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God Bless Judge Judy! · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's Common Sense Conservative Commentary from Todd Starr.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: I love this American ride.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I love Judge Judy. I really do. She's
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  Speaker 2: a great lady. I don't know where she is politically speaking.
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  Speaker 2: I suspect she may be, well, she may be a little,
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  Speaker 2: maybe she's a moderate. I don't think she's a flaming liberal,
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  Speaker 2: but Judge Judy is a patriot. Hello, everybody. Welcome to
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  Speaker 2: the Todd Stearns Radio Show. Great to have you with
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  Speaker 2: us today. I want you to write down our telephone number.
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  Speaker 2: You will need this if you plan on calling into
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  Speaker 2: the program today. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926. Again, that's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Judy Shineland is her name. And, of course, many of you,
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  Speaker 2: I think most of us know her as Judge Judy,
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  Speaker 2: and a woman who has been blessed with a hefty
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  Speaker 2: dose of common sense. Honest to goodness. She's a very
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  Speaker 2: practical woman. Born, by the way, in New York City
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  Speaker 2: and has just an incredible story, a life story and career.
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  Speaker 2: And she's a brilliant legal mind. She was also a
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  Speaker 2: corporate lawyer back in the day. and then jumped into
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  Speaker 2: the entertainment industry and really became just a celebrity, a
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  Speaker 2: beloved celebrity. She had a great book, her very first book,
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  Speaker 2: Don't Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It's Raining.
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  Speaker 2: That sort of tells you all you need to know
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  Speaker 2: about the lovely Judge Judy. Anyway, she's ramping up her
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  Speaker 2: career and doing the podcast. And so the other day,
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  Speaker 2: she was on this podcast and I think like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Americans, she's just done. She's done with the left.
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  Speaker 2: She's done with these radical Democrats. And the Democrats of
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  Speaker 2: today are not even the Democrats of the 1990s. I mean, these,
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  Speaker 2: you know, going back to, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: don't like to talk about this, you know, William Jefferson Clinton.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not— no, I know he— yes, he was chasing around
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  Speaker 2: the interns in the oral office back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: And I am not justifying that. I am not dismissing that.
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  Speaker 2: The guy was a creep. He was a freak, a
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  Speaker 2: freaky deke. That's who Bill Clinton was, and no doubt
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  Speaker 2: about it. But he was a very— he was an old-school
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  Speaker 2: Southern Democrat. He wasn't some sort of a radical leftist who—
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  Speaker 2: like the types we have now. So when you look
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  Speaker 2: back at Bill Clinton and his presidency, I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: almost a Republican based on what today's Democrats believe. The
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  Speaker 2: survey that came out yesterday, and very disturbing, we have
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  Speaker 2: the survey itself posted on toddstarns.com. 33% of Democrats would
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  Speaker 2: be okay if Trump got assassinated. 33%, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: How do you live in the same country with people
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  Speaker 2: who think that it's okay to kill somebody just because
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  Speaker 2: you disagree with them politically? That's why Charlie Kirk is dead.
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  Speaker 2: That's why. And, you know, people, I don't know. They
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  Speaker 2: don't have the long-term memory, right? They don't remember what
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  Speaker 2: it was like back in the day. I remember when
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  Speaker 2: President Trump ran for office the first time. Any of
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  Speaker 2: you remember that time? It was not all tiptoeing through
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  Speaker 2: the tulips. The leftists targeted the Trump rallies. Do you
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  Speaker 2: remember this? They targeted the Trump rallies. They literally attacked
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  Speaker 2: conservative young people, leaving them bloodied and beaten in the streets.
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  Speaker 2: They were beating up grandmas. And a lot of folks
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  Speaker 2: forgot about that. I do not forget, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: My mind, like a steel trap... I do not forget.
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  Speaker 2: I remember what they did to our people, leaving them
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  Speaker 2: bloodied and beaten in the streets. And for what? Their
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  Speaker 2: only crime was wanting to make America great again. In
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  Speaker 2: some cases, their only crime was wearing a red MAGA hat.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the Covington Catholic High School kid? Remember him? What
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  Speaker 2: CNN did to that poor teenage boy? And now that kid,
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  Speaker 2: he has more money than he knows what's to do with,
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  Speaker 2: thanks to the legal settlement there. But it was an
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  Speaker 2: ugly time. And people are just, I think people are,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, are you sensing it? People are just exhausted.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that, look, the economy's in the cramper
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  Speaker 2: right now, and diesel prices out the wads. I get
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  Speaker 2: all of that, but can we just set that aside
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  Speaker 2: for a minute? We're going to talk about that a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later on in the show. But can we
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  Speaker 2: talk about just specifically the Democrats for just a moment?
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  Speaker 2: Who in their right mind would ever want to give
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  Speaker 2: these people power again? And let me just say this.
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  Speaker 2: If you stay home on Election Day and you don't
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  Speaker 2: get out and vote, well, you're voting for a Democrat.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's it. In my mind, you're just as
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  Speaker 2: bad as the Democrats. So people are just tired of it.
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  Speaker 2: And Judge Judy is tired of it, too. People crap
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  Speaker 2: it all over our country. We live in the greatest
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  Speaker 2: nation on the face of the earth, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you ever let anybody tell you otherwise. This is
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons why people are trying to come
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  Speaker 2: into our country. They're literally storming the gates of our borders.
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  Speaker 2: They're dumping their kids into America because they know that
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  Speaker 2: America is a great place. You've got all these Democrats
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  Speaker 2: out there, and they're trying to tell you that America
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  Speaker 2: is some sort of a cesspool of evil, and it
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  Speaker 2: is not a cesspool of evil. It is the greatest
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  Speaker 2: freaking nation on the planet. And I don't know, every
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  Speaker 2: now and again, maybe all of us conservatives need a
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  Speaker 2: swift kick in the buttocks, and we need to understand
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  Speaker 2: what is going on here. Now, I get it. I
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  Speaker 2: completely understand why everybody's angry with the Republicans, and they
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  Speaker 2: should be. As a matter of fact, Stephen Miller coming
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  Speaker 2: out yesterday and saying what we've been saying on this
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  Speaker 2: program for a very long time is that if the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans lose in the midterms, it is all because of
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  Speaker 2: Majority Leader John Thune. That's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: Period.
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  Speaker 2: I absolutely believe that. But again, look at what we
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  Speaker 2: have to deal with here, ladies and gentlemen. We are
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  Speaker 2: dealing with a very dangerous time in American history. And
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those moments where I think all
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  Speaker 2: of us have to rise up and say, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know some of you just want to sit back
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  Speaker 2: in the lazy boy and you want to watch it
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  Speaker 2: all play out. We can't do that. We can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: The communists are inside the gates and they are surging.
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  Speaker 2: So all of us have a choice to make. I
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  Speaker 2: think Judge Judy made her choice. This is Judge Judy
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  Speaker 2: talking about America. I want you to listen to it.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Next year, and this gets political, which I don't mind.
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  Speaker 4: I have a house and I have a home. I
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  Speaker 4: consider America my home. America has been good to me.
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  Speaker 4: I think that it's the greatest country in the world.
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  Speaker 4: If you don't like this country, go somewhere else. Don't
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  Speaker 4: come to the greatest country in the world, the most
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  Speaker 4: successful country in the world, and say, I want to
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  Speaker 4: change it. There are other countries that are the something
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  Speaker 4: else that you want.
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  Speaker 5: Go there.
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  Speaker 6: Go there.
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  Speaker 4: But don't come into my home. America is my home.
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  Speaker 4: Don't come into my home and say, I want to
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  Speaker 4: change it. You may say, I want to give more
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  Speaker 4: people opportunity.
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  Speaker 7: I want to.
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  Speaker 4: Change certain things the way certain things, the way we
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  Speaker 4: do business. But we are a capitalist country that revered excellence,
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  Speaker 4: that revered entrepreneurship, that revered all the things that made
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  Speaker 4: us great, that produced an apple that And Amazon, AI,
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  Speaker 4: whether you like it or not, it's there. It produced
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  Speaker 4: the Salk vaccine. It produced all of the major inroads
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  Speaker 4: in medicine. And we did that because we encouraged brilliance
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  Speaker 4: and excellence. We gave them those people a push. They
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  Speaker 4: were gifted classes, which I know public schools used to have.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's taboo.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody should be equal. Well, everybody's not equal. Some people
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  Speaker 4: are tall. Some people are short. Some people are musical.
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  Speaker 4: Some people are not. Some people have big breasts. Some
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  Speaker 4: people have no breasts. They're different. Don't come into my house,
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  Speaker 4: which is a perfect house, and tell me, looks nice
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  Speaker 4: from the outside, but I'm going to change it inside
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  Speaker 4: to make it more of what we like, a more
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  Speaker 4: vanilla gray house. everything muted colors. Look, that's the way
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  Speaker 4: we should be living today. Don't come here to redecorate.
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  Speaker 4: You don't like my house? Stay in your own house.
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  Speaker 4: or find a different house.
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  Speaker 2: You know that reminds me we got a dolly parton
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  Speaker 2: update don't just remind me of that thank you a
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  Speaker 2: judge judy yeah i yes i agree with every single
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  Speaker 2: thing that this woman said By the way, Judge Judy,
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  Speaker 2: she is a very pragmatic person, and I think Judge Judy,
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  Speaker 2: probably many people in this audience share Judge Judy's philosophy
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  Speaker 2: about life. She has actually endorsed candidates from, well, she
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  Speaker 2: endorsed Nikki Haley in 2024. She supported Michael Bloomberg, who
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  Speaker 2: was the Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democrat back to independent candidate. So she's kind
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  Speaker 2: of all over the place, but she's a very pragmatic
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  Speaker 2: sort of person. And she holds to very traditional beliefs.
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  Speaker 2: And Judge Judy is right here. All of these people
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  Speaker 2: coming in, like Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and her husband, brother,
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  Speaker 2: and Zoran Mamdami, coming into the country, we open up
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  Speaker 2: our arms and And we welcome these people, and they
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  Speaker 2: spit in our face, and then they tell us they're
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  Speaker 2: going to spend their time, they're going to spend their energy,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to do whatever they can to change America.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got a woman running for office in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Maine who actually said she wants to
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  Speaker 2: use her seat in Congress to send money back to Somalia.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what Judge Judy's talking about here. Why are
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  Speaker 2: all these people coming here and wanting to change our
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  Speaker 2: way of life? That's not how the immigration system was
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  Speaker 2: ever supposed to work. That's not how it was meant
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  Speaker 2: to work. So really, instead of the poor, hungry masses
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  Speaker 2: yearning to breathe free, We're getting a bunch of radicalized
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  Speaker 2: immigrants who want to destroy America from within, and now
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  Speaker 2: one of them is the mayor of the largest city
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  Speaker 2: in the nation. And Judge Judy's right. You know what?
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  Speaker 2: If you don't love our country, go somewhere else. Go
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  Speaker 2: somewhere else. So I say good for you, Judge Judy. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there was a time when most of the
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  Speaker 2: people in Hollywood, some of you old-timers, the boomers, some
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  Speaker 2: of you boomers out there will remember these days when
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  Speaker 2: most of the Hollywood celebrities were just like Judge Judy.
