clears. Jeez, a loo. Look, I used to.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: So, you know, I'm the chief public defender. And I
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: used to go around the state and say I'd spent
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: more time in prison. So I knew more about how
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: to fix crime than anybody else running for governor. And
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: then Hatley got in. And, you know, we knew he
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: didn't have a voting record, but we just didn't know why.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: until Marcia started attacking him. But yeah, I guess I
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: can't say that.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, that happened 30 something years ago.
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: I think they're absolutely fair attacks. You wouldn't let the
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: Fox guard the hen house. So why would you put
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: somebody who's been charged and convicted, spent time in prison
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: for fraudulently managing money in charge of billions of dollars
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: in the state? I know he likes to say he's bought,
• 32:31
  Speaker 6: not built, but he's literally trying to buy an election. Um,
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: The very basic thing that I believe, of course, is
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: that people who have records, it shouldn't have to follow
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: them for the rest of their lives. And I believe
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: in second chances. I'm a Christian. I believe in redemption.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: But at the same time, there are limitations on what
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: we should tolerate. And I don't think we should put
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: somebody who has been in charge of financial fraud in
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: front of our budget.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: Jerry Green joining us in our studio today. One of
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: the big issues that sort of popped up on the
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: campaign trail The botched execution of Krista Pike. And now
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: we understand the governor coming out. There have been another
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: scheduled execution that has been moved to, I believe, next
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: year is what Governor Lee said. Where do you stand
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: on the issue of executions?
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: Well, I would do exactly as Governor Lee has done
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: and continue the moratorium during my time period. I'm not
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: here to commute anybody's sentence or put myself in the
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: place of a jury. But my face does not allow
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: me to be part of killing anyone. I mean, it
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: says thou shall not kill, not parentheses, if you're a
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: governor and this is part of the sentence. I know
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: from my time as a public defender, the system is inept.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: It is biased. It is not a deterrent. Study after
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: study will show you that. And it's really costly. So
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: for all of the reasons that whether it is an intellectual,
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: this is a biased system. I mean, this is the
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: first woman we were trying to kill in 200 years.
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: Why are we only killing men?
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 34:08
  Speaker 6: It is so incredibly costly and it doesn't deter people
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: in the heat of the crime. So I say this
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: as somebody whose best friend was murdered. And I tell
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: you that I would not have wanted that person killed.
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: put to death. It's just not what my faith teaches me.
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: So I won't be a part of that. I will
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: continue what our Republican governor has said. And look, we're
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: going to continue to have these problems. We have non-medical
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: staff doing a medical procedure. We have compound drugs because
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: drug companies don't want to be a part of it.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: This will continue to happen if this is the only
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: procedure we have.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I want to move on to an issue that's a
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: lot closer to home and impacts you as a city
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: council member, and that's the data center moratorium. I thought
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: it was interesting. All the people complaining about the data
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: centers all had their smartphones out and they were recording everything.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Where do you stand on the moratorium? Was that the
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: right call for the mayor to finally step in and say,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: we're going to hold off for a little bit? Where
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: do you stand on that?
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: I think the mayor's late to the party. I think
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: that we've been calling for this for a while. I'm
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: one of the co-sponsors of the moratorium. I would also
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: work to have a moratorium statewide. And it's simply this.
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: I think this is like being at the beginning of
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: the Industrial Revolution, right? The Industrial Revolution gave us a
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: lot of great things. But at the same time, at
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: the beginning, we had plumes of black smoke. We had
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: child labor. We had people losing limbs. We didn't have
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: 40-hour work weeks or weekends. And all of that came
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: at a lot of human harm before we put in
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: the EPA and OSHA and child labor laws and things
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: like that. So I want us to pause and get
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: our hands around this before there is human harm, whether
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: it's our air, our water, our soil, our jobs. I
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: don't even want to talk about what AI can do
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: and to make sure we're getting the benefit we should
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: be getting out of it. Right now here in Memphis, Grok,
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: the brain of XAI, is being rented out to Anthropic
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: for $ 1. 2 billion a month. A month. And the city
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: of Memphis receives $ 50 million a year.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: All right. So that is just a portion of the interview,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: the conversation with city council member Jerry Green, running as
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: the Democrat nominee for governor. We'll have more of that tomorrow. And,
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: of course, we're going to be bringing you conversations with
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: as many of the candidates running, no matter their political persuasion,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: right here on The Mighty 990. You need to understand. And,
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: by the way, you heard her embracing Bill Lee and
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: going after Paul Young. So you never know what's going
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: to happen in these conversations. All right. KYMRadio.com. Go check
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: it out. 11 o'clock right here on The Mighty 990.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Have a great day, everybody.