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  Speaker 2: Many of them were actually very conservative. Of course, John Wayne,
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  Speaker 2: chief among them, But do you remember the old school
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  Speaker 2: days when Hollywood was actually pro-America? When Hollywood was, they
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  Speaker 2: were putting out great movies. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,
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  Speaker 2: Sergeant York, all of the John Wayne movies, the Clint
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  Speaker 2: Eastwood movies, Dirty Harry. But then they decided to jettison
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  Speaker 2: all of that. Hollywood said, no, we don't want to
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  Speaker 2: represent American values anymore. As a matter of fact, they
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  Speaker 2: went after all of the– and I wrote a chapter
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  Speaker 2: in the book. Hold on. Here we go. The Golden Age,
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  Speaker 2: How Trump Saved America. I've got an entire chapter on
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  Speaker 2: how Hollywood declared war on traditional American values. Bear with
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  Speaker 2: me as I scroll. I'll tell you exactly what chapter.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go. The Beverly Hillbillies are a threat to democracy.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter 17 in the Golden Age. They literally, Hollywood literally
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  Speaker 2: wanted to remove any show that made America look great.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what they did. So thank God for somebody
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  Speaker 2: like Judge Judy who's still willing to say what needs
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  Speaker 2: to be said. So many others in Hollywood, and I
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  Speaker 2: hear from a lot of these folks, conservatives in the
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  Speaker 2: entertainment industry, in Hollywood, on Broadway, and they're just terrified.
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  Speaker 2: They're absolutely terrified of letting anybody know that they support
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  Speaker 2: America or maybe they like Donald Trump or J.D.
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  Speaker 6: Vance.
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  Speaker 2: God forbid J.D. Vance. They are scared to death. that
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  Speaker 2: they will lose their careers if anybody finds out that
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  Speaker 2: they happen to hold conservative values. And on Broadway especially,
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  Speaker 2: if you are a born-again Christian, that's it. That's the
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  Speaker 2: death knell for your career. So again, it didn't used
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  Speaker 2: to be like this. But we have turned a blind eye.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, moms and dads disengaged. Moms and dads,
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  Speaker 2: they don't give a rip what their kids are learning
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  Speaker 2: in school anymore. They don't care. They're doing too many
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  Speaker 2: other things. They're more interested in the travel teams and
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  Speaker 2: all of that stuff. That's what's consuming moms and dads
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  Speaker 2: these days. So they're not paying attention to what the
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  Speaker 2: kids are learning. And then you've got the schools, and
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  Speaker 2: they're completely screwed up. Then you've got the churches, and
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  Speaker 2: the churches were actually preaching morality to the kids. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what the heck they're preaching nowadays, but it's
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  Speaker 2: not that. And so we're supposed to be surprised that
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  Speaker 2: the country's going to hell in a handbasket? Let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you something. We are living in very dangerous times,
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  Speaker 2: and Donald Trump saved this country from going over the cliff.
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  Speaker 2: And if we're not careful, and if we're not careful,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to end up shoving ourselves over the cliff
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  Speaker 2: by reversing all of the great things that Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: has done. And if you elect Democrats or you stay
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  Speaker 2: home on Election Day, the midterms, shame on you because
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  Speaker 2: you will be just as guilty. We have got to
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  Speaker 2: save the country from the communists at all costs. That
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  Speaker 2: has to be the rally cry now. It has to be.
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  Speaker 2: All right, got to take a break. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Great show coming up. Liz Peek is going to be here,
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  Speaker 2: our good friend, one of the good guys, good gals
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  Speaker 2: at Fox News. And a little bit later, this is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a fun conversation. There is a federal
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  Speaker 2: duck stamp art contest. I am so excited about this.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be talking to the good people over
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  Speaker 2: at Ducks Unlimited. That's coming up a little bit later.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll be right back. Oh, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: I love America, and I'm glad that Judge Judy loves America.
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  Speaker 2: And my question to you is, is it all worth saving,
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  Speaker 2: or do we just throw in the towel? And I.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know things are not good.
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  Speaker 8: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. I completely get it. But you know what?
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  Speaker 2: We've got more at stake here, and we can't allow
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  Speaker 2: our kids and our grandkids to grow up in a
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  Speaker 2: communist country. We just can't do that. That's not who
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  Speaker 2: we are. So, ladies and gentlemen, we all have a
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  Speaker 2: choice to make. We all have a decision to make here.
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  Speaker 2: Are we going to get involved? Are we going to
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  Speaker 2: go and vote in the midterms? Or are we just
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  Speaker 2: going to stay home and, pardon me, but piss away
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to save America? I mean, it's really up
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  Speaker 2: to you. 901-260-5926. That's 901-260-5926. Now, hear me on this. Look,
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  Speaker 2: just because we say something or we're critical of the
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  Speaker 2: president doesn't mean we're anti-Trump. It doesn't mean that I'm
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  Speaker 2: a doom and gloomer. Not at all. We're always going
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  Speaker 2: to call out the White House when I think they're
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  Speaker 2: doing something they ought not to be doing or they're
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  Speaker 2: going back on a promise they made. That's called accountability.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm not a yes man. Nobody writes me
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  Speaker 2: a check and tells me what to say. That's not
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  Speaker 2: how we operate here. But we are going to be fair.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to be balanced. And I'm always going
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  Speaker 2: to be honest with you, ladies and gentlemen. You may
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  Speaker 2: not agree with me, but at least you know it
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  Speaker 2: is my honest opinion. All right, we've got to take
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  Speaker 2: a break.
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  Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show. Yeah, welcome back, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Todd Stearns Radio Show. And coming up next week,
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  Speaker 2: very excited, I'll be in California, and we're working out
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  Speaker 2: the arrangements now. We're going to try to do a
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  Speaker 2: couple of the shows from out at the Spiritual Leadership
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  Speaker 2: Conference at Lancaster Baptist Church and West Coast Baptist College.
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  Speaker 2: Next week, we're also recording our special for the Golden Age, C-SPAN,
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  Speaker 2: the C-SPAN Book Channel. is going to be doing a
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  Speaker 2: one-hour special. Dylan, I can tell you're really excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: Are you an avid watcher of the C-SPAN Book Channel?
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  Speaker 8: This might be the first time that I watched the
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  Speaker 8: C-SPAN Book Channel.
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  Speaker 2: I bet you didn't even know there was such a thing.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't know that you could watch a book channel
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  Speaker 8: on TV.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like Braille. Just put your hand
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  Speaker 2: up to the... I'm just kidding.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Very inappropriate.
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  Speaker 8: I'll watch you, Todd.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Dylan.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: So it's going to be a lot of– no, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to promise you this. They're going to be like,
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  Speaker 2: what the heck just happened? What did we just see
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  Speaker 2: on the C-SPAN? book channel? I think ratings are going
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  Speaker 2: to spike.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you got to shake it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Got to. Speaking of shaking it up, have you heard–
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  Speaker 2: what is this story? It involves Mountain Dew and Sasquatch.
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  Speaker 2: Have you heard this story?
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  Speaker 8: I can't say that I have, no.
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we go. This is an actual story.
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  Speaker 2: Fox Business, Sophia Compton is the writer, the author. According
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  Speaker 2: to Fox, Hard Mountain Dew offers a $ 1 million bounty
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  Speaker 2: to anybody who can prove that Bigfoot is real. According
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  Speaker 2: to the article here, Hard Mountain Dew is offering this
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  Speaker 2: $ 1 million prize to and you've got to be 21
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  Speaker 2: years or older. Oh, I didn't realize there was such
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  Speaker 2: a thing. So this is Mountain Dew that they sing
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  Speaker 2: about in the bluegrass songs.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, yeah, the real stuff.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: They call it that good old Mountain Dew, and those
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: who refuse it are few. The buzzards in the sky
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: get so drunk they can't fly, drinking good old Mountain Dew.
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and I recently just learned what that actually was because–
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: Maybe I'm a little slow, but honestly, I think this
• 21:11
  Speaker 8: prize pool should be a little bit higher because haven't
• 21:14
  Speaker 8: we been looking for Sasquatch for like 30 years?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, longer than that?
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: And the Loch Ness Monster? Yeah. I mean, so anyway,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: a million dollars, which is pretty good money. I mean, still,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: here's my thing, though. It just seems to me that
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: after you've had, I don't know, a six-pack of Hard
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Mountain Dew, you're probably going to see a lot of Sasquatches.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying.
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: Who's to say?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: According to Erica Taylor, the senior brand director for Hard
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Mountain Dew, quote, Hard Mountain Dew has always been about
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: chasing bold experiences, and Bigfoot Bounty takes that mindset to
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: the next level. According to Hard Mountain Dew, you know,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: they can't say that word enough in this article. According
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: to Hard Mountain Dew, entries will be evaluated using standards
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: developed with Bigfoot researcher Bryce Johnson saying, who has appeared
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: in and produced a docuseries exploring reports of the creature.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Here we go. These are the rules because I know
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: there are people right now in Hendersonville, North Carolina, and
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: they're glued to the radio. Because, you know, Bigfoot's over
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: there somewhere lurking about in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: think I've seen it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: You should submit.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: In order to be considered for the $ 1 million grand prize,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: participants must submit compelling evidence that meets the contestants' verification requirements,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: including at least four types of supporting material. This is
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: a lot. Examples listed by the company include alleged Bigfoot footprints,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Bigfoot handprints, thermal imaging, hair samples, audio recordings, environmental evidence,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: and photographs purportedly showing the creature. Wow, that's a lot.
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: Seriously, if I'm Bigfoot, I am scared now more than ever.
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: How old is Bigfoot? Is he just an immortal being?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: 78, 90?
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: He's got to be getting up there.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, got to be. Slowing down.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so maybe he's easier to find. I don't know.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I thought, in all honesty, I was believing that in,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: of all places, New Jersey, and I thought, oh my God,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: that's Bigfoot. I thought, And it turned out to be
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Chris Christie.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Ah, yeah.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: Easy mistake there.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Krispy Kreme is what we called him back in the day.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: So environmental evidence. So would that be like poop droppings?
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: Has to be.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Got to be. I love this idea. I want to know,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: because you know right now there are probably teams of
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Gen Z guys that are out there. They came home
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: and said, Mom, Dad, I'm leaving college. I'm taking a
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: semester off, and I'm going into the woods, and I'm
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: looking for Bigfoot.
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah, you're probably right. I don't know if they're
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: ever going to find Bigfoot, though. That's the thing. Because
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: I feel like I've seen reality shows that are up
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: there with the ghost hunting shows that are the similar stature. Like,
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: you can't find a ghost. You can't find Bigfoot. That's
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: like the same thing.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: A $ 1 million. Oh, so Hard Mountain Dew is malt liquor.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, God.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: They're going to be seeing stuff more than Bigfoots. I
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: can tell you that right now. All right.
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: 901-260-5926.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: If you've seen Bigfoot, let us know. We'll pass along
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the contact information. I don't know. You might be eligible
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: for a prize. A million dollars.
• 24:51
  Speaker 11: You know what?
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I'll throw in a copy of the Golden Age. Oh,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: here's the deal. If somebody's out there. We need to
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: get them a copy of the Golden Age and we
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: can get Bigfoot reading the Golden Age like on a stump.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Do you think that he reads?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: I really don't know. I'm just– I'm winging it right now.
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: It's a good question though. Who knows? Does he speak English?
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: He could know sign language like the monkeys, right?
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: Well, he's been in America long enough. He's probably learned
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: our culture.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Well, you'd be surprised. A lot of folks crossing that
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: border still can't speak English.
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: Good point.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: And, of course, a lot of them need a shave, too.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying. All right. We need to stop. This
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: is terrible. So good luck to all of you Bigfoot
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: hunters out there. 901-260-5926. You know what? Lady Bic ought
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: to jump in and, like, co-sponsor.
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Or nair.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure we want to see a denuded Bigfoot, though.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: I don't know. That's terrifying to think about.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Hmm.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Would it be Andre the Giant or something?
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's Bigfoot and he just shaves. 901-260-5926. Speaking of
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: crazy people, Senator Tommy Tuberville calling out transgender people from
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: the Senate floor this week. I want you to take
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: a listen to Cut 30.
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: The fact that many, listen to this, that many airline pilots,
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are parked of the
• 26:28
  Speaker 12: furry community.
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: Lord, help us.
• 26:33
  Speaker 12: It's terrifying when you think about this. When you walk
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: onto a commercial flight, it's possible that the pilot flying
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: your plane could have a deranged fetish of dressing up
• 26:44
  Speaker 12: like an animal.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: What?
• 26:46
  Speaker 12: You can't make this up.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: What?
• 26:48
  Speaker 12: It is the best interest of our country to bring
• 26:52
  Speaker 12: back mental institutions as a normal part of our society
• 26:58
  Speaker 12: instead of sweeping it under the rug. Otherwise, we're just
• 27:02
  Speaker 12: sitting ducks until the next gender confused person decides to
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: show up at our churches or our schools and start
• 27:12
  Speaker 12: committing acts of violence.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I have questions here, lots of questions. So is the
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: senator suggesting that that there are, at this very moment,
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: somewhere over America, there is an airline pilot who is
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: dressed like a furry animal.
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: Could you imagine trying to get into a plane and
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: you're just brushed in the face by a tail? A
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: furry tail. Oh, pardon me.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Pardon me, ma'am. I just can't. I can't. You watch
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: the airline pilots walking to the plane, and they've got
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: a big bushy tail sticking out the wazoo.
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: They've got the litter box behind them.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. That's terrible. The flight attendants are preparing the,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know, for everybody else is eating what? You know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: chicken or fish.
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: And what?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: The pilots eating kibbles and bits?
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah. They have a storage container just right there filled
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: with cat food.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Meow mix?
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: Is that?
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Jeez-a-loo. And here's the thing. Well, and we've heard these
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: reports before. And actually, it was a couple of weeks ago.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: There was a flight that had to make an emergency
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: landing because the pilot and the co-pilot got into it.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: And I didn't even think anything of it, Dylan, when
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: I was reading the story. And one of the flight
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: attendants said, yeah, they were fighting like cats and dogs.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: I had no idea.
• 28:41
  Speaker 8: Because they are cats and dogs.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Good golly. And you think it's bad enough you got
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: passengers seeing dead people on the plane. It's bad enough
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: that you got LaQuisha and Sharondalo going at it like, well,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: you know, in the middle of the plane. And now
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: you got the pilots. Unbelievable. This is why I prefer driving.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: I'm never flying again.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take my chances at Buc-ee's. This is
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: an insane segment.
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: So Senator Tuberville, I mean, and again, this is from
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: the floor of the Senate. He's not out on the
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: campaign trail. He's not in Tuscaloosa, you know, just riffing.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: He is saying in front of God and country and
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Marshall Blackburn that there are pilots in America who dress
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: up as animals, as animals, and they're flying you around. Unbelievable.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: This is America. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Do
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: you understand why you have to, I don't care what
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: you're doing on election day, you get your blessed assurance
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: out of the lazy boy and you go and vote.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Because I don't know about you, but I don't want
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: my flight attendant scratching around and sniffing somebody's behind as
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: they're coming on the plane. theoretically speaking. We'll be right back. Yeah,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: so I just got a text message from the great
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Paul Shanklin. He says, Starnes, this could now explain some
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: of the strange, some of the odd, unusual behavior that's
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: been happening at the TSA checkpoints now. I remember, and
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: he's right. What was it, a couple of weeks ago?
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Where was I going? Oh, I was out to Calvary Chapel,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Chino Hills. I was flying out of Memphis International. I
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: always get pulled aside for the extra special screening, and
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I couldn't figure out why the TSA agent was sniffing
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: my butt. So it makes perfect sense now.
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: That's just a regular thing, procedural.
• 30:59
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: And then they brought in the lady, and the next
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: thing I know, I'm like, ma'am, why are you licking
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: my hair? I don't understand that. What's going on? I
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: think she was a feline. She was shedding, too. All
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: over the place. It was not a.
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: I just think if you should be an animal that's flying,
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: it shouldn't be a cat or a dog.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I don't get it. Unless you're a mascot or, like,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: a football team. I don't understand that. I don't understand.
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: I don't want to understand. Can we get a hawk?
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Hawk.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: Hawk.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Wait a second.
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: Is that no.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I get my bird signal. You know, we've got the
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Ducks Unlimited people. Maybe they can help me out with
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: my bird calls. 901-260-5926. I just want to apologize, ladies
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: and gentlemen. I'm not sure what happened this hour of
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: the program. I do want to circle back because we're
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: going to get into this. We're going to go through
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: some of the great successes that President Trump has had.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: And the Republicans are just... They're so inept, and I
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: know they don't mean to be, but they really are.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: They don't understand what the message ought to be going
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: into the midterm elections. And there needs to be a
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: message about the great successes of Donald J.
• 32:16
  Speaker 13: Trump.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: And again, this is why I wrote The Golden Age.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: If you have any doubts about Donald Trump, I urge
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: you to read this book. And every single doubt you
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: have will fade away. You say, Todd, but wait a second.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: What about the bromance between Trump and Mamdani?
• 32:36
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: I don't understand it. Did it make me mad? Yeah,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: it did. It really frustrated me. You know why? And here's, again,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: what is the current talking point for all of the
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Republicans out there? That communism is bad. That socialism is evil.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: So what did our president do? He stands right alongside evil,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: and he puts his hand around his shoulder. I wish
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I could tell you why, but you can't dwell on that.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: It's messed up, no doubt about it. But there are
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: so many bigger things at play here, and it is
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: going to require all of us working together. I want
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: to play— this is Rob Bluey, our good buddy from The
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Daily Signal. He's the executive editor, and he was on
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: one of the shows yesterday. And here's what he had
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: to say. Cut 31.
• 33:30
  Speaker 14: Is there any way, Rob, for Republicans to get away
• 33:33
  Speaker 14: from this price issue that the war has, in fact,
• 33:36
  Speaker 14: led to a direct increase in diesel and gas prices
• 33:39
  Speaker 14: and all the trickle down effects of that?
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: Maybe change the subject.
• 33:42
  Speaker 15: Your poll, the NBC poll, showed that Republicans still hold
• 33:45
  Speaker 15: a decisive advantage on border security, crime and immigration. So
• 33:49
  Speaker 15: if they can focus perhaps on the successes in those areas,
• 33:52
  Speaker 15: maybe voters don't pay as much attention.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Border security, crime, immigration. We ought to be shouting that
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: from the mountaintops. And here's the reason why. When you
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: look at the polling data, those are issues that are
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: still very important to voters. And the fact of the
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: matter is Donald Trump shut down our border. Brilliant, brilliant strategy.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Great success story. This president has declared a war on crime.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Crime numbers across the entire nation are down. But take
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: a look at Memphis, Tennessee, where Donald Trump came in
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: and crime is cut in half. Donald Trump did that.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Republicans did that. And then you've got the immigration issue,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: where we are deporting people. Are we deporting at the
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: levels we should be? No, we're not. But you know what?
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: We've got to take the win where we can, and
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: this is a win. So there you go, ladies and gentlemen.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Those are three things that we can get out there
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: and we can campaign on that aren't going to drive
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: people nuts. Border security, crime, and immigration. And again, President
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Trump needs to stay as far away from New York
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: City and Zohra Mimdami as possible. Whoever is advising the
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: president right now is hurting the midterm effort. I mean,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: it's really that simple. because it's a mess. And then
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: you've got some Republicans out there, and we'll play some audio.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: We had a Republican candidate on yesterday. And again, setting
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: the table here, and with regard to the high prices
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: for ground beef, and the guy says, well, you know what,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: eat more turkey.
• 35:36
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: So, let him eat turkey. Yeah, that's not a good
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: campaign message. You've got to You've got to fine-tune it
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: a little bit. I mean, I like a turkey sandwich
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: along with the next guy, but you give me a burger,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: that's what Americans want. The French eat the turkey.
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: 901-260-5.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: No, you know what? I'm taking that back. I don't
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: want to get a hate mail from the French. They
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: are particularly nasty when they send their messages. So anyway,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: we'll talk more about this later. Coming up in the
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: next hour, Liz Peek is going to drop by. Also,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Karen Waldrop, who is the Chief Operations Officer for Ducks Unlimited.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: There is a nationwide federal duck stamp art contest. This
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: is going to be a great conversation. Looking forward to it.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: and talking to the good people over at Ducks Unlimited.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Don't forget, on the break, ladies and gentlemen, head over
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: to ToddStearns.com, read all of our great stories. We have
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: a story we just posted about a high school in
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Tennessee under fire because they recited the Lord's Prayer together. No,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: it's these atheists. They're out of control. ToddStearns.com, go read
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: that story. Hang tight, everybody. We'll be right back.
• 36:57
  Speaker 11: Bye.
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: Bye. Bye.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: From Memphis, Tennessee.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: On the banks of the mighty Mississippi. It's America's conservative blowtorch.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: That's us, that's right.
• 37:29
  Speaker 16: Our love is American right.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. I was reading something that Steve Forbes,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: who is the chairman, editor-in-chief over at Forbes Media... wrote
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: on X, and it is a great starting point for
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: this hour of the conversation. Again, the Republican messaging is
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: just insanely bad, and it doesn't need to be. There
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: are great success stories that they need to be focusing on,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: and especially now with the war and diesel prices and
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: grocery prices, all that kind of stuff, which is a reality.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: But there are also some very great things that President
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Trump and the Republicans have done. For example, as Steve
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Forbes points out, taxpayers are going to get an average
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: tax cut of nearly $ 2, 300 in 2026 because of the
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: one big beautiful bill. Now, this is the same one
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: big beautiful bill the Democrats are out there saying we're
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: going to repeal. So the Democrats want to take away
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: your $ 2, 300 tax cut. Again, another talking point for Republicans
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: out there. I want to go to the Patriot Mobile
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Newsmaker line, say hello to our good friend Liz Peek,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Fox News contributor. Liz, hope you're doing well today. Hello, Liz.
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, we'll try to get Liz Peek back
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: with us here in just a minute, working all of
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: that out. So bear with me. But again, ladies and gentlemen, yeah,
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: there's plenty of positive stuff that we can be talking
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: about in this election cycle. For example, Vice President J.D.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Vance just announced that they had removed more than 750,000
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: fake enrollments from Obamacare. Cut number 33.
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: What this looks like is, in one case, we found
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: a fraud ring that had 40 agents, 40 brokerage agents,
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: who had funneled 50,000 people into the Obamacare system fraudulently. Now,
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: some of those people were probably legitimate. Most of those
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: people were not eligible. Either they didn't meet the citizenship
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: or the income requirements. Many of those people quite literally
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: didn't even exist. We had a system in this country
• 40:03
  Speaker 9: that rewarded brokers, that made people rich for enrolling fake
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: people in programs that are meant to ensure that our
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: fellow citizens.
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: Have health care.
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  Speaker 2: This was a scandal. And thanks to the work of Dr.
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: Oz, Andy Ferguson, Secretary Kennedy, and of course, the leadership
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: of the president, this is stopping.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Well, that is great news. And we understand that they
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: just saved, by doing that one thing, saved American taxpayers
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: more than $ 2 billion. I want to go to the
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. We've got Liz Peek back with us. Liz,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: hope you're doing well today.
• 40:37
  Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm doing great. I'm so sorry about the communications problems.
• 40:41
  Speaker 17: I am in the middle of New York City, midtown Manhattan,
• 40:46
  Speaker 17: and you know, it's UN week here, so there's such
• 40:48
  Speaker 17: a blitz of communications amongst emergency responders and stuff. Apparently,
• 40:53
  Speaker 17: I guess the internet just goes out. So anyway, I'm here,
• 40:57
  Speaker 17: and I was listening to your comments about the economy,
• 41:02
  Speaker 17: and I wanted to tell you that a bunch of
• 41:04
  Speaker 17: us have been tweeting recently that f and p global uh...
• 41:09
  Speaker 17: report on the u s economy compared to all the
• 41:12
  Speaker 17: others in the world is exactly what president trump told
• 41:15
  Speaker 17: united nations delegates yesterday it is the envy of the
• 41:19
  Speaker 17: world literally manufacturing services all the factors many of them
• 41:23
  Speaker 17: are five-year hi todd this is the economy the democrats
• 41:28
  Speaker 17: are crashing uh... in the at at as they keep
• 41:31
  Speaker 17: you know campaign for house seats and senate seats they're
• 41:34
  Speaker 17: talking down our economy Instead of pointing out that, for example,
• 41:39
  Speaker 17: poverty rates in the United States hit an all-time low
• 41:43
  Speaker 17: last year. Wealth inequality is shrinking, not expanding. There have
• 41:49
  Speaker 17: been so many good things in this economy, particularly what
• 41:53
  Speaker 17: you've heard about the K-shape economy really isn't true, because
• 41:56
  Speaker 17: now the biggest wage gains are being felt and recorded
• 42:01
  Speaker 17: at the low end of the income spectrum, not at
• 42:03
  Speaker 17: the top end. So, you know, you and Steve Forbes,
• 42:09
  Speaker 17: and I gotta tell you, we have been talking about
• 42:10
  Speaker 17: this for months, the messaging for Republicans has been so
• 42:14
  Speaker 17: appalling that I think they're afraid of talking about tax
• 42:18
  Speaker 17: cuts because Democrats kind of make the case that that's
• 42:21
  Speaker 17: all about favoring wealthy people. It's really not. It has
• 42:26
  Speaker 17: helped the average American, as you point out. And as
• 42:29
  Speaker 17: you point out again, Democrats want to rescind that those
• 42:33
  Speaker 17: cuts that were in the big, beautiful bill. Why aren't
• 42:36
  Speaker 17: Republicans yelling from the raft tops about that?
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: It's a great point, and again, Liz, I get it.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: There are problems with the war and gas prices and
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: all that, but the reality is you cannot go out
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: there and campaign on those issues, and they're doing a
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: lousy job of that. a candidate on yesterday, and his
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: reaction was, well, just buy turkey. Eat more turkey. You know,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: if you can't afford ground beef. Okay, well, yeah, it's
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: just like, come on here. But again, there have been
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: so many great successes, and for whatever reason, the Republicans
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: just don't want to embrace those great successes.
• 43:14
  Speaker 17: They really don't. They're running away from Trump. They're running
• 43:17
  Speaker 17: away from, for example, immigration. Okay, I get it that
• 43:21
  Speaker 17: some people feel that the Trump administration went overboard in
• 43:25
  Speaker 17: deporting a lot of people with no criminal records. The majority, however,
• 43:30
  Speaker 17: have criminal records. And basically, people have forgotten, Todd, that
• 43:36
  Speaker 17: the tens of thousands of people who were wandering across
• 43:40
  Speaker 17: our border... completely unchecked during the Biden administration. It was unconscionable.
• 43:46
  Speaker 17: Find me a Democrat running for office who's willing to
• 43:49
  Speaker 17: talk about border security. They're not. Again, that's a place
• 43:53
  Speaker 17: where they're going to roll back a successful implementation of
• 43:57
  Speaker 17: policy and all of a sudden will again have a
• 44:00
  Speaker 17: border overwhelmed with people. You know, I said on air
• 44:04
  Speaker 17: this morning, and I think it's really true, Trump wants
• 44:06
  Speaker 17: everybody to think he's on the ballot for better or worse,
• 44:10
  Speaker 17: I guess. But, you know, his stock line should be,
• 44:14
  Speaker 17: don't judge me against the Almighty. Judge me against my opponents,
• 44:18
  Speaker 17: because they are terrible.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: It's a good point. And, you know, the administration also
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: promised to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse.
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: And J.D.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Vance coming out and making that big announcement yesterday, what,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: 750,000 bogus enrollees in Obamacare. This is another reason to celebrate.
• 44:39
  Speaker 17: Yeah, and again, where are Democrats on getting rid of
• 44:43
  Speaker 17: all this waste, fraud, and abuse? They're against it. They literally,
• 44:47
  Speaker 17: you know, I think you've had 23 states that have
• 44:50
  Speaker 17: refused to send in the information that the administration wants
• 44:54
  Speaker 17: to continue to purge illegals from our Medicaid and Medicare rolls,
• 45:00
  Speaker 17: fraudsters from being signed up for those kinds of benefits.
• 45:04
  Speaker 17: The Democrats don't want to play ball on this. And
• 45:06
  Speaker 17: it's so wrong because it is a winning issue. And again,
• 45:10
  Speaker 17: where are the Republican candidates who are actually out there
• 45:14
  Speaker 17: talking about this? I don't think they are.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: No, it's a great point. Liz Peek joining us on
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. And by the way,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: you can read that story about the vice president over
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: at LizPeak.com. Liz, how do you think the vice president's
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: been doing? They've been putting him out on the campaign
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: trail quite a bit over the past few weeks.
• 45:37
  Speaker 17: Yeah, it's interesting. He's been much more visible than Marco Rubio,
• 45:41
  Speaker 17: who presumably is the other person in the administration sort
• 45:46
  Speaker 17: of vying to be the 2028 candidate. And I think
• 45:50
  Speaker 17: maybe it's because... and this is just anecdotal, but I
• 45:55
  Speaker 17: think there are a lot of donors who are not
• 45:58
  Speaker 17: that excited about J.D.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: Benz.
• 46:01
  Speaker 17: And I can't even really pin down a reason why,
• 46:04
  Speaker 17: although some of his economic musings, let's say, over the
• 46:09
  Speaker 17: last several months have sort of got people on guard,
• 46:12
  Speaker 17: the fact that he's sort of anti-corporate America. And, you know, again,
• 46:17
  Speaker 17: there's a gray area here. I think a lot of
• 46:19
  Speaker 17: us understand that big companies and big corporations have not
• 46:23
  Speaker 17: always played in the American's interest. On the other hand,
• 46:27
  Speaker 17: being anti-business is not where Donald Trump is and not
• 46:31
  Speaker 17: where most Republican voters are. So I think Shady, you know,
• 46:35
  Speaker 17: the other day he kind of slammed Margaret Thatcher. Well,
• 46:38
  Speaker 17: for a lot of us, Margaret Thatcher brought common sense
• 46:42
  Speaker 17: and sanity to Great Britain when it was really on
• 46:45
  Speaker 17: its knees. And honestly, you know, we joked around Steve
• 46:50
  Speaker 17: Forbes and Larry Cuzzle and I about how we really
• 46:52
  Speaker 17: need to school J.D. Vance on supply side economics, because
• 46:56
  Speaker 17: I don't know that he's a fan and I don't
• 46:58
  Speaker 17: even know that he understands it, to be honest. Smart guy.
• 47:01
  Speaker 17: Don't get me wrong. And by the way, whenever I
• 47:05
  Speaker 17: hear and read about AOC being the candidate in 2028,
• 47:10
  Speaker 17: all I can picture is J.D. Vance debating AOC. And
• 47:14
  Speaker 17: I think we can agree it would be an unfair fight.
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Big time. Big time.
• 47:19
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: Liz, as you know, I mean, from your vantage point,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: we're hearing from just internally a lot of politicos are
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: very concerned about the Republicans and their chances in the midterm.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Are you hearing the similar things or you're getting a
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: different vantage point?
• 47:37
  Speaker 17: No, I think people are very worried about it. And
• 47:41
  Speaker 17: let's face it, President Trump has done some things like
• 47:44
  Speaker 17: initiate what I consider to be a kind of idiotic
• 47:47
  Speaker 17: trade war with Canada, which really has made it much
• 47:50
  Speaker 17: harder for Susan Collins and Mike Rogers. Those states, both
• 47:55
  Speaker 17: Michigan and Maine, being quite tied to Canada's economy, hasn't
• 48:00
  Speaker 17: helped them. And both of those candidates right now are
• 48:04
  Speaker 17: really struggling even to stay even. I wonder if the
• 48:08
  Speaker 17: polling is right. Obviously, the generic ballot, Democrats are ahead by,
• 48:14
  Speaker 17: I don't know, depending, seven out of nine points. Last
• 48:18
  Speaker 17: time that was the case, they picked up a lot
• 48:21
  Speaker 17: of seats, but not an overwhelming number. And so I'm
• 48:25
  Speaker 17: not really sure. You know, at the end of the day, Todd,
• 48:28
  Speaker 17: I'm not even sure it's going to matter very much.
• 48:30
  Speaker 17: We have sort of gridlock right now in Congress. My
• 48:33
  Speaker 17: guess is we're going to have more of that. But
• 48:36
  Speaker 17: if Democrats really take on two years of wanting to
• 48:39
  Speaker 17: impeach Donald Trump again, investigate everybody, and don't get anything
• 48:43
  Speaker 17: done for the American people, I think that sets them
• 48:46
  Speaker 17: up very badly for 2028. Oh, I do, too.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: No doubt about that.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, whenever UN week, I had to go down
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: there a couple of years. They sent me down to
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: cover that fiasco, and I thought, please do not ever
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: send me to the UN headquarters again.
• 49:02
  Speaker 17: Well, no, it's just impossible. I am never going to
• 49:04
  Speaker 17: be in town again for this week because nothing moves.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: No.
• 49:08
  Speaker 17: You're just, you know, anyway, so apologies if I don't
• 49:12
  Speaker 17: sound as clear as I should, but A, the internet's terrible,
• 49:17
  Speaker 17: and B, there's no place to hide, so. there you are.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, geez-a-loo. All right, Liz, our sympathies are for you.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Liz Peek, everybody, on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Thank you, Liz.
• 49:30
  Speaker 17: Thank you so much for having me. Take care.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: All right. No, it's really bad. It's total gridlock. All
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: the streets are shut down, and You're better off just walking.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: If you have to go somewhere, just walk. But it is, yes,
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: UN week is never a good time in New York City. 901-260-5926.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: You heard Liz's analysis. I'm just curious. We'll take a
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: poll nationwide here. How are things going in your states?
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: What are you hearing from your politicos there in your communities?
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: 901-260-5926.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show. I want to go
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: back in the time machine. Again, the long-term memory of
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: a lot of Americans on the fritz. They just don't
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: remember how bad and how awful the national media can be, which, again,
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: is why I am absolutely... backing President Trump's decision to
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: ban CNN, Politico, and PMS Now from the White House
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: press briefing room. It should have happened a long time ago.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: And by the way, the Washington Post ought to be
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: booted as well. But anyway, President Trump is a kind
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: and gentle man. This is Speaker Newt going all the
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: way back to 2012. the GOP presidential primary debate. And
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: I want you to listen to how CNN and John
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: King tried to attack Newt Gingrich, and Speaker Newt was
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: having none of it. Take a listen.
• 51:12
  Speaker 18: Your ex-wife gave an interview to ABC News and another
• 51:15
  Speaker 18: interview with the Washington Post, and this story has.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Now gone viral on the Internet.
• 51:19
  Speaker 18: In it, she says that you came to her in 1999,
• 51:22
  Speaker 18: at a time when you were having an affair. She
• 51:25
  Speaker 18: says you asked her, sir, to enter into an open marriage.
• 51:28
  Speaker 18: Would you like to take some time to respond to that?
• 51:30
  Speaker 17: No, but I will.
• 51:44
  Speaker 13: I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of
• 51:49
  Speaker 13: the news media makes it harder to govern this country,
• 51:52
  Speaker 13: harder to attract decent people to run.
• 51:54
  Speaker 8: For public office.
• 51:55
  Speaker 13: And I am appalled that you would begin a presidential
• 51:58
  Speaker 13: debate on a topic like that. Every person in here
• 52:21
  Speaker 13: knows personal pain. Every person in here has had someone
• 52:25
  Speaker 13: close to them go through painful things. To take an
• 52:30
  Speaker 13: ex-wife and make it two days before the primary, a
• 52:36
  Speaker 13: significant question in a presidential campaign is as close to
• 52:40
  Speaker 13: despicable as anything I can imagine. My two daughters wrote
• 52:52
  Speaker 13: the head of ABC and made the point that it
• 52:56
  Speaker 13: was wrong, that they should pull it. And I am
• 53:00
  Speaker 13: frankly astounded that CNN would take trash like that and
• 53:04
  Speaker 13: use it to open a presidential debate.
• 53:15
  Speaker 7: As you noted, Mr.
• 53:16
  Speaker 18: Speaker, this story did not come from our network. As
• 53:18
  Speaker 18: you also know, it is the subject of a conversation
• 53:20
  Speaker 18: on the campaign. I get your point.
• 53:22
  Speaker 8: I take your point.
• 53:22
  Speaker 13: John, it was repeated by your network. You chose to
• 53:26
  Speaker 13: start the debate with it. Don't try to blame somebody else.
• 53:28
  Speaker 13: You and your staff chose to start this debate with it.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Now, let me be quite clear.
• 53:36
  Speaker 13: Let me be quite clear. The story is false. Every
• 53:39
  Speaker 13: personal friend I have who knew us in that period
• 53:41
  Speaker 13: says the story was false. We offered several of them
• 53:44
  Speaker 13: to ABC to prove it was false. They weren't interested
• 53:47
  Speaker 13: because they would like to attack any Republican. They're attacking
• 53:50
  Speaker 13: the governor. They're attacking me. I'm sure they'll present it
• 53:52
  Speaker 13: around to Senator Santorum and Congressman Paul. I am tired
• 53:57
  Speaker 13: of the elite media protecting Barack Obama by attacking Republicans.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And by the way, that is that is how
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: you deal with. with these nasty people in the media.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: These are not true journalists. These are political hacks. CNN, Politico,
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: PMS Now, The Washington Post, The New York Slimes, all
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: of them stopped being legitimate news organizations a very, very,
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: very long time ago. And their mission in life is
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: to destroy anybody who is a Republican. Look, and everybody thinks, oh, well,
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: you know, back in the day, they loved George W.
• 54:35
  Speaker 19: Bush.
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: No, they did not. They called him Hitler. They called
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: George W. Bush a Nazi. Same thing with his father,
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: George H. W.
• 54:44
  Speaker 10: Bush.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: They hate Republicans. They do this to every single one
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: of our candidates, which is why Willard Mitt Romney was
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: a complete failure because he refused to acknowledge the fact
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: that the media was his enemy. The media was trying
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: to— Romney just did not want to have anything to do
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: with it. They had all of this, and it wasn't dirt.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: It was legitimate intel on Barack Hussein Obama. Romney refused
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: to go negative. He refused to go after Obama. McCain
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: did the exact same thing. And look what happened. Look
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: what happened to the country. All right, got to take
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: a quick break here.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. We'll be right back.
• 55:54
  Speaker 13: All right.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd Stearns Radio Show.
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: Happy to have you with us today. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
• 56:02
  Speaker 8: That's 901-260-5926.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: I want to play some audio for you. This is from, well,
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: my goodness, my apologies here. Kamala Harris says, Kamala Harris
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: is very upset. You know, she's going to be running
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: for election again. That's her intention. She says Republicans, all
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: of you Republicans, are cheating by purging voter rolls. Cut
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: number 32.
• 56:36
  Speaker 20: They are cheating by purging voter rolls. So we say
• 56:40
  Speaker 20: as leaders then to folks, not only must you register
• 56:43
  Speaker 20: to vote, check your voter registration status to make sure
• 56:46
  Speaker 20: you haven't been purged from the rolls. They're trying to
• 56:53
  Speaker 20: take our tools, but we are a creative people. And
• 56:58
  Speaker 20: we know how to fight. And we have always been
• 57:02
  Speaker 20: fighting against the odds, and that has never deterred us.
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: Wow, what's wrong with her voice? It's very odd. Very
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: odd indeed. But there you go, ladies and gentlemen. That
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: is the plan. The Democrats are basically admitting, yeah, we
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: have lied, we have cheated, we have registered people who
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: are illegal. And by the way, that's not in dispute
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: anymore at all, period.
• 57:34
  Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Charles in Georgia. Charles, what's on your mind?
• 57:39
  Speaker 6: Hey, Todd, how you doing?
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: I'm good. Thank you for asking.
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I just wanted to go back and talk about Bigfoot.
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: And if you recall, I do driving for deliveries for Walmart.
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: And I deliver sometimes out of Dahlonega. And I took
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: stuff to a lady in Suches, you know, which is
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: over the mountain from Dahlonega. And she was telling me
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: that Bigfoot lived right there up in the woods. And
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: she pointed up. above her house, close to the Appalachian
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: Trail is. And she said, yeah, she calls him Junior.
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: She said that he likes her cooking, and he'll come
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: and he'll peck on the window of her house when
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: he's hungry, and she'll put some spaghetti or whatever out
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: on the porch, and he'll come and eat it. And
• 58:42
  Speaker 6: she said, matter of fact, He's up there and is
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: blind right now. I said, oh, yeah, really? And she said,
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: you notice how quiet it is? In which I had
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: not paid any attention, but there were no birds, no squirrels,
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: nothing was making a noise. Okay, this is freaky. I
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: got to get out of here. And I came back
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: a couple weeks later to make another delivery today. lady,
• 59:11
  Speaker 6: and the birds were chirping and everything, so it wasn't
• 59:16
  Speaker 6: something about that particular area. So she was telling me
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: some wild stories about Bigfoot, so... Kind of a freaky thing.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: So wait a second. Wait, wait, wait. So she says
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: that Bigfoot visits and loves Italian food and sits up
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: in a deer stand. Is that the gist of it?
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: Well, not a deer stand. It's just where he hides
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: out in the woods.
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, his lair, I guess, his secret lair.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: And his name is Junior.
• 59:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, she called him Junior.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think she's been hitting that hard Mountain Dew.
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: She may have been. It was pretty freaky, though. That
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: one time I was there that everything got quiet, so
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 6: it made me kind of wonder.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Well, Charles, you never know that there are strange things
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: there in the mountains of North Georgia, so you just
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: never know, my friend.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: One other thing real quick. You're talking about the furries.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: and the pilots being furries. Now, what would be more
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 6: appropriate than to have Snoopy as the pilot?
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, geez, Lou. And Woodstock as the co-pilot.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there you go.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: There you go, Charles.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you for calling. Let's go to Randall in Gainesville, Georgia, WDU.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: And this apparently is Bigfoot territory. Hi, Randall. What you
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: got for us?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 21: Yeah, another Bigfoot story. And I guess I'm going to
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 21: have to claim that book because, you know, they're up
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 21: in Blue Ridge and around in that area. They got
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 21: the Expedition Bigfoot Museum. So if you got a museum,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 21: he has to exist.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a good point. So you said there's
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  Speaker 2: a museum in Blue Ridge.
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  Speaker 21: Right, called Expedition Bigfoot.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I've never heard of such a thing.
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  Speaker 21: In fact, Todd, one of the main attractions is in
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 21: a glass case about one foot wide on the ends
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  Speaker 21: and about three feet long, and it's a piece of
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 21: Bigfoot excrement. You have to see that, Todd.
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  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? So they've got Bigfoot poo?
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  Speaker 21: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Now, is this the same Expedition Bigfoot? Is that like
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: a TV show, like a reality show? I think it's
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: a reality show.
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  Speaker 21: No, it's the actual museum up there. You know, $ 9,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 21: I think, to get in, or what it used to be,
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  Speaker 21: something like that.
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  Speaker 2: No, there is actually a reality TV show called Expedition Bigfoot.
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  Speaker 2: It's been on for years.
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  Speaker 21: Well, I'm an antenna guy.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, gotcha. Well, let me ask you this, Randall. Have
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: you ever seen anything odd or unusual in the wilds
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: there in Gainesville, Georgia?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 21: Well, of course. But that's another story for another day.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, if you've got evidence, I want to see
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: this evidence, because I would love to get Bigfoot. I
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: would love to be photographed with Bigfoot reading the Golden Age.
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  Speaker 21: Just go to Expedition Bigfoot, the museum there, and you
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 21: can put a box of books there.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Randall, I'll do that. Thank you. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for the information. Dylan, I didn't expect we were going
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: to get calls on Bigfoot.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and I hate to think this, but $ 9 to
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 8: get into a museum for a potential $ 1 million prize
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 8: on Bigfoot, that's not a bad bargain there.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pretty good deal, and it's in Blue Ridge.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on, I'm looking this up. Oh, it is Expedition Bigfoot,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: Blue Ridge, Georgia. And it kind of looks like a
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: cracker barrel for large, hairy creatures of the forest.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 8: Perfect. That's exactly where we need to go right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's billed as, hold on, North Georgia's biggest family attraction.
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  Speaker 2: And they actually have what appears to be– oh, my gosh.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: Go to expeditionbigfoot.com. Live the adventure. Discover the impossible. And
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: he's right. Adults and teens, $ 9. And children under 12
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: years old, $ 6. Now, here's what's interesting. Dylan, they're closed
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: on Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: I guess Bigfoot's a Christian?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Maybe a Methodist?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: Maybe Nazarene. I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: Something.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It is something.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 8: This is fascinating, actually.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: This is truly remarkable. But we're just scrolling through this.
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  Speaker 2: But if you have an RV or trailer, no, you
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: can't do that. Or large buses. Kind of like Buc-ee's,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: you know. The museum is self-guided, and it takes about
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: 45 minutes to an hour to It depends on your
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: level of interest in the subject of Bigfoot and Bigfoot research.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: They do have bathrooms, by the way, and a diaper
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: changing station for human babies, I have to imagine. So
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: there you go. All right, if you're looking for something
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: to do, I suppose, in Blue Ridge, Georgia. All right, 901-260-5926.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. You know what? We're going to have to
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: do a mosh-up here of aliens, people who have seen
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: the aliens and people who have seen the Bigfoot. That's
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: what we're going to have to do. All right, we're
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: going to take a quick break here, folks. 901-260-5926, our
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  Speaker 2: formed the presidential TV pool, and when the president barred
• 1:06:28
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  Speaker 2: and refused to film his daily public events until CNN
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  Speaker 2: by the networks, which Fox News co-signed. Inside Fox, journalists
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  Speaker 2: have kept an eye on the past and the future.
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  Speaker 2: It was a big deal when Fox joined the White
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  Speaker 2: House TV pool in the 1990s, and in 2009, the
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: pool came to Fox's defense when the Obama administration called
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  Speaker 2: the network a wing of the Republican Party and moved
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: to bar it from a Treasury event. So there you go.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: Fox News also supported journalists who were effectively evicted from
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: the Pentagon by Pete Hegseth. It so happens that the
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: current chair of the Five Network Pool Group is Brian Bowton,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: a Fox News bureau chief in D.C. Mr. Bowton was
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: the signatory on a note on Monday that decreed, effective today,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: the TV pool will not be covering events designated as
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: pool coverage of the president. Not every Fox viewer is pleased.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: Some right-wing accounts on social media blasting the network, including, well, Newsmax.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: Fox is not alone among conservative-friendly networks in standing up
• 1:08:19
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• 1:08:23
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• 1:08:38
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• 1:08:42
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• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: kick them all out. As a matter of fact, I say,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: just turn the White House press briefing room back into
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: the swimming pool. I mean, what's wrong with that? Let
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: me just say this. No, no, we would not allow
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: White House reporters to use the swimming pool. Do we
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: really want to see Anderson Cooper running around in his
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: little speedo? I don't think so. But anyway, that's just
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: my thoughts. I mean, again, you know, we're in the
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: middle of construction. We already got the construction workers there.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: They're building the big, beautiful ballroom. Why not just have them,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: you know, take a break, take a day or two
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: off and go in there and dig up the swimming
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: pool again? I mean, it seems pretty simple to me. 901-260-5926,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. Oh, I want to play
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: this audio. This is a guy who's running for Congress.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: His name is Charlie Hatcher. He's a Republican from Tennessee.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: He's the guy that beat Andy Ogle in the congressional
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: race there. And Charlie Hancher is weighing in on the
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: price of beef, and basically he said, all you people
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: need to start eating turkey. Take a listen. This is
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 2: from the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins. She was on
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  Speaker 2: a podcast yesterday, and a lot of people have really
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: been concerned about the price of food, and especially beef.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: And I've got a couple of beef questions, Charlie, and
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: I suspect you may have a beef with the beef.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 2: But this is the Secretary explaining what Americans should do
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  Speaker 2: if they can't afford beef. to buy a pound of
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: ground beef. Cut 23, please.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 10: But if it is too expensive, unlike fuel binning, you
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 10: can eat chicken, pork, salmon, eggs. There are other sources
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 10: of really good protein. And all of those prices are
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 10: coming down as well. So it isn't necessarily breaking out there.
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  Speaker 10: And listen, I'm a mom of four. I'm still feeding
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 10: a whole bunch of kids, very hungry kids. We realize
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 10: the price of groceries are too high. We're doing everything
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 10: we can to bring them down after the Biden years
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 10: of crazy, crazy inflation.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: All right. So I did a little bit of research.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: It turns out the price of chicken is higher today
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: than it was under the Biden administration, as was the
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: cost of pork. And you think that explanation is going
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: to go over well with moms who want to feed
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: their kids a hamburger?
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 19: No, probably not. But she's right about different forms of protein.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 19: So I was at the grocery store yesterday. I got
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 19: two pounds of turkey, ground turkey, for $ 8. So that's
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 19: $ 4 a pound. So I think there's things that they
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 19: can do.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 8: But yeah.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 19: You know, the price of meat across the board has increased.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: The president saying one solution is to bring in beef
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: from other countries. How do you feel about that?
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 19: Well, I've released a statement on social media about it.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 5: I didn't like it.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 19: You know, one of the bright spots in agriculture is
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 19: the beef cattle business. And a lot of the dairy businesses,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 19: depending on what we're calling beef on dairy, And that's
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 19: helping us. So when the president announced that, and some
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 19: of it was in the messaging, we import a lot
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 19: of beef anyhow, but it's just the way that it
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 19: was rolled out. Probably wouldn't have had that big an impact,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 19: but the market went down almost immediately and kind of
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 19: knocked the legs out of some.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 8: Of the cattlemen.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: So a lot of cattle farmers here. What exactly are
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: you hearing from them, and what are they concerned about?
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 19: The price of diesel. I mean, it's record high. They've
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 19: got to put it in their tractor, their grain trucks,
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 19: their combines, their pickup trucks.
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: And so.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 19: They feel that every day.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: All right. There you go. And it's true. I mean,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: turkey is good, but it's not a hamburger. Hey, this
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: story coming out of the New York Times, I'm shocked
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: the Times is actually doing this story. But the New
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: York Times reports that a Democrat-aligned group called Project Bullhorn
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: paid more than 100 creators to flood social media with
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: affordability content ahead of the midterm elections.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 8: In other words.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: The Democrats are paying these folks on TikTok and other
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: platforms to post all this video about how miserable things are,
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: about how bad the economy is, about how they can't
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: afford anything. This is not organic. This is not something
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: that's real. This is all paid content. And according to
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: the Times, these people were getting paid $ 25 to $ 30
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: per video, and many of the people doing the videos
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: were not even disclosing that they were being paid to
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: basically put out propaganda to help the Democrats.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 8: Unbelievable.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: Some weren't even from the states they claimed to represent.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: One Utah resident posed as a Texan. And a creator
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: in England claimed to be from Texas as well. Unbelievable.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: All right, hang tight. Got to take a quick break here, folks.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 10: 901-260-5926.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: We'll be right back.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: From Memphis, Tennessee, it's America's favorite gun-toting, Bible-clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 1: Our love is American. Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I got a note from one of our listeners,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: and they were just wondering, Starnes, why are you sharing
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: this polling information because it's just going to demoralize people? Well,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: that is certainly not the intent. I don't mean to
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 2: demoralize you. I just want you to be armed with
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: the facts, armed with information, so that you can be
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: motivated to go and vote. I mean, that's ultimately why
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: we do what we do here. This is not about
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: scaring people. It's not about fear-mongering. I will tell you
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 2: that if the Democrats reclaim the House and the Senate,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: then the entire Trump agenda comes to a grinding halt.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: That is the end. So a couple of items for you. First,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: out of the state of Florida, and I am passing
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: on this information, there's a very well-respected... polling agency. Well,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: let me, here we go. Let's start in Texas, and
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: then we'll get to Florida, and then Iowa. So this
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: is coming from Mediaite. Texas State Representative James Talafrico has
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: been polling consistently ahead of Attorney General Ken Paxton in
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: the Senate race, but a new poll shows the blue
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: team winning the governor's race as well. The polling numbers
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: for President Trump and the GOP have been brutal as
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: the second term has progressed, with Americans' views on his
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: handling of the economy and immigration taking a dive. So
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: here is this latest polling information. And by the way,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: there's George W. Bush and John Cornyn are going to
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: be out there campaigning for Republicans. They will not be
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: campaigning for Ken Paxton. In the governor's race, recent polls
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: have shown the Democrat behind Abbott, but a new Marist
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: University survey shows the Democrat ahead of Abbott. The poll
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: conducted between September 17 and 20 among 1,139 registered voters
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: by live telephone.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: The.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: Now, the poll should be viewed in the context of
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: still within the margin of error, but the poll showed 49%
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: of voters support the Democrat, 46% support Greg Abbott. Another 1%
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: for another candidate, 3% undecided or refused to answer. Larry
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: Sabato reacted with surprise to the poll, posting several tweets
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: calling it a Texas shocker. And when one follower asked
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: if this was a sign of a blue wave year,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: or a tsunami, or even a biblical flood, he said,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: where did I leave my ark? So that's what is
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: happening right now in the state of Texas. Meanwhile, there's
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: another poll that Decision Desk has now declared that the
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: Florida governor's race is a toss-up. Decision Desk HQ moving
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: the governor's race. That's Byron Donalds. The Democrat is David Jolly.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: And right now they're saying this could be a toss-up.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: I don't believe that. I don't believe those numbers. Because
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: Donalds does have a significant lead. Granted, that lead is
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: dropping like a rock, but it should hold on. He
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: should be able to hold on until Election Day. There
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: you have that. And then you have Steve Dace over
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: in Iowa, and I'm just going to read what Dace
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: wrote here, and I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: Dace writing this, yesterday, Iowa House Republicans were informed by
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: their own pollsters that if you are in a 15-plus district,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: you are now within the margin of error. And if
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: you're in a 10-plus district, you're underwater. And that this
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: might end up being an even worse midterm environment than 2006.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: Dace goes on to say this, I slept on whether
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: to share this publicly because I don't want to cause
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: anyone to black pill. But this morning, I ultimately decided
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 2: the truth should be shared while there is still six
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: weeks left to do something about it for the good
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: of the country. Because if the environment is this bad
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: in my home state, where Trump has been the most
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: popular political figure over the last decade, I can't imagine
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: where it is everywhere else. Seriously, again, I am shocked
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: to see this, but I'm curious if you're sensing some
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: truth here in what Dace is sharing. And he points
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: out that the war is the giant albatross. This whatever,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: kind of, sort of, but not really war has become
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: an existential misuse of political capital, Dace says. Many of
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: us never thought it was worth it, and more and more,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: it appears, voters agree. We have to save our own
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: country and our own way of life first before we
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: can save anyone else. We have to save America before
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: we can save the world. If a plane is endangered,
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: you are to put on your mask first. Otherwise, you're
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 2: of no use to help save anyone else. It's a
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: great point. Dylan, I have a question. What if you're
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: a furry on the plane? I mean, how do you
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: get the mask over the nose?
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 8: The mask over the mask? I don't think you do.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I digress. I'm just curious.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 8: Good question.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: Dace goes on to say, I desperately want us to win.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 2: I desperately want this presidency to fulfill all the great
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: promise it had coming out of the 2024 election. But
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: whatever this currently is, it isn't. We don't have to
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: just sit here and take the L. It doesn't have
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: to end this way. We can still win. There's plenty
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: of ammunition to hammer the Democrats. Yeah, I do agree
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  Speaker 2: with this. Again, I'm just shocked that Iowa, of all places,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: is dealing with a surge of Democrats. Dace goes on
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 2: to say we need the president out on the stump ASAP.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 2: We need better and way more aggressive messaging. Stop running
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: fake and gay ads about how often so-and-so shows up
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: for votes and instead mercilessly hammer Democrats on the wickedness
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: they vote for. I love that. Articulate specifically what the
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: mission or victory is in Iran. Yeah, that's... I don't
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: know why we're over there. I don't think anybody else does.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: Dace goes on to say, out here in the cheap seats,
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: it feels like another Middle East quagmire regular folks are
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: paying for on both ends all over again. Yeah, it's true.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 2: And then he goes on to say, and for heaven's sake,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: make sure Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas are getting the
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: finest health care in America. Lord knows we need them,
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 2: and they need to be healthy. So there you go. Just, again,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: take this as it is meant. It is meant to
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  Speaker 2: help you and to encourage you to get out and vote.
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  Speaker 2: And early voting is starting in a couple of weeks.
• 1:22:31
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• 1:22:56
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  Speaker 8: 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: Say hello to Ron in Salem, Oregon. K-Y-K-N. Hey, Ron,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: what's on your mind today?
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  Speaker 16: What's on my mind? I just got done working a
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 16: roadie on Canyonville, south of Roseburg. I've got four good
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 16: Republicans I've known for years. They're frustrated because our candidate
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 16: is not articulating their arguments and using the record why
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 16: we got the Green News scam. They're not talking about
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 16: gender mutilation. They're not talking about You know, everything that
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 16: goes against coming to constitutional law.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 16: You know who I see leaning all this stuff after
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 16: hearing what you said about what they're saying about in
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 16: Texas and up there in Iowa? Let's look at Paul Ryan.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 16: That's some person. I'm being nice today. He he's undermined.
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  Speaker 3: He did the same thing in 2018. I'm watching the
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 3: repeat where they sit back, stay in the office. He's
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 3: not talking to the RNC chairman, Joe Gruters or anything else.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 3: All I see is reactionary bull sugar.
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  Speaker 16: And we've got to stop.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yep, sorry. Got to watch the language there, ladies
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: and gentlemen. Ron, thank you for calling me. Got to
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 2: keep it PG-13. I want to go to our Patriot
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: Mobile Newsmaker line. Say hello to our good friend. He
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: is the number one talk radio host in the entire
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 2: state of Iowa, Jeff Stein, who is, of course, oversees
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: our great big blowtorch out there, KXEL. Jeff, we were
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: just talking about the concerns that are being levied in,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 2: of all places, Iowa now. And I just wanted to,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you would know if things are looking tough
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: for Republicans.
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  Speaker 11: It depends which race, Todd, and I appreciate, as always,
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 11: you having me on the program. We have an open
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 11: seat for governor with a retiring Republican incumbent. We have
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 11: an open seat for U.S. Senate with a retiring Republican incumbent.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 11: And both of those races are going to be very,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 11: very tight, and Democrats have an edge in both, particularly
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 11: the race for governor. There's a money advantage for the Democrats.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 11: There is a candidate who has been a state officeholder
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 11: for eight years, so name recognition is an issue. What's
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 11: really interesting to me overall, in both of those races,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 11: all the candidates are denying their party affiliation. They don't
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 11: put Democrat or Republican in the ads. They say that
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 11: they're a new breed of bipartisan civic servant, etc. Well,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 11: I think that's what the public wants to hear is
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 11: that people will work together. But, you know, when you're
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 11: in a state that Trump won pretty handily three times,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 11: you would think some of the Republicans might want to
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 11: grab a hold of the president's coattails a little firmer
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 11: than they are.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's a good point. And what brought this up?
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 2: Steve Dace, who I know you know, had posted that
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: he's been hearing that Republicans were told by their pollsters that,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: you know, if they're in a 10-plus district, they're already underwater.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if.
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  Speaker 11: It's that bad because one of the things, and this
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 11: is what makes it impossible to predict, we have a
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 11: huge number of registered independents in half of the state.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 11: you have a Republican registration advantage, followed by independents with Democrats,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 11: a far distant third. There are many more independents than
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 11: there are Democrats. Republicans hold the registration advantage, at least
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 11: by a narrow margin, in all of the counties, or
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 11: at least the congressional districts. But the key is, it's
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 11: hard to tell when you've got this large number of
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 11: people who are not as motivated to vote as partisans,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 11: who are not as predictable in their votes on top
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 11: of it. And again, everybody's running as the next great
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 11: bipartisan wonder, and what's a voter to do? Hopefully pay
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 11: attention and be able to sift through the... the stuff
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 11: that kind of piles up this time of year, shall
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 11: we say.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff, is it an issue of the Republicans getting their
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 2: message out there, or are the voters just not buying
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: what the Republicans are trying to sell?
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 11: I think that there is not as consistent a message
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 11: as I would like to hear. I know that they
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 11: are really focusing on the phrase working class tax cut.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 11: They're not saying big, beautiful bill. They're saying working class
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 11: tax cut. Well, I don't care what the verbiage is.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 11: Get the point across. You now have two of the
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 11: four members of Congress who voted for the War Powers
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 11: Act in the House this month. Both of them wore
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 11: the uniform. One is still in the reserves. And it
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 11: is interesting to see that shift. this close to an election,
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 11: and now you have the U.S. Senate candidate saying we've
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 11: got to end the war despite voting for it repeatedly
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 11: when the occasion came up, including two weeks ago. So
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 11: it's a matter, I think, that economic times are tough.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 11: The audience, as we near the harvest for farmers, they
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 11: don't want to be paying $ 6 and $ 7 for diesel,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 11: but the bottom line is I think they still trust
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 11: Trump but you have all of these out-of-town consultants telling
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 11: the candidates to run to the center, and that may
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 11: be a good strategy to some degree, but I just
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 11: wonder if it's going to leave the base behind, and
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 11: you sure need to hold on to that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah look i'm that is an interesting point um about
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: the consultants because i i have seen that in other
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: states where they're telling these conservative candidates be more centrist.
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  Speaker 11: Well, it's one thing if you've got a lot of independents,
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 11: and so you want to be able to bring them
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 11: across the finish line. But, Todd, you cannot do it
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 11: at the expense of your own base. And if the
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 11: Trump base— notice I did not say Republican base— if the Trump
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 11: base does not turn out in this election as they
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 11: have for him when he has been on the ballot—
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 11: it's going to be problematic. And that's why the president says,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 11: pretend I'm on the ballot. He's got to get those
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 11: mega voters, the Trump voters, plus the traditional Republicans, plus
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 11: then a share of independents in order to maintain the
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 11: majorities in Congress they need.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure people really can appreciate, unless you are
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: in a true farming state, the impact that these diesel
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: prices are having on farmers and their families, because that means,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: you know, Of course, they're not going out to eat
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: all the time. That means they may not be going
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 2: out to eat at all. I mean, they're going to
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: be using every single penny they've got for diesel.
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  Speaker 11: You have caught me as I am literally parked outside
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 11: the National Cattle Congress Fair, which starts tomorrow. It is
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 11: a huge gathering of agribusiness and all manner of folks,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 11: and I can already tell just in our preparatory meetings here,
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 11: there is concern. There's concern about the Chinese living up
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 11: to their purchase obligations, the cost to bring in the crop.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 11: And again, many of these folks have nice big fuel
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 11: tanks on the farm they bought before this latest spike.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 11: But this is going to have a domino effect. It's
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 11: not just the farmers. It's going to be now the
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 11: cost to get the goods to market to your grocery store.
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 11: And guess who's going to pay for every nickel of
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 11: increased fuel costs? That's a supply chain issue. and Mr.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 11: and Mrs. Grocery Shopper at the Kroger, they're going to
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 11: be paying more because of the diesel cost. It's not
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 11: that it's not for a good cause, I get it,
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 11: but some folks only look at the other end of
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 11: their checkbook and making a voting choice, and that could
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 11: be problematic.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's fascinating, fascinating. Jeff, appreciate your great analysis, and
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: we're going to check in with you, and I appreciate
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: you were literally, I'm like, we were texting in the break,
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: can you hop on the show, and you did a
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: great job. Thank you for jumping in here.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 11: You know I'm here for you anytime, T.S.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: The great Jeff Stein, KXEL, in Waterloo, Cedar Rapids. Cedar
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: Falls is there, too, by the way. Great area. It's really,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: you know, I love our nation, but I got to
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: tell you, Iowa, pretty cool state. If you haven't been,
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: you need to go check it out. Great state, great
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: stuff to do, and the people there are just beyond kind.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 3: 901-260-5926.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. You heard Jeff Stein, and I think he
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: gave us a pretty fair and balanced view of what's
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 2: happening there in the Hawkeye State. You know, one of
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 2: the things that somebody posted this on X, and look,
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: I think they did a great job here, just outlining
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: everything that President Trump did. We would be here for
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: three hours going through this list, but the whole point
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: of it is, there have been some great victories under
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: president Trump and the Republicans, great victories. And we need
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 2: to be celebrating those. And to Jeff Stein's point, um,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: It's appalling to think, and Liz Peek as well. I
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: think Liz Peek used the word appalling. It's appalling that
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: the Republicans don't have clear messaging here because we have
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: a winning platform. We do. All right. Got to take
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: a break. 901-260-5926, our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. We'll be
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 2: right back. And welcome back, everybody. This is the Todd
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: Stearns Radio Show, broadcasting on more than 100 radio stations
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: around the nation from our headquarters in beautiful Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: It's not 100 degrees outside, Dylan. It was amazing this morning.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 2: The heat dome has lifted, and I feel like, I
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: don't know, I feel like I'm in a new world.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 8: Oh, my gosh. You're not kidding. I'm wearing jeans and
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 8: a pullover right now.
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 2: It's very nice. Well, that's because it's 68 degrees here
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: in the building.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 8: It's very nice in here.
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: It's very pleasant.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 8: But also outside.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: Well, it is, absolutely. And there are big doings here
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: in Memphis with our friends at Ducks Unlimited. You know,
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: I'm a friend of the Duck, Dylan. I don't know
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 2: if you knew this.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 8: Yes, I'm aware of your accomplishments.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: Well, the Duck Dynasty guys, but they actually shoot the ducks.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: So I don't want to talk about that. Maybe I
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: have a mixed relationship with the duck community. But I
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 2: was an honorary duck master at the Peabody Hotel, not
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: one time, but two times, my friend.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 8: It's very cool.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: That's highfalutin. Yes, it is. And I safely guided the
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: ducks directly to the pond in the middle of the
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: lobby at the Peabody. That can be difficult.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 8: I mean, they're the most obedient ducks I've ever seen.
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: Well, they do. Well, they threaten them. You know, if
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 2: they make a mistake, they're on the menu at the
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 2: French restaurant, Chez Philippe. I want to go to the
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line because we're very excited to welcome
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: an incredible organization onto the program to talk about the
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. Karen Waldrop is the Chief
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: Operations Officer for Ducks Unlimited. Karen, welcome to the show.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much for having me.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 2: Well, we're just really, first of all, we're really excited
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: about the great work you do at Ducks Unlimited, and
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: we're going to talk about that in just a few moments.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: But this is an exciting thing, the 2026 Federal Duck
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: Stamp Art Contest. Tell us all about it.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 22: Well, first of all, I'd like to get back to
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 22: the fact of that you have done something in Memphis
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 22: that I haven't done yet. I would love to be
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 22: the duck master someday, so I'm pretty jealous of that accomplishment.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 22: You've just You've just surpassed all of my accomplishments for
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 22: that one thing.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: So that's very cool.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 2: We're going to have to make this happen, Karen. I
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: know people. I know people at the PBOT.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 5: That's great.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 5: So the federal duck stamp.
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  Speaker 22: So the real name of it is the Migratory Bird
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 22: Hunting and Conservation Stamp. And it was started in 1934.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 22: And the reason it was started was because we were
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 22: at the height of the Dust Bowl at that time
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 22: and waterfowl populations were plummeting. So For those that aren't
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 22: familiar with waterfowl, the prairie pothole region, so up in
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 22: the Dakotas and up in Canada as well, in the
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 22: prairie potholes, there are these really important small wetlands for
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 22: waterfowl nesting and breeding and then also rearing the new
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 22: hatch of the next year. And so it's a pivotal
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 22: location from a conservation and habitat perspective. But we were
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 22: losing waterfowl at just huge numbers because of the Dust
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 22: Bowl and all of these wetlands drying up at this time.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 22: And so that's when the Federal Duck Stamp Act was
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 22: passed in 1934. And the idea being that waterfowl hunters
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 22: would need to purchase these stamps so anybody over when
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 22: they are in the field hunting, and the dollars from
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 22: the duck stamp goes into federal programs that protects and
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 22: restores waterfowl habitat for future generations of waterfowl.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: It's my understanding that the duck stamp has really been
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: described as one of the most successful conservation programs in
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: American history. Is that true?
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 22: It's one of the most successful and one of the earliest.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 22: So it was certainly one of the earliest recognized user
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 22: pay system models for conservation being in 1934, but also
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 22: one of the most successful. And I'd say some of
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 22: the reasons for that is it has an efficiency that
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 22: is unmatched by any other program that I've ever heard of.
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 22: 98 cents of every dollar goes on the ground for
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 22: Habitat Conservation. And so it has to go directly into
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 22: purchasing wetlands or adding land to national wildlife refuges. And
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 22: so I think that's part of the reason why it's
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 22: been so successful. But I think also because it's just
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 22: so widely supported, it brings together art and conservation in
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 22: such a way that you have waterfowl enthusiasts, art enthusiasts,
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 22: stamp collectors, bird watchers, and it's just something that brings
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 22: all of these different dynamics together on the voice for conservation.
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: The artwork is just unbelievably beautiful, and it's my understanding
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: that some of these artists, I mean, this is not
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: something where you sit down and say, okay, I'm going
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 2: to sketch something out today, this afternoon. They've been working
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 2: on these projects, this artwork, for a very long time.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 5: Some of them for years and years.
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 22: The winners, they often look at this as a career
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 22: defining achievement.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 5: Um, it is, you know, there's.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 22: It's the contest itself started in, I think 49, I
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 22: could be off on the air, but it, again, the
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 22: stamp started in 34 and, but this, the art contest
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 22: didn't start until the late forties, I think 49, but
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 22: either way. So you're only talking no more. And some
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 22: people have won it more than once than 75 people
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 22: have this honor. And so it is, and again, it's
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 22: beyond just a duck stamp or a permit. It is
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 22: recognized as a piece of art that is, museums have
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 22: these art collections, these stamp collections on display. And it, again,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 22: has a much broader reach than just somebody that enjoys
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 22: waterfowl hunting.
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 2: And by the way, Dylan, just to clarify, Karen, and
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: you can back me up a bit, these are not
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 2: stamps that you can mail a letter with. So that's
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  Speaker 2: a whole different, yes.
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  Speaker 5: It's a whole different thing. You can try, but I
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 5: don't know if I would. And people will buy more
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 5: than one.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 22: I like to buy one that I keep and then
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 22: one that I use that I, you know, sign and
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 22: take in the field with me hunting as well.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 20: So, and, and.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 22: Also, these stamps, if you like going on wildlife refuges, which,
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 22: by the way, I would recommend if no one's been
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 22: on a National Wildlife Refuge, great place to go not
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 22: only birdwatching, but all sorts of wildlife. Use these refuges
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 22: that are fun to go wildlife watch.
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  Speaker 5: Photographers love these areas, birders.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 22: And the stamp actually gets you on any National Wildlife
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 22: Refuge as well.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. Ducks.org is the website. That's very simple, folks.
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: Write it down, ducks.org. And you'll be able to find
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: all sorts of information. Now, the actual competition, people are
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: able to come and attend and see the live judging
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: process in person?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely. And let me tell you, I'm a duck stamp groupie.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 22: I absolutely love– so when COVID started, they started putting
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 22: it live feed. So you can actually– if you aren't
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 22: in the Memphis area, you can still go and watch
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 22: this if you get on the Fish and Wildlife Service website.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 22: you can still go on and actually watch the live
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 22: feed of the judging. But I would recommend if you're
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 22: in the Memphis area, come on down and check it out.
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 22: We're going to have great information too about Ducks Unlimited
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 22: and some of the conservation work and we're going to
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 22: have different museums and artists here and you can talk
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 22: and interact with the artists and see these great, I
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 22: hear there's over 300 in the competition this year and
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 22: I don't know the exact number, but you can come
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 22: and look at all of this art. We're going to
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 22: have different events over the next couple of days, and
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 22: you'll see the judges looking at the art and studying it,
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 22: and you'll get to be part of history and get
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 22: to see what's going to be on the next Duck Stamp,
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 22: be one of the first to see it.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, the work you guys do at Ducks Unlimited
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: is just, I have such great respect for you guys,
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: and your company has actually played a very big role
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 2: in supporting this legacy over the years.
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 22: Yeah, I'm actually very proud of that and thank you
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 22: for bringing that up. I'm proud of not only what
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 22: we've done to support, whether there's legislation like the recent
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 22: Duck Stamp Modernization Act that made it legal to have
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 22: the digital form that just makes it more open and
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 22: available for people and for hunting, but also what we
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 22: do on the ground and delivering it. Not a single
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 22: penny of the Duck Stamp dollars come through Ducks Unlimited.
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 22: That's all held by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 22: and delivering it directly on the ground. But we help
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 22: working We helped to work since 1997. We signed an
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 22: agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service where we
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 22: helped to deliver, help them with the acquisition program that
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 22: they have for voluntary conservation easements up in the Prairie
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 22: Pothole region where they work with landowners that are willing
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 22: landowners to sign a conservation easement to protect these small
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 22: wetlands and associated grasslands in perpetuity. And so we work
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 22: with them hand in hand to find these landowners and
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 22: to help secure these easements with them for this. And
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 22: I'm very proud of that work. And our donors, our
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 22: major donors, over $ 150 million of donors for Ducks Unlimited
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 22: have helped support this important effort up in the prairie potholes.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 22: And so I'm very proud of what our members, donors,
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 22: and Ducks Unlimited is doing for that conservation work.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: Well, it's a great national story happening in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: And Karen, You may not know this. We're actually neighbors.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: I own KWAM, the radio station in Memphis. Our towers
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 2: are right next to you guys across the river in
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 2: Arkansas there. So we've got about 30 acres along the
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 2: Mississippi River, and we love what is happening over there
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 2: with all of the wonderful development and conservation.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's wonderful. Well, nice to talk to you, Nathan.
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: Well, exactly. So we'll come over for some sugar or
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: something like that, eggs, whatever, and there you go.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 2: Karen, congratulations. This is exciting. We're going to try to
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 2: get over there ourselves on Friday. Again, ducks.org, and you'll
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: be able to get all the information. But again, thank you.
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 2: What a great story, and thanks for the great work
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 2: you guys do.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much. It was great talking to you.
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 5: Thanks for having us on.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: Karen Waldrop, who is the Chief Operations Officer for Ducks Unlimited.
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 2: You know, we don't have ducks on our side, Dylan.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: We have like, what do they call them, the water moccasins?
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 8: Yeah, the opposite of a duck.
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't want to conserve those.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 8: No, I don't either.
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: I really don't. I'm sure they serve some purpose in
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 2: the great, I don't know.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 8: I can guard the water for all I care.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good. I'm good with that. Give me the
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 2: lovely ducks. All right, we've got to take a quick
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 2: break here, folks. And just a little, again, a little
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: respite from politics. We're big fans of conservation. You know,
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 2: we believe that God has called all of us as
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 2: Christians to be stewards of his creation. And that means,
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 2: you know, being good stewards of that. And so we
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 2: really respect the great work that Ducks Unlimited does. And
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 2: if you haven't seen the duck stamp artwork, I'm a
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: sucker for that, and I've got some great paintings in
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 2: my home. It's just so wonderful. So be sure to
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: check that out at ducks.org.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 7: 901-260-5926.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 2: This is the Todd Stern Show.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 2: Well, the Chinese president... Xi Jinping is going to be
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 2: at the White House tonight, so all sorts of doings there.
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 2: We'll keep you updated, and we'll rehash all of that
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 2: on tomorrow's show. The question, I suppose, though, is whether
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 2: or not they're going to let CNN or PMS Now
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 2: or Politico into the building. And I just, look, I
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: think Trump is going to stand his ground here. And
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 2: I can't say I really blame him. One bit. By
• 1:45:33
  Speaker 2: the way, can we go back to 2013 for just
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: a moment? When my good friend James Rosen, he was
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 2: at Fox, and this was when the Obama campaign literally
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 2: spied on James Rosen and his entire family. Cut number six.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 23: Documents released this week show the Obama administration secretly monitored
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 23: a Washington journalist. In seeking a search warrant, the FBI
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 23: called James Rosen a criminal co-conspirator, even though he is
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 23: in charge with any crime. Jan Crawford is at the
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 23: Justice Department.
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 6: Jan, good morning.
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 24: Well, good morning, Nora. Good morning, Charlie. You know, I mean,
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 24: these revelations have really just set up a firestorm of
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 24: criticism from the left and the right. For the first
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 24: time ever, a presidential administration is treating news reporting like
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 24: a crime and a reporter like a criminal suspect.
• 1:46:23
  Speaker 15: I will always honor the confidentiality of my dealings with
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 15: all of my sources.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 24: Fox News reporter James Rosen vowed Wednesday night to protect
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 24: his source for a scoop he got back in 2009,
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 24: reporting then that North Korea would respond to sanctions with
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 24: more nuclear tests. But the information was classified, and the
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 24: FBI launched an investigation to uncover Rosen's source that quickly focused.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 7: On Rosen himself.
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 24: The level of government surveillance over a reporter was unprecedented.
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 24: Of course, media critics, the ACLU, are saying that no
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 24: presidential administration, not even the Nixon administration, went after reporters
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 24: with search warrants and secret surveillance. And journalists that I'm
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 24: talking to here in Washington, Charlie Norris, say they're already
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 24: seeing the impact of this.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 2: All right, well, there you go. Again, the Obama administration,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 2: the Democrats, they did worse things to the media, worse things.
• 1:47:23
  Speaker 2: And what are you going to do? They're just turning
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 2: a blind eye to all of this.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 24: 901-260-5926.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: Senator Chuck Grassley, speaking of Iowa, not ruling out another
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 2: run for the U.S. Senate in 2028. The guy just
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 2: turned 93 years old. He would be 95 on Election
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: Day and 101 if he were elected and completed another
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 2: six-year term. I'm telling you, folks, it's insane. Just insane.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 2: My goodness. Oh, James Tallarico. I think we've got time
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 2: for this. James Tallarico's lesbian preacher says Jesus did not
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 2: die for our sins. Take a listen to this.
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 7: Do we really believe that a virgin gave birth to
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 7: a baby?
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 9: Yeah, okay.
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 2: I just don't want to offend my own common sense.
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 18: No, no.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 7: Absolutely don't.
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 25: Part of what we encourage here is for people to
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 25: think for themselves and take what makes sense.
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 7: It's kind of like what they say in 12-step programs.
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 7: Take what you want and leave the rest.
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 25: And I know that that would greatly offend your relatives
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 25: who want to hang on to these archaic rules. Mary
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 25: and the virgin birth comes out of the pagan belief
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 25: that the gods came down and impregnated people.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 25: That people were still hanging on to during that time.
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 25: We have no way of knowing if Jesus really existed.
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 25: Any more than we have of knowing that the original
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 25: Buddha ever existed.
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 25: And whether or not Jesus existed doesn't really matter to me.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 25: The fact remains that that message that was delivered by
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 25: someone named Jesus, supposedly, and it could have all been
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 25: made up for all I know. And the God in
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 25: the Old Testament is not a loving God. It's a vengeful, killing.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 7: People kind of God.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 7: This is a lot of mythology. Jesus was political. Jesus
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 7: was put on that cross not to save us. Jesus
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 7: was put on that cross because Rome hated him.
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 25: And they thought he was a threat to their domination
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 25: of that area.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 7: And so they killed him. He didn't die to save
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 7: our sins.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 17: So he died more as a kind of a social
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 17: justice warrior in some sense.
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 19: Yes.
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 25: So that makes a whole lot more sense to me
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 25: than to say that some God would kill his son
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 25: for us.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 7: That doesn't make sense. How does that make up for
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 7: all the things I can do?
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, enough of this. That is James Tyler Frico's lesbian
• 1:50:20
  Speaker 2: pastor of a Presbyterian church. I have never heard such
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: blasphemy spewing from the mouth of this woman. This is unbelievable. That,
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, is what you're going to be electing
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 2: In the midterms. So we're going to keep exposing a
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 2: lot of this stuff as we move on through the
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: election cycle. But that is slap crazy nuts.
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow going to be a fun show. I'm speaking in
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 2: the wee hours of the morning to a Turning Point
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: USA chapter in the Memphis area. We're also going to
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 2: be feeding them a great Chick-fil-A breakfast. It's going to
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 2: be a lot of fun. Tomorrow, back on the show,
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 2: analyzing whatever happens tonight with the Chinese. Also, don't forget,
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 2: get a copy of my brand-new book, The Golden Age,
• 1:51:09
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• 1:51:13
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• 1:51:15
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 8: Have a great one, everybody.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 2: Be good, America.